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Hannah Arendt and the Ansermet's Foundations of Music
On a recent trip to the Hannah Arendt Collection, we came across this copy of Les Fondements de la musique dans la conscience humaine, which translates to The Foundations of music in human consciousness.
The work of Ernest Ansermet, the prestigious leader of the Ballets Russes from 1915 to 1923 and founder of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Les Fondements de la musique dans la conscience humaine captures Ansermet's use of the phenomenology of German philosopher Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl to formulate a holistic approach to music that blends physiology, mathematics, and history, among other disciplines.
The crux of Ansermet's theory is the notion of the phenomenology of auditory consciousness, which denies any attempt to understand music as an object (from without) and instead promotes one that seeks to understand it as a subject (from within.)
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Aristotle and Arendt
Arendt had an impressive collection of Aristotle's works in her personal library. This is no surprise. After all, as Roger Berkowitz, Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, wrote back in 2010, it was Aristotle who characterized humans as the only animal in possession of logos, or the ability to reason and participate in philosophical thinking. Not only that, but Aristotle also valued dramatic actions as public gestures out of which an actor's character emerges. These two ideas -- the significance of human beings' ability to think and of public action -- have since proven central to much of Hannah Arendt's philosophy.
Experience as an Anchor for Thinking
"[T]hese are exercises in political thought as it arises out of the actuality of political incidents (though such incidents are mentioned only occasionally), and my assumption is that thought itself arises out of incidents of living experience and must remain bound to them as the only guidepost by which to take its bearings."
-- Hannah Arendt, "Preface," in Between Past and Future
One of the enduring sources of inspiration in Hannah Arendt's political thought is her exceptional capability of tying together reflections on concrete worldly events with in-depth philosophical, historical, and cultural insights. Her thinking never prioritizes abstract theorizations and never uses the incidents of the political world only as "examples." Instead, for her the activity of thinking is about making sense of the events of the time. Whenever Arendt – against her habit – assumes a self-reflective position with regards to her own way of doing political theory, her emphasis is on the experiential nature of thought. In The Origins of Totalitarianism, she insists on facing the "impact of reality and the shock of experience" in all their force without succumbing to either reckless pessimism or optimism. The call to "think what we are doing," as she puts it in The Human Condition, is indeed the primus motor underlying all her works.
Sylvia Plath on Thinking
"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought."
-- Sylvia Plath
Isaiah Berlin and the Collision of Values
"Collisions of values are of the essence of what they are and what we are…the world in which what we see as incompatible values are not in conflict is a world altogether beyond our ken; …it is on earth that we live, and it is here that we must believe and act."
-- Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Arendt on Thinking with Kant and Kafka
"The inner I: That I of reflection is the self, a reflection of the appearing human, so mortal, finite, growing old, capable of change, etc. On the other hand, the I of apperception, the thinking I, which does not change and is timeless. (Kafka Parable)"
—Hannah Arendt, Denktagebuch, February 1966
In an age overcome with the reach of globalization and the virtual expanse of the Internet, Arendt's notes in her Denktagebuch on a seemingly obscure technical question on activity of thought in Kant gain new relevance by differentiating modes of thinking with depth and over time. Her reference to Kafka and the form of the entry pushes her profound temporal ideas in the direction of narrative fiction.
Demanding Thinking of Everybody
"Thinking in its non-cognitive, non-specialized sense as a natural need of human life, the actualization of the difference given in consciousness, is not a prerogative of the few but an everpresent faculty of everybody; by the same token, inability to think is not the "prerogative" of those many who lack brain power but the everpresent possibility for everybody—scientists, scholars, and other specialists in mental enterprises not excluded—to shun that intercourse with oneself whose possibility and importance Socrates first discovered."
--Hannah Arendt, "Thinking and Moral Considerations: A Lecture" (1971)
Published eight years after Eichmann in Jerusalem, "Thinking and Moral Considerations" is Arendt's elaboration of her argument in that book that Adolf Eichmann's criminal role in the Holocaust did not originate from any "base motives" or even from any motives at all, but from his "thoughtlessness" or "inability to think." If, she asks, Eichmann's crimes, which he committed over the course of years, resulted from the fact that he never paused to think, what exactly does it mean to think, and what is the relation between thinking and morality?
In the above quote, which appears on the penultimate page of the lecture, Arendt defines thinking—or the kind of thinking that she argues is necessary for morality—as "the actualization of the difference given in consciousness," as "that intercourse with oneself whose possibility and importance Socrates first discovered." She describes this "non-cognitive, non-specialized" kind of thinking both as "a natural need of human life" and as "an everpresent faculty of everybody." By contrast, she defines "inability to think" as the everpresent possibility for everybody to shun thinking.
We might wonder at this point why Arendt does not simply speak of an "ability not to think," an ability to (actively) shun thinking, rather than an "inability to think." Is this because she wants to maintain a hierarchy between something that is natural and human (thinking) and something that is unnatural and inhuman (not thinking)? What would be the justification for such a hierarchy? Or does she want to suggest that Eichmann has become unable to think (through barbarous "nurture"), losing touch with his (nevertheless everpresent) faculty of thinking, which everybody has from birth ("nature") or from the moment they learn to speak? Thinking and language are intrinsically connected from the first page of Arendt's lecture, where the primary evidence of Eichmann's inability to think is that he speaks in clichés. (Also, the lecture is dedicated to a poet, W.H. Auden.) Finally, how does Arendt's description of thinking as a "natural need of human life" relate to her suggestion that Socrates did not merely discover the importance but the very possibility of thinking?
Arendt casts Socrates as "a model, (…) an example that, unlike the 'professional' thinkers, could be representative for our 'everybody,' (…) a man who counted himself neither among the many nor among the few (…)." She takes Socrates not as "a personified abstraction with some allegorical meaning ascribed to it," but as an "ideal type" who "was chosen out of the crowd of living beings, in the past or the present, because he possessed a representative significance in reality which only needed some purification in order to reveal its full meaning." What, then, is this representative significance?
Arendt bases her conception of thinking and its relation to morality primarily on two famous propositions that Socrates puts forward in the Gorgias: "It is better to be wronged than to do wrong," and "It would be better for me that my lyre or a chorus I directed should be out of tune and loud with discord, and that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself and contradict me" (Arendt's emphases). According to Arendt, these propositions are not primarily "cogitations about morality" but "insights of experience," of the experience of the process of thinking. Arendt claims that Socrates means by the first proposition that it is better for him to be wronged than to do wrong if he is thinking, because in thinking you are carrying on a dialogue with yourself, which presupposes some friendship between the partners in the thinking dialogue. You would not want to be friends and enter into a dialogue with someone who does wrong, and since Socrates presupposes that the unexamined life is not worth living, doing wrong leads to a life that is not worth living because examining it in thinking is no longer possible.
Arendt argues that conscience is a "by-product" of consciousness, of the actualization of the difference of me and myself in thinking, because: "What makes a man fear his conscience is the anticipation of the presence of a witness who awaits him only if and when he goes home" (Arendt's emphasis). However, this formulation suggests that there is no reason to fear your conscience if you never go "home," that is, if you never engage in the activity of thinking, which, according to Arendt, was precisely Eichmann's problem. What, then, determines whether someone uses her faculty of thinking or realizes the everpresent possibility of not thinking?
Arendt's lecture does not contain a strong answer to this question. But although the relation between phenomenological description and normative argument in this lecture remains somewhat unclear, the lecture seems to contain a defense of thinking and a "demand" that everybody think, that everybody aspire to some extent to the ideal-type represented by Socrates, because only thinking can provide an antidote to the "banality of evil." Arendt acknowledges that thinking can lead to license, cynicism, and nihilism through the relativizing of existing values, because "all critical examinations must go through a stage of at least hypothetically negating accepted opinions and 'values' by finding out their implications and tacit assumptions." However, Arendt's anti-elitist suggestion is that the problem of nihilism is never that too many people think or that people think too much, but rather that people do not think enough.
Yet Arendt does not tell us what would promote thinking. She does not propose, for instance, to generalize the teaching of thinking through educational institutions, the way that Adorno proposed to create "mobile educational groups" of volunteers to teach "critical (…) self-reflection" to everybody, in his 1966 radio talk, "Education After Auschwitz." A Habermasian model where people become critical through participation in democratic politics is unavailable for Arendt given her strong opposition of thinking to politics, which belongs to the realm of action. What Arendt does tell us is what is conducive to actualizing the everpresent possibility of not thinking: "(…) general rules which can be taught and learned until they grow into habits that can be replaced by other habits and rules," the way that Eichmann, as Arendt argues in Eichmann in Jerusalem, simply substituted the duty to do the Führer's will for Kant's categorical imperative.
--Michiel Bot
Hiatus, Discontinuity, and Change
"The end of the old is not necessarily the beginning of the new."
Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
This is a simple enough statement, and yet it masks a profound truth, one that we often overlook out of the very human tendency to seek consistency and connection, to make order out of the chaos of reality, and to ignore the anomalous nature of that which lies in between whatever phenomena we are attending to.
Perhaps the clearest example of this has been what proved to be the unfounded optimism that greeted the overthrow of autocratic regimes through American intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the native-born movements known collectively as the Arab Spring. It is one thing to disrupt the status quo, to overthrow an unpopular and undemocratic regime. But that end does not necessarily lead to the establishment of a new, beneficent and participatory political structure. We see this time and time again, now in Putin's Russia, a century ago with the Russian Revolution, and over two centuries ago with the French Revolution.
Of course, it has long been understood that oftentimes, to begin something new, we first have to put an end to something old. The popular saying that you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs reflects this understanding, although it is certainly not the case that breaking eggs will inevitably and automatically lead to the creation of an omelet. Breaking eggs is a necessary but not sufficient cause of omelets, and while this is not an example of the classic chicken and egg problem, I think we can imagine that the chicken might have something to say on the matter of breaking eggs. Certainly, the chicken would have a different view on what is signified or ought to be signified by the end of the old, meaning the end of the egg shell, insofar as you can't make a chicken without it first breaking out of the egg that it took form within.
So, whether you take the chicken's point of view, or adopt the perspective of the omelet, looking backwards, reverse engineering the current situation, it is only natural to view the beginning of the new as an effect brought into being by the end of the old, to assume or make an inference based on sequencing in time, to posit a causal relationship and commit the logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc, if for no other reason that by force of narrative logic that compels us to create a coherent storyline. In this respect, Arendt points to the foundation tales of ancient Israel and Rome:
We have the Biblical story of the exodus of Israeli tribes from Egypt, which preceded the Mosaic legislation constituting the Hebrew people, and Virgil's story of the wanderings of Aeneas, which led to the foundation of Rome—"dum conderet urbem," as Virgil defines the content of his great poem even in its first lines. Both legends begin with an act of liberation, the flight from oppression and slavery in Egypt and the flight from burning Troy (that is, from annihilation); and in both instances this act is told from the perspective of a new freedom, the conquest of a new "promised land" that offers more than Egypt's fleshpots and the foundation of a new City that is prepared for by a war destined to undo the Trojan war, so that the order of events as laid down by Homer could be reversed.
Fast forward to the American Revolution, and we find that the founders of the republic, mindful of the uniqueness of their undertaking, searched for archetypes in the ancient world. And what they found in the narratives of Exodus and the Aeneid was that the act of liberation, and the establishment of a new freedom are two events, not one, and in effect subject to Alfred Korzybski's non-Aristotelian Principle of Non-Identity. The success of the formation of the American republic can be attributed to the awareness on their part of the chasm that exists between the closing of one era and the opening of a new age, of their separation in time and space:
No doubt if we read these legends as tales, there is a world of difference between the aimless desperate wanderings of the Israeli tribes in the desert after the Exodus and the marvelously colorful tales of the adventures of Aeneas and his fellow Trojans; but to the men of action of later generations who ransacked the archives of antiquity for paradigms to guide their own intentions, this was not decisive. What was decisive was that there was a hiatus between disaster and salvation, between liberation from the old order and the new freedom, embodied in a novus ordo saeclorum, a "new world order of the ages" with whose rise the world had structurally changed.
I find Arendt's use of the term hiatus interesting, given that in contemporary American culture it has largely been appropriated by the television industry to refer to a series that has been taken off the air for a period of time, but not cancelled. The typical phrase is on hiatus, meaning on a break or on vacation. But Arendt reminds us that such connotations only scratch the surface of the word's broader meanings. The Latin word hiatus refers to an opening or rupture, a physical break or missing part or link in a concrete material object. As such, it becomes a spatial metaphor when applied to an interruption or break in time, a usage introduced in the 17th century. Interestingly, this coincides with the period in English history known as the Interregnum, which began in 1649 with the execution of King Charles I, led to Oliver Cromwell's installation as Lord Protector, and ended after Cromwell's death with the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, son of Charles I. While in some ways anticipating the American Revolution, the English Civil War followed an older pattern, one that Mircea Eliade referred to as the myth of eternal return, a circular movement rather than the linear progression of history and cause-effect relations.
The idea of moving forward, of progress, requires a future-orientation that only comes into being in the modern age, by which I mean the era that followed the printing revolution associated with Johannes Gutenberg (I discuss this in my book, On the Binding Biases of Time and Other Essays on General Semantics and Media Ecology). But that same print culture also gave rise to modern science, and with it the monopoly granted to efficient causality, cause-effect relations, to the exclusion in particular of final and formal cause (see Marshall and Eric McLuhan's Media and Formal Cause). This is the basis of the Newtonian universe in which every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and every effect can be linked back in a causal chain to another event that preceded it and brought it into being. The view of time as continuous and connected can be traced back to the introduction of the mechanical clock in the 13th century, but was solidified through the printing of calendars and time lines, and the same effect was created in spatial terms by the reproduction of maps, and the use of spatial grids, e.g., the Mercator projection.
And while the invention of history, as a written narrative concerning the linear progression over time can be traced back to the ancient Israelites, and the story of the exodus, the story incorporates the idea of a hiatus in overlapping structures:
A1. Joseph is the golden boy, the son favored by his father Jacob, earning him the enmity of his brothers
A2. he is sold into slavery by them, winds up in Egypt as a slave and then is falsely accused and imprisoned
A3. by virtue of his ability to interpret dreams he gains his freedom and rises to the position of Pharaoh's prime minister
B1. Joseph welcomes his brothers and father, and the House of Israel goes down to Egypt to sojourn due to famine in the land of Canaan
B2. their descendants are enslaved, oppressed, and persecuted
B3. Moses is chosen to confront Pharaoh, liberate the Israelites, and lead them on their journey through the desert
C1. the Israelites are freed from bondage and escape from Egypt
C2. the revelation at Sinai fully establishes their covenant with God
C3. after many trials, they return to the Promised Land
It can be clearly seen in these narrative structures that the role of the hiatus, in ritual terms, is that of the rite of passage, the initiation period that marks, in symbolic fashion, the change in status, the transformation from one social role or state of being to another (e.g., child to adult, outsider to member of the group). This is not to discount the role that actual trials, tests, and other hardships may play in the transition, as they serve to establish or reinforce, psychologically and sometimes physically, the value and reality of the transformation.
In mythic terms, this structure has become known as the hero's journey or hero's adventure, made famous by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and also known as the monomyth, because he claimed that the same basic structure is universal to all cultures. The basis structure he identified consists of three main elements: separation (e.g., the hero leaves home), initiation (e.g., the hero enters another realm, experiences tests and trials, leading to the bestowing of gifts, abilities, and/or a new status), and return (the hero returns to utilize what he has gained from the initiation and save the day, restoring the status quo or establishing a new status quo).
Understanding the mythic, non-rational element of initiation is the key to recognizing the role of the hiatus, and in the modern era this meant using rationality to realize the limits of rationality. With this in mind, let me return to the quote I began this essay with, but now provide the larger context of the entire paragraph:
The legendary hiatus between a no-more and a not-yet clearly indicated that freedom would not be the automatic result of liberation, that the end of the old is not necessarily the beginning of the new, that the notion of an all-powerful time continuum is an illusion. Tales of a transitory period—from bondage to freedom, from disaster to salvation—were all the more appealing because the legends chiefly concerned the deeds of great leaders, persons of world-historic significance who appeared on the stage of history precisely during such gaps of historical time. All those who pressed by exterior circumstances or motivated by radical utopian thought-trains, were not satisfied to change the world by the gradual reform of an old order (and this rejection of the gradual was precisely what transformed the men of action of the eighteenth century, the first century of a fully secularized intellectual elite, into the men of the revolutions) were almost logically forced to accept the possibility of a hiatus in the continuous flow of temporal sequence.
Note that concept of gaps in historical time, which brings to mind Eliade's distinction between the sacred and the profane. Historical time is a form of profane time, and sacred time represents a gap or break in that linear progression, one that takes us outside of history, connecting us instead in an eternal return to the time associated with a moment of creation or foundation. The revelation in Sinai is an example of such a time, and accordingly Deuteronomy states that all of the members of the House of Israel were present at that event, not just those alive at that time, but those not present, the generations of the future. This statement is included in the liturgy of the Passover Seder, which is a ritual reenactment of the exodus and revelation, which in turn becomes part of the reenactment of the Passion in Christianity, one of the primary examples of Campbell's monomyth.
Arendt's hiatus, then represents a rupture between two different states or stages, an interruption, a disruption linked to an eruption. In the parlance of chaos and complexity theory, it is a bifurcation point. Arendt's contemporary, Peter Drucker, a philosopher who pioneered the scholarly study of business and management, characterized the contemporary zeitgeist in the title of his 1969 book: The Age of Discontinuity. It is an age in which Newtonian physics was replaced by Einstein's relativity and Heisenberg's uncertainty, the phrase quantum leap becoming a metaphor drawn from subatomic physics for all forms of discontinuity. It is an age in which the fixed point of view that yielded perspective in art and the essay and novel in literature yielded to Cubism and subsequent forms of modern art, and stream of consciousness in writing.
Beginning in the 19th century, photography gave us the frozen, discontinuous moment, and the technique of montage in the motion picture gave us a series of shots and scenes whose connections have to be filled in by the audience. Telegraphy gave us the instantaneous transmission of messages that took them out of their natural context, the subject of the famous comment by Henry David Thoreau that connecting Maine and Texas to one another will not guarantee that they have anything sensible to share with each other. The wire services gave us the nonlinear, inverted pyramid style of newspaper reporting, which also was associated with the nonlinear look of the newspaper front page, a form that Marshall McLuhan referred to as a mosaic. Neil Postman criticized television's role in decontextualizing public discourse in Amusing Ourselves to Death, where he used the phrase, "in the context of no context," and I discuss this as well in my recently published follow-up to his work, Amazing Ourselves to Death.
The concept of the hiatus comes naturally to the premodern mind, schooled by myth and ritual within the context of oral culture. That same concept is repressed, in turn, by the modern mind, shaped by the linearity and rationality of literacy and typography. As the modern mind yields to a new, postmodern alternative, one that emerges out of the electronic media environment, we see the return of the repressed in the idea of the jump cut writ large.
There is psychological satisfaction in the deterministic view of history as the inevitable result of cause-effect relations in the Newtonian sense, as this provides a sense of closure and coherence consistent with the typographic mindset. And there is similar satisfaction in the view of history as entirely consisting of human decisions that are the product of free will, of human agency unfettered by outside constraints, which is also consistent with the individualism that emerges out of the literate mindset and print culture, and with a social rather that physical version of efficient causality. What we are only beginning to come to terms with is the understanding of formal causality, as discussed by Marshall and Eric McLuhan in Media and Formal Cause. What formal causality suggests is that history has a tendency to follow certain patterns, patterns that connect one state or stage to another, patterns that repeat again and again over time. This is the notion that history repeats itself, meaning that historical events tend to fall into certain patterns (repetition being the precondition for the existence of patterns), and that the goal, as McLuhan articulated in Understanding Media, is pattern recognition. This helps to clarify the famous remark by George Santayana, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." In other words, those who are blind to patterns will find it difficult to break out of them.
Campbell engages in pattern recognition in his identification of the heroic monomyth, as Arendt does in her discussion of the historical hiatus. Recognizing the patterns are the first step in escaping them, and may even allow for the possibility of taking control and influencing them. This also means understanding that the tendency for phenomena to fall into patterns is a powerful one. It is a force akin to entropy, and perhaps a result of that very statistical tendency that is expressed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, as Terrence Deacon argues in Incomplete Nature. It follows that there are only certain points in history, certain moments, certain bifurcation points, when it is possible to make a difference, or to make a difference that makes a difference, to use Gregory Bateson's formulation, and change the course of history. The moment of transition, of initiation, the hiatus, represents such a moment.
McLuhan's concept of medium goes far beyond the ordinary sense of the word, as he relates it to the idea of gaps and intervals, the ground that surrounds the figure, and explains that his philosophy of media is not about transportation (of information), but transformation. The medium is the hiatus.
The particular pattern that has come to the fore in our time is that of the network, whether it's the decentralized computer network and the internet as the network of networks, or the highly centralized and hierarchical broadcast network, or the interpersonal network associated with Stanley Milgram's research (popularly known as six degrees of separation), or the neural networks that define brain structure and function, or social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, etc. And it is not the nodes, which may be considered the content of the network, that defines the network, but the links that connect them, which function as the network medium, and which, in the systems view favored by Bateson, provide the structure for the network system, the interaction or relationship between the nodes. What matters is not the nodes, it's the modes.
Hiatus and link may seem like polar opposites, the break and the bridge, but they are two sides of the same coin, the medium that goes between, simultaneously separating and connecting. The boundary divides the system from its environment, allowing the system to maintain its identity as separate and distinct from the environment, keeping it from being absorbed by the environment. But the membrane also serves as a filter, engaged in the process of abstracting, to use Korzybski's favored term, letting through or bringing material, energy, and information from the environment into the system so that the system can maintain itself and survive. The boundary keeps the system in touch with its situation, keeps it contextualized within its environment.
The systems view emphasizes space over time, as does ecology, but the concept of the hiatus as a temporal interruption suggests an association with evolution as well. Darwin's view of evolution as continuous was consistent with Newtonian physics. The more recent modification of evolutionary theory put forth by Stephen Jay Gould, known as punctuated equilibrium, suggests that evolution occurs in fits and starts, in relatively rare and isolated periods of major change, surrounded by long periods of relative stability and stasis. Not surprisingly, this particular conception of discontinuity was introduced during the television era, in the early 1970s, just a few years after the publication of Peter Drucker's The Age of Discontinuity.
When you consider the extraordinary changes that we are experiencing in our time, technologically and ecologically, the latter underlined by the recent news concerning the United Nations' latest report on global warming, what we need is an understanding of the concept of change, a way to study the patterns of change, patterns that exist and persist across different levels, the micro and the macro, the physical, chemical, biological, psychological, and social, what Bateson referred to as metapatterns, the subject of further elaboration by biologist Tyler Volk in his book on the subject. Paul Watzlawick argued for the need to study change in and of itself in a little book co-authored by John H. Weakland and Richard Fisch, entitled Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution, which considers the problem from the point of view of psychotherapy. Arendt gives us a philosophical entrée into the problem by introducing the pattern of the hiatus, the moment of discontinuity that leads to change, and possibly a moment in which we, as human agents, can have an influence on the direction of that change.
To have such an influence, we do need to have that break, to find a space and more importantly a time to pause and reflect, to evaluate and formulate. Arendt famously emphasizes the importance of thinking in and of itself, the importance not of the content of thought alone, but of the act of thinking, the medium of thinking, which requires an opening, a time out, a respite from the onslaught of 24/7/365. This underscores the value of sacred time, and it follows that it is no accident that during that period of initiation in the story of the exodus, there is the revelation at Sinai and the gift of divine law, the Torah or Law, and chief among them the Ten Commandments, which includes the fourth of the commandments, and the one presented in greatest detail, to observe the Sabbath day. This premodern ritual requires us to make the hiatus a regular part of our lives, to break the continuity of profane time on a weekly basis. From that foundation, other commandments establish the idea of the sabbatical year, and the sabbatical of sabbaticals, or jubilee year. Whether it's a Sabbath mandated by religious observance, or a new movement to engage in a Technology Sabbath, the hiatus functions as the response to the homogenization of time that was associated with efficient causality and literate linearity, and that continues to intensify in conjunction with the technological imperative of efficiency über alles.
To return one last time to the quote that I began with, the end of the old is not necessarily the beginning of the new because there may not be a new beginning at all, there may not be anything new to take the place of the old. The end of the old may be just that, the end, period, the end of it all. The presence of a hiatus to follow the end of the old serves as a promise that something new will begin to take its place after the hiatus is over. And the presence of a hiatus in our lives, individually and collectively, may also serve as a promise that we will not inevitably rush towards an end of the old that will also be an end of it all, that we will be able to find the opening to begin something new, that we will be able to make the transition to something better, that both survival and progress are possible, through an understanding of the processes of continuity and change.
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* Jury agrees that Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis slandered casino mogul Steve Wynn by saying he threatened to kill Francis over his gambling debt. That'll be $20 million. Or, Francis can just show Wynn his boobs. [Huffington Post]
* Moonbeam Jerry and Chris "Destroyer of Idiots" Christie are feuding. It's just like Biggie v. Tupac, but with hot air instead of unregistered firearms. [Daily Dolt]
* Dude spies on his wife in their own home for the better part of a year. Now they're getting divorced. Mother, tell your husband not to spy my way. [USA Today]
* Judging from the intensity of the ATL Fantasy Football league after just one week of play, a lot of lawyers really wish they had this job. [Sports Illustrated]
* Thank God there were no leaf blowers were involved, or one of these guys may have napalmed the whole neighborhood. [Legal Juice]
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From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action. Right thus replaces might as the engine of empire. Not just Christianity and Islam but the religions of the Persians and the Germans, and even Buddhism, are pressed into the service of the state. This phenomenon-stretching from the Americas all the way to Japan-changes religion, but it also changes the state.
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Challenges Related to Restructuring the Postal Service's Retail Network
GAO-12-433: Published: Apr 17, 2012. Publicly Released: Apr 17, 2012.
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What GAO Found
Over the past 5 years, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has taken several actions to restructure its retail network through reducing its workforce and its footprint while expanding retail alternatives. USPS officials estimated that it had saved about $800 million from reducing the number of work hours dedicated to retail operations. USPS also closed 631 of its post offices, but it did not have cost-savings estimates for these closures. Most of the facilities closed (500) were in response to a postmaster vacancy or the suspension of operations due to an expired lease or irreparable damage following a natural disaster. Fewer closures (131) have resulted from nationwide reviews that USPS initiated in 2009 and 2011. USPS has also restructured its retail network by expanding alternatives through self-service options as well as partnerships with other retailers.
Members of Congress, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG), customers, employee associations, and some community residents have raised concerns about USPSs retail restructuring initiatives. The concerns include
- access to postal services, including community residents ability to obtain retail services, the adequacy of retail alternatives, and changes to delivery services;
- the impact of facility closures on communities;
- the adequacy of USPS analysis of facilities facing closure and the reliability of USPS data, particularly the accuracy of USPS cost savings estimates; ·
- the transparency and equity of USPS closure decisions;
- the fairness of USPSs facility closure procedures; and
- changes in who can manage a post office.
PRC, USPS OIG, and GAO have recommended improvements to address some of these issues. In particular, GAO has recommended that USPS develop a plan that addresses both traditional post offices and retail alternatives and ensures that USPS has a viable strategy for effectively adapting its networks to changing mail use and maintaining adequate service as it reduces costs. USPS officials have said they are in the process of addressing these recommendations.
USPS faces challenges, such as legal restrictions and resistance from some Members of Congress and the public, that have limited its ability to change its retail network. For example, USPS is supposed to be self-financing, but it is also restricted by law from making decisions that businesses would commonly make, such as closing unprofitable units. Additionally, some Members of Congress and the public have challenged USPSs plans to close retail facilities in their districts or communities. Certain policy issues remain unresolved related to what level of retail services USPS should provide, how the cost of these services should be paid, and how USPS should optimize its retail network. Pending legislation takes differing approaches to addressing these policy issues. If Congress prefers to retain the current level of retail service and associated network, decisions will need to be made about how USPS will pay for these services, including through additional cost reductions or revenue sources.
Why GAO Did This Study
Since 2006, USPS has accumulated losses of $25 billion and projects a $14.1 billion net loss for fiscal year 2012. In September 2011, the Postmaster General testified that USPS needed to reduce its annual costs by $20 billion, or 27 percent of its projected expenses. One effort to reduce costs includes restructuring, or optimizing, the size of USPSs retail network and workforce. The network includes approximately 32,000 USPS-operated facilities, such as traditional post offices, as well as alternative non-USPS-operated locations that sell its products and services. To optimize this network, USPS plans to evaluate and locate its retail facilities to maximize revenue and minimize costs while still providing access to services.
As requested, this report discusses (1) key actions USPS has taken over thepast 5 years to restructure its retail network, (2) concerns raised by stakeholders, and (3) the challenges USPS faces in changing its retail network. GAO analyzed USPS documents, interviewed USPS officials and stakeholders, and observed public meetings on retail facility closures.
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GAO makes no recommendations in this report, as it has previously reported on the urgency for Congress to allow USPS to adapt its retail network to changing customer behavior and reduce costs. USPS agreed with GAOs draft report, noting limitations it faces to retailrestructuring. It also observed that maintaining the same level of retail services will require solutions to cover the costs of those services.
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AAMC Leading By Example With Expanded Tobacco Free Policy
AAMC already has a smoke-free campus, new policy aims to improve the health of workforce
Rohrbach Joins Anne Arundel Medical Center as Administrative Fellow
(June 26, 2015)—Valerie Rohrbach recently joined Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) as an administrative fellow. A Pennsylvania native, Rohrbach is currently working on a master's degree at George Washington University (GWU). Rohrbach graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor of arts in international politics with a concentration in international political economy and is …
New Diabetes and Endocrine Specialists Practice Aims to Improve the Health of Diabetic Patients
(June 22, 2015)—Anne Arundel Medical Group (AAMG) has opened its new Diabetes and Endocrine Specialists practice. The goal of the practice is to create a 'medical home' to improve the health of the local diabetic population as well as provide management and treatment of endocrine disorders. The new practice is located in the Wayson Pavilion …
Yurkon Appointed as AAMC's Vice President of Finance
(June 17, 2015)—Cathy Yurkon was recently appointed vice president of Finance for Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC). In her role, Yurkon will be responsible for revenue cycle management, financial planning, budgeting and cost accounting. Prior to joining AAMC, Cathy served as vice president for financial planning and revenue cycle at Health Quest in LaGrangeville, New …
AAMC Nurses Receive Scholarships Totaling $100,000
(May 18, 2015)—At the Annual Nursing Celebration Dinner held May 7 at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), the AAMC Foundation awarded 20 scholarships totaling $100,000—the most given out in one year— to deserving AAMC nurses to further their education and careers. Scholarship recipients were selected based upon several criteria, including academic achievement, letters of recommendation, …
Buckley Promoted to Chief of General Surgery
(May 15, 2015)—Brooke Buckley, MD, was recently promoted to chief of General Surgery at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC). Dr. Buckley brings to this role several years of experience in general surgical practice at AAMC as medical director of the AAMC Acute Care Surgery Program. Dr. Buckley has been with AAMC since 2012. She is …
AAMC Announces Agreement with Titan Medical Inc. to Develop, Train Surgeons for the Use of Specialized Surgical System
(May 06, 2015) – Anne Arundel Medical Center's (AAMC's) James and Sylvia Earl Simulation to Advance Innovation and Learning (SAIL) center signed an agreement with Titan Medical Inc. for the development of a comprehensive curriculum for training and performance assessment. The curriculum would be developed for training the surgeons and surgical teams who would use …
American Heart Association Recognizes AAMC for Coordinated, Efficient Care of Stroke Patients
(April 15, 2015)—Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) was recently recognized by the American Heart Association (AHA) for improving the quality of care and outcomes for stroke patients. The recognition is part of the AHA's "Get with the Guidelines," an in-hospital program for improving stroke care by promoting consistent adherence to the latest scientific treatment guidelines. …
AAMC's ACO to Maximize Outpatient Care Experience, Job Satisfaction With Help of Hitachi Foundation Grant
(March 25, 2015)—Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) is 1 of 4 national healthcare systems to receive part of a $1.5 million grant from The Hitachi Foundation. Funding will support programs to provide advanced training of medical assistants who work at primary care practices in AAMC's accountable care organization (ACO). In medical practices, medical assistants typically …
Morgan Harris, MD Joins AAMG Neurology Specialists
(March 26, 2015)—Morgan Harris, MD, has joined AAMG Neurology Specialists, a practice associated with Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC). Dr. Harris is a board-certified, fellowship-trained neurologist who graduated from Howard University in 2007. She has advanced training in neurophysiology and is an expert in electromyography (EMG) diagnostic testing, a procedure which assesses the health of muscles …
Expanded Support for Family Members of People with Substance Use Disorders and Mental Health Concerns
(March 9, 2015) – Pathways, Anne Arundel Medical Center's (AAMC) alcohol and drug treatment center has expanded its Family Wellness Workshop program to now include both one day and full weekend sessions. The expansion was made possible with a grant of more than $26,000 from the William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Foundation. The program …
Alperovitz-Bichell Joins Anne Arundel Medical Group
(February 27, 2015) – Kari Alperovitz-Bichell, MD, has joined Anne Arundel Medical Group. She is a primary care doctor practicing at the Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) Community Clinic at the Morris Blum Senior Apartments. Dr. Alperovitz-Bichell received her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is passionate about improving access to high-quality …
Walk-in Clinic Opens in Annapolis Shoppers
New clinic is located at 2371 Solomon's Island Road in Annapolis.
AAMC Aims to Bring Cardiac Surgery Program to Anne Arundel County
Logical step in providing comprehensive heart care services for our community
Recognition for High-Quality, Rapid Care of Heart Attack Patients
AAMC has been recognized for its quick and efficient treatment of heart attack patients and identifying those at risk
Take Charge of Heart Health at Local Events
Community heart events in February
AAMC Opens Second Phase of Pasadena Health Pavilion
Orthopedics, sports medicine and physical therapy added to services offered
It's a BOY! First New Year's Baby at Anne Arundel Medical Center Born at 5:01am
AAMC delivered 150 more boys than girls in 2014
Semakula Joins the Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center
Specializes in sports medicine and non-operative care of fractures, osteoarthristis, and joint pain
Lynch Joins the Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center
He has an interest in spine intervention and interventional pain management
Buckley Elected President of Maryland Medical State Society
Dr. Buckley will be the third woman to serve in this position
Jacobs Joins AAMC as Vice President for Strategic Planning and Decision Support
New Vice President of Strategic Planning and Decision Support
AAMC Leads Maryland Hospitals in Bridging People Into Medicaid
New Rule Allows Hospitals to Help Community Members Get Medicaid Coverage Faster
Patton Named Leader of AAMC Spine Program
Will Provide Leadership and Expertise in Innovative Program
20th Annual Lights on the Bay
Opens Saturday, November 22 through Thursday, January 1, 2015
AAMC Recognized for Having One of Nation's Best Practices in Patient and Family Engagement
Recognition for integrating patients and families as a routine part of health care
Dr. Fry Joins Annapolis Primary Care
(October 31, 2014)—Family physician Timothy Fry, DO, has joined Anne Arundel Medical Group Annapolis Primary Care, a practice associated with Anne Arundel Medical Center. Dr. Fry joins Annapolis Primary Care after practicing several years in Edgewater, Md. He received his medical degree from Western University of Health Science and completed his residency at Mercy Hospital …
AAMC's Cancer Center 1 of 6 Nationwide to Receive Award
Association of Community Cancer Centers Honors AAMC's Geaton and JoAnn DeCesaris Cancer Institute for Its Symptom Management Clinic
Mayzel Joins Bay Area Midwifery in Annapolis
Her interests include obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive health, and newborn care.
Ebola Preparedness Update (Oct. 21, 2014)
A multidisciplinary work group has been tasked with Ebola preparations and training efforts.
Paul King, MD Joins Anne Arundel Medical Group
Specializes in the treatment of disorders of the hip and knee, including joint replacement and reconstruction
AAMC Opens Mental Health Clinic
Hospital works to establish this resource in response to community health needs assessment
Reineck Joins Anne Arundel Medical Center Cardiology Staff
Interventional cardiologist with AAMG Cardiology Specialists
Anne Arundel Medical Center's Nursing Excellence Recognized with Prestigious Magnet® Recognition
Recognition is a reflection of patient- and family-centered care, nursing professionalism and teamwork
AAMC Receives 2014 Quality Improvement Award
Hospital recognized for commitment to excellence and to improving the quality of care for patients
Agrawal Joins Largo Primary Care
(September 12, 2014)—Family physician Meetu Agrawal, MD, has joined Anne Arundel Medical Group Largo Primary Care, a practice associated with Anne Arundel Medical Center. Dr. Agrawal joins Largo Family Care having recently completed an internal medicine residency program at St. Agnes Hospital. Dr. Agrawal is practicing with AAMG Largo Primary Care located at 1450 Mercantile Lane, …
Surgeon Kevin Stitely Expands with New Office in the AAMC Kent Island Pavilion
(September 2, 2014)—Kevin Stitely, MD, a surgeon with Anne Arundel Medical Center's Surgical Specialists, has opened an additional office on Kent Island at 1630 Main Street in Chester, and is seeing patients there on Fridays. He also sees patients in his Easton office, and at the surgical group's overall practice based at Anne Arundel Medical …
Groves Joins Premier OB-GYN in Odenton and Bowie
(August 27, 2014)—Obstetrician-gynecologist Melissa Groves, MD, has joined Anne Arundel Medical Group Premier OB-GYN, a practice associated with Anne Arundel Medical Center. Dr. Groves joins Premier OB-GYN after having recently completed an OB-GYN residency program at The George Washington University, where she also attended medical school. Her interests include normal and high risk obstetrics, contraception, …
Parmer Joins Pasadena Primary Care
(August 15, 2014)—Family physician Lauren Parmer, DO, has joined Anne Arundel Medical Group Pasadena Primary Care, a practice associated with Anne Arundel Medical Center. Dr. Parmer joins Pasadena Primary Care having recently completed a family medicine residency program at St. Luke's Warren Hospital where she was named co-chief resident and Intern of the Year. She …
Jim York, MD Joins Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Center
(August 7, 2014)—Orthopaedic surgeon James J. York, MD, has joined The Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center, a practice associated with Anne Arundel Medical Center. Dr. York joins The Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center after 26 years with Chesapeake Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine in Glen Burnie. He specializes in reconstructive shoulder, knee, total joint, and cartilage …
AAMC Among "Most Wired" Hospitals Nationwide
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Anne Arundel Medical Center Named Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Center of Excellence
July 2, 2014—Earning the designation as a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecological Surgery (COEMIGS) requires hospitals and doctors to demonstrate a shared commitment and ability to deliver the safest, highest quality, evidenced-based care consistently. Anne Arundel Medical Center is the second medical center in Maryland to be named a Center of Excellence in …
Hospital Honored for Eliminating Restrictive Visiting Policies
Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care recognizes AAMC for excellence in engaging patients and families as partners in care
AAMC Takes Lead Implementing Tobacco-Free Hiring Policy
Revised policy prohibits the use of all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes at all AAMC facilities
Pathways Receives Substance Abuse Care Award
(June 16, 2014)—Pathways, an affiliate of Anne Arundel Medical Center, earned national recognition for delivering highly effective, cost-effective inpatient substance abuse care. The Platinum award designation by Optum, formerly known as United Behavioral Health, bases its honor on clinical data such as such as readmission rates and the average length of inpatient stays collected throughout …
AAMG Primary Care Open in Pasadena
(June 6, 2014)—Anne Arundel Medical Group recently opened a new primary care office in Pasadena, Maryland. Led by Stephen Hansman, MD, Pasadena Primary Care will provide quality patient care for the entire family including routine check-ups, consultation for illnesses and lifestyle coaching. Dr. Hansman is a board-certified family physician and a native Marylander. He most …
Walk-in Clinic Opens in Bowie GiantFood
In-Store Clinic Now Open in Bowie
Dr. Patel Selected as Outstanding Physician of the Year
(May 28, 2014)—Pulmonary intensivist Kanak Patel, MD, was recently chosen as Outstanding Physician of the Year at Anne Arundel Medical Center(AAMC)—an honor bestowed by the hospital's nurses. Dr. Patel was the top vote-getter out of 1,000 cast by AAMC nurses, who were asked to nominate a doctor considered a role model and who demonstrates extraordinary …
Employees Celebrate 40 Years at AAMC
(May 8, 2014)—The year was 1973: President Nixon announced his resignation following the Watergate scandal, liposuction was invented and a gallon of gas cost $0.55. And Doris Diggs of Annapolis and Mike Murnane of Arnold, began their careers at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC). Diggs and Murnane were recently honored at AAMC's Employee Recognition Dinner. …
Auxiliary Honored for Dedication, Service
Annapolitan Ida Marshall Recognized for 41 years of volunteer work


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Travel: Brilliant Belgium; STEVE PURCELL IN A SECRET CORNER OF THE CONTINENT
Byline: STEVE PURCELL
DON'T tell too many people but here's a little secret - you'll find the perfect long weekend in wonderful Wallonia.
Where? Exactly - that's why this unspoilt, uncrowded and very pretty part of Belgium remains a gem visited only by those in the know.
Just 170 miles of unhurried driving from Calais, Wallonia is a great place to unwind.
Most people think of Belgium as Brussels or Bruges. But in the rural south you'll find great river valleys, fortress towns such as Namur and fabulous natural features, including the Caves of Han. There are man-made attractions too, including the Six Flags theme park, with more than 50 fun rides.
Just two hours after crossing the Channel we checked in to the Jardin de la Molignee, a delightful hotel alongside the Molignee river at Anhee, between Namur and Dinant.
Families can stay together in the six-berth suites there and it has an indoor swimming pool, tennis courts and great food.
Rested and restored, we took a short journey to the fascinating Caves of Han, one of the largest such sites in Europe. Visitors ride a small train to the entrance before descending along a walkway through a series of magnificent natural chambers.
You then board a flat-bottomed boat for a ride on the underground river which leads back out into the surrounding parkland.
The caves are surrounded by a 250-hectare wild animal reserve, featuring animals which used to be native to the region including wolves and bears. …


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Dying Light Benchmarked, Performance Review
Dying Light takes place in an expansive urban environment where players navigate using free running 'parkour' mechanics while scavenge for supplies to craft weapons and defend against the city's growing infected population. It's the first game built with the Chrome Engine 6, which is a proprietary 3D game engine developed by Techland that was first used over 10 years ago in Speedway Grand Prix and sci-fi shooter Chrome.
5 Generations of Radeon Graphics Compared: HD 5870 through R9 290X
After taking half a decade's worth of DirectX 11-capable GeForce graphics cards, it's time to look at things from the opposite side as we compare five generations of Radeon cards with the latest Catalyst driver to see when and where AMD has made its biggest performance leaps and which GPUs have aged the best.
Hints of upcoming Radeon R9 380X with high-bandwidth memory, 300W TDP
The Crew Benchmarked, Performance Review
Ubisoft's new action-driving MMO has 7,000 miles of roads, 15 cities and 15 million individual objects. The Crew has been designed for the latest generation consoles and PCs, though the former are capped at 30fps/1080p while our preferred platform ought to look and feel better with a 60fps cap and a higher res. Here's our full PC benchmark test.
Dragon Age: Inquisition GPU & CPU Performance Review
PC gamers can expect a crisper, more detailed world in Dragon Age: Inquisition, though precisely how crisp and detailed will depend on your setup. As usual we've put some hardware to the test, including the latest AMD and Nvidia GPUs, in total 25 DirectX 11 GPU graphics card configurations from both companies covering all prices.
Far Cry 4 Benchmarked, Performance Review
Graphics have always been a selling point of the Far Cry series as few games offer the same open world environments that can be experienced in Far Cry. The latest iteration is no exception. Being an Nvidia "The Way It's Meant to be Played" title, FC4 has loads of optimizations for GeForce cards, including HBAO+, PCSS, TXAA, Godrays, and HairWorks. If nothing else, this should make it all the more interesting to compare results.
AMD, Nvidia release optimized drivers for 'Dragon Age: Inquisition' and 'Far Cry 4'
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Gaming at 4K: GeForce GTX 970 SLI Performance
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 970 positioned itself it as an ideal candidate for multi-GPU 4K gaming by outperforming the Radeon R9 290 while undercutting its price too. As expected, AMD was quick to respond with price cuts, which means folks looking to game at 4K have some capable multi-GPU options for as little as $600 to $660.
AMD's new Catalyst 14.9 drivers improve performance, CrossFire scaling in multiple games
Leaked cooler points to an upcoming AMD Radeon R9 390X
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Like the old days: Why AMD and Nvidia are fighting?
AMD releases Catalyst 14.6 Release Candidate driver
AMD graphics cards return to normal prices, R9 280 now $250
AMD releases Catalyst 14.4 WHQL driver
Dual-GPU AMD Radeon R9 295X2 details leak
AMD Mantle Performance: Thief & Battlefield 4
The biggest news for Mantle since being announced as a method of improving performance in games by allowing them to use your CPU and GPU more efficiently, has been support from DICE's Frostbite 3 engine (and by extension, Battlefield 4). Recently that support expanded to Eidos' Thief, while Crytek revealed at GDC 2014 that CryEngine will support it too. AMD says its latest update is of "tremendous benefit to a large cross-section of the gaming public" so we are keen to check it out.


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Making sense of the H-1B lottery
Unfortunately for petitioners, the sad truth is that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) does not do raffles, and they certainly do not give away the highly-coveted H-1B "specialty occupation" visa.
Out at work: An employer's primer on LGBT employee protections
Federal law applicable to LGBT employees has been constantly evolving during the past two years and will continue to evolve based on the legal challenges already in the pipeline.
When patent reform meets human trafficking
An addendum to an anti-human trafficking bill, proposed by Senator John Cornyn (R.-Texas) is reportedly the source of tension in the Senate.
The workplace and medical marijuana: Employer guidelines for navigating the legal haze
Given the uncertainty, employers need answers to basic questions concerning employees' medical marijuana use. The legal landscape surrounding answers to these questions is hazy, but not indecipherable.
White House suffers setback on immigration plan after ruling by Texas judge
A new ruling by a Texas federal judge on President Obama's immigration initiative has irritated the White House and the Department of Justice is planning to appeal.
Number of locations with paid sick leave law increasing quickly
"The longer the federal law sits, the more municipalities and states are moving to pass these laws," William Perkins, an attorney with Seyfarth Shaw, said.
Breaking down the recent legislative efforts to reform patent litigation
Even as hard numbers are just beginning to emerge regarding the effectiveness of the administrative procedures introduced by the America Invents Act, federal lawmakers are already considering new legislation that may include even more dramatic measures.
Parental leave laws in the U.S. and abroad: Evolving international standards (Part 1)
U.S. and multinational employers must consider the parental leave laws in each jurisdiction in which they operate, as one policy may not accommodate all jurisdictions.
You win…legal action! Keeping yourself safe with promotional games (Part 3)
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Green Beans with Toasted Nuts
From EatingWell: November/December 1995, The EatingWell Diabetes Cookbook (2005)
Toasted nuts are a simple way to embellish green beans. If you have hazelnut or walnut oil on hand, use it in place of the olive oil to enhance the nutty flavor.
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Nutrition Profile
Diabetes appropriate | Low calorie | Low carbohydrate | Low cholesterol | Low saturated fat | Low sodium | Heart healthy | Healthy weight | High fiber | Gluten free |View Our Nutrition Guidelines »
- 1 pound green beans, stem ends trimmed
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons chopped peeled hazelnuts, or walnuts
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground pepper, to taste
- Cook beans in a large pot of boiling salted water until just tender, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain.
- Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over low heat. Add nuts and cook, stirring, until golden, about 1 minute. Return the reserved beans to the pot and toss to coat. Season with salt and pepper.
Per serving: 104 calories; 5 g fat (1 g sat, 3 g mono); 0 mg cholesterol; 9 g carbohydrates; 0 g added sugars; 3 g protein; 4 g fiber; 152 mg sodium; 261 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: Fiber (28% daily value), Vitamin C (22% dv).
Exchanges: 1 vegetable, 1 fat (mono)
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