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CHICAGO, May 20, 2013 — "Help Cecil, Help!" "I'm a-comin', Beany-boy!" ― Beany and Cecil, created by Bob Clampett (Warner Brothers)
Today's word is "irrelevant." The news media have their marching orders from the White House Office of Propaganda. The scandals are irrelevant, the law is irrelevant, who in the administration does what is irrelevant. The news children better use that word and over again or else they will get a time out and no milk and cookies.
Irrelevant: adj. Unrelated to the matter being considered. Synonyms: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent. Antonyms: Relevant, important. (The American Heritage Dictionary)
Where does President Obama find children to be his spokespeople? Is there some Ivy League kindergarten or day care center he recruits from? First, we had the playground clown and buffoon, Robert Gibbs. Now there is Jay Carney, also known as Beany. Along comes Dan Pfeiffer, also known as Cecil, to save Beany. Pfeiffer hit the Sunday morning entertainment news shows to defend the plague of scandals surrounding this administration. His favorite and oft repeated word was "irrelevant." He wanted to make sure the media knew what to say on Monday.
In relation to the IRS scandal, Pfeiffer/Cecil stated, "Look, I can't speak to the law here." The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable." The law is irrelevant? Since when? The United States is a nation of laws. Laws govern conduct, especially outrageous and inexcusable conduct.
How about this chestnut: "What would be an actual real scandal in Washington would be if the president had been involved or had interfered in an IRS investigation." Evidently the White House determines the definition of "scandal." A scandal is only a scandal if the president is directly involved. Otherwise there is no scandal. Get it?
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Then there is this: "You're right, that is an absolute tragedy what happened. And the question isn't who edited what talking points. That is largely irrelevant. What is relevant is to make sure that never happens again which is why the president is calling on Congress to pass legislation to beef up embassy security around the world and protect our diplomats." It is the responsibility of the Secretary of State to provide and beef up security at embassies, not Congress. Benghazi was not an embassy, it was a consulate. But, those are just semantics. Semantics are irrelevant when human lives are lost due to incompetence at the highest levels.
Pfeiffer/Cecil also made the astounding claim that where the president was during the Benghazi crisis was irrelevant. He also found any questions about Benghazi "offensive." He did not stop there. He went on to claim that Susan Rice was owed an apology for the battering she took over her explanations of Benghazi.
Bob Schieffer of CBS had the absolute best question of the day, after Pfeiffer tried to force the talking points down his throat. "Why are you here today?" A better question would have been, "Do your mommy and daddy know where you are today?"
Again, where does the White House find these children? Only children can come up with these lame excuses. Maybe they find them the same places the news media finds many of its reporters ― the same reporters who cut and paste this jabberwocky to defend and protect the President.
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Look, the American people are not very bright. They may be educated, but education has nothing to do with innate intelligence. If you need proof of their dimness, just look who they vote for and reelect to office. Case closed. But, the American people are not totally stupid. If any of them were watching these entertaining performances, their B.S. detectors were probably blaring like air raid sirens. They would not accept these silly excuses from their own children, let alone the children working in the White House.
When is this president once and for all going to grow up, put his big boy pants on, take full and total responsibility for the actions of his underlings? When is he going to be accountable? When is he going to stop blaming others? That blame game is getting lame.
When is he going to stop sending little children out to spin unbelievable tales and fantasies of what may or may not happened?
First it was "What difference does it make?" Then, "It happened a long time ago." Now, it is "irrelevant." Tomorrow you will hear all the little boys and girls in the news media say something like this: "In relation to the alleged scandals surrounding the president, they happened a long time ago, what difference does it make now, they are irrelevant. We should move on and go forward from here."
The real scandal in Washington is the irresponsibility of this administration, the total lack of accountability, transparency, and the administration's blasé apathetic attitude toward malpractice, malfeasance, corruption, and ineptitude. Instead of heads rolling fairy tales are spun. When hard questions are asked, the questioners are deemed offensive and abusive.
What is offensive and abusive is the attitude that the administration can do whatever it wants, say whatever it wants, and get away with it. What is more offensive and abusive is the media letting them get away with it. Blaming the scandals on the Republicans does not pass the smell test. It does not even pass the stench test. The Republicans do not control the executive branch of the government. Neither do the Democrats. The president alone controls the executive branch. He and he alone is responsible and accountable for the actions of the Department of State, IRS, Department of Justice, and the kindergarten spin meisters. Only a dyed in the wool Obama cultist would believe the SODDI defense- "Some other dude did it." There are quite a few out there, many in the news media.
The White House spin machine is starting to sound like the Onion. They are incredibly funny. Maybe that is where Carney/Beany and his travelling carnival troupe should apply for jobs when they leave the administration. They are well suited. Since the Onion is satire and comedy, the truth is irrelevant. Carney/Beany and company would fit right in.
One other thing. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin blasted the IRS over its investigation of conservative groups. He should have looked through his past statements before flapping his soup coolers. He strongly advocated that the IRS investigate conservative groups when they formed Super PACs and 527s after the Citizens United Ruling. One could wonder if Dick Durbin can spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y. But he is from Illinois, a state that breeds inept ignorant political poltroons, macaroons, and mamalukes.
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Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – We publish below the second and final part of the contribution from Fr. Gerardo Caglioni on the activity of the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone (see Fides 12/11/2010) and the 60 years since their first arrival in the African country (see Fides 7/7/2010; 21/7/2010).
"Since around 1824, there was a set rule in the Colony: the group that would come first would have the exclusive rights over that territory. The Xaverians used a method that time later proved to be effective: personal contact with the leaders and local authorities. They spared no effort, I do not speak in terms of money or material resources as they were very limited, but with personal energies, sacrifices, their way of life, etc.. and they multiplied their availability as much as possible in order to be present first and for everyone.
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In this regard, I think it particularly significant a photo from the 1960s that shows Bishop Azzolini with a large delegation of Paramount Chiefs in Makeni to plead the cause of education and the construction of schools in their chiefdoms. This presence and action of the Xaverians, particularly effective, changed the educational parameters of the country. The north, in 60 years, has reached the same level of development as other more developed parts of the country and can now compete - at the same level - with every other area of Sierra Leone.
Makeni today boasts of having a Polytechnic University, which evolved from the school founded by Bishop Azzolini and Fr. Romano Rolli. There is also a university, the Fatima Institute, strongly desired by Azzolini's successor, Bishop Biguzzi. Finally, to celebrate the 60 years of their presence in Sierra Leone, the Xaverians are opening in the mountains on the border with Guinea, the last mission among the Fula and Koranko: Mongo Bendugu. There, where a young Fr. Calza would travel on his motorcycle in the 1950s, and after him many other Xaverian, the population now sees a dream come true. Thus begins the new Xaverian mission of Mongo Bendugu, the most recent Xaverian bastion. The people are convinced that this is the path to true development." (Part 2 - end) (Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, SX) (Agenzia Fides 13/11/2010)
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Is this TMI? I'm kind of an open book so I hope this thread is ok to post.
DH had sex today for the first time in far too long. I've been too scared/not feeling sexy/etc to try.
I felt like a virgin today. Thank God for lube. DH has been so sweet and supportive.
Are you all still keeping up with that part of your relationship? Any tips? Any embarrassing stories?
I am just so relieved I didn't feel her kick me during our time..I knew if I felt that I'd be done for.
Last time we tried, I was on top and we both watched as LO shoved her elbow across my belly... We stopped shortly after. We both have a good humor so we just kind of giggled about it, we haven't tried again since.
ETA: I also get some serious BH after, last time we were able to "complete" the deed, I didn't move for a couple hours and was in tears... While FI was snoring in my ear.
beckyanddon:Random addition to the thread. What positions are working for everyone? We always seem to be on our side.
Me on top, or, since we have an adjustable base, missionary still works as long as he doesn't lay on my belly.
beckyanddon:Random addition to the thread. What positions are working for everyone? We always seem to be on our side.
I hate side lying positions. I don't know why, haha. So, it's either me on top or from behind. Honestly, from behind has been the most comfortable for me. It takes all the weight off my belly and there is no weirdness about either of us feeling the baby move in this position.
Jill9288:It's been few and far between lately. LO is down low, so it's not comfortable, and it just weirds me out when he starts kicking mid-deed. Plus I end up w/ some pretty intense BH after, so....it's not great. I've been trying to find other ways to ::cough:: help DH out.
This exactly.
lkobriant:We've literally had sex 3 times since getting pregnant.nbsp; First tri we were super paranoid about 'disrupting' things and after that baby started moving and it kind of freaked DH out.nbsp; Now we just can't find a good position.nbsp; Guess it'll have to wait...
LiylaRae:SO and I are still dtd at least every other day. It's just alot more work now and have to take things slower. But last night he said he felt like he was hitting a wall and it actually hurt him in some positions. Has this happened to any of you ladies?
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The second President`s Cup event will be held at Dobroyd branch on Sunday December 7th. Notice of Race and entry forms are available from the NSW section of this website under `Forms` menu.Registration is from 08:30 including a provided Breakfast and racing begins at 10:30.Parking is available in the car park.If you have a disabled sticker, you may park inside the gate on the grass.Lunch will be available at the Dobroyd Aquatic Club.Come and enjoy a fun day!
The Sailability NSW President`s Cup for 2013 was held on 1st December 2013 at the Dobroyd Aquatic Club.Attached are the official results. Alan Bimson from Manly took home the President`s Cup this year.The unofficial result was that it was tremendous success with many smiling faces. The event was well organised and run by the members of the Dobroyd Aquatic Club and Sailability Dobroyd. Thanks goes to all concerned and the band of volunteers who helped on the day.Following is an article sent by one of the participants that says it all:Good Morning,I would just like to say a heart felt thank you!!!Yesterday was a first for all our sailors. None of us have ever raced before, and to come to Dobroyd and be in the company of such lovely people was an exceptional way of being introduced to racing.Callala has a club full of people with huge hearts and very little experience and having me as President who has had no prior experience in sailing doesn`t help them. But we are a determined and willing bunch and will aspire to do our best and continue to grow in our knowledge and experience of sailing.I am very proud to be part of such a wonderful group as Sailability, I have raved to my club about the wonderful people I have met through Sailability and yesterday they got to meet you. From the moment I started organising for us to come to Dobroyd the help that was offered from Sue, offering accommodation and help in storing our boats for the night, To when Wayne met us at the gate, they were welcomed with smiling faces and big hellos. To Jason helping us rig our boat, Sue giving our kids lollies and goodies, Jacks wonderful sense of humor and willingness to help us. To Russell`s sacrifices on the water, just to help me out and lastly Paul`s shit stirring that puts a smile on your face and makes you want to smack him at the same time. You are a wonderful bunch of people!!!If you could please pass on our thanks to the volunteers in the safety boats, their smiles and willingness to help was fantastic!!!! Especially with us novices who were going in circle half the time and finding ourselves getting very frustrated.As people you have set a wonderful example to all of us and have left a lasting impression on our families and sailors of their first racing experience. On behalf of Sailability Callala and all of us that attended yesterday, we would like to thank you all very much and ask that you pass on our thanks to all involved.We had a fantastic time!!!!CheersDonna
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Sailability NSW has won the `Volunteer of the Year - Northern Districts` Award.Malcolm from Pittwater, Mark from Middle Harbour, Jack from Penrith, Helen, Denis and Eli from Manly attended the Presentation at Dee Why RSL.A $200.00 donation is forthcoming.The State Presentation will be held at Kirribilli on Thursday 5 December at approx. 10.00amFurther details will be advised for those interested in attending closer to the date.
2014 Hansa Class NSW State Championships will be held at the Illawarra Yacht Club on February 8th-9th, 2014, in conjunction with Sailability Illawarra. Competing classes will be Hansa 2.3 (Singles and Doubles), and Hansa 303 (Singles and Doubles). Notice of Race will be available shortly. It is anticipated that there will be a Race Training Day on Friday 7th February, 2014 at Illawarra. Further information can be obtained from Michael Leydon (Mob 042 235 1975) Unfortunately, there is not sufficient water depth or boat crane available to facilitate Skuds and Liberties at this venue.This year, the Australian Hansa Class Association will be instituting two new initiatives for Australian Sailors – the Golden Egg and the President's Trophy.The Golden Egg prize will see a draw held for place getters across all combined classes at the State/Territory Hansa events prior to the Nationals. The winner of this draw will receive one FREE class entry to the 2014 Australian Hansa Class Nationals to be held at Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club PLUS $250 to help with costs.The President's Trophy is designed to reward consistency across State/Territory events and Nationals, while encouraging sailors to enter events in other States. Place getters in each class at each State/Territory Championships will be awarded points, with bonus points awarded if they are competing at an event outside their home State/Territory, and double points awarded at the Nationals. At the end of the Nationals, the sailor (or sailors) with the most points will be awarded the President's Trophy.
Notice of 2013 Access Class NSW Championship to be held February 9-10 at Gosford Sailing Club located at 24 Mason Pde Gosford - Phone 02 4325 7216
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the 2012 Sydney Inner West Volunteer of the year Award goes to Paul Tayler.Sailability is a not-for-profit, volunteer organisation which, through the activity of sailing, enriches the lives of people with a disability, the elderly and the financially and socially disadvantaged. In 1995 Paul Tayler joined Sailability NSW, at that time a fledgling branch offering sailing experiences at Dobroyd Aquatic Centre. Within a year there were 6 branches established around Sydney and in regional NSW. Due to this growth an umbrella body was established to oversee the various management responsibilities and in 1997 Paul became Treasurer. Not only was Paul responsible for the financial management of the group, he also needed to establish its role as a Charitable Organisation, as well as incorporate it, and create the safety and volunteer manuals.By 2000 the organisation had grown to 19 branches across NSW and the challenge was how to retain the charitable status of the organisation while maintaining the branches tax affairs. In addition, Paul was ensuring that the branches were following the rules of registration for sailing and insurance. One of Paul's key achievements is having all the branches collaborate on fundraising events and grant applications. This strategy, which may seem like such a small idea, has resulted in Sailability now owning around 300 boats across NSW worth in excess of $2.5 million dollars. By 2002-2003 Paul was spending a significant amount of time travelling to the 26 branches across NSW teaching the members about the rules and governance structures and the importance of adhering to them. Paul's patience and skill in explaining these dry and sometimes technically difficult rules has been integral to Sailability's ongoing success. Paul received a $300 donation to the not-for-profit of his choice. As the winner of the 2012 Sydney Inner West Volunteer of the year Award Paul is now in contention for the title of NSW Volunteer of the year Award which will be announced on 5th December. If you are interested in finding out more about Sailability please contact Paul on xtn 8282. http://www.sailabilitynsw.org/
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Volume 6, Number 14
Submitted: March 20, 2001
Resubmitted: August 15, 2001
Accepted: August 30, 2001
Publication date: September 7, 2001
Ramzi Nasser
Bishops University, Canada
Kamal Abouchedid
Notre Dame University, Lebanon
This investigation attempts to study Lebanese youth attributions of poverty along Feagins (1972) structuralist, individualist, and fatalistic dimensions. The explanations for poverty among Lebanese students were more structuralists than individualistic. The ANOVA results showed significant interactions between religious affiliation (Muslim and Christian) crossed with educational level (high, medium, and low) and occupation (high, middle, and low) on the structuralist attribution respectively. Higher educated Muslim students gave structuralist explanation of poverty with a significantly higher rating than their high -educated Christian counterparts and low class Muslims. The results of the study provided an insight to Lebanese students organization of beliefs on poverty, with recommendations for further sampling among a heterogeneous sample.
Research on the beliefs about the causes of poverty has been influenced by the causal attribution theory (Heider 1958), and by personality style paradigm. Both theories emphasize the internality/externality of outcomes. "Internals" are those who see outcomes as function of what they themselves do, whereas "externals" see outcomes a function of forces beyond their control (Hogg and Vaughan 1995; McCormick and Soleman 1992). Feagin (1972) mapped out internality and externality of the causes of poverty along three dimensions: fatalistic (poverty is blamed on such variables as bad luck and illness); structuralistic (poverty is attributed to situational factors such as lack of education and low wages); and individualistic dimension (lack of education, lack of motivation, lack of abilities, and loose morals among the poor). Kluegel and Smith (1981, 1986) analyzed the various psychological mechanisms of attribution biases of life experiences, i.e., beliefs about socioeconomic status (income, class, or social status), and demographic variables (age, gender, place of residence, and religion) as determinants for explaining the causes of poverty in psychosocial terms. While, class has been used as an important predictor for explaining causal attribution of poverty, other independent variables such as inter-group political behavior (Furnham 1982), financial status (Williamson 1974), and ethnicity (Hunt 1996) have also been used as predictors for explaining the causes of poverty.
Studies conducted in the United States have shown that causal attribution of poverty by Americans differs from societies in which political and social values permeate an egalitarian behavioral structure. Americans are more likely to attribute poverty to individualistic reasons, blaming the poor for their own plight, while privileging the rich (Feagin 1972, 1975). British, adolescents attitudes to poverty were more egalitarian than being individualistic, with more structural views to the causes of poverty (Furnham 1982). The findings of other studies conducted outside the United States have been mixed. The European (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland Italy, Luxemburg, Holland, Portugal, and United Kingdom) study, ranked the most common causes of poverty to bad luck (fatalistic-status quo), laziness (individualist), lack of will power (individualist), and injustice in society (societal) (Commission of the European Communities 1990). On the other hand, New Zealand adolescents attributed poverty to individual traits as being able to produce and maintain a standard of income (Stacy and Singer 1985). From another perspective, adopting the actor-observer model, Hine and Montiel (1999) showed that Filipinos were more structuralist and individualist than their Canadian university students counterparts. In a similar vein, recent data comparing the attitudes to poverty between Australian and Malawi university students (Carr and MacLachan 1998) they showed that Malawi students favored structuralist interpretations of poverty than their Australian counterparts.
Evidently, lay explanations of poverty in Third World countries were more structural than those of Western developed ones. This might be distorted given the sampling procedures and what patterns of attribution they reflect. Hence, the level of education of the sample plays a salient role in the way patterns of attributions are presented. In fact, causal attribution of poverty varies across cultures and nations due to different patterns of family socialization (Kluegel and Smith 1981;1986), type of education, and other social and political processes. While sustained research has been strongly aware of the role of social and political institutions in the formation of beliefs about the causes of poverty (Furnham 1982), very little is known about the influence of religious, tribal, and traditional institutional beliefs concerning poverty. In addition, there is a distinct paucity of evidence on the impact of family socialization practices, personality characteristics, cognitive styles, and education on the formation of poverty attitudes.
In the light of cross-cultural studies on poverty, Hunts (1996) control of the ethnic dimension as a predictor for explaining the causal attribution of poverty comes close to generalizing about how a cross-national confessional system as is the case of Lebanon can influence individuals attribution of the causes of poverty. Hunts study has showed a pattern among Afro-Americans of greater individualistic attribution of poverty than Whites did. Latinos ranked highest on the individualistic scale followed by Afro-Americans and Whites. As religious or ethnic affiliation cuts across subjective socioeconomic measures such as education, income, and occupation; these being low or high, combined with religious identifications provide two discernible perspectives of attribution of responsibility for poverty. The first is what is considered the culture of poverty hypothesis, which explains poverty as a characteristic of the poor, and a permanent case of cross-generational way of life (Bullock 1999). This hypothesis attributes the causes of poverty to the poor and hence considers attributions as individualistic irrespective of confessional or ethnic affiliation. The second perspective is known as system blame hypothesis which is a more compatible notion with societies of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural systems (Della Fave 1974). The system blame hypothesis suggests that individuals belonging to a certain group believe whether correctly or incorrectly they have been discriminated against, they will tend to deflect responsibility of a negative event on the system.
Social scientists have also looked at attributes to poverty separated along factors of socioeconomic status, and group consciousness (Huber and Form 1973; Vanneman 1980; Guest 1980). A number of studies drew the relation between class and attributions to poverty. These studies, (e.g., Furnham 1982, 1985) have showed principal individualistic attributions (i.e., blame the poor) of poverty among middle class individuals. Bullock (1999) found similar attributions in her American sample indicating a middle-class individualistic attribution. Kluegel and Smith (1986) showed rather a weak correlation between most standard socio-demographic variables and beliefs about poverty. On the other hand, Nilson (1981) in his use of education, income, and occupational status measures, found income to have a small effect on the individualistic dimension. As alluded to earlier, many of the inconsistent results regarding poverty may be due to sampling procedures and sample representation: particularly, in the selection of non-homogeneous samples being of high middle class and low middle class. This study first explores the patterns of attributions among class gradients in a Middle Eastern societal context. Specifically, it will look at the extent to which explanations of poverty can be classified into fatalistic, individualistic, societal, and structural attributions. Factor analytic studies (Feagin 1972; Feather 1974; Furnham 1982; Morcol 1997) have supported the latter three-factor structures. This study will also attempt to adapt the operational measures of poverty analysis in order to derive a pattern of attribution reflecting the three-factor structure.
In reviewing the extant literature of poverty, very little is known about how the university students in Middle Eastern societies (the case of Lebanon) attribute the causes of poverty. The culture of poverty hypothesis suggests that relatively disadvantaged individuals who have some interest and benefit in structural change could make more structuralist attributions of poverty. This relationship is not quite evident in societies characterized by a high level of alienation and wide gaps in socio-economic statuses. Khashan (1992) reports that Lebanese youth approach their institutions with ambiguity, manifesting low levels of trust in them. The separation between the individual and the state compounded by a prolonged social and economic crisis tends to lead to a structuralist explanation of poverty, a process of externalizing blame (Kluegel and Smith 1981). In our view, the explanation of poverty in Lebanon could reveal a different perspective than that supplied by the culture of poverty hypothesis.
Since racial or religious distinctiveness cut across social classes, interactions with socioeconomic factors offer two discernible hypotheses for this study. In the context of Lebanons multi-confessional society (Khashan 1992): The more affluent, high status, and powerful Christians would tend to endorse individualistic attributions of poverty, while the less to do Muslims will be more agile to endorse structuralist attributions. This is comparable to the analysis and patterns of poor ethnic minorities who would generally make structural attributions of poverty (Bullock 1999). In order to test for this hypothesis, the authors empirically examined the relation of socioeconomic factors of income, parental level of education and occupational status with religious identification on Lebanese students' attribution of poverty.
A sample of 232 students enrolled in two private universities in Lebanon was selected for the study. One hundred and thirty nine students were female (61.2%) and 88 were males (38.8%). In terms of their religious background, n=123 of the respondents came from Christian groups 107 from Muslim groups. Students self-reported their parents level of occupation on a three point scale ranging from high to low. This was transformed to a ratio by dividing each of the mothers and fathers occupational statuses by 3, and average taken between them. Based on the median of the distribution of the single occupational status variable, a three level occupational status was obtained (i.e., high, middle and low). The same algorithm was used to obtain the parents level of education. Based on the distribution of the variable with median as the datum indicator, a three level educational level was obtained. Similarly, self-reported average fathers and mothers income was recalculated into one family average income and re-coded into a three level variable (high, middle and low).
A questionnaire consisting of 29 variables was prepared and administered by the authors. The variables on the questionnaire were obtained and adapted from the pertinent literature (Feagin 1972; Hunt 1996; Morcol 1997; Griffin and Oheneba-Sakyi 1993; Williamson 1974). Several procedures were employed to ensure the reliability of the data and the validity of the instrument. Panel discussions and open ended-interviews involving students and faculty were organized to deal with the various aspects of the questionnaire. A pilot test was administered to 19 students outside the main sample frame to ensure the clarity of the variables, and required changes were added to the final format of the questionnaire. Factor analysis employing varimax rotation with an eigen cut-off value of 1.0 was used to obtain the construct validity of the instruments (Can you report the Cronbach Alpha).
The structure of the questionnaire was divided into two sections (see appendix I). Section one included the following background information: gender, sectarian identification, social class, employment, parents (father and mother) occupational status, educational background, and family annual income. Section two of the questionnaire requested students to respond to 15 statements on the causes of poverty (fatalistic, individualistic and structuralistic) using a five-point multiple-choice scale: (5) strongly agree, (4) agree, (3) do not know, (2) disagree, and (1) strongly disagree.
Factor Analysis Results
Data collected on the poverty scale were factor analyzed using principle component analysis with units in the diagonal, an eigen cut-off value of 1.0, and varimax rotation. Analysis of the 15 items was reduced to four factors: the first factor accounted for 17.6% of the variance, the second 13.8%, the third 6.2%, and the fourth 4.0%. These results were considered to provide an easily interpretable inference corresponding to the scales devised.
Table 1, presents the factor analysis results: the distributed loading on all rotated factors provides good evidence for the validity of items in a priori of the conceptualized scale. The first factor loading appeared for items 1 through 5, which is the structure scale. The second factor showed a high loading on items 11, 13, 14, and 15 conceptualized as individualistic. Two items from the second factor: "too many children per household and sickness" and "physical handicaps" were considered as conditions that cannot be drawn out easily as separate characteristic of the poor but as status quo conditions. Hence, this dimension was considered to be as individualistic attribution with a status quo explanation of poverty. The third factor showed high loading on items 8 and 9 which explained the fatalistic dimension. The fourth factor had high loading for items 6, 7, 10, and 12, items 6 and 7 considered lack of skilled workers in society and immigration from the country as societal explanations of poverty. This particular factor had a 4.0% of the variance explained and could not be said to have a priori classification. This factor produced a level of heterogeneity not evident in the other three factors (structuralistic, individualistic and fatalistic) and provided little significant change in the overall factor analysis results. However, we labeled it as individualistic because blame was directed at the individuals status quo. The overall composition of the scale in the test was psychometrically valid and showed that the general structure from an internal or external attribution perspective was interpretable from the factor analysis results.
Table 1. Factor Analysis of the 15-Item Poverty Scale
|Poverty Items
|h2 Comm
|1.The government's difficulty to provide jobs
|2.The government's difficulty to provide housing
|3.The government's difficulty to provide education
|4.The government's difficulty to provide health services
|5.The government's difficulty to support agriculture
(status quo)
|11.Too many children per household
|13. Sickness and physical handicapped
|14. Lack of proper money management amongst the poor
|15. Lack of education among the poor
|8. Just bad luck
|9. Fate
(blaming the poor) (societal)
|6. Lack of skilled people in society
|7. Immigration from the country
|10. Lack of effort by the poor
|12. Loose morals among the poor
Rating the Poverty Scales
Three empirically validated scales, which explained poverty, were adapted in the study (fatalistic: items 8 and 9; individualistic (status quo): 11,13,14, and 15; individualistic (societal): 6,7,10, and 12; and structuralistic: items 1-5). In each of these scales a mean score was obtained by adding the rating on each item for the scale, then dividing by the number of items for that particular scale. Table 2, presents a paired-t scores for the analysis. Consistently, individuals rated the structuralistic scale higher than all other scales (the higher the ratings the higher the agreement on the aggregate scores).
Subjects consistently rated the causes of poverty being less fatalistic than being individualistic or structuralistic. Past research (e.g., Hunt 1996) viewed the individualist versus the structuralist dimension at two extreme bipolar ends in which two beliefs either structural or individualistic were inconsistently held together. The individualistic (societal) may underpin two external attributions: fatalism and structuralism as it presented a rather weak and non-homogeneous factor explaining little variance in the overall factor structure.
The mean difference between all four combinations of poverty ratings (fatalist, individualist (status quo), individualist (societal), and structuralist) is highly significant. These findings indicate that during times of social change or turmoil, as is the case of Lebanon, structural beliefs may actually dominate the ideological beliefs of society (Kluegel and Smith 1986). Significant difference was found by all combinatorial differences on the attributions of poverty. The lowest rating was obtained on the fatalistic dimension; subsequent analysis would have to question the differences between socio-demographic and socioeconomic variables.
Table 2. t-test scores difference between all four explanations of poverty dimensions
|Individualist (societal)
|Individualist (status quo)
|Individualist (societal)
|Individualist (societal)
|Individualist (status quo)
|Individualist (status quo)
* p<05; ** p<.01; *** p<.001
Effects of Socioeconomic Subjective Estimates and
Socio-demographic Variables
The ANOVA analysis of two independent variables of socioeconomic status crossed by the religious identification on the dependent variable of causal attribution yielded several important results. The first analysis was 3x2 ANOVA which included factors of educational level of high, middle, and low crossed by religious identification (Christian and Muslim) on the four mean ratings on the dimensions of fatalism, status quo and societal individualism, and structuralism. No significant differences were found between and within the three dimensions for educational level, with exception to main significant effects of religion on the fatalistic dimension. Muslim students gave more fatalistic attributions than there Christian counterparts (F(1,190)=4.61, p=.033). Interaction effects were found between religious identification and educational status. Highly educated Muslims were more structuralist in their rating of the poverty scale than their Christian counterparts (Bonferroni post hoc test: t=2.29, p=0.02). Highly educated Muslims were also more structuralist than middle class Muslims (t=2.43, df=43, p=0.02).
We further investigated two other designs involving socioeconomic variables: parents occupational status crossed by religious identification and family financial income crossed by religious affiliation on the four attributions of the poverty scale. No main socio-economic effects of religious identification and socio-economic levels of income and occupational status were found in the analysis. However, significant interaction between religious identification and occupational status were reported on the strucutralist dimension (F(2,176)=5.46, p=0.05). A post-hoc Bonferroni test showed that Muslim students from middle occupational status were more structuralists in their attributions of poverty than their Christian counterparts (t=3.26, p=0.003). Also Muslim students from high occupational status parents were more structuralist than low class Muslims(t=-2.35, df=48, p=0.02). No significant main effects were found for the third design of occupational status and religious identification on the three other dimensions of poverty. Given the distribution of occupational status, and income, the present results indicated little or no support to any main effects. However, the effects of interaction lead us to believe that parental educational level and occupational status crossed with religious identification on the rating of the structuralist dimensions provide significant interaction on the groups position towards structuralism. While main effects were minimal with exception to religion on fate (F(1,195)=4.61, p=0.03), Muslims like Christians disagreed on the fatalistic dimension, but the difference between them was significant with higher disagreement rating among the Christians. No significant differences on all other dimensions were found between Christians and Muslims. The socio-economic status of education and occupational status discriminated between Muslims and Christians on the structuralist dimension. Differences were apparently in the direction were Muslims were more structuralist and fatalist than Christians. Significantly, Muslims of high socio-economic status were more structuralist than lower middle class Muslims.
The dimensions derived from the factor analysis provide a consistent construct validity of the poverty scale as originally conceptualized by Feagin (1972, 1975). The embodiment of these factors among Lebanese students provides evidence for the construct validity of the poverty items and the universality of the psychometric properties. However, there is evidence that the three-factor structure originally conceived by Feagin (1972) has in fact a sub-dimension. For instance, the individualistic dimension appeared to be divided and meshed with societal and status quo factors not accounted for in Feagins (1972) study. Furthermore, our results may complement those of Morcols (1997) five factor analysis results which showed similar structural properties of the poverty scale with the highest account for the variance for the structuralist dimension, followed by the individualistic and the fatalististic one. The study also indicates that occupational status which is traditionally regarded important to assessing ones social class (Jackman and Jackman 1979) is related to structural attributions.
Previous research (Bullock 1999) reported that poor participants endorsed structural attributions more strongly than affluent groups. The patterns of attributions of poverty among Lebanese university students differed from those progressed in Western countries such as the US. High educated and middle occupational status participants explanations of poverty were not free of interaction effects of confessional or religious affiliation. Although structuralist attributions were the highest across the board, surprisingly, low class Muslims did not give a higher structuralist attribution than did the high-class participants, negating the system blame hypothesis. However, examination of within group differences on the individualistic (societal) and individualistic (status quo) factors revealed that middle occupational and middle income groups had a higher rating of poverty than low or high occupational income groups respectively, but not at a significant level. The middle class students' individualistic attribution of poverty is perceived to benefit the persons own achievement and motivation. In cases where individuals are actors and see themselves as operative, with a foreseen gain from their actions they may actively perceive a negative outcome like poverty by externalizing blame on the object of effect (Jones 1976; Locke and Pennigton 1982; Schoeneman and Rubanowitz 1985). Keeping in mind that Lebanese youth live in a collectivist society with an in-group thinking about outcomes, they reflect a kind of thinking of "them" against "us". Hence, attributions of domestic poverty are infrequently attributed to the individual because the individual is part of a group, and stereotyped by some features of it.
Our results departed from the system blame hypothesis as well as the cultural of poverty hypothesis since high-income groups were more individualistic in their attributions of poverty than low-income groups. Neither of these hypotheses is appropriate to be generalized to Middle Eastern society, such as Lebanon. However, there is certain level of externality of attributions among Muslims not evident among Christians. For instance, the significant and high level of structuralism was not evident among Christians perhaps because the Muslim community of Lebanon has been marginalized from the process of institutional building, in particular in governmental ministries. Specifically the high structuralist attitudes among the high-class Muslims, provided a reverse perspective of the system blame hypothesis. Perhaps the dynamics of neopatriarchal society (Sharabi 1987) has some role in the way individuals perceive themselves as actors and pursuits of change in a collectivist society. Hence, Lebanese youth resolve psychological discomfort of negative events by deflecting responsibility as a defense mechanism for protecting the internal core of patriarchal society extended family, tribe, or community.
A fresher note about poverty in Middle Eastern society suggests there is wide skepticism about religious fatalism. Youth in Lebanon have in turn become more realistic and cautious about hegemony and institutional failure to eradicate poverty. The general case of dissatisfaction with the current government role in alleviating suffering from individuals has reached disparaging stages, as economic dismay has affected and expanded to encompass the middle class. Perhaps, there is a kind of social awareness with a strong feeling of social justice (social justice hypothesis) overriding the religious demagogy of subservience and fatality.
This study opens a number of opportunities for researchers in the field. Given the multiplicity of confessional communities in Lebanon, our results could be generalizable to other multi-ethnic or multi-confessional countries with historical parity as of Lebanon. Furthermore, we view that self-perception measures as correlates with attitudes towards poverty, would give a better direction in our research with predictive validity for the poverty scale, as well as, validity of the structuralist view of the causal attribution of poverty. Those individuals who may have a self-concept that is global may be more structuralists than individualistic. Conversely, those that have a self-concept that is self-referential may be more individualist than structuralist.
Several limitations in this study should be reported. First, the socioeconomic statuses of respondents was not an objective measure but a subjective one since students rated their parents occupational statuses and income levels not their own. Second, while the sample studied was representative of universities in Lebanon, it was not representative of the sectarian distribution of the nation or of the geographic characteristic features in which the two universities were situated. Third, the fact that the mean age of the sample was 19, the sample may have limited experience in understanding the phenomena of poverty in society. Future studies in the field should account for a more heterogeneous sample from labor unions, political parties, and other social groups. Such a heterogeneous sample might generate previously unexplored findings related to the causes of poverty.
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Kamal Abouchedid has a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies and Education from the University of Manchester, UK. Currently, he is the Director of the Office of Testing and Measurement at Notre Dame University, Lebanon. His research interests fall in the scope of multicultural education, gender, ethnicity issues, and peace education.
Ramzi Nasser is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Bishops University in Quebec, Canada. He has a Doctorate in Education from the University of Massachusetts (Lowell) in the United States. His current research interests are in alternative concepts in mathematics, cross-cultural issues in psychometric tests, gender stereotyping, and causal attribution of outcomes.
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Compaq Presario CQ5810 Desktop PC support
Copying Photos from a Camera to Your Computer (Windows 7)
This document pertains to HP and Compaq computers with a memory card reader, and a digital camera.
Camera memory cards have a limited amount of space, and can sometimes fill up quickly. In addition, photos cannot be viewed or shared as easily while they are still on the camera. Import your photos into Windows Photo Viewer from your camera to make more room on your camera memory card, and so you can view, organize and share them.
Step 1: Connecting the camera or the memory card to your computer
Before you can transfer photos from your camera to your computer, you must first connect the hardware containing the digital photographs to your computer using one of the following methods:
- Make sure the computer is turned on and Windows is open. For best results, save any work currently in progress and close any software programs that are open.
- Connect the camera and computer using the USB cable that came with your camera, and then turn on the camera.NOTE:If your camera came with an IEEE 1394 (FireWire) cable and your computer has an available 1394 port, you can use 1394 instead of USB.
- Wait while Windows recognizes the camera and configures it for use in Windows. If an AutoPlay Window opens, click Import photos.
Most cameras use a removable memory card to store digital photographs. If you have a memory card reader for your computer and it supports the same type of card used by your camera, then you can use a memory card reader to access your photographs on the computer.
- Remove the memory card from your camera. The memory card is often concealed by a slide-out panel on the camera.
- Insert the memory card into the appropriate memory card slot in the card reader.NOTE: If your computer does not have a built-in card reader, you can use an external USB card reader that is compatible with the memory card from your camera.
- Wait while Windows recognizes the camera and configures it for use in Windows. If an AutoPlay Window opens, click Import photos.
Step 2: Transferring photos using the Import Pictures and Videos feature
- After your hardware has been connected, the Import Pictures and Videos screen opens.
- If you would like the filenames on each file to start with a name, other than simply a number, then type a name in the field provided. Otherwise, leave the field blank.
- Click Import.Your photos are copied into the Pictures library.
Step 3: Viewing your photos with Windows Photo Viewer
Windows Photo Viewer is the default photo viewer on Windows 7. You can use Windows Photo Viewer to view your digital photos in a variety of ways.
NOTE:In addition to viewing files you can explore the tabs in Windows Photo Viewer to print your photos, order prints, attach pictures to an email message, write the files on a disc, or open photos in another program on your computer.
- Click Start , click Pictures, click Libraries, and then click Pictures.
- Open the folder containing the picture you want to view.
- Use one of the following options to open the Windows Photo Viewer:
- Double click on a picture.
- On the toolbar, click the Preview button.
- Use the buttons at the bottom of the screen to change the size of the picture, rotate the picture, or start a slideshow.NOTE:Many more editing, storing, and sharing options are available from Windows Live Photo Gallery. To learn more about additional features, see Windows Live Photo Gallery .
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GO Automotive Group of Clinton is currently seeking 5 professional people to help grow our Internet and retail sales teams. Experience preferred, so those with automotive sales experience, the opportunity to advance into management is outstanding. No Sales experience necessary to apply, so those with all types of backgrounds in any industry are welcome, we will train the right candidates on our sales processes and procedures.
Qualified candidates will be responsible for Direct Customer Service, Product Knowledge and Sales of products. Must be able to deal with a variety of people & situations, have the ability to work well with others and have some previous or current knowledge of Customer Service and/or Management. Must be able to work weekends and Flexible hours, have some knowledge of computer programs, email and phone system operations
We represent Chevrolet-Buick-Toyota-GMC and with the recent increase in internet and social media business, We Need HELP. Chosen candidates will help with the day to day to operations of greeting customers, overview and demonstration of product line Toyota - Chevrolet - Buick - GMC
Some of our top professionals earn compensation equal to the TOP 5% in our industry. Benefits include Health, Life and dental available after your first 90 days. Paid vacations, 401k plan with dealer contribution along with bonuses.
Desired Skills & Experience
Must have the ability to soft sell by discussing our products offerings with potential customers, following our proven sales and internet process to obtain necessary information from our customer and their automotive needs in order to meet the expectations the brands we represent.
Must have the ability to accurately perform data entry and handle outbound calls effectively and efficiently. Must meet established performance metrics.
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Welcome to GO Automotive Group, your neighborhood Toyota, Buick, Chevrolet and GMC dealer in Clinton, North Carolina. All of us here, including our president,, Steve Stefanovich...managers and staff work toward one expressed purpose "To Take Care Of The Customer". Our location here at 1615 Sunset Avenue has served this community for over 30 years, we are conveniently located near the Sampson County Airport which allows us to serve our customers coming from Fayetteville, Goldsboro, Warsaw, Roseboro, Dunn, Hope Mills and the nearby cities. As the Premiere Automotive Group in the area, we provide a wide selection of new Toyotas, Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and quality used cars and a range of services. Take a look at our hours and map to see how accessible we are. We know "You'll Go For It!"
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Prostate Cancer Screening
Who should be screened for prostate cancer, and how often?
The American Cancer Society and the American Urological Association recommend that a yearly screening should be offered to all men over 50 who have a life expectancy of at least 10 years. For African American men, or men with an affected first-degree family member, yearly screening is recommended beginning at age 45. For men who have multiple first-degree relatives affected with prostate cancer at an early age, a baseline screen is advocated at age 40. There are many experts who believe all men should initiate screening at age 40.
Prostate cancer screening methods
Two procedures are commonly used to screen for prostate cancer:
- Digital rectal exam
- Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test
In the digital rectal exam (DRE), a gloved finger is placed into the rectum to detect bumps or abnormalities on the prostate. About 10–15% of prostate cancers are detected in this manner in men with a normal PSA. It is not as sensitive as the PSA measurement, and depends to some extent on the examiner.
In the PSA test, the amount of PSA in the blood is analyzed. PSA is a substance made only in the prostate. Because it is made by both normal and cancerous cells, an elevated PSA does not necessarily indicate prostate cancer, since it may result from benign enlargement of the prostate (BPH).
Interpreting PSA results
An elevated PSA may result from either benign enlargement of the prostate (BPH) or prostate cancer.
Some general guidelines follow:
There is not a "normal" PSA that excludes prostate cancer or an "abnormal" PSA that is diagnostic of prostate cancer.
- 15% of men with a PSA <4.0 will have prostate cancer.
- 25% of men with a PSA between 2.5 and 4.0 will have prostate cancer.
- 10% of men over 50 will have a reading above 4.0. Roughly 30–40% of these men will have prostate cancer.
- 25% of men of all ages who have a PSA between 4.0 and 10 will have prostate cancer. Cancers in this range have been shown to be clinically important and potentially curable.
- 50% of men with a PSA over 10 will have prostate cancer.
In addition to assessing the PSA value at a given time, your doctor will also take into consideration the rate at which your PSA is increasing each year, if you have had annual PSA tests.
When is further evaluation needed?
Further evaluation, in the form of a biopsy, is recommended for:
- Men under age 60 with a PSA greater than 2.5
- Men over age 60 with a PSA greater than 4.0
- Any man with PSA rising more than 25% per year or 0.75 ng/ml per year


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The Pittsburgh Corning 8 in. x 8 in. x 3 in. DecoBloc Wave (4-Pack) will inspire artistic people to create imaginative household decorations and gifts. Your ideas for these glass blocks will flow. Pittsburgh Corning DecoBloc are authentic glass blocks, designed for artists and crafters to showcase their creative expression. Make someone a unique gift.
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Aehr Test Systems Announces Follow-On WaferPak(TM) Contactor Orders
FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 5, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aehr Test Systems (Nasdaq:AEHR), a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment, announced today that it has received approximately $2 million in follow-on orders for multiple FOX™-1 WaferPak contactors from a leading manufacturer of semiconductor memory devices. The WaferPak contactors are scheduled to ship during the next four months.
"We are very pleased to have received these follow-on orders," said Greg Perkins, vice president of worldwide sales and service at Aehr Test Systems. "These orders demonstrate the ongoing benefits that our customer achieves with our full wafer contact solution. The FOX-1 system, using a WaferPak contactor, allows parallel testing of thousands of die on a 300mm wafer with only a single touchdown. This capability has proven to be extremely cost-effective for our customer."
The FOX-1 full wafer parallel test system, a member of the FOX family of full wafer contact systems, is most effective for test and short burn-in applications. Other members of Aehr Test's FOX family of products are focused on long-duration full wafer burn-in and test of products such as automotive ICs, DRAMs and VCSELs (laser diodes).About Aehr Test Systems Headquartered in Fremont, California, Aehr Test Systems is a worldwide supplier of systems for burning-in and testing memory and logic integrated circuits and has an installed base of more than 2,500 systems worldwide. Aehr Test has developed and introduced several innovative products, including the ABTS™, FOX, MTX and MAX systems and the DiePak ® carrier. The FOX system is a full wafer contact test and burn-in system. The MTX system is a massively parallel test system designed to reduce the cost of memory testing by performing both test and burn-in on thousands of devices simultaneously. The MAX system can effectively burn-in and functionally test complex devices, such as digital signal processors, microprocessors, microcontrollers and systems-on-a-chip. The DiePak carrier is a reusable, temporary package that enables IC manufacturers to perform cost-effective final test and burn-in of bare die. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.aehr.com . Safe Harbor Statement This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties relating to projections regarding customer demand and acceptance of Aehr Test's products. Actual results may vary from projected results. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, acceptance by customers of the FOX and WaferPak contactor technologies, acceptance by customers of the WaferPak contactors shipped upon receipt of a purchase order and the ability of new products to meet customer needs or perform as described. See Aehr Test's recent 10-K, 10-Q and other reports from time to time filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for a more detailed description of the risks facing our business. The Company disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
CONTACT: Aehr Test Systems Greg Perkins, V.P. Worldwide Sales & Service (510) 623-9400 x241 Financial Relations Board Analyst/Investor Contact Lasse Glassen (213) 486-6546
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