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Some readers of Minding the Modern have been surprised to find my account so firmly critical of Thomas Hobbes on will and personhood. Now, it is both incidental and inevitable that my reading challenges recent attempts to claim Hobbes as a precursor of modern liberalism and individualism. Long before me, of course, a wide and diverse array of thinkers (Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, John Milbank, Louis Dupré, Michael Oakeshott) had probed the conceptual weakness of modern Liberalism, particularly its propensity to expire in an omnipresent state, putatively enlightened and benevolent as it orders and controls individual and social life at every level. If my reading of Hobbes casts doubt on some of modern Liberalism's cherished axioms and aspirations, this only points to a certain lack of discernment among those who would identify Hobbes as a heroic precursor of an enlightened, secular, and liberal politics, of whose lasting benefits they remain unshakably persuaded. That said, political theory is not a principal concern of Minding the Modern, whereas putting analytic pressure on modern philosophy's assumptions about human agency, rationality, and volition very much is.
Posts Tagged 'political theory'
The Fantastic Mr. Hobbesposted by Thomas Pfau
Three approaches to the study of religionposted by Cécile Laborde
Is religion a valid category of scholarly inquiry? In this post, I briefly set out three distinct approaches to the study of religion: criticizing religion, upholding religion and disaggregating religion. Although I cannot make the full case here, I sketch a preliminary defense of the third approach, in the context of recent debates in political theory.
By "criticizing religion," I mean not the critique of the beliefs or practices of self-described religious individuals or groups but rather the critique of the concept of religion as a scholarly category. According to a number of scholars (often influenced by Foucauldian or post-colonial thought), the category of religion is deeply implicated in the history and practice of western statism and imperialism. The only appropriate scholarly stance towards this object is one that is critical and skeptical.
The context of religious pluralismposted by Nadia Urbinati
Akeel Bilgrami's article, "Secularism: Its Content and Context," is an important and welcome contribution on a topic that has acquired momentum with the renaissance of the public role of religions, in democratic and non-democratic societies alike. Bilgrami clarifies in a penetrating and lucid way, three fundamental ideas on secularism: first, that it is "a stance to be taken about religion"; second, that it is not an indication of the form of government or the liberal nature of a regime; and third, that the context is a crucial factor in issues concerning the relationship between politics and religion.
Conference: Reworking Political Conceptsposted by Charles Gelman
On Friday-Saturday, Feb. 3-4, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University will host Reworking Political Concepts II: A Lexicon in Formation, featuring presentations by Gil Anidjar, Susan Buck-Morss, Stathis Gourgouris, Jacques Lezra, and Uday Mehta, among others.
Democracy under exceptionposted by Jean-Claude Monod
I agree with Kahn (and with Schmitt) about the fact that political theory should leave room for decision and exception. But to me, the main question is: to what extent? Are there no principles that admit no exception? When I read Kahn, as when I read Schmitt, I don't seem to encounter any such principles—anything like what Habermas thematized in Law and Morality as "indisponibility," that is, rights that are not at the disposal of the sovereign. Can the sovereign decide that torture is a legitimate practice? The answer, to me, should be no without exception.
Political theology and political existentialismposted by Peter E. Gordon
"At stake in our political life," Paul Kahn observes, "has been not our capacity to be reasonable, but our capacity to realize in and through our own lives an ultimate meaning." While it would require little effort for me to catalogue the many insights that seized my attention while reading Kahn's thoughtful and highly provocative new book, it is this basic insight that chiefly arouses my interest, insofar as it serves as the organizing premise for the argument as a whole. It is therefore this claim most of all that deserves close scrutiny.
Paul Kahn's mis-prognosis of America's social imaginaryposted by Jason Stevens
As I argued in my previous post, there are indications that Paul Kahn subscribes to Carl Schmitt's belief in the substantial cultural indebtedness of the modern to "the theological." Most of these stem from the "genealogical" side of his methodology. But his search for residuum of the past is supported, as I will here attempt to demonstrate, by a very selective use of history.
Political theology or political hierophanyposted by Miguel Vatter
In this book, Paul Kahn argues that political theology—as first defined by Schmitt—is not only a "polemical" discourse but also designates a legitimate field of study that can be approached "scientifically," and that has its own "methodology," namely, a sociology of concepts. Kahn himself understands political theology as a phenomenological description of "the political." Additionally, Kahn suggests that liberal democracy may have, or may stand in need of, a political theology of its own. Although I am sympathetic to both proposals, in my opinion this book does justice to neither, and I fear the editor may have overstated the facts by claiming, in the interior jacket cover, that this study of Schmitt and political theology is a "strikingly original work."
The politics of the atonementposted by J. Kameron Carter
To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and especially atonement, that area of theology (particularly, Christian theology) that deals with the logic of (redemptive) death. But the journey cannot be simply phenomenological in the way Kahn carries it out. Or, put differently, it may need to be phenomenological, but in a way that Kahn himself has not considered. Atonement thinking, and the "death contract" that binds politics, must, from within a different phenomenology (and therefore from within a different approach to political theology), be redirected. There must be a new future of death and the political.
The perspective of the commonposted by Bruno Gulli
In liberal theory, essence is privileged over existence, reason over will, and endless discussion over decision. In political theology, things stand the other way around: existence, will, and decision have primacy over essence, reason, and endless discussion. If Kahn, like Schmitt, is right to criticize liberalism (albeit for the wrong reason), this does not mean that the either/or logic he seems to employ (either liberal theory or political theology) ought to be accepted at face value. An alternative to this either/or comes from the perspective (and practice) of the common, which maintains the decision as singular but rejects it as sovereign.
Mirror, mirror on the wallposted by Gil Anidjar
After the manner of psychoanalysis, political theology reflects the larger, darker, contours that liberalism—the discourse of the modern nation-state—fails to see or imagine for itself. For, "just as Freud argued that the modern idea of the individual as a self-determining, rational agent mistakes a normative theory for the reality of lived experience, Schmitt argued that the modern, liberal understanding of the state mistakes a normative theory for the phenomenon of political experience." In this new version, the mirror stage deals a double whammy. Ego recognizes itself, no doubt, but it also has to integrate a vastly broader field of meaning. We, citizens of the nation-state, may think ourselves children of the Enlightenment, but our inheritance is ultimately larger; it reaches back further—to Christianity.
Pluralizing political theologyposted by George Shulman
My claim and concern is not only that Kahn is captured by Schmitt's particular view of political theology as a disclosure of the sacred in modernity, but also that he de-politicizes culture by imagining it as consensual, while he also disowns the positioning and perspective that drive his "description" (as if from nowhere) of a foundational "imaginary" defining (indeed sacralizing) national identity. What premises constitute his avowedly Schmittian, but also "American," position? And how do the blind spots of this position—what it implicitly disavows, excludes, or fails to acknowledge—reemerge into the theoretical framework that Kahn elaborates?
Political theology and liberalismposted by Paul W. Kahn
When modern revolutionaries took up the task of translating the felt meaning of political revolution into a constitutional order of law, they thought of themselves as men of the Enlightenment using the language of reason to push religion out of the public sphere. This hardly means that they neither experienced nor relied upon the sacred. In Arendt's classic analysis, they began by demanding legal rights but ended with an experience of the absolute character of public action. Rights as a means to private ends became a lesser theme to the experience of a kind of transcendent meaning in and through political engagement. In a crisis, it remains true today that the secular state does not hesitate to speak of sacrifice, patriotism, nationalism, and homeland in the language of the sacred. The state's territory becomes consecrated ground, its history a sacred duty to maintain, its flag something to die for. None of this has much to do with the secular; these are matters of faith, not reason.
Asecular revolutionposted by Hussein Ali Agrama
Why have I chosen the term "asecular," and not, say, "non-secular" or "post-secular," to describe the power manifested by these protests? The term "non-secular" is too easily confused with the notion of the religious. And unlike post-secularity, asecularity is not a temporal marker. It allows for the possibility that asecularity has, in different forms, always been with us, even from within the traditions from which state secularity arises. Explorations of post-secularity typically try to identify the emergence of new norms. Such attempts fail to recognize that the process of identifying and distinguishing secular from non-secular norms is part of what secularism is, and that this process is integral to its power. In contrast, the term asecularity specifies a situation not where norms are no longer secular, but where the questions against which such norms are adduced and contested as answers are no longer seen as necessary.
Falling on the sword of the spiritposted by Ruth Marshall
There is no doubt that anthropology needs new approaches for understanding dramatic change, a new way of figuring the relationship between structure and subjectivity (often abusively assimilated by anthropologists to consciousness or the individual person), which I take to be part of the gambit of the project of an anthropology of Christianity. There is also a real need for a renewal of critical thought on the problems of exploitation, oppression, injustice—on the devastating ravages of late neoliberal capitalism on the masses of the Global South, which are also the populations most engaged in the new wave of conversions. Nothing testifies to this more dramatically or poignantly than the recent wave of self-immolations that has swept across North Africa in the past weeks, nor, might I add, to the ongoing force of a sacrificial politics. But can we really claim that something called Global Christianity (a shorthand, here, for its Pentecostal or charismatic forms), if not able to provide a model for emancipatory action, might, in dialogue with the atheist, post-foundational left, give us something better to think with?
Secularism despite itselfposted by Charles Gelman
Kile Jones, a Ph.D. student at the Claremont School of Theology, has a review of William Connolly's Why I Am Not a Secularist up at State of Formation, in which he "argue[s] why some of [Connolly's] key positions are admirable, but that some of the conclusions he draws from them are not."
Video: Claude Lefort memorial talksposted by Charles Gelman
Video of the talks from the Intellectual and Political Memorial for Claude Lefort is now available from Constellations.
Landmarks in the critical study of secularismposted by Matthew Scherer
In September of 2010, Talal Asad, William E. Connolly, Charles Hirschkind, and I met at the annual American Political Science Association conference to discuss two seminal texts in a recently emerging field of study, which could tentatively be called the critical study of secularism. The texts in question were Connolly's Why I Am Not a Secularist (1999) and Asad's Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam and Modernity (2003), each now roughly a decade old.
The Hedgehog Review revisits secularismposted by John D. Boy
The fall 2010 issue of The Hedgehog Review addresses the question, "Does religious pluralism require secularism?" Several contributions are freely accessible online: Rajeev Bhargava's essay on secular states, Charles Taylor's on the meaning(s) of secularism, and Craig Calhoun's on a non-subtractive understanding of secularism.
An intellectual and political memorial for Claude Lefort, tomorrow at the New Schoolposted by Charles Gelman
In memory of philosopher and political theorist Claude Lefort, who died on October 3, Constellations and the New School will hold a memorial symposium tomorrow. For details, including the program, see here.
An empirical perspective on religious and secular reasonsposted by John H. Evans
This "religion in the public sphere" thread has featured debates about whether citizens of liberal democratic societies can offer religious reasons for public laws that will be coercive on all citizens, or whether they must use, in John Rawls's terms, "public reason." . . . This normative debate is about what people should do in public debates, but knowing what people actually do would allow theorists to develop greater nuance in their analyses. When we see what people actually do, we can further inquire as to whether there are social structures that are pushing people toward good or bad behavior. For example, it is possible that the normative structure of the contemporary public sphere works so strongly against certain normative proposals that they should just be abandoned as utopian. Moreover, it is possible that we may gain normative wisdom from the collective practices of citizens. In any event, given the many hundreds of normative analyses, some empirical examinations may usefully agitate the debate.
Civil earth religion versus religious nationalismposted by Bron Taylor
My contribution to these discussions seeks to expand the analytical horizon of the foregoing discussion of civil religion both chronologically and geographically, with special attention to the growing importance of what I call "dark green religion," and the possibility that it might precipitate the emergence of a global, civil earth religion. Dark green religion, as I have constructed the term, involves the perception that nature is sacred and has intrinsic value, the belief that everything is interconnected and mutually dependent, and a deep feeling of belonging to nature. Often rooted in an evolutionary understanding that all life shares a common ancestor, dark green religion generally leads to a form of kinship ethics that entails ethical responsibilities to all living things.
Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: A conversation with Joan Wallach Scottposted by David Kyuman Kim
At a March 2010 conference, "Gendering the Divide: Conflicts at the Border of Religion and the Secular" (sponsored by Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict), I had the great fortune to speak on a panel with groundbreaking cultural historian and gender theorist Joan Wallach Scott, the Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. The conference was the fourth and final meeting of ASU's Ford Foundation-funded project on "Public Religion, the Secular, and Democracy." In 2010-2011, Scott will lead the year-long seminar "Secularism" at the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. Scott is the author of numerous influential essays and books, including, most recently, the timely and highly praised The Politics of the Veil. At the conclusion of the ASU conference, Scott and I met for the following wide-ranging conversation . . .
Sovereignty and sacrifice in American politicsposted by Charles Gelman
In The Utopian, Yale Law professor Paul W. Kahn argues that the discourse and imaginary of secular political theory fail to grasp the deep and abiding theological—specifically, sacrificial—dimensions of U.S. politics and the American political imagination.
"A Carefully Crafted F**k You"posted by Charles Gelman
At Guernica, Nathan Schneider interviews Judith Butler.
Cornel West and David Kyuman Kim on catastrophic politicsposted by Nathan Schneider
In the latest issue of Theory & Event [sub. req.], a conversation between David Kyuman Kim and Cornel West from a month before the 2008 presidential election.
Political imaginationsposted by Nathan Schneider
Cambridge University philosopher Raymond Geuss has written a book that explores the imaginative anatomy of pragmatic governance.
Remaking the worldposted by Michael Barnett
Are international relations theorists about to awake from their long secular slumber and discover that the world has had, has, and always will have a religious dimension? There is clearly a growing interest in religion, much of it driven by its presumed association with various forms of collective violence. Yet so far international relations theorists have spent little time wondering how religion in global life might implicate their existing theories of international relations or how existing theories of international relations might help us better understand the shape, forms, and consequences of religion in world affairs. […]
Secularism, realism, and international relationsposted by Nicolas Guilhot
Among the various fields of the social sciences, international relations theory has established itself both as scientific and as politically relevant. Along with economics, it is a model of social scientific expertise, and it has an established record of informing state policies. It provides a standard of political rationality against which policy decisions can be matched and assessed. […]


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|Maximum speed
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The SD-100 and SD-160 are light rail vehicles manufactured by Siemens. The SD-100 uses motors that run on direct current electricity motors, while the SD-160 model features newer motors that run on alternating current motors. Both models are suited for passenger loading at street, and at high-platform, levels. Both models are in use various cities in North America, such as San Diego (SD-100), Salt Lake City (both models), Denver (both models), Calgary (SD-160) and Edmonton (SD-160). The Siemens SD-100 is no longer in production, while the Siemens SD-160 is still in production for the C-Train light rail system.
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The SD-160's dimensions are 24.802 metres (81.37 ft) by 2.654 metres (8.71 ft) by 3.811 metres (12.50 ft) and can be joined together to form trains of up to six cars in length. It is powered by four AC motors which provide a maximum of 580 kW and a maximum speed of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph). It accelerates at 1.07 m/s² and decelerates at 1.31 m/s², with emergency braking deceleration of 2.63 m/s².[1] The brakes also serve as a generator, regenerating power back to a city's electrical lines.[2] The SD-160 has a passenger capacity of 236 passengers (standing) with 64 seats.
Compared to its predecessor, the Siemens–Duewag U2, the SD-160's driver's cabin is significantly larger, but its total length is still less than 25 metres (82 ft), allowing three vehicles to be combined and still be under the 75-metre (246 ft) maximum length of a German streetcar train assembly. Each vehicle also features an onboard closed-circuit TV security camera system for increased passenger safety.[2] Unlike the Siemens SD-100, the Siemens SD-160 does not use the bi-folded doors, instead using sliding doors similar to designs featured on the Siemens S70. In addition, both can be used together in mixed trains consisting of SD-100s and SD-160s. The new, streetcar-length S70 cars ordered for San Diego are designed to be compatible with the SD-100, allowing the SD-100 to operate in a mixed consist, sandwiched between two S70 cars.
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- ^ "Siemens product page" (PDF). Siemens. 2007. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
- ^ a b "New Siemens SD160 light rail vehicle for Edmonton". Skyscrapercity. 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
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Epsilon Sagittarii
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Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000
|Right ascension
|18h 24m 10.31840s[1]
|–34° 23′ 04.6193″[1]
|Apparent magnitude (V)
|Spectral type
|U−B color index
|B−V color index
|Radial velocity (Rv)
|–15[4] km/s
|Proper motion (μ)
|RA: –39.42[1] mas/yr
Dec.: –124.20[1] mas/yr
|Parallax (π)
|22.76 ± 0.24[1] mas
|143 ± 2 ly
(43.9 ± 0.5 pc)
|Absolute magnitude (MV)
|ε Sgr A
|Surface gravity (log g)
|4.50[7] cgs
|Rotational velocity (v sin i)
|236[9] km/s
|232[5] Myr
|ε Sgr B
|Other designations
Epsilon Sagittarii (Epsilon Sgr, ε Sagittarii, ε Sgr) is a binary star system in the southern zodiac constellation Sagittarius. Its traditional name is Kaus Australis. The apparent visual magnitude of +1.85[2] makes it the brightest star in the constellation. Based upon parallax measurements, the distance to this star is around 143 light-years (44 parsecs).
The primary component of this binary star system has a stellar classification of B9.5 III,[3] with the luminosity class of III suggesting this is an evolved giant star that has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core. The interferometry-measured angular diameter of this star, after correcting for limb darkening, is 1.44 ± 0.06 mas,[11] which, at its estimated distance, equates to a physical radius of about 6.8 times the radius of the Sun.[6] This is a close match to the empirically-determined value of 6.9 solar radii.[12] It has about 3.5 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating around 363 times the Sun's luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 9,960 K.[5] At this heat, the star glows with a blue-white hue.[13]
This star is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 236 km s−1.[9] It has a magnetic field with a strength in the range 10.5–130.5 G[14] and it is an X-ray source with a luminosity of about 1030 erg s−1.[5] The system displays an excess emission of infrared radiation, which suggests the presence of a circumstellar disk of dust. Based upon the temperature of this disk, it is orbiting at a mean separation of 155 AU from the primary.[15]
As of 2001, the secondary companion is located at an angular separation of 2.392 arcseconds from the primary along a position angle of 142.3°. At the distance of this system, this angle is equivalent to a physical separation of about 106 AU, which places it inside the debris disk. It is a main sequence star with about 95% of the mass of the Sun. Prior to its 1993 identification using an adaptive optics coronagraph, this companion may have been responsible for the spectral anomalies that were attributed to the primary star.[16] There is a candidate stellar companion at an angular separation of 32.3 arcseconds.[5]
Name and etymology[edit]
- The traditional name of this star is Kaus Australis, from Arabic قوس qaws 'bow' and Latin austrālis 'southern'.
- This star, together with :
- In the catalogue of stars in the Calendarium of Al Achsasi al Mouakket, this star was designated Thalath al Waridah, which was translated into Latin as Tertia τού al Warida, meaning third going ostrich.[20]
- In Chinese, 箕 (Jī), meaning Winnowing Basket, refers to an asterism consisting of ε Sagittarii, γ Sagittarii, δ Sagittarii and η Sagittarii. Consequently, ε Sagittarii itself is known as 箕宿三 (Jī Sù sān, English: the Third Star of Winnowing Basket.)[21]
- Kaus Australis is listed in MUL.APIN as MA.GUR8, meaning "the Bark".[22]
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- ^ a b c d Johnson, H. L. et al. (1966), "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars", Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory 4: 99–100, Bibcode:1966CoLPL...4...99J
- ^ a b Houk, Nancy; Smith-Moore, M. (1979), Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars 3, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode:1982mcts.book.....H
- ^ Evans, D. S. (June 20–24, 1966), "The Revision of the General Catalogue of Radial Velocities", in Batten, Alan Henry; Heard, John Frederick, Determination of Radial Velocities and their Applications, Proceedings from IAU Symposium no. 30 30, University of Toronto: International Astronomical Union, p. 57, Bibcode:1967IAUS...30...57E
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hubrig, S.; Le Mignant, D.; North, P.; Krautter, J. (June 2001), "Search for low-mass PMS companions around X-ray selected late B stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics 372: 152–164, arXiv:astro-ph/0103201, Bibcode:2001A&A...372..152H, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20010452
- ^ a b Lang, Kenneth R. (2006), Astrophysical formulae, Astronomy and astrophysics library 1 (3rd ed.), Birkhäuser, ISBN 3-540-29692-1. The radius (R*) is given by:
- ^ Adelman, Saul J. (December 2004), Zverko, J.; Ziznovsky, J.; Adelman, S. J.; Weiss, W. W., eds., "The A-Star Puzzle, held in Poprad, Slovakia, July 8-13, 2004", IAU Symposium (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press) (224): 1–11, Bibcode:2004IAUS..224....1A, doi:10.1017/S1743921304004314
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- ^ Zorec, J. et al. (July 2009), "Fundamental parameters of B supergiants from the BCD system. I. Calibration of the (λ_1, D) parameters into Teff", Astronomy and Astrophysics 501 (1): 297–320, Bibcode:2009A&A...501..297Z, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200811147
- ^ a b Royer, F. et al. (October 2002), "Rotational velocities of A-type stars in the northern hemisphere. II. Measurement of v sin i", Astronomy and Astrophysics 393 (3): 897–911, arXiv:astro-ph/0205255, Bibcode:2002A&A...393..897R, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20020943
- ^ "KAUS AUSTRALIS -- Star in double system", SIMBAD (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg), retrieved 2012-02-22
- ^ Richichi, A.; Percheron, I.; Khristoforova, M. (February 2005), "CHARM2: An updated Catalog of High Angular Resolution Measurements", Astronomy and Astrophysics 431: 773–777, Bibcode:2005A&A...431..773R, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20042039
- ^ Jerzykiewicz, M.; Molenda-Zakowicz, J. (September 2000), "Empirical Luminosities and Radii of Early-Type Stars after Hipparcos", Acta Astronomica 50: 369–380, Bibcode:2000AcA....50..369J
- ^ "The Colour of Stars", Australia Telescope, Outreach and Education (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), December 21, 2004, retrieved 2012-01-16
- ^ Bychkov, V. D.; Bychkova, L. V.; Madej, J. (August 2003), "Catalogue of averaged stellar effective magnetic fields. I. Chemically peculiar A and B type stars", Astronomy and Astrophysics 407: 631–642, arXiv:astro-ph/0307356, Bibcode:2003A&A...407..631B, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20030741
- ^ Rodriguez, David R.; Zuckerman, B. (February 2012), "Binaries among Debris Disk Stars", The Astrophysical Journal 745 (2): 147, arXiv:1111.5618, Bibcode:2012ApJ...745..147R, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/147
- ^ Golimowski, David A.; Durrance, Samuel T.; Clampin, Mark (March 1993), "Detection of an apparent star 2.1 arcsec from the circumstellar disk candidate Epsilon Sagittarii", Astronomical Journal 105 (3): 1108–1113, Bibcode:1993AJ....105.1108G, doi:10.1086/116498
- ^ "Sagittarius". deepsky.astroinfo.org. Retrieved 30 August 2008.
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- ^ a b Allen, R. H. (1963). Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning (Reprint ed.). New York: Dover Publications Inc. p. 355. ISBN 0-486-21079-0. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
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Short Cuts
Summer brings a brief tragedy for men's wear. Sadly, for runners the situation is even more revealingly terrible.
12:00 AM, Jul 10, 2003 • By DAVID SKINNER
EVERY SUMMER, I come upon the same discovery. Hot weather makes women more beautiful and men more ugly. The former discard layers to reveal a natural loveliness of soft, interconnected curves, while the latter do the same to reveal their top-heavy bodies teetering on grotesquely disproportionate legs. And blame for male summertime ugliness, as I conclude year after year, lies largely with shorts.
No item of clothing is so disfiguring to the male form as shorts--although properly understood, shorts are actually an interruption or an abridgement of clothing. Whereas pants (nice ones anyway) introduce a softly graded line between the midsection and the feet, shorts dismiss the line to bare unseemly hair, untanned skin, underused desk-jockey muscles, and the uncertain, buckled structure of kneecaps. Visually, unpantsed male (and some female) legs are to pantsed legs as a plucked chicken is to its living and squawking formerly-feathered self.
One hesitates to say anything nearing agreement with such clothing-as-cover fanatics as the Islamo-fascists who consider our wonderful country a scourge upon the earth, but when it comes to men's legs, my only thought is, please, show some modesty! Sons, fathers, grandfathers, one generation as knobby and shameless as the next--they ride with me on the Metro, they march in and out of the roadstop restrooms on I-95, barely pausing to wash their hands, tacky tourists in their comical sunglasses and cheesy 3-for-$10 T-shirts. And, of course, their hideous, hide-revealing shorts. Except for the fanny pack, no clothing article or accessory so offends my eyes.
Yet I wear shorts myself, for comfort in hot weather and to go running. And lately, I've a had a lot of trouble finding a decent pair of running shorts. One pair I already own, made by Reebok, are actually just right: short, but not obscene; lightweight; and perfectly comfortable for my underachieving running schedule of a few miles at a time, a few times a week. When I went to the Reebok Outlet store to see if I could snag another pair or two, the salesman ushered me to a pair of longer, form-fitting shorts, seemingly designed to advertise the wearer's progenitive capacity. "These are running shorts?" I asked. "Yes," he told me, unpersuasively. "Do you have any others?" "Only women's."
It used to be that the problem with being a runner is that you might look like this guy. Pathetic, like most men in the summertime, but that's about it. More recently, the job of buying decent shorts was made harder by the long-short fashion introduced by skateboarders and adopted by basketball outfitters, though in a wide-leg style. These are impossible to run in, though I applaud the unintended effect of covering great stretches of manleg that would otherwise look like so many links of uncooked turkey sausage. But now the difficulties of being a runner are mounting even further as sports apparel companies labor under the impression that you might want to look, as the kids say, hot.
Fortunately, there are specialty stores. And after visiting one here in Washington this afternoon, Fleet Feet (a national chain) I found several pairs short enough to run in, but loose enough to save me from getting arrested for flashing. I had, until now, avoided such vendors because they charge more for what are simple articles of clothing. But since the more general athletic stores have decided their product lines should be cool and sexy instead of functional, I can't see that I have much choice. One shouldn't have to stay away from big sporting-goods chains to buy a pair of running shorts, but one does. As always, things that are simple, but nice, are so much harder to find.
The middle ground between fat and formless shorts that hang well below the knees and skin-tight crotch panties is shrinking. Indeed, the latest thing in runner fashion is actually the Speedo-style super-brief running brief. But you wouldn't catch me dead in such skivvies. I'd sooner walk--in which case, I can wear pants.
David Skinner is an assistant managing editor at The Weekly Standard.


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A-Rod and the Canyon of Zeroes
There are harsher ways to end a baseball season. What happened to the Washington Nationals last Friday was crueler, harder to forget. Twenty-four games out of first place is rough. Just ask the Red Sox. Nothing feels more hollow than a lost August and a mummified September, shuffling from city to city, a forgotten roster of undead.
But this New York Yankees faceplant is close. Who knows—maybe this is just as bad because it was so public, prolonged, exposed. A grim playoff sweep, the Yankees' first in a best-of-seven series since 1976. Here comes the broom. Four straight to the Detroit Tigers, free before the weekend, sad golf on Saturday. Thursday felt like a living wake, surrendered almost as quickly as it started.
Tigers, 8-1. The final oof of an oof, oof, oof, oof. The end.
What made this Yankee conclusion so maddening was how meek it was. Outside of a ninth-inning rally in Game 1, there was no fight. The Yankees were unable to mount an offense of any kind. The 1-2-3 innings scrolled through a lineup of multimillionaires, one zero followed by another, a canyon of zeroes. The Yankees tallied six runs in the entire American League Championship Series, the same number knocked in by series MVP Delmon Young of Detroit. After captain Derek Jeter crumpled with a busted ankle in Game 1 on Saturday, New York managed only two. The Yankees never held a lead.
The pitching wasn't half bad, at least until Thursday. Offensively, it was the lamest performance money could buy.
Scapegoats always follow a crisis, and the scapegoat for this playoff failure was selected by Yankee fans days ago: Alex Rodriguez, the 37-year-old third baseman, who struggled brutally at the plate throughout the postseason. Rodriguez was benched for a decisive Game 5 against Baltimore, as well as for Games 3 and 4 in Detroit. He surfaced in the sixth inning Thursday as a pinch hitter, flying out softly to center. He added an easy groundout for the second out in a three up, three down ninth. He finished the postseason with a .120 batting average, no home runs or RBIs and 12 strikeouts in 25 at-bats.
Everyone knows Rodriguez was far from the only Yankee to underperform in October. The Yankees got almost nothing from players like Curtis Granderson (.100 average in the playoffs), Nick Swisher (.167) and Robinson Cano (an astonishing .075). Eric Chavez went 0 for 16 in the postseason. Mark Teixeira had one RBI.
But A-Rod gets the hammer. Of course he does. He's the most familiar culprit, a villain before, an easy contrast to the injured Jeter, who had been hitting .333 in the playoffs. He is owed $114 million over the next five years, the grisly back half of decade long, $275 million deal.
A-Rod was so inefficient these playoffs that the story line has already migrated, even before Game 4, away from this October fiasco to what will happen next year, when the Yankees gather for Spring Training. Will Rodriguez be with the team next year? Will he agree to be sent south to the Miami Marlins? Could the profligate Los Angeles Dodgers be convinced to bail out another fat deal? Perhaps the Knicks need another geezer?
If Rodriguez doesn't move, will he be able to handle the humiliation of his playoff pine time? Surely there needs to be healing between the fading star and manager Joe Girardi, who made the decision to sit him down. It's not the type of rift that gets cured with a cone at Dairy Queen.
It's also another awkward chapter to a Yankee career that's never felt like an ideal fit. Rodriguez already embarrassed the Yankees once, in the spring of 2009, when he confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs. That admission gave rise to a strange character: Alex, the happy rogue who embraced his negative image in piloting the Yankees to a World Series title, the first of his career.
That title and some high-production seasons got Rodriguez a temporary reprieve, a calming New York moment. But now there's not a championship team, or the promise of better years, or even a realistic hope of that queasy home-run record we were once so assured would come. The fit between presumed superstar and presumed superteam feels less comfortable than ever. Alex Rodriguez is another aging player on an aging, overpaid team—one that's gone home, meekly, in a promising season that is now a season to forget. Let the predictable Yankee freakout begin.
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You have more potential than I do! But you gotta be more fluid and outgoing with animation and sound. Like the guy below me, you sounded like you weren't able to yell in your house, but I think the quiet whispering at the end also made it kind of funnier, as if you were telling a story, or a joke rather than voicing a cartoon.
Ahh you can do better
Practise your voices a bit more if you wanna do this all yourself so they sound different. else call some other people to record voice.
The small length actually pretty sucked you could have make it longer.
The graphics were ok, and the animation was good
continue like this i give you 5/5
Thanks man that means alot to me i put a ton of effort into this and length seems to haunt me so sorry for that. And on the subject of voices yes i need to practice and need more people but im a tad short on that. If you could give me proper hd screen measurments thatd be awesome cause i hate the quality im producing at right now and thanks for watching
Louder! (yay).
On paper this is good, the animation and delivery is fine, but you really need to get somebody else to do the voices, or speak clearer yourself. Half the time you sound restrained, like there was someone else in the house who you didn't want to disturb. Find a quiet spot, and try again WITH GUSTO! (I think at one point, I could hear you giggling as well.)
Haha your spot on that was the reason for my quiteness and i mumble alot so sorry for that. And the giglle i didnt take ot cause i thought it kinda suited the part and it was fun to make
I didn't like it
Not because of the poor animation, because I can overlook the quality of the animation if the comedy is good. But in this case, it isn't. The jokes aren't funny, neither for real comedy or troll comedy, it just ain't funny. The voices are bad, not just kind of bad but really bad.
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May 2015
1. UNPOG participates in the Republic of Korea's Government 3.0 Fair
From 20 April to 3 May, DPADM/ UN Project Office on Governance (UNPOG) participated in the Government 3.0 Fair which was hosted by the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs of the Republic of Korea. The Fair served as a platform to experience Korea's Government 3.0 initiative, such as government programs designed by interdepartmental collaboration and business models using public data.
2. The Government of Uzbekistan Welcomes DPADM Advisory Mission on E-Government and E-Participation
From 27 April to 1 May, DPADM took part in the First National Capacity Building Workshop on "e- Government and e-Participation Development" which was held in Tashkent. DPADM met with Deputy Ministers and senior government officials from various Ministries and other key strategic agencies in the country to discuss the challenges in improving service delivery and citizen participation. DPADM presented on the UN E-Government Survey, basic concepts of e-government and e-participation, as well as the Online Training Centre of the United Nations Public Administration Network and other DPADM training tools. A meeting was also held with the Minister of Development of Information Technologies and Communications to discuss the progress made by Uzbekistan since the last UN mission. As a result, the Government of Uzbekistan and the UNDP country office requested DPADM to follow-up on future advisory services and capacity - building missions; to assist in the e-government strategy implementation and; to conduct training for government officials from both central and local offices.
3. Presentation on Collective Impact for Sustainable Development by Southern California's Sol Price School of Public Policy (USC Price)
On May 4 2015, a Public Policy Practicum Team from USC Price visited DPADM to participate and present in the Colloquium on the theme of "Collaborative Governance for Sustainable Development". USC Price Practicum students worked on a project to identify the characteristics of Public Administration that promotes sustainable development. The project resulted in the creation of a framework of effective public administration and governance practices including collaborative governance, ethical leadership and the requisite human and institutional capacities. The USC Price Team made a presentation with the purpose of contributing to the development of a best practice framework for the attainment of sustainable development objectives.
4. DPADM and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) hold an Inter-Agency Consultation on the UN General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Event on the overall review of the outcome of the World Summit on Information Society(WSIS)
On 6 May, DPADM jointly organized an informal inter-agency consultation on the UNGA High-Level Event on the overall review of the outcome of the WSIS scheduled to take place in New York in December 2015. The consultation with UN Chief Executives Board agencies, and in particular member agencies of the UN Group on Information Society (UNGIS), focused on the provisions of modalities for the overall review by the General Assembly of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (A/RES/69/302). Around a dozen UN agencies were represented as well as 26 remote participants. ASG Montiel opened the meeting where ITU, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Educational, Scientific,and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) spoke on their review of the implementation of the WSIS outcome. The next meeting will be held from 25 to 29 May in Geneva during the 2015 WSIS Forum.
5. 2015 United Nations Public Service Awards (UNPSA)- Announcement of Winners
Following the Final Round of Evaluations by the CEPA Sub-Group, which took place during the 14thsession of CEPA in New York, DPADM released the results of the 2015UNPSA. This year, awards will be given to initiatives in all four categories, 1) Improving the Delivery of Public Services, 2)Fostering Participation in Policy-making Decisions through Innovative Mechanisms, Promoting Whole-of-Government Approaches in the Information Age, and 4) Promoting Gender-Responsive Delivery of Public Service. All winners have been notified and invited to the 2015 UNPSA Forum,Day and Awards Ceremony, due to take place in Medellin, Colombia on 23-26 June 2015. For more information on the 2015 UNPSA results please visit our website: UNPSA
6. DPADM Organizes the First Capacity Development Workshop (CDW) in Uruguay
On 12 -14 May, DPADM organized in partnership with the Agencia para el Desarrollo del Gobierno de Gestión Electrónica y la Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento (AGESIC) of the Government of Uruguay the first CDW under the Development Account project of "Strengthening of Capacities of Developing Countries to Provide Access to Information for Sustainable Development through Open Government Data (OGD)". More than 60 participants attended the workshop, including 19 high-level Government representatives and 42 mid-level specialists from Government and various ministries, public agencies and civil society organizations.The workshop demonstrated benefits from around the world on uses of open data for stimulating development planning and management. Inputs from the workshop were used to identify the key relevant data sets for publishing in open formats, as well as the areas of collaboration among government institutions to address capacity gaps. Participants focused on suggested priority areas for government actions in advancing OGD as Uruguay is currently working on its second OGD action plan.
7. DPADM/ UN Project Office on Governance (UNPOG) Holds Meetings with Republic of Korea Agencies to Strengthen E-Government Development Initiatives for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Asia-Pacific Region
From 13 to 14 May, DPADM/ UNPOG, met with Mr. Byung-jo Suh, Head of the National Information Society Agency (NIA), and with Mr. Seong-ju Kang, Director-General of the Office of Internet Convergence Policy of the Ministry of Science, Information and Communications Technology and Future Planning of the Republic of Korea. The meetings focused on further strengthening cooperation in support of e-government development in SIDS. As a result, NIA agreed to attend the Pacific Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministerial Meeting to beheld in Tonga from 17 to 19 June 2015 and to make a presentation on its SIDS-related activities. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning agreed to assist SIDS, through UNPOG, by providing policy advice and developing customised applications for them.
8. DPADM Meets with Private Sector Representatives to Discuss World Summit on Information Society (WSIS+10) Review Process
On 19 May, DPADM met with representatives from AT&T, Intel and Microsoft. At the request of Access Partnership-a private sector entity assisting ICT organizations in the areas of government relation, regulatory affairs, and technical analysis. The private sector representatives inquired about the roadmap to the two-day high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the implementation of the outcomes of WSIS. The representatives of Access Partnership highlighted the issue of connectivity and noted that the global community is on the right track but a lot more could be done in order to bridge the ICT divide. They stated that, because of its critical contribution to ICT innovative development worldwide, private sector collaboration is instrumental to overcome this challenge. Since ICT can facilitate implementation of most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they expressed hope for a broad policy consensus to enable greater private investment. They also emphasized the importance of multi-stakeholder engagement to attain the SDGs and reaffirmed the decisive role of the Internet Governance Forum.
9. Symposium on Governance, Public Administration and ICT for Implementing the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda
On 20 May, DPADM supported the Symposium on Governance, Public Administration and ICT for Implementing the UN post-2015 development agenda, held in Seoul by the Korean Institute of Public Administration (KIPA). The Korean Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) also supported the event.Over 120 participants, including high-level participants from Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Zambia, as well as UNDP COs from Ethiopia, Republic of Korea and Rwanda also attended. The sessions addressed the significance of transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to SDGs, balancing between regional and global perspectives, institutions and capacity-building as key to sustainable development, and ICT-enabled governance and public administration for the post-2015 development agenda.
10. DPADM Participates in the Second Open Consultation and Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Meeting in Preparation of the 10th Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
From 20 to 22 May, DPADM is participating in the second Open Consultation and MAG meeting in preparation for the 10th IGF in Geneva. There are approximately 130 participants and MAG is finalizing the evaluation of proposals submitted for holding workshops at the 10th IGF to be held from 10 to13 November 2015 in Brazil. The themes for the main sessions, best practice forums and other flash sessions are being finalized.
11. Capacity Building Seminar on 'Collaborative Governance for Improved Public Service Delivery for Developing Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
From 20 to 23 May, DPADM participated in the 23rd Annual Conference of the 'Network of Institutions and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee)' in Tbilisi, Georgia. The capacity building seminar was developed in collaboration with UNDP and NISPAcee with the objective of contributing to the capacity of countries with economies in transition to improve effectiveness, transparency, efficiency, openness and accessibility in the efficient delivery of public services using approaches of collaborative governance and applying a balanced mix of in/outsourcing methods. Seminar participants included government officials from various government sectors able to make decisions and support policies related to the delivery of public services.
12. DPADM Launches Russian Version of the 2014 UN E-Government Survey at the Astana Economic Forum 2015
On 21-22 May, DPADM and the Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan co-organized the workshop "Innovative Solutions to Financing Sustainable Development: Role of Social Media", one of the 26 parallel workshops at the Eighth Astana Economic Forum. Mr.Asset Issekeshev, Minister of Industry and Trade of Kazakhstan, Mr. Lenni Montiel, ASG of UNDESA and Mr. Eric Maskin, 2007 Nobel Laureate on Economics, were among the speakers at the plenary session of the DPADM Workshop attended by over 250 participants. They discussed the need to develop a strong e-government framework in support of sustainable economic development and growth of Kazakhstan and other developing countries. The speakers and participants put together recommendations from the three sessions that would be part of the final report of the Workshop and the recommendations from the Forum which will be presented at this year's G-20 Summit.The Russian version of the 2014 UN E Government Survey was launched by the Government of Kazakhstan and UNDESA at the Workshop.
13. Office of President of Dominican Republic Invites DPADM to Deliver Keynote Address and Advisory Mission on e-Government Development
From 21 to 22 May, DPADM was invited to deliver a keynote address at the event, "An ICT Law for Dominican Republic" by the Office of the President for ICTs (OPTIC) of the Dominican Republic in partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce. The event was attended by more than 100 private sector representatives and high-level government officials. DPADM presented a comparative perspective on how various governments balanced their legal frameworks with fast-paced reforms to incorporate ICT into their workflows and overall modernization efforts. As a follow-through to a previous meeting with the Vice President of Dominican Republic, Dr. Margarita Cedeño, DPADM discussed and outlined a cooperation framework with OPTIC. As a result of the discussions, OPTIC will send a formal request for cooperation through the Permanent Mission of Dominican Republic to the United Nations.
14. Workshop on E-Government Track at 2015 Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity
From 21 to 22 May DPADM and UNPOG organised a workshop on E-Government Track in collaboration with World e-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments (WeGO), at the 2015 Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity held in Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. The workshop had 4 sessions on topics relating to e government for sustainable development and collaboration between central and local e-governments. It attracted over 70 participants including senior national and local government officials, experts from the academia, civil society and international organizations. As a result of the successful collaboration, both WeGO and UNPOG plan to continue the working cooperation into the next Jeju Forum.
15. 2015 World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Forum, in Geneva
From 25 to 29 May, DPADM participated in the WSIS Forum, with the theme of "Innovating Together: Enabling ICTs for Sustainable Development". The Forum is being hosted by ITU and co-organized with UNCTAD, UNESCO and UNDP. On the day preceding the Forum, DPADM made a presentation on its work on e-participation and the 2014 UN E-Government Survey at the thematic workshop on "Measuring the Information Society: Challenges and Trends", organized by the Government of Iran. DPADM also served as a resource person at the thematic workshop on "IGF 2015 Preparatory Session," organized by the Government of Brazil, which reviewed the inter-sessional work between the 9th and the forthcoming 10th Internet Governance Forums. On 26 May, DPADM made a policy statement at the High-Level Opening Segment. It also organized the Facilitation Meeting on Implementing WSIS Outcomes related to Action Lines C1, C7 e-Government and C11. In addition, DPADM attended the High-Level and Working-Level Meetings of the UN Group on Information Society (UNGIS). This inter-agency group discussed preparations for and support to the intergovernmental overall review of the WSIS outcomes by the General Assembly that is due to start in June.
16. DPADM attended the Workshop in New York on "Action Lines 4 and 6 of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Outcome: The Role of Public-Private Partnerships"
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I'm being induced tomorrow with our first baby and I am SO nervous! I'm due this Friday, but my doctor said since I've been dilated to 4 cm and I'm nearly completely effaced, now's the time. I've heard that Pitocin can cause more painful contractions (longer, stronger, quicker onset etc.), but I'm definitely hoping for the best. I can't imagine I'll sleep well tonight with the anticipation of our little girl tomorrow! To everyone who is due this month....Good Luck and Best Wishes to you all!
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Good luck I hope everything goes smoothly for you and baby! I had to have pitocin with my last pregnancy but I was already in labor and dilated to a 6 with very painful back labor so I made them give me the epidural before the pitocin. So I have no idea if the contractions are more painful with it.
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contractions are usually stronger with pitocin, i wish i would have gotten my epidural before they broke my water because it was so fast after and the contractions were on top of eachother, at that point there was no time for an epidural.. good luck.
I heard that if pitocin is administered properly it technically doesn't make contractions hurt more, it just sends you directly in to the active stages of labor so you do not go through any of the early stages of labor and that is why it seems like it causes more painful contractions... because you have nothing to ease you in to it.
Good luck! Yes, the pitocin causes stronger contractions but it really made me progess quickly so I was thankful for it in the long run!
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Good luck! I had pitocin with my first, and it was easy. . . it's when they broke my water, that was when they started to hurt. If they want to break your water early, ask them if you or the baby show signs of distress. If not, don't let them break your water! I am being induced Thursday and we are using a doula to help us go as naturally (haha, I know, I am using pitocin, but I still want little interference) as possible, and she advocates not intervening unless necessary!
Best of luck, you get to meet your little one so soon!!!
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My last 3 babies were pitocin babies I really don't think the pit is as bad as some people make it out to be. My 3 pit labors were all natural, but my 2 other babies I got epidurals..good luck tomorrow. Delivery is never any fun (especially pushing, lol) but, once it is over, its so worth it!
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lksupermom, good to know people can go without pain meds for pitocin labors. . . I have heard it can be done! :)
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This article is a much shorter version of this. If you want the full force of my verbosity, read that one. In Arts, Inc., Bill Ivey, former Chair of the NEA, makes the case that our artistic heritage is a set of public assets that should benefit all, but instead are often squandered by existing cultural institutions.Read More
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Deja vu all over again. In the fiscal 2011 budget process, South Carolina's former Governor Mark Sanford vetoed line item funding for the South Carolina Arts Commission, only to have his veto overridden by wide margins. History has just repeated itself. Governor Nikki Haley issued a similar line item veto yesterday, zeroing out $1.9 million in fundingRead More
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In recent years, as more middle-age women have tried to dress more youthfully, retailers have been flummoxed about how to respond. Most have floundered in their bid to attract those who don't want to dress like either their daughters or their mothers.
The clothes that were pitched to the 40-plus set barely evolved, and the hotter styles threatened to leave many looking downright embarrassed. In their zeal to lure big-spending teens and twentysomethings, many stores seemed to forget that many Baby Boomer women favor clothes that blend the traditional and the stylish.
Now, with middle-age customers deserting them for youthfully focused clothiers — or giving up shopping altogether — stores have been fighting back. They're trying, belatedly, to offer hipper and more youthful apparel without alienating those women who prefer more classic clothing.
The stores' success has been fitful at best. Saks Fifth Avenue's sks attempt to aim young fell flat a few years ago. Two favorite midlife brands largely went away: Liz Claiborne liz shuttered Sigrid Olsen and is turning Dana Buchman into a store brand for Kohl's so it can focus on its more cutting-edge labels, including Juicy Couture and Lucky Brand jeans. Talbots, tlb Chico's chs and Ann Taylor ann have seen sales steadily erode, too.
Sure, hip stores such as H&M and Forever 21 have managed to sell to young women and occasionally, their moms. But many Baby Boomers have felt left out. What's a forty- or fiftysomething woman to do if she isn't ready to shop at Coldwater Creek cwtr with her own mother but feels too mature for spaghetti straps and miniskirts? In her new book, Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth, Beth Teitell, 46, says she rarely shops because there's nothing right for her to wear.
"There's no Forever 41 or 51," she notes dryly.
One of the strategic blunders that both department and some specialty stores made, retail experts say, was to write off Baby Boomer women for too long. That was true even though these women typically have the desire to shop and the money to spend — for something they like. Teens and twentysomething women do spend much of their disposable income on apparel. But their mothers and other older female shoppers have more money and aren't as fickle or as hard hit by gas prices, says retail strategist Michelle Bogan.
"They've come to hate shopping because there's nothing great that's out there," Bogan says. Department stores are "making a big mistake by backing off too heavily from that middle-age woman."
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Bloomingdale's learned its lesson two years ago, Vice Chairman Frank Doroff says, when middle-age women complained that the clothes designed for them were "too frumpy, and the contemporary clothes wouldn't fit them." The retailer added two departments, Quotation and Portfolio, that have become among its most popular.
"I didn't say, 'I don't want to sell clothes to these women,' " says Doroff, who's been with Bloomingdale's for 17 years. "The apparel market got out of tune with what the women wanted."
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My how things change. A few weeks after saying he had parted ways with longtime agent Drew Rosenhaus, Terrell Owens announced that he has found new representation.
T.O. has signed with Jordan Woy of Willis & Woy Sports Groups with the goal of returning to the NFL for the upcoming season.
"I am making changes in my life so I can continue my career as a professional football player," Owens' statement reads. "I have hired Jordan Woy as my new agent. It was important for me to hire someone who believes in my ability to help an NFL team and believes in me as a person. I love the game of football and I know I can help a team. I have had to go through some humbling times but I am more determined than ever to show a team that I can be a huge asset to them as a player and a team leader in the locker room. I am in the best shape of my life and preparing daily. I am looking for a team who will give me that chance and I know I will pay big dividends to them as a player and teammate."
The agent change is still pretty shocking. It was nearly seven years ago when Terrell Owens did sit-ups in his driveway while agent Drew Rosenhaus stood by his side after the receiver was suspended by the Philadelphia Eagles. T.O. was Rosenhaus' most notable client for several years, but that changed after Owens got hurt and his ability declined. Clearly he wasn't happy with his inability to sign with an NFL team and wanted a change.
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Knit and crochet slippers are easy to make and comfortable to wear. Think about it, who likes have cold feet? Slippers are a sure-fire way to please your friends and family with simple handmade gifts. It doesn't matter if you're copying a silly crochet slipper pattern or trying to make simple knit slippers for everyone in your family, once these go on someone's feet you're bound to see some smiles. So, don't let your loved ones feet be cold ever again!
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A Fabulous Pair of Crochet Slippers - Perfect for relaxing at home.
Multi Color Granny Slippers - Crochet this basic slipper pattern in multi-colors.
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These knit slipper patterns are perfect if you're looking for simple knit slippers to make for everyone in the family. There are several patterns for easy knit slippers, if you're looking to make pairs for the whole family quickly. Don't worry, we also picked out some adorable ones for those of you looking to devote a little more time to add cute details to embellish your feet. Once you're done making any one of these patterns, they'll be showed off all over the house!
Grandma's Knitted Slippers - Make these super cute slippers and lounge around the house.
Made to Fit Double Knit Slippers - Easily adaptable knit slipper patterns allow you to make different sizes and styles!
Warm Boot Slippers - A great way to keep your feet and ankles warm.
Easy Knit Slippers - Make knee length slippers too!
Knit Mary Jane Slippers - A button closure completes these easy knit slippers.
Simple Slipper Project - A great project for beginners!
Easy Chunky Knitted Footies - Easy and quick to knit.
Little Red Slippers - Adorable easy toddler slippers!
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I am looking for a knit pattern for tops to baby slipper sock soles sold by Boye. The pattern in my packages are for crocheting only
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I was reading the pattern for "Easy knit slippers" and found it very confusing. I read that twice you need to have 10 stitches left. I read that you decrease until you have only 10 stitches left in row 30 and then in row 31 the pattern says to decrease until you have 10 stitches left. I absolutely don't understand. I was looking forward to knitting those for next winter (yes, I'm a slow knitter : ) and I like these because there isn't any heel turning. So..........Heeeeeeeeeelp please
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I started "Grandma's Knitted Slippers" but wonder if there is perhaps an error in the pattern - there is no decreasing at all in the toe area. Is that correct - at the end you pull the end through the same amount of stitches as you started with? Seems like a lot .....
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In the photo accompanying the pattern for Grandma's Knitted Slippers, I notice that the brown pair seems to have a checkered insole, while the pink pair does not seem to have an insole. Is something placed inside the brown pair after completing the slippers?
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Like me, you may have become a little confused about what Ghost Recon games are coming to PC, and which aren't. Let me explain. Ghost Recon Online is, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier wasn't, but is now. Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars was for the DS. Ghost Recon: Have We Found The Ghosts yet won't be, but then will, but then won't be again. Ghost Recon: Elizabethan Attack definitely will be for the first three months. And Ghost Recon: Ghostly Reckoning will only be on PC if you install it on PS3 first, and play via your 360. Glad to have cleared that up. Below you can see the latest trailer for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, which is coming out on the 15th June for PC, rather than 25th May for consoles, because Ubisoft just cannot help themselves.
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SEC commissioner Mike Slive has responded to the suit's initial outcome today, dodging any of the legal specifics while hailing the decision as further proof of "historic evolution" in the field of college athletics:
"We are pleased that the judge recognized the educational component of college athletics, and the importance of integrating academics and athletics in this decision. There are a number of legal questions of some significance that must be answered to fully understand the ultimate consequence of this decision, and how to comply with it.
Together with the change in NCAA governance that was approved just a day earlier, this decision reemphasizes the fact that we are going through a historic evolution of the landscape of college sports and it is incumbent upon all of us to be thoughtful and deliberate in building a better future for our institutions and our student-athletes."
Slive is putting a positive spin on things, but he knows full well that last week's autonomy vote could be thrown back into review or thrown out altogether depending on the number of Division I schools who choose to veto that decision. So you might consider this statement to be a bit of politicking from the most powerful man in college sports. "The world's changing, folks, best you keep up and not veto last week's decision."


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Mr. Alan Kaye, the Chair of the Board of Directors of the NCCC states; "The United States has an inadequate delivery system for vaccines that may hinder mass immunization of women for the cervical cancer/HPV vaccine." Mr. Kaye went on to state; "The United States healthcare system is not structured adequately to handle the widespread immunization of adolescents and young adults."
About the National Cervical Cancer Coalition
The National Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC), founded in 1997, is a grassroots nonprofit organization serving women with, or at risk for, cervical cancer and HPV. The NCCC is the only organization dedicated exclusively to helping women address concerns about cervical health and disease. The group executes its mission to improve women's cervical health outcomes through education, support and advocacy for women and health care providers.
The NCCC supports the nation's first Cervical Cancer Hotline for women and family members who are battling issues related to cervical cancer. In addition, it promotes patient interaction and support though its Phone Pals and E-Pals Programs, which match cervical cancer survivors with other women who are now living with or have experienced similar circumstances. The NCCC raises awareness nationally through a variety of initiatives, including the Cervical Cancer Quilts Project, a traveling exhibit that puts a personal face on the battle against cervical cancer.
To learn more about the NCCC, visit http://www.nccc-online.org.
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