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Seib & Wessel: What We're Reading Monday
By Gerald F. Seib and David Wessel
What If Bernanke Could Be Blunt
Ben Bernanke has caused a bit of a stir in the markets for talking so much in the past few weeks. He'll be at it again this week, testifying in the House on Wednesday and the Senate on Thursday.
Although there are scattered signs of improvement, the world economy isn't looking so great. China's economy is slowing, 15% of Europe's 15- to 24-year-olds are NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training), and economists estimate that the U.S. economy grew at less than 1%, at an annual rate, in the second quarter.
By tradition, the chairman speaks for all 19 participants in the Federal Open Market Committee when he delivers semi-annual reports to Congress. But given the disagreements inside the FOMC, Mr. Bernanke risks muddling his message if he tries to please all of the other 18.
What might he say if he chose to be blunt, and speak for himself?
One. For all the potshots at the Fed, I'd like to observe that the U.S. is doing a heck of a lot better than the rest of the developed world. We have more (though not enough) growth and our banks are stronger. Japan's central bank is finally taking my advice, and Britain's and Europe's are copying the Fed's approach to explicitly promise to keep short-term rates low for a long time.
Two. You in Congress are hurting the economy now by allowing the sequester to stick and hurting the economy in the future by refusing to deal with long-term deficits. The Fed is trying to offset this, but there's only so much we can do.
Three. I confess to be baffled by the markets' reaction to my words, but here's the message: We're buying $85 billion a month in bonds. We're not going to do that forever. If the economy continues to improve – emphasis on the "if" — we're going to wind those purchases down later this year. But that hardly constitutes tighter credit. It's not how much we spend on bonds each month that matters; it's how much we hold and we're not talking about selling any of our $3-trillion-plus portfolio soon. And short-term rates will be at zero well into 2015.
Four. I didn't expect nor want long-term interest rates to go up so abruptly after my recent comments, but they did. If that makes investors and traders a bit more cautious, so much the better. That'll actually make it easier for me to pursue bond-buying (aka quantitative easing) a while longer; there's a bit less worry that QE will lead to reckless investing and financial instability.
Five. I'm getting it from both sides now, both inside the Fed (see recent minutes of the last meeting) and outside. Princeton's Paul Krugman thinks I'm moving too fast to end this monetary experiment, and Stanford's John Taylor thinks I'm moving too slowly. And Mr. Krugman doesn't think much of Mr. Taylor's argument and vice versa. It's a lot easier to snipe at the Fed chairman than to make the calls and manage the fractious FOMC.
When the next semi-annual report is due in February, someone else can have the honor of sitting here. Bye.
–David Wessel
What We're Reading
Recommended reading from around the Web:
Don't blame the jury and don't blame racism for the Zimmerman acquittal, says Emily Bazelon (@emilybazelon). The verdict turned on Florida law which says anyone has the right to "meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary…to prevent death or great bodily harm." [Slate]
It is complicated to be young, black, and male in America, Cord Jefferson (@cordjefferson)writes. It's your job to be remorseful about the fact that your very nature makes them uncomfortable, like a pilot having to apologize to a fearful flyer for being in the sky. [Gawker]
The relationship with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has reached a new point, as illustrated by their fight over filibusters that comes to a head this week, and much of the acrimony has to do with McConnell's suspicions that Reid's political machine is fighting to defeat him in his re-election bid next year. [Politico]
John Dickerson (@johndickerson) decries the dearth of House-Senate conference committees which were one of the last places to improve a bill and to find compromises between strongly held positions. At one time the problem came when opposing sides got into a room and couldn't agree. Now, they can't even get into the room. [Slate]
Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) writes that a 36-year-old House freshman, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, an articulate foe of the Senate's immigration overhaul, has become a man to watch in the immigration debate. [National Review]
Several federal trial judges say the spending cuts of the sequester are slowing the wheels of justice. Some regard it as an assault by the legislative and executive branches upon core judicial functions. [The Atlantic]
Some in U.S. higher education say the Gates Foundation is wielding too much influence, promoting its recipe of education designed for maximum measurability, delivered increasingly through technology and narrowly focused on equipping students for short-term employability. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
Gillian Tett notes several women who have climbed to the top rungs of business were athletes as girls. She suggests competitive sports taught them the import of aggressiveness and teamwork. [FT]
Organizers of GOP Super-PACs are capitalizing on a "Stop Hillary" campaign to boost fundraising. Run by Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign manager, the America Rising Super-PAC has already registered StopHillary2016.org, where donors can purchase a $5 "Stop Hillary" bumper sticker. [Mother Jones]
Our Videos
On the Seib & Wessel show Friday, Jerry Seib, David Wessel and guests discuss the recent tumult in Egypt, immigration reform in the House and how U.S. regulators are trying to lick the "too big to fail" problem.
Watch segments from the show:
Sign of the Times
Minor milestones we've spotted:
Texas leads the nation in the rate of teen-age girls who had second children: 22% of births to Texas females between 15-19 were repeat births, according to recent Centers for Disease Control data. [Dallas HealthCare Daily]
There are 5 million "zero TV" households — that is, no cable and no broadcast antenna — up from 2 million in 2007, as more watch over the Internet. [WSJ]
Coping with a wine glut and falling prices, Australia's Treasury Wine Estates (Penfolds, Rousemont, etc.) will destroy $35 million worth of wine to reduce inventories. [WSJ]
Chinese travelers spent a record $102 billion on international tourism in 2012, up 37% on 2011 and (for the first time) more than residents of any other country. [UNWTO]
Among new businesses that survived three years, those run by people under 30 years had an average growth rate of 206%—nearly double the growth rate of businesses run by those over 40. [OECD]
India sent the world's very last telegram Sunday. [BBC]
The number of emergency room centers that aren't attached to hospitals doubled in the past four years to more than 400 nationally. [USA Today]
Five of the 10 fastest men in the world have tested positive for banned substances. [The Guardian]
For critical perspectives on politics and the economy from Jerry Seib & David Wessel, visit Seib & Wessel and follow them on Twitter @GeraldFSeib and @davidmwessel.


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Apple iMac 27-inch 2.7GHz review
2.7GHz Intel Core i5-2500S, 4GB RAM, 27in 2,560x1,440 display, MacOS X 10.6
Apple's iMac range sets the standard by which every other all-in-one computer is judged, with impeccably-styled aluminium chassis and massive integrated displays. This 27in widescreen is the same as the iMac's previous incarnation, with a massive 2,560x1,440 resolution. Whether you want to work on multiple spreadsheets or watch an HD movie, it's brilliant. We're sometimes not keen on glossy displays as they can suffer from reflections, but we were won over by the Mac's bright backlighting and brilliant colour. It's easy to adjust to whatever viewing position you need it in, too, and moves smoothly despite its size and weight. The computer runs almost silently but the chassis heats up to a remarkable degree.
We've previously had complaints about the limited power of Apple's iMacs compared to similarly-priced desktop PCs and even all-in-ones from other manufacturers. All-in-one systems are always more expensive and less powerful than a desktop of the same price; you're paying for the streamlined convenience and, in the case of the iMac, for Apple's distinctive design, build quality and operating system. The latest iMacs are more powerful than ever, though. Apple is keeping the precise details of the system's specification close to its chest, but the model we've reviewed appears to use Intel's 2.7GHz Core i5-2500S processor, a more energy-efficient relation of the phenomenal 2500K.
The 2500S is less powerful than its 95W sibling, though. Our reference PC has a 3.3Ghz Core i5-2500K and 4GB of RAM and gets an Overall score of 100 in our benchmarks. The iMac scores a fair bit less, with an Overall score of 85. That's still powerful enough to last a good couple of years before you need to upgrade to handle the latest software, but at this price we'd still expect a bit more power for our money.
The graphics processor is an AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 512MB of RAM - not the most powerful GPU around, but nonetheless capable of producing a fast 51.3fps in Call of Duty 4 at a resolution of 1,680x1,050. If the 2,560x1,440 integrated screen isn't enough for you, there are also two Thunderbolt ports that allow you to connect up to two more monitors, as long as they have DisplayPort sockets. The ports can also be used to connect Thunderbolt external storage devices, but that's something of a moot point, as no such devices have yet been released.

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Friday 5th April
The inaugural Newcastle Writers Festival will be held from April 5 to 7, 2013, at a number of inner-city venues. Friday 5th April is the opening night of the Festival.View Schedule
Saturday 6th April
The first full day of the Newcastle Writers Festival. Today's schedule covers a range of topics and genres, including true crime, history, romance, poetry, sport and memoir.View Schedule
Sunday 7th April
For the final day of the festival, we move to City Hall, to explore travel, spec fiction, war and history.View Schedule


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Asian Bond Issuers Take Advantage of Low Rates, Fed Reprieve
Funding costs are declining across Asia as investors adjust their expectations of when the Federal Reserve will wind down its emergency support for the U.S. economy — and Asian bond issuers are running to take advantage of the reprieve.
Issuance of bonds denominated in dollars, euros and yen from Asia excluding Japan hit $5.7 billion in the week of Sept. 9. That's the highest level since mid-May, according to Dealogic, as borrowers sensed the appetite for emerging-market assets and rushed to raise funds before the Fed's September meeting, when it was expected to announce a tapering of its economic stimulus policies.
In the end, the Fed decided to maintain its bond purchases for now, helping to keep global rates low.
Among those selling dollar bonds earlier this month were Sri Lanka's National Savings Bank – its maiden offering – and the South Korean government.
South Korea sold $1 billion in 10-year debt, paying a yield of 4.02%. When it last sold a dollar bond in 2009, it paid 7.125% on the 10-year tranche – a yardstick of just how much borrowing costs have eased since the global financial crisis.
Several corporate issuers, including South Korea's GS Caltex Corp. and Woori Bank, have taken advantage of the fall in yields to raise cheap funds. GS Caltex sold a $400 million five-year dollar bond at a yield of 3.349%, compared to the 7.25% interest rate it paid on a $300 million five-year bond in 2008.
Ken Hirose, portfolio manager at Nikko Asset Management Asia Ltd., told The Wall Street Journal he doesn't expect a sharp decline in borrowing costs but sees some room for U.S. Treasury yields — and therefore global rates — to ease before more robust economic data emerge from the U.S. in a few months' time.
The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury is likely to move in a band of 2.4%-3.0%, Mr. Hirose said, compared to around 2.70% Wednesday. But a significant change in a country's inflation outlook could negate that impact, he noted.
"The mid- to long-term outlook is still that yields will eventually have to go up," he said.
Yields remain higher than they were before the Fed indicated in May it would soon head toward the exit, but they have fallen substantially from the peak of the Fed-inspired selloff.
"We believe that emerging market assets will continue to recover in the absence of an imminent tapering of the U.S. central bank's asset purchases," Gareth Leather, Asian economist at Capital Economics, said in a research note. "However, at some point the monetary taps will still be turned off. Greater uncertainty about when that might happen is likely to temper any upside."
Most emerging-market currencies rebounded after the Fed's surprise decision Sept. 18 to maintain its stimulus. The exception has been Indonesia, where the rupiah hit a fresh four-and-a-half-year low Wednesday as investors focus on its large current-account deficit, which makes it especially vulnerable to outflows of capital.
Still, the yield on the Indonesian government's benchmark 10-year rupiah-denominated bond was quoted Wednesday morning at 8.03%. That's up significantly from 5.51% on May 1 but lower than this year's peak of 8.93% on Sept. 9.
The yield on Thailand's 10-year government bond was quoted at 3.84% Wednesday, down from a peak of 4.40% on Sep 5, but higher than 3.38% at the start of May.
In the Philippines – which was spared the worst of the summer selloff as investors rewarded the government's reform agenda – the 10-year peso bond was trading Tuesday afternoon at 3.425%. That was up from 2.825% at the start of May and only marginally lower than 3.450% early this month.
Emerging Asian bond funds have seen continuous outflows since early June, peaking at $1.5 billion in the week ending June 26.
But the exodus is slowing: Outflows from Asian emerging-market bond funds were the lowest in more than three months in the week ending Sept. 18, at $101.5 million, according to data from EPFR Global.
Ramin Toloui, global co-head of emerging-markets portfolio management at bond giant Pimco, agrees that Asian yields have room to fall somewhat from current levels.
"Most likely we're going to see a stabilization of yields, with some potential for price gains from further declines in yields and an appreciation of currencies," Mr. Toloui told WSJ.
An eventual shift in Fed policy will lead to higher borrowing costs globally, he said, but added that most Asian countries are well placed to ride out that volatility.


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Definición de vitality en inglés:
sustantivo[mass noun]
1The state of being strong and active; energy: changes that will give renewed vitality to our democracy
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Nothing sells fitness better than a healthy body that sparkles with energy and vitality.
- It is as if becoming prominent in a public sphere starts to rob you of the energy and vitality that drove you there in the first place.
- Taking one step at a time with complete attention and energy brings vitality and creativity to all you do.
liveliness, life, energy, animation, spirit, spiritedness, high-spiritedness, vivacity, exuberance, buoyancy, bounce, vibrancy, verve, vim, pep, brio, zest, zestfulness, sparkle, spark, effervescence, dynamism, passion, fire, vigour, forcefulness, ardour, zeal, relish, gusto, push, drive, punch, elan
informal zip, zing, fizz, get-up-and-go, oomph, pizzazz, feistiness
1.1The power giving continuance of life, present in all living things: the vitality of seeds
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- Jupiter's celestial brilliance portrays vitality, power, strength, and freedom of will.
- It's a promissory ideal that can be redeemed only by our own vitality in the present.
- I look at your photos, and I know that the beauty and power and vitality of nature are healing for you, as they are for me.
Late 16th century: from Latin vitalitas, from vitalis (see vital).
Palabras que riman con vitalitybanality, duality, fatality, finality, ideality, legality, locality, modality, morality, natality, orality, reality, regality, rurality, tonality, totality, venality, vocality
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ur company is based on the belief that our customers' financial needs are of the utmost importance. Our entire team is committed to meeting those needs. As a result, a high percentage of our business is from repeat customers and referrals.
Whatever the situation, whether it is mergers, project financing, project management, equity financing, financial consulting, Debt or another type of asset, we strive to assist and consult with any and all business matters.
Kensington Capital Partners, Inc. is a preeminent authority that specializes in consulting and advising all sorts of companies, from start-ups looking for seed money to middle and upper market companies on financial strategies. Whether mergers and acquisitions, capital raises and financial restructuring, debt offerings, or straight consulting, we bring insight, depth, perspective and exceptional value and guidance to both public and private companies - every step of the way.
Our Mission is simple.
We want to be involved with good people and good projects. We want to help each client achieve their goals. At the core, our personal relationship with our clients is the single most important aspect of our business. We strive to do whatever we can to deliver a solution to the client that enhances their current issues. That includes "Out of the Box" strategies. We work with people who respect the value of other's work.
A quick guide about Kensington Capital Partners and its Services:
Full-Service, Boutique
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Company Profile
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The FedererExpress
Charged by the global community of rogerfederer.com with delivering fan mail in the "Red Envelope" to the no.1 tennis player in the world, a group of Australian fans are intent on creating a world first: a van converted into a mobile shrine to their hero, the "FedererExpress"!
A 1988 Tarago, doomed for the scrap heap, is to get a new life, wrapped in professionally designed vinyl lettering and photos of our champion. In case the message is not clear, balloons and pom poms in the Swiss colours red and white will finish the design. The FedererExpress is the brainchild of a group of die-hard Roger Federer fans desperate to attract the attention of their hero. They come from all parts of Australia, but met here on Roger's website. They share a common passion and are now friends for life.
The FedererExpress will be running everyday the group is at the Australian Open. So it has been en route for a few days already and the reactions from the media and the tennis fans have been wonderful.
So look out for the FedererExpress and the "Shhh!! Quiet! Genius at Work" banner that has followed Roger to each of his tournaments around the world over the last two years.
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Definition of edict in English:
An official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority.
Example sentences
- Another step forward was the progressive declarations of invalidity extended to certain laws, decrees, and edicts issued in Stalin's time.
- Word of this soon reached the British top brass, who sent down an official edict ordering that the practice cease immediately.
- Although government clerics often issue edicts against terror, the bulk of the government's effort has been security-related.
decree, order, command, commandment, mandate, proclamation, pronouncement, dictate, fiat, promulgation;
law, statute, act, bill, ruling, injunction
formal ordinance
- Example sentences
- He discusses the edictal words "or has not provided the means by which he might be sued."
- The edicta are enumerated by Gaius among the sources of Roman law, and this part of the Roman law is sometimes called in the Pandect, Jus Honorarium, apparently because the edictal power belonged to those magistrates only who had the honores, and not so much ad honorem praetorum.
Middle English: from Latin edictum 'something proclaimed', neuter past participle of edicere, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + dicere 'say, tell'.
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Frank Gore returned to practice Thursday and didn't mince words.
"Yeah I'll play. I'll play good," Gore said of his status for Sunday's game between the host 49ers (8-1) and Arizona Cardinals (3-6).
A day earlier, Gore missed his first practice since reporting to training camp, the result of a knee injury that sidelined him the second half of Sunday's 27-20 win over the New York Giants.
"(While) hitting the ground, I hyperextended my leg, and it kind of shut down my leg, and I couldn't really push off like I wanted to," Gore said. "I wanted to be smart, and (running backs coach Tom) Rathman wanted me to be smart, knowing we've got a long season ahead and we can be successful, and I want to be there."
Gore has rushed for 782 yards and five touchdowns. He is 149 yards shy of passing Joe Perry for the franchise's all-time rushing record.
Gore practiced without the aid of a support sleeve or brace on his knee. He said coaches made the decision to rest him Wednesday.
Already hampered by a left ankle injury, Gore had six carries for zero total yards against the Giants. It was the first time in six games he failed to rush for more than 100 yards, though he did make an 8-yard catch on a third-and-3 play.
Offensive coordinator Greg Roman said the Giants took "extreme measures" in stacking the line of scrimmage with extra personnel to stop the 49ers' run prowess.
"Yeah man, it was crazy," Gore confirmed.
Has he ever seen that type of defense before?
"My whole career," Gore quipped, drawing laughter from the media corps. "(But) not like that, man. It was 10 men in the box. They were coming to stop the run."
Added Roman: "The Giants took an extreme measure, a measure rarely seen in the NFL. It was a nice adjustment by them. ... You have to go to some high school fields to see that loaded of a box."
It wasn't a total surprise. The 49ers countered the Giants' strategy by entering the game with a pass-oriented scheme.
"That's why we passed the ball. It's too easy," left guard Mike Iupati said.
Gore's top understudy, rookie Kendall Hunter, managed six carries for 40 yards, and Anthony Dixon had two carries for 10 yards.
A fourth-round draft pick out of Oklahoma State, Hunter has impressed coach Jim Harbaugh, who appointed him the No. 2 running back before the season began.
"He's done a magnificent job, just right from the beginning," Harbaugh said. "(We're) really pleased with how Kendall is progressing and contributing. Not just progressing, but contributing in a big way on our football team."
The 49ers might want to rotate Gore more with Hunter and Dixon this week to keep that stable of running backs fresh for their next game, which comes four days later on Thanksgiving night at Baltimore.
"Whatever the coaches want to do, I'll be fine with it," Gore said. "But I want to be out there. I want to be out there bad."
Despite injuries to his right knee and both ankles, Gore hasn't shown any lingering effects of a hip fracture he suffered last Nov. 29 at Arizona. He had five carries for 52 yards, including a 25-yard burst, before that season-ending injury.
"Things happen for a reason," Gore said in recalling that game. "I'm back, and I'll be ready to play against them Sunday."
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers.


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LOS ANGELES -- Sharks goalie Antero Niittymaki had the highest save percentage (.967) and lowest goals against average (0.66) of any NHL goaltender in the postseason through Sunday.
That's what happens when a goalie faces 30 shots in 91 minutes spread over of two games and stops all but one.
But Niittymaki did not get the start against the Los Angeles Kings for Game 6 at Staples Center on Monday night. And he said he understands why Antti Niemi did.
"After I got hurt, I haven't really played after that, and I don't expect to jump in there and start in the playoffs," Niittymaki said after the Monday morning skate, referring to a January groin problem. "Nemo's been pretty solid here the last three months or so."
In Game 5, Niemi was benched after three of the first four shots taken by the Kings ended up in the goal. Niittymaki stopped all 18 shots he faced after coming in less than nine minutes into the start of the game.
"It's playoffs, things happen," Niittymaki said. "He's bounced back before, and I have no problem with that."
As far as his own success, Niittymaki indicated it helped to get into Game 5 as soon as he did, less than nine minutes into the first period.
"It's better the earlier you go in because you just had a warm-up." he said. "But sometimes you go in the middle of a game or late in the second half and it's a lot tougher."
After the morning skate, coach Todd McLellan noted that coaches are not necessarily singling out a goalie when they pull him out of the game, that often they are trying to wake up the entire team.
"You can pull a defenseman or a forward off and send a message real quick, but usually he's going to get back out there," McLellan said. "The goaltender is the one that gets welded to the bench unfortunately."
McLellan added that Niittymaki isn't a "forgotten man."
"He's approached and dealt with it like everybody else on the team. We've talked to him and he understands where he's at," the coach said. "And he's completely prepared to come in and do the job."
But defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic said the last thing players should be doing once the puck dropped Monday night was trying to be extra careful.
"When you're playing, if you think you're going to turn it over, you will turn it over," Vlasic said after the morning skate. "Early in games, we just have to have better execution. They come out extremely hard at the beginning, and I guess they make us make mental errors."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Contact him at 408-920-5940.


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I'm not running to win, I'm running to honor
Team Up! with Autism Speaks is dedicated to raising funds to support the mission of Autism Speaks through endurance events that we partner with. Our goal with each race is to raise awareness and funds through races. We are dedicated to funding global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism; to raising public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society; and to bringing hope to all who deal with the hardships of this disorder. We are committed to raising the funds necessary to support these goals. Please join our team and help us accomplish our mission!
Billy Mann, father, husband, Autism Speaks Board Member, believer…I am 42 years old, not graceful and not pretty, I'm training hard and a week away from the New York Marathon. Between online donations, mail-ins and my awesome friends, P!nk and Carey Hart for contributing $25,000 towards the $110,000, we are only about $33,000 away from reaching our goal of honoring the ONE in 110 children.
TEN REASONS why I'm running the marathon for Autism Speaks
- I'm running to honor the incredible autism moms out there like my wife for whom every day is a marathon that tests their limits and then some.
- I'm running to acknowledge children at all ages who, like ours, spend months/years learning how to simply hold a fork, or speak a word or learn to put on their clothes by themselves. The 5 hours or so it is likely going to take me to complete the 26.2 miles is nothing next to the 40 hours of therapy my son needs every week just to fight for bare basic skills. If these kids can do that, I can push myself to the limits to do this.
- I'm running for the parents but also to acknowledge the siblings and grandparents—in or out of any organization–that came before my wife and I, to thank them for being on the front line of advocacy before there was an Autism Speaks, before there were any services and they were brave enough to find a way forward.
- I'm running for parents whose children with autism are now becoming adults with autism. Between now (when my oldest son is 9 years old) and when my family faces this transition, today's parents who are addressing this will have done so much to benefit families like mine and I want to honor them now, and always.
- I'm running to honor the high-functioning autism community and say thank you for educating us and ensuring that the world remembers that every individual with autism—however they are uniquely affected– has a voice, an intellect, gifts and talents, a point of view as valuable as any citizen and each individual contribution to our world should be respected, protected, embraced and celebrated. I am running to say thank you to them, too.
- I'm running because the human body is not meant to run 26.2 miles but autism makes us go beyond our limits. I'm running because it's hard, because it takes me out of my comfort zone, because I feel awkward doing it, because it hurts, because it takes leisure time and sleep from me: all things that our families face every day and it is a small gesture by comparison.
- I'm running to acknowledge parents and families many of you know but do not realize that right now, silently, they are at the end of their rope and feel that they can't go on another day struggling with autism's impact on their lives because they are just strapped emotionally, financially, physically and even spiritually. These are the parents who will keep my legs moving when I feel I cannot go on any more because they find a way.
- In the past 7 years since we received our son's diagnosed, autism prevalence soared from 1 in 166, to 1 in 150, to 1 in 110 (and 1 in 70 boys) in the USA. It is 1 in 56 in the UK. It is 1 in 38 in S. Korea. Every time I share the statistics with people they always ask the same question, "Why?" and all I can say is the truth: we still don't really know. With the numbers rising much faster than anyone could have imagined, we are lost without raising money. I am running so that when I ask you to give, you know I'm in it with you every step of the way.
- I'm running to honor Autism Speaks, every local chapter, every advocate, every parent or sibling who wears a pin or has a puzzle piece on their car or baseball hat. I am running to say thank you for being a safe resource for families like mine.
- Lastly, I am running for Christian Hildebrand, an extraordinary little guy who God placed in the right hands with the entire Wright family and in so doing inspired real change in the world for all of us affected by autism.
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OAKLAND -- A truck belonging to a nonprofit that was stolen last weekend has been found, an organization spokeswoman said.
Urban Creeks Council relayed the discovery via their Twitter account Wednesday evening, saying the 2005 Ford F-250 stolen out of North Berkeley on Saturday had been recovered by the California Highway Patrol early that morning in Richmond, thanks to a license plate scanning system notifying the officer the truck had been taken.
"I have no idea what (they) did to this truck, I wish I knew," said Kristen Van Dam, a senior ecologist for Urban Creeks Council. "But it looks like she'll be back on the road again!"
Van Dam said the Ford was found on Bayo Vista Avenue, just off Alpine Road in Richmond. When she went to pick up the truck at the scrap yard later that afternoon, she learned the truck had been found with a bed full of scrap metal, and that the ignition and the fuse box had been torn apart.
"They got all our signage off -- and that was high-quality stuff," she added. "They even put a trailer hitch on it. They did a lot of work."
According to Van Dam, the truck had been parked at the intersection of Rose and Arch streets at 6 p.m. Nov. 9. By the morning, it was gone.
The organization works to protect and restore urban streams and purchased the truck in October to haul plants to a project in Livermore, according to Van Dam.
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As an initial step toward anticipated liquidation, Neose Technologies is selling a majority of its assets to Novo Nordisk and BioGeneriX for about $43 million in cash. In August, Neose received a delisting warning from the Nasdaq Global Market. The company has been trading below $1 since the beginning of this year.
Liquidating distributions, in an amount to be determined, are expected to begin shortly after the closing of the asset sales. Neose's preliminary estimate is that there would be between $15 million to $24 million available for distribution over time to common stockholders. This preliminary estimate of aggregate distribution amounts represents $0.27 to $0.45 per share of common stock. Neose closed trading yesterday at $0.23 per share.
Neose reports that it will retain certain intellectual property rights including those related to producing glycolipids. Novo Nordisk and BioGeneriX have separately been collaborating with Neose on its clinical programs.
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A 24-hour business center is on site at this 3-star property. Event facilities measure 161 square feet (15 square meters). This business-friendly aparthotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Limited onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis (surcharge).
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Hours after Grand Island Mayor Jay Vavricek recommended John Collins for the Public Works director position, one councilman sent an email voicing his opposition to the decision.
In it, Ward four's Mike Paulik said, "No one in emails to electeds wanted this."
Paulik also alludes to Collin's proposed $101,000+ salary and the city's continuing pension problems. "Is this raise the money we shorted Pete Kortum or just more waste?" he said.
Meanwhile, Mayor Vavricek defended his choice to bring Collins back after the former director left for another job last summer.
"You have to respect people that want to achieve and you want overachievers," he said. "[Collins] had an opportunity that didn't work out, but nonetheless, when you look at his qualifications and experience speaks enough that he definitely deserves an opportunity to continue. [He] left under good terms before and I know he'll definitely work very hard for the people of Grand Island."
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Mayor Jay Vavricek announced his recommendation of John Collins, of Baton Rouge, La., as the next public works director for the city of Grand Island.
This recommendation will be brought forward for city council recommendation at the next regularly scheduled meeting on February 12.
Mayor Vavricek said, "John is uniquely qualified to serve as Public Works Director. Of those who applied for the position, John was clearly the most qualified and with the most experience. Unlike no other candidate, his previous employment in the City gives added confidence to know he will successfully carry out the department's many responsibilities in service to the people of Grand Island."
Collins' public works experience includes over 25 years in various statewide engineering and management positions with the State of Louisiana Department of Transportation. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Nebraska, as well as the State of Louisiana. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University.
At the State of Louisiana, Collins managed a staff of 89 employees and an operating budget of $40 million. Collins and his staff worked with the rehabilitation efforts during the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Furthermore, Collins also served as the Public Works Director for the city of Grand Island from March 2011 through July 2012. During that time, Collins was instrumental in implementing the Downtown Quiet Zone, developing the Wastewater Treatment Plant improvement plan, updating a dewatering feasibility study, and leading research and construction efforts on the Sycamore and Eddy underpasses.
In addition, Collins led efforts to create an improvement plan for the route to the airport, developed a plan to rectify problems with the Stagecoach detention cell, and made plans for the extension of sewer infrastructure along Highway 281 to I-80.
City Administrator Mary Lou Brown said, "While John Collins served as the public works director here at the City of Grand Island, he was a well-respected and active member of the leadership team and was instrumental in the completion of many projects in a short amount of time. I look forward to him returning as part of the leadership team."
As the public works director, Collins will supervise the Engineering, Solid Waste, Streets, Fleet Services, and Wastewater Treatment divisions and oversees a $42 million dollar budget.
Once Collins' appointment is approved by city council, Collins' official start date will be determined. His starting salary would be at step 12 of the public works director pay scale which is $101,148.34 annually.
The starting salary is based on Collins' track record of success throughout his career, his many years of government experience, and demonstrated leadership in many projects in Grand Island that were completed on time.
Furthermore, Collins transitioned many departmental tasks and responsibilities to being completed in-house, therefore saving taxpayer dollars.
Vavricek stated, "John's leadership will be instrumental to the success of critical future community issues, such as the Metropolitan Planning Organization and federal aid street projects."
The Public Works Director recruitment was a six month recruitment process that entailed a national search.
The process included involvement from four city council members; Council President Bob Niemann, Councilman Scott Dugan, Councilwoman Peg Gilbert, and Councilman Mitch Nickerson. Other members involved in the selection process included City Administrator Mary Lou Brown, Human Resources Director Brenda Sutherland, and Interim Public Works Director Terry Brown.


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D.J. Holt is playing so much faster this season that he's playing two positions at the same time.
Holt, Cal's starting strong-side inside linebacker, was forced to split time at his own position with the weak-side inside spot last week while senior Mike Mohamed sat out with a sprained toe. Holt played well in an otherwise dismal defensive showing against Nevada and might have to rotate between positions again Saturday at Arizona with Mohamed's health still up in the air.
"He did well. That will help us if we need to do that again," Cal linebackers coach Kenwick Thompson said. "I was very pleased that he was able to do that."
Holt is blossoming at the right time, because the Bears need him. He is the only inside linebacker besides Mohamed on the depth chart that has any measure of experience, and there really weren't any other players defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast could have plugged in.
"He kind of had to make some adjustments on the run there but played really well," Cal coach Jeff Tedford said.
Playing well has become a trend for Holt this season. Holt was ranked the 21st-best linebacker in the country by rivals.com coming out of Crespi High-Encino in 2007, but it took him a few years to feel his way into college football. Now a redshirt junior, Holt appears to be coming into his own.
He had 16 tackles in Friday's loss at Nevada. The previous week in a win over Colorado, he had seven tackles and broke up a pass. Holt enters Saturday tied for fifth in the Pac-10 in tackles (9.0 per game).
"I really do feel more comfortable," Holt said. "Last year, I was kind of working my way into the system, but I still wasn't comfortable. This year, I'm taking on more of a bigger role. I have to lead the defense. I just feel more aggressive. I'm not reading as much. I'm just playing fast -- using my abilities the best I can."
In three games this season, Holt already has stood out more than he did all of last year, when he started eight games and played in all 13. The biggest difference is he appears to be faster, which has helped him make more plays in the open field.
Holt has always been a big linebacker -- he's listed this season at 6-foot-1, 250 pounds. But Thompson said Holt is playing about 10-12 pounds lighter than last season and worked hard during the offseason to increase his speed and agility.
"He's really, really worked hard on trimming down and losing weight," Thompson said. "It's really helped his change of direction and speed. On some plays, you can see that. But even though he was a bigger guy, he's always been a great athlete."
Holt said his offseason work has indeed made him faster, but just as important is his experience. He no longer is thinking as much on the field, just reacting. And that has allowed him to play faster.
"Last year, I was fast, but it might have seemed like I was slower because I was thinking too much," Holt said. "This year, I'm ready to go. I've always had that speed that people really don't notice until you see it on film or I might catch somebody from behind. But I've always had it. Now, I'm able to just go."
When the Bears lost Zack Follett, Anthony Felder and Worrell Williams after the 2008 season, it seemed as though it might be Holt's time. Although he received his share of playing time last year, he never played well enough to give the impression he was going to stick in the lineup.
But one more spring practice and another offseason of workouts allowed Holt to turn the corner.
"You don't want to be seen as a bust," Holt said. "That was on my mind. But at the same time, I was just thankful for the opportunity to come here and play. I didn't really care, but at the same time you hear other people talking when you're expected to do big things."


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DEALER EXPO, Indianapolis, Ind. - Kuberg, a European maker of electric motorcycles for children, attended its first Dealer Expo this past weekend in the hopes of expanding its presence in the U.S.
Michal Kubanek and Stanislav Leffner began developing the bikes in the Czech Republic about five years ago and began marketing them about three years ago. In 2012 the company sold more than 1,000 bikes worldwide, according to Kubanek, who also said that Kuberg is fully insured for liability.
Kuberg's U.S. office and warehouse are in Santa Cruz, Calif., with corporation documents filed in Delaware.
Kuberg has about 15 dealers in the U.S. and is looking for more, preferably those already selling major motorcycle brands.
"We look for the good dealerships like KTM and BMW," Kubanek said. "We only have these types of dealerships at the moment. They, of course, are more difficult to penetrate, but we think that for the long-term success of our company, it's better to do hard work now than to spoil our distribution channel."
Kuberg's three kids models are The Start (seat height of 16 inches for ages 2 to 5), the Trial E (seat height of 21 inches for ages 4 to 10), and the Cross (seat height of 23 inches for ages 5 to 12). All models feature fully covered batteries, a chain guard, a parental speed dial control, and suspension comprised of telescopic forks and a spring shock absorber. MSRPs for the models, in order of increasing size, are $1,099, $1,499 and $1,699.
Kuberg was also displaying a prototype motorcycle for teenagers that will be available later this year. Top speed will be around 40 mph and its range will be around 40 miles.
Already in production is a waterproof electric adult trials bike with electric clutch. It weighs only 157 lbs. and has a range of up to three hours.
Kuberg offers two wholesale programs: one for retailers and one for enthusiasts who act as a broker for a nearby dealer, showing off the bikes at local events. All sales, including those initiated at www.kuberg.com, go through brick-and-mortar dealerships.


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And another variation...with strawberry crush and chocolate sponge...
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I followed link from Vera's page to land here :) that cheese is looking delicious, can't wait to try one now.
Looks like my tiramisu is reachable now :) mascarpone cheese is almost 200Rs/100gms here in Pune :)
Shall post my pics very very soon :)
I have 1 question though, please correct me if I am wrong.
So you have to place cheese cloth on the sieve and then put sieve on some bowl (to collect liquid) and store in fridge. Am I correct? I don't need to hang it either is it?
hi vineet...the mascarpone tasted fresher than the one that u buy from a hypermart. tiramisu and any dessert is totally reachable...do try it out. I poured the cheese onto a thick cheesecloth...not muslin but a regular cotton kitchen towel. let it drain,covered with cling film around 3 and a half hours. then removed it from the cloth and placed in a tupperware container and refridgerated it overnight.
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Not to sidetrack this interesting conversation, but are any of you
familiar with the system described at www.muse.com? The description is
pretty vague I think, but they seem to be describing an adaptive
(andragogical I'd call it. Does this term apply?) UI for a collaborative
music app of some kind. I guess they've shown it off in some San
Francisco clubs. Just wondering if anyone's seen it in action.
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[mailto:discuss-interactiondesigners.com-bounces at lists.interactiondesign
ers.com] On Behalf Of Reimann, Robert
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:33 AM
To: discuss-interactiondesigners.com at lists.interactiondesigners.com
Subject: [Possible Spam] RE: [ID Discuss] Re: "Intuitive" designs can be
Hi Sandeep, et al,
To agree (I think) with James, I think the part of the problem is in
conceiving of the "beginner UI" and "intermediate UI" as distinct
interfaces rather than as a single interface with a range of
discoverable options.
I think we all agree that most people who use a product on a regular
basis soon reach a degree of intermediate skill with the product.
But to get there, they need to pass through that beginner phase
Thus, most products that endeavor to support frequent use should be
designed to get beginners to the intermediate level as quickly as
possible, while optimizing for the capabilities and needs of
This implies that the most used functions need to conform closely to
user mental models (or appropriate conventions, but I believe that
designs that really match the mental model can bend conventions). These
functions also may need to have a discoverable method of use that
optimizes for efficiency in context-- but without getting mired in
expert functionality (e.g., dozens of configurable parameters or command
If you must address expert needs, those functions should be made
available with additional (commensurate) effort, so that they do not
intrude on the experience of beginners and intermediates.
By making tasks that intermediates need to do as simple and
straightforward as possible, you may find that they are already easy
enough for beginners to master (though this may not apply to completely
neophyte computer users).
This was the case for a medical information system I helped design:
the client had initially estimated 2 weeks of user training would be
necessary, but when it was piloted in the field, they found that only a
single week or less was required, due to its "intuitive" design. The
project is described in this AIGA-ED case study:
The way this was accomplished was not via any single particular
interaction paradigm, but rather through designing interfaces that truly
matched the needs and expectations of the users, and which provided
critical information with a minimum of effort.
Robert Reimann
Manager, User Interface Design
Bose Design Center
Bose Corporation
The Mountain
Framingham, MA 01701
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Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:55 PM
To: discuss-interactiondesigners.com at lists.interactiondesigners.com
Subject: [ID Discuss] Re: "Intuitive" designs can be cumbersome
This is a great comment and it is funny that I just wrote about
something very similar on my (new) blog this morning (see
http://dubfuture.blogspot.com/). I was complaining about how Microsoft
chose not to put a pen-centric UI on the TabletPC and instead chose a
very incremental change over the standard desktop GUI. The main problem
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> Subject: [ID Discuss] "Intuitive" designs can be cumbersome [cut
>excess] Moral of story:
> Going back to a topic many months ago, how does one balance simplicity
> for the simpleton and mediocrity for the majority of user? I am
> constantly hounded by this dilemma, in my designs. How can IxD
> transition a beginner UI to a intermediate UI? Doesn't the beginner
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Posted on October 13, 2012, in bullying, douchebaggery, harassment, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, reddit, YouTube and tagged amanda todd, bullying, harassment, misogyny, MRA, suicide. Bookmark the permalink. 270 Comments.
In order to promote this meme we could use the pic that David posted here. It sums up his lack of human decency and attention seeking tendencies rather succinctly.
Yeah, just the anger in those piggy little eyes says all you need to know. "Damn it! Stop showing empathy! Just stop it!"
@Kiwi girl, yeah, TAA's real name is TJ Kincaid. Although I think he actually makes some money off his videos; he's a youtube sponsor and even has a DVD out.
I need to make a version for work on Monday night, as I got accepted into a PhD (woot!). One of my colleagues has an allergy to sucrose, so I have granular sugar substitute and I need to get more oil (she's also allergic to dairy). Does anyone know what I can do instead for icing/serving as I can't do any frosting – because icing/confectioner's sugar contains sucrose?
Someone recommended his videos to me ages ago (before he was called out on his misogyny), but in the first one I watched he admitted that he had never finished a full book and only read magazines. Why anyone gives a shit about what he has to say is a complete mystery to me. I wonder if his usual defenders will support this or if it will be too much, even for them….
@lauralot, eh, he has a ton of subscribers and the vast majority of his stuff is unobjectionable. Which is not to excuse this shit in any way, he's an total asshole, but it's not like he does it regularly. So it gets overlooked, I guess.
YouTube will sponsor anybody as long as they have enough subscribers.
Maybe use sugar free Cool Whip? (Is that a thing that exists? It seems like it would.)
Here are some bb ferretses.
So I went and looked up the ED post on TAA, and forget the banana incident, there are far better ways to mock him. There's MRA-meets-emo poetry.
Somehow I manage to fake a lack of interest
And she untangles the room with her footsteps
Hemorrhaging conversation, I drink her milky words
Like soup from invisible wounds and
Content in my obscurity
Proceed to destroy her
In a gentle manner
Until she is
I can't even…. My God, that poor young woman. I'm not a person to cry, but this one had me doing so. I hope Amanda Todd (and the many other children who've chosen to end their lives due to bullying) rests in peace, and that somehow we find a way to make her death not in vain. I hope that her family has a large and caring support network capable of seeing them through. They will be tilling the sorrows of stone for some time to come.
As for the asshat, he is beneath contempt and consideration. May he reap what he sows, may he be shunned by everyone he meets and find turned backs in his time of greatest need. May the gods and good fortune forget that he exists. May he find nothing but small discontents in everything he touches, such that his life brims with with discomfort. And may he live a VERY long life in misery,alone.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into the peanut butter and avocado ideas, they sound nice. Yes, the co-worker has multiple allergies and I hate people being left out of food shouts at work, hence why I'm working with a vegan recipe and trying to work out the frosting issue.
And thanks for the congrats.🙂
@valarienorth: some people are just such jerks that I can't wish them onto any co-workers, let alone supervisors, managers, or business owners. In particular, I would hate for him to have younger, impressionable female colleagues. He sounds like the kind of person who would need to have a major epiphany in order to change his views, and I can't think of anything that would be major enough. He appears to be only qualified for minimum wage jobs, and lots of people working those jobs have enough problems to deal with, without having him as a co-worker.
@lauralot89 special kiwi-hugs for you too.🙂
And stay for the recipes too!. I found that avocado icing works well for those who are dairy intolerant, but it contains sugar. Not to be defeated, I found this http://vegannz.blogspot.co.nz/2008/10/cream-cheese.html as a vegan substitute for cream cheese, all I need to do is add in some powdered sugar replacement and it should work.
Thanks to everyone for the baking ideas.🙂
Sorry Kiwi girl- I'm respectfully disagreeing. The reason he acts like this is because he's never been held accountable for his own keeping. If he had to pay rent or buy his own food, he'd quickly learn what humility is. Amazing what just one night of being cold and hungry can do to a person's ego.
valerienorth, have you ever lived on unemployment payments? I have, I survived for two years when I could not get work a decade ago. I would have been homeless if I had been alone, because the payments were about $250 a fortnight. That is way below the poverty line. It doesn't even begin to cover rent, let alone utilities, food, transport to job interviews (should you be so lucky as to get one), emergencies, etc, etc. Please don't talk as if welfare payments = living on the fat of the land. The unemployed are put through ridiculous hoops and treated as dirt – and that's in Australia, which isn't nearly as bad, from all I've heard, as the US.
And nothing would make slimeballs like the unamazing atheist behave better. He'd manage to turn it all around and blame society if he thought HE was a victim. It's the way scumbags like the MRAs do things. Kiwigirl had a good point, though that he's not fit to be in any workplace. If I was his boss (ie I had a small business) and found out he was doing these things, I'd sack him, all right.
Blitzgirl from what I read there have been attempts made to find out who the man/woman was but he/she made a strong effort to cover his/her tracks. The Canadian police apparently found the person responsible was in the US. I'm not sure if more will be found out.
I'm not often viscerally sickened by the stuff I see from MRAs (yes, TAA is an MRA if that's not clear (I haven't read the comments)) and the like online, but this time I am simply filled with disgust. TAA is an enormous pile of manure bricks with a face. Fuck that chucklefuck right in his hatebeard. Apparently his run-in with SRS, wherein he deliberately triggered a rape victim, led him to engage in just about no introspection whatsoever. I would really despair if I were like he is—apparently incapable of growth or basic human empathy.
What a disgrace.
It's so hard when you're that age to realize that there is life after all of that misery. I know being almost 30, that many of my own bullies have unfortunately become my friends on facebook, which will always a very strange to me, and I will never get over it. I am hoping that many of these people who found her getting beaten up will, hopefully, realize what terrible people they were in their younger days and feel guilty about it and want to be better people. hI know that I'm very thankful that Facebook not exist when I was a teenager, and I'm sure many people do. I know the best Thing that I have done was get over all that stuff and move on but Being so young, that you don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. I do know, that when you're that age and Mistakes are broadcasted, Is the worst thing in the world. That person needs to, at the very least realize what they did to another human being, and for the most be found out, held accountable for actions, and go to trial. Cyber bullying should not be a Multi year problem for someone so young And innocent. I have a young daughter, and I would hate the person who would ever do that to her. There's no excuse for something so awful.
I'm not the only one who noticed that he's naked in that photo, am I? Because ew.
Ah, I see Shuyin is still around. How does that quote go, from that game? "Only then I realized that this place, this "Life", is an abomination, a horrible distortion of the natural order. This "Life", who mothered Pain, and Fear, and Envy – these twisted children who exist only because we are here to feed them, to nourish them."?
Wait? Not Shuyin, the millennial old phantom of hatred and pain and unresolved emotional frigidity that has no ability to see beyond his own nose and thus blames the entire world for his own problems and assumes it is a a sad, bad and mad place to live? The phantom forever carried on ether wings of mild abuse/possessive issues, emotional manipulation and obsessive control issues? Well, damn. Sorry. They're just so similar, you all. So what is this, then? The Amazing Atheist being a bit of a shortsighted git?
Yes! That's it. One of those weird excuses for Bad Stuff based on the idea that Bad Stuff Happens, so it Has To Happen and we're all puppets of fate and pawns of chance and life sucks and we should die. I prefer Kerghan, from Arcanum, to the Amazing Atheist. I mean, at least the last guy can make you believe that Life (with a capital L) is all a whole load of bother, TAA just seems… less brilliant. More miserable. More self focused. More myopic. God I love the word myopic.
Enough RPG references, I've only ever played one Final Fantasy game (I lied! Sorry!) and the one thing I never understood that well about the villains is that their plans tend to boil down to "Life sucks, blow up the planet". It did have the happy side effect of inoculating me against other people saying the same thing, though, because no matter which way you slice it, it is still utter stupid.
Amanda's story is sad. Whether other people died "today" (or any day) does not do anything to alter that fact. I mean, I get the contrived message there -"Overfocus on one story to elicit emotional reactions can be very manipulative and we should not forget that other people suffer too" – but I have a fucking empathy issue and even I can phrase it better that a tusch on some cardboard and a pretend snark.
What's the deal, yo? It's like he is trying to say that the availability of stories on someone's suicide has a any influence on how sad the event is, in itself? A million death's is a statistic but it is also, and this is the important bit, a million deaths.
I have composed myself now.
Moving on!
I personally feel that "Amanda's story illustrates what can happen to young girls when sexualized images of them floating around online" is actually a little off. I mean, yes!, this demonstrates one of the possible consequences of what could happen (and god am I ever screwed if someone breaks into my online file storage), but it really seems to me much more to demonstrate how moronic the idea some dichotomy between saint and skank is. I have had rum and I shall elaborate as follows:
Remember that boyfriend that asked you to do that thing, and then you said no, and then he begged and was all smiles and then you did it and then what followed wasn't: "Yay! Joypleasure" but "Hahaha you skank, I can't believe I got you to do that! Hah!".
Yeah, that.
When the person in Amanda's story first gets a minor to take off her shirt (1), then takes pictures (2), then stalks her (3), then shares those pictures that he talked her into taking with others (4) and finally, those others then start making fun of her for the pictures he took (5), that's 5 counts of idiocy and at least 3 broken laws. Probably more.
(although, yeah, those sites David mentions need to go. Like, right pronto)
How the hell do you curb the tendency that in any manner of sexual behavior, women get the blame? If you take your clothes off you're a slut, if you keep them on you're a prude, if you get taken pictures of yourself you're an exhibitionist (And so, !logically, also a sex object so a slut so someone who has sex so someone I can touch inappropriately ha ha ha), if someone else takes pictures of you you are still an exhibitionist and probably also either "Dumb and deserve it" or "Secretly into it any way".
I mean, I don't think there is anything wrong with pictures of people. I have made enough half obscure references to the point that I have had some taken. But there is something very, very wrong with the idea that the very act of taking a momentary permanent glimpse of someone else somehow fucking scars them for life! It's like a permanent personality change through penis… Without the actual penis. It is magic. Huzzah!
I blame stupidity. And an inability to appreciate the beautiful things in life. Whether photographed or not.
To those who wondered… Yes, TAA's real identity is known – and it can easily be found.
I'd post it here but I'm not sure if that's allowed – or if anyone else all ready has named him.
I'm pretty sure his name was creditet when he still was a contributos for ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com – though he was removed from the site quite a long time ago.
(Not sure why, but I've heard it had something to do with the content of his submissions. I can't find anything adressing this in detail – apart from a video he made explaining it. All though I'd like to believe the producers decided to remove him because of his controversial stupidi- I mean, opinions.)
The more I read about the guy, the more disgusted I get.
Allthough I must add, reading his rants is probably one of the easiest ways to score a MRA Bingo.
Um, I should add that TJ's identity is public information, it's not like I'm doxxing him. He had a public Facebook profile under his real name.
@ aworld
Please keep in mind the fact that (and this is the case even if some of the friends you're talking about are women) that if you as a man were to speak up and condemn the gendered slutshaming then that would be far more likely to make an impact than anything coming from outside the group, or anything any of the women in the group say. The way to fix this stuff is for more men to openly condemn the double standard within their own social groups. I know it can be hard, but it's important.
I've been reading through some Captain Awkward threads that I missed, and this one is a really good example of why it's important to do that, especially if you read the comments.
Oooo.. ,,more yummy frosting/icing suggestions.🙂 Thanks @clairedammit, I'm so happy I have all these options now, whereas earlier I was wondering just what I was going to do. I now just need to check why my cake top cracks but there's still some not-completely-cooked-but-not-uncooked bits in the cake.
@aworldanonymous, just remember to keep yourself physically and/or psychologically safe, oftentimes it can be unsafe to call out bullies. It's *not* cowardice when you're protecting yourself, it's called *being sensible*.🙂 Trust me on this.🙂 :)When this type of thing happens to me (not often), I will say something quietly to the person concerned, without making a big deal out of it. But it can be hard to be diplomatic when one is upset, and also sometimes one can't get the person alone to talk to within a reasonable time period. And some people don't take quiet, gentle constructive comments well…
My response at that point would be to stop being friends with those people, honestly. Maybe check back in once in a few years to see if it really was just immaturity and they've grown out of it, but if you're looking at your friends and thinking they're shitty people? That's usually a sign that you should be asking yourself if you really want to hang out with them any more.
@CassandraSays, I'm with you on that advice. @aworldanonymous if your friends are that upsetting, are you staying friends with them because of history or because these are people you like to be around and you're happy for others to think that you're like them (because people tend to view anyone as being the same as the people one associates with)?
Putting on much older person hat here, part of what seems to be happening to you, aworldanon, is that you've hit a developmental stage where you've changed, but the people around you either haven't hit that stage yet or they're never going to. It's worth checking back in later to see if those people have experienced the same change you have and you can be close again, but it's a fact of getting older that sometimes you just outgrow certain friends/groups of friends. It can suck sometimes, but it's a reality.


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11700 S Lake View Ln
Tishomingo, OK 73460
The Oklahoma Hills Vacation Rental in Tishomingo is a quiet country home that sleeps eight comfortably. This 1,800 ... read more...
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