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When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook would announce something "awesome" on July 6, he wasn't fooling much of the media that covers him. (You know your company has clout when the media covers an announcement of an upcoming announcement). Report after report predicted that Facebook would integrate Skype video chat and, thanks to TechCrunch.com, the rumor has finally been confirmed.
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Beautiful and mysterious Lilly Tearwater was no lady. She was a fraud! With a wager at stake, Samuel Temple planned to find a scientific explanation for the mysterious apparitions that supposedly occurred at her inn and then settle down into a quiet, scholarly life. But Sam's plans fell apart when he met the exotic beauty, because she seemed to be practicing her magic on him!
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Beautiful and mysterious Lilly Tearwater was no lady. She was a fraud! With a wager at stake, Samuel Temple planned to find a scientific explanation for the mysterious apparitions that supposedly occurred at her inn and then settle down into a quiet, scholarly life. But Sam's plans fell apart when he met the exotic beauty, because she seemed to be practicing her magic on him!
Emotionally scarred from his recent captivity in the Sudan, Sam found the very thought of human touch—let alone intimacy—repugnant. But now he found himself desiring Lilly with every fiber of his being. And somehow Sam sensed that a decidedly unladylike Lilly could offer him the adventure of a lifetime .
"Not bloody likely," Sam Temple grumbled in response to his sister-in-law's remark. He returned to his place at the table, sat down and stretched his long legs out in front of him. "There is not one shred of empirical, scientific evidence that ghosts exist."
He did not like to disagree with his brother's lovely English wife, but the notion of hauntings in country castles or any other building was nonsense. Ridiculous. Certainly not a worthy theory for an intelligent woman like Dorothea to entertain, no matter who had sent the letter describing strange doings at Ravenwell Cottage.
"Perhaps not everything can be explained by science," Sam's brother, Jack, said, lighting a cheroot. Since they dined en famille, the gentlemen did not leave the table for their brandy. Jack poured a draught for himself and one for Sam, who took a long swallow and gave half his attention to his elder brother. "There may be forces in the world that men will never understand. You have to have faith."
"Supernatural forces?" Sam scoffed. He'd given up on anything but the here-and-now when he and several colleagues had been imprisoned in Sudan, when he'd been tortured and whipped like an animal by the fanatic followers of a religious leader, when he'd been forced to witness the execution of his friend and mentor, Robert Kelton.
He had gone with Kelton and twelve other naturalists on that fated trip to Sudan, each man pursuing studies in his own specialty. For nearly six months, they'd been left alone to collect their data. By the time they'd understood their peril from the Mahdi's uprising, it was impossible to get out. The Mahdi's vicious band of followers reached Khartoum, and Sam's group was doomed.
The only thing that had kept Sam from losing his sanity during his captivity was his ability to focus on his work.
When he'd been desperate to escape his tormentors, he had concentrated so completely on the bees he'd been studying that his mind had separated from the sensations of his body.
Sam swallowed the bitter taste that arose when he thought of the horrors the fanatics had inflicted, and avoided looking at his own torn and ravaged hands when he lifted his glass. At least his fingernails had grown back, such as they were. And he'd regained most of the weight he'd lost when his captors had nearly starved him.
After the British troops had stormed the prison and he'd been released from his cell, Sam had been carried to a hovel outside Khartoum. He'd drifted in and out of consciousness for a long time - he still didn't know if it had been days or weeks. He hadn't known his rescuers, or why they'd taken him in and cared for him.
At some point, he'd been taken out of Sudan in a caravan, lying on a pallet, ailing and feverish. Somehow he'd survived the journey to Cairo, along with several other victims of the Mahdi's bloody uprising.
Sam had been shocked to learn how many months had passed since he and the rest of his party had been ambushed by the Mahdi fanatics. Yet he'd needed three more months to heal and recover his strength before going on to London, where his brother lived with his family ...
"Why not?" Jack retorted, jerking Sam's attention from his hideous memories. "Why do you fellows who spend your days in laboratories and classrooms think that everything must be predictable and definable, that science has all the answers?"
"My opinion on the subject has nothing to do with science," Sam said. "It's pure common sense."
"Because the -"
"Because there's a crackpot on every corner who would swindle you for a buck - or should I say, a shilling," he amended, giving Dorothea a nod.
"Why should it be different here in England than in any other country?"
Jack just smiled, which infuriated Sam. That was no way to win an argument. One didn't just sit back and smile and take on a superior demeanor to make a point.
"Empirical data is what's needed," he said.
"Even the ancient Greeks sought firm evidence to explain the world. Look at the Socratic method. Or at Plato, who states that the visible realm contains ordinary physical objects, and our perception of them provides the basis for belief."
"Point taken," Jack said, putting out his cheroot.
"But didn't Socrates encourage his students to question the truth of popular opinion? And Plato clearly addressed the difference between do'xa and episte^me
^- opinion and true knowledge."
"But their entire purpose -"
Sam's argument was interrupted by the arrival of his young nephew, in the arms of his nurse. "Ah, here he is," Dorothea said, appearing glad of the interruption.
The child, little more than a year old, went into his mother's arms with glee, and Jack leaned forward to press his lips upon Joshua's brow. Sam sat back in his chair, unable to make himself reach out and chuck his little nephew under the chin. The thought of touching another made his skin crawl.
Being touched was even worse.
"Have you come to say good-night to Papa and Uncle Samuel?" Dorothea cooed.
"I have the greatest respect for the Greeks," Jack said. "Not to mention Mr. Darwin and his methods. Your methods." He turned to face Sam. "But I also believe that there are forces in the world that are not quantifiable."
"Such as?"
Sam noted the subtle glance exchanged by Jack and his wife. It was as though they knew something the rest of the world did not.
"Such as objects ... and events ... that defy explanation." Jack leaned forward. "Why do you insist that Ravenwell Cottage cannot possibly be haunted? Dorothea's letter is from a very reputable friend - a professor of antiquities at Oxford. Surely Professor Bloomsby is not a crackpot."
Had anyone else spoken these words, Sam would have laughed in his face. But this was Jack, his older brother - a man who had made some of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the century. Though Jack was an unconventional fellow, there was no doubt that his methods were sound. Sam could not just discount his opinion.
"There is no object or event that cannot be explained," Sam maintained. "If it is examined competently, then logic and the scientific method will prevail."
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A third of the way through and... sigh.
You'll never guess. Riker has made an inadvertent mistake, and an entire civilization is now going to perish unless he fixes it. AND he has to make tricky moral decisions about the Prime Directive and the complications that arise from his diverse crew.
Just ONE TIME, I want someone to write a Titan book that demonstrates the characters on the ship having some sort of fun. This series is so damn grim. This is arguably the most interesting crew in the ongoing 24th century novels; give them ONE NOVEL without the weight of some tragedy hanging on them the whole entire time.
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Workers' compensation is, technically, available to help injured poultry workers. But the fact is, it exists for them mostly on paper.
Survey participants who suffered and reported injuries requiring them to miss work rarely said that they received workers' compensation benefits (29 percent).
Alabama law makes it difficult for workers to receive coverage for musculoskeletal disorders – the type of injury most common among poultry workers.
In 1992, the Alabama Legislature amended the state's Worker Compensation Act to enact a more difficult standard for workers reporting "injuries which have resulted from gradual deterioration or cumulative physical stress disorders" because such claims were "one of the contributing causes of the current workers' compensation crisis facing [the] state."1 Carpal tunnel syndrome is usually subject to this higher burden of proof.2
By enacting this law, the Legislature chose to take what it perceived as a financial burden on insurance companies and place it squarely on some of the state's hardest working, lowest paid people – poultry workers. These workers face other obstacles as well, including tight deadlines for reporting injuries. This hinders the reporting of many musculoskeletal disorders that may not be diagnosable immediately upon their occurrence – often because employers obstruct workers' access to independent medical evaluation.3
In addition, many workers are blocked from the workers' compensation system by employer threats and retaliation. Human Rights Watch found that "companies in the U.S. meat and poultry industry avoid payouts through their workers' compensation programs by systematically failing to recognize and report claims, delaying claims, denying claims, and threatening and taking reprisals against workers who file claims for compensation for workplace injuries."4
Alabama law prohibits retaliation against workers who apply for compensation benefits by stating that no employee "shall be terminated by an employer solely because the employee has instituted or maintained any action against the employer to recover workers' compensation benefits."5
On paper, this provides greater protection than Georgia, another major poultry-producing state, which expressly permits employers to retaliate against workers for filing compensation claims.6
Nevertheless, the word "solely" sticks out of Alabama's statute like a sore thumb. It invites unscrupulous employers to invent additional reasons to fire injured employees seeking benefits. Workers who participated in this study were under no illusion about what happens to those brave enough to seek workers' compensation – they risk losing their jobs.
[1] Ala. Code § 25-5-81(c); comments to the 1992 Amendments. The precise text reads: "The decision of the court shall be based on a preponderance of the evidence as contained in the record of the hearing, except in cases involving injuries which have resulted from gradual deterioration or cumulative physical stress disorders, which shall be deemed compensable only upon a finding of clear and convincing proof that those injuries arose out of and in the course of the employee's employment. For the purposes of this amendatory act, 'clear and convincing' shall mean evidence that, when weighted against evidence in opposition, will produce in the mind of the trier of fact a firm conviction as to each essential element of the claim and a high probability as to the correctness of the conclusion. Proof by clear and convincing evidence requires a level of proof greater than a preponderance of the evidence or the substantial weight of the evidence, but less than beyond a reasonable doubt." Ala. Code § 25-5-81(c).
[2] USX Corp. v. Bradley, 881 So. 2d 421, 425 (Ala. Civ. App. 2003).
[3] See, e.g., Ala. Code § 25-5-78 (denying all benefits to workers who do not file a written report of an accident within, in some circumstances, five days, and in all circumstances, 90 days).
[4] Human Rights Watch, Blood, Sweat and Fear: Workers Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants at 57 (January 25, 2005), available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/01/24/blood-sweat-and-fear.
[5] Ala. Code § 25-5-11.1.
[6] See Evans v. Bibb Co., 178 Ga. App. 139, 139–40 (Ga. Ct. App. 1986) (holding that employers may lawfully terminate their employees in direct and open retaliation for employees' assertion of rights under the Georgia Workers' Compensation Act, O.C.G.A. § 34-9-1 et seq.).
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By Doug firstname.lastname@example.com When the Clayton State men's soccer team opens its season next week with games at Nova Southern and Barry College in Florida, it will be the start of what head coach Pete Petersen thinks could be the toughest schedule ever. "I thought we had some tough schedules in the past, but I know for a fact, next year's schedules won't be nearly this hard." After the two road games to get things started, it doesn't get any easier for the Lakers as they face NCAA Division II powers Tampa on Sept. 4, and Lynn Sept. 6 at home as part of the Labor Day weekend action. Both opponents are expected to be among the nation's top teams. Lynn is coached by former Clayton State coach John Rootes. For Petersen, it's always fun when the two soccer coaches go up against each other. "I got him a yellow card, last year," Petersen joked. "But it really is fun. There aren't too many coaches I don't like. There are a lot of guys I enjoy coaching against." The early-season games should prove to be a solid tests for Clayton State. A year ago, the Lakers went 9-5-4 overall and 3-0-3 in the Peach Belt Conference to finish second in the league. Clayton State brings back 17 letterwinners from last year, including eight starters. Among those returning to the line up are senior goalkeeper, David Cristofoil, who compiled a 1.10 goals against average. Leighton Fredericks, who was named the Peach Belt Conference's Player of the Year after scoring 13 goals, brings plenty of punch back to the Lakers' offense. Other returners include, Matty Phillips, Kyle Timm, Matthias Faublas, Brett Nielsen, Liam Brown, and Roger Boniface. Veterans Ryan Pugh, Jonathan McKeever, Suhkman Bal, Chris Carman, Jonathan Ray, Seth Scott, Jordan Gilbert, Sam Bevan and Jesse Moret return to the squad. Eight new players have been added to the Clayton State roster, including a mix of both college transfers and true freshmen. Brian Endres, David Hunter, Igo Lukic, Deni Lulic, Bran Forero, Alargie Jobe, Bobby Dodd, and Angelo Suarez will be making their first appearences with the Lakers. Practice is going really well, Petersen said. "This year, we are going to go witha 4-3-1-2 alignment and stress defense. I am really pleased wth the way they have picked things up. We are trying not to give up silly goals." Clayton State faces some tough test once it gets into Peach Belt Conference play. Francis Marion, the Lakers first conference opponent on Sept. 18, and Lander, on Hollowen night, were tied for the lead in the Peach Belt Conference preseason poll. The Lakers were picked right behind those two teams. College soccer powers Flagler and Montevello join the PBC this year. Women: A year ago, things didn't go very well for the Lady Lakers. A 1-14-1 record was a season veteran head coach T.O. Totty would soon forget about. Clayton State brings back seven starters from last year's disappointing season, including the only senior on among the starters, Rebekah Cook who scored two goals and added 1 assist from her midfield spot. Maggie Mueller, Caitlin Clark, Danelle Douglas, Jennifer Dreasler, Haley Durham and Janei Ivey also return to the starting line up. The Lady Lakers are also hoping to get a boost out of red-shirt freshman Cherie Sayon and red-shirt hjunior Elizabeth Cook. Several players with local ties are also expected turn things around for the Clayton State women. Union Grove graduate Megan Nuckolls, who played in 13 games, starting five is a back at her defender postion. Junior Medeka McGregor, who played at Luella High School, Kimberly Joiner and Union Grove graduate Haley Durham are all on the roster this year at CSU. The Lady Lakers open the season at home against Spelman College next Saturday, before hitting the road for two games at West Georgia and Les McRae. "Practices have been very encouraging," Totty said. "We have strengthened our midfield and defense, and that's going to be a key for us." The Lady Lakers are young in spots with only Cook, Verinque Cooper and Kimberly Leeds coming back as seniors. "The leadership the seniors bring definitely helps," Totty said. Columbus State is picked to win the Peach Belt Conference in the peseason poll. The Lady Lakers were picked down at the bottom in the ninth spot. Clayton State opens its conference slate on Sept. 10 at Armstrong Atlantic.
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"Good karma, would have it this way. The Kid Daytona visited Europe during this past Summer 2012, and crafted his more recent project "Summer Games: The Kid with The Golden Pen".
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I was robbed at gunpoint this week in Karachi. I don't really want to write about this because the repetitive telling of the story or externalization of the experience feels as if it will give it another life—numb its essence or fetishize it.
I've worked as a journalist in Karachi for 14 years and that has placed me sometimes at the very nerve centre of violence whether it is bomb blasts, target killings, street fights, gang violence. I always knew I'd be mugged one day and whenever I stop at a traffic signal I fear someone will tap their gun politely at my window and tell me to hand everything over.
I don't want to write about yesterday but it so strongly goes to the heart of my lived experience of being a Karachi wallah and a Pakistani that I feel compelled to. Also, oddly enough, I have been reading certain things and editing certain stories that have made me revisit the myriad nature of Pakistani trauma, a phenomenon that has long concerned me whether it comes in the shape of sectarian Shia killings or the Taliban's brutalization of the population of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, our northern province/state.
What interests me about a mugging actually happening is that it gave birth to a space where the visceral experience intersects with my understandings of the violent society I live in.
I went to see my sister and brother-in-law for the evening. They live in a middle-class neighbourhood which is slowly being taken over by shops and restaurants. Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society was once and indeed still is a well-respected place to live in. But the main roundabout has become commercialized, attracting a steady crowd each day. As a result of the change in the urban fabric, at the end of my sister's lane a tikka place rubs shoulders with a mechanic's workshop, around the corner a Gloria Jeans is always packed, and right behind her house a mall is coming up. Just to give you a sense of how busy and rocking this neighbourhood is, I'm listing the shops and restaurants: Ginsoy, Cactus, Bundoo Khan, Nandos, two frozen yoghurt shops, Student Biryani, two kulfi falooda and juice places, two bakeries, a pharmacy, a video store, KFC, and Del Frio keep this central meeting point busy well up to 2am. My sister's street, however, is not well lit. Karachi doesn't have an elected city government and her neighbourhood has traditionally been neglected because its voters backed the wrong party. No money has been put into street lights, road paving and patchwork and policing in several years.
Additionally, this neighbourhood lies in the jurisdiction of Ferozabad police station which has the highest crime rate in Karachi (carjackings, pickpocketing, cell phone theft, motorcycle theft dominate as street crime). A month ago, when I came outside after dinner at her house, I found my parked car's window had been smashed and its entire electronic system had been ripped out. This set me back Rs37,000.
So, yes, when my sister and I decided yesterday to walk down to the roundabout to get ice cream at the back of my mind there was the knowledge that something could happen. But I will always want to walk in Karachi. I will always find some excuse to do it. It didn't make sense to take the car down to the corner of the street either, especially given the post-Ramadan rush on a Saturday night.
We closed the gate behind us and turned left to walk down the street. We were chatting but I heard someone's voice from behind us. "This is it," I thought for a split second, to myself. And sure enough, as I turned to look back, a young man was approaching on a motorcycle. "This is it," I said to myself, my heart sinking to my knees. We stopped as he pulled up.
He was a young fella. A Mohajir, dark, sweaty, in a grey t-shirt and cargo pants. He held a greasy fat TT pistol in one hand, pointed at us but low, from his belly. "Don't scream or make a fuss and give me everything," he said, not in a loud voice. I looked at his TT pistol. It gleamed a grey silver and was larger than I recall them being. It was a thick, fat near phallic barrel. He kept repeating we shouldn't scream or call for help.
"These rings," he said, pointing to me. I was wearing three rings, my trio of editing rings, I've worn for years. One was a small, small diamond my father gave me after a soothsayer said it would help me get married if I wore it. One was a challa stolen from my mum whose fake stones had kind of fallen off over the years and the other was three bands intertwined, also ferreted from my mother's collection. One of her really old ones. None of them were of any value. Except they were my editing rings. I took them off and gave them to him.
I was carrying my Mulberry bag that my brother-in-law had brought from China. It had my wallet, my favourite Lancôme lipsticks, my prayer beads from Mecca, my journalist notebook, my single Bulgari wet wipe from my the plane ride to the US for my sister's graduation from Yale, bits of tissue paper because my nose keeps running, a sanitary pad because it strikes at the most unprepared moments, a small square cello-taped 'charm' with Allah's names on it for protection, my pens, my eyeliner, my inhaler, my bashed up Tissot watch, my foreign Panadol strip, my Rigix anti-histamine strip, two USBs with the latest urban studies conference slideshows, my lip balm, my 200-rupee scented oil. My iPhone.
"Ok, no problem," I said calmly. I gave him my bag. So did my sister. He put them awkwardly in front of his crotch on the gas tank of the motorcycle just behind the handle bars.
And then, he gave the bags back. "Just give me the money," he said. We took the bags back. He started to nervously tell us again not to panic.
"No problem beta (son)," I said lovingly, calmly. "We understand. Look, here take the money." I pulled out a wad of Rs10,000 I had in my wallet because I had just gone clothes shopping. "Here, sure, take it. It's ok. It's ok."
He took my money and it seemed to relieve him because it was a lot. My sister had nothing in her wallet except receipts. He didn't believe her and rummaged through it. "Sure, take a look," she said.
"I understand," I said to him as he gave her wallet back. And then he was gone.
We went ahead to have ice-cream. There was no point in turning back. I wept for a second because of my editing rings. It has been a hard week emotionally. We'd get screamed at for walking in that neighbourhood. My fingers felt naked. I had just emerged from an emotionally abusive relationship. I was close to a graveyard I had been forced to visit many times in recent months. I was in a part of town I grieved for. I'm thinking of leaving journalism. I never have enough money. I wept for a minute. My rings.
I am a fearful Muslim. I've fasted all this Ramadan. Thank you God, I said, nothing bad happened. We must measure the threat. How bad was it? What was this experience like for me? Will it change me?
That is at the heart of my point of inquiry.
When my media group's offices were thrice attacked, for weeks I went to work thinking a bullet would come from nowhere as I walked in to work. There is a bullet waiting for us all in Karachi. And so, as many people in Karachi will tell you, we live in fear. We live in the permanent fear that something bad will happen to us, to our loved ones. In the 1990s, then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif conducted nuclear tests and in the fallout he froze everyone's foreign bank accounts. At the drop of a hat people lost their savings in millions of rupees.
Anything can happen at any time.
But of course, I ask myself, isn't the very nature of life premised on the unease of not knowing what will happen the next very second. My God! How do we even function? We are mercifully numbed to this terrifying existential threat.
But in Karachi our daily existential threat is layered on by an additional threat of violence which hovers at all times. What is this doing to us?
Of course, I acknowledge, as we are learning through the media that there are places like Gaza where a terrible violence in unfolding to unbelievable proportions. The effects of living in that nightmare are unfathomable. This is an area I cannot purport to comment on.
What interests me more is Karachi and me and what is happening to us. Naturally, the violence and crime rate and everyone's reaction to it is the subject of almost all dinner table conversation. These conversations inevitably bore me because they offer nothing new.
I hear people resigned. I hear them describe the changes they have made to their lives and routines to be 'safer'. I see them roll around in their bullet proof Vigo trucks with armed guards in the back. I see their lives contract physically and mentally as the geographical terrain they will negotiate shrinks. My instant reaction was, "I will never go back to my sister's house". I have been robbed there twice.
Do you know what that sounds like? It stinks of fear.
I've prided myself for years for going not only where no women go, female journalists go, but also where people from my social class never go. Karachi was always wide open for me. No one will tell me I cannot go to a certain neighbourhood because it is unsafe. No one would hem me in.
I once meanly scoffed at an NPR correspondent for not going to Lyari to meet one of their gangsters. I'll take you there, I told her. "Everyone and their mother has gone to Lyari, why shouldn't you?" Indeed,
there is a way to negotiate dangerous terrain. You prepare. She ended up writing a stellar piece.
Yes, there are places I don't go to because it is not smart at all. For example, take Manghopir where the Taliban are holed up. Two of my reporters were almost kidnapped while on assignment there.
So in general I always made informed and sensible decisions on living in Karachi and my mobility. I refused to live in fear. I had seen what it did to people's lives. It limits you; you end up living a half-life. An unseen threat, an invisible force dictates who you become. I was aware, however, that my insistence on expanding and not contracting my life was based on the fact that I had never been robbed or subjected to gun violence in recent times. (I was once held at gunpoint and nearly raped, but that is another story).
I still don't buy into the reactions and explanations people give themselves to Karachi's violence. There is a passivity to their reaction. Is it that we slowly give up agency? Authority and a sense of ownership of living in a city.
My other sister, when she learnt of the incident, said something that we've spoken of much: "The city is eating itself alive." There is a cannibalism at work.
What feelings does this event elicit in me? I am, surprisingly, not feeling violated. I am not feeling sad either. I am happy I dealt with him calmly. I am happy to give someone Rs10,000 if they are unemployed and desperate and locked in a spiral vice of party-fuelled violence. I know how organized violence works in Karachi.
I've informed Ferozabad police station and asked them to increase motorcycle patrols in the area. I registered the crime so that they are involved. They know. Will it change anything? Perhaps not. But I won't let that fixity prevent me from doing what I can.
Ironically, just hours earlier, I had edited a piece on the number of psychiatric patients in our most violent province, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: 24,000 people have sought psychiatric help in hospitals across the province in the first four months of 2014. I'm sorry I don't have comparative numbers from the previous year. The population of the province is about 26m (given the house listing census) and since 9/11 it has suffered the brunt of the US-led fight against terrorism as it is a frontline for the battle that ropes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Its people have been brutalized over the years by the Taliban and security forces themselves. There was a time when there was a bomb blast in Peshawar, the capital city, each day. I've seen reporters go numb with PTSD. How has it changed these people, I wondered. And I don't just want the pop psych answers.
And so as I thought of my own brush with violence I thought of the people in KP who are living with a heightened excruciating violence each day. How does this affect us, I have long asked. My thought process has been informed by reading Martha Stout's review of Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness by Joel and Ian Gold.
"Can zeitgeist have an enduring negative effect on the individual psyche?" Stout asks in her review, 'Is Modern Culture Making us Crazier?" published in New Republic July 31. Yes, I shouted inwardly. Yes. What is this when it comes to me, to Karachi, to Pakistan? But mainstream discussions, or the discourse as fancy folks put it, are not providing us with answers. It hasn't seeped into the way we think. We are fumbling in the dark.
I was impressed by Stout's clarification that there is something missing in the way we have tended to think of "nurture" only in the familiar sense when we talk of the nature vs nurture debate. Who we are is not just determined by genetics or the child-rearing environment. This argument always left me cold. Stout finally provided an answer to my unease that something was missing: "That an individual's personality or mental illness might be affected by environmental factors outside the home has been largely overlooked." I assume she is talking about the debate and analysis or research and media coverage in the global North. In Pakistan, for example, we just skim the surface on PTSD, depression, schizophrenia. We just give badly gathered numbers in our reporting of research or state the obvious symptoms when discussing our mental health given the violence in Pakistan.
Why have we ignored the effect external societal environments have on us—not including our families and how we were reared? Consider this: After the crime takes place it is only because I understand the police system as a journalist that I am able to find the phone number to the police station, call up the SHO and tell him to increase patrols in the area where I was mugged. The average resident of that neighbourhood is not generally inclined to want to even deal with the police much less consider that they will try to fix the problem. Doesn't this have a long term effect on us?
We get stuck between the system and the culture of the system and our own self-perpetuating apathetic behaviours in Karachi. When the number of kidnappings and extortion in the Korangi Industrial Area, home to thousands of factories and their owners, reached an unbearable height, all the big tycoons got together and used their clout to hammer the chief minister to give them more protection. An independent cell was opened for their complaints and the police were hauled up.
I'm glad I reported the crime, which many people I know in Karachi don't bother doing to avoid what they think will be an unpleasant interaction with the police. Here you will see the crime map that I designed for my newspaper, The Express Tribune, when it launched five years ago. I wanted there to be a physical accessible daily record that showed us where the crimes were taking place. As most crimes go unreported, however, we never get to see the true picture.
I suppose I am trying to argue for more push back from the average citizen, more cognizance of why we have come to accept living in fear. What is the nature of our fear and why have so many of us collectively succumbed to it? Why is there no resistance? Why are we not holding those in power accountable for the descent into violence? Fear is just one of the many, many effects.
Stout provides some insight into why we are not linking cultural to our mental health: "A cultural hypothesis frustrates prevention… Setting out to alter the entrenched belief systems of an entire society is even more daunting".
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Lionel Messi has been passed fit to play the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup for Barcelona against Atletico Madrid . The Argentinian hobbled off at half-time with a hamstring injury of the first leg at the Vicente Calderon last week, which finished 1-1. He played no part in Barcelona's 1-0 win at Malaga on the weekend, but has been named in a 19-man squad for the the match at the Nou Camp, and coach Gerardo Martino has assured reporters that the striker is "fine" after completing training on Monday and Tuesday and is ready to play. Adriano, who scored the winning goal at Malaga, has been ruled out of the match with a muscle strain. Martino gave no clues about the starting line-up he would put out against Diego Simeone's side, and remained ambiguous about whether Neymar, who came off the bench to score Barcelona's equaliser at the Calderon, would begin the match. The Brazilian has still not started a single game for Barcelona since completing a 57 million euro move to the cl...
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Greg Perry, who resigned last week as the football coach at Seton-La Salle, has landed a new position — right across McNeilly Road.
Perry was named the coach at neighboring Keystone Oaks on Friday, replacing Matt Taylor, who resigned in November after two seasons.
A 1979 Keystone Oaks alum, Perry went 73-24 at Seton-La Salle, leading the Rebels to the playoffs eight times in his nine seasons in charge.
"I've always had a lot of pride in where I went to school," he said, "and I consider it a great honor and responsibility to have the opportunity to help some of the young men currently at Keystone Oaks to have as wonderful a high school football experience as I had when I played there."
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IRVING, Texas -- Terrell Owens admitted what his Dallas teammates couldn't a month ago -- at least publicly: The Cowboys were springing leaks long before Tony Romo broke his pinkie and their Super Bowl hopes started sinking.
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How did the Bears build one of the best offenses in the NFL? The team added an offensive-minded coach, revamped the offensive line and developed and utilized two monster receivers: Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery.
The one-two punch of Marshall and Jeffery had the best receiving season in Chicago history. Marshall caught 100 passes for 1,295 yards and 12 touchdowns. Jeffery caught 89 for 1,421 yards and seven scores.
Marshall and Jeffery's combined yards receiving total this year (2,716) is the second time in franchise history the Bears featured two 1,000-yard receivers. The first duo, Jeff Graham (1,301) and Curtis Conway (1,037), caught a combined 2,337 yards in 1995.
Marshall became the fourth Bear in franchise history to post back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. He had 1,508 in 2012 when he was traded from the Dolphins, good for most yards in a two-year span in Bears history.
As for Jeffery, the former South Carolina Gamecock broke the franchise record for most yards receiving in a single game... twice. The second-year Bear broke the record against the Saints by catching 10 passes for 218 yards. The previous record was 214 set in 1954 by Harlon Hill. A few months later, Jeffery broke his own record by catching 12 balls for 249 yards against the Vikings. Unfortunately, both record-breaking games resulted in losses.
Jeffery finished sixth this season in yards receiving while Marshall placed 11th. Marshall had the fifth-most receptions this season; Jeffery sits at 10th. Marshall also ranked fifth in touchdowns.
The Bears' young, dominant offense is in a good position to repeat its 2013 success following the signing of quarterback Jay Cutler's seven-year deal. I expect more record-breaking performances as the team's balanced attack enters its second year of head coach Marc Trestman's gameplan.


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THUNDER BAY -- The final flight for United Airlines left Thunder Bay Thursday morning, bound for Chicago.
United announced in January that it was cancelling its passenger service between the two cities, effective Thursday. The once-a-day flights began on Feb. 14, 2013 on a trial basis.
According to officials at the Thunder Bay Airport, United decided that moving their flight to some other location would bring in a higher profit.
Thunder Bay International Airport CEO Scott McFadden says they're hoping to find another carrier to provide direct flights to the U.S. But he added that they plan to proceed very carefully.
United Airways did not provide statistics regarding how many people were using the Thunder Bay to Chicago route.
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Actress Delnaaz Irani, known for her innocent and cute roles in films and television, feels the audience has accepted her in such characters.
The actress, who has been part of shows like "Yes Boss" and "Kya Huaa Tera Vaada", doesn't feel that her fans would like to see her in anything different and she is not complaining.
"There is a larger audience who make a image for an actor. They have seen me in that image and they like me in that. I don't think they would want me to do something different. I am okay with that, as long as audience likes me and it works for me," Delnaaz told IANS.
She further added that she would not like to take a chance and do something which people don't like her in. However, she is open to good offers.
"I don't want to do something which people don't like me in. It is about who will take a chance and risk. If some producer wants to take a chance and give me something different, then he can," she said.
Talking about newcomers coming into the industry, she said it tough to bag different roles.
"With the kind of competition which exists today, it is tough to get a different role or a different character every time. But I am okay with playing similar roles, if the audience likes me in it," she said.
But the actress has played a negative character in her play, "See No Evil, Hear no evil, Speak No Evil and Do No evil"
"I am playing shades of grey in this play. It's an English play. I am playing a different role in that," she said.
Irani said that she likes to keep all three mediums of acting; films, television and theatre alive.
"After one daily and a play, I want to do more movies. I like to keep all my three mediums alive. I have had a trend of doing at least two plays over the year. I have one or two shows on TV. I am hoping for more films to happen," said Delnaaz, who shared screen space with superstar Shah Rukh Khan in 2003 movie "Kal Ho Naa Ho".
The actress is currently seen in television show "Kehta Hai Dil Jee Le Zara"
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Linda Smith
on Tuesday, June 09, 2015
The ideal babygro if you do not know the sex of the baby. Beautifully made, soft material and the rainbow motif just right.
on Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Gorgeous sleepsuit and really good quality. I don't know about sizing though as baby isn't born yet.
Victoire Fildes
on Wednesday, May 20, 2015
beautiful design and superb quality! Fun unisex choice! Love it!
Joanne Phillips
on Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Gorgeous sleep suit. Great quality. Roll on September so my baby can wear it
Christina Clark
on Wednesday, April 08, 2015
This sleep suit is gorgeous and perfect for my little rainbow baby who is due in 2 days! It obviously hasn't been worn yet, but I did wash it and it hasn't shrunk and still looks gorgeous. It's well-made and the built-in scratch mits are very useful, as I found out with my daughter! The legs do look a little short, so hopefully it will fit ok. 5/5 for design and quality.
on Monday, March 30, 2015
Perfect. I was looking for the ideal gift for our baby rainbow. Warm, prefect size and the matching hat completes the look. Can't wait to bring our little one home in it. Soft and just enough detail to not over power our newborn
Ideal for either gender
Zarine Bedford
on Tuesday, March 24, 2015
I adore this sleep suit & can't wait to see my baby in it when he arrives. The embroidery work is extraordinary. Simplicity at it best!
Holly hawkesford
on Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Beautiful design and fantastic quality.
on Monday, January 05, 2015
I bought this suit to bring home my baby rainbow who is due in march. Came very quickly and I am over the moon it is beautiful and very nice quality material totally worth the little extra money. I can't wait to see my baby in this.
on Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Perfect for our rainbow baby. Beautiful sleepsuit with gorgeous embroidery and great quality. I bought the little hat to match too.
Helen Peacock
on Tuesday, November 25, 2014
My daughter in law's first baby is due in 4 weeks time, just a lovely baby grow to add to her collection.
on Wednesday, October 22, 2014
I bought this lovely baby grow for taking my baby home from the hospital in, it's excellent quality and has washed up lovely.
Will S
on Friday, October 17, 2014
Gorgeous item, perfect for our rainbow baby due in 2 weeks time
Elaine McGregor
on Wednesday, October 01, 2014
Gorgeous well made item. Can't wait for the one to arrive!
Emma hughes
on Tuesday, September 30, 2014
I bought this for my little boy and it's absolutely gorgeous! The material is lovely and nice and warm and the built in mitts are great. I also bought the matching hat. Will be back for more of these outfits, they're adorable. Thanks
on Friday, September 05, 2014
Gorgeous - really pleased to find a cute unisex baby gro. Excellent quality.
Granny Jenny
on Sunday, August 31, 2014
As a thrilled new granny I bought this and the matching hat for my new granddaughter. Photos show her looking totally gorgeous; and as a unisex item it will be ideal for any siblings.
Brilliant quality and sizing too.
Annabel McLoughlin
on Monday, August 18, 2014
I have wanted this since I first saw it years ago. It's simple yet beautiful and I love that it is embroidered rather than printed.
I bought this and the matching hat for my baby's going home outfit. I'm so pleased! The quality is brilliant and I can't wait to see him in it!
Emma C
on Tuesday, June 17, 2014
I've ordered this as our coming home or in hospital outfit for our new baby, I cannot wait to see him/her in it as it's beautiful and well worth spending that bit more.
on Friday, June 06, 2014
Lovely sleepsuit. High quality as usual. Now just waiting for the baby who is going to wear it!
Ellie Carway
on Saturday, May 31, 2014
Love this little Sleepsuit, it is so soft. The reason I gave it four stars is because the pattern is only on the front.
on Saturday, May 10, 2014
Beautiful and tasteful, just like all of Jojo maman bebe's clothes. Great quality and can't wait for the arrival of our boy or girl to try on his/her first sleepsuit!
on Thursday, May 08, 2014
We purchased this sleep suit and the matching hat for our son as a present from his older siblings. It is beautiful and a great fit even though he was 9lb9oz! It washes well and the finish is beautiful.
on Friday, April 25, 2014
I've bought this and the matching hat as the "eviction outfit" for my second baby who is due towards the end of May. I don't know what I'm having, but it would work we'll for a boy or girl and I can't wait to see them in it!
on Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Beautiful little sleep suit, I had previously bought other sleep suits from Jo Jo and loved them so much I couldn't resist this one, fabulous quality and beautiful design, so pleased with everything I have bought!
Tamsin Mills
on Thursday, March 13, 2014
Absolutely lovely sleepsuit bought for a rainbow baby and I know they will look absolutely fabulous in it. A well made item that is perfect for little girls and boys alike! (Plus delivery was super fast!)
on Monday, February 24, 2014
Love this! Brilliant quality, I got the matching hat also.
on Wednesday, February 19, 2014
A really cute design for a newborn, boy or girl(does come in other sizes) feels soft to touch and washes well. Price is what you would expect, but means quality is good.
on Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Fantastic quality of items, quick delivery and very pleased with the service overall
Mrs Valerie Greasley
on Monday, January 06, 2014
I ordered this item and was delighted with it. Great quality and looked really clean and fresh
Emma morris
on Saturday, December 21, 2013
I couldn't resist buying this baby-grow for my baby and I certainly wasn't disappointed! Yes it costs a little more than the average but it is such good quality and the stitching detail is wonderful. I also invested in the matching cap and I really couldn't be happier. So much so I am trying to resist buying more ...... If only i won the £50 voucher ! (Hint hint!)
on Wednesday, October 02, 2013
My new grandaughter wore this when she came out of hospital. She look lovely and it fitted well
Susannah Knott
on Monday, August 19, 2013
Having bought and received clothing and accessories from Jo Jo when my daughter was born, it was my first choice for shopping for my sister in law who is due to give birth in a couple of days. I received a delivery of my order very promptly but was disappointed with one item which was very quickly replaced without any trouble. Very refreshing to receive such prompt and professional customer service. I can't wait for my sister in law to receive her gifts from Jo Jo.
on Monday, July 22, 2013
Very good sleep suit, strong, good quality material and well put together. The wrist bands are slightly tight which makes getting little hands through a bit tricky
on Friday, July 05, 2013
I love this so much so soft and the little rainbows are not dull there full of color i can not wait for my little rainbow baby (a baby born after the loss of a baby) to be born so i can get him in his special outfit
on Tuesday, July 02, 2013
well made nice material a really nice item
on Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Gorgeous and so soft, everyone commented on how lovely little ones going home outfit was
Heidi Blannin
on Tuesday, May 07, 2013
I LOVE this item my son looks amazing in this. The body suit is a good size I brought 0-3 month and at 4 months it still fits although the hat was to small. Yes would recommend.
Elizabeth Edmondson
on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
So cute. I didn´t want everything pink for my girl and this is so neutral and yet so cute and fun.
on Monday, April 22, 2013
I bought it as a present for a baby shower, together with the matching hat and mitts. My friend really liked it and it was perfect for her as it´s neutral and she doesn't know what she's having. Beautifully made and finished, soft and snuggly. Perfect!
claire brown
on Monday, April 22, 2013
Beautiful well made babygrow
on Saturday, November 24, 2012
Brilliant quality ,soft and extremely well made, the pattern is lovely and I have ordered it for my daughter who does not know yet if shes having a boy or a girl and it would be perfect for either. A bit different to plain siut would definately recommend.
Wendy waters
on Monday, November 05, 2012
Perfect little first outfit.
on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Nice quality item. Sizing is not small as 'newborn' was quite spacious.
on Friday, September 14, 2012
Great quality and beautifully made, perfect for our baby's coming home outfit.
on Monday, September 03, 2012
Lovely sleepsuit, very good quality. Sizes small compared with sleepsuits from elsewhere though.
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Embroidered Rainbow Baby Sleepsuit
Perfect newborn gift.
Sweet style with tiny embroidered rainbows in our bestselling baby sleepsuit style. With popper front and leg openings ideal for easy changing. All our baby sleepsuits come with scratch mitts (incorporated fold over scratch cuffs) up to size 6-12 months. Co-ordinate with the matching hat (B5961) for a beautiful newborn baby gift.
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Two hour ride pass: $30.00
Four hour ride pass: $35.00
All day ride pass: $40.00
All ride passes provide unlimited use of the main cable and/or the beginner cables for any sport (wakeboarding, wakeskating, waterskiing, or kneeboarding) during the purchased time block.
2015 Season Passes
Unlimited Pass: $799
Unlimited ride time all year long and access to exclusive season passholder only events and offers! Season Pass is good from March 2015 to end of the season in December!
Weekday Pass: $600
Good all year long exluding weekends. Weekday Pass is good from March 2015 to the end of the season!
Summer Pass $450
Good from Memorial Day to Labor day
Fall Pass $300
Good from Labor Day through the end of the season
Season Pass Rental Prices
Full Season $200
Summer Pass $150
Fall Pass $100
Family Deal
Buy additional Season Passes for members of the same family and save $100
Equipment Rental
Wake Nation Special
Includes beginner wakeboard, kneeboard or waterskis plus life jacket & helmet.
2 hours: $22.00
4 hours: $26.00
All Day: $30.00
Beginner Wakeboard, or Kneeboard, or Water Skis
2 hours: $13.00
4 hours: $16.00
All Day: $18.00
Advanced Wakeboard
2 hours: $20.00
4 hours: $24.00
All Day: $28.00
Slider Wakeskate
2 hours: $15.00
4 hours: $20.00
All Day: $23.00
2 hours: $7.00
4 hours: $8.00
All Day: $9.00
Life Jacket*
2 hours: $7.00
4 hours: $8.00
All Day: $9.00
*Please note that all riders are required to wear a U.S. Coast Guard approved life jacket and a helmet at all times while on the lake.