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According to PWInsider, The Undertaker's television return is imminent and could take place as soon as Monday's "Old School" RAW.
The long-rumored Undertaker vs. CM Punk match at WrestleMania will in fact be taking place. The match was confirmed about a week ago, when the Undertaker told WWE he'll be physically ready to compete on April 7th.
Now, WWE's creative team is rushing to fast-track the feud with just over 5 weeks until the pay-per-view. One big issue with Punk's match against The Undertaker is that he's now lost 3 high profile matches - against The Rock at the Royal Rumble & Elimination Chamber and against John Cena on Monday's RAW. Punk remains one of WWE's top draws, but there is concern that another big loss could affect his perception with fans

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Miss Wanda Faye, country singer, halls of fame member
by: Lia Martin Saturday, March 27, 2010
She also remembers going to Hollywood.
"People got very excited. Louise Massey and BeBe from Hondo got me all fixed up. Louise said I was her protege,"
Faye said. "They taught me how to hold a fork and a spoon.
They dressed me up and put me on a plane - a little ole' country girl like me."
The high points of Faye's life is the stuff most people see in movies.
Lefty Frizzel, who later became a country star himself, gave Faye her first chance to be a guest on a live radio
program on KGFL. She was able to sing on radio for the first time when she was still a young girl.
Later, Jud Roberts, the radio station manager, offered Faye her own radio show.
Her first appearance in Roswell, Fleming said, was the Yucca movie theater on West Third Street. That was during the time period
of the Sunset Westerners.
After Faye's divorce with Bob Wolfe, She soon met Weldon Rogers.
Faye said she met her second husband, Weldon, in Albuquerque when she went up to the KOB radio station to
see if they would play her record. At the station, she said, he told her to wait. He wanted to talk to her.
"Don't run off. I want to talk to you. I own Jewel Records," Weldon said. "I want to know if you would help
me make a record. I know a guitar picker we could get by the name of Glenn Campbell."
She signed on with Jewel Records in 1958 with Weldon Rogers. They married and performed
together. Faye and Rogers recorded 30 songs together.
Faye said one of the most exciting points in her career was when Columbia Records offered her a contract.
"It was my biggest thrill when Columbia Records asked me to sign with them," Faye said.
Several records Faye made contained songs she wrote herself, including "The Longest Night" and "Old Memories Keep Returning."
The first time she appeared live on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, they introduced her as Miss Wanda Faye. The name stuck to
this day, she said. Faye was 32 years old that year.
At the banquet following the Nashville show, she was seated between Mother Maybelle and daughter Helen Carter, members of the
Carter Family, the mother and father of country music.
In her career, she performed with June Carter and Johnny Cash.
"They were just regular people," Faye said. "I loved her and Johnny."
Ernest Tubbs, Minnie Pearl and Roy Orbison were other musicians out of many Faye worked with.
The Western Swing Society Music Hall of Fame recognized Faye's lifetime of dedication to her music career on Oct. 5, 2003.
It was held in the Country Club Plaza ballroom in Sacramento, Calif.
She lives in Modesto, Calif., and is not one to slow down. For awhile, she continued her career in California.
Wolf and Faye dabbled in television shows and other venues.
Faye now plays the piano every Sunday at church, and she is trying to write a book on her life and the many and varied
entertainers and people she has met along the way as a country western singer and musician.
The Historical Society of Southeast New Mexico, 200 N. Lea Ave has expanded the Wanda Faye exhibit it is open and availible
to the public. Faye bought her first guitar in 1953 at Ginsburg Music Co. The guitar is now part of the exhibit.
Contact: Roger K. Burnett, Administrative Director (575) 622-8333 for more information tour dates & hours. Museum Website:--> The Wanda Faye Exibit


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Mark today, March 10, 2009, in your calendars forever. For today we commemorate humanity's struggle for justice, for peace, for liberty. Today we recognize the fight for human dignity. Today we celebrate--for we know, deep down in our very souls, that good will ultimately prevail over evil.
For today, March 10, 2009, is ...
Chuck Norris's 69th birthday!!!
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris was not born of great means this day sixty-nine years ago in Ryan, Oklahoma. He did not come out of the womb with a silver spoon in his mouth. He did not have a nanny. He did not go to the best schools, drive the best cars, date the best girls. No. His father, Ray, was but a mechanic, a bus and truck driver. His mother, Wilma, a simple homemaker. But what these two, brave souls taught their boy, our "Chuck," were the values of humility, of hard work, of the ability to put one's foot in another human being's ass from time to time--you know, as Toby Keith put it, they taught that boy "The American Way"!
Chuck Norris taught me a lot, too. He taught us all.
The man bridged racial divides! While unable to dispel the myth that white men couldn't jump, he did teach us that one surely could master that freaky Chinaman kung fu shit.
He taught me that good guys do, indeed, wear black (something I desperately needed to know growing up in the suburbs). And, in Good Guys Wear Black, he helped me understand that sometimes the black sidekick indeed has to die in order for justice to truly be served.
In Silent Rage he taught me how to, well, rage silently. That that is sometimes the only way to defeat a bionic murderer who can heal automatically. He reinforced that valuable lesson in Code of Silence. Frankly, I've never been loud since.
He taught me the value of always having a perfectly manicured beard. If I could actually grow a beard, I'd be heeding his sage advice till this day.
He helped me with geometry in The Octagon.
He also taught this once-lonely teenager that it was OK to be alone in A Force of One and Lone Wolf McQuade.
But the most important thing that this paragon of justice, this true American hero, Chuck Norris, taught me, through his Missing in Action movies, was that America never did lose Vietnam. It was those mealy-mouthed American politicians with their Communist Chinese allies who wouldn't let our boys win! My uncle, a Marine who served two tours of duty over htere, could've sworn it was a Viet Cong land mine that blew him into the Mash unit. But no! It was Mao Tse Tung, Henry Kissinger, and Jane Fonda! But thanks to the efforts of Chuck, Sly, and Gene Hackman, we finally did beat those Vietnamese and all our boys got back home safely.
So, today is truly a great day in world history--for it signifies that ...
Hold on.
What? ... Today? ... They did what?
Really? The Chinese?! Today? Are you sure?
No, no. No thanks. I don't like bumper stickers.
But I thought they'd been a monarchy beforehand. I mean, that's not really free, either.
No, no. I understand.
Well, anyway, I've just been informed that today commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising that led to the Dalai Lama going into exile. I don't know what that has to do with anything, but apparently people are protesting around the world. The BBC apparently has a pictorial spread, sadly commemorating what was supposed to be a glorious day.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
This Day in History
Mark today, March 10, 2009, in your calendars forever. For today we commemorate humanity's struggle for justice, for peace, for liberty. Today we recognize the fight for human dignity. Today we celebrate--for we know, deep down in our very souls, that good will ultimately prevail over evil.
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- The Sailor said...
Hi Bill, we've added you to our link exchange at VidiotSpeak.
Great writing, you write like I want to.
Best regards,
- March 10, 2009 at 1:49 PM


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Transform Negative Thoughts and Destructive Beliefs
In the final part of our Super Brain Solutions series, we will continue on our path to becoming effective users of our brain. In this session we will explore ways to transform the conditioned thought patterns and beliefs that play such a large role in depression, anxiety, and emotional pain. Our intention is to make our mind an ally instead of an enemy.
Everyday suffering is largely mental. We obsess and worry. We are haunted by old hurts and anticipate new ones with anxiety. For many people, the same four questions keep cropping up to exacerbate these feelings. They are persistent doubts that never seem to resolve themselves:
1. "What's wrong with me?"
2. "What's going to happen?"
3. "How will I ever get out of this?"
4. "Where will the money come from?"
Making these thoughts go away is extremely difficult unless you form new pathways in the brain. Anxious questions roam the mind at will because they are implanted like microchips in the brain's memory centers. Everyone experiences unwanted thoughts that spring up automatically, and they keep trying solutions that don't work. They try to ignore the nagging negativity, which is a form of denial, or they reassure themselves that there is nothing actually wrong, which, ironically, only stokes more worry and doubt. Another tactic to deal with self-doubt is to offset it by proving your worth through the pursuit of money, power, and accomplishment. This can result in riches and success but not in the feeling that you're good enough or that the future holds something dreadful and unknown.
It's necessary to try a new way, one that allows your brain to be your friend and not your enemy. To do that, you have to move from the level of the problem to the level of the solution. New perceptions are the key to creating new pathways. First, take an honest look at what the four questions are doing to you and where they come from.
Let's examine the first doubt, "What's wrong with me?" This thought arises from personal insecurity, self-doubt, and judgment against yourself. When people wrestle with self-doubt, they generally get stuck saying contradictory things to themselves. One moment they will tell themselves, There's nothing wrong with me – and then as circumstances swing from good to bad, they'll say, I'm a mess. Everything is wrong with me. Neither extreme is true, but that's not the point. The false answer becomes a ritual, a fixed response that gets nowhere. Other conditioned thought patterns include I keep doing this to myself, I'm stupid, I'm all alone, I never get a break, and so on.
Let Go of Self-Defeating Questions
The problem is that you're trying to answer a question that is self-defeating to begin with. Instead, you must look at why the question arose and solve that problem – which is insecurity – by building a self that fulfills its own needs. Security comes from being centered in the self, but if you don't build a center, you are trapped seeking fulfillment outside yourself, a recipe for feeling even more insecure. Giving away your power cannot help but lead to insecurity.
Now let's look at the second question, "What's going to happen?" This concerns dread about the future. It's about lack of trust. But in life, you will never know what is going to happen. Any attempt at a response is futile, since this, too, is a self-defeating question. Instead, you need to live in the present. Realize that the future is not only unknown, it is unknowable. Therefore, you are worrying about a phantom; fear is piling on hypothetical possibilities and worst-case scenarios. They vanish only when you place your attention on the here and now.
Make Space for Creativity
The third question is "How will I ever get out of this?" It comes from a feeling of being trapped. To end that feeling, you must make space for creativity. It is self-defeating to block your creative juices with an obsessive repetition of doubt. Solutions don't come from panic. They come when you reframe the situation you are trapped in. Instead of seeing it as a prison, see it as a chance to prove that you are capable of meeting reality head on. By clearing away the fear you open a channel for new solutions to appear.
"Where will the money come from?" is the last question. On the surface, it's about finances. But beneath that, it's about the feeling that your life can be taken away from you. You think that money protects you from total loss of control and if there isn't enough of it, unseen forces will overwhelm you. Rather than tackling the money issue, it's time to create a safe place inside you. The first step is to see that money isn't going to make you safe (unless, of course, you lack the basic necessities of food and shelter). A prudent amount of money is undeniably a safeguard, but a sense of lack is psychological. You will feel safe inside, not when you have enough money but when you can say "I am enough."
In the next section we will look at specific actions you can take to expand your awareness and open to new possibilities.
Let's look at strategy for ending the negative effect of all four questions, beginning with the fact that they keep repeating themselves. Repetition is a sign that you need to change. A part of you is calling out to get your attention.
Repetitive thoughts can feel like an attack, but in reality they are like having a rock in your shoe. It's not reasonable to ask the rock to quit hurting you or to see it as your enemy. The pain it causes is asking for a solution. The following seven steps are the mental equivalent of taking the rock out of your shoe:
1. Turn negativity into positive action.
2. Get a healthy outside perspective.
3. Don't indulge the level of futility.
4. Expand your awareness.
5. Take full responsibility.
6. Develop a higher vision of your life.
7. Make full use of your successes.
These tactics all rest upon decisions from a higher perspective, which only you can make. Every time you make a decision, the cerebral cortex is strengthened. You must clear the slate of old imprints, telling your higher brain that you are walking away from the false solutions and futile tactics that have kept you stuck in your mental misery. It's not a nagging question that is making you miserable; it's the lack of a viable strategy.
Psychologists have asserted for decades that there is a huge difference between having a negative thought and turning it into action. Yet this lesson never seems to sink in. People are constantly beating themselves up, falling prey to guilt and shame, because they mistake their "bad" thoughts for actions. Thoughts are just fleeting mental images. They have no consequences until to choose to make them important.
Let's look more closely at the seven steps that will get you to the point where you can take the rock out of your shoe.
1. Turn negativity into positive action.
If it's true that an obsessive thought is a cry for help, a signal that something is wrong, bring the help that is asked for. You wouldn't neglect a crying child, yet we all neglect our negative thoughts, which are the mental equivalent of a crying child. Let's say you are in a difficult situation, and you start thinking What's wrong with me? or How will I ever get out of this? Acknowledge that you are feeling scared, which is the actual event occurring in your mind. Don't push the anxiety away. Take a break and walk away from the immediate stress. Sit quietly and take some deep breaths. Do your best to center yourself.
Once you feel calm enough to address the situation, make a plan. It is helpful to write it down. List the possible steps you can take that will be positive actions. The point here is to call upon the rational side of the brain rather than giving in to runaway emotion. Once you have listed the positive actions you can take, put them in order of which to do first, second, and third. Now take the first step. Turning an emotional event inside yourself into a set of rational steps is one of the best ways to rise above the level of the problem to the level of the solution.
2. Get a healthy outside perspective.
If a negative mental habit like feeling insecure, scared, or helpless has been with you for a while, you need to check if your plan for action is workable. Seek outside validation. Go to someone you trust, preferably someone who displays the qualities you want to acquire (i.e., a good sense of self, lack of fear, self-reliance), and discuss the practical things you intend to do. We aren't talking about the kind of adviser who says things like "Get over it," "Everyone feels that way," or "Poor thing." Such statements are cop-outs. Seek someone who genuinely empathizes and can validate and help you with your plan to change.
3. Don't indulge the level of futility.
We've already discussed the propensity to keep doing what never worked in the first place. Futile tactics are insidious. They keep coming to mind over and over, despite their record of failure. The difficulty is that you have wired your brain, setting down a groove that is all too easy to fall back into. Grooves can be erased only by forming new grooves. If you find yourself falling back into self-defeating thoughts, stop and say, "That's how I've been approaching the problem. It doesn't work."
You will have to do this more than once, and yet each time is useful. The more you stop indulging the level of futility, the more mental energy can be devoted to new tactics. But don't get caught in a vicious circle. We are not saying that you should fight your old mental habits. That's recipe for more misery, as all wars are. Your aim is to notice what doesn't work; it's a form of mindfulness or self-awareness.
4. Expand your awareness.
When the mind is constricted, it becomes like a tight muscle – you can't expect it to move as long as it's cramped. The things that constrict the mind are old conditioning, outworn beliefs, ritualized thinking, habit, inertia, fear, and low expectations. These are challenges you need to confront as honestly as possible. Having a closed mind doesn't feel good, so wherever you detect any kind of inner discomfort, the first tactic should be to expand your awareness. Let's say that you feel resentment toward someone else. Clearly that is a contracted mindset. If you were more open-minded, you'd start to tolerate that person, see their good side, and stop waiting for something new to blame and dislike them for.
In and of itself, open-mindedness solves all kinds of problems that are the result of narrow-mindedness. Stop believing that being stuck, judgmental, opinionated, and self-important ever works. You must learn to know yourself better, to follow the model of tolerant people rather than prejudiced ones, to turn away from victimization, and so on. For years meditation has been recommended as the most effective way to expand awareness. Also useful are mindfulness, self-reflection, prayer, contemplation, and counseling.
5. Take full responsibility.
Your mind encompasses the best of yourself and the worst. It holds the greatest promise and the greatest threats. There is no way around the all-embracing way that our minds create our reality. Once you face this fact, it can be overwhelming. We all secretly want to escape responsibility for creating the situation we find ourselves in. We don't want to face painful truths. Change feels like risk. Our minds are used to projecting blame and judgment upon others. So much promise goes unfulfilled this way. In truth, the power to create your reality, which begins by building a mature self, opens the way to life's greatest joys.
6. Develop a higher vision of your life.
It would be sheer drudgery if you took responsibility only for the bad things in your life. You are also responsible for the good things. If you have a vision for yourself, you can aim higher. The good things become more meaningful because you are heading for long-term fulfillment. This is much better than a string of short-term pleasures, nice as they may be. People without a vision can amass a lot of small pleasures – immediate gratification is everywhere in our society. Distractions are a multi-billion dollar business.
Look at your daily quotient of idling around the Internet, video games, channel surfing, movies, snacking, shopping, and merely hanging around. These distractions are hangovers from adolescence, when immaturity was a natural state. They drop away when life moves on and you undertake the project of building a self. The point isn't to become self-serious and reject having fun. The point is to aim for higher satisfaction that lasts. By developing a vision of what your life is about, you are asking "Who am I?" and then turning your answer into positive actions.
7. Make full use of your successes.
We began with the universal problem of mental misery, tracing it back to the mind being an enemy instead of an ally. When you start making your mind into a friend, each step forward needs to be reinforced. That's how the brain gets new neural pathways that last. Without reinforcement, your successes will seem to float away while your problems will seem to stick around.
In reality, there is no power that negativity has to defeat positivity. Both forces exist in everyone's mind. The real issue is to bring in as much light as you can. Negativity acquires its power through repetition, being unconscious, judging against yourself, and focusing on setbacks. Positivity gains its power by celebrating our successes, associating with people who are good role models, learning to be emotionally resilient, being objective about your situation, and above all else, acquiring self-awareness.
Your Infinite Potential for Fulfillment
We realize that we've set out a plan for overcoming mental misery that sounds daunting if you are used to following futile tactics. These only postpone the day when you make a tremendous discovery, that you are not life's victim or fate's pawn. You are the creative center of your own existence. Such a realization has the power to completely reprogram your brain. The greatest power human beings have is the power to create reality. Mental misery denies you that power.
Taking positive steps to turn your brain into an ally is the escape route from suffering that everyone has been seeking for centuries. The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a creative solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead. The brain can deliver any reality that you train it to. Why not a reality filled with happiness, equanimity, and love?


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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels Gender Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The wives and daughters lament their confinement to the island, although I think it the most delicious spot of ground in the world; and although they live here in the greatest plenty and magnificence, and are allowed to do whatever they please, they long to see the world, and take the diversions of the metropolis, which they are not allowed to do without a particular license from the king; and this is not easy to be obtained, because the people of quality have found, by frequent experience, how hard it is to persuade their women to return from below. (3.2.16)
Why don't the women of Laputa become mathematicians? Why do they spend all of their time "allowed to do whatever they please," which mostly seems to be seducing guys and going down to the mainland to have more fun? What can you deduce about Gulliver's opinion of women from this look at Laputian ladies?
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My master told me, "there were some qualities remarkable in the Yahoos, which he had not observed me to mention, or at least very slightly, in the accounts I had given of humankind." He said, "those animals, like other brutes, had their females in common; but in this they differed, that the she Yahoo would admit the males while she was pregnant; and that the hes would quarrel and fight with the females, as fiercely as with each other; both which practices were such degrees of infamous brutality, as no other sensitive creature ever arrived at. (4.7.15)
The Master Horse is grossed out by the fact that human women (a) keep having sex during pregnancy (prude!), and (b) fight fiercely with human men. He also gets in a gibe that humans, "like other brutes, had their females in common." In other words, that human women can sleep with multiple men, much as animals do. What is the tone of the Master Horse's discussion of human women? Is the Master Horse's assessment of human women consistent with other parts of Gulliver's own analyses of women? Do you get the sense that the novel of Gulliver's Travels as a whole supports a poor opinion of women, or do different sections contradict each other?
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This was a matter of diversion to my master and his family, as well as of mortification to myself. For now I could no longer deny that I was a real Yahoo in every limb and feature, since the females had a natural propensity to me, as one of their own species. Neither was the hair of this brute of a red colour (which might have been some excuse for an appetite a little irregular), but black as a sloe, and her countenance did not make an appearance altogether so hideous as the rest of her kind; for I think she could not be above eleven years old. (4.8.7)
Gulliver is swimming one day during his stay in Houyhnhnm Land when a very young Yahoo, overcome with sexual desire, hurls herself at Gulliver. This startles him enough to make him scream, and he has to be saved from the girl by his guardian, the sorrel nag. We're struck once more by the association of women with sexual desire – Gulliver pretty much never indicates that he wants sex. Why might Gulliver be so careful to describe sexual desire in others, but not in himself? What kinds of ethical conclusions can we draw about Gulliver's view of sex?


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A longtime family friend confirms a report that Coretta Scott King has suffered a stroke and says she is having trouble speaking.
The Reverend Joseph Lowery says he was at first told by someone in King's office that she did not have a stroke. But he says he learned later it was a stroke that sent the 78-year-old widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior to Piedmont Hospital yesterday.
She remains hospitalized in fair condition.
Lowery co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King in 1957.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted unidentified friends in today's editions as saying that King was diagnosed with a heart malady this spring and has had several small strokes since then.
The King family released a statement today, saying only that she was resting comfortably. It expressed thanks for the, "outpouring of care and support that's being sent from around the world."
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NASA's programs in the Earth Sciences seek to answer the questions: "How is the Earth changing?" and, "What are the consequences for life on Earth?". Research is being conducted in six focus areas:
Research into ecosystems and their role in the global carbon cycle is conducted through direct observation of vegetation in forests and wetlands, and also during fires. Observations are also used as inputs for ecological modeling. Atmospheric composition is studied by direct measurement and through modeling. In both cases, observations are generated in the context of top-level theory, and synthesized and developed to explain and predict the observations, including temporal and spatial variation.
Much of this data collection relies on resources and expertise in airborne research, including digital imaging sensors and in-sítu instrumentation onboard aircraft. With direction from NASA Headquarters, research is performed using a suite of general aviation aircraft as well as Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operated by other agencies or commercial providers.


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Teh stoopid. So much, a bumper crop today. Put on your hip waders while we listen to a little ska-jazz from The Specials. [Go to bottom of post for update.]
Don't stand in front of the exit doors today at the House of Representatives. You've been warned.
Toobz filled with stoopid
Hélas, Nice
I've not forgotten Nice. I can't go there. Picking my way through French language news to read in detail about the deaths of children and teenagers is a hard limit for me. With children's blood on its hands from wars to drone killings, the U.S. has no moral authority here. It has doubled down on its authoritarian, racist, kill-its-way-out-of-trouble approach to foreign policy. What can I write here which isn't utter hypocrisy?
The only observations I can make are that the attackers may be ramping up, as the numbers and methodology testify. 84 dead including 10 children and teens, 52 injured and 25 on life support, all hurt or killed by a driver who was not a known terror suspect. A civilian stopped the attacker by grabbing his hands as he aimed a gun at human targets. Que Dieu soit miséricordieux sur Nice.
Smarter, kinder finish
And now to purge the taste of stupid before I start my weekend…
That's a wrap, have a safe and restful weekend, including all you peeps at #NN16. Back at it on Monday.
UPDATE — 2:50 p.m. EDT —
The previously-classified pages of the 9/11 report have been released, conveniently during the afternoon on a Friday smack in the middle of the summer during a general election year. Can you say 'news dump'? Here's a link to the document at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's site (pdf). Knock yourselves out with this beach read. Note the bit about the alleged Saudi intelligence officers, too.
UPDATE — 5:15 p.m. EDT —
An apparent coup is underway in Turkey; it began with reports of militarized road blocks about two hours ago. Social media platforms have had spotty service though landlines appear to be working. The Erdogan government initially denied a coup was in progress; media outlets in Turkey may not be accurately reporting events. Many European news outlets are still focused on Nice, France. Airports have been closed and a curfew declared. U.S. Embassy has asked U.S. citizens to shelter in place and stay indoors.
For more information about events in Turkey, here's a selection of active Twitter feeds:
Recent report at Aid works about Turkey's treatment of refugees at this link.
If you have friends and family in Turkey, recommend they use Tor browser to follow news — this link in case Tor is blocked. See also this tweet from Tor about accessing social media.
The Republican-led House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith (TX-21), wants the National Science Foundation's grants to be evaluated based on the "national interest."
Bring it, boneheads. By all means let's try that standard against EVERYTHING on which we spend federal money.
How many television and radio stations, licensing publicly-owned airwaves, are granted licenses under which they are supposed to serve the "public interest, convenience, or necessity"? Because apart from emergency broadcast signal testing, most of them don't actually do that any longer, suggesting we really need to re-evaluate broadcasters' licenses. Let's put the FCC's licensing under the microscope. If broadcasters aren't truly serving "national interest" in the manner parallel to a House Science Committee discussion draft — proposed criteria being "economic competitiveness, health and welfare, scientific literacy, partnerships between academia and industry, promotion of scientific progress and national defence" — the least they could do is pay us adequately for a license to abuse our publicly-owned assets as well as our sensibilities. There's probably something in the defunct Fairness Doctrine about broadcasting and the nation's interests…unless, of course, "public" does not mean "nation." Perhaps Rep. Smith believes "national interest" = "business interest," which opens up a massive can of definition worms.
How about banks and insurance companies? How many of them were in one way or another not merely affected by the financial meltdown of 2008, but direct contributors to the cataclysm because their standards of operation were shoddy — specifically, with regard to subprime mortgages. Why not put their regulation under the same lens: are these financial institutions serving the "nation's interest"? The financial industry's business practices and the regulatory framework existing in early 2008 certainly didn't defend this nation's economic competitiveness, damaging the ability to obtain credit as liquidity was threatened. Jeepers, wasn't that the intent of defunct Glass-Steagall Act after the Great Depression, to assure that commercial and investment banking acted in a secure manner consistent with the nation's interests?
We could go on and on across the breadth of departments and regulatory bodies which either issue funds or licenses, putting them all to the same test. Do they serve the "national interest"?
The problem here isn't that the NSF in particular isn't validating grants as to whether they serve the "national interest." The NSF already uses criteria to evaluate proposal submissions for their alignment with the nation's aims. Continue reading
In reaction to last night's meteorite impact in Russia, Lamar Smith, who now chairs the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, has announced he will hold a hearing to
identify more pork for Houston's space industry "examine ways to better identify and address asteroids that pose a potential threat to Earth."
Today's events are a stark reminder of the need to invest in space science. Asteroid 2012 DA14 passed just 17,000 miles from Earth, less than the distance of a round trip from New York to Sydney. And this morning, a much smaller meteorite hit near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, damaging buildings and injuring hundreds.
Developing technology and research that enable us to track objects like Asteroid 2012 DA14 is critical to our future. We should continue to invest in systems that identify threatening asteroids and develop contingencies, if needed, to change the course of an asteroid headed toward Earth.
Fifty years ago, we would have had no way of seeing an asteroid like this coming. Now, thanks to the discoveries NASA has made in its short history, we have known about 2012 DA14 for about a year. As the world leader in space exploration, America has made great progress for mankind. But our work is not done. We should continue to study, research, and explore space to better understand our universe and better protect our planet. [my emphasis]
So if you're a Republican, it is okay to invest in efforts to stop asteroids from hurdling to Earth (if they're going to hit us or an ally). But not okay to invest in efforts to stop climate change from doing far more damage, far more frequently.
Lamar Smtih has come up with a list of 7 national security personnel he wants to question in his own leak investigation. (h/t Kevin Gosztola)
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, told President Obama Thursday he'd like to interview seven current and former administration officials who may know something about a spate of national security leaks.
The administration officials include National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan, Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough, Director for Counterterrorism Audrey Tomason and National Security Advisor to the Vice President Antony Blinken.
Of course the effort is sure to be futile–if Smith's goal is to figure out who leaked to the media (though it'll serve its purpose of creating a political shitstorm just fine)–for two reasons.
First, only Clapper serves in a role that Congress has an unquestioned authority to subpoena (and even there, I can see the Intelligence Committees getting snippy about their turf–it's their job to provide impotent oversight over intelligence, not the Judiciary Committees).
As for members of the National Security Council (Tom Donilon, John Brennan, Denis McDonough, Audrey Tomason, and Antony Blinken) and figures, like Bill Daley, who aren't congressionally approved? That's a bit dicier. (Which is part of the reason it's so dangerous to have our drone targeting done in NSC where it eludes easy congressional oversight.)
A pity Republicans made such a stink over the HJC subpoenaing Karl Rove and David Addington and backed Bush's efforts to prevent Condi Rice from testifying, huh?
The other problem is that Smith's list, by design, won't reveal who leaked the stories he's investigating. He says he wants to investigate 7 leaks.
Smith said the committee intends to focus on seven national security leaks to the media. They include information about the Iran-targeted Stuxnet and Flame virus attacks, the administration's targeted killings of terrorism suspects and the raid which killed Usama bin Laden.
Smith wants to know how details about the operations of SEAL Team Six, which executed the bin Laden raid in Pakistan, wound up in the hands of film producers making a film for the president's re-election. Also on the docket is the identity of the doctor who performed DNA tests which helped lead the U.S. to bin Laden's hideout.
But his list doesn't include everyone who is a likely or even certain leaker.
Take StuxNet and Flame. Not only has Smith forgotten about the programmers (alleged to be Israeli) who let StuxNet into the wild in the first place–once that happened, everything else was confirmation of things David Sanger and security researchers were able to come up with on their own–but he doesn't ask to speak to the Israeli spooks demanding more credit for the virus.
When I first posted on Hank Johnson's letter demanding an investigation into Hunton & Williams' appropriation of counterterrorist techniques to attack citizen speech, I was a bit skeptical. Without a way to get some coverage of the demand, such a letter risks being yet one more angry letter into the void.
But I will say the letter is well-constructed.
That's because it's addressed to the Chairmen of the Oversight, Judiciary, Intelligence, and Armed Services Committees: Darrell Issa, Lamar Smith, Mike Rogers, and Buck McKeon. So in addition to someone, like Smith, who can address the legal issues involved–notably, why DOJ was recommending H&W to Bank of America–Johnson and others have included Rogers and McKeon, who presumably know a good deal about how DOD has funded campaigns like the one H&W was going to launch against citizens.
Which brings us to the DOD tie-in:
The techniques may have been developed at U.S. government expense to target terrorists and other security threats. The emails indicated that these defense contractors planned to mine social network sites for information on Chamber critics; planned to plant "false documents" and "fake insider personas" that would be used to discredit the groups; and discussed the use of malicious and intrusive software ("malware") to steal private information from the groups and disrupt their internal electronic communications.
It is deeply troubling to think that tactics developed for use against terrorists may have been unleashed against American citizens.
Possible proof the defense and security contractors may have traded on their government work is inferred by a November 3, 2010, sales proposal from Team Themis to Hunton & Williams: "Who better to develop a corporate information reconnaissance capability than companies that have been market leaders within the [Defense Department] and Intelligence Community?
The focus, in other words, is not just on how such a campaign violates the law, but also how it represents the application of DOD-developed programs to private citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
Sure, the GOP Chairs will ignore this.
But it'll make them complicit in protecting the Chamber's and H&W's misappropriation of DOD technology.
I sort of expected the Republicans to abolish labor–or at least its named inclusion among the business of Congressional committees. After all, the GOP really doesn't like tough things like physical work or the people who do it.
But it wasn't so long ago that the Republican Party–not to mention its newest activist branch, the Tea Party–claimed to give a damn about civil liberties. Hell, Louie Gohmert, who reassured me yesterday the Fourth Amendment is still on the books, is even a member of the Judiciary Committee.
But like labor, the Republicans have also apparently done away with civil liberties and civil rights.
From a Jerry Nadler press release:
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who has served as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties since 2007, responded to news that the Republican-led Judiciary Committee will change the name of the Subcommittee to the "Constitution Subcommittee." He issued the following statement:
Once again, the new Republican majority has shown that it isn't quite as committed to the Constitution as its recent lofty rhetoric would indicate. Today, it has yet again shown its contempt for key portions of the document – the areas of civil rights and civil liberties – by banishing those words from the title of the Constitution Subcommittee. In 1995, when Newt Gingrich became Speaker, one of the Republicans' first acts was to change the name of that Subcommittee. For anyone who thought the change was merely for rhetorical purposes, our experience over 12 years of Republican rule showed just how hostile they are to individual rights and liberties. With this move, we can only assume that they are intent on more of the same. It is going to be a long and difficult struggle to protect these cherished rights and liberties from assaults by the Republican majority.
Republicans have made a great deal of noise in recent days about standing up for the Constitution. But, in less than 48 hours, they have already revealed their true intentions. In addition to reading selectively from the Constitution on the House floor in a much-exalted ceremony on Thursday, Republicans also blatantly violated the Constitution by allowing two of their Members to vote without having been sworn-in, and introduced unconstitutional legislation aimed at bypassing the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause. And, with the Subcommittee name change, they are again telling Americans that only some parts of the Constitution matter. Fundamental rights and liberties appear to have been dropped from the Constitution by far-right ideologues.
I realize the odds of Democrats keeping the House are not all that great. But I also know that the DCCC is far more competent than the RNCC; DCCC has managed to win just about every challenging election of late.
So let's just say Democrats keep the House and with it John Conyers his gavel. I really hope he'll make Eric Holder regret not only this inappropriate comment to Lamar Smith (I don't care whether Democrats or Republicans are in charge, the Committees are there to exercise oversight, not "be nice" to the agencies they cover), but also the unnecessary disloyalty.
Maybe Conyers can start by asking Holder to either provide a more credible explanation for why Pittsburgh's FBI office was lying about taking a picture at a peace rally with no premise to do so than the FBI provided to Inspector General Glenn Fine (more on this IG Report in a bit).
FBI officials, including the Pittsburgh office's top lawyer, engaged in distinctly COINTELPRO-style tactics after the American Civil Liberties Union sued for the release of documents relating to the surveillance.Boiled down to their essence, those tactics involved officials generating post-dated "routing slips" and other paper to create a terrorism threat that didn't exist.
Or as the inspector general put it, the FBI's elaborate, "after-the-fact reconstruction" of the Pittsburgh events, designed to fabricate a counter-terrorism rationale for the rookie's surveillance mission, "was not corroborated by any witnesses or contemporaneous documents."
It was on the basis of their fabrication, moreover, that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III gave "inaccurate and misleading" testimony to Congress, the IG said.
The IG's recounting of the Pittsburgh events is lengthy and meticulous.
The FBI, however, continues to deny that bureau officials engaged in an elaborate and deliberate scheme to deceive investigators, Congress and the pubic about what was, in retrospect, one rookie agent's minor, misdirected surveillance of the Pittsburgh antiwar demonstration.
"Nobody," the FBI says, "had a motive to provide an intentionally misleading account of it."
It seems the only people who are given carte blanche to lie and obstruct justice are those trying to evade Congressional oversight, and the people who rely on that seeming carte blanche report up through Holder. That's a management failure and a failure of the rule of law.
Would that the Attorney General cared more about that rule of law than chumming up to the opposition party.
Given how frothy Republicans have gotten about the White House gate-crashers, I thought it'd be worth starting a catalog of things the Republicans think merit investigations more than torture.
Today's edition: ACORN.
The eight Republican members of Congress who showed up for the hearing didn't disappoint. With one exception, they labeled ACORN a "criminal enterprise" with close and current ties to the highest levels of the Obama administration and the labor movement."President Obama previously served as ACORN's lawyer, participated in ACORN training sessions in Chicago, and presided on the board of two organizations that funded ACORN's Chicago chapter," said [Lamar] Smith. An old picture of Obama in an ACORN office was posted near the hearing stand to bolster his point. "The president's ties with ACORN taint any conclusions the Department of Justice may reach with regard to whether or not to investigate ACORN employees. That's why I've requested that the attorney general appoint a special prosecutor to investigate ACORN."
To bolster their case, Republicans produced 81 pages of documents about ACORN's voter registration activities in 2004 and 2006 — a supplement to Issa's 99-page July 2009 report, "Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?"
The 81 new pages, helpfully highlighted by staffers, put ACORN staffers on the record planning voter registration drives and campaigns for "progressive" candidates. They also touched on the organization's social work — "within the next year Maryland ACORN will conduct 500 new lead tests for low and moderate-income renters and homeowners" — but members and witnesses argued that the organization's political activity, clearly benefiting Democrats and President Obama, was at least reason to strip it of tax-exempt status.
"The current admin is becoming, in reality, the war room for ACORN's political machine," said Issa. "The poor will be better served when ACORN is no longer a go-to place for services." [my emphasis]
Lamar Smith thinks providing lead tests for low income people is more threatening to this country than torture.
In a classic non-denial denial, Karl Rove makes it clear that he did talk to people about Siegelman's prosecution–even while he denies that he spoke to anyone in DOJ about it.
As I posted three minutes before TPM posted these "exclusively" (huh), Rove has submitted answers to questions that Lamar Smith decided to ask him about Siegelman, in lieu of actually showing up before Congress and answering questions that someone without an interest in covering up Republican politicized prosecutions might ask.
We can talk about these documents in more detail in comments (and I'll post a timeline in a follow-up post). But here's the most important part of the question and answers. Smith repeatedly asks Rove whether or not he ever communicated with:
Department of Justice officials, State of Alabama officials, or any other individual about the investigation, indictment, potential prosecution, prosecution, conviction, or sentencing of Governor Siegelman
And repeatedly, Rove answers that he has never directly or indirectly communicated with:
Justice Department or Alabama officials [] about the investigation, indictment, potential prosecution, prosecution, conviction, or sentencing of Governor Siegelman
Rove would not make the same denials about talking to "any other individuals" he did about DOJ and Alabama officials.
Now to be fair to old Turdblossom, Rove does add this caveat, repeatedly:
nor have I asked any other individual to communicate about these matters on my behalf
But that's not the same thing as answering whether he spoke to anyone about it all.
So, even with Rove's careful parsing, even having gotten questions tailor made to allow Rove to squirm out of answering real questions on this matter, he basically refuses to deny that he communicated about Siegelman's prosecution with other people. Rove doesn't even deny he spoke to Bill Canary or Rob Riley (Rob is the son of the governor, and therefore not an Alabama official) about it, which is one of the central implications of all the allegations out there!
It was a nice trick, Lamar Smith, to try to pretend that Rove had answered real, antagonistic questions about his involvement in the Siegelman affair. But I think all you've accomplished is to make it clear that he was, in fact, involved in the plot to prosecute Governor Siegelman.
[As a reminder, Governor Siegelman will chat with us tomorrow at 12ET/9PT, so we'll get the opportunity to ask him what he thinks of this wild parsing.]


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Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
The Noble Savage
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
As we noted above in "Billy Budd, Christ Figure," the narrator's characterization of Billy is jam-packed with the narrator's own ideas about who Billy is and what he stands for. The phrase "Noble Savage" does not actually appear in Billy Budd. It is linked with the romantic and naturalistic thought of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who imagined that society has contaminated man, and that the ideal men were those who were more intimately connected with nature, those who were, as they said in Rousseau's time, "savage." Rousseau's phrase might capture the worldview of the narrator: Billy Budd is his example of the noble savage.
One of the ways that the narrator characterizes Billy is as a simple man. As in, Billy is really simple. What's weird, though, is that the narrator doesn't mean to be putting Billy Budd down by emphasizing how unintelligent he is. In fact, the narrator worships Billy for his simplicity.
Consider some of the early descriptions of Billy: "He possessed that kind and degree of intelligence going along with the unconventional rectitude of a sound human creature, one to whom not yet has been proffered the questionable apple of knowledge" (2.10). A bit later, the narrator says, "Of self-consciousness he seemed to have little or none, or about as much as we may reasonably impute to a dog of Saint Bernard's breed" (2.11). As degrading as such descriptions are, the narrator's purpose is actually to compare Billy to Adam before the "Fall of Man" in Genesis. In other words, he compares Billy to uncivilized man.
As the narrator explains it, there seems to be something more dignified and pure about men before they became civilized. It is as if "savages" were closer to human nature because they were not yet forced to take on all of the different roles that society thrusts upon them. As the narrator says when speaking of virtues: "they will upon scrutiny seem not to be derived from custom or convention, but rather to be out of keeping with these, as if indeed exceptionally transmitted from a period prior to Cain's city and citified man" (2.13). The narrator sees virtue not as originating from "custom or convention," but as somehow preceding it. What one might term the good came before civilization and is thus separate from it.
For the narrator, Billy's mental simplicity is akin to complete sincerity. He thinks that Billy's good-heartedness means that he is lacking a certain mental fold that allows for lies and evil intentions to slip into the human mind. The result is that the narrator treats Billy as a romanticized version of…dun dun dun, the Noble Savage!
Now, we poke fun at this view just because we encourage you to get outside of it. Notice how often we point out that this view is attributable to the narrator. Just because the narrator portrays events in a Rousseau-type light doesn't mean you have to. That said, to get outside of this viewpoint you'll have to use the text itself, to find points where the narrator undermines himself without even knowing it. For an idea of how to do this, check out our argument in "Writing Style."


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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
The Awakening Marriage Quotes
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Quote #7
She turned back into the room and began to walk to and fro down its whole length, without stopping, without resting. She carried in her hands a thin handkerchief, which she tore into ribbons, rolled into a ball, and flung from her. Once she stopped, and taking off her wedding ring, flung it upon the carpet. When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it. But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet.
In a sweeping passion she seized a glass vase from the table and flung it upon the tiles of the hearth. She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear. (17.31-32)
Edna feels compelled to throw off her wedding ring, but finds it indestructible, symbolizing the ironclad nature of her marriage.
Quote #8
She heard him moving about the room; every sound indicating impatience and irritation. Another time she would have gone in at his request. She would, through habit, have yielded to his desire; not with any sense of submission or obedience to his compelling wishes, but unthinkingly, as we walk, move, sit, stand, go through the daily treadmill of the life which has been portioned out to us.
"Edna, dear, are you not coming in soon?" he asked again, this time fondly, with a note of entreaty.
"No; I am going to stay out here."
"This is more than folly," he blurted out. "I can't permit you to stay out there all night. You must come in the house instantly."
With a writhing motion she settled herself more securely in the hammock. She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like that before, and if she had submitted to his command. Of course she had; she remembered that she had. But she could not realize why or how she should have yielded, feeling as she then did. (11.11 – 11.15)
This is the first moment that Edna exerts her will and defies her husband – over something as trivial as staying out in a hammock or not. This passage illustrates the extent to which their marriage is unequal: Mr. Pontellier can always do as he pleases, but when he asks his wife to do something, he expects to be obeyed.
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Edna arose, cramped from lying so long and still in the hammock. She tottered up the steps, clutching feebly at the post before passing into the house.
"Are you coming in, Leonce?" she asked, turning her face toward her husband.
"Yes, dear," he answered, with a glance following a misty puff of smoke. "Just as soon as I have finished my cigar." (11.20 – 11.22)
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This is the second edition of Stroock's beefy introductory graduate text on probability theory. It's a serious enterprise, coming in at over 500 pages; although it's a second edition, Stroock notes in his Preface to the Second Edition that he has chosen not to do any sea-change updating from the 1994 first edition due to the fact that "for at least the last decade, the most exciting developments … have [had] a strong combinatorial component" and "combinatorics [is] a topic in which my abilities are woefully deficient." Thus we're getting 500 pages of probability à la Kolmogorov: analysis with total measure one, so to speak. Well, it's of course a lot more than that, and Stroock's book's Table of Contents makes this abundantly clear ab initio: the first 100 pages or so are devoted to "Sums of independent random variables" and "The Central Limit Theorem." But, to be sure, this is analysis with a vengeance (and rightly so): on p. 82 we read that "[i]n most modern treatments of The Central Limit Theorem, Fourier analysis plays a central role. Indeed, the Fourier transform makes the argument so simple that it can mask what is really happening" [Aha! The probabilist's insight.] Stroock goes on to say that "now that we know Lindeberg's argument, it is time to introduce Fourier techniques and begin to see how they facilitate reasoning involving independent random variables …" And then it's on to FT's of finite complex-valued Borel measures on real n-space.
But before I get too deeply involved with the nuts and bolts of Probability Theory: An Analytic View proper, I must share a little more of Stroock's personal ruminations (in his Prefaces) because they reveal a great deal about the author — much more than is usual — and this information is in fact very relevant to the exposition that follows. Thus we find that Stroock's
graduate education was anything but deprived [via McKean, Donsker, F. John, Nirenberg, and Varadhan at NYU] … On the other hand I [ = S ] had never had a proper introduction to my field, probability theory … I am not a dyed-in-the-wool probabilist … [e.g.] I have never been able to develop sufficient sensitivity to the distinction between a proof and a probabilistic proof …
Well, this is quite mysterious, no? Not only is Stroock refreshingly and usefully candid, he sets the stage for a discussion of probability theory "inextricably interwoven with other branches of mathematics … not … an entity unto itself." Very tantalizing.
This dovetails well with the changes (not of the sea-change variety as alluded to above, but quite substantive nonetheless) Stroock introduced into the present second edition of Probability Theory: An Analytic View. These changes include an exciting new chapter devoted to "Gaussian measures in infinite dimensions from the perspective of the Segal-Gross school," in connection with which he mentions conformal field theory, and a jettisoning of the erstwhile theme of singular integrals (viz. Calderón-Zygmund stuff, &c.) Note in the former connection that the late I. E. Segal was Stroock's long-time colleague at MIT.
Beyond Chapter 2, i.e. after the first 100 pages, we get to "the study of infinitely divisible laws," Lévy processes, conditional expectations (Ch.5: this is where "Doob's basic theory of real-valued, discrete parameter martingales" appears), more martingale theory (including Burkholder's inequality for martingales with values in a Hilbert space), martingales with a continuous parameter. Here's a very cool result (p. 288): "By combining Theorem 7.2.3 with Theorem 7.2.1, one can show that, up to time reparameterization, all continuous martingales are Brownian motions."
Subsequently we come to an extremely exciting theme (alluded to above): "Brownian motion in terms of its Gaussian, as opposed to its independent increment properties." This is an ecumenical theme inasmuch as Stroock
attempt[s] to convince the reader that Wiener measure (i.e. the distribution of Brownian motion) would like to be the standard Gauss measure on the Hilbert space … of absolutely continuous paths with a square integrable derivative, but, for [deep!] technical reasons cannot live there and has to settle for a Banach space in which [the former space] is densely embedded
and this augurs for connections with one of the stickiest wickets in the fecund interphase between mathematics and quantum field theory (or even just quantum mechanics), namely the status of Feynman's path integral formalism as being mathematically ill-defined, except in cases where Wiener-Kac measures come to the rescue. And indeed, already on p. 303 of the present (8th) chapter, dealing with "the classical Cameron-Martin space," Stroock addresses this very issue: "In order to guess on which Hilbert space [the classical Wiener measure] would like to live, I will give R. Feynman's highly questionable but remarkably powerful way of thinking about such matters," and then Stroock goes on to discuss Feynman's trickery in considerable detail.
At this stage we're in the thick of it: the sequence of topics after Chapter 8 is thus: "convergence of measures on a Polish space," more on Wiener measures — now vis à vis PDE (and it is here that we find the Dirichlet problem and a discussion of "other heat kernels," including that of Feynman-Kac), and finally a chapter on "some classical potential theory."
Probability Theory: An Analytic View is a well-written book, eminently suited to (very well-prepared) graduate students in probability with interests in this subject's interphase with other parts of mathematics, both classical and contemporary. Stroock has included exercises, examples, and remarks in his narrative, and his idiosyncratic style (as already illustrated above) makes for very pleasant and even entertaining reading. But make no mistake, this is very serious mathematics.
Michael Berg is Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.
1. Sums of independent random variables
2. The central limit theorem
3. Infinitely divisible laws
4. Levy processes
5. Conditioning and martingales
6. Some extensions and applications of martingale theory
7. Continuous parameter martingales
8. Gaussian measures on a Banach space
9. Convergence of measures on a Polish space
10. Wiener measure and partial differential equations
11. Some classical potential theory.


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SIKESTON - Surrounded by her family, Ethel Laverne Carmack, 82, of Sikeston peacefully departed this earth at 11:35 p.m. April 8, 2004, at her home near Morehouse.
Born March 26, 1922, in Holland, Mo., daughter of the late Sidney and Anna Burton Finney, she was a cook for Head Start for 26 years, a homemaker and a loving mother. She was of the Baptist belief.
On Aug. 5, 1939, in Essex, she married Allen "Buck" Carmack who preceded her in death on Dec. 19, 1998.
She leaves behind two sons and daughters-in-law, Charles "Sonnie" and Lois Carmack of Essex and Dennis and Terry Carmack of Sikeston; four daughters and sons-in-law, Vernice and Joe King of Sikeston, Sandra and David Nations of St. Charles, Ill., and Kathy and Ernie Williams and Kim and Roger Malloy of Essex. Also surviving are three sisters, Mildred Brown of Brawley, Calif., Lillian Causey of Windfall, Ind., and Wanda Cochran of Sikeston; one brother, Richard Finney of Windfall; two sisters-in-law, Barbara Finney of Westville, Ind., and Zella Carmack of Advance; 11 grandchildren, Donna King, Ronnie Carmack, Rhonda Turley, Chuck Carmack, Randy Nations, David Carmack, Sam Carmack, Tammy Miller, Tina Worley, Ernie Williams Jr. and Allen Malloy; and 16 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Also preceding her in death were one son, Allen Carmack, four brothers, one sister and one grandson, Terry King.
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Monday, July 4, 2011
"Al-Qaeda to use Nigeria as headquarters" British Intelligence
What does that mean? Oh dear Lord, don't do this to Nigeria!
Read the UK Mirror report after the cut
Spy chiefs have warned David Cameron that al-Qaeda is determined to make Nigeria a base for plotting terror attacks on the West.
Radical Islamic groups in the West African nation are dramatically stepping up their campaign, security sources said.
Boko Haram – whose name means "Western education is sinful" – wants Sharia law in the mostly Muslim, oil-rich country, where half of people live in poverty.
The group boasts its jihadists are ready to make the country ungovernable and bombings by "the Nigerian Taliban" have already killed hundreds.
One British official said: "There are dozens of flights every day from Lagos to London. We either help stop the terrorists here, or we will be dealing with them on the streets of Britain."
The UK has said it will increase aid but Catholic agency CAFOD said: "What they need is sustained commitment to peace, democracy and good government. They need foreign companies to create jobs, not take resources."
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why won't they? when Nigeria can't even protect itself. i mean, the police would rather beat up civilians and ask for money. I'm sure many of the extremist that are in Nigeria doing all their evil are from Chad and other neighboring countries. but how will we know, when they all have arabic names? there needs to be a SERIOUS crackdown.
whether this story is true or not, who knows! maybe a reason to invade and control Nigeria and claim al-qaedi is operating there, just as Bush used a lousy excuse to invade Iraq. abeg...
- July 4, 2011 at 7:40 PM
- Justin said...
hmmm I doubt this is true just based on the fact that Nigerians arent really the type to kill themselves for any cause (how many suicide attacks have you heard that have been carried out by Boko Haram???), but seriously, Nigeria does not need something else like this that will further give it a bad name internationally. Maybe the terrorists want to come here cause they see that the government does not take security of its citizens seriously.
- July 4, 2011 at 7:57 PM
This is just a plot to infiltrate Nigeria by this Global elitist. Since the No1 economy in Africa (Libya) is almost in their control their next agenda is to go for the next economy. Believe it or not, Nigeria's future is very great given the number of technocrat the country produces yearly (be it within or outside the country).
We should refuse this allegations being placed on us by the UK. The UK is gradually becoming a dead economy and in order to sustain their economy they are going on another re-colonization (war on terrorism).
Every sane Nigerian knows Boko Haram is pet project of the Northern Elite.
History tells us that the North is forever grateful to the British for seeding POWER to them during Nigeria's independence. This people will do anything to get the power back (I mean anything!!!!).
PS: Lets be sincere Nigeria's power is never going back to the north.... Hope you all understand their desperation.
- July 4, 2011 at 8:32 PM
- spmmoi said...
Yo Justin. They did not categorically say "Nigerians", they said Al-Qaeda. Now that group could no doubt have Nigerian members and of course nutjobs from Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Nigeria. Ever heard of Al-Qaeda In the Maghreb (AQIM)? And while the likes of Mutallab may not have been successful is no reason to make sweeping statements like you did about Nigerians not being suicidal. There's still a question whether the attack at the Nigeria Police HQ was a suicide attack or not, carried out by a Nigerian. No parent would want to believe their child is involved in heinous acts, so I may see your pov, but don't rule out the possibility.
We all need to be alert.
- July 4, 2011 at 8:59 PM
Another British propaganda and excuse to meddle in Nigeria's internal affairs, exactly like they are trying to destroy Libya!
- July 4, 2011 at 9:26 PM
@Dosumu I agree with you. Make una no mind British govt and the stupid and racist propaganda. The rotten bastards created the situation and profited massively from the chaos and confusion the created around the world. The bastards are only seeking opportunity to mentally and financially re-colonise Africa, especially, Nigeria. They desire for us to need and depend on them. They are looking for cheap oil and biz opportunities for British businesses at the expense of the black man. There are terrorist in Somalia and some other poor African countries, so why Nigeria? Cos they want to get their grubby little fingers on our natural resources just like their rotten, evil and corrupt ancestors did. I say he'll no to theses bastards. They must leave Africa alone. We don't fucking need them. They continually make it seem like we are imbeciles and incapable of running our own affairs. They should solve the numerous problems in their own country, leave us alone and stop their stupid, insulting and deliberately cooked up allegation intended to create fear, alarm and panic and mist of all to pitch Muslims against Christians in Nigeria. I see the Divide and Rule policy of their rotten ancestors at play in their stupid, childish and insulting allegations. To hell with these bastards. Smh.
- July 4, 2011 at 10:37 PM
- Muse Origins said...
Say WHAAAAAAAATTT!! I blame Boko Haram (those people are so confused)
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- July 4, 2011 at 11:34 PM
- Julius said...
Its just saddening to note that the next intelligence coming from the british is that al queda wants to use Nigeria as a base for attacks.This is a good point to categorize Nigeria to likes of pakistan,Afghanistan and similar countries dealing with home grown terrorists.The Nigerian Govt needs to investigate this very well and ascertain the truth about all this.
God bless the federal republic of Nigeria.
- July 4, 2011 at 11:56 PM
omg we are in trouble this is all i can say.
- July 5, 2011 at 1:16 AM
omg we are in trouble this is all i can say.
- July 5, 2011 at 1:16 AM
@ 10:37, you're right. they put Nigeria together in a way that the north and south will always be at loggerheads. SMH. but then again, you have to realize our leaders are greedy and obviously don't care, as long as they are selling out to the highest bidder. just hope the inferiority complex and the corruption of our so called leaders doesn't fail us.
- July 5, 2011 at 2:10 AM
- Breeze said...
Dear "Lord"dont do this to Naija..
Bia Linda take ya time o! Wetin the lord gats to do wif this?..lol
- July 5, 2011 at 4:44 AM
Alicia, dosumu & 10.37, I agree with u all. Uk is sinking & looking 4 whom 2 take down with it. There are more alqaeda's in britain than there are in Nigeria, hope our spineless money loving govt will not sell us out to those punters
- July 5, 2011 at 5:41 AM
- Lily Johnson said...
Ok, I was running to buy cardboard and marker to write NIGERIANS ARE NOT TERRORISTS before but after reading the comments, i have resolved to write BRITISH INTELLIGENCE, BACK TO SENDER MEHN!
We need to be on the look out though as some of the people involved in all this bombing and stuff aint even Nigerians.
- July 5, 2011 at 7:35 AM
@Dosunmu - Libya was not the number 1 economy in Africa....why did you pull that from?
South Africa is the number 1 economy in Africa, next Egypt, then Nigeria.
- July 5, 2011 at 8:53 AM
the new "islamnic bank" is not exactly helpin our case. smh
- July 5, 2011 at 9:10 AM
funny that some people think that this is british propaganda. the uk report is true.what we should be thinking is how we would be saved from the hands of these boko haram.they bombed police headq.so they could bomb any residential house,offices,etc.god help us.
- July 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Just like I use to say that we have individual views on very issue which every one have comment on how he/ she understand. But I personal suggest that the best is to SPLIT Nigeria and very parts be on their own and let us see if all this mess will stop and even if it doesn't, then the concern part will be facing the problem.
- July 5, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Bull crap. These people really want Nigeria to become a hell hole. Stupid Boko Haram :(
This is the same reason why the US has an excuse to build a military base in the gulf of Guinea, our backyard. I tire sef. Long live Nigeria, shame to bad people.
- July 5, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Take it or leave, there is more truth in that report than mere ploy to infiltrate Nigeria as Dosunmu said. The recruitment and training of youths from the North West and North East for Al-quada has been on since 2002. These youths were sent to places like Beirut, Pakistan and Kuwait for their trainings. Our security agencies got hint of this but played it down. So I wont be surprised if this plan is on ground. The movement has gained ground in Nigeria with even training grounds in Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri and Damaturu.
We only have God to protect us in Nigeria as some of our supposed 'leaders' are feeding fat from this Al-Quaeda movement.
Let us pray for the security of this nation and the safety of lives of innocent Nigerians.
May God help us.
- July 5, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Porous borders, endemic corruption, ill-equipped/ill-organized security apparatus, poverty i.e potential recruits for suicide bombers, religious intolerance, and our penchant to reward militants and terrorists! Why wont Nigeria be top on the list for Al Queda! GEJ better sit-up!
- July 5, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Another excuse to ostracise Nigerians. Don't get me wrong, some of these morons deserve to be however, the rest should not have to suffer for the sins of a few.
- July 5, 2011 at 10:39 AM
if i hear? i pray o! wey we never see food chop, which energy we wan use? make them come naija na!!! by the time one LAGOS BOI SCAM THEM, dem sef go know say na bad market! abi u never see FBI format? as e dey hot!!!
- July 5, 2011 at 10:50 AM
I wonder why some of us would think this is a plot to invade Nigeria, what with all these bombings! The pepetrators of the act might not be Nigerians but the base is Nigeria.
Truth be told, this gives me the chill.
- July 5, 2011 at 10:59 AM
Anon July 5, 2011 5:41 AM; i quote you..... UK is sinking & looking 4 whom 2 take down with it. How? This is where the illuminati that Alicia talks about all the time comes in. They will never allow the UK to sink. Remember the UK is not in the Euro-zone currency club, now see what is happening to Greece, Ireland, Portugal etc re-bankruptcy, bail outs and so on. The UK is smiling away. The way it's going, the Euro may be scrapped. Talk about foresight!
Back to this. The UK and i add the USA don't want to invade Nigeria. Once they have our leaders on their side, we are okay. From Wiki leaks, it's obvious we are towing the line very much. This shouldn't be taken lightly because like what Anon July 5, 2011 10:34 AM said, the country is a fertile ground for this kind of thing.
Yes to Anon July 5, 2011 10:10 AM.
Vigilance and trying to be a step ahead should be out watchword.
Cabongo, how will splitting the country solve the issues at hand?
- July 5, 2011 at 11:56 AM
@ Dosumu, I couldn't agree with you more. Its an Internal Problem, a desperation of a group of people to hold on to power. The over hype of the British will give Al-Qaeda insight to invest in Nigeria . Nigeria government should do their Job instead of looting our resources, cus I see a possible invasion of the west, much more than Al-Qaeda. Hmmm
- July 5, 2011 at 1:50 PM
I find it odd that the British could come up with this not so intelligent report. Unless Al Qaeda leaders are sooo lacking in direction, anyone can see that this would be very diffult in Nigeria. This is for serveral reasons cjief being the fact that the country is evenly divided along religious lines. This makes it unique unlike the other countries that they have operated in.This report is not new and they also said this in 2009. They are just trying to cash in on the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria. We have seen these sorts of groups in Nigeria before, remember Maita Sina? Fear not my people, the good Lord is watching over this great nation!
- July 5, 2011 at 2:12 PM
@ Anonymous @8.53AM- Technically, Dosunmu is right- South Africa may be the number 1 economy in Africa but Libya is the richest country in Africa, judging by its huge sovereign wealth which the Americans and Europeans have seized. Libya also had the highest standard of living in Africa, until the civil war began.
- July 5, 2011 at 9:59 PM


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The job market has changed greatly since then, with many professionals taking a more hands-on approach to their career development, including changing jobs more frequently. For today's working class, the reasons for jumping ship can vary -- from advancing your career to leaving a bad boss to needing better pay. If you're on the fence about whether to stay or go, how can you determine whether a job change is the right move?
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