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These holes are not only amazing, but some are really terrifying! The sheer scale of these holes reminds you of just how tiny we are.
Kimberly Big Hole, South Africa
Apparently the largest-ever hand-dug excavation in the world, this 1097 meter deep mine yielded over 3 tons of diamonds before being closed.
Glory Hole, Monticello Dam, California
A glory hole is used when a dam is at full capacity and water needs to be drained from the reservoir. It is the largest spillway of this type in the world. It consumes 14,400 cubic feet of water every second.
Great Blue Hole, Belize
This incredible geographical phenomenon known as a blue hole is situated 60 miles off the mainland of Belize. There are numerous blue holes around the world, but none as stunning as this one.
A giant sink hole in Guatemala
This sinkhole occurred early this year in Guatemala. It swallowed 2 dozen homes and killed at least 3 people.
And now, the biggest hole of all….
Rat Hole, Washington, D.C.
It is capable of swallowing trillions and trillions of U.S. dollars, annually! The money that falls into this hole is never seen again! This giant Rat Hole is reputed to be filled with at least 535 ass holes.
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One Nation, Divisible
The rich are doing just fine. An article in last Thursday's New York Times noted that sales of luxury goods are recovering strongly. The age of conspicuous consumption is returning so powerfully that high-end retailers are actually marking up prices on luxury goods. The article quoted one shopkeeper who said that it's no big deal for his customers if an $800 pair of shoes is marked up to $860.
And while that additional $60 may not mean much for some consumers, many others struggle to buy the basic necessities. The same article noted that discount retailer Wal-Mart has begun selling smaller packs of bulk toilet paper because many of its consumers don't have enough cash on hand to afford larger multipacks.
That many families can't afford basic needs is not an indictment of the wealthy. But something is terribly amiss when experts continue to proclaim the nation is more than two years into an economic recovery yet some families can't afford basic necessities such as toilet paper and high-end retailers have the luxury of marking up already pricey goods and services.
It is this gross dichotomy that makes the current political climate and debates in Washington so troubling. This disparity also makes it hard not to question the terms of the debt deal signed into law last week. Lawmakers agreed to trim at least $2.4 trillion from the deficit over the next 10 years. The deal forces cuts to domestic, discretionary programs–including those that support people in advancing their jobs skills, education and training and those that provide supports to families in poverty–by imposing spending caps in the name of deficit reduction.
Since lawmakers began talking in earnest about deficit reduction last year, they've thrown around the phrase, "shared sacrifice." But as is, the bill pays lip service to that principle by failing to put revenue raisers such as closing corporate tax loopholes or ending tax breaks for the wealthy in the mix. If this warped notion of "shared sacrifice" persists, low-income families already struggling to put food on the table or buy toilet paper and other basic necessities will have to do without even more, while those at the highest income levels will not be asked to shoulder any of the burden of deficit reduction.
Just as Washington is politically divided, we as a country are economically divided. One in three Americans, nearly 98 million people, lives in a low-income household without sufficient money to provide for their families' basic needs. These families are one health care crisis, job loss or other unforeseen event away from poverty. One in seven Americans, nearly 46 million people, relies on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) to put food on the table. More than 14 million people (9.1 percent) are unemployed. Economic inequality continues to worsen.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), expressing frustration about the final debt deal, said to the Washington Post: "My constituents are suffering; they've lost their jobs and their homes, and now to cut the very programs that could have provided them with support while the rich are given a pass - it's ridiculous."
The trouble is not that the wealthy are purchasing high-priced consumer goods, it's that in neighborhoods across town, other families are making tough decisions about how to make limited dollars stretch. It's these families that need someone in Washington to stand up for them. Yet lawmakers have chosen to drastically reduce discretionary spending in a way that will result in cuts to programs that alleviate immediate hardship and provide opportunity for families to move out of poverty.
If we are truly one indivisible nation, we should find a policy path that moves us toward fiscal discipline while maintaining the critical role of the government and its safety net for those who need it most.

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Each facility shall be equipped with effective plumbing and sewage facilities and adequate accommodations including, but not limited to, the following:
The water supply shall be sufficient for the operations intended and shall be derived from an approved source. Drinking water and water used for food processing operations shall meet bacteriological and chemical quality standards specified in 327 IAC 8-2. Running water at a suitable temperature and under pressure as needed shall be provided in all areas where required for the processing of food, for the cleaning of equipment, utensils, and food-packaging materials, or for employee sanitary facilities.
If a food processing plant obtains water from a water system not subject to 327 IAC 8-2 for its operations the operator shall sample the water at least annually for bacterial analysis by a certified laboratory, maintain records of analysis of sample results for three (3) years, and provide such records to the department upon request.
A plumbing system shall be of sufficient size and shall be designed, constructed, installed and maintained according to the applicable Indiana Plumbing Code, 675 IAC 16.1, to:
Carry sufficient quantities of water to required locations throughout the facility.
Properly convey sewage and liquid disposable waste from the facility.
Avoid constituting a source of contamination to food, water supplies, equipment and utensils or creating an unsanitary condition.
Provide sufficient floor drainage in all areas where floors are subject to flooding-type cleaning or where normal operations release or discharge water or other liquid waste on the floor.
Prevent backflow or backsiphonage from, or cross-connection between, piping systems that discharge wastewater or sewage and piping systems that carry water for food or food manufacturing. This shall be accomplished by:
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Bronx Eats: Pancita (Menudo) Now Simmering At El Atoradero, Mott Haven
We've covered the carnitas at El Atoradero a fair amount in this column, and for good reason. Whole-hog style and cut into cubes, it's some of the most delicious in this city.
With winter on the way, Lina and her cooks are adding three seasonal specials to the usual suspects of antijos, pupusas, and tamales. The chief draw on these cold days is a fantastic pancita ($4 for small, $8 for a large), that infamous tripe soup more commonly known as menudo.
In Mexico, there are several stock varieties of menudo. (Diana Kennedy lists six recipes from across the country in her Essential Cuisines of Mexico alone.) Some variations have clear broths, others go heavy on the herbs. In the north, hominy or pozole are sometimes added. Stateside, the soup is famously caricatured as a folk cure for biting hangovers and seen as little more.
But menudo's roots go much deeper. Its appearance as a weekend special in New York's Pueblan restaurants seems to be as much a concession to the labor involved as it is to the dish's ritual significance as something to gather the family around.
At El Atoradero, they cook a guajillo-spiked menudo de roja, the symbol of the city of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco, with cow's foot thrown in for body. Despite what the red hue may suggest, this is a mild soup. The flavor instead is lusciously sweet, carefully drawn out over a long morning, with a rich and silky texture. It's as if the broth clings to your tongue, reminding you that you are never alone. There is plenty of tripe packed in there, too, cooked to a palatable chewiness, not that off-putting sponginess that less experienced cooks produce. But this is not a soup for the faint of heart. The tripe's intense funkiness is left unmasked, rising in pungent wafts.
There are hot beverages, too, including a relative rarity in New York City: cafe de olla. (The only other restaurant I have managed to score the beverage is at Bronx mini-chain Estrellita Poblana 4). Traditionally brewed in an adobe pot, cafe de olla is coffee sweetened with piloncillo (unrefined cane sugar) and flavored with Mexican cinnamon. Some may find it too sweet; others lust after it. For those in the mood for a more youthful beverage, there is the chocolate flavored atole champurrado. Enhanced with more cinnamon, it's relatively thin.
Still, the pancita is what's worth rolling out of bed for. There are, of course, those delicious picaditas if you're looking for a quick snack to munch on first. But you can get those babies any time of the year. Keep your eyes on the prize.
El Atoradera
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Ultima: Exodus, known in Japan as ウルティマ 恐怖のエクソダス Urutima Kyofu no Ekusodasu, "Ultima: Fear of Exodus", is a role-playing game and a port of Ultima III: Exodus, but I have a history with it different enough to warrant its own page. This version was created by Newtopia Planning and first released in Japan by Pony Canyon on the NES in 1987, then for the MSX in 1988. It was published in North America by FCI on the NES in 1989. The MSX version is very similar to the NES version, just with a slightly different color palette and sound due to different hardware. This game was heavily advertised in Japan, the soundtrack was composed by a pop musician, a single was released featuring the vocals of a pop singer, several extensive hint books were made, and even comics and game books were written to popularize Ultima to Japanese audiences.
I first played this game after renting it from a video store and loved it. I remember reading the poorly printed replacement manual that came with the game that there was "dragon" armor, which I thought was so cool. Later, my step-brother brought his copy when he visited, and I play it. I accidentally erased his save game file, and my brother and I tried to rush through the game to get back all the stuff he had, but were unable to, he was very mad. But we kept playing, and I amassed a lot of gold and raised each of the characters to level 5. This unleashed the pirates, and we made it to Ambrosia. I found a shrine, and, teasingly, my step-brother told me to try and donate all my gold to see what happened. I obeyed, and didn't see any benefit, and I felt betrayed by him. Only later did I realize I was on the right path.
I later asked for the game for Christmas, and got it. It was a used copy and didn't have the manual, but it did come with a nice transparent purple plastic case, which was so fitting for the game. I played it a lot, but didn't get very far without the manual. Later, my brother and I found a copy of the hint book at a Toys 'R Us, and he bought it for me. With it, I was able to get a lot farther. The hint book contains everything I needed to beat the game, and I got about two thirds of the way through it, but I didn't beat it then. Years later, having gotten tired of it being a game that I really loved, but couldn't beat, I sat down and spent countless hours grinding out gold and buying my stats (I ran the game at 2x speed), and then finally beat it on 2017-07-08.
I own a complete in box copy of the game, and have beaten it.
- Overall: 4/10
- Best Version: NES
- For the time, the graphics are pretty good, certainly better than any of the PC-based Ultima ports.
- The game has really good music.
- Hiding portions of the map that your character's can't see, while not very attractive to look at, is certainly more realistic than seeing through walls and roofs, which was common in most RPGs of the day.
- There is a large variety to the towns; each focuses on a particular terrain, and it's impressive to see varying ages in the NPCs.
- The spell list is fairly varied. There are attack spells for singular and multiple targets, spells for getting around in the dungeons, disarming traps, healing, resurrection, and so forth.
- Having wind that affects how fast the ship can move in various directions was a cool idea.
- The amount of effort Pony Canyon put into selling the game was amazing. Multiple professionally made hint books, a manga, a vinyl soundtrack, etc.
- The game engine moves too slowly. I found the game to be much more playable when run at double speed in an emulator.
- The towns are very redundant. Most of them have the same shops as each other, so they could be removed altogether.
- Most of the game's dialogue is useless. Much of it is banter: "it's a good day for washing," "it's too late to play Ultima," etc,; though some of it is clues, but the majority of the clues are either unhelpful: "find the shrines," or incorrect: "dig here!"
- Experience is poorly correlated to the difficulty of the monster. A full mob of skeletons can be defeated in a single round with a free Undead spell, yielding 32 XP, while a full mob of demons, who will leave your whole party injured and poisoned, only gives 64 XP. Also, the amount of XP needed to level isn't exponential; it always take 100 XP to get to the next level.
- Gold is entirely random, and far too little is rewarded for difficult battles. A single goblin can have more money than a pair of dragons!
- Combat, though tactically superior to most RPGs of the time, is dreadfully slow.
- Weapons are poorly factored. Weapons of a higher power level only do marginally better damage. Ranged weapons usually do the same amount of damage as melee weapons, but you have many chances to hit before the monsters can hit back, so the only reason to use a melee weapon is if the class can't use one.
- Enemies can attack diagonally, but you cannot, even if your character is wielding a pole-arm.
- If you pick the wrong menu item in combat, you have to forfeit your turn, you can't undo the menu option.
- Most of the monsters in a group have different sprites, but are clones of the others, like titans, giants, and golems.
- I don't care for the 3D dungeons because you can't tell where the enemies are, there are WAY too many traps, and their layout is ridiculous. Like the towns, they're mostly redundant and half of them could be eliminated.
- There are a couple game breaking bugs, but they're rarely encountered.
- The game requires an obscene amount of grinding. You have to grind monsters to get XP to raise levels, but levels only increase your HP, not your stats. To raise stats, you must grind gold and donate 100 GP for a single stat increase at a shrine. Getting a single character to their optimal stats costs about 20,000 GP. But before you can tackle that, you have to equip your party with about 10,000 GP in weapons and armor, and buy food and healing along the way. All that grinding takes literal days to do. However, if combat were eliminated, you could probably beat the game in about an hour.
- Since inns don't heal your characters, recovering HP after major combat takes forever. Characters max out at 2550 HP. There is only one level of healing spell which gives a paltry 25-50 HP. A tent heals 100 HP per character, but at a 100 GP price tag. Some hospitals will heal a character to full for 200 GP, but there are only a couple in the game.
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Maps with details can be found here: mikesrpgcenter.com/ultima3.
- mobygames.com/game/nes/exodus-ultima-iii - MobyGames (NES).
- mobygames.com/game/msx/exodus-ultima-iii - MobyGames (MSX).
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_III:_Exodus - Wikipedia.
- gamefaqs.com/nes/587740-ultima-exodus - GameFAQs.
- vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Ultima:_Exodus_(NES) - Music.
- thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php/Ultima:_Exodus - NES Hacker Database.


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I Just Got My Period and I'm Gaining Weight. What's Going On?
I'm 15 and I just started my period. I have noticed that I am gaining weight
in many places, like my stomach and thighs. I weigh about 145 and am 5'10". I run
cross country in the fall, play basketball in the winter, do soccer in the spring,
and am exercising every day. I also eat pretty well — sometimes I will
have some chips or something but I always have wheat bread and eat healthy. So what
do I do? Maybe I eat too much? Or is there a good exercise that can help me lose weight?
– Raye*
First, congratulations on your good exercise and eating habits! Based on your height and weight, your body mass index (BMI) is in the "healthy weight" range. So what could be going on?
Getting your period and developing into a woman usually comes with changes in how a girl's body looks and the places where she carries her weight. It's normal to gain weight in the areas you mention. Sometimes, a girl gets extra weight around the midsection in preparation for a growth spurt. During puberty, body fat increases and is redistributed, especially in the hips and thighs. Weight should stabilize as growth slows and a girl reaches her adult height — usually a couple of years after her first period.
It can be hard adjusting emotionally to a new body — especially one that seems to keep changing. Both guys and girls go through this. Eventually it all balances out and most people feel less out of step and more comfortable with their "new" body.
Since you're not overweight, it's unlikely that you're eating too much — although if you keep gaining weight, you may want to talk to your doctor. Stick with the sports and healthy exercise you're already doing. Even though it's not possible to target one area of your body to lose weight, it won't hurt (and may help) to do crunches or lunges to tone your stomach and thighs.
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The ileum absorbs much of the fluid from foods. When the large intestine is bypassed by an ileostomy, the patient should expect liquid stool (feces). The constant or frequent drainage of liquid stool can cause the skin around the ileostomy to become inflamed. Careful skin care and a well-fitting ileostomy bag can reduce this irritation.
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Well, whaddaya know? Complain about Borgen's lack of consequences one week, and the gods of Danish television answer your prayers a week later (just three years ago; follow me on this time travel thing, guys)!
"See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" isn't the show's finest hour. For one thing, I didn't feel any particular connection to Anne Sophie, so Birgitte's sorrow over the way that she was betrayed (and that Birgitte had to go along with it) struck me as more academic than emotional. But it was definitely a storyline where Birgitte was outsmarted by someone within her own government and forced to deal with the consequences, and for that, I was very thankful. Yeah, she lays down the law to Troels at episode's end, but it's all too apparent that now that he's realized what he can get away with, he'll gleefully keep stepping over the line. What's more, the episode continued the show's greatest theme, which is the ways that women have to behave when in power, through no fault of their own but because society (even a relatively progressive society like Denmark's) expects them to behave that way.
Let's put this another way. As I stated in today's Not Optional, I'm a big fan of John and Hank Green's web series Crash Course, which aims to provide viewers with, well, a crash course in the subject at hand. John Green's most recent series has been about U.S. History, and he recently did an episode all about women in 19th century America, one I thought was quite good. (The gist of it was that women, often forbidden from working or strongly socially pressured to stay out of the workplace, found their need for professional fulfillment in the many reform movements of the period, which eventually led them to realize that, hey, if America's treatment of other groups needed reformation, then the nation's treatment of women needed just as much.) I showed it to my wife, and she remarked that it was sad that a.) women had to have their own special episode, instead of just being woven in with everybody else, and b.) we really haven't come all that far from the arguments presented against women in the 1800s. Sure, women have the right to vote, now, and it's hard to see that ever being abridged. But how many people still believe a woman's place is in the home, not in the workplace, or feel threatened by women in positions of power?
I'm not saying Borgen is about that—the fact that the troubled Kasper is our third lead certainly suggests it has designs beyond being about that—but it kind of is all the same, even if it doesn't intend to be. In its portrayal of Birgitte and Katrine, the series carefully portrays the way that professional women still confront institutional sexism and other latent prejudices in the workplace, even if the men doling it out aren't aware of what they're doing. Take, for instance, Katrine trying to get TV One from reporting on the obviously bullshit story of Anne Sophie wanting to kidnap Hesselboe's kids years and years ago. All she was doing was making an over-the-top rhetorical point about how Hesselboe should feel the pain of war visited upon his own household, and on top of everything else, she was clearly drunk. The tape also suspiciously cuts off at the most convenient point. It's so obviously spin that Katrine doesn't want to go with it, but TV One sees it as a better story.
Granted, some of this plays into prejudice against far left agitators as well, with the media enjoying the comfort of believing that someone like Anne Sophie is clearly crazy bananacakes, instead of having to think about her very real points about the Iraq War or whatever else she's talking about. This is not saying that anyone has to agree with her, but it's usually easier to just portray someone who's saying something you don't like as a nutjob than it is to actually engage with the premise of their argument. Anne Sophie is so blatantly character assassinated that both she and Birgitte don't even see the bullets coming, and Birgitte was told they would be arriving by the man who shot them.
The question here is whether this would have happened if Anne Sophie were a guy. And maybe! Certainly extreme political opinions on either end of the spectrum are marginalized and mocked by the media and more moderate politicians all of the time. But it's also hard for me to see Torben writing off Katrine's concerns about the obviously manufactured nature of the story so easily if it was a guy cutting loose on the tape, a tape that, let's not forget, was obtained through bugging the offices of a radical leftist publishing office that later gave way to Solidarity Party headquarters. (The bugs are found by a repairman, which you'd think somebody in Special Division would have taken care of.) All of the fault lies with Troels and his department, but he's so good at playing out the aftermath in the media that all of the fault ends up lying with the people who have been wronged, which is a nifty little parable about the endless sustainability of power. It's all encapsulated in that final shot of Birgitte striding down the hall one way, flanked by powerful men, only to pass Anne Sophie, shoved all the way to the side (the left, no less), all by herself, walking the opposite way.
The relevant Birgitte story, when she's not getting screwed over by Troels, that is, involves Bent's insistence that she can't make any friends in Borgen, which is how she ends up so gutted by the way that she has to act as if Anne Sophie's concerns aren't her own. It's a big moment for a show that has so far showed this woman basically getting what she wants with only minor compromise, but it also gives us a sense that Birgitte's just as interested in clinging to her own power as any of the others in her government. To tie herself to Anne Sophie would be political suicide, even if it would be the ethical thing to do, so she isolates and betrays an old friend and brushes it off surprisingly quickly. She's learning, but she's learning just how difficult it is to keep her hands clean in this world.
As mentioned, Anne Sophie and Birgitte's relationship wasn't played up as quite important enough for me to really feel the weight of that betrayal (though the episode did a solid job of trying anyway), but it was the fact that the episode was trying at all that made me appreciate how well this show can do consequences when it wants to. Many of you have assured me that these final four episodes bring many of the strands this season has been building together in interesting ways, and if this is an example of what we're heading toward, then my complaints with Borgen from the middle of its first season run will seem a very minor blip indeed.
Stray observations:
- That said, I'm still kind of over the whole "Phillip and Birgitte are having marital problems" storyline, particularly now that there's a comely young co-ed for her to fret over. I get that being the prime minister and having a family is tough, but the family storylines are so far behind the government and media storylines for me at this point that I have trouble getting too worked up over them.
- Katrine's relationship with Benjamin ends, and I love the way that it ends because he's just not as interested in politics or government as she is. And I also like that he asks her if her work is somehow more worthy than his, or if he should start talking with her about human fitness and the like. She finally admits, in frustration, that it's not. I, of course, as a political junkie, would side with Katrine in this particular argument, but the more that I think about it, the more that I think someone like Benjamin, who probably doesn't have a care in the world, doesn't have a compelling reason to get all that interested in government. (Also: More linkage between Katrine and Birgitte, as she, too, passes by Benjamin all by himself while she's flanked by others late in the episode.)
- I never would have picked Troels to be so sniveling and villainous, but there you have it. Lars Brygmann really does a great job of making him seem cowardly and self-interested more than outright evil, which helps, because he probably could have played it the other way if he'd wanted to. Also: He has a pretty kickass Richard Nixon impression, no?
- Again, the series offers up useful real-life parallels for us Americans embroiled in the middle of the debate over privacy concerns from the NSA's phone and e-mail spying programs, right down to how Special Division's bugging of the publishing company's offices was apparently legal, so the debate over that point (as opposed to the "accidental" bugging of Solidarity, which was illegal if intentional) is mostly about how uncomfortable it makes everybody.
- How the hell did Kasper get into Birgitte's garden like that? Does he have an elaborate system of tunnels beneath the city?


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The Gallium3D Draw Module
Gallium3D provides a helper module implementing the vertex fetch, vertex transformation and primitive assembly steps of the 3D pipeline. The interface of this module corresponds closely to the subset of the Gallium Driver Interface which is relevent to these steps in the pipeline. Specifically there are calls for:
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Finally, there are cases in the Mesa/OpenGL state_tracker where transformed vertices are needed, yet it is anticipated that using hardware transformation would reduce performance, usually because the setup costs or latency are prohibitive. For this reason the Mesa state_tracker also instantiates a private copy of the Draw module for implementing glRasterPos, and GL_SELECT/GL_FEEDBACK rendering modes.
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Massive botnet 'indestructible,' say researchers
A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is "practically indestructible," security researchers say.
"TDL-4," the name for both the bot Trojan that infects machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is "the most sophisticated threat today," said Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey Golovanov in a detailed analysis Monday.
"[TDL-4] is practically indestructible," Golovanov said.
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TDL-4 infects the MBR, or master boot record, of the PC with a rootkit — malware that hides by subverting the operating system. The master boot record is the first sector — sector 0 — of the hard drive, where code is stored to bootstrap the operating system after the computer's BIOS does its start-up checks.
Because TDL-4 installs its rootkit on the MBR, it is invisible to both the operating system and more, importantly, security software designed to sniff out malicious code.
But that's not TDL-4's secret weapon.
What makes the botnet indestructible is the combination of its advanced encryption and the use of a public peer-to-peer (P2P) network for the instructions issued to the malware by command-and-control (C&C) servers.
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Sophisticated TDL-4 Botnet Has 4.5 Million Infected Zombies
'Indestructible' rootkit enslaves 4.5m PCs in 3 months
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Security Researchers Discover the Mother of All Botnets
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'Indestructible' Botnet Enslaves 4.5 Million PCs
'Indestructible' Zombie PC Botnet Borrows Exploit From Israeli, U.S. Cyberweapon
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Seals-Jones injures knee, but most major programs will not back off
Seals-Jones was injured making a tackle on Houston (Texas) St. Pius X running back Micah Massey in the final minute of the third quarter and remained on the ground following the play.
Minutes before the injury the 6-foot-5, 220-pound Seals-Jones -- who was playing in all three aspects of the game at quarterback, wide receiver, safety and punt returner -- was treated for cramps, and many assumed that was what had slowed him from getting back to the defensive huddle.
Sealy coach Jimmie Mitchell told the Houston Chronicle that he immediately knew it was more.
"I saw it down there and I'm sure everybody else did. It didn't look real promising," Mitchell told the paper.
The extent of the injury has not been determined, but speculation surrounding an injury to his ACL has surfaced in numerous reports.
Rivals.com recruiting analyst Jason Howell believes that even with a severe but non-career threatening ACL injury not much will change in Seals-Jones' recruitment.
"I don't think [the injury] will have any effect on his recruiting," Howell said. "Colleges will stay on top of him and let this play out, but with modern medicine players can come back quickly from an ACL. And since this happened so early in the year, his potential impact on the field is going to overwhelm any concerns that he won't get back to being the player he is right now."
Recent history suggests that Howell is correct about Seals-Jones.
From the class of 2012, several high-profile players suffered ACL injuries with no effect on their recruitment. In the class of 2013, Snellville (Ga.) South Gwinnett linebacker Reginald Carter, Destrehan (La.) High receiver Rickey Jefferson, Oakdale (Minn.) Tarten cornerback Keelon Brookins, Statesville (N.C.) High quarterback Carlis Parker and Los Angeles Cathedral quarterback Hayden Rettig all suffered torn ligaments as juniors but maintained their offers and have returned to the field.
Jefferson, the lone receiver in the group, was back on the football field competing against many of the highest-level players during the Rivals100 Five-Star Challenge just 10 months after tearing his ACL.
That is a timetable Howell believes to be realistic for Seals-Jones.
"Ricky is the type of kid who will put in whatever work is asked of him," he said. "He is such a special player that he could be back in time to be an impact player next season as a true freshman. There really may be no need to give him a redshirt."
Seals-Jones was expected to take an unofficial visit to Texas A&M this weekend as well as an unofficial to see Texas play West Virginia in early October. Those plans may be put on hold.
Seals-Jones is the top-ranked athlete in the class of 2013 and the No. 24 overall prospect in the Rivals100. He has listed Baylor, LSU, Oregon, Texas and Texas A&M among his final suitors and, at one point, had given his pledge to Texas before decommiting in early June.
Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin was in attendance Thursday night and saw the injury, and Howell believes that the second-year coach still has Seals-Jones in his recruiting plans.
"Texas A&M has high hopes with Ricky," Howell said. "The injury will not change their perception of him. The potential impact he can bring at his position and with the ball in his hands is just too great."
Before his injury Seals-Jones had 213 yards rushing on 12 carries and had scored three times.
Secondary to the injury, the Sealy offense sputtered after Seals-Jones left the field, as it was forced to punt twice and turned the ball over on downs without gaining a single first down in the final quarter.
Following the game, St. Pius X quarterback and current Texas A&M commit Kohl Stewart took to Twitter to support his friend posting, "Everyone PLEASE pray for @RickySealsJones he's (an) unbelieveable (sic) talent and a heck of a friend. Stay strong man you played your butt off."


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Tropical Storm Dalila weakening in the Pacific
Tropical Storm Dalila (dah-LY-lah) is weakening fast as it drifts westward in the Pacific away from Mexico's coast.
Dalila's maximum sustained winds late Wednesday were 60 mph (97 kph).
Dalila is centered about 285 miles (459 kilometers) west-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and was moving westward at 5 mph (8 kph).
Weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says swells generated by Dalila affected parts of Mexico's southwestern coast.


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By Lance Cooper
Most of us remember Alabama's famous football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Someone once said, "The Bear could beat your team on one Saturday, and then take your team and turn around and beat his team the next Saturday!" He knew how to coach players, knew their strengths and weaknesses and how to get their best effort. He knew how to win.
How can you coach your sales team like Bear Bryant: from good to great? How can you do this with different personalities and age groups? How do you get salespeople engaged with their best efforts and able to handle rejection with dogged persistence until they achieve their goals?
In every field of endeavor, a coaching philosophy, or set of values and beliefs, drives the performance system. This philosophy affects the hearts of its listeners. As we accept certain values and beliefs, attitudes emerge about coaching or leading people. The resulting behaviors turn into habits, which then produce consistent results. For example, one group of sales coaches believes that people cannot be trusted and so they micromanage people and their outputs like machines. Others do not believe in the coaching role at all and believe that people will succeed or fail despite their intervention – so they tell them what's expected and then stay away. Some sales managers believe that people do better when they are afraid. As a result, they brow beat their salespeople and work to create an atmosphere of fear and control.
The cultural effects are obvious: some sales teams operate out of a fearful spirit while others are courageous. Some are honest and some are not. Some believe in serving others – some do not. Some are creative and innovative while others wait for orders from the manager. Salespeople make confident and winning moves in the heat of the moment or we see them quit early and leave in defeat.
What are the most important values and beliefs that define great coaching in sports or in sales?
Great sales coaches care about their people. They demonstrate this by paying attention to each salesperson's motivational needs plans and progress. To understand their needs, they ask questions like, "What do you want?" "What are the three things that motivate you the most?" "What goals do you have in those areas?" From these questions, they discover the motivating center for each of their sales reps: competition, recognition or possibly a specific need to make a certain amount of money. Then, they help the rep put together a personalized sales plan to reach their objectives and get their payoff. They also demonstrate concern when they notice progress, praise effort and show appreciation for a person's performance. Finally, they individualize their approach by understanding the rep's temperament – their need to socialize, get tasks accomplished, or think through each step.
Great sales coaches believe that their people have what it takes to achieve their goals. They demonstrate this faith by how they communicate when an individual or a team falls behind the pace necessary for goal achievement or misses hitting an objective. They teach sales teams the steps and skills within the sales process that lead to results by focusing on coaching 1-2 skills at a time until they become habits. They talk about specific points of progress. With various words and actions, great coaches help their team get better and reach personal objectives. They may even say, "I believe you can get this done, accomplish this task, or master this skill.' They go with them on calls, listen to their concerns, watch their behaviors and habits, and remove sales process hindrances within their control. Great coaches sacrifice personal time for the improvement, encouragement, and correction of a person's performance. Then, they do this for as long as they have confidence in a rep's ability to achieve minimum performance or higher.
Great sales coaches expect their people to improve and get better. And, those expectancies are specific and communicated. Specific plans, processes and skills, lead to specific habits and objectives. Sales leaders help their reps develop personalized sales plans and development objectives. They help reps find better ways to prospect or to set appointments, how to ask questions and identify a prospect's needs, or to weave needs and recommended products into a solution that helps a new customer or turns into a profitable sale.
Coaching a team to greatness begins with a belief that greatness is possible. As Paul Bear Bryant or as a sales manager, the values and beliefs remain the same. Never accept mediocre effort. Care about the reps. Let them know you believe they have what it takes. Expect them to get better.
People live into and up to the expectations of the culture around them and leaders define the culture. Make it a challenging, fun, and purposeful experience for those you coach and they will rise to your expectations.
Lance Cooper is a keynote speaker and author of "Selling BEYOND Survival: The Essential System for High-Activity Sales Professionals." Lance is president of SalesManage Solutions, a company that teaches sales leaders how to recruit sales superstars and coach teams to greatness. For more information, please visit www.lancecooper.com or email him at email@example.com


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Hi Geoff and Lee,
I found the Molesworth Heritage tour excellent. I expected impressive scenery and to learn more about the history of the area but what I experienced well exceeded my expectations. The tour was very well planned giving our small group time to enjoy our surroundings and to absorb that which our excellent driver/guide,Trevor, had to tell us about the fauna and flora and the history of the area. I learnt a great deal.
There where many highlight but one which I particularly enjoyed was to meet with the Stevenson family, of Upcot Station, and to chat over a mug of genuine billy tea. That's kind of encounter is probably only possible if travelling in a small group.
I have been recommending your company to friends and acquaintances.
Kind regards from a well satisfied customer.- Ann Warner
Thankyou so much for the cd of our trip. It was marvelous. Trevor was very informative about the families that had settled on Molesworth. South Island hospitality is alive and well. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole trip- Carrolyn Waugh
Just wanted to say we have really had a fabulous time on your cycle trip It's been the most awesome cycling ( despite us being being rather slow) And we have really appreciated the great people that Geoff and Peter are and are grateful for their care, stories and humour. It's also been illuminating and quite amazing meeting the people who live and work in the valleys : totally eye opening
Please convey all our thanks to Geoff and Peter and also to you for organizing
I seriously will be back next year with the family.- Chern. Four Day TourFour Day Molesworth Tour
Hi Lee,
My Mum & I thoroughly enjoyed our recent tour with you. We loved the variety. You packed so much into those 4 days but it was still very relaxing. The food was fabulous. Loved the two restaurants we went to in Hanmer & Kaikoura – both top quality.
It was great being able to meet locals like Bill (outstanding morning tea! ), Roza at Paripuma and the Secret garden couple in Blenheim. The High tea was an awesome way to end the trip.
We were blown away by Peter Yealands property. The scenery was inspirational. What a beautiful part of the country you live in.
I have recommended the trip to some work colleagues who are keen to go on it.
We thought it was the best tour we'd ever been on. We couldn't fault it and Geoff was amazing. His enthusiasm, great driving and local knowledge really made it enjoyable.
Thanks again- Claire
Our second trip with your company was even better than the first because we took the 4 day trip and we would recommend it as a wonderful holiday.
The countryside was rugged and spectacular and our guide really knew the history of the area and was able to point out to us exciting things we could never have imagined.
The accommodation and all the meals were excellent and we stayed in country homes we would have had no access to.
It was a lot of fun, very well organised and we felt it was a great privilege to experience the life in this very rugged and wonderful areas. Thank you very much - I recommend the trip to one and all.- Jackie NicollFour Day Molesworth Heritage Tour
Top trip. Great company. Awesome- Jim & Winsome
We would like to thank you again for the great tour.
The thoughtfulness that has gone into the tour as far as the variety of sites, accommodation, riding and scenery is brilliant. Geoff's knowledge of the area made for every step being so interesting.
We cannot speak highly enough of the experience – a great way to see a part of the country most New Zealanders have never seen. Thanks again.- John. Molesworth Four Day TourMolesworth Four Day Tour
Thank you for another fantastic trip!. Your extensive knowledge and obvious love of the South Island's beauty made for a most informative and enjoyable trip.- Lee Fayerman
Hi Geoff
Scheduled private car and driver online before starting cruise. I requested specific wineries to visit and to include lunch.
Driver, Geoff arrived at Dock in Picton right at noon for half-day tour. He was very knowledgeable about Marlborough wineries and the industry. Lunch was wonderful and we enjoyed visiting 4 wineries. Cost was very reasonable and the knowledge of Geoff made for a wonderful afternoon.
Would highly recommend Molesworth Wine Tours.
Thanks- Pat Lundeen


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As far as I'm aware, USB endpoints that use isochronous transfers have a 'wMaxPacketSize' parameter associated with them that is used by the kernel to guarantee a certain amount of bandwidth for the endpoint.
If I'm not mistaken, this maximum packet size can range anywhere between 0 to 1024 bytes (for high speed transfers). How does this parameter translate into bandwidth allocation in terms of Mbps of a high speed (EHCI) controller in a Linux system?
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Over the last 3 or 4 weeks the girls have been staying up late playing with one another, which leads into somebody somebody picking on somebody, which leads to somebody screaming and crying about the time mommy and daddy are going to bed. So I made an executive decision and separated them which was kinda bitter sweet for me and them both. It took 2 or 3 night for MC to not cry for her sister but Kinley bugs took right to it! By Monday night they were both excited to go to bed in their own beds. They each slept 4 straight nights in their own bed so Thursday afternoon they got ices!!!! YES this dietitian rewarded her kids with a cup full of crap,lol!
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With ship dates becoming more important than ever thanks to Software Assurance, Doug urges Microsoft (once again) to rethink how it annouces future launches.
This isn't a useless exercise. IT has to plan for new software. It involves budgeting, spec'ing out new hardware, training, licensing and more.
Many a time IT buys new PCs or servers to support a new OS or app, and finds the gear obsolete by the time the software finally shows up. Pre-announcing can also freeze the market, and keep customers from buying alternatives while they wait for the proper Redmond tool.
As a reporter years ago I loved late software—my stories about Windows, Exchange and Lotus 1-2-3 always made it to the front page.
But IT wasn't so happy.
More than a decade ago, I sat down with Bill Gates at Comdex to talk about ship dates. At the time all the key Microsoft products had come out late. I explained that the customers I talked to needed accurate dates for planning.
I then suggested that Microsoft come up with another way of expressing ship dates. There could be a date for the goal, and then a range of time
afterwards where the software might actually ship. For instance, "We hope to ship Exchange whatever in the fall of 1994, but realistically it could ship in the summer of 1995."
Bill couldn't believe his ears, and attacked my well thought-out, perfectly reasonable idea. In his mind, IT pros understood that software was often late, and that the ship date was not the actual delivery date. "Who is the guy who thinks the ship date is the date? Is this someone new to software? I want to meet the guy who thinks the ship date is the date!" Gates said.
I remember a bit of a firestorm after the interview ran in InfoWorld, as customers complained to Microsoft about a cavalier attitude toward ship dates.
Today, accurate forecasting is more important than ever. Microsoft sales reps and partners are asking IT to buy into Software Assurance, where you pay for the right to upgrade products, with no guarantee the product will even arrive.
Microsoft is not the only culprit,
and certainly not all of its products are late (I think the Xbox DVD add-on was on time).
But it's high time that Redmond and others think about a new way of
predicting dates, and offer a range of delivery possibilities instead of a
specific date that keeps changing.
And when customers pay for an upgrade under SA, they should get it, even if the product ships after SA
coverage expires.
But just like a decade ago, this call is really more Bill's than mine.
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Pelin pedo pîn edhellen = I can speak a little Elven or
Pedin pîn od i lam edhellen = I speak a little of the language of the Elves
I can't really translate 'Never mind' as it is, it'd have to be more 'Forget it', which doesn't exist in Sindarin either. I'll have a look at whether I can change a Quenyan verb into Sindarin for that.
Your last sentence is deceptively complicated...
Some options are -
Man te? = What is it?
Man sa? = What is that?
Man i theled od...? = What is the purpose of?
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Mercedes-Benz has launched the zero-emission B-Class F-CELL, its first production fuel cell car. The automaker claims that the B-Class F-CELL achieves the same performance as a 2.0-liter gasoline-powered car and is "fully suitable for everyday driving."
The car will enter limited production within the next few months, the automaker said in a statement, with the first 200 vehicles being delivered to customers in the U.S. and Europe beginning in early 2010.
The B-Class F-CELL's drivetrain and lithium-ion battery combination generates 136 hp, has a range of about 250 miles, and takes three minutes to refuel. Mercedes-Benz says the B-Class F-CELL can cold-start at 25 degrees below zero (Celsius).
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Though box office market share rarely, if ever, tells the whole story about a studio's health, 2012 saw some serious shake-ups.
Sony topped worldwide, with $4.44 billion, and domestically ($1.768 billion); but its $2.672 billion overseas haul lost to Fox, which tallied $2.72 billion internationally. And Paramount fell from first worldwide in 2011 to dead last domestically, behind first-time top-five finisher Lionsgate.
Moving the needle for Sony, "Skyfall" became the studio's first-ever billion-dollar film, which added to hits like "The Amazing Spider-Man," with $752 million globally, and "Men in Black 3" ($624 million), pushed Sony to studio-best tallies domestically, internationally and worldwide.
Still, it's been an up-and-down year for the Culver City-based studio. Rumors of Sony Pictures Entertainment being for sale started circulating late last year; while Sony Corp. topper Kazuo Hirai publicly quashed such talk, SPE has cut back on pic production, with plans to slightly reduce its development slate, as reported by Variety .
In 2012, Sony compensated for such financial disappointments as "Total Recall" and "That's My Boy" with global hits "Skyfall" and "Spider-Man." Even Sony's most iffy pic profitability-wise — the $230 million-budgeted "Men in Black 3" — likely turned out to be a moneymaker.
Warner Bros. came in second Stateside, with $1.657 billion, thanks largely to "The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." So far, Warners is third internationally, projecting $2.67 billion, though last-minute B.O. totals ultimately could push the studio ahead of Sony.
Disney, which scored the year's highest-grossing release, "The Avengers," ranked third domestically ($1.546 billion), with $2.089 billion internationally.
As the year's most-improved, Universal tallied $1.335 billion domestically, 30% over 2011, with $1.792 billion internationally — also a studio best. Thanks to "The Hunger Games" and "Twilight" finale, Lionsgate, for the first time, landed in fifth place domestically, with $1.2 billion.
Fox, meanwhile, struggled domestically vs. overseas, as its fourth "Ice Age" installment, "Continental Drift," more than quadrupled domestic grosses internationally. The studio ended with $1.024 billion Stateside through Dec. 31.
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Woodspriestess: Exploring the intersection between Nature, the Goddess, art, and poetry.
Listening to the woods, to the stones, to Gaia, and to women...
In the woods behind my house rest a collection of nine large flat rocks. Daily, I walk down to these "priestess rocks" for some sacred time alone to pray, meditate, consider, and be. Often, while in this space, I open my mouth and poetry comes out. I've come to see this experience as "theapoetics"—experiencing the Goddess through direct "revelation," framed in language. As Stanley Hopper originally described in the 1970's, it is possible to "…replace theology, the rationalistic interpretation of belief, with theopoetics, finding God[dess] through poetry and fiction, which neither wither before modern science nor conflict with the complexity of what we know now to be the self." Theapoetics might also be described, "as a means of engaging language and perception in such a way that one enters into a radical relation with the divine, the other, and the creation in which all occurs."
Do Women's Circles Actually Matter?
"We need rituals of memory…because a political movement, the public policy and tactics of our movement, does not come from our ideas, but from the bloody and joyful substance of our lives. We need to be conscious about what our lives have been, to grieve and to honor our strength, in order to break out of the past into the future." –Minnie Bruce Pratt
Last year, I was feeling depressed and discouraged after reading some really horrifying articles about incredible, unimaginable violence and brutality against women in Papua New Guinea who are accused of being witches as well as a book about human trafficking around the world (I wrote about this book in a post for Pagan Families). Then, I finished listening to David Hillman on Voices of the Sacred Feminine, in which he issued a strong call to action to the pagan community and to "witches" in the U.S. to do something about this violence, essentially stating that it is "your fault" and that rather than spending energy on having rituals to improve one's love life (for example), modern witches should be taking to the streets and bringing abusers to justice. And, he asserts, the fact that they don't, shows that they don't really "believe"—believe in their own powers or in their own Goddess(es).
This brought me back to a conversation I had with a friend before one of our last women's circle gathering…does it really matter that we do this or is it a self-indulgence? We concluded that it does matter. That actively creating the kind of woman-affirming world we want to live in is a worthy, and even holy, task. I've successfully created a women's subculture for myself and those around me that comes from an ecofeminist worldview. However, is that actually creating change? Or, is that just operating within the confines of a damaging, restrictive, and oppressive social and political structure? Last time I facilitated a Cakes for the Queen of Heaven series, I made a mistake when I was talking and said, "in the land that I come from…" rather than saying, "in my perspective" or "in my worldview." This is now a joke amongst my circle of friends, we will say, "in my land…that isn't what happens," or "let me tell you what it is like in my land." I have to feel like that DOES make a difference. If we can share "our land" with others, isn't change possible? Doesn't "our land" have inherent value that is worth promoting, protecting, and populating?
I asked the woods and they responded…
What can I do to save the world?
Saving the world is a Christ complex
an illusion of superiority
a delusion of grandeur.
Or is it?
Is it instead
a description
of what it is like to care?
Be awake
Be sensitive
Be present
Keep reading
Keep reading
Keep reaching
Keep laughing
Raise sons and daughters
who love themselves
and each other
and the earth
Say no to violence
in home
in thought
in act
in deed.
Say no to microaggressions
and to micro-spending decisions that support oppression
Say yes to micro-acts on the side of love
Say yes to not giving up on macro vision
and big picture thinking
Always be willing to dig deep
to think hard
to feel strongly
Rise up
stand tall
say no
be counted
hug often
hold your babies
hold your friends
Circle often
stand together
refuse to give up
when defeated, rally once more.
Persist in a vision of the way things could be
and take action
to bring that vision into reality.
Hug well
laugh often
live much
Speak your truth
tell your story
stand up for the silenced
speak for the voiceless
believe that hope still has a place
Hold steady
hold strong
hold the vision
hold each other.
When I came back inside from my woods visit, I added another Kiva loan to the three I already had going (two of which represented pooled monies from my women's circle members). I chose a women's cooperative in Pakistan with a craft business. I paid for the loan using my profits from selling my own goddess art. I also signed up to sponsor a woman in the Congo via Woman to Woman International. Maybe this isn't "enough," but it is something. I work hard to support women in my own community in a variety of ways and I have for many years. I write all over the place…maybe that isn't "real" help or maybe it is, but I can't stop doing it.
With regard to my women's circle and the questions my friend and I asked of ourselves, I returned to part of a past assignment for one of my Ocean Seminary College classes:
In The Politics of Women's Spirituality, Rush observes, "the rituals being created today by various women are part of the renaissance of women's spirituality, that is, of the ultimate holiness or life-sacredness of women and the female creative process. Within a world which for centuries has tried to brand women as 'unclean,' as 'devils,' or as 'immoral corruptor of man,' this healing process is a vital one." She also states, and I deeply agree, that "reforming patriarchal religions…is not possible, just as reforming capitalism is not possible. The very institutions are contradictory to feminism. Women need to once again create new theory and practices for ourselves in order to reunite the spiritual element with the social-political" (p. 384).
She then says, "…it does seem to me, though, that it may be possible to create women's religions within this culture even more the rest of the institutions have caught up with them, and to use these spiritual groups as vital centers for creating radically different ways of living. Women's spirituality groups can become birth centers for social change" (p. 384).
Diane Stein in The Goddess Celebrates, while not using the same language, definitely draws the same conclusion in her observations that women's self-empowerment is central to the women's spirituality movement and in women's rituals and that these rituals, "…create a microcosm, a 'little universe' within which women try out what they want the macrocosm, the 'big universe' or real world to be. Within the safety and protected space of the cast circle, women create their idea of what the world would be like to live in under matriarchal/Goddess women's values…The woman who in the safety of the cast circle designs the world as she would like it to be takes that memory of creation and success out into daily life…A woman who in ritual meditation heals herself and the wrongs of the world, who sees herself whole and the planet clean and free, leaves the circle with a greater idea of what is possible and what it would be like. She has a greater impetus to take that microcosm into daily life and accomplish it on the earth…By empowering women through the microcosm of the ritual's cast circle, change becomes possible in the macrocosm real world." (p. 2-3)
I believe that gathering together as women and connecting over our belief in the value of women and of the value of the Goddess as a symbol is a radical and subversive act. To have the courage to come together in a circle that names women as holy and Goddess as "afoot" (whether literally or metaphorically), is a profound political, social, and cultural statement. And, it is how the personal becomes political. We gather in our homes, we celebrate our rituals and our rites of passage, we wear our Goddess jewelry, we write our articles and share our thoughts, we have the courage to link feminism with matters of the spirit, we speak up in public, we advocate and participate politically, we raise our children in female-affirming homes, and it is in this way that change is born and grows.
It starts with these private ritual and personal connections and then, as Stein explains, "A group of five such like-minded women will then set out to clean up a stream bed or park in their neighborhood; a group of twenty-five will join a protest march for women's reproductive rights; a group of a hundred will set up a peace encampment. The numbers grow, the women elect officials to government who speak for their values and concerns. Apartheid crumbles and totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe end, disarmament begins, and laws to control polluters are enforced. Homes, foods, and jobs are opened to the world's homeless, and often begins in the microcosm of the Women's Spirituality ritual circle" (p. 3).
I do think one reason political feminism trends towards distancing itself from spiritual feminism (aside from perhaps thinking that a spiritual component prevents people from taking a movement seriously) is as Rush describes in Politics on page 384: "It stands to reason after so many centuries of brutal religious persecution, that women today should have a deep fear of conceptualizing our own spirituality. Women who try are severely penalized…Because of all this, it is essential that we do create our own spiritual practices. Our spiritual beliefs define what we respect, what we love—and what we ultimately perceive as our highest values. For a feminist, or for any woman, to perpetuate a patriarchal religion and to worship a male god is for her to deify her oppression" [emphasis mine]. This is powerful stuff, the impact of which cannot be denied or ignored. The symbolic value of ritual is extremely important as well. To many women traditional religious rituals and symbols have lost meaning and feel hollow or emotionless. I feel that women's spirituality rituals bring heart, soul, and passion back to what has become rote in modern practice. Women's rituals usually honor women's bodies and women's feelings and the phases of a woman's life. They also typically use feminine images of divinity and Goddess language and imagery, which is a powerful antidote to the patriarchal culture in which we live. While on the surface or from afar, a woman's ritual may seem like an innocently simple affair, in the context of patriarchy it is a radical and subversive act and statement for change.
Slightly modified from a post originally published on Feminism and Religion.
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Lovely, sensitive, well thought out. As David Hyde Pierce remarked about the current level of funding for Alzheimer's research, "It's just a drop in the bucket - but at least there is a bucket, and somebody is putting a drop into it!" That is the attitude we must maintain about everything. Be part of the solution, not a contributer to the problem.
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