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Experts Examine Trends in Dubai's Higher Education Landscape
- Dubai, UAE: The Dubai School of Government, in partnership with the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), convened an interactive forum to examine current trends in Dubai's higher education landscape, as well as its contribution to the...» Read More
Higher education conference in Jeddah to host 372 global universities
- Saudi Arabia: Under the aegis of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, the second annual conference on higher education will kick off at Riyadh Exhibitions in Riyadh on Tuesday. The conference is scheduled to last for four days. Both wo...» Read More
Higher Colleges of Technology and Pearson sign MoU to boost student performance
- Dubai, UAE: As part of the Education Without Borders conference's World Forum, held at the Armani Hotel in Dubai recently, Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) and Pearson, an international company with market-leading businesses in education, business...» Read More
Western universities opening in GCC at risk of failing
- Kuwait: Western-based universities in the GCC are at risk of failing because of difficulty recruiting students and a reliance on outside funding, an economist studying the impact of new institutions says. John Willoughby, an economist at the Ameri...» Read More
University of Dubai raises the bar for academic excellence
- Dubai, UAE: In order to ensure quality graduates, the University of Dubai (UD) plans to enforce a tougher admissions policy for applicants over the next two years. While the university currently admits high school students with an average score of 65...» Read More
Corporate education budgets in Dubai set to rise after recession squeeze
- Dubai, UAE: Corporate education budgets that had suffered a drop in the GCC due to the global economic downturn are set to increase over the next three years. This is among the findings of a study titled 'The GCC Market for Executive Education',...» Read More
Most frequently asked questions for scholarships abroad
- As you search for scholarships, asking the questions below will help you determine whether there is a good match between each scholarship program and your circumstances and educational goals. What is the maximum scholarship award? Awards can...» Read More
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The Chicago Blackhawks need to get back to a hard checking, physical game.
Enough of the "finesse" style of play that allows skill to thrive and pretty plays to become all the more common.
The Blackhawks need to start battling in front of the net, finishing their checks, and trying to score some ugly goals.
The Blackhawks have major problems against some of the tougher teams in the league, and it's more apparent now than ever. The main reason being that they cannot out-muscle those other teams.
Instead the Blackhawks try to out-play them, which, in turn, doesn't work out too well.
A team can only take so many hits, so many punches, and so many puck battles until they become fatigued.
The problem is that the Blackhawks have abandoned the idea of "old-school" hockey, where the winning team was usually the tougher—not the more skilled—of the two.
But that is how this Blackhawks team is built: A finesse team that will play a good run-and-gun game as they "out-skill" their opponents.
But just how well does that work in today's game?
The 2011 Stanley Cup Finals can provide the best example of finesse vs. toughness.
The Vancouver Canucks were favorites against the Boston Bruins, as the Canucks had more skilled players on their team. The Bruins were a hard-working and hard-checking team, and the underdog because of their apparent lack of skill.
Skill was supposed to beat out the "old school" hockey toughness, but in the end, the Boston Bruins skated away with the Stanley Cup after pummeling the Canucks every chance they got.
Hard-working, tough hockey players won't always beat out skilled hockey players.
But if they play as a team, they will be pretty hard to beat.
Tough hockey plays like crashing the net and finishing a check will go a long way in helping the Blackhawks achieve their goal of making the playoffs.
Everybody on this Blackhawks team can take a lesson in how to play "old school" hockey. It's not about being lazy, it's just about changing up the game plan. Instead of trying to set up the perfect play on the power play, why not just take a hard shot and crash the net?
Ugly goals are goals nonetheless, and the Blackhawks need to start scoring some of them.
Do the Blackhawks have the players to be a tough team?
In the short term, they do not, but young tough guys like Brandon Bollig and Andrew Shaw can provide the spark necessary in order to get them on track. Take a lesson from these two players; the heart and dedication required to play a hard game of hockey.
In the long-run it will only serve the Blackhawks well to start playing a hard-nosed game.
No need to hold back now when you are fighting for a playoff position.


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Thanks, science!
For those of you interested in snacks, snacking, snack innovations, talking about snacks, and/or sharing snacks with pals, I have something to tell you. My friend brought these crackers over to eat during Dr. Phil:
THIS IS A CRACKER THAT TASTES LIKE A PIZZA. Finally the food scientists have done something worthwhile.
And speaking of crackers (which I do as often as possible), I have to mention the weirdly icky new Triscuit slogan, "Triscuit fills you, but not with regret!" It just seems a little, you know, intimate.


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Has the site been down for maintenance? Also I do not get any responses on my questions any more. Might that be because of the downtime?
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Authorities say a freight train carrying petroleum, wine and fruit has derailed in the Florida Panhandle near Milton amid heavy fog.
A spokeswoman for Santa Rosa County says about 150 to 200 gallons of petroleum leaked from one tanker. But county spokeswoman Joy Tsubooka says no injuries were reported and no evacuations are planned.
Tsubooka said 13 cars and six engines of the 46-car train jumped the track as the train was heading east near the Bon View subdivision in the Mulat area.
A tanker carrying carbon dioxide did not pose a threat. Another car was carrying fruit and wine.
Tsubooka says the CSX train derailed about 6:20 a.m. Saturday.


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The first computer built entirely with carbon nanotubes has been unveiled, opening the door to a new generation of digital devices.
"Cedric" is only a basic prototype but could be developed into a machine which is smaller, faster and more efficient than today's silicon models.
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Hi all - I have a store that sells large digital files (currently the store is custom made). I would like to transfer the store over to using WP Ecommerce, but it looks like there is a maximum upload of 7mb - this is much too small for me. My downloadable product files range in size from about 500MB to about 5GB.
I've seen there is an Amazon S3 plugin for storage of product files, but I can't see any information about whether this plugin would increase the file size limitation.
As far as I can see unfortunately it looks like WP-Ecommerce isn't capable of meeting my requirement.
Can anyone verify for me: is there any way to sell large (GB+) digital downloads using WP-ecommerce?
Any guidance greatly appreciated.


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Dehkhoda Dictionary
The Dehkhoda Dictionary (Persian: لغتنامهٔ دهخدا) is the largest comprehensive Persian dictionary ever published, comprising 16 volumes (more than 27000 pages). The complete work is an ongoing effort that entails over forty-five years of efforts by Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda and a cadre of other experts. Although Dehkhoda covers a big part of literary terms and words in Persian language, it also lacks most of scientific and technology terms coined and loaned during the past decades. Dehkhoda states in the preface of the dictionary that "Not only this book misses 2/3 of today's entire Persian vocabulary, at least half of the words I knew were forgotten and not recorded in this book." Many of those words were added after his death.
The series initially consisted of 3 million records (فیش fish or برگه bargeh in Persian) (up to 100 records for each word or proper noun) until Dehkhoda's demise in November 1955, and currently contains 343,466 entries that according to the latest digital release of the dictionary by Tehran University Press (version 3.0) are based on an ever-growing library of over 2300 volumes in lexicology and various other scientific fields.
It was first printed in 1931. Dehkhoda also was helped by prominent linguists Mohammad Moin, Jafar Shahidi, and Dabirsiyaghi.
The work became so significant that in 1945, a bill was proposed in the Majles, signed by numerous Members of Parliament, including Mohammed Mossadegh, to allocate a special budget and staff to completing the project. Offices were provided for the task inside the compounds of the Majles itself, and later on, the entire project was moved to University of Tehran College of Humanities, with additional staffing, where the Dehkhoda Institute was founded, and where it remains until this day.
See also[edit]
- Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda
- Jafar Shahidi
- Persian literature
- Ehsan Yarshater
- Mohammad Moin
- Soleiman Haim
- Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub
- Mohammad-Amin Riahi
The preface of the digital version of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, release 3.0. Tehran University Press. 2006.


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Noel Gallagher would like to marry himself because he thinks he's such a great husband.
Noel Gallagher would like to marry himself.
The 44-year-old rocker - who has been with his wife Sara McDonald for 11 years - admits he thinks of himself as a great husband because he is not a "lad" and doesn't do "boys" things".
He said: "I'm a f**king brilliant husband! I'd love to be married to me.
"I'm great. I'm easy going. I'm pretty well off. I don't do boys' things. I only just got a computer last Christmas. My biggest vice is watching football.
"I've been with Sarah for 11 years, there isn't a male/female divide in my house. It's just us, you know what I mean? I wouldn't consider myself laddish."
His wife Sara - who he met while divorcing his first wife Meg Mathews - was particularly pleased with him after they went on their first vacation together.
He told Britain's Grazia magazine: "I'm really good on holiday. When Sara and I went on our first long holiday, Cambodia or somewhere, afterwards she said she was nervous because she thought I'd be sat at the bar all day, befriending fat skinheads from Dagenham."


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Urban Gains Most in 2 Years as Net Beats Estimates
Urban Outfitters Inc., operator of the namesake and Anthropologie clothing chains, gained the most in almost two years in Nasdaq trading after fiscal third-quarter profit surpassed analysts' estimates.
Net income rose 17 percent to $73.1 million, or 43 cents a share, in the quarter ended Oct. 31, from $62.3 million, or 36 cents, a year earlier, the Philadelphia-based company said in a statement yesterday after U.S. markets closed. Analysts expected 42 cents, the average of 25 estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
"Promotions had been somewhat high and there was some investor worry heading into the quarter," said Edward Yruma, a New York-based analyst for Keybanc Capital Markets who recommends holding Urban shares. "Results were decent. The company is clearly aggressively repurchasing shares and feels good about the holiday season."
Urban surged $3.90, or 12 percent, to $36.64 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading for the largest percentage increase since Nov. 21, 2008. The stock has gained 4.7 percent this year.
Sales at stores open a year rose 1 percent in the third quarter and will show the same gain in the current quarter, Chief Financial Officer Eric Artz said yesterday on a conference call with analysts. Same-store sales will increase in the low- single digits next year, he said.
"We are well positioned as we head into the holiday season," Artz said.
The company repurchased or retired 4.3 million shares for $133 million during its past quarter.


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Last year I showed you how to create manhattan plots, and later how to highlight regions of interest, using ggplot2 in R. The code was slow, required a lot of memory, and was difficult to maintain and modify.
I finally found time to rewrite the code using base graphics rather than ggplot2. The code is now much faster, and if you're familiar with base R's plot options and graphical parameters, most of these can now be passed to the functions to tweak the plots' appearance. The code also behaves differently depending on whether you have results for one or more than one chromosome.
Here's a quick demo.
First, either copy and paste the code from GitHub, or run the following command in R to source the function from the web:
Next, load some GWAS results, and take a look at the relevant columns. This is standard output from PLINK's –assoc option. This may take a minute or so (~ 20MB file):
head(subset(results, select=c(SNP, CHR, BP, P)))
The manhattan function assumes you have columns named SNP, CHR, BP, and P, corresponding to the SNP name (rs number), chromosome number, genomic coordinate, and p-value. Missing values (where regression failed to converge, for instance) should be recoded NA before reading into R. Do this with a quick sed command. Here's what the data looks like:
1 rs10495434 1 235800006 0.62220
2 rs6689417 1 46100028 0.06195
3 rs3897197 1 143700035 0.10700
4 rs2282450 1 202300047 0.47280
5 rs567279 1 66400050 NA
6 rs11208515 1 64900051 0.53430
Now, create a basic manhattan plot (click the image to enlarge):
If you type args(manhattan) you can see the options you can set. Here are a few:
colors: this is a character vector specifying the colors to cycle through for coloring each point. Here's a PDF chart of R's color names.
ymax: this is the y-axis limit. If ymax="max" (default), the y-axis will always be a little bit higher than the most significant -log10(p-value). Otherwise you can set this value yourself.
cex.x.axis: this can be used to shrink the x-axis labels by setting this value less than 1. This is handy if some of the tick labels aren't showing up because the plot region is too small.
limitchromosomes: you can limit which chromosomes you want to display. By default this restricts the plot to chromosomes 1-23(x).
suggestiveline and genomewideline: set these to FALSE if you don't want threshold lines, or change the thresholds yourself.
annotate: by default this is undefined. If you supply a character vector of SNP names (e.g. rs numbers), any SNPs in the results data frame that also show up here will be highlighted in green by default. example below.
… : The dot-dot-dot means you can pass most other plot or graphical parameters to these functions (e.g. main, cex, pch, etc).
Make a better looking manhattan plot. Change the plot colors, point shape, and remove the threshold lines:
manhattan(results, colors=c("black","#666666″,"#CC6600″), pch=20, genomewideline=F, suggestiveline=F)
Now, read in a text file with SNP names that you want to highlight, then make a manhattan plot highlighting those SNPs, and give the plot a title:
manhattan(results, annotate=snps_to_highlight, pch=20, main="Manhattan Plot")
Finally, zoom in and plot only the results for chromosome 11, still highlighting those results. Notice that the x-axis changes from chromosome to genomic coordinate.
manhattan(subset(results, CHR==11), pch=20, annotate=snps_to_highlight, main="Chromosome 11″)
Finally, make a quantile-quantile plot of the p-values. To make a basic qq-plot of the p-values, pass the qq() function a vector of p-values:
Perhaps we should have made the qq-plot first, as it looks like we might have some unaccounted-for population stratification or other bias.
The code should run much faster and use less memory than before. All the old functions that use ggplot2 are still available, now prefixed with "gg." Please feel free to use, modify, and redistribute, but kindly link back to this post. Here's the code:
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Genre: All-Sex
Private fans will be well pleased.
Somewhere on the sunny Spanish coast resides a high-rolling Continental shot-caller whose tastes run towards the lush and expensive, from his buff, high-end rides to the buff ends he high-rides. It seems the gangster in question has a thang for the luscious little Czechs and Hungarians retailed by a local house of ill repute, and we get to peek in on the action as he and his boys knock boots with a choice selection of leggy, languid sex queens.
The opener sets the tone here as a gorgeous natural-bodied blonde pants and huffs through a poolside tussle with the kingpin while her girlfriend, a mouth-watering dark-eyed exotic, catches a hot d.p. from a pair of soldati.
Gorgeous women, hot sex and just one major flaw - all the sex scenes are dubbed, which is, of course, a major faux pas.


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Author has written 16 stories for Dragon Ball Z, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vexx, Lion King, Yu-Gi-Oh, Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Rise of the Guardians, and Undertale.
Need a new Rise of the Guardians character? Cant think of any? Or cant think of a design? I am here to help. I am working on a semi-new cast of Guardians. If you are interested in having me pre-make a guardian for you, I am in need of a Groundhog (female), leprachaun (male), Spirit of Spring (female), and Mrs. North. If you want me to design your Guardian, I will design him or her and send you a pic via DeviantART. I will also include them if I can in my next fanficbseeing as I am hand-writing my current one that will be up soon. Hopefully. If you want them to be included with a love interest, North, Pitch, and Tooth are the only ones available. I promised my friends they could have Jack and Sandy. Bunnymund is property of Mother Nature. Also, if you have a character that is a descendant of one of the Guardians, that is okay too. I have already declared Jamie and Sophie Jack's great-grandnephew and neice. That girl with the beanie is Bunny's great-granddaughter. I know it needs more greats, but he's like a million years old. If you're interested, PM me.
I love to make characters for things such as video games or animes/cartoons. Preferrably animes. I have made tons of characters for cartoons and video games and my own characters for my own stories.
Dragon Ball Pact:
DragonBall Z is an anime that people are not afraid to say that they will forever love. Why? Not because of the action, but because the characters were real and relatable. It had a lot of subliminal messages about friends and teamwork.
In the Saiyan Saga, it showed how Goku should have ended up; a heartless, ruthless murderer. Instead, he ended up being quite the opposite. He was kind and loving and pure of heart and Piccolo trained Gohan. This goes to show that you don't always have to live up to what people expect you to be; you can be better and that there is good in people, no matter how mean they may seem.
In the Namek Saga, Frieza was revealed to be the real destruction of Planet Vegeta, Vegeta teamed up with them to beat Frieza and his men and Goku, despite being loathed by Vegeta, gave him a proper burial after being killed by Frieza and became the first Super Saiyan (aside from Broly and the AU of Bardock). This goes to show that you can make allies in the most unlikely of places and you should always treat your neighbors kindly, for you never know when they need your help. Goku stopped the tyrant who went on a genocidal rampage and became his race's hero.
In the Android Saga, we find out that Vegeta and Bulma have a child, Goku gets a heart disease, and that the future is ruined by two androids. This one is my favorite saga because it teaches you that anyone can find romance as long as they look in the right place, that you should never assume that you'll always be in perfect health, and that you should always keep your loved ones close to you, for you never know when they'll leave you forever.
In the Cell Saga, Krillin spares 18, ChiChi makes Piccolo and Goku try to get their licenses, and Goku sacrifices his life to beat Cell. This goes to show that if you wait long enough, the right girl will come to you, that it's never too late to learn something, and that you'll do anything to make sure that your friends and family are safe, you just have to make the sacrifice to give up something, sometimes you have to give up everything, but it's all worth it in the end.
In the Buu Saga, Goten and Trunks learn the fusion dance, Vegeta gives up his soul to have enough power to beat Goku, he ends up sacrificing himself to try and beat Buu, Buu ends up being a friend of the Z-fighters, and in the end, Goku goes off to another island to train Uub. This goes to show that two heads may be better than one, but they can become one to make the perfect team, obsessions can consume you and come between your friendships, that no matter how obsessed with something you are, you will always do what's right in the end, your worst enemies can become your greatest allies, and that the adventure never ends.
I don't know why people always dis on anime. People everywhere say that it's stupid and childish. Anime has taught us a lot and any anime has at least one character that we're not afraid to admit has been with us throughout our childhoods. For me, it will always be the Saiyans of DBZ and the Sailor Scouts of Sailor Moon. There are characters that people don't like, such as Yamcha or Hercule.
Yamcha is a playboy, but if anyone took notice, he was jealous of Vegeta and Bulma and dearly loved Bulma and I'm pretty sure he regretted ever losing her. As for his strength, he is strong for a human, but he always got in over his head, therefore causing him to die. I admit Yamcha wasn't the best of characters, but you guys could show him a bit more respect.
Hercule is a moron and a credit-stealing coward. But since people thought he was the real champion of Earth, they listened to Hercule and lent their energy to Hercule. If he hadn't done that, they might have died. He also befriended Buu, making Buu friendly and thus prevented him from destroying the planet. Hercule might not have beaten Cell, but if he hadn't taken credit for that, he wouldn't have been able to help the Z-fighters save the planet. Hercule was the only character in the show that showed both cowardice and bravery. He was the only one who managed to defeat an enemy without fighting them. He truly is Earth's hero. He truly is the definition of 'being a lover, not a fighter.' He raised Videl as a single father and raised her so she'd be able to defend herself if she ever needed to. Hercule may not be the best fighter, but we can all agree that he is the best father in the show. DBZ is my life and I'm not afraid to say that I am a proud Saiya-jin. "This pact is meant to hold together the remaining fans of Dragon Ball/Z/GT. Whether you like the FUNimation dub or the Ocean dub, whether you like the manga or the anime, whether you say 'Saiyan' or 'Saiya-jin', we must stand strong and united, for we are the last of our dying race. And all those who are true fans, post this up on your page, forever proclaiming your DragonBall heritage. Be proud, for you are a true Saiyan!"
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I looked on IRS website but didn't find answer. I realize that you have to have SS# for baby before you can claim baby on taxes but is there a deadline?
I heard baby must be born by mid Dec but I don't know if that's true and don't feel like calling IRS to be on hold forever.
Can you claim baby if he/she is born on Dec 30 or 31rst?? Does anybody know how long it takes to get SS# for baby?


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Harvest May Eye Chinese Buyer for Petrodelta Stake, Analyst Says
Harvest Natural Resources Inc., a U.S. oil company with producing assets in Venezuela, may find a Chinese buyer for its stake in the Petrodelta venture, according to Little Bear Research.
The "likely acquiror" for Harvest's 32 percent stake in Petrodelta may be China National Offshore Oil Corp or China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, Zachary Prensky, an analyst with Little Bear Research in New York, wrote in a note to clients today. Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the state-owned oil company, has a 60 percent stake Petrodelta, located in eastern Venezuela.
"In my discussions with a number of industry contacts close to the situation both inside Venezuela and in the US, the two oil companies most frequently bandied about as being the likely acquiror for PetroDelta are Sinopec and CNOOC," he said.
Harvest Chief Executive Officer James Edmiston said on March 15 that the company is in "early" stages of talks to sell its stake in Petrodelta and that any decision would be "strategic." Venezuelan oil minister Rafael Ramirez said on March 20 that PDVSA, as the Caracas-based company is called, had the first option to buy Harvest's stake in Petrodelta if the company found a buyer.
"What the Venezuelans would want out of any sale would be an upfront advance against future oil purchases and or a commitment to invest a substantial sum of money to increase capital expenditures on the ground," said Prensky in a telephone interview.
Harvest Chief Financial Officer Stephen Haynes said today in a telephone interview from Houston that the company had no comment on the sale process.
E-mail and telephone messages left with Sinopec and CNOOC were not immediately returned.


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July 3, 2007
The classic rock world (i.e. pre-'80s) was broadly divided into two camps -- the guitar virtuoso school, led by the likes of Eric Clapton, and the more purist RB school, headed, of course, by Keith Richard. While the former camp meandered off into ever more showboating, solo-led, album-orientated extravaganzas, the latter continued unleashing music built on a solid foundation of tight song structures, powerful melodies, and strong hooks. Rock's popularity has risen and fallen many times in the intervening three decades, evolving, transforming, and crossing over in many directions along the way. But it's taken a new supergroup to bring it back to its real roots. Meet Circus Diablo, fronted by ex-Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison, sporting former Cult-ist Billy Duffy on lead guitar and ex-the Almighty Ricky Warwick on rhythm, with former Fuel-er Brett Scallions and fellow Cult-ist (among many others star gigs) Matt Sorum on bass and drums, respectively. Obviously this group has the chops, the street cred, and the wherewithal to deliver the goods. And deliver they do, slamming out an album that rocks pure and simple. Pay close attention, and eventually you will hear echoes of all the members' past bands, but more importantly you'll hear a group in love with rock as it was in its glory days, with a sound still universal and adored by all, before it shattered into dozens of fragmented scenes. Hard and fast, screaming with melodies that stick in your head, and choruses you can't help but sing along to, Circus Diablo is classic rock in the true sense of the word, the kind of album that long ago kids saved their pennies up to buy and then played for months on end. No po-faced guitar wanking for the sake of it here, hey, Circus even clowns around, delivering a straight-faced, heavy rocking version of Adam the Ants sublimely silly but fan fave "Ant Invasion." And that's not their only nod to punk's past, "So Fine" spits and snarls just like it's 1977 all over, strewing, as so many punk did, homages to the Stooges behind it. Battering down the doors between hard rock and more commercial poprock, the band heavy hit their way across the verses, then burst into bright, brazen choruses; "Loaded" and "Restless" being just the prime examples. Storming riffs underpin "Mad Parade" and "Red Sun Rising," while the heady "Hello, Goodbye" and the lilting power ballad "Dignified" showcase their gentler side. As you'd expect, the musicianship is awesome, but it's the songs that take pride of place, not showboating musicians. And the songs are simply superb, not a clinker in the bunch. If this platter doesn't top best album polls in another three decades, it's because the world as we know it is no more. ~ Jo-Ann Greene, Rovi
- Subgenre: Hard Rock
- Category Hard Rock
- Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics
- Label: KOCH RECORDS
- Release Date: July 3, 2007
- Artist: Circus Diablo
- Additional Artist: Billy Morrison (Vocals)
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Hey Mommas,
I need some advice. My sweet little guy has always been bf, but never had trouble taking a bottle of pumped milk or even 1/2 milk 1/2 formula when I was away from him until about 6 weeks ago. Since then I can't get him to take a bottle to save my life. Now, I can't leave him with anyone, not with my husband, a babysitter, no one. He screams and bats the bottle away from him. Now he has teeth and is biting me while I am breast feeding. Mostly it's that his teeth are sharp and resting on me while I feed him and it hurts, he's not actually chomping down on me all the time. Anyway, I am getting to the end of my rope with this situation. I need him to be able to take a bottle when I am not with him and even when I am because he is only getting more teeth and it's getting more and more painful so I'd like to pump and feed him. Any tips on getting him to take a bottle?
Thanks for you time!


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Here's what I get when I try to log in: http://cambriahistory.org/wp-login.php
Here's what the site looks like: http://cambriahistory.org/
How do I log into my site now?


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The following editorial appeared in Monday's Washington Post:
The United States aspires to lead at the United Nations. It has sought to make the U.N. Security Council an ally in the containment of Iraq. It has approved innumerable U.N. peacekeeping missions. It has used the U.N.'s humanitarian agencies to channel aid to the needy. But the United States seems unable to fulfill its most basic obligation to the United Nations, which is to pay the money that it owes it. ...
Rather than passing a freestanding U.N. payment measure, the House cooked up a complicated bill that includes a provision relating to the International Criminal Court. The House leadership dislikes this court, and some of its suspicions are reasonable. But the language in the bill is not reasonable. It would cut off military aid to any non-NATO country that ratified the treaty establishing the court and would forbid U.S. participation in any U.N. peacekeeping force unless U.S. troops were first indemnified from prosecution. In certain circumstances, a U.S. administration might want to demand such an indemnity. But it is a mistake to tie the nation's hands with binding legislation.
Unless the House agrees to split the International Criminal Court measure from the U.N. spending bill, the administration may veto the whole package. That would further delay the payment of arrears and harm the nation's international credibility. President Bush is due to deliver a speech to the U.N. General Assembly in a month's time. The House needs to unblock the money before then.
A summertime high
This editorial appeared in Sunday's Los Angeles Times:
To anyone who has ever concentrated really hard, even in August, positioning the wings and tail just right and, tongue between teeth, launched a balsa airplane into the perfect frontyard breeze and watched it soar and dip and then inexplicably soar more, nearly to the street corner, the news that NASA has flown an unmanned elongated flying wing to a record altitude of 96,500 feet inspires awe.
'Awesome" is applied to many things nowadays, including even teenage singers. However, not much inspires old-fashioned, genuine jaw-dropping awe. After all, we've golfed on the moon, remotely driven and broken a toy car on Mars and dispatched a lonely craft to beyond our galaxy with messages for beings we can't imagine. ...
But remotely piloting a 247-foot wing made of coffee-cup plastic foam and driven at 23 miles an hour by 14 solar-powered propellers with the strength of hair dryers reignites that delicious, mouth-open awe that became uncool sometime before eighth grade. Sure, the 1,577-pound Helios aircraft has commercial possibilities; flying for months without landing, it could replace expensive satellites. And the military will doubtless divine some lethal mission for the fragile craft someday. But even if you can't lie down right now in soft grass and gaze into the blue sky, just think for a summer's moment about the doing of it about imagining, designing and building a curvaceous wing that carries 62,000 solar panels and obeys engineers who dream. It lifts off a runway in Hawaii and soars out over the Pacific up through wispy clouds hour after hour until it is more than 18 miles high, where the sky turns black.
And then see whether, honestly, you don't feel like running into the kitchen and yelling: 'Wow! Did you see that?"
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Why Ethical Consumers Don't Walk Their Talk: Towards a Framework for Understanding the Gap Between the Ethical Purchase Intentions and Actual Buying Behaviour of Ethically Minded Consumers
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Despite their ethical intentions, ethically minded consumers rarely purchase ethical products (Auger and Devinney: 2007, Journal of Business Ethics 76, 361–383). This intentions–behaviour gap is important to researchers and industry, yet poorly understood (Belk et al.: 2005, Consumption, Markets and Culture 8(3), 275–289). In order to push the understanding of ethical consumption forward, we draw on what is known about the intention–behaviour gap from the social psychology and consumer behaviour literatures and apply these insights to ethical consumerism. We bring together three separate insights – implementation intentions (Gollwitzer: 1999, American Psychologist 54(7), 493–503), actual behavioural control (ABC) (Ajzen and Madden: 1986, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 22, 453–474; Sheeran et al.: 2003, Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 393–410) and situational context (SC) (Belk: 1975, Journal of Consumer Research 2, 157–164) – to construct an integrated, holistic conceptual model of the intention–behaviour gap of ethically minded consumers. This holistic conceptual model addresses significant limitations within the ethical consumerism literature, and moves the understanding of ethical consumer behaviour forward. Further, the operationalisation of this model offers insight and strategic direction for marketing managers attempting to bridge the intention–behaviour gap of the ethically minded consumer.
Keywordsactual behavioural control consumer ethics ethical consumerism implementation intentions intention–behaviour gap perceived behavioural control situational context theory of planned behaviour word–deed gap
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- Why Ethical Consumers Don't Walk Their Talk: Towards a Framework for Understanding the Gap Between the Ethical Purchase Intentions and Actual Buying Behaviour of Ethically Minded Consumers
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Journal of Business Ethics
Volume 97, Issue 1 , pp 139-158
- Cover Date
- 2010-11
- 10.1007/s10551-010-0501-6
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- 0167-4544
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- 1573-0697
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- Springer Netherlands
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- actual behavioural control
- consumer ethics
- ethical consumerism
- implementation intentions
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- theory of planned behaviour
- word–deed gap
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Just picked them back at $5.108What a nice catch huh???
BigK, good job! Have faith in what you are doing. That's all it's going to take with COCO.I hope no one sold out of fear today, but instead bought more!Good luckBiff
5% loss so far, could have it worse ;-)
It may stink for a day or too, but you should have a tasty meal soon. :)I've still got my line in the water...


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Hello friends, how is your day going so far? Things are moving along here. Today's blog is for fans of character design. Hopefully some of the budding character designers or animators on 1UP might pick something up here. Yesterday I had mentioned Academy of Champions Soccer (AOCS) by Ubisoft for the Wii. I was intrigued by the fantasy aspect of the title and the combination of arcade gameplay and character design.
The target audience for this title are the young and young at heart. Iconic footballers are cartoonish and representative of modern animation and design aesthetics. These youthful characters are part of a well-established tradition in gaming. Sports titles are traditionally simulation experiences. The physics, character, level design and strategies are trying to closely emulate the real world experience. Arcade style sports games take many liberties with the experience. Levels become fantastic parodies of actual arenas, or even homages to classic games. Such was the case for titles like Disney Sports Soccer (DSS) and Mario Strikers (MS).
I'm not a fan of traditional sports games, the more unique the experience the more likely I am to play the game. I had mentioned the changes placed on Street Soccer and Inline Skating on my Korean Action Sports Rant. For the sake of football NCSoft had tried combining combat to the perpetually delayed, and probably never to be released Soccer Fury. While not traditionally combat experiences, some aggressive plays can be used in the soccer games (just like the other sports titles), in the form of "special" moves. These things existed in the Mario and Disney games, yet were performed by cartoon characters rather than human players. Academy of Champions features highly stylized humans yet with the familiar MS / DSS game mechanic. The last time an arcade-style soccer title had come out with a similar theme was Sega's Soccer Slam (SSS). The quick paced game featured a cast of highly-stylized, if borderline stereotypical characters. The shapes of the characters and exaggerated proportions made the designs really stand out.
While AOCS doesn't feature quite the same design aesthetic as SSS, the changing tide of character design, coloring and proportion should be evident to gamers and artists alike.
The trend towards exaggerated proportions and arcade style gameplay was brought up in the late 90's. Midway (rest in peace) was one of the first, to put exaggerated 3D characters in their sports titles. Beginning with NFL Blitz in the arcade in 1998 and solidifying the rep with Ready 2 Rumble Boxing on the Dreamcast in 1999. The boxers evolved from slightly exaggerated proportions to completely over-the-top designs. Where they would have stuck out in any other title, they made sense in a world that only showed a handful of people with such designs. Designing and animating an entire universe of characters like that would have been tedious and even redundant. Part of the thing that designers should aim for are creating characters that stand out from the crowd as well as from each other. Since sports limit the number of participants it is useful to create archetypes in this manner. Additionally sports embody movement and action, so characters with exaggerated proportions are easier to identify and animate in 3D.
Electronic Arts understood these things and began building on the Midway aesthetic with their own STREET series of sport titles. Futbol players were long and lanky while American Football players became top heavy with muscle. These proportional changes applied to each particular sport and designers had to be aware of how far to push the boundaries without making them absurd or too sim-like. This aesthetic had been working its way through urban vinyl and comic book culture at around the same time. Gaming, figure and comic art tend to influence each other and it could not be more evident as to the changing tide of character design than by seeing that actual athletes are being caricatured in a similar style for figure art.
Designers in non-sport titles are also learning that these proportions work well in gaming and modeling. The characters are very easy to identify and differentiate between if they use exaggerated proportions. Animators have an easier time making the characters appear more fluid and dynamic when the character limbs are elongated and disproportionate to the body. Facial animations are also easier to identify when the eyes and mouths of the characters are consistent with the cartoonish proportions. I hope that fans of Team Fortress 2 would agree with these observations.
I hope any budding designers, animators and artists on 1UP remember these things. Character design and proportion are constantly changing. The features that we find great today were horrible and ugly not too long ago. There is 10 years of evolution from the time of Ready to Rumble to Academy of Champions Soccer. In 10 years who knows how much further, stranger, or more stylized character design will go? I am certainly looking forward to it! Now if only WWE would do something with those wrestling designs that were never produced...


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Mary Lucille Melton McFall, 86, of Brevard, died Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 .
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Moody-Connolly Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will follow at Pisgah Gardens.
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Danzig in for huge test at UFC Fight Night 15
To check out an audio interview with Mac Danzig, click here.
Mac Danzig took ocregister.com readers along for the ride� with his weekly blog during� his quest for a UFC contract on Spike TV's reality series "The Ultimate Fighter 6."
Each week he filled us in with all the stuff going on behind the scenes inside the house, at practice and with the fights.
The most vicious vegan on the planet had a sarcastic, insightful and always entertaining perspective on his time during the competition and he went all the way to the finals. Danzig beat Tommy Speer soundly in the 170-pound final to capture "The Ultimate Fighter 6" title.
Danzig, who is back campaigning at 155 pounds,� followed up his impressive run on TUF 6 when he took on Mark Bocek at UFC 83 on April 19. Danzig put the UFC's lightweight division on notice with a dominating performance to take out Bocek in the third round with a rear-naked choke.
Now, Danzig is braced for the biggest test of his career as he takes on battled-tested veteran Clay Guida in one of the featured bouts at UFC Fight Night 15 on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Spike TV from the Omaha Civic Auditorium. The premiere of "The Ultimate Fighter 8" follows at 10 p.m. on Spike TV.
I caught up with Mac on Monday morning. Here is what he had to say:
On his thoughts headiing into the matchup against Guida:
"I'm just happy to be in this position, you know, fighting quality fighters like him, just moving forward in my career. It's a really big test for me. It's a test for me to put myself out there, put myself in the top 10, in the top five, in the lightweight division. I think this is the perfect opportunity."
On Guida being in so many action-packed fights
"He's got a lot of tenacity, a lot of heart. He's always got cardio. He's a really determined guy. I think that's going to make for a great, exciting fight. I'm hoping I finish it early. That's the plan. But there might be plenty of times where he stops me from finishing him and coming back even stronger. That's the kind of fight fans like to see. Those are the kinds of fights I'm prepared for, so if that's what happens, that's what happens. I'm ready to go. I'll go 15 minutes, the whole time, with him if I have to."
On training in Las Vegas with Xtreme Couture since he won TUF 6:
"Yeah, I moved to Las Vegas in March. It was a tough move because I really love California. I'll move back to California one day, but I was thinking about it. I was coming out to Xtreme Couture for training camps for my fights for a while. Once I got the contract from The Ultimate Fighter show I said to myself, 'I owe it to myself to take this as far as I can.' I have the best training partners over here, so I made the move.
"Training is just amazing there. There are so many good lightweights and welterweights to train with at that gym. I don't think you could ask for anything more as far as training goes."
On the possibility of facing one of his training partners at some point down the line:
"I don't really think that is as big of an issue. As far as the lightweights that are at the top of the game at Xtreme Couture, it's me, Gray Maynard and Tyson Griffin. The three of us have no intentions of fighting each other any time soon. I'm not really worried about it, simply, because the lightweight division in the UFC is so stacked and there are so many good quality fighters to go around that I don't think we are going to come down to a point where they force us to fight each other.
"One of us three might get the title at one point before the other two do, and if that happens, it happens. They are not really paying enough money for the lightweights in order to make us fight. It doesn't matter how good we are, no three of us have a name like a Floyd Mayweather has or anything like that. That's not really existant at lightweight in the sport, right now. I don't see the kind of purse being offered for us to have to fight each other, and on top of that the division is so stacked there are just so many guys to go around.
"I'm not worried about it, but as far as some of the other guys that might come through and train every now and then and are also lightweights that's definitely up in the air and I'll definitely fight someone I've trained with before. But us three, I don;t think we're ever going to fight."
On the rumors that the WEC will fold its heavier weight classes into the UFC and the UFC possibly folding its lightweight division into the WEC:
"The only talk I've hearrd is rumors that I've heard, quotes that I've heard from representatives of the WEC on Internet websites, news websites like Sherdog. I've heard in passing people talking about that sort of thing. If that does happen, I view that as being kind of unfortunate because I think the UFC should keep their lightweight division.
"But when it comes down to it, as long as I'm getting the exposure that I deserve at the time and the other fighters are too and we're getting paid, I don't have a problem with it. Businesses are foing to make decisions that they make. I really don't know.
"To be honest with you, I don't think it's going to happen because it's all rumor right now. But stranger things have happened, so we'll see. I haven't been told anything by anyone official. I'm pretty much in the dark as far as everything goes. Usually, the first time I hear something is around the same time the fans do."
On his vegan lifestyle and whether he haas converted any of his training partners:
"I've always given advice to people when they've asked me for it and as friends and stuff. But I'm not one of those people that's actively trying to push it. I just lead by example. I don't try to force what I do on to people. Plenty of people have contacted me through my website and on the Internet and said I gave them the inspiration to go vegetarian or to go vegan and that they always wanted to do it, but they didn't think they could. I was leading by example, and a lot of people have said that to me. That really means a lot to me. It feels good.
"But as far as people� I train with and friends, vegetarians and vegans is the last thing I ever talk about. It's just something personal to me. I haven't actively converted anyone, but inadvertantly ... yeah, leading by example. I think I've been the inspiration for a lot of people out there that wanted to try it, so that feels good. It's good to know."
On the reaction he's gotten since winning TUF 6 and becoming a full-time UFC fighter:
"It's been great. I'm just looking forward to climbing the ladder and taking the sport as far as I can. There were plenty of times where I didn't think� I could do this sport anymore. I thought it was going to be done for me years ago, because I just wasn't getting paid and the opportunities weren't there. Now, I got the biggest opportunity right here in my lap. I'll be damned if I'm gonna let it slip through my fingers. I'm here to stay and I'm taking this as far as I can. It feels good to finally get recognition. This is about as good of a spot as you can ask for, being in the position that I'm in.
"So, yeah, it feels good, and the reception is good. You got a lot of people that know me as the The Ultimate Fighter and I think that's how a certain percentage of the fans are. They go and they don't understand a lot about the fights. But I think at least half of the fans know what's going on, and they respect me, and they respect the guys that I'm fighting. Those are the kinds of people I enjoy having as fans. The reception has been great, but I'm ready to prove anybody wrong who doesn't think I belong here."
On if the TUF veterans' great run in the UFC has changed the perception that they are just reality stars:
"I think they always have. Joe Stevenson has done pretty well. Guys like Nate Diaz and Joe Lauzon and alal these guys are fighting really well. And Kenny Florian. Everybody from these past seasons is doing quite well. I think the reason why people might have that perception of the guys are on a reality show is because on any given season there are at least four or five guys that really don't belong there. Those kinds of guys get stuck in everybody's heads.
"People sitting at home think to themselves, 'Man, with a couple years of training� I could be Wayne Weems or Gabe Ruediger or whoever.' And they don't understand that's just a small portion and the rest of the guys are really tough. I think you are going to see great things from me and Nate Diaz and Joe Lauzon and Gray Maynard. You are going to things from guys that were on the same season as me like George Sotiropoulos, you know, that guy is really good and he's going to keep going.
"I just think that anybody that looks at it with an open mind will understand where the fighters are coming from. It's an opportunity that they can be on the show and there are good fighters and there are bad fighters. The ones that don't belong there ... you won't here about them anymore."
On where he beleives he is at this stage of his career and when will he be ready to fight for the title:
"I think I'm still developing. I would love a title shot at any given time. The way I look at it is this: In the top 15 or so lightweights, anyone can beat anyone else on any given night. That's how competitive the lightweight division is. Sure, there are guys that are a little bit better than the other ones and as you get pushed to the top the level gets higher. But that top 10, that top 15, when it comes down to it those guys are all capable. Any of them are capable of being the champion on any given night.
"That being said, I'm just happy to be in the division that I'm in. Whenever the UFC feels I'm ready for a title shot, I'll be ready to do it. I'll go in there and give it my all, just like always. This fight is a determing factor whether I'm going to be considered for a title shot down the line and start climbing the ladder even more or if I were to lose, hypothetically, it would be a setback, but it wouldn't rule out a title shot in about two years.
"It all depends on what kind of winning streak you get together, and the kind of winning streak you get together against high-level people. This is one step closer to that. I just take it one fight at a time. I'm not looking past Guida. I'm just looking to fight Clay. If I'm confident in my performance and I feel I did really well, then I'll start thinking about a possible title shot in about a year."
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Canada Won't Decide on TMX Before Investor Vote, LSE Says
David Lester, a London Stock Exchange Group Plc executive who met with Canadian government officials yesterday, said he doesn't expect Industry Minister Christian Paradis to endorse or reject his company's deal to buy TMX Group Inc. until after shareholders vote on June 30.
"They don't want to politicize this process," Lester, director of information services at LSE, said in an interview today at Bloomberg's Toronto office. "They're looking at the shareholder vote first and foremost."
Canada's federal government is required to review the C$3.36 billion ($3.45 billion) takeover under the Investment Canada Act to determine if the deal is a "net benefit" to the country. Lester said he met in Ottawa with staff of Industry Canada, as well as the Finance Department, and they indicated a decision will follow the shareholder vote, as well as reviews from provincial regulators including those in Ontario and Quebec.
"I feel confident that we've designed the right sets of incentives and packages and regulatory sovereignty framework that will get us through," Lester said.
TMX backed the C$45.16-a-share all-stock purchase by LSE, while dismissing a C$48 a share cash-and-stock offer by a group of Canadian banks and pension funds. Maple Group Acquisition Corp., whose investors include Toronto-Dominion Bank and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, proposed a C$3.58 billion takeover on May 13 to keep ownership of the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canadian hands.
"We're selling the bid that we've got, and we think Maple is undeliverable," Lester said. "I think shareholders need to recognize the certainty in our transaction is very high, and the certainty in the Maple transaction is practically next to zero, from a competition point of view."
The Maple Group's proposal doesn't require Industry Canada approval because it's not a foreign transaction, though it'll face reviews by regulators and Canada's competition bureau, the group said in a May 16 presentation.
"Maple extinguishes competition at every single layer of the value chain in an exchange, whether it be listings, whether it be trading, whether it be data, whether it be derivatives," Lester said. "This will eradicate competition."
Maple Group interim Chief Executive Officer Luc Bertrand called Lester's comments "absurd" and said he's confident that the Maple transaction can obtain all necessary approvals.
'Absurd Statement'
"It's an absurd statement, especially when the LSE is asking provincial securities regulators to abandon Canada's public interest protection against any shareholder owning more than 10 percent of the exchange," Bertrand said today in an e-mailed statement. "It's also more than a bit presumptuous for the LSE to say what the Government of Canada will do."
LSE and TMX submitted an Industry Canada application on April 29. The Industry Minister has 45 days to review the deal, which would have put timing of a decision into next week, though the process can be extended another 30 days. Richard Walker, director of communications for Paradis, said in an e-mail he is looking into the matter.
Ontario and Quebec's regulators are reviewing requests by TMX and LSE to relax rules that prevent an investor from owning more than 10 percent of the company.
"I get the feeling if Ontario and Quebec are happy, I think the federal will look at the net benefit and then we should have our transaction," Lester said.
Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said today in an e-mailed statement that regulators need time to review both transactions.
"There are important regulatory considerations with each deal and regulators need time to look at them carefully," Duncan said in the e-mailed statement. "The 10 percent ownership rule for the TMX is critically important, as is the need for fair, efficient and cost-effective markets."
Duncan also urged Industry Canada and the Competition Bureau to take the decisions of the provincial securities commissions into account.


text: Courtesy Reuters Review Essay May/June 1995 Issue AsiaVietnam Read More On... My FA Anthologies War & Military Strategy U.S. Foreign Policy Defense Policy Johnson Administration Kennedy Administration The Wrong Kind of Loyalty -- McNamara's Apology for Vietnam By George C. HerringAbout the Author: My FA Anthologies George C. Herring, Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, is author of America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975.Read more by George C. Herring Facebook Twitter My FA Saved Articles As much as any other individual, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara personified the American commitment in Vietnam. He was "the can-do man in the can-do society in the can-do era," David Halberstam wrote in The Best and the Brightest, and during the Kennedy and early Johnson years, he managed America's expanding involvement almost as if he were a desk officer. Whether slogging through Vietnam in army fatigues, spewing out statistics to demonstrate progress, or presiding at a press conference, map on the wall, pointer in hand, he epitomized what came to be called "McNamara's war." Whatever the difficulties of the moment, he exuded a certainty that promised ultimate success. In fact, as has long been clear, his public confidence far outlasted the emergence of personal skepticism, and McNamara's tearful departure from the Pentagon at the height of the Tet Offensive in early 1968, as much as Lyndon B. Johnson's March 31, 1968, speech, marked the inglorious end of an era once bright with promise. As the war aroused growing controversy in the United States, McNamara became a major target for critics from both left and right. Ignorant of his muted, tightly constrained internal dissent, doves viewed him as the ultimate technocrat, whose blind faith in technology and statistics plunged the nation into a destructive quagmire. Hawks, on the other hand, denounced with growing venom his interference with the military and his refusal to give it the freedom and tools to win an eminently winnable war. For McNamara, Vietnam became a source of This article is a part of our premium archives. To continue reading, you can subscribe and get free access to our entire archive. Subscribe Already a subscriber? Sign In Forgot your username or password?Already a subscriber but don't have a login?Customer Service In This Review In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam Robert S. McNamara Times Books, 1995 356 pp. $33.95 Get the best of Foreign Affairs' book reviews delivered to you. Email *


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