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Rolling Up Sleeves at the United States Africa Command: Tips for Starting a New Job in African Security Assistance
Toomey, James, DISAM Journal
On October 1, 2007, a new sub-unified command devoted solely to Africa was established with the official stand-up of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. While the creation of a new regionally-based, major command, centered on Africa, was, in itself, a key, historic event for the Department of Defense (DoD); what may eventually prove to be more significant is the mission and design of this new command, which will be focused not so much on traditional warfighting and combat force projection, but on the prevention of military conflicts and other crises before they begin. AFRICOM intends to do this mainly with "soft power" --helping DoD to coordinate with other U.S. government agencies, while simultaneously partnering with international elements, both individual nations and international organizations to deliver security cooperation contributions to Africa, including professional education, training, equipment, and humanitarian assistance. The objective:
To further build African capacity to prevent or respond to internal security issues and various man-made or natural disaster
As AFRICOM becomes a fully independent unified command, sometime before September 30, 2008, and continues to grow and mature into its mission, many U.S. military personnel from all of the services, and from a broad variety of backgrounds and occupational specialties within their respective services, will be melded into its structure. For many of these personnel, AFRICOM will likely be their first assignment working at the strategic, international level in security cooperation; for many more, it will likely be their first time working on issues related to Africa, often in jobs involving close working relationships with African governments/militaries.
With this in mind, I thought that it might be a good moment in time for someone to write an article for those beginning their careers in African security cooperation. The focus of this short piece is where to go quickly to get the information needed to do these jobs, to include positions as J-3 and J-5 desk officers, command logisticians, security assistance officers, defense attaches, etc. My intent is not so much to provide a comprehensive "how-to" guide for doing specific jobs or even to offer advanced, wisdom-baden advice for carrying out U.S. security policy. My goal is simply to pass on some very basic tips to novice security cooperation specialists working African issues, based on what I have learned from my own experience and education as an African foreign area officer (FAO) and what I have learned through the benevolence of others.
The first piece of advice I would give is learn about the region. Africa is truly unique in many aspects, and a far different operating environment than what many are familiar with in Europe, the Pacific, the Middle East, or even Latin America. For example, beyond the capital areas of most countries, modern infrastructure may be unavailable:
* No paved or even all-season/all-weather roads
* No hard-line telephone systems or universal cellular phone coverage
* No water or electrical delivery systems, beyond a village hand-pump or local clinic 35 KVA generator
Day-to-day business is often carried out primarily through personal relationships as opposed to formal bureaucracies or public regulations, and done at a pace that may be frustratingly slow, but culturally and politically necessary. Corruption may be much less subtle and much more pervasive than imagined. And, the basics needed to receive even free security assistance, fundamentals like secure warehouses, safe munitions storage areas, fully functioning ports or airfields, literate officer corps, or noncommissioned officers with basic technical skills, cannot be assumed.
Fortunately, there are many sources available on-line and elsewhere to learn about the specific countries or regions in Africa. For profiles and background notes on specific countries:
* The Library of Congress http://www.locc.gov/rr/international/.protals.html
* The DoS Bureau of Political-Military Affairs http://www.state.gov/t/pm
* The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/librarypublications/the-world-factbook/index.html
The above are handy sources, offering data on everything from the ethnic composition and infant mortality rate of a nation to the types and lengths of roadways and train tracks. Other information, particularly broader information on sub-regions, can be obtained:
* Through the African Union (AU) http://www.africa-union.org
* Through the United Nations (U.N.) http://www.un.org
The U.N. site, under its section on "peace and security," provides mission reports and other statistics on past and ongoing U.N. peacekeeping operations in Africa. More specific or by-subject information can be found at other web sites:
* The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov
* The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS http://www.unaaids.org/en publishes statistics, descriptions, and the effects of endemic African diseases that may be useful for developing humanitarian assistance programs
* The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) http://www.usaid.gov lists country program data linked to security assistance provided under the Economic Support Fund (ESF)
* The Department of Commerce http://www.commerce.gov posts information on existing and pending foreign trade agreements, guides on how to conduct business transactions in various countries, and economic statistics and forecasts on both countries and regions.
Since DoD operations are closely governed in many aspects by the President, the DoS, and Congress, other useful on-line resources regarding relevant Africa-specific U.S. foreign policy issues, include:
* The White House Africa page http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/africa
* The DoS Bureau of African Affairs http://www.state.gov/p/af
* DoS also provides policy background information and current figures and trends on foreign military financing (FMF) and international military education and training (IMET) accounts by region and country at www.state.gov/s/d/rm/rls/cbj
Naturally, there also a number of books and other hard publications available that are filled with invaluable country and regional information; perhaps the most useful of these are the Lonely Planet guides, usually published annually, which are available for both the entire continent and on specific sub-regions (i.e., the West Africa Guide) and which feature cultural and language tips, information on local/seasonal weather patterns, brief country histories, hotel recommendations (good for lodging DoD visitors), useful country and city maps, and a wide range of other information. Another important reference I would recommend is the Michelin series road maps, which often provide the most detailed information on African road networks in many areas.
Beyond these public sources of information, there is a wealth of information available within the command, or from each of the combatant commands (COCOMs) which formerly dealt with distinct portions of Africa i.e, U.S. European Command, U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Central Command. These COCOMs each publish a Theater Security Cooperation Strategy (TSCS), which may be further broken down into regional or even country campaign plans, describing DoD objectives and priorities in Africa and the COCOM plans, to include specific program elements and timelines, for executing these strategies. The COCOMs also maintain copies of country-specific Combined Education and Training Program Plans (CETPPs), compiled annually by each country's Security Assistance Office (SAO) or Defense Attache Office (DAO) to outline education and training activities with the host country. In addition, these commands should have copies of the DoS Mission Strategic Plans (MSPs), which are statements on U.S. government national interests, planned activities, and goals regarding our relations with each country, produced by local U.S. embassies in Africa. All of this information is located within the J-4 or J-5 of the COCOM. In addition, the COCOM J-3, J-4, J-5, and other staff elements should be able to provide copies of the status of forces agreements (SOFAs), acquisition and cross-servicing agreements (ACSAs), and non-combatant evacuation plans on particular countries. These documents offer insight on these countries relationships with the U.S. as well as details on country infrastructure, economies, military/security organizations, and legal systems.
The second piece of advice I would give is learn the basics on how the U.S. government conducts security cooperation. There are numerous U.S. laws and DoD regulations that strictly define and limit how security cooperation may be conducted, and specific procedures and systems that must be used to plan and execute security cooperation activities. Some of the best sources for information on-line would include the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) http://www.dsca.mil and the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM) http://www.disam.dsca.mil, which provide guidance and education on all aspects of security cooperation, including very detailed information about pertinent U.S. policy and legislation, the U.S. foreign military sales (FMS) process, end use monitoring requirements, excess defense articles, and many other topics. DISAM also posts links to other sources of knowledge regarding security assistance on its web site, such as the on-line DoD 5105.38-M. Security Assistance Management Manual (SAMM) and available on-line courses on a variety of subjects related to security cooperation/assistance.
For more in-depth knowledge on both African regional topics and security cooperation, formal resident course training is also available through a number of sources. DISAM, in particular, offers a ten to fifteen day Security Cooperation Management Overseas Course (SCM-O) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, specifically tailored for SAO, DAO, regional COCOM, and service component command personnel, that provides practical knowledge on security cooperation policies and procedures and includes a regional studies program addressing regional and country-specific political, military, economic, geographic, and cultural considerations, and discussing historic and current relationships between the United States and Africa. The Department of State's Foreign Service Institute (FSI), located in Arlington, Virginia, also offers a wide variety of resident courses designed to enhance the professional skills of foreign affairs specialists. FSI's educational programs feature instruction on foreign languages, regional cultures and issues, DoS operations, and U.S. foreign policy. Yet another good source for resident education is the United States Air Force Special Operations School (USAFSOS) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. USAFSOS conducts a one-week regional and cultural awareness course which orients its students to the social, historical, political, economic, and security issues affecting Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as other regions of the world.
Security cooperation in Africa still remains a relatively new frontier for the U.S., and is likely to be a permanent and growing area of interest for DoD and our country for years to come. If you are one of the new officers or noncommissioned officers embarking on your first job in this area, good luck and enjoy it. You will undoubtedly find it a very professionally and personally rewarding experience.
Lieutenant Colonel James Toomey, USA
Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management
Lieutenant Colonel James Toomey is currently an instructor at the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management. He has worked as a Sub-Saharan African (48J) Foreign Area Officer (FAO) for the U.S. Army for over nine years, with tours of duty at three U.S. embassies abroad including service as a Defense Attache in Haiti and Liberia, and an assignment as the Chief, Central Africa Branch at the U.S. European Command. He possesses four degrees related to international business/political affairs, including Master's degrees from Columbus State University and the University of Florida, where he also obtained a certificate in African studies.…


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Dieter C. Gruenert, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He is also a member of the Eli Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, the Institute for Human Genetics, the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF as well as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont. He received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from UC Berkeley in 1982 and was postdoctoral fellow (1982-1984) in the Department of Carcinogenesis at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in Lausanne, Switzerland. He originally joined the faculty at UCSF in 1986 where he developed many of the human cystic fibrosis (CF) and non-CF airway epithelial cell lines used in CF and airway disease research throughout the world. He was the Co-Director of the Gene Therapy Core Center at UCSF from 1992-1999. In 2000 he left UCSF to take a position as a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Human Molecular Genetics at the University of Vermont, and then returned to the San Francisco area in 2003 to take position as a Senior Scientist at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute. In 2005, he established and headed the Stem Cell Research Program at CPMCRI before returning to UCSF 2010 to pursue his interest in developing a regenerative medicine program in OHNS as an adjuvant therapy to surgical intervention.
Dr. Gruenert's present research continues to focus on human cell and molecular biology as they relate to the development of gene and cell-based therapies for ameliorating disease pathologies. His work has expanded the potential of evaluating and screening drugs directed at modifying aberrantly functioning human gene products in human cell systems. These include tissue/cell type specific primary cells, immortalized cells, and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). In addition, the development of patient-specific parathyroid, thyroid, salivary gland, tracheal and nasal mucosa tissue from iPSCs is a critical component in regenerating intact tissue that are maintain both functional and cosmetic integrity.
In addition to his work on cell systems, Dr. Gruenert's work has led to development of novel diagnostic and oligo/polynucleotide-based therapeutic strategies and nucleic acid delivery approaches. His oligo/polynucleotide gene repair studies were among the first to demonstrate that genetic mutations at a disease-causing locus in the genomic DNA could be corrected with fragments of DNA and essentially set the stage for the present nuclease mediated gene editing strategies using TALENs and CRISPRs.
Dr. Gruenert has more than 150 publications, holds 5 patents and has given 240 invited presentations worldwide; he reviews grants for numerous national and international agencies and is on the Editorial Boards of a number prestigious scientific journals. His selection as for European Respiratory Society Visiting Professorship at the Necker Hospital in Paris and a Visiting Professorship at Tor Vergata University in Rome as well as his current appointment to the Commission for the National Agency for Evaluation of Candidates of Professor and Associate Professor for the Italian Ministry for Education, Universities and Research in Italy is a reflection of the impact his work has had internationally.
Research Areas:
Gene Targeting: Studies to define SFHR and have led to a new paradigm for viewing homologous replacement in human cells. This research has broadened the understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of homologous replacement in human somatic cells. This work has also led us to pursue investigations into the development of transgenic large animal models of disease.
DNA Delivery: Studies have also focused on non-viral delivery systems ranging from liposomes, polyamidoamines, polyethyleneimines, microinjection, and electroporation for in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo DNA delivery. These studies are critical for identifying viable alternatives to the virally-based approaches for therapeutically delivering DNA into cells and tissue.
Cancer Gene Therapy: Studies to evaluate the role of connexins in "bystander killing" observed with suicide genes have been undertaken in human epithelial cells and in brain tumor cells. As an outgrowth of this work, connexin genes in both transformed and non-transformed cells have been studied to characterize the role of intercellular communication in modulating neoplastic progression. Cell lines will also be developed from tissue samples head and neck cancers (e.g., endocrine, salivary, squamous) to evaluate the molecular genetic features of specific tumor types and their sensitivity to therapeutic agents.
Development of Breast Cancer Therapeutic Strategies: Studies have begun to develop a combined therapy based on the killing of hypoxic cells using suicide gene and shRNA inhibition of VEGF. These systems will be evaluated in vitro and in vivo for their ability to enhance the effectiveness of tumor cell killing. In addition, poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor (PARPi) sensitivity and resistance in BRCA2 mutant mammary cells is being evaluated in primary and tumor-derived mammary epithelial cells as well as somatic cell derived iPS cells.
Epithelial Cell and Molecular Biology/Cell Transformation: The generation and characterization of immortalized cell lines for human genetic disorders and cancer is ongoing. The cells lines are tools to investigate biological pathways associated with various diseases and to develop therapeutic strategies. The cell lines developed in my laboratory have been used internationally to elucidate the cellular and genetic mechanisms that underlie human airway epithelial cell biology and disease pathology, genetic disorders, and cancer biology.
Stem Cell-Based Tissue Repair: Studies have been undertaken to evaluate the patient-specific therapeutic potential of adult and pluripotent (embryonic and induced) stem cells. In addition, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from CF and SCD individuals have been generated. Enrichment and the determinants for multilineage differentiation are now under investigation. These studies are of particularly relevant for the repair of organ damage caused by a chronic (genetic or non-genetic), an acute traumatic episode, or therapeutic surgery for tumor removal.
Head and Neck Cell Biology and Stem Cell Therapeutics
Cell and molecular biology, DNA repair and replication, stem cell biology, carcinogenesis, airway epithelial cell biology, ion transport, photobiology, radiation biophysics, human airway physiology, molecular genetics, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia
Professional Interests:
Development of tissue/cell type-specific cell systems (primary, immortalized and induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)), gene repair/editing, nucleic acid delivery, gene and cell therapy, stem cell-based tissue repair systems, long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) regulation of gene expression
Education and Training:
• PhD: University of California, Berkeley –Biophysics
• Postdoctoral: Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Epalinges/Lausanne, Switzerland
Awards and Honors:
• 1971-72 President, Student Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• 1988 Workshop Mod, "Cell Immortalization," 2nd North Amer CF Conf, Orlando, FL
• 1990 Conf Chair, NIDDK Workshop, "Epithelial Cell Growth and Transformation", University of California, San Francisco, CA
• 1990 Roundtable Moderator, 4th Annual North American CF Conf
• 1991 Roundtable Moderator, 5th Annual North American CF Conf
• 1995-12 Advisor, DNA Files, Sound Visions Productions, Berkeley CA
• 1996-03 Genetics Advisor, International Association of CF Adults
• 1997 Session Chair, Pathophysiology, 21st Eur CF Conf, Davos, Switzerland
• 1997 Conf Chair, "Gene Therapy: The Next Generation", Intl Cong, Paris, France
• 1998 Session Chair, Emerging Technics, 6th Symp on Gene Therapy, Max Delbrück Cent, Berlin-Buch, Germany
• 1998 Plenary Lecture, "Gene Targeting: Prospects for CF Gene Therapy", 22nd Eur CF Conf, Berlin, Germany
• 1998 Session Chair, Gene Therapy, 22nd Eur Cystic Fibrosis Conf, Berlin, Germany
• 1998 Session Chair, Genetics and Gene Therapy, Intl Assoc of CF Adults Conf, Berlin, Germany
• 1999 Plenary Lecture and Session Chair, Gene Therapy and Molecular Biology and Medicine Intl Conf, Redwood City, CA
• 1999 Visiting Professorship, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Department of Biopathology and Diagnostic Imaging, Rome, Italy
• 2001 Conf Chair, "Genome Medicine: Gene Therapy for the Millennium," Rome, Italy
• 2002 Session Chair, "NonViral Gene Therapy: Recent Advances", Amer Soc Gene Therapy Mtg, Boston, MA
• 2002 Session Chair, "Recent Advances in CF Gene Therapy". Eur CF Soc Mtg, Genoa, Italy
• 2003 Session Co-Chair, "NonViral Gene Therapy: Recent Advances", Amer Soc Gene Therapy Mtg, Washington, DC
• 2005 Session Chair, "Oligonucleotide-mediated Therapies", Amer Soc Gene Therapy Mtg, St Louis, MO
• 2005 Moderator, Round Table: Animal Models of CF, North Amer CF Conf, Baltimore, MD.
• 2005 Visiting Professorship, University of Rome, TorVergata, Dipartimento di Medicina di Laboratorio Azienda Ospedaliera, Universitaria "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.
• 2006-08 Chair, Ethics Committee, Amer Soc for Gene and Cell Therapy
• 2007 Keynote speaker, "Modification of Genomic DNA Following Microinjection and Nucleofection of Large Oligodeoxynucleotides", Australian Soc of Gene Therapy, Canberra, Australia.
• 2007 Session Chair, "Oligonucleotide Based Therapies: Diversity of Oligonucleotides in Gene Therapy". Amer Soc of Gene Therapy Meeting, Seattle, Washington.
• 2007 Conf Co-Organizer, "Epithelial Cells & Tissues: Production, Cultivation and Characterization", Lisboa, Portugal.
• 2008-11 Board of Directors, Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society
• 2009 Eur Respiratory Soc Visiting Professorship, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, INSERM U845, Paris, France
• 2010 Symp Speaker, "Modification of CF and Sickle Cell iPS Cells by SFHR", Amer Soc for Gene and Cell Therapy Mtg, Washington, DC
• 2010 Session Chair, "Oligonucleotide and RNAi Therapeutics", Amer Soc for Gene and Cell Therapy Mtg, Washington, DC
• 2010 Session Chair, "Oligonucleotides and Stem Cells", Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Soc Mtg, Dana Point, CA
• 2011 Session Chair, "Targeting Genetic Diseases", Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Soc Mtg, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2011-pres Senior Editor, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics (formerly Oligonucleotides)
• 2012 Session Chair, "Optimizing Cell Line Development: Facilitating the Success of Biologics", CHI BioProcessing Summit: Optimizing Mammalian Cell Lines, Boston, MA
• 2012 Visiting Professorship, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Department of Biopathology and Diagnostic Imaging, Rome, Italy
• 2012-pres Appointed Member, Natl Scientific Qualification Committee, Natl Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Res Inst, Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research.
• 2013-pres Deputy Editor, Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids
• 2014-pres Co-Executive Editor (Founding Co-Editor), Journal of Biological Methods
• 2015-16 Scientific Advisory Council, Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society
University of Wisconsin, Madison, B.A., 1972, Molecular Biology
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 1982, Biophysics
Institut Suisse de Recherches, Experimentales sur le Cancer, Epalinges/Lausanne, Suisse, Postdoc, 1982-1984, Carcinogenesis


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- Screwball, liberal policies will bankrupt a country or a city or state for that matter. Look no further than Detroit. Just two generations ago it was the capitalist mecca of the United States. It was the center of the American Dream. Today, the liberal policies that enable people to not work has destroyed the city. The city of Detroit is giving away houses for a dollar and there are no takers. Few who are sane and have a good job would want to live there. It's a welfare fueled hellhole.
- The destruction of the dollar through runaway inflation does not mean the end of The United States. It does means that if you hold paper and intangible assets, you can be wiped out. The most liquid, divisible, transportable and significant assets you can own in an inflation are silver and gold (and to a certain extent firearms). You can do things with these assets that you can not accomplish with other assets (like make arrangements to keep your family fed). The simple fact of the matter is once gold and silver coins are in your possession for a few years they become a hidden asset, that is unless you have a big mouth, neighbors, family and friends will not know you have them. I have a client who has left a letter with his attorney, sealed until he dies, telling his kids to NOT sell the house until they dig up the brick BBQ in the backyard. It's literally a million dollar BBQ grill.
- The demand for gold and silver increases during the course of inflationary times. Which means that, that they counterbalance the ravages of a diminishing currency. Chances are you already know you need more financial safety in your life. The question is just how much more do you need and how do you maximize your paper dollars into metals? Call us and see if we have some no-B.S. ideas on the subject.
It's come to the point where the U.S. pays half its bills with newly created money. We're printing $550,000,000,000 a year. This debt monetization will ultimately destroy the value of the dollar. If you do not prepare for this likely outcome you could face destitution. Many will. Financial suffering will be of epic proportions. Years ago the noted banker and economist John Exter (1910-2001) warned, "The marketplace is a crime and punishment world, and this Federal Reserve credit expansion is the greatest monetary crime of all time. Accordingly the punishment will be far and away the greatest punishment of all time."
The late professor Hans F. Sennholz (1922-2007), an articulate economist of the Austrian school wrote, "The ultimate destination of the present road of political fiat is hyperinflation with all its ominous economic, social, and political consequences. On this road, no federal plan, program, income policy, control, nationalization, threat, fine or prison can prevent the continuous erosion and ultimate destruction of the dollar."
Nowadays the book stores are full of volumes warning about the dangers of inflation and the doom of the dollar. I like to base my thinking on the writings of those who first warned about the dangers of fiat money and inflating. Foremost among these was the leading thinker of the Austrian School of Economics, Ludwig von Mises ((1888-1973). Many consider him to be the ranking economist of the twentieth century. He had first-hand experience with hyperinflation during the Weimar inflation of 1921.
He wrote "Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe." He explained further, "Inflationism cannot last; if not radically stopped in time, it must lead inexorably to a complete breakdown. It is an expedient of people who do not care a whit for the future of their nation and its civilization."
We are inflating now more than ever. The government requires this money to pay for our exploding welfare state. Talk of cutting those expenditures is meaningless. We have passed the point of no return on entitlements.
A great Austrian economist and one-time Newsweek editor Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) wrote of this dilemma, "The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.
"The causes of this accelerative increase are hardly mysterious. Once the premise has been accepted that the 'poor,' as such, have a 'right' to share in somebody else's income – regardless of the reasons why they are poor or others are better off – there is no logical stopping place in distributing money and favors to them.
"Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society' or of 'the capitalist system,' then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or re-elected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need,' or in proposing to increase the benefits or reduce the eligibility requirements of some existing program."
Our taxes are paying for greater levels of welfare socialism. In addition we borrow and print money to foster more socialism. The philosopher and economist Leonard Read, (1898-1983) knew what it was all about when he wrote, "Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are simultaneously cause and effect; they feed on each other."
Of socialism Ludwig von Mises wrote, "It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it." "A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings."
The economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006) famously said, "There is no free lunch." It's true that everything has its price. Nations have to pay that price too. The economist and author Virgil Jordan (1892-1965) wrote, "Ultimately with God's aid, Truth always emerges and finally prevails supreme in its power over the destiny of mankind, and terrible is the retribution for those who deny, defy, or betray it."
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I have Tiagra rear derailleur and it's starting to get hard to shift into the lowest gear or two. Any suggestions for a fix or is it just that the nature of the Tiagra????
I have Tiagra rear derailleur and it's starting to get hard to shift into the lowest gear or two. Any suggestions for a fix or is it just that the nature of the Tiagra????
I doubt it is your RD. Much more likely that your shift cable & cable housings need to be replaced. Also check the cable guide underneath your BB and replace if it looks worn / gummed up (the guide can create a lot of friction when worn and it is a very inexpensive part to replace).
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Swap the RD cable and housing.
Spray a lot of WD-40 into the brifter mechanisms. This makes a mess, do it outside. Let the solvents do their job and clean the gunk out. Spray some lubricant on the mechanisms. Shift up and down the entire cassette to work the lube in.
What Grambo said. Depends what you mean by 'lowest gear or two'. This is often hard to understand on forums.
Upshifting is technically stair stepping Down the cassette. Are you speaking of lazy shifting to the smallest cogs?
This is generally due to cable friction as Grambo said. The way a derailleur works is the rotory spring rate is most challenged on the outboard i.e. smallest cogs because the spring is less coiled within the derailleur. So generally increased cable friction due to worn/dirty cables will affect outboard rear shifting the most. A tip is...if you leave your bike for a long time...generally shift it to its smallest cog which relaxes the derailleur spring the most. Same with front derailleur but a bit less of an issue.
As has been stated...check replace the cable and housing...maybe only the short length of housing from the chain stay to the rear derailleur is gunked up and restricting cable movement if that is a problem.
Before replacing the cable and housing though thoroughly clean the rear derailleur and chain, readjust the cable tension.
If it started suddenly, it could also be a bent hanger. Plenty of things to check. Take it to your LBS if you aren't sure about checking or fixing these items yourself.
When I say "lowest" I mean like first gear in a car vs 6th or your "granny gear".
I'll lube the cables real good & see if that helps. If not, off to the shop.
I asked about the Tiagra b/c I've already (about 2,200 miles on the bike) replaced the front derailleur. The front was getting jammed up to easily - probably b/c of lack of cleaning on my part. The shop said that they don't seem to have that problem as often with Ultegra & the price difference was small anyway.
If the RD only has 2,200 miles and the DH hasnt been bent you probably just need to adjust you cable. I hate to say it but your LBS may be looking to up-sell.
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Should toddlers be forced to wean or should they self-wean? Why do you choose the school of thought that you did?
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Should toddlers be forced to wean or should they self-wean? Why do you choose the school of thought that you did?
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I think that EBF is wonderful as long as it is mutually enjoyed. I like to let my kids decide when to stop but I'm sure I have a cut-off point. My ODD nursed for 18 months and this DD is still nursing at 13 months with no sign of slowing down.
There's a middle ground. There's self-weaning with encouragement from mom (i.e., distraction, offering other methods of comforting). That's my choice. I respect my child's needs, but I set boundaries.
There's no one right answer to this question. For me, I would like to do child-led weaning, but I also want to have another child, and will probably have to wean before I start taking the fertility meds. I also don't think that you have to choose between child-led or parent-led weaning. I think (hope) it's possible to gently guide your child toward weaning while still being sensitive to their needs and cues, so that it becomes more of a collaborative process.
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I force weaned two of my kids because nursing multiple kids became overwhelming for me. There was no way I could nurse 3 at the same time.
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I lost my job and due to food shortage (like living off wic only) I lost my supply as well :/ DS was 11 months and still occasionally tries to nurse at 18 months :/ milk factory has been dried up, sorry dude.
I think it should be when both parties are ready or atleast the baby.
I am asking the same question to myself right now after I told DS no nursies right now and offered him a cup of milk.
He is 2 years now and during the weekend (and at night) still seems to be nursing like a newborn. He goes with only morning and evening (and night) nursing during the week while he is in daycare. And even when we are out and about he rarely wants to nurse. But at home he wants to be attached non-stop. I am trying very very gently to offer him alternatives. I don't mind nursing him at all and I am planning on going for at least another year but I really would like to limit his nursing.
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I never really considered myself a dog person. In fact, I always had a pension for cats. But when we first moved to Atlanta, and TBF wanted a dog...I thought, why not. We have more room (as in our apartment here was bigger than the one in NYC) and I thought a dog could be fun.
So we went to our local Pet Supermarket during the weekends to check out the dog adoptions they hold. We've come by a few times just to see the dogs, no real intention of adopting since we didn't fully commit ourselves to pet ownership...until one Sunday, we came by again just to say hi, and there this cute brown doggie was.
He was so friendly and just wanted to be petted and have his belly rubbed. It was really the cutest thing to see. Despite the cuteness though, it wasn't love at first sight for me, nor did I think I felt any kind of personal connection to the dog. But it seemed that TBF did, as he walked the dog around the store and started to bond with him while I filled out paperwork.
As I filled out all the necessary forms, I got what I believe to be the standard lecture of how big the responsibility is, how puppy and obedience training is highly recommended, and how long we should expect to have the dog in our lives (average lifespan of 12-14 years). I never knew adopting a dog was such a big deal....I had to wonder what was I getting myself into.
And thus the journey of pet ownership began, and so did my life, and how I viewed things...particularly regarding pets and animals. And I honestly would have never been able to guess how owning a dog could affect different aspects of my life. So this is my journey...or I guess our journey, mine and my rescued dog-child Rolo.
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As I am sitting here trying to figure out how to get rid of the anger, anxiety, rage, pity, and other feelings... I am wondering why it hurts more than in past years.
The only thing I can come up with, is this was a winnable game, in a winnable bracket, and can only be comparable to our Elite 8 run back in 2000. Maybe it's the uncertainty of the future causing me this pain, since so many seniors are gone... I can't put my finger on it but this one really hurts.
My heart goes out to the team... If I feel this way as a fan, I can only imagine how the players feel.
I wish I was rich so I could donate endless amounts of money to our program and build a powerhouse like these other schools. I just hope in my lifetime, I can see the Cyclones play in a final 4.
I think this one hurts more because this kind of thing has happened to us all year long. This one cost us a legitimate shot at a run to a Final Four.
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How fun! We can have a thread about why this one hurts.
It hurts more because a team that has fought the entire season almost pulled off an incredible upset without a starter for half the game. And it hurts because we don't get to see Korie and Will and Tyrus and Chris and Anthony play for Iowa State again. And those guys brought a heck of a lot of basketball joy to me over the last 2 years. I wasn't ready to be finished with those guys.
This hurts quite a bit, and I agree it is the worst since 2000. But it's not even close to as bad as 2000, anyone that is pretending otherwise doesn't remember the game and the circumstances.
I don't think this one necessarily hurts more than any of the others- MSU, Hampton, NC and Kentucky.
They all hurt.
There's nothing to be disappointed about here. We went toe-to-toe with the Big Ten tournament champs without our best defender and lost on an amazing shot as the clock expired.
I'll never feel too hurt by a season like this, even when it end the way it did. This "hurt" pales in comparison to the hurt I felt in early 2010, when it seemed like the program I'd grown up watching and loving was destined to remain in the conference cellar for the foreseeable future. That hurt. Now look where we are, just 3 years later...if you ever feel bad about this program, just remember 2010 when we'd just wrapped up our 5th straight losing conference season when McDoormat couldn't buy a win and we had guys quitting on us to go play in Germany.
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I have looked at importing a Downtube Mini, which she likes, but i estimate it will cost me £300 at least to import one from the US to the UK, as they are not yet stocked in the UK.
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The bike I am looking at for her from this company is listed at £90 brand new, £100 with a carry bag and around £18 p and p. The pictures of the bikes look good, but I haven't seen them "in the flesh".
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This is one of those films that changed the way movies were made in the nineties, just not always for the better. After Pulp Fiction, there were so many non-linear gangster movies with quirky dialog and off-beat characters that it just got tiresome. Hell, it's still going on. You can't blame Quentin Tarantino for all the lousy filmmakers who try to imitate his work, though. You can blame him for the less-than-good movies that he made for himself later, but Pulp Fiction still kicks ass.
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There's been a lot of discussion lately surrounding the efficacy of Swift. Brent Simmons has been writing about his experiences using Swift. As an expert Objective-C developer, his insights are worth paying attention to; he notes that tools at hand when developing Objective-C are either missing in Swift, or clumsy to use. Responder chains, adding functions to objects at runtime, and selector reflection. I suggest you read all his posts.
However, I feel the need to point out that there are a lot of iOS developers out there who don't use those tools, or may not even be aware of them. Consequently, they may not share Brent Simmons' frustration at their absence.
Last week, I was getting some weird behaviour from an Artsy websocket API. The API is written in Scala, a language I'd never used before. With some help from colleagues, I was able to debug the strange behaviour and isolate its cause – but I didn't want to make any changes on my own. While I've wanted to dip my toes further into web development for a long time now, I've been really nervous about making a mistake.
Then yesterday happened.
I'm a professional iOS developer – world class, if you believe my about page. But while I have a very particular set of skills building iOS apps, I want to be more than just an "iOS" developer. I want to be a bit of a polyglot, to explore other communities and languages and frameworks. For fun, but also because it makes me better at my job. Diverse experience helps me identify solutions to problems I've seen elsewhere, and being a beginner in other skills helps me empathize with other developers.
My favourite way to branch out of iOS development is to build this site, my blog. I've gotten experience in Ruby, Haml, web design, site deployments, CDN configuration, SVG formatting, etc etc etc. What's really fun is when I get an idea for an improvement to make, and my skills are perfetcly matched for the task.
We're seeing an explosion in the number of server-side Swift frameworks, which is awesome. The community needs to go in many directions to find out which ideas it should standardize on. Not all of these new libraries will be long-lived: some will fade out while others will become pillars of the server-side Swift community. Which libraries the community centres around won't depend solely on code quality; it'll depend heavily on community quality.
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A few months ago, I wrote about normalizing struggle a discussion of failure and a call-to-action for everyone to be more open about that fact that they struggle (because everyone does).
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When I was growing up, Star Trek The Next Generation was in syndication, Voyager was still new, and when I got home from school I could catch the final twenty minutes of Stargate: SG-1. I watched a lot of sci-fi TV growing up, and there was a good variety of it to watch. There were hopeful what-may-be shows like TNG, modern-day romps like SG-1, and exposés on humanity's undoing like The X-Files. I wasn't old enough to watch The X-Files and other darker shows, and as a consequence, sci-fi always had a sort of optimism about it.
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Hey Alfian! Up so late ah?
Ya lah what to do. Nightbird yo.
Hahaha. Eh, I've been toying with the idea of doing a bunch of casual interviews/conversations with singaporeans, just for the sake of it. To get a sense of what people are thinking and feeling about stuff in general.
Oh, that's a great idea. You could compile it into a book, and use it to fundraise, even.
Yeah, thinking of starting with a series of blog posts. I was thinking of starting small, like informal stuff, like this itself. Bored enough to play along anot? Anyhow whack only!
uh can lah
I had no idea you were from RI! Would never have guessed it. What was the experience like for you? Did it influence your thoughts about race and class?
Did you feel at home there?
Wow. How about I ask you a qn first lah before I answer haha
How come you'd never guess that I was from RI?
I suppose on hindsight it makes plausible sense. But intuitively, you come across to me as like this "fuck-the-institutions" kind of fella…
Hahaha. You should meet my friend Isrizal, who's also RI alumni.
Ok, to answer your questions. I was from a 'neighbourhood school'. Tampines Primary school. I had no idea really that one day I would end up in this 'elite' institution. So during orientation it was… a disorientating feeling.
"You are the future of our nation!" right, all that heritage to live up to?
You see those panels and photographs, all the politicians and big names- and then you think- wow, you're now going to be part of this hallowed tradition. And then like the whole stationery had the crest and the names all over. All the colonial trappings- the latin motto, the gryphon, the prefects wearing their black shoes… and a principal called a 'headmaster', haha.
It's like a mini Cambridge!
So it did come as a bit of a culture shock lah, initially. And of course I knew that it was important to get my good grades and all.
Not bad, I wish I knew that when I was in secondary school.
But on hindsight there were some insecurities. I think my batch…around 14 malay students? So that was one thing i was conscious of.
Was it a very obvious thing? Did your peers talk about it?
Well, if you were malay… by default you had to be in the Malay Cultural Club- because number was so small! But I actively resisted.
Hahaha yeah, I was in TLDDS also.
I was very very awkward with malay guys. I was socially engineered since I was very young.
By your parents?
My mum was the kind who'd tell me, 'Don't make friends with the malay kids. I want your best friend to be a chinese boy.'
Wah, best.
Yea, so that did shape me all through kindergarten and primary school. She was of the cultural deficit theory school, ie. that malays were just not as hardworking as their chinese counterparts- and to advance one had to adopt their value system.
So were your parents university educated? Or were they hardened by negative experiences? What made them different?
My parents both went to malay school. One of the reasons for my nostalgia for a pre-separation Malaysia/Singapore: I always imagine what their lives might have been like if separation did not happen. My father was head prefect, my mum the vice-head. They were like the golden couple in school. After separation, their certificates were useless. So dad became a policeman, and mum started working in a factory.
That's actually really fucked up. I never thought about that.
But this narrative also–a lot of the Chinese-educated went through the same thing after the closure of Nantah. So there was this whole period of social trauma, really. Displacements of identity.
I don't think kids these days have any idea. I mean we learn about it in school, in the abstract sense- but there's no case study of an individual's life before and after, nothing to make us really feel it.
So anyway… I never hung out with malay kids in primary school. At first this was my mum's attempt to make me pick up english (because I wouldn't be using malay with the non-malays). And of course it worked, because english is such important social capital in our 'meritocratic' system. But i was always estranged from the other malay kids. I did well in malay at school- but it was a formal malay, classroom malay. I couldn't do 'street'!
Yah, i'm like that with tamil too. So how would you put it- your mum pushed you down the english-speaking path because… ? Do you think they were resentful at suddenly having their worth in society diminished?
Because she really did at some level subscribe to the 'if malays hang out with each other then it will reinforce whatever value system they are naturally predisposed to, which means idling and lepak-ing and relak-ing one corner etc'. My mum's also a bit complicated because she's half-Chinese. As in my grandma's adopted.
Oorhhhhh. That could have made all the difference maybe?
So if you just give her a little bit of LKY's theories on eugenics she'll just run away with it. LKY says intelligence comes from mother, and that chinese genes have higher IQ. She can just conclude that I did well in school because of my one quarter chinese genes. Hahaha.
Your dad was a bit indifferent in comparison, ah?
My dad is so aloof lah. Hahahaha.
Too cool to care!
That was another problem also. I spoke english with my non-malay friends. Most of my malay, I practised with my mum- because my dad just didn't talk to us kids much.
like i wouldn't know how to swear in malay, which was such an important marker of group inclusion.
'Alamak, macam sial lah lu' that kind lah. I couldn't do.
Eh, so what were the other malay guys in RI like, then? They would have bandied together right? Inevitably happens in all communities, I find. Recess time sit at the same table…
A mixed bunch lah. Some sporty, some nerdy. But as I recall, not really cliquish.
Maybe friday prayers go together, or meet during malay class.
So nothing particularly noteworthy ah? No secret gatherings all
Some join band, some join rugby, some join soccer… don't have lah, secret gatherings!
Hehehe. Indians got one. I never go lah, but got.
Hahaha, really?
Typically involving alcohol. Everyone knows everyone.
I've always found indian community interesting. Not too sure about in Singapore, but in M'sia really got two main strata, man.
The gangsta and the normal folks ah?
There's the more 'working class origins' one, and then there's the more atas class, whose forefathers were the anglophone indians- who came with the colonial legal and administrative service. Typically sinhalese, ceylonese tamils, malayalee…
Ah, ah, I know! The pillais and chettiars etc. More atas one. Compared to the run-of-the-mill kling kia.
My class had a lot of indian boys back in RI. And i dunno why lah, ah, but if you wanted street cred you hang out with them.
YAH SIA I also dunno why! Everywhere know, even today. Everyone needs the token badass indian friend who just doesn't give a fuck.
I remember they'd always be relied on to tell the funniest jokes.
They're somehow the most irreverent.
It's very weird, it's like how white America perceives black people. Like they got soul, lah. Or like alice walker says, they 'possess the secret of joy'.
I remember reading something where Karl Lagerfield was describing how even the abject poor in India will have some degree of pride- and like at least one pretty sari and a couple of bangles or something. Dunno how true that is lah, but you get what he's getting at!
Somehow there's always that element of pomp and flair and grandeur. So you hung out with the indians ah?
Some authenticity also lah.
Indians are rather famous for speaking their mind; very politically aware culture.
I had a couple of indian friends. The usual lah, opinionated, good debaters all.
I think we are statistically overrepresented right, in parliament?
Yeah and among lawyers too! Things about RI is that the Chinese were a bit- how do I say this- 'deracinated', maybe? And because of that, there was this sense that the malays and indians were more grounded.
As in, they were less cheena also?
They were mostly english educated- and anything chinese was communist lah, chingchong lah, etc.
Like you identify yourself as Singaporean or Rafflesian before your race? Everyone eager to kind of select their own identity, rather than accept what's expected of them?
But I think I also developed class consciousness in RI. I didn't know how to articulate it at that time, but it was this one day when I was passing the canteen, and there were a group of malay men sitting on the kerb near the car park. I realised they were all chauffeurs waiting for my fellow students. And when you're that youngm you feel torn, you know… The malay part of you stands in solidarity with all these men, but another part of you, which you don't know how to define, puts you in the same category as the other students.
I can sort of relate to that. My dad runs an industrial waste disposal company,
so I come from a family very familiar with garbage and other blue collar work. Then I went to the GEP, where my peers were like minister's children and other rich high fliers.
Haha the GEP. Yes. When I went for the creative arts programme, I was the only non-GEP guy in the whole cohort. And it was weird, because already RI so elitist, and then got this another layer of elitism.
So my dad would send me to school in the pickup truck- I used to be embarrassed about it. But on hindsight actually everyone thought it was kinda cool.
My dad used to drive me to school in a really old car. and i'd be embarrassed with *that*… and often I'd ask not to be dropped at the school porch, in case my friends saw me.
Anyway at CAP i recall being served catered food. And it was OK lah, plain rice with meat and veggies. But the GEP kids kept complaining about it. One day, one of them found a weevil or something in her rice. And then the next day in the internal publication people were writing poems about weevils, etc. And I felt very indignant about it, that this became a running joke for them.
I remember eating and looking at the caterer- this chinese couple, being oblivious of the scorn being heaped on their food. And then I remember getting myself some orange juice, and the lady looked so happy, and asked me to fill up more, and she asked whether the food was nice, and I said it was, and she kept on beaming…
And i went back to my room and wrote a poem about it. I think that was the beginning of all the leftist leanings in my writing, hahaha.
When did you start writing at all, anyway? I remember my English teacher in GEP used to give us your poems from time to time!
Primary school, maybe? I'd write compositions that were 20 pages long in exercise book.
Was there a moment that made you decide, or did it just always feel like a normal thing to do?
In primary school it seemed really normal. And it was mostly prose- poetry came later. Plays first, then poetry. I think when Haresh Sharma mentored me at 15, I started taking playwriting seriously. Then all the drama fest stuff, which gave me an outlet.
How did you end up meeting him?
Oh, during the creative arts programme. It was so weird- I was very demoralised after CAP, because i thought everyone else was so clever. So I never handed in a post-CAP portfolio to be considered for mentorship.
Yea, and apparently I made an impression on Haresh- because I wrote dialogue in Singlish during one of his workshops. Everyone else it seemed, wanted to write 'clever' dialogue in proper English.
No soul.
But I don't know- I have a faint suspicion ya, that being one of the very few non-chinese participants at that time might have played a part. For all I know, Haresh was exercising affirmative action hahahahaha!
Haha! Ever asked him about it?
I haven't… I should, actually.
I think I might wanna kaypoh him too, at some point…
Yea you should! What are you doing currently? Army?
Yep, in a very slack vocation! 4 more months to ORD.
Yaaaaay. Do this interview series lah. Sounds like a very worthy project. I'm playing with the idea of interviewing ex-ISA detainees for a book also. But aiyoh I have so many things i want to do la.
Nice, heavy stuff! Eh, one of your poems hit me hard when i was a teenager- Chia Thye Poh.
Ah… They refused me a publishing grant for that book. NAC. And the chia poems were part of the reason. They weren't happy with the Josef Ng poems also.
Damn. I think nowadays new media got a lot more potential, leh. But people haven't gotten around to exploring it properly yet. New business models forming up slowly that bypass the publisher chain…
Yea I think so too. I'm quite heartened lah, to see how information is becoming more free…
Do you remember what books you read like as a wee lad? It occurs to me that it's possible that a lot of my philosophy might have been shaped by Calvin and Hobbes comics, and Enid Blyton… Don't know whether I was drawn to them because my personality already like that, or my personality was shaped by those things. Probably both. You leh?
Haha! Grew up with a lot of Enid Blytons, and then by secondary school it was Asterix comics- and then strangely enough, Ray Bradbury, who's more of a scifi writer. Inever got into tintin though. Dunno why. And then later it was poetry. Started with Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath- and then my gosh, in Junior College it was so depressing- Philip Larkin, whom i adored. Such a miserable man.
i always wonder ah, with this kind of nihilism. Do they really mean it, what they're saying? Surely underlying that cynicism, I imagine, there's this slight sliver of hope
otherwise- what's the point of writing at all?
It's a fallacy to think that a poem could be a person's absolute article of faith-
Is it like, an impulse, have to write, fuck care all else? It could be just how he was feeling at that time…
Hahaha, Bingo. And within any writer's corpus, you'll find abrogations and contradictions and renunciations anyway.
As we'll find in the human condition itself!
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What do you ladies think of this name? Yay or nay?
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I absolutely adore Ephraim! It's in my top 10. Playful and mischievous come to mind when I hear it, for some reason, especially with the nn Remy. I like that it's an underused vintage (and biblical) name. I just love it! My combo's Ephraim Gregory Silas if you're interested.
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Could I have your thoughts in this thread? I'll return the favor.
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Love it, especially spelled Ephram. I have liked it since there was a character on an old WGN show Everwood. When pregnant with my 2nd child, there was a character on Star Trek named Zefram, which was a nice compromise with hubby and was our boy pick. We ended up having another girl, but Ephram and Zefram are still high on my list!Maeby Alana ❤ Saela Eliza
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I know as a name nerd I shouldn't have this issue, but when I see it, I don't know how to pronounce it. I'm sure many non-name-nerds would have that issue as well. So, I'd ask if that bothers you, or if it would bother you if your child has to correct people or tell them how to say his name. That said, if you're okay with it, it's an unusual classic. Go for it.Favorite Girls' Names: Amalie, Cecily, Cordelia, Esther, Felicity, Iris, Miranda
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