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I'm a member here but don't think I've ever posted.
I have 2 boys, 2 girls, and one on the way... idk what that one is yet.LOL
My ODS (4yo) seems to have a weekly head injury. Or some cut, bruse, bump... something!!! I'm pretty sure people think I'm beating my kid with as many as he has!
He is a very spirited little boy! This morning, he found the one piece of hidden wood in my couch. He went to fall back onto it and hit his head on it. He has a nice lump now. I gave it a kiss, and turned on Mickey Mouse and he's happy as a clam sitting on the same couch that offended his wee widdle head.
Anyone else have a little boy that is like this?? Seems to have a new lump, bump ect every week or so? Tell me I'm not alone, or a bad mom that I'm not wrapping him in bubble tape!!!


text: I know they say the typical amount one should take to build muscle is 1 gram per pound, or more. Has anyone been successful with taking lower amounts? the reason i ask is, in college my biotech professor and i were talking about it. he said that people who lift weights end up taking way too much protein, that the body can only process so much and the rest is excreted in your waste. i forget what amount he said was optimal, but i know it was less then 1g per lbs. hes got a phd in microbiology so im sure he knows what he is talking about. just wanted to see what you guys thought about this or if anyone has been successful in hypertrophy and have taken smaller amounts than the typical recommended dosage. thanks

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The global retail market managed to avoid the economic downturn in western economies that make up the traditional market for the world's consumer products, by exhibiting year-on-year growth rates that hold promise for all players regardless of sector or scale.
Simply retailing means, directly selling many goods or commodities and services to the consumer. Retail business involves selling commodities from a retail store, online orders, through vendors and so many other polices.
Several factors contributed to this resiliency, paramount of which are the favourable conditions in emerging markets, the adoption of new retailing strategies and technologies, and the robust growth of the world population.
In 2012, retailers will continue to look to enter new markets like Asia Pacific, Africa and South America as higher growth in these regions continues, and they will look to improve their existing operational performance in these markets to achieve sustained growth.
Luxury goods have weathered the recession well, with demand from emerging market consumers and travel retail fuelling the industry. At the other end of the spectrum, economy retailers are making inroads as cash-strapped consumers look for bargains in both grocery and non-grocery. Both forces are squeezing the middle market.
Online retailing is attracting ever more consumers. The array of products available online is expanding. Bricks-and-mortar outlets are becoming victims of "showrooming", which is forcing companies to become "omni-retailers" or lose sales.
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We packed away DD's swing today. Im feeling so sad, I know its stupid. Its just a swing, but gosh she napped in that thing all the time, and now she naps in her crib. We realized it was taking up space and packed it away. DD is 16 months (13 months corrected). I look at her everyday and shes not a baby, shes a toddler. Anyone else sad about this? I mean I couldn't be more proud of her, she melts my heart, but shes grown so much this past year esp considering how tiny she started out.
No longer a baby :(
Mommy to my former 26 weeker- DD Felicity (4) and my termie- DS Xander (1)
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Once Cameron hit about a year adjusted I was sad to pack away all of the baby things, and I missed my lttle baby (after NICU stay). Time flies after they get out of the NICU, that is for sure.
With DD, shes 13 months 10 adjusted, Im not going to pack away all of the baby things, considering Im 37 weeks pregnant. So I guess Im not as sad this time around. Though the last 11 months that she has been home have flown by
I'm a mom and I have a few kids.
a few months back I pack her "baby toys" that felt just so weird!
Vanessa mommy to:
Castalia, EA/TEF 30 weeker, 03/09. Ophelia, 01/13.
www.eatefbooks.com helping raise awareness and funds for EA/TEF
Mommy to Summer (7/9/09) and Kara (8/9/10).


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text: Why is the federal government letting the United States Postal Service go bankrupt? Why are we giving billions of dollars to countries that hate us? Why are we spending billions of dollars to explore Mars? Why does the Pentagon need so much money? Instead of bailing out the big banks whose corporate leadership makes millions of dollars for each individual through bonuses and severance pay, why don't we bail out the Postal Service and save thousands of jobs of middle-class Americans? Why doesn't the government realize how many multimillionaires are being made by giving our taxpayers' hard-earned money to corrupt governments, whose leaders are crooks that hate us but love our money? Keep our money at home. What possible good is spending billions to explore Mars going to do us? Why don't we explore the oceans more? The oceans are right here at home and are known to contain a lot of resources beneficial to all mankind. Why does the Pentagon need to waste so much money? I'm not against helping other countries that need help. But remember the old saying? Let's teach them to fish so they can eat for a lifetime, not just give them fish every day so they eat one day at a time. Let's take care of our own first. I'm just a simple man that has a lot of questions. I'm drinking a beer right now wondering why can't the government be run by regular God-fearing ordinary country-loving, family-oriented people instead of a bunch of no-good politicians. JOOP TENTY, Auburn


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Parents, caveat emptor! The storyline is brutal. Even though the writing is geared for young adults, the main characters are teenagers, there's very little physical romance, and the actual violence would probably count as PG-13 nowadays... it's probably one of the most terrifying books I've read in a very long time! Right up there with George R.R. Martin, if not more so. Remember what we learned from Jaws: you don't actually need to SEE the shark in order for it to be terrifying. Sometimes not seeing the shark is even worse.
The story is basically about a teenager who is forced to compete in a 24-man-enter-1-man-leaves event. I don't want to spoil it by saying any more, but if you liked The Running Man, you'll definitely like this. And if you're young enough that you don't remember The Running Man, nor did you get the Thunderdome reference, then I'm just way too old. But take an old fogey's advice and read this book.
One thing that Insurgent kept shoveling out nonstop was action, tension, and anticipation. There was never a dull moment while reading and that's how I enjoy my books. During the beginning of the book, because of my lack of information towards what was really going on from the previous novel, I had my moments of start-stop reading and tended to put the book down after each individual chapter. But after I started to learn and remember who was who and what was what, the story picked up for me and I found myself loving the dystopian setting once more.
Tris, the mighty sixteen-year-old girl that she is, started to have some irksome characteristics about her. She's headstrong and brash when it comes to the dangerous and life-threatening, constantly arguing with Four. But there is some growth within her character and we can see how Divergence really breaks her personality into the three factions she has aptitude for: Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. Though Tris did irk me, I found her a strong, courageous, and reliable girl and that made her a kickass character in my book.
One thing I'm sure many people had said after reading the book was possibly along the lines of this: "HOLY COW WHAT?! WHAT IS LIFE? DID THAT REALLY JUST HAPPEN? THE ENDING! THAT ENDING! OH MY GOD, PRAISE VERONICA ROTH ON HIGH!" And I couldn't agree more because those were literally the very words coming out of my mouth. The ending exploded in my face as has me dying to read book 3.
Final Summation: The beginning failed to really captivate me and left me frazzled until chapters upon chapters into the book. If you don't remember what happened in Divergent or who anyone was, I highly suggest a reread because it would be most helpful in remembering the characters and the lead up into Insurgent. And trust me, Insurgent is worth the read, the whole 525 pages because that ending made my head clock all the way around. Book three please come out sooner!
Tris doesn't always make good decisions. In fact, she makes some really, really bad decisions but I felt like I understood her so well that I got why she did the things she did even if it's not what I would do. My favorite thing about Insurgent was how well the author messed with your expectations of who is good and who is not. And it's not based just on who Tris likes. I kind of saw the twist at the end coming, but it still gave me chills when I read it. This was a fast read and I couldn't put it down. It left me with some deep thoughts about how easily your virtues can become a vice if you're not careful. I loved the complex idea and story arc. It was an intense, action-packed ride that had me saying "Wow" when I closed the book.
I was hoping for some specific exercises for neck
and shoulder problems. Instead its just a basic routine,
do them all but if something hurts dont do it.
Thats not what I bought the book for.
It gives lip service to the anatomy of the shoulder.
The little it says seems pasted in from some
other source and its never referred to at all.
No interest is shown in the clavicles (collar bones) and very little
mention even given to the scapulae (shoulder blades).
Way too much time is spent on relaxation, breathing,
and meditation.
Any old yoga book that you have lying around will
do as well or better than this book.
Within a few pages, I found out. This book is MAGICAL. The publisher's blurb doesn't really do the plot justice. Here's a modified one: There are two illusionists, chosen at a young age to be bound to one another in a contest that will span their lives until one wins. They have been given no rules, other than that they must perform in some way. They have no idea how one wins, or what one must do to win. Their sponsors in the contest create the circus as the arena for their players. One will travel with it, the other will not. Their story is interspersed with the perspectives of several other characters within or affiliated with the circus, all of whom enrich the plot and provide a deeper look at the workings of the circus and those it touches.
I love the structure of this book. Too often a book with split narratives lingers too long on one or another of the characters, to the point that the reader forgets the other tale being told. Not with "The Night Circus". Most chapters are less than 5 pages long. Any character whose story you long to continue will return again soon. There are no boring narratives. Each is carefully constructed to yield more detail or nuance to the contest, the circus, or the sinister dealings of the competition sponsors. There are many two-page intervals designed to lead the reader through a tent or aspect of the carnival as if the reader were a patron on a tour.
The prose is beautiful - not too verbose, not too simplistic. Morgenstern has the rare ability to describe her fantastical imaginings in a way that is easily accessible. Reading "The Night Circus", I felt like I could see the contents of the tents, feel the fluffiness of the cloud maze, smell the caramel wafting in the air, gaze into the pool of tears, smell the scents in the table of jars. The author makes her creation real. She does so so well that I think the film will be a disappointment - no production company could make real the fantastical things Morgenstern makes me picture in my head.
The romance is gentle and slow-burning. There are no bodice-ripper sex scenes, no overwrought proclamations of undying passion. The romance between the two illusionists is a motivator of events, not the event itself. By sparing us the gory details, the author creates a fairy-tale atmosphere for her love story, a theme alluded to by several of the characters throughout the novel. This is a story about stories. Each character is equal parts vague and filled in. The reader never feels as if a character is fully revealed, but each has a magical quality nonetheless...like fairy tale characters. Morgenstern skillfully translates fantastical, fairy tale elements into a world where fairy tales are unexpected, and dull reality has taken hold (the book begins in the late 19th century in post-industrialized England where the population has seen magic disappear in a haze of coal burning factories and speeding locomotives - magic is now whatever we can mechanize in the name of progress). The author incorporates the 'seen it all' attitude of the people into her narrative - the people are mesmerized by a combination of magic and mechanics, illusions designed for their world. And yet the novel never devolves in 'steampunk' silliness. There is an air of timelessness that pervades every description, so that the circus can move from era to era untouched by the specifics of that time.
The novel approaches what could conventionally be called its climax about 40 pages from the end. But Morgenstern has created so many characters, so many different narratives to care about, that the resolution of the illusionists' contest has become simply one of many stories. I was grateful for the remaining 40 pages to tie together the other narratives intertwined with the illusionists' story. This was altogether a beautiful novel, and I was sad to see it end. Like the rêveurs, I wanted to travel along with the circus for awhile longer.


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Here in godless Seattle, 5,000 members of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons mingle in the Washington State Trade and Convention Center. The hottest topic this year is switching around our jiggly parts, says ASPS spokesperson Brian Hugins. "The overarching discussion that I've heard a lot about was fat grafting."
Former Sen. Bill Frist is in Seattle with the inspiration for Nip/Tuck.
So it's only natural that former Senator Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, would be the key note speaker for tonight's closing ceremonies.Frist is a man of moral conviction. Himself a doctor, he famously diagnosed Terri Schiavo from the chamber floor. He first supported a ban on embryonic stem cell research, but later switched, declaring it morally acceptable to use cells of embryos created in fertility clinics that would otherwise be destroyed. But lest anyone be confused by his position, he opened an editorial on the subject: "I am pro-life."
Plastic surgery isn't totally at odds with Frist's faith-inspired values. There are noble potential benefits to fat grafting. The process uses existing fat cells or grows it by implanting adult or embryonic stem cells. (A morally tricky area for Frist.) Fat grafting can be used to cover dramatic scarring on burn victims or veterans wounded in Iraq and reconstruct breast tissue in cancer patients who have had mastectomies. But much of the talk on the procedure is focused on cosmetic applications, "especially the breasts," Hugins says.
Frist's talk tonight focuses on health care reform--surgeons are anxious to see caps on malpractice litigation and more efficient payments out of Medicare. Sadly it doesn't appear he'll be "diagnosing" the after-picture hotness of post-fat graft breast enhancement patients.


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Commentary - Faith and loyalty: Thoughts on retirement benefits
Commentary - Faith and loyalty: Thoughts on retirement benefits
Posted 8/26/2011 Updated 8/26/2011
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by Gene Kamena
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-- Senior military and civilian leaders inside the Department of Defense have the difficult task of conducting prudent planning in anticipation of impending budget reductions. As is expected, high-end and high-dollar equipment programs either have already been cut or are being eyed for the chopping block. Discussions as to what a right-sized military might look like is being debated, war-gamed and staffed around the Pentagon. These actions are not new and are expected in times of post-conflict reductions.
What is novel is that for the first time, at least in my memory, trial balloons are being floated concerning revamping of the military retirement benefits, a mainstay of military service and culture. The concept of a 401(k) type retirement package, supported with some degree of matched funds, with allowed withdrawals after reaching retirement age is the most frequently touted package on the table.
The men and woman who defend this nation are members of an all-volunteer force. They are professionals who choose to go where others will not. The idea of treating those who defend our freedoms in the same manner as retail-store employees is disconcerting. What is not clear in the current plans is where the break-point will be, who will be grandfathered into the current retirement system and who will be rolled into the 401(k) plan.
Much is demanded from service members and their families. Therefore, much should be given. Compensation should be at least commensurate to the level of service and sacrifice required. Those who have not served in the military might speculate, "Why should members of the military be treated differently than workers in the civilian community?" I know few, if any, civilians (except, on occasion, police and firemen) required to leave their families for long periods, asked to work long hours unbounded by union rules or common labor laws and placed intentionally in harm's way as terms of employment.
My concern is not just centered on those who are serving their nation today, but also for those who might (or might not) follow in the future. How does a nation entice the best and the brightest to serve the nation when compensation does not match demands? In today's economy, recruitment in terms of numbers is not the issue, but attracting qualified people is and will continue to be in the future.
When the economy rebounds, why would a young person commit to a life of sacrifice knowing the benefits are to a large extent on par with the civilian sector? Some people, even some present leaders, point to the virtue of selfless service as an innate quality to compensate shortfalls in compensation. To this I say, selfless service must never be taken for granted. Faith and loyalty are prerequisite before selfless service can pervade a professional force.
Selfless service is indeed based on the foundational principles of faith and loyalty. Characteristics of faith and loyalty flow in multiple directions. Reason also informs us that for faith and loyalty to be of real value, the levels of each must be balanced from lower to higher and vice-versa. The institution and leaders must show good faith and be loyal in the protection of service members, if service members are expected to demonstrate faith and loyalty not only to the nation but also to the institution of military service.
The current fiscal decisions are indeed a test of faith and loyalty for leaders in the Department of Defense and throughout our government. What makes the decision surrounding retirement benefits even harder is those who are affected most do not have a vote (except with their feet); therefore, the force waits and will see if their leaders will take a long view of the current fiscal challenge and if their leaders will pass a very significant test of faith and loyalty.
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So my question is this: ftm's what will you do to get back into shape?
Btdt mom's what have you done in the past to get healthy and fit?
Also anyone ever heard/tried the belly bandit?
{Glory be to DILWEED. Soooo...tits}
I worked really hard in the year before I got pregnant and lost about 60 lbs. I followed a low carb and gf diet, pilates for toning and eliptical. I pretty much havent been motivated since becoming pregnant (1st trimester m/s and just got out of the habit since other than walking) I am motivated to exercise and get started, just unsure as a ftm how the adjustment to a newborn is going to be and if i will be able to get back to my old routine :)
I will lose the weight for me. I've already set 2 very doable post-preggo goals and DH will support me and help me achieve them. He is one of those that loves me no matter what and even says I'm sexy now, and I totally disagree. So I don't need to do it for him, I'll do it for me but it will be an added bonus for him. :)
Stella Kate - 11/14/12
Me (29) + DH (35) = married 9/11/10
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Three Shotguns by ProlificPenWatch
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Old sci fi gun designs from my art college days.
Nice !!!!
i meant no offense bro. i was only pointing out that your style is similar to yours
pahaha, I thought you were linking me someone famous. Get out of my face with these baseless comparisons. Literally the only similarity is we both draw guns, as do hundreds of others I'm sure. The only difference is mine actually sell and find there way into actual video games. Go find something productive to do instead of wasting my time.
your style is a lot like biometal79 or whatever his name is
The third shotgun looks like a laser rifle
It is, sort of. Charged particles actually. Would look like shooting blobs of light in a cone outwards from each barrel. short range weapon just like a conventional shotgun.
Particle shotgun? Now that is something new.
Wow, I love all the information in the description. If the game gets made do me a favor, tell me about it!
All of these look excellent!!
All of these look excellent!!
cool designs bro
very interesting shotguns. first is classic, second is more futuristic, and the last is definitely futuristic.
very nice, just one question, what kind of magazine does the bottom one use?
the cylinder behind the barrel holds the particles, and the larger one in front of the trigger is a nuclear battery.
These are awesome!! If I ever need any gun or mechanic references, I know where to search.
yes, perhaps we can trade knowledge. I know I'll be asking you about vector art ladies at some point.
very nice! fav
Very nice.
I like the Grizzly bear a lot, seems like a plausible successor to the AA12.
I think the Quad-matic is maybe a bit "out-there" It's a great concept, but debateably not a shotgun, altho I suppose its role is similar.
I think the Quad-matic is maybe a bit "out-there" It's a great concept, but debateably not a shotgun, altho I suppose its role is similar.
they're superb...
love the bottom one the most...
love the bottom one the most...


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Fall of Berlin Wall Reverberates at West Point Series: COVER STORY. West Point's Political and Social Changes. Only Article Appearing Today
Pter Grier, writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
THE incident of the mattress-cover inspection is one of William Hickman Jr.'s vivid memories of his freshman "plebe" year at the United States Military Academy.
Lulled by fatigue or familiarity, he forgot his station in life and accidentally addressed a sophomore by the slang for second-year cadet, "yearling." He might as well have slapped a general on the back and called him "buckaroo."
"They gave me two minutes to tear apart my bed, take all the laces out of all of my shoes and all my clothes off their hangers, stuff them in my mattress cover, and present them for inspection," sighs cadet Hickman, now a junior.
The many buttons on cadet uniforms made this particularly frenzied. Still, he got off easy. Only a few years ago the "they" of his story, the upperclass enforcers of a barracks culture as old as the Long Gray Line, had far worse hazing methods at their disposal.
Petty humiliations such as forced funny walks or the use of condiments as cosmetics are no longer officially allowed.
"The quote we always hear is `in the Old Corps...,' " Hickman says.
Welcome to the New World West Point.
Cadets still stand in company formation before morning and noon meals and chant that most ancient and famous of their battle cries, "Beat Navy." They stride fast and straight between buildings, as if dragged by ropes, and snap off "Sir!" even to disheveled passing journalists.
But behind the granite of tradition, vast changes are taking place. Exchange cadets from Poland, Bulgaria, and other ex-Soviet satellites now train alongside Americans. Environmental engineering is the most popular major or field of study for current seniors.
The Class of 1994 is the first whose entire West Point experience occurred after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is also the first to graduate after four years under the new Four-Class program, designed to lessen the brutal hazing that characterized the plebe's lot for 150 years.
Has West Point gone soft? Some die-hards think so. "We are still fighting the vestiges of the old system," says Col. H. Steven Hammond, director of West Point's Office of Leader Development Integration.
The presence of the past is everywhere at the US Military Academy, after all. There is the memory of famous graduates - Lee and Grant, MacArthur and Eisenhower, and more lately H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
There are the gothic battlement buildings, which seem to rise straight from New York bedrock. There is the setting itself, an "S" curve on the Hudson River that George Washington considered one of the most strategic spots in the original American states.
Every effort is made to produce cadets who feel part of something larger than themselves. Without that bond, few 18-year-olds would willingly submit to a life where malls become a distant memory and the head of the physical education department is called "Master of the Sword."
Cadets at the United States Military Academy learn fast that they have entered a world many of their friends back home consider weirdly spartan. Senior Megan Baerman recalls recounting academy adventures to her high school crowd - tales of "pinging" (walking very fast) when she wasn't supposed to, and the punishment that ensued, and so on. They looked at her as if she were telling them bad sorority anecdotes from the 1950s.
"They think it's so sad," she says. Controversial separateness
Ever since West Point was founded in 1802, the separateness of life here has at times been controversial. Academy critics have periodically complained that elite military schools do not fit easily into a democratic form of government.
Within the Army, many of the officers commissioned through Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) have long suspected that the 25 percent or so of the officer corps that consists of West Point graduates is a self-preservation society. …


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With any hugely successful movie franchise comes endless vehicles for promotion and opportunities for sponsored product tie-ins. Filmgoers and consumers alike are likely familiar with posters, fast-food toys, T-shirts, etc. — but with "Twilight"-related merchandise, however, the sky is really the limit. Because fans are so enthusiastic about any "Twilight" product, companies have come out of the woodwork with, in several cases, a lot of surprising products in order to capitalize on the newfangled momentum. Take, for example, "Twilight"-inspired makeup, Sweet Tarts, action figures, greeting cards, party favors — and and the list goes on and on and on. Not to mention the eyebrow-raising adult-themed items.
When MTV News caught up with the films' female star Kristen Stewart, we wondered if she had encountered any particularly odd items upon which her face had been imprinted or embossed, and whether said items provoked any emotional reaction.
"I've heard that there are pretty obscene items that you can get with the boys' faces on them," Stewart said. "And that is just actually really weird — not even funny weird, just weird." Stewart admitted that she considers the line of underwear with her co-stars' faces on them to be "funny weird," not weird-weird. She sounded relieved that her Bella-inspired items are slightly more generic. "I'm actually just on T-shirts and dolls and stuff, to be honest," she said. "I don't think I'm on bed sheets and stuff like that, which is still funny-weird."
What do you think of all the "Twilight" products on the market? What surprising or unique items would you consider buying? Tell us in the comments!
We'll be live at the L.A. premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" on Thursday, June 24. Tune in to MTV.com at 9:30 p.m. ET (8:30 Central) for our red-carpet webcast, and watch us chat with Robert, Kristen, Taylor and all your favorite stars. And don't forget to submit your burning "Eclipse" questions!
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Eckhardt Fuchs, Henry Thomas Buckle: Geschichtschreibung und Positivismus in England und Deutschland, Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1994, 400 pp.
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John R.Hinde, "Review of Eckhardt Fuchs, Henry Thomas Buckle: Geschichtschreibung und Positivismus in England und Deutschland, Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1994", Cromohs 2 (1997): 1-3 <URL: http://www.unifi.it/riviste/cromohs/2_97/hinde.html>.
1. In most accounts of the history of historiography historical positivism
and historicism are viewed as methodologically and theoretically
y divergent approaches to the study of the past. Historicism's greatest
theorist, Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-1884), set the tone of the debate
by arguing that positivism's adoption of the methods of the natural
sciences negated the hermeneutic basis of historicism and consequently
destroyed the 'uniqueness' or individuality d the human past. Not only
positivism was an approach based on the principles of natural science
incapable of revealing the 'spiritual' character of the human world, the
driving force behind the historical process, but it was unable to transform
historical study into an autonomous scientific discipline. Rather, its
'naturalistic' approach reduced history to the dubious status of a 'natural
2. Dr Fuchs' work is an important attempt to rehabilitate Buckle and
to reassess his place in nineteenth-century cultural and intellectual
history. The book is divided into two parts, the first of which examines
the development of Buckle's historical thought within the political, social
and cultural context of Victorian Britain. Although an amateur 'man of
letters' Buckle was a prominent figure in discussions about the nature
of history. At a time when the study of history was not universally
accepted as a scientific discipline, but was still considered by many
to be a literary genre, Buckle's adaptation of Auguste Comte's «philosophie
positive» to the study of history represented an innovative and
controversial attempt to discover and to create a unified, universal,
and progressive historical science.
3. The comparative aspect of this study of positivism and of historicism, and of English and German historiography, is one of the strengths of Fuchs' work, as German historians tend to focus on German historical writing and to view the development of modern science as an exclusively German phenomenon. This has often resulted in a skewed interpretation of nineteenth-century historiography. One significant implication of Fuchs' study is that historicism must not be seen as the paradigm of modern historical science, as Jörn Rüsen and his students have maintained. Both historicism and positivism were «scientific paradigms» and served as catalyst for the scientification and modernization of historiography. This view will perhaps not be accepted by all scholars. But whether or not one agrees with his conclusions, Fuchs has provided a major reassessment of Buckle and the development of modern historical writing, and this work should be read with care by all students of historiography .
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I've been tough (I think) in challenging former Minnesota Gov. (and now presidential candidate) Tim Pawlenty about his past support for cap-and-trade and policies to constrain carbon dioxide emissions. In December 2009, when he first started visiting New Hampshire, he was still talking like CO2 was pollution, and still failed to remove his state from the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Accord:
Now he's pretty much completed a 180-degree turnaround on the whole issue -- even questioning the science of human-caused global warming, as revealed in a Miami Herald interview with him this week:
Q: Do you think there's man-made climate change?
Pawlenty: "Well, there's definitely climate change. The more interesting question is how much is a result of natural causes and how much, if any, is attributable to human behavior. And that's what the scientific dispute is about."
Q: Were do you fall on the spectrum?
Pawlenty: "It's something we have to look to the science on. The weight of the evidence is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes. But to the extent there is some element of human behavior causing some of it - that's what the scientific debate is about. That's why we've seen all this back and forth between some of those prominent scientists in the world arguing about that very point."
Q: There is a strong case for man-made climate change, according to a University of Miami climate researcher I've spoken to. You don't agree with him?
Pawlenty: "There's lots of layers to it. But at least as to any potential man-made contribution to it, it's fair to say the science is in dispute. There's a lot of people who say the majority of the scientists think this way. And there's a minority that way. And you count the number of scientists versus the quality of scientists and the like. But I think it's fair to say that, as to whether and how much - if any - is attributable to human behavior, there's dispute and controversy over it..... Cap and trade I thought is a ham-fisted, expensive, job-ruing economy-stifling approach."
So now he doubts the mirage of "scientific consensus," seems to understand the climate realist perspective, and challenges the stupidity of overhauling the economy to address the dubious "problem." That's a lot of progress, and now it seems there's some consistency in his views.
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For the duration of our lives, we are taught to endeavor to get an incredible training that will prompt an extraordinary occupation so we will be fulfilled and fiscally secure all through life. Joyfully, through diligent work, that objective has worked out as intended for some. Anyhow, nowadays, the annoying feeling of. . . "Am I Next?". . .is on the personalities of each representative.
Of late, we see that numerous, all over the pay scale, are being given their pink slip. Why? Indeed, by and large, they are just the casualty of an economy that has quickly headed down the channel and obstructed at the unemployment office. Being cheerful in these attempting circumstances is troublesome, however it is conceivable. Truth be told, there is promise for those willing to consider an alternative where anybody and everybody has the opportunity to add to a flourishing business taking into account steady work and unending determination.
There is no preferable time over now to investigate the potential outcomes of system promoting through a home-based business on the grounds that a large number of individuals are looking to begin another profession, be their own particular manager, break work instability, supplement the family's pay, manufacture for retirement, or simply have a ton of fun! Numerous individuals in this down economy are hopping into system advertising with another feeling of longing and drive to expand on their entrepreneurial soul. In the event that this is the course in which you are inclining, what would it be advisable for you to search for in an incredible system promoting open door? Here are a few proposals in assessing organizations you may need to consider:
1. Will you create quick salary to rapidly recover your beginning venture?
2. Is this organization an individual from the Direct Selling Association?
3. Have you precisely searched out a supporter focused on your prosperity?
4. Has this organization been in operation for no less than 5 years?
5. Have you checked the money related security of the organization?
6. Is this organization staying aware of innovation?
7. Is it moderate and duplicatible?
8. Will you work low maintenance?
9. Have you met the proprietors and would they say they are an experience administration group?
10. Is it accurate to say that you are energetic about the items?
11. Are the items novel and consumable?
12. Does the organization own licenses (or logical licenses) on the items?
13. What is the dependability rate of the clients?
14. Are extra impetuses advertised?
15. Is there worldwide open door?
Building money related security and riches is conceivable in a down economy and system showcasing is a dynamic approach to bolster the yearning to take control of matters that are imperative to you and your crew. Consider a home-construct business and begin working with respect to an approach to overcome sudden deterrents that you will confront in life. In doing as such, you can make certain that if a pink slip is given to you, you can genuinely see it as a chance to dedicate more opportunity to building your own budgetary security and riches through your own home-based business.
Financial Security Vs Financial Freedom
As you start to leave on your voyage to monetary opportunity, one thing that you will find, in the event that you have not as of now is that there aren't quite a few people why should going backing your endeavors. You may have imparted your cravings to others and get reactions that may shock you. For instance, here are a portion of the reactions that I have gotten…
"That is a funnel dream"
"You can't do that"
"You are cash ravenous and covetous"
How can it be that numerous individuals appear to be against your craving to acquire budgetary autonomy? The motivation behind why is on account of the strides needed to reach monetary opportunity is excessively uncomfortable for the vast majority. A great many people would like budgetary flexibility. In any case, they esteem security considerably more than opportunity. Accordingly, they abandon their fantasies of monetary opportunity for the security of a protected, secure employment with advantages.
Security and flexibility are not the same. They are very distinctive quality frameworks. Case in point, in the event that you need to profit, you can profit the safe route, by landing a position, or you can profit the opportunity path, by beginning your own business. How about we differentiate the two routines.
Landing a decent position is an extremely secure method for profiting. When you have an occupation, you realize that after a given time period you are going to get a certain measure of cash. Consistently or somewhere in the vicinity, your cash is expanded a certain rate in the event that you make a tasteful showing and on the off chance that you can learn extra abilities you can get an advancement, which can build the measure of cash you take home. Nonetheless, this security takes a swing at an expense of flexibility.
Your superintendent lets you know what you need to do, when you need to do it and how you must do it. Your boss lets you know what hours you must work, when you can enjoy a reprieve, when you can have lunch, when you can take an excursion, to what extent that get-away can be, and so forth. In the event that you pick not to do things the way you head honcho wishes for them to be done, you will lose your work and as being what is indicated you will lose your money related security.
Additionally, regardless of the possibility that you do everything to the craving of your head honcho, there are outside strengths outside your ability to control that can accept your occupation far from you. By and large, there is a sure pay run that you meet all requirements for based upon your employment and you can't surpass that pay range, unless you create abilities for an alternate occupation. A great job gives you security, however it costs you opportunity.
Beginning your own particular business is an exceptionally flexibility method for getting rich. Nonetheless, you surrender security. As an entrepreneur you are allowed to choose what you need to do, when you need to do it and how you need to do it. In the event that you need to take a two hour lunch rather than an one hour lunch, you can do as such and there's nothing anyone can do about it. On the off chance that you want to work 12 hours 3 days a week and take the other 4 days off, as restrict to working 7 hours 5 days a week, you can do as such.
Actually, once your business achieves a certain level, you will have the capacity to get cash, paying little mind to whether you appear to work or not. Be that as it may, this opportunity takes a stab at an expense of security. As an entrepreneur particularly toward the starting, you are not ensured any measure of cash. One month your business can get a lot of cash and after that the precise one month from now, your business acquires a 3rd of what you acquired a month ago despite the fact that you did literally the same thing in both months. Additionally, in the event that you commit errors, the cash your business did make can be effortlessly detracted from you through claims, fines and botch.
The expansive lion's share of individuals that you experience have a protected outlook. That is the reason it is critical for you to search out individuals with an opportunity attitude to empower you on your money related trip. A standout amongst the most troublesome things I have needed to find on my excursion is the contrast between a universe of security and a universe of flexibility. On my occupation, I know when I'm getting paid, on the 15th and the 30th of every month. I likewise know the amount I'm getting paid.
With my business however, I haven't the foggiest when I'm getting paid and how much. I can put a bartering on eBay for three straight weeks and get no offers and afterward set up the same closeout the fourth week and make the deal, without rolling out any improvements to my sale posting at all. I can purchase stock and lose cash on 5 straight exchanges and afterward on my 6th exchange I profit I lost back and profit on top of that. It requires some investment to acclimate to a universe of opportunity when you have been molded to live in a universe of security. Accordingly, you need individuals of the same outlook to empower you in transit.
How to Ensure Financial Security
We've been listening to a considerable measure of allegorical depictions for the pitiful condition of the worldwide economy. These depictions are chatted about by TV talking heads and the intellectuals who populate the Sunday morning syndicated programs procuring their millions all the while and you consider how seriously these people have been affected by the current circumstance. They are, after all still utilized. Yet, words like emergency, firestorm, tidal wave, tsunami, storm the rundown goes on-are consolidated with "financial" or "monetary" and woven through the story. Be that as it may, a standout amongst the most intriguing portrayals, essentially because of the suggestions, was the point at which one surely understood intellectual called the monetary emergency "our budgetary Pearl Harbor."
Pearl Harbor obviously was the biggest military sneak assault rather than 9/11, which was a terrorist assault that the United States has ever endured. In an afterward examination the same with 9/11-it was demonstrated that there were unmistakable enlightens the stream of our insight, yet for reasons unknown we decided to disregard it. Our declining economy shut its hold in much the same style. It got us totally unconscious, regardless of the notice signs which we've been overlooking for quite a long time.
From Wall Street to Main Street we've aggregately exhibited a compelling absence of monetary obligation. Divider Street makes venture instruments in light of hypothesis rather than quality, and it was just a matter of time until reality got up to speed and the business sectors and organizations that exchanged them-caved in. Yet, on account of our ever-cautious government, we had the capacity pay Wall Street just about a trillion dollars which served to safeguard them out. It additionally guaranteed that the huge symbols on the Street could keep on paying highly required rewards to top executives (as per the NY Times, near to $4 billion was paid out by Merrill Lynch alone in December 2008).
The basic society then again don't get billions of dollars in rewards, yet they spend as they do. The length of individuals overextend their credit and live past their methods, the potential for monetary ruin is an ever-exhibit risk. This element is exacerbated as a developing number of apparently stable organizations keep on laying off a great many laborers. With unemployment at close record highs, the circumstance is getting to be progressively critical.
There are, then again, certain things you can do to alleviate these recessionary burdens. First and foremost, discover a subsidence confirmation wellspring of wage, for example, web showcasing to ensure income. Verify you have a sound comprehension of monetary standards, and after that put a money related arrangement set up. Construct a strong budgetary establishment, and afterward make your own particular money related security. It's the best way to guarantee long haul budgetary security. You've got the chance to do it without anyone else's help.
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Financial Security Definition
Money related security: we all need it. We need our cash secure like we need numerous things throughout our life secure. We look for security in our home, our auto, our family and we need security in our wellbeing also. Today however, we are going to concentrate on one thing, we are going to concentrate on a budgetary security definition and how it will help us and how we can apply it to our lives and fates.
Merriam-Webster characterizes "monetary" as that which relates to fund. Money, to further separate it, is characterized as: the course of cash and credit, fluid assets of an individual or gathering, and the acquiring of trusts or capital. Security is characterized as the condition of being secure or free from apprehension or trepidation of misfortune.
There are several brisk things we can do to help guarantee putting this money related security definition into practice and serving to make things somewhat more agreeable for us in this time of instability and tension. These things we can do are: to have our cash work for us as opposed to us work for our cash, and to perceive that we have to always be advancing to build all parts of our lives.
It appears that numerous in our reality are concentrating on getting more dollars coming into their family units on the grounds that it is getting more lavish to live in with continually expanding expansion and diminishing wages. Salaries when in doubt have diminished more or less 7% since the year 2000 after you figure in the swelling rate. Destitution, in this manner, is on the ascent. We have to figure out how to have our cash work amid times when we are definitely not.
The conventional way livelihoods have been earned in the west have been by getting up and setting off to a 9 to 5 employment and afterward rehashing this 5 days a week for 52 weeks a year at last building up and finally finishing in 2,080 weeks worked in a normal lifetime. So the cash was working for us amid those hours we worked yet not while we didn't. This implies you were working for your cash for a sum of 83,200 hours. How much better would it be if your cash worked for you rather 349,440? Your cash would then be working for you for an aggregate of 266,240 hours more.
There is an approach to do this however given me a chance to get into our second point first and afterward we will go into a tad bit all the more with reference to how. My next point was that we have to continually be enhancing ourselves in the greatest number of regions as we would; we be able to need to advance as we develop and adult. One of the most ideal approaches to do this is through continually adapting new things, always discovering better approaches to do things and must be imaginative and use diverse parts of our brains to extend ourselves past what we think we are so we can get to be what we really can be.
By what method would we be able to do this? By what means would we be able to verify this budgetary security definition applies to us and works for us in our lives? Restricted is to do member advertising and deal with the web. Partner advertising permits you to profit while you are resting and in addition conscious. This implies your cash is working for you whether you are there or not. In member showcasing you sign up to be an offshoot with an organization and afterward profit for every individual you allude to them. How awesome is that? We have all seen this when the TV or phone organization says, "we'll issue you $50 for every individual you allude to us." It conveys them business and permits you to partake in this procedure and get a minimal expenditure in your pocket also. This sort of work can oblige a little inventiveness, however, so it does satisfy the second 50% of our approaches to end up all the more monetarily secure.
In rundown, we are every single confronting thi financial downturn and we need to make sense of what we are going to do to help ease a portion of the anxiety of it and leave it superior to anything we went into it. We can help to do this by thinking of our own money related security definition and discovering a path for our cash to work for us when we are not furthermore to be continually moving upward: developing and not lapsing.
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HONG KONG, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Globalsurance will be offering the newly updated AETNA Global Benefits international health insurance policies, according to company spokesmen this week. Globalsurance customers will now be able to obtain AETNA medical insurance plans which include Traditional Chinese Medicine Benefits under both Inpatient and Outpatient coverage, and improved maternity coverage benefits.Furthermore, Globalsurance customers with an AETNA policy will now be able to include dependents on a parent's plan up until the ages of 18 if the dependent is living with the policyholder or 26, if the dependent is enrolled in full time education. Globalsurance customers with AETNA coverage are also able to obtain coverage for congenital birth anomalies until their child has reached 12 months of age, giving vastly improved coverage and more peace-of-mind to new families whose infants may have had health problems at birth. In a move which has been welcomed by Globalsurance, AETNA has also provided more flexibility with regards to the time in which a policyholder has to submit a claim for medical treatment – extending the claims deadline to 180 days after treatment. Additionally, stricter limits have been placed on Accidental Dental Treatments, which are now restricted to one treatment or visit within 30 days of the accident which required the care. However, Globalsurance would like to note that even though its customers are able to access an improved policy from AETNA that the costs associated with the coverage have increased by an average 10 percent globally since last year. While this increase is lower than AETNA's 11.9 percent per year average since 2008, it is still a significant rise over the previous price points. David Hayes, Managing Director of Globalsurance, said, "we are extremely pleased to be able to offer such a high quality product to our customers. AETNA has been a leading company in the global medical insurance industry, and the inclusion of more all-encompassing coverage options will make the products from this company a bigger part of our offerings." SOURCE Globalsurance.com
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- Manning guilty of 20 charges, not aiding the enemy
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- Judge deliberates in GI's WikiLeaks trial
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LONDON — Hackers rushed to the defense of WikiLeaks on Wednesday, launching attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Swedish prosecutors, a Swiss bank, Sarah Palin and others who have acted or spoken against the site and its jailed founder, Julian Assange.
Internet "hacktivists" operating under the label "Operation Payback" claimed responsibility in a Twitter message for causing severe technological problems at the website for MasterCard, which pulled the plug on its relationship with WikiLeaks a day ago.
MasterCard acknowledged "a service disruption" involving its Secure Code system for verifying online payments, but spokesman James Issokson said consumers could still use their credit cards for secure transactions. Later Wednesday, Visa's website was inaccessible.
The online attacks are part of a wave of support for WikiLeaks that is sweeping the Internet. Twitter was choked with messages of solidarity for the group, while the site's Facebook page hit 1 million fans.
Late Wednesday, Operation Payback itself appeared to run into problems, as many of its sites went down. It was unclear who was behind the counterattack.
MasterCard is the latest in a string of U.S.-based Internet companies — including Visa, Amazon.com, PayPal Inc. and EveryDNS — to cut ties to WikiLeaks in recent days amid intense U.S. government pressure. PayPal was not having problems Wednesday, but the company said it faced "a dedicated denial-of-service attack" on Monday.
Meanwhile, a website tied to former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin came under cyberattack, she said. In a posting on the social networking site Face book last week, Palin called Assange "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands." An aide said staff moved quickly to secure the website and that no data was compromised.
WikiLeaks' extensive releases of secret U.S. diplomatic cables have embarrassed U.S. allies, angered rivals and reopened old wounds across the world. U.S. officials in Washington say other countries have curtailed their dealings with the U.S. government because of WikiLeaks' actions.
PayPal vice president Osama Bedier said the company froze WikiLeaks' account after seeing a letter from the U.S. State Department to WikiLeaks saying that the group's activities "were deemed illegal in the United States."
Offline, WikiLeaks was under pressure on many fronts. Assange is in a British prison fighting extradition to Sweden over a sex-crimes case. Recent moves by Swiss Postfinance, MasterCard, PayPal and others that cut the flow of donations to the group have impaired its ability to raise money.
Neither WikiLeaks nor Assange has been charged with any offense in the U.S., but the U.S. government is investigating whether Assange can be prosecuted for espionage or other offenses. Assange has not been charged with any offenses in Sweden either, but authorities there want to question him about the allegations of sex crimes.
Undeterred, WikiLeaks released more confidential U.S. cables Wednesday. The latest batch showed the British government feared a furious Libyan reaction if the convicted Lockerbie bomber wasn't set free and expressed relief when they learned he would be released in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
In another U.S. memo, American officials were shown to be lobbying the Russian government to amend a financial bill they thought would disadvantage U.S. companies Visa and MasterCard.
The most surprising cable of the day came from a U.S. diplomat in Saudi Arabia after a night on the town.
"The underground nightlife of Jiddah's elite youth is thriving and throbbing," the memo said. "The full range of worldly temptations and vices are available — alcohol, drugs, sex — but all behind closed doors."


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Once again, I have been pretty much almost completely inactive on Spark as of late.
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Savage takes on autism, advertisers shock jock back
"...as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience."
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point.
WHEN WILL THEY LEARN? Another radio "shock jock," another offensive
comment, and more controversy: this time it's Michael Savage yammering
about autism that has sponsors pulling their ads. (RL)
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IF YOU'RE BORED WITH THE OLYMPICS: Wife Carrying leads this list of the World's 10 Silliest Sporting Events. Goat Polo and Dog-Surfing failed to make the Top 5. (RS)
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Bunge Limited Executive Chairman To Resign From Board Of Directors On December 31, 2013
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) today announced that Alberto Weisser will resign from its Board of Directors effective December 31, 2013, concurrent with his planned retirement as executive chairman. Mr. Weisser has served as executive chairman since June 2013, and previously served as chairman and CEO since 1999. The Board has appointed L. Patrick Lupo to succeed Mr. Weisser as non-executive chairman, effective January 1, 2014. Mr. Lupo has been a member of Bunge's Board since 2006 and currently serves as deputy chairman and lead independent director, as well as chairman of the Compensation Committee. He is the former chairman and CEO of DHL Worldwide Express."Alberto successfully led Bunge through a period of transformation and expansion," said Mr. Lupo. "During his tenure, the company established a network of well-placed assets, built leading market positions in agribusiness and food and ingredients, and developed a talented team. The foundation he put in place has opened up numerous possibilities for Bunge and will serve as a springboard for future success. The Board joins me in thanking Alberto for his outstanding contributions and in wishing him the very best in the future." "It has been an honor to lead Bunge," said Mr. Weisser. "We accomplished a lot in the 20 years since I joined the company, and as it approaches its 200 th year of operations, the future holds even greater potential." About Bunge Limited Bunge Limited ( www.bunge.com, NYSE: BG) is a leading global agribusiness and food company operating in over 40 countries with approximately 35,000 employees. Bunge buys, sells, stores and transports oilseeds and grains to serve customers worldwide; processes oilseeds to make protein meal for animal feed and edible oil products for commercial customers and consumers; produces sugar and ethanol from sugarcane; mills wheat, corn and rice to make ingredients used by food companies; and sells fertilizer in South America. Founded in 1818, the company is headquartered in White Plains, New York. Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains both historical and forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts, but rather reflect our current expectations and projections about our future results, performance, prospects and opportunities. We have tried to identify these forward-looking statements by using words including "may," "will," "should," "could," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "intend," "estimate," "continue" and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. The following important factors, among others, could affect our business and financial performance: industry conditions, including fluctuations in supply, demand and prices for agricultural commodities and other raw materials and products used in our business; fluctuations in energy and freight costs and competitive developments in our industries; the effects of weather conditions and the outbreak of crop and animal disease on our business; global and regional agricultural, economic, financial and commodities market, political, social and health conditions; the outcome of pending regulatory and legal proceedings; our ability to complete, integrate and benefit from acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and strategic alliances; our ability to achieve the efficiencies, savings and other benefits anticipated from our cost reduction, margin improvement and other business optimization initiatives; changes in government policies, laws and regulations affecting our business, including agricultural and trade policies, tax regulations and biofuels legislation; and other factors affecting our business generally. The forward-looking statements included in this release are made only as of the date of this release, and except as otherwise required by federal securities law, we do not have any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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IN a previous chapter, that on London life and the comedy of manners, two varieties of realistic comedy were distinguished : that which was content to picture life directly, if sometimes crudely, as it appeared to the contemporary observer, who was less concerned to reprehend vice and laud virtue than to represent things pleasingly and frankly; and secondly, that kind of comedy which studied the world about it, but which insisted on representing it more or less with reference to the ancients and their usages, and with the ever-conscious attitude of a moral censor. Such was, in brief, the striking contrast between Middletonian and Jonsonian comedy, a contrast not to be blurred by the fact that Jonson was, for the most part, far too good an artist to carry his theories to the excesses in practice which critics who have not studied him are wont to declare. The bulk of Middleton's comedies of manners range, as we have seen, between 1604 and 1613. Bartholomew Fair, 1614, is Jonson latest play unmistakably of the type; although the later dramas of Jonson, shortly to claim our attention, despite their return to the harder lines and underlying allegory of the dramatic satires, are none the less full of telling contemporary strokes and in essence still of the comedy of manners. The later comedy of manners, when at its best, combines the freedom and unconsciousness of Middleton with the constructive
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|Iowa's Jim Stillman Elected to Help Lead Soybean Checkoff
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|Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:52
United Soybean Board Leaders Committed to Moving U.S. Soy Industry Forward in 2012
ST. LOUIS (December 16, 2011) – The United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff prepare to head into the new year with a new farmer-led executive committee, electing Jim Stillman, a checkoff farmer-leader from Emmetsburg, Iowa, as vice chair. Stillman, along with the 68 other volunteer farmer-directors, will focus on implementing specific, new strategic objectives outlined in the checkoff's Long-Range Strategic Plan.
They include directing soybean checkoff dollars to improve U.S. soybean meal and oil, helping ensure U.S. soybean farmers have the freedom and adequate transportation infrastructure to operate and meeting the needs customers of U.S. soy here at home and abroad. In addition, USB made supporting the biggest domestic user of soy – U.S. poultry, livestock and fish farmers – its top priority.
"These issues are critical to the U.S. soy industry," Stillman said after his election. "I'm honored to help lead the soybean checkoff as it focuses on these issues and others that help maximize profit opportunities for all U.S. soybean farmers."
Stillman has been a checkoff farmer-leader since 2005, most recently serving two terms as USB treasurer.
Other soybean farmer-leaders elected to the 2012 USB executive committee include:
• Vanessa Kummer, Colfax, N.D., Chair
• Jim Call, Madison, Minn., Secretary
• Bob Haselwood, Berryton, Kan., Treasurer
• Lewis Bainbridge, Ethan, S.D., Domestic Marketing Chair
• Russ Carpenter, Trumansburg, N.Y., New Uses Chair
• Sharon Covert, Tiskilwa, Ill., International Marketing Chair
• Jim Schriver, Montpelier, Ind., Production Chair
• Jimmy Sneed, Hernando, Miss., Communications Chair
• Rick Stern, Cream Ridge, N.J, Audit & Evaluation Chair
USB is made up of 69 farmer-directors who oversee the investments of the soybean checkoff on behalf of all U.S. soybean farmers. Checkoff funds are invested in the areas of animal utilization, human utilization, industrial utilization, industry relations, market access and supply. As stipulated in the Soybean Promotion, Research and Consumer Information Act, USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has oversight responsibilities for USB and the soybean checkoff.
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It was a much wiser and practical man than I who once said, "If it ain't broke, then don't try to fix it."
The grammar wouldn't have flown in, say, Mrs. Casselberry's third-grade English class and neither would the next sentence, but is easily understood.
Why fool with something that doesn't need fooling with?
It's similar to Colorado wrestling's initial season of new weight classes.
Background: For the 2011-12 season, the 14 individual bouts changed in pounds from 103, 112, 119, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 152, 160, 171, 189, 215 and heavyweight (275) to 106, 113, 120, 126, 132, 138, 145, 152, 160, 170, 182, 195, 220 and heavyweight (285).
Nearly 300,000 prep wrestlers participate nationally, making it the sixth-most popular sport.
However, while the increase in pounds appears minimal and is in line with today's supposed bigger athletes, this has all of the makings of a big problem.
Those in wrestling want the change pinned.
"I knew it would be a bad deal for wrestling," said 31-year coach Gary Ramstetter of Alamosa. "I've only talked to one guy who likes them and he's at a big school.
"It's considered overwhelmingly bad by the ones I know."
Said Mead coach Ty Tatham: "I talked to a lot of coaches (the past weekend). They don't think they're good."
Here's the problem: The feeling is that a smaller-to-middle weight, as in 135-145, which is a key area for the sport, has been eliminated, while 189 has virtually been split into two classes.
In other words, all of a sudden the sport has cut into the very fabric of its being and appeal.
Indeed, the big boys are welcome, but why do it at the expense of the smaller ones?
"That's what they're saying — America is getting bigger, but wrestlers aren't," Pomona coach Sam Federico said.
It's not that he's in favor of Weight Watchers, but "75 percent of your team is below 152," he said.
Using an optimal performance calculator, said Harry Waterman, assistant CHSAA commisioner, prep wrestling coaches across America and officials of the National Federation of High School Associations who opted for change are awaiting data to "see if they're working. ... The whole purpose is to create participation."
Waterman, a former 98-pounder himself, is aware of the current feelings. Butwhile he "doesn't fully understand the statistics driving them up, they're using them to justify the decision. Somewhere along the line, common sense should come into play."
So should current scenarios — various meets are featuring forfeits in upper weights, which was a visible problem within the previous weight classes.
Tatham, a sectional representative for the national coaches association, frets about "cream puffs" in regionals advancing to state, perhaps even winning.
"It's one of few sports where a little guy can compete and do well," Tatham said. "This hurts them."
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