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Commenting on his most recent campaign disaster, the resignation en masse of his senior campaign staff, Newt Gingrich has said that he feels liberated:
My vision is of a people-oriented grassroots campaign where Newt.org becomes the center of new solutions, new ideas, new energy—a campaign that's inclusive, that brings together everybody in America, of every ethnic background, who wants to change Washington.This immediately put me in mind of Jefferson Davis's famous proclamation following the loss of Richmond:
And I think that that was so different from the normal Republican model, that there just wasn't a fit. I frankly feel liberated.
With the exception of only one person, all of my original team is still with me. And in every single state where we lost some people, we've actually gained new people who are excited by the idea that we could have a genuinely different grassroots campaign to change Washington.
To the People of the Confederate States of America.The roles recently played by Gingrich's top aides were in that instance taken by General Joseph Johnston and General P. T. Beauregard, who privately concluded that Davis had cut all ties with reality.
Danville, Va., April 4, 1865.
The General in Chief of our Army has found it necessary to make such movements of the troops as to uncover the capital and thus involve the withdrawal of the Government from the city of Richmond.
…[T]he loss which we have suffered is not without compensation. For many months the largest and finest army of the Confederacy, under the command of a leader whose presence inspires equal confidence in the troops and the people, has been greatly trammeled by the necessity of keeping constant watch over the approaches to the capital, and has thus been forced to forego more than one opportunity for promising enterprise. … We have now entered upon a new phase of a struggle the memory of which is to endure for all ages and to shed an increasing luster upon our country.
Relieved from the necessity of guarding cities and particular points, important but not vital to our defense, with an army free to move from point to point and strike in detail the detachments and garrisons of the enemy, operating on the interior of our own country, where supplies are more accessible, and where the foe will be far removed from his own base and cut off from all succor in case of reverse, nothing is now needed to render our triumph certain but the exhibition of our own unquenchable resolve. Let us but will it, and we are free. …
Johnston and Beauregard were personal enemies of Davis since early in the war, so their account of his actions should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.
General consensus in New Hampshire is that the big winner out of the Republican Candidate Debate was Sarah Palin for having the good sense to not be there.
So as a Presidential campaign, Gingrich's has been deeply weird. Of course, it's not really one. It's an advertising campaign for Gingrich as a paid speaker. Possibly also for his next book.
Joseph Johnston? I like his 1991 movie "The Rocketeer".
("Serge, not that Joe Johnston.")
I'll admit I don't understand WTF Gingrich is up to here. Is he just trying to get attention? Does he imagine he somehow has a chance of winning? Even given the lackluster field he's competing with, I don't see how, though he surely knows a lot more about politics than I ever will. Perhaps Gingrich and Palin have simply discovered that running for high office is a good way to improve your chances of getting a talk show on Fox or something?
In general, our political leadership seems to me to make weirdly dysfunctional decisions all the time. Recognizing that is an excellent antidote for any tendency you might have to accept politicians' decisions on the theory that "they know more than I do."
When my daughter was little, we used to watch a TV program called 'Eureka's Castle', kind of a lower-budget muppets thing. It had a character named Batly on it, a particularly clumsy bat, who would keep crashing into things and then loudly proclaim "I meant to do that!"
I am now kicking myself for not having had the foresight to register "newt.org" in the persona of Gussie Fink-Nottle.
Jeff Davis' little ode there reminds me of the Iraqi Minister of Information, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf aka "Comical Ali"
per Wikipedia
On April 7, 2003, al-Sahhaf claimed that there were no American troops in Baghdad, and that the Americans were committing suicide by the hundreds at the city's gates. His last public appearance as Information Minister was on April 8, 2003, when he said that the Americans "are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender".
On the one hand, I don't think Newt can win his primaries.
On the other hand, I seem to remember John McCain's campaign nearly grinding to a halt at a similar point in the last cycle. McCain was down to one or two staffers and flying coach.
So, the fat lady has not yet sung in Newt's opera.
Another fine example of this sort of statement: the copy beginning "This is a new phase Beatles album..." on the back cover of the Beatles' LP Let It Be (which was released almost simultaneously with Paul's first Apple LP McCartney). New phase, all right.
"I meant to drive off everyone with experience and surround myself with enthusiastic newbies who have no idea how far up the creek we really are."
Apparently Newt and Callista are a package deal, and that's going to keep the pro's away. He could be angling for a key slot in a GOP admin.
I remember the late San Francisco columnist Herb Caen quoting someone who, new to Newt, thought that 'Newt Gingrich' sounded like a character from "Dune".
I read...
My vision is of a people-oriented grassroots campaign where Newt.org becomes the center of new solutions, new ideas, new energy—a campaign that's inclusive, that brings together everybody in America, of every ethnic background, who wants to change Washington.
and I see...
We don't need experienced campaign staff! We can just crowdsource it like those Wikipedia folks do. How hard can it be?
albatross @ 5:
I think Gingrich has completely failed to understand the changes in his own party over the last 15 years. He thinks he's a well-respected elder statesman of conservatism. Actually, everybody has forgotten who he is (political memories in the US rarely go back to before the previous election), and the party has been hijacked by His Bloviatitude Rush Limbaugh, who isn't even a politician, just a meat puppet for the kingmakers behind the scene.
Chris Gerrib @9:
On the gripping hand, the GOP was nowhere near as doctrinely ossified in 2008 as it is now. Their need to propitiate the Tea Baggers by applying various non-rational litmus tests ("Kill Medicare!", "Cut Taxes!", "Reduce Deficit!", "Kill the Poor!", etc.) has made it impossible for Newt to be nominated since he dissed Paul Ryan's Middle Class Reduction Plan.
"The People still love me. Argle, bargle, dribble, burble..." -- R. Nixon
It will be interesting to see what the GOP candidates do over the next 12 months. What will they do to try and distinguish themselves from each other? With the far-right basically calling the shots, will they all try to see who can the furthest to the right? Or will they start the circular firing squad and begin tearing each other's records apart.
Watching someone like Santorum criticize Bachmann, who's busy ripping Gingrich who is after Romney, will be sheer entertainment.
Newt has been very successful convincing the chattering classes that he is a Serious Conservative Intellectual with Bold Solutions to Today's Problems. In this role, he has been very successful getting on the talk shows, getting his face in the newspapers, and maneuvering within the institutional structures of the Republican Party.
But as a politician, he has been, at best, mediocre. His high-water mark was the Contract with America in 1994; I think his popularity on a national scale has been on the skids ever since the 1996 government shutdown.
When exactly in 2012 the world supposed to end?
@Serge: After election, unfortunately.
I believe you mean After election, obviously.
The Jeff Davis reference is doubly interesting considering that Newt is also an author of alternate history including co-authoring a series where the Confederacy won Gettysburg.
Matthew Ernest @ 22:
I suspect that Newt, along with many other social conservatives and Civil War revanchists secretly envies the slave-owning class of the Old Confederacy. I can't see any other reason why so many people today deny that the primary purpose of Secession was to preserve the institution of chattel slavery.
albatross @5 and others: It's like Green Lantern. As a member of the Distinguished Elder Statesman Corps, Newt can work great wonders - or at least do and say things that make you wonder - and fill up his bank account. But every now and then he has to recharge or he loses his power to appear on Sunday news shows. A failed run for president is roughly equivalent to a Lantern.
Bruce Cohen @ 15 - you and I have the same assessment of Newt's probability of getting nominated (low). Where we disagree is in the significance of his campaign staff walking out. Candidates have recovered from that.
Steve C., #12: Yes, I did notice that the departing staffers found a way to blame the wife instead of coming out and saying that the candidate had gone around the bend.
abi, #14: And I see a deeply-deficient understanding of what the Obama campaign did in 2008. Trying to mimic that approach without the professional-level underpinnings that made it work... well, it's going to be fun to watch, in the "bring popcorn" sense.
"It's like Green Lantern."
What color is he vulnerable to?
Serge #13: He certainly acts like a Harkonnen!
Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers) #15: He thinks he's a well-respected elder statesman of conservatism. Actually, everybody has forgotten who he is...
While those of us who do remember him, remember he was a major point man for the neocon takeover of both the Republican Party and Congress. Not to mention his "Contract on America", and all the other abuses he's inflicted on those around him. If any one person embodies the corrupt goals, hypocritical propaganda, determined viciousness, and utter narcissism of the neo-conservative movement, that would be Newt Gingrich.
The problem was the wife. Aides to Newt Gingrich have resigned from his presidential campaign in protest of what they felt was a takeover by Callista Gingrich, the candidate's wife since 2000.
The last straw for the campaign staff was Gingrich's decision to go on a two-week cruise in the Mediterranean, from which he returned on Tuesday. His advisers urged him not to go and take so much time from a campaign that was already in trouble. But his wife wanted him to go and she won the argument.
I think that the cruise involved was one of the ones that The Weekly Standard hosts occasionaly. John Bolton has been a regular speaker on them. And I think Newt was a speaker on this one.
David Harmon @ 28...
"As you instructed me, I have enlightened your nephews concerning my plan..."
"My plan!"
"...the plan... to crush the Democrates."
"We claim more territory with every mile we drift" -Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Serge at @ 30 -
Would this make Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann the Spice Girlz?
"He who controls the Spice Girlz controls the universe!"
Steve C #32: Which one's Alia and which one's Chani?
I realise that US politics (and presidential campaigns in particular) generally have the same connection to observable reality as the average "reality" TV show does, but honestly... this has gone past surreal, through absurd and off into the territory of the unbelievable.
I mean, somewhere in the whole mess, there has to be someone who realises the US empire is a crumbling wreck, your economy has gone down the gurgler, your infrastructure is falling to pieces, your social fabric has gaping holes everywhere and the whole thing is going to hell in a hand basket? Surely there is someone who sees this? Or have they already made their plans (which probably consist of checking jobs pages in other countries, and making sure their passport is up to date), and are now in the "keep your head down and try and escape while the rest aren't looking" stage?
The election itself won't be happening for at least another year and a half. However, the US political machine has ground to a halt, and will remain so while the fun and games of presidential primaries (aka party pre-selection of candidates - something which in just about every other civilised country happens quietly behind closed doors) distracts everyone from whatever is happening around them. Now, the last time we had this happening (back in 2007 - 2008) there was something else important happening in the background which really could have used the attention and energy which was being devoted to the political posturings and convulsions of the US Republican Party in media all over the world. I'm just trying to remember what it was... oh yeah! It was the US economy collapsing in a heap as the banks realised they couldn't sell nothing as something forever - I believe the other label people found for it when the full scale of the catastrophe came out was GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS?!?
We still haven't recovered from that one. Hells, most of the world is still in a global recession from that one. And now the entire planet is expected to put their lives and fortunes on hold again, while the USA performs their political sideshow. What will we discover lying broken on the doorstep in late October 2012, I wonder?
The election itself won't be happening for at least another year and a half.
This is just exactly why this happens. There's no "at least." Unlike countries with parliamentary systems, we know exactly when the next election is, to the day. We know when the election after next is, and the one after that.
We can predict when the mid-22nd-century elections will be, in the unlikely event our country survives that long.
That's why the cycle starts so early. Whoever thinks more moves ahead wins, as in chess. So people get in earlier and earlier.
My vision is of a people-oriented grassroots campaign where Newt.org becomes the center of new solutions, new ideas, new energy—a campaign that's inclusive, that brings together everybody in America, of every ethnic background, who wants to change Washington.
"Rarely has such a meaningful mandate for change been delivered by voters"- Contract With America, 3rd paragraph.
How'd that hopey-changey thing work out for you in 1994?
Xopher @35 - "Whoever thinks more moves ahead wins, as in chess. So people get in earlier and earlier."
This is part of what I have a problem with, as someone who isn't even a US citizen. The problem is your political process has become a game for your idle rich, and it's a game they're going to carry on playing regardless of what happens in the world around them. The metaphor of Nero harping away in the Imperial palace while the city burned around him has never been more appropriate, as far as I can tell.
The last time we sat through the standard multi-year process of a US presidential election, the fever of press enthusiasm masked the symptoms of a massive economic downturn in the USA - something which would have global repercussions, and which would have global effects. Those effects are still ongoing, but your politicians don't care about them; or to be honest, they don't have to care about them. The US political class is the US idle rich - people who don't have to have a functioning economy at the lower levels in order to survive. They're more interested in seeing who can pull politics furthest in one ideological direction purely as an intellectual exercise. They don't have to deal with the after-effects of their decisions on ordinary people, because they're so well-insulated from the ordinary people that they might as well be existing on a completely different planet.
I can't help but wonder (as someone outside the immediate range of the US presidential sideshow, but who is still affected by this sideshow) what the next damn thing we're going to find floating to the surface is going to be. Your current president has your country not-at-war in five different countries at the moment (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and now Yemen), while your economy and your infrastructure crumble. There is no serious effort at hand to actually provide the people of the USA with economic relief, disaster relief, health care or work - instead you have the Republican party across any number of states involved in a concerted effort to remove any protection for workers, for women, for poor people, for public employees, for public school students, for the sick, the indigent or anyone else who isn't part of the political classes (i.e. anyone who isn't a member of the idle rich). Your country is falling apart - I mention this just in case nobody there has noticed.
And yet the thing which it appears is more important at this juncture is to criticise the harp-playing of the various candidates for imperial office.
The metaphor of Nero harping away in the Imperial palace while the city burned around him has never been more appropriate, as far as I can tell.
It wasn't a harp. It was a lyre. And so are most Republicans.
They're more interested in seeing who can pull politics furthest in one ideological direction purely as an intellectual exercise.
Wrong. It's a profit-making enterprise. And they're thinking short- to medium-term.
Your country is falling apart - I mention this just in case nobody there has noticed.
I disagree. 'Falling apart' sounds like the problem is neglect; actually, the Republican Party is actively sabotaging our political and economic systems. They apparently want to completely destroy this country so that it breaks up into a very large number of small, warring factions. Maybe it's for a bigger market for weapons, I'm not sure. But they're destroying America, and they're doing it on purpose.
What to do about it is a harder question to answer.
Xopher, I think we're in violent agreement here that there's something broken. Unfortunately, I'm just too annoyed at the moment to slow down the process of irritation to something comprehensible to other people, so I'll have to beg off the argument. I hope you don't mind.
Meg, Xopher, as Miss Teresa explained some years back, it's a blowout scam.
There's no reason to think that the plan isn't going ahead.
Fragano @ 33:
I would think it's obvious: Palin has to be St. Alia of the Knife.
Meg Thornton @ 37:
Your current president has your country not-at-war in five different countries at the moment (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and now Yemen)
About to be 6: I've been hearing talk that "we" can no longer accept the violence in Sudan; Hilary Clinton has been talking about some sort of peace-keeping force there. And maybe 7, if enough of the violence in the Mexican border states starts leaking over into Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Your country is falling apart - I mention this just in case nobody there has noticed.
The 300 million of us who aren't politicians have noticed; we just can't seem to get any agreement on what to do about it, with all the capitalist running dogs stirring up the pot.
"nothing is now needed to render our triumph certain but the exhibition of our own unquenchable resolve. Let us but will it, and we are free."
A fine example of what Matt Yglesias calls "the green lantern theory" of diplomacy.
Will alone is sufficient to accomplish anything. Planning doesn't matter. Coherent objectives don't matter. Logistics are unimportant. Mere willpower will ensure victory. And if you are losing, then you simply need to will it harder. Anyone who expresses doubts or asks hard questions is undermining victory and must hate America.
When we heard this throughout the Bush regime years, it was clearly a sign of the Neo-Confederate DNA in the modern Republican party. Is it always and everywhere a symptom of neo-Confederate thinking? Probably not--I don't think Baghdad Bob was a secret re-enactor. But in America, it generally is.
James D. Macdonald @ 40: Thanks for the link to Teresa's blowout scam post - I've seen cousins of that scam, some of them legal, but I haven't had the full concept in my head before. That's some pretty valuable self-defence information, there.
Also a useful addition to the Plot Hamper, and as such a public service to spread in song and story. Dessert topping and a floor wax!
Granted, I'd be happy to live without the fiction, could we only live without the fact also...
Who is our Sinestro in the Green Lantern theory?
There has to be someone who realises the US empire is a crumbling wreck, your economy has gone down the gurgler, your infrastructure is falling to pieces, your social fabric has gaping holes everywhere and the whole thing is going to hell in a hand basket?
There are plenty of people who realize this; that this is the case is as close to a consensus as there is in American politics.
What there is no consensus on is what a solution would look like. Every plausible solution set, at least 20% of actively-engaged citizens are convinced will make things worse.
long ago #42: Actually, I'd say it's more a sign of bullshitters in general... it's prominent here simply because at this point, the neocons have burned through all of their intellectual cover and chaff -- all they have left to cover up that blowout scheme, is lies, demagoguery, persecution of their "enemies", and lots of propaganda.
Unfortunately, "by will alone" is also a classic form of magical thinking, and as such, it's really easy to push with propaganda, and defends itself well against rational argument.
I was reading Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad, and he mentioned that the surrender of the German army in Stalingrad (trapped by Operation Uranus) came ten years after the Nazi's gained power in Germany. And it cracked the image of Goebbels' propaganda machine. Ordinary Germans started tuning to foreign radio stations. The Russians put letters from PoWs on propaganda leaflets, with a request to pass on the news to these soldiers families.
We're already reading the equivalent of the foreign news. What would it need for people to stop believing the party line, even if they continued to repeat those slogans in public?
Clearly, he's trying to bootstrap the narrative causality process.
Dan R:
ISTR some line in a book along the lines of "we noticed that each of our great victories against the Russians was closer to Berlin."
It's not easy to see what to do about a broken, corrupt media, though. The more you seek out alternative news and information sources, the more places you see that the US MSM provides an incomplete, systematically distorted picture. But to have a conversation with anyone else, you have to agree on a picture of reality. When you can't count on even the most basic kinds of agreement about the shape of the world, it becomes very hard to come to any agreement about what to do. Fragmenting our information sources has the effect of making that kind of agreement much harder--especially as so many people apply a kind of ideological pre-filtering of sources of information, so that they'll respond to an article documenting some important thing by saying "I wouldn't read anything from that [liberal/conservative/anti-American/racist/French/Jewish/Islamic] bunch of bastards."
Would people care to mention their favorite non-MSM sources? I seem to have a thrown together pile of blogs plus NPR and the BBC (I'm not sure how mainstream they are by American standards).
Nancy @ 50 - I don't know if you would consider it a source (it's more of an aggregator) but I love Zite on my iPad. You tell it what your interests are and it gathers information and puts it together into a digital magazine.
albatross at 49: exactly. When you can't agree on a set of facts, and you can't turn to the professional news media for information because information isn't what they do, you have -- what we have.
It's not just America. Greece is effectively bankrupt, Portugal and Ireland nearly so; their default will probably take down the Euro. I suspect that the EU will be gone faster than the US. The oil is running out, resources are running out and the food is running out. The oceans are rapidly emptying of anything more complicated than jellyfish; eco-systems are becoming more threadbare, soils are being depleted and the poles are melting. We are already past the point where we could hold warming at two degrees, and four is looking more likely. Human population is continuing to rise, and the world's financial system is kaput.
Meanwhile, at least 28% of the US population has effectively taken a vacation from reality, and exists in a self-referrential, self-reinforcing media bubble in which none of the above is happening - effectively paralysing the body politic.
Right now the most likely "it all turns out ok" scenario I can imagine involves benign aliens turning up to bail us out. Because anything else requires a much stronger suspension of disbelief.
Bruce 41: I would think it's obvious: Palin has to be St. Alia of the Knife.
With Rush Limbaugh as the Baron Harkonnen? "That damned Baron has her!"
Andy, #53: Yeah. I've been thinking longingly about Clarke's Overlords for quite a while now. Their overarching principle was simple: "You folks can run your planet any way you like, as long as you don't hurt each other. If/when you do, we'll stop you."
#55 ::: Lee
Were the Overlords worth it?
Democracy Now does an hour long news show weekdays that's available as a podcast, and is pretty good. They have a viewpoint, and I suspect there are issues they will have a hard time being neutral about, but they also cover stuff that gets little coverage elsewhere, often at great depth. They usually have one or more detailed interviews or discussions with people worth hearing from, and the length and lack of commercial interruptions means you can really get a lot of information/ideas from the person being interviewed.
Charlie Rose has an interview show. You can search for old shows on his website. I find some of these interviews just wonderful, as a way to get access to what some interesting person is thinking.
Otherwise, NPR, BBC, El Pais, and several blogs.
Nancy @50:
We started watching Al Jazeera during the Egypt uprising, and did some compare-and-contrast between it and the Beeb after the Japanese earthquake. The fact:hype ratio made the BBC look awfully shabby and tabloid by comparison.
(This is probably because AJ has done a serious brain-drain on the Beeb.)
Nancy, #56: Have you read the book? If you have, that's an odd question to ask. If you haven't, it would be better to find out for yourself.
Two of my news sources:
Facing South (progressive, focus on Southeast US).
ProPublica ("an independent, non-profit newsroom").
#59 ::: Lee
I've read the book. I consider it to be ambiguous about whether the human race transcended or was eaten.
Newt claims to be a historian. He should have recalled the maxim of drug dealers that you don't consume your own product. The Green Lantern theory represents a particularly jingoistic, "inspirational" kind of historiography.
This is also Victor Davis Hanson's problem, but at least he isn't running for president.
I'm really curious about why Newt's staff left him. Aside from that I'm bored with sex scandals, I've never heard of a staff bailing out like that before.
There are reasonable guesses about what they were thinking, but why didn't they each think "Bad economy, I'll take another year and a half's worth of salary"?
sara @ 62... Newt claims to be a historian
A pyscho historian?
Nancy Lebovitz #61: Now that is an odd thing to say! Unless you equate joining the larger mass as being "eaten", and IIRC Clarke made it quite clear that this was part of a long-standing galactic life-cycle, and did allude to an alternative -- an implicit "humanity uber alles" scenario, with an Overlord dubbing that "cancerous".
Nancy Lebovitz #63: Bailouts like that usually mean the candidate and/or the situation have gone pretty mental. In this case, my impression is that Newt may well have gone and found a wife even nastier than himself, who's insisted on running his campaign. Note that that's not from any info I have about Callista herself, I'm just reading it from the article of the Teresa's first link.
#65 ::: David Harmon
My alternate reading might be excessively paranoid, but the Overmind is also spreading through the stars-- is it just a cancerous growth preempting the competition?
Does it matter that consent is irrelevant to it?
Just speaking for myself here, but I feel as though I was a lot more misanthropic when I was a kid, and more willing to empathize with a point of view which implied that the human race was no great loss.
When it occurred to me to be cynical about the Overmind, I felt as though I'd been hypnotized by the pretty colors.
Maybe it really was transcendence, but we can't tell from here. I just realized when I was writing this... Childhood's End is an early example of a Singularity story, possibly the earliest one.
Newt may well have gone and found a wife even nastier than himself
Oh, come on. Is that really plausible? I mean, Ilse Koch is dead.
Nancy Lebovitz #67: The problem is, that particular brand of "paranoia" can be applied to anything -- consider Manicheanism, which applies the same pattern to Christianity itself.
I feel funny spoilering something this old, but:
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It's not unreasonable that a greater consciousness would see our insistence on "conquering the universe as humans" in much the same light as we see a four-year-old's insistence that "when I grow up I'm gonna do anything I want!".
me #69, addendum: That last sentence should also be taken as applying to the "consent" question. I used to know a fellow named Nico Garcia, a Type I diabetic. At one point, he wrote a comment to the effect of: "When I was 7 years old, I went up to my parents and told them I wasn't going to take the [insulin] shots anymore. They didn't 'respect my autonomy', they held me down and gave me the shots. And that's why I'm here to write this today." When I lost touch with him, he was well into his forties, and tight insulin/sugar discipline was surely a big part of how he'd lived that long.
David Harmon @ 70: That sort of story is heart-warming only to the degree that the parents are both omniscient and benevolent. Minus either, it rapidly becomes nightmarish. In my experience, stories of the form "When I was a kid I wanted X, but adults made me Y" are rarely so pleasant as that one.
heresiarch, would you accept 'well-informed' as a friendly amendment to 'omniscient'? That is, capable of making the best available choice for their child? (I'm not arguing 'benevolent' at all.)
I ask because I think it's rare that parents are omniscient, but rarer still that a seven-year-old can make better decisions for hir own health than hir parents. This while I fully understand the cases you (I think) have in mind, where the parents lock the daughter away because she dates the wrong boy, or the son because he dates any boy at all...and so on.
Well, not rarer still. Omniscience is the rarest of all. Duh.
heresiarch @ #71, on the contrary, parents of a 7-year-old diabetic child who failed to give him his insulin because he didn't want it would probably be found guilty of child neglect, and the child would likely be removed from their custody. Neither omniscience nor an unusual degree of benevolence are required to cause parents to take responsibility for their young child's health.
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The slope gets slipperier when you're dealing with adults or near-adults. For example, it's fairly common for patients with spinal cord injury or severe burns to state that "I'd rather die than live like this" or "I'd rather die than go through this painful treatment." Most of them later change their minds--even the ones who got the burns by setting themselves on fire. Do I think patients in hospitals automatically give up their autonomy? Hell no. Do I think a patient's wish to die or to discontinue treatment should always be honored? No, not always. But I'm damned glad it's not my job to make that call.
In my experience, stories of the form "When I was a kid I wanted X, but adults made me Y" are rarely so pleasant as that one.
Because the less-unpleasant ones don't make good stories.
"When I was a kid, I wanted to play video games all day but my parents made me do my math homework" is not exactly riveting cocktail party chatter.
Xopher @ 72: "would you accept 'well-informed' as a friendly amendment to 'omniscient'? That is, capable of making the best available choice for their child?"
The problem with "well-informed" is that, from where we are now, "well-informed" parenting through most of history is riven through with epic abuse. I mean, the whole left-handed thing. I can think of a few mainstream parenting styles that I fervently hope are in the future seen as unconscionable child abuse. But I take your point--I used "omniscient" for reasons of context.
Orthogonal to parenting, the anecdote was being used to illustrate a political point, that sometimes it's good to have someone wiser and stronger than you force you to do the right thing. That, far more than the parenting strategy, is what I was objecting to. I think Nancy's paranoia about the Overmind is well-founded, and I share it entirely. Plenty of rulers have claimed benevolence and omniscience, and none of them were right yet. Give me self-rule and self-knowledge, however imperfect, every time.
With human parents, you can at least say that the vast majority of them leave their kids in good enough shape to reproduce. It's a low standard, but it's something.
We've got less information than that about the Overmind.
Nancy Lebovitz #77: And what information would you demand of the Overmind -- remembering that as introduced in the book, it's the next thing to God? Vastly older and larger than the human race, with powers extending well beyond our understanding of physics, but certainly including (1) all the implications of FTL capabilities including temporal manipulation (2) mass-energy reserves on at least a planetary scale, (3) Utterly alien in structure, being essentially assembled in colonial fashion -- regardless of the details of how new segments get integrated, it's not going to resemble a human mind -- or even a human society.
The thing is, it's not really a Singularity story -- internally to the story, the change is "our natural path", which would indeed make it an S-story... but plot-wise, the change comes as an intrusion, courtesy of the Overlords. (Indeed, our "retroactive racial trauma" from the incident certainly blames them!)
So the story's somewhere between "the universe [or our fate] may be stranger than we can imagine", and "my
boatworld is very small, and the seacosmos is very large".
Sara @62:
I consider Victor Davis Hanson a particularly sad example. His early work on the Greek hoplites was (at least to my non-expert eye) terrific work. Then he morphed into a particularly virulent wackjob political commentator. Gingrich was never, so far as I can tell, anything more than a politician with pretensions playing at being a historian. Hanson was the real deal before stepping off the edge.
#78 ::: David Harmon
That's a good question-- for all I know, my attitude is that of a caterpillar looking at a butterfly and saying "You'll never get me up in one of those things".
However, we really don't know that it's benevolent. It might be a criminal outcast in the community of overminds for abuse of nascent races.
And we probably couldn't understand the law or the standards very well, even if it was.
It's a singularity story in the sense that it's about tech beyond a certain point being beyond human comprehension, and people being changed beyond recognition by it.
I'm willing to bet that Clarke intended it to be a story of transcendence.
Nancy Lebovitz #80:
And we probably couldn't understand the law or the standards very well, even if it was.
Nor would we necessarily appreciate our "just deserts" under such a system, given it's attending to priorities far beyond our own comfort. I.e., "no, you do not get to go strip-mining random asteroids (and killing Talebba), contaminate a dozen nascent ecologies with your bacteria, etc.
It's a singularity story in the sense that it's about tech beyond a certain point being beyond human comprehension, and people being changed beyond recognition by it.
Where do you find that? The Overlords certainly have overwhelming superiority of tech, but not to the point where we can't pull stunts like that "suitcase trick". The Overmind and its nascent component are not a technological development! I'm sure Clarke did intend it to be about "transcendence", but in going from there to fleshing out a plot, he brought in all sorts of other issues.
David Harmon @70: As of last month, when I saw him at a party, Nico was alive and well.
I seem to remember that, circa 1980, Phil devGuere - who later went on the revive "Twilight Zone" - had worked on a miniseries adaptation of "Childhood's End" for Universal.
Other movies that were never made - "Caves of Steel", with Paul Newman. I know, there was a British TV version starring Peter Cushing, but little of it survived.
One of my favorite absurdities in Davis's proclamation is the part about the great strategic advantages gained by no longer having to defend Richmond. If it's such a good idea, why didn't they do it earlier?
The same goes for Gingrich. If he really wanted to run an unconventional campaign, why was he running a conventional one?
And as long as we're asking all these questions, where's Power Girl's mangy yellow cat when you need it?
Teresa @ 84: In both cases, the earlier conventional tactics were strategic gambits leading up to the final devastating surprise, from which the wrongfooted foe could scarcely hope to recover.
Teresa @84
I suppose there was an argument that an army protecting Richmond also threatened Washington, but that went both ways. The Union fielded an army to protect Washington which also threatened Richmond. There was a somewhat futile balance. The Union was able to assemble the resources to fight offensive campaigns elsewhere.
The Confederacy had a choice. The Union didn't. In the short war which both sides expected, it wouldn't have mattered much. Still, think what Lee and Jackson might have done if they hadn't been tied down by the political need to protect Richmond
Richmond? I didn't realize the Civil War had spread all the way to the Bay Area.
("Not that Richmond, Serge.")
Lila #74:
I think suicidal people (both with and without recognizable cause) make up a hard case for anyone who cares about individual autonomy. I'm very much in favor of an adult's right to decide he's going to climb Mt Everest, go skydiving, go to South Africa or Haiti and sample the offerings of the low-rent brothels, or see how much heroin his body can handle. And yet, I'm damned sure that that same adult, found by the police or paramedics despondent and with incompetently cut wrists bleeding slowly, needs to be taken to the hospital, treated, and put under some kind of psych treatment to try to get him back into some kind of equilibrium.
I don't have a good principle to apply here, and perhaps there is no coherent principle.
albatross @ #88:
As you say, there may be no coherent principle, and by continuing along this line I may be proving myself a mug, but a thought did spring to mind, and it is this: there is a difference between an activity with an incidental risk of death and an activity where death is the point and purpose.
albatross, #88: IMO, part of the problem is the application of the word "suicidal" to people who have made a rational decision, based on incurable physical health issues, not to drag things out to the bitter end. It's both inaccurate and unfair to conflate them with people who have mental-health problems.
(OTOH, it's also important to have proper pain management, because people who are not in intractable pain are able to be more rational about the rest of their quality of life.)
Paul A @ 89... I may be proving myself a mug
Time for a drinking song?
Paul A. #89: Well, that's part of the point of albatross' example! One distinctive feature of suicide attempts from depressed or distraught people is that the attempt is often halfhearted or incompetent. (Not that people can't die of those too! Worst ever means of suicide: a bottle full of Tylenol.)
Of course, that's not always the case... I still remember the last message from a person on Walkers in Darkness, who I knew only as "FighterVet": "Hot damn, my cyanide salts came!" It's good to want to rescue people, but you also need to recognize that you can't save everyone, and pushing too hard will backfire.
And then there's the "amok" pattern, currently appearing as "suicide by policeman"....
Paul A @ 89... I may be proving myself a mug
Serge @ 91: Time for a drinking song?
If you insist on proving it then you're eventually going to wind up with the Philosopher's Drinking Song, and that never ends well.
David Wald @ 93... the Philosopher's Drinking Song
Dare I ask?
In a couple of weeks, I'll be at a social event where people may indulge in the Jack Burton Drinking Game, wherein one must ingest some kind of drink every time philosopher/trucker Burton says "What?!" in "Big Trouble in Little China".
Serge, 94: The Philosopher's Drinking Song.
TexAnne @ 95...
Eric Idle, eh?
"I drink therefore I am"
The Blowout scam (under any name) isn't in the "List of confidence tricks" article on Wikipedia, nor does it have its own article -- which could be linked via the "Scams and confidence tricks" box at the bottom of that list.
This seems remediable by a skillful editor who knows the topic so well.... Hmm?
'Twould be lovely to link to such an article when discussing the GWB Administration.
Is the Blowout, d'y'suppose, the origin of the infamous Harvard-MBA-spread stratagem of asset-stripping that became such a plague during the 1980's, and still is the trademark of vulture firms like Mitt Romney's Bain Capital?
The literati and their effete, cocktail-sipping, machine-gun-toting sheep may once again think they have won a battle -- but the clouds of dust they mistake for retreating Gingrich aides are in fact only advancing Gingrich intellectual artillery making ready to fire new and more advanced ideas across the ideological wastelands currently held by his opponents!
Rats leaving the sinking ship.
AKA "Newt's top fundraisers resign too."
... thereby liberating Newt Gingrich even further to run his campaign his own way, without the constraints of conventional fundraising considerations!
Another lightening of the load and clearing of the deck to allow swift and surprising tactics in a campaign designed for the 21st century political battleground!


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"Bad Omen"! After the stunning events of "The Lazarus Contract" rocked the Titans to their core and called into question the team's leadership, Omen discovers the shocking truth about their future-that one of their very own is destined to betray them...and it could be anyone!
If you haven't been reading Titans, you've been missing out on one of Rebirth's hidden treasures. With a riveting script and amazing artwork, Titans #12 proves both a perfect entry point for new readers as well as a much-needed examination of one of DC Comics most neglected heroines. Here's hoping a Tempest solo story is next. Read Full Review
Titans #12 is a great issue with awesome character moments and a good setup for the future. There is a lot more to this issue than the main plot that I spoiled, so go check it out for yourselves. Read Full Review
Titans continues to be one of DC's most consistent team books if not its best thanks to the terrific personal dynamics. That only looks to intensify with this arc, which makes it as good a time as any for any stragglers to jump on and check it out. Read Full Review
TITANS #12 acts as a prelude for the next story arc by revealing the aftermath of the "Lazarus Contract" and builds off of that gloriously. Read Full Review
The panels and cover art in this issue are fantastic and play well with the emotions lurking beneath the surface of each character. (That panel when Roy can't bring himself to tell Donna how he feels? Absolutely crushing!) I really hope we see more out of Rocafort going forward. Read Full Review
Over the course of one issue, Omen has risen to the occasion as not being weighed down as just being the team's psychic. She's a fully capable woman that holds her own and Abnett has set her up for a very stressfulcharacterarc, on top of the ongoing problems of her teammates. Titans #12 was a great issue that spotlights a team members strengths to propel them into a new light and refocuses the title for the next set of story arcs for the upcoming months. Read Full Review
Wow, what a great freaking read. After the disappointing Lazarus Contract, it feels good to see this book back in its comfort zone. No loose ends after this issue, everything the Titans have faced are coming back to haunt them. The plot flowed naturally, and the dialogue was strong and captivating. The art was beautiful the whole way through. Abnett is on his A game with this one. Read Full Review
Titans continues to be another bright spot in the Rebirth era books, and even if it is not in the pinnacle, it does deserve a spot in your pull list. If you never read Titans, this run was one of the few that you will not have a problem jumping in, as it doesn't beat you across the head with the information from the previous books and any information given seems like a normal progression. Read Full Review
An issue that I can sit back and say "I'm glad I read that – but I probably wouldn't go back." It was enjoyable to read and look at, and I am interested to see what this upcoming arc is going to be like. Read Full Review
Despite the lackluster that was "The Lazarus Contract," "Bad Omen" returns Titans to the quality we've come to expect from this title. Dan Abnett does an outstanding job of reminding readers where each of these characters are personally without the narrative feeling stale. Rocafort adds to the script by beautifully capturing each character and scene, and itching to see more of his work. The real winner here is Lilith though! Talk about a knockout moment for her as a character! Read Full Review
Titans essentially catches us up on what went on with the Lazarus Contract storyline and then shifts things to move forward with dealing with Karen's memory problem. There's a good bit of character drama and material to chew on here and it's done well and is appealing because it reinforces what we know about the characters and the changes that they're going through. Some of it may feel a bit abrupt but at the same time it's a team book that has to deal with less space to really get things done. The big win for me was the whole Psimon and Omen storyline as that had some great material between the two and gave Omen a chance to shine. Particularly thanks to Rocafort's layouts and designs for it so that it heightened the interest a great deal. Good stuff that has me on board for a good while to go still. Read Full Review
Titans #12 sets up the pieces on the board for what promises to be a thrilling new arc and excels at examining the many personal issues facing the team. Read Full Review
Kenneth Rocaforts artwork reminds me of Art Thieberts. And like Thiebert, he needs a strong inker. While not my favourite type of comic artist, his work is dynamic enough for this series and keeps in line with what has appeared before. This version of Titans has looked like it came from the 1990s from the start! Read Full Review
Titans #12 is a good read, especially during the psychic battles between Psimon and Omen. It's pretty apparent that when it comes to the psychics of the DCU, she's clearly a powerhouse " she just doesn't show it too often. I wish we'd have an opportunity for her to actually let loose on all of her powers, but maybe Abnett is saving that for another time. Read Full Review
This issue also does a very good job of making Omen more interesting, but the current status quo/twist for Wally West still leaves me cold. Abnett seems to be favoring melodrama over actual drama, and it's holding this series back. There's a lot to like, but it doesn't have to literally be a soap opera. Read Full Review
Overall, it was passable and it does make me want to read next months issue. Read Full Review
This isnt a bad issue to pick up if youre just hopping on Titans, and its not a bad overall issue. However, it is the weakest of this series by far. Give it a read if you love these characters or want to try out this book, but hopefully the next issue will be back to its high standard of quality. Read Full Review
This issue of Titans is a bit stale in my mind while we try to get old readers back on the trolley of where we were before the Lazarus Contract, which I guess works for new readers too, but ultimately, I don't care for how the status quo of the team is now and I wasn't a fan of the art either. Hopefully Titans will eventually find its footing once it decides that we don't need to always focus on Wally and that this is a team we want to see act as a team. Read Full Review
In an effort to deliver a number of romantic pairings that would get fans talking Titans #12 forgets to deliver a quality story. Dan Abnett and Kenneth Rocafort failed to make what should be major chapters in Donna Troy, Wally West, Roy Harper, Tempest and Omen's lives impactful due to bad execution. Hopefully having a mole within the team helps the future of the Titans series because the various romantic pairings sure did not. Read Full Review
This book automatically becomes much better with any other artist. This book has a slightly new direction after the Lazarus Contract and I am interested to see how it goes.
Truthfully this was a bit boring at times, but the art was nice and I hope that it starts solving the problems created by the first few arcs of the series. I will wait and see how this turns out.


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The three-week workshops, facilitated and directed by the Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF), take place in Chicago. The workshops will bring together cohorts of thirty graduate students, selected in a competition conducted by the humanities centers (for the 2015, 2016, and 2018 summer workshops) and in a limited submission competition drawing on a national applicant pool (for the 2017 and 2019 summer workshops). All participating humanities centers will be responsible for recruiting applicants with broad interdisciplinary interests and with the capacity to represent a broadened vision of life in the humanities upon returning to their campuses. The expectation is that the centers themselves, by engaging with this project, will strengthen their capacity to serve as cross-disciplinary engines for the reorganization of graduate programs in the humanities.
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Monday again? Wow, the weeks fly by. So what things did I do this week that would qualify for a Not Me! Monday post? Hmm...
I would not think I could manage all NINE children at their check-ups and then call for reinforcements at the last minute. Not me! I am so on top of things ya know. So it wasn't me that had the youngest five have their appointment in the morning, break for lunch and then take the older four back for theirs. And while having lunch proceed to call my good friend Leisa and ask if she can sat in the doctor's office with the younger ones while I'm with the older ones. (Thanks, Leisa and Casey).
It wasn't me that stopped and talked to a perfect stranger outside of Books-A-Million. I certainly would not do such a thing. (I'm not really an outgoing type of person, kind of shy actually).
And it wasn't me that let my children put up a tent in the yard and then it wasn't me that actually let them spend the night in it. It's February, for crying out loud! In Tennessee! (Actually it was in the 60s yesterday, not too bad).
Ok now it's your turn. McMama started this fun and you can go over to her site to see how to post your own Not Me! Monday. Have fun!
Monday, February 9, 2009
Not Me! Monday
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- Arlene said...
It's nice to see some pics of the kiddos!
P.S. Hey, I was just going to tell you that you can change your blog settings so that more than one post shows on the main page. It makes reading easier on visitors, too, so if you need help with changing that, let me know. :)
- February 10, 2009 at 11:28 PM
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Every trip gives them an opportunity to get out of the office and into a new environment. This offers the chance to have a fresh start each time they travel. After returning from a holiday, they will be ready for work and will have a new sense of enthusiasm after taking a chance to do something they love.
2. They're open minded
Seeing and experiencing different cultures provides an understanding of others and a desire to understand the lives of others. Their experiences will help them to be open minded at work because seeing a different culture will give them a new perspective of the world.
3. They're super organised
Organising a big trip takes a lot of time and commitment, and the ability to sort out all the logistics. This skill lends itself to an office environment because they will have no trouble co-ordinating work commitments having faced the challenge of organising a trip.
4. They have broad interests
A desire to travel demonstrates a passion for something outside of the workplace. Because planning and executing large trips takes a lot of commitment, they have to love travelling. This keen interest outside of work will enrich their work life because they pursue something totally unrelated to the office.
5. They're great socialisers
They've had to fit in with a whole variety of people from all walks of life, which means that those who travel become adept at meeting new people. This translates easily to networking and fitting in well in any work culture.


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Guilin Hotel is situated along the Ronghu River in central Guilin, surrounded by popular shopping areas. Nearby places of interest include Xihu Lake, Guilin Central Square, Xiangshan Park, Zhengyang pedestrian street, Qixing Park, and Heishan Botanical Garden. It is about 28 kilometers from Liangjiang Airport.
Opened in 1987 and remodeled in 2007, the 9-story Guilin Hotel features 329 guest rooms, equipped with complimentary high-speed Internet access, cable televisions, coffee/tea makers, climate control, direct-dial telephones, bathroom toiletries and in-room safes. Non-smoking rooms, handicapped accessible rooms, wake-up calls and room service are available.
Guilin Hotel property includes a swimming pool, massage, sauna and fitness center, game room, two restaurants, a coffee house, bar/lounge, concierge service, currency exchange, beauty salon, laundry service, tour assistance, safe-deposit boxes, limousine rentals and babysitting service. Conference facilities include a ballroom, eight meeting rooms and business center.
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Remembering the Fight for Freedom: Texas Military Forces Museum
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In the ever changing city of Austin, there are several museums honoring the freedom and independence guaranteed by those who served in the armed forces. One of these, the Texas Military Forces Museum, curates outstanding information, displays, and memorials to those who fought for freedom and independence.
Photo: Flickr/ Texas Military Department
The museum honors the veterans and military forces from Texas that have played a valuable role in the fight for freedom and the dedication of protecting and upholding American values. For more information on the museum's history, visit tmfm-history.org.
Arriving at the Texas Military Forces Museum
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Housed at Camp Mabry, which is an active military base that has been in existence since the 1890s, the museum is a beautiful and interactive memorial to those who served. On arrival, outside the main gallery complex, the museum maintains a collection of decommissioned artillery pieces, armored personnel carriers, combat tanks, and aircraft. Moving to the inside of the Texas Military Forces Museum, exhibits cover the founding of the Texas Militia in 1823 under Stephen F. Austin when Texas was first a colony, through almost every major military conflict, up to present day.
The Galleries of the Texas Military Forces Museum
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Starting at the main entrance of the museum, The Great Hall houses more armor pieces, including the legendary M4 Sherman, the workhorse tank the United States military deployed during World War II to provide protection to the infantryman that served in combat. From the Great Hall, there are several wings that house the 49th Armored Division Gallery, the Air Guard Gallery, WWII Pacific Theater Gallery, Texas Navy Exhibit, 19th Century Gallery, and the 36th Infantry Division Gallery. There are memoirs, uniforms, weapons, personal trinkets from troops that served, letters to loved ones, highly intricate dioramas portraying key battles and moments in Texas, United States, and World history, and interactive exhibits that provide a small glimpse into the lives of the soldiers that served. For more information on the galleries and exhibits, visit tmfm-galleries.org.


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Trez V. Pugh III of Sip & Savor Coffee House bringing flavor to the people
Black history is something that we tend to speak about as if all the accomplishments have been achieved. In truth, Black history is being made every day. As Black people continue to crush barriers and stereotypes every day, rolling out's mission is to chronicle the stories of who empower themselves and in turn empower others. We are honored to feature Black businesses and business owners as they represent the engine to our freedom.
Today, we feature Trez V. Pugh III the owner of Sip & Savor Coffee House.
Time in business: 13 years
Favorite quote from an African American: "If you can't fly then run if you can't run then walk if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." -Martin Luther King
Twitter: @SipSavorChi
Instagram: @sipandsavorchicago
Facebook: sipandsavorchicago
Website: sipandsavorchicago.com
Talk about what inspired you to go into business.
I started off in the real estate game back in the late 1990's, as an investor. I was approached by a childhood friend who loved coffee, who I thought just wanted to rent out my commercial space to open up a shop. He had tried to open a shop before but it didn't work out to well. Needless to say, my friend talked me into not only renting the space to him free but convinced me to go into business with him and another guy. The three of us opened Bronzeville Coffee House in 2005. After four years or so, things were kind of up and down and took a turn for the worse. I shut down the business, parted ways with my partners and started my own coffee house business called Sip & Savor.
What does it mean to you to run your own business?
Running my own Coffee House is both satisfying and frustrating at times, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. I am directly responsible for creating jobs and changing communities when things go south. Some of the biggest challenges I face are twofold dealing with the constant need for capital to run the operations efficiently i.e. paying gas, light, insurance, taxes, payroll, inventory, vendors, mortgage, equipment, etc. Secondly, finding those talented, motivated, and pleasant potential employees to represent my brand. I was able to overcome the capital piece by reaching out to private investors who believed in my vision and understood business models. Most of my investors are my loyal customers.
What is the biggest misconception about being a Black business owner?
People think we don't take pride in our product or the service we provide and we don't understand the importance of class and elegance. I have a saying in our company and that is we pride ourselves on the 5 C's; crisp, clean, classy, consistent, customer sService. Customer service is paramount in my company, I expect my baristas to learn our customer's names, their drinks, and any other thing they deem important that they can associate with that particular customer. We definitely want every last one of our customers to be handled with a personal touch, we want them to feel like VIPs.
What value does your business provide to the community?
Our tagline at Sip & Savor is "Where Coffee and Community Meet." Our coffeehouses feature art on the walls by local artist, photography by local photographers, we have comedy shows on the back patio, featuring comics from the neighborhood, we offer music via DJ's and bands, and they are all from the neighborhood. We take time to feed and provide coffee and tea to the homeless and we rent our venue out to the community to have meetings, celebrations, etc. We truly believe in giving back to the communities in which we serve.
What historic African American figure has inspired you the most and why?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has always been a major inspiration to me. His ability to deal with so much racism, anger, hate, and just flat-out unfairness and maintain his cool and calm demeanor was phenomenal to me. He showed us how to love and how to be tolerant; his patience and willpower to stay focused on his mission despite all the obstacles that were in his path was beyond inspiring.
How have you incorporated technology into your growth?
One of the things that I am proudest of when it comes to my coffee houses is we use a ton of technology to assist us in our day-to-day operations. We use a state of the art staffing and scheduling App that all employees have on their smartphones. This app lets them know their schedules, it allows them to put in for time off, they are able to communicate directly to other employees in the event of an emergency, and a host of other things.
When you are hiring employees what do you look for?
When we are hiring employees we are looking for someone who has a beautiful smile, an engaging personality, someone who is neat, clean and speaks well. This person will be representing my brand and again it goes back to the 5 C's. Of course, we want someone who is respectful, prompt, eager to learn, understands to some extent how to deal with problem-solving, some conflict resolution, decision making, and just plain old common sense and manners.
What do you want the legacy of your business to be?
I want the legacy of Sip & Savor to be exactly what our tagline states: that we are where Coffee and Community Meet. Our legacy should be judged on what we did in the community, Did we give back? Were we humble? Did we help others? Did we create jobs, did we add value, and did we do all of this in a respectful and dignified manner?


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On 14 March 2002, the Grand Jury of the United States Southern District Court of Texas indicted Andersen for obstructing the course of justice in relation to its shredding of thousands of Enron-related documents while the energy company was under investigation by the SEC. Some of the highlights from the eight-page indictment include:
"The approximately $1.2bn reduction in (Enron's) shareholder equity disclosed to analysts on 16 October 2001 was necessitated by Andersen and Enron having previously improperly categorised hundreds of millions of dollars as an increase, rather than a decrease, to Enron shareholder equity." So that's what the brackets are for.
"The shredder at the Andersen office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent to Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded. A systematic effort was also undertaken and carried out to purge the computer hard-drives and email system of Enron-related files … in London, a coordinated effort by Andersen partners and others, similar to the initiative undertaken in Houston, was put into place to destroy Enron-related documents within days of notice of the SEC inquiry."
The complete indictment is available at https://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/usandersen030702ind.html
In response to Financial Director's survey published last month, in which 57% of readers said companies should be compelled to rotate their audit firm, Peter Wyman, deputy president of the ICAEW says: "I find it extraordinary that any FD should wish to be told by government when his company must change auditors. Surely good corporate governance requires the audit committee to review its satisfaction with the auditors annually, and to recommend a change in firm if at any time they believe this would be in the interests of the company and its shareholders … there is a real risk of a system of mandatory rotation producing less rather than more robust audits."


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Thanks to successful investments in the past years, the often in the tourism sector publicized Corendon Tourism Group, as touroperator, as airline company and as hotel chain, once more was awarded a prize in the Netherlands.
According to a publication in the biggest tourism-travel guide in the Netherlands TRAV Magazine, Corendon holds the 3rd rank in the "List of 50 Largest Tourism Companies" and has shown to be very successful. In the fiscal year 2014 the company realised a turnover of 450 million euro. While it held the 9th rank in the list the previous year, Corendon made a big jump upward this year, leaving tourism giants as Thomas Cook, D-Reizen and Sundio far behind. According to the same publication, the touroperator Corendon Travel, a company under the roof of the Corendon Tourism Group, ranks 4th in the list of Touroperators.


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Läupäev 23. veebruaril 13.00 Läti majas, 24 Church Ave, Woolloongabba
Join us for Independence Day celebrations and the Brisbane Estonian Society (BES) Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Saturday 23 February at 1.00pm @ Latvian Hall, 24 Church Ave, Woolloongabba
Curious to learn more about our Guest Speaker, Kätriin Kristal, we askeda few introductory questions:
25 y.o . from the little parish (town) of Märjamaa
2015 ~ graduated from Tallinn University as a Preschool Teacher, after which I came to Australia. In the last year of university, I worked as a teacher in Tallinn Tihase Kindergarten.
March 2016 ~ started working at the Estonian playgroup and worked as a nanny for 2 years.
January 2018 ~ finally got my degree accredited by ACECQA, and since then I have been working in childcare (in Brisbane) as a Teacher.
March 2018 ~ we decided to put together a folk dance group, I turned up to be teacher there as well! J
Kohtad palju sõbralikke inimesi kellel, nagu sinulgi, on südames – EESTI EESTI EESTI!
Meet friendly like-minded people who share your passion for – EESTI EESTI EESTI!
Palun võta kaasa midagi ühisele lauale panemiseks.
Bring a plate to share for afternoon tea.
Pensioners – $2
Adults – $2
Kids – Free
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i felt a slight tickle in my throat when i woke up a few days ago, so i've been drinking water and popping vitamin C and echinacea like a madman to cut it off at the pass. my immune system will not give into some cold... not on my watch. seriously -- i don't have time to be sick.
ps. my stream is being hit with a huge upload tonight. its production photos from the dress rehearsal of the show we never got to do from last week. i've cleverly titled it so that it won't show up in any searches...so if you are in the know... lets refrain from mentioning the title.
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I travelled to Singapore especially to visit the Gillman Barracks.
However, there was no updated information about the place. Maps at the place contained incorrect information, while the map on the website did not work.
Staff working at the restaurants and in the galleries confirmed that visitors are exasperated by the poor visitor experience because of shoddy management.
One restaurant that was already operating said a "Food and beverage coming soon" sign was still at its location on on-site navigation maps.
Everything needs to be updated and decent management put in place if Gillman is to provide a worthwhile visitor experience.
Carl Carthy


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The wisdom teeth usually need to be extracted because most people simply don't have enough room for them in their mouths. As they try to erupt (usually around the late teens or early twenties), they often become stuck, leading to pain and pressure towards the back of the jaw. At Family Dentistry Rick Redmond, DMD, Dr. Redmond is able to provide safe and effective wisdom tooth extractions right here in Sylacauga so local families can get everything they need without having to leave home.
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In a traumatic week for the community and the harbour authority we have lost two key members of the team; harbour master Edwin Madron passed away on Tuesday 14th October and commissioner David Cotton passed away on Friday 17th October. Our thoughts are with their families and friends.
Replacements for both will be notified in due course.


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Blood at the Beach (Video)
Patrick Michael Strange and I traveled to Virginia Beach over the weekend of May 10th to attend Blood on the Beach III. I've been to conventions for comic books, Star Trek, science fiction and anime but this was my very first horror oriented show. I had a great time!
Among the many celebrities in attendance were Michael Rooker, Lew Temple, Vincent Ward, Travis Love, Theodus Crane, Diana Barrows, Tyler Mane, Michael Berryman, William Forsythe, Traci Lords, Julian Sands, as well as Terry Kiser of, "Weekend at Bernie's," and the lovely Kim Poirier (both in pics above with me)! We got interviews with Michael Rooker and a number of actors from AMC's The Walking Dead TV series.


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Let Cynthia and Scott serenade you Wednesday night at Main St. Tavern…
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Show starts at 6 pm, reservations are not required.
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Date/Time: Wednesday September 9th, 2015 6 pm-9 pm
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As I deprived you of a new post on Sunday, I thought I might regale you with a tale of my weekend, wherein I returned to The Auld Sod, the land of my birth (sort of*). While I have, according to a DNA test taken by The Olde Vermonter, a great deal of Irish blood running in my veins, all the ancestral Gaels went to Scotland. No doubt one step ahead of the law.
Anyhoo, I digress.
The weekend started in grand fashion with Yours Truly attempting to find the leftover chili in the fridge. For you see, The Missus Herself was out visiting some of her elderly friends and left me to fend for myself. I mean how hard is it to nuke a bowl of leftover chili? (A recipe from The WSO which The Missus Herself had given a Korean twist, very tasty.)
Well nuking it was the easy part, finding it wasn't so easy. I mean how hard can it be, no doubt thought the love of my life, "I'll leave the chili right here, I mean it's red, it's right in the front of the fridge, even an idiot should be able to find it."
Well, this idiot did eventually find it. After carping on the phone to The WSO for a good five minutes as I searched high and low in that refrigerator. Which no doubt inspired my youngest to post the following on the Book of Face -
Ha, bloody ha. (The truth, it can sting.)
At any rate, after dining on the chili, it was off to the computational device to write Saturday's post and then search through the extensive archives here at The Chant to find a tidbit for to post on Sunday. While you may (or may not) have found that post amusing, I found it to be just as funny/embarrassing now as when the incident occurred and again when I wrote about it.
At any rate, Saturday's post had some good comments, which I answered Saturday night (near enough to midnight as dammit) on my cellphone with a rather spotty cell signal. Now Mom does live in the boondocks, so to speak, surrounded by lots of mountains, hills, valleys, and maybe two or three cell towers in about a thousand square miles. Yes, I am exaggerating, but not by much.
Big fat fingers, little tiny cellphone "keyboard," and maybe one to one and a half bars of connectivity. So of course, Beans has to make a crack about my loquaciousness rivaling PLQ's. Damning with faint praise right there. I thought I was being polite and succinct. I mean, I like letting you folks out there know that I read (and yes, cherish) your comments. (And I like to think that PLQ's comments are succinct, ya know, to the point.)
Anyhoo (again), up there in the north country of my birth (sort of) it is still winter. While I was expecting that, I hadn't expected the dearth of snow not thirty miles south of the Homeland. I mean, normally we start seeing beaucoup (pronounced boo-koo, heh, not) snow when approaching Worcester (pronounced Wustah, really) in the Massachusetts snow belt. Not much at all did we see, not even as we approached the New Hampshire line.
Sure, there was some back in the trees and on the side of the road that gets very little sun, but I'm used to seeing much more. (Like in that opening photo, that place isn't too far from where my maternal grandparents lived.) Even north of Keene the snow seemed sparse. Heck, the Connecticut River wasn't even frozen south of Bellows Falls (town of my birth, in Vermont, nicht New Hampshire).
Just north of there the Connecticut was frozen. Solid enough where I saw a couple of ice fishermen, not out on the river proper but in one of the setbacks. The Missus Herself opined that "surely they must be crazy people" to be out there. Well, the wind was blowing and the "feel like" temperature had to be in the teens. So she had a point, especially as they had no shelter other than the leafless trees along the shore. Ah well, northern New Englanders (of which I am one) are a bit daft. In a good way mind you.
But the visit to my Mom's house was pleasant. We had a nice meal at The Sumner House (a local eatery) on Saturday night I had a New York strip steak with a bourbon glaze topped with caramelized onions, green beans (or haricot vert when I'm "putting on airs," which is often), and a very nice baked potato. All washed down with a Sam Adams (the variety of which I don't remember). Afterwards we retired to the Elks Club where fortuitously some of my Mom's and our mutual friends happened to be, where I sampled a local brew called a Rainbow Red Ale from the Trout River Brewing Company of Springfield, Vermont, the place I was raised. Quite tasty, though it tasted neither like trout nor like river (which was a good thing). I was sore tempted to have another, but as I was the driver, I opted to behave.
The trip, though short, was grand. The sky was blue, the roads were dry, and the scenery was lovely. I do so enjoy going up north to the ancestral homeland. As we weren't able to make it up there at Christmas time nor in January (due to weather, ill health, and the non-availability of the feline staff's Godmother, which is what our next door neighbor calls herself, she is a most excellent cat sitter as both Anya and Sasha really like her, something which doesn't apply to many humans).
Monday it was back to work and back to eating "healthy." The Missus Herself has declared a fatwa on my substantial bulk and is determined to get me down to a weight where I won't be mistaken for a beached whale when I get near the water. For once I am attempting to comply for reasons which will be revealed at some time in the not so distant (I hope) future. (Think happy thoughts, no dire premonitions here, all will be revealed in due course.)
At any rate, I'm back and I shall endeavor to avoid reruns for the foreseeable future. I do get so lazy at times...
Good song, good album.
* I keep writing "sort of" as I was born and raised in Vermont, just across the river from where Mom lives now. Same neck of the woods though dontcha know? As my Mom and Dad are both from New Hampshire, and both sets of grandparents lived there, I consider the Granite State to be every bit a part of The Auld Sod as Vermont.