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Once upon a time this blog was called One Word, One Rung, One Day in reference to my pursuit of seeing one of my novel's published. Like all fairy tales that name had a happy ending. Having achieved that goal, I changed the name to better reflect a few of my favorite things in this world.
Friday, May 11, 2007
Semen to MySpace - Who said research is a drag?
So now that we've established that today's blog will be neither funny nor entertaining, let me ask the few, the desperate, the regular readers of this blog a few questions. Have you ever read a published novel that uses internet chat as part of the story? Like instant messages via MySpace or some other forum? I'm curious the proper way to format such a thing in manuscript form.
Also do any of you know of a good book or internet site for abbreviations and other chat terms. I know the basics lol, roflmao, brb, and such. I have spent a little time on chat rooms in the last couple of weeks and have seen stuff I have no idea what means. Since this is a teenager I'm assuming she would know most of these. I don't want to get too elaborate or I'll confuse the less technical of readers out there but I want the narrative to be believable and fell real. My friend Jennifer Archer used some of this in her novel Sandwiched (A great read by the way) but I would like to find a few other examples and I know they have to be out there. So somebody please help me out.
Bull semen is the other subject I'm researching for this novel so if anyone happens to have some insider knowledge about this lucrative business, especially the duties of a job title semen collector, and are willing to admit said knowledge let me know. Ive got a good angle on a ranch about ninety miles from here where I can go and watch both the collection and the insemination process. Sounds like fun afternoon to me.
Still working on a title for this one, but whatever I come up with should be interesting, given the diversity of the characters and the subject matter.
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- WordVixen said...
Oh sure, reel me in and then cute the line. Uh-huh. :)
I've never seen chat in an actual novel, but I've seen numerous instances of email. They handle it much like inserting a letter into the story only with the header at the top.
Can't help with the bull semen, but I did help castrate pigs once when I was in highschool. The only thing I know about bull semen came from watching waaaay too many grown-up tv shows when I was a kid. - May 11, 2007 at 6:47 PM
- WordVixen said...
Er... cut the line. Not cute.
- May 11, 2007 at 6:48 PM
- Sam said...
I was in Argentina a few years ago, and most of the farms used artifical insemination for their cows. Seems bulls are just too dangerous and unpredictable. Much safer and easier to use the frozen stuff.
:-) - May 13, 2007 at 8:10 AM

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I think I might have known that but it was burried deep down in my brain. Thanks for posting this!
This may be common knowledge to WDW fanatics but I'll post it anyways. There is still a wave machine under the water offshore by the Polynesian Resort that was originally intended to create waves. They were powerful enough to surf on. That power also destroyed the sandy beaches so it had to be turned off permanently.
I think I might have known that but it was burried deep down in my brain. Thanks for posting this!
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This is true. Lou mentioned this in his 2009 day-by-day calendar.
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that is a really cool little known fact....that would've been a really neat feature if they could've figured out how to make it work. Was it ever used?
I remember them showing the Wave Machine on the Mike Douglas Show. The machine itself was located on a island in Bay Lake opposite the beach at Poly. During the show, they had surfers in Bay Lake showing how it worked. The waves were not that big. They stated they were trying to adjust to get 4-5 foot waves.
I guess it would not even work now. Can you even swim in the lakes at WDW ? I know at Yacht you can't or you would not wanted with all the algae and water conditions.
For those of you who are too young to remember Mike Douglas, he was a syndicated talk show host in the 70's and early 80's. In fact, his career began as a singer and Walt hired him to sing as Prince Charming. The Mike Douglas show was the first "Non-Disney Related" show to broadcast from WDW in 1976. Below is an article from the Sarasota Herald Tribune about the show at WDW. I would post the link but I am too new at wdwradio.com to post links. I have 4 more to go though........
I remember hearing of this. It was back in the late 70s, I believe. Way before my time.
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I can confirm its exact location. I have a picture of my mom taken back in the 70's or early 80's and you can still see what's left of it behind her. All that was left at that time was a concrete squarish structure on the shore of the island across from the Polynesian. The shot is taken from the poly's old boat dock.
I just tried to post it but I can't figure it out. It's a jpg, and I shrunk it to 160k. 400x 280. Grrrr...
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I remember Lou bringing this point up on a show a while back. I think there was a segment (2 hours likely!!) just on the history of the Polynesian resort. It was very interesting.
grimgrinning, if you can't attach the pic send it to me via email designbymk a t g mail dot com I'll get it posted here. I'd love to see some vintage photos.
I'm going to find it while there in a month and take a pic before they completely get rid of it
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I had forgotten all about this but I remember hearing about it. Would love to see a picture of what is left of it if anyone has one
I'd love to see the shot. You can upload it to Photobucket and link it back to post here!
Found this sonar shot... pretty cool!
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Found this shot of the sea wall on the island from Jim Hill:
So where is the "machine itself" in relation to the seawall on the island? (I'm hatching a plan lol)
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could you imagine if one day they just turned it on... would probably scare the pants off alot of guests... and boat operators...
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I have a 55 gallon fish tank with two koi and originally four goldfish. I have maintained this aquarium for years very successfully, until just recently. About three weeks ago, I noticed that the smallest of the goldfish started to become very inactive. He would let himself sink to the bottom of the tank, usually behind plants or the undergravel filter tubes, and stay there all day. Rarely would he come up for food in the beginning, and towards the end he wouldn't come up at all. I constantly looked him over for swollen eyes, gills, discoloration of any sort, and found nothing. His color even remained bright and seemingly healthy-looking right until the end. Obviously, I speak in past-tense about him because he is dead. I found him caught in the vegetation this morning, still alive, but completely unresponsive. Should I have removed him from the tank a long time ago? What was the problem and could it travel to the other fish? The tank is very aerated and I am very careful about proper water going into my tank. What did I do wrong? |
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- Posted by theitalian3721 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 26, 07 at 11:34
The koi are about seven, eight inches long and the other goldfish range from five to seven inches long. |
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You may not have done anything wrong. Sometimes the best of our observations (bacterial, parasitic...) aren't enough to determine root cause. As a former coworker once suggested, unless we take some sort of scraping from the cells and put it under a microscope, we'll never know. Now if the others die, one by one, with no apparent external symptoms, I would consider the possibility of a virus. |
- Posted by theitalian3721 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 31, 07 at 16:43
I've heard similar things regarding fish diseases and identification. I do hope that this is something that does not pass on to my other fish. I've been keeping a close watch on them, and haven't noticed any irregular behavior or physical indicators of a problem. Thank you. I'll keep posted if anything more comes up! |
I am sorry, but 2 koi and 4 goldfish in 55 gallons is asking for trouble; especially if the koi are around 8 inches. That is a huge bioload for the filter to handle and just setting the fish up for stress -which leads way to infections. |
I agree with bradarmi, and why I asked about the size of the fish. A 55 might do for baby koi or goldies, 1 - 2 inch or so, but if you add up the total length of all the remaining fish, then factor in their bulk, you are keeping the equvilant of at least 500 guppies in that tank, if not more. One of the problems many home fish keepers create for themselves is, I think, due to seeing fish in pet stores being kept in certain sized tanks and think that's what they can use too, but don't consider the huge, flow through filtration systems hidden behind the display tanks, many of which have automatic top-offs connected to them, that continually adds fresh water. So if you can't bring yourself to getting rid of your excess fish and can't get them into a larger tank, you can at least do small daily water changes. Just 10% per day is better than a 50% once a week. |
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In return, the franchisor offers logistical and business support. "We give our franchisees the right to use our brand, and they get all the tools and resources they need to run their business," explains Lisa Druxman, MA, of San Marcos, California, who is the founder of the group exercise–based program Stroller Strides. The tools she provides are a Web-based business center, an email campaign program, a public relations program and more.
Becoming a fitness franchisor expands your brand's reach while essentially using someone else's money, explains Druxman, whose franchise targets new moms and has over 1,000 fitness locations nationwide. "You get to grow your business and take a percentage of the profits," she says.
It certainly sounds appealing to receive regular payments from franchisees, but setting up a franchise requires serious capital, sweat equity and major change. How do you set yourself up to be a profitable franchisor?
Before you become a fitness franchisor, make sure you have completed the following—or are well into the process.
Change job descriptions. The business skills required to oversee a successfully franchised brand are completely different from the skills you need to be a small-business owner. "Going from running a successful business to running a successful franchise is not a natural progression," explains Brandon Hartsell, MBA, co-founder and chief executive officer of Sunstone Yoga, a franchised yoga studio. "They are two, 100% entirely different activities and competencies," says Hartsell, whose chain has grown to over a dozen locations in Dallas and Austin, Texas, since 2002.
And while your franchisees will enjoy delivering your fitness concept, your new role will be to promote and support your franchisees. "When you decide to franchise, you're no longer in your original business," says Druxman. "If your business was selling widgets, now your business is selling franchises and supporting franchisees. [The franchisee's] business is selling widgets."
Create a proven prototype. A franchise typically stems from a business that has grown so much that the owner can no longer expand it single-handedly, usually because more financial capital and human capital are required.
In other words, your concept needs to already be a business success before you even consider becoming a franchisor, notes Casey Conrad, JD, a fitness business consultant in Wakefield, Rhode Island, and founder of the franchised weight loss program Healthy Inspirations. Druxman agrees: "No one wants to invest in a company that even the founder can't run successfully."
Devise a systematized, teachable model. For your model to work as a franchise, "your [business] systems need to be well thought out, teachable and easily replicable," explains Druxman.
"Ask yourself, 'Do I have documented systems (i.e., for administration, operations, marketing, sales, programming) that are in a format such that someone who knows absolutely nothing about this business would be able to follow and implement [them] on his or her own?'" says Conrad. "If not, you better get to work [on your systems] before you even consider franchising."
Hire support staff. The fitness industry offers many opportunities to work alone, or to hire independent contractors (such as when you rent studio space to independent personal trainers). However, franchising requires hiring employees (i.e., your own staff, completely separate from your franchisees). "You can't run a franchise business alone, as there are too many roles to fill," notes Druxman.
At the same time, aspiring franchisors must be careful to avoid overhiring—to make sure they can keep costs low, advises Chris Lincoln, the Portland, Oregon–based co-founder of the barre3 chain. "The key is to grow with a lean team without sacrificing the support your franchisees need," says Lincoln, whose franchised exercise studios deliver fusion classes based on ballet and mind-body techniques.
Accumulate serious capital and hire a good lawyer. "An aspiring fitness franchisor should expect a lot of expenses associated with managing and supporting franchisees," explains Hartsell.
First, consider legal fees. A franchise is a highly regulated legal and business structure that must conform to federal securities laws (i.e., regulations pertaining to certain aspects of business ownership) as well as the laws of the individual state(s) in which franchise units operate. "The expense—both initially and ongoing—to simply [hire a lawyer and] maintain the legal elements of franchise status is huge," notes Conrad.
The ongoing costs of employing in-house staff will be another major source of day-to-day expenses, says Lincoln. Plus, you'll need equity on hand: both federal and state regulatory bodies will want to know that you have enough capital to stay in business for your franchisees, Druxman explains.
In short, becoming a franchisor comes with a significant price tag: "Expect to spend anywhere from $50,000 to $150,000 [before you even launch], depending on your franchise's reach," summarizes Druxman.
What if you want to grow your business, but the structure of a franchise seems like overkill? Consider its simpler, less-complex cousin: a license.
Licensors grant the right (i.e., a license) to use, sell or market their intellectual property (for example, their personal training program) for a certain period of time. However, they do not offer ongoing business support to licensees, as would occur in a franchise situation. Examples of industry licensors include Zumba® and Batuka, wherein instructors purchase a license (often via training course fees) to teach a branded group exercise program.
Compared to a franchise, a license has a less complex business structure and fewer legal, regulatory and logistical requirements. "I get calls all the time from people thinking about starting a franchise and I tell them, 'If there is a way you can do it as a license, I highly suggest it,'" explains Conrad.
Generally speaking, franchising is best for more complex, capital-heavy businesses (such as gyms and personal training studios), while licenses work well when less quality control and business support are required (as with group exercise programs.) "For most class concepts there is absolutely no reason to go the franchise route," Conrad says.
Of special note: There are potentially catastrophic legal repercussions for failing to correctly categorize your business as a franchise versus a license. Always seek professional legal advice when establishing either one.
Franchising is complicated but potentially very rewarding. To decide if it's right for you, "Find another franchisor who is willing to mentor you," advises Hartsell. A franchise attorney can also help you decide if the complexities and costs are right for your concept. You never know—it may be your business brand that evolves into the next great fitness franchise.
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How does a small business evolve into a franchise? Here are two examples of real-world success.
From license to franchise: Healthy Inspirations. Healthy Inspirations is a successful weight-loss program that Casey Conrad founded as a small business. "I opened a stand-alone location and, because of my exposure in the industry, people started asking if they could license the concept," she says.
Thus in 2000 the program was first licensed to health club operators for use within existing facilities. However, as it gained popularity and complexity, the model needed to evolve. "I started out with a license because it is much easier to operate from a legal standpoint, but I ended up having to convert into a franchise [in 2004]," explains Conrad, who sold out of the company in 2008.
From private company to franchise: barre3. Chris Lincoln and two business partners opened the first barre3 studio in August 2008 under a privately owned limited liability company (LLC) business structure. Two other LLC-owned locations soon followed, and the company thrived. "We realized the opportunity we had in front of us," explains Lincoln, since barre3 had a simple, appealing business model.
To accommodate an expansion, Lincoln and his partners formed a separate LLC in April 2010 to run the franchise operation. It now encompasses 13 barre3 locations in the United States and abroad, and Lincoln projects that this number will double in the next year.
The law uses certain specific criteria to determine whether a business is a license or a franchise. If your concept meets the franchise criteria, legally you are considered a franchisor. So while you may think you are selling licenses, you may actually be illegally selling franchise units—with serious repercussions.
"Many people today offering licenses don't realize that they are in fact [legally considered to be] a franchisor," cautions Conrad. "The result is that [the entrepreneur] will have to go back to every single person [who purchased the business model] and offer to refund both their up-front fees and any monthly fees they have paid." Always hire a lawyer when growing your business model!
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Laurence Copel, youth outreach librarian and founder of the Lower Ninth Ward Street Library in New Orleans, is the inaugural recipient of the Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity. On June 29, Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) will present her with a $3,000 check, $1,000 travel expenses, a certificate and "an odd object from Handler's private collection" during the American Library Association's Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas.
"Copel is recognized for her extraordinary efforts to provide books to young readers of the Ninth Ward," said ALA president Barbara Stripling, adding that she "is a brilliant example of how librarians can serve as change agents. Her leadership and commitment show the vital role that librarians and libraries play in energizing and engaging the communities that they serve."
Known to the children in the Lower Ninth Ward as the Book Lady, Copel moved to New Orleans from New York City in 2010 and opened a library in her home through self-funding and small donations while living on $350 a week. She also converted her bicycle to a mobile book carrier allowing her to reach children and families that could not travel to her home. Story via Shelf-Awareness.com.
Growing up moving from farm to farm, Storm Reyes had to pack light. That meant no books. She felt hopeless about the future, until a bookmobile appeared in the fields and changed her life.
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From NPR, a new program to deliver books to Seattlites via bike.
By the loading dock of Seattle's downtown library, librarian Jared Mills checks his tire pressure, secures his iPads and locks down about 100 books to an aluminum trailer the size of a steamer trunk. The scene is reminiscent of something you'd see in an action movie, when the hero is gearing up for a big fight, but Mills is gearing up for something very different.
"If you're not prepared and don't have a lot of experience hauling a trailer, it can be kind of dangerous," Mills says, especially when you're going downhill. "The trailer can hold up to 500 pounds."
Mills is part of Seattle Public Library's Books on Bikes program, which aims to keep the library nimble and relevant by sending librarians and their bicycles to popular community events around Seattle.
After a hilly, 5-mile bike ride to a local farmers market, Mills sets up shop among the fruit and vegetable booths. The bright orange trailer is custom-made with bookshelves and an umbrella holder (it is Seattle, after all).
Malena Harrang, in her early 20s, is visiting the market with a friend. She says Mills' book station is "like [a] carbon-neutral library on wheels — doesn't get better than that."
Combine a bookmobile with a food truck and what do you get? The Penguin Book Truck — and for good measure, the Penguin Book Pushcart.
By combining the concepts of bookmobile and food truck, book-publisher Penguin Group (USA) recently introduced its first mobile bookstore. And just like a good book, there's a bonus inside: the Penguin Book Pushcart, which rolls out of the truck and down a ramp to make books even more accessible.
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Recently, the Houston-based Billy Pilgrim Traveling Library (previously) traveled to Odessa to debut the bookmobile-for-hire component of its services, and to help the Ector County Library celebrate its 75th anniversary. This blog post details the different stops they made on their two-day trip and provides some analysis on the successes and shortcomings of the venture.
"I was concerned that there wasn't going to be any library service," said Kysar, who lives in Yacolt. "I called to see what the plan was, and there wasn't any plan."
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Books on board - Learning in progress! That's the mantra of one Prince William County school bus driver who turned the bus into a "library on wheels." Ric Clark was voted the "Education Support Professional of the Year by the Virginia Education Association for his efforts in creating a learning and interactive experience for kids.
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Polls and voting patterns have made it pretty clear that white men have permanently moved away from the Democratic Party. The trend is strongest in the 30-45 demographic, which is the youngest in which people become seriously politically engaged, so it appears to be accelerating. The crash of fertility amongst liberal whites that started in the late 1970s is showing up in young white male voting preferences even in the 18-30 demographic (they are growing more conservative), but they are inconsequential compared to older, more reliable voters, and will only solidify the trend in coming years as they settle into familiar routines (80% of children end up voting like their parents).
This has led to more predictable white male bashing from the left, which is what started the move away from the Democratic Party in the first place, and is beginning to manifest itself in the racial and gender makeup of elected Democrats. For the first time ever, it is predicted that white males will cease to be a majority in the House. The Senate, which has longer terms and is less prone to turnover, remains majority white male in the Democratic Party, but this is simply because it is a more staid, conservative institution.
The presidency, for its part, may have already permanently switched. In fact, even in the 1990s, Bill Clinton was something of an anomaly, and might not have won without Ross Perot to siphon off a substantial portion of the white male vote. But George Bush senior was one of the old-guard Republicans; an elite, Yankee throwback from the pre-Reagan era when Republicans lacked populist appeal (this is one of the concerns about Mitt Romney, and why Newt Gingrich enjoyed some enthusiastic support despite his slim chances in a national election).
Since Bill Clinton's presidency, the Democratic coalition of minorities, women and urban elites has kept the party fairly strong, despite some setbacks, and Republican stupidity regarding the economy and war handed them another presidential victory, in which white males voted underwhelmingly for John McCain, who ran essentially on a "more war" platform.
But things are different this year, as the economy has failed to improve during Obama's first term, and politics has become a zero-sum game in which the loser really loses and the winner merely treads water.
According to reports from last December, the Obama campaign has already decided to toss the working-class white male from the Democratic coalition, focusing instead on urban elite whites and white females to add to the overwhelming support he gets from minorities. The campaign has made this obvious recently through offering socialist incentives explicitly to white females, while deliberately leaving white males out. The result has been that a large gap has opened up with white male voters, who now overwhelmingly oppose Obama and the Democratic party.
Although the fact that the Republican party has become, for all intents and purposes, the white male party, is sometimes echoed in media outlets (usually in a disparaging manner), it isn't stressed enough, and the implications are either ignored or said to be favorable to Democrats. This is because most of the white males who write opinion or work for the media are part of the shrinking white male elite — the white males who actually do have white male privilege. These white males (and females) tend to live in deep blue cities where the Democratic Party has adapted to the caste society that characterizes urban America. Their lifestyle depends on maintaining the delicate ethnic and economic balance that holds the Democratic coalition together. This balance simply does nothing for rural, small-town and working class whites, who derive no advantages from it. Ironically, white people who hire brown servants and send their children to private, mainly-white schools, are more likely to vote Democrat than those who mow their own lawns, take care of their own children, and send their kids to public school. As fewer and fewer American whites can afford the increasingly expensive middle-class urban lifestyle, they drift away from the Democrats.
The gender gap between white males and females can be explained almost entirely by feminism and the goodies it provides white females. When the Republicans were the more feminist party in the 1950s, women voted more Republican than men. It's a simple matter of pandering, and it works. But how well does it work, and for how long will it continue to work?
The rise of the white feminist in American politics was aided by white men from the beginning. Women were only included in the Civil Rights Act through the efforts of a Southern segregationist. The first woman on the US Supreme Court was appointed by a white male. A white male drafted the Violence Against Women Act. White males instituted universal suffrage, passed sexual harassment laws, extended affirmative action to white females, enacted Title IX, etc. The list goes on and on. White men have done more to enfranchise white females than women themselves.
The question this brings up is how things will play out when white males no longer dominate the Democratic party, and women find themselves fighting against white males rather than being the beneficiaries of their paternalism. We have to remember that white females are a minority in the Democrat coalition, yet they have most of the more powerful positions. Can white females maintain dominance in a majority minority coalition? Will black and Hispanic males continue to submit to the likes of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi? Will black and Hispanic females, for that matter, accept white female dominance of their political party?
Probably not. When given a choice between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, minority voters overwhelmingly chose the male candidate. Race trumped gender. If we are to be honest with ourselves, the benefits white females received from white males during the Civil Rights era were another example of race trumping gender. To compare the travails of the bored white housewife with those of the southern black man is ridiculous, and I'd assume downright insulting from a black male point of view. Nevertheless, white men did their best to extend every favor minorities received to white females as well. If they had the choice, would minorities have done the same? Not a chance. The only reason Obama panders to white women is that the US is still a majority white country, and he needs their vote.
But the strain in the coalition will eventually become hard to handle. Without senior white males around to protect and foster them, white female Democrats are going to be stuck in a difficult place. Although they share a few common goals with minority Democrats, their current leadership will be called into question. There's still time for a white woman to win the presidency on the Democratic ticket, but as the Democrats become majority minority that window is closing fast.
A number of white liberals believe that the increasing minority share of the US population will doom the Republican party, but that would only be a sure thing if we were to assume that white voters will continue to vote as they currently do for a long time to come. The reality is that white voters are far from a static bloc, and if the parties really do split along racial lines, as they have in the South, the Republican party will remain strong. It is starting to look more and more as though this may indeed happen on a national level.
Pacific and Northeastern states may continue to feature white male Democrats for some time to come, but rural states and minority majority states like California will likely see fewer of them as time goes on. It is often said that California leads the nation in trends, but that appears to have changed. California has led itself, for all intents and purposes, right out of the US into nearly foreign territory.
The implications for political feminism are likely to be profound. As the political divide in the US becomes increasingly racial, gender politics will play a smaller role. If a white female Democratic presidential candidate cannot even earn an endorsement from the ultra-feminist Oprah Winfrey, how could she hope to win the support of any minorities at all? And if she doesn't have the support of white men, what exactly is her base? Childless, college-educated, single, professional white women? Not exactly firm ground for national office.
Unless women can somehow transfer feminism to the Republican Party (a longshot), it will be politically dead in the water within a decade or so. It is often repeated that demographics is destiny, but people tend to see the trends only in the simplest terms. The outcomes of demographic changes are a lot more nuanced than imagined even by our supposedly clued-in pundits. The increase in the minority share of the US population will certainly have profound implications, but given the size and cultural depth of white America there is not going to be some ultimate multicultural triumph that eliminates race from the equation.
Before the Ming dynasty, China was a far more cosmopolitan, multicultural society than it is today. It was as likely to be ruled by Altaic people as ethnic Chinese, and non-Chinese enjoyed immense influence and power from time to time. But during the Yuan dynasty, the Mongols introduced legislation that explicitly discriminated against ethnic Chinese. It was the first official, administratively implemented affirmative action program on the record. The result was that the Chinese population shrunk and lost a great deal of power, but ultimately Chinese emerged as a politically unified, far more conservative force. During the subsequent Ming dynasty the Chinese once again asserted their control and China became the most powerful, wealthy empire on earth until the dawn of the 19th century.
It remains to be seen how demographic matters will impact American politics, but it is likely that a racial divide in national politics will have a unifying effect on white America, and ethnic politics will take precedence over other issues. Feminism, homosexuality, religious differences and the like will decline in importance as racial divisions grow. All of these relatively petty issues can only flourish in times of white hegemony, and that hegemony is almost gone. We are looking at a new era in which race will subsume inconsequential intra-ethnic differences, and feminism will inevitably lose relevance.


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Hip fractures can be debilitating, particularly since more than 90 percent of them occur in persons aged 65 and older. In order for patients to regain their mobility, rehabilitation after hospital discharge is critical. Racial disparities in functioning after hip fracture may be due in part to the higher rate of discharge home for self-care among blacks and Hispanics compared with whites, suggests a new study.
Texas researchers examined the posthospital care of 34,203 patients hospitalized for hip fracture between 2001 and 2005. All were aged 65 or older (mostly women) and on Medicare. The racial breakdown was 95.3 percent whites, 3.5 percent blacks, and 1.3 percent Hispanics. The majority of patients (60.1 percent) were discharged to a skilled nursing facility or inpatient rehabilitation facility (23.5 percent). Fewer patients were discharged home to a home health care organization or outpatient therapy (5.8 percent), home to self-care (6.2), or other environment (4.4 percent). Hispanics were nearly three times as likely to be discharged home to self-care as whites (16.4 vs. 5.9 percent). Blacks had nearly 50 percent higher odds of being discharged home to self-care than whites (8.7 vs. 5.9 percent).
The researchers offer some possible explanations as to why these higher rates of discharge home occur among minorities. First, minorities tend to have larger families with younger members who can care for older relatives. Also, minorities tend to have less favorable perceptions of rehabilitation facilities than do the family members of white patients. The study was supported in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS11618).
See "Disparities in utilization of outpatient rehabilitative care following hip fracture hospitalization with respect to race and ethnicity," by Tracy U. Nguyen-Oghalai, M.D., Kenneth J. Ottenbacher, Ph.D., O.T.R., Young-fang Kuo, Ph.D., and others, in the April 2009 Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 90, pp. 560-563.


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Iconic crooner Barry Manilow is singing the real estate blues in Malibu. The singer of "Mandy" and "Can't Smile Without You" first listed the home in early 2009 for $12,600,000.
Four months, later he switched agents and dropped the price to $10,900,000.
With no buyer, the home came off the market but made a reappearance in March 2010 for $9,150,000.
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Now, it's listed at a much more down-to-earth (and realistic) price of $6,950,000.
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Working hard for the... money?
James Adonis Four of Australia's most respected workplace researchers answer the question: does money really matter?
It's (job) hunting season
James Adonis Many employees are on the lookout for new opportunities. For employers, this means one thing in particular: the looming inconvenience of staff turnover.
Who is your company's worst employee?
Tony Featherstone Helping workplace strugglers improve can have a huge effect on overall performance.
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Tony Featherstone How believable are you as an entrepreneur? Lots of people say they are entrepreneurs, but in truth are small business owners, or unwilling to take true entrepreneurial risk.
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Lanning Bennett SEEKING the views of employees is the best way of finding out what is really going on in a business, its issues, problems and challenges and what needs to be done to make the organisation perform...
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Age —The risk of BPH increases with age, beginning at about age 40. The incidence increases with age—50% by age 50 and 80% by age 80.
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Gender —BPH occurs only in men.
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(UPDATED COVERAGE, Feb. 14) International Paper has purchased corrguated packaging leader Temple-Inland Inc.
Memphis, Tenn.-based International Paper announced Feb. 13 the merger of its Metal Acquisition Inc. subsidiary with Austin, Texas-based Temple-Inland, a move that completes the purchase of Temple-Inland, said Peter Heist, International Paper's west area vice president for industrial packaging.
Heist said the purchase reaffirms International Paper's dedication to meeting its produce customers' supply chain needs with sustainable solutions like its ClimaSeries family of products.
"By combining the very best of both International Paper and Temple-Inland, International Paper is now better positioned to supply the produce industry and provide produce customers with quality products, reliable services, and superior value," Heist said.
In a news release, International Paper chairman and chief executive officer John Faraci said the integration of the two businesses creates an even stronger company with benefits for customers, employees and shareholders.
"The combination of International Paper and Temple-Inland strengthens our North American packaging business and enhances our ability to generate cash flow while maintaining our strong balance sheet," Faraci said.
Including the assumption of approximately $700 million in Temple-Inland debt, International Paper paid about $4.5 billion for the company.
Before the deal could go through, the U.S. Department of Justice required International Paper and Temple-Inland to sell a combined three containerboard mills.
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The department's antitrust division filed a civil antitrust lawsuit Feb. 10 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to block the proposed transaction if the companies didn't agree to sell the mills.
"Corrugated boxes made from containerboard are used to ship more than 90% of all goods nationwide," Sharis Pozen, acting assistant attorney general in charge of the department's antitrust division, said in the release. "With the mill divestitures, the transaction can proceed and American consumers and businesses across the country can be assured that competition is preserved in this important industry that is vital to the U.S. economy."


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"Unless you believed in vain" (1 Corinthians 15:2)In 1 Corinthians 15:1-2 we find Paul saying the following to the Corinthians: 1 Corinthians 15:1-2
Many Christians have been troubled about what this "believing in vain" means. We know from other scriptures that when you believe with your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and you confess Him as Lord, you are saved (see for example Romans 10:9 and Ephesians 2:1-10). Also, as it can be seen from the above verses, the Corinthians had accepted the gospel that Paul preached to them. Therefore, they had believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and in his resurrection from the dead and according to the corresponding scriptures they were saved. What is this "believing in vain" then? One thing that you must be very careful when you study the Bible is not to take things out of their context nor to ignore other references on the same topic. So in our case let's continue to examine the context of our passage. Verses 3 to 8 gives us a small summary of what Paul preached to the Corinthians: 1 Corinthians 15:3-8
See in this passage, the importance that Paul, by revelation, puts on the resurrection of Christ. He states specifically the eyewitnesses of the resurrection. We will see in a minute why he does that. In the second half of verse eight a parenthesis is opened where Paul speaks about himself. This parenthesis closes in verse 10. Then verse 11 brings us back to our topic: 1 Corinthians 15:11
The Corinthians had believed what Paul and the others preached. However this did not happen for all. For it says: 1 Corinthians 15:12-17 Only in one hypothetical case could someone believe in Jesus Christ and his believing be in vain. This would happen IF Jesus Christ hadn't been raised from the dead. In that case your most honest believing would really not be able to save you. Without the resurrection of the Lord Jesus there would be no salvation. Without His resurrection, our believing would be in vain, empty, futile. Look what else would have happened, if Christ had not risen: 1 Corinthians 15:17-18
If Christ was not risen, then all those believers that died believing in him they would perish. For what would they have to expect if there is no resurrection? However, all this would have happened only if Christ had not risen from the dead, which is only a hypothetical situation. For here is the reality: 1 Corinthians 15:20
The phrase "but now" makes a contrast between what precedes this word (the hypothetical case of verses 17 and 18) and what follows it (the reality): "but now Christ is risen from the dead". This is the reality. Our believing is not in vain. It would have been in vain, IF (and only if) Christ was not risen. But now "HE IS RISEN". We are no longer in our sins. Those who died believing in Christ and putting their hope in His return they will not perish. For as verses 20-22 continue: 1 Corinthians 15:20-22
See this "shall" there. It does not say that they are alive but that they shall be made alive. When? Verse 23 gives us the answer: 1 Corinthians 15:23
Jesus Christ will come back and then all those who have died believing in him will live again. To conclude therefore: can our believing be in vain? The answer is NO! It would have been in vain if Christ was not risen from the dead. But, praise the Lord, He is indeed risen, and at His coming, those who are Christ's, the true Christians, will also be raised too! |
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18 January 2013
Paul McKeever, Head of the Police Federation for England and Wales and Board member of Skills for Justice has died suddenly after suffering an embolism and being admitted to hospital a few days ago.
Chair of Skills for Justice Sir Duncan Nichol said:"I am saddened to hear the news that Paul McKeever has died and, on behalf of the Skills for Justice Board wish to extend our sympathies to Paul's family, friends and colleagues in the wider policing community. Paul has been a member of the Board for almost 5 years and diligently supported the work of Skills for Justice during that time, with good advice."
Chief Executive Alan Woods CEO said:"I am deeply saddened by the untimely death of Paul and on behalf of all his friends and colleagues at Skills for Justice, would like to extend sympathies to Paul's family and friends. I was recently at dinner with Paul to celebrate his work with Skills for Justice and I am very shocked by this devastating news."