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Nearly one year ago around this time i was given a dream about a female that shared certain characteristics with me. Upon awakening I recognized the energy in my dream as representing my twin flame. The information that I have been given about what a twin flame is is basically this: A twin flame is a masculine or feminine aspect of your soul spark that is created along with you as a divine beam from the very "beggining". In other words, it is your other half and always will be.
Ive heard some basic infromation about twin flames and what they actually are, and so we'll see if this adds up with what you guys think. Also I'm not 100% percent on the difference between soul mates and twin flames but we can discuss that also. Now supposedly the feminine half of the flame is 'weaker' than the masculine half. It is the half that mostly incarnates on the physical plane incarnating and reincarnating into either a male or female body. The other half is the stronger half and usually remains in the higher realms carrying out it's life experiences there. It is said that the masculine half NEVER incarnates on the physical plane except for on very rare "special occasions" for lack of a better term. Only during the reintergration process (?i guess ascension?) do they re-combine and share the lessons of there experiences. (This is only what I have hear. If your information differs at all please feel free to share)
It's said that the twin flame only comes down to the earth when you are "spiritualy prepared" and are ready for it (Geuss thats the special occasion). If this is true has anyone else met their twinflame, or know someone who has? I heard a blip about how the twin flame can be anyone. Once you meet that person and begin to grow on a spiritualy progressive path together, the twin flame energies will merge/download into you as a couple. On the contrary i've been told that it is a specific person, with a specific life experience that complients your own in an equal but opposite manner.
After this dream I was lead by my guides to much synchronicities, symbols, information and trials having to do with my twin flame. They told me loads of information about her through various means, ranging from where she was born to her birth day, all the way to minute details, like phrases she might use regularly and jewlery she likes. After about a yr and going through many trails that i guess ended about a month ago, i've yet to meet her. Not to complain. I been told that I must meet certain criteria on an inner level before the universe will orchestrate the events necessary for our coming together. Could this be so?
Im beginning to believe my guides constructed Angelina (thats the name I was given) and the information about her out of energies in my subconscious. They havent given me her last name, and i guess thats because i'm "not ready" for her yet. They just gave me a T. for her first initial.
I say all off this because i'm wondering a few things. One: Who can a twin flame be? Does it even have to a human from Earth?
Two: How will we meet? My father says that i should be out and about, simply living my life and we will spontaneously rendevous.
Or, should I wait on my guides to bring me there so i don't miss the opportunity. Or, (I think it's this one) should I do both. Live my life and just know my guidance will bring me to her.
Anyways. I'm sure I over worrying some, but I would REALLY like to here what you guys have to say. I would also like to hear, I you have met or communicated with you twin flame aspect, what that is like.
Thank you very much for your input and insight. With Love and Appreciation.- Jared


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In the new order, how does the casual or occasional searcher determine the quality of sources around a new topic?
Niche publications don't appear, for the most part, to have been de-stabilised by the current media disruption – indeed, many have thrived. This puts a value on quality (and tribes) rather than quantity. This is positive, for the most part.
However, in searches, I might well start to come up – after publishing this blog – for Bavarian Bullfrogs (should anyone be looking for them). In truth, I know nothing about them, and my Google search revealed little to suggest they even exist. If the Guardian or BBC writes about them, they can expect a wider audience, and more 'eyeballs' than a genuine Bavarian Bullfrog expert with just two regular readers (with apologies to any genuine Bavarian Bullfrog experts for any inadvertent prejudice.)
Big numbers and search rankings don't equate to quality. So how will we move beyond the numbers game to easily assess quality? Or are we happy with a Google algorithm?
We live in a capitalist society. People need to make a living to keep food on the table and roof over their heads. The people crafting stories need to earn money. In a traditional publishing model, editorial, advertorial (paid editorial) and advertising were clearly demarcated and financing was relatively obvious. A different kind of literacy is now required. If publishers – personal or organisational – are being paid for something other than the writing, then the 'who' and 'why' of anything written are top priority questions. And how can the writer's identity be verified?
Not unrelated to this quality issue, a recent PR Week survey revealed that half of PR consultants would pay bloggers to create posts. It caused a sharp intake of breath. Those who already believe that PR folk are the scum of the on-line Earth added that particular fact to long list of other reasons to tar and feather us. But the reverse side of the equation was subjected to very little examination.
If PR people are paying them, bloggers are accepting the money. Most blogging codes are voluntary, and, with very little exception, self regulated. (Yes, I have signed up to the Blogger's Code, and yes, everything on this blog is utterly, utterly biased and limited to my understanding of the world in which I operate. But I digress.) How do we ensure a transparency that was implicit in old media structures, albeit occasionally flawed?
Media boundaries are now hard to define. Virgin and Sky are classic examples – are they media properties, telecoms companies, broadcasters? Or all of the above and more besides? Regulation can't keep pace, so how could it be done in a more responsive, equitable fashion?
And what form(s) should public service broadcasting take? The BBC comes up for more examination regarding bias than others (rightly, given their funding). Personally I resent paying for the BBC out of my license fee far less than I resent giving money to buoy explicitly commercial enterprises. But are we seeing enough vision in remit?
Remaining with things regulatory, libel laws across the world create great problems to investigative journalists in search of truths. So in this brave new media world, how do we balance the need for a free and open media with the need to protect the rights of an individual to prevent the spreading of falsehoods? (I've seen someone through the wrong end of this debate, and the wrong kind of media glare can be unbearable.)
The reverse side of that coin is how to prevent the truth coming out unevenly in certain circumstances. It is almost impossible for companies to control the flow of information out. But regulated markets (including the stock markets) have disclosure rules. There are an awful lot of social media practitioners – bloggers and marketers alike – plying their ways and offering advice without the rigour that the NCTJ frames, the legalities traditionally taught by PR companies, or even any insurance against the accident just waiting to happen. How will markets and companies adapt?
I acknowledge that this post merely scratches the surface of some the questions meriting consideration. But start from here and….
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Afghan Air Force 1st Lt. Khial Shinwari, C-130 pilot, raises the Afghan flag as one of two of the newly delivered C-130H models to the AAF taxis onto the ramp during a ceremony Oct. 9, 2013 at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. Shinwari is one of the two first AAF C-130 pilots. Adding the C-130 to the AAF inventory provides medium airlift capabilities for the AAF, allowing for better range as well as increased passenger and cargo movement. The C-130H can cross the entirety of Afghanistan without refueling and can carry 10 times the amount of cargo of a Cessna 208, another aircraft in the AAF inventory. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Anastasia Wasem)
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-- With a successful Oct. 9 delivery of two C-130H aircraft to the Afghan Air Force, maintainers and planners at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, along with program managers and engineers within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center team at Robins, will once again play a vital role in 2014 with a unique and challenging mission.
Two additional C-130H models are scheduled to be delivered to the AAF by the end of December 2014, for a total of four aircraft.
But first those planes will make a stop at Robins to undergo something not routinely performed when it comes to the world-class heavy maintenance and overhaul capabilities this depot is known for.
One aircraft will undergo a standard programmed depot maintenance package, with the addition of corrosion prevention compound and a new paint job. It's the other aircraft that will require a bit more flexibility with its nonstandard workload expected to bring a flurry of activity to meet the 2014 deadline.
Due to a hard landing, this particular C-130H experienced major structural damage to its nose. It will be replaced courtesy of a second donor aircraft currently scheduled to retire.
"We'll be putting dedicated work on this aircraft as we move forward," said Scott Boyd, Tactical Airlift Foreign Military Sales Branch chief at Robins. "While not commonly done here, the location where they will cut the aircraft will be pretty challenging. Every C-130 in the fleet is unique, so marrying the donor nose to the AAF-bound aircraft will be engineering and mechanical art at its best.
"Robins is under a spotlight right now, and we have a chance to shine on this," he added.
Jim Wright, Afghan Support Section chief, agreed. "This will be an opportunity for us to show what we can do in supporting something that is very important politically," he said. "It's difficult to know the impact, as it's such a symbolic thing for the Afghans. This will be something Robins can substantially contribute to."
Once repairs are made on the last C-130H, it will in many ways be better than new, considering the aging fleet of the aircraft which have been flying since its 1974 introduction.
"It will be an excellent product when it's done," said Boyd.
The cargo planes will primarily be used for training purposes and expanding airlift capabilities.
They'll help boost military capabilities with the Afghan National Security Force as they lead their country's security, according to news reports from Afghanistan's International Security Assistance Force.
The first two aircraft, currently in Afghanistan, didn't have many maintenance requirements at Robins, and only included re-stenciling aircraft markings, minor maintenance and inspections, and functional test flights this past August and September.
The upcoming nose repair - an unscheduled depot level maintenance - will also require a corrosion prevention compound application, remarking of Afghan symbols and a minor inspection to ensure its air worthiness.
Extensive planning and engineering analysis will be performed, with the 402nd Aircraft Mainten-ance Group working closely with system program office engineers in the days ahead.
"Maintainers at Robins accomplish structural repair and unscheduled workload every day to keep our older C-130 fleet mission-capable and combat-ready," said Jim Russell, 560th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron director. "We replace major structural components such as the center wing box, and will begin replacing outer wings on C-130 aircraft this fiscal year.
"However, this nose swap will be a huge structural undertaking that will require tremendous teamwork between C-130 maintainers and system program office engineers," he added.
Russell estimated about 30 mechanics could be dedicated to the project; however, that could change once initial inspections and assessments are performed.
"From both an Air Force and an international standpoint, this will showcase the experience and capabilities we possess at Robins with our world-class maintainers, engineering team and support agencies," he said.
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Bardfeld, Samuel J., violinist, composer, author; b. New York, NY, 14 January 1968. His mother is Andrea, his father is Philip, and his sister is Nerissa. Graduated from Wesleyan University in 1990 where he studied jazz with Bill Barron. In 1990-91 he received a full year fellowship from the Ford Foundation to study ethnomusicology with Mark Slobin. He has also studied jazz improvisation with Richie Beirach and George Garzone and violin with Gerald Beal.
Bardfeld is a member of the Jazz Passengers with whom he has toured internationally. He has also recorded and/or performed with (i.e., under the leadership of) Bruce Springsteen, John Zorn, Frank Vignola, The String Trio of New York, Quartette Indigo, John Cale, Johnny Pacheco, Roy Nathanson, Debbie Harry, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Johnny Almendra y Los Jovenes Del Barrio, Cameron Brown, William Cepeda, The Soldier String Quartet, Septeto Roberto Juan Rodriguez, The Raymond Scott Orchestrette, The Alegre All Stars and Kevin Norton among numerous others. He has toured extensively in festivals and concert halls throughout Europe and North and South America including the JVC Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Intil Jazz Festival (Austria), Puerto Rico Heineken World Music Festival, Detroit Ford Montreux Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Cleveland Tri-C Jazz Festival, Salzburg Dance Festival (Austria) Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, Texaco Jazz Festival, The Barbican Centre (London), and numerous others. His wife is Jessica Gerson.
Sam Bardfeld's Cabal Fatale: Taxidermy (1999); Johnny Alemendra y Los Jovenes del Barrio: Evolucianando (1996), Reconfirmando (1997), Jovenes del Barrio, Live (1998), The Best of Los Jovenes del Barrio (1999),Es Differente (2000); Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome, Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs Pete Seeger (1998); Ehran Elisha: The Kicker (1998), The Lowdown (2000); Spy: Music to Mauzner By (1999); Ed Ratliff's Rhapsodalia: Wong Fei Hong Meets Little Strudel (1999); Tipica Novel: La Nueva Generacion (2000); William Cepeda and Afro-Rican Jazz: Expandiendo Raices/Branching Out (2001); Si Laraby, soundtrack to feature film (2002); Icetown, (arranger and violinist), Soundtrack to feature film (2003); Andrea Brachfield: Andrea y Son Charanga (2003)
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We spent one week at the appartement. The room is small,but still ok. We were on tour most of the time, why its wasn't important for us. The room and the whole flat is clean. Mike was a very friendly host and helped us, if we needed any information about NY or anything else. We can recommend the appartement and its host.
We did not get a warm welcome! We called upon arrival, voicemail no calling back. After trying again we were given instructions to got to building and enter the appartment with a code. All communication with Lucy was by mail or text message. All other guest we met, got the same 'warm welcome'. We found that rather unpolite.
The room was nice and clean. We had to share kitchen, living room and bathroom with 3 other rooms. That was a bit of a ajustment but it was all well cleanend every other day by a nice lady. The location in Little Italy was perfect! Nice restaurants, shops and near great sights.
We would recommend the appartment but suggest to Lucy and John to be more hospitable.
Nice place, clean and located in the Little Italy, we have been there for 5 days with any problem at all. Lucy was so pleased with us. I recommend it!
First time in NYC. Perfect location! We were able to get around really well. Place is good overall for what we needed. Shower adjustment valves could use a bit of work, but there were 4 of us and everything else works and at a very good price in this area. Glad we picked this place.
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A good place to stay with friends.
We really enjoyed our stay, even though the room was very small. It was crowded for two people.However, the apartment was clean, the price was good, and Mike was a great host - we can certainly recommend this accommodation to those who just need somewhere to sleep.
Room (clean idem for the bathroom) ok for one week holiday apart from the noise of the air conditionning machine of the neighbour. Practical kitchen for preparing the breakfast. Nice area close to Chinatown.
Mike our host met us on our arrival and provided us with the essentials for getting into the city.
His apartment was in the best location for talking a walk by the Hudson or hopping on the subway Uptown
if you want a bed just somewhere to crash after long days threading through the city - Mike's place is it :-)
We enjoyed our stay in this shared appartement: kind host, located in a calm safe neighbourhood (in/nearby chinatown), 1min walk from subway station. All in all a good price/quality ratio!
We've stayed at the Henry Street (Manhattan) apartment for 16 days. It's located in a safe neighborhood next to Chinatown. Large supermarket (open till 1 pm) is nearby as well as many (cheap) places to eat. The nearest metrostation is East broadway which is only a thirty seconds walk away.
We (a couple) stayed in the smallest room which is in fact really small. However, it's mainly just for sleeping and storing your stuff and for that it is enough. The bed is of great quality. We've had some problems with air circulation (there is none, because of the close next door building) but the installation of an airco solved this. Bathroom is small as well, but functions great. There's a fridge, tv, microwave-oven etc to be used. Overall great and clean apartment with a very friendly host. Expect the real thing, it's NY and a real NY apartment. Just as advertised. We will recommend this place, especially over all the expensive hotels and gross hostels.
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Sometimes a pick is just a pick, sometimes it's so much more. A recent pick brought me back to 2010 when Fruit Share was just taking shape.
Mrs. O is one of the original homeowners that called me to pick her Goodland apples in 2010. She was 80 and couldn't pick or use all of her gorgeous apples. Given to her by her sons on Mother's Day years ago, she was eager to see the apples from her special tree go to good use. Her story inspired part of my TEDX talk on Sharing Our Surplus.


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Paul McCartney announced the release of a new video for the song "Appreciate" from his album, NEW, released May 16, co-starring a robot named Newman. Actually, the promotion began Thursday as pictures of McCartney's arrival in Japan featured Newman greeting him at the airport.
The video, which was done in cooperation with Microsoft according to a credit at the beginning of the video, show Newman on patrol in what's described as a museum of man. Newman is drawn to one exhibit that has McCartney sitting on a stool with his Hofner bass guitar. McCartney twitches and makes a sound on the guitar, then comes to life as the song "Appreciate" starts up.
Newman stares at McCartney through a force field that encloses him, then reaches in and pulls the former Beatle out of his exhibit. The pair move around the museum as all the other exhibits start coming to life. It's all very surrealistic.
Speaking about Newman, McCartney said: "I woke up one morning with an image in my head of me standing with a large robot. I thought it might be something that could be used for the cover of my album NEW, but instead the idea turned out to be for my music video for 'Appreciate.' Together with the people who had done the puppetry for the worldwide hit 'War Horse,' we developed the robot who became Newman."
The video, which was directed by Andre Chocron and filmed in London, premiered exclusively in Japan this week. McCartney will be performing it to sold-out crowds in Tokyo and Osaka beginning Saturday night. According to McCartney's press office, Newman will also be joining him on this leg of the tour. Newman was designed by Mervyn Millar and Ed Dimbleby for Significant Object Ltd.
In anticipation of this weekend's first Japanese concerts, McCartney's Twitter account posted Friday that a new "For Whom the Bell Tolls" blog that discusses the Latin American Out There! concerts has been posted by Stuart Bell.


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College Hockey:Man Advantage Powers UNH Past Maine
Wildcats' Special Teams
DURHAM, N.H. — Playing one of Hockey East's beasts for the second straight night, the power play and special teams once again proved to be the deciding factor in New Hampshire's favor, as the No. 12 Wildcats defeated No. 4 Maine, 4-2, at the Whittemore center in front of a raucous crowd.
UNH recorded two power-play goals as well as a shorthanded tally. Coming off Friday night's 3-2 victory at Boston University, in which all three of the Wildcat goals were scored with the man advantage, New Hampshire finished the weekend going 5-for-12 on the power play.
With the victory, New Hampshire improved to 6-3-1 (5-1-0 Hockey East). Maine dropped to 9-3-0 (4-2-0).
The winning goal came off the stick of junior Jacob Micflikier, who took a picture-perfect pass from classmate Brett Hemingway with his team on the power play, sending the puck past the 6'7″ frame of Maine freshman netminder Ben Bishop.
"There were a lot of swings of momentum in this game," said Maine coach Tim Whitehead. "I think that a couple of penalties that we took allowed them to take the momentum."
Maine showed that it could also be deadly on the power play.
Just 2:39 into the game, with UNH's Craig Switzer off for tripping, Black Bear sophomore forward Keenan Hopson's shot from the UNH blue line was tipped by Maine captain Greg Moore past sophomore goaltender Kevin Regan. After New Hampshire's Daniel Winnik tied the game at 1-1 less than two minutes later on the power play, Maine regained the lead when Michel Leveille scored off a rebound with UNH freshman defenseman Joe Charlebois in the sin bin for interference.
It looked as though UNH was going to go into the dressing room down 2-1 after one period. But the Wildcats caught a break when a seemingly harmless shot from the left dot somehow eluded an unscreened Bishop, giving Brad Flaishans his first goal of the season, and tying the game.
A contact-to-the-head call against Leveille at the end of the first period proved costly for the Black Bears, as Micflikier scored the eventual game-winner just 49 seconds into the middle frame. Micflikier was a bee in the Black Bears' bonnet all night long.
A key point in the game came at the 4:16 mark of the second period, when UNH was whistled for having too many men on the ice, giving the Black Bears a two-man advantage. The Wildcats were able to stem the tide, as Bangor, Maine's Derek Damon hit the post after UNH got one man back. That would be as close as the Black Bears would come, much to the delight of the sell-out crowd.
"The crowd was amazing tonight," said UNH coach Dick Umile. "It was a great atmosphere. This team has a great work ethic. It feeds off one another.
"It was a fabulous weekend of hockey. The guys capped it off with a great win tonight. I was really pleased with what the guys accomplished against two really good teams."
Some hard work and hustle by sophomore Mike Radja of UNH forced a Maine penalty at 12:04 of the second period. While Maine shut down that UNH power play, Radja would again make some noise, and this time it resulted in a goal.
With defenseman Chris Murray off for elbowing, junior Josh Ciocoo, another thorn in Maine's side all night, took the puck off of a turnover and raced in on a partial breakaway. Bishop made the initial save, but Radja followed up the play and banged home the rebound for a short-handed goal.
"We got careless. We stayed out there a little too long, and that led to a great play by them and a great short-handed goal," said Whitehead.
The third period was where Regan was at his best. He stopped bids by Keith Johnson and Rob Bellamy right on the doorstep early on. Later, it looked like Bellamy had beaten Regan five-hole, but the puck remained between Regan's pads.
With 5:46 left in regulation, Regan stoned Josh Soares, again at point-blank range.
Maine pulled its goaltender with about 2 minutes left, but to no avail.
"I think that we seized the momentum in the third period, but we really needed that third goal," said Whitehead. "Regan was exceptional. I thought he was great. He was fantastic in the third (period)."
"I felt better as the game went along. The "D" got better and tighter in front of me," added Regan.
The UNH players believe that through the two victories over the weekend, a statement was made.
"I thought we really came together as a team this weekend," said senior captain Brian Yandle. "We absolutely made a statement this weekend, that we're going to be one of the best teams in the east."
Maine hosts the USA Under-18 team on Saturday in an exhibition, while New Hampshire hosts the University of Massachusetts-Lowell on Friday. Both games are at 7 pm.
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To each their own. Lots of people are against lots of things. My wife is against chicken fried steak -I like it though.
I wasn't aware that Human life is equivalent to a piece of poultry on the dinner table?
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Cures are possible for leukemia, Krabbes Leukodystrophy, Parkinson's, spinal chord injuries, damaged organs, etc., etc. The possibilities are perhaps greater than can currently be imagined given the irrational restrictions on the research. Adult stem cells, particularly those from the person receiving the treatment have shown some successes in these areas, but embryonic stem cells have many advantages over them: they divide more rapidly; they're more pluripotent (they can become more different kinds of cells); they potentially more abundant (adult stem cells are more rare -perhaps 1 in 1,000 cells of bone marrow); an embryonic stem cell line is practically immortal -adult stem cells have a limited shelf life; and so on and so one.
No, that isn't very likely for some of those, anything that is genetic in nature, stem cells won't do squat, particularly Leukemia. Stem cells are not a cure all, they can do some organ regeneration, however there are some organs in the body that can regenerate on their own, such as your skin and the liver.
Furthermore adult stem cells can be created from altered skin cells.
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In the end, the objections to the use of embryonic stem cells for research and therapy are irrational and illogical. These objections are based on the superstitions of various religions and not on scientific fact. To support this claim, one can merely read through this thread and see how over and over the fact that a blastocyst isn't a person has been made abundantly clear, yet the irrational objection remains. Over and over the fact that an abundance of embryos that are destined to be destroyed has been shown to exist, yet the response is "I'm against that too."
I'ts still playing God, the reason I'm against the other stuff is because if I was for the other stuff I'd be a hypocrit.
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These are irrational and unreasoned responses based on preconceived conclusions originating in religious doctrine. Religious doctrine is based on supernatural claims. Supernatural beliefs are held in spite of a lack of empirical evidence and in spite of evidence to the contrary. Beliefs such as this are, therefore, superstitious.
That is your opinion, that is not necessarily fact.
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Transcript of the live chat session that took place Thursday, December 5, 1996.
These sessions are scheduled for noon-1 PM US Eastern Time (GMT -4) every Thursday.
These sessions are hosted by Richard Seltzer. If you would like to receive email reminders of our chat sessions, simply send a blank email message to email@example.com or go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/businessonthewebchats and sign up there.
For transcripts of other previous sessions and a list of future topics, click here.
For an article on how to make "business chat" work (based on this experience), click here.
Since the chat itself happens at a rapid pace, it's often difficult to note interesting facts in particular URLs as they appear on-line. Here's a place to take a more leisurely look. I've rearranged some of the pieces to try to capture the various threads of discussion (which sometimes get lost in the rush of live chat).
Please send email with your follow-on questions and comments, and suggions for topics we should focus on in future sessions. So long as the volume of email responses is manageable, I'll post the most pertinent ones here for all to see.
Threads (reconstructed after the fact):
We're here to share experiences about doing business on the Internet -- particularly the World Wide Web. What works? What doesn't work? Why? What are the trends that matter? How can you/should you adapt to the Internet culture and environment?
I work for the Internet Business Group at Digital Equipment in Littleton, MA. In that capacity, I end up talking to people from large companies about how they can use the Web for business.
I also have my own personal Web page -- which is content rich and no frills -- which I do for practically nothing and draws a fair amount of traffic and attention.
In a chat session like this things can get pretty frantic. It's sometimes difficult to follow the threads of conversation. And there's no time to write down interesting URLs and facts. So last week, I took a copy of the raw transcript and edited it to make the threads clearer and posted it at my own little Web site so anyone could take a look. You can see it at http://www.samizdat.com/chat19.html I plan to do the same today. Barring technical difficulties, I hope to have a transcript up later today. I'll post it at the same site, naming this one /chat20.html
Richard Seltzer (18.104.22.168) - 11:58am -- Today, we plan to continue our discussion on the impact of search engines on Internet business. My book The AltaVista Search Revolution was just published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill so this topic is foremost in my mind right now. But, as always, we welcome any questions and insights related to Internet business.
Richard Seltzer (126.96.36.199) - 12:01pm -- By the way, if you'd like to ask questions about this topic in person, I'll be at Borders Book Store in Framingham tonight at 7:30 and at Quantum Book Store in Cambridge on Monday at 12:15 PM.
Todd (184.108.40.206) - 12:01pm hi.
Bruce B. Platt, Comport COnsulting, firstname.lastname@example.com (220.127.116.11) -- Hi Richard, I'm back. I will have to leave early however to see a customer.
Bruce B. Platt, Comport Consulting, firstname.lastname@example.com (126.96.36.199) - Are you coming to NY Area?
Richard Seltzer (220.127.116.11) - 12:04pm -- Bruce, yes I'll be in New York next week at Internet World in the Javitts Center. From Wed. to Friday at the Digital booth.
Bruce B. Platt, Comport Consulting, firstname.lastname@example.com (22.214.171.124) --Richard, I'll be there too, so we can chat in person
Richard Seltzer (188.8.131.52) - 12:11pm -- Bruce -- Yes, I look forward to seeing you at Internet World.
BOND (220.127.116.11) - 12:04pm -- Hey, I think buisness on the internet is intalengarted.
Beany1 (220.127.116.11) - 12:16pm -- Hello All!
Richard Seltzer (22.214.171.124) - 12:17pm -- Welcome, Beanyl -- What's your area of interest? How can we help you?
Richard Seltzer (220.127.116.11) - 12:03pm -- Vic, that's a question I can relate to. My basement is full of books as well. I self-published a couple of mine about 20 years ago, and have lots of boxes left over. What I did, and what I recommend, is put the full text on the Web -- it's easy to get Web space. TIAC and other Internet providers give about 10 Mbytes of free space with a SLIP/PPP account. Create your own page. Post your work there. Add the URL to AltaVista and do other such things to let other search engines know you're around. (check my article http://www.samizdat.com/public.html on how to publicize a Web site for free over the Internet).
Richard Seltzer (188.8.131.52) - 12:06pm -- Vic -- The important thing is to make your text available on the Web in ways that it can be found with AltaVista etc. Personal experience -- My children's book The Lizard of Oz was found on my site by a published of interactive CD ROMs. They found the book with AltaVista. Sent me email because they were looking for content of that kind. And within two weeks I had a contract. The CD is due out in Feb. I also got a query from a movie producer in Iceland about a movie script of mine I had posted on my Web site. Nothing is likely to come of that, but it was a kind of opportunity I wouldn't have imagined.
Richard Seltzer (22.214.171.124) - 12:08pm -- Vic -- Last thought -- check my Web site http://www.samizdat.com There you'll find a pointer to "Basement full of books" a site that lists books for sale by their authors. There's no charge to get your work listed there. It's not likely to sell many books, but it's a start.
vic (220.127.116.11) - 12:07pm -- By putting the whole text on the Web, however, aren't we removing the motivation to buy the book?
Richard Seltzer (188.8.131.52) - 12:09pm -- Vic -- The more text you provide on the Web the more likely you are to sell books. People won't read the whole thing on line (unless they are blind, using voice conversion devices). And it is far too expensive to print out a whole book. They read, they like, they buy.
Richard Seltzer (188.8.131.52) - 12:13pm -- Vic -- One other piece of advice. Be sure to make it clear that you retain the rights to the books you post. You want to make it so people feel free to copy the work in electronic form (letting their friends know about it), but you want to retain the commercial rights, the right to any print version.
Richard Seltzer (220.127.116.11) - 12:16pm -- Vic -- By the way, plain text -- the contents of books -- works great with search engines. Remember it is text not graphics that gets indexed.
Richard Seltzer (188.8.131.52) - 12:10pm -- AJ, for me the main distinguishing feature is that AltaVista is full-text search. They index every word. That opens up all kinds of opportunities for interesting searches.
Richard Seltzer (220.127.116.11) - 12:11pm -- anonymous -- What's your main interest with regard to search engines?
AJ (220.127.116.11) - 12:16pm -- I just started using the Internet for primaryl legal sources, and then found myself using it to pursue interests from news to recipes for buffalo wings.
Richard Seltzer (126.96.36.199) - 12:18pm -- AJ -- Interesting. Have you tried LawCrawler. That's a law-focused Web site (one that using AltaVista in the background). http://www.lawcrawler.com/
AJ (220.127.116.11) - 12:21pm -- I have seen LawCrawler, and I know I have sites bookmarked that have it, but I am not sure I have actually used it yet.
Richard Seltzer (184.108.40.206) - 12:19pm -- AJ -- By the way, for news, have you tried using AltaVista to search the newsgroups? It's a good way to get up-to-date info. That index is updated continuously. With Web files there's a delay because it takes a finite time to visit and retrieve info from over 30 million pages. The newsgroup articles go straight to AltaVista in a continuous feed.
AJ (126.96.36.199) - 12:26pm -- For news, I have been going to sites such as (besides Boston.com and NYTimes) CNN and recently MSNBC, have also used PointCast -- how would you use Alta Vista to search newsgroups?
Richard Seltzer (18.104.22.168) - 12:28pm -- AJ -- In AltaVista, there's a button that you click to toggle between Web and Usenet. Click the arrow to see the choice. Then click on Usenet. The basic commands for search are the same as with Web, but there are some additional targeted searches you can do related to the structure of newsgroup messages. e.g. from: to: subject: etc. Check the online Help or the book (AltaVista Search Revolution) for details.
Richard Seltzer (126.96.36.199) - 12:31pm -- AJ -- I generally pay little attention to the commercial press (read the headlines on Sunday, listen a bit to NPR on the way to and from work). But if there's something that's happening that I consider major and very interesting or important, I immediately search the newsgroups to get all the detail. (The radio just keeps repeating the same sound bytes over and over). I'm usually interested in figuring out not just what happened, but what the implications are, and not just to a local US audience, but rather to the world. The immediate candid postings of people around the world in newsgroups usually give me what I'm looking for (often including first-hand immediate accounts).
Todd (220.127.116.11) - 12:41pm -- Richard - when you say "search the newsgroups" youre implying AltaVista? So the usual indexing lag does not apply to newgroups?
Richard Seltzer (184.108.40.206) - 12:44pm -- Todd -- Yes, AltaVista receives a continuous feed of over 14,000 newsgroups and indexes those articles very frequently. So you can and do receive up-to-date information. (Also AltaVista serves the newsgroup articles to you directly -- the items reside on the AltaVista systems rather than you clicking to go to somewhere else and sometimes being disappointed that the Web page is temporarily inaccessible or has gone away.
Richard Seltzer (22.214.171.124) - 12:46pm -- In case you didn't notice, I'm a big fan of newsgroups -- especially with a search engine to navigate them. I can enter a very specific query and get a list of all articles across all newsgroups that have relevant info. If the search is finetuned to my specific needs, I can bookmark the search results and launch a new search of that kind any time I want by just clicking on the bookmark. It's like creating your own cross-group newsgroup. (Also, helps you find out about interesting groups that you didn't know existed -- who can keep track of 14,000 different groups?)
Richard Seltzer (184.108.40.206) - 12:15pm -- RD Garnett -- Good question. Keep in mind that AltaVista indexes every word of every page. To AltaVista there is nothing special about a home page. All pages are created equal. Hence, if the text of your pages (HTML title and first few lines of text) doesn't make it clear what the page is about, you should put meta tags on all of them. That means a description tag tailored for that particular page and also a keyword tag (which many of your pages might have in common).
RD Garnett (18.104.22.168) - 12:19pm -- thanks richard ( please bear with my typing!) the idea of "stuffing" a web page with keywords..either by comments, or small type....what is the industry feel on this subject...is it appropriate?..accepted...?
Richard Seltzer (220.127.116.11) - 12:22pm -- RDGarnett -- There's no benefit to "stuffing" at least with AltaVista. It only takes account of the first two instances of a given word or phrase. Further repetition gets you nothing. Also, comments are not indexed at all. They are considered private communications of the Webmaster. Put whatever you need into a keyword metatag -- that's its purpose -- mainly for synonyms, alternate ways that people might want to look for you. And the user doesn't see the metatag (unless doing View Source) so it is not at all an issue of netiquette.
vic (126.96.36.199) - 12:26pm -- RD: What kind of business are you in?
RD Garnett (126.96.36.199) - 12:29pm -- vic...I manage 3 websites, targeting the traveller to Australia, New Zealand and the South-Pacific...
Richard Seltzer (18.104.22.168) - 12:32pm -- RD Garnett -- Are you located in Australia/New Zealand?
Richard Seltzer (126.96.36.199) - 12:33pm -- RD Garnett -- By the way, there's an AltaVista mirror site in Australia (for faster response). The main AltaVista site has a pointer to there.
RD Garnett (188.8.131.52) - 12:34pm -- nope..."real live" offices in Seattle..and the sites reside on a server in Vancouver B.C. Can i ask why you would ask?
Richard Seltzer (22.214.171.124) - 12:41pm -- RD Garnett -- I asked out of curiosity. In a forum like this, participants can be physically located anywhere. (A few weeks ago we had someone from Malaysia tune at at midnight his time).
vic (18.104.22.168) - 12:39pm -- RD: Plug your sites! I'd like to see them.
RD Garnett (126.96.36.199) - 12:45pm -- vic... http://www.anza-travel.com/gday the Down Under Travel Planner...serving the South Pacific with unsurpassed destinational knowledge http://www.south-pacific.com/travel-zine The Down Under Traveller webzine...promoting destinational information and encouraging reader participation http://www.godirect-cards.com Great savings on travel adventure in the South Pacific...soon to incorparate other destinations Please note...these sites are all under going the tiresome task of revamping.......
RD Garnett (220.127.116.11) - 12:22pm -- vic...re yr email post...i have over 7 different email addresses which for the most part are meant to serve customers...it is very painful and timeconsuming for me to be receiving unsolicited email...clogs my mailboxes...and just makes me generally grumpy..(:
Bruce B. Platt, Comport Consulting, firstname.lastname@example.com (188.8.131.52) -- Vic, also, it's very much like junk snail mail, it uses up bandwisth, and increases costs for the 'net and for users in terms of disk space, cycles which could be used for other things, and so forth
Richard Seltzer (184.108.40.206) - 12:25pm -- Vic -- Re: unsolicited mail. Many people on the Internet 1) have to pay for the mail they receive or 2) have to pay for all mail above some threshhold or 3) have small mailboxes/little disk space and if their mail box fills with junk mail important messages bounce back and are missed. In addition, there is the time and annoyance involved when I open my mail box and find there are over 200 messages today and more than half of them are junk and I have to go through and weed the junk out. Above all -- consider the consequences of junk mail/spamming for the sender. There are people out there who get very angry about that and can and will do very nasty things in reply.
vic (18.104.22.168) - 12:34pm -- I am relatively new to the net, but I don't have to pay for any email. I have a local provider who charges me $15/month unlimited. Who has to pay, users of online services like Compuserve? As for "junk" maybe some of that stuff is very interesting, or could even change your life in positive ways. Why not just have a look? Although I guess when it gets to 200 a day, that's way too much. Maybe there should be a way to specify what sort of unsolicited messages we want to get, business opportunities, etc. which might be relevant at certain times.
RD Garnett (188.8.131.52) - 12:36pm -- vic...i have tried that...i subscribe to sites or list focusing on travel to the SoPac...and this morning i got a message promoting a hotel in Yemen...and it was a large file with jpegs...i was not impressed....
Richard Seltzer (184.108.40.206) - 12:40pm -- Vic -- It's important to remember that the populace of the Internet is enormously diverse. People with all kinds of equipment (much of it obsolete) and connecting at all kinds of speeds (much of it very slow) and paying very different rates on very different terms. Many people outside the US have to pay in one way or another for email or for the extra disk space needed to store extra email. I really don't care how much paper junk comes to my house -- it's easy to sort and throw it away. But when junk comes electronically it takes up a resource that for many is limited and sometimes costly. On the Internet unsolicited mail very often leads to business disaster -- to a storm of ill-will that is very difficult to overcome. I strongly advise looking for other approaches -- for instance setting up your Web pages so they provide useful and valuable free information for your target audience and optimizing the design of your pages so people can easily find you with search engines like AltaVista.
Todd (126.96.36.199) - 12:46pm -- Vic - Richard makes a good point. Part of the beauty of the web is that people "pull" what they want from it. Not have it "pushed" on them.
Richard Seltzer (18.104.22.168) - 12:48pm -- Todd -- Yes, and search engines are an important tool to make it easy for people to pull what they want. On the push side, There was a column by Steve Steinberg in last Sunday's Globe that talked about PointCast and "Marimba" as ways of pushing information over the Internet. Have any of you used Marimba or know anything about it?
vic (220.127.116.11) - 12:49pm -- But I'd like to offer the book to people who, for instance, are not "looking for a book". However, I think this book has a wide appeal. Isn't there any way for me to present it to millions on the net? I don't want to take a billboard in Times Square!
Richard Seltzer (18.104.22.168) - 12:50pm -- Todd -- Steinberg describes Marimba as "an 'open' version of Pointcast." Excuse me Marimba is the company name and their product is Castanet. -- a platform that "allows developers to quickly and easily send content to users." Sound like the kind of technology I'm allergic to -- technology that caters to the passive...
Todd (126.96.36.199) - 12:54pm -- Vic - with search engines like AV people don't need to be looking for a book to find it, just the subject of the book. Give it a try. It's free and you'll be surprised. I put a debt clock on my page just as an experiment adn have almost a thousand hits. They found it, I didn't advertise other than notifying the serach engines that it was there.
Richard Seltzer (18.104.22.168) - 12:56pm -- vic -- Brief descriptive messages in appropriate newsgroups make sense. (Be sure to read the traffic in a group to get a sense of whether your message would be welcomed. And tailor your message tot he particular group. You could use AltaVista newsgroup searches to try to identify appropriate groups. But above all create your own Web site with the complete text and publicize that site by all the free means available. (Best to creat the site before posting to newsgroups -- it's best to have something on-line to point people to.) That's the best advice I have to offer.
Richard Seltzer (18.104.22.168) - 12:53pm -- CJSnyder -- For metatags, I'd be inclined to rely on common sense -- and maybe double check with a bunch of people in your target audience. What you want are the words and phrases that people are most likely to use when looking for your kind of information. If Library of Congress heading help you arrive at that fine -- but try to put yourself in the shoes of the seeker of information. And usually that seeker is very unsophisticated and just entering the first words that come to mind.
CJSnyder (snyderinfo*WebDesign) (18.104.22.168) - 12:56pm -- Richard -- Ha...You're absolutely right..It's like when most people go to a library and look up the first words that come to mind..(not necessarily the standard words)..but that's another topic (standards!)
Todd (22.214.171.124) - 12:57pm -- CJ - a controlled vocabulary is only good if the researchers are also using it. Not likely.
AJ (18.104.22.168) - 12:56pm -- It's also technology that, hopefully, passes through the hands of people trained in a discipline-related area known as "journalism," involving, theoretically, checking sources and employing a somewhat trained mind.
CJSnyder (snyderinfo*WebDesign) (188.8.131.52) - 12:58pm -- AJ--...and hopefully, passes through people who know how to "organize" information--Information Specialists/Librarians..
AJ (126.96.36.199) - 12:59pm -- The next time I find myself wondering whether Janet Reno will be staying on as Attorney General, I will be sure to search the Web for some first hand source who was chatting about this in the Oval Office and who immediately rushed to publish the info on the Web.
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CJSnyder (snyderinfo*WebDesign) (220.127.116.11) - 1:00pm -- interesting discussion.. email@example.com http://www.snyderinfo.com
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I enjoyed your recent chat, as I've enjoyed and learned from all the previous ones (also suffered with Real Audio today to "hear" your recent lecture on my 14.4 modem). However, I'm wondering about the statistics from the August 1996 issue of WIRED that Paul J. Bruemmer recently posted on the I-Sales mailing list - a study of which search engines are used by people on the Net.
><excerpt> According to Wired Magazine August 96
>Consumer driven search traffic who ROUTINELY use:
>1. Excite 28%
>2. Lycos 25%
>3. Infoseek 21%
>4. Yahoo 14% >+/- 3% margin of error
>5. Alta Vista 5%
>6. Magellan 2%
>7. Others 4%
As a loyal AltaVista user myself, and as a researcher who has done a comparison of ten search engines and found some such as Lycos and Yahoo terribly inadequate, I find the above statistics hard to believe, and somewhat appalling. BUT IF INDEED THEY ARE TRUE, then shouldn't we be paying far more attention to Excite and Lycos and Infoseek....? If indeed these are the search engines that most people are using, isn't it far more important that we be found by them rather than by Alta Vista?
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I believe that the telling words are "consumer-driven search traffic". To me that indicates that this is bogus research.
1) Very few people doing searches today are doing so because they want to buy something. Rather they are looking for answers to questions.
2) Of the 23 million hits a day at AltaVista or the numerous hits at other search sites, how could anyone conceivably determine which were "consumer-driven"?
Sounds like they had to have taken a backwards approach (I'd be very curious what their methodology was). My suspicion is that they somehow identified a population of "consumers" and then asked them what search engines they used.
Internet business is based on a totally different model. You attract a loyal audience by providing good useful information. And as those people repeatedly return to your site, they over time will become interested in your related products and services.
You win by providing good information -- and letting your audience contribute to it -- and making sure that the folks who want that kind of information can find you. And AltaVista is excellent for helping those people find you.
Wired just doesn't get it.
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Height: 6-1 Weight: 211 lbs.
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Definitions of BASEBALL in dictionaries:
- noun - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players
- noun - a ball used in playing baseball
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- A game played with a bat and ball by two opposing teams of nine players, each team playing alternately in the field and at bat, the players at bat having to run a course of four bases laid out in a diamond pattern in order to score.
- The ball that is used in this game.
- A game of darts in which the players attempt to score points by throwing the darts at a target laid out in the form of a baseball diamond.
- noun - a type of ball
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- November 11, 2004 -- On November 10, 2004, the board of directors of State Auto Financial Corporation (Nasdaq:STFC) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.045 per share, payable December 31, 2004, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 15, 2004. This is the 54th consecutive quarterly cash dividend declared by the company's board since STFC had its initial public offering of common stock on June 28, 1991.
In related news, the boards of directors of STFC owned insurers, along with the board of directors of State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company, voted unanimously to amend the State Auto Reinsurance Pooling Agreement effective January 1, 2005. The amendment will incorporate the operating results of Meridian Security Insurance Company and Meridian Citizens Mutual Insurance Company into the pooling agreement. These two companies became affiliated with State Auto Mutual in June of 2001 and have been excluded from the pooling agreement up to this point.
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State Auto Financial Corporation, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is a regional property and casualty insurance holding company engaged primarily in writing both personal and commercial lines of insurance. The company currently markets its products through more than 22,700 independent insurance agents associated with over 3,300 agencies in 26 central and eastern states, excluding New York, New Jersey and the New England states. The State Auto Insurance Companies' pool carries an A+ (Superior) rating from A.M. Best Co. Additional information on the company may be found on its web page at www.STFC.com.
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> Savings
When a parent moves in
Diana McLaren Bankrate.com
When I survey my circle of friends,
I see a reflection of the changing Canadian demographic: women approaching
later midlife with substantial resources from professional careers
and fewer family responsibilities. In other words, they are happily
enjoying life, often alone for the first time as single empty-nesters.
"The trend is for older people to want
to live alone," says Dr. Gloria Gutman, professor of gerontology
at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, and past president of
the International Association of Gerontology. "As one senior
said recently to me, 'I never took orders from my husband when he
was alive; I'm sure not going to start taking orders now from my
children!' For many older women, moving in with adult children is
the last choice they would make." (Gutman points to a difference
for older men who often remarry when left on their own or seek to
live with adult children for "companionship and home-cooked
The demographic of aging in Canada has changed
dramatically during the past few decades. According to a study published
by the Vanier Institute of the Family, the empty-nest phase of life
now starts earlier and lasts longer. The study notes what it calls
"increasingly accelerated rates of generational turnover."
Translated, this means the time between a family's firstborn and
lastborn has decreased sharply (23 years for the study's author's
great-grandparents, 16 years for her grandparents, nine for her
parents and two for herself).
So with all this time, money and independence at their
doorstep, why ruin a good thing? What might possess parents and
grown-up children to cohabitate, bringing back the same old challenges
and tensions faced by college roommates or married partners?
Benefits for both
"There has to be mutual benefit, perks for both sides,"
Gutman says. This comes in the form of help with child care or mortgage
payments for the adult children and help with health issues and
continued independence from nursing homes for the senior parents
(not to mention the opportunity to spoil their grandchildren regularly).
The issue is significant enough for the Canada Mortgage
and Housing Corp., or CMHC, that it gathered intergenerational families
in five western cities to gauge the issues and support for such
living arrangements. (CHMC currently offers a forgivable loan to
create "secondary/garden suites" for low-income seniors
and people with disabilities.)
For the study, Caring for Aging Parents: Senior Adults
Living with Adult Children in Prairie Census Metropolitan Areas,
72 people participated in a series of focus groups. The parents
and adult children were separated so they felt free to talk openly
about their experiences. Vinay Bhardwaj was CMHC's research project
coordinator and author of the study's report, still in draft form
but expected to be published shortly.
Bhardwaj admits that it was difficult finding seniors
and adult children willing to participate in the study. In the end,
the majority of those who did were families for whom intergenerational
living is working successfully. Most of the senior parents are still
healthy (with an average age of 71) and needing only minimal assistance.
The key motivator for the adult children to invite their parent
to move in was "a perceived responsibility to pay the parent
back for their earlier nurturing."
Payback time
In the CMHC study, this payback was a positive thing, with adult
children wanting to return the love and care their parents had shown
them growing up. But there's another kind of payback with a darker
side, the kind that has a son or daughter paying back a parent against
whom they've held lifelong anger or resentment.
Maureen Wilkin coordinates the seniors program for
a Toronto neighbourhood centre. She has seen the kind of emotional
turmoil brought about by resentful or angry adult children who now
have the upper hand in terms of power or control. "It's a form
of emotional abuse," she says. "A lot of baggage can show
up when parents and children start living together after years on
their own."
And it can cut both ways, she adds, with adult sons
or daughters still feeling dominated and controlled by elderly parents.
Put the ground rules in writing
To minimize the potential for conflict, experts suggest the parties
do a lot of talking and negotiating before the moving vans arrive.
"Each side has to set out its expectations and issues,"
says Wilkin. "Everything from who does the cooking to whether
mum or dad is allowed to have sleepovers."
Gutman goes so far as to advise that the parties draw
up a written agreement, much like a marriage contract, setting out
the terms of cohabitation. It's important to consult all parties,
including spouses and grandchildren, because this is often where
any points of tension will arise.
Finances are a huge issue for both sides. (In the
CMHC study, one of the only negatives cited by the seniors was their
feeling that they were paying more than their share.) Next to money
matters, privacy is the biggest area of concern, and this is where
the physical living arrangement needs some focus.
Shared space or a separate suite? Sometimes a combination
of the two works best, as it did for Fern Haag, of Calgary, and
her family when her mother-in-law came to live with them. "Grandma
had her own kitchen so she could eat supper at 4 p.m. It never would
have worked out if she didn't," says Haag. She says that the
natures and personalities of the parents and children are key to
living together. "I decided not to be confrontational, so it
worked out OK," she says.
Still, Haag also says it was the experience of having
her mother-in-law live with them that made her vow "never to
have to be dependent on my kids."
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What is the relationship between democracy and human rights?
What is Democracy?
Democracy is defined based on the assumptions of a pluralistic form of government. In pluralism nation states use multiple bodies working cohesively to produce policy rather than one solitary entity. No one body actually rules yet they rule by consensus of the cooperative bodies.. In this form of government power is shared and decisions are processed through a series of bodies lending itself to democratic measures e.g.; votes, vetoes etc. The best example of democracy surprisingly is not the United States or any singular state. Rather the best example of true democracy is the United Nations. The United Nations governs member states from a globalist format. Globalism is what Robert Dahl calls maxim democracy. Each member states have equal voting power and equal sovereignty in the UN General Assembly.
What are the constitutive parts of democracy?
. The constitutive parts of the US democracy are as follows. The 1st Amendment ensures the democratic free petitions and assembly, which ensures the right of each citizen the right to petition, is governing bodies and elected officials and assemble with the permission of the government(Mount, S. (2010). The 14th Amendment focuses on Civil rights No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws (Mount, S. (2010).
What is not democratic?
The authoritarian and communist form of governing is non democratic. The states are the primary actors or the most significant actors. Non democratic states place great emphasis the fact the importance of the state is primary not that of the citizen
Expert's tend oversimplfy the definition
Joshua Cohen states that the fundamental idea of democratic, political legitimacy is that the authorization to exercise state power must arise from the collective decisions of the equal members of a society who are governed by that power." Collective decisions can be either aggregative (based on counting preferences) or deliberative. (Cohen 1998, 185-6).Each individual must agree to the collective choice and this can only be done through a vote and each citizen must participate.
Human Rights Defined.
The values universal values of freedom, and the inalienable value and respect for human rights and the principle of holding regular and legitimate elections by universal suffrage are essential elements to the foundation of a democratic state. In return, democracy provides the universal environment for the protection and effective realization of human rights. These values are embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and further reinforced in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which legislate a number of political rights and civil liberties underpinning meaningful democracies.
Democracy and Human Rights are Symbiotic
Research on human rights consistently points to the importance of democracy in reducing the severity and incidence of personal integrity abuses. The prescriptive utility of the democracy finding is often limited by the fact that democracy is a composite variable made up of a number of conceptually distinct properties that must be present before a polity can be declared fully democratic or a mature democracy. Davis Held has said more about human rights than perhaps any other cosmopolitan theorist, emphasizing what he calls ''empowerment rights'' as ''intrinsic to the democratic process.'' Establishing democratic processes regionally and globally thus entails reestablishing these rights. Held's preference for ''empowerment'' rights turns on his reluctance to assert their universality. Nonetheless, Held argues, they are rights any democrat must accept.
Human Rights Legislation.
The bond between democracy and human rights is set to precedent in article 21(3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states: "The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures."
Should democracy be considered a human right?
Many legal experts make the argument of should democracy be considered a human right? Arguments that support the classification of human rights are based on the idea that they are necessary for achieving democracy in such a context for four reasons.First, they attach to persons rather than to particular jurisdictions; that is, they apply regardless of who violates them or where the violations occur. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article (2) states that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it is independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Second, they are globally recognized as standards of legitimacy binding not only on states but also on IGOs, TNCs, and the like. This reason is supported in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article (30) Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Third, and related, human rights do not require a comprehensive political framework for their implementation; their protection is compatible with the multiplicity of governance—including democratic state government characteristic of global politics. This reason is supported in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article (29) (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
Finally, human rights articulate aims rather than mechanisms. They describe what should be achieved, not how it should be achieved. This makes them flexibility and adaption to diversity of existing and emerging forms of governance. This reason is supported in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Preamble as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
This is reinforced with Dahl's list the political institutions that are necessary to pursue these goals are elected officials, free, fair and frequent elections, freedom of expression, alternative sources of information, associational autonomy, and inclusive.