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So what's this Configuration Source thing meant to be? Why do you have so many kinds of factories? How can I reuse the instrumentation capabilities in my own app? What's different in the new Configuration Designtime?Get the answers to these and many more questions at the Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0: Core Architecture webcast. It's on this coming Thursday, December 8th at 10:00am US Pacific Time / 18:00 UTC. Register now to view the webcast live (this is best if you want to ask us questions), or as always it will be available on demand from the next dayBy the way, shipping EntLib on ObjectBuilder was not an easy feat, congrats to the team for pulling it off and consolidating the EntLib and CAB factory and dependency injection approach...at one point in time I started wondering..."what have I done! Include a new component as part of the foundation of something that needs to ship ASAP for what some think is a hazy fluffy ivory-tower architectural benefit! I'll be lynched!". But our p&p devs + testers rock. (Guys - if you are reading this: If you don't pull these feats, nobody can. However, if I ever have to ship a full OS, I'll keep the learning in mind).
In the meantime, if anyone from the AO community wants to define a factory for proxying, please consider doing it via an ObjectBuilder strategy. It will help others use your solution, on stuff we've built e.g. CAB. And oh, if only I got a dollar for every time I meet a customer who could have benefited from richer interception on .NET. If you want it too ping a comment here, I'll print it nail it to doors on bldg 42.
No, I don't have MS's official stand on AOSD, so please don't ask me- there's an old obscure BillG 2nd hand quote from an Australian interview where he allegedly said MS would be embracing it. Definitively the platform is embracing more and more requirements of separation of concerns throughout, which is good. Indigo looks great in this regard. I'd like to see more of a unified approach one day. But a lot of questions are unresolved yet (when you think about trust models around assemblies, for example, who is allowed to advice what?). So I don't know what the end solution would look like. Especially when I think about crosscutting concerns and concurrency, hm. We'll see.
The infamous TDD article gets pulled Unless you have been living in a tupperware, you know there was a fallout over some article about TDD deep in the tree of MSDN VSTS content. Yes, it got removed. Here's the link, anyways. It described TDD in terms of some steps that in my opinion was just..plain..wrong...and it irked folks in the TDD community. Anyways, here are my key points late in the game:
Sorry Jimmy! I'm so late to this flame party it's not even funny... Jimmy Nilsson pings me for comment, I start writing a post in this web form and my machine runs out of battery...there goes my IE with all my text. It would have been a good post. To your question...no, what the article described is not what we do when we say we do TDD in patterns & practices. I respected Randy Miller's reaction a lot, even though he didn't get to blog about it. And I truly beleive in TDD as a design technique.
To MS folks...how about some internal review cycles...there's agile and TDD lists... one... email... away.
I'm glad the community responded so vigorously. Kudos to all who by nature or effort were able to articulate a response that did not evoke a Turret syndrome diagnosis.
I would also like to see those passionate about the subject take advantage of the situation and engage with MS in a proactive way. I mean, it's good agile approaches will be getting more visibility. As the word gets spread, it may get mangled. That's just 2nd law of thermodynamics. MS and its tools channel is a huge megaphone for the agile message. I know, many people ask, "who needs a megaphone in this era of blogs & social web 2.0 long-tail software"? Well, not everyone is in-the-know of what Michael Feathers or Brian Button are saying, or has their RSS pointing at the community gurus..so influencing an ISV like MS to help spread the word in a way the respected leaders think it's right not only will help the overall industry, but also creates a market for those engaging in it. Consider this personal estimate: probably more Microsoft customer-devs relate OOP advice to Deborah Kurata than the GoF. So what about ganging up on MS and saying "we will publish books, training, etc and furnish you at a fee with agile-community-approved guidance that the masses can take a shot at without requiring going on a 4-month spiritual walkabout with Kent Beck on some rainy hill in Oregon". I think it could be a win.
What's the news? CAB shipping, EntLib shipping, and we are off to a great start with patterns & practices in 2006 and starting to plan the wave of stuff for WinFX+ timeframe technologies.... Avalon...Indigo...Workflow...LinQ This is my 5th year in this group. Any one year is never similar to the previous one. Hope you are finding the existence of p&p as helpful as I enjoy working here.
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Deb Jannerson replied on
Well, it does sound fascinating, but am I the only one troubled by the title? The first few times I heard/saw the name in passing, I thought it was right-wing propaganda. The term "abortion addict" is ridiculous and immediately brings to mind extremists claiming that "Abortion is a DRUG FOR LIBERALS, and they all secretly do it CONSTANTLY!" From all I've read about the book, it doesn't seem remotely descriptive of Vilar's situation either, but I'm sure plenty of people will only go as far as seeing the book on a shelf and thinking, "Oh! Abortions are addictive!"
I do appreciate that Vilar admits that some of her actions are abusive of women's rights, although...having not yet read the book, I can't agree or argue with that. Doesn't sound like she always HAD much of a *choice.* More accurately, what I appreciate is that she seems aware and respectful of feminist work. But for goodness' sakes...couldn't Vilar or the publishers have gone with a less problematic title?
You're right, it is a
E. V. Mary replied on
You're right, it is a provocative and problematic title. Unfortunately, it was probably deliberately chosen by Vilar's editors for that reason. Sex, and its aftermath, sells.
Impossible Not to Read!
Mandy Van Deven replied on
This book is absolutely amazing and anyone who is committed to reproductive justice should read it.
Two thing bother me: first,
Wolff replied on
Two thing bother me: first, the argument that some women are using abortion as birth control strikes me odd, given that abortion IS a form of birth control. I'll grant that it is more invasive and used after the fact, but it still prevents birth, thus I have never understood the drama behind this.
Second, wouldn't Ms. Vilar more appropriately be called a pregnancy addict than an abortion addict? Granted, I have not yet read the book, but it seems to me that she gained satisfaction not from the abortion but from the feelings that accompanied conception. Abortion was then simply a means to restore normalcy- her only option given her circumstances.
With that said, I am anxious to read this. I think that this scenario (to less of an extreme, perhaps) is more common than most people might care to admit.
I agree. I would like to
Rhonda Bangert replied on
I agree. I would like to hear a discussion about her "pregnancy addiction" and what she received from those experiences before they were terminated. The book sounds fascinating.
THANK YOU! Thank you for
lizzelizzel replied on
Thank you for pointing out that abortion IS birth control. Anytime I point that out and declare I won't be having an arguement over whether abortion should be used as birth control or not because it IS a form of birth control, I meant with blank or angry stares from either side of the issue.
"abortion as a form of birth control" edit
Sara Reihani replied on
Yall are right about this - abortion IS a form of birth control. I've clarified my meaning in the post by changing it to "using abortion as her primary form of birth control".
She "forgot" to take her bcp
Anonymous replied on
She "forgot" to take her bcp for 15 years? Her husband forced her to have abortions? I'm sorry but that dynamic seems to involve a lot more worrisome vectors that "using abortion as birth control."
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This woman's path to healing and motherhood was clearly a painful one. It reminds me of a true story that inspired one of the characters in "badbadbad," my first novel.
This teenage girl was impregnated by her father ("who said I should be glad he wanted me because nobody else would") and abandoned by her church ("I got what I deserved and should feel blessed to be with child"). Yet despite the horror of this situation, her pregnancy strangely made her feel whole for the first time in her life.
Then she miscarried, ran away from home, and dove into an awful cycle of joyless sex, pregnancy, wild sex ("she could only get off when her uterus was a food factory"), and a few months later: abortion.
It's a brutal story, yet in many of its aspects far too familiar. Which compels me to ask the Irene Vilar death-threaters and similar haters: Who are we (from the outside looking in) to judge another's extreme behavior?
It's a morally complex inquiry, I believe. I don't know the answer, but I think the question must be asked.
At first I wondered what
Claire replied on
At first I wondered what drove a woman to abort 15 pregnancies in 16 years when the logical thing would be to prevent them. It saves time, money and piece of mind.
But, this almost makes sense. Her (perceived) only way of fighting against her controlling and manipulating husband was to get pregnant even though he forced her to terminate all of them. All in all those potential children were better off never existing than living in an abusive situation like that.
There is no way of making this any easier to swallow for people who are opposed to abortion, as well as for people who support but are still uneasy about it. Calling her an abortion addict does a disservice to the complex nature of this story...merely simplifying it down to sensationalism.
well put
Rachel Kahan replied on
The real culprit here seems to be a toxic relationship that borders on domestic violence, and a very troubled woman who's unable to leave it.
Making it all about her "abortion addiction" is just sensationalizing one aspect of a complex life in order to get attention for the author and provoke people on both sides of the abortion issue. The way it's marketed seems a little sleazy and opportunistic to me.
I'd rather we focus on real, concrete situations, like lack of access to abortion for lower-income women, threats to Roe v. Wade, assassination of gynecologists, etc. This memoir is just a distraction.
Becky Sharper www.harpyness.com
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I cannot wait to pick up this book. It sounds fascinating.


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We at AMPAC (American Political Action Committee) are planning an historic event for 9.11.13 where one million Muslims will march to Washington D.C. and demand that our civil rights be protected by our government.
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It is a pretty great riding community. I cant wait till the girls bike is done. Ill be sure and post pics. But here is a link to the thread all about it. There was alot of industry help in getting this done too.
it started out as a wheelset and blossomed into an entire bike.


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Honor Our Past, Build Our Future
Article was written by Greg Esposito and originally appeared in the Washington and Lee magazine.
On Oct. 22, Washington and Lee announced the goal of its capital campaign: $500 million. As far as we know, that figure makes it one of the three largest campaigns ever undertaken by a liberal arts college. How and why did we decide on this campaign, this amount, this time frame?
In November 2008, the country was reeling from the unfolding economic disaster that was swallowing up companies, crippling endowments and eradicating personal savings. Amidst this crisis, the W&L Board of Trustees gathered in the economic capital of the world, New York City, to discuss how to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the University. The silent phase of a planned capital campaign had been underway for a few months.
"It was a very bleak meeting," said Warren Stephens '79, one of the campaign co-chairs. "People were wondering if we should suspend the campaign. What should we do? You know there's no way people will be spending in this environment." Phil Norwood '69, the campaign's other co-chair, said the message to the board was that they needed to set an example with early and generous support.
"We said, 'Look, the timeline of this campaign is written in pencil, and if we have to erase the end date and put another end date, that's what we're going to do," Stephens said. "We'll just keep going until we reach our goal. But we can't suspend it."
And so the campaign dubbed Honor Our Past, Build Our Future, was up and running. Two years later, on Oct. 22, the University announced its campaign goal: $500 million. (That's more than $250 million above the total raised by the Campaign for the Rising Generation, completed in December 2003.) From the end of that 2008 board meeting to the next one, in May 2009, the campaign raised about $60 million. That total stood at more than $310 million on Oct. 22 of this year. With such a strong start, that penciled-in end date of the campaign, June 30, 2015, is looking safe.
"Phil and I both said, 'If we said then that we were going to raise this amount of money, you all would've laughed us out of the room,' " Stephens remembered.
Keeping This Place Strong
So what happened? How has the ambitious goal to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for a small, vibrant university come to fruition? It's neither an economic miracle nor a preordained success. Those close to the campaign credit many factors, including early leadership gifts, careful and personal cultivation of donors and potential supporters, sound planning and specific details that have mitigated the economic collapse's impact. The one overriding factor, however, is the loyalty and generosity of alumni and friends of the University.
"It's reassuring that we have a lot of people who care deeply about Washington and Lee, and deeply about its future, and want to ensure that the things that have made us so strong in the past continue to make us strong in the future," said President Ken Ruscio '76. "We only had a strong experience because the others who came before us felt that they needed to give back. That strength that we have can only be ensured in the future if this generation of alumni and supporters accepts our obligation and duty to keep this place strong for those who come after us."
That loyalty and generosity is nothing new, and in fact they are a point of pride for many alumni. The involved faculty, small classes, close-knit community and focus on personal development cultivate the brand of loyalty that resulted, during the last campaign, in donations from some 70 percent of alumni.
Those factors cannot and should not be discounted, said Dennis Cross, vice president of University advancement. He came to W&L in 2004 after working in advancement and on campaigns since 1986 at Vanderbilt University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the College of William and Mary. While the basic best practice for fund-raising is the same for any leading university, be it public or private, a large research university or a small liberal arts college, Cross finds that W&L alumni expect a more personal approach that reflects their experiences, both as students and as alumni.
For example, when Cross worked at UNC, he spoke to alumni who were proud of their school and fondly recalled classes. Often, however, they would struggle to recall the names of the faculty. "But when you talk to a W&L alum, whether it's a recent grad or someone who graduated 60 years ago, they will start reciting names of their favorite faculty members," he said. "It's very special and very unique. And they will not only remember names, but they will also start talking about their experiences here and the ways W&L shaped their lives."
Continuing a Tradition
The campaign's focus on people and programs plays to the University's advantage. While many people may appreciate having a building named for them, about 77 percent of donors' gifts typically go toward the endowment, which covers such things as scholarships, professorships and program initiatives, said Bruce McClintock, chair of Marts & Lundy, a consulting firm working with W&L.
McClintock added that the recession, which decimated capital markets, affected certain gifts more than others. He finds that while the recession posed some challenges, plenty of philanthropists are still looking to give, albeit in a selective way, for things that matter to them. Institutions that highlighted their values and mission fared better than those that simply asked for donations. He counts W&L among the institutions that have benefited from conveying those qualities. "Washington and Lee has done extraordinarily well in a really tough period," he said. "It's an amazing success story."
Tres Mullis, W&L's executive director of University development, said that W&L is in "an incredible position of strength" as it approaches the public launch. "We've added a few positions to have staff visiting alumni and parents across the entire country, increasing the breadth and depth of our supporter base," he said. "We've been building relationships over the last three or four years, and the result has been more people who are more personally connected to the University and the campus."
Susan Cunningham, director of major gifts at W&L, said that the passion of alumni is most evident to her in gifts of a certain kind, regardless of size. "A stretch gift is different for everyone," she said. "It could be an alumna who makes a gift above her annual fund contribution for a special project she believes in. Or it could be a young alum couple who put W&L in their wills. Or it could be an alumnus who endows a scholarship in his lifetime, so he is able to know those students who will benefit from the gift."
The Washington and Lee equation that depends so heavily on private giving and is a reality at virtually all private colleges is not something that many people know, said Farris Hotchkiss '58. He is retired from posts as senior assistant to the president and vice president of University relations. Hotchkiss said helping people understand that students will always depend on the generosity of previous generations is vital.
"I never thought it was correct to say that they 'owe' W&L anything," he said of alumni. "But that they want to invest their time, money and their energy in the University, they are continuing a tradition that in our case-and no one else can say this-goes back to George Washington himself."
The Science of a Campaign
Beyond simply relying on good feelings for the University, there's a science to maximizing the impact of a campaign. It starts with support from the Board of Trustees and investment in the development operation to get the right people in place to make it a success. And while he calls the previous campaign a great success, Cross said there had not been enough consistent contact with a broad group of potential donors. "W&L had too few people doing too many things," he said, "which left things undone and many alumni not as connected as they desired." Cultivating those donors takes a systematic plan. The strategy in this campaign represents a shift to regular, broad-based engagement of alumni who can contribute large gifts. And that strategy takes time.
"You can't just go into someone's office or home cold and ask them to make a big gift to the University," Cross said. "You need to have many conversations with them, and you have to inform them about life at W&L today, and the importance of our strategic priorities. You have to get them connected to the University. You have to get them to understand what the campaign is all about. You must listen to their experiences, questions and interests. And then you need to eventually ask them to give a gift to the campaign. It takes longer. It's more labor intensive. But the end result will be many more people will make larger gifts matching their interests with our goals." The belief in that patient, systematic approach is one reason the University decided to make the campaign a seven-year effort, rather than five.
Talking to people about W&L's special qualities and its future is the part Ken Ruscio most enjoys about his first campaign as president. The emphasis on supporting people (the past campaign was more about buildings and facilities) makes it even more enjoyable to discuss. The approach developed out of W&L's strategic plan, which was approved in 2007, during Ruscio's first year as president. The campaign was organized in his second.
The first of the five campaign components coming out of the strategic plan increases financial aid and scholarships. Like many universities, Washington and Lee struggles to balance rising costs with recruiting top students and providing them with a W&L education regardless of their ability to pay tuition. In June 2007, Rupert Johnson '62 earmarked $85 million of his historic $100 million gift for this purpose, providing need-based financial aid to outstanding undergraduate students. Since it supports a strategic and campaign priority, Johnson's gift counts toward the current campaign and its goal of at least $160 million for student recruitment and support.
"Washington and Lee needs to be available on merit, not just on wherewithal to be a full-tuition payer," Norwood said. "You cannot create the greatest liberal arts university on that model. We have had a lot of financial aid to give, but we've never been able to match all the needs of those applicants who we think would be ideal to become part of the student body."
While the yearly sticker price for an undergraduate student at W&L is nearly $50,000, that figure represents only tuition, room and board, and totaled up provides just 60 percent of the University's budget each year. Most of the remaining revenue-35 percent-comes from private gifts and from income from endowments established over the years. This ongoing support from alumni, parents and friends truly makes a W&L education possible.
Faculty and Staff
Supporting the faculty and staff who work with those students is the second priority for the University and the campaign. Norwood said there is a need for the University to bump up faculty pay so that it is at the mean of W&L's competitors, other elite liberal arts colleges such as Williams, Davidson and Middlebury.
The University needs to identify and keep those professors whose names alumni will recall decades later. Faculty members who, in addition to being scholars, are "deeply committed to the liberal arts ideal of education," are at the heart of the W&L experience, Ruscio said. The campaign will raise at least $122 million of endowment for this purpose. More than half of that will come through the Lenfest Challenge, the $33 million gift that Gerry Lenfest '53, '55L will give the University to support competitive faculty compensation if donors match his gift before the end of this calendar year.
Other campaign objectives for faculty endowments will support professors' ongoing professional growth, to keep them in the forefront of their fields; allow W&L to invite visiting experts to enrich curriculum offerings not covered by regular faculty; and focus on faculty leadership in areas of study emphasized in the strategic plan. Environmental studies, entrepreneurship and global learning are just three examples of these areas.
The strategic plan also encompasses the nonteaching staff, whose impact on students is just as important and apparent. W&L wants to foster a workplace that is personally rewarding for them in accord with the University's ideals and to fulfill its educational mission.
Academic Programs
The third piece of the campaign is supporting faculty as they create and develop new ways to engage students in learning outside the classroom, new curricula important to a 21st-century liberal arts education, and other innovations. Gifts to increase faculty-mentored research by students, redesign of the third-year law school curriculum, support for off-campus educational opportunities such as internships and the New York and Washington programs, and Spring Term innovations are among the initiatives.
A Campus for the 21st Century
The bricks-and-mortar element pertains to nothing less than the structural face of the University. The Colonnade, a National Historic Landmark, is to be renovated over the next several years. As with the completed first phase of the project, Newcomb Hall, historic preservation and rehabilitation will guide the work. Preservation means maintaining and repairing existing historic features and retaining the building itself. Rehabilitation means the alteration or addition of certain aspects (fire alarms, sprinkler systems, elevators, handicapped-accessible features, an electrical system to allow the latest teaching technology) while keeping the original character. The price tag of the fouryear project is $50 million, accounting for a sizable portion of the $120.5 million campaign goal that includes the just opened Hillel House, an expanded and modernized Lewis Hall, a state-of- the-art facility for global learning in a renovated duPont Hall, and new indoor recreational and athletic facilities.
Ruscio believes the Colonnade renovation serves as an appropriate metaphor for the entire campaign. It is a beloved, historic structure that will be preserved and improved. "What we're trying to do is take what made this place so great and special in the past even as we prepare for the next century," he said.
Annual Fund
The unrestricted money in the Annual Fund provides 6 percent of the University's operating budget. It undergirds such things as salaries, equipment purchases, athletic teams and upkeep of the facilities. And it gives financial flexibility throughout the year, allowing W&L to strengthen academic offerings, enhance student self-governance, and support student projects. The campaign goal is to increase donations and alumni participation by 5 percent each year for $60 million total. It's through this all-important portal that many alumni will support the campaign.
One of a Kind
Preserving the past while ensuring the University's ability to adapt to the future and continue its tradition is something Phil Norwood thinks is worth funding. It's not a particularly hard sell. "There are plenty of liberal arts colleges, there are plenty of research universities. And a lot of very highly qualified students and their parents choose those places over Washington and Lee," the former rector said. "I don't hold out that we're for everybody. But for the people we're right for-and that is people who are interested in the development of character as well as the development of intellect and cultivating lifelong relationships and building leadership skills-I think we're one of a kind. We should be the leaders. And in order to be the leaders, you need the resources."


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WATCHING RAPE: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture
Projansky, Sarah, Kern, Leslie, Resources for Feminist Research
WATCHING RAPE: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture Sarah Projansky New York: New York University Press, 2001; 311 pp.
Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture provides a systematic examination of the ubiquity and versatility of rape narratives in American cinema and television, and articulates the intersections of such narratives with discourses of "postfeminism." Sarah Projansky contends that there is a "discursive effectivity" (p. 3) to rape narratives that contributes to a rape culture. Therefore, representations of rape must be a site for feminist activism. Most importantly, Projansky details intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She argues that "rape narratives help organize, understand, and even arguably produce the social world; they help structure social understandings of complex phenomena such as gender, race, class, and nation" (p. 7). Projansky also maps how postfeminism structures the ways that rape is portrayed, and works to limit the possibilities for feminist mobilization against rape. Projansky's critical reading practice opens space for multiple interpretations as her analysis does not work towards closure on these issues; rather, her work points to important directions in feminist cultural studies.
In her chapter, "The Postfeminist Context," Projansky details feminism's co-constitutive relationship to postfeminism through the idea that postfeminism perpetuates discourse around feminism even as it declares feminism obsolete. Critically, Projansky challenges the type of feminism that postfeminism implies - an implicitly white, heterosexual, middle-class feminism. I found this critique to be particularly useful. What Projansky does is dehomogenize postfeminism, by identifying five categories of this discourse: linear, backlash, equality and choice, (hetero)sex-positive, and men-can-be-feminists-too. The effect of this critique is to provide techniques for identifying, deconstructing, and resisting postfeminist discourse. As Projansky argues, it is necessary to take on postfeminism because it has become the dominant version of feminism taken up in popular culture as well as the media. Thus her analysis of this phenomenon works to dehegemonize postfeminism as well.
In "Film and Television Narratives at the Intersection of Rape and Postfeminism," Projansky illustrates that postfeminism constitutes the dominant framework for understanding and responding to violence against women. This framework has several effects: it positions women as individually responsible for challenging rape; positions men as "better feminists" who educate women about appropriate responses to rape; elides the importance of feminist anti-rape activism; reinscribes whiteness; and depoliticizes feminist messages about rape. She notes that, "postfeminism and rape narratives work together to define feminism in particularly limited ways in terms of gender, race, class, and sexuality" (p. 231). Projansky's later examination of feminist anti-rape videos across three decades in "Talking Back to Postfeminism?" exposes the ways that postfeminism operates in this context to limit representational strategies, as well as to limit the potential for anti-racist work.
The effect of her arguments is to provide a wake-up call to feminists, warning us to be aware and extremely concerned about the prevalence and insidious influence of postfeminist notions, not only within popular culture and media, but within feminist work as well. In my experience as a feminist academic from the mid-nineties until the present, I cannot recall much attention given to postfeminism. …


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Blood pours to the ground
Staining the concrete
A maddening laugh
Rips through the silence
My heartbeat slows
As I watch my blood
Form a pool around me
You said you loved me.
You said cared.
When you said
You had a surprise
I didn't think it would be this
You know how I hate knives
Yet you stand over me
Holding one
Covered in my blood
Your eyes stare down at me
I can see insanity in them
And my death
It's getting harder to breathe
I cant do anything
But stare at you
As you smile at me
That smile that I used to love
Now makes my stomach turn
Everything's starting to go black
You lean down and kiss me
Your lips are ice
'I love you'
You say it so sincerely
But there's only more pain
Your voice
Saying those three words
That are supposed to make a girl happy
Are the last things I hear
Before everything goes dark
And I enter that eternal slumber.
You said you loved me
You said you cared
Then you caused me pain
And now,
Now I am no more.
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Twisted love . . . my favorite! ;D
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Very twisted. I like twisted.
*cringes from the sadism* dark...very dark...most twisted thing i've ever read...
Heh, I know. See what lies in that dark part of my mind?
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May 27, 2016
John Fea, a history chair, describes what he learned on his daughter's college tours about the presence or absence of a liberal arts ethos.
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Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn takes issue with arguments that the erosion of faculty members' participation in shared governance is entirely due to forces beyond their control.
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As summer begins, negotiations in the so-called Doha Round of world trade talks again heat up as countries jockey to retain their protection for domestic industries such as agriculture and to restrict non-agricultural market access. U.S. presidential candidates are focusing a lot of attention on issues of trade and immigration. The candidates blame a slowing U.S. economy and big jumps in the unemployment rate on NAFTA, Chinese currency policy, dependence on foreign oil, and globalization.
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Judith Shapiro considers the state of anti-intellectualism and the responsibility of the educated to counter it.
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As campuses begin to experience an influx of former military service members, an innovative program offers a blueprint for helping them make the transition and succeed in college, writes Rose Sachs.
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Baldwin City, Kan. — Four Baker University students recently placed first at the case competition at the annual Midwest Decision Sciences Institute Conference in Erie, Pa.
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Pulling up to Lucas Oil Stadium in a limousine isn't a bad way to attend your first NFL football game.
But Sam Dooley's dream night will only get better from there.
He and his family will mingle with players on the field before the game, get VIP seats near the south goal line and appear on the Jumbotron at halftime, all at the biggest regular-season Colts game of the year.
Sam and his family were specially chosen to attend Sunday's game against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos. A student at Damar Academy in Indianapolis, the 13-year-old has worked to control his autism, improve his grades and behavior, and overcome the tragedy of losing his home in a fire last year.
Damar and the Colts picked Sam for this special experience, in the hopes of rewarding him for his achievements.
"This was a family that was deserving of the opportunity to have a day where they could put their troubles aside and just enjoy the experience," said Nicole Woods, spokeswoman for Damar Academy.
From the time he was born, Sam has been an avid football fan. He grew up in Wisconsin and was raised in a family of hardcore Green Bay Packers fans. Even after moving to Franklin three years ago, Sam decorated his room with Packers' pennants, clocks and photographs.
Every weekend, he follows along on the TV and the Internet, tracking statistics of his favorite players and talking about the results at school the next week.
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Name: Sam Dooley
Age: 13
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Family: Parents, Jeff and Debbie Dooley; brother Jahnathan, 16.
Interests: Riding bikes, Nintendo Wii, traveling to Wisconsin, the Green Bay Packers and his two cats.
But for this game, Sam is a true-blue Indy fan.
"I'm rooting for the Colts. It's going to be fun," Sam said.
Sam suffers from severe autism, as well as chronic static encephalopathy. The degenerative disease has damaged his brain, giving him the mental capacity of a third-grader.
The combination would cause him to act out unpredictably, said Debbie Dooley, his mother.
That is where his time at Damar Academy has come in. The private school is specifically for students with special behavioral and developmental needs.
Sam attends Damar five days a week, working on school subjects as well as behavioral issues. His favorite subject is math, so much so that he's been scolded during English lessons for hiding a math book so he can work on problems.
"He does very well at math. He loves to participate with his friends at school," said Erin Crick, principal at Damar Academy.
Sam has been progressing so well that he is expected to start full-time classes at Franklin Community High School.
His hard work made it natural for Crick to recommend him to attend this most-anticipated Colts game.
"Sam is a very special boy. He has a wonderful personality, and he's always happy no matter what. No matter what he's faced or what his family is facing, he's always in a positive mood," Crick said. "I thought this would be an amazing opportunity for them. They've been through a lot this year."
Starting in September, the academy and the Colts started a partnership to help reward the school's hardest-working students with a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
At each Colts home game, a Damar student and his or her family are provided with great seats, special perks and a chance to meet the players, Woods said.
"All of the families we serve at Damar overcome extraordinary odds, not only addressing the challenges of their children, but also from family struggles as well," she said. "These particular families are ones that are dealing with exceptional challenges."
The Dooleys more than meet that criteria.
In July 2012, the family was getting ready to travel back to Wisconsin for a vacation. Sam was unloading items from their van to a shed behind their home when he noticed smoke coming from the small building.
In the excessive heat and dryness, the shed had caught fire.
"He came right in and said, 'The shed is on fire.' He got me and his brother out of the house, and by that time the shed was all engulfed," Debbie Dooley said. "He saved us. If not for him noticing that, who knows what would have happened."
The fire caught the family's home on fire, and the resulting blaze destroyed almost the entire structure, as well as most of their possessions. Staying with family members and living off of donations from friends, the period was a low point for the Dooleys.
But they worked hard to recover, using insurance to purchase a new home and get settled.
On Sunday, Sam, his parents and his older brother, 16-year-old Jahnathan, will get to take in their first professional football game. Beforehand, they're planning a big dinner. Then a limo will escort them to the stadium, where a representative from the Colts will serve as their host.
They'll get to stand on the field during pregame warmups, meet players and get their photos taken. During the game, they'll be provided with a gift certificate to use for concessions.
Maybe the most exciting part will be when they are featured on the big screen to the whole stadium during halftime.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. There were 500 kids that they were choosing from, and to pick Sam as one of them is pretty extraordinary," said Jeff Dooley, Sam's father.
For the past few weeks, all Sam has been able to talk about is the game, Debbie Dooley said. He's told classmates, teachers and family members repeatedly what he gets to do.
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292 of 314 people found the following review helpful
Paul's Most Daring Book Yet,
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I purchased the kindle edition and finished the book in 3 hours with several re-readings of some chapters/paragraphs.
This book is intended for rapidly imploding contemporary America, and could serve as some sort of ideological foundation for next 10 years to organize a political revamping of GOP which is in its death throes. It deals with Paul's unique approach as a conservative libertarian.
Surprisingly, the word libertarian has been mentioned only 6 times, whereas the word moral appears a good 109 times.
The writing appears to be universal in its appeal so that an Asian or African can also relate to part of its contents. Its main focus is on freedom, which together with diversity and harmony, forms the three principles of humanity.
The book is tabulated in 50 chapters and covers 5 principal themes.
1. Individual vs State: Chapters on Capital Punishment, Civil Disobedience, Public Land, Surveillance and Slavery deal with Paul's view of Washington DC's crack-down on "personal" liberty. Paul claims that Washington DC is violating personal and property rights of American people. Matters are at the tipping point so that in near future Americans will lose all remaining freedoms. However, he does not provide any timeline.
2. Foreign policy: Chapters on Assassinations, CIA, Conscription, Empire, Foreign Aid, Patriotism, Security, Terrorism, Trade Policies and Zionism. Paul claims that Washington DC's foreign policy is costing Americans in blood and treasure. These policies are advanced by neoconservatives, whose founders were Leo Strauss and Irving Kristol. But its executive roots lay in Wilson's presidency, who preceded Strauss & Kristol! Paul's prescription for Arab-Israeli conflict is Intermarriage, not war. But if the Congress declares war, would a non-interventionist Paul execute it as President? Further, if America withdraws, will terrorists stop attacking? If I (America) burn my neighbor's (Iraq/Afg) house and then withdraw and say sorry, will my neighbor drop the idea of bloody revenge? Unlikely.
3. Welfarism/ State Socialism: Chapters on Bipartisanship, Executive Power, Four Freedoms, Gun Control, Immigration, Insurance, Lobbying, Medical Care, Moral Hazard, Morality in Government, Prohibition, Public Land, Statistics and Unions. These chapters deal with centralization of power over individuals, families, towns and States. These chapters offer a grave warning to reader that charity and philanthropy is being replaced with government programs. Regrettably, Paul is crying in the wilderness for the noble concept of Tithe, which used to be customary in a bygone era. A revival of Tithe is the humane alternative to State Welfarism, so that the bottom 10%, the ones who have been left behind, can be helped.
4. Monetary/Economic Policy: Taxes, Monetary Policy, Keynesianism, Business cycle and Austrian Economics deal with the economic policy, monetary policy and Paul's pet topic, the Federal Reserve. Paul claims that Keynesianism confiscates all wealth from the poor, middle class, and the "justly" rich - to what he pejoratively describes as the "Goldman Sachs Elite". According to Paul, the Federal Reserve is more powerful than the Presidency. But if central banking and Keynesianism is so bad, how come Japan, China, Korea became so rich so quickly? Japanese, Koreans enjoy the longest life spans, the largest middle class. Keynesian Japan is the largest international creditor, and its huge public debt is almost all held by Japanese people, not foreigners. How is US different than Japan, Korea, China?
5. Moral Decline: Chapters on Abortion, Demagogues, Discrimination, Education, Envy, Evolution, Global warming, hate crimes, marriage, political correctness, racism, religion and liberty. Paul claims that organized special interests claim wealth, territory and power at the expense of unorganized (libertarian?) groups. He decries government imposed affirmative action and claims that it harms American people. But in Japan, Korea, Israel that's not the case. The State enforces the ethnic interests of the majority.
Paul warns that the ultimate goal of State Socialism is to transform Americans into helpless, subservient and docile cattle in the name of equality so that the 99% masses will toil, while the Washington/Wall-Street elite will enjoy. The book has some personal anecdotes and the reader gets a glimpse of some events from Paul's life.
Throughout the book Paul tries to convince that Golden Rule is wonderful. He cites passages from Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity in support of Golden Rule. On paper its appeal is undeniable. But 2600 years of Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism did not make China, India more peaceful. Indians invaded Malaya in 11th CE, Central Asia in 8th CE. Lower caste and outcaste Indians are still brutally oppressed. China invaded Vietnam, Korea, Central Asia many times. Middle East has been a cesspool of war and invasions since the dawn of time. Just look at the history of Europe under North Africans, Arabs, Turks, Persians...
Paul invokes George Orwell's 1984 several times to assert that this is where America is now. Towards the end, this book calls for character and action to save the "Republic". Not "utter cynicism", "endless policy details" and resignation.
In the age of 24/7 TV, sexualized culture, pleasure seeking "me me me" individualism, the capacity to achieve political success required to rejuvenate or even save a Third World America is just not there. Since libertarians are at the one end of individualism/collectivism scale, how do they plan to stick together "collectively" for decades until their libertarian dreams come true? Isn't Libertarian party a kind of collective?
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Ronald says:
What percentage of Jews are religious and even CARE about not marrying a non-practitioner?
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Yoda says:
Probably a lot more than you think.
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negator says:
"amoral and utopian aspects of libertarianism"
you have stacked something alien on the back of libertarianism. it is a philosophy grounded in morality and utilitarianism.
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Elizabeth says:
Ronald C. Schoedel III says:What percentage of Jews are religious and even CARE about not marrying a non-practitioner?
Actually Orthodox care. Perhaps you are suggesting the more liberal branch of Reform wouldnt care as much since they tend to marry more outside the faith. But they also are the least religious as far as following the Torah etc. You do know there are different branches of Judaism, from ultra orthodox down to liberal reform?
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Captain Sternn says:
An outstanding review!
I will buy this book!
Posted on May 24, 2011 7:06:30 AM PDT
Scott says:
This review resembles a frothing rant. I was actually really thinking about getting this book until this review. This just makes it look like typical, rhetorical libertarian fantasy. "The ultimate goal of State Socialism is to transform Americans into helpless, subservient and docile cattle", give me a break. I know that libertarianism is not based in any kind of reality, but I still wanted to get a good viewpoint from the face of the philosophy. After reading this review I think I'm better off keeping with a traditional fantasy read instead of the same old confused rhetoric.
In reply to an earlier post on May 28, 2011 7:05:33 PM PDT
RJ Miller says:
"I know that libertarianism is not based in any kind of reality..."
How so?
"After reading this review I think I'm better off keeping with a traditional fantasy read instead of the same old confused rhetoric."
Naomi Klein?
In reply to an earlier post on Jun 1, 2011 10:03:16 AM PDT
Scott says:
I actually dismissed the rhetoric for what it was and got the book anyway. As much as I love the idea of what Paul has to say it's just all centered around this theory that if the government took all regulations out of our private lives we would all behave perfectly and not cause any trouble. It's almost like some kind of utopian vision. At one point he states that if businesses were allowed to discriminate as to who they allow in their stores, and they did so, the people would regulate that on their own by staging peaceful protests. That is just all theory (what I was calling fantasy). He goes on to say that the government is insulting our intelligence by assuming that we won't integrate on our own free will, but then immediately gives examples of how we consciously segregate in areas where there are no government regulations so it's probably natural that we have a segregated society. His own vision seems to be a moving target even for him. So he's basically telling us about a society that will naturally want to segregate but will stage peaceful protests against this segregation when we it happens in our businesses. Everything he has to say is awesome, and I honestly hope that he's taken seriously in this next election, but this libertarian vision is just to centralized on an assumption that people will just do the right thing. So far I haven't heard any talk about the consequences of what would happen if people didn't behave perfectly in this vision.
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Elizabeth says:
Tyson you make some excellent observations. What Ron Paul knows which is correct, is society already self segregates. You have areas where blacks have created upscale communities near Atlanta and other cities, or Jews in NYC, Mormons in Utah, Catholics in Chicago, Baptists in the south, gays in San Francisco, NYC, LA, West Hollywood. You have areas of the country that are cowboy, artists, back to earthers, bicycle oriented. People live where like minded folks live. Where I tend to disagree with Ron Paul is in the area of fair housing etc since shelter is a human need and I don't think someone should be turned away from a place they can afford, because of race. Ironically we had very little homelessness before the fair housing act. We also had few minorities dropping out of school before Brown vs Board of Education. Sadly we have more black men in prison and unemployed than ever before. Because employers as an example discovered they could get a 'twofer' by hiring a black woman. So all the laws the feds made thinking they would solve problems, haven't proven to be the case. But at least Ron Paul has us talking about the issues.
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