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nice color
from Vicksburg, MS
on 3/10/2015
I liked the towel....nice and big and a pretty color (blue). It wasn't as soft as I would have liked, but was very absorbent. It will probably soften up after a few more washes.
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Not exactly as described
from Manitoba Canada
on 1/8/2015
I like the towel; good size, but when it is described as "thick and solid" that's an overstatement.
Colorful Beach Towel
from New Port Richey, FL
on 11/13/2014
A good size and very colorful. A bit flimsy.
Disappointed in quiloty
Marilyn M.
from GERMANTOWN, OH
on 7/16/2013
It not a very thick towel. It does not a ores water well. Disappointed in quality
from New Hampshire
on 2/21/2013
Bought two of these towels on-line for after pool use. Very cheap feeling and looking, navy blue not attractive color in this towel at all. Very disappointed in the product and would not recommend as a pool towel, beach towel, or even a shower towel.
not a great towel
from California
on 10/29/2012
This towel is not as thick and soft as I thought it would be. It's good as an extra but I won't use it keep my kids warm at swim meets.
Beach Towel
from Lafayette, IN
on 8/14/2012
The towel is adequate but I expected something of higher quality than Walmart for $10.
Terrible towel
Marilyn L
from Chicago, IL
on 5/18/2012
Very thin, and when washed with other towels, left horrible threads on everything. Same thing happens every wash, not just first. Shrunk a lot after first washing as well. I would cut it up for rags, but it would probably leave threads on everything
Thank you for your attention... and service in general.
Job/ JR
from México
on 1/9/2015
It's Very good for me, thank's.
Thick & Solid Beach Towel
Donny M.
from BAKERSFIELD, CA
on 11/19/2013
Loved the towels I need to order more.
Wet Products Thick & Solid Beach Towel
denise g.
from TOWANDA, PA
on 11/18/2013
Grandaughter was pleased with her towel.
does the job
katrina s
from new castle,in
on 10/20/2013
Big enough to cover and keep dry and school color
Eh ..
from Atlanta, GA
on 11/3/2012
Great at the pool ... not so great in the dryer.
Ok, not as thick as I wanted
Beth B.
from Lorain , OH
on 9/21/2011
I wanted a thicker towel. Towels are hard to buy online without feeling their thickness. Customer Service did try to help by telling me the millage/thickness. I will keep, but will buy a thicker millage next time.
Not as thick as I would have liked
Cindy F.
from Spring, TX
on 7/10/2011
I purchased these as an award item. Wasn't satisfied with the weight so they are set back in inventory until another order comes in. Nice size.

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The Rehabilitation Program of Japan in connection with the last destructive tsunami that hit it is now in its Recovery Phase. This rehabilitation phase would more or less focus on community development, disaster preparedness, and livelihood recovery. For many, life went on a few months after the tragedy struck but to some, the present time is just the start towards recovery.
The history between  Japan and the tsunami is quite long-existing. Apparently,Japan cannot do much about the tsunami except to prepare always for the worst to minimize loss of lives and property. Japanâs location in the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is the worldâs most active earthquake belt, makes it an easy target for the wrath of a tsunami.
The effects of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake showed just how dangerous Japanâs geographical position is in terms of this natural disaster. This earthquake is the strongest quake on record in the area of Japan. It caused such as disturbance in the seafloor to spawn the series of massive waves that attacked Japan.
A tsunami is a natural phenomenon that rarely happens but Japan is a frequent and constant target of this rare occurrence. There is still no exact science to determine when and where a tsunami will strike. The best that scientists can offer are estimates. Although, it is possible to determine when a tsunami will struck after a major earthquake, there is usually little time left to do something about it. The people of Japan do not have much time after the tsunami warning is heard. Most of those who survived stand to go through the same experience in their lifetime not because of any bad luck but because of the countryâs very location. The Japaneseâs fall and rise in every tsunami is a tribute to their resilience.
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The guide I wrote is on store shelves now. Which one is it? I won't
say, maybe because I really don't want to draw undue attention to this
blog. But... I have to start writing another book this week. Oh, the agony!
The quest to get parents gaming more continues. I finally bought a DS lite, via Amazon. The sleek black chassis is truly an inspiring sight, even if it does resemble a PSP just a bit much. I adore the bright screen and the longer stylus, though the smooth black surface does betray fingerprints far too easily. What I'm currently set on picking up is one of those rubber skins that has slots to put three DS cards in. I just need to remember where I saw it, which I swore was Lik-Sang but now they don't seem to have them.
I plan to give my old DS phat to my mother, but I was waiting for some games to arrive first. Which they did, today.
Brain Age
Big Brain Academy
Cooking Mama
Very pleased about the lower price-point for all three. Something in me just bristles at spending more than $30 for a handheld game, which also keeps me away from the PSP in general. Even if it does have a remake of Valkyrie Profile.
This marks the first time I've bought a DS game not published by Nintendo, which raises some concern. Because you see, the package quality for Cooking Mama is not as high as that for the other two I bought. The graphics are a little jagged; even the ESRB logo has rough edges on it. It was shrink-wrapped instead of using that crisp lucite wrap that most game and video products come in. There are small printing errors on the back, just little spots of white that you don't get on the highest quality presses. There's no (TM) symbol after the logo on the front, even though a trademark is stated on the back. Most disturbing of all, the "Licensed by Nintendo" legal text on the back is (c) 2004 Nintendo. They couldn't be bothered to update the year? I know Nintendo no longer regulates games as strictly as they used to, but you think they would at least look after their copyrights and trademarks better.
I'm happy that quirky games like Cooking Mama are being brought to the states, and I guess I could say that of course it looks slightly dubious - it is Majesco, after all. But I don't like when something makes me think twice about its authenticity.
(I did open the case up, and the insides look good, which is all that matters, right?)
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The guide I wrote is on store shelves now. Which one is it? I won't
say, maybe because I really don't want to draw undue attention to this
blog. But... I have to start writing another book this week. Oh, the agony!


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What Milwaukee is talking about
Miller High Life now made in Coors country
It's made with Rocky Mountain spring water, and it's being brewed in Golden, Colo.
Yes, for the first time, Miller High Life is now coming off the bottling line at the Coors brewery.
According to the Denver Post, the first 24-ounce cans and 32-ounce bottles of Miller High Life came off the line in Golden, Colo.
"The average drinker will taste no difference at all," said Dennis Puffer, chief operating officer of MillerCoors.
Within the next two years, 20% of the beer produced in Golden will carry High Life, Miller Lite, Genuine Draft and other Miller labels.
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The beauty of football is how it evolves from year to year, with new schemes and trends always emerging. No position reflects this better than safety.
Most programs used to recruit big physical safeties that would intimidate receivers over the middle and be especially effective in the run game. These guys were almost like having another linebacker on the field.
However, with the ever-increasing use of multiple-receiver sets in today's college game, this type of defensive safety became a liability in passing situations. As a result, the qualities of a defensive safety have come full circle, and now programs are looking for more athletic, "range"-type players.
They still must be able to hit and come up against the run, but their ability to break down and tackle in the open field is very important. Many guys can create a collision that looks good, but if they can't break down and make a key tackle in the open field, they will hurt a defense.
These players must have range and at least have enough cover ability to match up on the slot receiver if the nickel package isn't on the field or be able to cover a back out of the backfield -- not an easy task.
The strong safety must be a run stopper with the ability to at least cover the tight end while the free safety is more of a range-, centerfield-type guy with good instincts. They also make the secondary calls and put everybody in position.
Defensive Back Grading System
Scouts Inc. will evaluate the cornerbacks on the following criteria:
1. Man-to-man coverage: How flexible are their hips and smooth are their turns? Do they have a good backpedal? How fast can they accelerate?
2. Zone coverage: Do they show good range? Do they cover a lot of ground? How are they in the deep half? How is their overall awareness and instinct?
3. Closing quickness: Do they plant and drive well? Do they close and get to the ball in the air?
4. Key and diagnose: How well do they read the QB? Do they anticipate well? Do they seem to be in the right spot?
5. Lateral pursuit: Can they get over trash? How is the movement in their hips? Can they chase sideline to sideline?
6. Tackling: Do they wrap up well? Do they tackle low or high? Are they able to drag down? Do they tackle with power and are they punishing?
7. Pass drop: How flexible are their hips and how smooth are their turns? Do they get adequate depth? Do they show awareness in zone coverage?
8. Pass coverage/hands: Can they cover man to man? Can they match up in the red zone? Do they have good ball skills?


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LINKING HIPPY AND NATIONAL SERVICE I. A BRIEF HISTORY OF SERVICE IN AMERICA AmeriCorps AmeriCorps was created in 1993 with bipartisan support by Congress, the President, and community groups nationwide. In his inaugural address, President Bill Clinton challenged Americans to "seasons of service" around the country. In May 1993, President Clinton introduced historic legislation to expand opportunities for Americans to serve our county, build up their communities, and earn awards for their own education in return. Months later, members of Congress from both parties joined together to pass the bill creating AmeriCorps and the agency that administers it, the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that encompasses the work and staff of two previously existing agencies, the Commission on National and Community Service and ACTION. The legislation creating AmeriCorps and the Corporation, formally known as the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, builds upon a history of service in our country. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) During the Great Depression of the 1930's, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps. Four million young people joined in response -- restoring the nation"s parks, revitalizing the economy and supporting their families and themselves. For 11 years, the CCC provided billions of dollars in services and enabled millions of families to live in dignity. The GI Bill With World War II, the GI Bill linked service to education, offering war veterans the opportunity to pay for school in return for service to their country. Because of the GI Bill, veterans improved their own lives by attending college. They also contributed mightily to America"s future: With the education they received, those citizens helped spark the economic boom that gave America the world"s leading economy. The principles of the CCC and the GI Bill -- encouraging Americans to serve and rewarding those who do -- inspire AmeriCorps today. The Peace Corps In the 1960s the call to service came from President John F. Kennedy, who challenged Americans to "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." From this thought, the Peace Corps was born. The Peace Corps continues to engage thousands of volunteers who travel far and wide, building schools where none existed, helping farmers provide food for the hungry and creating hospitals to care for the sick. After returning from overseas, Peace Corps volunteers put their new knowledge of others to work at home, in the spirit of citizenship, changing America for the better. Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 President Lyndon B. Johnson brought the spirit of the Peace Corps home to America in the 1960s by creating Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). VISTA, which is now part of AmeriCorps, continues to serve under the sponsorship of local public agencies or nonprofit organizations to improved the condition of people living in under-served, low-income communities throughout America. Other initiatives such as the Retired and Senior Volunteer Corps, the Foster Grandparent Program, and the Senior Companion Program were also developed in order to engage older Americans in the work of improving the nation, and now make up the "Senior Corps" component of the Corporation for National and Community Service. VISTA and Senior Corps programs, administered through the Corporation, are funded under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. National and Community Service Act of 1990 Introduced in and passed by Congress and signed into law in 1990 to establish the Commission on National Service, the Act was amended significantly by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 to establish the Corporation for National and Community Service. Through the 1990 Act, Congress sought to create new opportunities for service by "renewing the ethic of civic responsibility in the United States." The full implementation of the Community Service Act began in 1992, when the Commission on National and Community Service awarded $64 million in grants to support four broad types of state and local community service efforts during 1992-1993. These included Serve-America programs which involve school-aged youth in community service and service learning through a variety of school and community-based activities; Higher Education Innovative Projects aimed at involving college students in community service and at promoting community service at educational institutions; American Conservation and Youth Service Corps, supporting summer and year-round youth corps initiatives that engage both in-school and out-of-school youth in community service work; National and Community Service Demonstration Models, which support programs that demonstrate potential models for large-scale national service. Presidential Politics and National Service National service is not the property of any one President or party. In 1990, President Bush signed into law the first National Service Act, which created the Corporation"s predecessor, the Commission on National and Community Service. It is George Bush, whose Points of Light signature initiative is an important part of the national service effort, who keeps urging us to make service part of the definition of a successful life in America. In 1992, Senator Dole helped persuade President Bush to sign into law the legislation that created an early part of AmeriCorps (the National Civilian Community Corps), and the 1993 National and Community Service Trust Act was introduced and passed with bipartisan sponsorship and support. The 1993 Act merged the Bush-era Commission on National and Community Service and the ACTION agency to create the Corporation for National and Community Service. The successful passage of the 1993 Act is what gives us AmeriCorps as we know it today. It was this Act that also mandated the establishment of state commissions for the purpose of selecting and supporting state AmeriCorps programs. AmeriCorps flourished under the Clinton administration, and has been even further expanded under the Bush administration. In 2002, President Bush called for the creation of the USA Freedom Corps, challenging all Americans to give 4,000 hours of service in their lifetime and calling for an increase in the number of AmeriCorps members, which is accomplished in 2004 when Congress passed a funding increase bringing the number of members up to 75,000 per year. To date, more than 400,000 Americans have served as AmeriCorps members. II. HIPPY + AMERICORPS = HIPPYCORPS The Colorado HIPPYCorps is Colorado"s oldest AmeriCorps program, having received its original funding in the first year of AmeriCorps programming, in 1994. The original Colorado HIPPYCorps supported four sites, including Alamosa, Grand Junction, Edgewater (now Jeffco), and Clayton. Currently, Colorado HIPPYCorps supports five sites, including Alamosa (and Conejos and Costilla), Adams, Focus Points, Metro, and Jeffco. Other sites in the past have included Fort Collins, Barrett, Clayton, and Grand Junction. The Colorado HIPPYCorps was also the first HIPPYCorps in the nation, blending the AmeriCorps member role with that of the HIPPY home visitor to allow for education awards for those completing a term of service. HIPPY USA followed the Colorado HIPPYCorps model and created a national HIPPYCorps project in 1995, which supports several states including California, Nevada, Oregon, and Alabama. Other states have also followed the Colorado HIPPYCorps model and generated support through their state commissions, including Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana. HIPPYCorps is not simply HIPPY. Rather, HIPPYCorps incorporates a service orientation to the basic HIPPY program. As HIPPYCorps members, there is a service commitment of 900 hours over the course of the program year. This is what allows for members to receive the education award upon completion of the 900 hours. The "ed award" amounts to $2,362, and can be used for a variety of educational costs, including college level courses in whatever topic you might want to study, paying back existing college loans, and other costs related to furthering your education. The centerpiece of the AmeriCorps ethic (that is, the way we do something good that matters for the larger society), is "GETTING THINGS DONE" – improving communities by helping solve problems in the areas of education, public safety, the environment, and other human needs. The other key aspects of the ethic are strengthening communities and developing the AmeriCorps members" own opportunities and civic responsibility. The Colorado HIPPYCorps "gets things done" – improving communities in the area of education. The program goals are: 1) To improve children"s school readiness – making sure HIPPY children enter school ready to succeed. This is done through the weekly home visits and the HIPPY curriculum. 2) To increase positive parenting practices among HIPPY parents, including increasing parent involvement in their own child"s education. This is also done through the home visits, as well as through group meetings and providing other resources for families in the program. 3) To ensure that HIPPY children enter kindergarten fully immunized. This is done by providing families with information about the importance of immunization, reviewing immunization records to make sure the child is up-to-date on their immunizations, and providing information to families about where and how to get their children immunized. These three goals are the main "direct service" aspect of the HIPPYCorps program. By doing these activities and meeting these goals, HIPPYCorps members are "getting things done" for the community. These efforts help children and help families to help themselves, making a lasting impact on the larger community by making sure that children have the tools they need to do well in school, and helping parents to be involved in their child"s education so that they can be the best teacher in their child"s life. The fourth goal of the program is to help the HIPPYCorps members succeed. The program works to ensure that HIPPYCorps members are well-trained in the HIPPY curriculum, family services, developmentally appropriate early childhood education, diversity, conflict resolution, communication, emergency services, time management, and community resources in order to perform their AmeriCorps service effectively. In addition, programs provide ongoing career development assistance to help HIPPYCorps members be able to transition to other work after they have completed their service in AmeriCorps. III. A FEW TIDBITS ABOUT HIPPY, AMERICORPS, and CPCF HIPPY is typically written in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. HIPPY stands for Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters. AmeriCorps is a combination of the words America and Corps. HIPPYCorps is a combination of the words HIPPY and AmeriCorps. The "C" in AmeriCorps or HIPPYCorps is always CAPITALIZED. Corps always has an "s" on the end of it. Corps is pronounced "KOR" – not "KORP" and not "KORPS". HIPPY home visitors that are part of HIPPYCorps are also called "AmeriCorps members" or "HIPPYCorps members". HIPPYCorps members are considered "part-time" for AmeriCorps purposes. The service commitment for HIPPYCorps members is 900 hours, which includes your direct service to the program (such as home visits, program related community service/volunteerism, and group meetings), as well as your training (such as weekly "staff" meetings when you role play the curriculum for the week, conferences, orientation, etc.). Of the 900 hours that you have committed to, no more than 180 hours can be spent in training. HIPPYCorps members are supervised by the HIPPY Coordinator at their HIPPY site, such as Jeffco HIPPY, Focus Points HIPPY, Adams County HIPPY, Metro HIPPY, and Alamosa HIPPY. The Colorado Parent and Child Foundation (CPCF), is not the supervisor of the program. Rather, CPCF serves as the state office for both HIPPY and PAT (Parents as Teachers). In this role, CPCF is a major funder of the program – CPCF is the entity that generates and provides overall management of the large public grants that help support the program, such as AmeriCorps, TGYS, and CPIRC. Also, CPCF is a major partner in providing training and technical assistance to program staff (coordinators, administrators, and fiscal staff at the program site), and in providing evaluation, quality assurance, monitoring, policy, advocacy, communication and networking, and a state level voice for the issues facing the programs as a collective. IV. WHO'S WHO IN COLORADO HIPPY Colorado Parent and Child Foundation State Office for HIPPY and PAT in Colorado. Includes 6 HIPPY programs and 45 PAT programs. Melissa L. Kelley, Executive Director Erica Severson, Program Associate Sara Marquez, Grants Manager/Accountant San Luis Valley HIPPY/PAT Year Started: 1990 13 home visitors/AmeriCorps members serving 195 families Jackie Vigil, HIPPY/PAT Coordinator – Overall program and Alamosa County Theresa Maldonado, Assistant Coordinator – Costilla County Clayton HIPPY/Head Start Year Started: 1994 7 home visitors, none of which are AmeriCorps members, serving 84 families Olga Gonzales-Robinson, HIPPY Coordinator Jeffco HIPPY Year Started: 1994 12 home visitors/AmeriCorps members serving 180 families Michelle Brown, HIPPY Coordinator Focus Points HIPPY/PAT Year Started: 1998 6 home visitors, 4 of which are AmeriCorps members, serving 88 families Crystal Munoz, HIPPY/PAT Coordinator Metro State HIPPY/PAT Year Started: 1998 7 home visitors, 6 of which are AmeriCorps members, serving 90 families Angie Acosta, HIPPY/PAT Coordinator Adams County HIPPY/Head Start Year Started: 2005 7 home visitors/AmeriCorps members serving 84 families Lorrel Esterbrook, HIPPY Coordinator
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Sometimes, "Harsh" is good. Dec 6, 2007
by readerman
I put this book down after finishing it and realized that I was having a strong feeling of regret. Regret that the story had to end. Regret that I would not be experiencing the characters any more. Regret that this was the end of a wonderful series. That said, I would recommend this book in particular, and the series in general, to anyone who had even a passing interest in the history of a country that is very much like that of (the actually existant) Japan. The characters are believable. The events are within the realm of possibility. The descriptions of the land and its people have the ring of familiarity.
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July 11, 2014
COLUMBIA, Mo. -Mizzou alumni have performed very well in the last week of play around the MLB. Max Scherzer return to ace form to pick up two more victories, increasing his win total to 11. For Scherzer's performance so far this season, he was picked to play in his second All-Star Game. Aaron Crow has not allowed an earned run in his last ten outings and Ian Kinsler's season so far has him ranked near the top in eight of 14 hitting categories among second baseman.
Max Scherzer - Detroit Tigers - Seventh Season - Starting Pitcher
The Mizzou alum Max Scherzer has had two strong outings in his last two starts. On July 3 against the Tampa Bay Rays, Scherzer earned a win while pitching eight innings. The Tiger ace allowed just one earned run on two hits and a walk while striking out seven batters. He earned another victory in his next start against the Los Angeles Dodgers, pitching seven innings while allowing one earned run on four hits and two walks while striking out seven batters again. Scherzer is now 11-3 on the season with a 3.35 ERA. Scherzer ranks in the top five in numerous categories in the American League, including second in wins (11), fifth in innings pitched (126.1), second in strikeouts (146), and fourth in win percentage (.786)
Ian Kinsler - Detroit Tigers - Ninth Season - Second Base
Ian Kinsler hot start has carried over into July. The Tiger leadoff hitter has hit safely in nine of his last ten ball games. In that stretch, he has seven hits, one home run, and seven RBIs. Widely considered as one of the top all-star snubs after being left off the roster, Kinsler is hitting .305 on the season with 11 home runs and 49 RBIs. Kinsler's 64 runs on the season is second among American Leaguers. In a league full of good hitting second basemen, Kinsler ranks in the top five among his position in eight of 14 hitting categories including at-bats (367), runs (64), hits (112), doubles (26), RBIs (49), batting average (.305), slugging percentage (.477), and on-base plus slugging percentage (.816).
Kyle Gibson - Minnesota Twins - Second Season - Starting Pitcher
Kyle Gibson pitched six scoreless innings and earned a victory in Seattle on July 9. The win will serve as a moral booster to Gibson who has struggled pitching on the road this season. Gibson allowed seven hits and a walk while striking out three Mariners'. Gibson's home and away split is as different as night and day this season with a 2.51 ERA at home and a 4.97 ERA on the road. The 6'6" righty is now 8-7 on the season with a 3.92 ERA and 53 strikeouts over 101 innings this season.
Aaron Crow - Kansas City Royals - Fourth Season - Relief Pitcher
Since last checking in with Aaron Crow, he picked up a victory on July 9 at Tampa Bay after pitching a scoreless inning. Crow has not allowed an earned run in any of his last ten outings. Crow is now 4-1 on the year with a 2.39 ERA. He has allowed an earned run to come home in just four of his 41 appearances. Opponents are hitting just .215 against the former Tiger. The Topeka, Kansas native has been lights out on the road this season, posting a 0.86 ERA in 23 appearances.
Nick Tepesch - Texas Rangers - Second Season - Starting Pitcher
Nick Tepesch suffered a loss on July 6 at the New York Mets. Tepesch threw six innings in the start, allowing six earned runs on five hits and four walks while striking out four batters. The 6'4" righty is now 3-4 on the season with a 4.29 ERA in nine starts this season.
Matt Stites - Arizona Diamondbacks - First Season - Relief Pitcher
Matt Stites has pitched in 11 games since being called up the big league ball club this season. He has allowed three earned runs in 10.1 innings pitched, posting a 2.61 ERA. The former Tiger has struck out ten batters in that span while walking five. The Diamondbacks have shown confidence in the young Stites, turning to him in five of their last eight games.
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It has taken a long time to find you a picture of my old 1904 Clement Bayard and this is as close as I can go. Actually, the front end is perfect but my body was a roadster, with its seat perched high in the air, while the movie shows a taxi. This little car was what I called "My Little Limousine", it took everywhere I wanted to go, and in those days, it was in style! These little cars were built mainly as taxis and asssembled in Marne, France, the country of Clement's birth, right at the beginning of World War l in September, 1914.
The Boat that made my day
Gotta build a boat
We lived in a beautiful part of Sydney, surrounded on three sides by the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers. Water, water everywhere but not a boat in sight. If ever there was a challenge to a small boy, this must be it.
My first calculation in the field of navel fitouts found me, at least afloat, on a small timber deck supported by nine empty kerosene drums. If you are ever unfortunate enough to be paddling a craft of this type, you would discover that it goes faster and faster in ever decreasing circles but finishes up absolutely nowhere.
Halfway Round the World on the "SS Port Campbell"
In Sydney, after a year selling Chryslers, I made the decision to work my passage to Detroit in the hope of getting a job at the Chrysler plant. What I was bursting to find out was how is it possible to build thousands of cars in one day, everyday. About this time, Chrysler had reached about 5000 units per day.
Some people call it fate, but I prefer to call it the automatic guidance mechanism in my unconscious mind that took control. The decision to take the first step was all it needed and in a matter of days this is how it worked. Firstly, a free passage to New York, via the Panama Canal as assistant engineer on the S.S. Port Campbell, was arranged for me quite unexpectedly and which included a letter of introduction to the Chief Officer (a finer man you couldn't meet who became a wonderfully helpful friend).
The Motor Industry From "Soup to Nuts"
Although I knew my T Model Ford engine backwards, and owned a Clement Bayard 1902 vintage car, which I had bought for 17 pounds 10 shillings, I was a little surprised when offered a mechanic's job road testing newly assembled cars before I even had a licence to drive one. The company was Harden and Johnson and the car was the baby Citroen that was selling like hot cakes.
I would take the chassis for a test run in Centennial Park which meant crossing the tram lines. Yes, you guessed it, I did get clobbered by a tram. On another occasion, it was not the chassis that was dented but my own pride. I had recommended a Citroen to my cousin, Peter Russell, whose father had left all the family money to the P.N. Russell Engineering School at the Sydney University.
My Sweet Wife – Filicity (Fil to you)
Let me tell you something of the touch and go part of a rough and rugged road that lead to our marriage. It lasted for three long years and b=never seemed to have a finish. Mind you most roads were rough sixty odd years ago but this on was paved with the teeth of depression and dogma of religious stupidity. I can see the writing on the wall even now. It said, "if you marry Fil you will have to sign papers saying that your children will be brought up in the Catholic Faith".
There were eight in Fil's family, at least two especially biogated. Fil was the least of my worries. I knew she was anxious to get out of the Church but I could see the family pressure at work n her to the point that our engagement was in jeopardy.
ROBERTSES – 1904 to about mid 30's
Our Father (not the one in heaven) – Robert James Arthur Roberts, son of Francis Roberts, engineer and surveyor, who emigrated from Ireland to Queensland where he was commissioned by the Government to survey the border between Queensland and New South Wales. This task which was ordered along the ridges of a mountainous terrain finally became his undoing. He died of sunstroke at the age of 41. Nevertheless, father followed in his footsteps as a surveyor and rose to the position of Surveyor General of the N.S.W. Lands Department. When he retired at age 60 he was a strong, seemingly very fit man but five years later he died and his pension went with him. For Mother, especially whole as it happened, lived to 96 and I was still at school, this was a disaster. In those days there was no Government assistance whatever, no pensions, no Medicare, no anything. At this point from the sale of the old home, she did a wonderful job. But that day was eventually saved when she married Gus. By this time she must have been at least 50.
The 1930's Depression
Phipps and his team (now seven in all) had performed too well. Our distributers were stocked to the limit. No one, even in a wild dream, could have anticipated the severity o the 1930's depression. As it turned out, it took three years to liquidate stocks. H.P. had no option but to reduce staff to one man (the only American) and his secretary, the rest of us had to go. Phipps also quit and returned to England.
SYDNEY- The New Job with Chrysler
On arrival back in Sydney and having circumnavigated the globe on a magic carpet, I was suddenly faced with reality. The job I had been offered before leaving was there and waiting.
Except for his secretary, I was the first to join Harry Phipps as his assistant. H.P. as he was generally known, represented the US Chrysler factory in Australia. He had set up distributer-dealer organisations in each State and the new Chrysler six and 4 cyl Plymouth were selling well. But just where a raw 23 year old salesman was to fit into this picture was anything but clear.
H.P. was far too occupied a person with his own affairs to sit down and hold the hand of his fledgling – he just said "get the registration figures for all makes of cars and work out the percentage of sales we are getting in all states". Well, I did what he asked in trial and error sort of way and finally came up with some illuminating information which prompted the nest line of instruction designed to keep me out of mischief. This time H.P. just said "this shows Queensland are always in the 'red'. Go up there and find out what is wrong". With that he left for England for a reason best known to himself. His secretary filled me in on a few details and off I went.
Europe From 1000 Feet Up
Look at that aeroplane! There are only three relatively small radial engines driving wooden props, to drag that lump of thing in the air. If I remember rightly, there were twenty passengers plus luggage, mail etc. Well, it did get airborne and flew all the way to Paris at about 1000ft. That is the equivalent to the height of the Eiffel Tower. This aircraft represents the last work in the development of passenger transport nine years after the end of World War 1 in 1918, whereas, America had nothing to speak of except some mail delivery and "Barnstorming" planes. (Joy flights in small planes.)
ON English Soil
While on the six day crossing of the Atlantic, I had, at least, a warm bunk and three meals a day but now, as I stepped off the gangway and put my foot on English soil I began to realise I was about as far from home as it was possible to get. With about two billion people in the Western hemisphere of the Erath, I knew not one of them. Not a single solitary soul and yet I was not alone – I still had my guardian angel who had not failed me once in the nine months I had been away. There was no sense of fear or loneliness – I just knew that I would not be deserted now.
The Atlantic Crossing
I was leaning on the railing of the Cunnard Atlantic Liner "Mauritania" as we crept past the Statue of Liberty toward the Atlantic Ocean, while the Manhatten skyline faded into the distant sky. I had circumnavigated to the halfway point of my journey with six days of very cold water and icebergs ahead. It was hard not to reflect on the thousands of people who, in their eagerness to travel between Europe and the U.S.A., had finished up on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Two of our sister ships, the "Lusitania" and the "Titanic" accounted for nearly 3,000 of these souls. My reflections were so deep that they caused me to look up some details which read in part as follows: –
Lexington Avenue, New York, NY.
Lexington Avenue runs parallel and next to Park Avenue in the heart of New York City. Even in 1927 it was lined on both sides with skyscrapers, 30-50 stories high. The life of a skyscraper was relatively short even in those days. I was shown one that was on its way to the scrap heap after only twenty years of life. So, just about all the buildings I saw then would have been replaced by now, some two even three times.
At the top of one of these towers, I entered Walter P. Chrysler's personal suite of officers and was soon sitting across the desk of the man I had so much wanted to meet. The man who, less than ten years earlier, had used all his savings to buy an expensive Lincoln car and, to his wife's disgust, immediately set about unassembling it down to the last nut and bolt on the living room floor. Yes, this was the man who had designed and planned the building of the first ever light, sweet running, good performance, mass produced motor car and had just become the worlds third largest car manufacturer, trailing only Ford and General Motors. Yes, this was the man I was speaking to – my new employer – W.P.C. himself.


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Europe's universities need to focus on teaching, and to assure that all professors and instructors know how to teach, says a new report from the European Union's High-Level Group on the Modernization of Higher Education. The report calls for "certified teacher training" for all instructors by 2020. A statement from the co-chairs of the working group said: "[M]any higher education institutions do not place enough emphasis on teaching in comparison to research, even though both are core missions of higher education. This needs rebalancing. The role of teaching in defining academic merit needs a stronger emphasis and recognition, especially in career terms. Ultimately, we should not forget that this is about the students -- how to offer them the best possible learning environment and education."
As epiphanies go, it was hallucinatory and a little disconcerting… I had been reading about human evolution for a couple of weeks, off and on, trying to wrap my mind around the sheer span of the time involved -- the hundreds of thousands of generations, running back (the current estimate goes) some four million years.
Arguably the story begins a million or two years earlier still, when some kind of proto-hominid emerged from the line that led to the chimpanzees and the bonobos. Humans share more than 99 percent of our DNA with them. We've done a lot with the upright posture and those opposable thumbs. The past two million years – the period between Australopithecus and Homo sapiens digitalis – looks positively frenzied by contrast with the usual pace of evolution. And yet we are still distant cousins of the chimps, despite our gift for exalting humankind as existing above nature, or outside it.
One day, while reading these facts and thinking these thoughts, I looked up to see that a very strange thing had happened to everyone around me. They were, all of them, tangibly and unmistakably primates. (Or rather, we were, since my own hand suddenly looked like a well-articulated variety of paw.)
It is one thing to understand evolution at a conceptual level; a fairly difficult thing. Experiencing the continuity between human beings and other species is something else altogether; something like a waking dream. And perhaps especially when seated in a bakery frequented by lawyers, lobbyists, and media people from nearby offices – wearing clothes and mostly fur-less, but still recognizable as mammals distantly akin to monkeys or apes, despite obvious differences in carriage and demeanor.
They (we, rather) were eating scones for breakfast, not chunks of raw antelope. But for a few dizzying moments there, this did not seem as large a difference as it ordinarily might.
Fair warning, then: Reading Travis Rayne Pickering's Rough and Tumble: Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution (University of California Press) may well leave the bright line between nature and culture looking thinner and blurrier than usual. (Pickering is professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.) I should also warn vegans against reading the book, unless they are in a particularly argumentative mood.
More on that in due course. First, a look at the perennial dispute that Pickering has joined about the source of mankind's history of violence. One familiar bull-session or editorial-page option is to understand the penchant for violence as an intrinsic and inescapable human disposition, something for which we are genetically programmed, even. In support of this idea, one can cite Jane Goodall's discovery about the chimps she observed in the wild. While sociable amongst themselves, members of one band were capable not just of killing outsiders but of teaming up to wipe out the young males in another group.
And remember, we share 99 percent of our DNA with the chimps. Case closed! Well, perhaps not, since we have the same margin of genetic overlap with the bonobos. "In general," Pickering writes, "bonobos engage in sexual contact frequently and casually, in many cases to seemingly allay what could otherwise turn into aggressive interaction." Besides making love, not war, bonobos in the wild "hunt less frequently than do wild chimpanzees."
Bunch of hippies. Anyway, the old Hobbes vs. Rousseau dichotomy cannot be decided by consulting the genome -- and the fossil record suggests a more blended perspective on what human beings are and how we got here.
Pickering moves through the evidence and hypotheses about our prehistory with an eye on the disputes they have inspired among paleoarcheologists. Some of them sound quite nasty. (The disputes, that is, though a couple of the researchers also come across as petty and vicious.) I'll sketch the author's own conclusions here briefly, but what makes the book especially interesting is its tour of the disciplinary battlefield.
The brains and teeth of our distant ancestors give reason to think they were hunters: regular, successful hunters, at that. The brain consumes a lot of energy. Once proto-humans left the jungles to roam the savanna, their brains grew considerably and at a relatively rapid pace – something a steady diet of meat could only have helped. (And vice versa, since "acquiring meat presumably requires a smarter brain than does picking stationary nuts or grubbing for fixed roots.")
Besides being available "in the form of large herds of grazing ungulates," meat "is also soft and does not require that its consumers have a massive dental battery to break it down in the mouth." Furthermore, the teeth in hominid fossils do not show the kinds and quantity of abrasion found in mammals that normally consume seeds and nuts (also sources of protein) in quantity.
Meat "adheres to bones, comes in large packages, and is stubbornly encased in hairy, elastic hides, so a cutting technology would have been most useful for a blunt-toothed [primate] that had begun to exploit this resource." Pickering considers the fossil evidence not just of tools and weapons but of animal bones scored with knife-marks left by prehistoric butchers.
But our ancestors' diet is only part of the story, since the author is less interested in what they ate than in how they developed the capacity to do so regularly. Hunting big game required more than spears and courage. In addition, Pickering stresses the need for emotional control: coolness, grace under pressure, the proper combination of strategy and stealth. He also suggests that the capacity to organize and manage aggression played a role within pre-human society, by obliging members to keep the group's well-being in mind. An excessively greedy or violent leader might not last for long: the skills required to sneak up on and kill a buffalo could be turned to political uses.
Given how contentious the field seems to be (the title Rough and Tumble clearly refers to paleontologists as much as to prehistoric society) it will be interesting to see how Pickering's colleagues respond to the book. As a layman, I can only say that it was fascinating and thought-provoking. And that, all things considered, I'd rather be a bonobo.
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In today's Academic Minute, Michael Habib of the University of Southern California reveals why rarely-used behaviors can determine an animal's evolutionary success. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
A former professor on Monday was named the 500th person on the "most wanted" list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Los Angeles Times reported. The dubious distinction went to Walter Lee Williams, who formerly taught anthropology, gender studies and history at the University of Southern California, and won a teaching award there in 2006. He is wanted for multiple sex crimes against children abroad.
Money has always given people better options, but for humanities Ph.D. students, money's now necessary just to get acceptable ones. Just now becoming noticeable, this "re-gilded ivory tower" looms over a landscape that everyone should consider.
As one fellow graduate student recently observed, "You have to have a spouse nowadays; that's how more and more people seem to be doing it." As is well-known, the economic crash hastened the decline of tenure-track jobs and increased competition for them. Once standard, these stable jobs with adequate salary and benefits have become rarer, displaced by short-term, one- to two-year positions at best, and by piecemeal adjuncting at worst. In turn, entry-level qualifications also rose at some institutions to include a secondary research specialization, at least one article, and attention to pedagogy resulting in the creation of one or more substantive classes, ideally taught at outside institutions.
Thus, some form of outside support has become essential for wading through longer Ph.D. programs, and very often an indefinite period of unstable and unremunerative post-graduation employment while waiting for a good job that may never come. Spousal income, a parent-owned condo, a trust fund – no matter which, these necessities increasingly make a humanities Ph.D. less of a career path and more of a leisure pursuit for those with financial stability from elsewhere, even for students at top institutions.
Recent cohorts at my home institution of the University of Chicago show how money has effectively formed two tracks of Ph.D. students. One student, a self-supporting single person, graduated several years ago and entered a one-year position with a heavy teaching load because he "had to." He's been able to renew his position – but he also hasn't published, and was passed over for a tenure-track job where he teaches because his teaching load made it impossible to write articles.
Another, a married person who leans on her non-academic spouse for income and benefits, adjuncts one or two classes per semester and uses the rest of her time for research as she awaits and creates better possibilities. "There's no way in hell I'm doing a one-year," she confided. "But then again, I can afford to do that."
As if this anecdotal evidence isn't enough, panelists at a recent academic careers conference at the same university openly averred that money is necessary to achieve the recommended level of professionalization – or at least as much of it as a student can get.
Since many institutions don't track job placement for doctoral students, let alone gather comprehensive student financial profiles, experiences like these give the first glimpses into an academic world where finances determine fate. Given the steady loss of good jobs and devaluation of the humanities in favor of fields like science and engineering, class stratification in academia is set to grow and raises several crucial issues:
Who will become our professors? Despite rare exceptions, our humanities professors will come from wealthier backgrounds. To the extent that the academy can draw from wealthier members of different racial and national demographics, however, overall diversity may suffer less than one might think. Nevertheless, the academy will recede as a symbol of general social mobility.
What will our intellectual life be? As poorer students fall by the wayside, students with money – but not necessarily as much merit – will take their place in Ph.D. programs and professorships. Thus, scholarly standards and intellectual vibrancy should drop somewhat. Gone too will be questions stemming from the underrepresented socioeconomic backgrounds. Accordingly, the social utility of university research may decline – at least in disciplines where these questions are more common. Will the effects be the same in literature as in history or sociology, for example?
How to conceptualize the humanities? Students from poorer backgrounds will still encounter the humanities in general education requirements – but how do professors convey their enriching potential in a way that makes sense, when deep and sustained engagement is the province of the privileged? Descriptions of the humanities as a common cultural inheritance will need revision, if not outright replacement.
How to balance student and institutional well-being? Self-supporting students are already at a disadvantage for professionalization and survival in the humanities. Since student exploration into other careers almost unavoidably involves volunteering and then facing off against candidates with more appropriate degrees and job histories, the most humane advice may be warning poorer prospective students away from the risky bet of a Ph.D. Some professors do this, but institutions depend on students' loan money and teaching. In the best-case scenario, poorer students self-select out. When they don't, however, they foist a complicated set of ethical decisions upon faculty and administrators, with whom institutional inertia and pressures often hold sway.
Overall, a re-gilded ivory tower currently seems inevitable. Yet, how much will change? At the end of the day, professors will teach, students will study, and academic conversations will continue. For those who think, however, tainting everything will be a simple but ugly truth: money, not mind, makes a colleague. Perhaps, then, the single most pressing task of all for those in the humanities is our current national challenge, how to cultivate sensitivity across class lines.
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The $4.4 million damages award in June against FBI agents and Oakland
police for violating the constitutional rights of environmental
activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari, wrongly accused of terrorism in
1990, represents more than the culmination of a twelve-year struggle for
vindication. The case also highlights the risks of today's antiterrorism
measures and offers lessons both daunting and encouraging about the
years ahead.
In May 1990, an explosion tore through the car carrying Earth First!
organizers Bari and Cherney. Bari suffered a fractured pelvis; Cherney,
less serious injuries. They assumed the bombing was the work of
antienvironmentalists, meant to disrupt planning for the Redwood Summer
of civil disobedience against the logging of old-growth forest.
The FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force jumped to quite a different
conclusion. As soon as Bari and Cherney were identified, the FBI
informed the local police and leaked to the press that the pair were
terrorists. The authorities claimed that Bari must have made the bomb
herself and that it had accidentally exploded while the two were
carrying it to an unknown target. Bari was placed under arrest in her
hospital bed. Police and FBI agents searched houses in Oakland where
Bari and Cherney had stayed and questioned their fellow activists. Over
the next two months, until the government announced it would not charge
the two environmentalists, the local police and the FBI continued to
call them terrorists.
Only after years of litigation did the truth emerge: The FBI, before the
bombing, had been investigating Bari and Cherney because of their
political activism. When the bomb went off, the FBI shaded the facts to
fit an ideological presumption of guilt. It was also revealed that the
FBI, even after Bari and Cherney had been cleared, collected data
nationwide on hundreds of individuals and groups merely on the basis of
their association with the two Earth First! activists.
The case demonstrates how the truth will come out when the judiciary
fulfills its constitutional role. With patience, skill and funding,
committed activists and lawyers can bring accountability to the FBI.
Just as Bari and Cherney won, just as the secret evidence cases brought
after the 1996 antiterrorism law melted in the face of judicial
challenges, so the material witness detentions and other rights
violations of today will ultimately be held unconstitutional. But the
FBI and the Justice Department will resist oversight and use secrecy and
delaying tactics to evade accountability, prolonging personal and
political damage. Justice was too late for Judi Bari. She died of cancer
in 1997.
The most sobering lesson of the Bari-Cherney case may be this: The FBI's
focus on politics over hard evidence meant that the real bomber was
never captured. In the same way, the Attorney General's recent
announcement that the FBI can monitor meetings and groups with no prior
suspicion of criminal conduct is likely to take the FBI down the path of
investigations based on politics, ethnicity or religion, while real
terrorists escape detection.
Price-fixing fines behind them, the firms are close to achieving a
Would it be too early to sense a sudden, uncovenanted shift against the corporate ethic, if ethic is the word? I can barely turn the page of a newspaper or magazine without striking across either some damaging admission, or at least some damage-control statement, from the boardroom classes.
What would the world look like if women had full human rights? If girls
went to school and young women went to college in places where now they
are used as household drudges and married off at 11 or 12? If women
could go out for the whole range of jobs, could own the land they work,
inherit property on equal terms with men? If they could control their
own sexuality and fertility and give birth safely? If they had recourse
against traffickers, honor killers, wife beaters? If they had as much
say and as much power as men at every level of decision-making, from the
household to the legislature? If John Ashcroft has his way, we may never
find out. After twenty years of stalling by Jesse Helms, the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee in early June held hearings on the
Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW), an international treaty ratified by 169 nations.
(President Carter signed CEDAW in 1980, but the Senate blocked it.)
George W. Bush originally indicated that he would sign it--that was when
he was sending Laura onto the airwaves to blast the Taliban--but under
the influence of Ashcroft, he's since been hedging. Naturally, the
religious right has been working the phones: According to one e-mail
that came across my screen, the operator who answers the White House
comment line assumed the writer was calling to oppose CEDAW, so heavily
were the calls running against it. The reasons? CEDAW would license
abortion, promote homosexuality and teen sex and destroy The Family. In
2000, Helms called it "a terrible treaty negotiated by radical feminists
with the intent of enshrining their anti-family agenda into
international law."
How radical can CEDAW be, you may ask, given that it's been ratified by
Pakistan, Jordan and Myanmar? Genderquake is hardly around the corner.
Still, across the globe women have been able to use it to improve their
access to education and healthcare as well as their legal status. In
Japan, on the basis of a CEDAW violation, women sued their employers for
wage discrimination and failure to promote; the Tanzanian High Court
cited CEDAW in a decision to overturn a ban on clan land inheritance for
women. Given the dire situation of women worldwide, it is outrageous to
see US policy in the grip of Falwell, James Dobson and Ralph Nader's
good friend Phyllis Schlafly. Like the Vatican, which uses its UN
observer status to make common cause with Islamic fundamentalist
governments on behalf of fetus and family, on CEDAW the Bush
Administration risks allying itself with Somalia, Qatar and Syria to
promote the religious right agenda on issues of sexuality. In the same
way, at the recent UN General Assembly Special Session on the
Child--where the United States opposed providing girls with sex
education beyond "just say no," even though in much of the Third World
the typical "girl" is likely to be married with children--the Bush
Administration allied itself with Libya, Sudan and evil axis member
Iran. Some clash of civilizations.
Given this season's spate of popular books about mean girls and inhumane
women, it might seem starry-eyed to suppose that more equality for women
would have a positive general social effect. Where women are healthy and
well educated and self-determined, you can bet that men are too, but the
situation of women is not only a barometer of a society's general level
of equality and decency--improving women's status is key to solving many
of the world's most serious problems. Consider the AIDS epidemic now
ravaging much of the Third World: Where women cannot negotiate safe sex,
or protect themselves from rape, or expect fidelity from their male
partners, where young girls are sought out by older HIV-positive men
looking for tractable sex partners, where prostitution flourishes under
the most degraded conditions and where women are beaten or even murdered
when their HIV-positive status becomes known, what hope is there of
containing the virus? Under these circumstances, "just say no" is worse
than useless: In Thailand, being married is the single biggest predictor
of a woman's testing positive. As long as women are illiterate, poor and
powerless, AIDS will continue to ravage men, women and children.
Or consider hunger. Worldwide, women do most of the farming but own only
2 percent of the land. In many areas where tribal rules govern
inheritance, they cannot own or inherit land and are thrown off it
should their husband die. Yet a study by the Food and Agriculture
Organization shows that women spend more time on productive activities,
and according to the International Center for Research on Women, women
spend more of their earnings on their children than men do. Recognizing
and maximizing women's key economic role would have a host of
benefits--it would lessen hunger, improve women's and children's
well-being, improve women's status in the family, lower fertility.
And then there's war and peace. I don't think it's an accident that
Islamic fundamentalism flourishes in the parts of the world where women
are most oppressed--indeed, maintaining and deepening women's
subjugation, the violent rejection of everything female, is one of its
major themes. (Remember Mohammed Atta's weird funeral instructions?) At
the same time, the denial of education, employment and rights to women
fuels the social conditions of backwardness, provincialism and poverty
that sustain religious fanaticism.
If women's rights were acknowledged as the key to human progress that
they are, we would look at all these large issues of global politics and
economics very differently. Would the US government have been able to
spend a billion dollars backing the fundamentalist warlords who raped
and abducted women and threw acid at their unveiled faces while
"fighting communism" and destroying Afghanistan? At the recently
concluded loya jirga, which featured numerous current and former
warlords as delegates, a woman delegate stood up and denounced former
President Burhanuddin Rabbani as a violent marauder. For a moment, you
could see that, as the saying goes, another world is possible.
Nixon thought so; Otis Chandler doesn't. Maybe it depends on where you
The camera pans across the room
To see what she has made:
An omelette or a spring bouquet
Or just an inside trade.
Never did I expect to feel sorrow and pity for the Catholic Church, yet I confess that I do.
On May 14, 2002, the first wave of Internet file-sharing died.
Just-released inmates with infectious diseases need continuous treatment.
Affirmative action, while generally a good and necessary thing, has
always been more complicated than its supporters admit. It inspires a
backlash; it often promotes people who are underprepared for their
assigned tasks; and it attaches a stigma to those who do succeed on
their own, often with a crushing psychological burden. Yet another
problem is how easily it can be manipulated for nefarious purposes.
Women and minorities have been agitating for greater representation in a
largely white, male media structure for decades, making their case by
the numbers. According to a recent study published by Fairness &
Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), women made up just 15 percent of sources
appearing on the three major network news programs in 2001, while 92
percent of all US sources for whom race was determinable were white.
Conservatives, meanwhile, have also made a case for greater media
representation. They've done so by redefining the terms of debate. While
most pundits and nearly half the "experts" employed by the media are
quite conservative by any reasonable or historical measure of the term,
that's not good enough. They are demanding more. Bernard Goldberg, Nat
Hentoff and Reed Irvine are hardly the only conservatives who say they
deserve greater representation. Many news producers and editorial page
editors apparently concur.
The media's response to the traditional affirmative-action
constituencies and the well-funded propaganda offensive by the
conservatives has been to capitulate to both sides at once. Hence the
rise of the female and/or minority conservative pundit, often
unqualified by any traditional standard and frequently close to the line
in terms of sanity but with job security the rest of us can only
When MSNBC began operations in the summer of 1996 and hired eighteen
regular pundits--of whom I was one--the most recognizable type among the
mostly unknown cast were the blonde and black fire-breathing
right-wingers. Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Jennifer Grossman, Niger
Innes, Deroy Murdoch, Brian Jones, Joseph Perkins, Betsy Hart (a
brunette, but still...); the list goes on and on. At the time, I used to
joke that the producers might wish to inquire about the politics of the
black/blonde daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton. If she liked Star Wars
and tax cuts for the rich, they should offer her a lifetime contract.
It didn't matter to the network executives at the time that women and
minorities in real life were far more liberal than most television
people, and their gimmick was, in that regard, deceptive. These pundits
gave the new network some "pop" in the larger media--or so it was
believed. In fact, most of those named above have faded back into the
proverbial woodwork. But not all. Laura Ingraham now wears her leopard
miniskirts on radio and is apparently a political fashion consultant to
CNN's Reliable Sources. (On Al Gore's Florida speech: "His
perspiration was, I mean...it was quite unpleasant." On the state of the
nightly news: "I think one of the worst things that's happened to news
is this sort of open-collared shirt, no tie, you know, do you take the
jacket off? That whole, you know, undress thing on television...")
Coulter, meanwhile, well... it's complicated. On the one hand, she is
the television babe to end all television babes--bright blonde locks,
legs that never end and skirts so short as to make Sharon Stone distrust
her Basic Instincts. On the other hand, she is clearly the victim of an
undiagnosed case of political Tourette's syndrome. How else to explain
incidents like the time she attacked a disabled Vietnam vet on the air
by screaming, "People like you caused us to lose that war"? Or when she
termed Bill Clinton a "pervert, liar and a felon" and a "criminal"? Or
Hillary Clinton "pond scum" and "white trash"? Or the late Pamela
Harriman a "whore"? Coulter also wrote a book during the impeachment
crisis that appeared to suggest the assassination of Bill Clinton. She
was, also, as the Boston Globe reported, credibly accused of
plagiarizing from a colleague at Human Events for her book.
By the time she finally got herself fired from MSNBC, Coulter was a
star. (No man, or ugly woman for that matter, would have lasted remotely
as long.) She found herself celebrated by the likes of John Kennedy Jr.,
who gave her a column in George, as well as bookers for talk
shows with hosts like Wolf Blitzer, Larry King, Geraldo and Bill Maher,
and quoted by ABC's George Will with the same deference usually reserved
for Edmund Burke or James Madison.
Lately Coulter has gotten herself in the news again by calling for the
wholesale slaughter of Arabs, the murder of Norm Mineta and the use of
mob violence against liberals and Muslims. Perhaps she's kidding, but
it's hard to know. We have, too, another book-length screed,
Slander, this one bearing the imprimatur of Crown Publishers. As
with her entire career in the punditocracy, it is a black mark on the
soul of everyone associated with it. Here is Coulter's characterization
of a New York Times editorial criticizing John Ashcroft: "Ew
yuck, he's icky." She worries about "liberals rounding up right-wingers
and putting them on trial." One could go on, and on, and on.
What's scary is that Coulter is hardly alone. Look at the
free-associating reveries Peggy Noonan manages to publish every week in
the Wall Street Journal, or the lunacies that right-wing lesbian
Norah Vincent pours forth on the LA Times Op-Ed page--as if
self-consciously seeking to fill the space mercifully vacated by that
nutty nineties icon Camille Paglia. Check out Alan Keyes on MSNBC and
tell me, seriously, that the man has ever made what Bobbie Gentry called
"a lick of sense" in his life. I'm not saying that women and minorities
don't have the right to be as idiotic as white men. But be careful what
you wish for and smart about how you pursue it. Liberals and
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The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds are following the election and plan to vote Tuesday, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. The poll found that engagement had increased since July, as had support for President Obama among young people.
The poll found 67 percent of young people plan to vote, and that 52 percent plan to vote for Obama, 35 percent for Mitt Romney, and 4 percent for a third-party candidate, and 8 percent are still undecided. Whether college students will vote has been a key question for the Obama campaign, since young people formed the base of his support in 2008.
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Location: California USA
By: Suzie
A little over 20 years ago, I was involved in a prison ministry for awhile. The leader of the ministry has recently lost his wife to lupus. He had teenage daughters and the younger of the two, Lori, was entering Junior High School in the Fall. He asked me if I would take her shopping for school clothes, as he didn't know the first thing about fashion.
We live in a remote desert town, so we had to drive two and a half hours to a city with a mall. It was a productive day, and we heading home in the late evening. In the middle of the Mojave desert, the car started to overheat. I pulled over to let it cool down. (This was obviously before cell phones, so we couldn't call anyone.) I had some water in the trunk, and I thought the radiator had cooled enough to put some in.
I didn't know this until later, but my aunt was alerted by the Holy Spirit to pray for us at the time we pulled over--around 10 pm. She had a vision of me pulled over to the side of the road, and looking in the trunk. She prayed that God would send angels to help us.
While I was outside of the car, a southbound car (we were pointed north) passed us, slowed down, made a U turn, and pulled up behind us. I jumped back in the car quickly and locked the doors!! A overweight with long hair, tattoos, and a sleeveless T-shirt came up to my window. He asked us if we needed any help. I said no, we were fine...I was just waiting for the car to cool off and I would put some water in it. He asked again if I was sure we didn't need any help. Although he was extremely polite, I was frightened of him because he was a stranger (and, well, he also looked a little scary), so I said no, we were fine. He returned to his car and drove away. I didn't notice the other passenger, but Lori said there was an elderly woman with him.
The weird thing is he just drove north. We waited for the car to turn around and head south in the original direction. We never saw the car pass by us again. It was like we were their destination!
Through a series of short drives, cool offs, and short drives, we made to the next town and called my dad, who came and got us. When I returned home, I learned about my aunt's vision and prayer for us. There is no doubt that we were offered help by an angel.
My dear aunt, obviously a very spiritual woman passed away on Christmas morning, 2006, just 3 weeks ago. I believe with all my heart she is now engaged in an intercessory prayer ministry full time now as a saint in heaven.
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