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At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination reevaluates Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy. The contributors, drawn from many academic disciplines, look at the many manifestations of McLuhan; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen's Annie Hall.
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This collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his work by looking at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in "gaps" or spaces "in between."
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Calling upon the archives of Canadian writers E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), Emily Carr (1871-1945), Sheila Watson (1909-1998), Jane Rule (1931-2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip (1947- ), Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women's archives have been uniquely conceptualized in scholarly discourses and shaped by socio-political forces. She also provides a framework for understanding the creative interventions these women staged to protect their records. Through these case studies, Morra traces the influence of institutions such as national archives and libraries, and regulatory bodies such as border service agencies on the creation, presentation, and preservation of women's archival collections.The deliberate selection of the five literary case studies allows Morra to examine changing archival practices over time, shifting definitions of nationhood and national literary history, varying treatments of race, gender, and sexual orientation, and the ways in which these forces affected the writers' reputations and their archives. Morra also productively reflects on Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever and postmodern feminist scholarship related to the relationship between writing, authority, and identity to showcase the ways in which female writers in Canada have represented themselves and their careers in the public record.
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Monday, May 12, 2014
Monday Mayhem: Why Not Just Do It?
I realize I'm not taking care of myself and I'm just not sure what's up with that. Why not just do it instead of continuing to talk about it? I just can't seem to make a commitment to take care of me. I put everything and everybody ahead of myself. Not in the nurturing type way either...more of a "I'll get around to doing this for myself later..."
I suspect it's because I find the whole thing overwhelming. I also have a tendency to think that things have to be done perfectly or I have failed. Four days of great eating and one day of bad automatically means that I have failed for the week. Crazy logic right? Instead, I should look at that the week is a success because I had four great days, but my mind doesn't see it that way.
Anyway, we'll see what the doctor says and go from there.
Until next time~
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I do the same thing, zero in on what I think I have done wrong or not as good as I had hoped, and brush off all my accomplishments, when it comes to this weight loss process. I don't know why I am that tough on myself, maybe because I'm just convinced I'm going to slip up and fail, so that is what stays in the front of my mind.ReplyDelete
Hope things go well at the doctor today!
It may be crazy logic but it's one that I think most of us struggle with!ReplyDelete
The other thing that popped into my head was....your not taking care of yourself because you don't find t worth your time. Is it because of the negativity in your life that you have little or no control over (yeah, you know what I'm talking about I'm sure...I have a similar negative....). For whatever reason you (and myself included) have to figure out that we are totally worth the time and effort that weight loss entails. We are worthy of being svelte, thin and gorgeous (although I think we already are gorgeous..just a larger gorgeous!!!)
Keep us posted on how the visit with the doctor went!

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"People look at me and say you can't do this," she said. "I'm 5 foot, 7 inches and weigh 125 pounds. But it's not about size. It's about technique and knowing how to use the equipment."
Schreiner, 38, of Granby Center, has been in lumberjacking competitions in this country and Canada for two decades. It's competition that involves timed events such as chopping wood, cutting wood with a crosscut saw, throwing double-edged axes, handling a chainsaw, moving logs along the ground with hooked poles.
She and her husband, Andy, who also competes in the sport, live in a log cabin. The vanity license plate on their truck reads, "CHOPWOOD."
Schreiner works as an educator for the Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District. She's responsible for programs related to environmental education, agriculture, and natural resources.
Saturday, she competed in a host of lumberjack events with other women at the annual NYS Woodsmen's Field Days in Booneville. Next month, she's traveling to the Royal Adelaide Show in Adelaide, southern Australia. She's a member of a seven-person, U.S. team competing in an international lumberjacking competition there.
She talked this past week about this unique, outdoor sport.
Just how did you get into this?
When I was a junior at Churchville-Chili High School, one of my teachers took us on a tour of the Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua and showed us the lumberjack team's practice field. He said that one day he hoped one of his students would compete on that team.
I ended up going to the college and soon after getting on campus attended a team meeting. I did competitive swimming in high school. I've always enjoyed being active. It was something that appealed to me.
Coming home for the first break from college, I remember my mom saying, "I knew you would learn new things in college, but I didn't think running a chainsaw would be one of them."
I stayed with the team and ended up competing against other colleges, such as SUNY ESF and Paul Smith's College. I just stuck with it after college. Nineteen years later, I'm still doing it.
Chainsaws, axes -- its seems like dangerous stuff? What safety precautions do you take?
It's all about proper training and practice. You just don't pick up an ax and start swinging it around.
I've had a few minor injuries. Nothing major. Like three stitches a couple of times. But accidents do happen. I wear special socks made of chain mail (metal mesh) when I do chopping events. And when I use a chainsaw, I have hearing and eye protection. I also wear safety chainsaw chaps (made of Kevlar) to protect my legs.
You must have calloused hands.
I do have callouses on my hands. Sometimes I wear gloves, but often I do not. You want to be able to hold on to the saw or ax handle . You don't want them to slip.
Is there any money in this type of competition? What do you get out of this?
Not much. You can get $25 for a first place. Sometimes as much as $300. You won't get rich doing it.
Meanwhile, I like to travel. We go to competitions mostly in the Northeast. It keeps my husband and I busy on weekends. Those who compete in these contests are a close-knit group. I like the camaraderie."
You must be in great shape. Do you work out often? Lift weights?
I'm not a gym person. I do a lot of strength-building activities, manual labor around the house and yard. We heat our home with firewood. My husband downs trees in our woods. I cut, split and stack the wood. During the winter I play recreational co-ed volleyball, walk on a treadmill. And of course, living in Oswego County, I shovel a lot of snow.
You said you compete professionally. Do you have any sponsors or supporters?
Andy and I receive sponsorship from Wood-Mizer Portable Sawmills (the northeast branch of the company is in nearby Hannibal) and Wood Mizer Blades. And for my trip to Adelaide, I received donations from members of the Oswego County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs and the Mad River Club.
Do you have an custom-made lumberjacking equipment?
The average chainsaw for competition weighs about 15 to 20 pounds. My husband made me a chainsaw this winter using a motor from a dirt bike. It weighs about 45 pounds. I've been practicing with it. It's challenging and I enjoy it very much. And it's loud."


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Celiac.com 08/02/2002 - The Bishops National Liturgy Office in Italy recently approved a low-gluten Eucharistic host made by a specific German firm for use by worshippers who have celiac disease. The hosts have been approved by the scientific committee of the Italian Celiac Association and are made using Codex Alimentarius quality wheat starch that contains 0.0374 milligrams of gluten. Additionally, the Vaticans Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has also approved the hosts for use in the Eucharist. According to the Catholic Church the bread used in the Eucharist must be made exclusively from wheat, and the German-made hosts are currently the only ones produced that meet all of the Catholic Churchs requirements.
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I take exception to your article "Bishops in Italy Approve a German-made Low Gluten Eucharitsic Host." It does not tell the whole truth. The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Clyde, MO, USA have been in the business of producing and distributing low gluten altar breads for over five years now. They are made from all wheaten starch, have the backing of the USCCB and Vatican and have made it possible for many people around the world to receive Holy Communion under bread and wine (if not contaminated.) We have been in the altar bread business for 100 years and are thrilled with the work of the Holy Spirit through our research and development of these new hosts.
Hopefully more thorough research can be done in the future before other "facts" are stated in your articles. May God be glorified in all things.
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HELSINKI - More than 2,500 people took to the streets of Helsinki on Thursday to express their support for Israel.
The rally, one of several that took place in Europe and the United States, was meant to counter the widespread condemnation of the Jewish state over the confrontation aboard the Turkish-owned flagship of the Gaza flotilla.
Demonstrators carried thousands of Israeli and Finnish flags as they marched toward the seaport, chanting pro-Israel slogans and singing Jewish songs, including the ever-popular "Hevenu Shalom Aleichem" (We brought peace unto you).
Zek Moyal, an Israeli living in Helsinki, told YNet news that most of the demonstrators were not Jewish.
"They came here following a call by a pro-Israeli Christian organization, which coordinated the event with the Jewish community," Moyal said.
Click here to watch the beginning of the Helsinki march and here to see the rally in New York City.
"Seeing this support brought a lot of joy, particularly in light of the local media's blitz on Israel in the days that followed the incident at sea," he said.
"The picture is beginning to balance out due to the photos of the weapons that were found on the [Gaza-bound] ship [Mavi Mamara]," Moyal said.
Finland's Jewish community numbers about 1,500, 200 of whom are Israeli.
Israeli Ambassador to Finland Avi Granot said seeing the thousands of flag-carrying demonstrators supporting Israel's right to defend itself against its enemies "was very heartwarming."
Pro-Israel rallies were also held in Vienna, Brussels, Hamburg, London, Montreal, New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami.
The rally in Los Angeles drew a big crowd, according to the LA Times.
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I was sad to read that Dennis Ritchie has passed away. Anyone who has tried his or her hand at coding, will recognise Ritchie's name and perhaps you've also worked with C or one of the many programming languages it has inspired.
Today's IT would be very different without Ritchie and his co-coders at Bell Labs. As one of the developers of UNIX, Ritchie's contribution to computing may not be as obvious as for instance that of Steve Jobs but he was arguably more important. Just about everything we have today, like the Internet, is based on Ritchie's effort in some form though.
Here's Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie receiving the National Medal of Technology from former US President Bill Clinton:
Fairly cool, too, that the US gives out medals for technology. Now, I can't mention Ritchie and C without code, so here you go.
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OK, I'll admit that the new iPhone 4S didn't bowl me over. It is just too… similar to the existing iPhone 4. Not the fairest of criteria, I know, but I blame Apple for spoiling us.
This week, iOS5, the operating system upgrade arrived for Apple's i-devices. It seems to be something of a forklift upgrade, one that didn't go painlessly for my friends or me for that matter.
The upgrade failed at first on my old iPhone 3G S which went into Recovery mode and had to be restored. Thank goodness, Apple's back-up worked, and after a while, the phone came back to life with iOS5 on it. It was a surprisingly long process too, taking almost two hours.
Was the upgrade worth it? Yes, I'd say so. Being able to get updates without plugging the phone in with USB and firing up iTunes is almost reason enough to upgrade to iOS5.
One feature that telcos really would rather not have seen is iMessage. Lame name apart, this will hurt telco texting revenues as it moves messages away from SMS, into Wi-Fi and 3G data streams.
With iMessage, you don't need to worry about how many texts you buy in advance; you can send and receive as many as you like. What's more, iMessage lets you send pictures, videos, audio, contact cards, and locations as well as text. There are delivery and read receipts, you can see when someone's typing a response, and the conversations can be shared with all your iOS devices.
You might start off a conversation via SMS, and continue it over iMessage - that is, over a data connection. That alone will make carriers wince, as SMS termination rates used to cancel each other out. You send a text via SMS, and receive a response via SMS; not necessarily so anymore with iMessage.
Blackberry customers will take notice of iMessage for two reasons: one, the connections can be encrypted and two, BB Messenger and a bunch of other RIM services are slowly recovering from massive outages.
Then there's iCloud which is partly a feature with Google and Microsoft, and an improved and renamed MobileMe. Google won't be happy about it: Apple has decided that you sync your contacts with either iCloud or Google, but not both.
Irritatingly enough, it looks like NZ is missing out on features as usual. For instance, iMessage doesn't appear to have group messaging enabled, and one of things US media has raved about as the reason you'd buy an iPhone 4S, Siri, doesn't appear to be on the horizon for us. Some unkind observers say it's because Siri only comes with UK, US and Australian accents but… surely not?
In actual fact, the iPhone 4S doesn't seem to be on the immediate horizon for NZ either. Very odd that, as NZ is "in the future" timezone-wise compared to other countries, and was first to sell the iPhone 3G.
Chris Rawson at The Unofficial Apple Weblog speculates that this is due to Apple being hacked off with Vodafone's handling of the iPhone 4 launch last year. Again, surely not? http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/05/opinion-delayed-new-zealand-iphone-4s-launch-shows-the-perils-o/
Ah well. We'll get the iPhone 4S at some point. While you wait, this is what it looks like inside, courtesy of the good folks at iFixit. Screw that pentalobe.
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Genentech's last hope for retaining the metastatic breast cancer (MBC) indication of Avastin rests with FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., after an advisory panel on Wednesday unanimously recommended reversing the agency's approval of the $7.7 billion drug for the disease.
In a trio of 6–0 votes, the Oncology Drug Advisory Committee (ODAC) sided with agency staff officials, who concluded that Avastin does not prolong overall survival in patients with breast cancer or offer a benefit in slowing the progression of the disease that outweighs the drug's risks.
Commissioner Hamburg, however, has final say on whether the FDA will ultimately side with or overrule ODAC. Until then, FDA's 2008 approval remains on the use of Avastin with the chemo drug paclitaxel for women with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. The agency will accept public comment through July 28—a two-week extension of the original July 14 deadline, extended at the request of Genentech, a unit of Roche.
"There was some hope that perhaps there was a subset of patients that responded favorably, and it seems that that's not the case," said Natalie Compagni-Portis, Psy.D., ODAC's lone patient representative, according to a hearing transcript furnished in real time by the FDA. "I also was concerned that the likelihood of this study being actually enrolled in a timely way would be compromised, which means that women would continue to be subjected to an unproven treatment with known serious risks, the risk of death, and no guarantee of increased survival or an improved quality of life."
Hal Barron, M.D., Genentech's chief medical officer and head of global product development, said in a statement that the company was "very disappointed" by ODAC's recommendation, and hoped that Commissioner Hamburg would overrule the panel and retain Avastin with paclitaxel for MBC.
"We remain ready to collaborate with the FDA to find a solution that is in the best interest of patients who need Avastin," Dr. Barron said.
During a two-day hearing that ended Wednesday, Genentech proposed conducting a new clinical study examining the effect on MBC of Avastin with paclitaxel, compared to paclitaxel alone in patients who have not received chemotherapy for metastatic Her2-negative breast cancer. It would also assess VEGF-A, which has been found to be a biomarker for patients more likely to benefit from the treatment.
ODAC panelists and FDA staffers expressed doubt that a new study would show much better results than earlier studies. One of those studies (E2100) showed a 5.5-month increase in progression free survival (PFS) from 5.8 to 11.3 months, based up on which FDA conditionally approved the MBC indication for Avastin in 2008.
Last year, however, FDA began efforts to withdraw the MBC indication in line with a Center for Drug Evaluation and Research recommendation after other clinical studies combining Avastin with other chemo drugs failed to replicate or surpass the duration of PFS seen in E2100. Genentech said the later studies still showed some PFS benefit linked to Avastin use, and that the initial 5.5-month PFS was the largest in median PFS observed in a first-line MBC trial.
Genentech and the FDA clashed over what the primary endpoint of clinical studies should be: PFS, as the drug developer is seeking, or overall survival, as the agency wants.
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Morgan delights in Mumbai success
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Eoin Morgan produced the perfect shot in the nick of time as England finished the year on an exhilarating high tonight.
England's stand-in Twenty20 captain cannot remember previously hitting the last ball of a match for six to win.
But that is what he did under the Wankhede Stadium lights to settle a thrilling outcome in the most emphatic style after England had needed two to tie and three to win with only Ashok Dinda's final delivery left.
The tourists can therefore add a 1-1 draw, with an under-strength side, to a famous first Test series victory in India for almost 28 years.
For Morgan personally, there was great satisfaction at leading from the front - as did Alastair Cook so memorably in the 2-1 Test success - with an unbeaten 49 from only 26 balls as England achieved the highest run chase in their Twenty20 history.
It seemed they had been given plenty to do when India piled up 177 for eight.
But openers Michael Lumb, who struck 50, and Alex Hales laid the platform for Morgan and Jos Buttler, in an unbroken stand of 32 from just 13 balls, to overcome the odds for a six-wicket win.
The captain completed the task by striking Dinda straight back over his head almost into the media box.
Asked whether he can recall pulling off a better shot under pressure, he said: "I don't think so. It's certainly up there.
"There was one against Pakistan a couple of years ago that sailed into the stands as well. But the last ball of the game, and an atmosphere like that, I don't think so."
Morgan has been at the centre of many successful run-chases, for club and country, but does not think he has ever hit the last ball for six when he had to.
"Off the top of my head, this is the first time - and what a time, a full house at the Wankhede," he enthused.
"The last three or four overs, we just kept saying 'we're one big over away'. They bowled quite well, and the ball stuck in the wicket a wee bit. But we always backed ourselves to clear the ropes.
"Jos came in and played a fantastic supporting role, just kept bouncing the ball off the sightscreen - which does help confidence, to 'take it deep'.
"When you get to that point, the bowlers are under as much pressure - if not more.
"All the fatigue training that we've done is for that sort of stuff. We do test ourselves, and it's great to get the results and get over the line."
Morgan kept his cool even after Dinda pulled out in his delivery stride at his first attempt to bowl the final ball.
He added: "It didn't really bother me. I couldn't blame the tactics, to disrupt the rhythm of the batters. But it does the same thing to a bowler, because he only asks himself more questions.
"Jos and I just kept saying 'keep things as simple as we can' - and it paid off."
Morgan's opposite number Mahendra Singh Dhoni was partially responsible for setting such a tough target, with 38 runs off only 18 balls from number seven.
He could be forgiven for thinking too, before Morgan's last clinical strike, that he and Yuvraj Singh, with 3-17, had perhaps done enough.
But Dhoni said: "In cricket, you don't expect - because when you expect, you get disappointment.
"You have to accept it was a good shot. The bowler failed to execute what he wanted to bowl, and Eoin Morgan batted really well."
Morgan took charge, in Stuart Broad's injury-enforced absence, of an especially inexperienced squad - and believes he has seen very encouraging signs for England's limited-overs future.
"I'm pretty impressed with how the guys held their own," he said. "It's disappointing not to have won the series - expectations are quite high with English cricket, which shows where we are at - but to get a draw is a good achievement.
"It is hugely satisfying, especially after the disappointment of losing the other day. This is something else, a great feeling."
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Maumee, OHIO (October 01, 2010) - The countdown is on until the expiration of the federal Energy Tax Credit on Dec. 31, 2010, so homeowners need to act fast to take advantage of the opportunity.
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, homeowners can claim up to a $1,500 tax credit for qualified energy-efficient home improvements made to their principal residence now through the end of the year. This is a tax credit, not a deduction – meaning you get a dollar off your taxes for every qualifying dollar you spend.
For more information, visit www.myenergytax.com. Here you will find an educational video, a list of frequently asked questions to help explain the opportunity at hand, and the tools needed to claim the credit.
"Even though many homeowners may be thinking twice about making home improvements in the current economic climate, this tax credit is a great incentive to add beauty, function and value to your home at a significant discount," says Jerry Oleshansky, vice president of marketing, Therma-Tru.
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Therma-Tru is pleased to offer homeowners a variety of energy-efficient entry and patio doors that qualify for the Energy Tax Credit. In fact, most Therma-Tru products qualify by having a U-Factor and Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC) of 0.30 or lower, which is a measure of a product's energy efficiency. For a complete list of qualified products, visit www.thermatru.com/taxcredit.
The tax credit is based on 30 percent of the cost of the product, up to $1,500. For example, a $5,000 purchase of a qualifying entry door system will earn the maximum tax credit of $1,500. Installation and labor costs do not qualify for the tax credit. However, the door must be installed by Dec. 31, 2010, to qualify on 2010 tax returns.
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A bill that would exempt interisland flights from the state general excise and use taxes on jet fuel - a measure that would help the state's smaller airlines - has been introduced once again by Maui Rep. Angus McKelvey.
Larger carriers, that fly from the Mainland and international destinations do not pay the general excise and use taxes, but carriers who fly only in-state do, said McKelvey, a Democrat who represents West Maui, Maalaea and north Kihei.
It's a matter of interstate commerce, which Hawaii cannot tax, and intrastate commerce, which it can, according to state House official Jason Parasco.
"This bill impacts everyone because, as an island state, we are extremely dependent on interisland air travel, especially in ensuring that the smaller rural areas in Hawaii are well-served and have access to the other areas of the state for business, as well as staying connected with loved ones," said McKelvey. "In these times of rising costs, we need to look at what we can do to benefit everyone."
The Maui lawmaker said that the measure, which he introduced two years ago without success, is aimed at leveling the playing field among airlines, increasing competition, growing flights into smaller airports and providing another delivery method for goods.
He recalled in his youth flights from Waimea on the Big Island landing at the old Kaanapali airstrip filled with flowers for the resorts for Valentine's Day.
"It's another idea to create more demand and competition for small routes and to bring them back," he said Tuesday, noting that he didn't believe he could fly directly from Kapalua West-Maui Airport to Waimea-Kohala Airport any more.
He did not have an estimate for the cost of the tax exemption but complained that legislative analysts don't take into consideration the potential economic positives in their calculations.
He added that some of his "Oahu-centric" colleagues in the Legislature don't understand the importance of air travel in the Neighbor Islands.
"Since the Superferry ceased operations, interisland transportation has once again been limited to air travel," he said in a news release about the bill. "This has coincided with a rise in fuel costs that has put the islands farther away from one another. This legislation would help reduce the costs carried on to consumers and bring the islands together."
The bill does have a sunset clause in it in case the airlines do not pass on the tax savings to the flying public, McKelvey said.
This measure would benefit airlines such as go!, Mokulele Airlines and Island Air, said Parasco.
"Anything that reduces our cost in this cost-sensitive industry is a welcome thing for us," said Michael Rodyniuk, executive vice chairman of Gavarnie Holding, parent company of Island Air, on Tuesday.
The House Committee on Veterans, Military & International Affairs and Culture and the Arts will hear the bill, HB1128, this morning.
* Lee Imada can be reached at email@example.com.
* This article contains a correction from the article published on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. Jet fuel tax exemption. Hawaiian Airlines is exempt from the general excise and use taxes for fuel for its out-of-state flights, but it pays those taxes for fuel purchased for interisland flights, said Keoni Wagner, Hawaiian Airlines spokesman. A story on Page A3 on Wednesday provided incorrect information on the airline and its payment of general excise and use taxes for fuel due to information provided to The Maui News.


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On Feb 7, 3:51*pm, Larry Gusaas
> On 2010/02/07 3:09 PM *lafill wrote:
> > Thanks. *I'll try it. *Delay in replying because I wasn't monitoring
> > Google groups for reply.
> I'm curious about your comment about not monitoring Google groups since
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> Larry I. Gusaas
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> "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." - Edgard Varese
I'm using Thunderbird as my Mozilla.Support.Thunderbird news group
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By the way, new incoming mail from the organizations that are a
problem won't arrive until later in the week so I haven't yet been
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The Texas Panhandle's rate of default on student loans, about 19 percent, is above the state average of about 16 percent, officials from OpportunityTexas, a program with the Center for Public Policy Priorities, said Tuesday.
"You find about one in five students that are residing in this area are defaulting on their student loans," said Don Baylor Jr., senior policy analyst of the Center for Public Policy Priorities. "If you look at the profile of the Panhandle compared to other areas from the state from an income perspective, it's not that much different, so I think we were surprised, especially given the fact that there aren't a lot of four-year institutions. Presumably, a lot of what's driving that could be community colleges and two-year colleges."
Baylor shared data from the organization's Texas Regional Opportunity Index about the Panhandle during the Amarillo Area Foundation's annual meeting Tuesday afternoon. While the region had higher rates of student defaults and uninsured children, the Texas Panhandle outpaces the state in terms of labor force participation, which is about 87 percent, about 9 percent higher than the state average.
"We don't have a lot of people who are able to work who are either not working or looking for work," Baylor said. "That's probably not a very big surprise, but it's close to nine in 10 adults that are actually engaged in the workforce here."
He said the Texas Panhandle has a strong financial institution presence. Laura Rosen, OpportunityTexas Coordinator, said all area school districts that responded to a survey from last fall shared they were interested in more financial education for their students.
A recent program launched by OpportunityTexas, called Smarter Texans Save, seeks to teach kids about money management by putting a Happy State Bank Kid's Bank in 18 Amarillo Independent School District schools. Parents can set up a savings account for students, who learn about financial responsibility and decisions.
"We feel like focusing on financial stability is so important in tandem with work with education, because so much that keeps students from succeeding is financial issues happening at home," said Rosen.
The Center for Public Policy Priorities also screened "A Fighting Chance," a documentary that follows five families through their experience living in poverty.
"The way to get any movement started is to bring people's stories out and into the light," said Dr. Frances Deviney, senior research associate with OpportunityTexas. "The data is helpful to give a broad view, but until you see faces, it's hard to make those numbers move in the way they can."
KACV-TV will air the documentary at 8:30 p.m. Thursday.


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Skip to comments.Fox News Mole Reveals Himself as 8-Year Employee, Worked on The OReilly Factor
Posted on 04/11/2012 6:48:46 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The Fox News employee hired by Gawker to write about his experience inside the network has revealed himself as an associate producer on The OReilly Factor.
Joe Muto, who joined Fox News in 2004, says he has been suspended, with pay and was escorted out of Fox News headquarters today by two nice gentlemen from security.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediabistro.com ...
And this puke expects praise and accolades for lacking even the basic amount of professional loyalty, morals and ethics. Just another scumbag gonna write a tell all book.
My main beef with Joe Muto, is not that he was a mole.
It's that he evidently did nothing to stop O'Reilly from interupting his guests, and constantly talking about himself.
Yeah, but he dug deep and wrote a hard-hitting expose about the Fox news bathroom. Pic's and all, very enlightening stuff.
But, but, but - O'Reilly is just "lookin' out for the folks!"
Maybe Fox should sue the employee and Gawker... An employee owes a duty of loyalty to his/her employer.
I read his first two posts. All he found to complain about was the quality of the bathrooms, before they were remodeled. It's not quite the stuff of a Pulitzer.
I wonder if Joe Muto was the O'Reilly staffer who put the hit on Free Republic with the manufactured comments in that ambush interview I walked in to several years ago?
The irony is he just destroyed any credibility it might have had.
If it is, it makes oreilly even more naive and stupid then he already is. Allowing himself to be used in order to marginalize conservatives. I would bet he likely is that architect as well as others he could shape Bill's interviews with.
Fox would have to be idiotic to not include clauses in their employment contracts that are standard for many businesses today. For example:
1) Non-competition agreement. For a given number of years you cannot work for a competitor.
2) The company owns all patents and copyrights and derivatives created while in their employ. "Go ahead and write a tell all book. We will get all the gross profits from it. You and the publisher get nothing."
3) The company owns all proprietary information that could be of benefit to our competitors.
4) All contract disputes must be settled in binding arbitration, in a place and by an arbitrator chosen by the company.
That segment was nothing like it was presented to me in the pre-interview that was done with someone else with the Factor.
Nope, no spin there, not even part of a revolution.
He was definitely not looking out for BOR!
"Worked on The OReilly Factor"
Now there is a surprise.... </sarc>
I saw a TV show about Gawker, so I had a look at the website. Had never seen it before. It is pathetic. Half its stories seem to be about homosexuals and its hyper-active language must be written by high-schoolers.
It has failure written all over it. Why some loser would sacrifice his career to be part of it is beyond me.
I Am the Fox Mole, And Im Still Here
Complaining about bathrooms is consistent with someone full of s***.
Was Gawker his employer?
Use corporate espionage laws against him. He probably violated his employee contract with Fox News somewhere along the line with the undisclosed employment.
I hear Muto spent a lot of time sitting in the Fox News bathroom.
No, but Gawker incited him to breach his duty. See Food Lion v. ABC...
Food Lion eventually lost, but only because they couldn't show damages.
My news writing was once nominated for a Pulitzer. All I can tell you is Pulitzers aren't what they used to be! I think Muto's bathroom expose qualifies for the new bottom-of-the-barrel Pulitzer standard. He may even be awarded a Nobel Prize for literature as a companion to Obamao's Peace Prize.
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Afro Monk's recent hot picks!August 13th by John-Michael Tags: ben samples, Elkowitz, Freddy Todd, Gladkill, Great Scott, Kraddy, Protohype, White Noise
There has been a great influx of fantastic music going around. A few of my producer friends that I'm contact with have put out some banging tunes together in the recent weeks. I figure I put this together instead of posting a Fire Friday Mix!
I wanted to share with you all some of the music I've been jamming out too. As time progresses it seems like more and more are jumping into this whole bassy glitch scene and at the sametime the producers who have been around keep getting better.
Hope you enjoy as much as I have!
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Sometimes the Charlotte Bobcats play better than their record indicates. Earlier this week on ESPN's First Take, NBA analyst Stephen A. Smith briefly applauded the Bobcats for their improvement in effort this season, coming off the heels of a close game against the Miami Heat. Wednesday wasn't one of those nights. The Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Bobcats 122-95. All-star Kyrie Irving had 22 points in 28 minutes and was perfect from the three point line. Rookies Dion Waiters and Tristan Thompson combined for 36 points.
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PC News
AMD support small guy at ECTS
Jolly good show, chaps.
This years ECTS show, at Earls Court in London, will see AMD sponsoring a unique 'Developer Pavilion', an opportunity for smaller developers to showcase their games for free, on top-notch AMD machines of course. A nice idea, as it allows developers unable to afford the vast expense of exhibiting, the opportunity to display their game to the press and potential publishers. Which can only be a good thing. Sixteen stations will be available, and the area will be publicised by AMD prior to the show. Developers interested in taking up this opportunity should speak to AMD forthwith.
Latest News
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360 after all
- Tomonobu Itagaki's Devil's Third gets a release date
- Adr1ft is coming to PC and consoles at the end of the summer
- EA gives the new Mirror's Edge a name – Mirror's Edge Catalyst
- ZombiU PS4 and Xbox One port reportedly in the works
- Mike Bithell's Volume to be released this August
- Gearbox's new shooter Battleborn gets a pre-E3 trailer
- Steam Controller launches in October, Steam Machines arrive in November
- Gears Of War devs Black Tusk change their name to The Coalition ahead of E3


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by Richard Pollak
In this zippy suspense novel, hero Daniel Cooper is a crusading reporter for a weekly muckraking magazine in New York. Then Cooper has an epileptic seizure—the first he has suffered since his teen years two decades ago. A murder has been committed in a rundown neighborhood building that a developer wants cleared of tenants at any cost. Cooper is found semiconscious by his girlfriend, a book editor, who sticks by him through a harrowing chase in search of the killer. This is a first novel by a top-flight journalist who was the founding editor of the journalism review MORE and a contributor to many magazines. It tells everything anyone could want to know about epilepsy, its dangers, its mysteries, treatment and literary history (Dostoyevsky was an epileptic and so was his character Prince Myshkin in The Idiot). The Episode is just as thorough in its description of the real estate wars in New York and the unsavory characters who wheel and deal, displacing the poor for yet another grand high-rent project. The climax, which is set in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, shows that the author knows all about that place too. The plot is just serviceable. It's the reporting on epilepsy and New York corruption that make The Episode such a compelling book. (New American Library, $16.95)
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Kant: Libertarian or Progressive?
This is a post for philosophers; my apologies to readers who have different interests.
I want to suggest that, perhaps, libertarians can claim Kant as one of them. I don't say that this is the true interpretation (whatever that means) of Kant's political philosophy, but that it is a plausible interpretation.
In the Doctrine of Right, Kant addresses the problem of justified coercion. He writes that coercion is justified when it is a hindrance to a hindrance to freedom (Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, McGregor ed., 1992, p. 237). That is why state coercion against a criminal is justified: he is using his freedom to hinder someone else's freedom. The formula may also justify the use of state coercion, in the form of taxes, to support institutions that are necessary to protect freedom –courts, police, armies. This interpretation, of course, sits well with libertarian doctrine. The state's only job is to protect us against one another and against foreign enemies. But does the formula justify redistributive taxation?
Progressives think that Kant has the resources to justify coercive redistribution of wealth. To get there, they expand the notion of freedom to include positive freedom as well as negative freedom. Negative freedom is the absence of obstacles, barriers or constraints. Positive freedom is the possibility of acting — or the fact of acting — in such a way as to take control of one's life and realize one's fundamental purposes (I adopt these definitions from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.) The progressive Kantian argument, then, is that once positive freedom is included in the formula, the state can hinder my freedom to exact resources that will help realize someone else's positive freedom. Just as the state can tax me to fund institutions needed to protect negative freedom, so the state can tax me to subsidize folks whose positive freedom is impaired. (This is not the same argument as the one made by some modern Kantians, such as Ripstein and Weinrib, to justify the state's duty to support the poor.)
Whatever the intrinsic merit of this view (and here I say nothing about this), it is hard to infer it from Kant's formula. For Kant says that coercion is justified against someone who hinders someone else's freedom, yet the person who is taxed for redistributive purposes is not hindering anyone's freedom. The verb "hinders" denotes an action, not an omission. Just because someone is relatively well-off doesn't mean she is hindering someone else's positive freedom. In fact, the concept of hindering someone's positive freedom makes no sense: if I am hindering someone from pursuing his goals, then it is already a case of negative freedom. Someone's insufficient positive freedom is not caused by the person whose wallet the state is now raiding. (By the way, there are isolated passages elsewhere in Kant that suggest that he did not endorse state coercion to realize positive freedom, but they are inconclusive, especially because he does say some obscure things about the duty to aid the poor.)
I don't want to be misunderstood. I don't claim here that state redistribution is unjustified. I don't even claim that a modified, jazzed-up version of Kantian principles (such as Korsgaard's or Ripstein's) would not justify redistribution. I only claim that those who seek support in Kant's text should realize that, perhaps, progressive Kantianism had a pretty conspicuous dissenter: Kant himself.
I think the Libertarian vs Progressive argument over Kant has in recent years focused on Rawls use of Kant and the Nozick's response to this. Rawls undoubtedly thought he was kantian(I think he even states this explicitly) and he taught extensively on Kant when at Harvard. The argument centres around the idea of not using someone as a means to anothers end, something Rawls is very keen on with his two moral powers. There are questions (in Nozicks mind) about whether redistributive taxation uses someone as a means to another's end. I wonder what the blog authors views are on this?
Fernando Teson
Yes. Kant considered himself a Kantian in two important ways. First, as you point out, by endorsing the anti-utilitarian idea that aggregate welfare cannot be the goal of just institutions. Second, by adopting Kant's notion of the social contract that prescribes the most extensive freedom compatible with an equal freedom for all.
"For Kant says that coercion is justified against someone who hinders someone else's freedom, yet the person who is taxed for redistributive purposes is not hindering anyone's freedom."
I don't know that you do enough to establish this, Professor. If there is a grove of fruit trees that the two of us rely on for sustenance, and I take all of the fruit and lock it away, even if I can't hope to eat all of it before some is wasted due to spoilage, haven't I hindered your freedom to eat the fruit? (Of course, outside of short blog hypotheticals, there would far too much available food for me to monopolize it all, no matter how industriously I approached the task, but hopefully, you take my point.) This isn't a make a "taking more than their fair share" argument, but to say that if a freedom relies on access to finite resources, so that we have conceptualized a need for access to those resources to realize a right, isn't insuring a certain minimum distribution acceptable in Kant's understanding of a the allowable use of force to prevent hindrance of a right?
Fernando Teson
Fair enough. However, I think Kant would ask who has property rights over the grove. For Kant, it is essential that rights be legally defined in the civil condition.
I don't claim to be an expert on Kant, but based on what I have read, your interpretation is right. However, this reading raises the same question that is commonly used as an objection to libertarianism. That is, opponents argue the doctrine would call for letting innocent widows and orphans starve in the streets rather than employ nonconsensual taxation to save them.
However, as you know, Kant also held that we have positive duties of virtue, including beneficience. But, since the exercise of this broad obligation necessarily involves moral discretion, coercion to enforce it cannot generally be justified. I am wondering, though, whether in extreme cases we might interpret Kant as holding that a duty of beneficience is enforceable to the extent necessary to preserve innocent life, in that w/o such coercion the lives (and "freedom") of rational agents will end. In the context of Kant's thinking about our positive duties, I wonder if "hindering" can include extreme indifference to the fate of other rational agents.
Fernando Teson
Agree. As I said n my comment to Dan, I think Kant argues for a minimal safety net to prevent people from dying of hunger, etc.. Above that threshold, it is dubious whether his writing support a standing power of the state to redistribute wealth.
The Categorical Imperative is a game-theoretic concept that (potentially) resolves this question. We agree strategically to a social contract that both defends our liberty and prevents us from starving should circumstances go against us in the marketplace. We choose thereby do to other what we would have them do to us. A Nash equilibrium of the classical liberal state emerges with strong defence of negative liberty (not using anyone as means), and assurance of a frugal social minimum in situations of extreme distress.
A detailed argument on the classical liberal social contract using this game theoretic approach is outlined in the manuscript I'm currently writing – its draft is available here: http://discovery.sabhlokcity.com/
Sanjeev Sabhlok
Fernando Teson
Very interesting; look forward to reading it!
Good post. In my view, your case against Kantian progressives doesn't seem to depend on the possibility of drawing a distinction between negative and positive freedom, and saying that Kantian libertarians embrace the former, whereas Kantian libertarians the latter. And if that were your case, it would be unsuccessful, because negative freedom suffers from conceptual and value-instability. Cfr. Spector, H. Autonomy and Rights (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 53-63.
Your argument against Kantian progressives relies on denying the moral symmetry between acts and omissions.
I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do here.
If the question is whether Kant's view has the resources to justify an enforceable duty to support the poor, then the one thing we can say conclusively is that Kant himself thought so. His reasoning for it is admittedly cryptic, but that Kant believes there is such a duty is pretty unambiguous. "For reasons of state," he says, "the government is therefore authorized to constrain the wealthy to provide the means of sustenance to those who are unable to provide even for their most necessary natural needs" (Metaphysics of Morals 6:326). Why does Kant think this? I don't know, but it might help you to look at the part that comes before the "therefore" in that sentence I just quoted–you know, the argument–rather than speculating about what Kant might say based on the combined evidence of one sentence taken from 50 pages earlier in the book.
If the question is whether the "Progressive Kantian Argument" you describe would work as an extension of Kant's own view, then you're right that it wouldn't. Kant wouldn't have supported state coercion to realize positive freedom, because Kant's conception of freedom is quite different from positive freedom as Berlin understands it. In the Doctrine of Right Kant understands freedom as "independence from being constrained by another's choice" (6:236), which doesn't map on to the positive/negative liberty distinction very neatly. So, yeah, it shouldn't surprise us that Kant wouldn't be in favour of state coercion to advance a conception of liberty that he didn't hold.
As far as I can tell, your argument is: "Here's a sentence from Kant that seems to have libertarian implications. Let's see if that sentence is consistent with an argument I just made up based on a concept of liberty that Kant didn't hold, to the effect that redistribution is justified. It isn't. Therefore Kant was probably against redistribution."
Fernando Teson
I agree. I don't think the Kantian text supports a standing power of the state to realize or equalize positive freedom. On the other hand, I am convinced that the text you and Dan cite argues for a safety net to save the poorest in society. Notice his emphasis on the necessary link of the state to the preservation of its members, which suggests a minimal safety net, not a duty to reduce inequality.
My problem was not with the claim that Kant wouldn't have supported redistribution for the sake of realizing or equalizing positive freedom. That seems to me obviously right, if only because the very idea of "positive freedom" is quite foreign to Kant's political and legal thought.
My problem–or maybe better, my confusion–is a bit more simple-minded than that. I'm confused about whether you're trying to show that that Kant *himself* was a sort of libertarian, or whether you're trying to make the claim that contemporary progressive Kantians are accepting inconsistent premises.
Regarding the latter claim: it's true that Kant's account of justified coercion (as a hindrance to a hindrance to freedom) doesn't justify coercion to realize positive freedom. But then all you've shown is that progressive Kantians must either reject Kant's account of when coercion is justified, or that they have to adopt a different conception of freedom. That doesn't strike me as a particularly thorny dilemma. It seems to me that the progressive Kantian could easily abandon either or both of those premises and still call themselves a "Kantian." (I don't think Rawls, for instance, accepts the Kantian account of when coercion is justified, but you'd be hard pressed to say that Rawls isn't a "Kantian" in some familial sense; Ripstein and Weinrib, as I understand them, reject the idea of "positive freedom" in favor of an account of freedom more in line with Kant's own view that political freedom consists is independence from being constrained by the choices of others. And it seems you could easily imagine a view that rejects both the Kantian account of justified coercion and the idea of positive freedom that would still be Kant-y enough to be called "Kantian"). Thus showing that these two premises are in tension doesn't get you very far, because I don't see why a Kantian has to be committed to either.
On the other hand, regarding the former claim: If you're trying to say that Kant *himself* was a kind of libertarian, then your argument is extremely weak. You need to look at Kant's own arguments about redistribution, rather than just speculating about what he might say.
For what it's worth, my own understanding of Kant's argument for redistribution (and I studied the Doctrine of Right under Ripstein, so I admit that perhaps my reading is biased) is this: the problem with the destitute person is he has no freedom of choice. That is, anything he might do, any choice he might make, is completely subject to the will of others, because without their help he has no means at his disposal to realize any of his ends, whatever they happen to be. Even his continued existence, his very survival, depends upon others' private charity. That is inconsistent with a system of universal freedom, according to Kant. Thus it is necessary that the state provide the poor with a minimal safety net.
The "safety net" can't be provided through private charity, according to Kant, because that doesn't solve the underlying problem: even if a system of private charity is quite generous, still the destitute person survives only at the mercy of others' choices. It's only if the poor are guaranteed a certain minimal level of resources, as a matter of right rather than as a matter of mere beneficence, that their freedom of choice is secured from the choices of others.
If that's Kant's argument, then you're right that Kant's argument justifies only a minimal safety net, and in that sense it is somewhat more "libertarian" than contemporary progressives might like. But in another sense Kant's argument is radically progressive, in the sense that it justifies an unconditional right to public assistance for anyone who might need it.
Anyway you don't have to accept my reading of Kant's argument. But if you want to talk about Kant's views on redistribution, you do have to actually talk about Kant's views on redistribution.
Kant is fairly explicit in the Metaphysics of Morals about the scope of the right of taxation, including as it relates to relief of the poor:
The sovereign, as undertaker of the duty of the people, has the
right to tax them for purposes essentially connected with their own
preservation. Such are, in particular, the relief of the poor,
foundling asylums, and ecclesiastical establishments, otherwise
designated charitable or pious foundations.
1. The people have in fact united themselves by their common will
into a society, which has to be perpetually maintained; and for this
purpose they have subjected themselves to the internal power of the
state, in order to preserve the members of this society even when they
are not able to support themselves. By the fundamental principle of
the state, the government is justified and entitled to compel those
who are able, to furnish the means necessary to preserve those who are
not themselves capable of providing for the most necessary wants of
nature. For the existence of persons with property in the state
implies their submission under it for protection and the provision
by the state of what is necessary for their existence; and accordingly
the state founds a right upon an obligation on their part to
contribute of their means for the preservation of their fellow
citizens. This may be carried out by taxing the property or the
commercial industry of the citizens, or by establishing funds and
drawing interest from them, not for the wants of the state as such,
which is rich, but for those of the people. And this is not to be done
merely by voluntary contributions, but by compulsory exactions as
state–burdens, for we are here considering only the right of the state
in relation to the people. Among the voluntary modes of raising such
contributions, lotteries ought not to be allowed, because they
increase the number of those who are poor, and involve danger to the
public property. It may be asked whether the relief of the poor
ought to be administered out of current contributions, so that every
age should maintain its own poor; or whether this were better done
by means of permanent funds and charitable institutions, such as
widows' homes, hospitals, etc.? And if the former method is the
better, it may also be considered whether the means necessary are to
be raised by a legal assessment rather than by begging, which is
generally nigh akin to robbing. The former method must in reality be
regarded as the only one that is conformable to the right of the
state, which cannot withdraw its connection from any one who has to
live. For a legal current provision does not make the profession of
poverty a means of gain for the indolent, as is to be feared is the
case with pious foundations when they grow with the number of the
poor; nor can it be charged with being an unjust or unrighteous burden
imposed by the government on the people. This is rather distant from the libertarian conception of public right, as is abundantly clear to anyone who attempts even a cursory reading of the work.http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/tkannist/E-texts/Kant/Right/part11.html
Fernando Teson
Point well taken. I am aware of the passage that Dan cites. I would only observe that this argument grounds support for the poorest in society. It does not ground redistributive taxation to equalize positive freedom in society. Also, some authors have noticed the tension between this passage and Kant's treatment of justified state coercion.
Jake Roundtree
"if I am hindering someone from pursuing his goals, then it is already a case of negative freedom. ">>>
Not necessarily, because I for instance can hinder someone's positive freedom by running my competing firm better than they run their own and thus drive them out of business.
I find this discussion awfully simplistic.
First, the distinction between act and omission. How meaningful is it? An omission, just like an act, is a choice with consequences.
Second, it just isn't true that rich people do not potentially limit the opportunities available to poor people by their very existence. For example, if I go into business making widgets and I outsource labor to some third world country, then my very efficiency (which is perhaps laudable) limits the choices and opportunities of other people. The same can be said of land ownership. If I own all the land and exclude others from using it or, more likely, force them to pay me rents in order that they have an opportunity to grow food for their own survival, then my existence as a rich person obviously impacts the choices and opportunities available to others. This really is no different than theft. Theft limits the person who is socially recognized as being the "owner" from the choices and opportunities associated with the physical or intellectual thing in question, which we call "property." In a similar manner, a landlord who controls access to land that is necessary for survival limits the choices and opportunities of tenants.
I am not saying, at least not here, that these sorts of objections cannot be addressed. But I find it awfully amazing that we have here a libertarian academic no less who actually thinks the superficial level of analysis that he is bring to the table is actually very useful. It is not as though people had not every thought carefully about whether the existence of large amounts of inequality impacts those who get the short end of the stick and only if they would briefly consider it, they would realize that it just doesn't matter.
Here is how I define the rich and the powerful. People who control access to resources such that other members of society must look to them to provide them jobs in order to survive are, by my definition, rich and powerful. Maybe in some cases such power is justified. But, to act as though having exclusive control over massive amounts of resources does not impact those who are excluded from those resources is, it strikes me, so self-evidently wrong as to not be worth taking seriously.
The existence of rich people do not affect the choices and opportunities of poor people? I beg to differ. We can talk about whether the affect is negative or positive, but there is no legitimate debate that such affects exist and that society has a legitimate concern about how those with more power exercise that power.
Can libertarianism really be reduced to the simply axiom that private power does not exist? If so, it is not a philosophy worth much.
Boris Matic
I'm a bit late I know but I have an example for you that I might use in my own paper.
In Sweden we have the almost anarchist concept of everyones right to walk the land. "Allemansrätten". It stems from ancient concepts such as that mother earth belongs to all.
Today we also have property rights which make possible the purchase of the land.
But you are not allowed to forbid someone from walking on your land if he does you no harm.
In this case the state guarantees both the positive freedom to walk where ever you want and the negative freedom not to be bothered/threatened. There are always dubious cases and cases where selfish and obscure individuals will claim that it "bothers" them "terribly" just cause someone is walking on their ranch even if he's out of their sight, like some people do in America when they put up "Beware the Shotgun" signs.
But if you think about it carefully it really is a good compromise. A compromise that for most people almost always protects both rights and thus both freedoms.
The person being taxed isn't hindering anyone's freedom regardless of whether or not they're being taxed to protect the positive or negative freedom of other people. I don't understand how libertarians can justify taxation for any reason.
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Negotiations are ongoing in Washington Township's efforts to secure a new location for American Legion Post 521, after township council officially approved the sale of its former location, the Grenloch Community Center.
The township sold the center at a public auction for $425,000 to Atlantic City Electric — the only bidder and owner of an adjacent property — on Dec. 18.
The administration has said the sale will be a significant area of much-needed revenue in the 2013 municipal budget, and that it is following best practice protocol by selling government-owned buildings that aren't essential to municipal operations.
But the members of the American Legion Post have come out to nearly every council meeting in the past two months to express their concerns, namely that their negotiations to relocate were still in the works.
They came out again to the Dec. 27 council meeting, where the sale was officially approved. They have been talking for weeks with Business Administrator Bob Smith about relocating their meetings to the Community Activity Center, located between All Veterans Park and Washington Township High School on Hurffville-Cross Keys Road.
Currently, it's being used mainly by the township's junior wrestling club, and occasionally by the adjacent police department for training. Working out logistics such as scheduling conflicts, availability and accessibility have been the main sticking point of negotiations, which the legion post has now hired attorney John Eastlack to spearhead.
"We are talking productively," Eastlack said. "We've gotten some very positive feedback, and we think we're going to be able to have things worked out at the CAC building."
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"I think we'll have something really accomplished in the next week or so at the latest. We'll have something in writing," Eastlack said, adding that former Post Commander Bob Maloney, who has been the spokesman for the post at council meetings, hired him to make sure they were covering their legal bases.
"They just wanted to make sure that their legal rights are adequately protected," Eastlack said. "They're not lawyers, and the township has a good solicitor and a pretty sharp [business administrator]. They just wanted someone to look it over, that they understood what the memorandum of understanding says and what legal significance it has."
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Skip to comments.Breaking: North Korea Fires On South Korean Naval Ship. Ship Sinking Many Feared Dead
Posted on 03/26/2010 9:50:57 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
President Obama's Foreign Policy is more like a Neville Chamberlain imitation. But you cant say it isn't working. After he reached hand out to despots such as Ahmadinjad, shares a laugh with dictators such as Chavez and bows to the King of the repressive Saudi regime, the world has taken notice and laughs at the United States.
According to multiple sources today is North Korea's turn to laugh at President Obama's foreign policy. Right now a South Korean navy ship is sinking in the Yellow Sea near North Korea early Saturday, and the navy was shooting at an unidentified ship toward the north, the Korean Yonhap News Agency reported. Many South Korean sailors on the stricken vessel were feared dead.
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I am sure Obama will wait 4 months before making a statement
Update: Ship has completely sunk.
About 50 members of the ship have not been rescued —do not know if those 50 are confirmed dead or not. I have heard that SK commanders have been told to FIRE IF IN DOUBT.
(this is from TigerLikesRooster, who would know)
Time for BO/BS to start bowing to his fellow commies.
and our little punk bitch leader is off playing Mussolini to the health care crowds
If true then somebody must be advising North Korea, now is the time.
This just seems surreal. Definitely an act of war in the old days.
His initial statement will condemn the South Koreans. His initial instinct is always to side with the totalitarians.
COMMENT 1 Yep! That's the speed of his brain. Analysis Paralysis.
COMMENT 2 Chamberlain resigned and let Churchill in!
How sadly true these words are. Obamadinejad will send Maddy Halfbright off to dance with Dear Leader II.
Obama called his little NK buddy Kim and said hey brother, dp something crazy to get the sheeples minds off of the healthcare socializing plan....wouldn't put it past these yohoos.
Now that we have this coward communists bastar@ as President he will probably ask South Korea to do nothing. South Korea will have a lot to think of since the North now has nuclear weapons. America is so weak the World will come apart and we do have lots to fear with a rotten communists King Obama to lead what is left to the free World.
We were talking earlier today about a false story to be used by the Democrats. Maybe we just didn't think internationally.
Maybe we didn't send them enough money? :(
A little pre-mature yet to say it was an attack. For all we know it could have been an accident, having nothing to do with N. Korea.
Until we have more information, let's hope it was an unfortunate accident and the loss of life is minimal. If it was an attack, then S. Korea is in serious trouble. If Obama can't manage to talk to his Generals more often than he has with a war in Afghanistan and Iraq ... his 'aide' with North Korea will likely do more harm than good.
It was just reported on ABC radio that SK does not think it was a torpedo.
Looks they were drawn into a trap.
Sounds like a cover story for now.
prolly it was those rice beans blending with the wafting sake wine vapors right at the exact moment North Korea changed her light bulb.
>>COMMENT 1 Yep! That's the speed of his brain. Analysis Paralysis.<<
Slight correction: That's the speed of SOROS and AYERS "brains." The TOTUS reader can only mouth the statements of his eminence grice handlers. He has no thoughts of his own.
North Korea has said in recent weeks it is bolstering its defense in response to joint South Korean-U.S. military drills that were held this month.
The North Korean army conducted dozens of artillery firing drills earlier Friday, according to Seoul's military officials.
I think the operative word is Zero is EMBOLDENING these foreign despots, just like he is with the terrorists. They don't give a hoot the old USofA...Maybe that explains why Zero is in cahoots with them.
Wow — according to that report only 58 of the 104 member crew have been rescued so far.
1/2 the crew lost and the US response will be "tsk tsk tsk." This never would have happened under Bush (either one).
S.Korea plays down reports of North attack on ship 26 Mar 2010 16:55:54 GMT Source: Reuters
SEOUL, March 26 (Reuters) - South Korea's government played down reports that a navy ship sinking with more than 100 people on board may have been hit by a North Korean attack.
"It is not clear whether North Korea was involved," Presidential Blue House spokeswoman Kim Eun-hye told Reuters. (Editing by Alex Richardson)
I really, really hope this is an accident.
No advice needed. Its as plain as the nose on your face.
BTW where are the jobs?
"The appeasers weigh in:"
I would say caution is very appropriate at this stage in this situation.
Before WWIII starts, we want to make sure the facts are in and understood.
Yeah, like a member of the Obama Administration. Need a distraction from the details about the new Health Care Reform law that are now spilling out.
I can't imagine any of our side doing this.
Not our side, the Communist side; Obama. I also don't think our Navy did it, he just made our Navy stand down from stopping NK from doing it. I have no doubt we track and tale all NK subs and could stop an attack. Imagine the NCA with Obama at the top not responding or refusing to allow our sub captain to fire.
I don't think Obummer has the nerve to even do that. The Naval officers have too much honor, and the story would get out. Even Obummer knows that much, so he wouldn't try.
Deadfish in a parking garage speaking to a hitman is more his style. Deniable, and false flagged.
Speaking of fish, something stinks about this. IF, and I do mean IF, the NK fired a fish, this raises all kinds of issues. Did we not tail that sub? Did we not know? Did we not get permission to fire? Was that request delayed or denied? wow. Mind boggling. I know those systems backwards and forwards. There is no way we couldn't have know if in the area.
I don't believe for a minute we put nukes in close proximity to NK home waters/sub pens. Diesel electrics can be very quiet on batteries. They can go in and out of pens underwater/concealed in cliffs all day long. Which one is going to push to the edge and fire a torpedo? No way do we have enough SSNs to keep an ear on them all. SOSUS type listening arrays might hear NK subs in their waters, but so what? It's an every day thing. The only difference is that this one fired a shot at a SK ship that got close to the line. (A line that is different on NK and SK charts BTW.)
He sure ain't no "Communutty Organizer" in the Community of nations!!!
I sure like the clarity of your commentary, Mr. NAILERMAN!!!
Looks like eraser head and his poliboro need some new excuses to shake an angry fist at their neighbors to the south. I wonder who will supply most of their fuel oil as the new global cooling phase really kicks in and they are freezing their balls off.
Prayers for the victims.
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Stacy Schuler, Ohio Gym Teacher, Indicted for Having Relationships with Several StudentsMeredith Carroll
A female gym and health teacher in Mason, OH, was indicted on Friday by a grand jury on 16 counts of sexual battery, which is a third-degree felony. She also faces three misdemeanor counts of offenses involving an underage person.
Stacy Schuler, 32, is accused of having sexual contact with students on five different occasions from last August through December. The alleged sex acts were mostly with football players from Mason High School, where she taught, and were said to have occurred off school grounds, according to prosecutors. The indictment says that Schuler also bought alcohol for the teens. She has worked at the high school since 2000.
Schuler is being held in jail on a $50,000 bond. She was placed on a paid administrative leave on Jan. 18th, which is about a week after school administration officials received an anonymous tip about her sexual contact with students. The status of her job and whether Schuler will be suspended without pay or terminated outright will be decided on Tuesday, at which time the school board will hold its next public meeting.
While everyone is innocent until proven guilty, it's hard to imagine how the school board could possibly justify continuing the employment of a woman who potentially abused her position to the extent that Schuler is accused. As a parent, I am sickened by the idea that children sent to school — no matter if they are older and in high school — could get involved sexually with a teacher, and that she could be responsible for buying them alcohol.
If the accusations prove to be true, this woman should rot in her jail cell, as far as I'm concerned. A teacher exploiting her students is a tremendous violation on so many levels of trust, and unforgivable.


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The Bush administration as well as supporters and some critics of the Bush Iraq strategy have told Americans time and again during the past four years that the "next few months" in Iraq will be the "decisive, critical period" of the war—the one in which Iraq's warring factions will compromise to share power; in which the bloody civil war among sectarian groups will ease into peace; and in which Iraq's brutal violence will decline.
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