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Toddlers Tantrums: Maybe Your Toddler is Right
Many people think that fights between toddlers and parents, and toddlers tantrums come up because of a mismatch between what a toddler can do and what he understands. I want to challenge you to consider that a small child understands much more than you ever dream he or she could. It is certainly difficult for a child just learning to talk to express his observations and understanding. This is frustrating. But it is even more frustrating to observe parents just to ignore what a child can express, and to refuse going an extra mile helping to find the right words and explanations.
I want so suggest that you look for the possible mismatch between the toddler's expressions and your understanding. Listening is an important skill, consisting partly of observing, partly of asking for clarification and partly of the willingness to hear and to see what you can hear and see. This perspective may help to transform a toddler's tantrum into an opportunity.
If you do not listen to your toddler, how do you expect your toddler can listen to you. If you do not explain your views and reasons, how do you expect he can learn to reason. And if you regularly impose your will by force, how can you expect your child to behave peacefully.
There is another way to live with your child than fighting permanently. And it is more enjoyable for the whole family. For a very powerful explanation, watch this video. Open your heart.
Racism and Early Childhood
Racism is unfair and stupid. If you believe that racism can be justified or fair, please leave this page and go to meet people who agree with you. I am not going to waste my time with a racist. And racism against children kills personalities and is a form of child abuse. Child abuse is a crime.
Unconscious Racism
Racism comes in many disguised. It can look like a desire to help. Even demands to give preference to colored people in certain situations can be a sign of racism because implies that they need special support. Whenever a person, child or adult, is judged by skin color racism occurs. People should be judged individually by their behavior, skills and intentions.
Racism is a Fact of Life
An African in Germany has to perform much better than an ethnic German to be successful. Even with unparalleled excellence he will have a hard time to perform well as a supervisor for ethnic Germans, because he needs to spend an unbelievable amount of energy to make Germans accept him as their boss. Racism is common in the German society. But still, I insist that skin color should only be a topic in health and skin care.
The Victim Mentality Trap
Racism can easily create a victim mentality. Finger pointing is not helpful. It hands the responsibility for the own well-being to others. And these others have indeed their own priorities and interests. This victim mentality creates a lot of excuses. It hammers into the heads why we cannot succeed, why we must fail, why we do not have any opportunity. This mentality locks people out of success and happiness.
Victim Mentality is a Trojan Horse
As soon as this victim mentality is established in a person, others can control thinking and behavior. The result is often a disaster for the victim. Racists call their targets
- stupid
- undeserving and without purpose
- existing just by mistake
- lacking opportunities
If they see an opportunity might open for their target, they quickly strive to close it. After holding their victim trapped for a time, possibly even forcing him or her to ask for help to survive, they present a carefully crafted "opportunity." This so-called opportunity pulls and pushes the victim now into the position where the racist wants him or her to be.
Really bad groups like Al Qaida or their German Nazi brethren set up such traps. But so do seemingly benevolent groups. Religious sects might use it for indoctrination. Secret services might use it to recruit informants. Companies might use it to fill scape goat positions. The case of the former UBS-trader in London Kweku Adoboli could be an example for the latter.
Official Use of the Victim Mentality Trap
The proceedings prepared for asylum seekers and refugees in Germany are one example. The incoming refugees are not allowed to work. Instead they are forced to accept donations from the government. Later they receive a permission to look for work. But the Agentur für Arbeit, the relevant government agency, has to approve every employment offer they get. Under current law jobs are only allowed for them, if no German jobseeker can fill the position. If this law is implemented according to the letter, it is a crime for a highly educated refugee to use his skills. If there is no qualified job without a German applicant available, he can be forced into any job not wanted by Germans. His idle skills become quickly stale and useless.
How to Protect Our Children from the Victim Mentality Trap
If we want to provide a happy and healthy life for our children, we have to keep them out of the victim mentality trap. They have to know and believe that the world is full of opportunities, able and willing to provide abundance for everybody. We have to teach our children to spot their opportunities and to make good choices for their life. But how can we to do this in a racist environment?
If People Choose to Be Ignorant, Let Them Be
Racism is a subcategory of stupidity, and there is no way to forbid stupidity. The world is full of stupid people, and quite a number of them are stupid and outright bad. We cannot change that, but we can protect ourselves by keeping such people out of our lives. We and our children should be for racists as invisible as possible. This demands to choose carefully where we live, with whom we connect and to which child care centers, schools and universities we send our children.
Turning a Challenge into an Opportunity
We know that our children have to perform better than their indigenous peers. So we have to equip them accordingly. We have to provide an environment where they can develop excellence. We need to act as an anchor of stability and demonstrate emotional strength.
We need to provide a strong role model. We need to develop and teach excellent problem solving and crisis management skills. Problems and crisis will certainly show up. Racists will certainly try to attack a successful ethnic African in Germany in many ways.
On this basis we can help our children to develop excellent intellectual skills. It is very important to allow them exploring the world. We should forever replace the sentence "You cannot do …" with "I show you how to do …" or "we will find out together how to do …"
- We help our children to train and develop their senses from day one. The quality of their thinking cannot be better than the quality of the information input. And the senses provide the information input to the brain.
- We allow our children early on to make decisions. We ask do you want this or that. We respect their decisions whenever possible. We show them that they are important. Our children are certain that they count and they learn to consider carefully what to ask for. They learn also declining offers.
- We maintain an open atmosphere in our environment. We appreciate different point of views and respect people with different opinions.
- We help our children to understand the behavior of people. They should know that people can be helpful, but also careless and bad. The standard we set as role model is very important.
- We should never use deceptive behavior towards our children and never tolerate deceptive behavior in our sphere of influence. This will improve our quality of live in a big way and support the development of our children.
If we remain vigilant and open minded, we have the opportunity to transform the energy racism directs against our children into a strong drive to help them develop their full potential. Although racism is painful, we are not going to complain. We are going to succeed without asking for permission.
Child Support – Not Child Ownership
Child support means to facilitate the development of a child according while respecting the child's needs and preferences. Facilitating development is very different from trying to be the boss of the child. This came first into my mind the day my son was circumcised. But I think every mother and every father can relate to that, because there are so many instances in a precarious life of a child where you are very well aware that you could just have lost your child right now. This could be a sudden spike of fever, or a toddler suddenly running towards a street.
These situations led me to think about the report in the Bible where Abraham was ordered by God to sacrifice his son Isaac, for whom he had waited a hundred years to be born.
Why would God issue such a seemingly cruel order to Abraham? One might think God wanted to remind Abraham about His power. But I think this is a wrong interpretation. In fact I think that this is a profound message of freedom. God says "this is my child, you are not the owner. I just entrusted you to care for this human being."
God has a track record of giving freedom to all of us. He tells us what is good behavior, but He does not force us to behave accordingly. By telling us that we are not owners, but caretakers of our children he reminds us that our children are also free. Our task is to facilitate our children's development and growth. But we do not have the right to force or push them into a direction, even if we know that would be a valid way for the child's life.
We have to respect every child as a person on his or her own, as somebody who is just new to the world. He or she is still building the own body and mind. Our task is to support the child by providing the physical and mental environment needed for development, and to act as a guide. But we should not try to act as owner or master of any child.
Music and Language
If you ever mused about the relationship between music and language, this video should prove to be very interesting to you. Watch it. It takes less than 6 minutes.
Did you ever sit in a car together with three people, chatting lively in a language you do not know at all?
If yes, and you dared to listen, you may have observed the connection between music and language first hand. You probably heard their conversation as a remarkable piece of music, with different overlapping rhythms and several melodies. Even if you did not know the topic of the conversation at all, you may have realized some emotional reactions like happiness and anger.
If you think about it, this must be the way a small baby experiences Mom and Dad talking. The child will then slowly isolate patterns and connect these patterns to certain actions, people and objects.
These associations between sounds and actions, persons, objects etc. are the roots of words. Language is then something like a system of socially sanctioned associations between certain sounds, graphical symbols, people, objects and their relationships.
But not everything we experience can be expressed in words or pressed into commonly shared concepts. Music helps in those moments. If we keep music as a part of our life, we keep our brain open for imagination, creativity and innovation. If we lose the ability to listen to music, and to listen to the world as music, we impoverish our lives. On the other hand, if we retain the ability to listen to the sounds of the world as music, the connection between music and language will help our brains to open some subtle relationships between things, actions and people which we would most probable overlook overwise.
How to Support the Brain Development of Your Child
Brain Development in a child happens at a very fast pace. And it is for this reason often said and in the meantime widely known that the first few years in a child's life have a very high importance for the complete lifetime of a human. This video is a reminder and a guide for parents.
But all this begs an answer to this question:
How can I support brain development of my child?
The answer is simple and difficult at the same time. And it is not, as you might suspect, proper teaching. The answer is learning. But learning mostly done by the parents. To support your child properly, you have to learn communicating with him or her from the beginning, to see his needs, his anxieties, his happiness, his aspirations. And to learn how to respond to them by providing a secure environment, cheering successes, fostering self esteem and confidence into the world.
Your child has to develop a sense that he is welcome in your world as the unique person he is already way before birth.
If a child is trying to do something impossible, it is always better to show him how it would be possible, or how it could be dangerous instead of yelling "Don't try this! You are too small, stupid, weak for this!"
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September 13, 2013
Top Stories
West Village suites to receive new locksWhat makes a residence hall safe? Is it the Resident Assistants who do rounds and
enforce rules? Is it the residents who abide by the rules that are in place?
In West Village, it seems that the most important aspect of security is the simple ability
to lock doors.
Before this fall, all suite-style residence halls were without locks on suite doors.
As the staff of residence life said, there are two points of security in all types of residence halls: the outside doors which require ID cards for entry and keys to enter personal rooms.
According to Erica Stephenson, associate director of residence life, neglecting to place locks on suite doors in the past was an effort to create a better sense of community among those who had two doors between themselves and other residents instead of one.
In addition, not placing locks on the suite doors kept West Village in accordance with other buildings around campus, she said.
Staff members involved in residence life are unaware of why the decision has been
made to place locks on the suite doors in West Village, and Don Weirick, assistant director of Public Safety, said that there have been no incidences which would require or prompt the placement of the third set of locks.
The only explanation that both Jenna Antoniewicz, director of community standards and student conduct, and Stephenson could give was that the extra lock on the suite doors may allow the residents to feel more secure when leaving belongings in the common area of their suites.
However, as Stephenson said, many residents already locked away individual items.
Whatever the case may be, there is debate over how the transition may affect residents of West Village now and in years to come.
Antoniewicz said she believes that as long as RAs in West Village receive sufficient training in creating a communal and interactive environment, the dynamic among students should not change.
However, Stephenson and Jose Sanchez, assistant director of residence life for community development, said that there is some concern regarding the ability of students to not only interact well with each other, but also their ability to communicate with their RAs on a regular basis or in an emergency.
Stephenson said that as in any residence hall, RAs will still have master keys to each personal room door in West Village, as well as suite doors in case of emergency and in order to complete nightly rounds.
Similarly, Weirick said that adding locks to suite doors will not be a fire hazard or in any way be a concern when trying to reach students in an emergency.
But this will not ensure that residents will have the ability to contact their RAs as they do now.
Sanchez affirmed, however, that there will be no policy regarding keeping suite doors closed or locked, and therefore an open-door policy will still allow for intermingling if students choose to do so, as well as contact with the RAs.
According to Sanchez, RAs will receive further training on creating community among residents, and there will be specially planned programs and events to urge residents to interact, including "meet your neighbors" and noise planning agreements.
Still, Sanchez said, having the capability to "lock themselves behind two doors" may allow students to "isolate themselves" and will require a greater effort by RAs to motivate all students to participate in a communal atmosphere.
The possibility of adding locks to the suite doors of West Village was discussed last spring, Weirick said, and plans to install them have been finalized.
According to Stephenson, the project will begin on Sept. 17 in Aspen Hall and is scheduled to conclude on Oct. 3 in Willow Hall.
During this process, Stephenson said, all residents will receive weekly schedules delineating when locks will be placed on individual doors.
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The Best and the Worst Seats in Aircrafts
Years of flying has taught me which seats to pick and which ones to avoid. Its helped me make my journeys better and figured it might be useful to you too.
The following advice is intended for aircrafts like Boeing 737-800 ( Jet Airways, SpiceJet ) and Airbus A320 (GoAir, IndiGo, KingFisher and Indian Airlines) but may be applicable to many others.
The Best Seat: Want to get an Economy Class seat with as much legroom as a Business Class seat? Then use these three magic words when you check-in. 'Emergency Reclining Aisle'. Now Repeat that 10 times loudly.
Don't just ask for Emergency seat, ask for Emergency Reclining. This is the second row of emergency seats that not only has the leg room but its also reclining.
As a bonus, a good looking air-hostess will come to you to read out the emergency exit instructions.
The Worst Seat: Its the row just before the emergency seats. Not only is the leg space cramped, the reclining is disabled as well. So is with the seats in the very last row. To make it worse, you have two toilets to deal with. Now you know what to avoid.
Trust that was useful. Do you have any aircraft tips to share?
Why Do People Jump onto the Aisle as Soon as the Aircraft Lands?
I have always been flummoxed by this behavior. After the aircraft lands and the Milli-second after the seat belt sign goes off, people get off their seats as if its an emergency evacuation. They grab their luggage and stand uncomfortably in the aisle.
Everyone who stands in the aisle know that the doors don't open for another 10 minutes. So why bother?
There's no time advantage either. At best, they save 2 minutes but that immediately gets evened out when they are made to wait in the transfer bus and even more so at the luggage carousel.
I've seen this habit mostly in India and wanted to figure out the reasons behind this behavior. Here's what I could come up with.
1) Wanting to stretch their legs after sitting for long.
2) Having a false sense of saving time.
3) Herd mentality. When you see others standing up, you do too so as not not lose any competitive edge.
But by far the best explanation I heard is from a fellow passenger who traveled with me in yesterday's flight. He's a Mumbaikar who now stays in Bangkok. He says its a habit that we have acquired from our days of traveling in Buses and Trains.
We usually get up from our seats much before our destination comes because we have to weave and squeeze our way through the standing crowd to edge closer to the exit door. Its a mentality that has sunk deep into us. He says we involuntarily do that even in flights.
Its the strangest answer I heard but it makes good sense.
What do you think are the reasons?
The Airlines Scam and How I Experienced it First Hand.
Remember the CNN IBN report on how airlines overbook passengers and delay their check-in, so that they miss their flights? And pocket the money. Well, I saw that happen yesterday morning.
I had a Jet Airways flight at 7:15 am from Chennai to Mumbai. I landed at the airport by 6:25 am and by the time I finished 'baggage screening' and hit the counter, it was 6:35 am. The crowd in the airport was surprisingly less. I didn't have to stand in the queue for baggage screening and check-in counter.
I handed over my check-in printout and my driving license to the lady at the counter. She took a few minutes checking into her computer. She then went to her colleague and they had a whispering conversation.
She came back and with a straight face, said, "Sorry sir, It's 6:45 am and we close the boarding half hour before take off. The boarding is now closed. You are late for the check-in. "
Late? Did she say, "late" ??.
I keep my cool. I tell her I was at the counter 10 minutes ago. She says that doesn't count and the fact that since its 6:45 now, she is forced to close the counter.
And what she said next, totally pissed me off.
She said, "Besides, the plane is already full"
I ask her,"How can it be full, if I'm standing here in front of you?"
To that she replied, "Oh, we usually overbook the seats"
Now, I'm beginning to boil. I understood their strategy. Last minute bookings are done by desperate business folks who *must* make the journey and are willing to pay whatever it costs. The average last minute cost of an economy class ticket is around Rs.10,000.
I grudgingly keep my calm. "Overbook? How can you give away my paid seat to another person? You are doing exactly the same scam that CNN IBN exposed last week."
With an even sterner face, she says, "Sir, we are allowed to overbook. It's legal"
I said, "Oh, yeah?" and quietly and very slowly, proceeded to open my bag. I took out my video camera and my voice recorder and placed it on the counter.
And in a really calm voice, I said, "Can you repeat your last sentence, please. I'd like you to go on record. And if you are not authorized to speak, I would like you to put me with your press relations executive".
The word 'press' seems to have caught everybody's attention. Six of her colleagues stopped working abruptly and kept starring at us. The lady I was speaking to stiffened a bit. The sight of a video camera, a voice recorder, and the "You mess with me, and I'll mess with you back" look on my face can be a rather strong combination.
At that time, a Jet official stepped up to the counter, and whisked away the lady aside. Three other colleagues joined them to form a huddle. Two minutes later, the lady returns and says, "Sir, we will put you on a 1:30 afternoon flight to Mumbai"
I have a 2:00 pm meeting with Kevin Turner. This 'compromise' is of no use to me. I tell her so and proceeded to add, "When can I meet up with your press relations executive?" . And I wasn't kidding. If I missed the flight, all the efforts and money that Microsoft put in to get me to their COO's meeting would be gone. And I have a face to lose. I'm not going to let a bunch of scheming airline staff do that. And if they do that, I was hell bent on paying the gratitude back.
At all times, I never raised my voice. Never screamed. I think the airlines staff are well trained to handle irate, screaming customers. But a calm but firm talk unnerves them.
Another huddle happens.
The lady returned and this time, she takes a printout, hands me the boarding pass, and with a very plastic smile says, "Enjoy your flight, Sir".
I wasn't in a mood for artificial niceties. I nodded, picked up my boarding pass and proceeded to the security check.
And as I climbed the stairs to the plane, I couldn't help contain the smile of victory.


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A South Carolina State Representative named Kris Crawford, who is also a doctor himself, met with doctors opposed to the Affordable Care Act recently and made a very interesting statement on the matter. Whether the law was a good thing or not, it's just good politics — at least in South Carolina — to oppose the black guy:
Rep. Kris Crawford, a Republican from Florence and also an emergency room doctor, supports the expansion but expects the Republican caucus to vote as a bloc against the Medicaid expansion.
"The politics are going to overwhelm the policy. It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House right now, especially for the Republican Party," Crawford said.
When I read this, I went straight over to Free Republic to see their entirely predictable reactions:
Not really.
Half Black/Half White and a Natural Born Lying Commie B_tard…
It's the libs bringing up race again. Shows where the real racism is…
No …it's good politics to oppose the socialist, gun grabbing, Muslim, faggot in the White House.
Always keeping it classy and non-racist.


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Pronunciation: /ˈjɪdaki/
Definition of yidaki in English:
noun (plural same or yidakis)
A didgeridoo, typically one made by an Australian Aborigine using traditional techniques.
Example sentences
- The Australian didgeridoo or yidaki is a simple wind instrument, yet a good player can coax from it a variety of timbres greater than that of many an orchestral instrument.
- Musically the main ingredients are guitar, drums and keyboard, plus didgeridoo (yidaki) and clapsticks (bilma).
- Neither of these commentators belongs to a group for whom the yidaki has any ceremonial significance whatsoever.
Yolngu (an Aboriginal language of Arnhem Land), 'didgeridoo'.
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Simon Explains Rolling His Eyes at Virginia Tech Comment
Idol tough guy calls internet-fueled criticism "rubbish," but apologizes anyway. Maybe being smug doesn't always work! [E!]
Snoop to UNICEF: I Want Xbox, Weed
The super stoned rapper refused to go on stage at a benefit unless an Xbox was installed in his dressing room. [New York Post]
Is Katie Holmes Leaving Cruise in the Dust?
She's reconnecting with family and friends, and even talking to catholic priests. What's next? [MSNBC]
Florida to Forgive Jim Morrison's Weiner?
Rock icon may be absolved of 1970 convictions for indecent exposure and profanity. Hey, Florida isn't the fastest moving state! [CBS]
Paris Driving on Suspended License?
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Thanks to Berl Evans of the Federation of Family History Societies and Jackie Cotterill, Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, for the following information concerning Worcester's new Library and History Centre, aka The Hive:
The Hive, Europe's first joint University and Public Library, opens its doors next Monday, 2nd July.
It will be open seven days a week from 8.30am to 10pm.
The Hive contains records from both branches of the Record Offices, Worcester City Library and the University of Worcester Library as well as Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service (WHEAS). Most of the records available at the Worcester Library and History Centre will be on open access each day. Original documents will not be available on a Sunday.
For further information visit the website www.wlhc.org.uk
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New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)
Top stories concerning British Isles ancestral research from Irish born Scottish based professional family historian, author and tutor Chris Paton. Feel free to quote from this blog, but please credit British GENES if you do so. Should you wish to get in touch, contact me at christopherpaton @ tiscali.co.uk. Happy hunting!
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Wish I could visit this... I have a branch of my father's mother's family from Worcester (Netherton, Dudley areas). Would be fun to investigate more of the area's history for context as well. Thanks for the post, Chris.ReplyDelete
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 / News
Sri Lanka v New Zealand, World Cup 2011, semi-final, Colombo
Sri Lanka survive jitters to reach World Cup final
March 29, 2011
Sri Lanka 220 for 5 (Dilshan 73, Sangakkara 54) beat New Zealand 217 (Styris 57, Mendis 3-35) by five wickets
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Sri Lanka overcame a serious bout of the jitters to book their place in Saturday's World Cup final in Mumbai, as New Zealand bowed out in the last four for the sixth time in ten campaigns, though with their pride fully intact after another fabulous never-say-die performance in Colombo.
In a strange amalgam of the one-sided thrashing that Sri Lanka handed out to England in their quarter-final on Saturday, and New Zealand's last-eight fightback against South Africa in Dhaka, the favourites duly progressed, and by a seemingly comfortable five-wicket margin. However, the closing stages were fraught in the extreme as a raucous home crowd was forced to postpone a party that had been in full swing for more than three-quarters of the contest.
Defending a mediocre total of 217 after a spirited batting effort had unravelled in a clatter of late wickets, New Zealand's lust for a scrap kicked in with a vengeance just when it seemed the match was finally out of their reach. At 160 for 1 in the 33rd over, with Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara entrenched in a game-breaking partnership of 120, what little attention had been on this, the less glamorous of the two semi-finals, had already begun to drift towards Wednesday's epic match-up in Mohali.
But then Dilshan, cruising on 73 from 93 deliveries and seemingly destined for his second hundred in consecutive matches, slapped loosely at Tim Southee and picked out Jesse Ryder at point, whose second catch of the innings was a far less breathtaking affair than his earlier one-handed pluck off Sri Lanka's pace-setter, Upul Tharanga.
Three balls later, the new man Mahela Jayawardene was beaten in flight by a beautiful dipping delivery from Daniel Vettori and nailed plumb lbw for 1, whereupon Sangakkara's habitually cool head deserted him, as he attempted to steer the lively Andy McKay over the keeper for four, but ended up dollying a simple chance to Scott Styris at third man.
Sri Lanka had lost three wickets for eight runs in 22 deliveries, and just as had been the case in the throttling of South Africa, New Zealand's bowlers ramped up the aggro while maintaining supremely disciplined lines and lengths. On the same worn wicket that had been used for the England quarter-final, runs suddenly became excruciatingly hard to come by as Sri Lanka's untested middle order was fully exposed to the limelight.
Chamara Silva and Thilan Samaraweera scraped together nine runs in six overs as the asking-rate climbed to close to five, and it took a message from the dressing room, delivered with a drink from Dilhara Fernando, to persuade them out of their defensive mindset. Silva responded with two fours in consecutive deliveries as Ryder's seam-up was brought into the attack, but three balls later he tried to get aggressive against the extra pace of Southee and chopped onto his own stumps for 13.
Samaraweera, however, had the experience to see his team home. A short ball from Ryder was fetched over midwicket for four, before a wild throw from Oram gifted him another four as the ball sailed over the keeper's head. Another error lopped five more precious runs off the total as a McKay wide slipped through the keeper's grasp, and though McKay responded with a beauty to Angelo Mathews that was sent to be reviewed for caught-behind, the lack of Hot Spot meant there was no evidence available to reverse the on-field decision.
And with a smoking six off Southee in the next over, the game was finally relieved of its tension - even though it took two winning shots to seal it, after Mathew's initial carve through the covers was called a dead-ball due to a firework exploding right at the moment of delivery. Instead, Samaraweera nudged through third man to wrap up the game with 13 balls to spare.
Such a nerve-jangling finale could not have seemed further from the agenda while Sri Lanka's innings was in full flow. From the moment Tharanga launched his third ball, from Nathan McCullum, straight down the ground for six, Sri Lanka were always ahead of the asking-rate. His departure for 30 from 31 balls did change the tempo of the Sri Lankan innings, but neither Dilshan nor Sangakkara had any reason to rush towards a modest victory target.
Sangakkara had an early let-off when he edged Oram at a catchable height through the vacant slip cordon, while Dilshan - who had been so combative against England - took 28 deliveries to score the second boundary of his innings, and his 50th of the World Cup to date. But he went on to pass 400 runs for the tournament, en route to overtaking Jonathan Trott as the leading run-scorer, and as Sangakkara finally began to nail his trademark cover-drives, New Zealand looked to have run out of ideas.
In hindsight, the Kiwis will look back on the closing stages of their own innings with regret, for a late collapse of 5 for 13, including 4 for 4 in 12 balls, undermined much of the good work they had put into the early part of their innings. The bed-rock was provided by Scott Styris, a centurion against Sri Lanka in the 2007 World Cup, who ground out a responsible 57 from 76 balls. But when he was extracted lbw by the final delivery that Muttiah Muralitharan will ever bowl on home soil, Sri Lanka responded euphorically to scythe through the tail and leave seven precious deliveries unused.
Whether a 240 target would have made any difference will remain a matter for conjecture. Though they fared better than any other team in the tournament so far in taking 41 runs off Sri Lanka's bowlers in the batting Powerplay, they were ultimately undone by the depth and variety of their attack, with Lasith Malinga's yorkers scalping three key wickets at critical moments.
Too many of New Zealand's batsmen made starts without going on. Martin Guptill flicked Malinga's fifth delivery through midwicket in a 65-ball 39, only for Malinga to york him superbly when he returned for his second spell, while Brendon McCullum slog-swept Rangana Herath for six, only to be bowled for 13 playing the exact same stroke. Taylor, whose ferocious hitting could have been so valuable at the death, launched a Mendis long-hop straight to deep midwicket just when he looked ready to build on his 36 from 55 balls.
But as Vettori takes his leave of the New Zealand captaincy, he can reflect on yet another campaign in which his team rose to the challenge of the big event in precisely the manner that too many of their supposed betters - namely England and South Africa - consistently fail to do. Sangakkara and his men, meanwhile, march on to their second final in consecutive World Cups, where Muralitharan - his broken body notwithstanding - will attempt to complete his career on the highest high imaginable.
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The 28th Annual Great River Tug Fest is this weekend and for one business – it will be its last.
"It's On The River," a bar and restaurant in Port Byron, Illinois, is closing its doors after seven years.
"It was a little bit overdue," Owner, Cindy Bawden told News 8. "The business plan was really for five years. It's been seven and it's just kind of time. It's kind of bittersweet, but it's time to go on and do some other projects."
"It's" last day will be Saturday, August 16th and Bawden says they're looking forward to a great last weekend with their customers and workers during Tug Fest.
"We've had fun. We've been very fortunate to have great patrons and good employees and because we slowed down a bit in the winter, I said – let's go through one last Tug Fest and wind 'er up."
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March 15, 2011
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Complete Media Book - NIT First Round: (4)New Mexico 69, (5)UTEP 57
Lobo Men's Basketball - National Invitation Tournament
Tuesday: Lobos 69, UTEP 57
Up Next: Lobos at Alabama (Date/Time TBA)
By Richard Stevens - Senior Writter/GoLobos.com
You have to give the National Invitation Tournament some credit for the Lobos' 69-57 first-round win over the UTEP Miners.
Sure, thank the NIT for throwing this postseason shindig in the Lobos' digs. The Pit rocks a different way for NIT games probably because the crowd base gets an injection of new and younger blood.
But thank the NIT for reaching down I-25 a couple of hundred miles and bringing an old friend -- but mostly old foe -- up to battle.
It wasn't merely an NIT game that got the Pit rocking Tuesday night to a roar that seemed to come from more voices than the 9,626 in attendance.
This NIT thing also was Lobos vs. Miners. This was geography and tradition going back to bad times provided by Tim Hardaway, Don Haskins and even to paper cups flying from the UNM crowd.
"This is one helluva place," said UTEP coach Tim Floyd. "This place has the best home court that I've seen. The crowd was fantastic."
The Pit was into it and so were the Lobos as they scratched out of a 21-20 first-half deficit and never again looked back, leading by as many as 13 in the second half.
Lobos 69, UTEP 57
Alabama 68, C-Carolina 44
Missouri St 89, Murray St 76
Fairfield 62, Colo St 60
Boston Col 82, McNeese St 64
Okla St 71, Harvard 54
Charleston 94, Dayton 84
Cleveland St 63, Vermont 60
"We played a team that starts five seniors," said Lobo coach Steve Alford. "We dominated the glass, which we thought we could. We had two or three freshmen out there at the same time and to do that and win without Dairese speaks volumes for this team."
The Lobos took to the NIT/Pit floor Tuesday without senior Dairese Gary, who is lost for the postseason due to a knee injury. The Lobos gave that spot to sophomore Jamal Fenton, who didn't finish inside like Gary, but did dish out six assists.
One of Fenton's best assists was a behind-the-back flip to Drew Gordon. Fenton said he was happy that pass was completed because if not, "I was coming out."
Gordon had another monster game inside for UNM with 18 points and nine boards. Kendall Williams also scored 18 points and had four assists. Phillip McDonald had 12 points and hit three huge second-half treys when UTEP was trying to put together a run.
"We're a lot better when Phillip is making shots, that's for sure," said Alford. "He made huge shots when they cut it to four."
UTEP sliced a 43-33 UNM lead into 45-41 with 9:47 to play. The Miners were playing well on offense at that point, but didn't have the same focus on the defensive end.
McDonald banged in back-to-back-to-back treys to push UNM back up 54-43. The Miners never got closer than seven points the rest of the way in.
UTEP 23 points from Randy Culpepper on 8-of-19 shooting, but were hurt by their 3-of-16 (18.8 percent) effort from behind the line. "I thought we got a little shot-happy with the lead," said UTEP's Floyd.
A huge stat for UNM's win came off the boards where the Lobos enjoyed a 41-26 edge - 12 to four on the offensive glass. "We have to be one of the poorest offensive rebounding teams in the country," said Floyd.
Said Alford: "We thought we could beat them inside."
Junior A.J. Hardeman had eight rebounds for UNM. Williams had five and Alex Kirk had five boards in only nine minutes on the court. UTEP got 10 boards from Gabriel McCulley and seven from Jeremy Williams.
The Lobos' trip to Alabama will be a test. The Crimson Tide is a No. 1 seed in the NIT and UNM is a No. 4. Alabama pounded Coastal Carolina 68-44 Tuesday in a romp that raised `Bama's record to 22-11. The Tide finished 12-4 in the tough SEC.
"They are very athletic. They like to full-court press," said Alford of Alabama. "The press we'll see at Alabama is a little more intensified. They won their side of the SEC and we have to play in their building and that's never easy."
The Miners and Coach Floyd can relate to that. UTEP, which lost an NCAA bid by a couple of seconds and a missed jumper, got off to a good start in The Pit, but faded when UNM didn't fade.
The Pit win gave Alford a good look at his Lobo team at home playing a good team, minus Gary, UNM's only senior. The trip to Tuscaloosa will give Alford a look at his Lobo pups on the road playing a better team -- without Gary.
"It's a bright look," Alford said of The Pit win. "I thought we really guarded. (UTEP) had a pretty good start and our guys didn't get rattled. Our offense was really good.
"We got great shots and we had good balance inside/out. We had several guys step up and perform well."
The Lobos said they were motivated to get the win for Gary, who cheered his teammates from the bench and encouraged them in every huddle.
"I just wanted to win for Dairese," said Fenton.
Said Gordon: "Dairese motivates us to win whether he's on the floor or not."
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This has to be the quickest and easiest recipe for a delicious crunchy cookie I've ever made--and I bake a lot of cookies. Absolutely wonderful. Reminds me of the Italian meringues, but with the added almonds they have more flavor and body. I roughly ground the nuts instead of using sliced. I also added a splash of almond extract at the very end of beating. Very good.
I have to rate four stars due to the sugar factor. Wow they're extremely sweet! I made this as written the first time and then cut the sugar and added cornstarch the next time. Toasting the nuts added a lot of flavor. That made for a very good cookie. I baked mine the second time on a lower heat because the cookies were browning a bit too much in my oven. I also added some almond extract. You may like them that sweet, seems others do.
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Radiation therapy uses ionizing radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors by damaging the cells' DNA, thereby stopping these cells from continuing to grow and divide. The most common way of exposing cancer patients to radiation is through external radiation therapy. With this approach, only a limited area of the body is irradiated by delivering a beam of high-energy x rays to the main tumor. Targeted radionuclide therapy, on the other hand, is like chemotherapy, because it is a systemic treatment; it uses a molecule labeled with a radionuclide to deliver a toxic level of radiation to disease sites. Unlike tumor-directed drugs and toxins, which kill only the directly targeted cells, a unique feature of radionuclides is that they can exert a "bystander" or "crossfire" effect (Figure 4.1), potentially destroying adjacent tumor cells even if they lack the specific tumor-associated antigen or receptor. In addition, a systemically administered targeted radiotherapeutic that combines the specificity of cancer cell targeting with the known antitumor effects of ionizing radiation has the potential to simultaneously eliminate both a primary tumor site and cancer that has spread throughout the body, including malignant cell populations undetectable by diagnostic imaging. Figure 4.2 illustrates and contrasts the differences between direct and bystander killing of tumors.
In targeted radionuclide therapy, the biological effect is obtained by energy absorbed from the radiation emitted by the radionuclide. Whereas the radionuclides used for nuclear medicine imaging emit gamma rays, which can penetrate deeply into the body, the radionuclides used for targeted radionuclide therapy must emit radiation with a relatively short path length. There are three types of particulate radiation of consequence for targeted radionuclide therapy—beta particles, alpha particles,1 and Auger


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Repairable used car donations or other vehicles can be accepted provided the vehicle is repairable for less than what the charity could sell it for.
There are a few exceptions in the new tax law compared to the old tax law, regarding the fair market value section, for example, you may base your deduction on the vehicle's fair market value if the charity ends up selling it to a needy individual at a discounted price or if the charity uses the car as part of its mission instead of selling it at a fair price.
Charitable car donations are given to the selected recipients directly or they are sold and the money is given away as part of the charity function.
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It is a good idea to select a charity that has a car donation center, accepting used car donations, close to where you reside, thus saving time and effort for you. You can make used car donations also to those organizations which share the proceeds with smaller non-profit charity organizations.
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To reward charitable donations, the government allows a tax deduction provided that donations are classified tax deduction donations, and a car donation is one of them. In the past, a tax deduction was based on the fair market value of the donated car. But then the government found out that individuals used car donations for the sole purpose of enjoying a tax deduction. And what was worse was that the claimed fair market values were not always accurate. These values considered only the make and model of the car, and did not consider the car's depreciated state. So what usually happened back than was that the gross sales amount of the donated car did not match the claimed fair market value and the tax deduction was a bloated value.
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Two University of Idaho students have been awarded the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for 2011. Jacob Bow, a Junior from Gooding, and Quinn MacPherson, a Junior from Deary, are among just 275 students nationwide to receive the award. Recipients of the Goldwater Scholarship are chosen based on academic merit, recommendations of faculty members, and their plans for scientific research. The award covers the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.
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With Apple's mini iPad proving to be a huge success over Christmas Apple will no doubt be looking to keep things fresh, perhaps by adding a Retina display and faster specs?
The Apple iPad Mini 2 release date could be as soon as March 2013 according to analyst Brian White who, after seeing the trends at CES, believes the company could be looking to update the iPad Mini with a Retina display and faster specs.
The mini iPad was first announced in October 2012 signaling Apple's intention to take on the smaller tablets like the Google Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD.
Despite boasting a screen that was below HD the iPad Mini does have the advantage of boasting the Apple App Store which recently celebrated having over 40 billion downloads.
Brian White, who works at Topeka, has also claimed that Apple will be launching the iPhone 6 in a range of different colours and would also be offering up a budget iPhone in an effort to tackle the budget Android market which is proving to be a huge success.
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Despite losing their last two matches, the Baggies remain eighth in the Premier League thanks largely to an impressive first-half of the season.
Clarke has urged his side to rediscover that form in their last six matches.
"There are a lot of teams below us who would like to be sitting where we are just now, with the confidence and security of knowing they are in the league next year," he said.
"The work we did in the first-half of the season is paying dividends now but it is important we don't let the season just drift away.
"I said in the first half of the season that you have to balance the season as a whole.
"It doesn't matter when your good spell is, you will always have one. We had a prolonged good spell and we are getting the benefits now.
"It has been a reasonably good season for us. We don't want it to just fizzle out. We don't want the last six games to drift.
"We have to give ourselves a target. One win would give us a record number of home wins in the Premier League. We would also reach 47 points, which was last year's total. It would bring us closer to 50 points.
"But I don't want to settle for 50. We have six games left. There are 18 points up or grabs. We have to get as many as we can and finish with as many points as we can."
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Oh no, not another press release in my inbox! PR people think I'm a reporter. They send me press releases about boring stories they want me to cover, and this one is typical: "New study shows Skills Gap Gap in low-tech manufacturing sector." Skills gap? That means that employers want people to magically show up equipped to do exactly what a plant supervisor wants them to be able to do, at whatever rate the company wants to pay. That's a skills gap? That's a talent shortage?
I went to TJ Maxx yesterday to get the max for the minimum and while I was there, I saw a fun, bling-y necklace. I like to have sparkly things to wear onstage at speaking gigs, so I asked the TJ Maxx lady to open the case and tell me the price. The necklace cost $249, but I'm sure it was worth it. In my fantasy world, that necklace would cost $29.95 and it would be on my neck right now. As far as I'm concerned, there's a Bling-y Necklace Gap! Why doesn't that necklace cost what I want it to?
The great thing about the talent market is that it's a market. Employers get to pay what they want and people get to show up to take their jobs or leave them. If employers can't find the skills they seek in the talent community, that's not a skills gap. That's not a talent shortage! It's delusion, pure and simple. Here is the real world. Bask in it! Understand it, and align yourself with it. Employers can find all the talent they want. They only have to be willing to do three things that some of them have trouble with right now:
- Accept the fact that real humans don't walk on water, see through walls or fly, and write job specs based on what the job actually requires, not a fanciful vision of what the perfect, imaginary candidate would look like
- Be willing to spend the time and energy to train people on their particular software packages, industry jargon and other job-or-company-specific tools and systems, and
- Pay what the market demands.
The biggest irony for me in the talent shortage arena is that employers have had two or three generations to engage with local universities, community colleges and high schools to help those guys turn out people with the skills employers want. If they'd tell the truth, CEOs asked for quantitative and analytical skills for far too long, failing to see the sea change occurring all around them as the business world went from a linear and data-driven place to a global, free-form, constantly shifting environment.
They encouraged academia to overbuild MBA mills and turn out more number-crunching, model-wielding weenie businesspeople than the new-millennium workplace could absorb. Now that we've remembered we all have right brains and bodies to complement our fancy left brains, universities are scrambling. And Art History major still wait tables, because corporations haven't figured out that Art History Majors (and every other kind of major, and non-degreed people too) have exactly what they need.
What they need is brains and pluck, and our hiring systems don't screen for those things. We've constructed Black Hole edifices that suck the life out of the recruiting process, which should naturally be a fun and fizzy affair. I recruited for twenty years in corporations and had warm, funny, random and creative conversations with job-seekers every day. I must have missed the seminar that teaches HR people far and wide to stick to the script in job interviews.
I must have missed the training class that teaches HR people and hiring managers to look down their noses at job-seekers and keep any trace of humanity out of the hiring process. I must have been doing something else that day — helping my company grow, or listening to a human story from one of my colleagues or maybe getting their human advice for some issue of my own.
It's a new day in the talent marketplace. Companies that continue to whine about Talent Shortages are going to fail. If your customers don't come around and buy your merchandise, are you going to put out a press release complaining about Buyer Shortages? No. You know that it's your job to make your firm appealing to buyers. It's your job to make your firm and your opportunities appealing to job-seekers, too: the real, breathing, bill-paying and brilliant people who could help you win customers and beat competitors right now if you could only see them, standing right there in front of you.


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Please credit the maker from WTAWorld with this game idea. I felt it was good enough to bring here:
The Rules!
1. Choose any player you like, active or retired, as long as they've been ranked inside the top 100.
2. State your surface preference, 1-5, Plexicushion, clay, grass, hard and indoor.
The Format!
Depending on your surface, you'll be given a certain number of 'aces', for example...
Surface #1 - 4 aces
Surface #2 - 3 aces
Surface #3 - 2 aces
Surface #4 - 1 ace
Surface #5 - 0 aces
You will then put the aces you have and the numbers 1-13 into 13 games, for three sets, for example...
If you have 4 aces, you will place those aces and the numbers 1-9 into 13 games, if you have 1 ace, you'll put that ace and numbers 1-12 into 13 games, and on your worst surface, you'll put the numbers 1-13 into 13 games.
A set may look like this...
Player 1 - A-A-A-A-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9
Player 2 - 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-A-A-A-A
Aces beat everything, so in that scenario player 2 would win the set 6-4, in the event of a tie, a coin toss will decide who wins the game.
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Each week there will be a player of the week award, this will be given to a player who I feel has performed well in the previous tournament, the player of the week will be given an extra ace to use in their upcoming tournament.
Players will be retired if they go 4 tournaments without sending new points, and new points are mandatory for every player when there is a change of surface.
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Why l almost didn't take the TtMadrid TEFL Course–and why l'm glad l did.
The good 'ole TPJ (Teaching Practice Journal) and I spent a lot of time together
Why I was hesitant to do the TtMadrid TEFL course
One of the things that appealed to me about the Insituto Franklin master's in Bilingual and Multicultural education was that we also had the chance to get a joint TEFL certificate through TtMadrid. I wanted a master's degree as well as to become TEFL certified: two birds, one stone. I started the 2012-2013 school year with no doubt that I would have a TEFL certificate by July.
As l was doing the course in conjunction with the master's in Alcalá de Henares, I wasn't TtMadrid's typical student. In a regular TtMadrid TEFL course, students have an intense month of grammar sessions, lesson-planning, teaching practices, a whirlwind student project, and a final exam. I had all of that too, but spread out over a few months because my master's course load also included 25 hours of teaching, online classes, and a thesis.
Bogged down with so much school work, by March l wasn't sure l could balance the master's with TEFL training. For days I rolled the pro-con list over with my co-worker Victoria–should I do the TtMadrid TEFL course? She eventually convinced me that I should do it (mil gracias, amiga mia!). We were interning at the same Spanish school and could support each other, as well as commute to the TtMadrid school together. (This was actually a critical point as our internship school monitored our every move.) It was a very hectic June as we dashed to TtMadrid after our morning internship duties were over, happily leaving behind the (bleak, master's internship) school for the world of TEFL.
Victoria and I on our TEFL graduation day
Taking the TtMadrid TEFL course
Even more challenging than the tight schedule was the mental leap we had to make between teaching schoolchildren to properly teaching adults. All of the demands the Spanish high school put on us didn't jive with TEFL methodology. There was no standing up in front of the class, no huge chalkboard, no droning on and on while the students silently took notes. It was a welcome change.
Victoria's soap opera lesson was a change of pace from primary school activities
Whether designing lesson plans, learning grammar tenses, or working through the phonetic alphabet, the TtMadrid TEFL crew was quite helpful. They perused lesson plans before the practice classes to make sure everything was in order, and if it wasn't, they offered concrete guidance on how to tighten it up. Their arsenal of teaching materials was helpful, but even more so was being able to call on their own teaching experiences. This previous experience wass indeed what made them a sympathetic bunch.
Giving classes at Tt was the first time l'd been critiqued when teaching. Although l'd had private lessons with adults for the previous two years, l learned a lot of helpful pointers from these honest critiques. I hadn't realized how much my time working in Spanish schools had affected the way l interacted with adult students. It helped that we taught volunteer students who were excited to be in class. This was another welcome change from high schoolers–no matter the level, the students at the TtMadrid TEFL school came to class ready and willing to learn. It's an ideal situation when you're nervously trying to teach an unfamiliar topic (for me this was business English)!
Why I'm glad I took the course
In addition to looking dandy on my résumé, the TtMadrid TEFL course was a boon for the many adult classes that I continue to give. Recently l started a summer class with a friend of a friend of a friend. Par for the course, we met to have an informal chat about previous language study, goals, and class availability. I also administered a spoken test to establish the student's English level. Concerned with numbers and labels, my newest pupil wrung his hands as nervously as if he expected me to send him back to language kindergarten. He needed my opinion–What level did l think he had?
If you're not familiar with the European Framework for Language, complete beginners are A1, followed by A2, B1, etc all the way to "native-like fluency," the ultimate dream of C2. I responded that he sat at the B1 level. At our next meeting, my new student sheepishly admitted that he went online to take a second level test. Lo and behold, the more "official" test also placed him at the B1 level. I grinned–I had learned how to gauge a student's level in my TtMadrid TEFL course, and I relied on the skill as much today as I had when I learned it a year ago.
Final thoughts
While it was hard to know it on graduation day, the knowledge I learned during the course would served me well. Organizational tips, teaching pointers, and English-teaching specifics like the one I mentioned above are all areas l have come to appreciate after finishing my TtMadrid TEFL training. Furthermore, the friendly team makes for an encouraging atmosphere for even the greenest of English teachers. Need another reason to choose Tt Madrid? They give all their grads a hand by helping them groom their CV as well as point them in the right direction for jobs. I signed up for their job list serve, so as a grad I get emails with information about private lessons, in-company classes, and even contracted teaching positions.
Of course, not everyone needs a TEFL certificate to teach in Spain. I don't need it to be an auxiliar, nor do I need it for private lessons. But the TtMadrid TEFL course definitely helped to whip my teaching into shape and helped me become a more nuanced educator. It could help me find a job if or when I move from Spain. Even more importantly, I hope one day to get a job as an textbook editor. You would be surprised how many language editorials require and/or look favorably on a TEFL certificate! In the end, I am very glad that I balanced a crazy school year to go through with TtMadrid's TEFL course. This past year, it has served me well.
Victoria and I snap a shot with John, one of the Tt trainers
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Going all tree-hugger on me, I see... an amusing twist of my words, but clearly not what I meant.
Think about it. If animals were self-aware, they would NOT be satisfied living the simple lives they live. They would do what humans did: adapt, evolve, and conquer! Create things! Build things! Dogs wouldn't be sleeping all day, or playing with chew toys, or licking themselves. Who can say what they would be doing?
I don't see how this follows, why self awareness and the ability to create agriculture and progress that can extend from that should be so linearly related...
If my dogs do not have it, but develop self awareness tomorrow, with no other mental or physical changes, I don't see how their capabilities could possibly change to any extraordinary degree.
Humans have dogs as pets, not the other way around. It is that way for a reason. Humans are self-aware, and dogs are not.
Or we're smarter and capable of more complex and controlling behaviour, regardless of self awareness.
I mean, if dogs are not self aware, but magically became so overnight, albeit remaining the same in all other ways, I don't see how there is any possible way that their level of intelligence and their physical abilities would ever enable them to "conquer! Create things! Build things! ".
I do know my Alsation is very bright and absolutely not happy to be just lying around and chewing things. She needs to explore and to see new things and to hunt. That's goal orientated behaviour, just on a different scale from (not all, either...) humans.
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On Friday, the Obama for America re-election campaign did a unique thing, publicly disclosing a list of all of its bundlers and their approximate fundraising totals for the second quarter of 2011. No other 2012 candidate has offered this level of transparency, so it should be commended. But while a lot of the commentary so far has focused on the personalities raising money for Obama – Jon Corzine, Anna Wintour, Ari Emanuel, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Orin Kramer – a couple have noticed that the total bundlers, and their collections, adds up to a substantial portion of the Q2 fundraising haul:
About 40 percent of President Barack Obama's record-breaking $86 million second-quarter fundraising haul came from big-money bundlers, according to a POLITICO analysis of donors listed on Obama's campaign web site.
No fewer than 27 mega-bundlers managed to collect at least $500,000 for a joint account run by Obama's 2012 campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
That group chipped in a minimum of $13.5 million, according to records. In addition, $21.4 million was bundled in amounts of between $50,000 and $499,000.
In all, 244 people were listed on the website as soliciting – or bundling – donations totaling at least $50,000 from their networks of friends and professional acquaintances.
Michael Shear comes up with similar numbers, but includes the caveat of "at least" $35 million from bundlers.
I think the number is actually substantially higher. As Shear writes, "Because the amount each bundler gathers is reported in a range — from $50,000 to $100,000, for example — it is impossible to know exactly how much the 244 people have collected." But here's what we do know. Going back to the bundler list, we know that:
87 bundled between $50,000-$100,000
89 bundled between $100,000-$200,000
41 bundled between $200,000-$500,000
27 bundled more than $500,000
Politico and NYT are reporting the minimum range there to come up with their numbers. That's why they're saying "at least." Their calculations are based on:
87 x $50,000 = $4.35M
89 x $100,000 = $8.9M
41 x $200,000 = $8.2M
27 x $500,000 = $13.5M
For a total of $34.95 million, or around 40.3% of the $86.7 million total reported by Obama for America and the DNC Victory Fund. But that's the bare minimum. I don't think we should believe that the bundlers between $50,000-$100,000 only bundled $50,000, and so on. The number is likely to be much higher than that. Let's say we put all of the groups in their middle range. It's impossible to do that for the $500,000+ bundlers, because there's no upper bound. So for them, let's be very conservative and make the average $550,000.
87 x $75,000 = $6.525M
89 x $150,000 = $13.35M
41 x $350,000 = $14.35M
27 x $550,000 = $14.85M
For a total of $49.075 million, or 56.6% of the total. Now, we don't know if this number is right. We know that $34.95 million is the lower bound, the bare minimum reflected in the data. This number is in the middle. It could be less. It could be more. But it's a somewhat reasonable estimate. I think we can say with confidence that more than half of Obama's total fundraising in the second quarter came from bundlers.
Jim Messina tried to claim in his video announcing the Q2 numbers that 98% of all donations were $250 or less, and the average contribution was $69 from around 550,000 contributors. That gives the impression of a grassroots-fueled army. Messina didn't say that these numbers excluded the DNC contributions, mostly maxed-out $30,000 donations. And now, the fact of these bundlers complicates Messina's narrative even more. It's possible – in fact, given the numbers, it's likely – that a portion of the under-$250 contributions were collected by bundlers. I think we can say with confidence that bundlers aren't going to "ordinary Americans" for those collections. They are rich elites who go to their rich elite friends.
In fact, Obama for America only cited less than half of their total contributions – $21.4 million – as "unitemized," meaning they were smaller than $200 donations that don't need to be teamed with identification. You can pretty safely bet that almost no DNC Victory Fund donations were under $200. That would mean that 3/4 of all money collected by Obama for America and the DNC Victory Fund were through donations over $200. That syncs with the bundler data.
What we also don't know is if a maxed-out donor who comes to an Obama/DNC victory event counts under the bundler who may have "hosted" that event. This will all come out as people dig through the FEC reports. But just what's out already tells you a lot. You cannot possibly take in between $35-$50 million, if not much more, from bundlers and maxed-out donors, and claim to have a grassroots campaign.


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