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Chris Dodd's Kitchen Cabinet
Sen. Chris Dodd (Conn.) formalized his plans to run the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination today, telling radio host Don Imus that he is a dark horse for the nomination but insisting he can compete with better-known candidates in the arena of ideas. Dodd made his presidential plans official this week. Dodd's path from "who?" to "serious contender" will be guided by a stable of political advisers that represent a mix of old and new. Some -- like pollster Stan Greenberg and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.) -- have been with Dodd for decades, while others -- Jim Jordan and Amos Hochstein -- are newcomers who were previously committed to ex-Virginia Gov. Mark Warner. Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic in the 1960's.
Chris Dodd's Kitchen Cabinet
Chris Dodd's Kitchen Cabinet
Sen. Chris Dodd (Conn.) formalized his plans to run the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination today, telling radio host Don Imus that he is a dark horse for the nomination but insisting he can compete with better-known candidates in the arena of ideas. Dodd made his presidential plans official this week.
Dodd's path from "who?" to "serious contender" will be guided by a stable of political advisers that represent a mix of old and new. Some -- like pollster Stan Greenberg and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.) -- have been with Dodd for decades, while others -- Jim Jordan and Amos Hochstein -- are newcomers who were previously committed to ex-Virginia Gov. Mark Warner.
Here's a look at Dodd's Inner Circle:
* Rep. Rosa DeLauro: DeLauro is a longtime Dodd ally, serving as the senator's chief of staff for much of the 1980s before being elected to Congress in 1990. She is married to Stan Greenberg and will be one of the national co-chairs of the Dodd candidacy.
* Jim Jordan: A past executive director of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and former campaign manager for Sen. John Kerry's (D-Mass.) 2004 presidential bid, Jordan originally signed on with Mark Warner for 2008. But Warner's departure left Jordan a free agent, and he chose Dodd because "he's easily and obviously the potential candidate who's most qualified for the job."
* Al Quinlan/Stan Greenberg: Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, the polling firm at which both Quinlan and Greenberg are partners, will handle the survey research for Dodd's bid as they have for the majority of his past races. Greenberg also happens to be married to DeLauro.
* Sheryl Cohen: Dodd's current chief of staff, Cohen's background is in fundraising where she is likely to concentrate for the national bid. Dodd insiders say he will show $5 million on hand in his 2006 year-end report, a sum that can be immediately transferred to a presidential bid.
* Doug Sosnik: One of the most highly regarded operatives in Democratic politics, Sosnik has ties to a number of candidates. He served as political director in the Clinton White House and is personal friends with Warner. But Sosnik also served as Dodd's chief of staff and has decided to advise his former boss's presidential effort.
* Matt Butler: Butler will be Dodd's deputy campaign manager. Most recently, he held that same position in the successful reelection bid of Sen. Maria Cantwell (Wash.). He also was a deputy campaign manager charged with handling operations for John Kerry's 2004 candidacy.
* Vince Frillici: Frillici has long handled Dodd's national fundraising program and will be finance director for the presidential race.
* Pat Hart: Hart, the campaign's research director, comes to Dodd from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He served as deputy research director in former Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential race.
* Beneva Schulte: Schulte will be Dodd's presidential communications director, having spent a number of years on Capitol Hill working for DeLauro and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (N.Y.), among others.
* Amos Hochstein: Another free agent following Warner's surprising decision not to run for president, Hochstein will leave a job as executive vice president of Cassidy & Associates to join Dodd's team as policy director.
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Fiery Mittens
Fiery reds or a cool black and white - what's it going to be? Or
a multi-coloured harlequin effect using up all your little bits and pieces of yarn from other projects? These mittens are versatile!
They are also very warm and the stitch pattern is easy to do: the colour effect and texture are achieved solely by the use of slipped stitches, and knit and purl - definitely no stranded colour knitting necessary.
The mittens are knitted in the round. For the shaping, you will need to be familiar with the decreases k2tog, p2tog, ssk and ssp, and with the technique of grafting for the last few stitches. For size L a few stitches will be increased too, by making a stitch (or any other method you like to use).
Use any number of colours, in any sequence you like - why not use up all those bits of aran yarn leftover from other projects?
The pattern has 3 sizes: Women's XS/S, M and L, with an inner circumference of the mitten of 18, 20 and 22cm (7⅛, 7⅞ and 8⅝"). Due to the peasant thumb, you should choose the size generously, so that it will also fit on the wider part underneath the thumb. Add 1-2cm to your circumference above thumb. The smallest size will also fit a teenager.
Lots of thanks to my wonderful test knitters!

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Haze reaches unhealthy levels in Malaysia
Publication Date : 16-06-2012
The haze has returned to peninsular Malaysia with four areas recording unhealthy Air Pollutant Index levels in the Klang Valley and the worse is yet to come.
As in previous years, several hotspots in central Sumatra in Indonesia are causing the haze.
Both the Department of Environment and Indonesian authorities expect the situation to worsen with the hot and dry spell in the Riau district of Sumatra set to peak over the next two weeks.
Air quality in Klang Valley deteriorated progressively yesterday with four locales noting unhealthy API readings as of 5pm.
They were Port Klang (147), Kuala Selangor (129), Shah Alam (120) and Cheras (105).
Most of the 51 areas monitored by DOE also showed increases, with several places in the Klang and Kinta valleys hovering at the edge of unhealthy API readings of more than 100.
The DOE classifies API readings of between 0 and 50 as Good, 51-100 (Moderate), 101-200 (Unhealthy), 201-300 (Very Unhealthy) and more than 301 as Hazardous.
"With the relatively dry weather in several northern and east coast states in the peninsula, the haze is expected to continue over the next few days," said the DOE in a statement.
Indonesian daily The Jakarta Post, reported recently that peat and forest fires in the district were causing the haze and more fires were expected.
Satellite image reports issued by the Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) showed an increase in hotspots in Sumatra from 67 on Tuesday to 122 on Wednesday.
The centre reported a decline in the number of hotspots in the Riau district because of cloud cover over the satellite but noted that the south-westerly wind had blown the haze towards peninsular Malaysia.
Meantime, the DOE has activated its action plan to curb open burning and peat fires as well as step up enforcement on exhaust fumes from motor vehicles and factories.
The Meteorological Department's Fire Danger Rating System also reported that almost the entire country was at high risk of fires from the hot and dry weather.
The Fine Fuel Moisture Code (FFMC) chart on the department's website rated the ignition potential of many parts of the country as "extreme".
The code, which is a numerical rating for moisture content of litter and other cured fine fuels (grass, bushes, dried leaves), is used as an indicator of potential for fires to start and spread in an area.
It is affected by temperature, relative humidity, rainfall and wind speed.
In Selangor, one case of peat fire was recorded yesterday in Pulau Kempas, Kuala Langat, where firemen fought to keep it under control.
Health Department Director-General Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman said people should drink more water while high-risk patients with respiratory problems should seek early treatment if symptoms developed.
He also urged the public to visit the Health Ministry's website at www.moh.gov.my for health advice on coping with haze.


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In Reply to: How to convince meat-eating family to go veg posted by Michelle on August 13, 2008 at 10:04 am:
I think you might try using a different reasoning with your daughter. Those videos never bothered me as a teenager, but I was very concerned about the enviroment and the amount of pollution created by the meat industry. Also: it doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing thing. Maybe your teen daughter would be OK with not eating meat at home, and when she goes out to a friend's it's her decision. Or a compromise: no meat, but a certain number of eggs per week. I don't think it's bad to use up the meat in your freezer. Another idea: give it to a friend and tell them you are going veg (and why, if they ask). I did that, and now my friend is trying to reduce his meat consumption.


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Sea Ray 390 Express Cruiser
Sea Ray 390 Express CruiserTalk about home waters. Larry Young has been boating on the rivers and lakes of eastern Tennessee just about all his life, and he's done it in a variety of boats. His first was a 16-foot runabout with an outboard, perfect for a youngster to mess about in. Nine more boats followed, each well-suited to Young's boating lifestyle at the time, including a 36-foot houseboat, a 19-foot bowrider (a family boat for many years), a 28-foot flybridge cruiser and a 37-foot aft-cabin cruiser.
The latter was the only boat that didn't work out, says Young, 65, a Chattanooga, Tenn., attorney. "It wasn't quite the boat we thought it was," he says. "It just didn't work out, so we decided to sell it and start looking again."
Good move. In January 2007, they received a call from a salesman they'd previously spoken with, and he said he had just the boat for them and that they wouldn't get a better deal. "We took a look and saw right away how nice it was," says Young.
It was a 1988 Sea Ray 390 Express Cruiser in what Young calls "immaculate" condition. The $59,000 price was right, and he and his wife, Libby, jumped at the deal. "I've always been convinced the old Sea Rays were built well. They're a big seller around here; you always see them," says Young. "I felt safe buying an older Sea Ray."
Another good move for Young. "I know that word 'immaculate' gets overused," he says. "But this boat was beautiful, especially inside. We'd been looking at 33- and 34-footers, but this boat was just too nice for the money to pass up."
Now that they've had it for a year, it seems to be a perfect fit. "With a 14-foot beam, it's an honest 39-foot boat; it's a big boat," says Young. "The big aft cockpit is perfect for us. We go out a lot in the evenings, rafting up with other boats, and the room [on our Sea Ray] is on the level of a much bigger boat.
The couple also appreciates the fact that the cockpit can be fully enclosed. "That greatly expands the room on board," says Young. "And you get some protection from the weather, which is important because we boat all year long around here."
Young's twin MerCruiser 340-hp gas inboards were standard at the time the boat was built. Though the 390 Express Cruiser will coast at 15 to 16 mph, Young runs along at a leisurely 9 or 10 mph, the engines turning 1,700 to 1,800 rpm. "It'll run all day at that speed and not use much gas," he says. Fuel capacity is 300 gallons.
The boat's spacious floor plan is another plus, says the burly, 6-foot-plus Young. "I'm a big guy, and I need room," he says. "The layout is open inside, and that's great for me. The big cockpit, the openness of the cabin — they were big selling points."
The couple stays on the boat three or four days at a time — "It's our condo on the water," says Young — and the three-burner stove, electric refrigerator and microwave in the galley make cooking a breeze. There's plenty of storage, too, including in-sole receptacles.
"There are lots of [Tennessee Valley Authority] lakes in the area, and the Tennessee River runs right through town," says Young. "Lake Chickamauga is close by, so we can run the river to lots of different lakes."
Young retired not long ago, only to go back to work. The next time he retires, he has other plans, and the Sea Ray's at the heart of them. "When I decide to retire for the second time, we'd like to do the Tombigbee Waterway down to the Gulf of Mexico," he says. "With the cockpit, the roomy cabin, all the storage on board and that big fuel load, I think this would be a good cruising boat. At the moment, we're just getting comfortable with it, and so far it's proven to be just what we need right now."
Sea Ray's 390 Express Cruiser enjoyed a lengthy production run, thanks largely to its ample cockpit, an innovative and spacious two-cabin interior, and twin engine (gas or diesel) power options. The styling was contemporary, with a low, sloping cabin top surrounded by a walkaround deck and rails. The raked aluminum-frame windshield and integral radar arch were also distinctive.
The cockpit gets much of its space from the boat's nearly 14-foot beam. There's an aft bench and lounge seating, and engine access is through a large in-deck hatch. The bridge deck, up one step, has room for a full helm station to starboard with a double helm/companion bench seat.
The twin-cabin layout below is versatile, with a large island berth forward that can be closed off. The adjacent head, to port, is laid out with a stall shower. There's a convenient midcabin with over-and-under bunks to starboard, which closes off with a sliding bulkhead. The L-shaped dinette is to port amidships in the large central area. A fully equipped galley to starboard includes a double sink, stove, refrigerator and room for a microwave, coffeemaker and other accessories. Standard power was twin 340-hp MerCruiser inboards, and 375-hp diesels were optional. The latter option gave the boat a top speed of 30 mph.
The Sea Ray 390 Express Cruiser is easily found on the used-boat market. Prices start in the mid-$40,000 range and reach about $80,000 for later models in top condition. A pair of 1987 boats — one in Florida and one in Maine — were selling for about $45,000 each. The Florida boat featured a custom hardtop, two air conditioning units and an Awlgrip hull. The Maine boat, listed in "very good condition," was powered by twin MerCruiser 340-hp engines with 450 hours. Another 1987 model, a freshwater boat in "excellent" condition, was selling for $68,000 in the Great Lakes. Power was twin gas Crusader 350s, and extras included air conditioning and heat, new canvas, and upgraded electronics. The forward cabin had been redone, and the entertainment center included a television, VCR and stereo system. The most expensive boat we found was a 1990 model in Michigan for $79,900. New to the market, the freshwater boat came with twin MerCruiser 340s and new electronics, including a Raymarine plotter and Simrad autopilot.
Sea Ray is one of America's oldest and most prolific builders of fiberglass boats. Founded in 1959 by C.N. Ray, the company started out building small family runabouts in the early days of fiberglass. By the 1980s, it was the second largest boatbuilder in the United States, and today Sea Ray (a Brunswick Corp. company) can turn out almost 20,000 boats a year, making it the world's largest builder. Current models include bowriders, express cruisers, sport yachts and motoryachts from 17 to 68 feet.
Introduced in 1984, the Sea Ray 390 Express Cruiser was an attractively priced family boat with two enclosed cabins that could sleep up to six. During its eight-year production run, it was one of the Knoxville, Tenn., builder's more popular boats. The 400 Express Cruiser replaced the 390 in 1992.
Phone: (800) 772-6287. www.searay.com
LOA 39 feet
Beam 13 feet, 11 inches
Draft 2 feet, 4 inches
Power twin 340-hp gas engines, 375-hp diesels
Built Sea Ray Boats, Knoxville, Tenn.
Tankage 300 gallons fuel, 100 gallons water
Weight 16,400 pounds
Hull Type modified-vee (19-degree deadrise)


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Will Bono please be quiet, please?
This is probably a sign that I'm watching too much ESPN, but the channel's ads for the World Cup are driving me nuts. Adweek's Kathleen Sampey describes the ads: Music from U2 is also used in the campaign from Wieden + Kennedy, which carries the theme, "One game changes everything."These ads have induced excitement in some quarters, but at the risk of besmirching Bono's reputaion for saintliness, the claim that soccer stops war is just a bit much for me. The conflict-reducing powers of the World Cup is based in what happened when the Ivory Coast quaified for this year's cup. As Bono explains in another ad: After three years of civil war, feuding factions talked for the first time in years, and the president called a truce. Because the Ivory Coast qualified for the World Cup for the first time. Because, as everyone knows, a country united makes for better cheerleaders than a country divided.This sounds great, and indeed, there are tentative signs that the Ivory Coast is trending in a positive direction. However, in National Geographic, Paul Laity explains the precarious role of soccer in that country's political process: Over the past six years, the Ivory Coast's southern-based regime has fomented hatred of immigrants and Muslims, yet many of the country's best soccer players are from Muslim and immigrant families, so the national team has become an irresistible symbol of unity. At the end of the Abidjan victory parade [for qualifying], the head of the Ivory Coast Football Federation addressed a plea to President Laurent Gbagbo: "The players have asked me to tell you that what they most want now is for our divided country to become one again. They want this victory to act as a catalyst for peace in Ivory Coast, to put an end to the conflict and to reunite its people. This success must bring us together." The party on the streets lasted another whole day....Furthermore, Human Rights Watch just issued a rather pessimistic report on the country: Government forces in Côte d'Ivoire, their allied militias and New Forces rebels alike are committing serious abuses against civilians with impunity, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. These abuses and the impunity that fuels them raise serious concerns about the potential for violence in the run-up to the October elections....HRW's history of the conflict says nothing about the World Cup qualifying as a trigger for peace. [Isn't this a bit curmudgeonly?--ed.] Well, part of it is that ESPN's ads don't mention the other times that soccer affected international conflict: Tensions [between Honduras and El Salvador] continued to mount during June 1969. The soccer teams of the two nations were engaged that month in a three-game elimination match as a preliminary to the World Cup. Disturbances broke out during the first game in Tegucigalpa, but the situation got considerably worse during the second match in San Salvador. Honduran fans were roughed up, the Honduran flag and national anthem were insulted, and the emotions of both nations became considerably agitated. Actions against Salvadoran residents in Honduras, including several vice consuls, became increasingly violent. An unknown number of Salvadorans were killed or brutalized, and tens of thousands began fleeing the country. The press of both nations contributed to a growing climate of near- hysteria, and on June 27, 1969, Honduras broke diplomatic relations with El Salvador.There's also the role that soccer played in igniting the Balkan wars of the nineties: For many Croats, the war began not in June 1991 but on the soccer field on 13 March 1990. That day Red Star Belgrade met Dinamo Zagreb at the Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb to settle a long standing disputed league title. The Red Star Delije were led by Arkan, the notorious warlord and Serbian ultranationalist.If FIFA, ESPN, and U2 want to claim that soccer -- and yes, I know, it's called football everywhere else -- was the cause of peace in the Ivory Coast, then they should also acknowledge it's less savory contributions to world politics. UPDATE: Some of the reactions to this post presume that I don't like either soccer or the World Cup. Not true -- I, for one, am hoping that Team USA can build on its excellent 2002 performance, when it advanced to the quarterfinals and then lost to Germany despite outplaying them for 80 of the 90 minutes of the game [not that he's bitter about it or anything!!--ed.]. I simply request that the game not be assigned magical properties that it does not possess. posted by Dan on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PMComments: C'mon, what about the most famous time that soccer stopped a war, the major event of the famous "Christmas Truce" of 1914 was a soccer game in the middle of no man's land. Of course they just went back to killing eachother the next day, so maybe that isn't the greatest example. posted by: Chris W. on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Chris W.: I think that truce had more to do with Christmas than soccer. posted by: Dan Drezner on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Dan -- have you read about the incident when a civil war was temporarily put on hold so that Pele could play a football game ? But here's something that really irritates me -- baseball being called a World Series despite the fact that only a countries outside the US play it. posted by: erg on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]I haven't seen the Bono commercials yet. Does he sing "I Got You, Babe"? posted by: Zathras on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]On matters African, this Hewson moron is hardly more coherent than Angelina Jolie (who's arguably done more good for more of the continent's unfortunates than Hewson has). Paul Theroux's got his number: http://tinyurl.com/7mbdo Excerpt: Just a few years ago you couldn't buy condoms legally in Ireland, nor could you get a divorce, though (just like in Malawi) buckets of beer were easily available and unruly crapulosities a national curse. Ireland, that island of inaction, in Joyce's words, "the old sow that eats her farrow," was the Malawi of Europe, and for many identical reasons, its main export being immigrants.... Africa has no real shortage of capable people - or even of money. The patronizing attention of donors has done violence to Africa's belief in itself, but even in the absence of responsible leadership, Africans themselves have proven how resilient they can be - something they never get credit for. Again, Ireland may be the model for an answer. After centuries of wishing themselves onto other countries, the Irish found that education, rational government, people staying put, and simple diligence could turn Ireland from an economic basket case into a prosperous nation. In a word - are you listening, Mr. Hewson? - the Irish have proved that there is something to be said for staying home. posted by: thibaud on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Dan, The Aussies also call it soccer so Americans aren't the only ones who have it right. 'Football' in Australia is Aussie Rules football, at least in Victoria. posted by: TN on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Soccer also had a hand in starting that little balkans issue: Actually a soccer match has started at least one war : http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/sierra/soccer1969.htm And some of the Serbian militias that fought in the Yugoslav wars were based around gangs of hooligans supporting various soccer teams. posted by: Martin Adamson on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Factory: Thanks, I updated the post to add that case. posted by: Dan Drezner on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Erg, Both sides in the Biafra War in Nigeria stopped fighting for two days because they wanted to see Pele play. Dynamo Kiev played a game against a team of Nazis in the occupied Ukraine and rather than lose and survive, they won the game and became martyrs against fascism. Nothing like striking a little balance there, Dan posted by: Randy Paul on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]The Joga Bonita ads with Eric Cantona are much better anyway. posted by: Randy Paul on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]I suppose a spin off of William James's thesis that we should find a moral equivalent of war in sports has now been falsified. Perhaps Tom Wolfe's analogy with single combat is more apt. posted by: William James on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Seems to me team sports raise the same moral ambiguity at the community level that video games do at the individual level. Team sports The proximate answer is certainly, some of both. I wonder what the marginal benefit is, though, and whether it varies by individual video game or type of sport. posted by: mchanoff on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Dan, Your point is valid, but as you say its a double edged sword. So there is some good to be derived as well. Like most valuable human products its a tool whose virtue is tied to those that seek to use it. There are maybe four ads in total designed primarily to point to the unique nature of the event. Only one of them highlights the Ivory Coast. For most of this world its an even that eclipses the olympics, and it does have the potential to bring people together in a good way, and not merely the hooligan in the street sense. I will be in Germany for all three US games and I am proud to say that I know the guys will do their best. It's one of the few events left where we are still the underdog. Unfortunately I will be totally conscious of the fact that as a nation we aren't very popular at the moment and so it makes for a precarious situation. Watch the Gatorade add about our US National Team. I think that is more to the point. posted by: Babar on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Could there be something less literal, less complicated going on here? Soccer is simple. Within a stated interval resolution is achieved according to an inviable set of rules easily grasped by all. Appeal is universal. Africa too is simple, a continent starving, oppressed and diseased that for an indefinte period has found no resolution owing to a lack of any rules whatsoever. Indifference has become universal. Could Bono simply be trying to associate in the minds of people everywhere the directness, efficiency, passion and universality of World Cup Soccer with the need for an immediate, full and popular solution to humanitarian problems in Africa? (Do ya think?) Please go to one.org. Notice the 80 or so NGOs that support Bono's effort - Oxfam to World Vision - Jews, Catholics, lefties, righties. There's something there to offend everyone, so re-read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, hold your nose and sign the petition! posted by: Bill B. on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Reading anything by Ryszard Kapuscinski is a treat. For this subject, I recommend "The Soccer War". From Publishers Weekly BTW - Dan - a soccer match lasts 90 minutes not 60. So the US outplayed Germany for most of those 90 minutes, not "50 of the 60 minutes of the game". posted by: martin on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Martin: thanks for catching that whopper of a mistake. Fixed now! posted by: Dan Drezner on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Well it's just an ad. I think Bono and anyone with any sense will know that sport has little to do with ending wars. Probably best not to take that statement too seriously. posted by: The_Consigliere on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Dan -- did you express equal annoyance over the Bush ads of 2 years back linking the Olympics with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ? [ The Iraqi football team was reportedly a little peaved] By the way, it's NOT Bono in the ad. The ads I've seen both had "The Edge" (Dave Evans) doing the voice-over. Paul Theroux despises NGO's after having spent time in Africa. Anyone have any other links or the name of his book where he rags on them? posted by: Patrick on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Quite the contrast to my first real WC experience. I was in Europe for the '98. What a great time. The theme song was by Ricky Martin, and its lyrics were almost Darwinian La Copa de la Vida La vida es Como cain y abel No one who has actually been to Celtic-Rangers match seriously thinks football is an agent for peace! I'd like to see Bono last five minutes in the stands at a UK-club versus Galitaserai match! posted by: Bina on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]No one who has actually been to Celtic-Rangers match seriously thinks football is an agent for peace! I'd like to see Bono last five minutes in the stands at a UK-club versus Galitaserai match! posted by: Bina on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Mitchell, I am sick of Bono's pretentious posturing. He should give the money he wastes jetting around the world to the world's hungry and shut the hell up. posted by: OpenBorderMan on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]I don't know if soccer is peace-inducing or war-inducing, but it sure is boring. Steve posted by: Steve on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]
Yes, compared to truly exciting dynamic sports like baseball or American football !! posted by: erg on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]"I don't know if soccer is peace-inducing or war-inducing, but it sure is boring.
Uhm... watching paint dry is boring. It's irrelevant whether it is more or less boring than watching grass grow, isn't it? posted by: Steve on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]So Steve, what sports do you find exciting ? WWF ? posted by: erg on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Steve's comment is indicative of the pathology of soccer haters. I find the NFL boring beyond belief. I find baseball to be dull as well. I just don't have the need to go around trashing those sports. Perhaps the Steves of the world can afford us football fans the same courtesy. posted by: Randy Paul on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]ok, randy. I find soccer boring beyond belief. I find it to be dull as well. Now we're even. I guess. Erg. I don't watch sports. I run triathlons but don't watch anything. I also play ping pong. Not sure if that qualifies as a sport. Steve posted by: Steve on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Soccer? isn't that part of the black helicopter UN plot for "One World Government"....I hate it...it is against the NRA, God and the American way!!! posted by: Ralph Reed on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]those funny foreign people...what fools. WWF and NASCAR now those are sports. posted by: jonny 6-pack on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]dan:
I'm a football(soccer) fan, but could not agree more with your article! posted by: Daryl Edwards on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]I already wasted my international sports excitement on the World Baseball Classic. Soccer is merely a game for small children and girls. posted by: NMUMatthew on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Soccer is merely a game for small children and girls. [BIG YAWN] posted by: Randy Paul on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]soccer -- and yes, I know, it's called football everywhere else Except for Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Japan, and parts of Ireland, yes. "Football" in those countries generally refers to one of Canadian football, American football, rugby football (Union or League), Australian rules football, or Gaelic football. There's no reason that "football" has to refer to (Football) Association football, or soccer. There are plenty of codes of football, and "football," unadorned by a descriptor indicating which one, refers to the most popular code in the speaker's area. But the cultural hegemonists among us like to pretend that only their favorite code of football deserves to be called "football," and that only it may be called football. posted by: John Thacker on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Paul Theroux despises NGO's after having spent time in Africa. Anyone have any other links or the name of his book where he rags on them?Dark Star Safari. posted by: David Fleck on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink] I hate bono. So do you. Please join in the campaign to Make Bono History. posted by: anti bono on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]We know the world we live in. Radicals try to achieve their goals by any means possible. soccer is the number one language of the world. soccer events is more often than not the only time when foes from the same country or city, etc agree on something. when opposing factions from same regions meet through soccer, soccer sometimes fosters peace , most times, it is not lucky. But it is for now the only game that can acheive that effect with so many people. Soccer fans respect the game. As with anything you respect, you hate to see people bash it. We are just far from the muslim fundamentalists. posted by: listen on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]We know the world we live in. Radicals try to achieve their goals by any means possible. soccer is the number one language of the world. soccer events is more often than not the only time when foes from the same country or city, etc agree on something. when opposing factions from same regions meet through soccer, soccer sometimes fosters peace , most times, it is not lucky. But it is for now the only game that can acheive that effect with so many people. Soccer fans respect the game. As with anything you respect, you hate to see people bash it. We are just far from the muslim fundamentalists. posted by: listen on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]I know I'm a little late for this, but... You don't really think the football war, also known as the 110-hours war (between Honduras and El Salvador), was because of a football game, right? That was, supposedly the pretext. Actually, no one's really sure if it was the pretext, it may have just been called that because of how journalists overlapped war reporting with rioting from a series of football matches(wikipedia.com). The war happened because Salvadoran farmers were being deported in order to give the land to Honduran farmers. The reason this happened was because the great majority of the land was owned by foreign companies, making it difficult for the locals to compete. There's a lot more than a football game to this war. Ok, that's all I wanted to say. posted by: claveldelpoeta on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Oops, I meant 100-hours war, not 110-hours war! posted by: claveldelpoeta on 05.28.06 at 08:07 PM [permalink]Post a Comment: |


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Philip Bobbitt
Philip Bobbitt | |
Born | Temple, Texas |
July 22, 1948
Nationality | United States |
Fields | Law, history |
Institutions | Columbia Law School |
Alma mater | Princeton University Yale Law School Oxford University |
Philip Chase Bobbitt (born July 22, 1948) is an American author, academic, lawyer, and public servant who has lectured in the United Kingdom. He is best known for work on military strategy and constitutional law and theory, and as the author of Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (1982), The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (2002), and Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century (2008).
Early life[edit]
Philip Bobbitt was born in Temple, Texas. He is the only child of Oscar Price Bobbitt (died 1995) (son of Oscar Price Bobbitt and Maude Wisner) and Rebekah Luruth Johnson Bobbitt (1910–1978) (daughter of Sam Johnson and Rebekah Baines). O.P. Bobbitt was a direct descendant of Henry Wisner, the only delegate from New York to vote for the Declaration of Independence, and was also descended from William Bobbitt, a Virginia planter (died 1673). Rebekah Bobbitt's father and grandfather were members of the Texas Legislature; her great grandfather was president of Baylor University. Bobbitt is the nephew of Lyndon Baines Johnson, president of the United States from 1963 to 1969; his mother, Rebekah Bobbitt, was the eldest sister of the 36th president. Between high school and college, Bobbitt resided for the summer in the White House.
Bobbitt graduated with an A.B. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1971 where his thesis advisor was philosopher Richard Rorty (thesis: On Wittgenstein and a Philosophical Topology). While at Princeton, Bobitt was president of the Ivy Club and Chairman of the Nassau Lit.[clarify] In 1975 he received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Article Editor of the Yale Law Journal and taught at Yale College. It was at Yale that he met Charles L. Black (1915–2001), who became a mentor to Bobbitt. After graduating from Yale Law School, Bobbitt clerked for Judge Henry Jacob Friendly (1903–1986) of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He received his M.A and Ph.D. (Modern History) from the University of Oxford in 1983.
Scholar of law and history[edit]
Bobbitt's first book, Tragic Choices (1978), was written with Yale Law Professor (later Dean and Judge of the Second Circuit) Guido Calabresi. The book was a study of how societies make difficult decisions concerning resources and rights—e.g., who gets expensive medical care, who is to be drafted into the army, who may have children, and other society-defining choices. Tragic Choices has won a number of awards and is studied by multiple disciplines, including law.
Bobbitt was also at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was Anderson Senior Research Fellow and a member of the Modern History faculty from 1983 to 1990; later he was the Marsh Christian Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London 1994–1997. From 1981 to 1982, and again in 2004 he was visiting research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Until 2007, Bobbitt held the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair at the University of Texas, where he taught constitutional law. In 2005 he was the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; in 2007, Bobbitt was the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he accepted a permanent chair later that year; he is now the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia and Director of the Center for National Security there. He remains Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas Law School and Senior Fellow in the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas.
He is a Fellow of the Club of Madrid, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Pacific Council on International Affairs, the American Society of International Law, a Life Member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves as a member of the Commission on the Continuity of Government and serves on the Task Force on Law and National Security of the Hoover Institution at Stanford. In May 2010 he was appointed to serve as a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law. In 2011, he was elected to membership in the Common Room at All Souls College, Oxford.
Views on Constitutional Law[edit]
Like many contemporary scholars, Bobbitt believes that the Constitution's durability rests, in part, in the flexible manner in which it can be and has been interpreted since its creation. He emphasizes the "modalities of constitutional argument": 1) structural; 2) textual; 3) ethical; 4) prudential; 5) historical; and 6) doctrinal. He has argued in his books for the recognition of the ethical modality, which has to do with the traditional vision we have of the nation and the role government ought to play (some scholars call this form "argument from tradition"). He first introduced these forms of argument---or modalities---as a way of understanding constitutional review generally in "Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution" (1982), a study of judicial review and then broadened their application to constitutional review generally in Constitutional Interpretation (1993) which deals with non-judicial examples of constitutional argument and decision making. Bobbitt asserts that all branches of government have a duty to assess the constitutionality of their actions. Constitutional Fate is a commonly used text in courses on constitutional law throughout the U.S.[citation needed]
Government service[edit]
Bobbitt has also served extensively in government, for both Democratic and Republican administrations. In the 1970s, he was Associate Counsel to President Carter for which he received the Certificate of Meritorious Service and worked with Lloyd Cutler on the charter of the Central Intelligence Agency (Austin Chronicle, June 21, 2002). He later was Legal Counsel to the Iran-Contra Committee in the U. S. Senate, the Counselor for International Law at the State Department during the George H. W. Bush administration, and served at the National Security Council, where he was director for Intelligence Programs, senior director for Critical Infrastructure, and senior director for Strategic Planning during Bill Clinton's presidency.
The Shield of Achilles[edit]
In 2002 Philip Bobbitt published The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (Knopf), an ambitious 900-page work that explicates a theory, verging on philosophy, of historical change in the modern era, and a history of the development of modern constitutional and international law. Bobbitt traces interacting patterns in the (mainly modern European) history of strategic innovations, major wars, peace conferences, international diplomacy, and constitutional standards for states. Bobbitt also suggests possible future scenarios and policies appropriate to them.
Arguing that "law and strategy are not merely made in history. . . they are made of history" (p. 5), Bobbitt presents a dynamic view of historical change that has a dark, tragic dimension, for he holds that the painful and, indeed, atrocious process of resolving issues that create conflict and war tends to cause changes that render obsolete the solution to that conflict (generally a new form of the state possessing a new principle of legitimacy), even as it is established. This tragic dimension is evoked in the title of Bobbitt's book, inspired by the extraordinary last lines of Book 18 of Homer's Iliad, describing a shield fabricated for Achilles by the Hephaestus, across the "vast expanse" of which "with all his craft and cunning/the god creates a world of gorgeous immortal work" (trans. Robert Fagles).
The Shield of Achilles generated much interest in the diplomatic and political community. Public officials who follow Bobbitt's works include the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair; the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who built his Dimbleby Lecture around Bobbitt's thesis; and the former Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, who referred to Bobbit's book in a 2004 address to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Lecture.[1]
The book and its thesis has also been discussed by the Vice-President of India, Prince Hassan of Jordan, and other political figures. It is currently being translated into Mandarin by a team at Peking University.
Terror and Consent[edit]
In 2008 Knopf published Bobbitt's Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century, which applied many of the ideas of The Shield of Achilles to the problems of wars on terror. Terror and Consent was on both the New York Times and the London Evening Standard's best-seller lists and was widely reviewed. The front page of the New York Times Sunday Book Review called it, "quite simply the most profound book to have been written on the subject of American foreign policy since the attacks of 9/11 — indeed, since the end of the cold war." Among others, Senator John McCain praised the book as "the best book I've ever read on terrorism," and Henry Kissinger called Bobbitt, "perhaps the most important political philosopher today." Tony Blair wrote of Terror and Consent, "It may be written by an academic but it is actually required reading for political leaders." David Cameron, the leader of the Tory party in the UK put it on a list of summer reading for his parliamentary colleagues in 2008. In Terror & Consent, Bobbitt argued that the only justification for warfare in the 21st century was to protect human rights.
The Garments of Court and Palace[edit]
In 2013, Bobbitt published a study of Niccolo Machiavelli entitled The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made. In this book he argues that only by understanding The Prince as one half of a constitutional treatise on the State (the other being Machiavelli's Discourses) can we reconcile the many otherwise contradictory elements of his work. Bobbitt also situates this constitutional treatise in the politics of Machiavelli's day. Quentin Skinner observed in the New York Review of Books of the rash of publications on the 500th anniversary of the The Prince that,"Bobbitt's central thesis about The Prince seems to me to embody a valuable corrective. He is right to stress that, not only in the famous letter to Vettori but in several subsequent references, Machiavelli speaks of his book not as The Prince but as a work on principalities. It is also true that the first half of The Prince is largely given over to a taxonomy of different kinds of state and how they can be acquired, whether by inheritance, donation, election, or conquest. Most important, Bobbitt is right to emphasize what he describes as Machiavelli's reification of the state as an entity with its own reality that is not to be identified with the personal power of the prince.
This development seems especially worth emphasizing in view of the fact that the term state is so often used nowadays as little more than a synonym for government. Bobbitt has already stressed in The Shield of Achilles how much is lost if we refuse to conceptualize the state as a distinct apparatus of power, and he now points to Machiavelli as the originator of this line of thought." Other reviews noted, "Bobbitt … presents a pithy, eloquent argument for The Prince as a 'constitutional tract' and Machiavelli as the 'spiritual forefather' of the US Constitution. . . . [The Garments of Court and Palace is] well worth reading." —The Spectator (UK) "Despite its rigor, the book is anything but a bore, and Bobbitt employs apposite historical asides from Italy and elsewhere to make his points. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the history of statecraft"—The Daily Beast. "Riddles for centuries, the beginning and ending of Machiavelli's The Prince have finally found a plausible explanation. . . . Provocative."—Booklist "Bobbitt … presents a pithy, eloquent argument for The Prince as a 'constitutional tract' and Machiavelli as the 'spiritual forefather' of the US Constitution. —The Spectator (UK)
Other activities[edit]
Since 1990, Bobbitt has endowed the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awarded biennially by the Library of Congress. It is the only prize given by the nation for poetry. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former trustee of Princeton University. In 2004 Prospect Magazine named him One of Britain's Top 100 Public Intellectuals. He occasionally writes essays, typically on foreign policy, published in The New York Times, and The Guardian.
- Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-19-503422-8
- Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. ISBN 0-312-00523-7
- United States Nuclear Strategy: A Reader. (Co-editor, with Gregory F. Treverton and Lawrence Freedman.) New York: New York University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-8147-1107-3
- Tragic Choices. (Co-author: Guido Calabresi.) New York: W.W. Norton, 1990. ISBN 0-393-09085-X
- Constitutional Interpretation. Blackwell, 1991. ISBN 0-631-16485-5
- The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History. Foreword by Michael Howard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. ISBN 0-375-41292-1 (Paperback [2003] ISBN 0-385-72138-2), 2003 Grand Prize Winner, Robert W. Hamilton Awards
- Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century. Knopf/Penguin, 2008.
- Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made. New York. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013. ISBN 0-8021-2074-8
- "War Powers: An Essay on John Hart Ely's War and Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons of Vietnam and Its Aftermath." Michigan Law Quarterly 92, no. 6 (May 1994): 1364–1400. (Argues for the unconstitutionality of the War Powers Resolution.)
- "The Warrantless Debate Over Wiretapping." The New York Times, August 22, 2007. (Argues for the necessity of legislation amending the legal framework for the interception of communications from foreign sources.)
- "In This New Age of Warfare We Need Clearer Rules on When to Cross Borders." The Guardian, June 16, 2008.
- "Questions of Security." with John C. Danforth, The New York Times, September 11, 2008.
- "The Flag-Waving is Over: This is how the President can Change the World." The Guardian, November 9, 2008.
- "'Terror' is the Enemy." The New York Times, December 14, 2008.
- "Obama is Right: This is No Time for Posturing on Iran" Evening Standard, June 22, 2009.
- "Calculus and Compassion" The New York Times, July 8, 2009.
- "The Age of Information has Changed Terrorism Forever" The Independent, December 16, 2010.
Personal life[edit]
In 2011, Bobbitt married Maya Ondalikoglu, a Turkish Columbia Law student. The couple had their first child, a son named Philip Baines Nizami "Pasha" Bobbitt, on June 30, 2012. On May 29, 2014 a second child, a daughter named Rebekah Josefa Sevier Bobbitt was born. The family lives at River House in New York.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Pandora Archive". Pandora.nla.gov.au. 2006-08-23. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
External links[edit]
- University of Texas staff profile
- Reviews of Terror and Consent (2008)
- Boston Globe, Steve Weinberg, April 13, 2008
- New York Times Book Review, Niall Ferguson, April 13, 2008
- Newsday, Craig Seligman, April 20, 2008
- New York Times (Daily), Edward Rothstein, May 9, 2008
- Daily Telegraph, Rowan Williams, May 17, 2008
- The Spectator, Matthew d'Ancona, May 21, 2008
- Guardian, Vincent Cable, May 31, 2008
- Philadelphia Inquirer, Mark Bowden, June 1, 2008
- Times Higher Education, Alex Danchev, June 12, 2008
- The New York Review of Books, David Cole, December 8, 2008
- The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Elsa Dixler, June 3, 2009.
- Observer article about Professor Bobbitt, Kaitlin Bell, October 14, 2008.
- Video discussion/interview with Philip Bobbitt on Bloggingheads.tv
- A Prince Among Friends: Philip Bobbitt on Niccolò Machiavelli's "Strikingly Original" Mind
- Interview on The Charlie Rose Show
- Global Axess, Engelsberg 2007
- Bobbitt discusses The Shield of Achilles at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library


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B.A., Emory University
J.D., George Washington University School of Law
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
Gwendolyn Roberts Majette's undergraduate degree is from Emory University, her JD is from the George Washington University School of Law, and her LLM in Global Health, with distinction, is from Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown she was also a Global Health Law Scholar.
Professor Majette has significant teaching experience. She has taught contracts and various courses in the health law curriculum. Past courses include: Health Care Law and Policy; Introduction to International Health, Human Rights and Public Health; Law and Medicine; and Bioethics. Most recently in 2010, she was a Lecturer in the American University Washington College of Law's Health Law and Policy Institute. She has also taught health related courses at Howard University School of Law and Howard University School of Medicine.
Health Care Law is Professor Majette's scholarly area of interest. Her work focuses on patients' rights, delivery system reform, and health care reform. Her article, "Access to Health Care: What a Difference Shades of Color Makes," has been relied on by the United States Commission for Civil Rights, the Department of Health and Human Services, and is cited in one of the leading health law texts. She recently published two articles: From Concierge Medicine to Patient-Centered Medical Homes: International Lessons & the Search for a Better Way to Deliver Primary Health Care in the U.S., 35 Am. J. L. & Med. 585 (2009) and Health Care Reform and the Missing Voice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 10 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol'y 35 (2009).
Professor Majette also worked on health care issues on Capitol Hill. She was a Legislative Fellow with a senator on the Health Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee, where she worked on Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Care Reform Policy. She also analyzed and reviewed Medicare policy as a Fellow with the Health Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representative.
Professor Majette frequently consults on health care matters for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Internationally, she has spoken with South African academicians and government officials regarding the strengths and weakness of their health care delivery system.
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- Sash from the formal uniform of the Carabinieri, made and used circa 1900 - 1916. It belonged to Pasqualino Giordano born 12th July 1867 in Italy, a captain in the Benevento Carabinieri. He entered the Carabinieri as soon as he graduated from school. Pasqualino died 14th April 1916 as a result of an accident, he was due to beocme a Major, two months before his death. His daughter Mrs. Franco Giordano emigrated to Australia in 1956, bringing the uniform with her.
The Arma dei Carabinieri (Carabinieri) was created by King Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy, with the aim of providing the Kingdom of Sardinia with a police corps in 1814. After the unification of Italy the Carabinieri were appointed the First Force of the a newly founded Italian Army in 1861. In 2000 they became a separate branch of the Italian Armed Forces. The Carabinieri undertake both civilian police work and military work. - Description:
- Narrow blue sash with a tassel on each end.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Mrs Franco-Giordano, 1993
Discipline: | History |
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Tagged with: | working life, italian communities, italian immigration, uniforms, handcrafts, cultural maintenance, italian police |
Themes this item is part of: | Clothing & Textiles Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection |
Primary Classification: | CULTURAL IDENTITY |
Secondary Classification: | Ethnicity - Clothing |
Tertiary Classification: | uniforms |
Place & Date Made: | Italy, 1900-1916 |
User: | Pasqualino Giordano, Benevento, Italy, 1900-1916 |
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Question: I recently returned from a family reunion in South Carolina and was amazed by how many "lawn jockeys" I saw in the front yards of homes there. Are they considered collectible?
— Bill, Apache Junction
Answer: Lawn jockeys are traditionally small statues depicting a Black man in jockey clothes with one hand extended, either to hold a lantern or a ring to hitch a horse. The earliest ones were made of cast iron or concrete. There are basically two styles: "Jocko," a stocky figure that is slightly hunched over, and "Cavalier Spirit," more slender and erect.
According to legend, Jocko commemorates Jocko Graves, an African-American aide who froze to death while guarding Gen. George Washington's horses before the Battle of Trenton. Like most colorful legends, this one is not true. Mount Vernon librarian Ellen McCallister Clark debunks the story by revealing that "no record of anybody by the name of Jocko Graves, nor any account of anyone freezing to death holding Washington's horses, exist in the extensive historical record of the time." Whether Jocko Graves ever existed, it is interesting to note that despite controversy, lawn jockeys are still being manufactured and sold.
A quick check of eBay revealed dozens being offered for sale with prices from $48 to several thousand dollars. In recent years, many lawn jockeys have had facial makeovers going from Black to White. Recently, I even saw one painted brown in Tucson.
Q: In a recent column, you featured information about vintage newspapers. I own an heirloom that has been in my family for generations. I am enclosing a photocopy of it for you to examine. It is the April 15, 1865, four-page edition of the New York Herald announcing the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. How much do you think it is worth?
— Betty, Fountain Hills
A: Stop the presses! (I've always wanted to say that ...)
Gentle reader, I suggest you grab a cold compress, find a fainting couch and prepare for a dreadful shock. Alas, the newspaper is a reproduction.
I have examined the photocopy you sent and immediately see several obvious problems. For example, it is identified as being the "8:10 a.m. edition," even though there was no such edition. The front page has a portrait of Lincoln despite the fact the New York Herald did not have the technology in 1865 to produce such an illustration.
The Herald published several eight-page editions that day, and they are, indeed, desirable, along with the coverage of the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Chronicle. The Washington Chronicle is one of the few newspapers that had the ability to produce a front-page portrait of Lincoln, which it did in its edition of April 19, 1865.
The reproductions of the April 15, 1865, New York Herald often sell in the $50-$100 range.
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— Jane, Casa Grande
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As this thread implies i wanted to try to prove ideal gas equation pV=vnRT where T is tempearture p is pressure n is mole V is volume and R is gas constant and then I found that I had to prove la grangian What I wonder about is given in thread here https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=574248 In the end of the thread it is said that someone her might be able to help me with a suitable textbook. Is that possible?
Hello Georg, As with strangerep in the other thread you started I am not sure what you are attempting, but you should look up the Joule experiment and the Joule-Thompson experiment. They proved experimentally that the so called internal pressure of an ideal gas is zero. This provides an alternative definition of an ideal gas as a gas with [tex]{\left( {\frac{{\partial U}}{{\partial V}}} \right)_T} = 0[/tex] You can use this plus Boyle's law to derive PV=NRT. The following thermodynamic relation is also useful. this relates to all substances, not only ideal gasses. [tex]{\left( {\frac{{\partial U}}{{\partial V}}} \right)_T} + P = T{\left( {\frac{{\partial P}}{{\partial T}}} \right)_V}[/tex] By the way did you see my answer in your other thread about reversibility?


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Many of those who pursue link building have had a tough year. Google's verbal and physical assault on link building practices has been unrelenting.
You may be wondering if link building is illegal now. The answer is yes and no. Why? Let's explore the "yes" and "no" of link building to try and help make some sense of what it is that you can and can't do.
Recounting the Body Blows
1. The latest major hit took place January 20 when Google's Matt Cutts wrote a blog post titled The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO. In it he wrote:
Okay, I'm calling it: if you're using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it's become a more and more spammy practice, and if you're doing a lot of guest blogging then you're hanging out with really bad company.
He also wrote:
So stick a fork in it: guest blogging is done; it's just gotten too spammy. In general I wouldn't recommend accepting a guest blog post unless you are willing to vouch for someone personally or know them well. Likewise, I wouldn't recommend relying on guest posting, guest blogging sites, or guest blogging SEO as a linkbuilding strategy.
2. On August 12, 2013 Matt Cutts recorded a video where he talked about widgets and infographics. Here's what he said:
I would not rely on widgets and infographics as your primary way to gather links. I would recommend putting a nofollow, especially on widgets because most people when they copy and paste a segment of code, they don't realize what all is going with that, and it is usually not as much of an editorial choice because they may not see the links that are embedded within that widget.
Depending on the scale of the stuff you are doing with infographics you might consider putting a rel=nofollow on infographics links as well. The value of those things might be branding, they might be to drive traffic, they might be to let people know that your site or service exists but I wouldn't expect the link from a widget to carry the same weight as an editorial link freely given where someone is recommending something and talking about it in a blog post
3. On July 26th, 2013 Google updated the Link Schemes section of their Webmaster Guidelines to talk about Press Releases. You can see this listed in the following image in the 2nd red rectangle in this image (the first and third red rectangles relate to guest posting and widget):
4. Going further back, I published an interview on July 9, 2012 called Matt Cutts and Eric Talk About What Makes a Quality Site. In a moment of inspiration, I asked him the following question:
It dawned on me recently that link building is an interesting phrase that has misled people. It's a bit of a cart before the horse thing. It has led people to think about links as something they get from the "dark corners of the web". Places where no one ever goes, so it does not matter what you do there. So by thinking of it this way, as link building, you are off on the wrong foot even before you get started.
Here is what he said in reply to my question:
That's right. It segments you into a mindset, and people get focused on the wrong things. It leads them to think about links as the end goal. It's important to think about producing something excellent first. If you have an outstanding product, world class content, or something else that sets you apart, then you can step back and start thinking about how to promote it.
I remember the response to this interview very well. It currently has 168 comments.
There was a raging discussion about the discussion on content. There was a lot made about the comments on infographics (he also said this in the interview: "I would not be surprised if at some point in the future we did not start to discount these infographic-type links to a degree.").
But, no one talked about his comment on link building being a fundamental problem in their write-ups of the interview. I knew right then and there that it was the most important comment in the entire interview. The future was already laid bare.
Dangers of Link Building
There is certainly a type of approach to link building that Google is trying to kill off, but there are hints in Cutts' language as to what they still think of as OK. So let's make some sense of this.
First, let's talk about how to get hurt by link building:
- Algorithmic Detection: There are many things Google can't easily algorithmically detect. Unless you're far out there, this isn't a main source of exposure, but you can't discount it.
- You Get Reported to Google: Someone might report you to Google, and they might take a look at it. Once they do, any and all of these areas will rapidly get revealed. In short, cross any of these lines and a manual review will torch you.
- Someone Public: A blogger somewhere might figure out what you have done and write about it. Google's hand gets forced and they take a look at you. This is the worst. You will be publicly exposed and you will get hit by Google to boot.
There is a very important secondary algorithmic danger.
Imagine that you do a lot of work to get links using one particular method. Let's say that Google tests a new algorithm, and they see that devaluing all sites that use this method improves their search results without causing any significant false positives (i.e., no major brand gets torched) – they are going to release that algorithm.
My point is that if you aren't a major brand, even if you're "unjustified collateral damage", Google will push the algorithm out. For Google, it isn't about you, it's about the average satisfaction of their users. They measure this on a massive scale, and your site is less than a decimal point in the grand scheme of things.
This is exactly how Panda and Penguin work. They are large-scale algorithms that improved Google's search results, but that also caused lots of innocent businesses to suffer (and others prospered too). This isn't because the Google engineers are bad people, they are just trying to make their product better.
This is the reality of small to medium businesses and SEO. As a long time friend of mine used to say, "if you don't like it, you should have become a dentist."
So let's start with a statement of what your objective should be: Don't just obey the letter of the law, but learn how avoid the net. In other words, you need to learn how to stay away from the types of practices that may cause you to get lumped together with the great mass of truly bad actors. So let's talk about how.
Building Links the Right Way
Fear not, there is a right way to go about things, but it may require a mental mindset change.
If you're focused on link building for link building's sake, then you need to see these words again from Cutts on link building in my 2012 interview: "It segments you into a mindset, and people get focused on the wrong things". OK, let's get to the work on the task of getting our heads in the right spot.
First, let's clear something up. Cutts isn't saying you can't promote your website. He knows that you need to do marketing. We talked about ways to approach link building in detail in my July 10, 2013 interview, Link Building is Not Illegal.
If you read the interview carefully, you'll see that it's a blueprint for content marketing. Basically, it lays out the components of how you can create great content on and off your site, promote it with strong social media presences, press releases, and other tactics to build a great brand online.
And there it is – the b-word: Brand. This is what your link building efforts should all be about.
Everywhere you go online building your brand and reputation should be the goal. If you strictly abide by this one principle, you should be in good shape, and you will probably be getting links that Google wants to value.
However, making the mental shift can be hard, so let's review some additional guidelines that can help you keep the right focus. I published some guidelines on April 7, 2013 in an article which I boldly titled Penguin 2.0 Forewarning: The Google Perspective on Links, and Matt Cutts tweeted the following in response to the article:
Here are the four guidelines from that article:
- Would you build the link if Google and Bing did not exist?
- If you have 2 minutes with a customer, and the law required that you show a random sampling of your links to customer prospects, would you happily show the link to a target customer? Or would it embarrass you?
- Did the person giving you the link intend it as a genuine endorsement? This is where widget and infographic links fail.
- Do you have to make an argument to justify that it's a good link? Still my favorite – truly good links require no justification.
I have a fifth one to add to that list. When you get a link back to your site, be it the result of a guest post, a direct link request, or any direct activity, you should also ask yourself this question: "Would someone seeing your link on that page have a decent chance of wanting to click through an attribution link to learn more about your company and perhaps become a customer"?
Now that's a acid test if there ever was one. Think about it.
Get branding front and center in your online marketing, stay SEO smart, play the game the way Google wants you to play it, and your risk of being whipsawed in some future Google algorithm update, or hit by a manual action, go way down. Not to zero, as any SEO plan has inherent risk because of the way that Google manages its business, but lowering your risk as much as possible seems like a great idea to me!


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Released: Sep 01st, 2000
Running Time: 110
Director: Nic Cramer
Company: Pleasure Productions
Bridgett Kerkove, Pat Myne, Mickey G., Gwen Summers, Shanna McCullough, Nick East, Randy Spears, Kyle Stone (I), Silvia Saint, Kristen, Alec Metro, Lauren Montgomery
Critical Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Film
The original Looker was a big award winner. Take a hint.
While Femme Fatale lustrously captures the aroma and atmosphere of film noir, it tends to violate one of the abiding principles of its greatest practitioner, Raymond Chandler: playing fair with the reader, or in this case, the viewer. Put another way, unless you're Criswell, you don't necessarily see the resolution coming - much less receive a hint or a glimmer of it by word, thought or deed of its participants. Then again, this is porn; not Congressional hearings over the disappearance of nuclear secrets.
Randy Spears is exceptionally cast as the detective haunted by his partner's death. We can only assume that partner to have been Alec Metro, since the script is unusually terse. This allows a broader play of sex, with seven full-tilt "commercial" scenes (all but one of these anal), and one blowjobber received by Metro until his untimely demise by casual screen reference. This brevity is quite less than the soul of wit for the armchair detective who delights in playing whodunit (or "who's doing it"). Nevertheless, Spears, attempting to figure out just that, squints and smokes and does reaction shots with a cigarette as well as any weathered noir denizen can be expected to do, and delivers voiceover as crisp as the proverbial slap in the kisser or a slug from a .45.
On the trail of a copycat murder, Spears' investigation takes him to the doorstep of Shanna McCullough, a retired cop, who closed the file on a similar femme fatale case 22 years earlier, and it's Spears' resultant dialogues with the made-up-to-look-ancient McCullough that trigger a series of flashbacks, most of which result in some horny cop's dick breaching some hooker's asshole during a compromising investigation. McCullough and Lauren Montgomery share a non-poop-chute threeway with Kyle Stone; Spears nails Silvia Saint in the ass from several good positions before heaving globs of detective spasm on her lovely blond snoot; Jon Dough interrogates Bridgett Kerkove's asshole on the hood of a car in a threeway that includes Kristen; Saint gets it in the ass again from both Pat Myne and Nick East; Mickey G. interrogates Gwen Summers in an alleyway in probably the best sexually addressed scene in the film; Vince Vouyer, as Mickey's son, follows in dad's footsteps with a hooker and her asshole, while Spears, after waking up in the middle of the night with a dark sweat and an obvious boner in his cotton briefs, puts it to good use by nailing Summers in her alleyway.


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A recent study has shown that while sexual assaults on younger children are most often committed by family members, adolescents are more often abused by their peers.
The study, conducted jointly by the Universities of Zurich and Cambridge, revealed that nearly eight percent of girls and four percent of boys aged between 15 and 17 years had been forced into sex or fondling, newspaper Tribune de Genève reported.
The percentages were significantly greater for peer-aged abuse than for abuse by a family member, with two per cent of girls and less than one per cent of boys reporting abuse within the family context, wrote newspaper Tages Anzeiger.
Approximately 42 percent of juvenile victims reported that the abuse had taken place either with a current or former romantic partner.
Most often, the perpetrators attended either the same school or disco.
The study found that "the vast majority of rape cases were committed by a person of similar age, with whom the victim was in a love relationship or at least knew well," study co-author, Manual Eisner from the University of Cambridge, told newspaper Tages Anzeiger.
Both boys and girls reported equally that the perpetrators had been considered a good friend. Most of the perpetrators were recorded as being male.
In Switzerland, 6,700 pupils were surveyed to reveal that one in every five girls and one in every ten boys reported bodily sexual abuse, defined as kissing or caressing of intimate body parts, attempted or completed penetration by body parts or objects in the vagina, mouth or anus.
Sexual harassment of a non-tactile nature was also shown to be prevalent, with cyber-bullying becoming increasingly common. Approximately 40 per cent of girls and 20 per cent of boys recorded having been subject to verbal or written sexual harassment, exposure to pornographic material and such like.
Some perpetrators even posted pictures of their victims' intimate parts on the internet.
"This behaviour has massive negative consequences for the reputation of the young person," Eisner said.
But only some five percent of victims filed any report with the police.
"The victims suffer enormously," Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, professor of developmental psychology at the University of Bern and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the study, told Tages Anzeiger.
Perrig-Chielloi reported that in most cases, shame, fear of retribution or the sense that the abuse was the victim's own fault, prevented individuals from speaking out.
She is glad to have gathered the data.
"We knew already that there are many sufferers. Now we finally have it in black and white," she said.
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