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Joan Didion, Sara Suleri, and Annie Dillard problematize the notion of personal writing. In her text, each author deconstructs the idea of an autonomous, decontextualized self. These three female writers depict their selves as fluid, interdependent and not clearly distinguishable from their surrounding communities. This distinctly feminine formulation of selfhood enables them to make the metaphorical leap between the personal and universal, but it also, necessarily, complicates any attempt at categorizing their writing as personal. In their perpetual conflation of the internal with the external, the individual with the surrounding community, Didion, Suleri and Dillard consistently sidestep the personal and the private: autobiography is used in service of some larger point. Their "I" becomes a narrative technique -- a medium through which to explore their broader surroundings. Didion and Suleri portray themselves as symbols of culture, evidence of the times. Dillard, on the other hand, whose subject is not culture but nature, portrays herself not as a sign of her narrative subject, but as a component of it. Whereas Didion and Suleri fuse personal discourse with civic discourse, their physical body with that of their state, Dillard strives towards an erasure of discourse and self-consciousness, a physical immersion into a language-free place.
Jerzy Kozinski once described Didion as "our quintessential essayist . . . always at the center" (Carton, 308) -- an odd claim about a woman whose writings perpetually articulate the absence of any center, the moral and social dilemmas of living in a world where "the center cannot hold" (Slouching Towards Bethlehem, xi). In Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, Didion's essays explore the disintegration and fragmentation surrounding her and yet, within these essays, Didion recomposes her own self. By the "imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images (White Album, 11), Didion writes herself to the center: Didion, the "common denominator of "all [she] sees" (Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 136), becomes the medium by which she reads the external world. She embodies the "disparate images" that lie outside her -- she "affects absorption in other people's favorite dresses, other people's trout" (STB, 136).
Didion explodes the notion of an autonomous self sustained outside the range of social experience. She conflates the internal with the external, the personal with the universal; she treats autobiographical facts as cultural evidence. She is constantly "perceiving the larger point . . . making that inductive leap from the personal to the political" (WA, 114). She quotes her psychological test results in their entirety, for example, but instead of proceeding to comment on the nature and origin of her vertigo and nausea, she remarks only that "an attack of vertigo and nausea does not now seem to me an inappropriate response to the summer of 1968" (WA, 15). Later on, when writing about a later, more accurate medical diagnosis, she comments that her "body was offering a precise physiological equivalent to what had been going on in [her] mind" (WA, 47). Taken together, we see how deftly Didion sidesteps the personal and the physical, how quickly she links somatic issues with cultural ones. Didion's body is a representation of her mind which is a representation of society. Didion uses her body as a piece of textual evidence -- evidence of the mood of the times.
Just as Didion projects herself onto the era, she projects herself onto the people -- particularly cultural icons -- that define the era. For her, identity is collective. Theorizing the construction of the self in women's autobiography, Georges Gusdorf writes, "The individual does not feel herself to exist outside of interdependent existence that asserts its rhythms everywhere in the community . . . [where] lives are so thoroughly entangled that each of them has its center everywhere and its circumference nowhere. The important unit is thus never the isolated being" (Lovesey, 40). Didion's personal writing portrays this logic of "entangledness"; Didion can appear to be, "always at the center," her "circumference nowhere," because she is perpetually projecting part of herself onto whomever and whatever she observes. For example, in her essays on John Wayne and Howard Hughes, Didion moves from celebrating Hughes' and Wayne's embodiment of the American dream of individualism to comparing the men to her husband. Didion first writes that Wayne and Hughes personify a space "where a man could move free, could make his own code and live by it" (STB, 31). Later she remarks that Wayne's face is "in certain ways more familiar than my husband's" and Hughes' appeal suggests the "bottomless gulf . . . between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love" (STB, 31,72).
Whereas in her essays on Wayne and Hughes Didion moves from the personal to the universal, in "Notes from a Native Daughter" Didion takes us through the reverse process -- she describes herself and then immediately universalizes the description. At one point she claims that her family "has always been in the Sacramento Valley" but then immediately expands the simple statement by turning it into a generalizing assertion about the California mentality: "It is characteristic of Californians to speak grandly of the past as if it had simultaneously begun, tabula rasa, and reached a happy ending on the day the wagons started west" (STB, 172). Here, life details give way to cultural analysis. Didion's home -- perhaps the most personal of topics -- becomes an historical event; how she describes her home becomes a commentary on the way Californians speak. This exercise in collective identity is compounded later in the essay when Didion reflects that "much of anyone's memory is no true memory at all but only the traces of someone else's memory" (STB, 177). She concludes by pondering whether the essay has actually been about the loss of Sacramento, or the loss of her identity -- whether she has been grieving less over Goldengrove than her own disillusionment.
Didion relentlessly translates the events of her life into koans of the times, parables of the period. Things never get too personal because she is constantly making herself public, turning her activities into cultural metaphors. Didion offers us a personal anecdote and then immediately, without missing a beat, zooms out, tells us what that anecdote means, what she is actually doing, who she actually represents. In The White Album, a check-out procedure becomes a "koan of the period" (46); a hanging "house blessing" at her mother-in-law's house "suggests the mood of those years" (18); Didion's own "mystical flirtation with the idea of "sin" (41) is an indicator of the climate in Los Angeles in 1968 to 1969. Even her failure to pack a watch -- the fact that she packed legal pads, pens, files and a house key but "didn't know what time it was" -- is interpreted as a sign of the times, "a parable . . . of the period itself" (36). The self, for Didion, resides in its function as metaphor. Didion is embraced as one of America's finest personal essayists and yet, when it comes down to it, her autobiography is less about her self, than the precarious construction of that self within community. In the New York Observer, Susan Faludi claimed that Didion taught a generation of writers how to make journalism "a personal expression." Martin Amis characterized her style as "self-revealing" in an essay in which he went on to call her "a human being who managed to gauge another book out of herself rather than a writer who gets her living done on the side" (Roiphe). And yet, upon close examination, Didion's seemingly personal confessions reveal more about her narrative style than her narrative subject. Didion's life is rarely the focus of her writing. Her "I" is always vaporous, less about her self than the culture in which it resides.
Belenky, Mary. Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
Carton, Evan. "Joan Didion's Dreampolitics of the Self." Western Humanities Review. 40.4 (Winter 1986): 307-328.
Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
Didion, Joan. The White Album. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
Didion, Joan. "Why I Write." The New York Times Magazine 5 December 1976: 50.
Mair, Nancy. Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.
Roiphe, Katie. "Joan Didion: The Journalist who Invented Impersonal Personality." Slate. September 2003. December 1, 2003.
Woolf, Virginia. "Professions for Women." The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. London: Hogarth Press, 1942.
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The college or university you have chosen to attend will be your home for approximately the next four years. The decisions you make over that time will affect your entire future for years afterward. Here more than ever it is important to get off to the right start. Here are a few things you can do to make sure you get off to the right start in college.
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There is no substitute for preparation. Do some college reading or take a few preparatory college courses before you start college, so you will have some idea what to expect. Have an idea how you are going to structure your time. Once you know what your classes are and what they will demand of you, try to schedule how many hours per day you will need for school work and try to stick to that schedule. If you have a good idea what your major will be, in doesn't hurt to map out a long term class schedule in advance. Figure out what courses you will have to take and when in order to meet all of your requirements before you go in for your first scheduling session. These decisions are not etched in stone, but they could save you a lot of heartache later.
Keep An Open Mind
You are going to encounter a lot of new ideas and attitudes in college. Some may be foreign to you, some you may find confusing, some you may even find offensive. You will do yourself a favor if you approach the college situation with an open mind. Keep in mind that people from different backgrounds and with different experiences will form different opinions from yours, and that is okay. You don't have to agree with everything you see or hear, but you should respect the diversity of culture and opinion that you encounter.
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When you arrive at college, you are going to be flooded with new experiences. You will essentially have a new home and a new hometown. You will meet all sorts of new people, many very different from what you are used to. The style of academics may be vastly different from what you encountered in high school. This may all be very scary at first. Remain calm. Almost all of your fellow students are undergoing the same anxieties. They, like you, will get over it. You will surprise yourself at how quickly you adapt to your situation. Give yourself a chance.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are very sincere about their beliefs and well versed in
them. When they come to your door, invite them in. Be cordial and patient.
Remember Peter's instruction "but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts,
always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an
account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and
reverence" (1 Peter 3:15). Unfortunately, most of the Christians JW's
encounter are unprepared and become extremely defensive and unpleasant with
them. This just encourages the JW's to believe they are on the correct path.
Why would they change unless someone soundly shows them their error? That
someone may be you. Dare to be different by having a response, which
is both biblically sound and loving.
It is easy to become upset with someone who disagrees with you on so important
a subject. A few years ago, I blew it with a JW who knocked on my door. She was
going around the neighborhood with her teenage daughter and I invited them in.
We discussed the deity of Christ. It turned into a heated discussion and I
eventually asked her to leave. Although she initially became quite unpleasant
when I let her know that I disagreed with her on the issue, my attitude was bad
to begin with. I was more excited about "winning an argument" than
compassionately sharing the truth and patiently attempting to reveal Watchtower
error. I thank my wife, Debbie, who pointed out my attitude problem to me. Do
we listen with an open mind when someone angrily or arrogantly tells us that we
are wrong? We shut off our minds to whatever that person tells us. JW's are
people too. If your attitude is bad, they will shut off their minds as well.
You will get nowhere and mistakenly blame their unreceptiveness on their
disinterest in truth. Remember that it is the Watchtower that has led its
followers down the wrong path. Lead them to the right path. These are sincere
and committed people, just the kind you want in your church!
When you begin talking with them, limit your conversation to the question, "Who
is Jesus?" This is the most important difference between their beliefs and
historical Christianity. You may say something like this, "I admire you for
being so diligent about your beliefs. However, we disagree on a major point,
the deity of Christ, and I would like to discuss this with you." They will
agree without hesitation.
Tell them you would like to hear their reasons for believing Jesus is a
creation of God; then you would like their responses to your reasons for
believing He is God. Then dialogue with them. When everything has been said and
done, you can tell them that they have not provided any good reasons for
believing Jesus was created and that you have provided five reasons why He is
God, one which even exposes some inconsistencies in their own translation of
the Bible.
Watch out for detours. JW's may try to answer arguments for the deity that you
never raised. This can create an illusion that you stand corrected on the deity
issue. For example, once I was having a discussion with the JW's who had come
to my home. I asked them for Scriptures which in their opinion indicated that
Jesus was created. They cited Colossians 1:15. I showed them that the word
"firstborn" could not possibly mean "first created" in this passage. They
responded that earlier in the same verse it says that Jesus is "the image of
God," and since the Bible also says that we have been created in God's image I
could not interpret the statement that Jesus is "the image of God" to indicate
that he is God. I could have said, "Hmm. You're right." A series of those and I
may end up attending their Bible study group because they answered all of my
questions. However, it was not my questions that they answered, but theirs! I
actually responded, "I did not say that the verse calls Jesus, God, only that
it does not say that he was created as you initially indicated."
When they perceive the conversation is not going their way, they may try to
detour you into other issues such as the earthly kingdom of Christ. Insist that
you stay on the issue of who Jesus is, because its importance is far greater
than whether eternity is spent in heaven or on a heavenly earth ruled by
Christ. Belief in these other issues will not determine where one spends
eternity. Where one stands on who Jesus is, however, may.57
Your efforts can prove to be fruitful. You may be surprised at how God may
work. Several years ago while visiting my wife's family in Nebraska, I was
asked by one of her aunts to talk with her daughter who was a JW. I agreed and
scheduled a time to go over to her home. My wife and I had a cordial
conversation with her and her husband. We left and did not hear anything else.
Four years later when my wife went out to visit her family she talked with her
aunt who told her that her daughter had left the JW's as a result of our
conversation four years prior and both she and her husband are now committed
Christians who are active in their Baptist Church.
Another time two JW's came to my home on a Saturday morning. I usually invite
them in. But this particular time I couldn't because my son was just getting
over a stomach virus he had endured the day before. I explained he was fine now
but didn't want to possibly expose them to getting the virus. I suggested we
drive up to the Hardee's a few blocks away and talk there over a cup of coffee.
They agreed.
We sat down at a table and began to talk. I told them that I admired them for
zealously proclaiming their beliefs to anyone who would listen and that I
wished more people at my church were like that. They were appreciative of the
comment. I then said, "I find that we disagree on several issues, particularly
one which is very important to both of us, the deity of Christ. You believe God
created Jesus. I believe that He is God. So I would like to discuss this issue
with you." They agreed. I continued, "Now I must admit, I don't know all the
answers and I suppose I am wrong on some things. Certainly no one is 100
percent correct. We do our best. So why not show me why you believe Jesus was
created and I'll respond to that. Then I'll show you why I believe Jesus is God
and I'd like to hear your responses." Nothing opens a cordial dialogue better
than admitting you could be wrong. This will encourage open-mindedness on their
part as well. This is far different from the grumpy response of many Christians
who gruffly say, "I am not interested!" and then slam the door on them.
Remember Peter's admonition to defend the faith "with gentleness and
reverence." Another great reference which was cited earlier is 2 Timothy
"The Lord's bond servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able
to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in
opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge
of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of
the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will."
Our conversation went well. I listened with great interest and patience as
they presented their case. Their Bible texts were virtually a mirror reflection
of those presented in Chapter 8. One by one, as I answered their arguments,
they would simply go on to their next text, "Well, what about this one?" Our
discussion continued to be cordial. I began my case for the deity of Christ.
They had no answers at all to a few of the texts. The others elicited the
anticipated responses discussed in the previous chapter. I answered them as
The remarkable thing about this conversation was that about thirty minutes into
it a stranger walked up to us, politely apologized for interrupting and said,
"I've been overhearing your conversation. Would you mind if I sat in and
listened?" We invited him to join us. He listened attentively for a good 45
minutes, injecting a comment here and there. Approximately 15 minutes after he
had joined us, I noticed two others trying their best to listen in without
appearing obvious. One was an employee on break. When he saw that I noticed
them listening, he looked somewhat embarrassed and said, "Can we listen too?"
We now had three strangers listening. After about another 15 minutes, the
employee stood up and said, "My break is over. Thanks for allowing me to sit
in. I learned a lot!" Then he looked right at me and asked, "Would you pray for
me?" I said I'd be happy to. Then he walked away. Shortly after, our first
stranger thanked us and left.
The JW's and I continued to talk a little longer. In summing up, I said, "We've
talked a while (3 hours and 15 minutes!) and here's how I see our conversation.
You haven't provided a single good reason from Scripture why I should believe
Jesus was created. On the other hand, I have provided several texts that
strongly indicate Jesus is God. You have been unable to provide a
plausible alternate explanation for these texts.
"I appreciate your zeal and recognize your sincerity about your beliefs. I hope
you appreciate mine as well. It's unfortunate that one of us is wrong. The
apostle Paul and Nicodemus were very sincere about their Jewish beliefs. When
they were faced with the truth, however, they inquired further and changed,
even though it cost them their fortunes, their status, and in Paul's case, his
life. The deity issue is worth an independent investigation on your part, isn't
it?" They nodded in agreement. "I encourage you to consult scholarly works
outside of the Watchtower. Think through this on your own. If you come to see
the Scriptures teach that Jesus is part of the Godhead, it will cost you as
well because your Kingdom Hall will not tolerate it. I pray you will have the
courage of Paul and Nicodemus and make that change."
Your knowledge may overwhelm some JW's, because some of the information you now
have is technical. I once had a JW tell me that there was no way for her to get
into the languages as I could, so she could never know if what I said was
correct. She also said that God is not the author of confusion and that we
should be able to read our English translations and understand his Word. These
are valid points. Maybe some readers are feeling as she did. So let's spend a
moment with each of her points.
1."I don't know the languages, so I can't know what's
You may not desire to invest the time to learn Greek and Hebrew. However, you
do have the same sources available to you for word studies that scholars use.
Although your local library probably will not carry these books on their
shelves, you can obtain them by using inter-library loan. Your local library
will borrow the book(s) from another library. You may have to pay a small fee
for the service (usually less than $10). If there is a seminary or Bible
college nearby, you will probably be able to locate them there. Your local
bookstore will also be happy to sell them to you. (They are a worthwhile
investment if you enjoy in-depth Bible study.) For New Testament Greek words, a
few good sources are Gerhard Kittel's Theological Dictionary of the New
Testament (10 volumes). This is the most exhaustive source available.
Colin Brown's The New International Dictionary of New Testament
Theology (4 volumes), is also a great source and is much more friendly to
the non-Greek reader. The fourth volume is an index which keys the Greek words
to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible (a book most Bible
students have). Bauer, Arndt, Gingrich's A Greek-English Lexicon Of The New
Testament and Other Early Christian Literature is a good source, but not
at all friendly to the non-Greek reader. If you want to see how a Greek word is
used throughout the New Testament, Wigram and Winter have a Word
Study Concordance. They will list the Greek word and then every verse
where it appears. For Old Testament Hebrew words, a great source is
Willem VanGemeren's New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology
& Exegesis (5 volumes). Like its New Testament sister, the
fifth volume is an index which keys the Hebrew words to Strong's in order to
make it easy for the non-Hebrew reader to find. Harris, Archer, Waltke have
produced the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (2 volumes). This is an
excellent source and is friendly to the non-Hebrew reader since it is likewise
keyed to Strong's.
Finally, when you study the Bible in-depth, a simple system will be of great
1. Study the word. First look
up the definition in one of the references listed above to see how it is used
throughout the ancient world.
2. Study the verse. Now that you know the meaning(s) of the word, what
is the verse saying?
3. Study the chapter. Now that you have a good idea of what the verse
is saying, how does it fit in the overall chapter or context? Sometimes a verse
may have a few different possible meanings. Many times the context will allow
you to determine its correct meaning.
4. Study the Bible. As we saw in Revelation 3:14, sometimes the
chapter does not tell you what the author is saying about a particular verse or
word. In times like this, look to see if the same author touches on the subject
in other parts of his writings. For example, the author of Revelation, John,
has much to say about the deity of Christ (see John. 1:1; 20:28; 1 John 5:20;
Revelation 22:6, 16; Alpha and Omega, First and Last, Beginning and End
passages). John's writings indicate he believed Jesus was God. In light of
these teachings, an interpretation of Rev. 3:14 saying God created Jesus is
2."God is not the author of confusion. We should be
able to read our English Bible and understand it."
I agree. God is not the author of confusion, man and Satan are. What do you do
when confusion exists between opposing views? You can retreat by saying, "My
pastor (church leaders, denomination) believes it, so it must be true." This is
fine if your pastor is right. But what if he isn't?
It may be helpful to bring them back to your least technical points such as
Watchtower misinterpretations of certain verses outlined in Chapter 8. For
example, ask them: "What do you think of the Watchtower's interpretation of
Proverbs 8:22 now?" Many times they will say, "I'm not sure." Take them through
the context, chapter, and book again. Then ask, "Given Solomon's purpose in
writing Proverbs, his style of writing, and what he is saying in Chapters 7-9,
what do you personally think he means by wisdom and why?" Make them think. Put
yourself in their place. What would you be thinking if someone showed you
something that seriously challenged your beliefs? Invite them to go home and
look at the issue with an open mind and come back next week to discuss it
Finally, remember that your only responsibility is to plant the seed. It is the
Holy Spirit who works the change (see 1 Corinthians 3:6-7). The purpose of your
discussions with the JW should be to reveal the truth with love, patience, and
compassion. That is the role, which God has given every Christian (see 2
Timothy 2:24-26; 1 Peter 3:15-16). The person who does not care about the truth
will not change. The person who does care about it will think about what you
have to say and engage in further study. But ultimately it is the Holy Spirit
who brings a person to the truth.
We have come to the end of our study on how to answer Mormons and Jehovah's
Witnesses. If you are a Mormon or Jehovah's Witness, I pray you will
prayerfully consider what has been discussed. Run the information by the
leaders of your Ward or Kingdom Hall. Get their response and think through it.
Ask yourself, "Did they really answer my questions?" It is your own
soul and no one else's. Do not let someone else's error cost them their soul
and yours. Eternity is a long time to feel regret. Have the courage of Paul and
Nicodemus. Remember, you never have to be afraid of the truth.
If you are not a Jehovah's Witness, I hope this book has been helpful.
Master the information, make sure your attitude is pure, and go for it. I am
proud of you for choosing this book and I wish you God's best!
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|Wednesday, 08 February 2012 13:48
On Saturday, February 18 from 1:00 - 4:00 P.M. Scott County Park (Whispering Pines Shelter) will be hosting a "Get Outdoors" Day. Come join Wapsi River Center naturalists to explore and enjoy a few healthy, winter recreational activities like cross-country skiing, snowshoeing (please bring winter boots), hiking and sledding (please bring your own). Equipment will provided throughout the day on a rotating basis. We will have the shelter to warm up, plus hot drinks will be provided – BYOM (bring your own mug). Participants are welcome to bring a "picnic" lunch as well to enjoy by the fire! This event is weather dependent; if conditions are not favorable the event will be cancelled. Please call (563) 328-3286 to register.The south entrance to Scott County Park (18850 270th Street ~ Eldridge) is located off old Highway 61 just north of Parkview. The whispering pine shelter can be found by taking two, consecutive right-hand turns upon entering the park (from the south).
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Khat or Catha Edulis originated in Ethiopia and afterward spread to Uganda, Kenya, Congo, Arabia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. In Yemen, Khat was used way ahead of coffee was in use.
History of Khat
Sir Richard Burton once recommended that Qat was beforehand introduced to Yemen from Ethiopia while the 15th century. For the ancient Egyptians, Khat was a "divine food" which had the capability of releasing divine humanity. The native accepted description of Khat dates back to an 11th century book on pharmacy titled Kitab al-Saidana fi al-Tibb,.
In 1854, a writer from Malay, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir mentioned the tradition of Khat chewing prevalent in Al Hudaydah in Yemen.
What is khat?
Khat contains the alkaloid Cathine (d-norisoephedrine), Cathinine along with Cathidine. Khat is also rich in ascorbic acid, which is a very good antidote to amphetamine-type compounds. In animals too, Khat produces some excitement and increases motor activity. In human, it produces a feeling of liberation, exaltation and laughing.
How does it feel?
In the in the beginning 60′s it was made public that about 80% of the society of Yemen takes Khat. On first chewing, the initial reaction is not so pleasant with lassitude, epigastric pain, dizziness and tachycardia. Be that as it may, suddenly a good and pleasant feeling replaces these initial feelings and becomes more euphoric and immense feeling of excitement. At intervals, Khat is also said to produce the feeling of sleepiness, depression and finally deep sleep. In very rare cases, subjects become aggressive.
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Abercrombie & Fitch Might Pay for CEO Jeffries' Sins
TheStreet) -- In 2013, Mike Jeffries of Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF - Get Report) is the CEO people most love to hate. Jeffries, who was born in 1944, is the very picture of Dorian Gray. (Read Oscar Wilde's novel free at Project Gutenberg.) From a distance he looks like he was born in 1984. Blogger Uglyboyfresh calls him a cross between Joan Rivers and Gary Busey.Jeffries built Abercrombie & Fitch from nothing, after The Limited (now known as L Brands (L Brands)) bought it out of bankruptcy in 1988. He saw it as a high-fashion store for the young, suburban and beautiful. It was spun out of The Limited in 1996 to trade on its own and has been paying dividends since 2004. If you'd invested $100 in the company's shares in 1996, you'd now have about $450. Before the Great Recession, this was an $80 stock, and it nearly returned to those heights again in 2011. Mike Jeffries is a proud man, a vain man, and wants others to see him as a great man. So in 2006 he opened up to Salon, surrounded by young, attractive acolytes, and admitted "We go after the cool kids," adding that his brand is "exclusionary." The interview waited until this year to explode over the Internet, until after Swedish rival H&M began featuring a plus-sized model, an online petition gained support of the masses and celebrities voiced their disdain. Suddenly the beautiful people, who all want to look like A&F but don't want anyone to know they disdain their less-attractive friends, rose up in anger. Reportedly Ellen DeGeneres condemned the chain on her TV show. Miley Cyrus said she was going to burn her A&F wardrobe. Videographer Greg Karber dressed homeless people in A&F gear as a protest. Jeffries did what you'd expect. He apologized. He had his executives deliver that apology to protesters in person, and ABC did the story for its "Good Morning America" show. Worse, the controversy started hitting Abercrombie & Fitch's top line. Sales during the spring quarter, ending in May, were down almost 10% from the same period a year ago. The stock fell from $56 in late May to $43.50 in late June.NEW YORK (
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March Break Camp at the Ontario Science Centre
Spend March Break at the Ontario Science Centre's day camp: Science of the High Seas. The pirate-themed day camp allows children aged 5 to 12 to uncover the science secrets in the life of a pirate. With a different theme each day, activities include exploring, navigating, map making, as well as learning about water physics, the opportunity to design their very own ship, a Dessert Island Survival Challenge and more.
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Yantra: The Sacred Ink from Cedric Arnold on Vimeo.
Two weeks ago, I put up this post on Cedric Arnold's "Yantra: The Sacred Ink,"
which is, as I previously wrote, an exceptionally beautiful series of portraits and documentary
photography -- a product of four and a half years of travel throughout
Thailand to fully explore Yantra, or Sak Yant. Yantra are sacred marks performed
by monks in Thailand in which the wearers believe that the tattoos are
imbued with magic, offering protection and even bestowing certain
Showing the tattooing process and ceremonies attached to the tradition, Cedric Arnold recently posted this 4:34 minute documentary short (embedded above), which uses footage shot between 2008 and 2014, and includes incredibly powerful scenes of "Khong Khuen," states of trance that tattooed devotees enter when "possessed" by the spirit of their tattoos, as Arnold writes.
The full version of the film will be released online at a later date, and is currently being screened at the "Tatoueurs, tatoues" exhibit at the Museum du quai Branly in Paris until Oct 2015.
For more info, visit "Yantra: The Sacred Ink."
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Yantra tattooing
Yesterday, a number of news agencies, including the Global Post, reported that Thailand's Ministry of Culture is considering a ban on tattooing sacred Buddhist and Hindu symbols on foreign tourists. The National News Bureau of Thailand offered this explanation:
Citing a survey in Phuket Island, Culture Minister Nipit Intarasombat admitted that a number of foreigners coming to Thailand are interested in having their skin tattooed with Buddha images or Hindu god Ganesh in several parts of their bodies such as arms, legs, ankles or chests.
The Minister has asked provincial governors across Thailand, especially in popular tourist areas, for their cooperation in cracking down on religious tattoos on foreigners. As noted in the Phuket Gazette, this won't be an easy task. Tattoos on tourists is big business with some costing over upwards of 20,000 baht (over $650).
There's also the issue that many of the tourists could indeed be Buddhist or Hindu themselves. I personally know many who have traveled to Thailand specifically for a sacred Yantra (or Sak Yant) tattooing. One such person is Father Panik who offered a guest blog on his experience seeking Sak Yant last year. He also shared a few photos like the ones shown here.
For more on Yantra, check this site, which has extensive links and photos.


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Colorado Springs leaders are working out a plan to salvage as many fish as possible, before Prospect Lake is empty.
Prospect Lake was built on sand and now cracks in the bottom are causing it to leak. Already, it's lost about 55% of it's water. Complicating the plight of the fish further, the lake must be completely emptied in order to be repaired.
The fish must be moved before the water level gets too low. City leaders hope to have a definite plan in the works by next week. The good news, they say, is once the lake is fixed, it should be full for another 100 years.
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Read the washingtontimes.com article here
Once again, President Obama has chosen to favor special interests above those of taxpaying American citizens. This past Thursday, August 18th, the Obama administration circumvented the will of the US Congress by changing the rules for deportation of illegal aliens apprehended by law enforcement. Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, wrote letters to Democratic members of Congress explaining the new rules, which detail what priority the deportation of an illegal alien would occur. These new rules mirror almost exactly the "Dream Act" defeated by both houses of congress just last year. Some could argue that "undocumented workers" that don't have violent criminal records aren't harming anyone and that they deserve an opportunity to stay, pay taxes, and work the jobs that American citizens don't want. I argue that any job held by an illegal aliens rightfully belongs to an American citizen. I argue that any illegal alien is already breaking the law by just standing on US soil without a lawfully obtained green card. With the US unemployment rate at 9.1% nationally, this president has chosen to buy votes from radical leftist groups such as La Raza by circumventing Congress and altering the deportation rules. This is not the first time he has chosen to ignore the will of another branch of government. It wasn't too long ago that after his moratorium on oil exploration in the Gulf was defeated by two appellate judges, oil companies had to contend with updated oil exploration regulations instituted by Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein. Under the new regulations, energy companies found it much more difficult and time consuming to apply for and obtain oil exploration and production permits. Let's also not forget Obama's decision to attack a sovereign nation that was, and remains, NO IMMEDIATE THREAT to the US national security without the authorization of congress. President Obama only begrudgingly explained to congress after the deadline, that we're not at war with Libya, we're just protecting the safety of rebels who are getting hammered by Qaddafi's forces. Since all we did was launch missiles into Libya in coordination with NATO (which is funded and supplied primarily by your tax dollars), this is not really a war that we started. Now we're footing the bill for a massive campaign to dethrone a dictator that had no immediate ill will towards the US. I only wonder who or what will replace Qaddafi once he's gone, since there are reports that Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood have been supporting the Libyan rebels since day one, and so are we.
This president has no respect for the rule of law or the will of congress. That much is plain. There is now word from several of his top advisors that the much awaited jobs speech he will deliver upon returning from vacation with his family, will include mention of a large stimulus package, possibly bigger than the last two that failed miserably. I'm thinking that the president is going to want to spend every penny of whatever is left over from the $2.7 trillion check that Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader McConnell handed him just a few weeks ago. Why not? It's not his money. It's yours. And your children's, and grandchildren's.
So, what to do about this Dysfunctional Jersey Shore housewife, drunkenly spending all our tax dollars, and all the rest of those Whores in congress deciding our fates? Read the header. That's my solution.
BTW, A lot of commentators are all up in arms about Obama going to Martha's Vinyard for vacation. Like it's any big thing. I don't have a problem with his vacations or where he wants to go. In fact, the longer he stays away, the better. Joe Biden liked to say that with the Republicans in charge, we were like a car that was stuck in neutral. I'd rather be in neutral than speeding towards a cliff.


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Beckford, on loan from Leicester, has been sidelined for two months with a hamstring injury and has yet to make his first appearance for Jamaica with whom he qualifies through family connections.
Robinson, who spent 18 months at Huddersfield before joining Derby in May 2011, returned to Town on loan last month and has made four appearances in his second spell with the Terriers.
He made his only appearance for Jamaica last month when replacing Sheffield Wednesday winger Jermaine Johnson as a substitute in a goalless draw in Mexico.
Jamaica are scheduled to play Panama on March 22 in Kingston before travelling to play Costa Rica at the Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica four days later.
Beckford has missed Huddersfield's last 10 games after suffering a recurrence of a hamstring injury during the 1-0 home win over Crystal Palace in January.
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When RJ was first born, I can honestly say that I was a pretty prepared mama. I had his clothes washed and put away long before we went to the hospital, knew exactly how to prepare his bottles and was totally stocked up on diapers and wipes for the little guy. I even had all of his teeny tiny crib shoes neatly displayed on a shelf in his closet! But there was one sticky situation that I wasn't prepared for: changing my baby boy's diaper. Sure, I've changed tons of diapers before. But nothing can really prepare you for the fact that newborn boys will literally pee on you while their diapers are being changed!
It only took a couple of diaper changes that ended with me needing to change my shirt until I figured out a super easy remedy for this: I started keeping baby washcloths in my changing table to cover him up with as soon as that first diaper came off! And it didn't hurt that I became a lightening fast pro at diaper changes, either. I even started using this trick when he's in the bath, since that's another time when he's prone to go potty on mama!
Looking back on this now, all I can do is laugh. Even in the moment all I could do was laugh!
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Term Squaring Off?
I've seen the term "squaring off" used several times here when talking about pregnant platties. What exactly does this mean and how can I tell when the platy has "squared off"? Do they look square from the front or back. The pregnant platy I have look more round to me. :)
Cows square off as well, If that helps. Basically, they reach capacity and there is a notable dip upwards at the aft end of their belly as viewed from the side. Additionally as viewed from on top their belly appears to flare out on both sides then return abruptly, as opposed to the swollen look.
It's good to know the difference between swollen and pregnant appearance. One might be sick and the other pregnant.
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In just a few short days the kids will be heading back to school, and parents everywhere will be breathing a collective sigh of relief. Summer vacation can be tough on us moms and dads! Sure, it was great not having to get up at the brink of dawn these past few months. And, I've especially enjoyed not having to fight those homework wars. But I have to admit that I'm really looking forward to getting back into my own groove again.
This school year is going to be a bittersweet one for me. In less than a week, Mini SGCC will be beginning her senior year in high school. I can hardly believe it! It seems like only yesterday I was telling you that she was just starting high school. There have a lot of changes and challenges in our family these past three years, not the least of which has been my beautiful child's journey to become the extraordinary young woman she was meant to be. It's exciting and scary at the same time. read more >>
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The 3D map of the sky allows scientists to probe the time six billion years ago when dark energy became the dominant influence on the Universe's expansion.
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On Nationalism And Extremism In A Nobel-Peace-Prize-Winning Europe
The need to convince any and all that will listen (and one's own self) that the Euro project must be preserved at all costs has never been so obviously politicized as the Nobel crony committee 'blessing' the European Union for bringing peace to a continent at war. While a laudable thing of itself, as JPMorgan's Michael Cembalest notes, by 1954, Germany had already become a stable, liberal, democratic society in one of the most amazing transformations in history given what preceded it ten years earlier.
Europe's Nobel Peace Prize comes at a challenging time for the region
One can argue whether the Marshall Plan, in avoiding the reparations policies following WWI, paved the way for this or not. In any case, it seems indisputable that conditions for a lasting peace in Europe were already in place by 1954, a point of view explained by Stanford's James Sheehan in "Where have all the soldiers gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe". The notion that the Euro is needed to cement these gains appears to be more about the ambition of specific political movements in Europe/Brussels than anything else. [The irony of the Nobel Peace Prize for Europe is that as shown below, it comes at a time of rising social stress, extremist politics, and a deterioration of trust in the very union that is supposed to be providing the social cement.]
Nevertheless, Europe soldiers on with its project, out of the belief that a single-currency monetary union must exist in order to reap the benefits of a common European consciousness. The irony of the Nobel Peace Prize for Europe is that as shown below, it comes at a time of rising social stress. There are of course those who believe that the Euro itself has contributed to these developments: it distorted the regional current accounts and encouraged consumption not funded by national income in the South, exaggerated the severity of the recession, and then prevented currency adjustments which mitigated Southern European recessions in the past.
Source: JPMorgan, full Cembalest report pdf
A further question is whether now that the Norwegian Peace Prize committee has given its full endorsement to the EU project, does that mean that Norway itself will joyously partake in the "unionized" festivities as well? or will it remain on the outside, looking in, and providing the occasional hypocritical statement about how great things in the EU really are, even as it itself knows much better.
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European citizenism, bitchez!
The Nobel peace prize committee has made itself a laughing stock twice now. Nice work on giving Obama the prize shortly before he invaded Libya as a courtesy to the bankers and immediately established a puppet central bank.
Next year I imagine the prize will go to China.
European citizenism, bitchez!
'Americanism'. Or US citizenism. Time to render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.
'Americans' residing in Europe are following the 'american' playbook.
'Americans' residing in Europe are following the 'american' playbook.
Americans and Europeans residing in Europe have to watch their step when walking along the roadsides, because AnAnonymousitizens in the process of blobbing up have immigrated to Europe and are following the Chinese citizenism Mow See Dung playbook of small redness.
Doesn't the NPP winner get a million dollars?... Maybe it was just the committee's way of doing what it can toss the EU a bailout...
Another European Miracle of Self Contained Structured Financing transferring money from one pocket to another.
It's become a formalized self congratulatory self aggrandizement for of and by the Official Politically Correct Leftist Statist Elite
Now watch them Eurotrash argue about who gets to go pick the fucking thing up.
Booyah Motherfuckers
Socialism Forward.
I am disgusted
There is an article saying it is against the Will of the founder I agree with your most astute observation
A Nobel Prize for Idiots, Signifying Only Bias
The EU is not a "Person": Granting the Nobel Prize to the European Union is in Violation of Alfred Nobel's Will
Maybe next year the nobel committee will award the peace prize to themselves, for having fostered so much peace over the decades.
I mean WTF IS NEXT?!?! The Federal Reserve wins the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Tim Geithner to receive Congressional Medal of Honor for integrity in public service.
Rummy Rumsfeld to receive the Found 2.3 Trillion Dollar Unreturned Award
I vote for Eric Holder...he's certainly delivered peace of mind for the banksters!
They're competing with Japan for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Ron Paul should have got this, IMO. The only Congressman who didn't/doesn't want to blow the shit out of the middle east and the only one to recognize that Congress has never given the declaration or authority to do so. Because there is no rule of law anymore,where power is increasingly being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the Nobel Prize for Peace is more like the dumb kid in class who gets the ribbon, even though everybody knows it is a token gesture - but that really nobody understands. The awarding of the prize to the EU all but cements the resolution, IMO that the prize really doesn't mean shit anymore, and this probably shouldn't come as a surprize, as I think there is the possibility that perhaps it never did. peace ZH ers RP 2012.
United States of Europe, bitchez.
rubbish propaganda, bitchez
Nigel Farage: "...arguably, projects that take nation states, force them together under a new identity, a new flag and a new anthem, if they do it without the consent of the people, far from creating peace, this can actually create war, as Yugoslavia has showed us. So..."
so last time I was in London I missed all the european union flags and Britons forced to sing "Ode to Joy"?
May I remember Mr. Fellow of the City of London the Right Honorable Member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage, leader of the UKIP that he is given a voice and space for a party in the freely elected European Parliament that his country, the UK, does not give him or his party because his nation has no multi-party elections? Which is incidentally the reason why there are nationalist and "extremist" parties at all in non-British Europe's Parliaments? That's his Nation's Government that does not allow an UK referendum since the 70's on staying or leaving the European Union?
And who the fuck wants to abolish individual nations? Gollum? Is this the way that is being voted in the Council, of which he is just a glorified secretary without a vote? Hardly. Did "we" go further and adopt an EU constitution? No. The French and the Dutch said no. The last treaty strenghtened the Council, remember? That's the confederate way of having "one nation, one vote" (balanced three ways) through their governments. And what the governments vote on in the Council has to be approved or rejected by that very democratically elected European Parliament of which you are a member of. Your contempt versus democratic institutions is just boundless.
All beating around the bush. Both the article and MEP Farage talk about the 27-nations treaty-based trade & legal confederation called EU (that just got that idiotic award from Norway) but their target is a near completely different alliance of nations: the ECB and it's 17-members forming the eurozone - a glorified currency grid or alliance of mostly state-owned National Banks - to which the UK does not belong and vetoed any "mingling" of facilities.
Nigel, you are a shill barking up the wrong tree and you know it. A cheap shill in the pockets of the hyperhypotecating City of London banksters.
btw, your freely elected collegues in the European Parliament did not fine you for calling Gollum (aka Van Rompoy, former PM of Belgium) names, they fined you for contempt of the sovereign nation of Belgium. Calling it a "non-nation", the ultimate disrespect typical of a British Imperialist mindset that is common in that fringe that are your voters. I would have respect for you if your attempts in getting the UK out of the EU were serious, but they simply aren't... Your master's enemy is not the EU, it's the EUR. Your masters tremble at the thought of an EU restricting their practices in the City. They wake up in the night screaming: "Tobin Tax!" and "rehypotecation limitations!". Pathetic. Go an cry on Ms. Blythe's shoulder, Nigel.
The reasons that Europe has enjoyed a couple of generations of peace are NATO and the Pax Americana. BTW, Europe also had a similar period without any continent-wide wars from 1815-1914 without an EU.
courtesy, Wikipedia
- 1803 Irish Rebellion of 1803
- 1803 Souliote War
- 1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising
- 1804–1813 Russo–Persian War
- 1809 Polish-Austrian War
- 1815–1817 Second Serbian Uprising
- 1817–1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
- 1821–1832 Greek War of Independence
- 1821 Wallachian uprising of 1821
- 1823 French invasion of Spain
- 1826–1828 Russo–Persian War
- 1827 War of the Malcontents
- 1828–1829 Russo-Turkish War
- 1828–1834 Liberal Wars
- 1830 Ten Days Campaign (following the Belgian Revolt)
- 1830–1831 November Uprising
- 1831 Canut revolts
- 1831–1832 Great Bosnian uprising
- 1831–1836 Tithe War
- 1832 War in the Vendée and Chouannerie of 1832
- 1832 June Rebellion
- 1833–1839 First Carlist War
- 1833–1839 Albanian Revolts of 1833–1839
- 1843–1844 Albanian Revolt of 1843–1844
- 1846 Galician slaughter
- 1846–1849 Second Carlist War
- 1847 Albanian Revolt of 1847
- 1847 Sonderbund War
- 1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
- 1848–1851 First Schleswig War
- 1848–1866 Wars of Italian Independence
- 1854 Epirus Revolt of 1854
- 1854–1856 Crimean War
- 1858 Mahtra War
- 1863–1864 January Uprising
- 1864 Second Schleswig War
- 1866 Austro-Prussian War
- 1866–1869 Cretan Revolt
- 1867 Fenian Rising
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
- 1872–1876 Third Carlist War
- 1873–1874 Cantonal Revolution
- 1877–1878 Russo–Turkish War
- 1878 Epirus Revolt of 1878
- 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
- 1893–1896 Cod War of 1893
- 1897 Greco–Turkish War
- 1903 Ilinden Uprising
- 1904–1908 Macedonian Struggle
- 1905 ?ód? insurrection
- 1907 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt
- 1910 Albanian Revolt of 1910
- 1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War
- 1912–1913 Balkan Wars
- 1912–1913 First Balkan War
- 1913 Second Balkan War
- 1914 Peasant Revolt in Albania
- 1914–1918 World War I
As he said, no continent wide wars...
Damn it has been a long time since we had a good scrap! It is defintely time we had another. The European Banker War could be the next where the people rise up against that bankers and their puppets in Government and introduce them to stakes, gibbets, guillotines and other toys of like nature.
Why I am not a European: http://freeireland.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/why-i-am-not-a-european/"
From the linked article:
Fortunately for us, military buildups are very expensive, and Europe cannot afford them.
This pumpkin knows s..t.
What about the versailles treaty? Every american know that, it was when Germany was being crushed under the heavy debt of war reparations that they managed to build their war machine.
Has this American forgotten that? It would be so Un-American (because, we 'Americans' even capitalize Un-American because we Americans do respect human beings even though Un-American is the biggest sin one man could ever commit to the face of humanity.)
Americans know how to overcome their environment. That is why we are so special. We dont need an environment to support us. And we do not steal it to support our way of life. This is why we are such a peaceful lot.
This European debt should be revocated as once as war will emerge from the anger, the resent and despair.
If only it had been done before WW2, imagine how many lifes would have been saved.
Imagine what would have happened if Germany had been freed of their debt instead of being burdened. Paradise on Earth, six decades lost...
This American has it so wrong. How he did not learn from history is a mystery.
Signed: an American, a proud one.
I've got a head like a ping pong ball.
Signed: AnAnonymous
Once a thief, always a thief...
Once the return point is reached, 'americans' end their masquerade.
Once the return point, generally a dead end or cul-de-sac, is reached, AnAnonymistic Chinese citizenism citizens start crapping on the other side of the road. Until that point, though, they strive for asymmetry.
The notion that the Euro is needed to cement these gains appears to be more about the ambition of specific political movements in Europe/Brussels than anything else.
At least part of Belgium wants to rid itself of the bankster occupation. Its like trying to get rid of roof rats. Sometimes you just have to move out.
race into a referendum on Flander's independence for Belgium
sure, because Flander's first act would be to leave the EU or the EZ? Hardly...
have you had a look at the secessionists in Belgium?
One of their tenets is: "Nodig in Vlaanderen, nuttig in Europa.", i.e. "Necessary in Flanders, useful in Europe". They want a "Flemish republic, a member state of a democratic European confederation." Their party's words, not mine.
What they want is their own nation with a seat in the Council of the EU and mayby their own National Bank participating to the ECB. That simple.
I took case with the Nobel prize here for the medical students queries on where medical students should server their residency...there's no magic algorithm but they can get information from this and it's no better than a flow sheet that you get from a dating site. It's good stuff and few use it to figure out where they will do their residency and it's a bunch of queries and SQL statements are written by the groves. It's not a bad thing but there were a lot more items worthy of a Nobel prize in my opinion.
We are an Algo Duped society today and there's about 4 videos at the link that will help explain some of this. Last week it was Congress, this week it's the Nobel Prize and again I don't mean any disrespect, but there were so many other items other than this project I felt were so deserving.
So are you rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize based on how many potential wars you can cause without actually being taking the blame?
@Dareconomics...you hit it. The European vengance of WW1 reparations sowed the seeds of WW2. Some observers in that time saw the problem with onerous reparations. And NATO is why the other WW2 combatant didn't annex Europe as it did other neighboring countries that weren't protected by the NATO umbrella.
Now the implementation of EU rules punishes southern members who respond with civil unrest, and the EU gets a prize for this? Would Catalonia agree? Athens? Bart De Wever?
The Nobel Peace Prize has been a disgrace for at least 25 years, when they gave it to Arias as a 'weapon against Reagan'. It descended into farce with last year's award, and now language is strained to find the words to mock it.
The smug, arrogant, condescending attitude wafting from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is not some 3-sigma expression, but reflects general European attitude towards the United States and Americans. Better wise up, America, your European cousins are doomed.
Distribution of wealth towards poor regions within EU, combined with stress on the "wealthy" regions long for calls of independance of the "wealthy regions". When federal governments fail....
You can't doubt the good intentions of the Nobel prizes, but they have, with their most recent Euro award, crossed the line and have made themselves and the award look almost PR kitsch. More discretion needed, as they run the risk of actually making the awards a genuine laughing stock, nothing more than window dressing to intractable problems.
Notably they gave the peace prize to John Hume and David Trimble in Northern Ireland, when peace was still far away from being achieved, and David Trimble was a rabble rousing maniac more deserving an award from the KKK. They gave one to Obama when he had done next to nothing. Awarding Lloyd Shapley and Alvin roth keeps them on them squarely on the fence of the hard/soft money debate and there have been scores of other fuk ups,; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies. Im left wondering, are they becoming more absurd or are the situations becoming more absurd? Either way, i think they have crosses a fine line with the euro award.
Ummmm.... this charade would not even be possible for Europe without the trillions in FED bailout money they got.
Germany was never a "stable, liberal democracy" and anyone who thinks so, knows NOTHING about Germany.
ZH keeps getting more and more marginalized, eccentric and boring. Wait til Mitt doubles the defense budget. Hopefully that will bury ZH. Sooooo trivial they are.
How is it that so many humans lack even a basic understanding of their own nature?
That is one of the most perceptive statements I have seen for a long time. :)
Methinks the Nobel Peace Commission just finished trashing it's brand. This on top of making Hopey Clown Obummer a medalist pretty well does it. It's cartoons from here on.
Petey the Dog chased a cat off the porch yesterday just slow enough to let the cat escape. (the last time he cornered one he got his ass kicked. He's a wee dog.)
I'm submitting his name for next years Nobel Prize for progressive race relations.
Vote Petey.
Next Year, a posthumous award for Hitler & Moussilini for avoiding war for ALMOST 10 years.
Is not the award done after the invention or accomplishment. They seem to be missing the results.
Me myself I would like to nominate the remote controlled attack drones for the Nobel Peace Prize. These drones have worked tirelessly to destory the enemies who hate us for our freedoms. Countless strikes day and night have mercileslsy weeded out the evil dooers, killed the first responders, and killed many nearby gawkers who may have had an evil dooer thought come to mind sometime in the future.
Sleep tight little drones, even if you are working 24/7.
Sometimes the need to be contrarian makes zerohedge say stupid things. The nobel prize was awarded to the European Union as the institution that was founded in 1957 (in another form, of course), and that at least helped make sure the continent would remain peaceful. The peace nobel prize has nothing to do with the euro, which is only a part of the european construct. It's easy to trash the EU from a country that hasn't had a war on its territory for a long, long time. I can tell you, while many europeans have complaints about some aspects of the EU, few people would like to go back to 70 years ago.

I can tell you, while many europeans have complaints about some aspects of the EU, few people would like to go back to 70 years ago.

ORLY. That was just about when I was born and it was much better back then than the crap we have to put up with now so speak for yourself because you probably are not old enough to remember 70 years ago. We may not have had 'modern comforts' such as we have now and all the trashy iPad, iPods and crappy TV but people spoke to each other and crime was much lower. We could leave the house open and no one would break in. We knew all our neighbours. Just exactly how do you think our lives have been improved with massive environmental radiation (microwave etc), purified leeched foods with no goodness in them, meat with no fat (which never didi anyone any harm in those days), regulations and restrictions designed to do nothing other control etc etc - I could go on for ever. You want that? Well you can keep it matey because it stinks!


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Who watched sunday nights GoT? I did. And i may never another episode. It was so messed up. I hated it and i cried like a baby. Screw the lannisters. for real. And HBO for making most my favorite characters die. I hope Arya finds that guy and gets him to murder goffery.:BIGangry: Post what you think about the episode
Well I read the books so I knew it was coming.
IMO while he didn't 'deserve' it per se, he kind of had it coming. Since he married her everything went down-hill.
Honestly I never really cared for any of them, but it was a pretty shocking scene. It cemented the reality of their world - no one is immortal.
Keep watching though, I promise it's not as bad as it seems ;) There will be vengeance.
OH! And, just for clarification because the show kind of glossed over it, it was not just the Lannister's idea. Frey was just as gleeful to do that.
And just to be devils advocate, why just hate the Lannisters? Honestly I kind of like them, (except Cersei. No one likes Cersei or her kids.) and Tywin did what he had to to ensure his family would remain safe (they DID kill his nephews and he has no idea if they killed Jaime or not, his 'only' son.) and in power.
To me it's Walder Frey and his batch, along with Bolton, who deserve the most contempt. They have absolutely no loyalty.
EDIT: Joffrey isn't really to blame for that one either, they showed that in the clip for next weeks ep. Joffrey does have sole responsibility for what happened to Ned, though.
Yeah try reading the book, the scene takes longer and you have to resist the urge to throw it out the window!! But yeah, each Lannister has to be judged individually, they're the family with the most character variety.
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Midway Arcade Origins: Eclectic 80s gaming for the die-hard nostalgic
Whenever I think of the Golden Age of Arcade gaming, my mind journeys back to the "Shoot-Out at the O.K. Arcade" episode of Different Strokes. Willis (Todd Bridges) was the arrogant champion of the arcade, but Arnold (Gary Coleman) – his younger brother – wanted to take the crown. It was the era where the leaderboard was born. You wanted to have your name (or rather your initials) immortalized on a giant arcade system for all to see.
Midway Arcade Origins harkens back to that treasured age of gaming, where taking a date to the Arcade was cool. Unfortunately, cool isn't the word to describe this random 31-game collection, which has an odd assortment of games ranging from Pit-Fighter to Joust. This is the second Midway collection released in the past decade – the first being Midway Arcade Treasures in 2003.
Truthfully, I can still play several games from the 80s and have a ton of fun playing through them. I don't even need the HD graphics that this collection boasts. However, several of these titles are just as painful to play now as they were over two decades ago.
Games included: Defender, Gauntlet, Joust, Rampage, Total Carnage, 720°, A.P.B., Arch Rivals, Bubbles, Championship Sprint, Tournament Cyberball 2072, Defender II, Gauntlet II, Joust 2, Marble Madness, Pit-Fighter, Rampart, Robotron 2084, Root Beer Tapper, Satan's Hollow, Sinistar, Smash TV, Spy Hunter, Spy Hunter II, Super Off Road, Super Sprint, Toobin', Vindicators Part II, Wizard of Wor, Xenophobe, and Xybots
Your taste in several of these games is a matter of opinion. Some love Joust. Some hate it. Other games like Rampage, I remember playing on my older brother's monochrome computer. Just like Arnold in "Shoot-Out at the O.K. Arcade", I wanted to oust my brother's score from the coveted top position on the leaderboard.
Root Bear Tapper is also on the collection. This game is always good for a quick jolt of bartending fun, especially after the game made an appearance in Disney's Wreck-it Ralph. However, just like other games in this collection, Tapper was released on iOS and as a digital download on XBLA.
The collection doesn't really cater to a specific crowd. Sports and fighting games are mixed in with car racing games. Outside of Tecmo Bowl and Double Dribble, personally I'd have no interest in playing an outdated sports game from the 80s. However, this collection brings back Arch Rivals. Do you remember Pit-Fighter? If you do, it's probably because the marketing campaign had it hyped up for its "realistic" graphics. The gameplay was mundane and still is generations into the future.
Games like Gauntlet take me back to the original Arcade survival games. Countless enemies swarming around you, while your quarters quickly diminished. There was always a sense of accomplishment when you beat titles like this because if you died – that was it. Plus, Arcade players who could string out a quarter for a long time period were always given respect. Nowadays, one-dimensional survival games like Gauntlet wouldn't work. But, it's still fun to play. Perhaps the goal of this release is to find interest in a few titles and relaunch a franchise. What do you think, Joust 2014 Next Gen?
Midway Arcade Origins is a treacherous journey back in time. There are some games that will make you nostalgic, while other titles will remind you of archaic design problems that often led to one too many deaths (and the loss of a few quarters). Game collections built around the 80s need rock-solid titles like Missile Command, Centipede and Pac-Man to serve as their cornerstones – or at least Moon Patrol, which was a Midway game. Sadly, none of the games on this compilation scream awesome. Most of these titles were released in Midway Arcade Treasures (which wasn't in HD). Oddly enough, Paperboy was left off of this release (some bull…). The compilation also has some new Achievements built in, which you can suffer through archaic gameplay to obtain. But chances are, your interest in most of these games will dwindle just like your memory of the golden age.