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American culture is saturated in a surreal dedication to being upbeat. Nearly every adviser from your mother to boss will tell you to "think positive". But is this really good advice? Ehrenreich examines the consequences of blind positivity in a number of situations. Her conclusion? Well, it's not exactly positive.
It's a very interesting book, and a good dose of realism. My only detraction is the author seems a little embittered, but that might just have been the delivery from the audio book narrator.
Another brave undertaking by an insightful sociologist who somehow never lost her ability to write convincingly and engagingly in grad school. Don't bother trying to persuade others to read this book, though—they'll ask you to repeat the title and assume you are trying to make them unhappy. In fact, Ehrenrich is arguing for empiricism, a dose of reality in a world in which many believe that wealth can be got by simply thinking about how you deserve it. News flash to the idiot mob: the world is a mix of good and bad news and you aren't going to be very effective at your job or in your life if you ignore contrary evidence and ostracize individual thought. If you manage to magically manifest some dollars for yourself, buy this book.
An excellent subject but the delivery was repetitive; I could have stopped reading after the first couple chapters and come away with what I did after finishing the book.
For a book with such a "negative" title and purporting to contain many hard truths, this was a surprisingly funny, entertaining read! Ehrenreich has put together a compelling selection of essays, particularly the opening chapter with its personal anecdotes of her time in treatment for breast cancer and experiences with positive thinking induced blame for her own illness. I got a bit bogged down on the last couple of chapters as they got somewhat samey/repetative towards the end (particularly "Motivating business and the business of motivation" and "Positive psychology: the science of happiness"), but I thought it ended on a strong note (making sure not to promote pessimism or unrealistic negativity in the place of optimism, but rather critical thinking and realism) and would say that for anyone feeling contrary about "The Secret" and its ilk this is worthwhile!
I have never won the lottery. And clearly, this is because I have never really wanted to win the lottery. And when my friend got cancer, it was because she wanted it, and really, it is a gift, no?
Barbara Ehrenreich goes on to describe the history of positive thinking, it's dangerous likeness to corporate America and "religious" cults, reveals that these three things are not at all separate from each other.
As a cancer biologist, I must say I like the first chapter, as Ehrenreich describes the cultish attachment to positive thinking among cancer patients and "survivors" and the health industry. I also highly enjoyed the chapters on Christian positive thinking (mega churches...wow! really! they bring in that much money!) and of course, positive psychology.
In the end, my only complaint would be that Ehrenreich was too kind to some of the people who abuse the masses for their own profit and wealth (though perhaps the masses deserve to be exploited, if we are so dumb and ignorant). Perhaps Ehrenreich managed to be more unbiased than I am, and that's a good thing.
I now understand why and how being a realist started to be equal to "being negative" or "having a negative attitude." If I could just change my negative attitude and focus my mind to think real hard of the NY lottery... Wait, I won!!!! (no "I'm your long lost cousin, please give me some money" requests, please!)
Vindicated at last! All of us misanthropic misery guts, whingers and whiners, Seroxat-refuseniks, "walking nimbus clouds"; we grouches, saddos, naysayers, demoralisers and party-poopers – our day has dawned. Time to gather and strike for the right to snigger, sulk and be sceptical, for the whole purpose of the cult of positive thinking is the beatification of bullshit.
I must confess, I have waited my whole life for someone to write a book like "Bright-Sided"... Now, in Barbara Ehrenreich's deeply satisfying book, I finally have a moral defense for my apparent scowl.
The myth-busting Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the ``cult of cheerfulness'' in her latest book and shortly after diving into the icy plunge pool of Chapter One readers will find themselves asking: Can I really make it all the way through a screed that starts off with a roundhouse punch at the positive thinking of cancer patients?
You can. And you should.
[Ehrenreich's] argument has the makings of a tight, incisive essay. And each chapter eventually delivers a succinct reiteration of the central point. But this short book is also padded with cheap shots, easy examples, research recycled from her earlier books and caustic reportorial stalking. Ms. Ehrenreich starts out with her ideas firmly in place, then goes out hunting for crass, benighted individuals whose perniciousness helps her accentuate the negative.
While Ehrenreich is entertaining and instructive as she has been in the past, "Bright-Sided" is probably her least persuasive book.
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A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism
Americans are a "positive" people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity.
In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to "prosper" you. The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for new departments of "positive psychology" and the "science of happiness." Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomes—like mortgage defaults—contributed directly to the current economic crisis.
With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out "negative" thoughts. On a national level, it's brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best—poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.
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Full name Simon James Arnold Taufel
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In a field where middle-age has been the norm, it was a supreme vote of confidence that Simon Taufel was asked to umpire his first Test at 29. Over the next decade, he repaid that faith by being named the ICC's Umpire of the Year every year from 2004 to 2008. His rise was so rapid that he quickly became one of the most experienced officials on the Elite Panel, despite being by far its youngest member. But that heavy workload also took its toll on Taufel, who in 2008 said he wanted to spend more time with his wife and children and was taking his cricket future "year by year". Respected by the players for his consistently accurate decision-making, Taufel stood in three World Cups and earned the chance to officiate in the 2011 final, when Australia failed to reach the decider for the first time in five World Cups. A calm and confident official who worked hard on his fitness, Taufel developed while on the international scene. When he first arrived he hunched over as the bowler let fly, lowering his eyeline like umpires of old. That habit disappeared as Taufel's self-assurance increased, although his concentration did not wane.
His early entry into the umpiring ranks came after his playing career stalled due to a back injury. A promising fast bowler, in 1988-89 Taufel took the new ball in a New South Wales schoolboys' representative team captained by Michael Slater with Adam Gilchrist behind the stumps. He played for the North Sydney and Mosman clubs before first officiating in fifth-grade games at 20. Taufel was 27 when he stood in his first ODI, a match where his old team-mate Gilchrist scored a century, and 29 when his Test debut came in the 2000 Boxing Day match. Occasional internationals followed while he worked as the operations manager in a printing firm, and in 2003 he was added to the ICC's Elite Panel, where he and the New Zealander Billy Bowden were viewed as the next generation of umpires. In 2012, Taufel retired at the age of 41, deciding to spend more time at home with his family. He also took up the newly-created role of umpire performance and training manager with the ICC.
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By the time the bale of jeans is unloaded from a container here in Accra, Ghana, it is worth around $144. That's $1.30 per pair of jeans. But when the bale is opened up and the jeans are laid out for sale in the so-called "bend over" markets, customers bend over and select their purchases from the ground for an average price of $6.66 per pair of jeans. That's a 500 percent increase in value just by opening up the bale of clothes.
So now you know that about 70 percent of your old donated jeans are being used as cloths to wipe oil off of engine parts and the remaining 20 to 25 percent of pants that left your closet with no value are ultimately sold in Africa, where American clothes are extremely popular, for an average price of about $7 per pair. That's a bargain for African shoppers -- most of them are low-income earners who cannot afford to buy newly made U.S. clothes.
And jeans are by no means the only American charity clothing items on sale here. I saw everything from T-shirts with U.S. logos like "General Motors" to major league baseball caps, name brand dresses, sports shoes and even underwear. All of them used.
There are two ways to look at all this. One view is that it is wrong for entrepreneurs to profit from what you give away to charity, and that by dumping huge amounts of cheap U.S. clothing on the streets here, African textile industries are closing their factories and laying people off because they cannot make clothes as cheaply as those American items found in the bend over markets.
Bama Athreya, deputy director of the International Labor Rights Fund in Washingtron D.C., told ABC News: "Many of these countries in Africa used to have a fairly well-developed indigenous market for textiles and clothing and particularly for hand-crafted or hand-tailored clothes. And we've seen those markets virtually disappear over the last decade or two."
Athreya concedes that the African market for used U.S. clothing is not the only reason African workers have lost jobs. ABC News has spoken to various sources who point out that Africa also lags in production techniques and suffers from lack of infrastructure, job training and from corruption that undermines efficiency. But, added Athreya, "There is no question that the secondhand clothing market has had a significant impact on domestic African clothing production. The tailors, the small producers have been put out of business. Those were good jobs for Africans and there are no jobs taking their place. This is a trade that feeds on the poor rather than benefits the poor."
And if Africans can't keep their factories open in order to make clothes, they can't make clothes to export to the United States, thus they continue to suffer economically.
Neil Kearney, general secretary of the Brussels based International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation says the practice is exploitative, "It is neo colonialism in its purest form. It's exporting poverty to Africa, a continent that is already exceedingly poor."
This state of affairs upsets AnnMarie Resnick, a woman we met in Manhattan while she was donating clothes, who told ABC News: "It stinks. I don't like it, but I would still give. There are a lot of people who are going to constantly profit, because this is probably happening with really nice people. With us -- and we profit too -- we get a tax deduction. If I knew how to send to Africa myself, I would."


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LONDON (AP) -- London firefighters say they have freed hundreds of people with body parts trapped in household objects in the last three years, including 18 children with heads stuck in potties or toilet seats and 79 people trapped in handcuffs.
The London Fire Brigade speculated that the popularity of erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" may account for a rise in handcuffs-related emergencies.
"I don't know whether it's the 'Fifty Shades' effect, but the number of incidents involving items like handcuffs seems to have gone up," said Third Officer Dave Brown.
Since 2010, London firefighters have treated almost 500 people with rings stuck on their fingers, nine with rings stuck on their penises, and one man with his penis stuck in a toaster.
Rescue crews also helped five people with hands stuck in shredders and 17 children with their hands trapped in toys.
The brigade released the list of incidents Monday to encourage people to be more careful. It advised people to exercise common sense -- and always to keep the keys nearby when using handcuffs.
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The shooting near the town of Qusair in Homs province occurred Thursday as the workers were on their way to their jobs in a bus that came under fire, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A pro-government Facebook page, the Homs News Network, posted photos of 11 men on the floor of what appeared to be a classroom. It blamed the rebel Free Syrian Army, saying the workers were killed for being state employees. The opposition blamed the government.
Syria has grown increasingly chaotic in recent months, possibly spiraling toward civil war, making it difficult to determine responsibility for much of the bloodshed. The government restricts journalists from moving freely, making it nearly impossible to independently verify accounts from either side.
On Thursday, 13 bound corpses, many apparently shot execution-style, were found in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour near the Iraqi border. The men were believed to be workers for an oil company. It was unclear who killed them.
The uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March last year with largely peaceful protests calling for reform. A fierce government crackdown prompted many in the opposition take up arms, transforming the conflict into an insurgency.
The U.N. said in March that more than 9,000 people have been killed during the crisis. Activists put the toll far higher, saying 13,000 have died.
Homs province, where there is significant support for the opposition, has suffered waves of deadly violence. More than 100 people were killed there during a massacre in a cluster of villages known as Houla on Friday and early Saturday. Many of the dead were women and children who were gunned down inside their homes.
The massacre brought immediate worldwide condemnation. The regime and anti-government activists have blamed each other.
On Thursday, Syria claimed up to 800 rebel fighters carried out the Houla massacre, giving its most comprehensive explanation to date of the bloodshed.
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Even if the "shabiha" gunmen were responsible for Houla, however, there was no clear evidence that the regime directly ordered the massacre.
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When the second round of the United States Amateur Disc Golf Championship presented by Discraft started this afternoon, we knew that the four people on the lead card probably wouldn't be the same four to start the final round on Sunday. Why? For starters, if you checked the results from round one you would have seen seen at least 20 competitors within striking distance of the leaders. And the fact that the course being played is the Toboggan Championship course only reinforced the issue.
The first round of the United States Amateur Disc Golf Championship (USADGC) presented by Discraft has to come to an end here in Milford, MI on the formerly brutal Toboggan Championship course in Kensington Metropark. Over 140 of the best Ams from the United States and Canada were lucky enough to qualify for this prestigious event and they teed off, one-by-one, down the absurdly steep fairway of hole 1 to start their rounds.
Every year thousands of amateur disc golfers compete in tournament after tournament after tournament with the hopes of qualifying for the United States Amateur Disc Golf Championship presented by Discraft. Of the thousands that try, only 148 are honored with the chance to play in such a prestigious event. A victory at the USADGC is often the first major stepping stone to a successful career in the disc golf world. It brings with it the possibility of sponsorship from disc golf companies and provides the keys to many of the doors that a touring professional disc golfer needs to succeed.
Ted Stoebling from Roseville, Michigan rose to the occasion on the final day of the 2012 United States Amateur Disc Golf Championship. Starting the day on the lead card for the first time all weekend, he sat one stroke behind day two leader Mark Huether. Stoebling, Nick Hanson, and Alex Geisinger were all tied for second place.
Mark Huether from Charlotte, North Carolina repeated his four under par, 58 to take the lead here at the United States Amateur Disc Golf Chmapionship. He started the day one behind Mike Sale and tied with Alex Geisinger.Through the first five holes nothing had changed on the lead card.
One round in the books and we have a tight race after the first round here at the 2012 United States Amateur DGC. The four highest-rated players had the earliest tee time and looked to set the bar for the rest of the day. Mark Huether was the man to put up the first low score. Only one player finished with a better score. Mike Sale from Downers Grove, Illinois shot a five under, 57, to finish with a one stroke lead. Along with Mark, Alex Geisinger turned in a 58. Five players carded 59's and are tied for third place.
Once a year, the best amateurs in disc golf travel to Milford, Michigan, a small city just north of Detroit. As the players prepare for the trip and begin travel, the hosts spend countless hours in the weeks leading up to the tournament re-installing one of our country's best courses. The Toboggan course at Kensington Metro park is truly a gem and the only players who get the pleasure and, sometimes, pain of playing are those that earn their way in through qualifier tournaments throughout the year.
The sport's most exclusive and prestigious event for amateur players is the United States Amateur Disc Golf Championship being held June 8-10 in Milford, MI. Only 148 qualified players compete on the Toboggan Championship course each summer, and here's a way for you to be there... even if you didn't receive an invitation.
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Great consideration was given to this process of creating such an empire. An abundance of time passing over the collection of every detail. Was it's creation what I wanted, or did it simply need to be done? A curious gambit, I chose, in my method. To shape and craft, in its entirety, the whole of the locale, nary a bit of it on the back of a single subject. To give it form and hope that it would be most suitable for the subjects that were to come. All of my time, all of my energies, all of my very essence... all for them.
It required cataclysm and rebirth. It necessitated selection and balance. So careful the balance. The scales must only sway, they may never tip, or all may be undone. Each decision leading through to an endlessly increasing series of alternative ends. Were I not so resolute, I could have let the process skew recklessly out of control. I persisted, placing my mark upon each waypoint along this road toward my triumph. A self-sustaining paradise for those given to live within its balances. We would nourish each other, Emperor and subject, equally until the end of my days.
I placed the final stone. I cultivated the last garden. I surveyed meticulously to the farthest reaches and back again. If there were a creation more grand, it may not yet have been even conceived. Satisfied in all that now lay before me, I was ready for the celebration of my work to begin. Slowly, and with the most delicate care, I began to invite subjects into my realm. Their caution, I greeted warmly, as we both stood new to one another. I was willing to give them all the time they needed to make the determination that this was indeed a realm worth inhabiting. They scurried about, investigating every aspect of my labors. I watched each in the best manner I could, making subtle adjustments to suit their needs. I had an abundance of patience in the early days, and was thoroughly contented to watch as they sampled the plethora of resources I provided.
After seeing all that was and the promise of what may come, my newly invited guests chose to become subjects of this mighty realm. I was overcome with joy. I watched gleefully as they diversified and flourished. My efforts to create a balanced home, leaving no one to exclusion, were a resounding success. I took gratification in their consumption as they toiled in it to maintain the precious balance. Where they had needs, I provided willingly. Where I had needs they returned in kind. Time itself marched slowly through this period as even it, unbiased and distant, appeared to savor the slow progression from empty state to glorious empire.
As the growth of the empire expanded, so too did the capability and complexity of my subjects. Their diversity lent itself to an increase in self reliance amongst the newly forming sub-communities, and in turn, competition and cooperation. While the competition between factions was sometimes fierce, the cooperation between others maintained the fragile balance needed for the empire to thrive. Oh and thrive it did! All subject now great and small had found their place here. I was humbled by the beauty created by the grace with which my subjects, in their respect for my creation, now proliferated across my lands. They had taken long consideration, exercised every caution, but through great courage and strength, had succeeded in stretching out to every boundary to make their home. They had more to take pride in than I, their Emperor, could have ordained in my wildest imaginations. I was prepared to declare this empire a success.
Then... a curious thing happened.
One faction began to grow in power, out of balance with the others. It did so first by happenstance, and I found the curiosity of it intriguing. Over time they correlated the happenstances and evolved them into intentions. Cunning, these subjects were, and rapid was the pace at which they were learning that their cunning was unique. They cultivated it to their own advantage and in its early stage, it still remained within the bounds of the maintenance of the balance. As more time passed, however, their advantage was moving precariously close to the edge of the scales. They were unaware that they were beginning to cause them to tip.
Was intervention on my part now being called upon? Could my intervention itself cause a greater shift than what would take place through the course of natural events? What if ambivalence would see the crumbling of the empire? What if benevolence pushed the balance back too far in the other direction? What if vengeance pulled the scales over entirely? What kind of Emperor would I be? What kind of Emperor should I be?
I weighed the every detail of my dilemma. The consequence of any action would be colossal as the complexity of the empire was now vast. The consequence of inaction could also lead to ruin. In the beginning, and by my intent, I placed myself apart from my subjects as unique. Caretaker, benefactor, patron... that was to be my station. To provide for and support and govern the fate of my empire in obscurity, yet all encompassing. Of all the great care and conscience I placed into its creation, I never once imagined myself to be found in such a position. Adjudicator.
When I put it to myself in that term, my decision became readily apparent. No, I would not intervene. To do so would be in stark contrast to and a vile displacement of the balance. So heavy would be my introduction, and I could not by the nature of what I was doing, place myself directly at the center. My interference would be a force of imbalance unlike any that had come before. I reasoned that it would not be just to allow a faction to grow and then summarily pass judgment on the nature of what they could become simply for my own comfort. Emperor or no, imposing my will upon them would only provide a reflection into my own selfishness. It would negate all of the selflessness I have bled into the foundation of this empire. I will not shake that foundation merely to cause one faction to tremble. I will maintain my distance. I will leave them alone. I will not intercede.
My mistake.
This faction rapidly developed characteristics unlike any other. They used their cunning now to not only satisfy their basic needs, but to supply their own, new forms of comfort. They began to no longer take their comfort in the empire, but now from it. They gathered more resources than they needed, and stored them as though I would not provide. They vanquished other factions, not for need of their own expansion, rather simply for entertainment. They did not replace what they removed. They did not give in equal part to what they had received. They did not reciprocate the cooperation given freely to them by the other factions. They did not seem to notice, or care...
Then this faction presented yet again, another curiosity.
They had propagated across the entire empire and having done so began to promulgate something that until that moment I believed was never to be discovered. It was astonishing to watch. Again I was mystified by this faction and their seemingly limitless capacity for learning and development. I was also mortified by what they had uncovered. They had developed Ideals.
Ideals require faith. These ideals were not given unto them by me. Had they dispatched their basic faith in me in favor of these new edicts that were racing across the lands of the empire like wildfire?
I opted again, behind the same principle I had rationalized once before, to merely observe.
These ideals seemed to form in the central settlements of this faction in all corners of the empire. Each member of the faction would spread the ideal to the nearest member of its kind and the recipient of this new knowledge would repeat the process ad infinitum. That is until inevitably, two subjects met and found that each had a different story to tell. Instead of listening, instead of sharing, instead of lending any credence to the merit of each other's tale, they closed their ears and their minds to one another. They could not agree to disagree. This in turn led to the closing of their fists as well.
It was unspeakable, unthinkable, unwatchable... but I as their Emperor could not deem it unforgivable. I was forced to lay silent as the mightiest faction in my empire let their derision explode into division. Though they were all once as one, and in my heart remained as such, they had sequestered themselves into quarrelsome nations. They began to spill rivers of their own blood in defense of their ideals. Ideals, when observed from my vantage point, that were so similar that they were barely discernible from one another. Ideals so similar that they could easily be intermingled to promote harmony and preserve the balance. Instead they chose animosity. Instead they chose discord. Instead they chose war.
It was not long before they laid down lines to claim the lands. Upon those lines they drew up banners and sent warning to their neighbor not to cross. They would make displays of their respective might by placing the strongest amongst them at the edge of their newly defined boundaries, taunting their mirror image, daring it to step over. It appeared to me for a short time that this segregation would be their endgame, that they had now developed the intellect to recognize the relative safety within their borders. They would be free to continue to cultivate their own individual ideals to whatever end they saw fit. While it was not the vision I had in the beginning, it was a result I could bear as long as it would fortify the balance. I thought they could remain content in this new order they had established. How could I have been so foolish...?
They grew restless. They grew resentful. They grew intolerant. They drew up arms and set their banners forth. They rose great armies and enslaved lesser subjects. They set upon to march, to conquer, to subjugate... themselves? It made no sense. They had lost sight of the fact that once, in recent memory, the whole of the empire was theirs to roam safely and freely. There was no need for this. What was once a beautiful and perhaps the grandest of all the factions in the empire had taken to its own genocide? For what purpose and to what end? They could not possibly be engaging in such staggering conflict over a difference in ideals... could they?
Time, which had once been languidly hanging about, captivated by the harmony that was beheld here, had now accelerated away from this place. Even in its infinite impartiality, it could no longer bear witness to the atrocities that were unfolding. It's rapid recession of intent unleashed it's effect throughout the empire. The various nations abilities to cause harm, not only to one another, but to the foundations of the empire itself, were growing exponentially. They were developing new methods of harvesting resources, new methods of traversing the lands and seas at unnatural speeds, new weapons of destruction so diabolical, that even their own inventors feared them.
I could do nothing but watch. They now had the power to instantly and irrevocably change the face of the empire I labored for so long and so hard to build. Their faith in me long since misplaced, I was becoming supplanted. Not by aggression, but by omission. Long since passed were the days of balance. They were overthrowing me in the most humbling and demeaning manner imaginable. Self-righteous disregard. I had rendered myself impotent by my previous inaction. I could do nothing but watch.
The raping of the lands for their comforts and their conflicts bore me scars. The hubris of their belief that they could sustain themselves without my governance bore me anguish. The abuse of what had been my creation bore me pain.
Where did I go wrong? How did I let it come to this?
They had become the first and only faction to develop the capability of removing themselves from the empire. Not by traversing great distance, but by their own self imposed extinction, and if they were to do so, they would likely take many if not all of the other factions with them. Helpless and harmless were the other subjects against the singular power that had now risen to proclaim this empire, my empire, their own.
They rationalized their intentions as being for self preservation. They had forgotten that it was the path of their own choosing that led them to have even the concern for the preservation of their faction. I, their Emperor, had provided for that concern for all of my subjects long before they discovered their own cunning. Throughout the time that my empire contained it's subjects, I had provided a bounty of riches for all. They had forgotten that past. They remained blissfully ignorant of their impact on the present. They had little, if any, regard for their future.
It is with great sorrow that I look upon an empire once filled with beauty and grace. I grieve for the days in which the balance was maintained. I lament over my disgrace as their once and proud Emperor.
I have no resources left to give. The well has run dry. They have left but two options and I must make a choice.
To let them continue, racing down their chosen path, and see if they can make right what they have so carelessly wronged.
To intervene, to strip the empire bare, back to its foundation, and begin again.
I haven't the time I once had in the beginning, they have forced this decision upon me now. I must base my decision on few quickly chosen factors. What do I look upon to make the greatest decision since the first?
I have compassion for them, their plight had begun by their very addition to my empire.
I have concern for them, for all their might, in my mind they are still my subjects.
I do not have pity for them, as they could have chosen to remain within the balance.
I do not have respect for them, for that is something you must give in order to get.
I do not hate them... yet.
I stand on the precipice of a bottomless canyon at the base of a endless mountain. Charity and Wrath stand beside me. I can only draw wisdom from one and that wisdom will become the shape of this empire for all time. Which do I choose?
Which would you choose?
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Why it's a winner
One quarter of the moms on the award panel use this little chair. It won in four of the categories – space saving, durability, ease of use, and value – and came in second overall. Moms love its compact size, but also appreciate how easy it is to clean and its durability.
Cost: $45
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"Best thing I ever bought. It fits perfectly on any chair, is truly portable, and cleans up easily. My second child is now using it and it's still in great condition."
"I love this product because it saves space in my kitchen and doubles as a booster as kids get older."
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Why moms love it
This three-in-one highchair, which converts from a highchair to a booster, took overall top honors from our moms. They also voted it best in class in the looks department. They loved how easy it is to clean, its wheels, and the fact that they could remove the tray with one hand. It's not a compact chair and some wish it folded up smaller, but on the whole, moms were happy with it.
Cost: $100 to $130
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"I loved everything about my Graco DuoDiner highchair! It folded easily for storage, and the tray slid on easily and stayed on. There was a harness and large plastic 'bump' to keep my daughter in her seat, and the height was adjustable."
"Easy to put together and easy to use."
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[Editor's note: It looks as if this chair might have been discontinued. It's still available at Amazon, but it is not listed on the manufacturer's website.]
Why moms love it
This sleek and modern highchair is blessedly uncomplicated. Our moms gave it good grades for value, but the word they used most often when describing it was easy – easy to clean (the seat comes off and is machine washable), easy to operate, and easy to store (the tray goes in back of the seat). Some wish that the recline function worked better with a baby in the seat, but for the price, it held up in all categories. (This model has been discontinued and may not be available: If you like the Modern, try the Evenflo Compact Fold High Chair.)
Cost: $100
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Moms gave this option high ranking for saving space and durability. They appreciated the six different heights, four tray positions, and three recline positions. They also liked that it's lightweight and that the cushion is machine washable. Babies are pleased, too – many moms noted that their tots seem very comfortable in the seat.
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Cost: $150 to $190
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The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) has issued a circular warning against fictitious offers, including insurance bonus and refunds, and advises customers to contact the police to furnish the numbers from which the calls originate.
At least 15 insurance companies have received 4,500 alert calls from customers in the last three months on the commission-bonus offer, a finance executive at a large private insurance firm said.
The modus operandi is simple: The caller, posing as a `new' agent, gains the confidence of policy holder by detailing the latter's details like address, policy numbers, sum assured and date of policy issuance.
Next, this 'new agent' will portray the original agent as a fraudster who has claimed Rs 50,000-2 lakh as commission on the bonus earned from the policy.
The 'new agent' then asks for one cancelled cheque and another in the name of a different product of another insurance company from the policy holder "in
order to prevent the other agent from getting the rightful money of the policy holder".
He gets these documents under the guise of adjusting the claimed bonus.
The policy holder will become aware of the fraud only after three months, by which time the agent would have become untraceable on the number provided. By then, the policy holder's switchover to the new insurance company is also complete.
While the new agent traps the customer with a new policy that helps him earn the highest commission, the latter ends up owning two policies.
"It's the greed of getting free money that makes the customer behave exactly the way fraudsters want," said a marketing head of a bank which also sells insurance.
"We have observed a pattern in the calls made. It usually takes place around pay-out time of an existing policy or month-end when premiums are due," he said.
"We receive about 500 applications every month-end and person at at the counter is usually a fresher or with a few months of experience. Hence, the likelihood of detecting incomplete applications or forged documents is near zero at the counter," he said.
Most insurance companies refund policy premiums once such cases are brought to their notice, he added.
Insurance companies track the numbers after complaints are filed with them. "But the police have been largely non-cooperative and insists that the complainant must be the policy holder and not the company," said a senior official at a private insurance company.
According to Irda's website, some names being used by miscreants include Rakesh Bajaj, Manju Arora, R Srinivasan, Mukesh Kumar, said Irda's official website.
Irda chief TS Vijayan was unavailable for a comment.
Industry players said Delhi is where most of this cheating takes place and in products where commissions range between 15% and 30%. "The new product is never in the interest of the customer," he added.
Since most of these brokers have appointed sub-brokers who, in turn, sub-lets assignments with targets, nailing the culprit becomes an issue, due to a massive churn at the bottom of the pyramid. The misuse of data base is rampant, said an insurance official at a government company.
The data becomes easily available as most companies outsource their field operations to cut costs.
There are allegations that a few insurance companies officials are also hand-in- glove with the fraudsters. However, most insurers said that at the employee levels, firewalls prevent abuse though a few have been dismissed from services in the past.


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I got this recipe from a friend when I was in the tenth grade. She gave me one at lunch and I loved it! (I love banana bread, so this was perfect!) I asked for the recipe that day and I decided to post it! I hope you like it!
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These cookies are great! Super moist and much like banana nut bread. Will make lots more. They did not last long in my home.
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PIKIT, North Cotabato–Two persons were killed and three were injured in a gun battle that erupted between two Moro clans in interior villages of this town Sunday, the police said Monday.
Senior Insp. Elias Dandan, police chief of Pikit, said efforts are underway to settle the dispute peacefully.
"It's a long-time dispute over political boundaries between families in Langayen and Dungguan, both in Pikit," Dandan said.
Col. Prudencio Asto, spokesperson of the 6th Infantry Division, said that those involved in the dispute were a certain Kuyo, a commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front 105th Base Command, and the Tayuan family.
The names and ages of the two fatalities, members of the Tayuan family, were not immediately available.
Asto identified the wounded as Kanapia Musa, 42; Eric Pasandalan, 19; and Kamir Pasandalan, 23, all followers of Commander Kuyo.
He said that early Sunday morning, followers of Kuyo harassed the village of Langayen where the Tayuan family resides.
The Tayuan family retaliated and engaged the attackers in a two-hour firefight that left two Tayuan members dead.
Asto said the conflict was triggered by the killing last month of Kuyo's younger brother which the MILF field official blamed on the Tayuan family.
Dandan and Asto said both sides are claiming ownership of a large patch of land in the border of Barangays Dungguan and Langayen.
He said the local government of Pikit has set a settlement meeting between the warring groups who both expressed willingness to show up to end bloodshed.
At least 25 families who are related by blood or by affinity with the warring clans have fled to safer ground.
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HYDERABAD: Faced with mounting operational costs and the need to expand its fleet of vehicles, the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) has announced plans to increase bus fares very soon.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Managing Director of APSRTC V. Dinesh Reddy said that there was no across-the-board increase in fares since 2003 (though fares for some services were raised in 2006) whereas the price of diesel and other inputs was on the rise.
Without spelling out the quantum of the fare hike, he sought to soften the blow by saying that rural passengers would not be affected. Passengers travelling in the 10,200-odd 'Palle Velugu' buses that operate in the rural areas would not have to pay more.
In effect, the fares of high-end services like Meghdoot, Super Luxury and Garuda would be increased, besides city services.
A final decision on the extent of fare revision would be taken at the meeting of the APSRTC Board of Directors scheduled for October 22. Mr. Reddy said with the new initiatives to improve efficiency and a motivated 1.20 lakh workforce, APSRTC had registered a never-before occupancy ratio (OR) averaging 72 per cent.
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Already, 963 new buses had been introduced, 1,000 more were in the pipeline. These apart, the Board had given the nod for purchasing 1,000 more new buses.
Asked about the criticism over increase in fares for festival specials, he said Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy had since asked the APSRTC not to raise the fares. Those who had booked tickets in advance could claim a refund.
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Experts say big egg farms can mean big problems
"There are aspects of caged production that are inherently risky, no matter how good the management," said Michael Greger, a physician and the Humane Society's director of public health and animal agriculture.
Some farmers feel the same way. Todd Vincent and a partner have 500 cage-free hens on a farm near Dawson, Ill. He visited a large Iowa farm not involved in the recall and said he wasn't sure how they could keep ahead of problems.
"You've got so many points of entry for disease and other stuff that can happen; you're always looking for that next issue," said Vincent, 40, whose hens regularly spend time in pasture.
Others, though, were skeptical of the European studies, noting they were conducted in smaller, more homogenous countries with different farm industries that might not be relevant to the U.S. Some food safety experts also noted such research doesn't account for rules the Food and Drug Administration implemented in July, requiring increased testing and inspections of U.S. operations.
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Caged birds, she explained, are kept off the ground and at least seem less likely to walk around in bacteria-laden feces. Most eggs in the U.S. come from caged hens, regardless of the size of the farm.
Veterinarian Eric Gingerich, who worked with Pennsylvania egg farmers for a decade as part of a job at the University of Pennsylvania, said big farms sometimes even have an edge.
"They usually use more professional managers and they can afford to hire better people," said Gingerich, who now works for a livestock feed company. "Some of the operations hire one person to do just rodent control."
Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said well-managed farms can be big or small.
"The benefit of buying from a local grower is that if something goes wrong, you go back and you talk to them - you can choose not to buy from them," she said. "Really, it becomes the reputation of the person when you buy directly from the farmer."
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