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"Look, Soph," Daddy said. "I can't break it down for you any further. The answer is no. End of discussion."
Sophie wailed anyway, pipsqueak voice rising to the kitchen ceiling. "I'll be the only one in the whole entire school who doesn't get to see the movie."
Daddy squinted at her as he shrugged into his black NASA jacket. He didn't like whining either. "I'm sure there are other parents who don't want their twelve-year-olds seeing a PG13 movie about gangs."
"It's a documentary!" Sophie said. "It's about real life."
Daddy's dark eyebrows shot up. "That makes it okay?" He picked up his laptop case and ran his other hand down the back of his spiky hair. "Drive-by shootings and foul language are not a part of your real life, and I'd like to keep it that way."
"What do I tell Mrs. Clayton and Ms. Hess?"
"Tell them I'll be calling your principal with a full explanation."
When Sophie opened her mouth, Daddy closed it with a black look. He didn't like arguing more than he didn't like anything.
He's calling Mr. Bentley? Sophie thought as she hoisted her backpack over her shoulder. That is the most humiliating thing I can think of.
It was probably worse than humiliating. She'd have to ask her best friend Fiona Bunting, the walking dictionary, for a word to describe feeling like a kindergartner in a seventh-grade body.
"Don't forget, it's your day to watch Zeke after school," Daddy said from the doorway. "Walk you to the bus stop, Baby Girl?"
How about NO! Sophie wanted to shriek. But she didn't even want to find out how much Daddy didn't like shrieking.
As she trudged to the corner, Sophie felt as if she had a chain attached to her ankle, and for somebody as small for a twelve-year-old as she was, that was not a good thing. She could almost imagine it clanking on the sidewalk. But, then, she could imagine almost anything.
But I don't have to imagine how heinous this situation is! she told herself. It wasn't just having to babysit her six-year-old brother while her mom, who was going to have LaCroix Kid Number Four in a few months, cooked dinner. Zeke wasn't even that bad since he'd figured out New Baby Girl wasn't going to wipe out life as he knew it. And it wasn't just that Daddy wouldn't let her go to the movie that everybody in the entire school was seeing that dayexcept her.
It's just all of it, Sophie thought.
She climbed aboard the bus and slumped into her usual seat behind Harley and Gill, the two soccer-playing girls Sophie and her friends (the Corn Flakes) referred to as the Wheaties.
"Hi, you guys," she said.
But they only nodded at her vaguely. Their eyes were glued to the other side of the bus, a few rows back.
"Dude," Gill said, her green eyes wide. "Cell phones?" She shook her head so that two lanky tendrils of reddish hair fell out from under her wool, billed cap.
As usual, husky Harley just grunted.
Sophie swiveled around to catch sight of two girls sitting on the reserved-for-eighth-graders-only side. The very blonde one with even blonder highlights had a phone pressed to her ear, and her striking blue eyes were dancing a reply to the person on the other end. She pulled her hair up in a handful and let it fall like a fountain of blondeness to her shoulders as she laughed.
"It's only eight o'clock in the morning," Sophie whispered. "Who could she be talking to?"
"Probably the girl next to her," Gill said.
The talker's seatmate was a slender girl with a wispy cut to her honey brown hair that made her look like a stylish elf. Her lips were moving, but she seemed to be chatting to nobody.
"Where's her phone?" Sophie said to Gill.
"In her ear," Gill said. "See the wire coming down?"
Just then the girl glanced their way, and Gill and Harley turned in their seats like they were about to be shot. But although there was an unspoken rule that seventh graders didn't stare at eighth graders, just like they didn't even venture into the eighth-grade halls, Sophie couldn't pull her eyes from the girl's golden brown ones as she raised her teen-magazine eyebrows at Sophie. Even though they'd been riding the same bus for three months, it was the first time she seemed to notice Sophie. Being seen by a girl who looked so together was like being under a spell.
The girl spread out her palms as if to say, "Well?"
"Sorry," Sophie said. She shriveled back into her seventh-grade world.
"I can't believe they're taking cell phones to school," Gill whispered over the back of the seat.
"I'll never even own one 'til I'm out of college or something," Sophie whispered back. Even her fourteen-year-old sister, Lacie, didn't have one, and she was in high school.
Sophie scooted closer to the bus window and gazed out through her glasses as Poquoson, Virginia, went by in a November mist. I'll never even get a phone in my room, she thought. My conversations with my friends might as well be on the six o'clock news.
Not to mention the whole rest of her life. In less than an hour, everybody in her section at school would know that her parents didn't think she could handle a PG13 movie.
They're way overprotective, Sophie thought. And then she squirmed a little. Back in October, when Mama and Daddy had come to the school to stand up for her, she had liked them being her guardian angels. But this was way different, she decidedand way confusing.
She ran her hand over the top of her very-short-but-shiny light brown hair like she always did when she was confused, and she closed her eyes. Time to imagine Jesus. And of course, there he was, with his kind eyes, waiting for her questions.
Okay, so what is WITH Mama and Daddy lately? she murmured to him in her mind. The baby that hasn't even been born yet has more privacy than I do!
Sophie opened her eyes and squirmed some more. It didn't feel exactly right to be complaining to Jesus about her parents. There was that whole "honor your father and mother" thing to consider.
She was still pondering it when she got to her locker. Most of the other Corn Flakes were waiting for her. That was the name they'd given themselves when the Corn Pops, the wickedly popular girls, had said they were "flakes." To the Corn Flakes, that meant they were free to be themselves and never put down other people the way the Corn Pops did.
"How come you weren't online last night?" Fiona tucked back the wayward strand of golden-brown hair that was always creeping over one magic-gray eye. "I wanted to IM you. I tried emailing, but you didn't answer."
"Guess," Sophie said. She dropped her backpack and went after her combination lock.
"Lacie had another paper to write," said Darbie O'Grady. She swept both sides of her reddish bob behind her ears. "I bet you were up to ninety."
In Darbie's Irish slang, that meant Sophie was ready to explode. Sophie nodded and yanked her locker open.
"You're so lucky you're an only child, Darbie," she said. "You too, Mags."
"Huh." The sound that came out of Maggie LaQuita was as square and solid as everything else about her, including the blunt cut of her Cuban-dark hair.
"You don't have other siblings reading your emails and getting into your stuff," Fiona said. "Not like Sophie and I do."
"But my mother is the only other person in my house," Maggie said. "If I close the door to my room, she says I'm shutting her out."
Sophie looked up, her literature book poised in midair. "Really?" she said. "I thought you and your mom got along really well. She makes all your clothes and everything."
"Huh," Maggie said again. She looked down at the bright turquoise-and-orange poncho that covered her chest. "She hasn't figured out that we don't have the same tastes anymore."
"And does she say you're giving her cheek when you complain?" Darbie said.
Maggie frowned. "You mean like I'm talking back to her?"
Maggie's dark eyes answered for her.
"I have the same problem," Darbie said. She leaned against the bank of lockers opposite Sophie's. "When I first came here, I liked it that Aunt Emily and Uncle Patrick were always protecting me from scary things. But I've adjusted"
"You're practically American now," Fiona added.
"But they still turn the channel every time someone says a cross word on the telly, and they look at me like I might go mental."
Sophie gave her locker door another shove and smiled at all of them.
"What?" Fiona said.
"I'm glad we all have parent problems," she said. "I mean, I'm not glad about the problems, but I'm glad at least we all understand what we're going through."
"So we can empathize," Fiona said.
"Define," Maggie said.
"It's better than sympathizing, where you just think you know how somebody feels. When you empathize, you really do know how the other person feels."
"That's why we're the Corn Flakes, isn't it?" Darbie said.
"Is empathizing part of the Corn Flake Code?" Maggie said.
Fiona counted off on her fingers. "Never put anybody down even though they do it to you. Don't fight back or give in to bullies; just take back your power to be yourself. Talk to Jesus about everything because he gives you the power to be who he made you to be."
"I didn't hear anything about empathizing," Maggie said, words thudding.
"It's got to be in there somewhere," Darbie said.
"We can add it," Sophie said. "Corn Flakes are totally loyal to each other and will always empathize."
"I love it," Fiona said. "And a Corn Flake will help you with the things your parents can't help you with." Her pink bow of a mouth went into a grin. "Like dealing with them!"
"Who are we dealing with?" another voice chimed in.
Sophie shoved her shoulder against her locker door, which still wouldn't close, as Willoughby Wiley joined them. Her wildly curly brown hair was springing out of a messy bun in just the right way, and her hazel eyes were shining. Sophie always thought you didn't have to see the red, white, and blue Great Marsh Middle School pom-poms sticking out of her backpack to know she was a cheerleader.
"We were talking about parents," Fiona said.
"And I'm talking about you getting away from my locker so I can get in itplease."
That came from Julia Cummings, the tall, auburn-haired leader of the Corn Pops, who had trailed in behind Willoughby with her fellow Pops at her heels. On-the-chubby-side B.J. Schneider nearly plowed into the back of Julia as she glared at Willoughby.
Cheerleader envy, Sophie thought. The Corn Pops were still mad that they had been kicked off the seventh-grade cheerleading squad while Willoughby, a former Corn Pop herself, was now captain. But they don't dare do anything about it or they're toast, Sophie added to herself. They'd gotten into enough trouble for harassing the Flakes to last them until graduation.
Which was probably why, Sophie decided, Julia gave Darbie an icy smile as Darbie said, "Oh, sorry," and stepped away from Julia's locker. Pale, thin Corn Pop Anne-Stuart sniffed at Darbie as she moved, but, then, Anne-Stuart was always sniffing. Sophie had never known her not to be in dire need of a box of tissues.
"You're not supposed to touch other people's lockers," Cassie said to Darbie. She tossed her very long, almost-too-blonde hair as if she were adding punctuation. Cassie was the newest of the Corn Pops. It seemed to Sophie that she was always trying to prove herself, especially to Julia.
Willoughby turned her back on them completely and widened her eyes at the Flakes. "What about parents?" she said. "You all looked bummed."
Darbie groaned and Maggie filled her in, with Fiona adding details. Sophie listened while she fought with her locker door, which was now jammed half open and half closed.
"You know what?" Willoughby said. "Maybe it's because I just have a dad and not a mom, but I have way a lot of freedom. Y'all can escape to my house anytime."
The bell rang. "How about now?" Fiona said. "I don't really want to go see that lame gang movie." She gave Sophie a sympatheticor maybe empatheticlook.
"You better come on," Maggie said to Sophie as they all hurried toward the hall.
"You all go ahead," Sophie said. "I have to get this thing open so I can close it."
"That makes total sense," Julia muttered as she and the Corn Pops sailed away.
"Makes sense to us," Fiona said. Although there wasn't time for the official Corn Flake pinky promise shake, she held up her little finger and wiggled it, and the rest of the girls did the same.
I would LOVE to escape to Willoughby's, like, tonight! Sophie thought as she put one foot up on the locker below hers to brace herself for one more tug. But then she felt a pang of guilt. I want to escape from my own house?
She pulled on the locker with both hands, but her fingers slipped off and she dropped to her seat on the floor. At the end of the row of lockers, feet rushed past, and she was sure she heard Colton Messik say, "Oops, Soapy, you fell. Too bad."
He was one of the absurd little creep boys the Corn Flakes had named the Fruit Loops. At least there were only two of them now, since Eddie Wornom was no longer around.
Two too many, Sophie thought as she got to her feet and readjusted her glasses. I need to escape from them too.
Actually, she thought, as she gave up on getting the locker open and shoved at it with her backpack to get it closed, she didn't really need to go to Willoughby's or anywhere else to shut it all out. Escape was never more than a dream character away.
And do I need one now or what? Sophie thought. Hello!
She stopped pushing and headed for the hall. Somebody who could protect the right of kids to grow upthat's what she saw taking shape in her dream-mind. Maybe the leader of a good gang.
What could her name be? Goodie?
Nah, too sappy.
My name will be revealed on a need-to-know basis, thought the tough little woman with the smooth muscles that made her T-shirt sleeves curve outward. I don't tell it to just any punk who shoves me in a crowd, she told herself as she dodged passing elbows like a championship boxer. They can see that I can't be pushed around.
But though she was tough, she didn't swagger. It was sheer confidence that drove her straight into the thick of the danger on the street
"Sophie LaCroixdo you want to tell me what you're doing down here?"
Sophie blinked and found herself standing in the middle of an eighth-grade hall.
"What are you doing way down here?"
"I don't know," Sophie said.
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Miss Imes looked over Sophie's head at the students surging past. "Slow it down. You'll all get a seat."
Nobody talked back. Even eighth graders don't mess with her, Sophie thought. Rumor had it that eighth graders really didn't take orders from anybody. She'd never had a chance to check that out firsthand. She'd never even been in an eighth-grade hall.
"You'd best get yourself to class before you're marked tardy," Miss Imes said to her. "I don't want you getting into any trouble that will keep you out of the new Film Club project."
"What new project?" Sophie could feel her eyes popping.
"You'll find out at lunch," Miss Imes said. "It's exciting."
Nothing actually sounded exciting when it came dryly out of Miss Imes' mouth. After all, she was a math teacher. But if she said it was, it was.
"No tardies," Miss Imes said.
Sophie turned and followed the throng toward the main hall where she could cross to seventh-grade territory.
And the sooner the better, she thought.
It was different down here. There were boy-girl couples holding hands and girls striding as if they were going down a fashion show runway and guys spewing out language Sophie hadn't heard since Eddie Wornom had been sent away to military school.
But even all that didn't dampen the promise of a new project. Sophie went into a higher gear. No way was she going to be late and mess up being able to participate.
Not only that, she thought as she ducked around a hugging couple, I don't want to get kicked off Round Table either.
Round Table was the handpicked council of students and faculty members who figured out how to help kids who got in trouble and needed to change more than they needed punishment.
The tough little good-gang leader quickened her steps. There was so much work to be done. The more punk-wannabes she could get out of trouble, the better.
Sophie was three long leaps from her first-period-classroom door when the final bell rang. She slipped in just as it was closingone of the few benefits of being the smallest kid in the seventh grade. Inside, everybody was standing up, yelling "Here!" as Ms. Hess, the younger of the two English/ History block teachers, called out their names so they could head to the gym for the movie.
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Sheppard Bags Rocket Chassis House Car Seat
CONCORD, N.C. — Could Brandon Sheppard be the next Josh Richards?
The rising young star and the dirt late model world is ready to find out.
The 19-year-old driver from New Berlin, Ill., was hired Monday to drive the Rocket Chassis house car, giving him a golden opportunity to make his mark on the national scene in a high-profile ride that Richards recently vacated to pursue a NASCAR career.
Rocket Chassis co-owner Mark Richards, whose race team reached championship heights on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series during his son Joshs seven-plus-year full-time stint behind the wheel, decided to offer the ride to Sheppard after initially giving WoO LMS veteran Tim Fuller a three-race try-out.
Richards sat out last weekends World of Outlaws doubleheader, marking just the second and third tour events since 2004 in which he did not enter at least one car.
Sheppard is scheduled to make his debut in Richardss familiar No. 1 machine the weekend of May 18-19 at tracks near the Rocket shop in Shinnston, W.Va. His first World of Outlaws Late Model Series starts with the team are planned for May 25 at Wayne County Speedway in Orrville, Ohio, and the $25,000-to-win Jackpot 100 on May 26 at Tyler County Speedway in Middlebourne, W.Va.
"I couldn't get a better opportunity than this," said Sheppard, who ran the first seven events of the 2012 WoO LMS season in family-owned equipment before skipping the tours four most recent races. "Mark definitely has one of the top teams out there. I'm really excited about having the chance to drive his car, and I hope that when I get in it I can keep impressing Mark and we can make something happen out of the deal."
According to Richards, his pairing with Sheppard is currently set to run through the DIRTcar UMP-sanctioned Dream June 8-9 at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. But he's hopeful that the up-and-coming Midwesterner will mesh well with his team and sponsorship can be arranged to keep them running a special-event schedule together for the remainder of the campaign.
"He's coming to our shop next week to work on the cars with us," Richards said of Sheppard. "I just told him, 'Come on out. I dont know when you're gonna be going home…well go racing and figure it out from there.'"
Sheppard, of course, has no reservations about leaving Illinois for an undetermined period of time.
The son of DIRTcar UMP Late Model veteran Steve Sheppard, Jr., he has been eying a career on dirt since running his first race in the division as a 14-year-old in 2007. His grandfather, Steve Sheppard, Sr., told him that he would enthusiastically back his efforts for a few years to give him every opportunity to someday race for a living and lo and behold, Sheppard has already gotten his big break.
"My Grandpa is definitely real happy with me getting this opportunity," said Sheppard. "We didn't have a doubt that if I worked hard and did the right things it would happen someday, but we didn't expect an opportunity like this to happen so soon. Now I just have to make the most of it."
Richards, who, before installing his son as his full-time chauffeur in 2005, enjoyed success with such talented drivers as Steve Francis, Bart Hartman, Davey Johnson and Tim Hitt, is very high on Sheppard's potential.
"Brandons run good for a young guy," said Richards. "I think he's an up-and-coming driver. He's really working hard to try and make it, and thats a big plus right now — a guy thats young and wanting to try and move up and better himself.
"The biggest thing I see is that being a young guy, he'll have confidence in the car and the crew and what decisions are being made. Josh was always like that in his younger days. He pulled on the race track with confidence. Today, thats what you need in a driver."
Sheppard, who scored a career-best WoO LMS finish of eighth on Feb. 17 at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Fla., is hopeful that results and sponsorship (Petroff Towing is currently providing backing to assist the Rocket/Sheppard combination) will extend his run in the house car through the end of 2012 and beyond.
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getting pregnant after a stillbirth
i had a still born son on nov 18 he was a beautiful baby but i was wondering how soon i can try getting pg again i wont give up no matter how hard it is what do u think
Posted: 11/28/2007 by dorcaslopau
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I had a stillbirth at 40 wks, I was 2 days past my due date and went into labor, went to the hospital only to find that my son had passed away somewhere in the middle of the night. I delivered a beautiful Baby Boy - Luis Marco, 04/02/07 -- my husband and I took our time grieving and then began trying again about 5 months later, we did get pregnant around 9/07 but I ended up having a miscarriage 10/07, we then decided to just enjoy what we have and if we get pregnant we get pregnant, before we knew it the following month 11/07 i was pregnant. I gave birth to my daughter Gabriella Julia on 7/12/08, she is now almost 5 mo. old and is the love of our lives... if I could say anything it's not up to doctors or anyone else to tell you when you are ready, it's whats in your heart. I knew that I had to have a baby, I knew that in a lot of ways she was going to fill in all the gaps my son left behind and she has...and continues to do so daily...posted 12/07/2008 by maipu
Our daughter Sofia Isabella was stillborn on 12.7.08 (22 weeks). The doctor advised waiting 3-4 months before trying again. I'm uncertain how I feel about that. There is part of me that wants to get pregnant right away, but there is another part of me who does not feel ready at all. Will I be an nervous mess during the next pregnancy; is that fair to our second child? If we try right away, is it like trying to forget Sofia? If we don't try right away and instead work on enjoying our lives as they are, is it as if we are somehow thankful Sofia didn't make it. I'm all over the place. I have read many other women's blogs and what it comes down to is this: We have to trust our bodies and our hearts. We'll know when we're ready. We can't predict when that will be, so we have to just go with it and believe. I hope this is helpful to at least one person. My heart aches so much for our little angel Sofia. We will never forget her and look forward to holding her again someday.posted 01/01/2009 by kimberlylam1207
My daughter Destiny was stillborn March 10, 2008. The loss was devastating. She was 34wks and 5dys. My doctor was supportive and encouraged us to try again but to wait at least 1yr. Well that was our intention but God had other plans. I am now 7wks pregnant and very excited. I had to remind myself not to be concerned with what other people think but with how our family feels and how my body responds. I was amazed at how fast my body returned to pre-pregnancy weight and recovered. Destiny was 4lbs 13oz and perfect. I have two older boys (15&6) so delivering her was easy. For some reason it seems like my body was ready for this new pregnancy and without knowing it my heart needed this as well. You will get questions like "so soon"? Like you've asked for others advice on such a personal matter. Stay strong. This has been healing for me and my fiance and I have nothing but great hope that this baby will be born healthy and stong and that I will remain strong both physically and mentally.posted 06/03/2008 by locdbeauty
i started trying 3 months after i lost my son from a stillbirth at 33 weeks an now i am pregnant again an more excited then ever.good luckposted 03/27/2008 by BabyMama513
I lost my daughter 3 weeks ago... was the hardest thing ive ever been through. I am now trying again. xposted 10/16/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
We just lost our daughter, Madilyne, on Aug 31, 2012. She was kicking on the way in for our c-section and by the time we got their to monitor her before delivery, her heartbeat was gone. They told me without my husband present and it was devastating to face alone. We are doing very well as God has held us tight. The moment it happened I said no more as we lost one to miscarriage in July 2011 and we lost 2 foster boys in March 2012, so the loss has just been great for us in the last year, but by the next day, I just didn't want to not try again. I do hope that it doesn't take long as we are older and had to wait 4 years from our first child to Madilyne. It is still concerning to lose another, but I know that we still were blessed by Madilyne and I wouldn't want to not experience her life in me even knowing that we would lose her in the end. She has provided much healing to so many. We pray that God is glorified and that we can have another and find healing in another pregnancy.posted 09/11/2012 by nettester71
We lost our daughter Amirah Michelle Bennett on Dec 3, 2013 @ 22wks 2days. She was 1lb, 12 inches long and perfect! I had a premature rupture of membrane (water broke early). It turned into a breech delivery. It's been 16 days and I am all over the place with my thoughts and emotions. However looking through this site and all the messages, information and experiences gives me hope and strength. I would like to say pls accept my deepest condolences to all the families that have lost their little angles. I know how it feels and wouldn't wish that on anyone. The one thing that I took from all of the post that I read was that it is really up to the individual to decide when to try to get pregnant again and it will never replace the baby that was lost but it will help fill your life with happiness again. We all have different opinions and do things differently and that's ok. Take all the time needed to grieve and or try again. Also, a good support system is needed. I'm now trying again xoxoposted 12/19/2013 by sweetsoutherns
Addison May was silently born on 09.27.2012 at 39 weeks. My due date was ict 1 and my bday is oct 2. we had her cremated and we actually recieved her cremains on my birthday. You go thru your whole pregnancy making plans, but you don't plan for the loss. There is a group called brief encounters that helps with the loss of a child in my area. They also help with subsequent pregnancies and when tryi g to conceive again. I would recommend to anyone, to seek out support groups. It's always nice to have others around you that can relate with such a devastating situation. Eventually we will try again and hope to fill the empty space with love for another child, but never replace her in it hearts. I hope everyone who had posted on the thread can find solace in that we did nothing to deserve this loss and we will find love for ourselves again.posted 11/05/2012 by cumbersome77
I think it also depends on how your son was born; ours was a vaginal delivery (which was so very hard to do knowing we already lost him, at 39 wks). But because it was a "regular" birth, not a C-section, we tried again, and after our loss at the end of March, we are expecting his little brother or sister! I got pg in July, about 4 and a half months after our son was born. So yes, you CAN get pg, the question is when your sould and body are both ready. Wishing you the very best.posted 08/25/2008 by DaisyHope2
according to my culture you must atleast wait a period of 6months before you try to to be pregnant again but according to me is up to you of when do you want to conceive depending of your healing and grieving you call fall pregnant againposted 06/05/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
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Department of Energy study: Fracking chemicals didn't taint water
Keith Srakocic, Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press.
After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water, geologist Richard Hammack said.
Although the results are preliminary — the study is still ongoing — they are the first independent look at whether the potentially toxic chemicals pose a threat to people during normal drilling operations. But DOE researchers view the study as just one part of ongoing efforts to examine the impacts of a recent boom in oil and gas exploration, not a final answer about the risks.
Drilling fluids tagged with unique markers were injected more than 8,000 feet below the surface but were not detected in a monitoring zone 3,000 feet higher. That means the potentially dangerous substances stayed about a mile away from drinking water supplies.
"This is good news," said Duke University scientist Rob Jackson, who was not involved with the study. He called it a "useful and important approach" to monitoring fracking, but he cautioned that the single study doesn't prove that fracking can't pollute, since geology and industry practices vary widely in Pennsylvania and across the nation.
The boom in gas drilling has led to tens of thousands of new wells being drilled in recent years, many in the Marcellus Shale formation that lies under parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia. That's led to major economic benefits but also fears that the chemicals used in the drilling process could spread to water supplies.
The mix of chemicals varies by company and region, and while some are openly listed the industry has complained that disclosing special formulas could violate trade secrets. Some of the chemicals are toxic and could cause health problems in significant doses, so the lack of full transparency has worried landowners and public health experts.
Over the last four years the debate over fracking chemicals has attracted tremendous attention from state and federal agencies, public health experts, and opponents of fracking. Yet while many people have focused on the potential threat from the chemicals, experts have come to believe that more routine aspects of the drilling process are more likely to cause problems. Poor well construction that allows excess gas to escape, spills of chemicals or other fluids that take place at the surface, and disposal of wastewater are all issues of concern.
Jackson said most of the problems that the Duke researchers have seen have been related to well construction, not fracking chemicals.
The study done by the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh marked the first time that a drilling company let government scientists inject special tracers into the fracking fluid and then continue regular monitoring to see whether it spread toward drinking water sources. The research is being done at a drilling site in Greene County, which is southwest of Pittsburgh and adjacent to West Virginia.
Eight Marcellus Shale wells were monitored seismically and one was injected with four different man-made tracers at different stages of the fracking process, which involves setting off small explosions to break the rock apart. The scientists also monitored a separate series of older gas wells that are about 3,000 feet above the Marcellus to see if the fracking fluid reached up to them.
The industry and many state and federal regulators have long contended that fracking itself won't contaminate surface drinking water because of the extreme depth of the gas wells. Most are more than a mile underground, while drinking water aquifers are usually within 500 to 1000 feet of the surface.
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You will be missed Todd. As one of only three people that actually talks to me on this site, I've just lost 33% of my friends here. What happened? It was Wild Weasel wasn't it? *lol* He had so many comments on your talk page that you just couldn't take it?? I'm just kidding WW, your one of the 66% left that talks to me. Todd, you were an enormous help and encouragement to me during your time here. I hope you find yourself back on this shore someday. You will find myself, and many others waiting for you.--2nd Lt. Claudius Prime 16:25, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- Take some quality time, mate, you deserve it. Play with the kids, write an article or three....hopefully we'll see you back a born again Todd, striding majestically through Uncyclopedialand. -- Sir Mhaille (talk to me)
- We'll miss ya! I hate to see you go -- you've been a great help to me, and I've come to respect your voice and opinion on many things. Still, I know how necessary breaks are (as a matter of fact, I should be taking one!) Don't worry, teh funni will still be here when you get back, if I have anything to say about it! Take care! --The King In Yellow (Talk to the Dalek.) 16:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
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The Latest News about Free Distribution of Dhoties and Sarees by Tamil Government on the occasion of Pongal Festival can be know in this article. Pongal Festival is been celebrated in a grand manner in villages by the people of Tamil Nadu and the history behind free distribution along with its benefits and key statistics can be known here. Read more to get to know with latest updated information's.
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In 1981 under
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the produced and stocked handlooms were purchased by the respective department by taking into consideration in providing job opportunities to weavers and to make the people residing in village and cities to be happy on the occasion of the pongal festival with distribution of free dresses. This scheme is one of the excellent scheme introduced to the public and could even act as a role model and sources of service for other states in India. The
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169.75 Dhoties
are required and the Chief Minister have instructed that all the required purchases should only be purchased from the Tamil Nadu and due to above news the Sarees and Dhoties distribution are being given as a business to Tamil Nadu weavers. As per the Budget allocated for the free distribution of Dhoties and Sarees the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister initially allocated
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A lot of anger has been directed lately at Russian vodka due to Vladimir Putin's horrible anti-gay laws. One group, led by sex columnist/guy-we'd-totally-sleep-with Dan Savage is even leading a #DumpStoli boycott of Stolichnaya vodka because it is Russian. Unfortunately, Savage and his friends couldn't be more wrong about Stoli (which is not a Russian vodka). So, the BYGays are here to help set the record flamboyantly straight.
Before we get started, we should point out that BYT has a wonderful working relationship with Diagio, which owns rival vodka brand Smirnoff and all it's uber-delicious Smirnoff brands. So, we have no financial interest in presenting you our:
Complete History of Stoli Vodka as Told by GIFs
Created sometime around 1950, Stolichnaya vodka was an iconic brand of the Soviet Union. Everyone there drank it, and it was as Soviet as the Bolshoi Ballet, Sputnik, and dancing bears.
And we mean everyone in the Soviet Union drank it.
But then, in 1991 the Soviet Union suddenly broke up.
It was a crazy time in the former Soviet Union, and especially in Russia. No one knew what the fuck was going on.
Enter Yuri Sheffler, a Russian businessman who bought the rights to Stolichnaya vodka for around $400,000 from the Kremlin-controlled FKP Soyuzplodoimport company. It was a steal.[1]
In the early 2000's, Vladimir Putin came to power and waged war on the new Russian billionaires, whom he accused of stealing from the Russian people.[1][2]
In the case of Stolichnaya and Sheffler, Putin was all like "I will hunt you down to the end of the Earth and take your vodka company."[2]
And Sheffler was like "Whatevs…"
Basically, every bottle of Stolichnaya vodka sold pissed off Vladimir Putin to no end.
In 2001, Putin threatened to throw Sheffler into jail and take his company. So, the Russian billionaire left for Western Europe and took Stolichnaya with him.[3]
For the past twelve years, due to the fact that Vladimir Putin wants to jail its owner and steal his company, Stoli has not been a Russian company. Shefler lives in exile. The Stoli brand is owned by a Dutch company, whose parent company SPI Group is headquartered in Luxemburg, and who produces its Stoli vodka in Latvia.
But wait, there are actually two Stolis.[1]
When Stolichnaya split from Russia, Putin set up his own Stoli. Putin's zombie Stoli only sells Stolichnaya vodka inside Russia, but it retains the same label and packaging. Think of it as Stoli's evil Russian twin. But, unless you're drinking Stolichnaya vodka in Russia, you are not drinking Russian Stoli vodka. You're drinking Dutch/Latvian vodka.
But, controlling his fake Stolichnaya vodka inside Russia wasn't enough for Vladimir Putin. So, he decided to go all Legally Blonde and fight Yuri Sheffler in every court he could around the world in order to take control of the Stoli brand.
So far…he's failed.
What Putin has succeeded in is passing a series of draconian anti-gay laws in Russia. Like, seriously, anti-gay.
That pissed off the gays, and they decided to do something about it.
And the gays LOVE vodka. Like, Lurrve it.
So, a bunch of rightfully angry queens (ahem, sexy DILFy Dan Savage) decided to do something about it. So, they launched a campaign to dump Stoli vodka because they heard it was Russian.
Before we go any further, let's recognize that Dan Savage and the 'Dump Stoli' group is trying to do the right thing. That's good.
The first problem, though, with the campaign is that it was launched by Westerners without actually talking to any activists inside Russia.
The second problem is that Stoli is not Russian. They were thinking of Vladimir Putin's evil-twin Russian Stoli vodka.
When confronted with this fact, the Dump Stoli group responded by saying that Stoli's owner is ethnically Russian (without noting that he's on the run from Russia because Vladimir Putin wants to take his company).
But then, they protested that Stoli deserves a boycott because it says "Russian Vodka" on the label. But, that's marketing (and it actually hasn't said that in about seven years). That's like protesting T.G.I. Friday's because it serves German chocolate cake.
But, then they complained that Stoli uses some Russian ingredients…just like Coca-Cola uses some Russian ingredients in the products that it sells throughout Russia. Actually, Coca-Cola operates up to 16 plants in the Russian Federation while employing over 13,000 people there (and claiming its supply chain employs up to 130,000 people). But, no one is calling on gays to dump Fanta and Sprite and certainly not Diet Coke.[4]
"Whatever," Dan Savage and his 'Dump Stoli' friends responded. "At the end of the year Stoli will be a Russian company again." Well…not exactly. A court in the Hauge ruled that the Stoli brand in the Netherlands, Luxemburg, and Belgium did belong to the Russian Federation. So, it could be possible that Putin could be selling his zombie Stoli vodka in those three countries soon (but, just there). But, it's still unclear if that will happen. We'll wait to see what the legal experts have to say.[8]
"Well," people like Savage say. "Stoli has never hidden its Russian roots and actually embraces them." Yes, that's correct. You can say the same thing for Cuban exile Gloria Estefan who has never hidden her Cuban roots, embraces them, and has capitalized on being Cuban. Yet, it would be unfair to target Estefan for the policies of the Castro brothers in Cuba. In fact, as a Cuban exile, Estefan has been on of their largest critics – just as Yuri Sheffler, as a Russian exile, has been one of Putin's largest critics.
Ok, ok. We get that Stoli's owner has been in a decade-plus battle with Vladimir Putin and Putin has persecuted Stoli vodka literally to the ends of the Earth. But, as people like John Aravosis of AmericaBlog argue, if hurting Stoli and Yuri Sheffler is the price to pay to raise awareness for this issue, then that is a good thing. It's drawing attention to the greater good. Actually, that is called scapegoating, and it is one of the most evil things you can do as a human being.
On Friday, the Latvian LGBT group MOZAIKA called on the 'Dump Stoli' group to stop their boycott as it is actually hurting Latvia and not Russia.[6]
When confronted with all of this, Dan Savage brushed it off saying that he couldn't be bothered since he was on vacation.[7]
But, refusing to recognize that they were wrong from the beginning, the Dump Stoli group continues to act like a bunch of crazy creationists and deny reality.
So, what can you do to combat homophobia and homophobic laws in Russia? The first thing to do is to listen to local Russian activists. The roots of homophobia and homophobic laws in Russia are different than the United States and the path forward is going to be hard. But, we can dialogue with local activists to see what they want us to do.
On the home front, in December, the U.S. implemented permanent normal trade relations with the Russian Federation. This means that trade with Russia will no longer be subject for review based on human rights violations. There are a few major U.S. companies who spent a lot of money lobbying for this. They include Caterpillar, Deere & Co., International Paper and Boeing. These companies make millions – if not billions – in Russia and operate multiple plants there. In fact, Boeing (while now headquartered in Chicago as of a few years ago) is culturally based in Dan Savage's hometown of Seattle. Boeing is huge in Russia and even supplies the Russian state with military equipment. Boeing hopes that trade normalization with Russia will make the company over $130 billion over the next two decades. Instead of targeting Stoli, which is persecuted by the Russian state and which maintains a small footprint in the Russian Federation, it might be worth looking at what pressure can be applied to these companies who maintain massive operations in Russia…and what pressure can be applied the U.S. Congress.[5]
So, can you drink Stoli? If you are outside of Russia, drink up. Not only is Stolichnaya an extremely LGBT friendly brand, every bottle of Stoli vodka sold pisses off Vladimir Putin to no end. We hope that Dan Savage will soon join reality so we can go back to fantasizing about giving him blowjobs (seriously, Dan, call us).
The end.
Although the BYGays drink vodka, they prefer whiskey. For more on DC's LGBT nightlife scene follow the @BYGays on Twitter.
Though I despise Putin, (Pukin)…and disagree wholeheartedly with his Nazi-like stance on gays, (I'm a gay guy myself – who missed the Olympics by about 2 seconds…in 2006 – I'm a swimmer – but, sorry that's off topic-
The issue is Culture and Custom. You look back at the United States 55-60 yrs ago – and people simply didn't know what the word 'gay' is/was – – – the Progress we've made in 50 yrs is Shocking…I can't imagine my grandfather or great-grandmother – who both died in the late 60-s way before I was born, coming back for a 'visit to earth' and seeing just one topic/thing – gay/homosexuality… that's where Russia is right now. They are a 'tough' rugged-backwards nation, with a Rich Culture – No – Rich CULTURES – Within the former Soviet Union, of which Russia Is Just ONE state/federated nation in the Federated States of the Russian Federation…there are over 150 Cultures, 135 languages spoken and each is distinct…so there is a lot more of the gay/straight/Putin issue than we see on the surface… Is Putin Dumb and stupid and going to hell? Yes… as he should…but don't just look at Putin's antics – we must look at the RSFSR as a whole…and its many ethno-linguistic cultures and people…
This is over simplistic dribble. The fact is the group that owns Stoli if a front, comprised likely of Russian interests principally the government.
You are just completely ignorant. Did you even read the article at all. There's no way Stoli is affiliated with the Russian government when its owner has been exiled from Russia and when Putin and the Russian government have been trying to take down the company for years.
This is a complete load of crap and you know it. First of all, there isn't "angry talk" of boycotting Stoli…it's happening all over the US from NYC to San Francisco and all across Europe too. And where do you get off trivializing the persecution and murder of Russian gays and lesbians with cutesy little video clips? Shame on you! Will we be seeing Stoli ads on your webpage soon, like Queerty and Gay Cities? Or did they just pay you to run this tripe?
Here are the facts: Stolichnaya Vodka is owned by SPI (Soyuzplodimport) Group, which is controlled by Yuri Scheffler, a Russian oligarch who sails around the world in a $300 million yacht and is one of the 100 richest men in Russia. If you think he doesn't have any influence with Vladimir Putin, you don't know how the world works. The company is incorporated in Luxembourg for tax reasons and the vodka is distilled in Latvia from Russian ingredients imported from farms in Russia that SPI Group owns. If that's not a Russian company then Honda and Sony are not a Japanese companies.
Go ask Coors Beer and the Coors family whether boycotts work or not. For those who don't remember, the Coors family supported right-wing, homophobic organizations and causes like the Heritage Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, which is their right, but they also tried to bust the brewery workers union and unfairly fired gay and lesbian employees in 1977 — setting off a decade-long boycott of Coors beer in the gay community. After a bitter fight and a change in management, Coors encouraged gay and lesbian workers to organize and in May 1995 Coors became the 21st publicly traded US corporation to extend employee benefits to same-sex partners — long before most other companies.
Don't let anyone tell you boycotts don't work; they do! More importantly, they bring public scrutiny and condemnation upon the wrongdoers. Business is about making money and, as has been noted many times before, money talks.
SPI Group understands the power of boycotts all too well, which is why they've mounted a major PR campaign to protect their LGBT market share. Suddenly the Stoli website has gone rainbow gay and PR flacks are shouting out the company's support for LGBT rights. And they're buying positive press at media outlets like Queerty by "sponsoring" events that pour cash into your coffers. If they really want to do something positive, they should stop the PR charm offensive and take all this money and donate to underfunded Russian LGBT organizations that are under siege and mount a media campaign against the oppression of gays and lesbians in Russia, but they don't — because there's no profit in it for them. So they continue funding this cynical PR campaign to keep gays in the West swilling Stoli.
I salute all gay bars who have stopped serving Stoli….and all publications that refuse their bloody hush money. But it's not just this company. All LGBT people of conscience should BOYCOTT ALL RUSSIAN PRODUCTS AND THE 2014 SOCHI OLYMPICS. Hit them where it hurts…in the wallet and the court of public opinion. Putin is a vain little dictator who cares about his image in the world. Actions must have consequences. Make Putin, the Duma, and the Russian Orthodox Church pay for this anti-gay pogrom!
I echo what the anon was saying above. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Putin has been trying to arrest Sheffler and take down SPI for decades. SPI and Stolichnaya is one of his main political enemies, especially since Sheffler has been a devout supporter of the LGBT community practically since he was exiled from Russia, if not before that. He has spent millions of his own dollars on supporting our community, having funded and produced a documentary series about the LGBT community and helping get non-profits, organizations, and pride parades started.
Without him, the San Diego Pride Parade would have never happened. He was one of the critical funders back when it was just being organized. SPI Group and Yuri Sheffler have done more for the LGBT community than any other company or organization, even in the midst of Putin trying to sue them out of existence.
Except if you had any reading comprehension, you'd see that Yuri Scheffler isn't actually in Russia. He's living in exile because Putin has an arrest warrant out for him. Secondly, the problem with the Coors boycott is even when Coors became the 21st publicly traded company to extend employee benefits, no one called off the boycott. In fact, Don Kilhefner was still pushing the boycott as late as 2005. And the Coors boycott was actually targeting Coors. The problem with boycotting Stoli is they can't do a damned thing to change Russia and you idiots have been spending all your energy justifying your stupid boycott that you're neglecting the actual issue. You've made SPI the enemy, when up until your idiot blog leaders told you otherwise, was an ally.
Although your arguments are specious you might have a little more credibility if you chose to publish comments under your name rather than anonymously. Do you, perhaps, work for Soyuzplodimport Group or its PR firm?
Gay Lemmings! Dan Savage says jump and some people say " how high ".
The Stoli boycott is not universally working in the LGBT community, and is sadly misguided.
Thank you, that was hilarious. You don't speak for me Dan Savage. Suck it.
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The Facts About Stolichnaya Vodka and its Owner, SPI Group
"Russia plays an essential element in our brand…" — SPI Group CEO
On May 29, 2013, Val Mendeleev, the CEO of SPI as well as of Stolichnaya, told The Spirits Business, a leading spirits industry trade publication: "The grain is 100% Russian and we have thousands of hectares of land 400 kilometers south of Moscow…. The part Russia plays is an essential element in our brand education. It's where the brand was born and where our grain comes from today."
"Stoli is the best-known Russian product outside Russia." — SPI's PR firm
On July 30, 2013, Kevin Sniffen of the Susan Magrino Agency, Stolichnaya's own public relations firm, told Forbes magazine: "We understand Stoli is probably the best-known Russian product outside Russia."
We are Russian vodka, says Stoli CEO
On July 31, 2013, Michelangelo Signorile, a well-respected gay journalist with his own talk show on SiriusXM Radio, asked SPI-Group CEO Val Mendeleev: "Are you saying now that [Stolichnaya's] not Russian vodka?" Mendeleev replied, "No." The interview may be heard on the popular blog Joe.My.God.
Russian Authenticity, Confirmed
That Stolichnaya is a Russian vodka has been the company's position for years. In 2008, when a competitor, Russian Standard, questioned Stolichnaya's Russian authenticity, Ian Jamieson, then the president of the Stolichnaya brand at Pernod Ricard, the vodka's global distributor at that time, told Vanity Fair magazine, "Stolichnaya, as it is sold outside of Russia, is distilled in Russia. And then it is moved from Russia to Latvia, where it is put into bottles. There is nothing added, nothing taken away, no additions, no subtractions from the product that leaves Russia… Stolichnaya is the original, authentic, genuine Russian vodka brand made with genuine, authentic Russian vodka from Russia. Period. Absolutely no doubt about it." [PDF of Vanity Fair UK magazine November 2008 article is available upon request.]
Stolichnaya: Founded, grown and distilled in Russia
The SPI Group is a Russian company, that was founded in Russia in 1991, and that bought the Stolichnaya brand from the Russian government in 1997. The wheat and rye it uses to make Stolichnaya grows on 12,000 acres of Russian land, and there are hundreds of SPI employees in Russia.
SPI owns and operates two distilleries in Russia, including the largest distillery in Russia. This is where the raw alcohol for Stolichnaya is distilled. This distillery "is a leader in Russia for production of ethyl alcohol" and "one of five largest Russian producers of alcohol."
Nearly all of the processing of Stolichnaya occurs in Russia. Only the final step occurs in Latvia. The Russian distillery in which it is made and the factory in which it is bottled in Latvia are owned by SPI.
The SPI Group, the company that owns the Stolichnaya brand has never claimed that Stolichnaya is anything but a Russian vodka, and they continue to reinforce that claim in most world market (excluding the United States). They benefit worldwide from the Russian branding.
Marketed and Advertised as Russian Vodka
That Stolichnaya is a Russian vodka has been the company's position for years. On August 26, 2009, here's what David Roberts of Multiply, Stoli's own ad agency, told Drum, and industry publication: "Stoli is a world renowned brand and we are delighted to be working with Russia's authentic vodka to develop even greater trade and consumer knowledge and awareness."
The company has altered its marketing and labeling in the U.S. and other countries where being Russian has become a liability. Stolichnaya is still marketed outside of the U.S. as a Russian vodka, with "Russian Vodka" on its label.
SPI Sells Russian Vodka in Russia
SPI owns and markets many other brands that it calls "domestic vodkas": Gradus, Vodka Great Embassy, LB Vodka, Vodka Kaliningradskaya, and Kaznacheyskaya. They are sold in Russia, where they are produced.
From SPI Group's Website: "Our local vodkas represent all that is best about Russia's favourite drink… Kaznacheyskaya is a quality brand created for the Russian market, designed to evoke a sense of national status… Kaznacheyskaya is all about pride in Russia." [Screen grab available upon request.]
SPI Group is a Major Player in Russian Real Estate
SPI has significant real estate holdings in Russia. In 2004, it became a major investor in the "Moscow International Business Center," also known as Moscow-City, a $12 billion development project in Moscow in which it still owns an interest. SPI continues to build in Russia, including residential buildings, office buildings, restaurants, and breweries. Moscow-City (the Mercury City Tower) is also home to Moscow City Hall and the City Duma — the Russian regional parliament in Moscow.
Okay? And?
I don't get how a company that does stuff in Russian can't be pro-LGBT. I would think you would be in support for such a thing, because it increases the likelihood of the company being able to affect the mindset of the Russian populace and change it for the better.
Having such companies abandon Russia would just be abandoning the LGBT community there.
Really? You cant see that the fun article above is WRONG. SPI, is a Russian company that gets money from international sales of Stoli. So if you wanted to boycott a Russian company, Stoli is as good as any. If you don't then STFU and go boycott something else.
Except you're boycotting a company that Putin and the Russian government hates. He's likely clapping his hands over the entire thing, since you're harming one of his political enemies.
It makes this boycott actually pro-Russian, not anti-Russian, since you're not doing anything to Putin at all.
Also, in the rush to justify the boycott on Stoli they pointed out that SPI didn't have a written LGBT anti-discrimination policy. What they ignored was the reason why they didn't a written LGBT anti-discrimination policy was because they didn't have an anti-discrimination policy. On the surface, this would seem bad. But again, it's comparing a European company to US standards. The reason why they don't have one is because the EU already provides these protections universally. So most companies don't have them there. We have them in the US because we are behind the EU in this regard. (Hence why we're pushing for ENDA.)
I love the header image of Patsy! She's holding this thing in her hand, and across it something's written in big white letters on a red background. It says the same thing in the final GIF. Stoli is the quintessential Russian vodka. Except when that hurts the bottom line. Then it turns out they've been lying* about that for years. So we should support them. (*Did I say "lying" of course I meant "marketing.")
You didn't read the part where the label hasn't said Russian Vodka for years, right? That AbFab pic is from the mid90s.
No, I did read it. I just think it's ironic that their gay-appeal image selection is as sloppy as sloppy as their writing.
I'd compare this boycott to Right Wing Christians boycotting Sam Adams beer because Massachusetts has gay marriage. Improperly focus and won't do any good.
I'm sure Putin is shaking in his boots now and crying because of all the money that isn't going to Mother Russia
BRAVO! Thank you. Now we can move on and stop looking stupid. Move on!
How much did Stoli pay you for this advertisement?
Unfortunately you do not mention that the DUTCH owned Stoli STILL BUYS ITS INGEDIENTS FROM RUSSIA.
You'd probably also find most of Europe and much of Asia buys grain from Russia as well.
Will did you EVEN READ the article?
The article mentioned exactly that. "But, then they complained that Stoli uses some Russian ingredients…just like Coca-Cola uses some Russian ingredients in the products that it sells throughout Russia. Actually, Coca-Cola operates up to 16 plants in the Russian Federation while employing over 13,000 people there (and claiming its supply chain employs up to 130,000 people). But, no one is calling on gays to dump Fanta and Sprite and certainly not Diet Coke."
excellent. well done. bravo byt! (as i sit having my energy drink+stohli pre-monday-painting-session for an exhibition in Provincetown, ma).
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Hilgartner, C. A., ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
In 1988, at the International Conference on General Semantics held at Yale University, Allen Walker Read (1906 2002) invited me to tell the other participants "What I Have Done to Language." In this paper, I tell what I have done with, to, and for general semantics in particular, and to human symbolizing in general.
Some while ago, I read an account that posed a question. To me, the question seemed original, insightful, important, and, in my opinion today, still not publicly answered. The questioner, treated as male but not named in the writeup, asked:
Has anyone published studies which apply general semantics to hard science, physics in particular?
The reporter writes that the caller's father had studied with Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), but had warned him (the questioner) that the field of general semantics had fallen away from hard science, and that psychologists and teachers had pre-empted it.
I found that I could not ignore this question and remark. I had recently completed some fifteen years criticizing and proposing revisions to relativity and quantum theory from a Korzybskian frame of reference. Furthermore, I got most of my proposals published in physics journals, including at least one refereed one (Hilgartner, Harrington, & Bartter, 1984, 1989; Hilgartner & DiRienzi, 1995). But I felt that I may not have communicated my findings to non-physicists, including persons or groups within the general semantics community who perhaps should belong amongst my primary audiences. To fill that gap, I have composed the following commentary.
Answering the Query
According to the account, the questioner framed his initial question around the notion of "HARD science." As I understand that phrase, it designates those branches of science which their exponents express primarily in the mathematics of the western Indo-European (WIE) tradition. Most people, I gather, regard the "hard" sciences as "really rigorous," and, therefore, as "better" than the life-sciences. The higher status which the "hard" sciences enjoy seems to follow from the aura of "certainty" which most people grant them; and withhold from the "mushy" or "soft" sciences.
The cavils of (mainly) twentieth-century workers such as Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Kurt Godel, Morris Klein, and many others, suggest, more and more clearly and convincingly, that "certainty," in one sense after another, appears unattainable. However, SOMETHING about the Western logics and mathematics convinces most members of the currently dominant world culture, scientists as well as lay-persons, to regard "absolute certainty" as an acceptable construct, and to believe that the methods of the Western logics and mathematics can attain it--at least in the form of 'certainty of inference.'
Similarly, a number of mainly twentieth-century workers report that the logical construct of identity leads to myriad difficulties. But Western logicians, mathematicians, etc., still resolutely rely on the modern logical axiom of identity (2) as their most central construct--the keystone of their theories. As they do with "certainty" most workers continue to rely on identity, despite the criticisms.
I regard that clinging to the constructs of "certainty" and identity as evidence that most Western workers have unawarely committed themselves to fundamental theoretical errors (Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951, pp. 243-244 (3)), which remained utterly unknown and unsuspected until I disclosed them (Hilgartner, 1977/78). I get the impression that few, if any, workers from the Western tradition have found, or even sought, significant connections between the notion of "certainty" and the logical construct of identity.
In my opinion, Korzybski does not base his general semantics on "hard" science or Western mathematics. As his initial breakthrough, working from his own personal experiencing, he rejects the "received wisdom" concerning "human nature" current in his (our) culture, and replaces it with his own carefully-crafted construct, which I often describe as "an operational definition for the species-term Man"--the construct of time-binding (Korzybski, 1921). …


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The answer doesn't seem to have anything to do with the question, it also doesn't even suggest any real answer.
The response I got was a little unexpected:
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I wouldn't flag a wrong answer if the user thought it was right as that's what voting is for. This answer doesn't seem to even belong in the question, the answerer seems to indicate that he could build and run his application however the question is about not being able to run the project at all as an .apk (installer) cannot be generated by the IDE.
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