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DD is only 2 weeks old, but we use it all night. My niece is 2 months and they have been using theirs all night also.
DD likes it well enough, she still only sleeps for 3 hour stretches.. maybe 4. We will stop when she gets a little more mobile and can roll around.
DS slept in his RnP from 2 weeks to 5 weeks. I was terrified he might fall out at first and used to insist that DH and I take shifts to watch him while he sleeps there, but after observing for a week, he never came close to falling out. Whenever he started sliding a little too low he would start whining and we would know to move him.
Now he's 6 weeks and occassionally still sleeping in it overnight but he seems to be outgrowing it and now prefers his cosleeper.
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While attending EPIC 2008 I was invited to Experientia (Torino, Italy) to collaborate on some current projects! My presentation was scheduled on the opening of the conference in the above hall – we spoke from the funny podium on the far left of the image.
Experientia is the Orange building at the center of the collage. Clear skies permit a breathtaking view of the alps that reminds me of Mt.Hood on a clear day. Sadly, Torino experiences sunny days as often as Portland does.
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My favorite coffee bar.
Mulafanso's water fountain.
I have been spoiled by Mulafanso, but I am unsure how to surrender my Dunkin Donuts ;)
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Grey skies with moments of light, occasional views of gorgeous mountains, laid back local population…Portland? No, Torino…or so I thought.
Portlanders do not use umbrellas, Torino residents do.
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We had a four-day weekend: Civic Holiday on Monday, then an IBM floater holiday on Tuesday (to balance the holidays other provinces get). It was much appreciated.
[X] Send mid-year update to manager
[X] Work on Project M issues/requests
[X] Help J- with piano
[X] Practise piano – 30 minutes daily
[-] Draw – also 30 minutes daily – not quite daily, but did pretty well
[X] Track a complete week of time
[ ] Wrap up project M
[ ] Set up meeting for project T
[ ] Follow up with project O
[ ] Figure out what next week will look like
[X] Volunteer to lead a build class at Free Geek
[ ] Hang out with W-'s family
[ ] Sketch yearly update
[ ] Practise piano some more
[ ] Decide whether to continue piano lessons
|Big cooking batch this week
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|Biked to work
|Tidied up dried peas
|Plugging away at "Latin Made Simple"
|At least half an hour each day
|Plus the books I'd read at breakfast, etc.
|Lots of shopping: replaced our microwave and our toaster oven
|Average of 8.7 hours a day
|4-day weekend, yay!
Nudged by Christopher Olah, I've resumed my time tracking. This time around, I'm particularly interested in how much discretionary time I can work with. It's a little like tracking your expenses so that you can see how much you can save and if your expenses are in line with your priorities.
This week was unusual, thanks to a four-day weekend. Comparing it with the last time I summarized my time use, though, I can see some similarities. I still sleep for about eight and a half hours each day. I still work around 40 hours in a typical week (24 here, for a 3-day workweek) whenever I can. If I look at the daily breakdowns, I can get a decent idea of what discretionary time looks like on a weekday, a weekend, or a holiday. I'll need more data points, for sure, but I can also check my numbers against my old time records.
Based on my numbers, I have around 4 hours of discretionary time each workday. This doesn't include the daily routines of cooking, eating, tidying up, and so on. This is just the time I can choose to spend on writing, drawing, learning Latin, practising the piano, reading, connecting with people, or following other interests.
This block of four hours sounds familiar. I've come across it in other places, like in my post about how long it takes me to prepare a presentation (and thus the interest in increasing ROI). I think I've written about it in the context of time-tracking and unstructured time activities, too. Four hours is enough of a chunk for me to get into the zone on something.
Right now, I split that 4-hour discretionary time chunk into daily activities instead of devoting each chunk to one activity. For example, I might use half an hour to an hour for piano practice, half hour for drawing, an hour for Latin, and the rest for writing and socializing. This doesn't give me the benefits of a deep dive, but it does mean I can space learning out a bit and give my brain time to integrate new information into long-term memory. Practising piano for half an hour each day is much more useful than spending four hours at the keyboard one day and neglecting it the rest of the week.
I've tried it the other way, using chunks of time for focused activities. Sometimes it's the only way to focus, like when I'm working on open source. But skipping writing for too long makes me antsy, and trying to write seven blog posts in one go makes me miss out on that practise of daily reflection and improvement. I think I'll take the gang-of-snails approach rather than the hare's relay: slow and steady progress on my key priorities instead of focused sprints.
Splitting my discretionary time up into different activities also means I tend to spend less time on things with higher startup costs, like sewing. That's okay. There'll be time for that too, maybe when these other projects get wrapped up or when the need for it arises. Weekends are a good time for focused chunks. We need to see how the build classes we've started doing at Free Geek Toronto will shift our weekend routines, though. We'll see how the numbers go.


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It looks like Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies is out to buy the next big thing in consumer health and wellness. Late last month, the $300 billion company announced its plans to partner with CircleUp, an equity-based crowdfunding platform. The news was all over the national entrepreneurship-focused media outlets. An article on Entrepreneur.com explained that the behemoth business made this move to get early access to the pipeline of emerging innovations in its market. Then it can acquire and add these products to its own product line.
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Foreshadowing this news, an article on The Wall Street Journal online discussed the same kind of trend taking place at established, high tech companies. In "An Innovation Slowdown at the Tech Giants," the author used Facebook's February acquisition of WhatsApp (a mobile messaging startup) for $19 billion as an example of what Johnson & Johnson is looking to do. He asks an interesting question though: "What possessed Facebook to spend that kind of money?"
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Plans for a curved 28-story glass tower with apartments and retail shops were announced Tuesday for the downtown Indianapolis site that's been a parking lot since Market Square Arena was torn down 12 years ago.
City officials and developer Flaherty & Collins Properties unveiled designs for the $81 million project that will cover the northern part of Market Square's two-block footprint.
The tower is to have ground-floor retail space, 300 apartments and a 500-space parking garage. Construction is expected to start next spring and be completed in late 2015.
Mayor Greg Ballard said he believed the tower would help attract new residents to the city.
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Previous attempts by officials in 2004 and 2007 to redevelop the city-owned site fell through before construction ever started. Plans for high-rise condominium buildings stalled in part because developers weren't able to sell enough units in order to begin work.
The tower was selected from among five proposals made by developers to the city, which has agreed to contribute nearly $18 million from property taxes generated by the project.
The one- and two-bedroom apartments in the tower are to have floor-to-ceiling windows and balconies, with rents expected to range from $1,300 to $2,400 a month. The tower would be about the same height as the nearby City-County Building and be among about the dozen tallest downtown buildings.
David Flaherty, the CEO of Flaherty & Collins Properties, said the tower's design will make a "bold statement" for the city.
"As you come into our city from the north, the south or the east, this is one of the main things that you'll see," he said.
Market Square Arena was the home of the NBA's Indiana Pacers for 25 years and was the site of Elvis Presley's final concert before his death in 1977. It was demolished in 2001 following the construction of Conseco Fieldhouse.


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|Professor Diana Laurillard
Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies in the Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy, and Assistant Director for Open Mode Learning.
Current research is in two related areas (see LKL Research tab): Teaching/Learning Design tools for teachers, and Digital interventions for low numeracy and dyscalculia.
In both cases the intention is to bridge the gap between teaching and research.
Teaching/Learning Design tools for teachers
For more on learning design tools please see use the following links:
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and for the Learning Design Support Environment project website
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For the patterns collector website: http://tinyurl.com/ppcollector3 - try browsing and adapting existing patterns, or designing your own.
A video is available from initial page of the Pedagogical Patterns Collector that talks through how to use it.
Digital interventions for low numeracy and dyscalculia
For digital games designed to assist learners with low numeracy please see
www.numbersense.co.uk where the games focus on foundational concepts of numerosity, and on the functional skill of telling the time.
See 'Dyscalculia: From brain to education' - paper in Science. Full text at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/332/6033/1049?ijkey=IiMn47/zfOJ0I&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
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Previous appointments include Head of the e-Learning Strategy Unit at the UK Governmentís Department for Education and Skills, the Visiting Committee on IT at Harvard University, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for learning technologies and teaching at The Open University.
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Recent academic and professional posts
2005 - Chair of Learning with Digital Technologies, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London
2002 - 05 Head of the e-Learning Strategy Unit, Department for Education and Skills.
1995 - 02 Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Learning Technologies and Teaching), Open University
1988 - 02 Senior Lecturer, then Professor of Educational Technology, Open University
Academic qualifications
1978 PhD on 'A study of the relationship between some of the cognitive and contextual factors in student learning', University of Surrey.
1969 BSc Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Sussex.
Recent externally-funded research projects
2008 ñ 11 PI for ëA Learning Design Support Environmentí, EPSRC/ESRC/ (£1.25m).
2008 ñ 09 PI for ëDigital interventions for dyscalculia and low numeracyí, Becta (£50k).
2006 ñ 08 PI for ëUser-Oriented Pedagogic Planner for Learning Designí, JISC, (£150k).
2006 ñ 07 PI for ëUser-oriented Support Tools for Learning Analysis and Designí, Centre for Distance Education, University of London, (£50k).
Management and administration
2002 ñ 05 As Head of the e-Learning Strategy Unit (Department for Education and Skills), developed, and published a cross-sector e-learning strategy, for the Secretary of State;
1995 - 02 As Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Learning Technologies and Teaching (OU): designed and led a three-year restructuring programme to enable the university to support staff in more effective use of learning technologies in teaching
Academic honours
2005 Honorary DSc, University of Brighton
2003 Honorary Fellowship of University College, London
2002 Honorary DPhil, Open University of the Netherlands
2001 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
1998 Honorary DSc, University of Abertay.
Selected public service
2007 - Supervisory Board of the Fern Universitet, Hagen, Germany
2006 - Advisory Board for CARET, University of Cambridge.
2006 - 07 ESRC/EPSRC/TLRP Academic Panel for the TEL Programme
2002 - 06 NSF/JISC Advisory Board for the Digital Libraries in the Classroom
2000 - 05 Joint Information Systems Committee, HEFCE
1999 - 02 Visiting Committee on IT, Harvard University, USA.
Recent publications
Laurillard, Diana (2013), Supporting Teachers in Optimizing Technologies for Open Learning in J. Willems, B. Tynan, and R. James (Eds), Global Challenges and Perspectives in Blended and Distance Learning, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA.
Diana Laurillard (2012). Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology, NY: Routledge.
Laurillard, D., P. Charlton, et al. (2012). A constructionist learning environment for teachers to model learning designs. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, (in press).
Charlton,P., Magoulas, G., & Diana Laurillard, D. (2012): Enabling creative learning design through semantic technologies, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 21:2, 231-253.
Thomas, M. S. C., & Laurillard, D. (2012). Computational modelling of learning and teaching. In D. Mareschal, A. Tolmie & B. Butterworth (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Neuroscience. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.Frederickson, N., Laurillard, D., Tolmie, A. (Eds). (2012) Educational Neuroscience, British Journal of Educational Psychology, Monograph Series II: Psychological Aspects of Education Current Trends, Number 8.
Brian Butterworth, Sashank Varma, and Diana Laurillard (2011) Dyscalculia: From Brain to Education, Science, Vol. 332 no.6033 pp. 1049-1053.
(2011). Supporting teachers in optimizing technologies for open learning. In B. Tynan & J. Willems (Eds.), Education 2011-2021 SUMMIT. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.
Laurillard, D and Ljubojevic, D. (2011). Evaluating learning designs through the formal representation of pedagogical patterns. In J. W. Kohls & C. Kohls (Eds.), Investigations of E-Learning Patterns: Context Factors, Problems and Solutions (pp. 86-105): IGI Global.
(2010). Effective Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning in HE. In Peterson, Baker & McGaw (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (Vol. 4, pp. 419-426). Oxford: Elsevier.
(2009) The pedagogical challenges to collaborative technologies, International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 4(1) 5-20.
(2008) ëThe teacher as action researcher: Using technology to capture pedagogic formí, Studies in Higher Education, 33(2), 139-154.
(2008) Digital technologies and their role in achieving our ambitions for education, Professorial lecture, Institute of Education, University of London, ISBN: 0 85473 702 2, 38pp.
San Diego, J., Laurillard, D., Boyle, T., Bradley, C., Llubojevic, Neumann, T. and Pearce, D. (2008) ëToward a user-oriented analytical approach to learning designí ALT-J, 16 (1) 15-29.
(2008). Open teaching: The key to sustainable and effective open education, in Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (eds), MIT Press.
(2007). Pedagogical forms of moblie learning: framing research questions, in Mobile Learning: Towards a research agenda, Norbert Pachler (ed), Occasional papers in Work-based Learning, I, WLE Centre, Institute of Education, London.
(2007) ëModelling benefits-oriented costs for technology enhanced learningí Higher Education, 54, 21-39.
(2005) ëE-Learning in Higher Educationí, in Changing Higher Education: The Development of Learning and Teaching, Paul Ashwin (ed), RoutledgeFalmer.
(2005) Harnessing technology to personalise the learning experience, in Personalising Learning the 21st Century, Chris Yapp & Sara de Freitas (eds), Network Educational Press.
(2003) With Patrick McAndrew. ëReusable educational software: a basis for generic learning activitiesí, in Reusing Online Resources: A sustainable approach to e-learning, Allison Littlejohn (ed), pp81-93, Kogan Page.
(2002) Rethinking University Teaching: A Conversational Framework for the Effective Use of Learning Technologies. 2nd edition. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
LKL News
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|Diana Laurillard is participating in the following LKL research projects:
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|A Course Resource Appraisal Model: Modelling teaching costs & learning benefits in blended teaching
|Digital interventions for dyscalculia and low numeracy
|Foresight 2030
|Learning Design Support Environment for Lecturers
|Pedagogic Planner
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The Groupie Slums It
I don't mean to offend when I explicitly state that attractive yet unmarried and never-married heterosexual women in their thirties who actually want to be married are either one of two things:
1. Overly picky
2. Fucking crazy
Becky was incredibly attractive and she didn't seem crazy. Sparkling eyes that were neither too dead nor fidgety, a nice amount of looking into my peepers and nervously looking down. A kind smile that always spread just the correct amount between the ears and showed an exactly sufficient number of teeth depending on the circumstance*. A confident voice full of charm and charisma.
And she was on a date with always-undressed me at a Village bar frequented by underage NYU undergrads and most famous for winning New York Magazine's "Most Vomitiest Bar" the last three years running. So how picky could Becky possibly be?
I spent the first half hour of our first date investigating her, scrutinizing her intensely like Sherlock Holmes. That's not exactly a fun way to behave and doesn't exactly lead to a love connection, but I had to figure out what was up. Soon, I realized it must be nothing, she was just one who had slipped through the cracks. Had a little misfortune in love. Perhaps I had very much lucked out in finding her.
Sure, she was a little obsessed with relationships, with finding "the one," even with marriage, but most women are. Nothing wrong with that. She wasn't one of those insufferable single gals, staying home at night with a stack of bridal magazines cutting out pictures of her favorite dresses, floral displays, bridesmaids' gowns, and making a collage of her hypothetical wedding. She didn't say stuff like, "I'm going to make my future husband buy me an 18 karet yellow gold eternity band emerald cut. I've already picked it out." She didn't have at all times on her person a list of one-hundred things her future mate had to meet, to which she'd say, "Do you have over $300,000 in the bank?" and then check off the corresponding box, hoping to fill them all out like she was participating in a concomitant scavenger hunt.
No, she was such a sweetheart. She just wanted to find someone near perfect for her because you can never find someone completely perfect for you, right? Some one she could grow old with. Who could take care of her for the next fifty years.
Hell, she realized she was getting older, we all are. And it ain't easy, especially for a female. Quoth Robert Herrick:
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Could I be the man for her? She'd ask me questions, bordering on interview queries but I accepted them because they were said with such earnestness.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
"Do you date a lot?" "Why haven't you found someone?" "It's tough here in New York, isn't it?" "Have you ever thought about JDate?"
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
She talked about her successes, moreso her failures. The guy that did this wrong. The guy that did that bad. The guy that wasted that half-year of her life.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.
After a few cocktails, I finally figured it out. She actually did all the work for me. I was getting bored with sitting and I asked her if she wanted to go revisit our youth and challenge some sophomores to a game of beer pong.
"Ha, that reminds me of the time Vince Carter** picked me up at the Soho Grand and all but forced me to go back to his apartment to play pool with him at 3 AM."
"Vince Carter?! The uber-talented, uber-lazy NBA 8-time all-star?! Really? That's so cool."
Casually. "Yeah. Nice guy but a little boring. Unbeatable in pool though. You wouldn't believe how good he is off the bumpers."
We lost our first game of beer pong to two kids that have never known life with rotary phones and returned to our seats. A warbling John Mayer song I've never heard of because I know nothing about music since the tail-end of the grunge/gangster rap era came on the jukebox.
"Yuck. I always hated this song. I was actually there when John wrote this one."
You know John Mayer too?
And there were more. Seemingly every single thing that came on the flatscreen, or the jukebox, or on an imbibing hipster's ironic t-shirt, or even in an anecdote I told reminded her of a celebrity encounter she'd had in the past decade. And I say "encounter" because she was never saying that she dated these men, certainly never saying that she had intimate relations with them, she was just casually, and somewhat angrily, mentioning them in the same matter of fact way I could go:
"You know that dumb bitch Megan sure liked rum and cokes."
"That terrible skank Tracy sure thought she was good at darts too."
"Whoa boy, did that miserable Annette always act like she knew a lot about baseball."
Then, the Yankees won and Michael Kay came on the YES post-game show on the bar TV.
"Ugh…I hate Michael Kay."
"Yeah, me too. I'm a Yankees fan but he's insufferable."
"No, not that. He's a major stalker. I go on one date with him a few months ago and now he won't leave me alone!"
Michael Kay?! Now that's disgusting.
And it all made sense. She'd gone from dating (or fucking on the sly) an A-list hoopster in her knockout early-20s to a B-list rocker in her still-smoking mid-20s to a sleezy Z-list local television baseball announcer just earlier this year as her looks were starting to fade. Perhaps not for a "nobody" like me, but certainly for a big shot, rich celebrity.
Then another thing hit me. Her twenties' goal of gathering ye rosebuds, gathering a rich celebrity mate, had all but passed her by and now she was onto a new stratagem: prospecting. The night I had picked her up it had been so easy for me. I wasn't actually even talking to her at first. One of my friends was, casually in conversation mentioning that I was a writer. To that, she sprinted over to me and proceeded to yak my ear off, shoving her number, e-mail, fax, address, Facebook page, Twitter account, and every other possible contact info she could into my palm before leaving. Telling me I had to promise to contact her. I'm not sure if I'd even said more than a dozen words that first encounter.
She was prospecting. And she thought this might be her final shot at glory, Dan Jansen in the 1994 Winter Olympics. She'd heard I was a writer, and daftly thought I might soon be a famous one. Or at least a rich one.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. If she only knew.
Well, I certainly wasn't going to let on. I went back to her apartment and hooked up with her anyways, unfortunate visions of Michael Kay dancing in my head ("Ssssssssssee ya!!!")
I've always said that, were I a celebrity, I wouldn't mind women throwing themselves at me for no other reason than my fame and I certainly don't mind a slumming groupie faux-throwing herself at me hoping that her vagina is that magic key to getting me on the cover of "Entertainment Weekly."
At least I won't stalk her like Michael Kay.
Big ups to my friend Elizabeth who I made go to about fifteen different Chicagoland beer stores when she was there on business in order to find this coveted, highly regarded, DIPA for me. Another winner from Three Floyds who, apropos of barely something, I think may make my favorite labels in the biz. Taste-tested this openly against one of my favorites, Avery Maharaja, and I felt it took it down in a 10th round TKO. So fresh and fragrant. A fruit cocktail of tropical tastes in peach, mango, and citrus, with subdued hops bitterness balanced my a nice caramel malt backbone. Incredibly drinkable, deserves the acclaim it gets.
*Beware the women that smiles either too much or too little. The women that are ear-to-fucking-ear when you simply make a lame pun. Who show every teeth like a horse with peanut butter in its mouth when you crack a mild joke. And who spit take with hearty laughter when you so much as comment on the bartender's bad hair cut. Also beware the ones that wouldn't even crack a half-grin watching Eddie Murphy "Raw." They're either depressed or dumb.
**Celebrity names have been changed to protect…uh, I guess me from being sued for slander. Or is it libel?


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Alpharetta, located in northern Fulton County, was incorporated in 1857. Originally the city was the county seat of the now defunct Milton County.
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The Jeep Grand Cherokee arrived in 2005 as the third generation of a model we first saw in Australia in 1996. Assembled in Jeep's export facility in Graz, Austria, the Grand Cherokee has held the mantle as the premium model available in the Jeep range. The mid-size SUV wagon has now been released as a 2008 model-year upgrade, with a new dashboard and interior material design, a restyled front bumper and headlights, and new wheels the most obvious changes.
The Grand Cherokee is a popular tow vehicle and we chose the economical 3.0 CRD engine in the revised range to test here.
ATTRIBUTESKey changes to the Limited model (as tested) for the 2008 model include a rear back-up camera, rear park assist system, MyGIG information and entertainment system with 20GB hard drive, rain sensing wipers, memory seats and mirrors, and iPod connectivity.
All Grand Cherokees now have Hill Descent Control, Hill Start Assist and - important for caravanners - Trailer Sway Control.
Other changes to the Grand Cherokee include a telescoping and tilt adjustment steering wheel, heated second-row seats and a redesigned steering wheel now with trip computer controls.
The Grand Cherokee is available in 3L turbodiesel, 4.7L V8 petrol, 5.7L V8 petrol and 6.1L V8 petrol variations.
The CRD diesel comes in Laredo or Limited trim, with equipment for both including front and side curtain airbags, traction and stability control, dual-range transmission, tyre pressure monitoring, rain-sensing wipers, remote keyless entry, dual-zone climate control and roof rails.
The Limited also has a leather and woodgrain interior, extra exterior chrome, an auto-dimming rear-view mirror, auto headlights, in addition to the afore-mentioned MyGIG entertainment system, heated power front/rear seats, front/rear parking sensors and rear-view camera.
The $59,490 Laredo only comes with the 3.0 CRD engine. The Limited starts at $64,990 as a 4.7 V8, and is $67,990 with the 3.0 CRD engine or the 5.7 V8. The $89,990 SRT-8 only comes with the 6.1 V8.
The interior is comfortable and roomy, with the driver presented with neat, backlit instruments and easy to find controls. The only annoyances are the age-old Jeep characteristics of a narrow driver's footwell and the handbrake placed adjacent to the front passenger.
There are plenty of useful features such as a multitude of cargo tie-downs, a netted side-wall storage shelf, a reversible cargo floor section for wet storage, a flip-up glass tailgate and a full-size alloy spare wheel, which is fitted underneath the rear of the vehicle.
ENGINE AND TRANSMISSIONThe 3L CRD V6 is a Euro 4 common-rail design with a variable turbocharger geometry, intercooler and with a 1600bar fuel pressure pumping to piezo injectors. This current-generation diesel is an all-alloy design with cast-iron cylinder liners, four-valve heads and double overhead cams. Jeep claims the 3.0 CRD is good for a nine-second 0-100km/h time and a maximum speed of 200km/h, making it quite quick for a two-tonne 4WD wagon.
The standard automatic transmission is a five-speed with manual mode. Drive is distributed via the Quadra-Drive II 4WD system, which is a full-time 4WD system with a dual-range transfer case. It has a 52:48 torque split and has an electronically controlled clutch pack to lock up the centre diff 50:50 when slip occurs. Quadra-Drive II has clutch packs in front and rear diffs, locking each diff when cross-axle slippage occurs. Jeep calls this Electronic Limited Slip Differentials (ELSD).
There have been a few big-torque turbodiesel engines new to the market but few that send their torque to the wheels as well as the CRD does. With some typical turbo lag down low, the CRD quickly rises above that, reaching the mid-teens on the tacho and propelling like a big petrol V8 right until the 4200rpm redline, the five-speed auto shifting assertively if not silky-smooth in getting power to the ground.
SUSPENSIONThis third-generation Grand Cherokee, with its independent short/long arm coil-over front suspension and five-link coil-spring rear (as opposed to coil-spring live axle front and rear in the last two generations of the Grand Cherokee), suffers none of the side-to-side lurching that previous Grand Cherokees suffered on rough roads. Even better than that, the Grand Cherokee has been elevated to one of the best-riding wagons in its class.
While a big enough washout will see the independent front end crash though (its independent front could never offer up the solid defence provided by a well-located live axle), the chassis balance and ride quality is very good - so much so that you'd be forgiven for thinking that the rear suspension was independent, not live-axle. No stuttering over corrugations, no sideways steps over potholes either.
Refreshing for a monocoque bodied 4WD wagon is the lack of cabin 'booming' over bad corrugations. The Grand Cherokee does not corner like a X5, but allows a far greater degree of precision and driver enjoyment than the previous model, thanks in part to the rack-and-pinion (instead of the previously used recirculating ball) steering and the new independent front suspension.
The only obvious negative is the Jeep's steering, which responds well to input at the wheel but lacks feel. Despite the Jeep being quite a nimble size (compared to other 4WD wagons offering similar towing capacity) it has a relatively wide turning circle of 11.8m (38ft 8in).
ECONOMYJeep says the 3.0 CRD achieves 10.2L/100km on the combined cycle, 13.1L/100km on the city cycle and 8.6L/100km on the extra-urban cycle. We achieved 10L/100km on a highway run, around 14L/100km in city traffic, and while towing a 2050kg Jayco at 100km/h we averaged 15.1L/100km. TOWINGJeep says to not tow a trailer for the first 805km and then not exceed 80km/h for the following 805km of the vehicle's life. Once 1610km has passed on the odometer, Jeep recommends a maximum speed of 100km/h.
Jeep says that if 45 minutes of continuous towing is done on a regular basis, then the oil should be changed every 10,000km (instead of 20,000km) and the transmission fluid and filter changes must be more regular. Jeep also recommends that the transmission should be held in second gear on steep, slow terrain.
The Jeep dropped 35mm with the 204kg towball download imposed on it, and with it sitting almost level (unladen, the rear is actually about 25mm higher than the front), we decided to test the rig without load-levellers. Unless the vehicle manufacturer stipulates their use, or unless they're absolutely necessary, we try to avoid using load-levellers for tow tests as we believe they mask the vehicle's towing performance. Other than getting towing fuel consumption figures, we wouldn't learn much about a vehicle's towing behaviour by using them. However, we would still recommend that you consider using load-levellers on the Jeep with the ball weight we were testing with.
The 3L turbodiesel sounded like it was working a bit harder with the 2050kg Jayco tandem axle van behind - which is hardly surprising - and the responsive throttle when solo needed much more assertive prodding to get the rig to respond, but it's all relative. But the Grand Cherokee does pull up hills well. At the peak of the hill in the 90km/h zone on Sydney's M4 motorway at Lapstone Hill, the Jeep required a kickdown into third gear and nearly full throttle to maintain speed, but did so comfortably.
It felt a little twitchy at 100km/h initially, although there were crosswinds at this point on the freeway, with treetops swaying in the breeze. As the wind died down, so did the slight yawing that the Jeep was exhibiting. The mirrors are usefully large, but they were borderline with the Jayco - towing mirrors should probably be on the shopping list with a van of such width.
THE BOTTOM LINEThe Jeep Grand Cherokee is a well-rounded vehicle that also performs promisingly as a towing vehicle. Aside from Jeep's persistence with minor annoyances such as the left-hand drive hand brake position and the Jeeps wide turning circle, the Grand Cherokee 3.0 CRD is a good all-round city/offroad vehicle that can also tow admirably.
Thanks to David Carrick of Jayco Sydney, 63-67 Glossop Street, St Marys, for the loan of the Jayco caravan used in this test. Phone (02) 9623 1971 or visit www.jaycosydney.com.au
For more information about the Grand Cherokee, visit www.jeep.com.au


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Professor Donald Earl Childress III, who will publish a forthcoming article on Comity as Conflicts: Resituating Comity as Conflict of Laws, recently presented the article before the bi-annual meeting of the Journal for Private International Law co-sponsored by the journal and the New York University School of Law.
Prior to joining the law faculty in 2008, Childress was associated with Jones Day in Washington, D.C. as a member of their Issues and Appeals practice, where he focused on Supreme Court litigation, general appellate litigation,and significant motions practice in trial litigation. While in private practice, his appellate representations included preparation of writs of certiorari, merits briefs, and amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court.
Childress has briefed and argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and has briefed matters in numerous other trial and appellate courts in the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and D.C. Circuits, as well as various state courts. He has significant private practice experience in complex civil procedure, conflicts of law, constitutional law, immigration law, international dispute resolution, federal Indian law, and national security law, including cases related to the war on terror. He maintains a very active pro bono practice. During his time in Washington, D.C., Childress taught a Supreme Court Litigation Course at the Georgetown University Law Center and served as a justice in the Georgetown University Law Center Supreme Court Institute. Childress is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court.
Childress clerked for the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. While at Duke Law School, he served as editor-in-chief of the Duke Law Journal. While at Oxford Brookes University, he served as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in the United Kingdom, where his research focused, in part, on European constitutionalism and European Union law.
Childress's primary research interests are international civil litigation, comparative law, and ethics. In particular, he is working extensively on the role that international civil litigation plays in an increasingly global world.
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If perhaps you were looking for garden decorating ideas, or simply to give a new look to your old garden, gave with the right place. This opportunity will give you some ideas for the design of outdoor gardens, so if you want to design your garden, don't miss these tips and recommendations.
Give structure to your garden
If we talk about designing a garden, we do not mean simply place some outside plants that we like, without a proper plan. Achieve a good garden design involves much more; for this reason it is necessary to create a basic structure, and based her plan where to place both the plants and the rest of the elements.
Create a focal point
We must not forget the location of a focal point within the design of gardens. This can be both a decorative fountain, and a set of specific garden plants that you like or even a tree surrounded by bushes. What is your preferred; it will always be good while you do it according to a design plan and structure. It is not necessary that this central element of decoration of the garden is in the space center itself, but simply plans to this as a main element in the design to decorate the garden.
Play with different textures
In the world of plants there are a wide variety of textures, so play with them! Take advantage of this variety of plants for your garden design. This variety of textures by the leaves, stems and foliage types, offer much originality to the design of the exterior, as well as being varied and beautiful gardens.
Don't forget the colors
While the plants come in all shapes and textures, which make them a great decorative element for the great variety to choose from, is the wide variety of colors. This makes them one of the most entertaining elements for landscapers. Create different combinations of colors, shapes and textures with the plants and flowers to achieve a unique garden. Don't forget that the colors not only give them a garden of flowers, but also some leaves with different color pigments, as well as the fruits. And there will always be garden ornaments to complement the decor.


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- Apr 13:
- One year after bombing, Boston continues to heal
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- Victim in famous photo marks year since Boston Marathon
- Jan 31:
- Justice Department seeks death penalty for Boston Marathon suspect
- Jul 11:
- Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tsarnaev pleads not guilty to 30 counts
- Jun 30:
- Marathon bombing amputee relearning how to walk
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- Boston Marathon runners return to finish the last mile
- May 22:
- Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe
- May 20:
- Boston bombing probe renews focus on Chechen insurgency
- May 2:
- Three friends of Boston bombing suspect face charges
- May 1:
- Russia had Boston suspect under surveillance
- Apr 30:
- Official says female DNA found on Boston pressure-cooker bomb
- Apr 29:
- Mother of Boston bombing suspects found spirituality five years ago
- Apr 28:
- Before Boston bombing, suspect quit on the American dream
That was the Nielsen company's estimate Monday of the number of people watching ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC during the hour that ended at 9 p.m. on the East Coast. That's when police announced that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been taken into custody after hiding in a boat.
The real-life drama clearly captured the interest of TV viewers. Nielsen said the coverage had roughly double the amount of people who usually watch those networks on Friday night, typically a light night for TV viewing.
The channels all devoted their full prime time to story. For the three hours of prime time, the channels had 35.9 million viewers, compared to 21.9 million they would get on a typical Friday.
During the 8 p.m. hour, NBC's coverage had 10.7 million viewers—up from the 2.9 million people who watched "Fashion Star" on that network at that time the previous Friday.
ABC had 7.8 million viewers for that hour, Fox News Channel had 7.6 million, CBS had 6.9 million, CNN had 6.8 million and MSNBC 1.7 million.
As is often the case during big news stories, CNN saw the biggest jump among cable news networks. CNN, normally third behind Fox and MSNBC in prime time, even won among the 25-to-54-year-old demographic most sought by advertisers.
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With Brad Penny's outstanding performance Wednesday night for the San Francisco Giants, questions have yet again risen this season about the competition level in the National League.
Penny, through 24 starts with the Boston Red Sox compiled a 7-8 record with a 5.61 ERA. Batters had hit .299 on the former Dodgers ace, and at the end of his tenure he was struggling to pitch out of the sixth inning.
This of course shocked most of the sports-viewing world last night when Penny went 8 strong innings last night against the defending World Champion Philadelphia Phillies. The righty allowed five hits, no runs, and only one walk.
Could it be that an American League team's trash really is a National League team's treasure?
This of course is the second instance this season alone where a Red Sox starting pitcher was cut from Bean Town only to resurface in the National League as a game-changing contributor.
On August 6th future hall-of-famer John Smotlz got tattooed by the New York Yankees for eight earned in only 3.1 innings. The next day he was cut. Seventeen days after being released, Smoltz resurfaced in San Diego, this time with a Cardinals jersey on his back. He looked like a new man, or at least the same man that once dominated the National League for 20 years before his 2009 experiment with the Red Sox.
Smoltz struck out nine batters in five shutout innings for his new club, setting a St. Louis franchise record by recording seven consecutive strikeouts. In his next start against the Washington Nationals he appeared equally as nasty as the start before. The righty struck out six and allowed only four hits and one earned run through six innings.
This apparent phenomenon of mediocrity in the American League turned stardom in the National League isn't limited to the mound either.
On July 24th the Cardinals made another move, attaining outfielder Matt Holliday from the Oakland Athletics. From 2006-2008 Holliday was perennially one of the top hitters in the National League. Playing for the Rockies in that time period, Holliday averaged a .329 batting average with 32 homers a year. The left-fielder was shipped to Oakland this offseason and through 93 games in the Bay Area he hit a disappointing .286/.378/.454 with 11 homers and 54 RBI in 93 games. Since being traded back to the National League he has hit .375/.437/.691 with nine homers and 36 RBI in only 36 games.
Could it be that the American League is just that much more difficult than the National League? And if in fact it were true the implications of this fact would be astounding.
Would Albert Pujols still be the best player in baseball if he were in the American League? What about Hanley Ramirez? Apart from steroids, would Barry Bonds home run records be even more tainted? Are the Nationals THAT much worse than we thought because they play in the inferior league?
I don't believe any of the above are true, nor could I imagine that the American League is anywhere near as superior as some give it credit. Consider these before you jump to that conclusion yourself.
The three aforementioned former All-Star's all played their entire careers in the National League before moving to the American League in 2009. The amount of time players, especially players at the top of the league, put into scouting and video preparation can't be understated.
There is no question that after 20 years John Smoltz has a pretty good grasp on how to approach hitters in his prospective league. He has spent countless hours studying all the best, and even the worst hitters in the National League. Not only has he studied the hitters, Smoltz has gone tow to tow with the hitters, and learned something about how to face them each and every time they have taken the plate.
Clearly neither him, Penny, nor Holliday could pick up this experience immediately in a whole new league. Hitters usually take one full year to adapt to a new league, while pitchers can often take a year and a half to two.
In Colorado, Holliday was hitting in arguably the best hitters park ever. He was batting in a line up stocked with great talent, including one of the best hitters of the decade, Todd Helton.
In Oakland, Holliday moved to a pitchers park that not only made it hard to hit for power, but hard to hit at all as the cavernous foul territory turned many potential foul balls into outs. Holliday also was the only threat in a weak, last place line up. Moving to St. Louis, Holliday had the benefit of hitting in a neutral park, but more importantly he hit in front of the great Albert Pujols. It's no coincidence that he has almost surpassed his Oakland numbers in only 36 games in his new situation.
Smoltz joined the Red Sox mid-season after recovering from surgery on his torn labrum in the offseason. Even for a veteran, it is hard to join a team in the middle of the season, especially when one is in a pennant race. While Smotlz's stuff was still there, he was clearly not yet comfortable on the mound. He simply wasn't put in a position to succeed. In St. Louis he has been put in a situation where he is pitching against players he has faced in the past, and now he is finally comfortable being on the mound again. Clearly it shows.
Penny had spent most of his successful career on the west coast pitching for the Dodgers. As Manny Ramirez will tell you, they're very very different places. While both clubs compete for the division title every year, it's clear Boston fans are far more in your face and far more involved. The pressure between pitching in the two cities is not even close. Boston demands success immediately, where Dodgers fans don't even get to the ball park until the 4rth inning.
These answers are much more logical than the assumption that the American League is simply better than the National League. While so far this year National League team's have lucked out finding gems in discarded American League talent, it has little to do with the difference in competition level.


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Attacks on humans by gulls and buzzards are increasing, meaning some birds may be learning to fear us less. Other birds are adapting to our presence by changing their songs, so they can be heard above the traffic noise.
Simon de Bruxelles writes in the Times of London that buzzards have been divebombing walkers and even attacking people in their cars. Experts say they're protecting nests in nearby trees.
Former Royal Air Force Captain Richard Bridges, 69, had to be taken to the hospital after suffering wounds in the head. He's been attacked twice, and was chased off by a flock of five birds a third time.
Gulls have been attacking visitors in a resort town in Cornwall in the U.K. People are used to them swooping down to grab food out of their hands, but now the gulls seem to have become smarter and more ruthless. They line up on rooftops waiting for unsuspecting victims to come walking along carrying snacks.
Sharon Arthurs-Chegini had her lunch stolen when five gulls swooped on her from behind. She says, "It was exactly like something from [the movie] 'The Birds.' They work in groups. One of them snatches the food while the others go for you. There were wings and beaks all around me. They didn't draw blood, but one did peck my hand. It was terrifying."
Peter Exley, of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, says, "There is evidence that some gulls are becoming less scared of humans?an animal that has lost its fear can be dangerous. They've got a 2 inch beak and they will use it."
Maybe they're trying to get us to shut up so their eggs can hatch in peace. Helen Briggs writes in bbcnews.com that urban birds are creating new songs in response to the noise of the city. Great tits, a common British bird, are singing at a higher pitch in order to be heard above the traffic noise. Biologists say this is the first known case of a wild bird changing its song to cope with the modern world.
"One reason behind the success [of urban birds like the great tit] may be because they can adjust the signal that is crucial in breeding," says ornithologist Hans Slabbekoorn. "Other species that lack such flexibility in their songs may perish or lose the opportunity to breed under noisy conditions."
A Note: On July 20, Whitley Strieber was attacked by a hawk while walking down a street in Los Angeles, where he was on a business trip. He was unhurt, but had to run to escape the hawk.
Maybe birds and humans need to get together and talk about their problems.
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'JJOSXL: the Sampling Bible' by MPC-Tutor is the first and only dedicated tutorial book for JJOSXL, the advanced third party operating system for the MPC1000/2500. With 125 pages of step-by-step tutorials and practical projects for you to recreate in your MPC, this book comprehensively teaches you the art of sampling in JJOSXL:
And much, much more, including a breakdown of all the essential JJOSXL shortcuts and a beginners guide to core MPC functions - download the chapter listing for a complete list of topics covered.
'JJOSXL: the Sampling Bible' not only teaches you the technical ins-and-outs of JJOSXL, it also strongly focuses on building the essential creative skills you need to write great music and beats in your MPC. Each chapter is broken down into a number of practical beat making projects written in a no-nonsense, step-by-step style, with clear MPC screen shots and all the files you need to recreate each project in your MPC - giving you a fun, hands-on learning experience to quickly master the complexities of JJOSXL.
This book is suitable for anyone who owns an MPC1000 running JJOS2XL 3.20 or greater or an MPC2500 running JJOS-XL version 3.20 or greater- please note that the dedicated large screen '128' operating systems are not compatible with this book. If you have any questions about compatibility with your MPC, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
And for a limited time, each purchase of the book comes with an exclusive JJOSXL promo code entitling you a $13 discount when purchasing a full JJOSXL license from JJ's website, or a saving of $7 when upgrading from JJOS1 to JJOSXL, or a saving of $3 when upgrading from JJOS2 to JJOSXL. More details.
From learning the basics of chopping, to developing workflows that suit your own unique style, right through to building your own songs and beats using chops of vintage blues recordings and even entire classical music pieces, 'JJOSXL: The Sampling Bible' is the easiest way to quickly become a JJOSXL sampling master!
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Inside you'll find 125 pages of tutorials and projects that cover every aspect of sampling in JJOSXL.
Below is a complete listing of all chapters inside this book:
"If you are an MPC head that uses the MPC 1000 or MPC 2500, whether youve thought about using JJOSXL or if you already use it, you should probably have this one in the library. Andys books are always well written, concise and full of useful tutorials and reference material. Do yourself a favor and check this out."
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"Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work in putting out knowledge for us MPC users. Bought quite a few guides with the Ableton and JJOSXL being the latest two and I have not been disappointed at all."
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"This book took me from having no idea what to do with my MPC and JJOS2XL to actually being able to use it"
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JJOS 'XL' is an advanced third party operating system for the MPC1000 and MPC2500 created by the developer who worked on the original Akai OS for the MPC1000/2500. The OS can be purchased from the JJ web site - you'll get a code to enter in your MPC and the software becomes fully functional.
The actual name of the software differs depending on the MPC model you own. The MPC1000 version is called JJOS2XL, the MPC2500 version is called JJOS-XL. However the software is essentially identical for both MPCs and for simplicity we refer to both versions as JJOSXL.
No, this book was written for the 'standard screen' JJOSXL (i.e. JJOS2XL or JJOS-XL). You can of course run the standard JJOSXL on the XLCD large screens, however only half the screen would be used by the OS in this instance.
Go to the OTHER screen (MODE and pad 10). In the top left of the screen your OS will be listed. It should read something like:
JJOS2XL Ver.:3.26
JJOS-XL Ver: 3.26
After purchasing the 'JJOSXL Sampling Bible', go to your File Bank and under your download link you'll see your JJOSXL discount code and a 'How to Claim' link which contains the link to the redemption page on JJ's web site where you can enter your discount code.
You can use the discount code for a reduced upgrade from JJOS1 to JJOSXL (save $7), a reduced upgrade from JJOS2 to JJOSXL (save $3) or a reduced full JJOSXL license purchase (save $13). The code can only be used once, and is not suitable for any other type of JJOS purchase.
This book has been written specifically for JJOSXL 3.2x (3.26 was the current version at the time of publication) - if you run an older version of JJOSXL, there may be some features discussed in the tutorials that are not available in these older versions of OSXL. We advise you update your current install of JJOSXL with the latest version from JJ's web site.
If you run a completely different JJOS (e.g. JJOS2, JJOS1, JJOS free, or JJOS128XL), then there will be significant differences, so we cannot officially recommend this book for you, but do let us know if you would like to see a version made for your OS.
An ebook is an electronic book that you can read on your computer (or on a PDA, mobile phone, ebook reader, etc). Our ebooks also include folders of example files that allow you to recreate the tutorials as you read them. Our ebooks can be downloaded instantly after purchase and can be opened using any free PDF reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader software (most PCs already have this installed), or the built in 'Preview' PDF reader found in all Macs, iPhones and iPads.
Yes, once downloaded it's just like any other computer file and can be copied to a back up disk. Don't forget that if you do ever lose your ebook, simply log back in to your customer account and download your file from your 'file bank'.


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Dhaka, 2011
Call me crazy--you certainly won't be the first--but I always thought that one important mark of civilization was not trying to grab whatever you can, at whatever cost to others.
I know, I know, I'm a hopeless liberal hippie with crazy ideals, but I thought that civilization involved some level of concern for our fellow people and the planet that sustains us. In fact, I thought that one of the trademarks of barbarians was precisely the opposite set of characteristics: use force to grab whatever you can, and to hell with the harm your opponents suffer.
Apparently my thoughts are hopelessly out of date, or at least not in keeping with sound economic theory. For it seems that neo-liberal economists actually laud the sort of atrociously selfish behaviour that I find so savage and despicable.
Millionaires and billionaires are somehow supposed to be heroes, people we look up to for their great achievements in financial wizardry. (We are allowed to look up to some social advocates as well, such as Mother Theresa--preferably ones who do not challenge the system, or make outrageous remarks about the need for the rich to contribute more to alleviating poverty and injustice.)
When exactly "grab, grab, grab" became the mantra of economists, I am not exactly sure. I seem to remember as a child being taught the virtues of sharing, and imagine that most of my friends attempt to instill similar values in their children. Many of us also believe that we shouldn?t steal from future generations or spoil things too much for them, say by using up available resources at unsustainable rates or by trashing the environment. Apparently this makes us hopelessly outdated (though not, oddly, conservative).
Perhaps it will always remain a mystery to me how we can consider as virtuous such practices as underpaying workers, avoiding taxes, and fighting programs that would give the downtrodden some chance at a slightly less horrific and humiliating existence. The odd concept that we "can't afford" to preserve the very earth that makes our physical lives possible is also beyond me.
And perhaps it's just as well. I would rather continue blindly in my ignorant ways, if that's what they are, content in my belief that I am on the civilized side of the equation, than join the barbarians in their despoliations....