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George Pullman: Social Reformer
Like many other industrialists during the late-nineteenth century, Pullman developed a strong interest in social reform. Cities like Chicago were growing rapidly, attracting foreign immigrants and native migrants with their promise of abundant work and good wages. The enormous population boom meant opportunity for some and squalor for others. The city's working class typically lived in overcrowded, unsanitary, unappealing parts of town. Some middle- and upper-class men and women attempted to improve the lives of the working and poor classes, but often did so with an air of condescension.
Chicago's working class neighborhoods differed dramatically from the clean, landscaped town of Pullman. Pictured above is an aerial view of 112th Street in Pullman. (CHS G1982.157 #P63316)
Pullman, like his upper-class colleagues, distrusted labor unions, so when the Chicago rail worker strike of 1877 ended violently with 12 deaths, he sought a solution to the "labor problem." Pullman hoped to improve the relationship between capital and labor by creating a safe, clean, culturally enriching environment for his workers, who would pay him back with loyalty, honesty, and commitment to hard work. He believed a company town would discourage strikes as it increased workers' efficiency and improved residents' moral character.
Pullman built houses like the one shown above (c. 1906) to attract and retain loyal workers. The Pullman company designed and maintained each home. (CHS ICHi-21906)
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Harvest | Asian Greens
By MANDY SINCLAIR
The most common varieties under the umbrella of Asian Greens are pak choy, choy sum, gai larn and baby bok choy. Due to the naturally high water content of Asian greens they generally don't store well, and are best picked at the time of using. If storing is absolutely necessary, pack in a perforated plastic bag and refrigerate for 1-2 days.
What to do with glut
- Wilt, chop, freeze
Place greens in a large strainer and pour over a kettle over boiling water. Refresh under cold water and drain well. Transfer to a clean tea towel and pat dry. Pack into airtight containers or clip lock bags and freeze for up to 2 months.
- To Preserve
Pickled greens
Using your choice of greens, separate any leaves and cut leaves and stems into 4cm lengths. Place into an airtight container. Heat 1 cup rice wine vinegar, ½ cup white sugar and 1 tbsp shredded ginger in a pan on low, stirring, until sugar has dissolved. Bring to boil. Remove from heat and immediately pour over vegetables. Toss to combine. Seal and refrigerate overnight before using. Refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.
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Cook | Asian Greens
By MANDY SINCLAIR
Sticky ginger greens
1/3 cup honey
¼ cup water
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp grated ginger
½ tsp sesame oil
1 bunch gai lan, trimmed
1 bunch baby bok choy, quartered >? halved lengthways
4 green onions (shallots), sliced diagonally
¼ cup coriander leaves
Steamed rice, to serve
1. Heat honey, water, oyster sauce and ginger in a wok or large frying pan on high. Add greens and cook for 1 min, until wilted and well coated. Remove from heat.
2. Top with onion and coriander. Serve sticky greens with steamed rice.
Serves 6
Add 200g cubed firm tofu with greens.
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Poached chicken & pak choy broth
Heat 4 cups chicken stock in a large pan on high until boiling. Reduce heat to low. Add 2 chicken breast fillets and simmer, covered, for 12 mins. Using a slotted spoon, remove from stock. Set aside. Add ¼ cup soy sauce, 1 tbsp fish sauce and 1 tbsp shredded ginger to stock and 1 chopped long red chilli to stock and simmer for 5 mins. Remove from heat. Add 1 bunch chopped pak choy and 4 chopped green onions. Thinly slice chicken and return to stock. Ladle into bowls and top with coriander sprigs.
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Harvest | Kiwi Fruit
By MANDY SINCLAIR
Pick kiwi fruit whilst still firm and under ripe. Store in the refrigerator for up to 5 weeks. To ripen, store at room temperature for 1-2 days until the fruit gives slightly, when touched.
What to do with glut
- Freeze
Kiwi choc pops
Peel kiwi fruit and cut into 2cm thick slices. Push a paddle pop stick into the sides of each slice. Place on a tray and freeze until firm. Melt 1 cup dark chocolate. Set aside to cool. Dip each frozen kiwi piece into chocolate, allowing excess to drip off. Freeze until ready to serve.
- Preserve
Kiwi fruit jam
1 kg kiwi fruit, peeled, chopped
½ cup orange juice
3 cups caster sugar
1. Place a small saucer in the freezer.
2. Place kiwi fruit, water and orange juice in a large saucepan. Boil for 5 mins, until fruit has softened. Remove from heat. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Boil for 40 mins.
3. To test for setting. Remove jam from heat. Drop 1 tsp of jam onto cold saucer. Leave for 30 secs to cool. Setting point is reached if the surface wrinkles when touched and a channel is formed by a finger, remains open. If not, boil for another 10 mins, before testing again.
4. Transfer to sterilized jars and seal immediately. Store in a cool dark place until opening, then refrigerate.
Makes about 4 cups
- Dry
Preheat oven to 140C or 120C fan. Line baking trays with baking paper.
Fill a bowl with water and add the juice of 2 lemons. Peel kiwi fruit and cut into 1cm thick slices. Dip into acidulated water to prevent discolouration. Lay kiwi fruit in a single layer, on prepared trays. Bake for 4 hrs, turning after 2 hrs, until dry. The fruit should not be crisp dry but soft and pliable. Cool completely before storing in an airtight container.
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Cook | Kiwi Fruit
By MANDY SINCLAIR
Kiwi fruit & mascarpone mille feulle
1 cup milk
2 egg yolks
1/3 cup caster sugar
25g plain flour
250g mascarpone
300ml thickened cream, lightly whipped
1½ sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed
6 kiwi fruit, peeled, sliced
1. Heat milk on low, until just simmering. Using an electric mixer, beat yolks and sugar until pale and thick. Add flour and mix to combine. Pour over hot milk and mix well. Transfer to a clean saucepan and cook on medium heat, stirring constantly, until thick. Transfer to a bowl, cover surface with plastic wrap and refrigerate until cold. Fold through mascarpone and ½ cup whipped cream.
2. Preheat oven to 210 or 190C fan. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
3. Cut the whole sheet of pastry in half to form 2 rectangles. Place all 3 pieces on prepared tray. Bake for 15-20 mins, until puffed and golden. Set aside to cool completely.
4. Lightly press two rectangles to flatten slightly. Spread half of custard mixture along one piece of pastry. Top with sliced kiwi fruit and another piece of pastry. Spread over remaining custard mixture and kiwi fruit. Top with remaining pastry. Spread over remaining whipped cream and top with remaining kiwi fruit. Cut into slices to serve.
Serves 10
To save wastage of pastry sheets, cut the half needed whilst pastry is still frozen. Return unwanted half to the package and return to freezer.
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Kiwi fruit & custard tarts
Mix together ½ cup store bought premium vanilla custard and ¼ cup whipped cream until smooth. Fill 180g packet store bought pre-baked pastry shells with custard mixture. Top with sliced kiwi fruit and refrigerate for 30 mins.
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Harvest | Turnip & Kohlrabi
By MANDY SINCLAIR
The longer turnips and kohlrabi are stored the more woody they become, therefore harvest as needed if possible. If this isn't an option, rinse under cold water, wrap in damp paper towel and place in a plastic bag. Refrigerate for up to 10 days.
What to do with glut
Turnip and apple slaw
Place 1 medium turnip, peeled, cut into thin batons,1 granny smith apple, cored, julienned, 2 celery stalks, trimmed, washed, diced and 1 cup parsely leaves in a large bowl. Mix together 1/4 cup whole egg mayonnaise and 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard. Season. Add to turnip mixture and toss to combine.
Serves 6
- Freeze
Peel and halve kohlrabi or turnip. Blanch in a pan of boiling water for 5 mins. Drain and refresh under cold water. Transfer to clip lock bags and freeze for up to 6 months.
- Preserve
Pickled kohlrabi & turnips
Peel 2 kohlrabi and 1 turnip and cut into 5mm slices. Cut slices into 1cm wide strips. Pack into a sterilized jar. Heat 1 cup white vinegar, 1 cup water, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon mustard seeds, 1/2 tsp whole peppercorns and 1/4 tsp of dried chilli flakes in a saucepan on medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and boil for 3 mins. Pour boiling liquid over vegetables to cover. Seal. Store in a cool dark place for 5 days before using. Once opened, refrigerate for up to 2 weeks. Makes about 1 litre.
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Cook | Turnip & Kohlrabi
By MANDY SINCLAIR
Lamb stuffed kohlrabi
4 medium kohlrabi
2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp ground cumin
200g lamb mince
180g haloumi, grated
2 tomatoes, chopped
1/4 cup chopped parley
1/4 cup slivered almonds
1 tbsp Panko breadcrumbs
1. Trim leaves and excess stalks from kohlrabi. Cook in a large pan of boiling salted water for 10 minutes, until par-cooked. Drain and refresh under cold water. Cut the top off each kohlrabi. Using a small sharp knife, hollow out kohlrabi, leaving a 1 cm shell around outside edge. Chop the removed kohlrabi and set aside.
2. Preheat oven to 200°C or 180°C for a fan-forced oven. Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a frying pan on medium. Cook onion and chopped kohlrabi for 5 minutes, until softened. Add garlic and cumin and cook for 30 seconds, until fragrant. Add mince and cook stirring, for 5 minutes, until brown. Remove from heat and season well.
3. Add haloumi, tomatoes, parsley and almonds. Spoon into kohlrabi shells. Scatter over breadcrumbs and drizzle with remaining oil. Place in a baking dish and pour around 1/2 cup of water. Bake for 45 minutes, until kohlrabi is tender.
Serves 4
cooks note…
Cooking time may vary depending upon the size of the kohlrabi and the thickness of the shell. Cover with foil, if browning too much and cook until kohlrabi can be pierced easily with a skewer.
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Turnip & kumera bake
Preheat oven to 180°C or 160°C for a fan-forced oven. Grease a 20cm springform pan. Peel and thinly slice 500g turnips and 500g kumera. Arrange a layer of turnip over the base of pan and dot with 20g butter. Sprinkle over 1 tsp chopped sage and season well. Repeat layers until turnip and kumera is used. Cover with foil and bake for 40 mins. Remove foil scatter over 1 tbsp sage leaves and drizzle with 1 tbsp of olive oil and bake for another 15 mins, until golden and cooked through. Cut into wedges to serve. Serves 6.
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Harvest | Macadamias
By MANDY SINCLAIR
Store macadamias in the shell in an airtight container, in a dark place, for up to 3 months. Once shelled, store in an airtight container in the refrigerator or freezer for up to 1 month..
What to do with glut
- Toast
Cook macadamias in a dry frying pan on medium heat, swirling occasionally, for 2-3 mins, until golden. Remove from pan and set aside to cool.
- Roast
Preheat oven to 180C or 160C fan. Place macadamias on a baking tray and bake for 5-7 mins, until golden. Cool.
Toasted/ Roasted macadamias can be store in an airtight container in the pantry for up to 1 week, or refrigerated for up to 1 month.
- Grind
Place toasted nuts in a small food processor and pulse until ground.
- Freeze
Macadamias can be frozen roasted or un-roasted, however the richness of flavour is compromised slightly when stored this way. Pack in an airtight container or clip lock bag and freeze for up to 1 month.
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Montpelier Announces Retirement Of Tom Busher
Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: MRH) ("Montpelier" or the "Company"), today announced that Deputy Chairman, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Tom Busher, will retire from the Company on December 31, 2013, after twelve years' service.
Tom was a member of the original management team which founded Montpelier in late 2001, and has been COO since its inception. He was elected to the Montpelier Board of Directors in May 2007 and appointed Deputy Chairman in May 2008. During his time with the Company he has been closely associated with many key initiatives, including Montpelier's IPO on the NYSE in October 2002, the founding of Syndicate 5151 at Lloyd's in 2007, and the recent IPO of Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund Limited on the London and Bermuda Stock Exchanges in December 2012.
In anticipation of stepping down, Tom will retire by rotation from the Company's Board of Directors at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting to be held on May 17 th, but he will continue to serve as COO until the end of the year. Thereafter, he will continue to serve as Chairman of Montpelier Underwriting Agencies Limited ("MUAL"), a role he has held since MUAL was first authorized to act as Lloyd's Managing Agent of Syndicate 5151 in January 2009.
Anthony Taylor, Chairman of Montpelier, said, "Tom was Employee #1 when Montpelier was established and has worn many hats during his tenure with the Company. He has been instrumental in all of the major initiatives which the Montpelier Group has undertaken over the last twelve years. I have valued both his management skills and his wise counsel. While the Company will miss his day to day involvement with the Group we very much welcome his continuation of service as Non-Executive Chairman of MUAL."Montpelier, through its operating subsidiaries, is a leading provider of global property and casualty reinsurance and insurance products. Additional information can be found on our website located at www.montpelierre.bm, or in Montpelier's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Cy Twombly, who created mythically inspired canvasses and drawings that were compared by some to doodles or graffiti, secured a prominent place in the pantheon of modern artists.
Mr. Twombly died at age 83 on Tuesday in Rome, where he lived for much of his career.
Cy Twombly in 2010, beneath a ceiling he painted in an abstract style for the Louvre museum in Paris. AFP/Getty Images
Although his art was long associated with and grew out of abstract expressionism, Mr. Twombly was an original. His works were immediately identifiable by distinctive lines scrawled into wet paint, as well as titles such as "Fifty Days at Iliam," an 85-foot-wide piece inspired by The Iliad.
When the Museum of Modern Art in New York staged a retrospective of his work in 1994, The Wall Street Journal's critic called his work "too rarefied and exotic" to love, yet claimed that the art world was "being swept by Twomblymania."
Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr. grew up in Lexington, Va., and attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and the Art Student's League in New York City. He was called "Cy" after his father, a college athletic coach who was compared to Cy Young during a brief career as a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox.
Mr. Twombly early made friends with Robert Rauschenberg, another artist associated with abstract expressionism in New York. The two artists traveled to Europe and Africa together, and exhibited together in the early 1950s. Mr. Twombly also attended sessions at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he got to know artists Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and John Cage.
Later in the 1950s, Mr. Twombly relocated to Italy, where he was married and acquired a 17th-century villa. There he continued to follow his own muse, for the most part unaffected by fads like pop art.
Mr. Twombly attracted both raves and brickbats. If his blotchy lines were compared by many to scribbles, they suggested to one critic "the work of a very witty child." His work was well represented in modern art collections, particularly in Europe.
In 1994, the Menil Collection in Houston unveiled the Cy Twombly Gallery, designed by Renzo Piano, to house its permanent collection of his work.
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Machiavellianism is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct", deriving from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, who wrote Il Principe (The Prince), among other works. The word has a similar use in modern psychology where it describes one of the dark triad personalities, characterized by a duplicitous interpersonal style associated with cynical beliefs and pragmatic morality.[1] "Machiavellian" as a word became very popular in the late 16th century in English, though "Machiavellianism" itself is first cited by the Oxford English Dictionary from 1626.
Political thought[edit]
In the 16th century, immediately following the publication of The Prince, Machiavellianism was seen as a foreign plague infecting northern European politics, originating in Italy, and having first infected France. It was in this context that the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572 in Paris came to be seen as a product of Machiavellianism, a view greatly influenced by the Huguenot Innocent Gentillet, who published his Discours contre Machievel in 1576, which was printed in ten editions in three languages over the next four years.[2] Gentillet held, quite wrongly according to Sydney Anglo, that Machiavelli's "books [were] held most dear and precious by our Italian and Italionized [sic] courtiers" in France (in the words of his first English translation), and so (in Anglo's paraphrase) "at the root of France's present degradation, which has culminated not only in the St Bartholemew massacre but the glee of its perverted admirers".[3] In fact there is little trace of Machiavelli in French writings before the massacre, not that politicians telegraph their intentions in writing, until Gentillet's own book, but this concept was seized upon by many contemporaries, and played a crucial part in setting the long-lasting popular concept of Machiavellianism.[4]
The English playwrights William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe were enthusiastic proponents of this view. Shakespeare's Gloucester, later Richard III, refers to Machiavelli in Henry VI, Part III, for instance:
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
In The Jew of Malta (1589–90) "Machievel" in person speaks the Prologue, claiming not to be dead, but to have possessed the soul of (the Duke of) Guise, "And, now the Guise is dead, is come from France/ To view this land, and frolic with his friends" (Prologue, lines 3–4)[5] His last play, The Massacre at Paris (1593) takes the massacre, and the following years, as its subject, with the Duke of Guise and Catherine de' Medici both depicted as Machiavellian plotters, bent on evil from the start.
The Anti-Machiavel is an 18th century essay by Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and patron of Voltaire, rebutting The Prince, and Machiavellianism. It was first published in September 1740, a few months after Frederick became king, and is one of many such works.
Machiavellianism is also a term that some social and personality psychologists use to describe a person's tendency to be unemotional, and therefore able to detach him or herself from conventional morality and hence to deceive and manipulate others. In the 1960s, Richard Christie and Florence L. Geis developed a test for measuring a person's level of Machiavellianism (sometimes referred to as the Machiavelli test).[6] Their Mach - IV test, a twenty-statement personality survey, became the standard self-assessment tool of Machiavellianism. People scoring high on the scale (high Machs) tend to endorse statements such as, "Never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so," (No. 1) but not ones like, "Most people are basically good and kind" (No. 4), "There is no excuse for lying to someone else," (No. 7) or "Most people who get ahead in the world lead clean, moral lives" (No. 11). Using their scale, Christie and Geis conducted multiple experimental tests that showed that the interpersonal strategies and behavior of "High Machs" and "Low Machs" differ.[7] Their basic results have been widely replicated.[8] Measured on the Mach - IV scale, males are, on average, slightly more Machiavellian than females.[7][9]
A 1992 review described Machiavellian motivation as related to cold selfishness and pure instrumentality, and those high on the trait were assumed to pursue their motives (e.g. sex, achievement, sociality) in duplicitous ways. More recent research on the motivations of high Machs compared to low Machs found that they gave high priority to money, power, and competition and relatively low priority to community building, self-love, and family concerns. High Machs admitted to focusing on unmitigated achievement and winning at any cost.[1]
Due to their skill at interpersonal manipulation, there has often been an assumption that high Machs possess superior intelligence, or ability to understand other people in social situations. However, research has firmly established that Machiavellianism is unrelated to IQ. Furthermore, studies on emotional intelligence have found that high Machiavellianism actually tends to be associated with low emotional intelligence as assessed by both performance and questionnaire measures. Both empathy and emotion recognition have been shown to have negative correlations with Machiavellianism. Additionally, research has shown that Machiavellianism is unrelated to a more advanced theory of mind, that is, the ability to anticipate what others are thinking in social situations. If high Machs actually are skilled at manipulating others this appears to be unrelated to any special cognitive abilities as such.[1]
Relations with other personality traits[edit]
Machiavellianism is one of the three personality traits referred to as the dark triad, along with narcissism and psychopathy. Some psychologists consider Machiavellianism to be essentially a subclinical form of psychopathy,[10] although recent research suggests that while Machiavellianism and psychopathy overlap, they are distinct personality constructs.[1][11] Machiavellianism has been found to be negatively correlated with Agreeableness (r = -0.47) and Conscientiousness (r = -0.34), two dimensions of the Big Five personality model (NEO-PI-R).[11] However, Machiavellianism correlates more highly with the Honesty-humility dimension of the six-factor HEXACO model than with any of the Big Five dimensions.[1] Machiavellianism has also been located within the interpersonal circumplex, which consists of the two independent dimensions of agency and communion. Agency refers to motivation to succeed and to individuate the self, whereas communion refers to motivation to merge with others and to support group interests. Machiavellianism lies in the quadrant of the circumplex defined by high agency and low communion.[1] Machiavellianism has been found to lie diagonally opposite from a circumplex construct called self-construal, a tendency to prefer communion over agency. This suggests that people high in Machiavellianism do not simply wish to achieve, they wish to do so at the expense of (or at least without regard to) others.[1]
In the workplace[edit]
Oliver James identifies Machiavellianism as one of the dark triadic forces in the workplace, the others being psychopathy and narcissism.[12]
Game theory[edit]
In 2002, the Machiavellianism scale of Christie and Geis was applied by behavioral game theorists Anna Gunnthorsdottir, Kevin McCabe and Vernon L. Smith[9] in their search for explanations for the spread of observed behavior in experimental games, in particular individual choices which do not correspond to assumptions of material self-interest captured by the standard Nash equilibrium prediction. It was found that in a trust game, those with high MACH-IV scores tended to follow homo economicus' equilibrium strategies while those with low MACH-IV scores tended to deviate from the equilibrium, and instead made choices that reflected widely accepted moral standards and social preferences.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g Jones, Daniel N.; Paulhus, Delroy L. (2009). "Chapter 7. Machiavellianism". In Leary, Mark R. & Hoyle, Rick H. Handbook of Individual Differences in Social Behavior. New York/London: The Guilford Press. pp. 257–273. ISBN 978-1-59385-647-2.
- ^ Anglo, 283 – see also the whole chapter
- ^ Anglo, 286
- ^ Anglo, Chapters 10 and 11; p. 328 etc.
- ^ Project Gutenberg Jew of Malta text
- ^ Christie, R., and F. L. Geis. (1970) "How devious are you? Take the Machiavelli test to find out." Journal of Management in Engineering 15.4: 17.
- ^ a b Christie, R. & Geis, F. (1970) "Studies in Machiavellianism". NY: Academic Press.
- ^ McIlwain, D. 2003. Bypassing empathy: mapping a Machiavellian theory of mind and sneaky power. In Individual Differences In Theory Of Mind, eds. B. Repacholi and V. Slaughter. Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science. NY: Psychology Press. 39-68.
- ^ a b Gunnthorsdottir, A., McCabe, K. & Smith, V. 2002 "Using the Machiavellianism instrument to predict trustworthiness in a bargaining game". Journal of Economic Psychology 23, 49-66
- ^ Goleman, Daniel (2006). Social Intelligence.
- ^ a b Paulhus, D.L. & Williams, K.M. 2002. "The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy". Journal of Research in Personality 36 (2002) 556–563
- ^ James O Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks (2013)
- Anglo, Sydney. Machiavelli – the First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance, p. 229, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-926776-6, ISBN 978-0-19-926776-7 Google Books
- Spielberger, Charles D; Butcher, James N. Advances in Personality Assessment, vol. 9. (Hillsdale, NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992
External links[edit]
- Machiavellianism in The Dictionary of the History of Ideas, online
- Machiavellianism test (MACH-VI) is an interactive version of the MACH-IV test of Machiavellianism.
- Barbara Oakley's Evil Genes page Oakley has written a book Evil Genes, which is mostly about Psychological Machiavellianism


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Star Trek: Voyager
"The Thaw"
Air date: 4/29/1996
Teleplay by Joe Menosky
Story by Richard Gadas
Directed by Marvin V. Rush
Review by Jamahl Epsicokhan
"How am I supposed to negotiate if I don't know what you're thinking?"
"I have a very trustworthy face."
— The Clown and the Doctor
Nutshell: Very bizarre, but it works. Scores points for being different, featuring intriguing surreal qualities.
The Voyager crew comes across a planet that has been destroyed by a natural disaster. Janeway beams up from under the planet's surface a five-person computer-controlled biological stasis system protecting the few remaining survivors of the colony that had been wiped out because of the disaster 19 years earlier.
According to a recorded message, the system was scheduled to revive the survivors four years ago. But for unknown reasons the survivors have not reawakened, and equally puzzling is why two of the five aliens are dead. There is no evidence of a malfunction or system failure. Ensign Kim studies the system and discovers the survivors' brains are all active—in a sort of 19-year-long dream state monitored by the computer system. Because pulling the plug and forcing the aliens out of their stasis could cause irrevocable brain damage, Janeway approves another option: Torres and Kim themselves go into bio-stasis to communicate with the computer system and the other alien survivors.
What they find on the other side is a strange, surreal, carnival world run by a crazed entity known only as the Clown (Michael McKean). The Clown is a computer-manufactured character comprising the aliens' fear of their own situation. In essence, the Clown has become fear itself—and holds the aliens hostage in the fantasy world. He has but one demand—to exist. Like Professor Moriarty (of TNG's "Elementary, Dear Data," "Ship in a Bottle"), the Clown is a computer simulation that has somehow taken on a sentient awareness and a desire to exist. Unfortunately, he exists only in the hostages' minds. If they were to leave, he would cease to exist.
He has the ability to literally kill the hostages by "scaring them to death" and causing deadly heart attacks. In the fantasy world, this is symbolically represented as the Clown executing the hostages via guillotine. (This is precisely what he did to the two dead aliens.) Another strike against Kim, Torres, and the hostages is the fact that the Clown can read minds (since he's tied directly into their minds through the computer). Now that Torres and Kim have shown up, the Clown demands that they stay—threatening to kill one of his hostages if they leave.
Yes, this was written by Joe Menosky, the guy renowned for his very weird concepts. And, yes, "The Thaw" is fairly weird. It's an effective mix of colorful goofiness and some interesting arguments surrounding the question of how to defeat fear itself. The weirdness is evident in the surreal production design of the Clown's fantasy world, and its population of circus-like characters and distinctive, geometrical objects.
The Clown, while a pretty funny guy, is obviously demented and unstable, and has a mocking nature that tends to push the other characters' buttons. Like with Q, everything is a joke to him (although B'Elanna and Harry are most definitely not amused), but at the same time, he will resort to deadly force when he feels his existence threatened. McKean is perfect for the role, bringing just the right mix of annoying humor and buried depth to the character.
The Clown agrees to release Torres so she can take his message of intent back to Janeway. Subsequent communications bring Doc into the picture, since he cannot be held hostage by the Clown. Some of the show's funniest moments involve Picardo and McKean facing off with their arsenals of dry sarcasm. Other scenes feature humor that is just downright bizarre. Take, for example, a scene of building intensity where the Clown is about to perform "surgery" on Harry but is suddenly interrupted by the Doctor, who appears out of nowhere and immediately says something that changes the entire mood of the scene. Another goofy laugh comes during Doc's delivery of Janeway's ultimatum for surrender: The clown and his entire group of misfits break into unrestrained laugher at Doc's notion, then stop on cue just as abruptly as they started. Very weird, but also very amusing.
The episode has a sense that might best be described as somewhere in the realm of Alice in Wonderland. While the Clown and his characters are cartoonish, they still manage to come across as fairly threatening. (In fact, the only missed opportunity is that the writers fail to supply the Clown with the line "Off with their heads!")
Although much of "The Thaw" is unrestrained dementia, there is also a solid story percolating somewhere in here. The last act in particular finds success in evaluating fear and its intangible qualities. Janeway's analysis of the topic is particularly well-written. The questions she raises ("Isn't there more to fear than a simple demand to exist? Why do people enjoy dangerous sports or holodeck adventures with the safety off? Why, after all these centuries, do children still ride on roller coasters?") make a lot of sense, and contribute a believable, logical line toward the episode's denouement. The conclusion, where Janeway tricks the Clown into releasing the hostages in exchange for herself—revealing later that she is merely a holographic image—is a neat gimmick that makes a surprising amount of sense under the circumstances. Particularly impressive is the final thirty seconds of the show, as the Clown fades away into nothingness as Janeway remarks that fear's only reason for existence is to be overcome—such that it eventually vanishes.
This episode is a pleasant surprise. It manages to be goofy, strange, and humorous, and still holds up to a reasonable amount of scrutiny. I'll have to admit that the madcap nature that seemed to be imminent once the characters entered this bizarro world had me in a certain dread at first. (It's hard to execute concepts like this without looking quite silly.) But, fortunately, "The Thaw" pulls everything together and makes it worthwhile.
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At the end VOY was far more popular than DS9. But thats the thing with Voyager. YOu either love it or you hate it.
Sounds like you thought she was acting ;)
P.S. Jake, remember that as the Clown can read people's thoughts, he has learned a lot from Janeway by looking at Kim & Torres' memories of her. So it is very possible that he had the hots for her before meeting her... or that, as her hologram suggested, he sensed that she had the power to subdue him.
It might sound like I am being too nitpicky, but the devil is in the details. We have seen more or less contemporaneous episodes of DS9 where the DS9 station is transformed into the past, nightmarish world of Tarok Nor through dramatic lighting, refugee costuming, and a strong sense of cinematographic vision. "The Thaw" needs more style in order to enhance the existential crises embedded within its narrative. Actually, just from a logic point of view, more style is needed. How can one suspend disbelief and accept an advanced alien culture (a culture that can not only place its people into stasis but provide virtual reality as well) that is unable to design a techno-reality that rises above a bad mime performance?
and it's episodes like this that are what make watching Voyager so infuriating.
When they wanna ramp up the intensity, the Voyager team does a damn good job at it.
Where was I? Oh yeah, Voyager. The whole endless carnival was suitably nightmarish but all that waffle on the concept of fear was completely extraneous. As soon as the one hostage mentions the lag between thinking something and the AI becoming aware of it you know there's a vulnerability there big enough to drive a (hover)bus through and all the stoner-level philosophy is just delaying his inevitable undoing.
Ha, interesting point on the Fallout 3 scene. I actually enjoyed that but I think it had a good balance of surreality, fear etc and never got to a point where it was "annoying". Plus it had a major plot development attached to it.
Other than that quibble, strong performances all around and a compelling theme to boot.
The only exception is the one comparing this episode to TOS sets, but that's just a matter of missing the entire point. The episode was supposed to look that way--mysterious and sparse. It's only a problem if it were in the real world, which it wasn't.
And to dumb all this down for the haters: Smart people seem to like it, but dumber people don't. Interesting.
I know there is no accounting for taste, but you, sir, are out of your gourd. When was the last time you watched The Squire of Gothos or any of the many just-as-crappy original series episodes? A similarly clownish but malevolent super-being plays around Q-like with the Enterprise and her crew, but then finally just turns out to be a whimpering spoiled child? You have GOT to be joking that that was better than this.
(I know I am responding to a comment from 2008.)
Anyway, I liked the episode for its weirdness and for McKean's performance and interaction with the doctor. Yeah, the tech was in a nowhere land, but I didn't care because the surrealism of it was entertaining.
However, unlike trlkly, I do not have the arrogant presumption to declare that everyone who disagrees with my assessment is less intelligent than I am. I find that those who are truly intelligent understand concepts such as subjectivity and thus treat differing opinions with respect. On a more personal level, I daresay I could hold my own intellectually with a poster whose devastating critiques consist of calling other posters "dumb," "stupid," and "haters."
Back to the episode: I did enjoy the final scene, simply because it meant I would no longer have to endure that wretched clown.
Up to this point, he's known the minds of only the five aliens, but after a decade, he may have grown tired of them. Perhaps that's why he killed two of them—in part to punish them for trying to leave, but in another part in order to give the remaining three a fresh experience of fear. You can even see the Clown's reaction when he first starts sensing Janeway's mind, almost like a euphoric high from a drug.
If I'm right, though, I do wish the writers had made the reason clearer.
It started out with me facepalming when the bridge crew on Voyager used the sensors to determine everything that had happened to and on the newly discovered planet down to the total number of people that had lived there long ago. Wow ... bitchin' sensors!
I started groaning when we first saw the "nightmare" - it looked so crappy that I was close to stop watching the episode.
But then we met Mr. Fear. What a charismatic performance by Michael McKean! To me, he's what carries this episode more than anything else. Through his character I started getting into the whole nightmare concept, and it dawned on me that the set design kind of looks like a twisted version of a children's show (like Teletubbies or Barney).
I can understand why many people would thing this episode sucks - it seems to be one of those "either it seduces you or it makes you vomit" kind of episodes, and so much hinges on how you react to the look and "feel" of the set and Mr. Fear. I, for one, ended up being seduced by it.
I really liked the ending - Mr. Fear slowly vanishing into oblivion as Kim and the two aliens slowly got eased out of the program, waking up.
This episode DID make me wonder why Janeway would so easily accept "killing" Mr. Fear - a sentient being fighting for survival - without any speeches about the Prime Directive. Sure, Mr. Fear was the Bad Guy here, but he is also a unique "lifeform". What makes the aliens, or even Voyager's own crew members, more important than his continued existance in the eyes of the Prime Directive?
All in all, though, a very different, quirky and good episode.
Well done, Voyager!
Oh and I hope they got to keep those stasis chambers as a reward. Score!
It reminded me a bit of TOS , this one. When VOY wanted to, they were capable of producing a really damned good episode.
I thought the clown accepted the Dr.'s ultimatum because of the threat of ending the program, not necessarily from knowing or wanting to know the captain. Perhaps because the fear controlled them, but I didn't see why those help captive thinking other thoughts wouldn't or couldn't dissolve the representation of fear. I actually was thinking the episode might end differently, with Tuvak going in and being able to control his emotions so well and to help the others calm their thoughts as well.
I thought the idea of wanting to stay (either from fear or from pleasure) in a dream instead of the physical world was definitely a worthy theme. Having your brain connected to a computer to get input and being able to interact with others within a dream, who are also dreaming, is definitely a tech-enough idea for an episode. Even though there were silly clowns...
The Clown didn't feel like fear, more like a psychopath having fun at other people's expense. It's more like it used fear for it's own entertainment. The clown can't afford to kill people. It's not a parasite that can move onto a new host. It only can live as long as it's hosts live. Then again, perhaps it can't help itself, and is too irrational to act in its own best interest.
I don't see why the one alien died: so what if he had a heart attack? Get him out and get him to sickbay. 24th century medicine should be able to take care of a heart attack, and it wouldn't really have affected the story.
Yes, this was my understanding too.
Interesting, the level of polarization around this episode. I'm basically with Jammer: three stars. So I don't quite get the POV of those who name it one of the best episodes ever, but I'm closer to them than the ones who call it "worst. episode. everrrr."
McKean's performance was absolutely key here: in a vacuum, the "scary clown" schtick has definitely been overdone and usually not well. But he really nailed it. Good script too and well done by Mulgrew and Picardo. Garrett Wang did a good job with Harry Kim this episode--fleshed out the character more than usual.
Yes. I absolutely love it. Hands down one of my favorite Trek episodes.
4 stars.
One thing that I do remember about this episode was that one of Harry Kim's fears was never being able to hit the high G-sharp in the Mozart concerto. Funny thing is, the Mozart clarinet concerto has no high G sharp - it maxes out at a high G, which Juilliard trained Harry should be able to hit easily. Harry Kim-as-great clarinetist is always an amusing thing for me when watching Voyager.


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Grants for institutional capacity building- The finding that providing evidence from clinical research is necessary but not sufficient for the provision of optimal care has created interest in knowledge translation (KT), the scientific study of methods for closing the knowledge-to-practice gap and of the barriers and facilitators inherent in this process. Policy makers, funding agencies, clinicians, and researchers have recognized the need for facilitating the implementation of knowledge into practice and improve quality of care. While there has been an exponential growth in the interest in KT, to date there is limited capacity in the field. Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, and Zimbabwe are the selcted African countries who can apply for this funding.
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Comedians Dave Spikey and Lucy Porter and actress and presenter Julie Peasgood have all pledged to support World Vegan Month by going vegan for a week during November's World Vegan Month.
Dave Spikey has been a vegetarian for over 25 years and is looking forward to the challenge of taking the Vegan Pledge: "In the past, in addition to my rescue dogs, I have given a lifelong home to unwanted billy goats, sheep, turkeys and many ex-battery hens, who have had, until rescued, the same amount of space to live in as an iPad! They each have a personality of their own and I have got some fantastic comedy material from their hilarious antics. I know that veganism is kinder to animals like these and to our environment so I hope that by taking the Vegan Pledge, I can help inspire others to try some delicious vegan food during World Vegan Month or to join me and take the Vegan Pledge too." Dave Spikey has several tour dates coming up featuring stories of his rescued battery chickens and dogs.
Julie Peasgood eats fish and chicken but she immediately agreed to do the
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Honorary Patron Wendy Turner-Webster mentoring me during my pledge - I'm hoping it
will give me lots of new ideas for delicious and healthy animal free meals." Wendy and Julie are co-producing and co-presenting a new TV programme, Crafty Beggars, which puts the competition into crafts - as two teams go head to head in a bid to see who can make the most cash out of handmade crafts. The programme is filming and airing in 2014 on new Freeview channels Latest TV and Channel 8. Julie is also starring as The Good Fairy in Sleeping Beauty in her home town of Grimsby this December.
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NEW YORK, July 22, 2013 – CrowdOptic is a game-changing new mobile startup, with technology that employs the ancient Greek mathematical discovery of Triangulation, a measurement technique that "[determines] the distances and relative positions of points [that] spread over a territory or region," as defined by the Oxford Dictionary.
Media Impressions: an intrinsically incalculable, impenetrable, controversial necessity. Yet, its very existence is crucial to the Senior Executives, pivotal to the advertising-PR world, and decisive on business strategy. Media Impressions are the only metric known to mankind to steer toward higher profitability, and win the esteem of their beloved clients.
Media Impressions justify. Think: ROI.
Simply put, CrowdOptic has the ability to help advertisers and PR companies to identify where people are pointing their smartphone cameras for most effective media impressions.
Consider Times Square: Arguably the world's most overwhelmingly branded, stressfully significant, advertising blackhole, commercialized cluster of light. With the tens of thousands of lightbulbs, hues, colors and shine, you can only hope your client was noticed for a few milliseconds, before getting distracted and gazing at Beyoncé's can of Pepsi, or sashaying up those spectacularly lit red stairs—only to get distracted again.
So, CrowdOptic does just this. It mathematically calculates Media Impressions.
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The San Francisco-based company's co-founder and CEO Jon Fisher explains how his location-based technology can not only identify the "hottest crowd activity," but also locate where the smartphone cameras are, and where they are pointing: "The analytics work by understanding when and where the phones are aimed in an event—often when they're creating content, like taking pictures and videos," describes Fisher in an email. "Enterprises can get a heat map of when and where the phones are aimed in real time."
In marketing terms, the startup's C-suite-pleaser can help brands calculate campaign effectiveness, based on where consumers are pointing, quite literally, their smartphone cameras.
The same company also developed the augmented-reality iPhone app Friend Spotter. While panoramming the other side of the football stadium and discovering your friend is an awesome idea, it's not too clear how the app can help with branding. But you never know these days.
CrowdOptic's revolutionary QResque technology can also let fans aim their phones at performers and athletes during live events, and see "up-to-the-moment highlights, messages to the fanbase, and real-time player stats."
The company's development can also pinpoint the location of breaking news, by analyzing where people whip out their phones, and shoot happenings. This has a potential to leverage citizen journalism. (See #chevronfire example.)
Take the Boston Marathon Bombings.
With tools like these, not only could this technology have helped the police and FBI analyze raw footage from security cameras near the finish line, but also analyze the photos and videos taken by marathon attendees that day, and analyze the photos and videos uploaded to social media the following days: all under three seconds.
"We can take a blizzard of phone content," said Fisher, "and drill down to a single object of the content to solve problems like the Boston bombing."
If a small start-up can do all this, it is unfathomable what the 3Ms, GMs and Googles of the world can do for society.
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Han Solo: This is ridiculous. Even if I could take off, I'd never get past the tractor beam.
Ben Kenobi: Leave that to me!
Han Solo: Damn fool. I knew that you were going to say that!
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What is it with the crazy skyscraper heels today? Don't get me wrong. I like most high heels, I think they can be beautiful and feminine and perfectly fine in moderation and in appropriate situations. But the heels I'm seeing the last year or so… well, they're just ridiculous. I see women tottering around town – and tottering is the only word that fits – on heels so incredibly high that they can't even walk upright anymore! They walk in this weird, knees bent at an almost 60 degree angle, way that pushes part of their body forward so much that they have to lean the rest of their body way back just to keep from falling over. Frankly, it's kind of pathetic. And then, during last week's snow storm I saw a woman poking her way along on the sidewalk in these crazy high boots when the roads and sidewalks hadn't even been cleared yet. I thought, "Come on! There's so many cute shoes and boots that aren't going to make you risk your neck."
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Matthew Vorhees, an accounting major and information systems minor from Madison, Wis., has been selected by the College of Business faculty and staff as the 2011 COB Emerging Leader.
An outstanding student, Matthew is a member of six honorary societies: Beta Alpha Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Omicron Delta Kappa, Golden Key, Alpha Lambda Delta, and Phi Eta Sigma. He has also served as treasurer and president of the Honors Program Organization.
Matthew is involved in many organizations and activities, and has served as a campus ambassador, a Phase II mentor for incoming freshmen, tutored in the Academic Skills Center, and is a Big Brother in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.
Currently, Matthew is completing a two year-long accounting internship in the Finance Department at Leinenkugel's, and will be participating in the summer internship program at Deloitte. Matthew plans to attain an accounting position within a public or private firm, while studying for the CPA exam and completing his MBA.


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Wildfires sweeping across the western United States are straining communities that depend upon the summer tourism season, as recreation sites catch fire, campgrounds close and outdoor activities such as river rafting are disrupted.
In the mountains of central Idaho, where whitewater rafting has replaced logging as an economic mainstay, blazes are curtailing trips on rivers whose world-class rapids draw an international crowd of thousands from June through August.
Tourists who booked rafting trips months in advance have been canceling their reservations, spooked by fast-changing blazes that have produced a smoky haze and led to road blockages.
"We've had nothing but cancellations," said Lorali Simmons, owner of River Shuttles, a business in Salmon, Idaho that shuttles vehicles for boaters on the Middle Fork and the Salmon River's wild and scenic corridor.
The wildfires that have scorched 80,000 acres of mountain pine forests in east central Idaho stranded 300 Middle Fork rafters northwest of Salmon this week after falling rock closed the only road to the site.
Dozens of fires are burning out of control across parched Western states, including California, where blazes have encroached on national parks.
A survey released this week by the U.S. government shows the number of Americans engaging in outdoor recreation rose last year for the first time in three decades. At the same time, remote, sparsely populated communities in western states have tried to remake themselves as gateways to natural resources that attract visitors.
In recent years, fires, floods and heat waves have taken a toll on a tourism industry that the Outdoor Industry Association says generates more than $35 billion combined for Idaho, Colorado and California annually.
Wildfires have burned 6.5 million acres (2.63 million ha) across the United States so far in 2012, about 1.5 million acres more than the 10-year average for this time of year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
In Colorado, two huge blazes in June all but snuffed out tourism in some areas. The 88,000-acre (35,612-ha) High Park Fire northwest of Fort Collins burned onto the Roosevelt National Forest, one of the most visited U.S. national forests.
In northern California, two fires caused by lightning have blunted tourism in the area around Lassen Volcanic National Park. Sharon Roberts of the nearby St. Bernard Lodge said she had received numerous cancellations.
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Ann Epidemiol 23:106-11. 2013..To determine if the associations among established risk factors and reduced kidney function vary by age...
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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On Apr 13, 4:31*pm, George Shirley <gsh...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> About 1100 CDST a new great grandson was born into our family. Weighed
> in at 10 lbs and is 21.5 inches long. He was in the oven (reference to
> cooking)for an extra two weeks and was taken out of the can (reference
> to preserving)by C section. Baby, mother, father, and older brother are
> all doing fine. We now have 20 descendants including spouses and step
> grands and great grands.
> I'm already dreading holiday meals, our eldest grandkids are all over
> six feet tall and weigh more than 220 lbs, including the girl one.
You gots sum big'uns!