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Single and meta-gene cutoffs. Data from single and meta-gene expression score over the GEICAM 9906 samples are plotted on the 1–10 scale. The cut-points between high, intermediate, and low classes were individually derived from the training set. Samples are color-coded according to immunohistochemistry positivity (red) or negativity (blue), except in the case of the training set proliferation score where samples are colored by high, intermediate or low proliferation class. Luminal score samples are colored as being ER+/PR+, ER + or PR + (positive, red), and ER-/PR- (negative, blue). (PDF 1524 kb)
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Repeatedly, I have seen a maintenance technician mopping a wide and long unobstructed hallway with a damp mop—a hard and arduous task that can cause injury to the cleaning person due to the potential for repetitive motion injury. Such a task could be completed more efficiently, effectively and safely by utilizing an auto-scrubber that is designed to scrub large unobstructed areas in a much shorter period of time, with minimal human effort.
Why should a facility manager expend a significant amount of time researching, selecting and purchasing the right type of maintenance equipment for their cleaning arsenal? There are five reasons why the purchase of the appropriate pieces of maintenance equipment can pay rich dividends:
- Decreased Labor Costs. In the example cited above, it could take 12 minutes to damp mop 1,000 square feet of hallway space using a regular mop, while scrubbing the same area with a large area auto-scrubber may take as little as 4.20 minutes—a savings of nearly two-thirds! The saving of time in cleaning tasks relates directly to labor costs. (This example is actually extrapolated from established industry time measures for the cleaning industry)
- Increased Productivity. Based upon the example already mentioned, it's obvious that using a piece of automatic scrubbing equipment maximizes productivity as the person can auto-scrub nearly two-thirds more space by using an appropriate auto-scrubber.
- Enhanced Employee Morale. Knowing they have the best equipment available to increase their accomplishments with less expended effort can boost the morale of cleaners.
- Safety. One of the occupational hazards of working in the floor care industry is the constant utilization of a large human workforce to perform repetitive motion tasks, such as mopping floors and vacuuming carpets. Repetitive motions of this type can contribute to repetitive motion injuries (carpal tunnel syndrome). Such injuries can be expensive, and in most cases, can be minimized by using the right equipment to get the job accomplished.
- Professional Image. Cleaners that use the right equipment to clean an area in the proper manner, while being productive and effective, can send a loud and clear message to the executives of an organization. Such an image represents cleaners as being professional, businesslike and efficient.
Selecting the right equipment for the right task is not complicated, however, a systematic and thorough process should be utilized to assist in the identification and purchase of the right piece of equipment for the right job:
- Analyze and take inventory of the tasks performed by cleaning personnel, including dust mopping, damp mopping, wet mopping, scrubbing floors with a brush, buffing floors, dusting, etc.
- Analyze the equipment being used to perform each task. This analysis must include relevant sizes and types of equipment. For example, floor mops come in different weights (expressed in ounces, 12, 16, 24, 32, etc.) or different sizes (small, medium, large, etc.). Floor buffing machines could be low or high speed (measured in revolutions per minute), and it is significant to note the pad size on buffers and burnishers (such as 14, 17, 20 inches, etc.) as well.
- Analyze the area being cleaned: Is it an open unobstructed space (such as a hallway) or is it a highly obstructed and congested space such as an office area with many cubicles? The more congested an area, the more difficult it is to use large size or automated equipment.
- Match the right type of cleaning equipment to the right task: This is probably the most complex and time-consuming step, but it's one that can reap rich dividends in increased productivity, increased savings, increased employee morale and decreased occupational injuries:
- Involve the persons that perform the work in the selection of the best type of equipment to accomplish each task.
- Research the types of products available by reading trade publications. Read the articles and check out the advertising.
- Contact reputable sales representatives to explain the different types of equipment available for each task, and seek recommendations from several competing companies.
- Evaluate the claims of equipment manufacturers and representatives against available industry literature. Also request sample demonstrations and arrange for a trial period of on-site use and testing of demonstration models.
- Work with the professionals in your purchasing department to develop accurate specifications for each piece of equipment you wish to purchase. Such specifications should clearly spell out warranty requirements, service expectations and training expectations. Follow your company's purchasing guidelines for bidding out equipment. Well written specifications are your key to purchasing satisfactory equipment.
- Analyze the bids, using established specifications, to determine which product best meets your needs, and that can guarantee readily available service and training on a regular basis. Solicit input from the end users—the technicians—about the products that may be purchased. Bells and whistles on equipment may be nice, but too often the bells and whistles turn into real lemons and down time may be unacceptable.
The purchase of the appropriate pieces of equipment is only the beginning in a long-term strategy to maintain a quality arsenal of cleaning equipment:
- Training must be provided on an on-going basis to end users by sales representatives and cleaning managers. The training should identify the correct procedures to use while the equipment is in operation and what is necessary for the equipment to perform at peak efficiency.
- A pro-active preventative maintenance program should be developed in conjunction with the manufacturer's specifications. Keeping good preventative maintenance records is essential. The pro-active maintenance of equipment starts with the daily cleaning of equipment after each use. All filter bags, water tanks and cleaning solution tanks should be emptied and cleaned in accordance with the manufacturers' directions.
- Availability of spare parts on a just-in-time (J.I.T.) basis from the supplier is imperative. Equipment down time translates into lost productivity and lost dollars. If your organization contracts for equipment repairs, such repairs should be completed in a timely manner, and it may be appropriate to require the company that repairs your equipment to provide you a "loaner" while the inoperable item is being repaired.
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Men We Want to Bash Up
By Party Gal | posted Jan 5th 2013 at 7:00AM
The gender war began ever since the beginning of time. When we were little girls, we wanted to bash up little boys and irritating brothers who could step out of the house after dark, and as grown up women, we want to bash up ignorant boyfriends and chauvinists who think they're doing the world good by putting us down. With rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh sending our tempers soaring through the roofs, here's a list of other men we'd like to bash up if we could lay our hands on them.
- women,
- women's rights,
- violence against women,
- domestic violence,
- rape,
- sexual harassment,
- Raj Thackeray,
- Mohan Bhagwat,
- Charlie Sheen,
- Raja Chaudhary,
- Dario Maestripieri,
- Joe Walsh,
- Abhijit Mukherjee,
- Sanjay Nirupam,
- Yo Yo Honey Singh,
- Rajpal Saini,
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Concern over Oscar voting extends deadline
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LOS ANGELES — Growing concern that problems with the new electronic Oscar voting system could lead to record-low turnout has prompted the motion picture academy to extend the deadline for members to vote for Oscar nominations.
But with next week's highly anticipated announcements looming, the extension is only for a day, until Friday. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday any votes received after the new deadline will not be counted.
"By extending the voting deadline we are providing every opportunity available to make the transition to online balloting as smooth as possible," said the academy's chief operating officer, Ric Robertson, in a statement. "We're grateful to our global membership for joining us in this process."
Reports of difficulty accessing the Oscars' first-ever online voting system and fears that it could be hacked have raised questions about balloting for the 85th annual contest. Earlier this year, the academy and its longtime accountants, PricewaterhouseCoopers, partnered with the electronic voting firm Everyone Counts Inc. to develop the system.
"There's considerable concern from many members that voter participation will be at record lows this year because the people who wanted to take a chance on this new cutting-edge system are either giving up on it or worried they won't be able to cast their votes," said Scott Feinberg, awards analyst and blogger for The Hollywood Reporter.
In the past, Oscar voting has been compiled strictly through paper ballots sent through the mail. The new system allows members to choose between voting online or sticking with a traditional mail-in ballot.
Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker whose 2004 film "Super Size Me" was nominated for best documentary, posted on Twitter last week that he wasn't able to log on to vote electronically and his ballot was instead mailed to him.
"The password they sent didn't work for my log-in — and they couldn't email me a new log-in, only snail mail," tweeted the 42-year-old director.
The academy said it has made several voting resources available to members, including assisted voting stations in Los Angeles, New York and London, and a 24-hour support line.
A spokesman for Everyone Counts didn't immediately respond to a request seeking comment.
Besides online voting, a retooled nomination period could also affect the competition.
Organizers moved up the unveiling of the Oscar nominations to Jan. 10. That change puts the announcement three days before Hollywood's second-biggest awards ceremony, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globes, which are scheduled for Jan. 13.
Oscar overseers originally said the switch would give the academy's nearly 6,000 members more time to see nominated films before the Feb. 24 awards ceremony, but Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter noted that the change gave voters less time to see potential contenders during the first phase of voting, when members decide on nominees.
"If the turnout is lower among older members, more traditional Oscar contenders will probably receive fewer votes, and otherwise edgier films that appeal more to younger people could fare better," said Feinberg. "Because of the way that best-picture voting works, it could increase the chances of a movie like 'The Master' or 'Moonrise Kingdom' getting in."
Ultimately, because of the inherent secrecy involved in selecting Oscar winners, Feinberg said it will be impossible to know what impact — if any — this year's voting changes have on the ceremony, where as many as 10 films could be vying for the best-picture award.
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Launched by Jewish blogger over tallis photo, erroneously
On Monday, Dash Snow, a 27-year-old artist who was known as much for being the rebel hero of a certain type of debauched downtown New York hipster as for his manic, drug-influenced room-sized installations and found-image photography, was found dead of an apparent overdose in Manhattan's East Village. Tuesday brought a wave of glowing testimonials from Snow's newly bereft friends, who talked about his recent efforts to kick his drug habit, about seeing him recently with his toddler daughter, Secret, and, from his art dealer, about his work for impending shows.
Now it's time for the inevitable backlash, and this morning, Jewish blogger Daniel Sieradski posted an item to Twitter noting that he was "having a hard time feeling sad for dash snow, whose definition of good art included defiling Jewish objects." Sieradski included a link to an image of a half-torn poster depicting a naked man with a tallis draped over his erect—and apparently Wahlberg-proportioned—member. Except, oops! The poster was actually created by Snow's artistic collaborator and former roommate Dan Colen, whose first art project amounted to ejaculating over pictures of hip-hop stars taken from magazines. Colen's father, Sy, an avid fundraiser for Israeli groups, speculated to New York magazine in 2007 that his son, whose family lost dozens of relatives in the Holocaust, was probably just trying to suggest his belief in Jewish procreation. "The penis for him, it's something sacred," Colen père told reporter Ariel Levy. "It is the staff of life."
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The Pentagon is committed to its $35 billion refueling tanker replacement program, no matter what other budget cuts may come. That's according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. National Journal reports Gates is not ruling out a reduction in quantities of the tanker and other weapons systems under review. DOD has launched a comprehensive review to scrounge up $400 billion in savings over the next 12 years. Gates says any proposed change in force structure or mission would be considered for its national defense consequences.
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Jen The Pen and Raqi The Man Eater got into such a heated exchange we are surprised drinks and fist didn't start flying. It had everything except for physical contact… racism, cheating text, baby momma drama, and more!
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In the March 29th decision of Sullivan v. Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL), the Supreme Court of Alaska held that the Alaska Constitution requires only one "best interest finding" (that an oil or gas project is in the state's best interest) to be made before a lease is issued, though subsequent permitting decisions must be made after a "hard look" that considers cumulative impacts.
In reaching its first holding that best interest findings are required prior to a leasing decision, the Supreme Court rejected the premise that each phase of a project could be considered a distinct disposal of an interest in state land. The Court found that only leases convey property interests, and thus involve disposals of interests in state land. The Court stated that after a lease is issued, "there are no additional property rights to be conveyed at the later phases".
The Court went on in the decision to reject the State's argument that only statutes, not the Alaska constitution, require the State to consider cumulative impacts when it subsequently considers permitting decisions. Specifically, a "whole-project analysis" that "takes into account all aspects of a project, considered as a whole and its existing development context", is required by Article VIII of the Alaska Constitution's mandate that the State's natural resources are to be made "available for maximum use consistent with the public interest".
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Gnome Village
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- Well designed
- Addictive, cute characters
- Nothing new, could have a more original approach
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"Are you a Gnome or a Gnomette?"
Reviewed by Anna Grace / Dec 13, 2012
Build the beautiful village and protect the forest critters
In this game, your objective is to build a gnome village and explore the enchanted forest while trying to save the forest critters and beating the evil gnome.
First of all, choose your character: a gnome or a gnomette and then begin to rebuild the town, starting with the main home which was abandoned years ago. Following that, you will need to accomplish several tasks in order to help the critters and embellish the town that was once lonely.
It might not be original or particularly better than any other building management game but it has adorable creatures and the graphics are especially well-designed. It doesn't hurt that the developer is Disney, who always puts an extra effort in creating addictive games with worthy interfaces and perfect for playing a little bit every day.
Disney is the developer of Gnome Village, Where's my water and other popular apps for Android. If you enjoy casual building games with a great design, this one's for you.
Experience the Disney magic and build your very own gnome village, gather a crew of critters to help you, and explore the Enchanted Forest beyond your village borders!
Here's what other people have to say about our game:
★★★★★ "Awesomely fun village building game. Terrific graphics. Creative Quests. Lovable Characters."
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> Build your own Disney Gnome Village
> Explore the Enchanted Forest
> Collect 20+ cute and adorable forest creatures
> Hundreds of quests to uncover and complete
> Discover new lands and environments in the wider gnome kingdom
Note to GnomeTown web players: this game does not connect to your web game - Come start a new village with us!
Requirements: You need an active connection to the internet to play this app. While Gnome Village is completely free to play, some content can be purchased for real money in-game. If you do not want to use this feature, please turn off your in-app purchases.
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The Truth About Getting the Best from People
Build a culture of engagement...one person, one interaction at a time! That is the basis for the next book in my continuing series of book reviews.
Author and leadership consultant, Martha Finney reveals 49 proven leadership principles for getting the best from every employee, every team, and every organization.
She shows how to build a workforce that's positive, committed, passionate...how to really motivate people, even on a tight budget...how to lead with authenticity, clarity, consistency, and inspiration. These skills offer powerful, quantifiable business value.
You can build and lead teams full of self-motivated, innovative contributors: people who love their jobs, believe in their mission, and perform with focus, enthusiasm, and creativity!
The book will help to reveal some key truths:
• The truth about building a self-driven workforce that's positive, committed, and passionate.
• The truth about what really motivates people--and what doesn't.
• The truth about leading with authenticity, clarity, consistency, and inspiration.
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• Five Human Truths - We need to be understood, feel special, and feel as though we belong, feel that we're in control, and know that we have the chance to reach our potential.
• Getting the best is about building a culture of trust, connection, growth, and service.
• Great people leaders don't have to be clever, complicated, politically astute, or even especially wise. But they do have to be kind, honest, focused, positive, and authentic.
• Engaged employees don't need discipline; they need clarity, communication, and consistency.
• People yearn for purpose—for doing something that's important, that engages their full potential in a way that's meaningful beyond their personal bank accounts.
• Motivation...is about making a positive difference in people's everyday lives.
• Engaged employees can smell stupid management tricks a mile away. And nothing will disengage them faster than the experience of being handled. They only need to be led with inspiration.
• Leading change is about aligning people's strengths so that their weaknesses become irrelevant.
• Engaged employees augment their skill sets with positive attitudes, focus, will, enthusiasm, creativity, and endurance. Engaged employees can be trusted, and they trust each other. Engaged employees respect their managers. Engaged employees know that their managers respect them. Engaged employees are a constant source of great new ideas. Engaged employees will give you their best.
• Does it mean that you have to show personal interest and concern in the well-being of each and every one of your employees as individuals? Yes—even on those days when you're so busy or preoccupied you'd rather do anything else.
The book really boils down to the importance of caring for and about employees…very simple to understand, but seldom done. If you contact me, I will send you a more complete set of book notes with all 49 Leadership Principles.
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- Lena S.
This looks like some slick marketing to me. Not buying it.
- Sus_1
Kristin is a well known Catholic mommy blogger. This isn't a scam.
- 7man
Why does Kristin not mention that this is her 3rd divorce and that the children have 3 different fathers?
Why do supposedly good Christian and Catholic women rally around any woman with an emotional story that blames a man, when they don't even bother to do the minimal check on whether her story holds water?
- Sus_1
She's mentioned her past a few times in her blog postings.
- 7man
OK, well then do you agree that it is at best misleading (and probably a lie, by omission or downplaying facts of her life) to claim that her 3rd exhusband is responsible for the children that are not biologically his?
Women (and most men) are suckers for a sob story.
Where is your support for men that have had their reputations ruined by supposedly good Catholic women?
Divorce is rampant and women file for 2/3 of divorces. Most of these same women vie for the sympathy of other women (and it is successful).
Even a 3 time divorcee will receive sympathy from Catholic women that believe divorce is wrong. Unbelievable!!
- Sus_1
I don't really care. It's not my business. She's has a ton of kids and having trouble feeding them. That's all I care about.
- 7man
Yes, It most certainly is not your business. (Yet you were quick to say this is not a scam.)
Kristin would not have a problem feeding her kids if she hadn't negated her marital vows 3 times. Are women accountable for their actions? Ever?
And women like you that have symathy and support other women that divorce are a key reason that the intact family is in decline.
- Sus_1
Yeah, not wanting hungry children is the key reason that the intact family is in decline.
- 7man
You seem to be a bit slow to see the correlations, so I will be remedial with you.
Men were made to be fathers and to provide for their families. This is a primary purpose for men. (There is evidence that this fact applies to this father.)
When you cling to caring for hungry children while swallowing any sob story a divorced women tells, you enable women to divorce and provide them cover. This promotes more and more divorce since women need not suffer the consequences of their actions. 3 divorces… no problem… it is still not a woman's fault… go ahead date and marry another man and if it fails, women will still support you and stand by you as you blame the man.
Now if Kristin was really truely concerned about feeding her (and his) children, she would make sure he had custody. This was the historical and traditional way, and there were fewer divorces, more intact families and more emotionally healthy children.
- em
Does she say anything about getting government assistance? I can definitely understand a need for some extra money for living/car expenses or her continuing education, but otherwise the state is there providing in cases so that families in actual need do not literally go hungry and cold.
- 7man
@ em
You don't understand the evil of the system and how women are supported REGARDLESS and men are demonized. We all pay for this in our taxes and it promotes the dissolution of more familes while sacrificing children. Children are the prize for women that enslave men by force of the state. God made men with a passion to support his children.
Satan strives to destroy the family.
BPD women easily exploit this dynamic.
Certainly there are some bad men but the vast vast majority of men are good. Modern men are emasulated which leads to women not respecting or valuing men.
- 7man
Have you all noticed that I am not 'nice'?
Ann Barnhardt has something to say about 'nice' people too.
- JustAnotherGuy
no, you're not being nice, as Pope Francis requested. Instead, you're being an asshole, which is not what Pope Francis requested. The point of the article was that, Catholics aren't living their faith if they are only doing so when it doesn't require effort, money, or real love; if they're doing it 'just for show', so to speak. In summary, it is asking for a leap of faith in which we really go all the way to fulfill our duty as Catholics; including helping our neighbors when they reach out to us.
- Kelly Seppy
- Kate
On her blog she's talked a lot about her efforts to get assistance. The only reason she's able to ask for so little (1200 a month to support such a sizable family!) is because they do receive foods stamps and, I think, some utility assistance.
On the other hand, the state consistently attempts to downgrade these benefits because of the amount of child support she's supposed to be receiving (she's posted some of these letters). Apparently the state can't garnish her ex-husband's wages because he has stopped working under his social security number and does not have an address or phone number listed under his name at present. This stuff has been most of what the blog has documented over the last couple years that I've been reading it.
- Kate
The courts grant custody, and generally to the primary caregiver so that children face the least disruption to the most important attachment bond. It makes sense to me that both parents should continue their primary roles after divorce if possible, that often means that the ex husband is primary provider while the ex wife is primary caregiver (ie, has primary custody). This is to ensure that the children lose as little of the advantages of having two parents as possible, because the time spent parenting is as valuable as the time spent earning money to support the children.
Granting both responsibilities to one parent puts the children at a disadvantage, since the effort to support them is at odds with the time needed to parent them. Placing the children with their father would either affect his ability to support them or their right to be parented; denying support to the mother has, sadly, the same effect.
- Kate
Your analogy fails because the obligations are to the children, not the spouse. The children. Who are people. Not prizes.
And Kristin is interested in nursing because it is one of the most flexible careers available to women. It's making the best of a crappy situation, since the ex husband is not stepping up to support them.
- Kate
Control control control. You have a very strange concept of child raising, and it's starting to disturb me.
- Kate
You continue to characterize the role of primary caregiver as being a matter of 'control' and 'authority'. I've never heard anything even remotely close to that from Kristin, nor any sniff of any attitude resembling that. Without any other evidence other than Kristin's desire to feed, educate, shelter, and parent her children, I'm not likely to assume that your characterisation speaks to anything but your habits of thought.
- Kate
Does it matter? Was the woman at the well not deserving of water? Obviously this woman has made bad choices, as did her husbands. But, you see, I don't think that's a good reason to blockade her attempts to do the right thing by her children now. Nor does it seem at all in question as to whether she is in fact primary parent to 8 children now, or that she is raising them without financial support from her ex, or that she is taking classes to improve their situation. Nothing else seem really relevant.
- Kate
7man, do you know the father? Are you Kristin's ex? because if you do/are, you could end all of this right here by simply giving his current address and employment publicly, here, to prove he isn't hiding from Child Support enforcement.
Go ahead. That would be a lovely happy ending to this, and save everyone a lot of trouble.
- Kate
What about a twice divorced man? Does his previous divorce diminish his credibility too? I assume from your emotional attachment to this issue that you are divorced-should I regard you as having no credibility because of that?
Men and women screw up. Sin screws things up. Christianity is the religion of redemption, mercy, charity. Marriage being a sacrament does not protect men and women from each other's sins, nor does it protect their children from the consequences. And the call to love Christ by caring for each other doesn't have a clause requiring that we first ensure that the person we help is not suffering because of their own faults.
As for child support… check your history books. The Church *invented* child support. That's why the Church started officiating at weddings in the first place, so that no one could later deny his marriage and responsibility for a woman and her children. The Church pushed for civilly recognized marriages for the same reason – so that the state could enforce the responsibility of a man to his children. The duty of the community to support women and children without other means of support is even older, and the Church has even had religious orders dedicated to caring for ex-prostitutes and their children.
So, no, there isn't anything remotely Catholic about your attitude and arguments here.
- JustAnotherGuy
you seem to be a bit of a fool, so i will be remedial with you.
Men were meant to be fathers and provide for their families-up until about 1920. At that point, a number of intelligent individuals realized that women were just as capable as men in raising and caring for a family, including working a job or attending a university for a degree in a professional occupation. I've known these guys for a long time. You don't seem to be quite grasping the salient point that this is a family which needs support, so that it can eat and meet financial needs. Give the kids to the father? If he's leaving them like this, without providing even a minimum of support, how much can he honestly care about them? I don't know; he's the one member of the family I've never seen hide nor hair of. Ever.
And one more thing: why are you spending so much of your time on this page being so negative? If helping people isn't your thing, so be it: I can't convince you to be a good person. But I can give you some advice: get a life- it'll probably do you some good.
- Kate
Of course her exhusband is responsible for all of the children. I assume he took responsibility for them when he married her; they presumably lived a common family life, the courts would have granted him visitation to all of the children, not merely his biological ones, and if their marriage, such as it was, was predicated on a division of labors in which he supported the family financially while she supported the family practically as the primary caregiver, then he remains obligated to that same support after ending the marriage, because that is how we understand the contractual obligations of marriage as they pertain to children.
Again, it's hard to wrap my mind around the kind of mind that would differentiate between children and step children that way.
- TheodoreSeeber
If we had a just society, the ex would have been arrested and forced to work for his children. Sometimes justice trumps mercy.
- TheodoreSeeber
If they had sex with her, yes. A man owes a living to the mother of his children, regardless of how crazy she is. That is justice, and the reason to be very careful when choosing a mate.
- http://coucoumelle.blogspot.com/ Jeanne Chabot-Baril
She already has… she's been very clear about that. We all know her story… and we support her… A person's past isn't important, what is important is what she's doing NOW. Trying to undermine someone's good efforts is what YOU are doing now…
- Kate
Hmm. Less than two months of 'refuting' Kristin, under a psuedonym, three years ago.
I don't think Kristin is an innocent, or is really at all inclined to be charitable to her husband. On the other hand, whatever may have happened during the time they were married, the current situation seems to be pretty verifiable: Kristin is raising 11 children on her own, and their father is not paying any child support. While every failed marriage has two sides to the story, there's no reason I can see in this to punish Kristin's children by refraining from helping their mother train for a viable career.
That said…I have been reading Kristin's blog for two years. She's never really tried to monetize any of the sympathy she's received during that time except by selling things (clothes, books, other personal possessions, her daughter's dolls), keeping a paypal button on the blog (as most bloggers do), and writing a book, which was not very actively promoted. Kristin feels sorry for herself sometimes and she's certainly angry with her ex-husband, but the blog seems like a place to vent far more than an attempt to polish her image or fish for material help. I've witnessed real catfishing, and this doesn't smell like it.
More relevant still though is where the older children fall in all of this. I've known a few large families that fell apart when the oldest were teens or young adults, and I've got to tell you, the older kids do not stick around when they sense hypocrisy. They'll strike out on their own and take the younger kids with them if they can, but they don't stay living at home and chipping in with their own wages unless their observations jive with that parent.
Certainly, it is more comfortable to give our money to help perfectly virtuous men and women, who are kind and charitable even to those who have hurt them, and entirely blameless in their own attitudes and conduct. Of course, then we would rarely help anyone at all, because who on earth fits that description?
- Lena S.
His name is on the documents he posted, but either way, I don't know either of them; I just find this story fishy, and "well-known Catholic mommy blogger" (referenced in the comment below) isn't evidence of anything.
The blogger that I linked says she had two husbands before him. It would be interesting to see what they have to say about their marriages and divorces.
I think it is foolish to give money when one doesn't know where it is really going. Charity can be done in other ways and it has nothing to do with being "perfectly virtuous", a strawman argument if I ever saw one.
If you believe this to be a good cause, by all means give to it, just don't expect everyone to open their wallets for a thrice divorced woman.
- 7man
So Kate, how do you ignore the legal documents on that site? Are you saying they are fake?
If so, how do you dismiss this? http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ct-superior-court/1583041.html
Where can I donate money to the father of these children so that he can again be a part of their lives?
- Kate
I don't need to dismiss it, it just doesn't seem relevant. Nor does it appear that Kristin is at all attempting to hide her past, or pretend any kind of perfection.
It's really hard to think anything matters except that she isn't receiving any child support, or parenting support, and wants to be able to provide better for her children. The suggestion that a mother should hand over complete custody of her children to a man who is not even willing to take fiduciary responsibility for them is pretty strange.
- Kate
It's odd, again, that you talk about parenting and caregiving in terms of 'authority', rather than recognizing the humongous responsibility it involves. I'd be slow to grant custody to any parent who viewed the caregiving role that way, as though children 'belong to' their caregiving parent, rather than the parent's time, energy, and love 'belonging to' the children.
The children have a right to both material and emotional/formational support. Both. Loving parents don't skimp or devalue one or another as being too burdensome. They just step up and meet whichever of the children's needs they are available to, within whatever legal or practical constraints there are.
So, no. I don't think Kristin is 'not being held responsible' when she wakes up every morning to the cares and needs of the children she birthed. I'm pretty sure that is a responsibility, and pretty important one.
- Kate
Do you always talk about yourself in third person? or did you forget to put on your sock puppet?
- Lena S.
Kate said:
More relevant still though is where the older children fall in all of
this. I've known a few large families that fell apart when the oldest
were teens or young adults, and I've got to tell you, the older kids do
not stick around when they sense hypocrisy. They'll strike out on their
own and take the younger kids with them if they can, but they don't stay
living at home and chipping in with their own wages unless their
observations jive with that parent.
This could just as easily be explained as unhealthy enmeshment. You don't know any more than I do. I'm not trying to convince you one way or the other, rather, that people need to do a little fact checking and be a little more sceptical instead of taking at face value every tear-jerking story they hear.
There are too many unanswered questions in this particular case, and I would really be interested to hear more from her collection of ex-husbands rather than simply taking her word for it.
- 11onmyown
What is absolutely disgusting and disturbing and downright WRONG is for a "man" to abandon 10 children and do everything in his power to NOT SUPPORT them. What is EVIL is for a "man" to do everything in his power to make sure that they aren't supported any other way. EVIL.
- 11onmyown
7man and "Lena" are both my ex-husband. I'm sorry everyone – he's truly evil.
- Kate
I dunno about evil, but it is pretty messed up. But hey, maybe he'll give his address out to show how eager he is to support his kids, since he's determined to make you out to be a liar. Then you wouldn't need to humble yourself to fundraising (which is pretty humbling, I know!!), and your kids' needs would be met.
- Helen
Coward. You will pay for what you are doing. May God the Father have Mercy on your soul.
- Mary Alexander
I'm really glad to see Kristin's abusive ex husband posting here. If anyone can stomach it they will get a glimpse into the hell that was her life when she was married to him. I thank God that the younger children are no longer required to attend "supervised visitation" with him and he is out of their lives. I attended a family wedding recently where the Bothur children attended and given what they have suffered at that hands of their father I could not be more impressed. What a wonderful, group of kids and they really do Kristin credit. I am happy that they have such a good mother and if anyone has any doubts about Kristin feel free to email me. I vouch for her 100%. They are a lovely group of children and I have never known Kristin to complain about them. They are a joy to her. It is a shame how she has been wronged by the courts and her ex. But that is the misogyny our culture is offering women today. If a woman is stupid enough to marry and have children the courts will not require the father to support them. I think this is really going to help the fundraising effort- go Kristin! "Illegitimi non carborunndum!"
- Mary
'm really glad to see Kristin's abusive ex husband posting here. If anyone can stomach it they will get a glimpse into the hell that was her life when she was married to him. I thank God that the younger children are no longer required to attend "supervised visitation" with him and he is out of their lives. I attended a family wedding recently where the Bothur children attended and given what they have suffered at that hands of their father I could not be more impressed. What a wonderful, group of kids and they really do Kristin credit. I am happy that they have such a good mother and if anyone has any doubts about Kristin feel free to email me. I vouch for her 100%. They are a lovely group of children and I have never known Kristin to complain about them. They are a joy to her. It is a shame how she has been wronged by the courts and her ex. But that is the misogyny our culture is offering women today. If a woman is stupid enough to marry and have children the courts will not require the father to support them. I think this is really going to help the fundraising effort- go Kristin! "Illegitimi non carborunndum
- Kelly Seppy
I wish it were made up–it's one of those stories about which people say, "you can't make this stuff up!" It is not a con on the mom's part and she does not need any more detractors, what with her crazy ex stalking every attempt at help for her. I know this because I posted ONE post in her behalf, and, boom, there he was, send nutty comments to my blog. Geez, people. People ask for help all the time. If you care about her kids just give the mom a chance to make a decent living for them.
- Kelly Seppy
oh for heavens sake. If you don't feel like doing your homework on the situation, why would you want to undermine the attempt to help her and the kids? I know her. She has done everything in her power to work herself to the bone to provide for the kids. Not only without help, but with active opposition. What kind of man not only shirks his responsibility, but tries to block any help that comes her way? She is not asking for handouts, but going to nursing school, for cryin out loud. If you keep wanting proof spoon fed to you, you will begin to resemble the ex and cray-cray rants.
- Kelly Seppy
Okay so don't donate then, if you are wary. But why try to detract if YOU have no stake in it? What if her story is true, as I know it to be, having done my homework? If, as you say, you feel for the children, but think you are being taken for a ride, just leave it alone? If you had been following it for a long time, as I have, you would know better. If she could get an education any other way, she would. She has tried. And guess who always manages to pop up and try to be negative? I am certainly not her, but I have walked in shoes similar to hers, therefore I feel for her and wish the best for them. How do we know you are not HIM if You are so invested in throwing doubts?
- Kelly Seppy
Did I say don't question? I said why nay say something just because you don't personally believe the story, that's all. I am simply frustrated for this poor lady and her kids. I have had enough dialogue with her know she is telling the truth. Can you say that? I have also been through a situation with my own children to know what is is like to struggle as a single mom to keep them fed, clothed and a roof over their heads. Can you say that? To everything I say, you simply say I have not properly responded. You can say that until the cows come home. What frightens me is that you are so willing to go to bat AGAINST the kids involved. And, yes, I am willing to go to bat for this sister in Christ, because I remember what it was like not to have that. I can't offer her monetary support, but I can let her know the world isn't as cold-hearted as it seems on these boards. And if by some wild stretch, it is all a ruse, and all the evidence to the contrary is proved wrong, then God can judge me on my intentions.
I think I will go my way now, and just write a post on my own blog.
I don't really believe you are he, by the way. God Bless and Peace be with you.
- http://coucoumelle.blogspot.com/ Jeanne Chabot-Baril
It's not hard to get on three or four different computers and post as 3 or 4 different people… I think it's time to close (and delete) the comments Mark Shea….
- Rona
More then halfway to goal! People are truly wonderful and generous I have more than 2000 followers and will continue to share and promote the cause.
- HornOrSilk
Mark, the one-sided deletion of comments on your part is disgraceful. There are all kinds of accusations against her ex-husband being made which have not been proven, and indeed, read quite like "she's a woman, believe her, don't believe him, he's a man." That there might be more to the story and should be investigated so people don't fall for a con should be a reasonable remark, especially with the kinds of scams on the net!
- chezami
When I post a request for prayer and a work of mercy I do not like it when assholes show up in my combox to create a star chamber and sit in judgement of the person in need. If you have have a problem with that, tough shit. Comprende?
- Eleanor
Mark, be super careful. Unless you know this woman personally and have an inside you track you do *not* know the whole story. It is really risky to get involved in internet advocacy and fund raising for people who don't know and in situations where you don't know the whole story. So very many people have been burned over the past few years. I really don't know if you want to be responsible for encouraging people to give their hard earned money to a situation where there are *any* questions or ambiguities.
- Margie
"…I reserve the right to delete and/or ban commenters as I please. Conduct yourself as you would in my living room and you'll generally be just fine." -Mark Shea
Mark can do whatever the hell he wants in his internet "living room." We're all adults and can discern our choice of action regarding donations to whomever Mark brings attention. You've asked people to do their research. Fine. Now pack it up and allow us to make our own decisions in regards to the destination of our money. The end.
- 11onmyown
It's Sybil all over again! Mark has met me in person, by the way, everyone – at a writer's conference in Pennsylvania.
- Kate
Glad to see you deal with this, Mark. I'm sorry that load of garbage was waiting for you after your weekend away though!
- Lynn
Hard to imagine any "con" going on when we're looking at a woman raising 11 children on her own, and dad is nowhere in the picture. Doesn't matter if he's awful or gone because he's dead. She raising. eleven. kids. on. her. own. Count me in!


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Facing a million-dollar deficit this year, the DeSoto Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved county employee health plan reforms that attempt to carve about $300,000 in savings from a budget shortfall blamed on surging medical expenses.
Coverage remains at no cost to some 520 full-time employees, but they will dig deeper into their pockets for higher co-pays, deductibles and coverage for spouse and family. A provision prohibiting coverage for a spouse if coverage is available through another source was rejected, but the panel endorsed a $100 surcharge for spouses who select the county's plan with Humana over their own.
The revised plan goes into effect March 1, with open enrollment in February.
"We're doing this with a heavy heart," DeSoto Human Resources director Janna Rogers said after the 4-1 vote on her office's recommendations. "But it was inevitable with the way health care and costs are heading."
"Supervisors were faced with a dilemma in plugging this shortfall," said County Administrator Michael Garriga. "The revenue has to come from somewhere. We could ask employees to pay more or go to the taxpayers. In the present climate, it was deemed better to place the burden on those who draw the benefits."
Rogers added that the self-insured county also is hit by federal mandates that include adding dependent coverage up to age 26 and elimination of the lifetime maximum. These add costs estimated at $79,752, she said.
Ahead of next year's enrollment, "we will aggressively look at brokers, including workers compensation, and providers, everything we can to competitively manage the cost," said Rogers. With a three-year contract with group insurance plan partner Humana ending, supervisors in December approved renewal for 2011, but will seek bids for services in 2012 and beyond to pursue savings and control costs.
"This plan is just a Band-Aid to get us through the year," Supervisor Bill Russell said Tuesday. "For next year we'll have to make some tough decisions," he said, including whether to start requiring employee contributions to the plan and cutting off coverage for spouses who have access to another plan.
Among health plan revisions approved Tuesday by the DeSoto Board of Supervisors:
Coverage decreases from 90 percent in-network and 75 percent out-of-network to an 80-60 percent formula.
Prescription co-pays rise from $10-$25-$35 to $10-$35-$45. Out-of-network well child preventive visits will not be covered.
Employee-only monthly contribution remains county-paid, but these employee-paid contributions go up 20 percent: children from $165 to $198, spouse from $185 to $222, and family from $205 to $246.
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The pieces in Oranges and Peanuts for Sale cover a wide range of topics--the arts under the Bush administration, Obama's presidential campaign, ancient and contemporary Chinese poetry, the color blue, exoticism, the relationship between Samuel Beckett and Octavio Paz--but are knit together by a sensibility that prizes exactitude in its formulations yet is open to the unpredictable complications of the larger world. Put another way: weak prose and parochialism are two of Weinberger's chief enemies. One of the delights of reading his essays is that they reveal the interconnections between the two; the Wittgensteinian idea that the limits of one's language are the limits of one's world becomes, in his hands, a tool for revealing the blind spots common to our culture.
Or our critics. In Oranges and Peanuts for Sale, the self-assured yet clueless critic appears in various guises, only to be cut down to size by Weinberger's sharp pen. In his appreciative but tart assessment of Susan Sontag, he applauds her political courage and the cultural shift brought on by her Illness as Metaphor but comes down hard on her self-seriousness and the Eurocentricism of her critical imagination: "Like the old joke about the Oxford don, she knew everything, and nothing about everything else." Reviewing Robert Alter's new edition of the Psalms, Weinberger makes the renowned scholar seem arrestingly blinkered: "Based on the evidence here, Alter seems to know very little about the last hundred years of English-language poetry." Weinberger tends to use his own wide-ranging erudition as the stick by which other writers are measured, found wanting, then roughed up a bit.
Yet the attacks are not personal so much as cultural, a way to question what we value in our critics. The attack on Alter, for instance, is part of a larger, and welcome, brief against the fetish for "fidelity" among academic translators ("the primary task of a translator is not merely to get the dictionary meanings right--which is the easiest part--but rather to invent a new music for the text in the translation-language"). And the review ends evocatively rather than tendentiously, with a panoramic sketch of how the Psalms, in translation over the past five centuries, have set the paradigm for what ecstatic poetry should sound like. There's a refreshing current of irreverence that runs deep through Weinberger's polemics, a Robin Hood-like ethic that has him taking from those with cultural capital to give to those without it: Sontag and Alter may be taken down a few pegs, but less-known figures like Vicente Huidobro, Hans Faverey, Lorine Niedecker and Kenneth Cox are treated, conversely, with handsome admiration.
To be fair, there are moments in Oranges and Peanuts for Sale when Weinberger's assuredness fails him--when he seems to drop his ordinarily careful presentation of a critical case and shift into polemical overdrive. Given the task, in 2002, of introducing E.B. White's 1948 essay "Here Is New York" to the German readers of Lettre International, Weinberger took the occasion to meditate on how White's winsome style reflected his limitations and those of his longtime employer. Weinberger begins by observing that White's New York is "geographically minute"--much of it confined within a fifteen-block radius of The New Yorker's offices on West Forty-third Street--then connects the smallness of White's tour to the small-mindedness of the magazine that published him. The New Yorker, Weinberger observes,
is permanently fixed in an air of bemused detachment, which it expresses in a style whose sentences are pathologically rewritten by its editors, "polished" (as they call it) until every article, whether a report from Rwanda or a portrait of a professional dog-walker, sounds exactly alike, driven by domestic similes and clever turns of phrases that mix colloquial speech with unexpected synonyms. E.B. White was a master of the style, and it is a sign of the magazine's petrification--if it was ever not petrified--that his sentences from fifty years ago might have been published in last week's issue.
Weinberger's essay on White valuably broaches the costs of The New Yorker's cleverness, the mysteries that it can screen out with its likably crisp prose; one wonders how American journalism might have evolved over the past decade if W.G. Sebald, rather than Malcolm Gladwell, offered the most lucrative working model. Yet Weinberger's conclusions also seem exaggerated. Can one essay encapsulate the whole of the magazine's history (especially when the essay in question was published not in The New Yorker but Holiday)? Is the house style of The New Yorker so uniform? (Ask the ghosts of John Updike and Pauline Kael.) And are Jane Mayer's articles about torture, Seymour Hersh's reports on military affairs and Jon Lee Anderson's dispatches from the outposts of the American empire all signs of "petrification"?
Perhaps inevitably, Weinberger the polemicist is a lumper rather than a splitter; sometimes, though, the lumping seems to come merely from his detached, bird's-eye vantage point rather than from an engagement with the complexity of the problem in question. In several essays Weinberger argues that academics in the humanities have lost their way, focusing on critical theory and bean-counting curricular reform at the expense of practical political engagement and aesthetic pleasure. And American writers, partly because of their ties to academia, are no better as citizens of the world:
We are where we are in part because American writers--supposedly the most articulate members of society--have generally had nothing to say about the world for the last thirty years....
After thirty years of self-absorption in MFA and MLA career-mongering and knee-jerk demography and the personal as political and the impersonal as poetical, American writers now [in 2003] have the government we deserve.
Certainly this conclusion packs a wallop. But it also seems questionable, given that the "globalization" of the American novel has accelerated ever since, say, Russell Banks's Continental Drift (1985), which put an American working-class family and a family of Haitian refugees on an unforgettable and fatal collision course. Whatever one might think of such bestselling literary novels as Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, they have more than "nothing to say about the world." The conclusion is even more questionable since it's presented without much evidence to support it: here Weinberger lets his adversarial tone do all the work of establishing the authority of his argument. (Even Natkira took the trouble to point to a treatise.) He becomes, as he says of E.B. White, a "prisoner of his style"--bound to present himself as the Last Broad-Minded Man in America, bearing lonely witness to the world. Those who already agree with him will nod with pleasure at these takedowns of the American intelligentsia, but those who disagree will be unmoved.


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Yes, I tried the 16x19 Donnay as I never found a 18x20 that would work for me. I always end up hitting it short and when I try to lower the tension by 5lbs to adjust for the tighter string pattern, it still didn't help.
The Blade 16x19 does have more power than the PSTGT and does take some time to get use to but I feel I am slowly getting the hang of it. I like the bigger sweet spot though the PSTGT allows me to hit a more wicked slice. I modified the Blade with more lead tape in the handle making it more like 4pts HL to give it a bit more whip while still maintaining stability.
I am happy with the PSTGT but I like trying new racquets and will be giving the Steam and Head Speed MP a shot when they come out later this month. I do understand what you mean by the PSTGT being a bit sluggish and mainly on serves. Hopefully they will improve this when they release a new version in 2014.
I see. For me the 18/20 pattern has been one that I've used for most of my tennis playing career so giving up on it since I've been using the 16/20 for the past year won't be something I'm doing. Although you're right that with the 18/20 you sacrifice a lot of pop the control you receive especially directional control is usually spot on. I've never tried experimenting with lead and I probably won't touch it anytime soon.. so it concerns me that maybe the Blades won't be statically heavy enough, although the SW of 330 definitely beefs up the 11-11.5 oz frames. Yes, the PSTGT definitely doesn't help you on the serve.. but approach shots, balls that are high in my strike zone, and finesse on volleys are things I am finding difficulty to deal with. I've never played with any racquet better at grinding from the back of the court just hitting deep balls, absorbing pace from my opponents shots.
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Might want to try the standard Pure Storm or even the Team, leaded up a bit? Played a pro at a club in Palm Springs and he had a Team version of the Pure Storm with a fair amount of lead at 3 and 9. He could really crack the ball and his slices stayed ridiculously low with it.
My brother uses the PS unleaded and I tried it before deciding I wanted to use something heavier and more stable with the PSTGT. Like I said previously, I've never thought of tinkering around with lead. As of now the 3 frames I'm really looking at to achieve what I'm looking for (basically a PSTGT in a lighter package, more whippy, more maneuverable) are the 2 Blade 98's and the new Head Graphene Speed Pro (315g). It'll be an interesting month of playtesting.
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The Indian politicians would do well to take themselves a little more lightly.
"Ramgarurer chhaanaa haaste taader maanaa." Translated, this opening line of a Bengali poem, means: Ramgarur's kids are forbidden to laugh.
Ramgarur is one of the many creatures imagined by Sukumar Ray, a humourist-poet beyond compare. The father of film-maker Satyajit Ray, he believed that people wanted to laugh, needed only pretexts and he could provide them. In his lifetime (a brief 36 years) he created a Nonsense Club with his friends looking for literary fun. For posterity he left behind humorist compositions — prose and poetry — with, most famous of them all a collection of nonsense rhymes in a slim volume titled Aabol Taabol. "Ramgarurer Chhaanaa" is one of the best known from Aabol Taabol. Nobody ever complained that any of Sukumar Ray's hilarious characters had been drawn to ridicule anyone.
Yet, with humour drying up before the rampaging sands of politically opportunist ultra-sensitivity nearly a century after Sukumar Ray's death, one cannot be sure that someone will not pop up in our Parliament or in a law court, asking for a ban on Aabol Taabol.
Pay to sneeze
Almost anything is possible these days. Did Sukumar Ray have a premonition himself? The Indian polity today is showing signs of emulating "God Shiva's own country" of his imagination. In that realm "the laws and bye-laws are catastrophic". If anyone slips and falls on the road, a guard grabs him and he is fined Rs.21 after a trial in a Qazi's court. In that country you need a ticket to sneeze before six in the evening. And so on. Who knows someone may consider it his duty to save God Shiva from continuing insult by asking for a ban on this poem.
A cartoon of Nehru and Ambedkar over the perceived snail's pace of India's Constitution-making more than 60 years ago, has been berated in the Lok Sabha as an insult to Ambedkar. Had he been alive today, Sukumar Ray might have added laughing or smiling over this cartoon to one of the many no-nos of Ramgarur's tribe. The others are listed in the following admittedly inadequate (the rhymes are missing) translation of Ray's poem:
Ramgarur's kids are forbidden to laugh./ If they hear anything funny/ they say, no laughing for us — no, no, no./ They are worried all the time —/ there, somebody may be laughing;/ they look furtively here and there/ with blinking eyes./ None of them sleeps,/ keep warning themselves/ dare you laugh, we'll thrash you./ They don't go near a forest/ or under trees/ lest the southerly breeze caresses them into smiling./ They are never at ease —/ they listen warily to the laughter/ steaming up to the edges of the clouds./ Near the hedges in the darkness of night/ glow-worms light up/ in step with laughters./ Those who cannot stop laughing/ can't they feel the pain they cause/ to Ramgarur's kids?/ Ramgarur's home/ Is packed with threats.
Even translating and publishing "Ramgarur's Kids" may be risky. Some honourable member of our Parliament may come out with a formal notice of a breach of privilege. Or someone may file a public interest petition in a law court. The cause of action? That some august personality has been brought into the same league with a Ramgarur kid —even if only by implication. There is a grim warning already from Kolkata. A Jadavpur University professor had to spend a night in a police lock-up for e-mailing a cartoon with a single word from a Satyajit Ray film.
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The erudite Pranab Mukherjee joined in lambasting the 62-year-old cartoon. To the UPA's troubleshooter-in-chief the reproduction of the ancient Nehru-Ambedkar cartoon seemed to have looked like a threat to his much-battered unsteady government. Any gust of political wind makes the Congress leaders jumpy. Evidently Pranab Babu never heard of Nehru's words of encouragement to the cartoonist, Shankar. The Prime Minister's express instruction to the cartoonist was not to spare him: "Bring us down by a notch or two." But that was six decades ago.
Today Human Resources Minister Kapil Sibal is working on a decree banning all cartoons — old or new, irrespective of their age Methuselah downwards — must not find a place in any text book.
Laughter in education? No, no, no, says the worthy Minister.
The writer is a New Delhi-based journalist.
Keywords: Cartoons, Political controversy, Life and laughter, Ambedkar cartoon episode, Imaginary threats


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Winter is coming...how do 3DS fans feel about the upcoming console wars?
NettoSaito posted...
This is going to be a lot like Gen 6 allover again lol
Let's wait until E3 finished next month before all is said and done.
Though i agree with you on Xbox One lol.
3DS - God tier system. Guaranteed success at this point.
Vita - Need a price drop either on the system or memory cards if it wants to compete.
WiiU - It might pick up in the future, it might not. But the fanboys will probably keep it alive regardless.
PS4 - Odds are it will beat out the other consoles, but it has its own fair share of issues. Devs have the option to charge for used games, no direct backwards compatibility. (Though the latter has more to do with the way the PS3 was designed.)
X1 - That's a nice console
WiiFan77 posted...
The handhelds will dominate this gen. All the consoles suck hard.
Truth if I ever saw it.
One more thing; I noticed that no one has mentioned Ouya, SteamBox, or anything similar yet. If WiiU/PS4/X1 don't get their act together, they could very well get overtaken by these devices.
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3DS: Going strong
Vita: I don't see this going anywhere
Wii U: The groundwork is there, but it needs more titles actually out to really jumpstart.
PS4: Depends on the games and the price. If it doesn't have many launch titles and is $500, it's gonna take some time for it to get off the ground. It' could be a strong competitor this gen though.
Xbox One: Good night, sweet prince.
I tell it how I see it. Controversial and I don't care.
Well I like Nintendo's output for the 3DS. Yet, it would appear they are having difficulties transitioning towards crafting games for the Wii U. Not to mention that their advertisements of the Wii U leave a lot to be desired...However, it would seem that they are trying to gather indie developers, if some of the NeoGaf topics are to be taken into consideration and it would also appear that they are trying to partner to gain exclusives. So it will probably improve from Fall 2013-Fall 2014. PS4 looks good. XBOX One is quite...interesting. The current negativity surrounding the system may force Microsoft to change a lot of their policies toward the system by E3...Then again, I have doubts that Microsoft will just change policies so quickly lest they decided to push back their launch for all regions to the next year. But that would give Sony too much breathing room...
In any case, a few tips on console wars:
1. Realize that there is criticism of a console on good merits, there is criticism of a console on poor merits, and then there is simply being rude. Always make sure your criticisms are based in truth and do not exaggerate them to make a point.
2. Do not attack people who do not agree necessarily with your criticisms. Calling people illogical, stupid, etc. for not agreeing with you is perhaps the most ineffective way to discuss a criticism you think is valid. If the person does not see your criticism as valid, then ask them why they do not see the criticism as valid, do not state it is obvious etc.
3. Do not beleaguer a point. If the person still does not agree after a period and the discussion seems to be getting somewhat heated, then you may want to excuse yourself from the argument. Remember this is not life or death here, do not treat it as such.
4. Do not generalize. This is an important tip. One should avoid generalizations no matter what. Even beginning a statement such as most_____ can cause needless arguments.
5. Tone is key. This is related to the criticism based tips. One should avoid sounding too...angry or upset.
There are some more tips, but I am somewhat tired right now...
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OoSubaruoO posted...
Console wars are just an excuse for rabid fanboys to insult each other. Real gamers play the game, no matter what console it is.
"Be greater than all that's come before... But... Never be perfect." - Mayuri Kurotsuchi, Captian of Division 12.
The console wars dont phase me a bit.
The 3DS is looking good to me. I like nostalgia, and this system has plenty for me to be excited about in the next year or more.
X-Box is out for me. i'm offline type.
Now left to Wii-U and PS4 but i hope my favorite series not coming to these system so i can just stick with PS3 for a while longer. For home console, i will buy it when Gust Game get localized.


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