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In a crumbling mansion in a gentrified former fishing village on the Turkish coast, the widow Fatma awaits the annual visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgün; and Metin, a high schooler drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riche. Bedridden, Fatma is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf—and her late husband's illegitimate son. Mistress and servant share memories, and grievances, from the past. But the arrival of Recep's cousin, Hasan, a fervent right-wing nationalist, threatens to draw the family into the political cataclysm arising from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity. Written in the 1980s but never before published in English, this spellbinding novel is a stunning addition to the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk.
Excerpted from Silent House by Orhan Pamuk. Copyright © 2012 by Orhan Pamuk. Excerpted by permission of Vintage, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages.
Orhan Pamuk is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau (www.rhspeakers.com)
1. The novel opens with Fatma and Recep having dinner in their respective quarters of the house. What does this scene suggest about the relationship between the two characters? Did you find anything about Fatma and Recep's interaction comic or disturbing? As Recep walks through town to the movie theater, how does Pamuk introduce a sense of place and history? How would you describe the atmosphere or tone established by the first chapter?
2. Chapter 2, "Grandmother Waits in Bed," employs the stream-of-consciousness narrative that Pamuk uses elsewhere in the novel. What does this form of storytelling reveal about Fatma that you might not otherwise know? Does it ultimately make her more sympathetic? What are the advantages of stream-of-consciousness narration in conveying past events? How does this formal device affect your experience of time in the novel? Is it different from or similar to how you experience time in your own life?
3. Fatma reflects "I used to think the world was a beautiful place; I was a child, a fool. I close the shutters and fasten the bolt: let the world stay out there" (p. 17). Later, Hasan, humiliated by his awkward interactions with others, thinks, "When that happens I want to be by myself, when a person is by himself he can relax and think about all the great things he could say and do" (34). Similarly, Faruk, while alone in the archives, reads "from individual pages, the millions of lives and stories jumbled together suddenly took discrete form in my mind"; he becomes "quite happy, deciding that this is history, this colorful vital thing that is coming alive in [his] mind" (p. 83). What role does solitude and the life of the imagination play in the novel? In what ways is such a life of the imagination helpful to the characters? In what ways is it harmful? Ultimately, what do you think the novel says about the powers of the imagination?
4. Storytelling figures as an important theme within Silent House. How do the characters Recep, Fatma, Metin, Hasan, and Faruk employ storytelling to justify their lives and shape their identities? What are the differences and similarities in the way the characters use storytelling?
5. In chapter 18, "Faruk Needs to Find a Story," Faruk, a history professor and scholar, has a particularly conflicted attitude toward storytelling. First, he considers that "no doubt … the true appeal of history is the pleasure of the story, the power to divert us" (p. 126) and if he "could only find a good story," his colleagues would "be completely astonished" (p. 129). Later, however, he thinks that "passion for listening to stories leads us astray every time, dragging us off to a world of fantasy, even as we continue to live in one of flesh and blood" (p. 164); he then despairs: "There's no way to express history, or even life as it is, in words!" (p. 166). What role do you think storytelling plays in history? Can history be adequately conveyed by facts alone? Can a work of fiction, like Silent House, convey history in ways that history books cannot? From reading this novel, or other works by Orhan Pamuk, what do you think is Pamuk's view of the role of fiction in relation to history?
6. In chapter 19, "Recep Serves the Quiet Dinner Table," Recep considers the silence of the dinner table: "Maybe they finally understood that words are useless. . . . But there are times when words can touch people, too, that I know" (p. 173). Do you think Pamuk agrees with both aspects of Recep's observation? How does the Silent House respond to or challenge the limits of language? Are there moments in the novel when you were moved by Pamuk's language? If so, by which passages?
7. How are the story's main characters, regardless of class or educational differences, shaped by the effects of orphanhood and illegitimacy? Considering the political and cultural conflicts in the region, what larger commentary might Pamuk be making about Turkey with these motifs?
8. Both Metin and Hasan appear to be conflicted about money. How is this ambivalence reflected in their behavior? What are the other characters' attitudes toward money and how do these views affect their actions? Do you think the novel portrays materialism as a symptom or a cause of other issues?
9. On page 154, Hasan rages against communism, materialism, and imperialism as being to blame for his dire situation. Is there any justification for his suspicions? On page 293, a bedridden Fatma imagines Recep scheming against her. What do you think animates her fears? What connections does the novel suggest exist between powerlessness and paranoia?
10. Hasan thinks, "I am somebody different, not held down by my past, I have no more memories" (p. 261). Is such surrender of the past possible? What relationship do the other characters have to the past, and does it hinder or help them?
11. On page 133, Metin thinks: "The thing I called me was like a box within a box; it was like there was always something else inside it, maybe if I kept looking I could finally find my real self and express it, but every new box I opened had, instead of a real, true Metin that I could show to Ceylan, just another box hiding him." Later, Faruk reflects, "One can only claim self-understanding to a certain point, and beyond that one is babbling, whether one knows it or not. It was an oddly liberating thought while it lasted" (p. 285). What do these two perspectives reveal about Metin and Faruk as well as tPamuk's portrayal of the self? How might these observations by Metin and Faruck ironically exhibit a sense of self-understanding? In your opinion, which of the characters possess the greatest self-understanding? Which possess the least?
12. At one point, Hasan thinks: "Woman is a pitiful creature, it's not right to treat her badly. My mother, for example, is such a good woman! I don't like people who show them disrespect, guys who only think about going to bed with them, rich guys and materialistic bastards" (p. 211). Later, however, he confesses that "women scare me sometimes" (p. 259). Then, further in the same chapter, he asserts, "I'm a man, I can do anything" (p. 269). Do you see any connection between these seemingly contradictory statements? Although Hasan and Metin come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, do you notice any similarities in their views of women and gender? How are both boys' attitudes toward women and gender affected by class and culture?
13. Ömer Selâhattin Kantar (1878–1949) was a noted Turkish archaeologist, museum director, journalist, and playwright. Considering Pamuk's renown as a journalist, novelist, and museum founder, how might the Nobel Prize–winning author be viewed as a cultural archaeologist? Do you view the respective archival and encyclopedic projects of Faruk and the fictional Selâhattin as misguided or worthy projects? Through these two characters, what might Pamuk be saying about the difficulties and motivations behind any historical or archival project?
14. Although Faruk and Selâhattin claim to be fiercely secular, how does religion strongly impact both men? Do you see anything religious about their obsessions?
15. In chapter 28, "Faruk Watches a Belly Dancer," Faruk states: "I wanted to escape from my own awareness, to wander freely in a world outside my own mind, but understanding now that I would always be two people, I realized that I'd never be able to let go" (p. 292). Why do you think Faruk has this reaction to the dancer's interaction with the Western tourists? What does the belly dancer signify to him? How might Faruk's "double-consciousness" reflect Turkey's cultural and political identity? Could such a dual identity apply to those from other cultures?
16. Earlier in the novel, Faruk converses with a Turkish man who resembles the American actor Edward G. Robinson and who is berated by his own family for not looking more like the actor; "can't a person just be himself," the man complains. Faruk replies that "they'd have just found some other famous original and criticized your inadequate resemblance to him" (p.235). Do you see any connections between Faruk's reaction to the belly dancer and his conversation with this man?
17. The last sentence of the novel states: "You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life" (p. 334). How do you interpret these last lines? What does Fatma seem to understand about her life?
18. Consider Fatma's recollection of what Selâhattin tells her is "the most important article" in his encyclopedia: "The source of all knowledge is experimentation" (p. 217). How might a work of fiction like Silent House be an example such experimentation? Can a novelist "trick you with his literary skill" (p. 231) and still produce a work of historical truth?


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Like all their rivals, Williams brought a Monza-specific rear wing to Italy. The FW30's wing featured a single profile, the extremities of which were bent upwards (see red arrow and inset). This configuration helped to reduce drag on the track's straights, while also providing enough downforce for the corners.


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Mid summer and the living is, well, it's relatively easy. We've been half-assedly watching the Tour. It's not that we're not interested, just that it offers little hope of being truly nail-biting this time around. Thanks be to the cycling gods for Sir Thomas Voekler, who is fast becoming a legend in his own time and not unlike Richard Virenque in that he's so engaging to watch and so unafraid to suffer to the core. Cycling needs more dudes like that dude.
Time for some links:
Check out the rings. Barring something crazy, Wiggins and Froome are going to go 1, 2 at the TDF using Osymetric rings. Just sayin
Yes, Aluminum does make sense.
Hey Paul, keep it PG, willya?
The next climbing power house country, perhaps? Colombians, be warned.
Absolutely, positively no excuse for this. And I'm not talking about Gilbert – his reaction is completely understandable. Letting your dog run free in any circumstances, let alone road-side at a bike race, let alone at the Tour, is about a 9 out of 10 on the stupid scale.
Sure, dude can ride, probably holding back even. But every time I see him, his bug-looks remind me of a human praying mantis. A real praying mantis.
We've added a new section to our web store this week: We'll be selling off some of our used and unused team equipment here. New items will rotate through here as we have the surplus. Bikes, wheels, components, etc… Check it out.
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Of course, that doesn't change the fact that the circus is still in town. But fuck it, as long as the circus is still here, why not go all out and add some death defying feats? THRILL to Mike Pelfrey putting 10 MEN on base in 6.1 innings and still somehow giving up NO RUNS! COVER YOUR EYES as he loads the bases in TWO different innings! STARE IN AMAZEMENT as Jeff Francoeur sees SEVEN pitches in three at bats and still somehow manages a base knock and an RBI! ASKK YOURSELF SERIOUSLY if a team with playoff aspirations should go TWO MONTHS before winning four straight games again! WONDER ALOUD how Sean Green pitches a scoreless inning!
OK, so maybe that last one is a cheap shot what with Bad For The Irish's turnaround since his April troubles, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let that go so fast. If it takes Luis Castillo having the third highest OBP among all the second basemen in baseball to get Met fans to accept him, Sean Green's going to have to cease giving up runs from here until the end of the season,
So before we get all jacked up on hope and start screaming to the world about the Mets being back and this blog getting two new sets of eyeballs in Yitzie(sp?) and Brian (shout out accomplished), let's look at two ugly facts, sponsored by the Ugly Truth, starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. Hah hah hah, sellout. Even if the Mets sweep the Rockies in this series, they still need to climb over the marginal contenders: the Brewers, Astros (sorry Tex), Marlins and Braves. Then they need to climb over the Cardinals, Rockies, Giants and Cubs, and two of those teams are good enough to have been picked to win the NL Central. Second, the Mets are still three games under .500. Fucking yikes.


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From a very young age I've been getting a new pair of glasses about once every two years – I've tried contact lenses a couple of times but was never happy with them.
I know exactly where I am with glasses, I know where I stand with glasses and to be honest I just feel really weird when I'm not wearing them – they are part of my identity.
The girl at Vision Express flashing bright lights in my eyes, blowing air in my eyes and generally putting me through the normal string of computer based eye torture that makes up the average eye test didn't understand my love of wearing glasses.
She was a contact lense wearer – as are many other people I work with or generally come in contact with.
Like I said before, I've tried the whole contact lense thing – I gave it a whole weak last time I tried it – no glasses for a week – just putting bits of flimsy plastic on to my eyeball in a torture like proceedure for something that is no better than, and possibly worse than wearing glasses.
Yet she still felt the need to tell me I could try them again any time I like. At this point I felt like saying 'No I like glasses, test my eyes and then show me the specs'.
But I'm British and instead nodded gratefully as she told me to keep still while she blew air into my eyeball.
Anyway, after the random collection of tests it turns out that for some slightly insane reason I've not yet worked out – my eyesight has improved slightly.
Even if my eyesight had remained the same I was still getting a new pair of specs – it had been five years since my last pair and the Oakley's I've been sporting on my face since 2005 are a little worse for wear.
So the process started – looking through the dozens of pairs in the mens section, telling myself It will be different this time, that I will actually try on lots of different pairs and not just accept the first pair I see.
But I ended up spotting a Boss frame out of the corner of my eye while talking to the sales guy – I tried them on, tried on the grey version in Titanium and by that point had already made up my mind.
I did try on several pairs after that but I'd already made up my mind – this is an important decision for a glasses wearer – this is something that would be sat on my face for up to five years – it would be the central focus point of my identity.
But I still settled on the first pair I saw – because buying glasses is all about instinct.
In fact I didn't even notice the cost – until I came back with my wife the next day to pay for them and even then it was her that noticed the cost and not me.
Lenses (heavy duty thinning down, scratch and glare resistance) £195
Frame (Boss, titanium, grey) £180
Glasses that look great and I'll be comfortable in for a few years – worth every penny (you thought I was going to say Priceless didn't you?).
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6ft to 7ft double enders IMO , are one of the most versatile designs ever. They are a simple and functional blend of natural curves that suites all surfing levels.........I like the way you have to "surf' these boards , and not just physically bludgeon them into position , with the aid of extreme "lightness".......they do like a bit of volume.......
mrkmrk2842 wrote:finally got round to some pics - the board is really refined and beautifully foiled - the pics don't do the board justice but you get the idea....
mister-griffster wrote:I'd agree with that totally Kayu - used to have a 6'6" hobie egg and it was a blast - would go in everything and super quick - very fluid and you can surf with the wave instead of fighting against it. - If i were going for a 'dual' board for me and the missus to share I'd probs look seriously at an egg - soft and easy enough for a beginner but comes alive under the feet of those who know what they are doing.:
Agree....the term makes me cringe!!!flacky wrote:Mini Mal is the worst term I've ever heard in surfing....
flacky wrote:I'm reclassifying my quiver from now on. I have a 9'4 fun board, and a 6'4 fun board.
Suits me.
Archy_is_God wrote:I'd be keen to hear more about that Hilbers for sure - what size did you go for mrkmrk?
The new 8fter will be sailing over to me on a Sea of Cheese via Mr. Mason
ese wrote:Have 7.0ft magic carpet. Use it as a single fin with a 9.0 inch rainbow rake. Sometimes add side bites in bigger waves, which with the 9 looks like a lot of fin!
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On February 22, 2013, Clean Energy Collective broke ground on a 500 kilowatt (kW) community-owned solar array in Xcel Energy's Colorado service area. The array will service roughly 100 residential, commercial, and nonprofit customers. The project is a result of Xcel Energy's Solar Rewards Community program which is a solar garden initiative bringing renewable energy to customers who are unable to put solar panels on their properties. The Solar Rewards Community program allows any Xcel customer to purchase solar panels in the array; the customer then receives credits directly on their Xcel electricity bill for the power produced. The program was made possible by the passing of Rep. Claire Levy's House Bill 10-1342.News Release -Boulder County to see groundbreaking on first community solar array
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A Healthy Summer Treat: Banana "Ice Cream"
by Monique Volz in Uncategorized, June 1, 2012We're hosting a Healthy Every Week Challenge for the month of May; a month-long initiative to develop healthy eating habits. The plan is to develop a manageable healthy habit each week that will carry through the new year. Join us here and share what you're eating on Facebook and Twitter.
I'm here wrapping up the Healthy Eating Challenge, but secretly I am wishing it was continuing longer! The healthy habits I've practiced during the month of May have actually stuck with me. I mean, who knew that plotting out my bites would lead to money saving and weight loss? I certainly didn't. Now eating breakfast every morning, preparing meals ahead of times, and thinking about the choices I make when I visit the grocery store helps me stay on track with healthy habits.
I think the hardest part of the challenge was trying to resist eating dessert. Summertime has me craving something cool and sweet. While buzzing around the internet, I found an incredible recipe for banana 'ice cream'. Here's the thing–this magical "ice cream" really isn't ice cream at all — it's a one-ingredient, dairy-free treat that tastes like soft serve. Have you ever tried it?
One medium banana has about 105 calories, is loaded with potassium and vitamins, and is fat free. All you need to make this ice cream is a food processor and chunks of frozen bananas. When processed, the frozen bananas transform into a wonderfully sweet ice cream alternative that can save you a ton of calories.
The best part of this guilt-free treat? Adding fun mix-ins! I love mimicking my favorite candy bars. When I created mine (pictured above), I was thinking about Almond Joys (my favorite candy bar). I made my banana "ice cream" first and piled it into a cone then; then rolled it in toasted coconut, chopped almonds, and a few dark chocolate chips.
Here are some of my favorite fun mix ins:
• Banana cream pie: Crumble a graham cracker or vanilla wafers on top
• Sweet-n-salty: Crushed chocolate covered pretzels on top
• Peanut butter cup: Mix in 2 teaspoons of peanut butter and top with 1 teaspoon of chocolate chips
• Snickers: Top with 1 teaspoon peanuts, a few chocolate chips, and a drizzle of caramel
• Strawberries-n-cream: Add 1/3 cup chopped strawberries
• Nutella banana: Mix in 2 teaspoons of Nutella
For more fun toppings, check out Dana's ideas here.
Now here's how to make your own banana "ice cream":
Start with 2-4 ripe bananas. Peel your bananas and cut them into small chunks. Freeze for just 2-4 hours on a plate or in a plastic bag. Place into food processor and process (you can use a blender as well), making sure to scrape down the bowl when they stick. Again process the bananas until they create a creamy puree. Serve in a cold bowl or in a cone. Each banana will make ½ cup of "ice cream."
I hope you'll continue to keep up with healthy habits you've learned during the month of May, it's been so much fun! As always you can catch me over on my food blog Ambitious Kitchen.
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Great palette. It contains three concealers - one lighter, one darker, and one green-tinted. I like to mix the dark and light for blemish covering and then use the green for areas around my nose and chin. I don't wear foundation everyday because this concealer allows for great coverage, making foundation obsolete if your skin is relatively clear. It also comes with a skin colored powder, which I never use, but it's there. I will most likely come back to this concealer.
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This product is absolutely phenomenal. I got it cause I had heard great things about it from YouTube gurus. There's three (creamy) concealers. One for my under eye area, blemishes and the lifesaver green neutralizing concealer. I use all of these on a day to day basis. The under eye concealer is nice and light and really brightens up my eyes. The concealer to cover up blemishes is a nice tan color, suiting me well for my medium skin, especially in the summer. The green concealer has been my love the most out of this palette. I'd never been an advocate for green concealers, but was open to try it. Needless to say, I've fallen for them, particularly this one. It's creamy(like all the other concealers in this palette), neutralizes redness precisely and blends well into my skin. The eye concealer setting powder is also extraordinary. I've never used a under eye powder thats worked so well at not accentuating the lines under my eyes and keeps my concealer in place. It's fantastic. This product blows my NARS concealer out of the park. I would recommend this to ANYONE. Go and try it, you won't regret it!
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Absolutely adore this product! I was so sad when I read reviews about it discontinuing a while back. I bought mine at Target for $10 I believe. It's not a bad price in comparison to the higher end concealers, and you get three different shades. I use the one on the top right for my under eyes, and the bottom left for any scarring or blemishes. It works like a charm and doesn't cake up at all. I don't use the powder seeing as how I have my foundation for that. The top left I have no use for, but I could use it as an under the brow-bone highlight or near my tear duct to make my eyes appear more awake. I'd definitely purchase this again! Get it while it's hot because it's usually always sold out at Target! :)
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I bought this product after hearing so much hype about it from a few Makeup Gurus on youtube. It only comes in two shade in a package, and none of them matched my skin tone. I'm Vietnamese, and this even looked yellow on me. It also didn't look very natural at all, which was the look i was going for. Luckily, Target did accept the return.
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I was introduced to this whenever I was doing a CP with someone from Canada and it was the first time that I had ever heard of Sonia Kashuk, lol. I know...pitiful, lol. But anyway...I decided to find one on here and I absolutely LOVE IT!!! I've tried many other concealers within my price range and NOTHING came even close to doing the job. I definitely recommend this to anyone! This was the only concealer that hid my redness and I can't live without it!
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I used this for my hereditary dark circles, and the pigmentation was always great right after I applied it. Every concealer I've ever tried hasn't been able to completely get rid of the darkness under my eyes, so this was a feat. But unfortunatley, how bad I wanted this to work just couldn't make it work. For one, it 100% unavoidably creases, no matter how many times I go back in with my brush and smooth it out..it creases right back up. Then there's how chalky it looks after a few hours..I was totally fooled by the initial finish. But, for opaque coverage, I will seriously overlook those 2 things. The absolute worst part is this just does not LAST at all. Within an hour, I have chalky, liney, grayish cast under eye circles. Worse than before I put this on. I used it after foundation, WITH a setting powder..so its definitely the concealer.
All I can say for it is the green one does counteract redness nicely..but its nothing a regular concealer can't do..and who cares with this concealer lasting power.
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The Oedipus complex in Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a stage of psychosexual development in childhood where children of both sexes regard their father as an adversary and competitor for the exclusive love of their mother. The name derives from the Greek myth of Oedipus, who unwittingly kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother, Jocasta.
In Jungian thought, the Oedipus complex tends to refer only to the experience of male children, with female children experiencing an Electra complex in which they regard their mothers as competitor for the exclusive love of their fathers.
Freud considered the successful resolution of the Oedipus complex to be key to the development of gender roles and identity. He posited that boys and girls resolved the conflicts differently as a result of castration anxiety (for males) and penis envy (for females). Freud also held that the unsuccessful resolution of the Oedipus complex could result in neurosis, and homosexuality. Most Freud scholars today agree that Freud's views on the Oedipus complex went through a number of stages of development. This is well exemplified in the Simon and Blass (1991) publication, which documents no fewer than six stages of development of Freud's thinking on this subject:
- Stage 1. 1897-1909. Following the death of his father in 1896, and his later seeing Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Freud begins to use the term "Oedipus" but does not, at this stage, use the term "Oedipus complex".
- Stage 2. 1909-1914. Freud refers to Oedipal wishes as being the "nuclear complex" of every neurosis, and later uses term "Oedipus complex" for the first time in 1910.
- Stage 3. 1914-1918. Incestuous wishes in relation to the father as well as to the mother are now considered.
- Stage 4. 1919-1926. Stage of complete Oedipus complex, in which considerations of identification and bisexuality become more evident in Freud's work. Freud now begins to use the term "complete Oedipus complex"..
- Stage 5. 1926-1931. Applies the Oedipal theory to religious and cultural themes.
- Stage 6. 1931-1938. Gives more attention to the Oedipus complex in females.
It can be seen from this model that Freud's writings on the Oedipus complex in females date primarily from his later writings, of the 1920s and 1930s. He believed that the Oedipal wishes in females are initially homosexual desires for the mother, and in 1925, raised the question of how females later abandon this desire for their mother, and shift their sexual desires to their fathers (Appignanesisi & Forrester, 1992). Freud believed that this stems from their disappointment in discovery that their mother lacks a penis. It is noteworthy that, as Slipp (1993) points out, "Nowhere in the Standard Edition of Freud's Collected Works does Freud discuss matricide" (Slipp, 1993, p95). Freud's final comments on female sexuality occurred in his "New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis" in 1933 (Slipp, 1993) and deal with the different effects of penis envy and castration anxiety. While Freud argued that both sexes experience desire for their mothers and aggression towards their fathers, Carl Jung believed that females experienced desire for their fathers and aggression towards their mothers. He referred to this idea as the Electra complex, after Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon. Electra wanted to kill her mother, who had helped plan the murder of her father. The Electra complex is not considered to be a part of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
Although common usage refers to 'suffering from an Oedipus complex', psychoanalysis does not consider the complex a pathology, but instead a perfectly normal stage that all children go through. Oedipal desires are thought to remain heavily repressed and unconscious in the minds of all functioning adults.
Theory of the Oedipal complex
Relying on material from his self-analysis and on anthropological studies of totemism, Freud developed the Oedipus complex as an explanation of the formation of the super-ego. The traditional paradigm in a (male) child's psychological coming-of-age is to first select the mother as the object of libidinal investment. This however is expected to arouse the father's anger, and the infant surmises that the most probable outcome of this would be castration. Although Freud devoted most of his early literature to the Oedipus complex in males, by 1931 he was arguing that females do experience an Oedipus complex, and that in the case of females, incestuous desires are initially homosexual desires towards the mothers. It is clear that in Freud's view, at least as we can tell from his later writings, the Oedipus complex was a far more complicated process in female than in male development.
The infant internalizes the rules pronounced by his father. This is how the super-ego comes into being. The father now becomes the figure of identification, as the child wants to keep his phallus, but resigns from his attempts to take the mother, shifting his libidinal attention to new objects of desire. In contrast, Otto Rank theorized in the early 1920s that the powerful mother was the source of the super-ego in normal development, a theory that catapulted Rank out of the inner circle in 1925 and led to the development of modern object-relations therapy. (Rank coined the term pre-Oedipal.)
Little Hans: a case study by Freud
"Little Hans" was a young boy who was the subject of an early but extensive study of castration anxiety and the Oedipus complex by Freud. Hans's neurosis took the shape of a phobia of horses (Equinophobia). Freud wrote a summary of his treatment of Little Hans, in 1909, in a paper entitled "Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy." This was one of just a few case studies that Freud published.
Hans's fear and anxiety were thought to be the result of several factors, including the birth of a little sister, his desire to replace his father as his mother's mate, conflicts over masturbation, and other issues. Freud saw this anxiety as rooted in an incomplete repression of sexual feelings and other defense mechanisms the boy was using to combat the impulses involved in his sexual development. Hans' behavior and emotional state did improve when he was provided with information by his father, and the two became closer.
Hans himself was unable to connect the fear of horses and the desire to get rid of his father. George Serban, in a more modern commentary, says:
"This assumption was suggested to him by his father. Furthermore, Freud himself admitted that 'Hans had to be told many things that he could not say himself'; that 'he had to be presented with thoughts which he had so far shown no signs of possessing'; and that 'his attention had to be turned in the direction from which his father was expecting something to come.' (Serban 1982)"
H. J. Eysenck claims in his book "The Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" that this was one of Freud's most blatant misrepresentations. Shortly before being sent to see Freud, Hans was witness to a traumatic accident in which a cart horse (common form of transport at the time) had a sudden fit (possibly a heart attack) and collapsed, falling onto a person who was instantly killed. This simple, common sense interpretation of a little boy's fear of horses was discounted by Freud, who insisted that it was an illustration of his own, more elaborate theories.
Critiques of the Oedipus Complex
Popular culture often portrays Freud as overly focused on sexual influences and his theory of the Oedipus Complex is often considered untenable. However, there have been many critiques of the Oedipus complex among the psychoanalysts and philosophers who acquaint themselves with the work of Freud.
Alfred Adler contended with Freud's belief over the dominance of the sex drive and whether ego drives were libidinal; he also attacked Freud's ideas over repression. Adler believed that the repression theory should be replaced with the concept of ego-defensive tendencies - compared to the neurotic state derived from inferiority feelings and overcompensation of the masculine protest, Oedipal complexes were to him insignificant. Although Freud believed that the Oedipus complex takes place around the age of five, Melanie Klein believed it took place far earlier, possibly in the first two years of a child's life. There have also been criticisms from anthropologists such as Bronisław Malinowski and Edvard Westermarck. Research such as that of Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands is often cited as a challenge to Freud's conviction that the Oedipus complex is a universal phenomenon. Within feminism, there is critique regarding the interpretation of Freud's penis envy (feminism and the oedipus complex).
Freud's theories are often criticized for not being real science.[1] This objection was raised by Karl Popper, who claimed that all proper scientific theories must be potentially falsifiable. Popper argued that no experiment or observation could ever falsify Freud's theories of psychology (e.g. someone who denies having an Oedipal complex is interpreted as repressing it), and thus they could not be considered scientific.[2]
H. J. Eysenck claims that Freud 'set psychiatry back one hundred years', consistently mis-diagnosed his patients, fraudulently misrepresented case histories and that "what is true in Freud is not new and what is new in Freud is not true".[3]
Dr. Jurgen von Scheidt speculated that most of Freud's psychoanalytical theory was a byproduct of his cocaine use.[4] Cocaine enhances dopaminergic neurotransmission increasing sexual interest and obsessive thinking. Chronic cocaine use can produce unusual thinking patterns due to the depletion of dopamine levels in the prefrontal cortex.
Philosophy and the Oedipus Complex
Philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, along with radical psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, have used their work to show how internalized power structures are a function of the world order we live in, bent on disciplining the subject. Discipline is meant by Foucault in both its senses; he argues that the science of man has created its own object, relying on Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the will to power. According to this theory the Oedipus Complex can only arise historically under certain conditions.
Deleuze and Guattari in Anti-Oedipus apply this to the dissemination of Freud's Oedipus Complex, which they call "Oedipalization". They believe that the capitalist system and psychoanalysis as its tool rely on making people believe in a father, who is more powerful than them and has a phallus, which will always be unobtainable for them. Their idea is that the family structure is the smallest unit of this subjection because now power does not come from a central force like God or a monarch, but is spread over small power units which keep people in submission. Therefore they assume a system of pure immanence without an outside. They believe psychoanalysis is intent on producing neuroses while the capitalist system is really inherently schizophrenic. They propose an escape through anoedipal structures, relying on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein's concept of partial objects and proposing non-centered schizophrenia as a tendency to strive for, displacing psychoanalysis for schizoanalysis.
French theorist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan revised the Oedipus complex in line with his structuralist attempt to combine psychoanalysis and linguistics. Lacan claimed that the position of the father could never be held by the infant. On the one hand the infant must identify with the father, in order to participate in sexual relations. However the infant could also never become the father as this would imply sexual relations with the mother. Through the dictates on the one hand to be the father and on the other not to, the father is elevated to an ideal. He is no longer a real material father, but a function of a father. Lacan terms this the Name of the Father. The same goes for the mother — Lacan no longer talks of a real mother, but simply of desire, which is a desire to return to the undifferentiated state of being together with the mother, before the interference through the Name-of-the-Father.
This desire necessarily lacks something, i.e. it is a desire of lack. The father and accordingly the phallus (not a real penis, but a representation of mastery) can never be reached, thus he is above or outside the language system and cannot be spoken about. All language relies on this absence of the phallus from the system of signification. According to this theory, without a phallus outside of language, nothing in language would make sense or could be differentiated. Thus Lacan remodels the linguistic theory of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. It is this idea that forms the basis of much contemporary thought, especially poststructuralism. Nothing can be thought that is outside of language, but the phallus is there and therefore structures the whole system of thought accordingly. Oedipus could also be thought of the theme of the story.
Negative Oedipus Complex
The following text is meant as a representation of the Negative Oedipus Complex as Freud originally developed it. This does not necessarily represent the view of modern psycho-analytical theory. Furthermore, we will mostly describe here the Negative Oedipus Complex as Freud developed it for boys. The concept was developed much later for girls and Freud expressed doubts whether or not his ideas about girls were correct. There is a psychoanalytic work which explores the girls experience Arachnids: homme fatales
Theory: The concept of the negative Oedipus Complex is inseparably linked to Sigmund Freud's concept of passive aims. He did not begin to develop these until around 1910, and most subsequent psychoanalytical writers have largely overlooked the significance of the subject. Only in 1918, Freud used the term Negative Oedipus Complex for the first time, in his essay on The Wolf Man case. The Wolf Man, so called because of his dreams about wolves, was a Russian aristocrat who was in psychoanalytic treatment with Freud for a long time. In his essay on the case, Freud focused for the first time on the existence of the negative complex in childhood. Others have named the concept passive, inverted, incomplete or negative Oedipus Complex. We chose the term negative Oedipus Complex taking into account the fact that this form of the complex in girls is not passive and also has active elements.
The manifestation of the Negative Oedipus Complex in boys consists of:
- Identification with the mother. In the passive Oedipus complex, the boy identifies with his mother as wanting to take her place in the romantic and sexual relationship with the father.
- Passive genital or phallic aims. The boy wants to receive his father's love, the boy himself has a passive role. Because the woman has a passive role in intercourse, Freud termed the wish to be penetrated by his father the passive genital aim.
- Homosexual object choice. The boy wants his father to satisfy his sexual instincts, the father is his choice of object. These sexual instincts, however, should be interpreted more in a romantic way, than in an adult erotic way.
- Castration anxiety. In the passive Oedipus complex, a boy recognizes that his wish to be copulated by his father requires that he himself has the genitals of a woman, so that he be castrated. The boy does not want to part with his penis and therefore fears the castration. In the normal Oedipus complex, castration anxiety means the fear of being castrated by his father as punishment for loving his mother.
- Feminine attitude. This is the term Freud used to describe what later became the passive Oedipus Complex. The attitude is called feminine because the boy has a feminine identification with his own mother. He wants to take her place in the relationship with the father.
According to Freud, for both boys and girls, the oedipal development starts by the discovery of the differences between the sexes. This notion leads to differences in the oedipal development. As far as the girl is concerned, the awareness of the differences of the sexes gives rise to the idea that her penis was taken away by the mother for whom she feels a lot of resentment (Freud's idea). Modern psychodynamic theory suggests a less sexually driven perspective: the girl rivals with the mother for her father's love (Positive Oedipus Complex); at the same time she wants a good relationship with the mother and she identifies with the father and rival with him (Negative Oedipus Complex).
As we can see, at the basis of the concept lies Freud's idea of innate human bisexuality. Freud explains this as follows in his book The Ego and the Id (1923):
"… a boy has not merely an ambivalent attitude towards his father and an affectional objects-choice towards his mother… (which is the 'normal' Oedipus Complex) …but at the same time he also behaves like a girl and displays an affectionate feminine attitude to his father and a corresponding jealousy and hostility towards his mother".
According to Freud, the resolution of the Oedipus Complex in any form is a distinct and separate identification which the young boy has with both his father and his mother. In the negative form, the boy identifies with his mother as wanting to take her place in sexual intercourse, in other words: he wants to be loved in an erotic way by his father. Because the woman has a passive role in intercourse (according to Freud), the concept has been named passive Oedipus Complex, or passive mode of satisfaction. Freud termed the wish to be penetrated by his father the passive genital aim. In modern psychodynamic theory, the Negative Oedipus Complex is seen as less concerned with the pure sexual aspects that Freud described. A boy, in fear of being castrated by his father, may be willing to give him authority and to give up masculinity to keep a good relation with the father.
It is important to keep in mind the difference Freud makes between the terms identification and object choice. When a young boy identifies with his mother, he wants to take her place; hence, he wants to be loved by his father. If the boy's mother is his choice of object, he sees her as the object of his sexual instincts: he wants to penetrate her and thus sees the father as a rival. So, in the normal Oedipus Complex the mother is the boy's choice of object, while she is the object of the boy's identification in the inverted complex.
Interestingly, Freud connected the Castration Complex, which is a part of the normal Oedipus Complex, to the inverted form. In the normal form, a boy is afraid of being castrated by his father as punishment for loving the mother. In the negative form, Freud sees the fantasy of castration or wish to be castrated of the boy as essential, even a precondition, for the central wish of the inverted complex: the boy wanting to be penetrated by his father. In the boy's fantasy, his castration is necessary for the creation of the female sex organs (identification with the mother), which permits intercourse with the father.
See also
- Psychoanalysis
- Westermarck Effect
- Human Nature
- Electra complex
- Feminism and the Oedipus complex
- Father complex
- Appignanesi, L. & Forrester, J. (1992). Freud's Women. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson. ISBN:: 0-297-81244-0
- Serban, George. The Tyranny of Magical Thinking. E. P. Dutton Inc., New York 1982. ISBN 0-525-24140-X
- Simon, B. & Blass, R.B. (1991). The development and vicissitudes of Freud's ideas on the Oedipus complex. In P. Neu (ed.). Cambridge Companion to Freud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-3779-X. pp161-174
- Slipp, S. (1993). The Freudian Mystique: Freud, Women and Feminism". New York: New York University Press. ISBN 08147-7968-9 (hardback copy).
- ↑ Ludwig, 1973, pg. 93
- ↑ Karl Popper, "Philosophy of Science: A Personal Report," in British Philosophy in the Mid-Century: A Cambridge Symposium, ed. C. A. Mace (1957), 155-91; reprinted in Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963; 2d ed., 1965), 33-65.
- ↑ Eysenck, Hans, Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1986)
- ↑ Scheidt, Jürgen vom (1973). "Sigmund Freud and cocaine". Psyche: pp. 385–430.
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GORTON Monastery re-opened its wedding book when a Salford couple tied the knot at the magnificent building on Saturday 27 June 2009.
The monastery was the backdrop for Emma Kelly and Daniel Karen's big day - the first there in two decades.
The couple, from Swinton, had planned to tie the knot in a Scottish castle before learning earlier this year that the beautifully-restored neo monastery, built in the 1860s, was re-opening its doors to weddings. Emma's mum, from Miles Platting, used to sing in the monastery choir.
Emma, 27, and Daniel, 30, have been together for seven years. Daniel proposed in Venice last Christmas. Emma wore two dresses on the day - one for the civil ceremony and a second for the party. And you'd expect nothing less from the bride who works at her family bridal business, The Confetti Box, in Eccles.
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Elaine Griffiths, The Monastery's Chief Executive, said: "Emma and Danny's wedding is the start of another important chapter in the incredible story of this very special building. It was always our intention to host weddings here. It's the perfect location and was a natural part of our business plan for the building. Unfortunately, when we first opened as an events venue two years ago, we couldn't qualify for a licence for civil marriages because the connection with religious practices was so recent. Now that The Monastery is recognised as a major events venue rather than a church so we were able to get the licence earlier this year.
Gorton Monastery held many weddings in the 126 years when it was a church and it holds many happy memories for local families going back generations. Now couples of all beliefs, faiths and backgrounds have the opportunity to take their vows and hold a celebration party for family and friends in this magical space. It's wonderful that we don't have to turn anyone away. We can cater for every size of celebration, from a small and intimate gathering to a spectacular event for hundreds. We're so pleased this lovely couple will help us mark another milestone in the Monastery's history."
For more information on The Monastery or to book the venue or a tour call 0161 223 3211 or visit www.themonastery.co.uk.


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Hay Hay it's Donna Day - Pesto
I've fallen in love with Donna Hay's Rough Chop Pesto method, this months HHDD recipe as chosen by Joey of 80 Breakfasts our delightful host. Often after a day immersed in homeschooling, messy crafts or gardening in hot and windy weather. I'm hungry and tired like the rest of the family and to be honest the last thing I want to do is cook!
I love cooking for sure, yet, just like most people there are some days when I feel right darn lazy. On these days if we lived in a town, or the city we'd probably succumb to some Indian takeaways, sadly however we don't and so on these days we fall to one of our favourites and what is a really easily prepared meal instead.
A quick phone call or text to J before he leaves work; "Please, can you pick up a side of salmon on the way home?"
means we can spend the money we would have on takeaways on something a lot more satisfying, healthy and yet a very simple meal in minutes.
We buy our Akaroa Salmon from the factory shop, the fish hardly needs to hit the pan it's so incredibly fresh you could be having it raw and as you know we often do!
Donna Hay's Rough Chop Pesto method is ideal for these lazy nights too. I far prefer rinsing a knife than lugging my super heavy mortar and pestle to the sink, or cleaning down all the attachments of my food processor.
I'm pretty handy with a knife too, even if I do say so myself. Certainly my WÜSTHOF chef's knife is the most loved and most well used kitchen tool I own.
We coated some of our new potatoes, Jersey Bennes (my favourite!) in basil pesto. Fresh from our garden these sweet little potatoes' skins easily rub off under the running tap.
Together with a simple salad; thrown together with from fresh leaves also found in the garden and a portion of pan-fried Akaroa salmon, you have a super delicious, healthy meal.
We stuck with the authentic and original basil flavour, however I'm keen to try the same method with mint to serve over mange tout, baby peas and with some lamb chops off the BBQ real soon. You can make a delicious pesto out of any herb you have an abundance of. Pop on over to Joey's for the basil pesto recipe and the method which is sure to make pesto part of your family's quick and easy go-to meals.
The deadline for HHDD #24 has been extended for the rest of the weekend, so if you're super quick you can also join us and be included for Joey's roundup. Go on! - it's super easy and doesn't your weekend deserve some yummy pesto too?!


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Early analysis shows no energy price increase
PUBLISHED: 01 Jun 2010 11:35:00 | UPDATED: 22 Jun 2010 09:08:27PRINT EDITION: 01 Jun 2010
Early government analysis of Labor's proposed resource super profits tax suggests that it will not push up energy prices, a Senate hearing has been told.
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism head of energy Brendan Morling said preliminary work on the impact of the tax on coal and gas prices was in line with Treasury assertions.
"The RSPT is a tax on super profits only, as such it should not affect prices at which gas and coal are sold into the domestic market, including for energy use," he told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Tuesday.
"If those prices are not affected then you wouldn't expect any impact on electricity prices.
"Our preliminary work on that issue is consistent with that position."
Origin Energy boss Grant King has said the tax will put upward pressure on gas prices.
That analysis was not shared by the department's energy division, Mr Morling said.
"We are aware of those reports but we don't know how Mr King and others have come to those conclusions.
"We've done our own analysis, it's still preliminary at this stage and we've come to the conclusion we've reached."
Preliminary work on the impact of the proposed tax worked around state royalty regimes which were effectively replaced by the super profits tax, Mr Morling said.
The work was continuing and the department had reasonably regular contact with industry associations but not at Mr King's level, he said.
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism Secretary Drew Clarke refused to be drawn by Liberal senators about the effect of the tax on investment in the sector.
Mr Clarke said it was not his responsibility to comment on the responsibilities of other departments, in this case Treasury.
He said he was unwilling to speculate on the impact of the tax at other rates on the sector.
Three officers from the resources department were seconded to to assist Treasury with information while the tax was being formulated.
But Mr Clarke said he was not privy to the consultation between the officers with Treasury.
"The officers had access to all of the information and resources within this department to assist them with their task while they were working in Treasury and they exercised access but .. they were not working for this department, they were seconded to treasury," he said.
"Our role is to respond to requests for information from our three seconding officers."
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Posted: March 19, 2012
The once and future library: Part 2
Here are 17 ways we're replacing books
Thomas Frey(Editor's note: This is the second of three parts. Read Part 1.)
The transition to other forms of information has been happening for decades. Once we are able to get past the emotion connection we have to physical books, we begin to see how the information world is splintering off into dozens of different categories.
Here is a list of 17 primary categories of information that people turn to on a daily basis. While they are not direct replacements for physical books, they all have a way of eroding our reliance on them. There may be more that I've missed, but as you think through the following media channels, you'll begin to understand how libraries of the future will need to function:
- Games – 135 million Americans play video games an hour or more each month. In the U.S. 190 million households will use a next-generation video game console in 2012, of which 148 million will be connected to the Internet. The average gamer is 35 years old and they have been playing games on average for 13 years.
- Digital Books – In January, USA Today reported a post-holiday e-book "surge," with 32 of the top 50 titles on its most recent list selling more copies in digital format than in print. Self-published e-books now represent 20-27% of digital book sales.
- Audio Books - Audiobooks are the fastest growing sector of the publishing industry. There is currently a shortage of audiobooks worldwide as publishers race to meet demand. Only 0.75% (not even 1%!) of Amazon's book catalog has so far been converted to audio. Last year more than $1 billion worth of audiobooks were sold in the U.S. alone. Over 5,000 public libraries now offer free downloadable audio books.
- Newspapers – Online readership of newspapers continues to grow, attracting more than 113 million readers in January 2012. Industry advertising revenues, however, continue to drop and are now at the same level as they were in 1950, when adjusted for inflation.
- Magazines – The U.S. magazine industry is comprised of 5,146 businesses publishing a total of 38,000 titles. Time spent reading newspapers or magazines combined is roughly 3.9 hours per week. Nearly half of all magazine consumption takes place with the TV on. The magazine industry is declined 3.5% last year.
- Music – According to Billboard's "2011 Music Industry Report," consumers bought 1.27 billion digital tracks last year, which accounted for 50.3% of all music sales. Digital track sales increased 8.5% in 2011. Meanwhile, physical sales declined 5%. According to Apple, there are an estimated 38 million songs in the known music universe.
- Photos – Over 250 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day
- Videos – Cisco estimates that over 90% of all Internet content will be video by 2015. Over 100,000 'years' of Youtube video are viewed on Facebook every year. Over 350 million Youtube videos are shared on Twitter every year. Netflix streams 2 billion videos per quarter.
- Television – According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day, and owns 2.2 televisions. An estimated 41% of our information currently comes from television.
- Movies – There are currently over 39,500 movie screens in the U.S. with over 4,500 of them converted to 3D screens. The average American goes to 6 movies per year. However, almost one-third of U.S. broadband Households use the Internet to watch movies on their TV sets, according to Park Associates. That number is growing, with 4% of U.S. households buying a video media receiver, such as Apple TV and Roku, over the 2011 holiday season
- Radio – Satellite radio subscribers, currently at 20 million, is projected to reach 35 million by 2020. At the same time, Internet radio is projected to reach 196 million listeners by 2020. These combined equal the same number as terrestrial radio listeners.
- Blogs – There are currently over 70 million WordPress blogs and 39 million Tumblr blogs worldwide.
- Podcasts – According to Edison Research, an estimated 70 million Americans have listened to a podcast. The podcast audience has migrated from being predominantly "early adopters" to more closely resembling mainstream media consumers.
- Apps – There are now over 1.2 million smartphone apps with over 35 billion downloads. Sometime this year the number of apps will exceed the number of books in print – 3.2 million.
- Presentations – Leading the charge in this area, SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. With 60 million monthly visitors and 130 million pageviews, it is amongst the most visited 200 websites in the world.
- Courseware – The OpenCourseware movement has been catching fire with Apple leading the charge. iTunesU currently has over 1,000 Universities participating from 26 countries. Their selection of classes, now exceeding the 500,000 mark, have had over 700 million downloads. They recently announced they were expanding into the K-12 market.
- Personal Networks – Whether its LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Pinterest, people are becoming increasingly reliant on their personal network for information. There are now over 2.8 billion social media profiles, representing around half of all Internet users worldwide. LinkedIn now has over 147 million members. Facebook has over 1.1 billion members and accounts for 20% of all pageviews on the Internet. Google+ currently has over 90 million users.
Each of these forms of information has a place in future libraries. Whether or not physical books decline or even disappear has little relevance in the overall scheme of future library operations.
Thomas Frey is the executive director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute and currently Google's top-rated futurist speaker. At the Institute, he has developed original research studies, enabling him to speak on unusual topics, translating trends into unique opportunities. Tom continually pushes the envelope of understanding, creating fascinating images of the world to come. His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Unilever, GE, Blackmont Capital, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, Capital One, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, STAMATS, Bell Canada, American Chemical Society, Times of India, Leaders in Dubai, and many more. Before launching the DaVinci Institute, Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer.


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OK, glad that this worth for my stay, 5 am up here right now. Not enthusiastic about tomorrows game though.
OK, glad that this worth for my stay, 5 am up here right now. Not enthusiastic about tomorrows game though.
props to john lucas and AA finally for keeping us in the game.
lucas was boots tonight
Wow what a great game. Was loving the fans chanting "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!".
"That was Nasty right? Cocked that Joint back and banged on 'em." -James Johnson
Ruy Gay comes up HUGE!!!!
Just thought I would post the sealer and the highlight of the night:
I LOVE having both of them on my team. Don't touch.
The Baltic Beast is unstoppable!
Melo is going to go off for 50 points... but I think the tandem of Gay and Derozan is going to have a huge game tomorrow.
#Raptor4Life, #Prepping4thePlayoffs
Fields and Amir very quiet heroes of tonights game and Icall upset Win for Raptors tomorrow they have a lot of weakness to exploit with our roster.
Lost in all of this is Lowry's back-to-back double doubles. Where them haters at?
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority. - Martin Luther King
Josh Lewenberg @JLew1050
Rudy on DeMar: "He's a remarkable talent. Sky's the limit for him. That's just a little bit of what he can do as a player"Josh Lewenberg @JLew1050
Rudy said he wasn't surprised by DeMar's dunk: "I know what he can do. I'm just happy he did it because I always push him to be aggressive"Josh Lewenberg @JLew1050
Rudy on DeRozan's dunk over Mozgov: "I can't tell you what I said when I saw it. It was just crazy. One of the craziest dunks I've seen"some tidbitsJosh Lewenberg @JLew1050
Casey on Rudy: "He's a big time player. He's a closer. He's done it his whole career. I've seen him do it so many times, thats what he does"
Gay and DeRozan can we just go ahead and label them the "Dynamic Duo" already?
DeRozan with the dunk of the year. Rudy Gay on the other hand is just flat out amazing.
That's all.
"Analytics DON'T work at all. It's some crap that people that are really smart made up to get in the game. Bunch of smart guys who have never played. The NBA is about TALENT" - Charles Barkley #Truth
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For every dollar red states pay in federal taxes, they get more than a dollar back. For every dollar blue states pay in taxes, they get less than a dollar back. The best colleges and universities are in blue states.
Why should we give the conservatives another chance at the economy? We saw what they did for 8 years. We know who they "favor". And yet, America still believes their lies. I just don't get it.
BP employees give Obama money, but the company gives to Republicans, who don't see a difference. Between companies and people, they can't see a difference. Put it this way, companies don't wear shoes.


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Well said Kyle... The use of found materials as painting medium loads the gestures in a variety of ways
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Imagine a shrine for all great sayings, a Pop Psychology Hall of Fame if you will. On these special walls you'd find such stalwarts as "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger," "Tomorrow's Another Day" and "Everything Happens For A Reason." Right over there the "Light At The End of The Tunnel" stands next to "The Great Unknown." Sure, these sayings are ubiquitous; repeated down through the ages as mantra for some, cliché for others. But now, after 20 years together, Barenaked Ladies are taking time to walk these halls and learn from another bon mot, All In Good Time.
Yes, All In Good Time is the name of the new album, the 11th from this Canadian institution, and their first as a new four-piece. Fourteen bold and adventurous new tracks, recorded in Toronto in the spring and summer of 2009, find Ed Robertson (guitar/vocals), Jim Creeggan (bass/vocals), Kevin Hearn (keyboard/guitar/vocals) and Tyler Stewart (drums/vocals) exploring a very creative and fertile phase of their careers.
"There was a little more room for people to breathe on this record" says Robertson. "It's more rocking in places and it stretches out and becomes more spacious in others. It was a really good feeling in the studio, with everyone very comfortable together and Michael at the helm."
Robertson is referring to ace producer and long-time BNL collaborator Michael Phillip Wojewoda, who produced the band's very first full length CD, 1992's Gordon. Wojewoda jumped at the chance to capture the group's rebirth as a quartet. "The newness of the situation inspired the band to stretch musically," says Wojewoda. "Even though there were challenges, they jumped in headfirst with enthusiasm and passion. The results are very exciting. It was great to be part of that."
The move from five to four could be a tough transition for a lesser group, but Barenaked Ladies are no ordinary rock band. Founded as a duo in 1988 by schoolmates Ed Robertson and Steven Page, the group soon grew to five members and took Canada by storm with their five-song indie cassette, The Yellow Tape. Over the next decade-plus, their albums Gordon, Rock Spectacle, Stunt and Maroon went multi-platinum in the U.S., and Barenaked Ladies became a top-selling, award-winning concert draw across North America and The U.K. with their frenetic blend of high-energy melodic-pop, crack musicianship and spontaneous repartee.
Ed Robertson, the primary songwriter since the birth of the band, took a moment to share how the writing process for All In Good Time was different from past Barenaked Ladies albums. "This was a chance for me to shed some of my writing dependencies, both good and bad, and explore new ground. I allowed myself to go places that I might not have in the past. I was more literal at times, and more abstract at others, pushing the self-imposed limits I'd adhered to for too long. The writing was cathartic for me in a way that writing hadn't been since the early nineties. It had been a huge and often dark year: an arrest, a plane crash and the death of my mother. All of these things took a heavy toll on my psyche, and spurred a lot of serious exploring."
Regarding the line-up change in Barenaked Ladies, Robertson is very candid: "Our relationship with Steve Page was great and very fruitful. It lasted almost 20 years, but it was time to move on. Now we're doing something that feels really fresh and exciting to me. His departure left four singers and three multi-instrume ntalists in the band, so we're not lacking for musical ideas, and now there's more room for the other writers in the band to bring songs to the table."
The results of Robertson's personal explorations can be heard in the standout first track/lead single "You Run Away," a story of missed opportunities and remorse: "I tried to be your brother / You cried and ran for cover/ I made a mess, who doesn't? / I did my best but it wasn't enough. "
In the brisk, angular rocker "How Long," Robertson kicks off the lines "Give it up for Anger, it makes us strong!" another echo of recent years for the famous father of three. On the power-pop "Every Subway Car," the founding singer/guitarist takes on the angst of a love-struck guerilla artiste: "Soon the world will see / Our graffiti love/ Belton on my glove/ They'll wonder who you are on every subway car."
Finally, Robertson finds three rhymes for the apparently unrhymable word Orange in a Django Reinhardt meets Jay-Z beer-hall sing-along called "Four Seconds": "Oh Flip, The light is turning Orange / Coat ripped, when I caught it in the door hinge/ I slipped when the lady in the 4 inch / Bought it in a store in Germany." Even after a couple of years of ups and downs, Barenaked Ladies have hung on to their abstract senses of humour.
For bassist Jim Creeggan, who sings the jaunty "On The Look Out" and the soulful "I Saw It," the latter a meditation on teenaged bullying, the current version of Barenaked Ladies is breaking important new ground: "I think the band is moving forward with a clearer collective understanding of who we are, and what is at stake. Leaving Steve was one of the hardest things we've had to do and we each had to weigh in on why the band was important enough for us to continue. We came to the conclusion that the band was only worth saving if we supported one another and strove for a healthy dynamic between us. So far it's been amazing and the most creative time I can remember having with the group."
Multi-instrumentalist Kevin Hearn echoes Creeggan's notions of personal and creative growth within the band. Hearn brought three new songs to the table for All In Good Time: the symphonic "Another Heartbreak," the surreal ghost town travelogue "Jerome" and the luxuriously groovy "Watching The Northern Lights," all of which showcase his unique, fragile voice. "I brought my songs in with sketches of how I heard them," says the former St. Michael's choirboy. "They were further shaped by the guys and MPW's input. I didn't try to write 'BNL' songs, per se, rather I just tried to write songs that felt honest to me, and I knew they would be in good hands within the band."
The result of new contributions from within is a recording that is stylistically adventurous, musically diverse and the most emotionally riveting and honest work by the band to date. "We had a bizarre year in 08," says drummer and vocalist Tyler Stewart. "A lot of upheaval, a lot of changes, but 12 months later we're stronger than we've ever been. We had to dig deep and redefine ourselves. Right now it feels really, really good to be in Barenaked Ladies."
All In Good Time, the 11th Studio Album from Barenaked Ladies, drops in March 2010.
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