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Carol Topolski
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:38
Carol Topolski is a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her many previous roles include music festival organiser, advertising executive, teacher, nursery school director, director of a rape crisis centre and refuge for battered women, probation officer and film censor. She lives in London and is married with two daughters. Monster Love is her first novel.
Mark Thwaite: What first gave you the idea for writing Monster Love?
Carol Topolski: well, I'm not at all mystical when it comes to writing, but having spent much of my professional life rummaging around in the unconscious, I have to say the story -- or a character at least -- popped up quite unbidden one day when I was writing something else. I can only think she emerged from the dark side of my mind. I was experimenting with a first person voice in another story and suddenly found myself writing two sides of A4 in the primitive voice of a little girl who appeared to be in a cage. That was Samantha, on whose death at the hands of her parents the story is predicated. Ironically her voice didn't make the final mix, which was saddening but fitting, since she was invisible and inaudible throughout her short life. She's become a punctuation stop in the stories of other people.
MT: What made you want to write a novel about a child murder?
CT: Ingmar Bergman called the grim time just before the dawn dilutes the night the hour of the wolf, and says that it's in those moments that the worst thoughts imaginable often occur. I wouldn't be the first parent to find that space teeming with terrifying anxieties that something might happen to my children. My world shifted when I had my first baby, since now I had a tiny dependent to protect. I'd been alarmed by the threat of nuclear war before I gave birth, but now I was alarmed by the threat to her. So for me a child being murdered was the worst possible hour of the wolf imagining and I wanted to explore that territory, map its consequences -- push my own tolerances to the edge probably. At a more macrocosmic level, a child represents everything that is unsullied and innocent in a society -- everything a society needs to believe exists in order to have a picture of itself as broadly good, so killing a child is a mortal insult to that picture and offends us all.
MT: The Gutteridges kill their child, Samantha, in a hideous way. Did writing about their fictional crime help you understand how such crimes can occur?
CT: I have to confess to an embarrassingly long CV, and one of my previous incarnations was as a Probation Officer. I have therefore spent a considerable amount of time in prisons -- though fortunately they always let me out! -- and with criminals. It must be pretty obvious that I'm interested in the darker aspects of humanity and in discovering not just the who or the what or the how of a story, but the why. There will always be crime -- delinquency and disobedience are inevitable in even the best regulated of societies -- so the interesting thing for me is to find out what in any community is designated criminal and how that community chooses to police it, judge it, punish it. Another of my incarnations was as a film censor for the BBFC, so my memory banks are full of ideas and images from films where crime and the criminal are under inspection. Louise Bourgeois once said "Happy people don't have stories" and while I don't entirely concur, for me it's certainly true that unhappiness has complexities and mysteries that are fascinating to try and understand: complexities that happiness lacks.
MT: What do hope your novel will achieve?
CT: The 'Monster' of the title is deliberate. By defining people as monsters, we rid ourselves of the need to think about them: we can consign them to a bin and walk briskly away. It's a headline term, a slogan, with no depth and no real meaning other than giving us authority to repudiate someone absolutely. Casually. It's similar to what I call the nose-job phenomenon -- you know, the if-only-I-had-a-nose-job-I'd-have-a-career-and-a-boyfriend-and-money-and-the-sun-would-shine-all-day. That is, if only we can cut out people we designate as monsters, then society would magically have a pretty face. It doesn't work that way. I wanted to put the reader inside the heads of two people who have committed monstrous acts, not to exonerate them, but to make them spring out of a two dimensional headline into a three dimensional existence. Out of understanding comes change.
MT: How long did it take you to write your debut Carol?
CT: From start to finish, about four years. I had to fit it in with my practice -- not always easy -- and, after all, being my first, I was learning on the job. Rather like being a parent for the first time. Reading books can help, but you'll really only know how to change a nappy by doing it.
MT: How do you write? Longhand or directly onto a computer, straight off or with lots and lots of editing?
CT: Oh, I'm a queer old-fashioned thing. I write in longhand. Not that you can see it in print, I have an almost wholly illegible handwriting that even I struggle sometimes to decipher. When I wrote my reports for the Film Board before the advent of computers, the secretaries used sometimes to pin one of my reports to a Wall Of Shame with words circled and a plaintive note attached saying 'can anyone tell us what this says?' From time to time I could. But it means that the words on the page are irreducibly mine -- and that I never lose anything I write because I then type it into the computer, onto two memory sticks and print it out. Then edit from the printed copy. I'm ashamed of all the dead trees but it all helps me to own the writing. And I edit when it's all done. Then again. And again...
MT: You are a practising psychotherapist -- how does your work inform your writing?
CT: My work with patients can't help but inform my writing. Over the years they have been subtle and excellent teachers of how the human mind works, how conflicts occur, how fantasies and reality clash and mesh and how to effect change. That being said, I have been scrupulous about ensuring that no part of any patient's history has appeared on a page. Not a jot. But then up pops the unconscious again and while consciously they're not there, unconsciously what I've learned from them is certainly present. They are, after all, a vital part of my own history and what they've told me is in turn part of my telling. I am indebted to them.
MT: What was the most difficult aspect of writing your novel Carol? How did you overcome it?
CT: I made the mistake, I think, of not staying with the first person voice throughout. There's one character -- James -- who couldn't be written in the same way as the others and that was because of my own limitations. I couldn't bear to be in his head, so his story is told at one remove. I struggled with that, because it felt -- feels still -- like a hiccough in the narrative, but what he'd done and how he felt about it was unbearable. Essentially I wimped out, so I didn't resolve that one. The other difficulty was in the structure. As you know, the story is told in discrete accounts by people who have been involved with Samantha's parents, so plotting who would speak when was a tricky bit of literary architecture. I was given a fellowship to an artists' colony in Costa Rica two years ago and in my room I had two huge tables running along two sides of the space. I separated each account out, laid them along the surfaces and moved them hither and thither like a wordy jigsaw puzzle until they seemed to fit together. Utterly concrete, but it worked.
MT: Do you read the critics? Have you been pleased with the responses to your book? What have you learned from them?
CT: Oh, I'm a moth-to-a-flame where equivocal reviews are concerned. I suppose I may develop a more calloused skin some day, but for the moment anything even remotely negative floors me. I've been very fortunate in the reviews I've had, both in print and on the internet, but when someone says something critical I do take it to heart. That being said, I've certainly learned something from the responses to the book that I'll apply to my second and subsequent novels.
MT: What do you do in your free time!?
CT: Talk. Then talk some more. Then talk and laugh and debate and gossip and chortle. Then talk... As a pretty gregarious creature it's a mystery to me quite why I've chosen metiers that root me in contemplative silence for hours at a time, but I do find a creativity in silence which complements the creativity in conversation. People are my food and drink, both in life and in my writing. Of course, I also love cinema, theatre, music, cooking, yoga and - strangely -- reading.
MT: Did you have an idea in your mind of your "ideal" reader? Did you write specifically for them?
CT: I suppose while I write hoping that I actually have readers, I don't bear them in mind when the story's taking shape. In that sense, I'm talking to myself -- or at least the part of my mind that's generating the ideas and images. I've been terribly gratified by how broad a sweep of readers 'Monster Love' has had and how many of the readers who have generously reviewed it on Amazon have said "I don't usually read this sort of book but..." so they're as surprised as I am that they've enjoyed it.
MT: What are you working on now?
CT: I have a two book deal with Penguin/Fig Tree, so I'm working on my second novel, due to be published in 2010 I think. I seem only to be able to write about dark things at the moment, though that may change, so this one examines -- among other things -- some unusual sexual inclinations. Probably not a comedy then...
MT: Who is your favourite writer? What is/are your favourite book(s)?
CT: Oh my goodness, that's a tough one! That's the sort of question that immediately blanks one's mind. Easier to say the kind of novels that grip me: novels that draw me into new ways of thinking about the world/politics/people; novels that challenge my assumptions, introduce me to seductive characters, talk to me in strange tongues. I specially like to read a novel set in foreign parts when I'm actually there, so I read Don de Lillo's Falling Man when I was in New York recently and Alessandro Baricco's Silk in Italy. Both mind-bogglingly brilliant.
MT: Do you have any tips for the aspiring writer!?
CT: I suppose the only tip is to play. Play with words, with ideas, with character until what's finally on the page is your unique voice. Don't borrow -- consciously at least (we're all guilty of unconscious plagiarism) -- other writer's tricks because it will dilute and distract your own truth and your writing will suffer as a result. Above all, enjoy yourself -- enjoy both the thrills and the despair of struggling to express what you want to say and allow yourself the freedom to get it down in whatever form it occurs to you. The rewriting can be the most creative part of the process.
MT: Anything else you would like to say?
CT: Thank you for having me.
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Session E26: Rotating Flow II
4:40 PM–6:50 PM, Sunday, November 20, 2011
Room: 329
Chair: Daniel Lathrop, University of Maryland
Abstract ID: BAPS.2011.DFD.E26.9
Abstract: E26.00009 : Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects in rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection
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Susanne Horn
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Olga Shishkina
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Claus Wagner
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We present results from Direct Numerical Simulations of rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a cylindrical cell with unity aspect ratio for water with a Prandtl number of $Pr = 4.38$ and glycerol with $Pr = 2547.9$ with a special focus on temperature dependent material properties and thus not within the framework of the conventionally used Oberbeck-Boussinesq (OB) approximation. The generated turbulent flow fields are analysed with respect to the deviations from the OB cases. For the non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq cases we obtain a breakdown of the top-bottom symmetry, that is different boundary layer thicknesses, asymmetric velocity flow patterns and modified mean temperature profiles including an increase of the centre temperature and in the case of rotation a diminished temperature gradient within the bulk. Furthermore we find a slightly different scaling of the Nusselt number with the Rayleigh as well as with the Rossby number.
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Mute Math: Armisticeby: Abdullah Saeed
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Tue, Sep 20
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Deschutes Brewery Portland Public House
210 NW 11th Ave.Portland, OR
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Join us in celebration, or a jubelation, if you will, as we release our most anticipated seasonal brew of the year! After 23 years of Jubelale, we've got it down pat and we're gonna throw a party at the location that started it all. Jubelale bottles & shirts will be for sale, posters signed by the artists Cara & Louie will be available & a special menu & dessert using Jubelale will tantalize your tastebuds! Join us to celebrate life, great beer and the approaching fall season. Cheers!Specials Menu:
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Ohh, that Jake Ryan. He made Sixteen Candles into a great movie, and made it so rewatchable! But even with Jake Ryan, is Sixteen Candles as good as Pretty In Pink? Let me know what you think in the comments below. And click here for some fun Jake Ryan and Sixteen Candles trivia.


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LLoydminster death now being called a murder
Early Saturday morning altercation claimed one life, sent other to hospital
First Posted: Jul 26, 2011 12:46pm | Last Updated: Jul 26, 2011 1:00pm
Lloydminster RCMP are now calling a suspicious death over the weekend murder.
Gurwinder Singh, 46, died of his injuries after an altercation with a 48-year-old man at a Lloydminster home. The incident occured early Saturday morning. The 48-year-old was also injured and remains in hospital.
There have been no charges or arrests in the case.
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|Chris Turner <c.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 03/06/12 05:24, firstname.lastname@example.com wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:28:59 -0800 > > But maybe it is worth fixing this page: > > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/pkgsrc/#index7h3 > > as well, because that was the place where I learned about the > '/etc/mk.conf/ file? Fixed - thanks for the report. Pkgsrc used to default to /etc/mk.conf a while ago but now uses /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf. The documentation wasn't yet updated. > By the way, is it a good idea to disable the "threads' option when > building the applications on the machine with such a small amount of > memory as mine has? I'm not sure about the exact meaning of this option > - where can I get any description of it (as well as any other options)? Generally I wouldn't mess with the options unless you're 100% sure you want to disable it. To find out what it does, check the Makefile or options.mk file in the package directory and if it's not well documented, you'll need to see how the options affect the build process and dig in the package's source to see what this implies. The pkgsrc guide is quite good: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/ and aside from this and the makefiles, perhaps check the CVS history. see also: http://pkgsrc.se for a nice web interface > And also, the question about kernel build failure remains - I would > appreciate any input on that case as well. Can you build GENERIC with a stock /etc/make.conf? If not, checkout a fresh source tree & try a clean build. if so - you'll need to be making your kernel config file available and any build flags used if you want someone to try to fix. This particular error looks to be related to changing the VISUAL_USERCONFIG and can be found fairly simply by checking the file in question at the line where the build fails - the entire function is ifdef'ed out based on this option.. so - looks like this option is required most likely (I'm not 100%) Really - if you're making a custom kernel config and are changing options without checking what they do in the source tree - expect things to fail both in the build and while running, and expect to get your hands dirty - which means reading the source and finding out what the options do to the code. In other words - by continuing down the (unsupported) low memory path, with a custom kernel config, you've essentially become the 'low memory tester / developer' - and so will need to do 'tester/developer like things' if you want to make progress.. Hope this doesn't come across too harshly - the goal isn't to yell but to try and describe what I think is the reality on this thread for whatever that's worth. Cheers & good luck! - Chris


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Hello everyone! So, approaching very quickly 14 days to be exact is Awesome Games Done Quick 2014. If you've watched past marathon's you know what your in for! If you're reading this however and asking yourself what is AQDQ? Let me break it down for you!
A: Awesome games done quick is a week long marathon where a group of gamers from the Speed Demos Archive play video games for a week straight to raise money for various charities!
A:Speed Demos Archive is a group of gamers who like to speed run video games. They help each other develop strategies compete against each other for times and are generally just a fun loving group of gamers.
A: When the marathon starts you can tune into SDA's Twitch page or join the GB community on Explosive Runs.
A: This year the benefactor of the donations will be the Prevent Cancer Foundation. You can DONATE HERE.
A: If you want to plan out your viewing or simply know whats coming up you can find the schedule for the entire event right here. The schedule IS prone to changing so keep an eye on it for the latest changes and updates.
A: Yes, currently the archives from last year are on their twitch archives page.
Catch up on all the AGDQ action you missed by using @truthtellah's handy guide here.


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The Real Thing
Nov. 2nd – Nov. 18th
Meet Henry, a clever playwright who happens to adore tunes by the Monkees and their ilk. Henry has fallen in love, and so now he's a Believer but discovers to his dismay that, eloquent as he is, he has no idea Who (Who! Who!) Wrote the Book of Love. Stoppard's most personal play—breathtakingly witty yet profoundly heartfelt.
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Michael Champlin (Henry) & Carla Pauli (Annie)
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The reporting victim, an employee of the Hotel told officers that as went into the parking area, he observed a white, male subject in the process of stealing his car. As the victim ran to the automobile in an attempt to prevent the theft, the perpetrator struck the victim with the car as he was escaping.
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Journal Journal: Gmail makes me happy
So I got a gmail invite through a friend of a friend, first time that's ever paid off eh?, it's pretty cool another guy I know just reciently got an invite and we've been spamming each other back and forth for no real reason other than we like how it does the conversations. I've already moved all my email subscriptions to gmail and am rather pleased with it for now.
Journal Journal: Earthlink + Mozilla = not friends 2 2
As you can see by my earlier entry by all intents and purposes I was going to permanetly switch to Mozilla until I decided to change ISPs because my DSL which is provided by Cincinnati Bell started to suck major ass, here is what has happened over the past month. First the email server goes down for 24 hours, than a week later the DSL modem is kicking me off for god knows what reason so I call up tech support and they agree to put in a work order for me to exchange my modem at a Cincinnati Be
Journal Journal: Mozilla is good
I've finally decided to permanently switch from IE to Mozilla and I'm fairly happy with it. Also Netscape 7.1 has leaked out or something although I don't know if you'd call it a leak if it's being hosted by them but the netinstaller is hidden on their ftp. On Mozillanews.org they were rambling about how the Netscape 7.1 agent has an (ax) on it which they're guessing means ActiveX which sounds really cool I suppose but I've got the ActiveX plugin for Moz so I doubt I really need to bother wit


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Tags dubstep, chillstep, weed, sleep
Artists Mansions on the Moon, Metric, James Vincent McMorrow
June 30, 2011
Songs for napping while baked in the sun. Or just napping if you're not into that stuff...
sick mix. Just what I was looking for.
wow i love your work!
I could most definitely snooze to that.
Not sure I could nap to this but... very nice, I like! Good pic too.
I dig it, Very nice.
Fall Jamz by leggybrew
Just some new jams good for driving, walking, and enjoying fall.
the weeknd, kygo, odesza, flume
Night Owl by leggybrew
That good shit to help get ya pump you up for a night out .
disclosure, bondax, alunageorge
Bitches Be Studyin by leggybrew
It's been a minute since I've made a mix, but I figured I'd do a little procrastinating and upload my playlist powering me through finals.
study, finals, upbeat, electronic, motivation
Womp Sesh by leggybrew
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Boyfriend Wants Open Relationship
Group Therapy: My Boyfriend Wants an Open Relationship
There is a bit of an age gap, I am 22, and he is 29. He also wants me to stay thin and die my hair — both of which I do for him without much trouble. He continues to gain weight, drink in excess, and doesn't help with the housework — but from my understanding from some of my friends this is not uncommon for men.
He is always very open and brutally honest about everything, sometimes to the point of being caustic and hurtful. I like that in him but it can hurt sometimes. He's been dropping hints lately that he would like to take me up on the agreement we made about him having an affair. Since we've been together for nearly two and a half years now and have an active sex life (3-4 times a week on average) and a happy home I don't know why he wants to have another woman. I feel a little worried about how often this may come up. We're currently planning on the first clandestine meeting with a woman for his birthday, but I am apprehensive.
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Letters to the editor
Are you listening, Washington?
As the so-called deadline approaches for the borrowing limit to be increased, we are being bombarded with name calling by no less than the President, which is disappointing for the man who would lead the free world.
He would negotiate with our deadliest and worst enemies will make concessions to almost any tyrant in the world, but will not consider listening to the majority of his own constituents. He would, as he has said, veto anything that included any change to Obamacare. Only he holds province over that and may change it at will, and has done so. Many, if not a majority, of his own party do not want it to be implemented. No one appears to understand it, and I don't know anyone who wants IRS any where near this catastrophe.
The President says that if the government shuts down we will lose full faith and credit. If anyone that dwells within the beltway of the District Columbia is listening, the only people in the world who should be concerned, the American citizens, a sizable number appear to have already lost their faith in our government. That can happen when government stops listening to its people.
Can you hear us now in the District of Columbia?
Curtis Casey
Letter inaccurate
Alan Lang's letter about me was completely inaccurate.
First, I have never written or stated that I was not in favor of decent, safe, affordable housing, or that I do not support the City's PRIP program. The Herald-Sun accurately quoted me: "I'm not critical of the intent of the program. I'm not saying do away with it. But we need to rethink the way we're doing it."
Anyone who has met me or knows my record and the work I do in the community knows that I am passionate about people and affordable housing. My point is that the need for safe and secure affordable housing is increasing and availability is not keeping pace.
The facts are there is a long waiting list for subsidized housing and vouchers, 78 families on vouchers are being displaced because a landlord quit the program and the amount of truly affordable rentals is insufficient for demand. Families in poverty cannot use the majority or all of their income for housing without forcing children to go hungry and live without utilities. That should be unacceptable to everyone.
We must work together to find solutions so that affordable housing is safe, secure, and available. Otherwise families end up homeless.
Second, my campaign reports have all been filed completely and on time. My campaign treasurer is doing an excellent job. The Board of Elections will be happy to verify this fact. As we debate this very important issue, let's do so with truth and respect.
Pam Karriker
Alex Rivera centennial
Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the renowned photographer, Alex Rivera. Mr. Rivera, who passed away in 2008, chronicled many important events in modern black history through his work at the Pittsburgh Courier, the Norfolk Journal & Guide, and the Washington Afro-American. He later served as publicist and photographer for North Carolina Central University.
I hope Durham and the nation will commemorate the centennial of Mr. Rivera's legacy by visiting the various websites that display his historic photos. Local citizens can visit the permanent display of some of his photos at the James E. Shepard Library on the campus of NCCU. This exhibit includes his iconic photo of Marian Anderson singing at her famous Easter Sunday morning concert on April 9, 1939.
Please join me in a well-deserved salute to Alex Rivera during his centennial birthday season.
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[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Neil Powell. Neil Powell said: RT @afaithtoliveby: New post: Anyone for a digital detox? http://bit.ly/fn5tUP […]
Anyone for a digital detox?
I've been taking my iPhone to bed with me for the past few weeks. Not because I'm expecting an urgent call you understand nor in case of emergency but because I simply have to keep a check on the cricket score. Having a 12 day old baby means you know you're going to be awake a fair bit of the night so why not see how England are doing and whilst I'm at it I might as well check my e-mails, twitter account and blog stats…..
But if that is a temporary feature brought on by a crying baby and a decent English cricket team my need to be connected isn't. The reality is that if I leave home without my phone it feels as if I've had a limb amputated.
Are you addicted to technology or can you live without it?
The Winter of Our Disconnect is a new book written by Susan Maushart in which she and her family undergo a 'digital detox'. They pull the plug and put themselves through a six month experiment without laptop and games consoles.
In interview with the Daily Telegraph she comments:
'It's a push-pull, isn't it. There is a part of me that feels suffocated when the train goes into a tunnel and I lose signal for 10 seconds. I write about this stuff in the book because I fuly identify iwth it. But you also know that this stuff can compromise your life hugely.'
I've been listening to a BBC radio 4 serialisation of the book this week. It's well worth a listen.
As Christians we have even more reason to take a look at how we are using or being used by technology. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 6:12
"Everything is permissible for me"–but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"–but I will not be mastered by anything.
Or as ESV renders it
"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
How can I ensure I'm not mastered by my use of digital media?
Here are 6 actions that may help;
1. Take a break one day a week. If fasting from food is a helpful spiritual discipline for many fasting from technology might be even more beneficial.
An interesting article on one student's attempt at a 'Phone-free Friday' can be found here.
2. Limit the time you (or your family) spend on computer games. Set yourself a maximum time eg. an hour a day?
3. Make an agreement with your family that you won't check your phone or answer it when you're having a family meal or meeting with someone or at church (!).
4. Don't check your e-mails until you've addressed the more important matters of reading your Bible and praying in the morning. You could try and be even more radical and only check your emails between certain hours (it helps to let others know when to expect a reply).
5. Don't see it as a chore but take note of all the benefits. Slow your brain down and see how much you gain.
6. Put the time you gain to good use. Reading, writing, praying, meditating, talking with friends.
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text: When either my back, neck, elbow, wrists or fingers are hurting enough to keep me from descending to my basement to play pool, I sit in front of the TV and hope that the pain quickly subsides. My significant other watches HGTV as often as I would watch a channel dedicated to pool. So anyway, I've been noticing a considerable jump in the number of pool tables that people are adding to their new or newly re-modeled homes, condos and lofts. People of all ages, single and married. Where there's a table there are accessories. It shows that interest is growing and dollars are being spent. Hopefully the TV execs will notice and we'll see more pool without all of the repeats. Some (most) (OK,all) of the pool rooms shown on HGTV are much nicer than mine but I'm not complaining.I hope everyone has fun playing. Jim B


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Monday, January 14, 2013
Dear Editor:
This is a response to the recent letter from Mr. Lewis concerning my letter about (Jeff) Cruce dissatisfaction.
Hanahan has never won a football championship. I know Cruce's Hanahan football record was in a very easy region with an influx of players from Cainhoy High School after it closed.
The former coach from Berkeley left due to his health, not what players were coming back.
You are certainly a friend of Coach Cruce from his Hanahan days, and I can appreciate that. I think that Coach Cruce cares about his players, too. I have never sent a play to Cruce or wanted to call his plays. I simply stated my thoughts from 48 years of Berkeley Stags football with no real response from the coach unless I sent him a donation of money for trips, etc.
Comparing Hanahan to Berkeley in football is like apples and oranges. Hanahan has always been a baseball school and not a football power.
I just want to say I am and have always been open to the coach but he does not like my thoughts, so be it. I too await next year with great excitement and hope.
My last thought is, your former coach set the bar for the team by stating in the newspaper to judge him on 2012, not 2011. I simply did that and frankly he didnt reach expectations whether it was players or coaching. I personally think 2013 is the year, great improvements need to be accomplished or a change is needed.
Billy Ott
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Driven from her home by accusations of witchcraft, Lady Anna Fenwick embarks on a dangerous quest. Her reluctant protector is darkly brooding Jack Milburn, a merchant venturer with a shadowed past.
Jack exists only to exact his revenge on the man who killed his lover and their son, but Anna slowly teaches him how to feel again. So when fate returns Jack's son to him, miraculously alive and well, marriage seems the answer. But will Anna ever be more to Jack than his convenient bride?


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The first Tournament Code update
After the announcement and release of the Tournament Code by the ESL and Riot Games, comes now another major improvement: match statistics. From now on all matches played with tournament code, will show the result statistics of each game. Including champion selection, summoner spells, items etc. and that is not only for cups, but for ladder and all upcoming tournament features as well.
The Tournament Code project revolutionizes the way the ESL and its users interact with games. Gone are the times of gathering all ten players into the same match lobby or adding them as friends. Annoyed by manually entering the line ups or running after admins or opponents to get your match result confirmed? Tournament Code put an end to all that and now you don't even need screenshots anymore to see what champions were played or what items were bought, because match statistics will display everything automatically in each matchsheet.
All matches played with tournament code will have their statistics display in the matchsheet, so when you missed a coverage of one of our Go4LoL tournaments, but want to know what was played, you just have to check the bracket and match details. Here is the final of Sundays Go4LoL Nordic & East: FeW-GamerS.LoL vs. Kozik Gaming
Playing eSports Tournaments has never been easier. Sign up today to one of our next ESL Tournaments and try it out!
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Yeah, it should be fixed. I mean.. Tournament code game = draft mode .. But pause is available only in tournament draft, so .. You know what to do . :p
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TAA USAF Designation: F78-1
Step 1: Materials
1 Piece of 8.5 by 11 inch paper
Scissors (for modifications)
Step 3: Sweep Fold
Pull your paper down so the end of the fold are at the corners. Repeat on the other side.
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Nexuiz locks up on a 8600 gts
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When running nexuiz-sdl X becomes unresponsive. I can ssh into the box normally and memory and cpu usage are normal.
When I created the bugreport I got a similar lockup, both with 169.04 and 100.14.19, but the report was created anyway..
I am using Archlinux.
Bugreport for 169.04 attached.
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Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, by Ronald Sanders
Race & the New World
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism.
by Ronald Sanders.
Little, Brown. 443 pp. $15.00.
This book, Ronald Sanders tells us, was first conceived in 1968 during the New York City teachers' strike, when tensions between blacks and Jews erupted in ugly expressions of anti-Semitism and racism. A liberal New York Jew who had grown up with the conventional notion that all victims of prejudice share similar perceptions of their place in society, Sanders now had to confront the inadequacy of that idea. This study of the "origins of American racism" is the product of his educational odyssey.
The Iberian peninsula is the start of Sanders's book and at the center of much of it. For many centuries the crossroads of world civilization, it was the locus where Jews, Arabs, and Christians intermingled and transmitted the heritage of their diverse cultural traditions. There the great explorations of the 15th century originated, not only to search for westward and southeastward passages to the fabled East, but also to find a shortcut sea route to Guinea, the source of supply for the lucrative slave trade. At the end of the 15th century, just when Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Inquisition were expelling the Jews from Spain, Christopher Columbus presented the Spanish monarchs with a proposal for a voyage of discovery to find a western route to the Indies. With this plan, which had been rejected by John II of Portugal a few years earlier, Columbus was to launch Spain on a course of colonial and imperial expansion in the New World that soon outrivaled that of Portugal. It was the Portuguese who had initiated the Atlantic slave trade, our country's most bitter heritage. It was the Spanish Conquistadors who destroyed the ancient Aztec and Mayan civilizations they encountered, setting the pattern for subsequent European contacts with the colored natives of the New World.
As the Portuguese and Spaniards enriched themselves with the resources of the New World, the English, French, and Dutch entered the competition for wealth and empire. They too encountered New World natives of color—in their instance, the North American Indian. A few among the early colonists looked upon the Indian with awe and admiration, the embodiment of the European's romantic notion of the Noble Savage. But most white men regarded the Indians as barbarians—primitive, treacherous, and cruel creatures—and harbored the same superstitions about their skin color as Europeans attributed to blacks. At least in one respect, however, the English colonists differed from the Spanish. The Conquistadors enslaved the Aztecs and other South American Indians, but the English found the North American Indians too untrustworthy and too warlike to be safely used as slaves. Consequently, when they captured Indians, the English traded them off to the West Indies in exchange for supplies and Negro slaves. As Sanders says, this was "another of our history's fateful configurations."
Though Sanders's story centers on the encounter of the European with the black man or the Indian, an unexpectedly large Jewish presence pulsates in this book. It opens with a prologue which vividly describes the Catalan world atlas, made about 1375 by Abraham Cresques, the Jewish cartographer of Majorca, and closes with an account of the early Jewish settlement in New York. A few chapters sketch the fate of the Jews in Christian Spain from the 14th century onward as the first victims of racial—not just religious—prejudice. Although Sanders does not develop an explicit connection between Christian Spain's persecution of its Jews and Spain's treatment of the Indians in the New World, he uses the Jewish victims of Spanish intolerance and their descendants as an auxiliary illustration of European racism and also as a medium for his own "intuitive views" on the history of race relations. The Jews appear in this book less as flesh-and-blood individuals than as exemplars of a state of mind, representing a historic experience of persecution, an intellectual influence, a religious tradition of messianic hope—all of which find expression, according to Sanders, in historical and literary works about the colored races in America.
Throughout this book, Sanders's emphasis is on the common humanity as well as the differences in skin color and culture between white men and men of color. He celebrates, when he finds them, protests against the treatment meted out by whites to Indians and blacks, expressions of revulsion against the white man's destructiveness and cruelty in the New World. Out of his own passionate wish for a multiracial society in which all people may live together in dignity and mutual respect, he scours the historical record for those few evanescent moments of the past when explorers and colonizers, writers and thinkers captured a glimpse of such a utopian possibility. The Lost Colony at Roanoke, Sanders believes, might have been just such a possibility—a community in which whites, blacks, and Indians may have lived together in harmony.
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands is a brilliantly written narrative, developed in a sequence of loosely connected episodes which succeed admirably in conveying the intellectual excitement and moral engagement of the author. Yet the book is not without serious problems, chief among them Sanders's treatment of the Jews. The Jewish presence in this exploration of the origins of American racism is both intriguing and disquieting. Are the Jews a race? And if they are not, exactly what are they doing, as victims or as oppressors, in a history of American racism?
Sanders anticipates this question in his preface and justifies himself on grounds of common linguistic usage and on historic evidence. The word "race," he argues, has been loosely defined, having been applied to Jews in the past, by both Jews and Gentiles, "with no unfavorable connotation intended." In this he is correct, for since the 16th century at least the word "race" has been commonly used in the sense of "people," "nation," and even of sex (the "race of males"), without any biological, anthropological, or ethnological import, without reference to skin color or skull shape. Winston Churchill used always to speak of "the English race."
But since nowadays we require a more rigorous definition of race, Sanders proceeds to defend his own racial classification of Jews by citing two historic instances of how Jew-haters have seen Jews: Nazi Germany and the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition. Sanders holds that the Inquisitors persecuted the Jews not only as a religious community but also as a racial group, and he cites as evidence the Inquisitorial concept of limpieza de sangre, "purity of blood." This criterion was used to distinguish the "New Christians," descendants of Jews whom the Inquisition had forcibly converted in an earlier generation, from the "Old Christians," whose lineage was "pure" in the sense that it was uncontaminated by Jewish ancestors. Furthermore, the Inquisition identified children of mixed marriages as "Half New Christian," or "Quarter New Christian," terms which conjure up the racial categories under Nazi Germany's Nuremberg Laws, which led inexorably to the Final Solution.
On the surface, the Inquisition's resort to "purity of blood" to search out heresy does appear to justify Sanders's treatment of the Jews as a racial group, at least in this particular historical context. But on closer scrutiny the evidence is, and always has been, ambiguous. For one thing, as Professor Martin A. Cohen has pointed out, the criterion of limpieza de sangre was applied only selectively. At the very same time that some New Christians were being persecuted because of their "impure" lineage, others rose to eminence, often with the protection of persons in high places. Also at the same time, Jews were being assiduously converted and absorbed into Christian Spain. Even the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 was characterized by the late Yitzhak Baer as arising out of a "curious blend of racial and religious motives"; its purpose, he writes, was ostensibly to excise a "foreign racial element which the Spanish Christians were unable to assimilate," but in fact it was "a means of religious coercion." Indeed, while the expulsion was being carried out, the Franciscan monks intensified their proselytizing and managed to convert and baptize large numbers of Jews. Finally, even when the criterion of purity of blood was enforced, the New Christian was not persecuted for being what he was biologically (that was Nazi Germany's innovation), but for allegedly or actually retaining loyalty to the tenets and practices of Judaism. All of these considerations cast doubt on the validity of Sanders's argument for a racial component in the anti-Semitism of the Inquisition.
There are other problems. Nowadays we understand racism—a relatively new addition to our lexicon—to refer to the doctrine or assumption that people's social and cultural characteristics and abilities are determined by biological race, and that races can be ranked hierarchically, along a scale ranging from superior to inferior. By this definition, within the scope of Sanders's book, blacks and Indians were the victims of racial—that is, racist—prejudices held by European and, later, by American whites. But how can Jews—who may have been slave traders, slave owners, or opponents of slavery—be distinguished racially from other white European or American slavers or anti-slavers? What validity can there be in defining the Jews as a racial category, when in historical fact they were never treated as such except by the Nazis?
According to Sanders, Jews and New Christians distinguished themselves from Christians and Old Christians by their humanist vision of a society based on brotherhood and justice and by their attachment to messianic beliefs which may have been derived from apocalyptic ideas long afloat in Sephardic Judaism. He limns a collective portrait of the New Christians as a group whose experience of persecution and whose position of marginality in Iberian Christian society presumably shaped them into a particular cultural mold, with a heightened sensitivity to the Sufferings of other peoples and races, and a messianic expectation for the redemption of the world.
Thus, for instance, Sanders attributes a New Christian identity to Bartolomé de Las Casas, a Spanish missionary in whose extraordinary protest against the Spanish destruction of the Indians, published in 1552, Sanders finds resonances of the Hebrew prophets and words that might have been those of "a Marrano dying at the stake." Pondering the writings of the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún, missionary and historian of the Indians in Mexico, Sanders concludes that in Sahagún's admiration for the culture of the Aztecs, and in his tragic awareness of the destruction brought upon them by the Spanish conquest, "one may discern the personality of the New Christian." The Dominican friar Diego Duràn's History of the Indies in New Spain, which asserts that the Indians were descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel, Sanders epitomizes as the "most ambitious of the tributes by 16th-century New Christians to peoples who have been crushed under the Spanish onslaught."
This composite portrait of the New Christians is surely attractive, yet one wonders if it is a true likeness. Sanders regards nearly all New Christians as secret Judaizers, yet many, though often segregated from Old Christian society and from the Jews as well, were in fact what they appeared to be: sincere and devout Christians. The records of the Inquisition which attest to a widespread Judaizing heresy among the New Christians have long been known for their unreliability, as Ellis Rivkin has pointed out. Indeed, much of the evidence of heresy and backsliding which the Inquisition produced against the New Christians was as spurious and trumped-up as the evidence presented in our time in the Moscow purge trials.
As for those New Christians who really were secret Judaizers, or who returned to Judaism, is it likely that they all conformed to a particular type of personality, that they all shared a messianic outlook shaped by the apocryphal books of Esdras? One remains skeptical. Among the New World Jews and Marranos were some slave traders and slave owners. Historical evidence indicates that not all Jews and New Christians shared the vision of a world to be redeemed, a world of universal brotherhood.
The suspicion raises itself that Sanders has conceived of the Jews as a racial category in this book not so much to serve historical accuracy as to satisfy a literary necessity. In his final chapter, which describes the beginnings of the Jewish community in New York, he in fact more or less undoes the racial argument with regard to the Jews. The Jews alone, he concludes, "among the racial outsiders"—his term—found fulfillment in the promise of the New World. Why? Because the Dutch and Anglo-Saxons regarded them not as a race but as a religious minority. The story of religious freedom in America, he thus acknowledges, is an altogether different matter from the history of race relations. And it is in terms of the former rather than of the latter that the Jewish experience in the New World is to be understood.


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This is the Belle Air RH 1127. It's not a plane designed by Howard Hughes. It's a bathroom tap, and I want it in all its chrome retro sci-fi glory. [Leroy Brooks via Book of Joe]
This is not the same model, but I wouldn't mind it either.
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A Special Musical Event: The Fiddlers of Catan!Sep 07, 2012
Appearing at this year's World Wide Championship of Catan (WWCC) finals will be a special musical act: The Fiddlers of Catan! The Fiddlers of Catan have introduced the world to the music of the island of Catan and have played at coffeehouses, bars and music festivals across the East Coast of the United States. Playing celebratory selections of old-time irish and celtic folk, the Fiddlers of Catan will provide a musical accompaniment to the final act in a massive two-year competition that will crown the best Catan player in the world!
Here's a look at the unique musical talents that make up the Fiddlers of Catan:
Joey Damiano
Joey Damiano is a world-class bass fiddle player with over 30 years' experience playing upright bass and rhythm guitar. An enthusiastic and high-spirited musician, Joey is skilled in bluegrass, old-time folk, country and rock music. He has played with a plethora of great musicians including: Vassar Clements, John McKuen, Mando Mafia, Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Band, Alvin Breeden & the Virginia Cut-ups, the Virginia Ramblers and the late Don Reno.
Karl Hepler
Karl Hepler is an award-winning flat pick guitar player and singer/ songwriter from Virginia who consistently delivers fun, high-energy performances mixing old-time, newgrass, folk, and celtic music genres with his signature style of New Traditional American Music. Influenced by everything from traditional old-time and celtic melodies, to modern bands and performers, Karl has created an original, yet familiar, sound in his music. Karl Hepler's music has something different, which stems from the roots of traditional American old-time music.
Stuart Jackson
Stuart Jackson was born into a musical family and majored in classical percussion at university. Along the way he learned to play just about every instrument that could be played by hitting it. When he's not taking care of the sheep on his farm, Stuart enjoys teaching music workshops and going on tour with his pipes and drums.
Melissa Kruse
Melissa grew up just outside Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, a city known for cathedrals, symphonies universities. Immersed in this vibrant culture, Melissa gravitated to the violin, a love that stayed with her the rest of her life. Along the way Melissa also discovered a love for The Settlers of Catan™ and eventually, through the Fiddlers of Catan, Melissa found a way to bring her two passions together.
Olivia Johnston
Olivia Johnston is a long-time viola player who recently went over to the Dark Side and acquired a violin. She plays her viola for the University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble, but she has also thrown herself headlong into old-time fiddling. She recently won her first fiddling competition ribbon, much to her surprise. It was at music festivals however, that Olivia met the musicians that would allow her to explore the music of an imaginary land: the island of Catan.
Rhys Jones
Rhys Jones has been playing traditional Appalachian, French-Canadian, and Irish fiddle music for over 30 years. Born in Chicago, he began his fiddling at age 7 in the fertile environment of the Chicago Barn Dance Company. Soon after, his family moved to southern West Virginia where he learned from the older generation of fiddlers, including Ernie Carpenter, Melvin Wine, Glen Smith and Wilson Douglas. Rhys continued his musical education while living in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, and has now played for concerts, dances, workshops and festivals across the United States and Europe. He has won both fiddle and band contests at The Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop), and is regarded as "one of the bright lights of the current generation of traditional performers."
Rhys has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Royal Scottish Concert hall. He and has toured extensively through both Europe and the United States performing traditional Appalachian fiddle music.
Cleek Schrey
Cleek Schrey was just an average kid born on a Leap Day until he discovered his love of the fiddle. Cleek Shrey grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he studied Irish fiddle with Brendan Mulvihill, Brian Conway, Marty Fahey and Billy McComiskey. Regular visits to the home of Paddy Reynolds, the great Longford County fiddler, helped to intensify Cleek's interest in the fiddle playing of the 78 rpm era. He has performed and taught internationally at the Baltimore Fiddle Fair in County Cork, Ireland, the Vancouver Folk Festival, and the Shetland Fiddle and Accordion Festival in Shetland, UK. In addition to concerts and workshops, he has played and created much music for dance. As a fiddler and dancer for the Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, he has toured around the country presenting different dance and music traditions, with a focus on the American South. He was the fiddler for the Irish dance and music show, Celtic Legends, and has also played for the legendary Bill T. Jones Dance Company. He earned first place at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival in 2010 with The Bigfoot String Band.
Cleek is the Artistic Director at the Blue Ridge Irish Music School, and has taught for many years at The Augusta Heritage Center, Catskills Irish Arts Week, The Indiana Fiddler's Gathering, The Washington Irish Folk Festival, BACDS American Music and Dance Week, the Shepherdstown Music and Dance Weekends, The Washington Irish Folk Festival, and the University of Chicago Folk Festival. For the last two years he has given a lecture and demonstration on old-time music styles at the Spanish Peaks Celtic Festival in La Veta, Colorado.
Karen Wade
Karen Wade grew up singing, but found guitar later in life. Her very first guitar smelled like cigars. Inspired by the music of the southern mountains, she took up playing and singing one weekend and never looked back. Fortunately, she met up with some like-minded folks. They played feverishly fun contra-dance music as The Woodticks for many years. Karen loves to play at music festivals, which is where she first encountered The Settlers of Catan, and also where she met her husband, bass player for the Fiddlers of Catan, Joey Damiano!


text: The Chartist Circular, priced at half a pence, was an unstamped paper and thus could not publish any news, but rather focused on the Charter itself. The paper was first published in Glasgow on 28 September 1839 and was an immediate success. Its first issue achieved a circulation of over 20,000, and the paper maintained a circulation of 22,500 copies a week through its first year. However, by 1841 The Chartist Circular was struggling financially and sales started to decline. It eventually ceased publication in July 1842, having at the close achieved a circulation of only 7,000 a week.


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Some gay rights groups criticizing Rauner
By Tony Arnold
Bruce Rauner has said if he were governor and a same-sex marriage bill came to his desk - he'd either sign or veto it - depending on the results of a public referendum.
Bernard Cherkasov with Equality Illinois doesn't like Rauner's position.
"When you run for governor, the top job in the state, you better be able to say where you stand. You have to tell the truth. You have to explain to the voters how you would vote on crucial decisions affecting the lives of our state."
A spokesman from Rauner's campaign says the Republican does not have an agenda to change the same-sex marriage law.


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Hopes for regional stability in a new Egypt are muted in the latest Pew research poll, which found just over half of Egyptians surveyed favor annulling the country's peace treaty with Israel. The White House also comes under criticism for its handling of anti-government movements in the Arab world.
Fifty-four percent of Egyptians questioned for the Pew Global Attitudes Project want the peace treaty signed in 1979 canceled. Only 36 percent want it maintained. Opposition to the accord is strongest among the poor and less educated.
Anti-Americanism has only gone up: 79 percent of those surveyed say they have an unfavorable opinion of the United States, and 49 percent of those hold that sentiment intensely. There was a 9-percentage-point increase since spring 2009.
President Obama doesn't fare much better. Two in three (64 percent) Egyptians have little or no confidence in him, a 5-point increase in his negative rating since last year.
Current anti-Americanism and anti-Obama sentiment in Egypt predated this year's Arab Spring. But Washington's handling of the recent democratic upheaval in the Middle East did little to improve the U.S. standing.
When Pew asked about the American response to the political situation in Egypt, a plurality (39 percent) of Egyptians said the U.S. has had a negative impact, while just 22 percent said it has had a positive effect. Moreover, half (52 percent) of Egyptians disapprove of how Obama is dealing with the calls for political change in nations such as Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, and Libya. And a plurality of those who disapprove say Obama has shown too little support for protesters in the Arab street who are calling for change.
Given this sentiment, it is little wonder only one in six (15 percent) Egyptians want closer ties with the United States and 43 percent want a more distant relationship.
But the White House and the State Department can point to some support among younger and better-educated Egyptians. Half of those under age 30 (51 percent) and those with a college education (52 percent) give Obama a positive grade for his handling of calls for change in the Middle East.
The ouster of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak has clearly energized the Egyptian people. Two in three Egyptians (65 percent) are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, a reversal of opinion from last year, and 57 percent are optimistic about the future. Egyptians seem committed to democracy: 54 percent say a democratic government is important even at the risk of political instability. And 84 percent think the elections slated for this fall will be free and fair.
In those elections, the public figures who may stand the best chance of becoming Egypt's next leader are Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, current chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, despite recent protests in Cairo calling for his removal, and Amr Moussa, current head of the Arab League. Nine in 10 Egyptians have a favorable view of Tantawi (90 percent) and Moussa (89 percent). Tantawi's support comes from lower-income Egyptians, while Moussa has the backing of the wealthy. Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei trails, with only 57 percent of the public giving him a positive rating.
Western concerns that fundamentalists could gain power through the ballot box are not borne out by the Pew findings. Less than a third (31 percent) of Egyptians sympathize with Islamic fundamentalism. And while three in four (75 percent) express a favorable opinion of the long-suppressed Muslim Brotherhood, only 17 percent of the public would like to see it lead the next government. And 70 percent of Egyptians express a positive opinion of the April 6 Youth Movement, a largely secular group associated with protesters in Tahrir Square earlier this year.
One cautionary note in the Pew survey for those techno-enthusiasts who attribute the success of the Egyptian revolution to social media. An overwhelming 84 percent of Egyptian Internet users claim they use Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter. And nearly as many (79 percent) Internet users say they have gotten news about the political situation in Egypt from social networking sites. But social media has largely been an information source for the wealthy and the highly educated. Two-thirds (65 percent) of Egyptians do not use the Internet or e-mail.
The Pew survey of 1,000 Egyptian adults took place between March 24 and April 7, 2011, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
This article appears in the April 25, 2011 edition of National Journal Daily PM Update.