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On their website, they advertise "Discounted Disney Store (Merchandise Credit, Not Disney Rewards) Gift Cards" and picture a Disney gift card. The first time I bought one, I received what they stated and showed, a Disney gift card. However, on my second order, they sent me a "Disney Store Merchandise Credit" card. They neither look like Disney gift cards nor do they function the same. A Disney gift card can be used at all Disney companies, including Walt Disney World. A Disney Store Merchandise Credit card can only be used at the Disney Store.
When I brought their deceptive advertising to their attention, they claimed the error was mine not theirs. If this were my first order, I might understand. But, on my first order I received what they advertised. It's the subsequent order that they have not provided me with what they advertised, instead switching it out for a difference card. The best they would do is allow me to return the order with a 10% restocking charge. They need to be shut down for deceptive adversting!!!
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SUBMITTED: Tuesday, November 05, 2013POSTED: Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Even your rebuttal shows your deceptive picture. You have a DISNEY GIFT CARD pictured, not a DISNEY STORE MERCHANDISE CREDIT card. They are two different things and you should be HONEST in your advertisement. Instead, you are deceptive, picturing something other than you are selling. On top of that, my first order was fufilled with a Disney Gift Card. Your rebuttal does not (and probably cannot) explain why I received a gift card from my first order, which had the same advertisement. You should take the honorable route, which you have stated you will not, and provide a full and complete refund since your site has the error on it.
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SUBMITTED: Tuesday, November 05, 2013POSTED: Tuesday, November 05, 2013
I apologize about your poor experience with our company. I've attached a screenshot directly from our website displaying how we advertise our Disney gift cards. This screenshot clearly shows that it is advertised as a Merchandise Credit. The description also explains how these gift cards can be used at disney stores and online at disneystore.com. This does not include anything about the Walt Disney World Parks. Therefore, the advertising was correct and is not deemed deceptive. Since the value on the card is correct and our website states that this is a Merchandise Credit, returning this card will be subject to a 10% restocking fee (as stated in our Terms and Conditions).
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Rochester lost all four games against the Clippers in Columbus last week.
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The Ramirez hit marked the end of Davies' night on the mound, with Blake Wood taking over for Columbus. Wood notched a pair of strikeouts to escape the jam. Davies (1-2) finished with 6 1/3 innings pitched, with five hits and four earned runs allowed. He walked one and struck out four, throwing 94 pitches (60 strikes)
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Warren Austin : "American Broadcasters' Responsibility in the World Today"
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.
Transcribed speech to raise awareness of poverty worldwide. Selected subjects: efforts provide Penicillin to Haitians; state of China as a result of communism.
The Permanent US delegate to the United Nations speaks to the 28th Annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago.
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This Week in America East Baseball - Week 2
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Week two of America East baseball conference play starts on Saturday with three series. One schedule change to note is that the Main-Hartford series originally scheduled to be played in Orono has been moved to West Hartford.
Binghamton (9-6, 1-2 AE) at Stony Brook (6-13, 1-2)
Sat., March 23, 12 p.m. – Jake Lambert (Binghamton) 2-0, 5.32 ERA vs. Brandon McNitt (Stony Brook) 1-2, 3.38 ERA
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Sat., March 23, 3 p.m. – Jack Rogalla (Binghamton) 2-0, 2.55 ERA vs. Frankie Vanderka (Stony Brook) 2-2, 1.82 ERA
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Sun., March 24, 1 p.m. – Jay Lynch (Binghamton) 1-2, 3.98 ERA vs. Daniel Zamora (Stony Brook) 0-4, 5.76 ERA
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Binghamton and Stony Brook enter the weekend series looking to turn things around after both teams dropped two of their first three conference games. The Bearcats lead the America East in batting, hitting .292 as a team, thanks largely in part to Jake Thomas. Thomas leads the conference with a .420 batting average and is third with 17 RBI. Binghamton also ranks second in team ERA at 4.57.
Stony Brook boasts the league-leader in ERA in Frankie Vanderka who holds a 1.82 ERA in 34.2 innings pitched. Vanderka will start game two of the series and had a no-hitter earlier this season. The Seawolves have struggled as a team at the play with a .209 batting average.
Albany (4-9, 1-2) at UMBC (4-7, 2-1)
Sat., March 23, 3:30 p.m. – Cameron Sorgie (Albany) 1-0, 4.71 ERA vs. Mac Gill (UMBC) 1-0, 3.44 ERA
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Sat., March 23, 6:30 p.m. - Kasceim Graham (Albany) 2-2, 3.80 ERA vs. Denis Mikush (UMBC) 0-0, 0.00 ERA
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Sun., March 24, 12 p.m. - TBA (Albany) vs. Riley Stephenson (UMBC) 0-2, 9.00 ERA
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The Retrievers took their first series of the year, winning two of three against Binghamton. UMBC hit .343 against the Bearcats, scoring 20 runs during the series. Brandon Coluccio sparked the Retriever offense while being named Player of the Year, going 7-for-11 with three RBI and three runs scored.
Albany lost its first series of the year on the road at Hartford. The Great Danes are led by Adam Mund, who is hitting .286 this season, while Josh Nethaway has driven in 10 runs for Albany.
Maine (11-12, 2-1) at Hartford (2-13, 2-1)
Sat., March 23, 3 p.m. – Tommy Lawrence (Maine) 2-2, 2.80 ERA vs. Kyle Gauthier (Hartford) 0-2, 6.64 ERA
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Sun., March 24, 12 p.m. – Jake Marks (Maine) 1-0, 0.68 ERA vs. Brian Hunter (Hartford) 1-3, 5.03 ERA
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Sun., March 24, 3 p.m. – TBA (Maine) vs. Sean Newcomb (Hartford) 1-2, 6.75 ERA
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After a tough start to its non-conference season, Hartford earned its first two wins of the year to win the series from Albany during conference-opening weekend. The Hawks scored 24 runs in three games as the offense got rolling against the Great Danes.
Maine won two of three on the road against preseason favorite Stony Brook to open its season, getting tremendous pitching, especially from No. 1 starter Tommy Lawrence. The junior threw a complete game shutout against the Seawolves and was named Pitcher of the Week.


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Today was quite a hard one at Boot Camp. All the training sessions were quite a lot tougher but amazingly we all coped really well. Had we been made to do that on the first or second training day, we would have completely died. Really.
Everyone is so happy at how much their fitness levels have improved and the trainers are so proud too. It really does feel so good. Obviously I still ache quite a bit but I am looking forward to feeling fitter and wanting to continue to exercise.
Lovely lovely food again today. The stuffed aubergine was a highlight and I adored the chicken risotto (but didn't get a pic of that before I ate it!).
Funny thing to report. Evidence of contraband goodies was detected at camp!! Shock horror. In order to avoid everyone getting exercise penalties, the guilty ones were encouraged to admit to any other naughty things they had tucked away.
This was the amnesty box!!
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A good night's sleep all round we hope!
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Common Lisp/Reference/cdr
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< Common Lisp | Reference
The cdr operator, along with car, is one of the basic building blocks of Common Lisp which are used to build cons cells.
The cdr operator, when applied to a list, returns the remainer of that list. For example:
(cdr (list 1 2 3 4 5))
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Instagram can sell your photos, but you won't get paid
Instagram announced that it is updating its terms of service and privacy policy.
New Delhi: Instagram, which was recently acquired by Facebook, has announced that it is updating its terms of service and privacy policy. Some of the new changes, that will be effective on January 16, 2013, have sparked off protests from users.
The new terms of service and privacy policy will bring them in line with Facebook's policies. In a post on its blog, Instagram assured users that, "nothing has changed about your photos' ownership or who can see them" and added that the "updated privacy policy helps Instagram function more easily as part of Facebook by being able to share info between the two groups. This means we can do things like fight spam more effectively, detect system and reliability problems more quickly, and build better features for everyone by understanding how Instagram is used."
Though Instagram in the blog post says that the "updated terms of service help protect you, and prevent spam and abuse as we grow," it does not highlight the clause 2 under Rights which says, "Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you."
This means that Instagram can sell your images and data to third parties without taking your consent and also without having to pay you for that.
Facebook was also sued by users in 2011 for using images without consent and the case was finally settled in June this year. Facebook had pay $10 million to settle the suit. Yahoo had in the past tried to enforce similar terms, but had to back down.
Users have not reacted kindly to the news. Selected responses from Twitter.
@lostart: Dear Instagram, please change your name to more adequately portray your abusive terms of service: instaGRAB!
@kidzrevil: So instagram is turning itself into a stock photo agency. A stock photo is kinda like a template a company could buy to make an ad with.
@justimage: Not surprised Facebook's Instagram is evil. Sadly, I think people will still use it. Big blow to photographers.
@prague360: Goodbye instagram. I'm uninstalling you now. I never want to see you again
@ReformedBroker: Facebook's terms of service changes to Instagram are hilarious. It's like they want us to hate them
@markonen: I am basically trusting that enough of you guys will delete your Instagram accounts to reverse the policy without me having to do anything.
@bozoskeleton: Never been happier that I don't Instagram: now they want to sell users' photos because they own them!
@buzzbishop: Just in case you thought @instagram was trustworthy and wont do evil, look what they did to
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Being Part Of A Fortune 500 Company
A man by the name of Jack Welch came along in the early 1980s and restructured his conglomerate, General Electric, to focus solely on industries where the Stamford, Connecticut-based firm was either in the leader position or was challenging for it. Considering that this man went on to become the manager of the Century, let's assume that he may have an idea or two about business management.
king of the hillWhile everyone vies for the top spot in sports, politics or business, there is also a sense of accomplishment when one is part of an elite group or club that represents the best. In professional sports, the major leagues attract the best players, the most fans, as well as the largest dollars.
In terms of individual rich men, Forbes magazine publishes a yearly list, aptly named the Forbes 400, which ranks the 400 wealthiest individuals.
In business, various lists honor and recognize such stalwarts of business, none more renowned than the Fortune 500 label.
What is the Fortune 500? It is an annual list of the nation's top 500 companies, as measured by revenues and compiled by the venerable Fortune magazine. Let us first dissect the relevance of such a prize and then explain what this means to an employee of a F500 company, and one that is aspiring to enter this private club.
show me the moneyThe first thing to note is that Fortune uses revenues as its key benchmark to rank these companies. While revenues are an important metric, most shareholders are mainly concerned with overall profitability.
Microsoft has consistently earned solid profits on fairly modest revenues, which explains why it quickly rose to the most valuable company in the world. And although it has been dethroned, it still racks up healthy earnings. But in terms of revenues, Microsoft does not rank too high.
Who does? Mostly, the big carmakers such as General Motors, diversified financials such as GE and retail powerhouses like Wal-Mart. Interestingly, while GE also ranks very high in terms of profitability, GM does not.
what does this mean?The Fortune 500 is an objective way of ranking companies based on a quantitative list that measures revenues. It shows that a company has substantial clout in the market, but it does not, in any real way, measure how well a company is managed, how its employees are treated, and how well it is operated.
The list that more accurately measures this is the Most Admired list, also ironically compiled by Fortune . This list entails both quantitative and qualitative factors that draw a better picture of a company's overall outlook.
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(CNSNews.com) - Half of all states are reportedly considering higher tobacco taxes this year, with one of the more prominent examples coming from New Jersey, where Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey proposes a 50 cent per pack increase.
A spokesman for one tobacco manufacturer admits the higher taxes will affect sales and calls the strategy being used by McGreevey and others "fundamentally unfair."
New Jersey currently has the nation's eighth highest excise tax on cigarettes -- New Jersey smokers must pay eighty cents in taxes for every pack of cigarettes, according to the Federation of Tax Administrators.
But if McGreevey's proposal becomes law, the state's tobacco tax would climb to $1.30 per pack, making it the third highest in the country behind Washington and New York. However, 25 states in all are reportedly considering tobacco tax hikes this year
William V. Corr, executive vice president of the Washington-based Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said the move by McGreevey is much needed in order for the state to curb underage smoking and eliminate health problems.
"We applaud New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey for his leadership in proposing to increase the state's cigarette tax by 50 cents," Corr said in a written statement. "The governor's farsighted plan is a win-win solution for New Jersey that will reduce smoking among kids and adults while raising much-needed revenue."
Corr said increasing the cigarette tax was a powerful way to reduce the number of individuals who smoke cigarettes. "Increasing cigarette taxes is good public health policy, good fiscal policy and good politics," he said. "Numerous studies show that increasing cigarette taxes is one of the most effective ways to reduce smoking among both youth and adults."
McGreevey predicted the tax on cigarettes would generate $200 million in additional revenues. "This is not only sound fiscal policy; it's good public health policy," McGreevey said in his address to the New Jersey Legislature. "Studies have clearly shown that increasing the cost of a pack of cigarettes is literally one of the most successful ways to reduce smoking."
Daniel Clifton, federal affairs manager for Americans for Tax Reform, said McGreevey's first problem is that his $23.6 billion budget for 2003 is too big.
Clifton said McGreevey wants to spend roughly the same amount, $23 billion, as Pennsylvania Republican Governor Mark Schweiker, despite the fact that Pennsylvania has a much larger population than New Jersey. In fact, Pennsylvania has about 12 million residents to New Jersey's eight million, according to the Almanac of American Politics.
"Jim McGreevey sees his political success as having money and being able to grant out money. That is ridiculous that he is increasing a tax [cigarettes] to spend more money and it is not even on non-public health related issues," Clifton said.
If New Jersey implements the higher cigarette tax, residents will simply drive to neighboring states to buy their cigarettes, Clifton said, and some New Jersey businesses that sell tobacco products will eventually be forced to leave the state.
John Singleton, director of public affairs for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, said the tax increase on cigarettes was "bad policy."
"From the standpoint that you are tax-profiling smokers and targeting them, it certainly makes it expeditious politics. In our view, it is fundamentally unfair," Singleton said.
Singleton admitted that the taxes do affect cigarette sales. "It is going to impact volume. We certainly don't deny that as prices continue to go up and taxes go up that it impacts volume," he said.
But Singleton said higher taxes lead smokers to buy cigarettes over the Internet and that other businesses offering smokers buying alternatives are growing in size and popularity. "What happens is that you find smokers are going to look for ways to get around the higher prices," Singleton said.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Co-Sleeping in the News
Apropos the article above, am not quite sure why you have to turf them out at age five, but horses for courses. Some kids will be ready for their own space well before this.
(INcidentally - eugh! You can probably tell that I don't usually get round to spell checking - but I may be even less likely to from now on. What is this "maneuver" thing?)
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Only just got round to reading this and must say it is about time the scientific world backed up what parents probably have always known innately. It's the so called 'specialists' and parenting gurus that are to blame for writing books on the subject without really knowing what they are talking about.
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Hey, that was a cool read. Normally I don't see stuff like that.
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Does this count as Scientism?
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Yes, probably. This of course doesn't mean that there isn't truth in the assertions and although we may lack precise explanations for the effect, it's existence seems so demonstrable that I would sincerely guess that there is one.
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Boronia man jailed for 200,000 child-porn images
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A former factory worker who had more than 200,000 images of child pornography is the first Victorian to be jailed through the nationwide Operation Auxin.
Brian Wilcock, 48, of Boronia, was given an 18-month sentence yesterday, with nine months suspended.
Wilcock pleaded guilty in the Ringwood Magistrates Court to a count each of possessing and producing and distributing child pornography.
Magistrate Greg McNamara said there were no words to describe the pictures downloaded by Wilcock, some of which featured children as young as one being sexually abused. Mr McNamara appeared shocked after viewing some of the images among the 213,414 seized by detectives from Wilcock's home last September.
Wilcock was one of hundreds of Australians investigated by police in Operation Auxin, which was part of a larger international taskforce targeting child-porn users and producers.
The number of images seized from Wilcock is the highest yet obtained by Victoria Police in relation to Operation Auxin.
The court was told that Wilcock had spent almost $15,000 over four years in subscription fees to child-porn websites. When police raided his home, they seized computer towers and a large number of CDs containing 1000 videos of child pornography.
Wilcock also swapped pictures with people on the internet, with most of the material coming from Russian porn sites.
His lawyer, Susan Howell, said Wilcock had suffered a genetic disorder of obsessive behaviour. Ms Howell said her client was a recovering gambling addict and had been forced to resign from his job following the investigation.
She said he realised he had a problem and did not place himself in situations where there was potential to abuse children. She said he refused to babysit his brother's children when asked.
Mr McNamara said Wilcock had provided a market for the exploitation of children. He said he had great sympathy for the officers who work on child-porn cases and he was shocked by their content.
Wilcock is now on the Victorian sex offenders registry.
He remained passive as he was sentenced and led into custody.
Outside court, Detective Senior Constable Rob Baker said it was a shock for police to discover such a large number of images. But he said police found it satisfying when such a defendant was brought to justice.
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Mount Sheridan Climber's Log
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|east slope
Date Climbed: May 20, 2007
|A pretty standard, easy, snow-free scramble to the top. Glissading down the south ridge over to Peerless was sweet!
Great weather too!
|Posted May 20, 2007 5:32 pm
|Fourmile Creek, good fall weather
Date Climbed: Oct 15, 1993
|Set off for Mt. Sherman, my wife's first 14er. Uncertain about the exact date. Upon reaching the saddle, I decided I would have time to tag Sheridan and rejoin her by the time she got to the top of Sherman. One of my first 13ers.
|Posted Apr 23, 2007 12:02 pm
|Anya Jingle
|From Fourmile Creek
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2006
|I visited this nice summit on my way back from Mount Sherman. I had it all to myself as I watched crowds of people topping out on the saddle and heading for Sherman. I'm glad I got an early start. My slideshow is here: Mount Sherman and Mount Sheridan from Fourmile Creek
|Posted Jan 23, 2007 4:09 am
|Winter ascent
Date Climbed: Dec 23, 2006
|Winter ascent with two others. After driving alone to 11,000 feet on the 22nd, I walked to 11,560 feet and camped. The night was -7F. At 12,100 feet, I waited for and met three others whom planned to climb Sherman and Sheridan with me. Another member caught up later. The five of us climbed Sherman and three of us climbed Sheridan. It was a great trip in good weather.
|Posted Dec 25, 2006 10:15 pm
|winter summit
Date Climbed: Dec 23, 2006
|climbed from the sherman-sheridan saddle after climbing the fourteener. scree slog all the way, got tired near the top.
|Posted Dec 25, 2006 6:00 am
|Eric Holle
|Route Climbed: ASARCO Mine Date Climbed: December 6, 2006
|Parked at the winter TH at the ASARCO mine, slogged up the road to the Iowa Amphitheater. After summitting Gemini Peak in 40mph winds, continued over to Mt. Sherman in nice calm, 20-25mph winds. Wrapped up the hike with summitting Mt. Sheridan. Fun glissade back to Iowa Gulch. Great Solo day.
|Posted Dec 8, 2006 12:37 am
|Civil war generals loop
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 1985
|From mine gate in drizzle and fog
|Posted Sep 22, 2006 2:37 pm
|Brian Kalet
|Northeast Slope from Iowa Gulch
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2006
|To Peerless and Horseshoe. 6 hours roundtrip.
|Posted Sep 5, 2006 4:20 pm
|Last Stop on My Iowa Gulch Traverse
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2006
|Fifth summit of the day. Four hours, twenty minutes from the bottom of the Dyer amphitheater to West Dyer to Dyer to Gemini to Sherman to Sheridan. Couldn't have asked for better weather in the midst of the monsoon. I'm also glad to have those peaks off my list since Iowa Gulch has to rank as among the least inspirational vistas in Colorado. Although, I guess it still beats the local views of the Maryland and Illinois cars I saw parked at the trailhead.
|Posted Aug 12, 2006 8:20 pm
|Skied it from South Park, training for Denali
Date Climbed: May 12, 2006
|Skied with brother Dirk and Zach Marqis.
threw in Sherman and Gemeni for a good training day. Great access on this side!
|Posted Aug 1, 2006 12:48 am
|West Ridge via Iowa Gulch
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006
|This peak gives me an even 50 on the highest 200 in Colorado, only 150 more to go! haha.
|Posted Jul 22, 2006 8:03 pm
|Sherman Saddle/4 Mile Creek
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2006
|Tagged summit after doing Sherman. Great short climb to help get me into better shape for the summer/fall of 14ers ahead.
|Posted Jul 17, 2006 12:50 pm
|East Slopes from Fourmile Creek Trailhead
Date Climbed: Apr 16, 2005
|Spring was in the air on this awesome day. I didn't need my snowshoes for this one. I avoided snow whenever possible and blazed my own version of the route up the peak. I bumped into some cool folks who were unsuccesful at climbing Sherman (How do you fail on that one?) On the way down, the snow was melting on the road and was all mushy - post hole madness! I was regretting not bringing my snowshoes at this point. There is a bench made from rocks on the summit that is really cool, and inviting. What a day on the solo :)
|Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:36 pm
|Tour de Mosquito Range
Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2003
|Did this along with Dyer, Sherman, Gemini, Peerless and Horseshoe that day. Sheridan had the honor of being the steepest of the day.
|Posted Mar 5, 2006 6:24 pm
|Route Climbed: Northeast Slopes Date Climbed: August 27, 2005
|After bagging Sherman & Gemini, I hurried up Sheridan before the storms came in.
|Posted Dec 30, 2005 12:22 pm
|Route Climbed: Iowa Gulch via West Ridge of Sheridan Date Climbed: October 8, 2005
|I climbed the west ridge of sheridan from Iowa Gulch and followed Sheridan with Peerless, Horseshoe, Sherman, and Gemini. Got tired below the summit of Dyer and descended. Wonderful day.
|Posted Oct 9, 2005 12:56 pm
|Route Climbed: Northeast slope Date Climbed: July 1, 2005
|Good grunt up from the Sherman saddle - made for a tougher day when included with Sherman and Gemini
|Posted Aug 10, 2005 4:32 pm
|Ed F
|Route Climbed: Southeast Slope Date Climbed: May 26, 2005
|I parked at the road closure and climbed the slopes above the Dauntless Mine and then skinned to the base of the SE slope. I packed my skis to the end of the snow, tagged the summit, and enjoyed a nice ski to the car. Windy day.
|Posted May 26, 2005 4:05 pm
|Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: July 23, 1983
|After summitting Sherman w/ a group from the CMC, we continued south from the saddle to climb Sheridan as well. The descent down the NE slopes took us back to our vehicles at Leavick.
|Posted Feb 7, 2005 2:28 pm
|Route Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: October 31, 2004
|Although it was windy and cold, the day turned out to be a great day for some time in the high country. Made the hike under clear skies with my wife and found very little snow above treeline.
|Posted Oct 31, 2004 2:11 pm


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Philosopher and bioethicist Carl Elliott's latest book (Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, Norton, $26.95) explores the modern American pursuit of happiness through "enhancement technologies"— products of medical science that are used not just to cure a disease or a disability but to upgrade or enrich our capacities. Science has provided us with the means—Prozac, Viagra, cosmetic surgery and sex-reassignment surgery—for "self-improvement," and Elliott wonders how and why so many of us have become so obsessed with these physical and psychological enhancements.
Although Better than Well will appeal to those interested in questions of personal identity, it is not a self-help book. Far from it. Instead it's a rare piece of writing: part philosophical tract and part social commentary that is as engaging as a good novel. In fact, Elliott often turns to some of the best American novelists—Walker Percy, Richard Ford and Richard Yates—to develop his ideas. The movies and television also make an appearance, and the reader soon comes to recognize that Elliott is not only a serious scholar, but a hip observer of popular culture—which is exactly the kind of tour guide you'd want for an exploration of both the mundane and the exotic parts of the modern American psyche.
Elliott recently moved to Princeton, New Jersey, for a sabbatical year at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he is visiting associate professor in the School of Social Science. He was trained as both a physician and a philosopher. Senior Editor Michael Szpir interviewed Elliott by e-mail shortly after his arrival at Princeton in early September.
How did you come to write a book about identity and "enhancement technologies?" The deeper question, I suppose, is how did you become interested in identity and self-invention? It started in medical school when my friend Daniel Fort introduced me to the novels of Walker Percy. Percy's third novel, Love in the Ruins, is about an alcoholic psychiatrist and ex-mental patient named Thomas More. At that point in my medical training, becoming an alcoholic psychiatrist was looking like a pretty attractive career option, so I read the novel very carefully. Tom More invents an instrument called The Ontological Lapsometer—or as he calls it, a "stethoscope of the human soul." With the Ontological Lapsometer, More can diagnose and treat existential problems. If you're alienated or anxious or lonely, a quick temporal lobe massage with the Lapsometer will put you right.
What really struck me about Love in the Ruins, what made it cut really sharply, is that More's patients don't just feel good after a treatment with the Lapsometer. They feel fulfilled. They feel energized and creative and liberated. They feel like themselves. Their lives have meaning again. Now, a drug that gives meaning to an otherwise meaningless life: Here is a truly terrifying idea.
Love in the Ruins was published in 1971. When Prozac came along 20 years later, I started talking about it with my brother Hal, who is a psychiatrist at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and a serious Percy reader. And for us, of course, the obvious parallel was the Lapsometer. Some of the people taking Prozac sounded eerily like the characters in Percy's novel. They were saying things like, "On Prozac, I feel like myself again."
So the question became: If this drug really does make you feel fulfilled and authentically yourself, what's wrong with that? Well, maybe nothing. A lot of people think not, and it's true that antidepressants are an essential part of standard treatment for full-blown clinical depression. Percy has a much darker view, of course. At one point in the book Tom More is approached by Art Immelman, who wants to buy the rights to the Lapsometer and market it for the drug industry. He tells More, "Doc, we're dedicated to the freedom of the individual to choose his own destiny and develop his own potential." Art Immelman, of course, is the devil.
What is the origin of the phrase "enhancement technology"? I'm not entirely sure. In the mid-1990s, Erik Parens assembled a group of people to work on enhancement technologies at the Hastings Center. I was involved with that group, and I remember that "enhancement technologies" seemed to have become a term of art by that point. The distinction between treatment and enhancement had become important for people trying to think about gene therapy. A lot of people thought that it was fine to treat genetic disorders but were worried about using genetics to enhance or improve human beings. Genetic enhancement had the smell of eugenics, which most people were unwilling to endorse because of its racist history.
Erik had us working not just on genetic enhancement but also on cosmetic surgery and psychopharmacology. The debates over Ritalin and Prozac were starting to heat up; athletic organizations were getting worked up over performance-enhancing drugs; and then came Viagra, which quickly became the fastest-selling prescription drug in pharmaceutical history. Third-party payers started scrambling to figure out whether they were obligated to pay for Viagra, which seemed to depend on whether it was prescribed as a way to enhance sexual performance or as a treatment for "erectile dysfunction." Pretty soon, bioethicists were using the term "enhancement technologies" to describe any kind of medical intervention that could be used to improve a person's abilities or appearance.
For the most part science seems to play a passive role in our wish to fulfill our visions of ourselves by providing the technology (drugs, surgical procedures) to alter ourselves. But you also imply that science has played an active role in this regard. For example, you suggest that the drug companies have hyped the notion of social phobia to market drugs such as Paxil. Could you elaborate on the relation between science/technology and the creation of identity in our culture? I know this is a big question. . . . That's a complicated question, so I'll duck it. Instead, let me point out two shifts that I think have helped make enhancement technologies such a success. The first shift is a subtle change in the ethos of the medical profession. Doctors are now a lot more comfortable with the idea of giving physical treatments to remedy psychological and social problems. Today doctors give growth hormone to ordinary short people to fix the stigma of being short, perform double eyelid surgery on Asian Americans to fix the stigma of having "Asian eyes," and give Propecia to middle-aged men to fix the stigma of having a bald head. Once you take on the idea that the purpose of medicine is to improve a person's psychic well-being, then the range of conditions you can treat expands enormously.
A second shift has been an enormous growth in the power of the pharmaceutical industry, which is now the most profitable industry in the United States. The pharmaceutical industry has an obvious financial interest in expanding the diagnostic categories for which their drugs are prescribed. The more people with social phobia there are, the more drugs for social phobia the industry can sell. The more short kids there are, the more synthetic growth hormone the industry can sell. This is not to say that there is no such thing as social phobia, any more than it would be to say that there is no such thing as being short. It's just what happens when medicine starts to take on market values.
You say in your introduction that you are not offering an argument so much as a diagnosis. I wonder if you could summarize your diagnosis, and whether you could offer a prognosis. Are we on a slippery slope to becoming cyborgs? What struck me about the way people were describing enhancement technologies was the way that so often they used this language of identity and authenticity: "I became myself on Prozac," or "I started taking steroids so that I would look on the outside the way I feel on the inside," or "With my sex-change surgery, I became who I really was." Here you had these people undergoing these radical self-transformations, and yet they described the transformation as a way of achieving their true selves. So the question became: What's going on here? Why this kind of vocabulary? What are these people getting at?
Part of the answer, I think, is that many people living in the late modern age don't expect to find the meaning of their lives by looking to God, truth or any other external moral framework. And they don't think of their identities as fixed entities, determined by their place in a social hierarchy and ratified by God and nature. Instead, they expect to find meaning in their lives by looking inward to the self. You have to get in touch with yourself in order to live a meaningful life.
Now, it's easy to make that sound trivial. Just spend a few hours watching daytime television or browsing through the self-help section of a chain bookshop, and you'll see just how trivial it can get. But this idea of getting in touch with your inner depths as part of living a meaningful life goes a lot deeper than that. Think about psychoanalysis, for example, and the idea that we have to look inward to understand who we really are. Think about the idea of the conscience, where you look inward to decide what's right or wrong. Think about democratic society, and the notion that we should all have the right to pursue our own personal, individual vision of the good life. All this is related to the way that authenticity and individual identity have become so enormously important over the past 200 years.
The other piece of this is social recognition. As the philosopher Charles Taylor points out, today we expect people to generate an identity for themselves. And it has to be an individual identity. This is part of the ethic of authenticity. Recognition by other people is critical, because the effort to generate an identity can fail. Others can refuse to recognize your identity, or insist on seeing you in a way other than the way in which you see yourself. And for complicated reasons, this can be genuinely damaging.
Taylor calls this an ethic of authenticity, and there's a reason he uses the word "ethic." It's because an authentic life is seen as a better life. Being in touch with your inner feelings, desires and aspirations has become necessary for living as a full human being. An unfulfilled life is a lesser life. If you're not fulfilled, your life is not measuring up to the promise of what a human life could be. That means that technologies such as Prozac, Ritalin, cosmetic surgery, growth hormone and sex-reassignment surgery are not just ways to look and feel better. They're instruments of self-fulfillment.
Now, of course I don't think this story explains all enhancement technologies. For example, I certainly wouldn't want to put sex-reassignment surgery on the same moral plane as baldness cures. But this language of authenticity is one of the more interesting strands running through a lot of the technologies.
You nicely articulate the existential despair that the suburban life is supposed to impose and the history of the anxiolytic drug Miltown, which was developed in the 1950s and might be called the first "lifestyle drug." Drugs such as Prozac and Ativan, which can be used to treat "everyday melancholy," are doing better than ever, and I wonder if you see any other way out for the "suburbanite." In other words, is the answer ultimately in urban planning or some form of social engineering? Hmm. The phrase "social engineering" reminds me a little too much of what an entertainment director does on one of those Caribbean cruise ships. There aren't many things more soul-destroying than that.
The problem is a lot more complicated than creating better suburbs. The mystery is why an alienated suburbanite feels so much better after watching George Romero's movie Dawn of the Dead, which features bloodsucking zombies marching through an air-conditioned shopping mall in the suburbs with Muzak playing in the background, but feels a lot worse after reading an interview with me telling them what they need to do to improve their lives. Personally, I can't think of many things more likely to plunge me into existential despair than reading a book by an expert on how to achieve personal growth and self-fulfillment.
You introduce philosopher Charles Taylor's notion of "instrumental rationality," in which we remake the world to suit our personal designs and so rob it of its intrinsic value. In this light you say that the story of technology in America is also the story of how we transform a "thing" into a "device." I wonder if you could elaborate a little on these ideas. Do you think instrumental rationality is an inevitable consequence of a technological society, or is it more a product of capitalism? Both, I think. A technological society encourages an instrumental view of the world, and capitalism puts a price on it. Both flatten out the world, but in different ways. I suspect we probably pay too much attention to the ways technology can fix problems and too little attention to the way technology works on our own sensibilities. Often those changes are invisible to us, but we can feel them working on us anyway. Whenever I walk into a suburban shopping mall or one of those wholesale shopping warehouses, I can feel a kind of force field draining the life out of me. I've been reading the Harry Potter books to my kids, and my favorite characters are the Dementors, the prison guards with no faces who wear black cloaks and can suck your soul away. They remind me of the greeters at Wal-Mart.
You mentioned Albert Borgman's distinction between a "thing" and a "device." I thought about this again last month when I was back in New Zealand, where I used to live. I met a couple while I was there, Jennifer and Roger Ngahooro, who told me in passing that they had refused to buy a dishwasher. They insisted on washing their dishes by hand, because that was the time of the day when everyone in the family really talked seriously to one another. Their theory was that it was easier for people to talk to one another while they were actually doing something with their hands, and not looking directly at one another across the table. They saw the value in the practice of washing dishes together. Whereas most Americans, I think, would simply look at the dishwasher as a device. The only point of washing dishes is to get them clean, and a dishwasher can do it faster and more efficiently, with less work for everybody. That is a kind of instrumental rationality.
Another slightly different example: I was just reading a paper by an analytic philosopher about Prozac. He was arguing that there was no important difference between Prozac and psychotherapy, because both were just ways of changing brain chemistry. That's a more subtle kind of instrumental rationality—seeing a practice, or even language itself, in purely instrumental terms. It's also reductive and simplistic, of course, but it reduces a complex practice into a device for changing brain chemistry.
This isn't necessarily an argument against technology, only an argument for thinking more carefully about what exactly technology is doing to us. Given the choice, my kids would much rather make a homemade fishing pole out of bamboo and string, with a piece of cork for a bobber, than use an expensive rod and reel from the sporting goods shop. Some people would see that as deeply irrational. Surely the kids would catch more fish the other way, and save themselves a lot of trouble in the bargain. That's true. But the homemade fishing pole is a lot more fun, for mysterious reasons.
Technology is a lot more mysterious than a lot of technophiles like to admit. Some technologies seem to have a kind of magic to them that lingers on even after the technology is technically obsolete. Ham radios, for example, or hot air balloons. Others can be technically brilliant but still alienating and oppressive. What is it about a thoroughly modern kitchen that makes some people want to put their heads in the oven?
Physicists have been wringing their hands ever since we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, but it seems that biologists are a little slow to consider the consequences of their actions. Is it just because the effects of biological technologies are more subtle or complicated? One big difference between the physical sciences and the life sciences is the emergence of an entire professional cadre of bioethicists who earn their living by teaching and writing and consulting on ethical issues in the life sciences. You don't see that development nearly so much in the physical sciences. Whether that's an improvement or not, I can't say.
The book talks a lot about authenticity, and it seems impossible that you could have written it without a lot of self-examination. (Just reading it made me stop and think about my identity and what I'm searching for in life.) Do you feel that you became more aware of who you are after you wrote it, and if so, how? Well, I grew up in Clover, South Carolina. My parents are from South Carolina, and their parents, and so on, back for hundreds of years. I went to Davidson College in North Carolina, then to medical school in Charleston, South Carolina. At the age of 25 I quit medicine, left South Carolina and moved to Scotland to study philosophy. Over the next several years I lived in Chicago, New Zealand, South Africa, Montreal, North Carolina, Minneapolis and now Princeton. My wife, Ina, is from Germany, and my kids carry three passports. So I went from this very thick, inward-looking Southern upbringing to a kind of rootless expatriate life. That kind of change makes you very self-conscious about your own identity, both about the things that you share with other people and the kinds of things that make your own background unique. It also gives you an outsider's eye on your own culture. I wrote a good part of that book sitting outside a hut in Bali.
So here's an offbeat question: If you could partake of just one enhancement technology that hasn't been created, what would it be? If you don't like that one, how about: Which enhancement technology do you think the world needs most? You know, for years we had a research group thinking about these things, and the most intriguing idea I can remember came from David Gems, who is a geneticist at University College London. David's an extraordinary character, and one of the most interesting people I've ever found to talk about ideas with. He's an ex-punk, used to dig graves in Guatemala, worked in an Icelandic fish packaging plant, hung out with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua for a couple of years. When we were sharing a flat in Glasgow back in the 1980s, he'd disappear for weeks, and when he came back it would turn out that he'd been bumming around the Soviet Union—which really wasn't easy to do back in those days. And now he's a geneticist of aging with his own lab and a Royal Society fellowship, publishing his papers in Science and Nature. Anyway, David had this idea for what he calls "ontological enhancements." You know that famous paper by the philosopher Thomas Nagel, "What Is It Like To Be a Bat?"? That's the kind of thing David is thinking about—interventions that could dramatically alter your subjective experience of the world. What would it be like to have a new kind of sensory perception, like a bat's sonar? What if there were a drug or a procedure that would let straight people know what it is like to be gay, for example—or vice versa? The idea of "ontological enhancement" is at the root of at least some of the kinds of self-transformations I talk about in the book, like John Howard Griffin's experiment in Black Like Me. Now, whether the world really needs this kind of technology I wouldn't venture to say, but it's a lot more interesting than, say, drugs to make you run faster, or go without sleep.
So what are you working on now? Are you planning another book? I've got a couple of projects in the works. One is about the advice industry, and especially the rise of a quasi-professional class of advice experts that we call "bioethicists." I work in a bioethics center myself, of course, but I feel very ambivalent about calling myself a bioethicist. A lot of my friends and colleagues do too, for complicated reasons. Who are we to advise other people how to behave? Why has our society invented this social role called "ethicist"? Why do so many bioethicists insist that they are not really bioethicists? I'm a fan of the novelist Nathanael West, and I'm thinking of calling this book Miss Lonelyhearts Visits the Hospital.
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