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Nights Clubs
How many night clubs we have in Amman? I am not talking about high class night clubs where people go to dance and have fun alike Nai, Myth, Fizz and Prana, but I am talking about hundreds of sleazy places scattered around the city of Amman with the name of a night club, or in Arabic (Malha layli). In Abdoun, Swefieh, Shemisani, Mecca street, …etc.
They are considered to be men places where slutty looking females waitresses with much revealing clothes and a bitchy attitude coming mostly from foreign countries (mainly from Eastern Europe countries) serve horney men who are ready to spend a big amount of money for some fun.
While most of those places are meant to cater young men coming from the gulf states for tourism, you can see a lot of Jordanian men hanging in such places and bragging about that between each other.
It is a men issue. One thing that men shy to talk about it infront women or even family members. But it is highly accepted between men themselves. Even if a man revealed that he has been to such a place, it won't be a big deal. Only a small tarnish of his reputation that would fade with no time in a society that uses double standards in judging the behaviour of our men versus our women.
People who haven't been to such places which I know would most be only women, can have a better idea by reading Paulo Coelho's book "Eleven Minutes". It is an account of a Brazillian lady travelling to Swizerland looking for an adventure and money only to find herself working as a prostitue. The book gives a very close describtion of such business that is in no way far of what happens in Amman. In fact reading the book, I felt that he is describing one of those places here that I have went to once or twice.
Is it a choice?
While Paulo, in his book, highlight the woman choice of becoming a prostitue, I find myself disagreeing with his view this time as I can't really understand how anyone would choose to sell his body like thins unless she has gone through some special circumstances that left her no real choice but to sell her last asset.
In our society, sex is a taboo, and so a prostitue is looked at to be a sub-human. Most would prefer to stay away of them, others would feel legimate to treat them badly. There is no sense of sympathy towards those women as we percieve them to be morally corrupted creatures that has no right to be treated decently. We judge harshly refusing to look closer for other reasons such women sell their bodies for.
When poverty is presented as a reason, most of us claim their high righteousness. Women with good conidtions would claim that they prefer to die starving rather than selling their bodies dismissing any small compassion with prostitues because they don't really know what it means to be in real poverty.
They present a counter argument. Look at maids. They prefer to work hard rather than selling their honor. I wonder how true is this? and how honor is left their to the maids in our houses? They are subjected to even more humilation than prostitues, and at many times to sexual harrassment and even continous raping from their Masters. Have anyone wondered why maids are usually bad looking women? I guess they would choose prostitution if they have the choice.
Shall we legalize it?
With hundreds, or thousands of prostitues in our city. An accepting social behavior in between our youth. One has to fear the consequences of this hidden unorganized world. How bad it would be to legalize the whole process? As of having some official rules to govern the whole process in order to at least minimize that health risks that our youth are subjected to. At the same time provide some protection to those unfortunate women who are being used and treated as slaves to their employers who are the only one benefitted from keeping the situation as it is.
Or maybe we prefer to keep it this way because those who dare to be a prostitue and those who sleep with one does deserve any kind of punishment they would get out of such act? I wonder if people would feel the same way knowing that their son or daughter can easily get in such situation one day.


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Each spring, as the outdoor temperatures finally climb to comfortable levels, we can hardly resist opening wide the windows to allow fresh breezes and full sunshine into our homes.
We breathe deep the pure air and revel in the bright light–until we notice the smudges, dirt, and grime, undetected during the dim days of winter. Suddenly we're overtaken by the urge to polish the windows, Swiffer baseboards, reorganize closets, and capture dust bunnies under the beds. We embark on spring cleaning, full sweep ahead!
Any concerns of how to clean in the fastest, easiest ways can be researched online. And even the APP Store can help. BrightNest offers organizing and cleaning tips, a personalized cleaning schedule, and reminders. Chore Monster will get the kids to help (so they say).
I can't speak for you, but there's another area in my life that needs cleaning. In addition to the dusting, scrubbing, and polishing throughout our home, a little spring-cleaning of my mind will be beneficial, to remove any melancholy, anxiety, fear, and other muck from my thoughts. There's an A.P.P. for that, too:
A is for APPRECIATION. Nothing wipes away the grime of doldrums like gratitude, because gratitude leads to joy.
"What a beautiful thing, God, to give thanks,
to sing an anthem to you, the High God!
You make me so happy, God.
I saw your work and I shouted for joy.
How magnificent your work, God!"
–Psalm 92:1, 4 MSG
P is for PRAYER. Sweep up the swirling dust bunnies of worry with statements of trust, based on God's reliable promises:
- He will never leave us to struggle through trouble on our own (Deuteronomy 31:6).
- He will always provide what we need (Matthew 6:25-27).
- He is a God of infinite power and might, ruling over all people and all circumstances (Psalm 103:19)
- He is a God of goodness and righteousness, love and compassion, grace and mercy (Psalm 145:7-9).
P is also for PRAISE. Polish every day with worship, commending God for who he is and what he has done.
"To worship is to…purge the imagination by the beauty of God."
–William Temple (1881-1944), Bishop of the Church of England
Notice this A.P.P. of Appreciation, Prayer, and Praise, is all about words that don't even have to be spoken out loud. Is it really possible that mere words can cleanse away hurtful or disturbing thoughts?
Yes! Words are powerful (Proverbs 18:21). Even self-talk wields great influence, because thoughts produce emotions, emotions produce attitudes, and attitudes produce behavior.
For example:
- Thoughts of Appreciation, Prayer, and Praise create a clean, positive atmosphere in our spirits.
- That atmosphere allows the emotions of peace, joy, and contentment to shine.
- From a contented heart come the positive behaviors of cheerfulness, perseverance, faith, and strength—to name a few.
But just as some spring-cleaning tasks require extra effort, ridding our minds of negative self-talk often requires extra effort as well. Our thoughts too easily get mired in complaining, anxiety, and fear.
How do we redirect our thinking? We take our negative thoughts captive (2 Corinthians 10:5), trapping them like dust flecks in a Swiffer! Then we use our A.P.P (as described above) to add the luster of positivity.
There's nothing like a good spring-cleaning to increase the pleasure we experience in our homes. And there's nothing like a good cleansing of the mind to bring supreme pleasure to life.
"The Lord is a sun and shield;
The Lord bestows favor and honor;
No good thing does he withhold
From those whose walk is blameless.
O Lord Almighty,
Blessed is the man who trusts in you."
–Psalm 84:11-12 NIV
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Another area of preparation before a small business begins selling to hospitals, is the understanding of the buying patterns of hospitals. There are two major budgets that a health care facility purchases products and services from.
The first is the hospital's capital budget. Usually this is for large purchases with a formal sequence of budget creation, submittals, approvals and ultimately allocation of funds. The money is allocated around the facilities fiscal year which needs to be determined during a small businesses investigation. The fiscal year often does not mirror the calendar year. For example, it could be September to October or July to June.
This knowledge of the hospital's fiscal year is critical is timing the marketing messages to insure that the small business is a vendor contacted during the budget creation time frame prior to their submittals to executive management approval. A downside to this is that there are usually a minimum of three vendors required by the by laws of the hospital to submit bids, which is by definition a competitive environment.
Next is the facilities operating budget. Hospitals use these fund for expenses occurred to keep operating and in compliance throughout the year. A small business who has creatively developed a low front end product to penetrate an account will be successful in getting in the door as a new vendor through the operating budget. This avoids the long sales cycle of capital approval and more formal sales process which small companies tend to be less likely to win.
There are other factors that come into play when ascertaining a hospitals buying pattern, such as purchasing group contracts or current agreements with present vendors. Some facilities that are under contract with a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) are required to purchase a certain percentage of their products and services with vendors that are under contract with the GPO as well. A quick inquiry to the purchasing department of the facility should suffice in finding this out so the correct approach to acquiring the account can be implemented.
Small businesses will have to participate in the capital budget process, but if it can be avoided by securing jobs through less competitive operating budgets then do so.


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From the beginning (when I proposed this design to Butterick), I've always called this "The Draped Wiggle Dress." When I think of the classic wiggle dress, I usually think of something in wool, with sleeves and a higher neck. (Like the one in my book!) But then there's also the cocktail-style wiggle dress, in a fancier fabric. The genesis for this one was the green dress Joan wears in a Mad Men poster.
I loved the side drape on the dress she wears here. From this point, I started looking at other designer dresses from the era, particularly the work of Peggy Wood. It was her use of little raglan sleeves and bodice draping that inspired by own bodice design. Here's an example of a typical Peggy Wood bodice:
Tomorrow I'll write about the construction of this dress. While it looks drapey and soft, it has a serious inner structure, including steel boning, underlining, and a grosgrain waist stay!


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Cloud computing. Managed hosting. Managed services. Software-as-a-service.
There are lots of buzzwords that are both used and misused to describe the various types of IT outsourcing and web hosting. Back at the Catalyst Investors blog, I walk through the different layers of the IT outsourcing and web hosting landscape. I explain the difference between cloud computing and traditional computing, and compare and contrast the different layers of the technology stack, including co-location, dedicated hosting, hybrid hosting, infrastructure-as-a-service, managed hosting, platform-as-a-service, application hosting, software-as-a-service, business process outsourcing and business process-as-a-service.
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Last week, in an appalling show of corporate greed, "a small group of speculators" sank the Obama administration's proposed Chrysler deal for just "an extra fifteen cents on the dollar." The selfish greed of the hedge funds may, however, have produced a good result by forcing Chrysler into the bankruptcy process. The New York Times reported on Friday, "whatever the outcome, this bit of brinkmanship — which many characterized as a game of chicken with Washington — has become yet another public relations disaster for Wall Street." But instead, this story of corporate greed has now been turned into a right-wing attack on President Obama. Here's how it happened in three simple steps.
Step 1: Right-Wing Radio Gives Corporate Hedge Funds A Venue To Attack Obama In an interview with Detroit-based conservative talk show host Frank Beckmann on Friday, Tom Lauria — a corporate lawyer representing the hedge funds calling themselves the Committee of Chrysler Non-Tarp Lenders — alleged that one of its members, the investment firm Perella Weinberg, was "directly threatened by the White House" if it did not cooperate with the Obama's administration's rescue plan. (Perella was Rahm Emanuel's former investment partner.) Lauria claimed that Perella withdrew its opposition to the government deal because the White House threatened "that the full force of the White House press corps would destroy its reputation if it continued to fight." (Listen here.)
Step 2: Right-Wing Pressures White House Reporters To Take Up Its Attack After the story was cooked up by right-wing hate radio, it was peddled to members of the White House press corps, at least one of whom took the bait. On his radio show on Friday, right-wing talker Mark Levin discussed Lauria's claims against Obama, and then called on his listeners to pressure the White House press corps — specifically ABC's Jake Tapper — to report the story:
LEVIN: Somebody needs to pursue what's going on in the White House behind the scenes! And stop playing games and making nice! American citizens — whatever walk of life they're in — should not be threatened by the White House! Should not be told we're going to drag you through the mud with the White House press corps! So confident is the White House that they have the White House press corps wrapped around their little finger! Maybe Jake Tapper will take a look at this. Ask that doofus — Gibbs.
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Levin works for the ABC Radio Networks. Tapper works for ABC News. Step 3: ABC's Jake Tapper Picks It Up, Drudge Promotes It A day after Levin's show aired, ABC's White House correspondent Jake Tapper gave the right-wing attacks the platform they were looking for. Tapper reported, "A leading bankruptcy attorney representing hedge funds and money managers told ABC News Saturday that Steve Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration's Auto Industry Task Force, threatened one of the firms." After Tapper reported it, Drudge linked to his story and helped give it further amplification: Both the White House and Perella Weinberg have released statements to ABC News denying the accusations made by Tom Lauria and the right-wing echo chamber. Bottom line: the right wing has morphed a story of corporate greed into a false political attack against Obama.


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A disease of the retina, the light-sensitive membrane at the back of the eye, associated with diabetes. After having diabetes for 20 years, nearly all people with Type 1 diabetes and more than 60% of people with Type 2 diabetes develop retinopathy.
The retina translates light entering the eyes into nerve signals that travel through the optic nerve to the brain. Diabetes can disrupt the proper functioning of the retina. In the earliest stages of diabetic retinopathy, the tiny blood vessels of the retina become more permeable and begin to leak fluid into the vitreous, the gel that fills the eye. This can cause swelling in the macula (the central part of the retina responsible for sharp vision), a potentially sight-threatening condition called macular edema. As diabetic retinopathy progresses, the blood vessels are unable to supply the retina with adequate blood, a condition called ischemia. Starved for oxygen, the retina responds by growing new blood vessels (a process called neovascularization), but these new blood vessels are abnormal and tend to leak blood into the vitreous and cause scarring. In some cases, scar tissue can pull on the retina and cause it to detach, creating blank spaces in the field of vision. Although laser surgery usually can help save some vision, diabetic retinopathy remains the leading cause of new blindness in people aged 20–74 in the United States.
-- Keep an eye on your vision! Learn about preventive steps and treatments for diabetic retinopathy from retinal specialist Dr. Charles Wykoff. >>
There are a number of measures that can help prevent or slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy. One is blood glucose control. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial showed that intensive blood glucose control can lower the risk of developing diabetic retinopathy by 76%. A number of studies have shown that tight control of blood pressure can also substantially lower the risk. In people with existing diabetic retinopathy, laser treatment can be used to destroy abnormal new blood vessels, which can help to save sight. (Laser treatment can also be used to save sight in people with macular edema.) The eye drug Lucentis (ranibizumab injection), approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat diabetic macular edema, may also be useful in people with diabetic retinopathy.
Since diabetic retinopathy is most treatable in its earliest stages, it is important to catch it early. Currently, the American Diabetes Association recommends that adults and children 10 and older with Type 1 diabetes have an initial dilated and comprehensive eye examination within five years after they are diagnosed with diabetes. People with Type 2 diabetes are advised to have a dilated and comprehensive exam shortly after the diagnosis of diabetes. After the initial exam, everyone with diabetes is encouraged to have a yearly exam.


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The State of Open Banking in the UK
Here are the slides from my presentation to the APIdays London conference this morning (download the PDF).
The diagram illustrating how the next-generation bank will be powered by APIs was originally published here.
The Implementation Entity Steering Group organogram and roadmap were sourced from here.


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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1)
Not too long ago most astronomers and physicists held to the "steady-state" theory of the universe. This theory postulates that the universe has no beginning or end because it maintains a "constant average density" despite whatever change or expansion occurs.
But the scientific community began to chip away at the steady-state theory. "The death knell for the theory sounded when radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered [in the 1960s] the cosmic microwave background, the leftover radiation from the Big Bang. The steady-staters had no reasonable way to explain this radiation, and their theory slowly faded away as so many of its predecessors had" (pbs.org).
The evidence now generally accepted in the scientific community is that the universe did, in fact, have a beginning, exploding into being billions of years ago in what is referred to as the "Big-Bang" theory. The astronomer Robert Jastrow explains to us that "three lines of evidence – the motions of galaxies, the laws of thermodynamics, and the life story of the stars – pointed to one conclusion: all indicated that the universe had a beginning" (God and the Astronomers, p.111).
"Arno Penzias, who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the cosmic background radiation [a ghostly whisper from the original moment of creation] that corroborated the Big-Bang, said, 'The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, and the Bible as a whole.'"
Astronomer Robert Jastrow concludes: "Now we see how the astronomical evidence [of the Big-Bang origin of the universe] leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commence suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy" (A Scientist Caught, p.14). "Astronomers now find that they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation…as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover" (God and the Astronomers, p.15).
Tom Mulcahy, M.A.
Sources: My primary sources for this note, and for the quotes set forth above, are Norman Geisler's article, "Big Bang Theory," in the Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, and chapter eleven of What's So Great About Christianity by D. D'Souza. I understand that astronomer Robert Jastrow is an agnostic.
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Mad Men
Watching "For Immediate Release" is like riding a rickety old wooden roller coaster that thrills you with its seemingly unsafe twists and turns and leaves you feeling sore for a couple of days. That's a compliment, by the way.
It was payoff for four straight episodes that offered little besides characterization and atmosphere, much of it problematic or unsatisfying for fans (or maybe just me). Written by Matthew Weiner and directed by Jennifer Getzinger, it was all dramatic action, much of it appealingly soapy. The firm was up, it was down, and then it was up again maybe. Rivals have become partners. Don is still an asshole, but because he delivered — thanks mainly to Roger's Playboy mansion approach to corporate intel — he's a heroic asshole, for now.
In the episode's opening scene, Pete, Joan, and Bert met with a banker about taking Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce public. Don then unknowingly screwed up the public offering by being Don and unilaterally firing Herb the Jaguar dealer over dinner for, essentially, being Herb, a classless, presumptuous client from hell. Then Roger found out via his sometimes-mistress, who works in the first-class lounge at the airport, that Chevy was soliciting pitches to sell their supposedly revolutionary new car because they're apparently not happy with the agency they have. While in Detroit for the pitch, Don commiserated with his rival Ted at a bar (in a soul-baring scene somewhat similar to the one between Don and the soldier in Hawaii in the season opener) and agreed that little agencies like theirs rarely had a chance against the big ones, because major clients tended to be conservative and look for size and "boots on the ground," to use Ted's words. By the end of the episode, the agencies had agreed to merge. The last scene was Peggy typing out a press release announcing the deal. What? Huh? Oh, okay, fine. Awesome.
Speaking of Peggy: Although this was really Don's episode, because so many of the other characters were forced to react to his shenanigans and inspirations, I came away thinking more about Don's onetime pupil. Don's been compared to a penny that just keeps showing up in women's lives. Now he's back in Peggy's as well, appearing at Ted's office like a David Lynch phantom and trying to make the merger sound like a great opportunity for Peggy while congratulating her on buying a sketchy apartment with Abe on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Problem is, just a few scenes earlier, a distraught Peggy got an unsolicited kiss from Ted, who's previously been a charismatic but platonic boss like Don used to be, and she liked it. The notion of Peggy having to work for both Don and Ted is fascinating because she never had a romantic relationship with Don (who was more like a powerful yet emotionally vulnerable big brother at times), but she's thinking about having one with Ted. Romantically she's in a tricky spot. Poor Abe is a sweet man, but he talked Peggy into a living situation that's already making her unhappy, and he's just not enough of a star to be her equal; at various times this seems to have bothered both of them. This new work situation is going to cause all sorts of trouble for her, romantically as well as professionally.
The more I think back on it, the more this seems like an episode in which the men triumphed and the women were ignored or left out. Peggy's arguably the most important creative person at her new agency, but now she's back to being one medium-size fish in a pond with plenty while sharks like Don and Roger loom over her, and I have a feeling that having Don around all the time will box-block her from doing anything with Ted — though you never know with this show. The agency merger is a leap forward for both agencies, but I don't immediately see how it benefits Peggy; from here it looks more like it just complicates things for her. She's going to spend a lot of effort playing peacemaker between two guys she knows so well, one of whom she's sweet on. (I love the scene of Peggy fantasizing about Ted while making out with Abe; it was clever filmmaking, and funny.)
Poor Joan, meanwhile, recently complained to a friend that even though she's a partner now, she still gets treated like a glorified secretary. We saw two confirmations this episode. One was the banker in the opening scene praising Joan's immaculate books — a statement that, as Pete correctly observed, wasn't just about her books: "Everyone wants you, don't they?" The other was the moment right after Roger announced the Chevy opportunity (saving Don from public flaying) and Don shifted into White Guy Takin' Charge Mode: His first act was to bark orders at Joan as if she were still a secretary.
Joan was rightly furious that Don had fired Herb. She let Herb screw her for the greater good of the company, and Don can't even get through a meal with the guy because it offends his sense of integrity? "Honestly, Don, if I could deal with him, you could deal with him, and what now?" Joan asked, on the edge of tears. "I went through all of that for nothing?"
Well, not "nothing" — she's a partner now, and one could make a case that having Jaguar improved the company's profile and swelled their coffers; so there was a net gain for SCDP even if Jaguar didn't stay with them forever and ever, amen. But on a human level, she's right. One gets the sense that every powerful man at the firm, Don included, has forgotten the personal implications of Joan's sacrifice, or never considered them in the first place. They seem to view the Joan-Herb incident as a pretext for knowing glances and innuendo and nothing more — even Don, who showed up at Joan's apartment on the night of her date with Herb with a forlorn Galahad face, too late to talk her out of going. "Just once," Joan told Don, "I would like to hear you use the word we. Because we're all rooting for you from the sidelines, hoping you decide what you think is right for our lives!" Don is a poster boy for unexamined privilege, and perhaps always will be. (I guess one could argue that Don hates Herb in large part because Joan prostituted herself with him on behalf of SDCP, but that was never the vibe I got from their scenes together; it always felt like Don hated Herb on general principle, because he was the stereotype of the big, fat, ignorant businessman treating everyone like lackeys and disrespecting artists.)
Though it was definitely satisfying to see Pete ream Don in the lobby, stair pratfall and all, Don's comeuppance was short-lived. I was struck by the fact that, for all his deep emotional turmoil, his creative ego remains fundamentally unbruised. He's still an arrogant bastard who does whatever he wants, and expects the world to adjust. (The tobacco letter from season four was maybe the most notorious example.) Don's been such an absent presence from the firm this season that it was a bit of a shock (pleasant in some ways, at least from the standpoint of a viewer looking for excitement) to see how he behaved at that dinner with Herb and his wife, Peaches. The Don Draper sneer, complete with slitted mongoose eyes, returned. He acted as if his fortunes were still at their peak — as if he were still a rainmaking prince among men. Over the years he's been likened to all manner of glamorous pop-culture heroes, including James Bond, Batman, and Superman; there was another Superman reference in this episode (Megan made it), plus a new comparison, courtesy of Pete: "Don't act like you had a plan! You're Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine!" Apparently some of that spark remains, even now. "I like you like this," Megan told him. "Desperate?" he asked. "Fearless," she replied. She even gave the prince a going-away present, kneeling in front of him, Don sitting there like a prince on his throne.
During that bar conversation between Ted and Don, I wondered if Ted was playing Don, or Don was playing Ted. I found it hard to believe that two guys that competitive would tell each other their pitches the morning before their presentations; I figured one guy was trying to set up the other for failure. (More "psychological warfare," as Don puts it.) But no: It was an authentic and trusting moment between equals who in some ways seem like one another's doppelgängers, and the start of, if not a beautiful friendship, then at least an alliance.
Odds and ends
- Between Dawn's absence from this episode and the scene in the whorehouse with Pete's father-in-law getting caught with "the biggest, blackest prostitute I've ever seen" (Pete), I'd say the show's civil rights/racism subject matter is on pause mode for now.
- Robert F. Kennedy was name-checked again this week, in a conversation between Peggy and Abe. This episode is set around Mother's Day. The assassination might be on deck for next week or the week after.
- I loved seeing Marie Calvet in this episode, a sexy grandmother fleeing Mother's Day oppressiveness and landing in a home without kids. Her line about Herb's wife, Peaches, was one of the episode's highlights: "She's the apple that goes in the pig's mouth."
- The show is solidifying the notion that Megan has her own identity as an actress/public figure apart from Don, and that her professional success is driving a wedge between them. "He must think you belong more to other people than to him," Marie told her, a few scenes after she saw strangers recognize her in an elevator. Her advice prior to the Herb dinner — to make Don think of nothing but getting between her legs — put Megan in the same boat, more or less, as Joan and Peggy this episode, women who are recognized and paid for their skills yet still valued as sex objects or romantic partners.
- This was a great Roger episode that proved that Rat Pack–ish, host-of-every-party attitude could benefit the firm. Everyone's constantly making jokes about Roger's disengagement from the daily life if SCDP, and he is disengaged. At the same time, though, Roger's got skills that nobody else at the firm could dream of having, and he put them to use here. There's an art to making people feel as if it's okay to have fun — and a related art to turning their pleasure to your advantage without making them feel they've been taken advantage of. Roger could sell heating oil to Satan.
- The scene of Roger leaving for the airport was just wonderful: the hat, the travel bag, the copies of his book, the way he left the room and then came back in. Charming as hell.
- Take notes, would-be smooth operators: When Roger cozies up to the Chevy guy in the first-class lounge and offers to get him a drink, he asks his squeeze to fetch a Jim Beam for the client and "a glass of water with an onion" for himself.
- Pete's snottiness reached some kind of giddy peak this episode, but it was hilarious. This character in high dudgeon is comic gold, and his desperation rates at least a silver. I liked the subplot with him and his father-in-law — another example of personal animosity affecting business, and thus a mirror of the Don-Herb stuff — and I liked how the script didn't question the fundamental hypocrisy of one man cheating but being so outraged by his son-in-law's cheating that he takes money out of his pocket as punishment. There are no repercussions. Forget about "mutually assured destruction": In situations like this, the more powerful man gets to dictate the moral reality and dole out punishment. It's not fair, but it's real.
- That said, Trudy's expression after Pete told her what he saw in the whorehouse was devastating. She acted as if she were more offended by Pete's disclosure than by the act itself, but you could tell that it destroyed her. Nobody likes to picture their father in circumstances like that, and as justifiably furious as Pete was, I wish he hadn't told her.
- Friends can expect me to start using Ken Cosgrove's sexual euphemism "working the slide rule" in everyday conversation, though hopefully only where appropriate.


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Turns out Rosslare is more than just a ferry port – who knew? I had to wait around for the train this morning so took a drive down to the real town and beach. It's quite cute and one of the nicest beaches I've seen in Ireland; and to think I've been here twice and wasn't even going to look around – one of those hidden treasures people always talk about.
Ahhhh, bliss!!! Back on a train with nothing to do but sit back and relax while heading up to Dublin and a five or ten minute walk to my hostel.
Staying anywhere but Temple Bar was out of the question, Barnacles Temple House is where I ended up for 2 nights – in a single room though, I'm way to old to enjoy sharing.
I'm also becoming a pro at ticking one thing off my to do list on the afternoon I arrive, so dumped my gear and headed off to find Trinity College and the Old Library. Got a bargain too, because there was only half an hour left until closing, the entry fee was half price – saved a whole £4.50!!. As I wasn't that interested in the Book of Kells, I was happy with that. I don't get tired of seeing the different architecture of these lovely old buildings, and the books – you can smell them, it's divine! They have cabinets down the middle of the room with a selection of items from the library, the inks display really grabbed my attention but I had plenty of time to have a squiz at all of them. I was so tempted downstairs in the shop to buy something but managed to curb myself!!
Found a nice pub in Temple Bar for dinner and listened to the music for a while before heading back to the hostel where I joined the other nerds and caught up on blogging – well, not caught up, but put in some time writing!
16th May 2013
I really didn't feel like sightseeing today, but couldn't bring myself to not see as much as I could in my short stay, so braved the cold and rain to find the nearest hop on hop off bus stop. Everywhere and everyone rates the Guinness Storehouse tour as one of the top attractions here so that's where I spent the next couple of hours. It was interesting, looks like they've essentially gutted the inside of the building but left interesting features and machinery intact. The circular seventh floor is pretty neat with a round bar in the centre of the room with 6 big Guinness taps and glass windows all around for a great view of the city. Your entry fee gives you access to the whole place and a pint of Guinness. It's not that popular a drink at home and I was absolutely amazed at the number of people lining up for their free pint – my ticket still has the free drink stub attached!
It really was a miserable day so I stayed on the bus until we arrived back in the city and then just wandered back to the hostel for an early night – put earplugs in and slept like a log.


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Part Two: The Symbiotic Relationship 150 million years ago, flowering plants first appeared on Earth. This was an extremely important event in Earth's history, because for the first time, nutrients became concentrated into plant structures, called fruits and vegetables. The development of fruits and vegetables was a pre-condition for the evolution of man. Fruits and vegetables provided mammals with the food they needed to have in order to evolve. In other words, without bees and flowering plants, humans may not have evolved at all.Aller Bee-Gone 144 Tablets
Since their first appearance on this planet, flowering plants and bees formed a symbiotic partnership. In other words, they developed a relationship in which they both helped with each other, in extremely important, and mutually beneficial ways.
Pollen is the male reproductive spore of the plants. Flowers produce pollen to fertilize other flowers. But for this to happen, pollen must get from the flower of one plant to fertilize the flower of another plant. How does it happen? As everyone knows, bees do the work, depositing pollen from flower to flower. When bees visit flowers, they fertilize them by spreading the pollen that they collected from previous plants. This simple act, repeated over and over again, becomes the force that re-starts the life cycle of this planet every spring. It is the genesis of the food chain.Aller Bee-Gone 144 Tablets
This is obviously an important service for the plant, but how does the bee benefit? Bees collect pollen for food. The lifespan of a worker bee is only 7-8 weeks. Bees accomplish a tremendous amount of work during that short period of time, and their metabolisms run at very high levels. Just as a racecar needs more powerful fuel to run well and fast, bees require a high-intensity diet to satisfy their nutritional requirements. Besides honey, which provides calories to burn as fuel, bee pollen is all that bees eat. In the evolutionary process, pollen that bees collect has evolved into the richest fuel possible. Pollen provides the nutritional building blocks needed to nurture the young and grow the population of the hive. In the spring, when bees start to bring pollen back to the hive, that is a signal to the Queen that she can start laying eggs. Pollen, then, is essential nutrition for the bees. Since both the bees and the flowers benefit, their relationship is called a symbiotic relationship.
The Evolution Of Bee Pollen The development of every plant and animal on the planet was shaped by evolution. Evolution is driven by gene mutations, or genetic accidents. Most mutations cause detrimental changes that cause the plant or animal to die. However, on very rare occasions, beneficial mutations occur, and these are passed on to successive generations - as Nature selects for stronger, more optimal individuals or in popular terms 'survival of the fittest.' Beneficial mutations allow plant and animals develop a competitive edge over similar plants in the battle for reproduction and survival.
Here's an example: in the rainforest, there is a huge variety of plants. In fact, there are so many plants that they battle each other for space and sunlight. The trees that have evolved to grow the tallest, and the fastest, out-compete the other trees in the race for sunlight. They are the plants that win the battle for survival. However, this may be temporary, because other plants are evolving to become more competitive with the leaders. Evolution is an on-going competition.Aller Bee-Gone 144 Tablets
In much the same way that rainforest trees compete for sunlight, flowering plants compete with each other for the bees service. The ability of a flowering plant to attract bees translates directly into their reproductive successes. If bees give a greater share of attention to a certain species of plant, then that plant will propagate more and will become the dominant plant in the area. While bees collect pollen from all types of plants, they show preferences for certain types of pollen. The pollen that is most attractive to bees, naturally, is pollen that provides the best nutrients for their health. In this plant competition, reproductive success is driven by the ability to evolve the most nutritious pollen that will attract the most bees. Plants with lower quality pollen are then driven to evolve higher quality pollen in order to become more competitive for the bees' attention.
150 million years of this evolutionary pressure has driven bee pollen to become more and more nutritionally superior. The end product of this process of natural selection is bee pollen with high intensity nutrition.
Part Three: Bee Pollen Studies So what's on the menu? What does CC Pollen mean by intense nutrition? As has been described, bee pollen nutrients do more than just provide calories to burn as fuel. Recently, researchers have begun to study specific nutrients, and also, classes of nutrients, that have qualitative, or beneficial, effects on the living system in other words, nutrients that help the human body optimize its normal functions and promote a state of health. One important activity that researchers focus on is antioxidant activity.Aller Bee-Gone 144 Tablets
What does antioxidant activity mean? In the body, unstable oxygen molecules, or free radicals, create havoc with the living system. Free radicals are also Reactive Oxygen Species, and they are created by glitches in the body's normal metabolism. They are also created by environmental toxins, smoking, aging, and and destructive mechanisms. The normal lifespan of a free radical is one millionth of a second. That is because they are so unstable that they will very quickly use their biochemical force to stabilize themselves. Free radicals exist only long enough for them to bump into something and capture enough electrons or hydrogen atoms to achieve a stable form. This can be extremely destructive for the unwilling donor. Free radical damage is associated with many degenerative processes of the body, including aging. Examples of free radicals are H202 (hydrogen peroxide), CO (carbon monoxide), O (singlet oxygen), O2- (superoxide), and OH (hydroxy molecules). Note that all of these molecules contain oxygen. The problem is that these molecules are chemically unstable antioxidants neutralize these reactive oxygen molecules and make them stable.
Luckily for the body, antioxidants can neutralize free radicals before they can do too much damage to tissues. Antioxidants quench free radicals by efficiently smothering and stabilizing them. They then recharge themselves by interacting with a complex network of other antioxidants.
Most dietary antioxidants are bioflavonoids. Bee Pollen contains large amounts of bioflavonoids, and that is why it shows so much antioxidant activity. But besides performing antioxidant duties, scientific studies have shown that bioflavonoids also perform many other important functions in the body.
Certain bioflavonoids increase capillary strength in the body; some benefit the liver. Other bioflavonoids help maintain bone density, and the list goes on and on. The presence of antioxidant bioflavonoids should be considered significant for more than just the antioxidant protection they provide.
Part Four: The Use Of Bee Pollen What does all this mean in practical application to the human diet? It is important to achieve a diet that provides a good balance of all types of nutrients. Because of the broad spectrum of nutrients that bee pollen offers, it can be an excellent addition to a diet. Bee pollen can make it easy to fill in the gaps in a person's nutritional profile especially when you don't consume all of your recommended 9 servings of fruits and vegetables per day. That is one reasons why bee pollen is such a valuable supplement to the diet, because it supplies many of the dietary antioxidants, bioflavonoids and polyphenols that you are missing by not eating the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables.
In complementary medicine, many, if not all, of the effective protocols call for a cleansing and detoxifying diet. This is usually accomplished by eliminating processed foods, such as refined white bread and pasta, as well as congestive foods like cheese and dairy products. It is important to replace these harmful foods with high-quality whole foods, like fruits, vegetables, and bee pollen and promote health. Bee pollen can be an essential component for a high-quality dietary program, because it is such a potent and high quality source of nutrients.
Many people place a lot of faith in the power of supplements. There are many supplements on the market that can be highly effective. But that diet is the foundation of health. This means that, fundamentally, diet must be the platform on which optimal health occurs, not the obstacles that prevents it from happening. Optimal health occurs when the body can effectively martial its own defensive and healing resources. For that to happen, the body must be nutritionally fortified and strengthened in a way that allows its immune system to react, defend and fight, rather than be hindered by a poor, congestive diet. Supplementing with bee pollen can be an important first step in the process of developing a sound, high quality diet.
To accomplish great things, work is required. For optimal health, there is no such thing as a "silver bullet," or a table that makes everything healthy and whole. For optimal health, diet is the foundation, and it requires work to make it right.
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The Story Of Royal Jelly Royal Jelly is another of Nature's Superfoods. Royal Jelly is a special substance of the beehive. Royal Jelly is solely responsible for the incredible transformation of a queen bee from an ordinary worker bee. The queen bee begins life genetically identical to any of the sexless worker bees. A group of bees called Nurse Bees produce Royal Jelly for the hive. They eat large amounts of Bee Pollen to use as the raw ingredients for the production of Royal Jelly by their bodies. The Nurse Bees then secrete Royal Jelly by their pharyngeal glands. The Royal Jelly is fed directly to the "Queen To Be." Soon after starting this diet, she is transformed into a larger, superior bee. She matures one and a half times faster than normal bees. She also grows 40% larger in size and weighs 60% more. During her life she will lay over 3 million eggs, which weigh more than 3500 times her body weight. She will live 5 to 7 years while the workers only live 7 to 8 weeks. All this is possible due to the miracle of royal jelly!
What Is The Composition Of Royal Jelly? Royal Jelly is so complex that it has not yet been possible to fully analyze it. Of course, it is impossible to synthesize it in a lab! It is known that Royal Jelly contains the following: natural hormones, all of the B-complex vitamins, and it is rich in pantothenic acid. It also contains nucleic acids, essential amino acids, essential fatty acids (especially Omega 3's), acetyl choline, lecithin, collagen and gamma globulin - a key component of the immune system. Of all of the Superfoods, Royal Jelly is the most intriguing, both nutritionally and effectively!
Royal Jelly is another of Nature's Superfoods. Royal Jelly is a fragile product, so it makes sense to buy from people who are experienced in marketing beehive products - the CC Pollen Company. Royal Jelly's nutrients are particularly sensitive to heat. High Desert Royal Jelly is always handled with special care.
CC Pollen supplies Royal Jelly in two different forms: freeze-dried powder and liquid Royal Jelly mixed with honey. These are the best forms to preserve the full biological activity for maximum benefit to the user. Raw Honey acts as a natural preservative and provides a tasty and healthy way to consume the product. There is also High Desert Freeze Dried Royal Jelly Powder. Lyophilization is important to stabilize the nutrients of Royal Jelly. High Desert Royal Jelly can be purchased as a loose powder or in easy-to-use capsules or chewable tablets.
What is Bee Propolis? To appreciate propolis, in modern day terms, one most realize that propolis meant to ancient cultures. To understand the significance of propolis to man, one must first understand its significance to bees. And to understand what propolis means to bees, one must understand what its raw material, tree resin, means to trees. Finally, to decipher what propolis means to science, and how propolis fits into the framework of biological science, and how propolis means to science, and how propolis fits into the framework of biological science and the eco-system, you must first understand, fundamentally, the process and the goals of scientific research.
Propolis In The Beehive The word PROPOLIS is reputed to have been coined by Aristotle, from the Greek words pro (before) and polis (city) meaning Before The City or Defender Of The City. In his writings, Aristotle showed a remarkably accurate and detailed knowledge of bee propolis. The name, Defender Of The City, is a very appropriate term to describe the role of propolis in the beehive.
Bees use propolis to virtually encase the inside of the hive. It is used to caulk and seal every crack, and a very thin coat of propolis is spread over the surfaces of the honeycomb cells, inside and out. This is important for the prevention of infection in the honeycomb. Propolis is used to sterilize the honeycomb cells that contain the larvae, as well as the cells that store the honey and bee pollen. Propolis is also used extensively at the entrance of the hive to form an elaborate, winding tunnel. Bees literally have to crawl through a tight tunnel of propolis to enter and leave the hive. In this way, bees are cleansed of microbes as they enter the hive, and the sterility of the beehive is maintained. In fact, the beehive is the most sterile environment found in nature. The fact that this structure, located in the wild, and full of food organisms, can be kept free of disease and infection is quite remarkable. In very real terms, propolis functions are the natural defense and immune system of the beehive.
Bees collect tree resin for propolis, just as they collect pollen and honey for food. Although it is still a matter of debate, research indicates that the chemical structure of resin is altered by the bees secretions during the collection process. Bees work the resin with their front legs, while adding saliva and beeswax to the mixture. The saliva and other secretions are catalysts for biochemical changes within the propolis. The resin is passed to their back legs for storage in their pollen sacs. Bees then transport the resin back to the hive, where it is stored or used.
Bees show definite preferences for certain species of tree resins in their collection of propolis. It appears that bees have unerringly identified the highest quality, and most appropriate raw material to use for propolis. The bees' secretions then transform the resin to optimize the benefits of propoilis.
Propolis In History Man has used propolis for healing since ancient times. The first known users of substances from the beehive were the Egyptians, and the preservative qualities of the beehive were well known to them. The ancient Egyptians believed that they would need their bodies in the afterlife. In order to preserve their dead bodies, they would melt down a whole hive, including the honey, wax and propolis, and use the mixture to coat bandages used in their mummification process. The Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians used another method of preservation for burial. This involved immersing the dead bodies in large jars of honey and sealing them with wax. On his deathbed, the Greek conqueror Alexander The Great ordered himself to be buried in this way. His teacher, Aristotle, studied and wrote extensively about propolis, and was the first to specifically identify propolis as a substance. Aristotle also write the scientific study of the honeybee.
The Greek physician, Hippocrates (460-377 BC), who is considered to be the father of modern medicine, recognized the healing properties of propolis. Hippocrates prescribed propolis for different types of ailments. The Greeks were also the first to develop beehives, and honey, as agricultural products. The Romans further developed beekeeping and expanded on the knowledge and benefits of propolis. Pliny the Elder, the family Roman Researcher and natural historian, showed a detailed understanding of propolis in the beehive. He was also well versed in the application of propolis.
The Raw Materials of Propolis: Tree Resins The story of propolis is much different than the story of bee pollen. Propolis contains many of the same polyphenols found in bee pollen, but in much higher quantities. However, while bees eat pollen for food, they do not eat propolis. As previously discussed, the nutritional value of pollen is driven by the symbiotic relationship of plants and bees. However, propolis is not the product of a similar symbiotic relationship. While bees benefit from collecting tree resins for propolis, trees do not benefit from the bees collection of propolis in return. The beneficial properties of tree resins have evolved for the trees, although the bees were quick to discover and use tree resins for their own uses.
Therefore, to understand propolis, one must first understand tree resin, and what tree resin does as its primary function. As you have already seen, propolis functions as the immune system of the beehive. It is not surprising, then, that tree resin functions as the immune system of the trees.
Historically, indigenous people have used various tree resins as natural medicines for health and healing. In the Christian religion, two of the three gifts from the wise men to the infant Jesus were tree resins, Frankincense and Myrrh. Modern science has since validated both as valuable for health and healing. Tribes of the rain forest use numerous tree resins for a variety of treatments. Romans also used resins for medicinal purposes. The Roman natural historian, Pliny the Elder, wrote extensively about preventing wine from turning to vinegar by adding tree resins. Pine, cedar and often terebinth (which Pliny described as the Best and Most Elegant resin) - were added to Roman wines for this purpose. Modern researchers have shown that certain tree resins, like propolis, can kill bacteria, thereby protecting organic compounds from degradation.
When physical damage occurs to trees, then tree resin, or sap, floods into the area and seals it off. In this way, the damaged tissues are protected from infection from bacteria or fungi. Similarly, when parasites, such as bark beetles, attack a tree, tree resin flows into the wounded area and kills the insects and their larvae. Tree resins and waxes are secreted onto the surfaces of sensitive tissues, such as delicate new buds, to protect against harmful ultraviolet radiation. Tree resin screens out harmful radiation, and protects the buds from damage. Ultraviolet radiation also causes free radicals, and tree resin acts as antioxidants to smother the free radicals before they can cause damage. How does tree resin work to provide these protective benefits? Researchers look to polyphenols as the answer.
Tree resins typically have high concentrations of polyphenols. Many polyphenols have been shown to be anti microbial against bacteria, fungi and viruses. These actions are essential to the immune defense of the tree. Polyphenols have also been shown to play important roles in the trees biochemical response to stress, disease and physical damage. Polyphenols are also present in high concentrations in developing leaves and buds. Their presence there indicates that in addition to their protective roles, they may also play a role in the development and maturation of plant tissues.
Practical Applications of Propolis Polyphenols are being identified as the class of nutrients responsible for the most significant health-promoting effects. Consequently, products featuring isolated polyphenols are common in the health food market in the U.S. and elsewhere. Examples include products and ingredients such as Pycogenol, Soy Isoflavones, Lipoic Acid, Lignans, Quercetin, Rutin, Anthocyanins, and Proanthocyanidins. Sales of these products is driven by published research. Individually, these polyphenols provide substantial benefits. However, propolis is a much different product. No other substance in nature provides the broad range of polyphenols that propolis provides. In fact, propolis polyphenols do not need to be isolated and concentrated, because they exist naturally in a concentrated form. And the broad spectrum of polyphenols means that the benefits are not restricted to the benefits of a single polyphenol, but, rather, offers the combination of a natural mixture of different polyphenols.
The polyphenols of propolis include many compounds that researchers are excited about. Propolis also contains many compounds that have not been identified yet, or studied by science, e.g. non-polyphenolics. Researchers are being challenged, however, because they are beginning to notice that what is significant with respect to the activities of propolis is the combined activity of the polyphenols, or the synergy. A study from Bulgaria, published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 64 (1999) 235-240, analyzed propolis from twelve different regions of the world. What it found was that the individual polyphenols found in different types of propolis differed radically from each other. Specific polyphenols that were considered significant in one type of propolis were virtually absent in others. Surprisingly, however, the beneficial activities were nearly the same for all propolis samples. This study suggests that specific polyphenols may be less significant than the synergistic interaction of the full spectrum of polyphenols.. The conclusion that the authors draw in this study is that the individual purified polyphenols are not as powerful as the full spectrum of polyphenols in whole propolis.
In other words, researchers have found that if you isolate a compound from propolis it still does not outperform whole propolis, no matter how high a concentration is used. The effect of whole propolis is greater than the sum of its parts. The modes of action of propolis is proving to be more than results of single nutrients.
These studies in turn suggest that bee propolis has more nutritive value than any single polyphenol ingredient or supplement. Scientists acknowledge the existence of synergy as a powerful force of nature, but they have no means to study it. That is because too many variables in research lead to inconclusive results. Research requires single compounds. So, as tantalizing as propolis is, its complexity still defies and confounds researchers.
CC Pollen has its own Propolis extraction manufacturing facility. They have found that the lack of quality in some commercially available bee propolis makes this product insufficient for customers' high standards. They created their own high-tech plant, owned and operated by the CC Pollen Company, because they found out that in order to do propolis right, you have to do it yourself.
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Mayor Lou Mavrakis drove slowly through Monessen, block by block, pointing out one vacant, blighted building after another in the city of 7,700 along the Monongahela River.
"That belongs to me," he said, pointing to a house with a collapsing roof that has become the responsibility of the city and the mayor.
Tax records show the building is one of 264 structures and lots in the city that have been abandoned by their owners. More than 26 percent of the city's 734 blighted properties are owned by people from 24 states and five foreign countries, beyond the legal reach of Monessen officials.
"It's almost impossible to get in touch with these owners," Mavrakis said.
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In this brief blog I will address those still potent divisions that the "turn to culturalism" has masked. I will, as usual, reject the inheritance of the "organic nation," or the misnamed cultural pluralism that goes by the name of "multiculturalism," as well as such terms as "national identity," "group identity" or "zeitgeist." All these terms are the effluents of German Romanticism, or the "Aufklärung" as it is misleading named. The German" Enlightenment" is a misnomer for it asserted itself against the all-too "bourgeois" "mechanical materialism" of the French and English Enlightenments.
No one with even a passing knowledge of US history can imagine that we are a unified entity unless they are chauvinists who revel in the notion of American superpower status, as opposed to celebrating the good sense embodied in the American Constitution, with its checks and balances, separation of powers, and frankly materialistic approach to conflict (see the Federalist Papers that made almost no mention of "God.") Nor did the framers of that Constitution have any illusions about human nature. Federalist #10 made the conflict between creditors and debtors clear enough, and the Left loves to cite Madison's contribution as proof that capitalism is elitist and opposed to the interests of the common man; that the Constitution is an elitist document). What are the real divisions that complicate the controversies swirling around us and that are masked by "culturalism" and its rhetoric?
Besides the ongoing structural conflict between creditors and debtors that often takes the form of populism, already mentioned, First, there is not a [jewified] communist party versus a capitalist party, as some on the Far Right would have it. Two capitalist parties confront one another, with differing strategies for wealth creation: one generally looks to state-imposed Keynesian demand-stimulus economic remedies for economic downturns, while those Republicans who are not overly indebted to "progressives" look to free markets and supply-side economics. (For living economists exemplifying the latter, see Larry Lindsey's latest book, or the op-ed in the Wall Street Journal 9-17-13 by Martin Feldstein.) The fact that Keynesians may be found in both parties owing to the bipartisan origins of progressivism, complicates the picture.
Second, there is a strong argument for the South having won the peace through the popularity of the paternalistic organic society that Southerners asserted as superior to the "wage-slavery" of the urbanized, capitalist, puritan North.
Gemeinschaft beat out Gesellschaft during successive phases of the progressive movement, culminating in the New Deal, hence the collectivist vocabulary that may be found in advertising and political speeches. Ayn Rand railed against this, to little avail. She was preceded in the 19th century by the antislavery Senator from Massachusetts, the descendant of Puritans: Charles Sumner.
Thus we have an ongoing conflict between the country and the city, with many protest movements flavored by agrarianism and nostalgia for the allegedly neighborly and unified small town (compare to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, 1919). Sumner took liberal nationalism to mean a government that protected the rights of individuals as opposed to collective entities. For this (along with Sumner's proposals for "Radical Reconstruction") Sumner has been read out of the canon of great Americans until very recently.
Third, anyone who thinks that the Reformation was settled long ago, and that there is no deeply rooted religious conflict today is uneducated about the history of immigration and of religiously defined conflict in general. Sectarian divisions within and between the major religions impinge on all the other conflicts. I could go on, but won't, for too long a blog would emerge. I will mention, however, the omnipresent sentimentality of our popular culture, whether this is reflected in the worship of "romantic love," "the happy family," "the community," adorable babies, or pets–all attempts to find internal unity in divided selves. It is difficult to navigate oneself politically through all these intertwined conflicts. But it would be true progress to admit that they exist. On Toennies see https://clarespark.com/2011/12/15/gingrich-and-the-socially-constructed-nation-state/.


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Last night, I had a dream about trying to do a triathlon. It was a short, "fun" triathlon and I recall that maybe I just showed up, hoping to participate. But I couldn't find any of my gear. I had to leave the course and run into a nearby apartment building and run up 3 flights of stairs to some random apartment to get my running shoes, or bike helmet or something. Then I came back down and I couldn't find my bike. Where are the bikes? I asked frantically. I could see the very last, slow runners coming in to the finish. Someone said, the bikes were "over by the lake" wherever that was. Somewhere out of sight. I realized, with a sinking feeling, that I did not have my act together and even if I found my bike and the lake I would never finish in time. My friend, who had finished the race, showed me the "medal" which turned out to be a piece of tacky plastic like one would get from a gum ball machine. The whole thing made me wake up sad.
Sometimes I see photos of my prior teammates working out, training for marathons and triathlons and big rides and such and I can't believe that that used to be me, training hard six days a week. These days I am feeling pretty bad-ass if I can accomplish a short little half-walk half run. I've been back to Couch to 5k, but it's a very slow process and nothing like it was the first time.
The GOOD news is (in case this turns into a total whine fest!) that I'm both getting physical therapy (2x a week, which is helping SO MUCH) and have also returned to seeing patients as a physical therapist. It's a little surreal, but it feels good to be out and about in my little car, in this beautiful weather (sorry, non-Californians) and helping people in their homes. I am so awed by my own PT who has crazy mad skills and has helped me have the first pain-free run I've had in almost a year. So YAY for that.
I'm moving my focus back toward writing again, and that also feels really good. I have a book coming out with SheBooks in the near future (believe me, you'll hear all about it!) and next week I'm traveling up to Seattle for a writers' conference. SUPER BIG YAY!
I'm still here. I'm walking around, and every so often I even break into a little jog ;-). I'm going to be trying to figure out my upcoming races – I would love to do the Oakland Running Festival and See Jane Run this year. Anyone else??


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The internal memo pasted below, sent to the Gawker staff from their chief technology officer Thomas Plunkett, reveals that the Gawker Hacker disaster happened in large part due to a lack of preparation and commitment by the media giant's tech team. He apologizes to the staff and promises to be much more communicative in the future.
From: Thomas Plunkett
Subject: The Gawker Media security breach — status and moving forward
To: [Gawker staff]
Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 4:43 PM
Everyone –
As you know, this has been the Gawker tech team's most difficult week ever. This note has been too long coming, but the following is meant to communicate several things: what happened, our current activities, and our plans for moving forward. I suggest you read all of this as I am making several recommendations below, and we are implementing some changes that will affect all of you.
What Happened
Gawker Media servers and some company email accounts were compromised by hackers at some time during the last few weeks; the compromise was made public to us (and everyone else) this past weekend. In recent weeks, intruders were able to gain access to our web servers by exploiting a vulnerability in our source code, allowing them to gain access to user data and passwords. With this information, they were able to gain access to the editor wiki, some Gawker Media email accounts, and other external resources.
It is clear that the Gawker tech team did not adequately secure our platform from an attack of this nature. We were also not prepared to respond when it was necessary. These things can be attributed to several factors.
First, we never planned for such an event, and therefore had no systems, or processes in place to adequately respond. Our focus as a team (and company) has been on moving forward. This put up blinders on several fronts. As a result, numerous wrong decisions were made by me this past weekend in responding to the security breach.
Further, attention to completed work is every bit as important as attention to upcoming work. Our development efforts have been focused on new product while committing relatively little time to reviewing past work. This is often a fatal mistake in software development and was central to this vulnerability.
Finally, we have not only seen tremendous growth as a company, we have never been afraid to take an unpopular or controversial stance with regard to individuals or organizations. Let's face it: we draw the ire of many. This creates a unique set of demands to meet rapid growth as well as threats that often specifically target us. We did not establish standards and practices to handle growth and the fact that we have a target on our back.
On several fronts — technically, as well as customer support and communication — we found ourselves unprepared to handle this eventuality. The tech team should have been better prepared, committed more time to perform thorough audits, and grown our team's technical expertise to meet our specific business needs. As a result of not having done these things, we have not adhered to standards expected of us, and our response was inadequate. The remedy to this situation will not be immediate, but it will be swift as possible.
Current Activity: Regaining Control
The tech team have moved our operation to the third floor of the Gawker Media office in order to focus on the work that needs to be done. We are currently in the process of performing a complete review of what happened with an independent security firm.
Here's what we've done so far to regain control:
We have been able to establish a fairly complete timeline of intrusion activity, and have identified compromised assets within Gawker. We have re-established control of compromised systems including our Google Apps accounts. As a result, you will have to reconfigure your Google Apps access (more on this below).
In addition, we have addressed all known vulnerabilities and will continue auditing our system for security flaws, and we have made appropriate changes to administrative accounts to our web and application infrastructure. There are many people reviewing our code base, and because of this, we will also reach out to members of the technical community to harness their expertise. This process will continue as we move to an entirely new, hardened web infrastructure.
We have introduced a help desk to address commenter concerns related to the breach. This will continue to exist as long as it is needed. Scott, Greg, Jeremy, Nick and a host of interns, and many of you, have been active in the threads, and communicating as much as possible as we work through this event.
Moving Forward
We've learned many lessons from this experience, both as a tech team, as a company, and as individuals. If there's one lesson nearly all of us learned, it's that we can and must be smarter with passwords. Lifehacker is a great resource for password advice (and there are many others). I suggest you start here: http://lifehacker.com/184773/geek-to-live–choose-and-remember-great-passwords.
Efffective immediately, we have enabled SSL, a more secure method of communicating over the internet, for all users with Gawker Media accounts on Google Apps (this does not affect your personal Gmail). Those of you not using web-based Gmail will have to reconfigure your clients (this includes any desktop mail client as well as other devices). The attached document provides instructions to make this easier, and includes information to configure different devices including iPhone, Android and Blackberry phones.
Also effective immediately: If you require access to sensitive materials (legal, financial, or accounting documents) on Google Docs, you must have two-factor authentication setup on your account. No documents will be shared with personal Gmail accounts. We are also strongly encouraging all staff to setup two-factor authorization even if you do not require access to sensitive material.
We will enforce a policy that sensitive information not be posted to the editor wiki. This policy will also apply to chat communications (e.g., Campfire, AIM).
On all of our sites, we will be introducing several new features to our commenting system to acknowledge the reality that we have lost the commenters' trust and don't deserve it back. We should not be in the business of collecting and storing personal information, and our objective is to migrate our platform away from any personal data dependencies (like email & password). We will push further integration of external account verification sources using OAuth (like Facebook, Twitter, and Google) for those that want to use them, and we'll also be introducing disposable accounts. Disposable accounts are similar to the service a pre-paid phone offers to drug dealers (a disposable, untraceable communication device). Commenters seeking anonymity will be able to do so confident that when necessary they can simply toss out the account and there will be no connection to the individual. They will work like this:
– no password will be stored
– no email will be stored
– account can be used as long as you have the key code; lose or delete it, the account is abandoned.
In addition, we are establishing a public Gawker Tech & Product blog (a long time coming) from which we will communicate product information as well as product plans to our readers. You can expect to see it by early next week.
This has been a very unfortunate event in Gawker Media history, and we have learned much from it. Above all, this has been an enormous inconvenience for everyone affected, and for this I apologize. You can expect a much more responsive and proactive technology and product team for 2011. You can also expect a much more public me — if there is one critical thing that has been missing, it is a lack of consistent communication from me. That will change.
Tom Plunkett
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