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Northeast District police arrested three people after breaking up a fight on East Delavan Avenue about 2:50 a.m. today.
Maurice A. Harris, 25, of Mallard Court, Amherst, was charged with a felony count of third-degree criminal mischief after he allegedly grabbed an officer's vest, damaging it, and attempted to slam the policeman to the ground. Harris also was charged with second-degree harassment and obstructing government administration.
Also charged with the obstruction count were Sonya S. Lee, 27, of Gibson Street, and Shannon L. Cross, 38, of Kensington Avenue.


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Apple has chosen to build a new data center in North Carolina that will inject a local economy with new jobs and excitement, as the company prepares for its first east coast data center. The Cupertino-based company will likely invest more than $1 billion towards the new data center through 2018.
"North Carolina continues to be a prime location for growing and expanding global technology companies," Perdue said in a statement. "We welcome Apple to North Carolina and look forward to working with the company as it begins providing a significant economic boost to local communities and the state."
The announcement follows Perdue's signing of a new North Carolina bill that alters corporate income tax liability, which will give Apple a $46 million state tax credit.
The Apple North Carolina facility will have up to 50 full-time employees once construction has been completed, the press release said. Several locations are under consideration, with construction expected to begin immediately after Apple is able to find a suitable location.
In an agreement between Apple and the county, the average wage of employees at the facility must be higher than the standard wage in the county. A $1 billion investment over nine years could help 3,000 jobs in the area, as construction contractors receive plans for the data center.
Cleveland and Catawba counties have been rumored as potential locations for the site, though Apple and state officials have remained silent. The actual use of the data center and its size also remains a mystery, and probably won't be disclosed until construction begins.
Apple already has a 107,000 square-foot facility located in Newark, California.
quote: What I'm saying is that Republicans don't understand (or don't care to understand) is that it effectively controls the free market they so vehemently believe in not controlling.
quote: 1) Democrats can't help but spend in a deficit right now, it's what the economy needs.
quote: 3). Republicans made it a goal to capture Osama, not Democrats. This is not so much whining as it is pointing out a Republican failure.
quote: 5)And? Granted Democrats made a promise they probably couldn't keep in saying we would pull out quickly, but we still are pulling out.
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We are constantly reminded every day of our looming debt crisis during this pre-holiday period (at the time of this writing). Just maybe we should drift back in time and hear and see how Christmases were spent with the military in wartime.
Indeed as we head into the holiday of Christmas, we see a rag-tag army in December 1777, entering Valley Forge, Pa., led by Gen. George Washington and close to 12,000 cold, scantily clothed and direly fed soldiers, plus several hundred spouses and children, including Martha Washington. You see, there were bloody footprints in the snow left by those bootless wonders that were near naked other than the thin blankets that enshrouded them.
Their Christmas did not include family warmth and cheer and gifts and carved hams and chocolates and the things that we enjoy on this holiday. Instead, we see cold, disease-ridden people with the want to just have shoes; soldiers fed by occasional soup.
Those, in fact, were the soldiers defending the freedom that we enjoy today. Out of this suffering, believe it or not, Valley Forge is also where a very confident professional army was born. This was because of the expert training and drilling by Baron von Steuben, formerly of the Prussian army, who seemed to instill pride and even discipline into the ragged troops. Those troops became a champion fighting force that we still have.
Of the list of famous names who served and existed at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78 included not only Washington but Nathaniel Greene, Marquis de Lafayette, Baron Von Steuben, Henry Knox, Anthony Wayne, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall and James Monroe, all of whom became famous in one way or another.
As we drift onward into our American Civil war from 1861-64, we find that it was very difficult all the time, and especially at Christmas time for the soldiers on both sides and also for the families that were left at home.
You see, there were many hardships on the home front for mothers and children, as husbands and sons were in the army. Their responsibilities grew, as they now did the farming and tending to livestock and doing many so-called "manly" chores. Hardships escalated in the south and especially at Christmas.
In personal accounts, a 3-year-old said that he was tired of the war because Santa Claus forgot to come to the Shenandoah Valley. There were many southern children told that Santa was a Yankee, and the Confederate army would not let him through.
In the north, children received their gifts as always, because in the north, the economy was flourishing. Union soldiers would use salt pork and hard tack to decorate their Christmas trees. Their Christmas meals sometimes consisted of the same decorations as on their trees.
Christmas of 1862 found the Lincoln family visiting injured soldiers at several hospitals. In 1863 many Union soldiers received gifts from Tad Lincoln as he was extremely moved by the plight of the soldiers. Those gifts consisted of books and clothing. There were, of course, Christmas carols sung by both sides at many campsites during those war years.
During World War I, in the winter of 1914, on the battlefields of Flanders (before the U.S. entered the war), it seems that one of the most unusual events in history and Christmas took place. The Germans had been fiercely fighting the British and French. Both sides were dug in at the trenches. All at once, German troops put up small Christmas trees, some lit with candles outside their trenches, and began singing songs and carols. Immediately across "no man's land" came songs from the British and French. They proposed a Christmas truce. The Germans put up signs outside their trenches in English proclaiming "you no fight, we no fight." The British sent back "Merry Christmas!"
A Christmas truce resulted, as soldiers left their trenches and met in the middle shaking hands. They buried their dead and actually exchanged gifts of chocolate cake, cognac, newspapers and tobacco. It didn't last that long, but for a few precious moments there was peace on earth and good will toward men.
During our own debt crisis, wouldn't it be nice for Congress and the president to declare a truce and work for the people at this holiday period?


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School officials say a teacher put hot sauce on crayons to stop a child from eating them, and now she's out of a job.
The Osceola County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to fire special needs teacher Lillian Gomez.
Gomez said she put hot sauce on some crayons because a child was eating the waxy school supplies.
In August, an administrative board recommended that Gomez stay on the job.
School officials, however, decided to go against that recommendation. They said the incident was a mark against children's safety and dismissed her.
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But most kids that age aren't like Anala Beevers, a New Orleans-based genius who was recently invited to join MENSA, an international organization for people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.
Beevers – who never leaves home without her map of America, which is said to be her favorite thing – knew the English alphabet at 4 months old, and learned numbers in Spanish by the time she was a 1½.
Her dad, Landon, who admits his little one is smarter than both of her parents, said in a recent interview, "She needs a reality show … She keeps us on our toes."
Anala, who aspires to be a nurse when she grows up, is very aware of her gifts. When asked by the reporter if she's smart, she nodded her head "yes." When asked, "How smart are you?" she said, "Really smart."
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Have I told you about the scent of jasmine? Have I spoken about the smell of the sea? The earth is scented. And I perfume myself to enhance what I am. That's why I can not wear a perfume that bothers me. Perfuming is an instinctive wisdom. And like all art, it requires some knowledge of yourself..."
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What: Shares of Acme Packet (UNKNOWN: APKT.DL ) soared 22% today after enterprise software gorilla Oracle (NYSE: ORCL ) agreed to acquire the network gear company for about $2.1 billion.
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"It's a dog eat dog world!" — Mad Dog Vachon
He growled. He barked. He even bit.
And, aptly enough, they called him the Mad Dog.
Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon, one of the greatest heels in the history of professional wrestling, passed away Thursday morning at the age of 84. He died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Omaha, Neb.
Peaceful, though, would not be an adequate word to describe the colorful career of the 1948 Olympian who completely transformed his persona from an accomplished amateur standout to a brawling, tough-talking mat villain of the highest order.
"He was truly a mad dog in the ring and in his character," said longtime friend Jim Raschke, who credits Vachon with helping him create his own Baron Von Raschke alter ego more than four decades ago. "He was a sweetheart outside the ring, but you wouldn't want to cross him because he was a really, really tough guy. He was a good friend, and I'm sure going to miss him."
The Montreal native began his wrestling career as an amateur, representing Canada in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1948 Olympic Games in London at the age of 18, competing as a middleweight and finishing seventh. He followed it with a gold medal at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand, before working as a bouncer in Montreal, where he gained the reputation of being the toughest man in town despite his relatively small stature at five-foot-eight.
His entree into the pro ranks was rather uneventful. A decade of working the various territories helped him hone his character, which gradually morphed from a clean-cut, ex-amateur star into a vicious rulebreaker who got heat by using foreign objects and feared maneuvers like the piledriver to finish off his foes.
Vachon earned his nickname in 1962 in Portland, Ore., when he appeared to go berserk as he waited for his opponent to arrive and tossed him out of the ring when he showed up, along with a referee and a ringside police officer.
"You just looked like a mad dog out there," promoter Don Owen told Vachon after the match. The name stuck. From that point on, Vachon was no longer Maurice Vachon, the French-Canadian from Montreal, but rather Mad Dog Vachon, the wildman from Algeria.
Filing his fingernails until they were razor sharp, Vachon bit, clawed and stomped his way through the wrestling landscape.
By the mid-1960s, the small but fearsome Vachon had established a solid reputation as a menacing, bloodthirsty brawler who posed the main threat to American Wrestling Association kingpin Verne Gagne (another ex-Olympian who recruited Vachon) and perennial favorite The Crusher (Reggie Lisowski). Vachon's wild and unpredictable style, along with his inimitable interviews, made him one of the hottest heels in the business.
Vachon, who brought in some of the biggest box offices the Minneapolis-based territory had ever seen, held the AWA world title on five occasions as well as a number of regional championships.
With his brother Paul "The Butcher" Vachon, Mad Dog collected a share of the AWA world tag-team title in 1969, engaging in a bloody series of matches with The Crusher and The Bruiser and holding the belts for two years.
"He drew a ton of money and had a great mind for the business," says Raschke. "He was a terrific performer, a good guy and quite a character."
Vachon was so effective in his role that one of his fans (she called him "violent and scary") would eventually become his bride. As the story goes, Mad Dog accidentally hit the future Mrs. Vachon with a foreign object he had tossed into the crowd.
She was 30 and he was 49. The two immediately locked eyes, and it was love at first sight.
Mad Dog and The Baron
"He started out as a pretty handsome-looking guy," Raschke says of Vachon, who initially sported dark hair and wore a simple jacket and trunks to the ring.
But when he hid his Olympic credentials, shaved his head, grew a black-as-coal beard and became the snarling, gap-toothed "Mad Dog" instead of Maurice, Vachon began his journey to pro wrestling immortality.
Raschke says his career turned around as well the day he met "The Dog."
"He was the one who took me on the road to really learn the business. He made me his partner after a short time. He discovered me and he taught me the ins and outs of the business. He even gave me my character."
"You'd make a good German," Vachon growled to the then Jim Raschke, a Big Eight champion out of the University of Nebraska who was still green in the pro ranks.
Raschke, of course, was of German descent. But he'd later learn that Vachon was suggesting that he take it a step further.
"I had never met him, and I really didn't know that much about him," says Raschke. "He didn't say another word to me, went in and did his thing, and did his interview."
Vachon, though, would tell Raschke the same thing every time their paths would cross.
While Vachon, a main-eventer, delivered intense, money-drawing interviews, the timid and unimposing Raschke struggled to get the words out.
Raschke eventually formed a connection with Vachon, who asked him to join him in Montreal as his partner.
Both had Olympic backgrounds. "We kind of clicked," says Raschke. "He took me under his wing."
Raschke shaved what little hair he had left, and with his new bride, loaded up their small Mustang and headed for Montreal.
It's where Baron Von Raschke — another one of pro wrestling's greatest characters — would be born.
Before his first match in the new territory, Raschke was sent out to do an interview along with Vachon.
"Mad Dog was over like crazy. He was a French-Canadian, but they hated him more than anybody. He was hot, and I was going to be his partner. I automatically got that kind of heat."
When Vachon finished his promo, the announcer turned the mic over to Raschke, who was now known as "The Baron."
With the new name came the German accent and an interview style where he occasionally would actually sprinkle in at least a few German words.
The hulking, bald Raschke delivered his spiel — one full of anger and vitriol that would incite the fans — threatening to destroy anyone who got in his way.
It was an amazing transformation. The Baron became Jim Raschke's alter ego. His new persona unleashed a side of his personality that the withdrawn and introverted Raschke had never seen before. His portrayal of an evil German madman would make him one of pro wrestling's top heels of that era.
"He (Vachon) was a good mentor as well as a friend. He taught me everything I needed to know about being not liked in the business," says Raschke.
Hated to beloved
One of 13 children of a Montreal police officer, including his brother Paul (stepfather of the late Luna Vachon) and his late wrestling sister Vivian Vachon, Mad Dog became a fan favorite during his latter years in the business.
His 36-year career came to an end in his native Montreal on Oct. 13, 1986. Vachon had joined the exodus of a number of AWA performers to the rival World Wrestling Federation two years earlier, but his stay with the organization would prove to be short-lived.
A year later, Vachon was the victim of a hit-and-run while jogging down a road in Des Moines, Iowa, and doctors were forced to amputate his right leg below the knee. He later lost the use of his other leg due to diabetes. He retired to Omaha where he ran a gym and lived a quiet life with wife Kathie.
With her help, Vachon continued to make appearances at various reunions and conventions around the country. As much as he was hated during the first quarter-century of his wrestling career, he was just as beloved for the remainder of his life, reaching an iconic level in his native Canada where Mad Dog Vachon would become a household name.
Vachon, who was inducted into the Quebec Sports Hall of Fame in 2009, was hired to hawk beer and chocolate bars, wrote a biography and even recorded a rap album in French.
His passing drew a comment from, among other notables, Canada's Prime Minister. "My deepest condolences to the family of Maurice 'Mad Dog' Vachon, a Canadian wrestling legend," Stephen Harper tweeted.
In 1996, the 66-year-old Vachon appeared at a WWE pay-per-view event where his prosthesis was pulled off and used as a weapon by Diesel (Kevin Nash) in his match against Shawn Michaels. He was inducted into the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2004 and WWE's Hall of Fame six years later.
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, but the size of the fight in the dog in the fight that matters," Vachon would quip as he spoke to various amputee groups over the years.
Fellow French-Canadian and Montreal native Rene Goulet remembered Vachon as one of the toughest — pound for pound — performers in the business.
"He was a tough son-of-a-gun. For someone 5-8, he was one of the toughest guys you could find. He wouldn't back up for anybody."
But Vachon also was a very caring and compassionate individual who helped Goulet get his first break in the business 50 years ago.
"He was a good guy who helped a lot of people, including me," says Goulet. "When I first started out in the business, I didn't know what to do. I couldn't speak a word of English."
After a match in Montreal, says Goulet, Vachon asked him about possibly working across the border.
"I told Maurice I didn't know anyone," says Goulet.
Vachon immediately booked Goulet with Minneapolis matchmaker Wally Karbo, and Goulet went on to enjoy a long and successful run in the AWA.
"He helped a lot of guys in the business," says Goulet. "Look what he did for Jim Raschke."
Raschke recalls the many times the two would meet for breakfast.
"Do you want toast with those eggs?"waitresses would ask Vachon.
"Yes ... and burn it!" the quirky Frenchman would routinely reply in his gravelly growl.
It was that same voice that years earlier had sent chills down the spines of thousands of wrestling fans who believed every terrorizing word that came out of the mouth of one of wrestling's greatest bad guys.
Little did many know, however, that the Mad Dog, whose bark had become worse than his bite, was a gourmet and bon vivant, and at one time even served as a food and restaurant critic for a Quebec City television station.
"I worked my entire career to be hated and still the fans love me. I must've done something wrong," Vachon would later joke.
"He was hilarious and a good guy to be around. He was the best. He truly was," says Raschke, who, like the Mad Dog, would eventually shed the villain tag and become a fan favorite.
Vachon, who passed away in his sleep, had suffered from several health problems over the years, including memory issues.
"If it weren't for that accident, Maurice would have probably lived to be more than 100 years old," says Goulet.
Raschke laments the fact that there aren't many legends left from the glory days of wrestling.
"He was a real character ... an original. There'll never be another 'Mad Dog.'"
Old School Wrestling
Old School Championship Wrestling will present its annual "Lord of the Rings" tournament featuring all of the group's champions on Dec. 1 at the Hanahan Rec Center.
Also on the bill will be TNA's Gunner going up against Brady Pierce.
Bell time is 5 p.m. Doors open at 4:30.
Adult admission (cash at the door) is $10; kids 12 and under $5. Half-price admission will be extended to each person who brings a new, unwrapped toy to donate to Toys for Tots.
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Beaver star Jerry Mathers, now 64, posted to his Facebook page Saturday: "I was so sad to hear today of the passing of my dear friend and business associate Frank Bank, who played Lumpy on Leave it to Beaver. He was a character and always kept us laughing. My deepest condolences to Frank's family."
Born in Los Angeles, Bank first appeared on screen as the very young Will Rogers in the 1952 Warner Bros. biopic The Will Rogers Story, and then managed to deliver other TV roles at the same time he was appearing on Leave It to Beaver.
Once the gentle sitcom about childhood was canceled, Bank continued to make sporadic TV appearances, including those on The Hollywood Squares, Family Feud and the 1983 TV movie Still The Beaver (it spawned The New Leave It to Beaver series, which ran four years) – although, in 1972, he had entered an entirely different profession: as a stock-and-bond broker.
According to a 1998 PEOPLE profile, Bank learned to handicap horses and read The Wall Street Journal during breaks on the Beaver set, where he also taught himself "everything there was to know about tax-free bonds." Within three years of getting started, he said, he was earning $300,000 a year at an L.A.-based company.
Among his clients were Mathers and Barbara Billingsley, who played Leave It to Beaver's matriarch, June Cleaver. As she once told PEOPLE: "Frank is certainly brighter than Lumpy Rutherford, and a very good stockbroker."
But then, he was never like Lumpy, really. In his 1997 autobiography Call Me Lumpy, he claimed that, during the Beaver years, he lived a life of wine, women and song – with maybe little emphasis on wine and song.
"A thousand women," Bank told PEOPLE, though his costars, including Eddie Haskell's alter ego, actor Ken Osmond, found the claim hard to swallow. "I never pictured Frank as being Don Juan," said Osmond. "But I never went on a date with him."
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In the 19th century, photographers struggled to be seen as artists, and not merely technicians. The Pictorialists wanted to make photography an art form, and they went far beyond mere technical capture of a subject. They wanted to make objects of art that were beautiful and expressed personal emotion. To this end, they heavily modified their images. Pictorialist photographers were more interested in art and aesthetics than subject matter. Pictorialists aimed for emotional impact, rich and delicate images, and poetic interpretations. It also took a lot from the styles of painting in its day, particularly Romanticism and Impressionism. Pictorialism often has a spiritual quality, where the photographer listens to the "still, small, voice". Pictorialism faded with the advent of Photographic Modernism, which was inspired by photographic technology itself. In the 21st century, a New Pictorialism, fueled by the power of image editing tools, is becoming increasingly important.
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5 Uncomfortable Truths Behind the Men's Rights Movement
Until recently, you probably thought that the "men's rights movement" was just a weird fad on the Internet for sad, depressed guys who wanted to vent about their sexual frustrations, no more or less important to your day-to-day life than, say, people raging against bad movie reviews or complaining that their favorite video game company doesn't like them. But then something like the UCSB shooting happens, where a 22-year-old kid kills seven people and blames it on all the sex he never had, and you have to ask yourself: Is this group actually a problem?
Holy shit, yes. I spoke to Frank Meeink, a former white supremacist, and Michael Kimmel, a professor of sociology, about the men's rights movement, and I found out that it has less in common with any civil rights or equality movement than it does with goddamn neo-Nazis. Particularly with how ...
#5. They Prey on the Insecure (With Misdirection)
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We all know that men's rights activists are insecure -- that's pretty much the only thing the rest of the world agrees with them on. If you go to r/MensRights, r/TheRedPill, or any pickup artist or anti-pickup artist blogs, you'll see people promising to help them be better as men. It's an open invitation to celebrate manliness, like they're the last place on Earth where you can still talk about guns and boobs and tanks and video games.
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And screaming into cellphones, according to my stock photo library's definition of "manly."
But it's a trick, because that's not what these places are really about. Check out the very first sentence on a list of the Red Pill's "fundamental beliefs":
Feminists claim they want equality but what they really want is power without responsibility.
Weird ... that doesn't have anything to do with men at all -- it's about women. Let's keep going:
Women are irrational and inconsistent. ... A logical woman is easily baited into becoming emotional; women are easy to compromise.
Women are Machiavellian in nature, this means they are comparatively proficient at being manipulative versus the typical male.
Women love pragmatically and have no capacity to love unconditionally for romantic partners.
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"Are you sure you aren't thinking of ... like, seven different species from Star Trek?"
Yes, this shit is internally contradictory and sexist as fuck, but more importantly, it has nothing to do with men. There's no waxing poetic on the joys of fatherhood, the majesty of a properly groomed beard, or the exquisite joy of scratching your own balls; it's all just variations of "fuck dem bitches" and "amiright!?" It's not an ideology, it's just them feeling bad about themselves and directing that hatred elsewhere ... which is exactly how a hate group works. And that's not just my opinion.
"These guys are so recruitable," says Frank Meeink, a reformed white supremacist who recruited teenagers to his old cause, spent some time in jail, and now works with the organization Against Violent Extremism to raise awareness about hate groups around the world. "They're shaken-up soda bottles, and they're just waiting for someone to open the cap and point them at someone."
He pointed out that the insecurities may not actually be about sex -- they're just insecurities, and insecurities are hard to shake.
"The feeling of inadequacy is still in my life," says Meeink. "I'll find myself thinking, 'Did my wife ever sleep with someone who had a bigger dick than me?' ... and then she comes home and I'm ready to argue, when she's done nothing. It's just my insecurity."
But OK, hold on -- let's back up. The basic idea of "men's rights" is, in theory, fine, right? All people deserve equal rights, and it's not exactly unheard of for one gender to oppress another. The problem is that even if you give these guys the benefit of the doubt and read into their complaints, you find ...
#4. They Hate Women Because It Justifies Their Suffering
Over the past few months, I've read hundreds, probably thousands of threads and blog posts about men's rights activism, because something is very wrong with me, please help. Overall, I've found that their complaint about women is ... that they exist. It's the old dichotomy: If they're too selective with whom they sleep with, they're "hypergamous" (they only sleep with people of a higher social standing), and if they sleep around, they're "sluts" and lack any worth as humans. One thread is about a woman giving relationship advice on another thread about what to do after you discover your girlfriend has cheated. She suggested that maybe there were some alternatives to dumping her, and that through communication and healing the relationship could be saved, if he wanted. Apparently, this is the worst thing ever.
Just imagine a girl that quits and find a new job every week because she believes she need to explore her options and "find herself" professionally ... then her resume ends up as a collection of 30+ one-week gigs. Who would ever hire her to do serious work for a serious company?
Then someone else chimes in:
This is a masterful analogy.
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If this is how you think relationships work, then hey, I just found the reason you're not in one.
I could sit here and list flaws in their arguments all day, but I think the interesting consistency between them all is that they're searching for an injustice to blame their misery on. They want to know why they feel so shitty about themselves -- like anyone would -- and women are as good an option as any:
Physical violence is outlawed whereas mental abuse is not, this allows women to get their way without being held accountable by a system of law.
It goes without saying that that's a horrifying thing to say, but think about how hard they have to stretch their own thoughts to make that argument: They're assuming that women are fundamentally better at arguing (and therefore smarter) than men, because that's the only way "arguing" being less illegal than "beating the fuck out of someone" could be unfair to one gender. But obviously their argument hinges on women being dumber than men, too (or "more prone to emotional thinking," whatever the flying shit that means). Basically, they're not actually thinking about their arguments -- because they're not trying to convince you, they're trying to explain to themselves why they're so fucking sad. And this particular explanation is so appealing because it gives them a villain. It's tough to rally the troops around depression, or insecurity, or anything else that doesn't have a concrete cause, but have you ever tried blaming other people for your problems? It feels fantastic.
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"Awwww yeah, that's the stuff. Thirty more seconds, then I'll do the other arm."
"Every time one of these men is driving down the street and they see an attractive girl with a guy, they boil up with hate," Meeink told me. "Try to imagine that life. I lived that life, except I thought about race, and it just eats you up. And it feels good, because there's a reward, and that reward is that you can look down on the entire world. Everyone needs an enemy."
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"Feel the burn!"
But there's a deeper reason you can't actually debate men's rights activists ...
#3. Their Enemy is Everyone
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The oppression of gay men seems like an obvious issue for the men's rights movement to glom onto, right? It's super easy to find statistics about it, and since it's a major issue in the news, it'd be a great way to get more people to pay attention to their cause. But instead you just see them using homophobic slurs all the goddamn time:
I would rather not see these kinds of "gay, redpill, and proud" posts. Masculinity is in part defined by our attraction to the feminine. If your preference is to be a man-pleaser then you're not expressing any kind of masculinity that's worth celebrating.
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Now this, on the other hand ...
Race would be another great topic for them (black masculinity would give them plenty to talk about, right?), but again, it almost never comes up.
This is how all hate groups work: Sure, they have one specific target they like shitting on more than any other, but they're weirdly open-minded about whom they're total dicks to. That's why you see so many different hate groups fighting each other.
"It wasn't any one group -- I hated everyone," Meeink remembers, "I hated people like you, white people who didn't believe the way I believed. And these guys hate men who don't believe the way they do."
And that's why you're going to see so many angry comments about how "this doesn't apply to all men's rights groups!" People are going to say that the Red Pill is a fringe part of the movement, or that PUAHate, the forum UCSB shooter Elliot Rodger belonged to, doesn't really understand what men's rights is about. But the problem is that every men's rights faction thinks that everyone else is a fringe part of the movement. If you're not in the Red Pill, you're governed by "blue pill thinking" and have been compromised by the feminist agenda -- even if you belong to another men's rights community (The "red pill" is a reference to The Matrix: taking the "red pill" means you wake up and realize that women are robots who are harvesting our bodies to charge their batteries, apparently). PUAHate hated the "pickup artist community," even though both groups have exactly the same values: Women are commodities to be acquired and subjugated. They are conquests -- things that determine your worth as a human.
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Christmas is over, but small business owners should still be shopping – for themselves. You only have a couple of business days left in 2012, meaning there are only a couple more shopping days for gifts that you can buy for your business and then write them off as expenses for tax purposes. It may sound like gaming the system, but certain purchases will provide indisputable value and growth to your business in the year to come. It just happens to be an added bonus you can write these purchases off on your 2012 taxes.
In fact, the impending "fiscal cliff" situation makes this year a particularly important time to splurge on a year-end wish list for your business. Tax laws are likely to change, whatever the resolution of the so-called "fiscal cliff" scenario. Certain financial maneuvers in the final week of 2012 can lower your tax exposure when you submit your 2012 taxes and take clever advantage of changes to the tax code.
The fiscal cliff is looks likely to result in some form of tax increase -- an average of $3,500 per household if there is no resolution deal, according to the Tax Policy center. A common way to lower your exposure to a tax increase is called accelerating income, basically moving money around in ways that would be taxed higher if you moved it after Jan. 1, 2013. The savings can be substantial. Let's look at a few ways to accelerate income, or items to buy your business in 2012 to write off and save money on your taxes.
How to Accelerate Income Before Jan. 1, 2013
Accelerating income can boil down to just selling stocks or investments on which you gained this year. These transactions will likely be taxed at a much lower rate if performed during calendar year 2012. If you're a business owner, giving stock options or investment awards to your employees will similarly be taxed at a much lower rate before the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1, 2013. Some capital gains rates are currently taxed at zero percent but will be taxed at a more substantial rate if cashed in during 2013.
Buy Your Business a Computer
If you've been wanting additional laptops or tablets for yourself or employees, now is a great time to buy them. The post-holiday deals are good and the expense can be written off for 2012 as long as these computing devices are used primarily for your business.
Buy Your Business a Printer or Furniture
The same goes for printers, fax machines and furniture. Completing these purchases during 2012 allows you to write them off on your coming taxes.
Entertain Clients or Employees
You have to conduct some form of business during or after the meal or entertainment event, but these are tax-deductible. Realize, though, that meals and entertainment are only a 50 percent deduction, not the full 100 percent.
Pay Old Bills
You can deduct the payment of any invoice on the day you cut the check. You need to eventually pay those bills anyway and paying them before or on Dec. 31 provides the double advantage of clearing debt and lowering your 2012 tax exposure. You'll enjoy New Year's more with cleaner books.
Contribute to Your Retirement Fund
Buy yourself a Christmas present and write it off at a lower rate than you'll be able to, say, next week or anytime beyond. The larger your contribution to a retirement fund, the more you'll be able to write off on this year's taxes. Any revenue you dump into your 401(k) is unlikely to be taxed if you do it before 2013.
You may know the feeling of doing your business' taxes and wishing you'd splurged on a few more useful write-offs. This may be the last year when the write-offs can be implemented as favorably, so bust out the checkbook and write yourself some tax write-offs.This article is part of the Drive Your Business Forward series. Check out allvoices.com/smallbusiness for more tips and advice on how to succeed as a small business. This series is supported by Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.


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Seth Meyers will replace Jimmy Fallon as the host of Late Night.
"We think Seth is one of the brightest, most insightful comedy writers and performers of his generation. His years at SNL's 'Weekend Update' desk, not to mention being head writer of the show for many seasons, helped him hone a topical brand of comedy that is perfect for the Late Night franchise," NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt said Sunday.
The move will take place next year when Fallon takes over as the host of The Tonight Show, replacing Jay Leno. That decision was announced in April.
"Since 1982, there have been three Late Night hosts starting with David Letterman, and Seth couldn't be in better company," executive producer of both Late Night and Saturday Night Live Lorne Michaels said in the press release from NBC.
And Meyers didn't waste any time before cracking a joke about his new gig: "I only have to work for Lorne for five more years before I pay him back for the time I totaled his car," Meyers said. "12:30 on NBC has long been incredible real estate. I hope I can do it justice."
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CLEVELAND, Ohio - The 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony is just few hours away, which means rehearsals are going on as I write this.
Early word has Miley Cyrus potentially performing with Green Day, while Joan Jett is performing "Crimson and Clover" with Tommy James. Another big reveal is that Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day will likely hit the stage with Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney.
In the rehearsals video below, you can see the trio playing the Beatles cover of the Shirelles' "Boys." Joe Walsh is off to the side watching.
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Brothers Alan (piano accordion) and John Kelly (flutes) treat the listener to a program of sparkling, brilliantly executed traditional Irish music. Featuring Arty McGlynn on guitar.
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To the musical question of our time, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Alan and John Kelly can each answer, "Right here." The pure-drop playing of Alan on piano accordion and John, his younger brother, on flute and whistle can be likened to the impact of that movie soundtrack. Fourmilehouse is traditional music served straight up, with no need for studio sweeteners or sleight of hand, and harks back to a time when Irish music, like American old-timey and early country music, had a back-porch ease belying considerable skill.
Such skill runs deep in the family of Alan and John Kelly, who were born in Roscommon town. Their grandfather was a fiddler; their grandmother, a melodeon player; their father, Frank Kelly, a piano accordionist from Fourmilehouse in southern Roscommon who won the All-Ireland senior title in 1964; and their mother, Mary ( Ryan) Kelly, an adept pianist and saxophonist. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, Frank and Mary Kelly were members of the Killina C Band, a gifted ensemble also featuring fiddler Paddy Ryan, a first cousin of Mary and a music instructor to both Alan and John.
"When we were children, Paddy and my father gave us th e encouragement and the rudiments for playing," Alan explained. "We used old notation from Paddy for a lot of the tunes we recorded on Fourmilehouse." John drolly added that "we hadn't played some of those tunes in years, so we had to learn them all over again."
Learning tunes and honing technique came rapidly for both brothers. Alan found his first piano accordion, an old Paolo Soprani model won by his dad in a raffle, tucked in a turf shed. Besides his father, he counts former Silly Wizard member Phil Cunningham as a prime reason for taking up the instrument. "I heard Phil play the piano accordion one night on Radio One and couldn't believe how much music he got out of it," Alan recalled. His brother John points to Mary Bergin as the main influence on his whistle playing and to Roscommon's Patsy Hanley, John Carlos, and Frank Jordan as the principal influences on his flute playing.
This album captures the two brothers in peak performance. It is the first full-bore recording by John, who previously guested on a few tracks of his brother's solo albums, Out of the Blue in 1996 and Mosaic in 2000. Alan's other recording credits include appearances on Niamh Parsons's Loosely Connected in 1992, Michael McGoldrick's Morning Rory in 1996 and Fused in 2000, and Seán Keane's Seansongs in 2002. He also played for such acclaimed theatrical productions as Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee and Mabou Mines's Peter & Wendy.
The repertoire Alan and John have chosen is a deft blend of unaging standards, such as "The Duke of Leinster" reel that Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman made popular in 1927, and more recent tunes destined to become standards, such as Liz Carroll's "Diplodocus" reel, Pat Crowley's "Harp and Shamrock" hornpipe, and Billy McComiskey's "Palm Tree" reel. Some evergreen compositions of Newtown, County Tipperary's Paddy O'Brien (1922-1991) also make the mix that much more appealing, and the support the Kellys get from guitarist Arty McGlynn, percussionist Jim Higgins, organist/pianist Rod McVey, bouzouki player Cyril O'Donoghue, banjoist/pianist Brian McGrath, and bodhrán player John Moloney is exemplary.
For Alan and John Kelly, Fourmilehouse proves you can go home again musically. What a stunning duet album these talented brothers have given us."
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Meanwhile, Stewart's boyfriend Robert Pattinson's visit to New York was much less eventful, with the actor spotted taking in the Broadway show Orphans, starring Alec Baldwin and Pattinson's longtime friend, actor Tom Sturridge, on Thursday night.
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It's the first all new interchange in Milwaukee County since the completion of the original expressway work in the 1970s.
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In June, the Lackawanna City Council reduced Thomas N. Love's salary to $10,000 per year in an apparent effort to force the city's longtime publics works commissioner out of the post.
More than four months later, Love remains on the job at the behest of his biggest supporter, Mayor Geoffrey M. Szymanski, even as the Council threatens measures to slash his pay even further.
Szymanski views Love as a valuable asset who saves the city money, and he said the Council was trying to usurp the mayor's authority on personnel matters.
Monday, Szymanski tried for the third time since June to amend the city's budget to reflect full pay for the commissioner of public works at $58,000. But the Council, which controls the budget, ignored the mayor's request.
"I pick the department heads, not them," said Szymanski. "I'm telling them that right now this is who I want. That's my pick for department head. In my view, they're overstepping their bounds as a council."
Instead of restoring the salary, some Council members went on the offensive Monday, citing Love's frequent failure to attend meetings and asking City Attorney Norman A. LeBlanc Jr. to explore whether department heads who are required to attend Council meetings can be docked pay.
"This will be the 10th meeting he's missed this year," said Council President Henry R. Pirowski. "It's frankly unfair, and it's gotten to the point of being unprofessional to miss more meetings than attended."
Department heads can't be penalized for absences at Council meetings, said Szymanski, who defended Love's work, including the public works commissioner's recent efforts in preparing the city for potential damage from Hurricane Sandy.
Around the time his reduced salary took effect, Love took off several weeks due to an undisclosed health problem, before returning to work in September.
Love said he sometimes works seven days a week for his meager city salary and doesn't need to attend meetings, especially when his department isn't on the agenda.
Love, 59, was prepared to leave the position, but a transition period was necessary so a successor could be properly trained, he said.
"The issue here is that they're not funding the position. They have to do that first," he said.
Pirowski said the Council would provide funds in the budget once it has a succession plan from the mayor, allowing the city to prepare for the future.
"We have had those discussion, and unfortunately they have not progressed," he said.
Love didn't know exactly when he would be leaving.
"There's numerous projects up here," he said. "If I walk tomorrow, where does this get picked up at? What happens if I quit tomorrow, and we get hit with a major snowstorm?"
City resident Dennis Mulqueen, chairman of Lackawanna's Republican party, chimed in Monday with his criticism of Love's absences.
"I think we need to start holding him accountable," Mulqueen said during the public comment session of the Council meeting.
Love suggested the Council was out of bounds in discussing his attendance at meetings during public session.
"How can they talk about personnel on the floor? They're not supposed to do that," he said.
Love, who has 38 years as a city public works employee and served in the mid-1990s as 3rd Ward councilman, also worked for many years as a corrections officer with the state Department of Corrections, until his retirement in 2009.
His state pension for 2012 was listed at $84,389, according to the Empire Center for New York State Policy, which maintains a database on state pensions.
Until July 31, when the Council voted to slash his pay, Love also was receiving an annual salary from the city of $30,000 – the maximum amount he could earn under the state's pension laws.
If the pay for the public works post were amended to $58,000, Love would receive just the $30,000, but the full salary would be in place for his successor, said Szymanski.
"He is a tremendous savings to the city," the mayor said. "And that's a lot of experience they're throwing out the window."
The mayor said he may pursue legal action against the Council to resolve the matter. But Pirowski said the Council has done nothing wrong.
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The Demystified Series is pleased to present a collection of screencasts on Windows Authorization Manager (AzMan). Keith Brown, a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine and co-founder of PluralSight, states that this series provides, "…what may be your first look at Authorization Manager – a hidden gem in Windows that can help you build Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) into your applications." I trust you will discover this statement to be true for yourself as well.
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Plastic pollution in the ocean frequently appears as seabird guts filled with cigarette lighters and bottle caps, marine mammals entangled in fishing gear and drifting plastic bags mimicking a gelatinous meal. Last year, a study estimated that around eight million metric tons of our plastic waste enter the oceans from land each year.
But where this plastic ends up and what form it takes is a mystery. Most of our waste consists of everyday items such as bottles, wrappers, straws or bags. Yet the vast majority of debris found floating far offshore is much smaller: it's broken-down fragments smaller than your pinky fingernail, termed microplastic.
In a newly published study, we showed that this floating microplastic accounts for only about 1% of the plastic waste entering the ocean from land in a single year. To get this number – estimated to be between 93,000 and 236,000 metric tons – we used all available measurements of floating microplastic together with three different numerical ocean circulation models.
Our new estimate of floating microplastic is up to 37 times higher than previous estimates. That's equivalent to the mass of more than 1,300 blue whales.
The increased estimate is due in part to the larger data set – we assembled more than 11,000 measurements of microplastics collected in plankton nets since the 1970s. In addition, the data were standardized to account for differences in sampling conditions. For example, it has been shown that trawls carried out during strong winds tend to capture fewer floating microplastics than during calm conditions. That's because winds blowing on the sea surface create turbulence that pushes plastics down to tens of meters depth, out of reach of surface-trawling nets. Our statistical model takes such differences into account.
An outstanding research study from the University of Chicago which identifies key noncognitive factors that shape school performance. Lead author is Camille Farrington. Very helpful work. -JL
Over the past few years, a small group of funders have begun to return to their roots by deliberately reintroducing innovation into their philanthropic processes and portfolios. They seek out ideas with transformative potential, take risks on less proven approaches, open themselves up to exploring new solutions, and recognize that innovation requires flexibility, iteration, and failure.
"For more than a decade, the Monitor Institute3 has been working with many of these modern-day innovation funders—including the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Profit Inc., and Acumen. Over the course of our work, we have interviewed many of the world's leading innovation strategists, corporate innovation specialists, venture capitalists, and social entrepreneurs to help us build a picture of what it means to find and fund social innovation.
Transformation and Experimentation
"Funding innovation starts with a fundamental shift in mindset. Innovation funders intentionally trade off probability of success in return for greater potential impact. Instead of just supporting proven, incremental solutions, they focus on transformation—investing in approaches that may have a higher risk of failure, but the potential to be lasting and truly game changing if they succeed. "When you're doing innovation, the first question is not 'Is this going to work?' but rather, 'If it works, would it matter?'" says Eric Toone, the former principal deputy director of the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E).
"In addition to distributing bed nets to reduce the spread of malaria, for example, an innovation funder might also pursue research to genetically alter mosquitos so they can't transfer the parasite (an effort the Gates Foundation is now actually exploring).4 With these types of high-risk, high-reward bets, the impact from one or two big, transformational successes in a portfolio can justify the opportunity cost of many failures. The approach is similar to venture capital, where the outsized returns of a single "home run" investment can offset nine or ten less profitable enterprises."
For the past several years, we have been studying social enterprises in order to determine what enables them to achieve high levels of impact. Innovation, we have concluded, is just one part of a larger social impact creation process. Indeed, we have found that innovation plays a minor—yet very specific—role in allowing highly successful social enterprises to deliver solutions at an appropriate scale. In examining less successful organizations, meanwhile, we have found that what holds them back is not an inability to innovate but a failure to embed their innovation efforts within a robust process for translating those efforts into impact.
"Throughout the social impact creation process, there are a number of ways that innovation can go wrong. We use the term "innovation pathologies" to describe these all-too-common missteps. Organizations that actively pursue innovation but fall short of achieving impact invariably suffer from one or more pathologies. These organizations typically have a flawed understanding of how innovation works. As a result, they develop habits and practices that render their innovation efforts unproductive.
"Identifying these pathologies, we argue, will help social enterprises to generate more impact from their investments in innovation. In this article, we set forth a model for understanding the relationship between innovation and impact, and we provide a way to diagnose the pathologies that interfere with that relationship. We also offer insight into how organizations can counter these pathologies by developing innovation practices that optimize their effectiveness."
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"Civic media is the practice of using media and technology to promote a collective good. The Civic Media Project (CMP) "is a collection of short case studies from scholars and practitioners from all over the world that range from the descriptive to the analytical, from the single tool to the national program, from the enthusiastic to the critical." These case studies are written by scholars across a number of fields, including journalism, digital media, political science, and education. Case studies highlight civic media projects in four Sections: Play + Creativity; Systems + Designs; Learning + Engagement; and Community + Action. Highlighted projects include Presenting our Perspectives on Philly Youth News (POPPYN), a youth- produced TV News show and Aliens on Campus, an Alternative Reality Game at the University of Western Cape designed to address gaps in digital literacy education. Many of these projects focus on youth empowerment and education, so CMP may especially be of interest to youth workers and educators in alternative or out-of-school settings."
This Education Trends report is an update to the original report released in April 2015 and explores state policies that allow or require districts to apply computer science coursework toward completion of high school graduation requirements in math, science or foreign language.
"If you think about the internet as a place that made it easier to index all the information and consume them faster, VR is a place that indexes experiences and lets you consume them faster."
"Of all the industries poised for disruption by virtual reality, education seems the most likely and powerful. VR experiences can teach us practical skills, immersing us not just in a lesson but in the task itself.
"Want to learn how to fix your toilet? Head into a VR plumbing tutorial with your exact model and see how it's done.
"Want to learn photography? Load a VR experience with your camera model and practice scenes to learn perfect settings."
Does arts integration contribute to student success for disadvantaged student populations? The introduction to this article compares students' academic performance and arts education in countries outperforming the United States on the recent Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and makes the argument for using arts integration as a way to teach the Common Core standards and align instruction to the Universal Design for Learning principles. This evaluation of research helps to support the evidence base by examining the quality of studies published between 1995 and 2011 investigating the use of arts integration with disadvantaged student populations, including economically disadvantaged students, English language learners, and students with disabilities. Four hundred fifty-three studies were explored, resulting in the inclusion of forty-four studies in this analysis. Studies were categorized as the following: single art integration, multi-arts integration, effects of arts integration on students with disabilities, or effects of arts integration on school climate. Studies were evaluated for their research design, implementation, and effects, and results depicted positive effects and potentially positive effects. Policy implications and suggestions for future research using the author's proposed theoretical framework are also discussed.
Within the academy, signals of a scholar's academic influence are made manifest in indices like the h-index, which rank output. In open scholarly networks, however, signals of influence are less codified, and the ways in which they are enacted and understood have yet to be articulated. Yet the influence scholars cultivate in open networked publics intersects with institutional academia in grant-required measures of 'public impact', in media visibility, and in keynote and job opportunities. How do scholars within open networks judge whether another scholar's signals are credible or worthy of engagement? What counts as academic influence on a platform like Twitter? This paper concludes that scholars employ complex logics of influence to assess the networked profiles and behaviors of peers and unknown entities. Significantly, these logics of influence depart from the codified terms of rank and bibliometric indexing on which conventional academic influence is judged. While some are numeric – participants recognized relatively large-scale accounts as a general signal of influence – recognizability and commonality are as important as or more important than quantifiable measures or credentials. The paper suggests that the impression of capacity for meaningful contribution is key to cultivating influence and the regard of actively networked peers.
"While our communities, our nation, and our world face both historic and emerging challenges, these 23 extraordinary individuals give us ample reason for hope. They are breaking new ground in areas of public concern, in the arts, and in the sciences, often in unexpected ways. Their creativity, dedication, and impact inspire us all."
—MacArthur President Julia Stasch
Background on each of 2016's 23 honorees.
It's all about measuring the human body, and the physiological signals that change along with our emotions. In the past, this has been done with electrocardiography (ECG) monitors — electrodes strapped to the body.
But a team at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has built a device that can do this without wires. They call it EQ-Radio, and in a lot of ways, the device is similar to a Wi-Fi router.
It sends out a wireless signal. When the signal reaches a human body, it bounces back into the device. By measuring these reflections — the way the human body interacts with the wireless signals — the device can tell if you're excited, happy, angry or sad.
That's the major breakthrough here (and possibly the creepy part) — the ability for a computer to recognize emotion at a distance, without wires — and potentially, without you knowing about it.
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The future of pedagogy has got to allow spontaneous order as a new method in children's education in the presence of the Internet. Internet must permeate the education system.
This is inevitable. The education systems need to prepare accordingly and be ready to embrace the concept. The way we assess needs to change dramatically.
Tenacity matters so greatly because, as she explains, "effort counts twice." To get to any significant achievement requires a multiplication of skill by effort, and to develop and master that prerequisite skill requires a multiplication of talent by (again) effort. So sure, talent is in the equation—but effort is there twice. Though the research mostly remains in the narrative's background, her arguments are regularly supported with appropriate evidence where it exists, and she is careful to clarify when she's going "off-evidence" to provide speculation.
So can you grow your grit over time? Yes, certainly. Dr. Duckworth addresses this question forthrightly, citing important longitudinal research from Dr. Brent Roberts to the effect that qualities associated with grit "do, in fact, change" over time.
How? In a series of breezy and engaging chapters, she offers four core suggestions for how we might grow our own grit from within:
Interest: People grittily pursue what interests them. But it is not as easy as saying "follow your passion." One must carefully experiment, try various activities and try to stick to them for periods of time in order to discover where indeed your true interest lies.
Practice: This is the next element of strengthening grit–but it doesn't mean just any kind of practice. Determined, intentional, goal-setting, progress monitoring, extremely effortful practice is required What's known as "deliberate practice."
Purpose: For many of her gritty exemplars, she notices the work they are so committed to is work on behalf of others—work for a public purpose and social good (though there are exceptions).
Hope: Drawing from her mentor Marty Seligman, she closes this section arguing for the value of optimism as part of the grit formula, and gives particular attention to the Dweckian "growth mindset" as an essential aspect of hope.
In our SSIR article "The Re-Emerging Art of Funding Innovation" last year, we highlighted many specific approaches that innovation funders are now using. But we find that many grantmakers still end up falling into one or more "innovation traps"—common mistakes that can prevent them from succeeding as they try to find and fund breakthrough social change.
Some of these traps are challenges related to execution and implementation; others are more conceptual, rooted in the way organizations think about what innovation is and what it can achieve. As you read through the eight common innovation traps below, ask yourself whether your organization has faced one or more of these problems, and consider sharing your experience in the comments.
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