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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sheeple Watching - Modern Femininity
The first in a series of random observations and fleeting thoughts that flit through my mind lately whenever I walk about in public and observe the average, brainwashed, indoctrinated and oblivious American Sheeple.
Traditional Femininity Stands Out
The vast majority of females in the public sphere generally present themselves in two different categories: masculinized, empowered and uncaring of presenting an attractive image to males, or hyper-sexualized attention whores emulating sluts that advertise their wares for all to see.
The masculinized women I refer to is not necessarily lesbians or hardcore feminists...but rather women who eschew femininity. In this category, there are two subsets: Women in pants, pantsuits, slacks, or female "power suits" with shoulder pads to simulate masculine shoulders. These women are dressed to be "empowered" and ready to compete with men in the world of white collar business. The ironic thing about this fashion trend is that it was mostly inspired by the feminist doctrine that women should dress like men in order for men to "take them seriously" in the world of business. The contention that women must dress like men to be taken seriously by men is indeed the perfect indication that feminists that pushed this idea do not understand what it is about women that men "take seriously."
The other kind of masculinized fashion sense is the jeans, sweatshirts, sweat pants and T-shirt types with tennis shoes or flip flops on their feet. They deliberately dress to downplay their feminine appearance. This one, I think, appears to be much more prevalent amongst the majority of the female herd members of 21st Century American Sheeple. I find this current cultural zeitgeist to be particularly demoralizing. It's the deliberate social engineering to make the world a much less visually appealing place. Some feminists would gleefully declare that last pronouncement as a blow to Patriarchy.
For once, they would be correct.
Now this thought occurred to me, when I was walking around downtown Honolulu this morning and observed the vast majority of females dressed as one or the other specimens I previously detailed. About 100 yards away, across the street, I observed a women wearing a dress. A regular, non-slutty dress that was tasteful and extremely visually appealing because it projected femininity in a non-promiscuous manner on a purely aesthetic level.
As we walked towards each other, I quickly realized that within 20 yards, it became apparent that she was actually quite unattractive when it came to her facial features...but her feminine appearance definitely went a long way towards softening up her asymmetrical face, acne scarring and crooked nose.
In Hawaii, we guys have a saying for this...it's called "Good from far...but far from good!' Nevertheless, this perception I had of her really drove the point home in my mind - the loss of the conventional standards of femininity in dress has made the world a much less beautiful place to behold. Even ugly women can avoid visual offense to male sensibilities if they project femininity in their dress and mannerisms! Of course there are plenty of women who just plain don't care about appealing to men's visual sense. I consider this a society-wide tragedy of epic proportions.
The flip side of that coin, of course, is the women who play up their sexual assets to inspire and over-excite their appeal to male visual stimuli response. This, of course, is much more common on the night time scene. In fact, many of the women who dress either as the masculinized, androgynous womanoids in either jeans t-shirts and tennis shoes in the daytime, or the "empowered" business attire during the day, will than go home, and get dressed up as exhibitionists for their night time recreation. As a normal male that certainly enjoys female visual stimuli, I still find such revealing attire a sad state of affairs. Women who dress like in this picture do project an aura of promiscuity - that they are open to propositions for casual sex with strangers. Even women who do not intend to do so, and are in fact interested in meeting a man with whom they want to pursue a serious committed relationship, still present themselves as promiscuous sluts when they are out and about for the evening, simply because that appears to be the norm of female attire in this day and age.
But the woman who truly stand out amongst the crowd, are those that defy the modern conventions, embrace tasteful femininity, and resemble a metaphorical flower amongst the weeds. Even here in Hawaii, where we have a somewhat specialized fashion sense influenced by our unique cultural conditions, it's apparent that the vast majority of women generally follow the typical models I previously detailed. The traditional feminine clothing specific to Hawaii is the mu'umu'u (it's NOT pronoucned "moo moo," it's pronounced moo-ooh moo-ooh), and most women in Hawaii (who were born and or raised here) have at least one mu'umu'u hanging in her closet.
But where it was once daily wear, it is now usually reserved for only church wear or family type events. Yet it was only a generation ago...hell, in my lifetime, that I recall most females, young and old, here in Hawaii, who wore mu'umu'u on an almost daily basis. I still remember my 3rd grade class when most of the girls wore dresses and mu'umu'u...but by the time we were in high school, the cultural inculcation of androgyny or hyper-sexualization had taken hold and rendered traditional feminine wear nearly obsolete.
I can't tell you how many times I've experienced an almost breath-taking shock when I've been around women I've known and socialized with for a long time...who all adhere to some various sense of masculine dress for the majority of their lives...who on some rare occasion, put on a feminine, non-promiscuous dress and shoes. It's a dramatic transformation...but it's only so shocking because indeed, as of nowadays, it's so uncommon.
It seems as if women en masse in our 21st century BraveNewWorldOrder have all been inculcated to embrace either androdgyny or exhibitionism in their clothing and fashion choices. Both extremes are meant to either nullify or over-excite the human males hard-wired biological response to visual stimuli. In either case, it seems to me that the social engineers who have mutated cultural norms of traditional femininity into either extremes, have deliberately done so to foment the modern gender war we all currently endure.
25 comments:
- Hestia said...
KG- I am looking forward to reading your view on the Illuminati over at The Spearhead.
I wholeheartedly agree with this post. Even as a woman, I appreciate seeing other women who have enough self-respect and care to take pride in their appearance and do better than the icky casual or menswear that is so prevalent today. Sweats might be okay while checking into the ER but at the grocery store?? Have times really changed that much?
Having been raised Baptist, I didn't wear pants too often and hardly wear them even now, except for a few choice occasions, such as hiking or a playground trip on a very windy day. Pants are not as flattering and pretty as a tasteful dress/skirt nor does my husband find them as attractive. Dressing nicely and taking care of your appearance takes such a small amount of effort but can have a large impact. Just wear a dress and a touch of lipstick to a social function and watch the compliments come. Sadly comical and a sign of the times.
- October 27, 2009 at 8:43 PM
- Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Tech said...
female "power suits" with shoulder pads to simulate masculine shoulders.
What exactly is the point of these things? All shoulder pads on a woman do is just make the rest of her body look off.
You can tell when a woman is wearing something with shoulder pads because the rest of her body looks out of whack as a result.
- October 27, 2009 at 9:34 PM
- Erik said...
mu'umu'u = cultural clothing
moomoo = tent like garment worn by those too fat to fit into anything else.
I agree with the post. Its nice to look upon these hypersexual girls but due to it being commonplace it doesn't really excite nor is it terribly attractive, despite guys looking. Also, it really shows the truth behind women's claims to want to be taken for who they are when they dress that way. Its like they are somehow acknowledging that their feminist rhetoric is just that, and that their value lies more in their looks and fecundity.
- October 27, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- Hestia said...
What exactly is the point of these things? All shoulder pads on a woman do is just make the rest of her body look off.
Emergency cleavage enhancers! If a woman didn't have time to go home between work and the nightly sleaze fest, she cold take off her shirt underneath, slice out the shoulder pads and stuff them into her bra for insta-lift. I'm only half-kidding as they actually. Cosmo has probably ran a similiar tip before. ;o)
On a serious note, there is a lighter, smaller version of shoulder pads that are available at sewing stores, in the notions area, that are used to provide stabilization to certain sorts of fabrics and womens dress patterns. Usually a product called interfacing is used, but sometimes this will not work in awkward areas, light fabrics, or tricky patterns, so a shoulder pad is used instead. This will often be seen on sundresses that have a sheer fabric on top with a light lining underneath, dressy jackets/toppers, and decorative sleeves of several types.
Certain body types can also benefit from a bit of a shoulder pad. A woman wishing to conceal an ample bust might benefit from a shoulder pad, as would an elderly lady who is hoping to conceal some of the effects of older age. These are usually much thinner than their masculine womens suit jacket counterpart, though.
- October 27, 2009 at 11:34 PM
- Hestia said...
Opps, I neglected to finish a sentence in my first paragraph. It should read: "I'm only half-kidding as they actually sell products for this purpose that look similiar to shoulder pads"
- October 27, 2009 at 11:36 PM
- ironrailsironweights said...
I commute by train into Manhattan and therefore see ample numbers of women going to business and professional jobs. Not to mention that I work with many, albeit in a "business casual" environment. The shoulder-padded masculinized power suit look is not common, not by any means. In fact I'd say it's quite rare.
- October 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Funny you post this today.
I went to safeway last night at around 11:30pm. On a tuesday. I'm dressed the part, shorts/slippers/t-shirt. Just about finished getting what I need to get, and in come a group of people, 2 guys and 3 girls.
Two girls had their boobs falling out of their tops, one in tight jeans one in a mini skirt. The other was wearing heels so high that she had trouble walking (she looked like she was limping).
One of the guys dressed like Kanye west. Much like here: http://tinyurl.com/ykyarho (except he had a scarf on). The other guy I didn't get a good look at.
Again, tuesday night at a grocery store.
- October 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM
I've been saying for years that there's nothing more sexy than a woman wearing a long tight fitting dress. Most women just don't get this.
- October 29, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- LadyLydiaSpeaks said...
I have added this article to my links. Please tell me where I can get more photos like that of the women in the long dresses!! I have one post called "Hawaiian Dresses" on my blog that links to dresses you can buy, produced in Hawaii, and they are beautiful.
- October 29, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Woman wearing Italian Sausage.
- October 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- Keoni Galt said...
LadyLydia, just google "mu'umu'u."
- October 29, 2009 at 4:11 PM
- MarkyMark said...
You know what REALLY pisses me off?! Chicks wearing ties-WTF?! I really, truly do NOT get this thing chicks have for wearing ties...
- October 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- Keoni Galt said...
True MM...that's almost as bad as guys wearing dresses... lol
- October 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM
- lovelysexybeauty said...
Great article! I care a lot about dressing fashionably and femmily, and sometimes it takes so much work to find good clothes. (Shopping is not an easy task as many guys think lol).
I realized a few weeks ago that I like, never open a door for myself except when alone. I rarely lift my luggage into the overhead on the airplane. I don't think chivalry is dead... and I'm talking about this stuff happening in NYC, DC, Boston... Maybe I am a walking frame of femininity, and the fact I really try to dress up and dressy femmy (I love pink and frills and sparkles!) has something to do with it.
About work clothes, it's been my work lifelong struggle to find fitted, young, and cute suits. Dresses are a little easier. A lot of girls manage to dress well for work, especially the younger ones (like me)... The flip side is you look to pretty or young to be taken seriously... I'm still struggling with how to do all this. "Look professional and old at work, young and sweet in private..."
I could go on and on... but I think sweats or very comfortable casual clothes can look femmy too. A nicely fitted pair of jeans with a ruffly top, or a tee shirt with a big bow on it in a pretty color, some dangly earrings and bracelets and pretty hair, and nice shoes can still look femmy. Juicy Couture and some other brands have sweats in pink and other girly colors, and with flowery patterns etc. It all helps.
"I've experienced an almost breath-taking shock when I've been around women I've known and socialized with for a long time...who all adhere to some various sense of masculine dress for the majority of their lives...who on some rare occasion, put on a feminine, non-promiscuous dress and shoes. It's a dramatic transformation..."
Sooo true. For a while I've debated dressing "down" or less femmy on purpose so that when I do dress up, the impact can be more! Now I barely have time to plan so I just go with the flow.
OK I feel inspired to write a post about this stuff... I think about all this wayyy to much for my own good. Nice to see a man who notices these things though :-) (Guys shouldn't complain when girls seem obsessed with fashion and clothes... it makes a difference, no?)
- November 1, 2009 at 8:57 PM
- lovelysexybeauty said...
Oh and about the girls who dress promiscuously... I've always noticed that when I dress well in something fitted that also covers, I get more respectful attention (almost like worship) than if I wear something very daring. I always feel so embarassed and even cheap when I've tried to dress more showy....
In hook-up environments, yes the girls who dress and act the most sl*tty get the most attention. But turning that type of attention into love (towards commitment) is extremely hard to do, if not impossible.
The hint of sexiness is more enticing than when it's in your face... where's the touch of fantasy to reality? :-)
- November 1, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Interesting post. I appreciated hearing a male perspective, as I am in the process of reworking my wardrobe...leaving behind the jeans/sweats/tennis shoes look for something more feminine. Keep up the good writing.
- November 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- Civilla said...
Wow! What a good post!
- December 22, 2009 at 9:13 PM
This guy is a creep! I saw him hiding in the back of his van taking pictures of unsuspecting women.
- March 11, 2010 at 9:40 PM
yet another reason women need to listen to men - to tell them what's best for them
put on a dress already
let your hair grow long
speak softly
act feminine
- May 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM
- LadyLydia said...
I hope you can find a Hawaiian dress photo to replace the one that was removed from this post. The picture made such a good statement by itself. Since I still have a link to this post from my modest dress section on my blog, I hope you can find another photo.
- July 28, 2011 at 7:37 PM
OK LadyLydia, how do you like the new photo I chose?
- July 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- LadyLydia said...
This is really nice! Thinking Housewife has linked to this article in one of her recent ones on "prettiness", I think, so I am glad you replaced the photograph. There is nothing like the Hawaiian dress--it is the ideal garment.
- July 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- LadyLydia said...
Even though this post is older, it really needs to be in a prominent and permanent place on your blog to make it easy to find!
- July 29, 2011 at 9:11 PM
- George Carty said...
In her 1985 book Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility, Germaine Greer pointed out that traditional feminine clothing (which is more forgiving of the fuller and/or pregnant figure than tight modern clothing) is a celebration of motherhood.
"Women who wear cortes or huipiles or saris or jellabas or salwar kameez or any other ample garments can swell and diminish inside them without embarrassment or discomfort. Women with shawls and veils can breastfeed anywhere without calling attention to themselves, while baby is protected from dust and flies. In most non-Western societies, the dress and ornaments of women celebrate the mothering function. Ours deny it."
Would I be a conspiracy theorist if I speculated that their could be connection between the fact that androgynous-ideal feminism kicked into high gear around about 1970, and the fact that Malthusian ideology was being re-popularized around that time with books such as Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb.
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• Enquirer reporter Sharon Coolidge's use of open records law documented Cincinnati's lax enforcement of lead paint removal orders. She told CityBeat that her coverage included positive impacts in addition to those above in my main column:
The day after her story was published, Mayor Mark Mallory ordered health officials to explain why they hadn't forced problem landlords to clean up their properties.
Three public hearings led to a comprehensive city plan to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010. The plan lowers the medical threshold at which health officials can intervene, thus catching lead poisoning in its earliest stages.
City Council gave the health department more than $1 million to finance reforms. Poor families are getting kits to detect whether their homes are contaminated.
In one of his first acts as new governor, Ted Strickland allowed cities to sue lead-paint producers; Cincinnati is suing Sherwin-Williams.
State lawmakers are considering a new law, named after a family featured in the Enquirer story, to provide $20,000 grants for lead removal.
• A more recent public benefit from open records laws involved the Enquirer suit to obtain secret streetcar vendors' bids. Attorney Jack Greiner, who handles First Amendment issues for the paper, said that Cincinnati's ordinance requires bids be available for public review. Faced with resistance, the Enquirer went to court. Hamilton County appellate judges agreed with the paper, rejecting company arguments that records were exempt from public records law as "trade secrets."
• Unless you're living under a Rock of Cliches, you've read or heard that flu is sweeping the nation. Every sneeze, every cough, every chill and shiver warns us that the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse is tethering his pale horse at our curb. The catch is that despite breathless news media offerings, little unusual is happening except for an early, aggressive onset of the perennial scourge. Thousands die every year from flu, most of them elderly. It would be news if we didn't. Annual death estimates — hampered by incomplete reporting and similar health problems — range from 3,000 to 49,000.
• An Enquirer Sunday Forum carried Michael Kinsley's column about Hillary Clinton's extensive foreign travel as secretary of state. Kinsley doubts the value of much of her travel but in today's world, "The less important the trip, the more prestige you gain by taking it." Having time and money to waste proves you have time and money to waste . . . even if you're on the taxpayers' clock and paycheck. Maybe that explains an otherwise inexplicable Enquirer revelation that Steve Chabot is a foreign policy expert, citing his extensive foreign travel at taxpayer expense.
• Enquirer reporter Dan Horn produced two nay-saying front page stories. Both were welcome surprises from Cincinnati's "get on the team" daily. One questioned the argument that right-to-work laws provide an economic boost in states like Indiana, Michigan, or, potentially, Ohio. That anti-union policy was a staple topic in my 1950s high school debating days. Economic analysis, like divining why crime rates change, is more complicated than whether union membership is optional or required in a "union shop." Too many union/right-to-work debates — fueled by no-compromise advocates putting re-election before public benefit — ignore complexity.
• A second invocation of skepticism by the Enquirer's Dan Horn raised serious doubts about feel-good gun buy-back programs. I'll go this far on guns: each firearm bought back and destroyed (not bought back and sold to dealers for resale) is a gun that won't kill someone. Cincinnati Police destroy buy-back weapons not needed for investigations. Buy-back, however, won't change life on Cincinnati streets where scores of young men kill each other each year. Anyone who wants a firearm can get one faster than you can say, "Your money or your life." Similar doubts about Cincinnati's gun buy-back program made Page 1 of the New York Times.
• Fox 19's Dave Culbreth came up with a smart take on the controversial idea of arming teachers and school administrators. He interviewed Target World assistant manager Amy Hanlon who demonstrated how a woman could carry a concealed handgun. As Culbreth noted, there was nothing special about her clothing: slacks, blouse, overshirt. By the end of the interview, she'd removed nine concealed semi-automatics or revolvers, including one tucked under her bra in a holster that also was displayed on a counter-top mannequin bust.
• WCPO-TV plans an online local news challenge to the Enquirer's Cincinnati.com, according to Business Courier's Jon Newberry. It's a pioneering effort by Cincinnati-based E. W. Scripps that could go national, Newberry suggested. Whether additional reporters, producers, editors, etc., will come from the Business Courier and other established news media was not clear. Scripps — a Cincinnati-based national print and broadcast company— published the Cincinnati Post until it closed the barely-sustaining joint operating agreement with the Enquirer ended in 2007.
• Blogger Peter Heimlich tipped me to Channel 19 anchor Ben Swann's web gig called Full Disclosure. Swann says there are enough witnesses to challenge official police narratives of single shooters at three recent massacres: the Oak Creek, Wis., Sikh temple; Aurora, Colo., Batman movie premiere, and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Salon.com challenged Swann about his apparent validation of those counter-narratives and he replied in part, "The bottom line for me is the issue of asking questions. As you will notice, I don't call these operations 'false flag' as many people do … (his ellipses) But as a journalist, that is not my job. Rather, my job is to be a critical thinker." And he added, "most of our media fail to question stories . . . a journalist's job is not to have the answers, it is to ask the questions and search for truth."
• There's a pathetic undercurrent in the Enquirer's Monday Page 1 profile of Henry Heimlich's efforts to regain American Red Cross support for his eponymous "maneuver." The physician claims there is no research to support the Red Cross's decision to return to back slaps rather than Heimlich abdominal thrusts as first response to choking. Other than Heimlich's self-serving claims, there is no research proving his maneuver works as well or better than back slaps. Assertions are not evidence. Moreover, the Red Cross adopted Heimlich's maneuver years ago without the research Heimlich is calling for now. Heimlich has anecdotal evidence of lives saved but that's not research. Wisely, reporter Cliff Radel quoted skeptics and critics of the maneuver. That kind of even-handedness usually escapes admiring Enquirer stories about Heimlich. And if the paper ever corrected a Memorial Day feature on water safety, I missed it. The Enquirer drew national ridicule with its illustration on how to use Heimlich's maneuver to revive a standing near-drowning victim.
• It's spitting into the wind to ask sports reporters to question what jocks tell them, especially when truth-telling endangers future access. In the Good Old Days, who read about fornicating, drunken and racist professional athletes? More recently, golf reporters and publications didn't write about married Tiger Woods' screwing around. This time, it's Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's stories about the heart-ripping death of girlfriend Lennay Kekua from leukemia. Editors loved it. Now, it seems she was a fiction amplified by incurious and credulous reporters. It took sports blog Deadspin.com to reveal the fraud after its reporters could find no public records of her birth, life, education or death. Almost as nauseating as the saccharine original stories about her death are the faux introspection by sycophant reporters caught by the fraud.
• We've gone a week without a promo for Oprah's interview with champion liar-cheater Lance Armstrong. That's closure. So what does Armstrong do now? Pitch performance enhancing drugs and blood transfusions on ESPN and late TV?
• Al
Gore sold his troubled Current cable network to Al Jazeera, the
satellite network based in Qatar in the Persian Gulf. Good. Nothing bars
foreigners from owning a cable network here, unlike the law that forced
Australian Rupert Murdoch to obtain U.S. citizenship after he bought Fox.
Backed by the ruling Qatari emir, Al Jazeera scandalized Americans for broadcasting tirades by Osama bin Laden and other anti-western Arab leaders. We should have welcomed what they said in Arabic for home audiences. Too often, we rely on sanitized remarks for non-Arabic-speaking audiences or Washington assurances it was trying to verify that speakers were who they said they were. Al Jazeera also infuriated Arab audiences by carrying interviews with American and Israeli officials that others in the Middle East ignored or rejected.
Most American cable companies won't carry the newer Al Jazeera English but its website is one of my daily stops, especially when, say, AQIM kidnaps oil workers in Algeria or French Legionnaires assist Mali's pathetic army in trying to halt and turn back Islamist rebels.
Al Jazeera coverage of "Arab Spring" was so aggressive that embattled North African rulers correctly accused it of supporting anti-government demonstrators. So is Al Jazeera open to interference by the Qatari government? Yes. Are its biases plain to anyone who listens or reads? Yes. We don't ignore Fox News for its biases.
• American news media employ local nationals in foreign bureaus for their contacts and language skills. That reliance failed when no one reported the 2010 anti-semitic rant by Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who now is Egypt's president. In part, Morsi called Jews "apes and dogs" and shared the fantasy that the Palestinian Authority was "created by the Zionist and American enemies for the sole purpose of opposing the will of the Palestinian people and its interests."
Still nastier, he urged listeners "to nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews . . . bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs."
A stump speech in his Nile Delta hometown, it took more than two years to reach English-language news media. The original Arabic video is on YouTube now. I encountered a translation of Morsi this month on a Forbes website that, in part, chided the New York Times for missing or killing the story. Days later, it was on Page 1 of the Times. After that, the Obama administration an official "tut-tut."
• Maybe they'll blame one of those ominous Canadian Cold Air Masses (meteorological, not theological) for the brain freeze that disabled news judgment at the Toronto Star. Flippant columns about rape aren't funny. Jimromenesko.com posted these first two paragraphs of Rosie DiManno's column about testimony during the sexual abuse trial of a local physician:
"She lost a womb but gained a penis.
"The former was being removed surgically — full hysterectomy — while the latter was forcibly shoved into her slack mouth..."
• Headlines are an art that always risks a step too far in an attempt to cure the copy editor boredom and draw readers to a story. This one, from philly.com, achieves both in what has become a national story about a popular and well-connected parish pastor: "Catholic priest/meth dealer liked sex in the rectory." You know you'd read more.
• Finally, this from Shannyn Moore, who blogs on HuffPost as "Just a Girl from Homer, Alaska." It appeared first in the Anchorage Daily News and makes her points without venturing beyond the pale into bad taste: "I'm not advocating for no guns. I like mine and am not about to give them up. But in this country, my uterus is more regulated than my guns. Birth control and reproductive health services are harder to get than bullets. What is that about? Guns don't kill people — vaginas do?"
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is proposing training school staff and teachers to be first responders in the case of an attack. The news comes in the wake of the massacre in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which caused the deaths of 20 children and six adults. CityBeat proposed its own solution in this week's commentary: Make this time different by focusing on mental health services and gun control.
Cincinnati will lease Music Hall for 75 years to the Music Hall Revitalization Company (MHRC). The lease is part of a plan to renovate the iconic building to include more comfortable seating, extra restroom capacity, heating, air conditioning, improved plumbing and new escalator models. During the renovations, Music Hall will be closed for 17 months.
City Council passed a resolution promising not to use Metro bus money for the streetcar. The supposed conflict between the city of Cincinnati and the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) is being drummed up by the media, but it's really much ado about nothing.
Metropolitan Sewer District rates will go up by 5 percent in early 2013.
The Cincinnati Health Department is pushing
recommendations from a lead hazard study. The recommendations would
prohibit lead-based paint hazards and require all properties to be free
of lead-based paint, dust and soil. City Council is asking the health
department to carry out the regulations, and it expects from a plan and
timetable from regulators within 60 days. One study found getting rid of lead would do wonders for school performance
A Brookings Institute ranking placed Greater Cincinnati among the worst areas in the country due to falling home prices.
Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank agreed to a $16 million settlement in a securities fraud case. The four-year-old lawsuit was brought in the onset of 2008's financial crisis, when the bank's stock plummeted as it took several large writedowns.
Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino still needs to fill 450 positions in food and beverage, marketing, finance, security and more. A Washington Post analysis found casinos tend to bring jobs, but they also bring crime, bankruptcy and even suicide.
As expected, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is helping Ohio's economy. The state has 39,000 jobs attached to oil and gas this year, and the number is expected to triple by the end of the decade. To take advantage of the boom, Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he will push his oil-and-gas severance tax in 2013. But the plan faces opposition from liberals and conservatives.
If Ohio Republicans tried to push "right-to-work" legislation, it would lead to a very nasty public fight, The Plain Dealer reports. Kasich and Republican lawmakers didn't rule out using ballot initiatives to push conservative ideas like right-to-work in a press conference yesterday, but he did say he's like a horse with blinders on, focusing on job creation.
The animal and robot takeover have been merged in the BigDog robot. It can now obey voice commands, follow and roll over.
• Critical thinking was in short supply at the Senate Judiciary Hearing where gun control foes testified. It's sort of like using a faux quote by Hitler to prove gun registration leads to confiscation, which leads to socialism or worse. Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women's Forum told senators that "guns make women safer" and a ban on assault-style weapons with high-capacity magazines would endanger women.
To illustrate her case, Trotter cited 18-year-old Sarah McKinley's successful defense against an armed intruder near Blanchard, Okla. Police there told CityBeat that she killed him with a 12-gauge pump shotgun, a classic hunting weapon owned by millions of Americans. That was a good choice for McKinley but an unfortunate example for Trotter; no one is suggesting that shotguns be included in proposed gun controls.
Then, as if to prove that fewer Americans are hunting or serving in the military and know what they're talking about (also see below), MSNBC mistakenly said she used a rifle. ABC News was no smarter: It had her reenact the shooting with a double-barreled shotgun.
McKinley's single-barrel pump shotgun was taken as evidence in the homicide, probably to be returned when her claim of self-defense is affirmed. Meanwhile, Guns Save Lives, a nonprofit, sent her a similar, replacement shotgun.
Not only does Oklahoma allow lethal force for self-defense inside a person's home, but McKinley asked the 911 operator what she could do to protect herself and her child. The dead intruder's companion reportedly told police the intruders were after prescription painkillers that they assumed McKinley's husband left when he died a week earlier from cancer.
• A secret shooter? After Obama's comments to the New Republic about having fired a gun, the White House released a photo of the president on the Camp David retreat skeet range. Wearing protective glasses and ear protection, he's firing a shotgun at the 4-5/16 inch flying clay discs (pigeons) last August. "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," Obama told the New Republic. "Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there." However, the AP story accompanying the skeet shooting photo in Sunday's Enquirer mistakenly says he's firing a rifle. I'm not sure whether Obama used an over-and-under shotgun, but it certainly didn't look like a rifle. That inexplicable clanger escaped AP and Enquirer editing despite our unprecedented national debate over certain types of firearms. NRA pooh-poohed Obama's comments and photo, saying it changes nothing in NRA opposition to greater gun control.
• John Kerry drew scorn in 2004 after he was photographed with Ted Strickland and others with just-shot geese in an eastern Ohio cornfield. Possibly recalling that ill-conceived effort to bond with hunters, Obama didn't release his skeet shooting photo before the election last year. Kerry's goose hunting was ridiculed as a dumb photo op, especially because Kerry borrowed the farmer's hunting outfit and double-barreled shotgun for the day. Whether Kerry bagged any additional rural voters was unclear; Bush won Ohio.
• I began contributing to the new National Catholic Reporter in the mid-'60s when I started covering religion at the Minneapolis Star. I freelanced for NCR when I had that same assignment at the Enquirer. A privately owned, independent weekly based in Kansas City, Mo., NCR was a voice of Roman Catholics who embraced the spirit as well as the documents of the Second Vatican Council.
Traditional churchmen had little reason to love NCR. It was a pain in the ass and collection basket. It reported the flight of clergy and nuns, often into marriage. Jason Berry pioneered reporting of priestly child abuse. Penny Lernoux covered Latin American death squads and links between murderous reactionaries and the church. Murders of nuns, priests and bishops who embraced liberation theology and the church's "preferential option for the poor" received extensive, probing coverage.
The bishop of Kansas City and a former diocesan editor, Robert W. Finn, recently joined predecessors' fruitless condemnations of NCR's journalism. In a letter to the diocese praising official church media, Finn was "sorry to say, my attention has been drawn once again to the National Catholic Reporter. … In the last months I have been deluged with emails and other correspondence from Catholics concerned about the editorial stances of the Reporter: officially condemning Church teaching on the ordination of women, insistent undermining of Church teaching on artificial contraception and sexual morality in general, lionizing dissident theologies while rejecting established Magisterial (official) teaching, and a litany of other issues.
"My predecessor bishops have taken different approaches to the challenge. Bishop Charles Helmsing in October of 1968 issued a condemnation of the National Catholic Reporter and asked the publishers to remove the name 'Catholic' from their title — to no avail. From my perspective, NCR's positions against authentic Church teaching and leadership have not changed trajectory in the intervening decades.
"When early in my tenure I requested that the paper submit their bona fides as a Catholic media outlet in accord with the expectations of Church law, they declined to participate indicating that they considered themselves an 'independent newspaper which commented on "things Catholic." ' At other times, correspondence has seemed to reach a dead end.
"In light of the number of recent expressions of concern, I have a responsibility as the local bishop to instruct the Faithful about the problematic nature of this media source which bears the name 'Catholic.' While I remain open to substantive and respectful discussion with the legitimate representatives of NCR, I find that my ability to influence the National Catholic Reporter toward fidelity to the Church seems limited to the supernatural level. For this we pray: St. Francis DeSales (patron of journalists), intercede for us."
• Rarely have I seen such a neat dismissal of creationism and defense of evolution as the following by 19th century skeptic Robert Ingersoll. It's quoted in a review of The Great Agnostic, a biography of Ingersoll, in the neo-conservative Weekly Standard:
"I would rather belong to that race that commenced a skull-less vertebrate and produced Shakespeare, a race that has before it an infinite future, with an angel of progress leaning from the far horizon, beckoning men forward, upward, and onward forever — I had rather belong to such a race … than to have sprung from a perfect pair upon which the Lord has lost money every moment from that day to this."
• The Weekly Standard also published "A teacher's Plea: The GOP shouldn't write off educators." Eloquent Colleen Hyland speaks beyond partisanship for her vocation and colleagues in her Jan. 21 essay. Among other things, she hopes to shake Republican/conservative ideologues out of their animus toward public school teachers and their unions. Among her points: Hhateful generalizations about teachers and their desire for a living wage also degrades women.
• I didn't know Kevin Ash and I'm not a rider but I read his motorcycle reviews in London's Daily Telegraph for years. Details of his death in South Africa are unclear, but he died during the media show testing the new BMW R1200GS motorcycle. His informed, passionate writing was a delight for itself, even if I never thought to get on a two-wheeler again. When I was what the Brits' call a "motoring correspondent," my interest was cars, whether with three or four wheels. There were a lot of us writing about cars and motor racing/rallying in Europe and Britain in the 1960s; postwar Europeans were getting into cars for the first time in most families' lives. We were read whether it was the test drive of an exquisite new Zagato OSCA coupe (built by the original Maserati brothers) or a boring Opel sedan. But getting killed during a test ride? Since most of us had some inkling of what we were doing astride a motorcycle or behind the wheel, that would have been very bad luck.
• Time Magazine's world.time.com website posted this howler. The original Time story purported to look at Oxford and Cambridge roles in Britain's social mobility. Appended to the online story, Time's correction has a lawyerly tone. Here it is at length and verbatim:
"This article has been changed. An earlier version stated that Oxford University accepted 'only one black Caribbean student' in 2009, when in fact the university accepted one British black Caribbean undergraduate who declared his or her ethnicity when applying to Oxford.
"The article has also been amended to reflect the context for comments made by British Prime Minister David Cameron on the number of black students at Oxford. It has also been changed to reflect the fact that in 2009 Oxford 'held' rather than 'targeted' 21 percent of its outreach events at private schools, and that it draws the majority of its non-private students from public schools with above average levels of attainment, rather than 'elite public schools.'
"An amendment was made to indicate that Office for Fair Access director Les Ebdon has not imposed but intends to negotiate targets with universities. It has been corrected to indicate that every university-educated Prime Minister save Gordon Brown has attended Oxford or Cambridge since 1937, rather than throughout history. The proportion of Oxbridge graduates in David Cameron's cabinet has been updated — following the Prime Minister's September reshuffle, the percentage rose from almost 40 percent to two-thirds. Percentages on leading Oxbridge graduates have been updated to reflect the latest figures.
"The article erred in stating that private school students have 'dominated' Oxbridge for 'centuries.' In the 1970s, according to Cambridge, admissions of state school students ranged from 62 percent to 68 percent, sinking down to around 50 percent in the 1980s. The article has been amended to clarify that although only a small percentage of British students are privately educated, they make up one-third of the students with the requisite qualifications to apply to Oxbridge.
"The article erred in stating that Oxford and Cambridge 'missed government admission targets' for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Rather, the universities scored below 'benchmarks' for admission of students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds which are calculated by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, a non-governmental body. The article was amended to clarify the point that Cambridge continues to run Sutton Trust summer schools.
"The article mistakenly suggested that the current U.K. government had launched an 'initiative to reform Oxbridge.' There was no official initiative, but rather a marked push by the government to encourage change. The article referred to Cambridge and Oxford's efforts 'in the past two years' to seek out underprivileged students. In fact, their commitment is far more long-standing — programs to reach out to underprivileged students have been operating at the two universities since at least the mid-1990s.
"The article erred in suggesting that Cambridge had protested state school targets, and in stating that it had 'agreed to' ambitious targets, rather than setting the targets themselves that were then approved by the Office of Fair Access. The article has been amended to clarify that there is debate over whether the 'school effect', whereby state school students outperform private school students at university, applies to those at the highest levels of achievement, from which Oxford and Cambridge recruit.
"The article has been changed to correct the misstatement that a lack of strong candidates from poor backgrounds is not the concern of Oxford and Cambridge. The article has amended the phrase 'Oxford and Cambridge's myopic focus on cherry-picking the most academically accomplished,' to more fairly reflect the universities' approach."
• Until I read the Time correction above, I'd forgotten one in which I was involved. A young reporter covered a Saturday national church meeting in suburban Cincinnati at which denominational leaders argued how to respond to homosexuals in the pews and pulpits. This was when such a discussion was courageous, regardless of the views expressed. I edited the story. It was a good, taut story and it ran in a Sunday Enquirer. All hell broke loose. The reporter attributed exactly the opposite views to each person quoted. Instead of a forthright correction, I recall running a new, corrected story plus the apology.
Hicks drove the mile and a quarter and arrived behind the first dozen police officers. She started taking photographs through her windshield and captured her image of a line of children being led away from the slaughter. "I'm conflicted," Hicks said about her photo. "I don't want people to be upset with me, and I do appreciate the journalists, especially, who have commented, saying 'We're just documenting the news.' It's harder when it's in your hometown and these are children we're gonna watch grow up, the ones who made it. I know people are gonna be upset, but at the same time I felt I was doing something important."
Fellow editor John Voket explained what was behind that image. "Police and school system have a protocol" for evacuation. "Children get into a conga line, shoulder to shoulder, and the only person that's allowed to keep their eyes open is the locomotive at the front of the line, usually an adult. And every other kid has to keep their eyes closed from the minute they were exiting the classroom to when they got about a couple hundred yards into the parking lot."
• Voket arrived about 20 minutes later and colleague Hicks "passed the baton" to him. Hicks also is a volunteer firefighter. The firehouse is next to the school. "I literally put on my firefighter gear . . . I was there as a firefighter probably for not even more than 20 minutes before my editor said he wanted me back in the office to work with him to coordinate coverage from there."
• Voket continued reporting, but "We operate a little differently because our job is to take care of the community so we were inside helping to comfort victims and trying to provide human support without necessarily making reporting the No. 1 priority. The publisher came down to comfort some of the families a little later in the day." R. Scudder Smith has been Bee publisher since 1973; he is the fourth member of his family to run The Bee since they founded it in 1877. The paper, which has a full-time editorial staff of eight, circulates to about two-thirds of the community of about 29,000.
• It was Friday and the weekly Bee front page was ready to print. It couldn't be changed. "We've been putting everything on our website," publisher Smith told AP.
Voket added that the traffic surge repeatedly crashed the website until the Bee acquired "an intermediary service to supersize our bandwidth . . . We got back up and running this (Saturday) morning." The staff used social media to spread information about school lockdowns, re-routed traffic, and grief counseling. "Facebook and Twitter accounts have been a lifeline to our community and it shows because 20 percent of the community are following us." The Bee also was "looking at doing a special extra to be on the newsstands Monday."
• For those of us outside Newtown, Conn., we can turn to the renewed duel over gun control. If it were a song, tired and familiar gun control lyrics would be among "Worst Hits Ever." It didn't take long for gun control advocates to embrace the Sandy Hook massacre and the bellicose NRA to opt for rare silence. Obama renewed his unredeemed calls for gun control although he and Mitt Romney dodged the issue in the just-ended campaign. It was a hornets' nest neither man opted to kick and reporters apparently were unable to raise with the candidates.
• After the Sandy Hook slaughter, fair and balanced Fox News banned discussion of gun control from the cable network. Maybe Fox News feared we really would decide if they really reported. New York magazine said the ban spotlights the "growing chasm between Rupert Murdoch and [Fox News president] Roger Ailes." Ailes reportedly is a gun enthusiast. Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., which owns Fox News, had tweeted a call for stricter gun control, imploring for "some bold leadership action" from Obama.
• Let me be churlish when everyone else is sympathizing with families, survivors and first responders. Slaughtering 20 children is awful, but reporters and editors are familiar with how badly Americans treat urban, suburban, small town and rural children every day. In Obama's Chicago and many other urban areas, gunfire is an omnipresent fact of childhood. Possibly one-fourth of all American children live in poverty as defined by federal guidelines. For these kids, federally funded school meals might be more than a complement to home meals. Health care for poor and malnourished children isn't much better than their educations. Medicaid is among the anti-poverty programs high on the GOP priorities for absolute cuts and/or reduced annual increases. And let's not even get into continuing coverage of physical and sexual child abuse, trafficking minors and lifelong handicaps from poor or nonexistent prenatal care or maternal drug and alcohol abuse.
• Only foolish or ignorant reporters credit pious assertions that legislation can prevent disturbed individuals from obtaining guns and killing as many people as they can. There are more than 310 million people in this country. Some are or will become seriously mentally disturbed and obtain one or more of the hundreds of millions of firearms Americans own. A Columbine or Sandy Hook could happen again any day.
• Focusing on the shooting victims rather than shooters might reduce any copycat effect. Stories and photos elevating killers to celebrity have been blamed for further rampages. Even though the killer never was identified, that was the inference drawn from Tylenol poisonings 30 years ago; copycats tried to poison Tylenol capsules. When coverage began to fade, so did copycat crimes.
• NRA leaders realized years ago that traditional (and valuable) Eddie Eagle gun safety comics and courses were insufficient to motivate and keep members and their dues. Fear and anger would be more effective. Real and imagined government controls became NRA's cause. Few modern American movements have been as durable and effective as the NRA.
• NRA is powerful because we are a democracy. It can mobilize more than 4 million members and fellow travelers as voters, donors and voices in the news media. Elected representatives who want to keep their jobs quite reasonably try to avoid the NRA's opposition. Gun control advocates evince nothing like this single-minded devotion to their cause.
• In 1994, the Clinton administration won a10-year limit on the sale of assault-style weapons and large capacity magazines for their ammunition. I went to a gun store in Hamilton to cover a rush to beat the ban. Chinese assault-style rifles and curved high-capacity magazines were selling as fast as staff could pry open crates. As I watched, the price rose $10 with each new crate: demand and supply. Men who talked to me said they were buying because of the imminent controls on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines. A few admitted fear of civil unrest or some undefined federal assault. Most said they wanted a military-style rifle for shooting targets or empty beer cans and this might be their last chance.That 10-year ban died in 2004 when Republicans owned all three branches of federal government and didn't seek renewal. However, recent killings that required assault-style weapons with large-capacity magazines might prompt reconsideration of the ban. Adam Lanza reportedly carried hundreds of rounds of ammunition in high-capacity magazines. No one knows why he didn't use them.
• Any gun control measure that's not DOA will have to respect millions of long guns — rifles and shotguns — used by hunters, farmers and others. That distinction is an important part of this story already handicapped by the paucity of journalists who hunt or otherwise own firearms.
• In addition to an unfamiliarity with firearms, partisan hyperbole also handicaps writing about guns and gun control. It can be hard to find neutral sources who share reporters' interest in accurate coverage. Stenographic reporting giving "both sides" isn't good enough; journalists must know enough to challenge obvious partisan misstatements. We are not obligated to report what we know to be untrue or to label it as such.
• Unfamiliarity with gun control cropped up in a recent Enquirer story about a failed armed robbery attempt inside a suburban Sunoco station. Employees with a handgun and a shotgun fatally wounded the would-be bandit. The Enquirer story said it was unclear whether the employees had conceal-carry licenses for those firearms. Unless someone somehow cloaked a shotgun's 18-28" barrel, no conceal/carry permit is required. Unless the other Sunoco clerk carried the pistol under his clothes, he didn't need a permit. Wearing it openly or storing it under the counter does not require a conceal/carry permit. So what was the point of that line in the story? Just because a cop might have said it doesn't mean the reporter had to share it. That's what I'm talking about.
• Missing in much gun control coverage is Congress' inability to craft sensible, workable bipartisan gun control specifics that can survive NRA opposition and Supreme Court scrutiny. Firearm confiscation is out of the question. So is universal registration which raises NRA-orchestrated fear of confiscation — by ATF, the UN or some other demon de jour — to hysteria. Moreover, the court affirmed an individual Second Amendment right to own guns in 2010 but it did not rule out federal, state or local regulations governing firearm use.
• Reporters faced with new rage over shootings should remind partisans that we have gun control already. Forty nine states issue conceal/carry permits but specify where those handguns may not be carried. Illinois — State No. 50 — is under court order to replace its ban with a conceal/carry permit system. Many if not most municipalities bar gun owners from firing their weapons within city limits with the exception of self-defense. States commonly limit when hunters can use rifles and/or shotguns and they can require a certain size bullet for large-game hunting. Landowners may bar hunters from their property during state-sanctioned hunting seasons.
There are federal limits on how short a "sawed off" shotgun or rifle barrel may be. There are laws limiting ownership of silencers and fully automatic machine guns and submachine guns. Federally licensed firearms dealers must run background checks on prospective buyers and turn away those who fail or won't comply. Dealers can deny convicted felons a gun under federal and many state laws. A legal purchaser may not buy a firearm for someone who would fail a federal background check. Mentally-ill customers can be turned away by dealers.
• Few of the roughly 12,000 Americans shot to death annually are killed with shot with shotguns or rifles. They're shot with pistols. So when gun control is promoted, reporters should press advocates to say what they mean: handguns.
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|Release Date: August 14, 2009
|Running Time: 97 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG
|Box Office: $1,607,276.00
|Genre: Documentary, Music
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Summary:The history of the electric guitar as seen from the point of view of three significant musicians: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, U2's The Edge and the White Stripes' Jack White. It tells the personal stories, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos. It reveals how each developed his unique sound and style of playing his favorite instrument. Concentrating on the artist's musical rebellion, traveling with him to influential locations and provoking rare discussion as to how and why he writes and plays.


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Gilles Simon, Nicolas Almagro, Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco visited the Wii Fit station before the start of the Valencia Open and tried their hand at some other sports besides tennis.
I do HEART watching boys play with their toys, especially when it's like this. *faints*
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Awww...look at sweet little Gilles.ReplyDelete
*kisses forehead*
I want to cuddle and burp him. Then hand him off to my newly found daughter, Sara, for, uh...*other* ways of passing time.
- a-ferfabNovember 2, 2009 at 3:41 PM
I love Nando!!!ReplyDelete
Feli looks like a hairy bum.(i mean that in the nicest way) :-)
*Gladly accepts the maternal gift*ReplyDelete
I'd also take Feli, repeatedly.
Damn he looks good!!
ahhh Gilles. He looks very happy playing Wii. They should sign him up.ReplyDelete
You are going straight to your room for the rest of your life if you take Feli. He's an absolute ahole. You are much too good for him.
*crosses arms*
Pick a Frenchie and your father and I will pay for the hotel suite and various items you might need for your *activities* there. ;)
- AnonymousNovember 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM
natch Feli. He's an absolute aholeReplyDelete
Is he really?! That sounds like you have a story...please, just one before I go to bed!
No story, t. Sorry.ReplyDelete
How about if I read you a chapter from the Kama Sutra instead? It's much better than "The Little Engine That Could"! ;)
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2009 at 3:33 AM
How does it compare to the 'Joy of Sex'? That had us in stitches for weeks, a topic after dinner every evening.ReplyDelete
I was just wondering why you thought he was a bastard? I haven't heard that much about his personality.


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Describes how events during the Paleozoic Era impacted evolution.
A list of student-submitted discussion questions for Life During the Paleozoic.
To use a memory aid to help students remember ordered events or sequences using Mnemonics.
To build a step-by-step description of a sequence for analysis, discussion, or communication using a Sequence Diagram.
Looks at how the ecology and evolution of the horseshoe crab led to compounds useful to medicine.
Looks at velvet worms as an example of an old body form that still persists in some ecosystems. Seeks to get students to consider the basis of science and question their existing perceptions on the organization of life.
This study guide gives a brief overview of important eras in Earth's history: the Late Precambrian Era, Cambrian explosion, Paleozoic Era, Permian extinction, Mesozoic Era, and Cenozoic Era.
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By Chuck Crumbo
Published Nov. 28, 2012
Work on small modular reactor initiatives at the Savannah River Site has been put on hold.
A directive from the U.S. Department of Energy ordered local officials to suspend all activities on small modular reactor, or SMR, technology until the fiscal year 2013 Continuing Resolution expires March 31.
The resolution was a stop-gap measure Congress approved last fall to fund the government through the presidential election and first quarter of 2013.
The directive, which the Energy Department issued as the request of the Office of Management and Budget, appears to have more to do with an accounting issue than SRS' support for the small reactor program.
SRS had been funding the program through the Clean Energy Initiative, a spokeswoman said.
According to the White House website, the initiative aims to fund renewable energy projects such as wind and solar, and promote efficient use of energy. There is no mention of nuclear energy as part of the initiative.
SRS and the Energy Department have entered into separate memorandum of agreements with three companies to launch public-private partnerships in developing SMR technologies.
Two of the companies, NuScale Power and Holtec International, had submitted bids for an Energy Department grant to design, license and help develop a commercial version of a small modular reactor.
However, Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox received last week the first award to design, license and help develop a commercial version of a SMR partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bechtel International.
Denver-based Gen4 Energy Company, formerly known as Hyperion Power Generation, also has a SMR development agreement with SRS. Gen4 did not apply for a portion of a $452 million SMR grant from the Energy Department.
The Energy Department, which oversees operations at the 200,000-acre facility in Aiken County, said the directive is not related to last week's announcement.
"It's important to note that that the funding opportunity announcement awarded last week is separate from the potential site evaluations discussed at the Savannah River Site, an agency spokeswoman said.
The Energy Department said it plans to issue a follow-on solicitation open to other companies – including those that lost in the first round – that focuses on furthering SMR efficiency, operations and design.
"The Energy Department is committed to restarting the nation's nuclear industry and advancing new nuclear energy technologies, including small modular reactors, that will help create new jobs and export opportunities and ensure that low-carbon nuclear energy continues to play an important role in America's energy portfolio," spokeswoman Niketa Kumar said.
Small reactor technology is generating support because it can be built in factories and transported to work sites.
Both NuScale, based in Corvallis, Ore., and Holtec, headquartered in Marlton, N.J., said they're hopeful on receiving grant money in the second round of bidding.
Although two of the companies it has agreements with lost out on in the first round, SRS will see what it can do to further work on small reactors, those that generate less than 300 megawatts of power.
"We are going to continue to look for future opportunities," SRS spokeswoman Barbara Smoak said. "And we're looking at the comments that were made with the funding and see if we can better position ourselves."
It's possible, Smoak said, that more private funding will be sought for the SMR program at SRS.
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Introduces basic concepts of creating simple web pages with HTML. Develops knowledge of working with HTML tags using a text editor, and file transfer Protocol (FTP) using an FTP application. Recommended: Placement into RD 115 and WR 115; CAS 103 or CAS 133 or equivalent file management experience. Note: Students pursuing a web certificate or degree should take CAS 206 or CAS 111D instead. Audit available. (For detailed information, see the Course Content and Outcome Guide ).
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Guilty Pleasures
I am a huge fan of cookbooks; my home collection fills 3 big bookcases, full of Asian compendiums, baking volumes, lots of Junior League cookbooks, and tons from California restaurants. See DeAnn O.'s previous blog post Bay Area and Beyond: Restaurant Cookbooks.
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But I purely love seeing Wowbrary's new selection of cookbooks coming into the San Mateo County Library system – it's my Saturday morning treat. This free subscription is quite nice for knowing upcoming books.
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Among the stunning pictorial style layouts are two from Greg and Lucy Malouf. Saha: A Chef's Journey Through Lebanon and Syria has photographs so stunning you'd like to lick the page. I particularly appreciate the recipes indexed by ingredients like "bulgar" or "fennel." The text is a travelogue for people perhaps not likely to get to the Australian chef/author's homeland of Lebanon.
Turquoise: A Chef's Travels in Turkey particularly resonated with me, as my family had just enjoyed many of the dishes described in a Redwood City restaurant called New Kapadokia. Again, the coffee table-sized book with its gorgeous photographs means it might be somewhat unwieldy to use for actual cooking, but maybe you're a less messy cook than I.
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The bright red cloth cover beckons one to partake of Canal House Cooks Every Day. Here the two women authors cook with more familiar ingredients, although the emphasis on fresh produce means inclusion of recipes for Stinging Nettle Soup or Rolled Flank Steak with Pesto.
For Foodies, Indeed
Come In, We're Closed: An Invitation to Staff Meals at the World's Best Restaurants takes you behind the scenes at 25 international restaurants. In addition to recipes, the reader is treated to interviews with the chefs of The Slanted Door in San Francisco or Dill in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Useful Cookbooks
My major requirement for an outstanding cookbook is how many recipes appeal to my lifestyle. Oddly enough, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier is packed with colorful step-by-step photographs of how to prepare simple food for a family.
End With Sweets, of Course
The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook has scores of appealing recipes, and great little sidebars with tips for the baker.
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Karen Y's dirty little secret is that she still photocopies recipes, puts them in plastic sleeves, and arranges them in binders. Who knows when you'll find a "keeper," like Kona Inn Banana Bread on p. 85 of A Private Collection, Volume One from the Junior League of Palo Alto?
great post, karen! i am
great post, karen! i am putting some of these on hold!


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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- Police shot a man near New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon, after, they said, the man pointed a shotgun at officers.
It happened outside the fitness center on the church's campus, which is located on Woodrow Road in Lithonia.
PHOTOS | Shooting near New Birth Missionary Baptist Church
Police said the DeKalb County Fugitive Squad was following 27 year-old Nicholas Wade, who had been charged in the beating death of an 18-month-old child, when Wade turned into the parking lot of the New Birth campus and stopped.
Investigators said Wade initially pointed a sawed-off shotgun at his own chin, then, after a moment, pointed the shotgun at officers. Wade fired one round, but no one was hurt. A DeKalb County Sheriff's Deputy opened fire, wounding Wade in his leg, face and neck.
He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta in stable condition.
Police said the church had no connection to Wade. Staff and students were allowed to leave the church campus shortly after the shooting.
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Cake Shop bakes up its own special brand of Time Management fun! Slap together the different layers of tasty cakes for your customers. Manage customer patience with the help of piping hot coffee and cotton candy that will put a smile on the faces of their children. As your skills as manager of the shop improve, you'll be able to spend your profits on better equipment and even a new home where you can put up your tired feet after a hard day. Cake Shop has all the ingredients for a good time!
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