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The election may be over but the divide remains. Unlike perhaps any time in history, Americans prepare for an inauguration this week just about evenly divided on what they expect in the next four years. Half polled by the Associated Press this week voice optimism for the second Bush administration and about a like number remain doubtful about our future.
This on-going divide is anything but healthy. The fear is that the partisan bickering will slowly erode any potential progress and make for a stalemate in Congress. If you examine history, that's not usually the case.
There is traditionally a honeymoon for a president's new term to reflect the sentiments of the voters in the recent election. But with a razor-thin margin, it appears that the honeymoon may be scuttled before it actually begins.
Iraq continues to lead the list of concerns for Americans. The economy is a close second. And though there should be real concern over the developments in Iraq, it certainly doesn't help matters when you have the Honorable Edward Kennedy on Sunday call Iraq "Bush's Vietnam." But considering the source, take that stupid comment for all it's worth.
I noticed this week that well over half of the Iraqi population is registered to vote in the elections there later this month. Don't look now but if that population votes it would be a higher percentage than voted in our presidential election in many areas. So that translates into progress and promise regardless of the outcome.
Christmas sales were at record levels which must bode well for the economy. The brewing brouhaha over Social Security will play out in the months ahead and at some point should ease the public's concern over the national retirement system.
I'm not a big believer in polls and I take the results of the Associated Press poll with a huge grain of sand. Yet the one number that remains concerning is the level and degree of distrust in government that still exists. Unless and until we restore public confidence in our government, we'll be fighting an uphill battle on the road to progress.
I hope Bush enjoys a fruitful honeymoon and the majority wishes of the public are put into place. And those on the other side of the aisle would be well advised to recognize the mandate given this administration and allow that progress and change to occur.


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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar Theme of Literature and Writing
The Bell Jar is a pretty juicy read, all things considered, particularly as every once in a while a headline from one of Esther's scandal sheets will pop out on the page, interrupting the flow of regular prose. These random headlines are part of a larger concern in the novel with the way the mass media actually creates values and enforces social norms through its coverage of everything from celebrity deaths to women's issues. In The Bell Jar, references to mass media pop up everywhere as a foil to Esther's own literary studies and attempts at writing fiction in order to question the place of literature and writing in modern society.
Questions About Literature and Writing
- Consider all of the different forms of writing in the book – newspapers, scandal sheets, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, the narrator's half-hearted attempt at writing a novel, just to name a few. What is the novel's attitude toward all of these forms of writing? Are some forms of writing better than others? Why?
- Why are media headlines in the novel? What do they tell us about society at the time?
- Consider the different characters' attitudes toward writing, including major characters, such as Mrs. Greenwood, and relatively minor characters, such as Philomena Guinea. How do these characters view the relationship between women and writing?
Chew on This
The Bell Jar chronicles a young woman's attempt to find her literary voice in a society which expects women to marry and have children, and if they do write, to write romance novels.
Through its frank exploration of a woman's struggle with depression, The Bell Jar sets itself in opposition to the way themes of depression and suicide are treated sensationally and superficially in popular culture.

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Song of Myself
by Walt Whitman
Section 50 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
- OK, we're nearing the end, folks.
- There is something important within the speaker. To repeat the last line of Section 49, it is something "steady and central."
- Whitman might be describing his own death here. His body becomes cool and he sleeps a long time.
- The world hangs or "swings" on some central mystery, and the speaker finds reassurance in this feeling.
- There is not ultimate death or chaos in the universe. The universe has a form and all life is connected. Ultimately, there is happiness in the union of all things.
- It's as if the speaker is getting in touch with mysticism in this section.


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Tandem Press founder William Weege created "A Cloud Billows" and "A Bird Sings" during his first residency at the Press in early 2009. Weege is best known for his large abstract handmade paper projects. His work can be seen at the Prudential Building in Minneapolis, the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Honda Headquarters in Tennessee, and in embassies in Finland, Germany, and Chile. His prints and works on paper are also included in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Museum, the Kansas City Museum, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Various people have complained about Linux swapping unexpectedly on boxes running mysqld, when apparently mysqld was not using all the memory and there was quite a bit of free memory available.
There's also an article by Jeremy Cole. However, his solution requires a one-line change to mysqld_safe which while it's small does not work very well if you have to maintain a large number of servers and are using packages asa package upgrade will overwrite the modified file mysqld_safe and then restart mysqld with the unmodified script. This leads …[Read more...]


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Buzz Links: What 'Secret Life of the American Teenager' Reviews Say
The new drama arriving tonight has a timely teen-pregnancy plot for the post-"Juno" era. It is running on the ABC Family channel, which has shown the ability to attract an audience to original programming. The show's creator also came up with the successful family series "7th Heaven." And it has Molly Ringwald. How much more does a new series need?
A lot, according to critics weighing in on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." The show follows 15-year-old Amy (played by Shailene Woodley), who learns she is pregnant following an encounter at band camp. It also weaves in the stories of Amy's family and friends. (Ms. Ringwald, pictured above, plays Amy's mother.)
Reviews so far complain about a less-than-sophisticated approach to the show's sensitive subject–among other problems. Buzzwatch suspects that "Secret Life" will attract at least some viewers purely for the nostalgia of seeing Ms. Ringwald in action.
Here's a sampling of "Secret Life of the American Teenager" reviews so far:
- Los Angeles Times: "The tone of the pilot careens between an after-school special and "American Pie," with a bit of "Pretty in Pink" grabbed along the way" … "feels thin, mechanical and confused." [LA Times]
- Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times: Even for a didactic work made in collaboration with the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, "Secret Life" is surprisingly unimaginative. [NYT]
- Newsday: "The pilot was so uneven that the whole affair nearly veers into "Reefer Madness" territory — the kind of over-the-top cautionary fable that subverts honorable intentions through hysteria or cliche." [Newsday]
- Baltimore Sun: "It's troubling to see [Disney's] Hollywood storytellers spinning such an attractive tale about teen pregnancy." [Baltimore Sun]
Here's a video preview from ABC Family:
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