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5.0 out of 5 stars Uncovering the new threats of the 21st century
Robert Kaplan sought to achieve a rather ambitious aim when he set out to research and write this book; he wanted to find a new paradigm to understand the early decades of the 21st century. Kaplan noted that some experts focused on the effects of overpopulation and environmental degradation as the dominant forces (particularly in the developing world), while others spoke...
Published on May 12 2004 by Tim F. Martin
3.0 out of 5 stars A very worthy effort, but...
Don't buy this book thinking it's merely a travelogue of some of the world's poorer and lesser-known nations. (In fact, if that's all you're looking for, then I highly recommend Pico Iyer's Falling off the Map instead.) No, it's a cleverly disguised sociopolitical analysis, but unlike most such works, it's refreshing in that Kaplan freely admits his observations are...
Published on April 26 2000
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5.0 out of 5 stars Uncovering the new threats of the 21st century,
Tim F. Martin (Madison, AL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
Robert Kaplan sought to achieve a rather ambitious aim when he set out to research and write this book; he wanted to find a new paradigm to understand the early decades of the 21st century. Kaplan noted that some experts focused on the effects of overpopulation and environmental degradation as the dominant forces (particularly in the developing world), while others spoke of a "new anarchy" (such as former UN secretary-general Perez de Cuellar, he and others noting that of the eighty wars between 1945 and 1995, forty-six were either civil wars or guerilla insurgencies). In 1993, forty-two countries were involved in major conflicts and thirty-seven others were suffering some lesser form of political violence (sixty-five of these seventy-nine nations were in the developing world). Kaplan journeyed through sub-Saharan West Africa from Guinea to Togo and through Egypt, Turkey, Iran, former Soviet Central Asia, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia in his research for the book.
He found a predictably bleak situation in Africa. While 13 percent of the human race lives in Africa, they contribute only 1.2 percent of the world's gross domestic product. Crime - particularly violent crime - is soaring in much of Africa; for a time the United States suspended direct flights from the U.S. to Lagos, Nigeria due to the rampant violent crime at the terminal and nearby, the first time any such embargo had occurred for non-political and non-terrorist reasons. Soaring malaria in Africa is intensifying the spread of AIDS (as malaria can result in anemia, which requires blood transfusions), just as AIDS and tuberculosis are helping each other's spread.
As bad as the economy, crime, and disease in Africa are though, Kaplan believes the real problem in sub-Saharan Africa is too-rapid urbanization, a problem he comes to again and again in the book. Festering "bush-slums" that appear on few maps border many African cities, where relatively prosperous cities end up being "slum-magnets for an emptying countryside." He visited several such slums in Ivory Coast and elsewhere in West Africa, many packed with migrants from Mali, Niger, and elsewhere (50% of the population of the Ivory Coast is now non-Ivorian). The native forest culture of Africa, however primitive, was being destroyed by soaring birthrates, alcohol, cheap guns, and extremely dense concentrations of humanity in slums that lacked any stabilizing and unifying government or culture. Though he does not believe this to be the only factor in the bloody conflicts in Liberia and elsewhere, he does believe it to be a dominant one.
Though not leading to the level of social breakdown as seen in Africa, rapidly growing cities - packed with peasants drawn in from the countryside - was a dominant feature in other nations he found as well. China, while touted at the time of writing as having a 14 per cent growth rate, really meant that coastal China was growing; this growth did not apply to inland China (and also could be said to favor the cities and not the countryside), leading to a mass migration from the countryside. Migration to shantytowns in Pakistan is tremendous, owing in large part to a skyrocketing population rate (only 9 percent of Pakistani women use contraceptives and the population of Pakistan is close to doubling every twenty years), a situation leading to empty villages and a poorly urbanized peasantry that cities are unable to cope with.
Kaplan found similar problems in Egypt, where urban poverty and newly urbanized peasants, threatened with the loss of traditions, the government unable to help them, with basic services like water and electricity breaking down, having found something to turn to; Islam. Islam is thriving in a time of unregulated urbanization and internal and external refugee migrations. With increasingly militant Islamic Egyptians turning against Christian Arabs (both Coptic Christians, who like the Lebanese Kaplan met in West Africa and the Korean grocers of South Los Angeles, formed a "middlemen minority" in Egypt, as well as the Christian leaders like UN secretary-general Boutros-Ghali who failed to aid Bosnian Muslims) and turning to the Ikhwan el Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood) for social services instead of an increasingly overburdened state, Kaplan sees scarcity and woes of the urbanized peasantry of the shantytowns as the driving force in many ways in Egypt.
The growing marriage of Islam and urbanized peasantry was not unique to Egypt. To a somewhat lesser extent Kaplan found a similar process on-going in Turkey, as the Turkish migrants to the gecekondus (literally "built in the night;" shanty-town houses) on the fringes of Istanbul found more aid from the Islamic Welfare Party in the form of water, coal, and food than from the Turkish government itself. In some areas of western China such as Kashgar, overcrowding, unemployment, and the lack of any real middle class was leading to a Muslim resurgence there among non-ethnic Chinese.
So what did Kaplan learn from his travels? He was quite frustrated, and found that the more he traveled the less he felt he knew. Kaplan did grow disgusted with the idea of political "science," paraphrasing Tolstoy in _Anna Karenina_ in writing that while successful cultures are in many ways alike, unsuccessful ones fail each in their own way. He did come to the conclusion that nation-states at least in West Africa, the Near East, and Central Asia were weakening. In some cases organizations and entities outside or beyond the state - such as the various Islamic groups in Egypt and Turkey - were starting to fill in the vacuum, while in other, failed states such as Sierra Leone, nothing was taking its place. Borders in some regions, the legacy of long-gone European imperial powers, were becoming less and less important. Laos and Cambodia were in some sense creations of the French, areas that might have long been swallowed by the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai and were now being divided up economically if not politically by these countries. I think his firmest conclusion though was that poorly and newly urbanized rural poor flocking to the cities represented the greatest challenge.
4.0 out of 5 stars A Realist's Take on the World,
This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
Those familiar with Kaplan�€™s work know the author doesn�€™t exactly travel to the world�€™s vacation spots. When most Americans go abroad, they explore prefer to Paris or sip espresso in a warm villa in Tuscany. When Kaplan goes abroad he finds himself traveling in countries where underpaid soldiers shake him down for bribes to pass their checkpoints and people live in appallingly squalid conditions. �€œEnds of the Earth�€� will give the reader a vivid feel for life in the Third World.
Kaplan�€™s �€œAtlantic Monthly�€� article, �€œThe Coming Anarchy�€�, is kind of a primer for reading �€œEnds of the Earth�€� (portions of it re-appear): much of the world depicted by Kaplan is nasty, brutal and harsh, as the collapse of law and order leads to a repeating circle of violence and chaos. The more the state collapses under the strain of violence, the more the violence increases. Environmental decay, in turn, makes natural resources scarce, which causes people to fight over these ever-dwindling resources. Kaplan concentrates on Africa in the original article but he has expanded on that point in �€œEnds of the Earth�€�, by pointing out that his thesis is applicable to other problems in the world: China, India, Egypt, Turkey, etc.
Kaplan basically backpacks around each of the countries, staying in slummier hotels and living with local families. Like any good travel writer, Kaplan gives the writer a vivid feel for the places he goes to. A lot of travel readers might find Kaplan�€™s focus on history uninteresting, but I appreciate it because I agree that where we�€™ve been is the closest indicator of where the world is going. Someone once said that a page of history is worth a volume of logic, and I think Kaplan illustrates how history and geography dictate what sort of culture, economy and foreign policy a nation has.
I particularly enjoyed the sections of the book dealing with Iran. I�€™ve long been fascinated by the Persian land, with its ancient culture. Kaplan presents a country that is misunderstood in the Western world: Iran is a land of rich culture and a deep appreciation of art and beauty. The picture that Kaplan presents to the reader is that, unlike the rest of the Arab world, with its spare and dogmatic adherence to Islam, Iran is a country with a deep appreciation of beauty and a great capacity for tolerance. Its people are intelligent and open-minded, its society is not rife with chauvinism and hatred and there is great possibility in Iran for a meaningful dialogue. The cultural observations Kaplan noted: how open-minded Iranian students were, how Iranian women were treated better and were more assertive than their Saudi counterparts, how tolerant the Shi�€™ite brand of Islam seemed compared with its more warrior-like Sunni counterparts, are all important clues to Kaplan that Iran is a nation far more willing to break bread with the U.S. and have some sort of partnership. The section on Iran is well-worth the price of the book.
One of the great things about Kaplan�€™s writing is his ability to smoke out trends or facts that escape the notice of the modern media. His comments about Iranian culture and society are an example of this. Also interesting is seeing how environmental scarcity and ethnic and religious tensions drive history: the growth of the Thai sex industry, for example, has much to do with deforestation in northern Thailand. (In the book Kaplan explains that logging by the Thai military means that rural villagers in the north can no longer make ends meet because their farmland is being destroyed, so many girls in their teens and twenties go to Bangkok to work in the massage parlors and the go-go bars.) Before reading �€œEnds of the Earth�€� I didn�€™t know that, and I doubt that people would make the causal connection between the two.
Liberals, I suspect, won�€™t have much to cheer from reading �€œThe Ends of the Earth�€�, and most of Kaplan�€™s critics sit on the left. Kaplan sees himself as a classical realist, so he has no words of praise for idealists or those who bring their ideological causes to an analysis of the world. These liberals who think U.S. law enforcement customs are possible in the Third World are, Kaplan believes, getting the world wrong by bringing their own ideology to the table.
Unsurprisingly, Kaplan�€™s unsparing criticism of African politics and government has provoked many to roundly denounce him as a racist, a charge that simply doesn�€™t hold water. Kaplan is no racist: he sees disorder and writes about it, and he sees the lack of African development and freedom (as compared with Europe and America) as mostly being a function of environment and social factors. Unlike many liberals, Kaplan has actually bothered to try and travel like a native citizen would: no limousines, no private jets. The world that he sees is the world that people live in. There is nothing racist in that.
Critics also fail to note that Kaplan has criticized Western nations like France, England, Portugal, and Germany for drawing borders in Africa without any sort of concern for having them actually make geopolitical sense. As a consequence, Kaplan notes, often ethnic tribes are cut in half by European borders, contributing to the lack of unity and the social strife that has engulfed West Africa.
Finally, I wish that Kaplan had devoted a bit more time in his travels to India and Southeast Asia, instead of Central Asia. As Kaplan notes, he�€™s been to Pakistan ten times in his life, so he has written volumes about the country. I was fascinated to read about India, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand because they were so different from the places Kaplan usually goes culturally and politically. After I got done reading the final section on Indochina, I thought: �€œI want to know more!�€�
In the final analysis, �€œEnds of the Earth�€� is a terrific book. Those interested in the world around us will be fascinated. I highly recommend.
5.0 out of 5 stars now I'm hooked.,
Amazon Customer "Nepenthe" (Arlington, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
I read this on my flight to Turkey, as I experienced my first entry into a truly foreign country. Although I didn't take the risk of travelling outside of the "bubble" that Kaplan talks about, sections of this book definitely pertained to my trip. It altered the way I perceived the world around me. Instead of seeing some Istanbul neighborhoods as helplessly impoverished, I looked for signs of the middle-class ambition that Kaplan spoke of. I also realized that my standards of living are not available to most of the world, and The Ends of the Earth was a good introduction to this concept.
I find particularly interesting the political context in Kaplan's travel writing. Not only do you get the direct visceral experience of travelling through so-called "third world" countries, but you get the political history. My friend said that the book itself is a journey through thought as it is a journey through countries. There is no final answer to why certain cultures develop in one way and others develop in other ways - but you'll certainly appreciate the process as Kaplan visits developing nations across the world and attempts to analyze the past's impact on the present.
This book is highly readable. You simply do not get bored, and I can't think of another non-fiction book that I didn't want to put down at some point.
5.0 out of 5 stars This book will make you squirm,
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This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
This book is not your average travel memoir. It is an introspective analysis of the social and political conditions of developing countries from West Africa to Thailand. Typical travelogues can be titillating, but because the authors actually know so little about the cultures that they are visiting for a short time, readers learn more about the authors themselves than about the countries being described. However, this book is quite different in that respect--Kaplan obviously knows this region well, having worked as a journalist in the region for years. As a journalist, he knows which questions to ask and from whom. He describes conversations with high government officials (many of which wish to remain anonymous), as well as tidbits that he picks up from traveling companions and encounters with ordinary people. He backs up all of these personal anecdotes with hard facts and statistics footnoted to hundreds of resources listed in the bibliography. What he has to say can about the countries and cultures that he visits can be quite disturbing.
One of Kaplan�¿s goals for his trip is to try to discover why some regions of the developing world are bordering on anarchy, or have actually slipped over the edge, and others seem to be working well for the community. By observing societies and talking to leaders as well as ordinary people, he attempts to discover what works to build a civil world. He considers the varying influences that tradition, religion, education, government, and environment may have on a society. While he points out that education, particularly literacy, seems to be vital for maintaining civilization, he finds that there are no absolute factors that can predict which societies will succeed and which will devolve into barbarism.
Many of Kaplan�¿s observations are quite disturbing, such as when he points out entire regions where per capita income has fallen dramatically since the 1960s, yet population has risen, in contrast to other regions with similar levels of development in 1960 where exactly the opposite has happened. What�¿s more, Kaplan points out that many of the reasons for these problems are internal to the societies themselves, such as corruption and traditional practices. The people are understandably frustrated, they have little or no education, and they have easy access to powerful weapons. Unscrupulous or ill-educated leaders can easily point the blame for these problems entirely at the �¿West�¿, redirecting the anger of the masses so that the society does not implode with its own violence.
Some readers may find some of Kaplan�¿s comments racist or bigoted, but having lived for 4 years in a place where the majority of the population comes from the countries that Kaplan describes, I find that every word rings true for me. Kaplan has put into words my own observations and speculations about what I see around me. The book is filled with hundreds of short remarks that capture so much of my experience here, such as when he quotes an Indian educator as saying �¿Only when children are taught to categorize and to analyze, rather than merely to memorize, can they achieve anything in the modern world. Intercommunal and tribal hatreds�¿arise from too much faulty oral memory and too little self-motivated analysis.�¿ But the one that will stick with me for years is his point that you can�¿t give wealth, and you can�¿t pump it out of the ground. You can only create wealth. This book will be of interest to anyone who is trying to understand the forces behind current world events. It should be read by all top-level policy makers.
5.0 out of 5 stars gloriously and sublimely depressing,
Carl A Olson (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
I was introduced to Robert Kaplan's work through his articles for Atlantic Monthly. His analysis of the world stage is so insightful and realistic it makes most of the other things I've read in the area seem like Fairy Tales and Demagoguery. In a previous book he successfully foretold the crisis in the Balkans, in this book he brings his pen and his observational acumen to the edge of civilization.
This book is essentially a travel journal; Mr. Kaplan joins up with backpackers, gets hassled at borders, gets overcharged for train tickets. Fortunately for the reader, Mr. Kaplan's travels have the singular, though somewhat opaque purpose of divining the state of the societies in which he travels. The things observed, though interesting in their own right, are weaved by Mr. Kaplan into a roughly hewn picture of the cultures in which he travels. Things as simple as the look in the eye of a street urchin or the way in which a woman covers her head contribute to this picture in invaluable ways.
Kaplan's assessments are, on the whole, fairly pessimistic and he is skeptical about the efficacy of foreign assistance. One of Kaplan's overarching themes is that many of the dynamics that are at work in these places are nearly impossible to disarm from the outside, and that attempts to do so often cause more harm than good.
There is a tinge of fatalism in the accounts of many regions, West Africa, for one. But Kaplan does leave his readers with a mere series of plaintive elegies. His reification of the mechanics of chaotic polity offer many constructive lessons on how to offer modest assistance, and more important, how to avoid exacerbating these situations through well-intentioned meddling.
My understanding of the volatile regions of our world was greatly improved by this book. For that reason alone, I recommend it to all readers.
4.0 out of 5 stars A New Approach to Dealing with Complex World Issues,
Jon A. Reimer "Jonnie Reimer" (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
Robert Kaplan has made a name for himslef by combining the page turning, easy-reading style of many (unfortunatley factless) journlists into authoritive accounts of humanity's struggles in the developing world.
As he points out throughout "To the Ends of the Earth," the authorities that we in the developed world have come to depend and rely upon to inform us and thus provide assistacne to ailing peoples and economies in the world seem to have lost sight of the reasons for their being in places such as Sierra Leone, Iran and Cambodia. From my own travels in the developing world, I have seen that, even more than in the United States or anywhere else in the developed world, foriegn elites can live a rich and privelaged life away from the general populace. This is exactly what has happened among residents of embassies, development projects and expatriate businesses.
The result of this distance is the complete inability to understand the complexity of world issues. Our expatriate elite publish well - manicured reports about wrongly subsidized bread prices, backward cultures, governmental authorities reaching totalitarian existences and lazy local workers. Yet, these issues are all analyzed and dealt with as unrealted issues. Kaplan's strength is the insights he gains by travelling on the ground in bush taxis and dusty pensions; he recognizes that these economic, political, cutlural and geogrpahical issues are inextriacbly inked and must be dealth with as such.
Kaplan paints an amazingly grim picture of the world's future. From my travels through some of these countries I agree with many of his observations, but despite his efforts to be objective, I find many of his comments to be very quick-handed and made in a very judgemental manner as if he just arrived at the local bus station, fresh after reading his first travel book about the country. Nevertheless, I greatly recommend this book as it reveals the discrepancy in the way the news is covered today and how we must begin to consider third world issues seriously connected to our very being as connected human beings.
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-Read Traveler Trumps $30 Billion a Year Spy World,
Robert David STEELE Vivas (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
If you ever wondered why the U.S. Intelligence Community tries so desperately to keep its annual budget secret from Congress and the citizens, this book might provide a clue: one man, very well-grounded in historical and contextual reading, is capable of reporting extremely valuable insights that neither a $30 billion a year spy world nor a $3 billion a year diplomatic community seem capable of either comprehending or communicating to the public.
Robert D. Kaplan gets three big things right: he studies history before visiting; he is firmly grounded in a geographical or geophysical appreciation of every situation; and he travels on foot and at the lowest common level. The world he sees and reports on is not the world that the pampered and sheltered diplomats, businessmen, and journalists see or understand.
Reading Kaplan is a treat for anyone who takes the rest of the world and America's naivete with some seriousness. He is correct when he posits a new World War, "a protracted struggle between ourselves and the demons of crime, population pressure, environmental degradation, disease, and culture conflict."
He is at his best when mixing his historical reading with his personal intellect and observations, to arrive at conclusions that contradict conventional wisdom--for instance, his appreciation of Iran as a structured and stable society, and of Turkey as the next mega-power and the keeper of the Islamic flame. His extremely sharp observations about Saudi Arabia as the hidden enemy of the United States of America are very very provocative, especially when one realizes that we are providing them with an extremely generous military and economic program at U.S. taxpayer expense. Saudi funding of terrorism, including Bin Laden, is increasingly documented in the public domain, and U.S. taxpayers need to begin questioning U.S. policy in this specific area.
This personal travel narrative is invaluable as a means of contemplating the realities of nations that exist (e.g. the Kurds) alongside states that continue to persecute and deny these nations a right to live. Although another hundred pages follow, the real end of the book is on page 336 where he discusses a living map of the future world, one that is constantly changing and that reflects several realities--a reality of overlapping group identities such as those of language and economic class; a reality of legal boundaries and overlapping and sometimes conflicting cultural boundaries; a reality of power distributed and often shared openly between police, criminals, terrorists, white-collar thieves, and politicians; and a reality of population growth, disease, refugee migrations and genocide; as well as soil and water scarcity.
His bibliography is quite worthwhile, and helps make his personal reporting even more valuable. I have but one disappointment, and that is that this prolific author and policy commentator, a major force (indeed, the only continuous voice on foreign policy matters for The Atlantic Monthly), has failed to provide a concluding section that pulls it all together in an executive briefing suitable for policy consideration. There are many valuable lessons and observations in this book, I recommend it highly, but I fear that the policy-makers who most desperately need to be educated will never, ever actually read the book.
5.0 out of 5 stars The possible fracture lines,
Guillermo Maynez (Mexico, Distrito Federal Mexico) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
I give this book five stars for one reason: it is important to read it and to keep thinking about its main subject: the future of the nation-state and the possible consequences of its demise. Kaplan knows he is going to be subjective. That's fine. He is well-read and travels with a good piece of luggage: previous knowledge of the history of the places he's going to -unlike most of the backpackers he correctly mocks at-. Kaplan is a good writer. He goes to fascinating and really different places. But the important thing about the book is his reflections on the future of the world, from the standpoint of these societies. This book takes us to some of the places where the future of humanity will be decided, within the next decades. These are regions in crisis, in its clinical, primary meaning: artificial borders, paper-States, overpopulation, an exhaustion of natural resources, forced and vertiginous urbanization, and one more thing: the rapid increase in violent religious fanatism, as a consequence of the erosion of identity in the misery-ridden slums of the Third World. The rank-and-file of the fundamentalist threats is formed by poor peasants who suddenly had lo leave their land and become lumpen-proletariats in Cairo, Ankara or some other megalopolis. West Africa, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeastern Asia, are "fracture lines". These regions are living the beginning of the end of the Nation-state as the basic cell of human political organization, only in the other end of the spectrum, compared with the European Union. And yet there is hope. As in Rishi Valley, what we still call the Third World need not be lost for peace, prosperity and a promising future. At least, not all of it. For that outcome to happen, the West has to turn its eyes and minds to help. Clearly, the West can not do what these peoples themselves are not willing to do. But the West must help when it is possible. The elites of these nations must come to terms with their responsibilities in leading their peoples out of the bleak way in which some of them are embarked. It is possible, but first we have to know the problems. And Kaplan is helping with his books.
3.0 out of 5 stars A very worthy effort, but...,
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This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
Don't buy this book thinking it's merely a travelogue of some of the world's poorer and lesser-known nations. (In fact, if that's all you're looking for, then I highly recommend Pico Iyer's Falling off the Map instead.) No, it's a cleverly disguised sociopolitical analysis, but unlike most such works, it's refreshing in that Kaplan freely admits his observations are subjective and possibly wrong. But that's exactly the problem. Despite physically travelling to all these destinations, Kaplan seems to spend precious little time actually TALKING with real citizenry in most places. Instead he whisks from Western hotels in the capital to meetings with various pols and officials before scuttling off to the next country, sometimes just days later. And therein lies the failure of an otherwise worthy effort from an outstanding writer: the superficiality of most of his experiences in these places. Give him a few days in a country, coupled with a bit of background reading and perhaps a few conversations with experts at home, and Kaplan feels justified in making sweeping generalizations about where these nations have been, and where they are going. Had Kaplan just stopped country-hopping and stayed in one region for a longer time, I think his conclusions would have been much improved. A side note: having travelled to a number of these countries (as one of the "backpackers" that Kaplan scornfully derides throughout the book), his constant dramatizing of the mundane grows tedious after a while...I think the only person surprised that the third world can be dirty, smelly, and unpredictable is Kaplan himself.
5.0 out of 5 stars a journey into the heart of the future,
This review is from: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Paperback)
As Kaplan writes in Balkan Ghosts "The past is yesterday's present and the future tomorrow's past". Therefore, the events of today's headlines are less significant than the global trends. However, in his unsentimental journey, Kaplan is careful to avoid the pitfalls of endism, producing what is instead an informed, educated and nuanced account of the threats to development in the twenty-first century. Even he admits that it is but one person's account and therefore subject to bias and flaws (which are certainly present), but the very nature of his "unsentimental journey" (a concept which is invaluable to those of us trying to understand the paths which developing societies take), he is enlightening the reader about many parts of the world, and in fact the nature of social transformation itself. By emphasizing the nature of population growth and combining this with an examination of the state and its legitimacy, he goes beyond the traditional modernist paradigm to examine the dark heart of "progress". A great read which sustained and informed me through 3 months in Latin America (an area I wish he would address).
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Between the summer of 2011 and the spring of 2012, the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Lafe Solomon, published three Advice Memos that expressed his views on the application of the...more
On October 1, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued another decision addressing the intersection between the National Labor Relations Act (the Act), social media, and handbook policies prohibiting...more
The NLRB has received a lot of attention for its actions the last couple years. One of the storms was caused by the agency's attention to employer actions based on employee Facebook postings. More to the point, employers were...more
The National Labor Relations Board's most recent decision demonstrates that not all employee social media posts are protected by the National Labor Relations Act. Questions remain, however, about the extent to which employees...more
Continuing its aggressive foray into nonunion workplaces, the NLRB has weighed in on social media and employee handbook issues, finding certain language to be unlawful under Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations...more
Executive Summary: In its first published decision involving employee Facebook access, the National Labor Relations Board has upheld the termination of an employee whose Facebook posts mocked an accident on his employer's...more
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Born and raised in South Dakota, percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky has been an innovator and collaborator throughout her life. Already during her studies in Iowa and Germany and later on her international solo tours, Robyn Schulkowsky has dedicated herself to revealing the wonders of percussion to people all over the world. Her continuous exploration of new sound dimensions has led to the development of many new and unusual instruments.
An active musician on five continents, Robyn Schulkowsky moved to Germany during a heyday of experimental and adventurous classical composition. She has premiered and recorded some of the most important percussion works of the 20th and 21st centuries, working with composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kevin Volans, John Cage, Morton Feldman and Iannis Xenakis, presenting their works during tours that included the former Soviet Union, India, Africa, South America, Korea, Japan as well as at major European music festivals.
Robyn Schulkowsky's adventurous nature connects her with exceptional project partners and alternative performance spaces. She has collaborated on multi-media projects with legendary African drummer Kofi Ghanaba, avant-garde visual artist Guenther Uecker, the actress Edith Clever and groundbreaking choreographer Sasha Waltz, and has founded - together with Stephan Andreae - the annual festival Drums Summit Bonn.
Robyn Schulkowsky is particularly passionate about education. Since 1998, as founder of Rhythm Lab, she has taken drumming workshops to countless cities, incorporating indigenous drumming styles and patterns from around the globe, and involving students, professionals and aficionados alike in workshops and concerts. Primarily directed at children and teenagers, the project focuses on the idea of "music as the experience and not the product", aiming to make rhythm tangible by experimenting with music, sound and movement. To this end, Robyn Schulkowsky works closely with the sound artist Lukas Kuehne, with whom she developed new percussion instruments. In spring 2009 she worked with 100 young budding musicians on her new music-theater project based on the story of Antigone which was presented in July in a former cattle-market hall in Ingolstadt (Germany) with resounding success.
Schulkowsky's virtuosity has been captured on over 20 recordings, including CDs with violist Kim Kashkashian and trumpet players Reinhold Friedrich and Nils Petter Molvaer, and seminal recordings of compositions by Christian Wolff and Morton Feldman. She is a composer herself, and in 2005, she performed improvisations and her own compositions twice daily for two weeks on a "sound sculpture" in New York's Grand Central Station. In 2008 her opera The Child of the Sea Otter was premiered in Oldenburg (Germany) and repeated in Mannheim and Berlin.
Last season in Sweden, together with the Gothenburg Symphony and fellow renowned solo percussionists Anders Loguin, Mika Takehara, Eirik Raude and Anders Haag, Robyn Schulkowsky performed the critically-acclaimed premiere of "Glorious Percussion" by Sofia Gubaidulina under the baton of celebrated young conductor Gustavo Dudamel. This new ensemble has since named itself after the piece and has been appearing with several important orchestras, most recently with the Berlin Philharmonic.
This season, Robyn Schulkowsky's frenetic global pace continues with a month-long tour of South America with trumpet player Reinhold Friedrich featuring concerts and workshops, as well as a US tour of an Armenian project with violist Kim Kashkashian.
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Robyn Schulkowsky & Nils Petter Molvaer
Originally conceived as a solo recording, ECM producer Manfred Eicher brought in Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær as a foil for her percussive musings. The pairing was an inspired choice, as Molvær adds a haunting melodicism to the proceedings. Schulkowsky is a master percussionist and composer. Using a minimal set up of a few drums, bells, and a large gong, she travels a percussion odyssey from dark, dirge-like pulses to haunting metallic reverberations.
'Pier And Ocean III' shows off Schulkowsky's rhythmic variety, as she balances both low drum, and high bell sounds, creating a hypnotic whirl of percussion.
'Hastening Westward I' reveals a gentle side, as she bows small, tuned cymbals (crotales), as Molvær plays a series of slow, mournful notes that hang in the air. 'Hastening Westward II' finds Schulkowsky exploring muffled drum sounds with a simple ostinato pattern and counter rhythms. The effect is very hypnotic and trancelike. 'Hastening Westward II' has Molvær playing an almost anthemic trumpet line, punctuated by Schulkowsky's drumming underneath, while 'IV' makes use of the reverberations of a large gong, played with sticks by Schulkowsky, and played 'into,' as sort of a reverb chamber by Molvær's trumpet.
This is intensely beautiful music, full of surprises that take the listener to unexpected places. Highly recommended for the adventurous, and lovers of contemporary classical/improv percussion. Robyn Schulkowsky is a master musician who deserves wider recognition.
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Above left, NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Jimmie Johnson spins in Turn 4 during Sundays Series Coca-Cola 600 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Above right, drivers Travis Kvapil (93) and Dave Blaney wreck in Turn 4.CONCORD, N.C. Charlotte Motor Speedway said 10 fans were injured Sunday at the Coca-Cola 600 and three of them were taken to the hospital after a nylon rope supporting a Fox Sports overhead television camera fell from the grandstands and landed on the track surface.
According to CMS spokeswoman Danielle Frye the three people taken to the hospital had minor injuries that are not life threatening. She said seven people were treated with minor cuts and scrapes on site and released.
Fox Sports released a statement Sunday night saying it hasnt determined the cause of the accident and it is suspending use of the camera system indefinitely.
Our immediate concern is with the injured fans, Fox said in the statement.
Fox said the camera system consists of three ropes a drive rope that moves the camera back and forth, and two guide ropes on either side. Fox said it was the drive rope that failed near the first-turn connection and fell to the track.
The camera itself did not come down because guide ropes acted as designed, Fox said in the statement. A full investigation is planned, and use of the camera is suspended indefinitely.
Fox said it has used the camera system at the Daytona 500, at last weeks NASCAR Sprint All-Star race and other major sporting events.
We certainly regret that the system failure affected tonights event, we apologize to the racers whose cars were damaged, and our immediate concern is for the race fans, Fox said in the statement. We also offer a sincere thank you to the staff at CMS for attending to the injuries and keeping us informed on this developing situation.
The incident occurred on lap 121 of the 400-lap NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
The race was delayed for 27 minutes while crews repaired damage to their cars.
Kyle Busch, going for a sweep at Charlotte Motor Speedway after winning the Nationwide and Truck series races, was leading when he incurred damage to the right front wheel well of his No. 18 Toyota.
Marcos Ambrose and Mark Martin also reported damage.
No drivers were injured.
The cars were initially brought along pit row as workers cleared the ropes from the track.
NASCAR first threw a caution flag before two red flags came out. It eventually allowed the cars to come into the pits, giving crews 15 minutes to work on their cars.
During the break, Buschs crew frantically worked to repair a number of problems to the right front wheel well. After completing repairs to the car, the crew slapped high-fives after getting the car back on the track.
Busch remained competitive and was running in the top five at the midpoint of the race. But his night ended in frustration when his engine blew up on lap 253.
I commend NASCAR for taking the initiative and letting us repair our damaged cars from the issue we had, Busch said.
Busch said he never saw the nylon rope.
I just heard a big thunk on the right-front side tire and thought the right-front tire blew out, Busch said. Thats how hard it felt... It did have an effect slowing my car down and I could feel it like, `Whoa, thats weird. I dont know that anybody has ever seen that. Maybe now we can get rid of that thing.
He has never won a Sprint Cup race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and has suffered his share of bad luck at the track.
Prior to the restart, Ambrose was made to run five laps on his own to make up for the laps missed when he pulled into pit row and the rest of the field was under caution.
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Dr. Daniel Aires, the Director of the Division of Dermatology at the University of Kansas Hospital, warns everyone's at risk for melanoma.
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He says you can be exposed to some sun, but don't get burned.
"Getting as few as three or four sunburns can double someone's lifetime risk of melanoma," he warns.
He says the rays from a tanning bed can be especially dangerous.
"Sometimes they can put it up to five times more of the dangerous radiation, so and that kind of intensity is what can cause the burning and can also lead to the risk of melanoma," said Dr. Aires.
He supports the F.D.A.'s proposed order to reclassify sunlamps as moderate risk devices, providing stricter regulation, and warning labels against people under 18 tanning, and warning labels to let frequent users know they should be regularly screened for skin cancer.
As a melanoma survivor, Lee Norman also supports the regulation.
"Dont' get into tanning booths, number one," Norman said, including that he was careful with his skin, even before his diagnosis.
The Indoor Tanning Association issued a statement in response to the proposal, which in part said:
"We embrace any changes that will enhance our customers safety. However we are concerned that these changes will burden our members with addition [sic.] unnecessary governmental costs in an already difficult economic climate."


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Background Checks in Michigan
Posted on January 2, 2012
Federal law generally requires federally licensed firearms dealers (but not private sellers) to initiate a background check on the purchaser prior to sale of a firearm. Federal law provides states with the option of serving as a state "point of contact" and conducting their own background checks using state, as well as federal, records and databases, or having the checks performed by the FBI using only the National Instant Criminal Background Check System ("NICS") database. (Note that state files are not always included in the federal database.)
Michigan is a partial point-of-contact state for NICS. In Michigan, all handgun purchase license applicant background checks are processed through the Michigan Department of State Police.1 Long gun background checks requested by licensed dealers are processed directly through the FBI, which enforces the federal purchaser prohibitions referenced above.2
Michigan requires that the purchaser of a handgun have either a handgun purchase license or a license to carry a concealed handgun.3 Prospective licensees are subject to a background check as part of the licensing process.4 Unlike handgun purchase licensees, who must undergo a background check for each purchase license – and thus for each handgun purchased, concealed handgun licensees only have to submit to a background check once every five years – at the time of renewal of their concealed carry license.
Federal law does not require dealers to conduct a background check if a firearm purchaser presents a state permit to purchase or possess firearms that meets certain conditions. As a result, Michigan handgun purchase license holders, and Michigan concealed pistol license holders with licenses issued on or after November 22, 2005, are exempt from the federal background check requirement when purchasing a firearm.5 (Note, however, that people who have become prohibited from possessing firearms may continue to hold state firearms licenses if the state fails to remove these licenses in a timely fashion.)
Long gun transfers by private sellers (non-firearms dealers) are not subject to background checks in Michigan.
See the Michigan Prohibited Persons Generally section for state-defined prohibited categories for the purchase and possession of guns.
See our Background Checks policy summary for a comprehensive discussion of this issue.
- Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. § 28.422a. [↩]
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Instant Criminal Background Check System Participation Map, at http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/general-information/participation-map. [↩]
- Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. §§ 28.422(1), (4), (6), 28.422a. [↩]
- Mich. Comp. Laws Serv. §§ 28.422(3), (6), 28.422a. [↩]
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, U.S. Department of Justice, Brady Law: Permanent Brady Permit Chart (Aug. 26, 2011), at: http://www.atf.gov/firearms/brady-law/permit-chart.html. [↩]


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Scott Burdick and Susan Lyon are skilled artists, inspiring instructors, and just really kind people. If you've ever been in a workshop with either of them, you are lucky enough to know what I mean. In watching them work, you get a sense of the sensitivity and thoughtfulness with which they craft their paintings and drawings. They share their experiences as working artists and motivate those around them with the wealth of knowledge they share.
Burdick and Lyon have done us all a good turn by creating online video lessons on several art topics including figure drawing and portrait drawing, which I wanted to highlight for all of you.
In Lyon's Figure Drawing
video, the drawing process is outlined from start to finish,beginning
with a tutorial on supplies and techniques. From there, you get to see
more than 20 pose demonstrations, ranging from quick one-minute
sketches to lengthier studies that allow you to develop a more
fleshed-out drawing. In this two-hour tutorial, Lyon takes you through
different drawing media, including china marker, chalk, charcoal, and
pastel pencil.
Check out the artists' online store for ordering information. Enjoy!
Love Susan's work. Got her "Mastering Portrait Drawing" through this site and have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Ty for this!I haven't been much of a drawer since high school lol
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Faced with a weak economy and a need to improve Italy's debt ratio, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's government will include illegal drug sales and prostitution when it figures the country's gross domestic product.
That's according to a report from Bloomberg News, which says:
"Renzi, 39, is committed to narrowing Italy's deficit to 2.6 percent of GDP this year, a task that's easier if output is boosted by portions of the underground economy that previously went uncounted. Four recessions in the last 13 years left Italy's GDP at 1.56 trillion euros ($2.13 trillion) last year, 2 percent lower than in 2001 after adjusting for inflation."
A government spokesman wouldn't comment on the new plan, Bloomberg says.
Italian newspaper Il Giornale says the new GDP statistics will also include sales from smuggling alcohol and cigarettes. To derive the value of this shadow economy, the government will use estimates that are in line with rules set by Eurostat, the EU agency that issues guidelines on activities that are "economically productive."


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Monthly Archive for July, 2011
See the new 'Amazing Spider-Man' trailer, clearly
Forget grainy bootlegs. Movie-List has the first trailer up for The Amazing Spider-Man that's much easier on the eyes though pretty heavy in tone. Case in point: In this Spidey reboot, we see Peter Parker's parents rush off to leave him with Aunt May (Sally Field) and Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) when Pete was just […] [Read More]
New S.A. Games Workshop store promises Warhammer-ing good times
I swung by the new local Games Workshop store this past Saturday and does it ever look nice. Just the right size (small) with just the right selection (large) of Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000 and Lord of the Rings tabletop gaming ephemera, plus novels under its Black Library imprint. Store manager Golar Bluford (a Warhammer name […] [Read More]
'Adventure Time' action figures debut at Comic-Con
Good news for fans of Adventure Time, the Cartoon Network series created by San Antonio's own Pendleton Ward. Finn aka that boy with the funny hat and his shape-shifting dog Jake make their action figure debut this week at Comic-Con International. ComicsAlliance reports that Jazwares will introduce the Adventure Time duo at the Entertainment Earth […] [Read More]
John Picacio's 'A Song of Ice & Fire' 2012 Calendar hits today
Now George R. R. Martin's fantasy novels really spring to life on a daily basis with today's release of the A Song of Ice & Fire 2012 Calendar, illustrated by San Antonio's own John Picacio. Fans have already taken in more than an eyeful of Martin's epic narrative with HBO's Game of Thrones adaptation, not […] [Read More]
Free 'Doctor Who' screening Wednesday, July 20
Doctor Who Fans Unite celebrates its third anniversary this month with a picturesque, comic-book connected Doctor Who Appreciation Night. It's viewer's choice again, with "The Doctor's Wife" by Sandman scribe Neil Gaiman leading the way as one of the two episodes that'll screen for free Wednesday, July 20, at 7:30 p.m. at Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes. […] [Read More]
'The Dark Knight Rises' teaser trailer is online
Not a bootleg. The official teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. See it here. Related: • 'The Dark Knight Rises' teaser poster revealed! Got geek news, insights or other mana? E-mail me. And follow me on Twitter for more tomgeekery. [Read More]
Star Wars Shop closes its virtual doors
Woe to the Star Wars fan with a credit card and empty shelf space. Star Wars Shop has closed and will no longer sell merchandise on StarWars.com effective Monday, July 18. Sad news. But judging by the shop notice, there is, heh, a new hope. "We know discovering the best of the best of the […] [Read More]
Detailed Spidey costume photos from 'Amazing Spider-Man'
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VIDEO: Slave Leia PSA. Exactly.
Only The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco could bring such welcome perspective to wayward cosplaying women when it comes to so-called Slave Leia fatigue. Because Cuoco knows whereof she speaks. And what she speaks of are options. Colorful, glorious options. You're welcome. (Thanks, Sean!) Related: • PIC: Bikini Leia and her stunt double napping […] [Read More]
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A good interviewer will rarely ask this question so directly. If this question is asked this directly, simply ask the person something like, "What is it you would like to know?" In this way you show them that you have nothing to hide. More often, interviewers use casual and friendly conversation to get the information they want. In most cases, the interviewer is digging for information that would indicate you are unstable or undependable.
Other issues may be of concern to an employer as well. Often, these are based on assumptions the person has about people with certain characteristics. These beliefs are often irrelevant (and some may seem to be in bad taste or even illegal), but if the employer wonders whether you can be depended upon, dealing with these doubts is in your own best interest. Be aware that even your casual conversation should always avoid reference to a potential problem area. In responding to a question about your personal situation, be friendly and positive. Your objective is to give employers the answer that they need to have, not just the one they may seem to ask. See chapter 5 for guidelines on handling illegal questions.
Examples of Appropriate Answers
The following responses address the personal issues that employers are most concerned about.
Young children at home:
"I have two children, both in school. Child care is no problem because they stay with a good friend."
Single head of household:
"I'm not married and have two children at home. It is very important to me to have a steady income, so child care is no problem."
Young and single:
"I'm not married, and if I should marry, that would not change my plans for a full-time career. For now, I can devote my full attention to my career."
Just moved here:
"I've decided to settle here in Depression Gulch permanently. I've rented an apartment, and the six moving vans are unloading there now."
Relatives, upbringing:
"I am one of three children. Both of my parents still live within an hour's flight from here, and I see them several times a year."
Leisure time:
"My time is family-centered when I'm not working. I'm also active in several community organizations and spend at least some time each week in church activities."
All of these responses could be expanded on, but they should give you an idea of the types of approaches you can take with your own answers. The message you want to give is that your personal situation will not hurt your ability to work and, indeed, could help it. If your personal life does disrupt your work, expect most employers to lose patience quickly. It is not their problem, nor should it be.
94 Other Frequently Asked Interview Questions
The following list presents questions most often asked by recruiters who interview new graduates at college campuses. Although some of the questions may not apply to your situation, they give you a good idea of the types of questions a trained interviewer might ask you in an interview. Look over the list and check any that would be hard for you to answer well. Then practice coming up with positive answers for those problem questions using the Three-Step Process for answering interview questions that has been used in this chapter.
1. What are your future vocational plans?
2. In what school activities have you participated? Why? Which did you enjoy the most?
3. How do you spend your spare time? What are your hobbies?
4. What type of position most interests you?
5. Why do you think you might like to work for our company?
6. What jobs have you held? How were they obtained?
7. What courses did you like best? Least? Why?
8. Why did you choose your particular field of work?
9. What percentage of your school expenses did you earn? How?
10. How did you spend your vacations while in school?
11. What do you know about our company?
12. Do you feel that you have received a good general training?
13. What qualifications do you have that make you feel that you will be successful in your field?
14. What extracurricular offices have you held?
15. What are your ideas on salary?
16. How do you feel about your family?
17. How interested are you in sports?
18. If you were starting school all over again, what would you do differently?
19. Can you forget your education and start from scratch?
20. Do you prefer any specific geographic location? Why?
21. Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend? Is it serious?
22. How much money do you hope to earn at age ____?
23. Why did you decide to go to the school you attended?
24. How did you rank in your graduating class in high school? Other schools?
25. Do you think that your extracurricular activities were worth the time you devoted to them? Why?
26. What do you think determines a person's progress in a good company?
27. What personal characteristics are necessary for success in your chosen field?
28. Why do you think you would like this particular type of job?
29. What is your father's occupation?
30. Tell me about your home life during the time you were growing up.
31. Are you looking for a permanent or temporary job?
32. Do you prefer working with others or by yourself?
33. What types of people are your best friends?
34. What kind of boss do you prefer?
35. Are you primarily interested in making money?
36. Can you take instructions without feeling upset?
37. Tell me a story.
38. Do you live with your parents? Which of your parents has had the most profound influence on you?
39. How did previous employers treat you?
40. What have you learned from some of the jobs you have held?
41. Can you get recommendations from previous employers?
42. What interests you about our product or service?
43. What was your record in military service?
44. Have you ever changed your major field of interest? Why?
45. When did you choose a major?
46. How did your grades after military service compare with those you previously earned?
47. Do you feel you have done the best work of which you are capable?
48. How did you happen to go to postsecondary school?
49. What do you know about opportunities in the field in which you are trained?
50. How long do you expect to work?
51. Have you ever had any difficulty getting along with fellow students and faculty? Fellow workers?
52. Which of your school years was most difficult?
53. What is the source of your spending money?
54. Do you own any life insurance?
55. Have you saved any money?
56. Do you have any debts?
57. How old were you when you became self-supporting?
58. Do you attend church?
59. Did you enjoy school?
60. Do you like routine work?
61. Do you like regular work?
62. What size city do you prefer?
63. When did you first contribute to family income?
64. What is your major weakness?
65. Define cooperation.
66. Will you fight to get ahead?
67. Do you demand attention?
68. Do you have an analytical mind?
69. Are you eager to please?
70. What do you do to keep in good physical condition?
71. How do you usually spend Sunday?
72. Have you had any serious illness or injury?
73. Are you willing to go where the company sends you?
74. What job in our company would you choose if you were entirely free to do so?
75. Is it an effort for you to be tolerant of persons with a background and interests different from your own?
76. What types of books have you read?
77. Have you plans for further education?
78. What types of people seem to rub you the wrong way?
79. Do you enjoy sports as a participant? As an observer?
80. Have you ever tutored another student?
81. What jobs have you enjoyed the most? The least? Why?
82. What are your own special abilities?
83. What job in our company do you want to work toward?
84. Would you prefer a large or a small company? Why?
85. What is your idea of how industry operates today?
86. Do you like to travel?
87. How about overtime work?
88. What kind of work interests you?
89. What are the disadvantages of your chosen field?
90. Do you think that grades should be considered by employers? Why or why not?
91. Are you interested in research?
92. If married, how often do you entertain at home?
93. To what extent do you use liquor?
94. What have you done that shows initiative and willingness to work?


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Joe Walsh - The truth about music
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1 then don't do it
2 doesn't matter if it's wrong, it's happening and there's nothing anyone can do about it, you have to adjust to this change if you want to keep making money. Whining about it isn't going to make it go away.
There's a huge difference between playing free shows and free recordings, the former the band has the final say in the matter, the latter is completely out of their control.
That's the only poo t I was trying to make.
1) I don't do it for free,except for a fund raiser or chatitable event ,or just at an open jam..
There is something you can do about it.Copyright your material,and sue those copying and playing your music without paying the proper fees.That called mailbox money,and song writers are entitled to it ...by federal law.Identify music thieves to local police and the FBI,who WLL make arrests and sieze contraband.
The NYPD and the FBI,make regular stings and arrests of unlicensed individuals,selling pirated music.That's called copyright infringement and violates copyright laws in the US.
I'm happy to say,music pirates are now going to jail and paying heavy fines.
This may not stop it,but these thieves are now looking over their shoulders.
Whining and stating fact are two completely different things.I'm stating facts here that you don't agree with,so you choose to take the low road and call it whining.
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While MARTA does not extend into Gwinnett, you can connect to the Gwinnett County Transit System from the Doraville Station. As the last stop on the MARTA gold line, the Doraville Station provides access to GCT Route 10 that travels up Buford Highway through Norcross, ending at the Gwinnett Transfer Center/Gwinnett Place Mall. The transfer center allows connections between all five local GCT routes and seven express routes.
There is also GRTA Express Route 410 that goes directly from the Lindbergh Station to Sugarloaf Mills. And GRTA Express Route 412 goes to Discovery Mills from the Civic Center and Arts Center Stations in addition to several other midtown stops in between.
GRTA Express is $3 one way or $5 roundtrip. GCT rates vary by route, from $2-$4. Transfers to/from MARTA are free and you can use your Breeze Card for Route 10.
A Gwinnett light rail system is on the list of projects that could be supported by a one-cent sales tax. Voters can support light rail expansion by voting in the Fall 2012 election.


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Small Biz Owners: Which Social Media Tool Works For You?
Gathering some tools for small biz owners I Googled "social media small business stats" and the TOP article was a Boston.com article titled "Stats don't lie: social media continues to vex small biz owners" In this article Jason Keith basically states that many things have become clear based on data pouring in and the first one is:
"That no platform has truly set itself apart from another, despite which survey you look at and what type of small business you ask."
"The second is that the adoption of social media platforms continue to grow, but at a disparate pace (i.e. sometimes fast, sometimes slow).
"Third, it's very obvious that small businesses are (still) very much in the "feeling out" stage when it comes to what works and what doesn't related to social media."
This image below is the result of the surveyed small biz owners based on which SM tool showed the greatest potential for their firms, company to grow.
More than 800 small biz where surveyed, with focus on high level results, cited that LinkedIn gave them dramatic results. Even as the same effort went into other platforms, LinkedIn results where dramatically different.
So based on that I compiled some sources where you could get more info on how to navigate LinkedIn and make it work you.
4 Minutes To Optimize A LinkedIn Profile For SEO
LinkedIn's Little Secret: It's a Great Lead-Gen Tool
How to Use LinkedIn for Business (eBOOK)
LinkedIn's Timeless Guide To Small Business Success (Straight from LinkedIn Learning Center)
We are a community that want to GROW and help you GROW, if you have found success with other SM platforms, please SHARE IT with US BELOW. Which platforms have brought you success? Which platforms are you exploring at this moment? Which platforms do you believe are a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME?
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We believe you are referring to the FasTrack which is an electronic toll collection (ETC) system used in the Bay area of California that allows you to prepay your bridge tolls, eliminating the need to stop at the toll plaza. The system has three components: a transponder, which is placed inside your vehicle; an overhead antenna, which reads the transponder and collects the toll; and video cameras to identify toll evaders.
This is CA system comparable to the SunPass used in parts of Florida for toll roads or the Illinois' Open Road Tolling program where I-PASS or E-ZPass users continue to travel at highway speeds through toll plazas.
You can try to fight your ticket in court by stating to the judge that the signage showed that FasTrack was okay in the lane you were using. You would likely need to show photographic proof of this sign and its location. You can speak with a traffic ticket lawyer to see if they can give you any advice on how to prepare for court and what exact proof may allow you to get your carpool ticket dismissed.
You may also be able to get information on if this ticket may be dismissed based on your understanding of the sign you read by speaking with court listed on your ticket. Sometimes clerk of the courts will be able to help you with questions you have regarding your citations. If you cannot get the ticket dismissed then from our research it appears a carpool or ticket for incorrect use of a HOV lane is around $380.
To get auto insurance quotes online for San Francisco or any other area of CA, follow this link.


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In the five years since MHealthy officially became a university-wide program, the university has made significant achievements in increasing the health awareness and healthy behaviors of its faculty and staff. Analyses of MHealthy program satisfaction, participation, health risks, absenteeism, and related health claims data indicate progress toward our goals. This can translate into both direct and indirect savings, improved health, quality of life, performance and risk mitigation for both the individual and the university.
In CY13, MHealthy continued to make progress toward reaching our long-term goals of improving the health and well-being of our faculty and staff and becoming a model community of health. Some of the highlights include:
- U-M was named one of Michigan's healthiest employers in a statewide analysis of employers whose policies and practices promote a healthy workforce.
- U-M was also selected for the Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America award; placing 55 out of the top U.S. 100 employers.
- Close to 22,000 faculty and staff completed the annual health questionnaire in 2013 (56% of our benefits-eligible population), our highest participation thus far.
- Over 16,200 individuals participated in Active U, our highest participation thus far, up from over 10,600 in 2012.
- Over 20,000 flu shots were provided in the Health System and over 4,000 on our Ann Arbor campus.
- In collaboration with the Benefits Administration Office, the Compliance Office and the MHealthy Scientific Advisory Committee, a de-identified research data extract was established for use by pre-approved UM researchers to develop scientific publications and grant proposals.
- Customer satisfaction with MHealthy programs and services remains high.
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Sewing Success
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Arwen, You've set up a very nice blog! Your computer skills are so good! I still have so much to learn; I don't even know how to put a link into my blogs.
I love the Charlotte Mason philosophy! I plan to use it too when my boys are better at writing. They both still have some trouble forming letters. I am taking it slowly, waiting for their small muscles to mature. We have lots of toys designed to strengthen hand muscles, so slow development here might be genetic. It would be a problem if they were going to public school, but I have the luxury of going at their pace. I love that.
You're doing a great job gathering all the essential preschool tools. You already know so much. Beeper is blessed to have such a dedicated Mommmy!
Pam (friend from Babycenter)
- February 20, 2008 at 8:34 PM
- Julie said...
my son didn't really get lacing or sewing until about 3...and even then he only enjoys it when I am sewing. I can also identify with the frustration of planning/preparing for activities only to have child thumb his nose at them.
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