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Modern Love Podcast: Minnie Driver Reads 'Our Story Ended With a Slow Fade to Black'
May 24, 2017,
HELLP syndrome is a group of symptoms that occur in pregnant women who have:
The cause of HELLP syndrome has not been found.
HELLP syndrome occurs in about 1 to 2 out of 1,000 pregnancies, and in 10-20% of pregnant women with severe preeclampsia or eclampsia.
Most often HELLP develops before the pregnancy is 37 weeks along. Sometimes it develops in the week after the baby is born.
Many women have high blood pressure and are diagnosed with preeclampsia before they develop HELLP syndrome. In some cases, HELLP symptoms are the first warning of preeclampsia and the condition can be misdiagnosed as:
During a physical examination, the doctor may discover:
Liver function tests (liver enzymes) may be high. Platelet counts may be low. A CT scan may show bleeding into the liver.
Tests of the baby's health will be done. Tests include fetal non-stress test, ultrasound, among others.
The main treatment is to deliver the baby as soon as possible, even if the baby is premature. Problems with the liver and other complications of HELLP syndrome can quickly get worse and be harmful to both the mother and child.
Your doctor may induce labor by giving you drugs to start labor, or may perform a C-section.
You may also receive:
When the condition is not treated early, up to 1 of 4 women develop serious complications. Without treatment, a small number of women die.
The death rate among babies born to mothers with HELLP syndrome depends on birth weight and the development of the baby's organs, especially the lungs. Many babies are born prematurely (born before 37 weeks of pregnancy).
HELLP syndrome may return in up to 1 out of 4 future pregnancies.
There can be complications before and after the baby is delivered, including:
After the baby is born and HELLP syndrome has time to improve, most of these complications will go away.
If symptoms of HELLP syndrome occur during pregnancy:
There is no known way to prevent HELLP syndrome. This is why it is important for all pregnant women to start prenatal care early and continue it through the pregnancy. This allows the health care provider to find and treat conditions such as HELLP syndrome early.
Sibai BM. Hypertension. In: Gabbe SG, Niebyl JR, Simpson JL, eds. Obstetrics - Normal and Problem Pregnancies . 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 35.
Wakim-Fleming J. Liver disease in pregnancy. In: Carey WD, ed. Cleveland Clinic: Current Clinical Medicine 2010 . 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2010:section 6.

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Stranger danger and smart phones: teenager robbed near school
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Colorado Springs Police are looking for a man who robbed a 15-year-old with a knife Monday right after school and took his smart phone.
Police say it happened at the corner of Corona Street and Yampa Street on Monday afternoon (3/3/14) around 3:30 p.m. near North Junior High School.
Lt. Catherine Buckley said the teenager was waiting for his sibling when a robber pulled up in a car, got out and came at him with a knife. Then, he took his smart phone.
Cell phone thefts have increased across the country. According to the latest statistics from Consumer Reports, one in three thefts in the U.S. involved a cell phone in 2012 alone. Colorado Springs Police say smart phones and other cell phones are usually taken in robberies, but they're not targets.
Parents, students and police told KRDO NewsChannel 13 they are surprised Monday's robbery happened after school when there were a lot of people around.
"It's ludacris," said parent David Jamison.
"It's crazy that people would go out of their way to try to steal stuff from people that's not even theirs," said student Jacenta Maynor, 15.
Maynor said all of her friends have smart phones. Meghanne Stevison is a parent of a student that goes to North Junior High School. She said her daughter has had her iPhone stolen twice at school.
"I don't even know what it would be like if it were to happen outside of school," she said.
It's a lesson that stranger danger can happen anywhere to anyone for anything.
"If he attacks me, then give up my smart phone probably" said Maynor.
"Just give it to them. Any object can be replaced, but you cannot replace a child," said Jamison.
Police say the vehicle was an early 2000's tan Subaru Legacy with a cracked right tail-light. Anyone with information is asked to call police at (719) 444-7000.


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text: I ran into a tidbit of information yesterday wile reading an article on the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. The writer said that this area is nearly devoid of all butterflies, grasshoppers and bees. We have been having nuclear accidents around the world since the early 50es. The first one in this country to my knowledge was Saxton PA in 1956 I know because I grew up there. Then Three Mile Island in the late 70es. Russia has had at least 5 big ones Chernobyl being the biggest. In 2011 an other large one in Japan plus many above ground tests over the years. I have heard that bees have been in decline around the world since the early 50es. Has any one ever done a study on radiation and bee decline. This may not be all of the problem but may contribute to it. If any body has any information about this please pass it along.


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The ordinary prerequisite is an M.A. in History, though students from other fields with strong backgrounds in History will also receive consideration. Students with a B.A. seeking admission directly to the Ph.D. program will be considered for the combined M.A./Ph.D. program.
Major doctoral fields are offered in Medieval European, Early Modern European, and United States history. Minor fields include these areas as well as Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Modern Europe, or a constructed field defined by the student with the approval of the Director of Graduate Studies.
The degree requires twenty-seven hours of coursework if entering with an MA; thirty-six hours of course work if pursuing the combined MA-Ph.D.. Course work must include a minimum of twelve hours in the major and six hours in the minor fields, HIST.500 and historical studies courses. At least one research seminar must be taken in both the major and minor fields. The remaining hours are flexible as to distribution. None of the doctoral courses may be at the undergraduate level, and no more than six hours may be taken in a related department without the permission of the Director of Graduate Studies.
Following the completion of course work, the student must complete and pass a comprehensive examination, which has both a written and oral component. The written examination consists of two four-hour written examinations, one each in the major and minor fields. The examinations are based on the texts on the preparatory reading list and selected by the student from a set of choices developed by the examiners. The oral examination committee is comprised of the three faculty three faculty on the student's dissertation committee and two other faculty agreed upon by the student and the student's advisor in consultation with the graduate director and the department chair. The oral examination lasts two hours and is taken the week following the written examinations. The examination committee will ask the student about their written examination, as well as texts on the preparatory reading list.
Following successful completion of the oral examination, student will meet with their advisor and the chair of the history department to discuss and give final approval to the prospectus. The student then files the (now approved) copy of the dissertation prospectus with the College of Arts & Sciences and proceeds to write the dissertation. Twelve credit hours are given for the writing of the dissertation. Completed dissertations are assessed by the committee and are formally accepted after a public defense.
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The possibilities are endless when it comes to fashioning your own beads from this hobby clay. Specialist tools are available but I managed with the contents of my kitchen drawer. Bearing in mind that I've merely scratched the surface, there are two basic ways to create interest on your beads. You can create an impression on the clay and then fashion your bead from there, or you can focus on the shape first and then inscribe a texture on to the surface.
Bead 1
To make the basic round or lozenge-shaped bead, simply roll desired quantity on a flat surface. Rolling and moving your hand in a circular direction will result in the lozenge shape. Round beads require shaping with the finger tips. Push a large needle or skewer through the centre and carefully push the bead all the way on. Using a knife, flatten and tidy up the edges around the hole and then ease it off. Check to see the hole is big enough for the string you will be threading it on to. Apply texture to these beads with your weapon of choice. Try different implements and experiment with a range of marks - large and small dots, horizontal lines, vertical lines, arcs in different configurations and applied with various edges will help to create interest.
The beauty is in the detail.
Bead 2
Alternatively, you can roll out a small portion of the clay and push things into it to leave an impression; I found a meat tenderiser and grater effective. When you're happy with the outcome, trim the edges of the clay and cut to desired lengths, fish-slice off the table and wrap around a skewer. Pinch off excess at back and tidy with the edge of a needle. Ease off skewer. Use this method to make long tube-like beads.
Bead 3
Discs or wheels are handy for adding variation. Make a ball and flatten with the tip of your finger. Flatten the edge with a knife, peel off table and push a hole through the middle. Add texture to the flattened edge with a skewer or needle.
The final consideration is colour. I decided to go monochromatic because it's easy to get carried away with a good thing and for me the mark-making was the exciting bit. But there's no escaping those trippy examples from the 70s, with lots of colours artfully amalgamated in a sushi-like roll to create an indulgent bloom or a smiley face. Colours can be mixed, or create a marbled effect by taking two separate coloured pieces and rolling them together. When you've had enough or your eyes can't stand it any longer, simply throw it all into the oven and cook for 15 minutes. The immediacy of this final stage is quite satisfying.
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Fabric-A-Brac, a free-entry event, brings fabric from the people to the people. Pick up vintage, unusual and modern fabric at bargain prices, and find patterns, upholstery, buttons, sewing accessories, hot cuppas and sweet treats.
Proceeds from the Mercy Hospice stall and from refreshments will go towards the charity's work providing cost-free care to patients living with life-limiting illness.
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Last Friday around noon EST, the NYC blogosphere, from Gawker to Gothamist to BrooklynVegan, lit up with rumors that Radiohead would be playing a "surprise show" for the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrators in downtown Manhattan. We even wanted to share the news with you.. But then sometime after 1 pm, when the bigger news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, had picked up on the story, Radiohead's PR firm came out and said something to the extent of 'this isn't happening'. Yet the OWS group insisted the performance was still on, so I made my way down there to check it out in case something happened. It just so happened that Radiohead did not play, though I thought I heard the makeshift band play some Radiohead riffs.
The OWS protest is noteworthy in and of itself however. My first impressions were that this was a mostly ragtag bunch of hippies, and while that may have been true, underneath the most outrageous appearances, there was some measure of organization and a message. As I plodded through their home in Zuccotti Park, I found areas designated as a kitchen, a makeshift medical station, a library and a media center with working computers. A group had gotten together to play music at one end of the park. A man in saffron walked around handing out cough drops. And most importantly, people were walking around asking for donations so the group could continue their protest. All the while, NYC police had created a perimeter, including vans and a lookout tower and occasionally made their way through the park to get people off the sidewalk.


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It has been confirmed: Fedor and Jana are going to compete and represent Russia!!!!!
My pick for Gold in Sochi: Khokolva and Andreev!!!
It has been confirmed: Fedor and Jana are going to compete and represent Russia!!!!!
My pick for Gold in Sochi: Khokolva and Andreev!!!
I've been trying to do this for half an hour but my edit function has been a bit recalcitrant...I'll try again. This has gone up over at FSU..
Originally Posted by Autumn_girl View Post
Here is Yana's interview (use google translate)
And Yana and Sergei's video interview, all in Russian
Yana looks fine and excited about her new partner and coaches. She said that Fedor worked with ice dancing couples as a coach and skated with them to show what they should do, so he has experience and good skating skills, can do the elements, they didn't have any problems with lifts also. The only problem is that he has no experience in skating with partner, but she hopes he will learn this. Fedor came to Moscow for a few days, but not for training, they needed to meet some people from FS federation. It was hard decision for Yana, she understands that she needs to work really hard and will try to do her best. She will go to the US in June.
Sergei tried to joke, but it was obvious that it's not easy for him and he refused to answer some questions. Now he is planning to heal his knee and also doing some TV commentary
Ahhhh...now, Russian speakers... please chime in.
( Skate Canada or Skate America would make a nice venue, don't you think ? )


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Nintendo's popular Animal Crossing series has sold more than 16 million copies in the U.S. since the first game was released in 2002. The newest, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, is the first one made for Nintendo 3DS. In the game, the player becomes mayor of a town of friendly animal villagers. The game plays out in real time, so shops close at night, seasons change, and town life continues even when the 3DS is off. This whimsical game allows players to sit back, relax, and explore a new world. Return each day for something new!
At the start of the game, the player becomes mayor and gets a loan from raccoon Tom Nook to build a home in town. From there, it's open-ended. Players are free to explore, make friends, complete town projects, and collect bells, which can be used to buy items like clothes, tools, or decorations.


text: We in Florida are in the Orange blossom flow right now. When I put a med. super on, what would happen if I put an extra super on? You know I put two supers on instead of one? Why do I have to wait till the frames are 80% drawn? I hope I am not too late for the flow? I hope its not too dumb a question? Thanks for your help.


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The Admissions House at Hope College has been named for Dr. James Bekkering, who is retiring this summer after having guided the college's admissions program for more than a quarter century.
The two-story brick structure opened in May of 1988, and is located on 10th Street at College Avenue.
Bekkering was appointed dean of admissions in 1980, and during 1988 and 1989 additionally served as interim dean of students. He was named a vice president in 1989, continuing with responsibilities in both admissions and student development before returning to admissions full-time in 1995. He is responsible for a staff of more than 20, including admissions representatives and support staff. He is retiring at the end of June.
Enrollment at Hope has grown steadily during Bekkering's tenure. The college had 2,464 students in the fall of 1980, a figure that climbed to 3,141 by the fall of 2005.
Raised in Fremont, Bekkering is a former Hope student himself, a member of the college's Class of 1965. Immediately after graduation he spent two years on the Hope staff as an admissions counselor and then another two years as director of financial aid. He was also a residence director in Kollen and Emersonian halls at the college.
He left the Hope staff in 1969 to pursue his master's and doctorate at Michigan State University, working at the same time in financial aid with the Michigan Department of Education in Lansing. From there he went on to Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, first as dean of student services, which included responsibility for admissions and financial aid, and later as dean for the arts and sciences before returning to Hope.


text: OK, my bees this year have been some swarmy son of a guns. I know the normal signs of swarms - multiple swarm/queen cells, backfilled broodnest, etc, - but I am stumped by one hive of mine. They had a single queen cell, which I took for supercedure and left in place, and they backfilled none of the brood nest. In fact, it looked like business as usual in the brood nest with a large amount of uncapped and capped brood. Do they always backfill the brood nest? Now that I think about it, there were some bees bearding near the entrance, but it was also 100 degrees that day. Do they swarm without warning sometimes?


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Boasting tasteful, modern decor, this private bedroom contains a comfortable double bed and a wardrobe. The tiled communal bathroom features a bidet and a bathtub with shower, and the shared kitchen provides laundry facilities.
The Whitechapel area was once most famous for Victorian poverty and Jack the Ripper. Though the Ten Bells pub still remains, the district has become one of London's most popular tourist destinations. Brick Lane offers everything from vintage boutiques and festivals to world-class Curry Houses and vibrant markets.
Stepney Green Underground Station is just a 5-minute walk away, and offers regular services to other parts of the city. For guests with an interest in history, there are many guided tours available within the area.
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simply but well-situated apartment in Bethnal Green. The shower was a litte bit confusing, because I don't know how to use (there were several buttons to press). But I would recommend this apartment.
Thanks and I will come back :)
It was my brother who actually stayed at the apartment. He was well pleased with the services rendered. I will like to also add that the pre- arrival information is quite impressive, it contains all the details need to locate the accommodation. Will definitely recommend to a friend.
Nice room, central location.
Room was dirty and we had to share one towel because the other one was dirty! House was cold and the water was playing up. Would not really recommend this room, even for he price. Life is worth more!
Great Room near transport links
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Clean & comfortable room. Quiet but central location.
The great problem with the room was its owner, Kazzos, and his noticable lack of
seriousness. The first night we discovered that we have been asigned with the same room as a German family, and when we tried to contact kazzos (at 1:00 am) he wouldn't answer to etiher the phone number he gave as nor the mail address.
When he eventually answer he didn't want to talk by phone, instead he would ask us to talk by whatsapp. Thanks to the German family and once we came over that horrible night and without knowing if the problem was already solved, we tried again and again to contact kazzos, and yet today (two months later) he hasn't answered.
All in all, a noisy and small apartment that is ten minutes walk from an underground station (not really well connected). Most of the furniture looked old and careless/broken, and the shower would get wet the whole bathroom. If your intention is just to rest a few hours, it's not the worst option, however consider the possibility that if you are in any trouble you could end up in the street at 1:00 am. From our trip to London, Kazzos and his room were without a doubt the worst thing and if we came back we wouln't take any of his rooms.
Very near station, lovely kitchen
Near tube station, right off Brick Lane - Great location!!!
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If you plan on giving up deer hunting for ever then trade it. I am here to tell you will live to regret it. Try to buy your duty gun out right and keep your Ruger. It took me 30yrs to correct that same mistake your making. Good luck.
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Discussion in 'Chevy Uplander & GM Minivan Forum' started by Puddlejumper, Sep 30, 2010.
No replies. Never planned on starting a blog.
Looking for a site that is for older GMs or 6's.
What was the question?
There are 6 cyl peeps here. I saw them talking about Clifford Research (the 6 cylinder Kings) yesterday. Where is your question posted?
You probably didn't get many replies because your posts are all random and vague, kind of like you were just typing out thoughts that were going through your head at any given moment. To me it was like walking up in the middle of a conversation between two people and having no clue what the hell they were talking about. It was hard to pull out any specific questions you might have been trying to ask. Try to give a little background info in your posts so readers will understand what exactly you are talking about. I'm sure there are people on here that can help you out if you were just a little more clear. Please don't take offense to this.
OK Puddlethumper; I've only been here 2 days and I suck at computers but I happend to stumble across one of your posts. Since you do like 6 cyls and in your post I got a vague idea of what you're doin, my best shot would be to look into Clifford Research
(6 = 8) They have built some 6's that have outperformed V-8' cubic inch for cubic inch, and it takes a lot of R&D to be able to do that.
I put one of their intakes on my dads pickup. It was an aluminum log mani that held 2 single barrel (Strombergs I think) Probably would have fit a lot of different single barrel carbs. He also bought Clifford headers and they were split 3 into 1 and then a completely separate header 3 into 1. 2 3 into ones. It was a really sweet set. Don't remember what he paid but price would have changed by now anyway so no matter. It was probably the easiest swap I ever made. Headers and mani didn't take more than 3 hours and it was really quality stuff. The flanges were approx 3/8" thick and never had any intake or exhaust leaks ever. The headers never rusted out ( & we have very wet winters here) and he kept that truck for about 10 more years with no problems. When I was a kid I used to have a 235 ci 6, in an old 58 Chevy Delray and my buddy and I cut the exhaust manifold in half and made shade tree half azzed headers for it. That was before anybody around here knew anything about welding cast iron so you can probably imagine how it looked with 2 teenagers useing a rented arc welder on it hahaha.. My point is there are some people around this site who know some about 6"s, and a lot more than me. Try your posts again.
I also saw some posts yesterday where people were discussing Clifford so there are some people here who are into 6 cyls or they wouldn't be discussing Clifford. From what I remember they were located in L.A. Cali. when my dad ordered his parts. It's the only one I know of but if you google 6 cylinder high performance engines you may get a dozen or more hits.. Hope this helps
Hi Puddlejumper . Is that for all of the people here in the thread that do not reply to you? Am I consider to those people. Just curious.
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Another major blunder: OBY speaks in empty stadium
Well, would you believe half empty? Would you believe about 1/3
empty. How about just a few people?
At any rate there were tons of empty seats in Ohio State's stadium as OBY kicked off his campaign. Not a good way to begin, especially in this important swing state.
Over 35,000 appeared in 2010 when he campagined for their Guv
but no more. Maybe they were out looking for jobs and a place
to live after losing their homes.
Speaking of which I just saw another vacant house in our development and the damn bank isn't cutting the grass either.
That's the 4th empty house in our neighborhood.
My mom hasn't seen that since the 30s when so many on her
street move out.
These polls that have OBY tied with Mitt have got to be wrong,
especially if you go by this pic of a near empty stadium and all these empty
houses - over 1M nationwide.
Remember Galen bragging about all the huge crowds during
the last campaign?
No mas.
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You posted something from breitbart.com. Hardly seems reputable.
Here's the same story from abc, with actual statistics from the fire marshalls who state a figure of 14000. Not a full stadium but certainly not empty by any means
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Re: Another major blunder: OBY speaks in empty stadium
Are you Spammy? You can't read sarcasm or get the joke. The title was just to get your attention and it did. Then I use a Maxwell Smart line to introduce the thread.
Finally I said at any rate, there were tons of empty seats and the site says empty or so it seems and we know how this govt pads their numbers, especially a liberal DEM network like ABC whose polls are skewed.
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Obama still drew 4x anything Mittens has drawn. That's still impressive considering the past four years of endless hate mongering against him. I have yet to see anything resembling enthusiasm out of Mitt or his appearances. If you are thinking 16,000 out of a possible 20,000 is an indicator of an Obama loss, you might want to find something about Mitt that comes even close.
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Re: Another major blunder: OBY speaks in empty stadium
Newt spoke to 5,000 more people in Florida and Mitt still won.
Nobody believes your numbers after that last CBO report not to mention the DEMs
admitting OBAMA CARE will cost more than they figured even after we said it would.
The guy had 35,000 the last time in the same stadium and it was practically empty this time and he's the Prez and should be far ahead in the polls as the incumbent like Clinton was but OBY clearly is not.
Newt isn't even the official nominee yet. The point is clearly OBY has lost a lot of people
that voted for him the last time.
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Re: Another major blunder: OBY speaks in empty stadium
See pic in link and how Mitt put a damper on OBYs campaign and got the last laugh.
Saturday was supposed to be President Barack Obama's day, dominated by headlines of successful campaign holding its first rally. Instead, reports prominently included references to thousands of empty seats at the president's first rally here — just as the Romney campaign wanted it.
Re: Another major blunder: OBY speaks in empty stadium
Turns out that college students hate him too. At least they didn't show up at their stadium, not many.
A guy called Rush and said they knew the crowd would be sparse ahead of time so they went door to door on campus trying to get people to see their president. They even said support him, it has nothing to do with politics. :)
So to recap:
We have the military hating him and Galen said he can get 100,000 military to endores him? Yea sure. Good luck.
Now the college students hate him and they voted for him in 08. I posted a link months ago that OBY was losing the student vote.
1 of 2 graduates are unemployed. What do you think OWS is about?
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Re: Another major blunder: OBY speaks in empty stadium
TV just showed clips from that speech and he said we're moving forward about 50 times-lol.
That's about all he said. That's all he could say. He has no record to run on.
And don't forget the undecided votes. They have never voted for the incumbent and right
now they're over 50% against. He has to be over 50% for to win.
So now that 47-46% Romney lead is really 57-46 lead if you throw in the undecideds.
A poll was run in Michigan a while back and his approval rating was 58%.
A recent poll in Michigan had it even at 50%.
He's losing the one thing he had. His like-ability.
Wow at this pace Obama might not even get a single vote! Great reporting Trap!
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Re: Another major blunder: OBY speaks in empty stadium
He's got at least 13,000 or 14,000 from Ohio State. That's out of 60,000 on all their
campuses - 52,000 at Columbus.
BTW - Do you have those 100,000 military votes yet - the ones you said you
were gonna get on the other thread?
How about 1,000?
How about 1?
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Cynthia Harris Honored as one of 27 Women in Action at the Jersey City Women's History Month Program on March 30, 2012
From the looks of each woman's biography, no one was seeking out an award. Each was in her was in her own sphere, making a difference and making tracks to her next assignment.
Such is Cynthia Harris in the execution of her duties as manager of the New Jersey Room at the Main Library. It was perfectly right and fitting that the Jersey City Mayor and Municipal Council award her during National Women's History Month 2012.
Jersey City Council President Peter Brennan nominated Cynthia for the Women in Action award, which was given out in a ceremony in the beautiful Anna Cucci Memorial Council Chambers at the historic City Hall on Thursday evening, March 29, 2012. One of 27 women, Cynthia beamed when she approached the podium to receive her award from Jersey City Council President Brennan, Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, and First Lady Maureen.
The program featured this biography of our Cynthia:
"Since 2001, Cynthia Tosatto Harris has managed the New Jersey Room at Jersey City's Main Library. A savvy procurer of Jersey City and Hudson County documents, she has helped build and preserve its collection, most notably through yearbooks. She served on Jersey City's 350th anniversary celebration's "Come Home to History" Fair essay contest committee, and, an avid postcard collector, has co-authored, Changing Jersey City: A History in Photographs, in 2009.
"An alumna of Holy Rosary Academy, where she graduated Magna cum laude, and St. Peter's College, Cynthia earned her Masters in Library Science (MLS) at Rutgers University, where in 2000, she helped found SOURCE – Student Organization for Unique & Rare Collections Everywhere. Her interest in archival documents is evidenced by her membership since 1989 in the Central Jersey Deltiological Society, a postcard collecting club, where she has served as president and treasurer. She is active in the Hudson County Genealogical & Historical Society.
"This former 24-year Jersey City Public School teacher of the 4th, 6th and 7th grades never really forsook teaching for librarianship. Every day, Cynthia teaches by serving patrons of the New Jersey Room, helping them research home histories, family genealogies, and other information.
"Married to her husband Bernard, this Jersey City native is the proud mother of Brittany, and most certainly a Woman of Action."
The Jersey City Free Public Library is certainly proud of Cynthia T. Harris, MLS, manager of the New Jersey Room, too!
MASTER OF CEREMONIES – Or, is the term, Mistress? The "Emcee" of the program was Jersey City Cultural Affairs Director Maureen Kelleher, whose delivery at the mic was succinct and moving, and perfect in tone at the Women in Action awards ceremony for Women's History Month 2012.
LAUDING FROM THE TOP – Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy addressed the packed Council Chambers before giving out the precious awards to the 27 Women in Action assembled on Thursday, March 29, 2012.
APPRECIATION FROM ON HIGH – The renovation of the historic City Hall in Jersey City is a delight to behold, especially when viewing the stained glass dome in the Anna Cucci Memorial Council Chambers.
APPRECIATION FROM ACROSS THE ROOM – The rehabilitation extended throughout City Hall, including the more subdued rose-colored wall treatment that complements the magnificent stained glass.
CLOSE UP OF WALL DETAILS – The beauty of the evening is fully expressed in the detailing of the rehabilitation of the Anna Cucci Memorial Council Chambers at Jersey City City Hall.
THE GATHERING – Cynthia Harris, seen from the back, as she and her supporters gather at the podium for her to receive the Women in Action award. Maureen Kelleher, director of the Jersey City Division of Cultural Affairs, read from her biography.
A HAPPY MOMENT – A beaming Cynthia Harris is surrounded by Jersey City Council President Peter Brennan, Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy and First Lady Maureen Healy as they assemble for the presentation.
THE HAPPY COUPLE – Cynthia, and her husband Bernard, pose for a quick photo before leaving the podium.


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POCATELLO, Idaho - School District 25's longstanding battle over balancing its budget has resulted in 19 job cuts among teachers and other program specialists within the district.
On Tuesday night's meeting the board voted to eliminate three physical education programs at the elementary level. With that, some first-year teachers also will not be returning this next school year either.
However, with many other programs on the chopping block, the district's three media specialist positions fell safe and will be secured for at least one more year.
School District Superintendent Mary Vagner said they have done everything they could to explore all of their resources to present alternatives to those who will not be returning back to work in the fall.
"We've looked at openings that have occurred in various locations and looked at how people have multiple uses and how we can slot people into varying jobs," Vagner said.
Some of those who are facing the cuts have not yet been notified, so we have been asked not to list specifications about the other jobs and programs that have been eliminated.
These cuts will allow the district close to $1.45 million to balance their budget by their June deadline.
Vagner said the school district's board members have been pleading with state lawmakers to provide them the proper funding they need, but to no avail.
"We have asked for discretionary funding, we have asked for funding to help us pay our bills, and we did not get the funding to do that," Vagner said.
She attributes the lack of funding to philosophical differences between the legislature and the school districts across the state who have also been facing the same monetary circumstances.
Vagner also pointed out how D25 has had to start cutting positions nearly four years ago. She equated the situation to various layers of rings, where they had to start cutting from the outer-most ring and are now seeing themselves cutting from the nucleus itself.
"There is very little left other than the core of the classroom."
Vagner also said they plan to meet with state legislators in December to negotiate an increase to their next annual budget.
The board will hold a budget hearing on June 18 before they adopt the new budget by law. The new fiscal year will begin July 1.
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The shop, with its flagship location on Crosby Street and a satellite in the West Village, is now firmly established in the New York surf scene as the premier spot for surfboards and gear. Saturdays Surf NYC has its own distinct line of sought-after clothing — including collaborations with big names including SHUT, Malwitz Custom Surfboards and Colette — books and even coffee.
Colin is also promoting a strong sense of community in the heart of the big city.
"I'm in New York now, but I still see a lot of the same faces from SCAD," he says, "A lot of people have moved up to New York and are doing wonderful things," including several fellow alumni who have helped the Saturdays dream come true.
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A VAST MACHINE: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. Paul N. Edwards. xxviii + 518 pp. The MIT Press, 2010. $32.95.
In recent months, two events have cast doubt on the "climate change consensus." In November 2009, it was revealed that senior scientists in the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) had been withholding information concerning their working methods and data sources. In the new year, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was forced to concede that a claim about Himalayan glacier melting—made in its 2007 scientific assessment report—was false. These events, according to some climate-change skeptics, are evidence of scientific misconduct and further proof that the current epistemological consensus rests on shaky factual foundations. Although the CRU has now been cleared of any wrongdoing and IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri has defended the Panel's scientific conclusions robustly, "Glaciergate" and "Climategate" seem to have affected public belief in the reality of anthropogenic climate change—if several recent opinion polls in the United Kingdom and the United States are to be believed.
Paul N. Edwards, a professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, could scarcely have imagined that his new book would be published in this highly charged context. The fact that it has been emphasizes just how important the messages contained in A Vast Machine are. As I will explain, Edwards's remarkable monograph, by looking under the hood of both meteorology and climatology, shows us why we ought to be skeptical about the claims of the climate-change skeptics.
In philosophical terms, Edwards's focus is epistemological rather than ontological. He explores how we have come to know weather and climate, beginning his inquiry with events from well over a century ago. As with all nonlaboratory science, the challenge of describing—let alone explaining or predicting—the behavior of large and dynamic biophysical systems is formidable. As Edwards rightly says, "You can't study global systems experimentally; they are too huge and complex." Considerable effort, ingenuity and informed guesswork are thus required to make credible sense of weather and climate. In the prescient words of English critic John Ruskin (writing in 1839), a "vast machine" must be constructed, one made up of interlocking systems of data measurement, data sharing, data analysis, data checking, data smoothing, process simulation and predictive modeling. One hundred and seventy-one years on, Ruskin's metaphor has been made flesh: Today, we have a truly global, resource-intensive and highly complex infrastructure devoted to understanding weather and climate. It is serviced by diverse and specialized epistemic communities (climate modelers and Quaternary scientists, for example), whose knowledge is routinely shared and synthesized in order to make sense of short-term weather patterns and longer-term climatic trends. Edwards describes and explains how the "vast machine" evolved.
Clearly, this is an enormous undertaking. I can think of no other book that relates in such detail how meteorological and climatological science came into existence, sometimes acting as separate bodies of knowledge but increasingly interlocking in recent years. Over the past decade, Edwards has spent huge amounts of time exploring diverse archives and conversing with numerous practicing scientists. A Vast Machine is organized more or less chronologically; its focus is, for the most part, the English-speaking world. The first chapter gives an overview of the book's framework and argument. Chapters 2 through 5 describe weather forecasting and climatology in their infancy, prior to 1945. The next two chapters deal with weather prediction and climate modeling between 1945 and 1970. Chapters 8 through 10 relate how a weather information infrastructure was built between 1945 and 1980. These are followed by two chapters that describe how, since 1980, meteorology has been worked back into climatology. The concluding three chapters take us up to the present, showing how climate-change science has informed public policy since the first United Nations Earth Summit of 1992 and how the science has been politicized, especially in the United States.
Edwards's is a history with a point, as he makes clear on the very first page:
In the countless political controversies over climate change, the debate often shakes out into a contest: models versus data.
This supposed contest is at best an illusion, at worst a deliberate deception—because without models, there are no data. I'm not talking about the difference between "raw" and "cooked" data. I mean this literally. [emphasis in original]
Edwards is here challenging the simplistic idea that model predictions about climate change and its impact are separate from the putative "raw data"—measurements of temperature, precipitation, albedo and other factors. This idea is implicit in the recent criticisms of both the CRU and the IPCC, just as it was in the hearings on "Scientific Integrity and Public Trust" that were held in 1995 by the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and chaired by Dana Rohrabacher. Its persistence is worrying, because it misrepresents how the sciences of weather and climate operate.
As Edwards shows, the past and present "data" about our atmosphere are patchy, incomplete and open to interpretation. Just as important, the data have never spoken for themselves: They have always been made meaningful by way of computer models. Everything we know about the global climate, says Edwards, comes from simulation models (which are based on physical theory), reanalysis models (which come from weather forecasting and constrain their results with actual observations) and data analysis models (mathematical techniques used to process historical records of weather and climate). Edwards's point is not that the data are "made up"; as I've intimated, he is not a climate-change skeptic bent on discrediting the science because it is not scientific enough. His aim is to challenge the unrealistic ideal of "sound science" that many skeptics hold dear, because this ideal seeks to downplay the "craft" dimensions of science and presumes that the only evidence that counts is "definitive evidence" (which is taken to be an "objective" confirmation of scientists' otherwise "subjective" hypothesizing). To accept that meteorology and climatology are, like all sciences, domains of human practice inhabited by fallible agents (and thus amenable to a sociological analysis) does not imply that they are fundamentally flawed or that the knowledge they produce is intrinsically unreliable.
The first chapter flags this point by listing several core concepts that appear in the book, all of which speak to the sheer difficulty of constructing robust knowledge both of weather patterns and of climate trends—past, present and future. For instance, Edwards uses the phrase "data friction" to describe those many situations in which atmospheric information gathered for a particular purpose in one place and time must be somehow made useful at a later point in history by others who have quite different needs. Overcoming the friction is no mean feat, but it has to be done—past data are a valuable resource (whatever their limitations might be). The various stories that Edwards recounts—about Vilhelm Bjerknes building an influential meteorological institute in Bergen, Norway, for instance, or John von Neumann championing computerized weather prediction models after World War II—all testify to the almost heroic efforts made over the past century or so by tens of thousands of people worldwide to render weather and climate intelligible.
Who should read this book? Edwards casts his net wide. A Vast Machine is sufficiently readable to appeal to those unfamiliar with the two sciences it describes, but it is also technical enough to interest specialists. Although Edwards's background is in what's sometimes called "social studies of science and technology," he is careful to distance himself from the perceived antiscience bias for which physicist Alan Sokal (in)famously attacked the field in the 1990s. This is not a political tome masquerading as a history-of-knowledge production. Edwards has produced a well-researched and scholarly monograph that will, I suspect, remain definitive for many years to come. It is very well written and presented attractively. And one can read the book selectively, according to one's interests, after digesting the introduction and first chapter. In some ways, the best place to begin is in the present, with the final two chapters. The reader can then work back from there in order to understand why atmospheric science is so robust today rather than being (as the skeptics would have it) a house built on sand.
I recommend this book with considerable enthusiasm. Although it's a term reviewers have made into a cliché, I think A Vast Machine is nothing less than a tour de force. It is the most complete and balanced description we have of two sciences whose results and recommendations will, in the years ahead, be ever more intertwined with the decisions of political leaders and the fate of the human species.
Noel Castree is a professor of geography in the School of Environment and Development at Manchester University, England. His principal research interest is in the political economy of environmental change.
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ive always got good service adn prices from him...
but im not so sure that .35 per round is a real good price on x39... maybe it is today. :-)
Ammoman is selling 1000rds of Wolf for $350.....WTF!
AMMOMAN.com. 7.62X39 WOLF MILITARY CLASSIC FMJ POLYMER COATED
"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway." - The Duke
ive always got good service adn prices from him...
but im not so sure that .35 per round is a real good price on x39... maybe it is today. :-)
Hate takes LESS energy & thought... Dont be so Lazy.
Building or Bitching? which are you here to do?
YES, i work for TEC Tactical. 02/07 SOT
That makes my $75.00 cases seem better & better all the time! Heh..Heh
" Save a tree...........Eat A Beaver!"
I seldom talk to liberals.............................. But when I do, I order fries............
I know eric ( ammoman) personally or should say used too know eric
7.62 x54r is $50 more than what I just got from sg thats before you add shipping
35 cent a rd for 7.62,39mm does not seem to be a bargin to me but heck i reload and got plenty when it was much cheaper. so i guess if you waited to the last minute and don't want to pay Gunbroker prices then i guess this is a good buy
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
$0.35 for russian steel 7.62x39?
a month or so back i was buying MATCH 5.56 for that--- sometimes even LESS--
i not exactly jumping all over myself to buy this--
maybe in a month or two this won't look so bad -right now i got lots of cheaper stuff still on BO that might come in so i"ll wait on it--
i got a few tins slated to ship on the 21 of this month--
unless he went out an bought it on the street he certainly didn't buy it at such an inflated price............
Truck load of ammo came in at a fun store I was at a few weekends ago..
My UPS driver, nice guy loves guns, was here yesterday..
"Please tell the guys to stop ordering ammo, I can't lift anymore."
I look at it as a good sign from Ammoman.. Hell for the times, that is not a killer price gouge price.
Everyone else is out of stock or wants gouging prices.
Just a gut feeling. Once the panic slows down, prices will drop..
Ah hell their are still bow and arrows for sale.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
i just cringe at paying $350 for the same thing i got before the big panic @ $209
i very nearly bought some that copes had for $309 the other day. -- that is $154.50 for 500 rounds
i may end up buying some at that price ==i just don't like "running with the panic heard".
and prices may come down some --even with the big "O" pulling all his BS.
simply because the economy is so weak and the sheeple blew their cash buying from CTD--so their broke now---LOL
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I got some delivered last week for $0.26/rd. from Cabelas. I thought that was high.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good. George Washington
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
George Washington
yes I have some of that cabelas coming it, is still not here, again don't really need it, but a little extra always helps
my sister the non voter who sounds like a bleeding heart liberial, finally found out about the panic yesterday. she said: I thought they were talking about ar's on TV ( must be watch the left wing media) well she called long distance to bitch to me about "I can't get ammo for my Glock, I am on hold at Cheaper than dirt for a hour, my response was: I no longer buy from them, so she asked what is the going rate was, so i openned cheaper than dirts website wow $ 27 for a box of 50 before shipping, she freaked out, she said
i paid half that last order ( sept), my retort Did you vote, her reply you know I don't vote, my reply suck it up and get what you can afford
and save the bloody brass, not that matters cause I can't get primers or powder right now
bellson where are you!!!!!!!!!!!
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Also known as How and Dirges. Hebrew poems.
Traditionally attributed to Jeremiah, Lamentations is a short book in the Old Testament section of the Bible consisting of five poems. Each poem comprises a chapter describing the common sorrow and suffering of the survivors of the devastation of Jerusalem after the Babylonian siege of 587 b.c. The Hebrew title of Lamentations translates as How and comes from the first word of the book—a groan. With its first four poems written in the form of alphabetic acrostics, Lamentations's structure is elaborate and the exact significance of its pattern somewhat controversial. It is the first widely accepted work exhibiting the definite dirge meter. While placed with Writings rather than among the Prophets in the Jewish canon, in the Greek Septuagint and in most English translations of the Bible it is found immediately after the Book of Jeremiah. The three major sources for the text of Lamentations are the Hebrew text, the Septuagint, and the Peshitta. The Hebrew text is remarkably well-preserved and thus of great use to scholars for study of Hebrew meter. Lamentations is a classic work—some say a peerless example—in the expression of communal grief and its power and depth have been admired for many centuries.
Plot and Major Characters
Lamentations changes over the course of its five poems. Initially it chronicles the aftermath of the fall of Jerusalem. The poet describes the once-great city that is now desolate. It is compared to a queen who has become a slave, crying bitter tears, feeling inconsolable grief, humiliated before her enemies. The second poem describes the human suffering and horrible living conditions closer to the time of the actual fall of the city—conditions that the poet asserts have never been endured by anyone before. Starving mothers eat their children and even walls lament. The pain goes as deep as the sea. Young and old alike have been slaughtered by the Lord, who is likened to an enemy. God has laid waste the land and pitilessly rejected all whom He once embraced. Blame is also allocated to prophets and oracles who did not perform their duties. The central poem is traditionally acepted as the most important, according to many experts, and it introduces some measure of hope. Although it continues to relate horrors, they are more general in nature. The poet finds reason for hope in the notion that God will not stay angry at his chosen people forever. They admit their sins— an essential step to forgiveness. The fourth poem is similar to the second. It says that it would have been better to have died from the sword than to starve to death or resort to cannibalism of one's own children. Sin is declared the cause of Jerusalem's fall, particularly the sins of the priests and the prophets. The final poem lays out to God all the suffering His people have endured and implores Him to restore the nation of His anointed ones. The form of Lamentations is mixed and the speaking voice of the book changes in the course of the poems. Jerusalem addresses the Lord in the first chapter. In the second the poet himself speaks, but again Jerusalem delivers the words near the end of the poem. The course of the third poem shifts from "I" to "we," but the identity of the "I" has been interpreted variously by different scholars. William F. Lanahan contends that it is in the voice of the defeated soldier, and that chapter four reflects the voice of the bourgeoisie. The final poem is communa—the survivors of Jerusalem's ruin praying to God for relief from their torments.
Major Themes
The major theme of Lamentations is the suffering and starvation following the capture of Jerusalem and the principal question this raises, Why has this happened? Were the Babylonians used as an instrument of the Lord? Did God's destruction of the city break his covenant with the Jewish people? Was God punishing them for their sins, with the purpose of their eventual rehabilitation? Or has He forsaken them utterly? Should they no longer have faith in the Lord? Nothing so severe had ever happened to Israel before and survivors desperately try to make sense of their situation. The poet answers that sin was the cause of the decimation. The particular sins are not adequately enumerated, but they clearly must have been serious, for Zion admits that it deserves what it has received.
Critical Reception
As with all books comprising the Bible, a prodigious amount of scholarship has been devoted to all aspects of Lamentations. Contentious disagreements among scholars are common in all areas of research concerning these poems. One avenue of study concerns its theological message. Some scholars argue there is one and only one, others argue that there are many interpretations that work on different levels, while yet others say there is no theological message at all. Another area of interest is the importance of the book's alphabetical composition; many scholars believe that far from being just a display of poetic virtuosity, the acrostics emphasize the completeness of the treatment rendered in the poems. Among other major interests of biblical scholars studying Lamentations are its authorship, its date of creation, and its structure. There is extreme disagreement regarding the unity of Lamentations, not only whether Jeremiah was the author but whether only one person was responsible for the poems. Theodore H. Robinson, for example, states that "internal evidence makes it practically certain that they are not all the work of a single author." Some scholars assert that Lamentations is in Jeremiah's style and William Walter Cannon has furnished dozens of parallel phrases and concerns in Jeremiah. Other scholars insist that these parallels are insignificant, that the differences are more important, and that "Jeremiah is out of the question as author of the songs," as Georg Fohrer puts it. Many different compositional arrangements have been proposed, with some scholars assigning certain chapters to one author, other chapters to someone else. The majority view of scholars is that the book—or at least the first four chapters—was absolutely written almost contemporaneously with the fall of Jerusalem by an eyewitness or eyewitnesses; the minority vociferously insist that the book was composed over a period spanning up to some four hundred years. Samuel Tobias Lachs, to use the most extreme example, lays out a case that the fifth poem is from the second century b.c. While many scholars view the final chapter as clearly different from the preceding four, others, notably William H. Shea, maintain that the fifth poem is vital to the overall structure of Lamentations. Such controversies continue to be argued both seriously and passionately.Lamentations is highly praised for its literary and poetic merits. Lanahan, for example, credits the poet's "manifold creative insight" in using multiple personae in the speaking voice. The most common criticism of the work is that its creator may have occasionally subsumed his message in order to fit it into the acrostic structure; this criticism is vigorously challenged by many other critics. Scholars have made advances in grammatical analysis in modern times concerning the text itself, yielding more accurate readings of certain passages: Marvin H. Pope has rendered a highly praised version of the last three verses of the fifth chapter of Lamentations, and Mitchell Dahood has made remarkable improvements to specific lines that he believes were compromised by spelling mistakes in source texts.
Principal Works
"Song of Songs" and "Lamentations": A Commentary and Translation (translated by Robert Gordis) (poems) 1974
Lamentations (translated by Iain W. Provan) (poems) 1991
Lamentations: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (translated by Delbert R. Hillers) (poems) 1992
"Jonah" & "Lamentations" (translated by Robert B. Salters) (poems) 1994
The Book of Lamentations (translated by Rosario Castellanos and Esther Allen) (poems) 1998
"Eichah"/"Lamentations": A New Translation with a Commentary Anthologized from Talmudic, Midrashic, and Rabbinic Sources...
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Theodore H. Robinson (essay date 1947)
SOURCE: "Lamentations," in The Poetry of the Old Testament, Duckworth, 1947, pp. 205-16.
[In the following excerpt, Robinson discusses the general characteristics of the verses in Lamentations, their varying levels of emotional intensity, and their probable order of composition.]
We have already seen something of what a "dirge" meant in the ancient world. Originally, no doubt, a funeral spell intended to keep the dead in his place and prevent him from annoying the living, it gradually developed into a genuine expression of the grief felt by survivors at the loss of one whom they loved. We may suppose that there were traditional and conventional...
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Norman K. Gottwald (essay date 1962)
SOURCE: "The Theology of Doom" and "The Theology of Hope," in Studies in the "Book of Lamentations,"SCM Press Ltd, 1962, pp. 63-111.
[In the following excerpt, Gottwald argues that Lamentations stresses the unique nature of the fall of Jerusalem and Israel's sins in order to convince its audience that the destruction must have been the will of God and that, in the face of discouraging external conditions, hope of renewal can nevertheless be found.]
The fall of Jerusalem was a clarion call to the entire re-thinking of Hebrew religion. In the truest sense this historic crisis was unparalleled in all Israel's history. At no time in the four hundred...
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Georg Fohrer (essay date 1965)
SOURCE: "Lamentations," in Introduction to the Old Testament, Abingdon Press, 1968, pp. 295-99.
[In the following excerpt from an essay originally written in German in 1965, Fohrer concisely describes the literary type and style of Lamentations and discusses what can be deduced of its origin and authorship.]
… 1. Terminology. Hebrew manuscripts and printed editions call the book of Lamentations by the first word of chapters 1, 2, and 4, 'êkâ, "Alas, how. … " This title, which usually introduces a dirge, is appropriate to the content of the songs. The earlier name, according to Talmud Bab. Baba bathra 15a, was...
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Samuel Tobias Lachs (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: "The Date of Lamentations V," in The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. LVII, No. 1, July, 1966, pp. 46-56.
[In the following essay, Lachs contends that the fifth chapter of Lamentations was written around 168-65 b.c.e., justifying the conclusion with his interpretations of its verses.]
Ancient tradition ascribes the authorship of the book ofLamentations to the prophet Jeremiah and interprets its content as referring to the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.e.1 Down to modern times few have questioned this assumed authorship or the event described. One notable exception in this regard was R. Abraham Ibn Ezra...
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Thomas F. McDaniel (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: "The Alleged Sumerian Influence upon Lamentations,," in Vetus Testamentum, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, April, 1968, pp. 198-209.
[In the following essay, McDaniel examines and rejects the supposed relationship of Sumerian literature to Lamentations, basing his conclusion in part on the fact that the parallels that exist are general and that no convincing means of transmission has been found.]
Sumerian literary catalogues from the early second millenium contain the titles of numerous lamentations over the destruction of Sumerian city-states, including Akkad (Agade), Eridu, Lagash, Nippur, and Ur, and over the whole land of Sumer1). Portions...
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Dilbert R. Hillers (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: An introduction to The Anchor Bible: "Lamentations," Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972, pp. xv-xli.
[In the following essay, Hillers provides an overview of Lamentations and explores a number of topics including its place in the biblical canon; its alphabetic acrostics; its meter, parallelism, syntax, and strophic structure; and its liturgical use.]
"In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, an official of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. He burned down the...
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William F. Lanahan (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "The Speaking Voice in the Book of Lamentations," in Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 93, No. 1 March 1974, pp. 41-49.
[In the following essay, Lanahan offers a detailed examination of five distinctive narrative personae in Lamentations and explains how their use benefits the work.]
This examination of the speaking voice in the Book of Lamentations will not discuss the authorship of the book. The attribution of the work to the prophet Jeremiah is fundamentally a question of historical judgment. The attempt to identify the speaking voice, the subject of our concentration at the moment, is a stylistic concern. In this context,...
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Robert Gordis (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "The Conclusion of the Book of Lamentations (5:22)," in Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 93, No. 2, June, 1974, pp. 289-93.
[In the following essay, Gordis considers and rejects assorted approaches to the problematic closing verse in Lamentations and offers his own interpretation based on a different reading of the syntactic structure employed.]
The closing verse in Lamentations is crucial for the meaning and spirit of the entire poem.1 In spite of the simplicity of its style and the familiarity of its vocabulary, it has long been a crux. After the plea in vs. 21, "Turn us to yourself and we will return, renew our days...
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Michael S. Moore (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Human Suffering in Lamentations," in Revue Biblique, Vol. 90, No. 4, October, 1983, pp. 534-55.
[In the following essay, Moore critiques attempts at finding unity in Lamentationsand contends that its theme and structure work together to express grief and promote hope.]
Among most recent studies of the theological import of Lamentations, the approaches of Norman Gottwald1 and Bertil Albrektson2 have dominated discussion. It is Gottwald's view, first of all, that a single "key" to the theology of Lamentations can be found—a position which is problematic from the very outset.3 Secondly,...
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Delbert R. Hillers (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "History and Poetry in Lamentations," in Currents in Theology and Mission, Vol. 10, 1983, pp. 155-61.
[In the following essay, Hillers explores the reasons behind the lack of historical material in Lamentationsand explains that what little of it can be found owes more to literary and religious traditions than to history.]
While in Jerusalem several years ago I remarked to a friend, an historian at the Hebrew University, that I was working on a commentary on Lamentations. He expressed great interest, attracted by the possibility of extracting from the series of poems some historical data to flesh out the bare picture of the fall of...
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W. C. Gwaltney, Jr. (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "The Biblical Book of Lamentations in the Context of Near Eastern Lament Literature" in Scripture in Context II: More Essays on the Comparative Method, edited by William W. Hallo et al., Eisenbrauns, 1983, pp. 191-211.
[In the following essay, Gwaltney summarizes the history of Mesopotamian laments, analyzes their forms, and argues that the gaps in the record that caused Thomas F. McDaniel (see excerpt above) to reject the notion of Sumerian influence on Lamentations have now been bridged.]
The biblical book of Lamentations has enjoyed a surprising renewal of interest in recent years. In...
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Further Reading
Albrektson, Bertil. Studies in the Text and Theology of the "Book of Lamentations." Lund, Sweden: CWK Gleerup, 1963, 258p.
Critical edition of the Peshitta text that includes divergences from the Hebrew text and the Septuagint.
Alexander, Philip S. "The Textual Traditions of Targum Lamentations." Abr-Nahrain XXIV (1986): 1-26.
Study of Targum Lamentationsoffered as a general approach that can be pursued in editing any biblical text.
Cannon, William Walter. "The Authorship of Lamentations." Bibliotheca Sacra 81 (1924): 42-58.
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Ernest Davis
THE INVISIBLE GORILLA: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us. Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. xiv + 306 pp. Crown, 2010. $27.
In 1999 Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons carried out an experiment in which they instructed subjects to watch a one-minute video of a basketball game and to count the number of passes made by the team wearing white. In the middle of the video a woman wearing a gorilla costume walks into the scene, stops, faces the camera, thumps her chest, and walks off. Astonishingly, half the subjects watching the video did not see the gorilla. Moreover, when asked afterward, "Did you notice a gorilla?," they were unable to believe that they had missed it, and they were astonished when they watched the video a second time and saw it. Some subjects accused the experimenters of switching the videos. Later experiments using a device called an eye tracker demonstrated that some of the subjects who didn't see the gorilla were in fact looking straight at it for a second at a time. The findings were published in the Journal of Perception, and the experiment became famous; it was featured on Dateline NBC and discussed in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Of course, misdirection of this kind has been used in magic tricks for millennia, but I suspect that even Houdini would have been surprised that one can make a gorilla in center stage invisible to half of all observers simply by asking them to count basketball passes.
Now Chabris and Simons have written a book called The Invisible Gorilla, which takes as its theme two kinds of errors: gaps of various kinds in people's cognitive abilities, and the inability of people to recognize those gaps or even to believe in their existence. Each of the six chapters analyzes a different category of "illusion": the illusions of attention, memory, confidence, knowledge, cause and potential. The book, which is very entertaining and readable, is a pleasant mixture of experimental studies and anecdotal information. Many of the anecdotes are derived from criminal cases, in which the reliability of observation and of memory are issues of paramount importance.
The analyses in the first three chapters are of great practical and social significance. In chapter 1, the authors relate the illusion of attention to all kinds of situations in which someone should have seen something but didn't, because his or her mind was elsewhere—for example, accidents involving car drivers using cell phones, cases in which car drivers failed to see motorcycles and drove into them, and a 2001 incident in which the captain of a U.S. submarine failed to see a Japanese fishing vessel through a periscope and surfaced directly beneath it. The gorilla experiment sheds light on these incidents in two ways: It shows how easily a person whose mind is occupied elsewhere can miss things. And it demonstrates that in court cases, when person A says of person B, "I didn't see him," and B says of A, "He was looking straight at me," both statements may be entirely true.
Chapter 2, on the illusion of memory, reveals that people's memories are much less reliable than they suppose, and that the vividness of a memory and one's certainty of it are no guarantee of its accuracy. The reliability of memory—which is, of course, of critical importance both in historical research and in criminal cases—has been the subject of a large body of psychological research, beginning with Elizabeth Loftus's pioneering work in the mid 1970s. (It is astonishing, incidentally, that Loftus is mentioned only once, in passing, in this chapter.) The work of Loftus and others, which shows the unreliability of memory and its susceptibility to suggestion and other distorting influences, played a large part in bringing an end to the "recovered memory" fad of the 1980s and has had a positive impact on court proceedings by promoting a more accurate view of the reliability of eyewitness testimony. Everyone should read this chapter and be aware of this research, particularly since we all face the possibility of becoming involved in the legal system as jurors, witnesses or litigants.
The illusion of confidence, covered in chapter 3, is the belief that people who speak or act with great confidence have greater skill or knowledge or a more accurate memory than those who are less confident. Again, this is an almost universal belief. Patients become nervous if their doctor consults a reference book or expresses any uncertainty; jurors give more credence to witnesses who sound sure of what they are saying. The experimental evidence shows, however, that although statements by any particular person are generally more reliable when they are expressed more confidently, comparing one person's level of confidence to another person's is not a good basis for deciding which individual is more reliable, particularly if you don't know much about either one's baseline level of confidence. Some people are just confident in general, even in situations in which they lack expertise.
Several of the experiments discussed in the first three chapters are every bit as vivid, surprising and ingeniously designed as the gorilla experiment. In one, the authors staged a real-life "continuity error": A confederate of the researcher poses with a map, looking lost, and asks unwitting subjects for directions. While he is speaking, two more confederates barge through with a large wooden door, briefly blocking the subject's view of the person seeking directions. While the subject's view is blocked, the directions-seeker is replaced by someone of a different height and build who is wearing different clothes. Nearly 50 percent of the subjects failed to notice that anything strange had happened. Other research shows that if the sex or race of the replacement is different from that of the person who is being replaced, subjects do take notice.
Unfortunately, even in these early chapters the quality of the evidence presented is very uneven, and some of the arguments made are weak. The authors discuss at some length the Joshua Bell stunt in which the violinist played his Stradivarius at a subway entrance and was ignored by all but a few of the passersby. The authors analyze this in terms of the illusion of attention, but there is no reason whatever to suppose that Bell was invisible to the commuters in the sense that the gorilla was invisible to the subjects watching the basketball video. All the Bell "experiment" proves is that commuters hurrying home are generally not at leisure to stop and listen to a violin recital. At most, it sheds a sad light on the pressures of life in the 21st century.
The last three chapters, on the illusions of knowledge, cause and potential, are much weaker. The prevalence of the illusion of knowledge—the fact that people, including experts, think they know more than they do—will not come as news to anyone, and the examples given are not particularly compelling. For instance, in the year 2000, leading geneticists were invited to predict the number of genes that would be found in the human genome and to enter a betting pool, with the total amount collected going to the person who made the best estimate. The estimates varied widely, ranging from 25,747 to 153,478. The current estimate is about 20,500, so no one was right, and some estimates were very far off the mark. It is hard to see what is surprising about this story or what point it illustrates. The scientists were invited to guess; the evidence at the time was inadequate, so their guesses were wrong. What of it? There is nothing to suggest that any of them had an unjustified degree of confidence in their guesses.
In general, there is a tendency in this book to assume that any error is a foolish mistake due to an illusion. Chabris and Simons say, for example, that the analysis of military turning points made by Dominic Johnson in the book Overconfidence and War shows that "almost any country that voluntarily initiates a war and then loses must have suffered from the illusion of confidence, since negotiation is always an option." But that isn't true. A country could have had good justification for thinking that it would probably win (or, more precisely, for expecting that the outcome of going to war would be more favorable than the outcome of not going to war), even if that's not how things actually turned out for one reason or another. Losing is not necessarily a sign of a foolish decision, any more than winning is a sign of a wise one.
For an example that is more easily quantified and less fraught, consider a bridge player who must choose between two lines of play: Plan A, which has a 66 percent chance of success, and plan B, which has only a 50 percent chance of success. The uncertainty about whether to follow plan A or plan B derives from the fact that the player does not know the distribution of cards in his opponents' hands. The rational choice is to follow the plan most likely to succeed, even though doing so will not guarantee success. So if the player chooses plan A and loses, and a postmortem reveals that if he had chosen B he would have won, he has not been irrational—just unlucky. And a player who chooses plan B is more likely to have miscalculated the odds of its success than to have been acting under the spell of some deep illusion. In more complex situations of this kind, in which it is mathematically impossible to compute the optimal solution in a reasonable amount of time, choosing a suboptimal strategy may not even be irrational; the player's strategy may be perfectly reasonable, given that he cannot afford to spend centuries thinking about it.
I found the chapter on the illusion of cause disappointing. Reversing cause and effect, confusing cause with correlation and the like are indeed common and dangerous errors, but the treatment of them here is slipshod. The authors, wearing their "doctrinaire experimentalist" uniforms, proclaim that "the only way—let us repeat, the only way—to definitively test whether an association is causal is to run an experiment." So, tainted wells don't cause cholera? Tectonic movements don't cause earthquakes? The difficulties in deducing causality from observational studies are profound and well known, but it often must be done, and ignoring this fact does a serious disservice to readers. The authors do go on to acknowledge that "Epidemiological studies . . . in many cases . . . are the best way to determine whether two factors are associated, and therefore have at least a potential causal connection." But the whole thrust of the remainder of the chapter is that if you haven't done an experiment, you can't make a causal claim.
Much of the chapter is given over to decrying parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated because of the supposed relation to autism. Chabris and Simons characterize this decision entirely as an instance of the illusion of cause. Certainly, cognitive illusions play a role, but many other factors are involved, including a well-founded public distrust of the pharmaceutical industry.
It is not clear how the illusion of potential—the belief that there are easy ways to make oneself smarter—relates to the other illusions, or why the authors consider it important, except that they happen to have done research in the area. After all, one can spin out categories of self-flattering human error indefinitely: Consider the illusion of innocence (the belief that any fight with your spouse is entirely his or her fault—hard to beat in terms of eliciting anger when the cognitive error is pointed out), the illusion of power (the belief that the sports team you were rooting for lost because you left the TV to go get a snack) and so on.
As a warning to all of us to be guarded in trusting our own memories and to recognize that we may not always see what is right in front of our faces, and as a plea for us to be patient and understanding when others fail in these ways, the first three chapters of this book are immensely valuable. As a popular exposition of research in cognitive psychology, the book is much less satisfactory. The line between what people get wrong and what they get right, between what they see and what they miss, is very fine, and Chabris and Simons do not adequately engage with the question of what makes the difference.
The night my dog died, my wife was awakened from a deep sleep by the absence of the sound of his breathing. Such experiences are common. Something wrong on the periphery of vision will suddenly grab our attention. This is the reverse of the gorilla effect, and probably no less important, although it may be harder to elicit in the laboratory. The formula that people do not see what they are not expecting to see, repeated several times in this book, is far too crude.
There is a tendency in cognitive psychology to focus on errors—they are easily measured, they are vivid, and it is easy to get experimental subjects to commit them. It seems to me, however, that to focus too heavily on errors is itself to miss the gorilla. For what is really most amazing in these experiments, and most in need of explanation, is what is most quotidian: that people can see and understand a basketball game; that they can converse with a stranger and give him directions. The strange errors they sometimes make while carrying out these immensely complicated cognitive tasks, and their misconceptions about these errors, although fascinating, are ultimately of secondary importance.
Ernest Davis is a professor of computer science at New York University. He is the author of Representations of Commonsense Knowledge (1990) and Representing and Acquiring Geographic Knowledge (1986), both published by Morgan Kaufmann.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/disillusionment
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