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The raging debate over immigration serves the unfortunate but all-too-American need to feel superior to other less-than-white groups of humanity.
It brings out racism and places it in the forefront of American political debate.
Oh, we can sugar-coat the debate with rhetoric about the economic impact of so many immigrants working so many low-paying jobs but in the end the core of the debate is good-old American racist-bred fear.
Latin-Americans now comprise the largest minority group in America and that scares the hell out of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who must find someone to hate and fear. Forget about blacks. They're now a minority among minorities. Let's focus on the Mexicans.
But let's try and hide the racism by talking about jobs and crime and other buzzwords that mask our true intent. That's the American way.
People who used to cross the street to avoid blacks now do the same when Hispanics approach. Nowadays the ethnic slur of choice is "wetback" or "greaser" or "spic." The names change but the hate is the same.
Yet those whose protests originate from racism scream and moan about how their real concern is that all these immigrants will take away jobs while they ignore the fact that most illegal aliens work jobs that most Americans feel is beneath them: Cleaning hotel rooms, mowing yards, working hours on end in the hot sun hanging shingles on a roof.
Back in the 60s, the United Auto Workers, upset over the influx of foreign cars into America, issued bumper stickers that read: "Buy a foreign car. Put 10 Americans out of work."
That prompted someone with their head screwed on straight to put out a rival bumper sticker that read: "Buy a foreign car because 10 Americans don't want to work anyway."
Americans created the job market for immigrants by deciding that certain service sector jobs were beneath them and that anyone who worked as a maid or served up cheeseburgers at the local McDonalds was a second-class citizen.
So it's hard to blame a motel owner for hiring an immigrant who will work his or her butt off instead of a complaining, whiny American who feels the job is beneath their dignity, assuming that owner can find a complaining, whiny American even willing to take the job.
Knee-jerk right-wingers scream foul because the immigration bill that just failed in the Senate included a guest-worker program that they claim is amnesty for illegal aliens.
Yet those who scream the loudest forget that most of us are descendants of immigrants and the earliest of those were also illegal aliens who came to a new land uninvited and made a home for themselves.
If immigrants are indeed invading this country then it is just history repeating itself. That's how America became America.
….I meant to say weak.
I once read an editoral about all immigrants. I believe it appeared in a FL newpaper. Basically it said, 'you come here, speak our language and do things the way it is done in America. We do not care how it was done in your country. If you want to do it that way, go home'.
If anyone has read this or has a copy, I would like to get it.
My objections to the immigration bill currently before the Senate are as follows:
1. The welfare costs and Social Security payments that will be mandated for the immigrants and their families. Since these immigrants will be for the most part low skilled and low paid, these costs will be born by us middle income taxpayers who now live under the threat of a bankrupt Medicare and Social Security system. Didn't Sens. Kennedy and Dodd express on camera to the news media that they should be granted these benefits? I would be much more likely to support the bill, if it mandated employers to pay the welfare costs for the families of the immigrants.
2. The temporary worker provision will not work. We need only look to the example of European countries like France, Germany etc. who created temporary worker programs only to find that the temporary workers did not leave. Now they have large numbers of a disgruntled immigrant population that has become a breeding ground for terrorist.
3. The HB1 visas are already suppressing the salaries and wages of American citizens who have borrowed money and spent years educating themselves for high tech employment. This provision, like other provisions in the bill are being pushed and financed by business interests like the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Round Table and similar special interest organizations representing high tech industries, construction and building businesses, hospitality and restaurant businesses wealthy families individuals who want a source of cheap labor that they can let go and send them out to be the responsibility of the taxpayers.
Make the business interests who are the ones most responsible for financing the mad rush to pass this bill, responsible for the welfare, Medicare, and Social Security costs which have been estimated by several reputable organizations like the Heritage Foundation to total in the trillions of dollars and I'll support the bill.
Welcome to the USA. If you are here legally obey our laws, and if you have time,learn some English,it will smooth your transition.If you are here illegally go home and seek the proper channels to enter our country.In the meantime,while you are HOME, why not try to address the corruption that has sent you packing from your place of birth and do something to correct it. We have enough troubles of our own without having to deal with yours.By being here illegally, services denied needy Americans who can't afford them are diverted to you who possess no right to said benefits.Plus,for you they are provided at no cost because all you have to do is move on when the bill comes due and then we have to cover it with tax dollars.Hard working, doing the work Americans won't do,BULLSHIT, you are THIEVES profiting off the backs of the middle class tax payer.And by the way this is a free country so don't call me a bigot, I'm exercising my right to free speech.
I wrote in my column "Local politics warts and all" about some isolated examples ugly racism coming out as the Mashpee Wampanoag (the good people who met the Pilgrims) move towards builidng a resort casino here.
Those who have joined an organized effort to stop the casino claim that people like myself who are vocal supporters (I am part of a website called Casino-Friend.com )claim that when we bring up racism among a minority of the anti-casino group we are playing "the race card".
When we're discussing Mexican and other Latin immigrants or native Americans and point out underlying racism, and then are accused of playing the race card, I suggest that if there wasn't such a card to play those of us who see it wouldn't be talking about it.
Saying it's a race card doesn't mean we're wrong.
Either everyone gets in here legally for FREE, or they DON'T. I resent MY husband having to pay mega-bucks to become a citizen, while not taking ANYTHING from the government in return, while the Mexicans or any other illegal immigrants trot in here scott-free, suck off the teat of the government till, and try to get us to speak their language rather than vice-versa. That is not racism. That is wanting JUSTICE FOR ALL!!!
And while we're discussing it, I agree this is just one of the many issues being used by the corporate snake-heads to divide and conquer this country.
Allow me to interject a libertarian perspective into the debate over immigration.
In a just world, America would control its border to keep out criminals, thugs, epidemics–you name it. But if a foreigner can demonstrate he or she is not a criminal, he or she should be let in and be allowed to work on the up-and-up.
Unfortunately, we don't live in a just world.
One faction supports things just as they are. These tend to be businesses that like people coming here illegally, because they can be ruthlessly exploited, since they don't have the protection of the law.
Another faction wants all illegal immigrants rounded up and shipped home. These tend to be people who perceive the immigrants are stealing jobs or living off the welfare system.
My view as a libertarian is that there should be no regulation of economic acts between consenting adults. If one person is willing to do a job for less money, he or she should be allowed to contract with an employer to do so.
In like manner, if a company wants to sell widgets for a lower price than its competitors, it should also be allowed to do so.
Governments have the duty to secure the border. Once that is done, immigration should be allowed to anyone who passes a basic background check for things like criminal history or disease.
The same arguments being made now against Mexican immigrants were made a century ago against freeing black slaves: after all, they would undercut the wages of white workers!
Appealing to racism is very convenient for those who want to continually exploit people who have no rights under the law.
I have lived with Mexicans all my life. I never had a racist feeling about them at all. The last two homes I've own in Arizona have found me living next door to entire Mexican communities. If anything I was the minority. In California, as a teenager we all dated Mexicans, Jews, Arabs, Japanese as we were all beach bums and understood each other.
I really have to think about this Doug, and see if it fits. I want the borders closed because we are turning into a Mexican community of ILLEGALS. I use a lot of Mexican labor but know them to be here legally and honestly. They do charge less for their labors and are probably the only workers who can take this heat! For this reason I tip them generously. I get my money's worth with these people and they are worth every penny as they are reliable.
I bristle with contempt at those who say of an immigrant: "They can't even speak English." I reply, "Perhaps not, but how well can YOU speak Spanish, or Mandarin, or Vietnamese, or Italian etc., etc?" These bigots, for that is what they really are, find a need to immediately change the subject.
Sure this country is an English speaking country, and in my travels I have seen the efforts people all over the world put forth to learn to speak English. However, English is a very difficult language to learn (as evidenced by over 67% of our native born Americans who cannot speak or write properly,) and for many the goal is not realized, or at least not immediately.
I speak 7 languages, none as well as English but all with some degree of fluency. This is not meant as a claim to super intelligence, but simply to illustrate that whereever I have gone in the world, the only people who have ever made fun of me and my pronounciation or mis-pronounciation of their native tongue were the French, and everyone knows about 'THEM'. After all, they are the people who perfected the art of making perfume so they would not have to bathe!
But I digress, and admit to a great deal of bigotry when it comes to French people. The point is that language skills are learned skills, and some are able to learn them more easily than others. These skills are NOT a sign of intelligence, just an ability to learn and remember sounds different than those we learned in our early years. To deride, ridicule, and insult a person because he or she cannot speak YOUR native tongue very well is not a good reason for anything. It is quite common in the USA and in France. I have never experienced it elsewhere.
Bigotry and ridicule of immigrants is nothing new in the USA–any ethnic group who followed the original English settlers has experienced these attitudes. So we should not be surprised when someone tries to cloak their anti-xxx feelings in the cloak of whether an immigrant is "legal" or "illegal." All the known-to-me generations of my family have felt this bigotry, despite the fact that my grandparents came to this wonderful country and entered legally and properly. Those facts did not save them from the insults and derision heaped upon one ethnic group by another. Hell, the Italians are still being subjected to these bigoted attitudes in movies like the Godfather, and the Jews are still being accused of running all the banks, newspapers and whatever else some bigot can blame them for (please explain the Mellon Banks and the Murdock Newspapers, or the McCormack Enterprises aka The Chicago Tribune. Certainly the owners of the Washington Post, the Graham family, would not be classified as Jews.
It's stupid, but it is what exists in America. We should not be surprised when the Mexicans or the Cubans, or the Viets, or Chinese, or … are subjected to the same rude comments and behavior as those who came before them. And then there are the untouchables–the "African-Americans." Good grief, if you say something bad about a negro you are immediately branded as 'anti-black.' I know, I criticized Barak Obama and was accused of being a hater of black people. Actually I prefer brown ones to the black or pink variety. Golden ones are also good, as well as pale yellows. They are far less bigoted than either the pink or black variety.
Hell, the "Rainbow Coalition" was as much a coalition as Bush's in Iraq, and the only thing "Rainbow" about it was the pot of gold that Jesse Jackson mined at either end, and still continues to mine–and YES! I am jealous of his $4,000 suits and undisclosed but obviously huge income.
So let's cut the Mexican immigrants some slack, or else you might find yourself cutting your own grass.
Bill Robinson
Personally I dont believe that the penalty for being here illegally should be that they are allowed to stay here illegally but work for slave wages. Make them legal or send them home. No middle ground.
Slack you say, am I afforded slack when I break the law? Hell no !Why should we be forced to adapt to their culture? With Spanish it takes sixty seconds of babbling to say the same thing the English language can in ten,and your point is English is too difficult for the poor things….Bullshit..I've been on job sites where graffiti is all over the place stating FUCK AMERICA,DEATH TO THE GRINGOS,THIS WILL SOON BE MEXICO, etc.etc. I was trying to be fair minded earlier but slack for THIEVES is just too much to ask.Point of origin or fluency in the language has nothing to do with it. Total contempt for the hand that feeds them on top of breaking the law is a way of life they were taught in their home country.If they can spell curses on outhouse walls then they damn sure should be able to learn the rest of our language. I mow my own Fucking grass,unlike all the fat lazy fucks out there who are aiding and abetting these criminal blood suckers. Slack ? The only slack they deserve is not having to wait long in a detention center before we ship their asses back where they came from!!!!!!!!!!!!! Illegal is Illegal PERIOD !!!!!!!!
People keep screaming about "no amnesty for the illegals" and how they should all be rounded up and deported.
I have one question for them.
The number I've heard bandied about is 12 million illegals in the U.S. How do they propose we round up 12 million people, kick them out of the country, and keep them out? It's logistically impossible.
Some form of amnesty is the only logical choice.
Illegal — look it up.
All this racist nonsense won't mean a tinkers damn when the U.S. fails as a nation. A dollar bill is the most egalitarian facilitator of non-racist behavior in the world at least for the time being. Life is like a "shit sandwich, the more bread you have, the less shit you eat". Bill Cosby, Oprah et. al. are quite wealthy and rest assured there's a bunch of whitey's running after their butts saying "yes Ms. Winfield, yowzah Mr. Cosby etc.! The almighty dollar is a great leveler when it comes to racist issues!
Unfortunately the U.S. government has been commandeered by thieves, swindlers and worse! They've stolen the U.S. Treasury's credit card and are spending this nation into oblivion.
So while everyone is mewling about racism, gay rights, and a "woman's choice" this once great, late nation, America is going down a financial drain; i.e., a rathole!
None of our obsessions with racism, gays, a "woman's right to choose" will mean a tinkers damn if we fail as a nation. Are there any other nations on earth to step up to the plate to simply say "no" to tyranny…I think not!? You need to kick your reps, your senators, and your leaders out of office asap on their next bid for re-election. They are all traitors to the Republic and the principals on which it was founded!
If you fail to do so, your skin color won't mean anything compared to the yoke of NWO/AIPAC slavery under which you will suffer…!
Carl Nemo **==
p.s. American's including their infants in the crib owe a mind-boggling $300,000 per capita!
Doug – You're usually the preacher & I'm the choir!
But here is where I get off the so-called progressive bus!
When I saw THOUSANDS (last year) of working class white and black Americans scrambling for jobs at a new suburban Chicago Walmart, or hundreds of black and Puerto Rican kids scrounging for jobs at a new New York fast food franchise, the idea of millions of new poor, desperate, often illiterate residents is mind-blowing! We don't even take care of our OWN less fortunate citizens! Hell, in our phony economic models and reports, our poor don't even exist.
Here in Western Colorado, parents in one school system were forced to form their own Charter School (in Carbondale). The reasons were because because of Latino gangs, bullying, and, as one mother related to me, a learning atmosphere straight out of "Lord of the Flies"! Wealthy Colorado developers and hoteliers love to exploit cheap Latino labor. Except that "cheap labor" is the ultimate oxymoron. The whole laundry list of social costs – overburdened schools, criminal justice systems, hospitals, social services, etc. – gets dumped on us! By "us" I mean the American working and middle class, not America's aspiring noveau rich nobility who cannot mow their own lawns, take care of their kids, or powder their own behinds! Wealthy business interests have already bought Congress and Universty professors to inform us that America desperately needs millions of poor, unskilled immigrants. While "Beelza Bubb" gets a lot of it right – the rich love to pit one group versus another – it still doesn't change the fact that allowing tens of millions of low skilled individuals into this country is both pure, unalloyed greed and a disaster waiting to happen.
I guess it's been a long time since you've done any manual labor. You sound like a neocon yuppie completely out of touch with what is going on, at least out West.
For one thing, since when are Mexicans a different race from whites? They are still Caucasian, aren't they? My son's best friend growing up in California was of Mexican-American descent and my best friend in my neighborhood now in Oregon is as well. I used to work with La Raza Unida and supported the Grape Boycott back in the day, and I am not anti-Mexican.
But, I am adamantly opposed to the immigration policy and I'll tell you why. Let me give you my town, South Lake Tahoe as an example of what the corporate exploitation of illegal immigrants has done to my former town.
The family owned casinos hired a mixture of people to work as housekeepers, etc. Eventually, the big corporations bought out the casinos and then they hired immigrants almost exclusively. They also subcontracted them all and got rid of benefits and increased the workload. Eventually, the immigrants worked their way up to supervisory positions and now you can't get a job there if you don't speak Spanish, or Filipino, or are a temp from Europe. Their kids went to the public schools, of course, and overwhelmed the system with all the English as a second language and support services for them. I have worked with kids that were Hispanic, but got fired from jobs at McDonalds (actually it was KFC) when they found out that they couldn't speak Spanish. A friend of mine was a battered woman who sought help from the local women's center. They had no openings for women who didn't speak Spanish. I tried to take a bus, and couldn't read the bus schedule because they didn't have any in English.
I worked in the County Office of Family Support and we had seven computer pages of Hispanic names – all of whom had the same social security number. But, it was against the rules to confront them on the phony numbers. Each woman who applied for support gave numerous possible fathers, all with fake names and ss numbers that had to get DNA tests. Each test cost $700. Now, Californians were on death row at the time and couldn't get DNA tests to prove their innocence, but the state was paying for all these bogus DNA tests and paying child support for the illegal offspring.
Every job that requires working with the public goes to Mexicans first. Even a white kid who has had years of Spanish classes is passed over for these positions because he speaks Spanish as a second language. So, now the town is one third Mexican (most of whom are illegal, except for their offspring)and the locals are moving away because they and their kids can't work there.
Meanwhile, the corporations are taking advantage of the illegals by requiring horrible job and housing conditions. The workers take speed, now meth, to be able to work hard enough to keep up. So, now there is a big meth problem as well. The rich people in the mansions all over the place there, hire servants to do their lawns and take care of their homes at pathetic wages and can get away with it because the illegals have no rights.
This causes a lot of resentment, the Mexican kids are justifiably mad as hell, and beat up the white kids.
So, wake up and smell the coffee, Doug. The problem is much more complex than you think. The problem is not so much with the Mexican people, it is with the ruling class who is systematically transferring the wealth of the land into their own pockets and creating serfdom for all the rest.
As a scientist I'm well aware that the average genetic differences between whites/blacks/hispanics/asians/whatever is small compared to the difference between me and my brother – not to mention me and my wife. So, on this basis alone, there is clearly no legitimate justification whatsoever for any kind of racism.
Which is not to say that I don't find certain aspects of certain cultures extremely offensive. The treatment of women in parts of the Mideast comes easily to mind.
That said, there are, in my mind, perfectly legitimate reasons for controlling immigration:
It's my best estimate that the world now has at least six times the number of people that it can reasonably support long-term with our standard of living. And that this country itself has three times what it can support long-term. Advances in technology may change this in the future, but they haven't yet.
Politicians, business leaders, clergymen – everyone with something to gain – incessantly promote "growth" as the solution to every problem. It isn't. Endless growth, like cancer, destroys its host, and it will destroy us in the end. Each additional person in the country requires additional space, housing, infrastructure, manufacturing capacity, agricultural capacity, you name it, all created from scratch from ever dwindling resources. And all, of necessity, created by those already here before the new person arrives.
Think about that last line… If our population doubles every forty years – as it has – that means that, in one working lifetime, in addition to maintaining the civilization we have – homes, industry, infrastructure, parks, schools, everything – we have to build an entire, complete, new civilization from scratch – and with no additional resources to the ones we already have. Traffic congestion getting you down?
"Growth" is the ultimate addictive, destructive drug, a Ponzi scheme to end all Ponzi schemes. It will end us too if we're not careful.
Americans are rich not just because they own nice houses and fancy cars, and have lots of room to play in, but mostly because of a vast infrastructure of roads, utilities, parks and other commons, schools and universities, industrial capacity, intellectual capacity, clean air and water. and so on. Granted much of this is actually owned by a few, but, even so, as long as there's a boundary around it all, it doesn't matter who owns it, it benefits everyone within the boundary.
When an immigrant comes here he cuts himself a free share of this pie, over and above any free services he may get. We may or may not want to let him do this, but it should be our choice. And, in my opinion, we should only do it for humanitarian reasons, or because it benefits the country as a whole (and not just some industry and its stockholders). And, if "humanitarian" includes giving slices of the pie to the poor, fine, but we will never make even a dent in the poverty in the world by letting all the poor move here, we will only pauperize ourselves. There are more productive ways to fight poverty.
Traditional theories of free trade assume that different entities are better or more efficient at different things and that, therefore, free trade among them benefits them all. But Americans can write computer code, answer telephones, and pick beans just well as Asians, Latinos, and East Indians. The difference in off-shoring, immigration, guest workers, importing cheap goods from Asia, and other such policies has nothing to do with traditional free trade, it has to do with the fact that all these people are willing (and can afford – they don't pay our living costs) to work for less than people here.
And they are willing (and can afford to) because they are poorer, not because they are more efficient at these occupations.
If the wealth of America were distributed equitably amongst the majority of Americans who created it, this would not be a problem. They would share in the increased profits resulting from the use of low-cost labor, or, they might use their corporate voting power to prohibit the use of low-cost labor, and all would balance out.
But it isn't, most of the wealth of this country lies in the hands of a few. Why this is so is complex, and not the topic of this note, but can be easily summed up with the old bromide: "them what has, gets."
The net, long-term economic effect of removing barriers to the use of foreign, low-cost labor will be to make the poor of the world slightly richer and the majority of Americans a lot poorer. There are better ways.
Most of the poverty in the world is due, in my opinion, to the limitless corruption, greed, and arrogance of too many of the world's leaders. Much of the rest is due to their cowardly unwillingness to even try to limit population growth. Taking some of the pressure off these knaves and fools by allowing the more motivated of their poor to escape here solves nothing in the long run, it only impoverishes us. Which is not to say that we shouldn't do so, but it should be on our terms, with the consent of the majority of Americans, and not to those who feel they have a "right" to come here, or a "right" to ignore our customs and laws, or a "right" to impose their language and culture on the majority population.
It's been a good, long century now since we have had the knowledge and the tools to create a paradise on this planet. And what have we done with them? Endless war, endless genocide, endless poverty, endless growth.
Unchecked immigration will not fix this, only the election of real leaders and decades of progressive diplomacy.
Not my favorite word, I prefer ethics, but, whatever. I'm not very religious, but I do have my own vision of what is ethical and moral, and, living high off the hog on the backs of the poor doesn't make it in my book. I think it's despicable.
I need a large terrycloth towel so I can wipe all the paint off my face. Those wide brush strokes are great at covering up the real issues but they're very messy.
Doug, ya think maybe you could try painting another large group of people instead?
They're called EMPLOYERS.
JeffH the Racist in Occupied TX
America fell in love with a Cuban bandleader who had a very thick accent. I think all most Americans are asking for is just the barest basic functionality. But you go ahead and paint it in dogmatic black and white if you want to. It's very fitting with the tone of the main editorial.
Best way to divide this country into insular warring factions is to forget the importance of a common bond of understanding and communication, which can only happen when the national society shares a common linguistic bond.
Again, just bare basic functionality, and by the way, I'm basically functional in Spanish and Russian, and I'm forcing my children to learn basic Spanish as well.
There goes your theory.
We couldnt transport a few hundred thousand out of flood ravaged New Orleans so the answer to your question is, "it would be well nigh impossible".
But it's also not necessary.
Dry up the job opportunities for illegals and they will be forced to go through the process legally.
And to do that the immigration system HAS TO WORK properly and be fair and equitable…all of which is ANATHEMA to the base which our elected officials REALLY SERVE….BIG BUSINESS.
And therein lies the root source of the problem, not a few racists.
Up here near Portland, OR,
a gang of about 20 white youths attacked and
beat two hispanic men a couple weeks ago
in a park. They shouted at them to
"go back to Mexico" while
they threw rocks at them.
This quote appeared in the local paper
along with the coverage of the criminal
charges that have been filed.
"The whole country is getting
tired of these Mexicans," said
Beverly Lolley, a Gresham resident
who contacted a reporter after
reading about the attack. "I don't
feel sorry for those two guys at all."
This lady felt it was important
enough to call the paper and
give her name and town to announce
to the world that she thinks hispanics
deserve to be beaten and stoned.
I offer this as a data point on
the continuing slide of the American
Experiment into Idiocracy.
They're not even bothering to
put their bigotry into code
any more.
Doug – I don't think the majority of the negative comments about illegal immigration is based on race. I happen to think it's based on the "illegal" part of the term. These immigrants came to this nation through other than legal means – and while I applaud them for wanting to make a better life for themselves, and I understand they're willing to take nearly any job offered (unlike many Americans), the fact that they're flaunting their illegal status kinda pisses me off.
Now I don't really care if they come in from Mexico, Congo or the UK, I don't care what their native language is or how good or bad their English skills are and I could care less about their skin color. What I care about is that we're allowing people with no legal status to live in this nation. What I'm expressing is not fear of immigrants, it's outrage for the governments unwillingness to deal with a legal action the way it should be dealt with, through incarceration and deportation. Why do I feel this way? Simple – being illegal ,undocumented workers, these hard working people have little or no recourse when their rights as human beings are abused by those who knowingly hire them. Force overtime, held back pay, sub-standard pay, no insurance, perhaps physical abuse on the job – all those things that the Labor movement fought to end 100+ years ago – which no American worker would put up with – are common when the workers are illegal and the bosses know that the workers can't raise their voices, lest they face deportation.
In closing, I have no problem with legal immigration – that's how four Germans managed to get to these shores at various times in the 20th century – those four brave immigrants were my grandparents. My problem is with the government and much of socieities turning a blind eye to the illegal aspect of the immigrants currently in question – they've broken the law – there are consequences – if they don't face those consequences now, what else will they feel entitled to get away with in the future?
Steve, your opinion is a majority of one. As a minority I have felt the sting and blows of bigotry. That is exactly what this immigration bill is about, and what the anti whatever group stands for.
Beelza Bubb
I think that the Capitalist system continues to survive because it knows how to play on the prejudices of the various groups in its system.
It pits poor Whites against poor Blacks and poor Hispanics and while they are all squabbling guess who is robbing the till?
Don't be idiots! Wake up and see the game for what it is.
My daughter, who is half-Mexican, has been called "spic", "wetback" and a host of other names not necessarily associated with her father's heritage, but brought on because they ran out of ethnic slurs to use. The town we live in in New Jersey elected a mayor who went bar to bar telling his future constituency if he won, he'd rid the city of all the Blacks and Black-lovers (using the ever-popular slur), so as you can imagine, the tolerance level here for anyone considered "non-white" is low. She eventually left school and moved back to Utah (believe it or not) with her father and finished high school there. It apparently doesn't matter that her dad's family has never lived in what we consider Mexico, but has lived on land we now consider the United States for hundreds of years. The fact is she is of Mexican descent and that made her a target in school. We are a vicious and bigoted nation whose concerns about immigration may have some merit, but the focus is improperly placed on those of color and for reasons that lack substance. I have seen harder working people among the Mexican immigrants (I have no idea who's legal or illegal) than I have ever seen among native borns, regardless of ethnicity. Their work ethic should make us hang our heads in shame – but perhaps that is why we don't want them. They make us look bad – and we deserve it.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in fruit salad.
hey JerZGirl – did you know while the mayor / bozo was going bar to bar what he was doing and what he was saying? If so – did you notify the local ACLU, NAACP or, heck, district attorney?
That sort of activity can only take place when it's not brought into the light of day by concerned citizens – left in the dark – like a mushroom it can flourish (funny how both prejudice and mushrooms grow well in shit) – but in the light of day it'll fade into nothingness.
If you can provide evidence about the behavior of this "public official" I'd suggest you bring it to the attention of the appropriate authorities and have him dealt with as he should be.
Doug T. wrote: "Yet those who scream the loudest forget that most of us are descendants of immigrants and the earliest of those were also illegal aliens who came to a new land uninvited and made a home for themselves."
Yes, and proceeded with what still remains the worst genocide ever conducted on the face of the earth, followed by the implementation of an economic system that enslaved the largest number of human beings ever in recorded history.
I do concur with Steve Horn's articulate comments above. Well put, Steve.
No, you take an incident and make it racist.
ILLEGAL immigration needs to be dealt with.
Most Americans are NOT in favor of amnesty, and do NOT want a NORTH AMERICAN UNION!
We don't appreciate ILLEGALS coming into our country, taking full advantage of healthcare we do not have, and having ANCHOR BABIES so they can stay. They come in and DO NOT learn English, and have the arrogant disregard for Americans to expect us to learn their language!
Completely insulting.
Does it make one racist for making an observation of the truth?
THE MEDIA makes it racist in order to quiet those who ARE being taken advantage of, and are speaking out about it.
This is unfair, and in the most unforgiving way RACIST against AMERICANS (of all ethnicities) who are here LEGALLY!
One of the previous posters is correct:
The media intentionally divides Americans, on every issue they can to keep us week, and racism is their favorite tool of division next to class.
They are a group, and THEY have an agenda.
Just another attempt by the media to inflame the tempers of Americans, and it's unacceptable and pathetic.
Doug, I may not always agree with you but I usually find your comments reasonable and not hawking a fringe viewpoint. You really missed it on this issue. Without getting into a detailed rundown of this proposed legislation, there are some basics about which you should know.
1) We certainly are a nation of immigrants, we recognize this fact, but there is the point of how these people came to this country. The vast majority came here LEGALLY and not ILLEGALLY. As you no doubt are aware there are many people waiting to get into this country legally who are being discriminated against by the legislation.
2) Yes, it is amnesty and such treatment is totally unwarranted. Others have stated this point eloquently and I will not elaborate further.
3) The federal government has a responsibility to secure our borders, a fact that many seem to overlook. The 1986 law was supposed to cure this problem but our wonderful government chose not to enforce this aspect. Also, the number of illegals jumped to 12 plus million. This is what happened the last time we granted amnesty.
4) The bill is unbelievably complex and could never be enforced or implemented even with a reasonably run ICE. As of now, this agency is one of the most inefficient and poorly run in Washington. To be worse than DOJ, Food & Drug, Dept. of Agriculture, Energy and others is really amazing.
5) By the way, have you heard anything very specific about the cost? Somehow, the backers of this bill have blatantly obscured the fact that no detailed cost studies have been done. Estimates by some people have been in the trillions of dollars!
6) The arguement that there are many jobs Americans will do is not supported by fact. There are many cases where illegal aliens where replaced IMMEDIATELY with local workers. This happened after wages were raised two dollars an hour which removed American CITIZENS from the unemployment rolls.
7) The strain on schools, hospitals , and other social services has been incredible due to taking care of illegals. Talk to the people in Texas whose local hospitals have been forced to close due to taking care of illegals.
8) Do you realize that these illegal workers you so strongly support send billions of dollars back to places such as Mexico instead of leaving them here in the US?. Speaking of Mexico, how about the way they brutalize anyone trying to cross their Southern border.
These are just a few of the reasons this legislation is wrong. Basically, the majority of American people have overwhelmingly supported a policy that starts with securing the borders. Once the borders are reasonably well secured it will be possible to work out an equitable solution to those who are already here. (If a tree falls on your roof and causes leaks which damage furniture, etc., wouldn't you fix the leak BEFORE you redecorate and buy new furniture?)
In the meantime, we should penalize employers who break existing laws. Companies have gone on a binge of reducing costs – especially labor costs. There are other ways to improve profitability. It would also be appropriate to put some pressure on especially Mexico so that illegal immigration is not used as a solution for Mexico's problems.
To use the case of bigotry is missing the point. The true reasons our representatives in Washing- ton have no desire to do what the people want is simply a matter of self interest. Senator Webb came close to admitting this fact. The Republicans only want to help business by assuring that there will be growing numbers of illegals to provide cheap labor. The Democrats salivate at the thought of all those illegals becoming Democrats after granting amnesty. As usual, the American people who used to think we are a nation of laws are being short changed by the corrupt system in Washinton.
Superb, articulate commentary Cobaltkid, supported by spot-on facts concerning this complex issue…! We are in our current fix due to the duplicit acts on the part of the businessmens' party; i.e., Republicans. They want cheap, non-unionized, "fearful" laborers; i.e., in-hiding from the authorities, because it empowers them for their purposes of exploitation.
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Other than the late 50's, I have never heard so much blatent hate being spewed. I find it hard to believe that here in country that was known for welcoming immigrants, it has come to this. I've lived in southern California since 1943, where we do have a large Mexican population both legal and not. I readily admit that we must do something about the problem of illegals crossing the border here daily. But, as I have told everyone who trys to speak to me about the "damned Mexicans"…"Don't bother me with this subject UNTIL our government has closed the borders, until then..its a waste of my time & yours" I then ask them if they have ever written their congressmen insisting that the borders be closed….the answers have been a resounding NO! Lately, there have been petitions to sign in front of the stores regarding this immigration bill, but they contain nothing about closing our borders. I do not have the answers of how the problem of illegals (of all nationalities)can be solved, but I assure you that hate is not the answer, and closing and securing the borders is where it should begin. Amnesty has been granted twice in the past to the Mexicans and it may have worked IF we would have followed up by taking the proper measures to insure the illegal flow ceased…but we did not do anything. The borders have never closed, and the illegals have continued to enter the USA. (this includes Arabs who can & do pass as Mexicans)
I remember a time in my life when the Japanese were hated and treated horribly and it was they who did all the yard work & worked the in canneries because those were the only types of work they could get..now they are hard to come by and you have to be able to afford a Japanese gardener.


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Many concepts and terms in the management sciences have slightly varying definitions depending upon who is defining them. Personnel management, which is our concern here, takes place in differing environments or milieu. For example, we are here concerned with personnel management in the public sector, i.e. in the environment of government organizations. Personnel management also takes place in the private sector, i.e. in organizations not owned by the government, e.g. the Lever Brothers Plc. makers of Omo washing powder, the Zambia Breweries Plc makers of Mosi lager, etc. One of the definitions which I have put together after going through so many texts is this: Personnel Management is the process of obtaining and maintaining a satisfactory and a satisfied work force The following definition was proffered by a well respected personnel management theorist by name Edwin B. Filippo, in his popular and widely read book,', Personnel Management,' 'which he has issued now for at least the sixth time. This definition is contained in the sixth Edition issued in 1984. There he defined personnel management thus: Personnel Management is the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of the procurement, development, compensation, integration. maintenance, and separation of human resource to the end that individual, organizational and societal objectives are...


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Gambhir hasn't scored a century in the last two years.
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In the end of 1950 the movement which contradicted ideas of geometric abstraction of modernism has begun. Members of this movement, on the contrary, wanted to compare art with living organisms and express their ideas with flexible and living structures. Works of Ernesto Neto are attributed to organic architecture. His abstract installations often take all the space; it invites spectators to familiarize, to touch and even to smell these "creatures".
These installations are large, soft and abstract. Viewer can touch it, sometimes sit on it and walk through them, sometimes even get lost in between this labyrinth. Author says that most vital organ of them all is skin. It is a border between our inner and outer worlds. With the help of it we can experience different feelings – cold, heat, hardness, the touch of other body. The realness of these "creatures" is experienced exactly because of touching. Just like real biological organism it has insides and skin which separates it from the external world.
- Do you have a dream, an ideal place, where you would like your creatures to live?
- In the cave! I like to think that the body is construction of architecture and landscape, too"
Ernesto Neto says that space is extremely important for his creative works. If he doesn't like space in which he has to create, he declines whole project. The main things in his work are harmony between weigh and lightness, balance and dynamic, transparency and opacity, interior and exterior, physical and philosophical worlds. Combining these elements he expresses his view on what our world should be like.
I think that my work is a dance, and I believe, that our society as a sculpture takes shape of a dance. Dance is a symbol of our day to day relationship. Inside these structures there are meanings and ideas, but its surface reflects dance and music. Sometimes I say what I wanted to express, but more often I leave space for the spectator's interpretation, – says Ernesto Neto
Ernesto is from Brazil. He points out, that his hometown Rio de Janeiro gave him inspiration for his works. In 1970-s whole city was one gigantic construction site. Son of engineer says that even today the smell and sound of construction carry him to his childhood memories. Even though artist travels a lot, he always spends New Years Eve in his hometown with his friends and neighbors. Friendship, harmony and healthy relationships are most important in his life. Likewise in his shows and exhibitions he tries to create a space, where people could interact, laugh and feel comfortable.


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The Sana'a palimpsest is one of the oldest Qur'anic manuscripts in existence.[1] It was found, along with many other Qur'anic and non-Qur'anic fragments, in Yemen in 1972. The manuscript is written on parchment, and comprises two layers of text (see Palimpsest). The upper text conforms to the standard 'Uthmanic Qur'an, whereas the lower text contains many variants to the standard text. Radiocarbon testing indicates that the parchment, and hence the lower text, most likely dates from within fifteen years of the death of the Prophet Muhammad.[2]
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In 1972, construction workers renovating a wall in the attic of the Great Mosque of Sana'a in Yemen came across large quantities of old manuscripts and parchments. They didn't realize what they had found and gathered up the documents, packed them away into some twenty potato sacks, and left them on the staircase of one of the mosque's minarets.[3]
Qadhi Isma'il al-Akwa', then the president of the Yemeni Antiquities Authority realized the potential importance of the find. Al-Akwa' sought international assistance in examining and preserving the fragments, and in 1979 managed to interest a visiting German scholar, who in turn persuaded the West German government to organize and fund a restoration project.[3]
The preserved fragments comprise Qur'anic and non-Qur'anic material.[4] Of special importance is a palimpsest with two layers of text, both of which are Qur'anic. While the upper text is almost identical with the modern Qur'āns in use (with the exception of spelling variants), the lower text contains significant diversions from the standard text. For example, in sura 2, verse 87, the lower text has wa-qaffaynā 'alā āthārihi whereas the standard text has wa-qaffaynā min ba'dihi.[2] Such variants are similar to the ones reported for the Qur'an codices of Companions such as Ibn Mas'ud and Ubayy b. Ka'b. Carl Ernst, an Islamic studies scholar, states that the manuscripts "do not appear to have any startling or major changes but belong to the class of minor textual variations that have been known for centuries." [5] However, variants occur much more frequently in the Sana'a codex, which contains "by a rough estimate perhaps twenty-five times as many [as Ibn Mas'ud's reported variants]".[2]
The lower text of the manuscript was erased and written over, but due to the presence of metals in the ink the lower text has resurfaced, and now appears in a light brown color.[2] A number of reasons may have led to erasure of the lower text: some pages of the codex may have been destroyed or worn out, thereby requiring the production of a new codex, for which the already available parchment was used. (This was a common practice in ancient times. When enough of a manuscript's writing wore off--ink does not bond to parchment like it does to paper--all of the writing was washed off to make the expensive parchment usable for a new text. This was an ancient way of recycling.) Alternatively, the standardization of the Qur'anic text by 'Uthmān may have led to the non-standard lower text becoming obsolete, and thereby erased.[1] This latter theory is consistent with carbon-14 tests, which make it likely that the lower text was written before 'Uthmān standardized the Qur'anic text: the parchment (and therefore the lower text) has a 75% probability of being older than 650 AD, and a 95% probability of being older than 660 AD.[2]
The above piece of the palimpsest codex shows two layers of script. Both scripts are of the Hijazi type: Firstly, a dark brown script is part of surah 20:1-10 (surah Taahaa or al-kamiyl). Secondly, under the dark brown script traces of a light brown script are recognizable. This latter original script was washed off from the parchment so that it might be used again. The chess board-like pattern of the substrate is an artifact of the scanning procedure.
The manuscript is not complete. About 80 folios are known to exist: 36 in Yemen's Dār al-Makhṭūṭāt (House of Manuscripts),[1] 4 in private collections (after being auctioned abroad),[2] and 40 in the Eastern Library of the Grand Mosque in Sana'a.[6] Many of the folios in the House of Manuscripts are physically incomplete (perhaps due to damage),[1] whereas those in private possession[2] or residing in the Eastern Library are all complete.[6] These 80 folios comprise roughly half of the Qur'an. The lower text of the folios in the Eastern Library has not been studied yet. However, the folios in the House of Manuscripts and those auctioned abroad have been studied. The German scholar Elisabeth Puin (of Saarland University), whose husband was the local director of the restoration project until 1985, has transcribed the lower text of six folios (and one side of another folio) in four successive publications.[7][8][9][10] Behnam Sadeghi (Professor of Islamic Studies at Stanford University) published, in 2010, an extensive study of the 4 folios auctioned abroad and analyzed their variants using textual critical methods. In March 2012, Behnam Sadeghi and Mohsen Goudarzi (of Harvard University) published a long essay containing a complete edition of the lower text of the folios in the House of Manuscripts and those auctioned abroad, along with an analysis.[1]
Restoration of the thousands of fragments found in 1972 began in 1980 under the supervision of the Yemeni Department for Antiquities, and was funded by the Cultural Section of the German Foreign Ministry.[1] The find includes 12,000 Qur'anic parchment fragments. All of them, except 1500–2000 fragments, were assigned to 926 distinct Qur'anic manuscripts as of 1997, none of which are complete and many of which contain only a few folios apiece.[1] "Albrecht Noth (University of Hamburg) was the director of the project. Work on the ground began in 1981 and continued through the end of 1989, when the project terminated with the end of funding. Gerd-Rüdiger Puin (University of Saarland) was the local director beginning with 1981. His involvement came to an end in 1985, when Hans-Caspar Graf von Bothmer (University of Saarland) took over as the local director. Bothmer left Ṣan'ā' in the following year, but continued to run the project from Germany, traveling to the site almost every year. Beginning in 1982, Ursula Dreibholz served as the conservator for this project, and worked full time in Ṣan'ā' until the end of 1989. She completed the restoration of the manuscripts. She also designed the permanent storage, collated many parchment fragments to identify distinct Qur'ānic manuscripts, and directed the Yemeni staff in the same task. The manuscripts are located in the "House of Manuscripts," the Dār al-Makhṭūṭāt (DAM), in Ṣan'ā',Yemen. After 1989, Bothmer would visit the collection periodically. In the winter of 1996–7, he microfilmed all of the parchment fragments that have been assigned to distinct Qur'anic manuscripts. Of the remaining 1500–2000 fragments, he microfilmed a group of 280. The microfilms are available in Ṣan'ā' in the House of Manuscripts."[1]
Puin, and his colleague Graf von Bothmer, have published only short essays on the Ṣana'a find. In a 1999 interview with Toby Lester, the executive editor of the website of The Atlantic Monthly, Puin gave the following description for the preserved fragments: "Some of the parchment pages in the Yemeni hoard seemed to date back to the seventh and eighth centuries A.D., or Islam's first two centuries—they were fragments, in other words, of perhaps the oldest Korans in existence. What's more, some of these fragments revealed small but intriguing aberrations from the standard Koranic text. Such aberrations, though not surprising to textual historians, are troublingly at odds with the orthodox Muslim belief that the Koran as it has reached us today is quite simply the perfect, timeless, and unchanging Word of God."
Regarding this interview, the mathematician Jeffrey Lang wrote the following in a letter to the editor of The Atlantic Monthly;
[I]t should be mentioned that the article's alarmist tone concerning the discovery of the Yemeni manuscripts seems totally uncalled for. Lester admits that so far the manuscripts show some unconventional verse orderings, minor textual variations, and rare styles of orthography and artistic embellishment. However, the past existence of such manuscripts is well known to Muslims and those that did not completely agree with the Uthmanic text were eliminated in various ways. The recovery of an ancient manuscript dating back to the earliest history of Islam that differs in minor ways from the Uthmanic text and that was eliminated from circulation will hardly cause Muslims to feel the need to rewrite their history; if anything, it will only confirm it for them."[citation needed]
In another interview, Puin said: "So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Qur'an is Allah's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows that the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Qur'an has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Qur'an has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us accomplish this."[3][11] Puin claimed that the Yemeni authorities want to keep work on the Ṣana'a manuscripts "low-profile"."[3]
In 2000, The Guardian interviewed a number of academics for their responses to Puin's claims, including Dr Tarif Khalidi, and Professor Allen Jones, a lecturer in Koranic Studies at Oxford University. In regard to Puin's claim that certain words and pronunciations in the Koran were not standardized until the ninth century, the article notes:[11]
Jones admits there have been 'trifling' changes made to the Uthmanic recension. Khalidi says the traditional Muslim account of the Koran's development is still more or less true. 'I haven't yet seen anything to radically alter my view,' he says. [Jones] believes that the San'a Koran could just be a bad copy that was being used by people to whom the Uthmanic text had not reached yet. 'It's not inconceivable that after the promulgation of the Uthmanic text, it took a long time to filter down.'
However, the article notes some positive Muslim reaction to Puin's research. Salim Abdullah, director of the German Islamic Archives, affiliated to the Muslim World League, commented when he was warned of the controversy Puin's work might generate –"I am longing for this kind of discussion on this topic." [11]
Based on interviews with several scholars, Sadeghi and Goudarzi question Puin's claims regarding Yemeni suppression of research on the manuscripts and Puin's statement that the Yemenis did not want others to know that any work was being done on the manuscripts. For instance, they point to the fact that in 2007 Sergio Noja Noseda (an Italian scholar) and Christian Robin (a French archaeologist) were allowed to take pictures of the Sana'a palimpsest. They write that according to Christian Robin his colleagues were "granted greater access than would have been possible in some European libraries."[1] They report a similar view from Ursula Dreibholz, the conservator for the restoration project, who describes the Yemenis as supportive.[1] They quote Dreibholz as saying that the Yemenis "brought school children, university students, foreign delegations, religious dignitaries, and heads of state, like Franҫois Mitterrand, Gerhard Schröder, and Prince Klaus of the Netherlands, to see the collection."[1] Sadeghi and Goudarzi conclude: "Although the Yemeni authorities' openness proved a boon to scholarship, they were to be punished for it. The American media amplified the erroneous words of G. Puin, purveying a narrative that belittled Yemen and misrepresented the work done there. The Arab press in turn exaggerated the American story. The outcome was a media discourse in Yemen borne of three stages of misrepresentation. This embarrassed the Yemeni authorities responsible for the House of Manuscripts, and the Head of the Antiquities Department had to defend before Parliament the decision to bring in the foreigners."[1]


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Video: Building billboard features millions of LEDs
A big building, and a big display. Think of it as a "building-vertisement", consisting of millions of LEDs.
This "Media Facade" can be found on Bayer's former HQ in Leverkusen, reports Engadget.
"Built by ag4 media facade GmbH and GKD AG, the massive display apparently consists of 5.6 million LEDs that cover the entire 17,500 square meters of the building, and which can be lit up at will to pump out gigantic advertisements worthy of any science fiction movie."
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October 30, 2009 14:18
Very good point about the power, Alan. On the music, though, I assumed that was dubbed on he video! Otherwise they would be getting into Jean-Michel Jarre territory! Imagine that on constant repeat.
October 30, 2009 14:10
So how much power does this use (in this new age of limiting power usage to prevent global melt-down)?
Also the music upset the people in my office; imagine how it must be for everyone to hear that 1/2km from the building…


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So I was Jesse going to play some hoops in the park. When we noticed that the beautiful Jayden Jaymes was practicing there too. So my homeboy and me went for it and started talking and playing around a little with Jayden just to give her some company. Jesse came up with the idea that if she loses, he'll get a blowjob, and if Jayden wins, she will get an ass lick. So you know, in this game there is no winners or losers. Jesse lost on purpose just to lick Jayden Jaymes' beautiful ass. So we went back to my place where this Jayden started teasing with the camera, cause she loves it. So I got her completely naked and showed me those two big jugs that for me are just the perfect tits. This girl is all about her body. She is stunning beautiful and knows how to ride some cock. So these two started the partying with the ass licking to a hardcore sex scene.
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Rumors are flying this morning about the troubled musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The New York Times reported yesterday that director Julie Taymor, other members of the creative team, and the show's producers are scheduled to have an important meeting today to discuss the show's future. Today, the New York Post's Michael Riedel – a reporter who covers the Broadway beat and passes around the juiciest gossip on the Great White Way – has said that Spider-Man won't be postponed indefinitely as many have suggested over the last several months. Instead, it will just push back opening until the summer of 2010, when Taymor and company will finally have the highly complex show ready. This would mean that Spider-Man won't make the deadline for this year's Tony Awards, but then again most people probably won't need a Tony win as an incentive to see this much-buzzed-about musical with amazing aerial effects and songs by U2's Bono and The Edge.
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The Product Recalls App is a pet project with the aim of making it easier for people to access information using technology. It's a free download and let's you see what products and food are being recalled (and overseen by the government).
It's still fairly early days in the development of the app but always keen to hear feedback. You can reach me at adam{at}mogeo.co.nz


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Magnifi connects the iPhone 4 / 4S to your binoculars, microscope, or telescope allowing you to take pictures through the eyepiece. Read more
Magnifi connects the iPhone 4 / 4S to your binoculars, microscope, or telescope allowing you to take pictures through the eyepiece.
About this project
Thank you!
Thank you to everyone who has helped make our kickstarter project a success! Post-kickstarter, Magnifi will be available for pre-order with a June 30th ship date at the full retail price of $80 via our webstore at www.arcturuslabs.com.
The Buzz
Huffington Post: "Behold the Magnifi, a first-of-its-kind universal photoadapter iPhone casing."
Cult of Mac:"Turns microscopes and telescopes into iPhone lenses."
Mashable: "Instagram the night sky"
medGadget:"…snap the phone's camera in front of an eyepiece and quickly capture images for further use."
Wired: "take photos of microscope slide content, the wonders of space, or a rare bird..."
Introducing Magnifi™
Magnifi is the world's first universal photoadapter case for the iPhone. Magnifi connects the camera on your iPhone 4 / 4S to your favorite optical instrument, allowing you to take pictures and video through the eyepiece. This includes binoculars, microscopes, telescopes and almost anything else with an eyepiece.
How it Works
To use Magnifi, simply slip your phone into the Magnifi case and drop it over the eyepiece. Using the built-in camera app, slide the case onto your eyepiece until the image border becomes crisp. Snap the latch closed to lock things in place, and you are ready to go! Check out our video above to see Magnifi in action.
Afocal Design
Magnifi is a low maintenance afocal design, meaning there are no extra lenses to keep clean. Rather, it works by precisely aligning the iPhone's camera with the optical axis of your existing eyepiece.
Bayonet Mount
Magnifi is a two-piece design. It's case and eyepiece adapter are connected via Magnifi's unique bayonet mount. To assemble, simply align the two colored dots, and twist counter-clockwise to lock.
Future Ready
The bayonet mount gives Magnifi users instant interchangeability between their existing eyepiece adapters and any future supported phones within the product line. Can I get a high five from our future iPhone 5 owners in the audience?
Safety Latch
Magnifi is equipped with a safety latch below the phone's dock connector that holds your iPhone securely in the case. The latch engages automatically with an audible click whenever you slide your phone into the case. Press down on the latch to release.
Built Tough
Magnifi is made from impact-resistant Polycarbonate plastic. The same plastic that is used nearly all top-end phone cases.
FeatherGlide Design
Magnifi's FeatherGlide design hugs your iPhone's stainless steel band, leaving the glass on both the front and the rear of your phone touch free. In fact, Magnifi has ample room inside the case for both front and rear screen protectors.
World's First
Magnifi is the world's first iPhone universal photoadapter case, meaning it works on almost any optical instrument, and it is small enough to fit in your pocket. Photoadapter brackets have been around for a while, but they are all either too big to be a case that fits in your pocket, or they only fit a few eyepieces.
Most brackets also have knobs or sliders that require endless fiddling to align the image. With Magnifi, we've eliminated all of that. Magnifi's eyepiece adapter aligns your camera with the optical axis of the eyepiece automatically, and a simple latch locks everything in place.
Will Magnifi Work For Me?
Magnifi was designed to work with eyepieces that are 1in – 1.5in in diameter (25mm – 38mm). If your eyepiece has large eye seals, they must be removable. In order to align you phone's camera with the eyepiece, Magnifi must be able to slide down over the eyepiece at least 1in (25mm) without obstruction.
It is important that you measure your device before ordering, to know whether Magnifi will work for you. While Magnifi does fit some eyepieces outside of the range specified above, we chose a conservative set of specifications to ensure that our users will be happy with the Magnifi's image quality.
Custom Sizing Bands
For eyepieces on the smaller end of the diameter range specified above, Magnifi comes with custom molded silicone sizing bands that slide over your eyepiece to ensure that you get the same great fit, each and every time.
Tips and Tricks at your Fingertips
A QR code on the inside of your Magnifi case links directly to a How-To Video, in case you ever get stuck. It stays with you wherever you go, so you don't have to tote around a paper manual. There are a number of free apps on the AppStore that can read QR codes. If you are just getting started, we recommend using RedLaser.
Automatic Scale Bars: There's an App for That...
All you need to get started is the iPhone's built-in Camera App. However, so many people have been holding their phones up to the eyepiece, that there are a number of Apps designed for iPhone eyepiece photography. For starters, check out the eyeMicroscope app that let's you add automatic scale bars to your images.
Our beta testers love Magnifi! They've found it useful in a variety of applications including the following:
Outdoor Adventure
Magnifi is rugged and ready at a moment's notice. Share your passion for nature with those you love.
Whale Watching
Whatever envelope of human knowledge you push everyday, Magnifi makes it easy to capture your images for use in papers, posters, group meetings and conference talks.
Magnifi simplifies medical documentation and empowers quick informal consults. In clinical training, Magnifi eliminates constant swapping at the microscope, at the fraction of the cost of a multi-headed training microscope. It is a powerful tool for both Pathology and Telemedicine.
Research and Development
In R&D, Magnifi is useful for anyone that works with small parts. Great for inspection and test, mechanical assembly (including assembly instructions), troubleshooting, repair, soldering, and much more. Also greatly enhances conversations with your suppliers.
Magnifi lets multiple students see the same image, enabling them to work together and share limited resources. You can even use Skype or Facetime to stream live demos to your classroom projector.
Explore the universe with the swipe of a fingertip and share what you find with anyone, anywhere.
Project Status : Injection Molded
After months of iteration with our beta testers, Magnifi's design is now complete. We dipped deep into our personal savings to create and qualify the plastic injection mold tooling. Now we're turning to KickStarter for Support. We need your help with the initial full production run, the costs of which are dominated by large setup fees.
Polar Bear Stickers
Included with every Magnifi. Spiff up your laptop, your car, or any other part of your life!
Spread the Word
If you think our project is neat, "like" us on Facebook using the button at the top of the page. If you have friends, coworkers, or family members with one of the passions or professions mentioned above, consider sending them a quick note with a link to our Kickstarter page. Even if they don't end up pre-ordering a Magnifi, they'll be thrilled that you thought of them.
With your support, Magnifi will change the way people everywhere capture and share their images. Thanks, Kickstarters!
iPhone 5 is just the beginning (to debut 3 months after release). Don't have an iPhone? Send us a message using the button below to let us know which devices you own and would like to use with Magnifi.
We need to hear from you. If we can justify the molding costs based on demand, we would love to support your device. When you write, also let us know what your next phone or device purchase is likely to be, as it will help us determine which devices to support in the future.
Yes. Magnifi fits most microscopes as well as a majority of binoculars and telescopes. While it is important to measure your eyepieces to know for sure whether Magnifi will work for you, we realize that you don't constantly carry them around.
If you don't have your device and a ruler handy, you can still order and modify (or even withdrawl) your pledge anytime before the Kickstarter ends on May 3rd.
After Kickstarter is over, we will send out a survey that gives you a chance to input your most up-to-date address, in case you've moved or plan to do so after pledging. You can expect to receive the survey via email 2-3 weeks before the scheduled shipping date for your specific reward. Your prompt attention on these are appreciated, so as not to delay arrival of you Magnifi(s).
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JUST CAN'T WAIT. One Magnifi available a month sooner. To be built during the the first full-production run. Free US shipping. For international shipping, add $10. Get your Magnifi approx. 2,629,743 seconds sooner than "those other people."
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TWO OR MORE. Spread the love with two or more Magnifis. Add $60 for each Magnifi. Magnifi makes a great gift for family, friends, and coworkers. Ships free in the US. International backers, please add $10 to the total.
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RETAIL STARTER PACK. 12 Magnifis ($960 retail value). Be among the first to offer Magnifi to the Science, Medicine, R&D, Birding, Travel, Sports, Astronomy, and other communities before it becomes available elsewhere. Individually boxed in retail-ready packaging. Free worldwide shipping.
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by John Ebersole
People On Sunday, Geoffrey G. O'Brien's latest book of poems, is named after a 1930 German silent film directed by Curt and Robert Siodmak, from a screenplay by Billy Wilder. Noteworthy for its use of non-actors, critics mostly focused on its remarkable ordinariness as an ironic prelude to Hitler's Germany. But O'Brien is less interested in the city of Berlin, and more interested in Sunday itself and what it represents in the film and in our own lives. Essentially, Sunday is a day of compulsory leisure from the rotations of work. Framing weekend-time as a gift for the worker (as if time itself is property), society can elaborately stage for its subjects their experience of leisure, as in the eponymous poem, where nameless characters gallivant around the city on a Sunday. This is just one of many representative snapshots of activity that span the poem's ten pages:
There are so many like him
Outside, and the monuments, arches to be
Passed through in a car, and of course
The bridges, the smoke. That which can't be
Passed through or under can still be passed by,
Advertisements on the sides of apartments,
Windows, trains, and trees. They're all going
To the same unrevealed place, half an arrow.
Shy in the best-friend role, she looks down
Suddenly interested in tree-filtered light
On pavement.
(from "People on Sunday (1930)")
Like a set-designer on a big-budget film, society provides massive props and scenery for its actors to navigate and feel free within, as we see in the poem: urban planning literate with history, commercial boasting latched to living space, the loneliness of role-play in the crowd, coupled with the soft perceptual disassociation. O'Brien's speaker, so sensitive to the props that influence civic life, is summoned into existence by estrangement writ large and writ small, revealing itself in both the social and the private. However, while his treatment of alienation is intimate and engrossing, the speaker in People On Sunday maintains a distinct distance from the ontologies he explores, much like a doctor who in order to treat her patient must detach from that patient's suffering. Indeed, O'Brien's poetry has rarely been drawn to pathos or using personal revelation to animate his verse. On the other hand, his allegiance to a speaker so sapped of tone isn't a gesture of remoteness, but instead serves to protect his art from becoming a disposable and frictionless product. If true, then the frostiness in People On Sunday protects the speaker while shielding the reader from the faux enthusiasm more common in marketing and politics than genuine dissent. O'Brien intends (ambitiously and perhaps only in theory) to immunize the poet and the reader from being turned into compliant acolytes by the very maladies they explore together:
What follows is terms and classifications, the West
Of speech congratulating itself from within
A system so complex there's no way not to be
Effective. Just as they had planned, the streets
On either side are lined with all that's needed,
Storefronts whose glass returns a look
Filled with the contents it displays
(Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)
Making even moving sitting still, embrace
Above anything that's so
What follows is seven dominated days
Of the week ready to blind with really anything
At all, your thoughts as you come forward
Out of the haze like the sun through a curtain
Or go to sleep so as to be further use—
Till sight doesn't feel like buying houses
Aren't these one and the same task?
(from "From Honey to Ashes")
The poem's title, most likely taken from Lévi-Strauss' book on the structures of primitive consciousness, or perhaps a reference to the documentary about an indigenous group's first contact with modernity, shows O'Brien's intellectual fixations. Like the natives in the documentary From Honey to Ashes, O'Brien's People On Sunday recoils at the blunt systems that define the values we live by. And the book seems to reflect one of the claims of structural anthropology – namely that cultures are built upon binary conceptions of being (light/dark, smooth/rough, raw/cooked) born long ago out of rudimentary sensory data. Yet over the course of history, and in advanced cultures like our own, these once organic binaries slowly began manifesting themselves as antagonistic opposites: rich/poor, happiness/depression, Left/Right, and on and on. A primitive culture, for instance, might marry two members of opposing tribes or arrange any number of customs to diffuse group conflict, but in America and elsewhere, O'Brien seems to suggest, our society doesn't seek to solve these divisions, but seeks to either exacerbate them or at the very least keep the population from knowing they exist through endless distractions. Throughout much of People On Sunday, the poet is arguing that responsible governance and morality has metastasized into various forms of injustice. Our politics have become polarized and dull, ensuring that the systems scripting our perceptual lives remain unchallenged. If the dominant binary in the West has finally come to desire/consume and heard/unheard, then O'Brien's poetry – as a reaction against this pathology – becomes a sort of talisman of our abandoned nature.
In addition to the poet's subject-matter, one always senses in an O'Brien poem that a conceptual point is being made. Besides his half-robotic vocalizations, the poet experiments with style too, mostly through initial capitalization, slicing and suturing enjambment, word-repetition, and rubbing out most punctuation. By utilizing these techniques, O'Brien's poetic line both insists on its sovereignty and also its connection to the whole. In other words, one can read a line as a free-standing phrase, while also seeing its logical connection to the poem's totality. It's a provocative metaphor for what ails Western culture: society instructs the individual to be afraid of the idea of interdependence and instructs them to reject the notion that individual choices impact our communities. As a result, this conceptual binary, instead of reinforcing the civic passivity mass culture counts on in order to thrive, directly challenges it. Furthermore, the ways the lines are constructed expose our reflexive resentment when a difficult art challenges our thinking:
Dancing is anger made good
While a rival marks the opportunity to speak
Passed up yet somehow heard.
You wouldn't want to manage his estate
But drifting through a lonely game
Of unrelated terms, imagining crowds
To be simple plots of environment,
Seems equally arranged…
(from "Hesiod")
O'Brien's work is a poetry that nudges us beyond simple protest, where empire lets one blow off steam, but to consider resistance, a resistance replicated in the reader by his difficult poetry. O'Brien's book is demanding and wrestling with it becomes a form of labor. However, the outcome of that labor belongs entirely to the reader. At first, reading People On Sunday feels like being forced to do a task with your less dominant hand. But by choosing such an idiosyncratic and difficult style, the poet creates a new type of work that most are (if "given" the time) qualified to do. With practice comes mastery, and when the reader is finally calibrated to the poet's frequency, an authentic delight sets in, and one begins to feel less like they're being trained by the poet and more like they're being spoken to by him.
Discussed in this essay:
People on Sunday by Geoffrey O'Brien. Wave Books. 2013. 128 pages. $18.
John Ebersole edits New Books in Poetry where he interviews poets about their latest work. His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review, storySouth, Bateau, Western Humanities Review, Coldfront, Octopus,HTMLGIANT, and elsewhere.
Photo: Still from People on Sunday, 1930


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Major Dan Proctor and Major Francina Proctor
Majors Dan Proctor and Francina Proctor joined The Salvation Army Naples Regional Coordinate in June 2013 after serving as leaders of the Central Oklahoma Command in Oklahoma City for four years. The son of Salvation Army officer parents, Major Proctor was born in Miami, Florida but moved with family regularly and graduated from Abilene High School in Texas. He also graduated from Trinity International University with a degree in Communication. Major Proctor attended Salvation Army College for Officer Training in Atlanta, being commissioned and ordained in The Salvation Army in 1978.
Major Dan has a passion for music. Having played Baritone and Euphonium in The Salvation Army Southern Territorial Band in the USA for 38 years, performing in the US, Brazil, Russia, Scotland and the United Kingdom, including performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London on two separate occasions, he was also Principal Euphonium with The Salvation Army National Capital Band, performing in the US, Canada, Switzerland, and France. He played for many years in The Salvation Army Texas Divisional Band, traveling to Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize, Cuba and Colombia and served as Divisional Music Director for The Salvation Army in Texas.
Major Francina serves as the Associate Area Coordinator of The Salvation Army in Collier. She holds a B.A. degree in Math/Science from Eastern Oregon State College, a B.S. degree in Child Health Associate Science from the University of Colorado Medical School and in 1975 became nationally certified as a Physician's Assistant in Pediatrics. Major Francina Proctor was commissioned and ordained in The Salvation Army in 1979 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Her service includes staff/faculty positions in the Western College for Officer Training; two months service in 1980 providing emergency aid to Cambodian War refugee children; one year's service as a Physician's Assistant in Flushing, New York at The Salvation Army's Booth Memorial Hospital; three years on the faculty at The Salvation Army's College for Officer Training in Atlanta, Georgia and more than 20 years as a married Corps Officer (pastor and administrator) in the Southern Territory.
The Proctors have two daughters: Kally Juarez, with husband Luis and son Joshua, presently living in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; and Kaylene Baker, a Children's Pastor with husband, Mark, a Youth Pastor both at River of Life Church in Abilene, TX.
Lt. Michael Missey
The Salvation Army Naples Corps Advisory Board is made up of business and community leaders who provide wisdom, involvement, and support to the work and programs of the Corps. Board members assist Officers and Staff in dealing with, identifying, and solving complex community needs, changing funding trends, and work to connect the Army to the larger community in meaningful ways.ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS include:
Patrick Amoaku, SunTrust BankBetty A. Bailey, Health Care ConsultantJeannette Batten, John R. Wood RealtorsKimberly Bell, Reptile Industries, Inc.Michelle Benton, East Naples Middle School TeacherByron Donalds, CMG Life ServicesPaige Eber Fraley, Katz & Associates, Inc.Robert C. Hackett, Arthrex, Inc.Elizabeth Anne Hazelbaker, Attorney (Secretary)Dr. Claude KenolThad Kirkpatrick, Cohen & GrisbyJerry Nicely (Vice Chair)Paul Parshall (Chair)Joshua Rudnick, Woods, Weidenmiller, Michetti & RudnickLinda Thompson, BMO Harris Bank (Treasurer)Sharon TreiserPhillip Wood, John R. Wood Realtors Sheila Zellers, Tamiami Ford/Mitsubishi/Hyundai & Motivated By Love Ministries
Myra Janco Daniels, Life Member