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SANDOWN – In a move that surprised even her, Brenda Copp has resigned her seat on the board of selectmen. The current vice chair made the move following the board's Nov. 4 meeting.
Copp had not resigned publicly when the board closed its meeting Nov. 4, but news of her move made quick rounds around town and by the middle of the week, many knew of her decision. Though the final straw came recently, Copp said her dissatisfaction with some members of the board began months ago.
Copp wrote a formal letter of resignation last week and in an interview after the fact, stated she was done with her work on any town committees and did not see a time in the future when she'd want to serve in that capacity again.
Explaining her decision, Copp stated, "I saw things happening that I disapproved of and the only way I could live with myself was to turn in my resignation."
She cited moral and personal objections, but would give no specifics. She said it had been a lingering situation and did not involve the entirety of the board.
Last week's meeting showed some frustration on a separate matter however, as Copp pushed against board efforts to increase the amount in the town employees' Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), as reported by the Tri-Town Times. Copp has become well known for her efforts to keep the budget down, coming to meetings with the results of her calculations on costs and needs done outside the meeting. When health insurance was being discussed, Copp successfully moved to accept a health plan that saved the town about $17,000 with little impact to employee coverage, but was visibly dismayed when the board then moved to increase the HRAs, thereby nullifying much of the savings.
Copp was clear that the matter that prompted her resignation was separate from the health insurance discussion.
"It was a shock to me," said Copp, noting that she went into the meeting with no plans to resign, and even hoped that should the board want her to, she would take on the chairmanship next term.
The selectman, who has been serving on town committees since 2007, said that while she does not harbor regrets, she is apologetic for not finishing out her term. She is thankful for the townspeople's support and for their votes, she said.
Copp also pointed to the privilege she felt of working with a group of town employees who are "second to none," giving particular praise to the fire department and the women in the selectmen's office.
Selectman chair Tom Tombarello said he regretted Copp's departure. He pointed to her many years of service and the knowledge t she brought to bear for the people of Sandown.
"She was an asset to all of the boards she was on," said Tombarello.
Copp had long been a member of the budget committee before serving in an ex-officio role when she became a selectman. She was also a voting member of the Cable TV Advisory Board.
"In the years I did serve, I did the best that I could and did what I believed in," said Copp, who throughout her years as selectman had no problem being the lone dissenting vote in a host of motions.
But on the bright side, Copp said she's looking forward to spending more time with her family, and less time multi-tasking with town paperwork. Copp noted that she'd still be watching the selectmen, but from now on it will be from the comfort of her home.
Copp Resigns Unexpectedly from Board of Selectmen
SANDOWN – In a move that surprised even her, Brenda Copp has resigned her seat on the board of selectmen. The current vice chair made the move following the board's Nov. 4 meeting.


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La Boca
Generally regarded as a seafood town, New Orleans also has a steak house legacy. In 2006, chef Adolfo Garcia continued the tradition when he opened this Argentinean steak house. The charred cuts of beefrosy hanger steaks, citrus-marinated flank steaksare complemented by an assortment of chimichurris and a wine list heavy with Argentinean Malbecs. We loved: Hanger steak, grilled chorizo, entraña fina (outside skirt).
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2009 Honda FCX Clarity Preparations
Honda is contacting volunteers in California to lease its Clarity fuel-cell vehicle.
Honda Still Coy on Volumes
Ellis won't say when Honda will make public how many Clarity FCVs it will release. He does say volumes likely won't deviate much from the plan in the first two years, with any adjustments taking place in the third year.
Although most automakers are dabbling in small fleets of FCVs, the sentiment at General Motors is that each company must ratchet up to the 1000-vehicle mark in the next four or so years and continue to grow exponentially for the technology to be viable. The timeline, as set out by Larry Burns, GM's vice-president of research and development and strategic planning, is in part fueled by the recent California Air Resources Board mandate that carmakers put 7500 zero-emissions vehicles and 66,000 plug-in hybrids on the road in California between 2012 and 2014.
Ellis says Honda does not want to be forced to make more vehicles than what is reasonable to achieve necessary advances in technology and cost, as that would result in wasted resources, in his opinion.
One area Honda is still working on is durability. The goal is to be able to warrant FCVs to 10 years and 150,000 miles, says Tim Cunningham of American Honda's alternative-fuel-vehicles department. We wouldn't expect Honda to let emerging technologies affect the corporate reputation for reliability.


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CLEVELAND, Jan. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OM Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMG) today announced a major step in its strategic evolution with the signing of definitive agreements to exit its Advanced Materials business. The transactions include the sale of the downstream portion of the business, including its cobalt refinery assets in Kokkola, Finland, to a joint venture to be held by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX), Lundin Mining Corporation (TSX: LUN) and La Generale des Carrieres et des Mines (Gecamines), for total potential consideration of up to $435 million, comprised of initial cash consideration of $325 million and potential future payments of up to an additional $110 million based on the business achieving certain revenue targets over a period of three years. The sale is expected to close before the end of April 2013, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. OM Group also announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $50 million of its common shares. "The divestiture of our cobalt business is the final step in exiting our legacy commodity businesses and is consistent with our strategy to move up the value chain into technology-based businesses with attractive growth prospects and more predictable earnings profiles," said Joe Scaminace, Chairman and CEO of OM Group. "Following the sale, the Company will be well-positioned to achieve its core strategic objectives with a strong balance sheet and a clear vision for the future. We plan to return capital to shareholders via our recently authorized share repurchase program, and we will continue to invest in our businesses to support our growth strategy." The Company said the transactions better position it to achieve its core objectives to:


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In Pictures: BlackBerry Passport
BlackBerry does an about-face, back towards its enterprise roots.
BlackBerry does an about-face, back towards its enterprise roots.
Seven years after its initial launch, the iPhone has come a long way in terms of its feature set.
The long wait is over – Amazon's phone is official.
The smartphone is the new computer, and wireless peripherals are popping up everywhere
Telstra has signed an agreement to resell Presto's subscription video-on-demand service to its customers.
Lost hotel key cards could be a thing of the past if a new service that allows guests to access their room using their smartphone takes off.
Telstra has unveiled its second mobile applications store, the Telstra Apps Marketplace, based on the AppDirect platform.
BlackBerry does an about-face, back towards its enterprise roots.
Ray Ozzie -- the father of Lotus Notes -- has launched Talko, a smartphone app that records group phone calls, stores them and makes them searchable so group members can go back and listen to key parts of the call and lets participants shoot and insert photos into the call stream in real time.
The HTC 10 is loaded with new design and high-end features, but those plums won't be enough for the new smartphone to sell well in a crowded Android field.
"Hey Siri, give us a hint"
The Apple iPad has been an unqualified success with consumers, but it's a harder sell in the businesse market.
If Apple was expecting Nokia to back down and retract its patent lawsuit after Apple countersued, apparently Nokia didn't get the memo. Nokia has launched a fresh assault, filing a new complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that virtually every product Apple makes violates seven patents held by it.
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Switching up Eat by Stars this week. Today I'm comparison shopping.
Which of the above cereals is a better for you? Is either a healthy choice? Take a quick guess….
Did you go with Fiber One? Me too. Sounds healthier. Looks healthier. But both tout whole grain as ingredient #1. Let's go to the scorecards.
Calories: Chex clocks in with 130 calories to Fiber One's 180. The 50 calorie difference isn't huge, but gotta give credit where credit is due. Advantage: Chex
Fat: Nearly identical. 2.5 grams for Chex, 3grams for Fiber One. Advantage: Tie
Carbohydrates: Finally a significant difference. Chex has 26 carbs, Fiber One brings 41. True to its word, Fiber One packs in 9 grams of fiber to Chex's measly one gram. But Fiber One also gives 2 extra grams of sugar. And trumps Chex 21 to 17 on the mysterious "other carbohydrates" category. Fiber One wins, barley. Advantage: Fiber One
Protein: Chex 2 grams. Fiber One 3 grams. Advantage: Tie
Ingredient List: Both have whole grain listed first. That's what the front of the box touts so proudly. The boast fails to mention the 10 to 12 other ingredients contained therein. Both are, like all cereals, processed. Advantage: Tie
Taste: I didn't try either. But you've gotta think the chocolate covered choice will win, don't you? Advantage: CHOCOLATE Chex
Winner: Yes, Fiber One has more fiber. Hence the name. But overall, neither option is "healthy". You certainly are OK downing a couple bowls a week, especially if the alternative is no breakfast at all.
But there are lots of better AM options. Oatmeal, fruit, whole wheat toast, and eggs are a few examples.
Ultimately, despite appearances, Fiber One is not head and shoulders above Chocolate Chex. More like a forehead.


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71Steven Jones
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2007 - Games/Starts: 3/0 ... Saw action against Southern Miss, Florida and Georgia games ... Helped Vols rush for 190 yards against Georgia.
2006 - Games/Starts: 5/0 ... Appeared in consecutive games against Marshall, Memphis and Georgia ... Also played versus California and Vanderbilt.
2005 - Games/Starts: 2/0 ... Played in two games, appearing against Mississippi and Kentucky.
2004 - Games/Starts: 3/0 ... Made appearances on offensive line against UNLV, Louisiana Tech and in Cotton Bowl vs. Texas A&M.
2003 - Redshirted.
2002 - Games/Starts: 12/0 ... Impact player at defensive end saw action in all 12 regular season games ... Missed Peach Bowl with knee injury ... Finished season with nine tackles ... Recorded three tackles against both Arkansas and South Carolina.
HIGH SCHOOL - Enrolled at UT in January 2003 ... SuperPrep All-America ... Associated Press and Sports-writers All-State ... First-team All-Midstate at defensive line by Tennessean ... Listed No. 3 overall prospect in Tennessee by Knoxville News Sentinel ... Had 68 tackles and three fumble recoveries for Brentwood team that won 2002 Class 5A state championship with 10-7 victory over Murfreesboro Riverdale ... Victory capped string of 14 consecutive wins after season opening loss ... Also had six sacks and eight tackles for loss as senior ... As junior, registered six sacks and more than 80 tackles ... Son of nine-year NFL veteran Mike Jones, who finished career with Tennessee Titans and played college football for North Carolina State.


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For almost two years, Gov. Rick Snyder, against many in his Republican Party, insisted a right-to-work bill shouldn't reach his desk.
Too divisive, he'd say. Why go to war with unions when there was a tax code to fix and a budget to balance to begin his reinvention of Michigan?
And what did Snyder's stance get him? Headaches, mostly.
Certainly not any gratitude from organized labor.
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1. Preliminary
This article will discuss the phenomenon of identification as the
psychical expression of the
infant's earliest emotional affiliation with another person's
identity, an affiliation which, in the Freudian formulation, is accompanied by a
parallel libidinal tie with this person. The article will open the discussion
with the set of lexical meanings which are implied by the term identification
from a linguistic viewpoint, and will thus underline the specific lexical
meaning (viz. its reflexive implementation) which is applied in psychoanalytic
writings. It will, then, explain the apparently two paradoxical psychical
imports of the phenomenon in such writings: the positive import that
refers to the feeling of idealization and the negative (or pathological)
import which points to the feeling of aggressivity (as in Anna Freud's
further formulation). These two paradoxical psychical imports will, therefore,
be considered to originate from the ambivalent nature of the phenomenon as a derivative of the oral
phase of libidinal and ego development. Given that identification fits in, and
paves the way for, a more familiar phenomenon in such development, namely, the
Oedipus complex, the contribution of identification towards the timely inversion
(and thence the inevitable destruction) of the Oedipus complex will further be
illustrated with reference to a few examples of psychopathological symptoms.
Then, mention will also be made of Lacan's not easily tractable distinction
between imaginary identification and symbolic identification due
to the considerable theoretic changes which the distinction has already
undergone in his writings. Finally, the aforesaid conflictual interrelation
between identification and the Oedipus complex will be taken into account to
highlight the developmental aspects of the ego.
2. Exposition
From a linguistic perspective, the nominal form identification is
implemented to denote a set of distinctive, but related, lexical meanings which
are determined by the intrinsic variations in the ideational content of the
verbal form identify. These intrinsic variations are, in turn,
conditioned by the intended forces of valency which specify the number and type of objects (i.e.,
noun phrases) that the verbal form has the potential to combine with.
Accordingly, the intended forces of valency correspond to the set of semantic
implementations of the verbal form, which may be adumbrated as follows. Firstly,
in the transitive implementation of the verbal form identify, its
intended force of valency does assign one and only one external object:
to identify someone or something is to establish the identity of someone or
something in cases of desirable certainty, or to recognize the identity of
someone or something in cases of undesirable uncertainty (i.e., She
could identify the book among a hundred others; He even could not identify the
writer of that book; etc.). Secondly, in the ditransitive
implementation of the same verbal form, the intended force of valency designates
a combination of two external objects instead: to identify someone with
someone or to identify something with something is simply to equate them without
any reservations in cases of desirable certainty, or to treat them as identical
with some reservations in cases of undesirable uncertainty (i.e., She
identified Stalin with Hitler; He identifies religion with illusion; etc.).
Thirdly, between the transitive and ditransitive implementations, there arises
the reflexive implementation, in which the intended force of valency
denominates a combination of an internal object and an external
one this time: to identify oneself with someone or something is to appropriate
as one's identity the identity of this someone or something in cases of
desirable certainty, or to amalgamate one's identity with the identity of that
someone or something in cases of undesirable uncertainty (i.e., She
tends to identify herself with Rosa Luxemburg; He is hardly willing to identify
himself with anarchism; etc.).
Clearly, therefore, there exist in the main at least three
distinguishable lexical meanings within the ideational content of the nominal
form identification, and it is precisely the lexical meaning of its reflexive
implementation that seems to occupy a central position in the bulk of
psychoanalytic writings, where the term identification in its present
implication does not necessarily signify the wilful establishment of one's
identity. This is because the state of affairs which is an instance of
identification appears to manifest itself on two significant, albeit not easily
discernible, levels of psychical representation (or rather development) so far
as the whole process of libidinal and ego development is concerned.
Primarily, the state of affairs represents itself in an underdeveloped
fashion during infancy to the extent that the strict borderline between the
internal object and the external object is not yet perceivable, thereby
neutralizing the sharp distinction between the inner world (i.e., the
self) and the outer world. On this level of representation, the infant is not
capable of recognizing any sense of identity of his/her own, since his/her
incapability of attaining to the strict borderline and the sharp distinction
being talked about is attributable to his/her inevitable 'struggle' with
other phases (or even sub-phases) of libidinal and ego development.
Secondarily, the state of affairs, on the other hand, would represent itself in
a more developed manner during infancy to the extent that the strict
borderline between the internal object and the external object is now
perceivable, thereby activating the sharp distinction between the inner world
(the self) and the outer world. On this level of representation, the infant is
able to recognize a 'sense' of identity of his/her own instead, since
his/her capability of attaining to the strict borderline and the sharp
distinction in question permits him/her to generate either a feeling of idealization
or a feeling of aggressivity towards the external object (the outer
world), with this latter feeling being addressed with psychical belligerency
through the immediate intervention of a defence mechanism of some sort. These
feelings of idealization and aggressivity appear to be analogous with the positive
and negative (or pathological) imports of identification, as will
be seen presently.
Similarly, Freud seems to employ the term identification (or Identifizierung)
for the most part in his writings with reference to the lexical meaning of its reflexive
implementation to emphasize the psychical phenomenon whereby the infant tends to
pre-empt, wholly or partially, a particular character-trait (or -traits) that
he/she assimilates in the external object, with the result that his/her identity
(or the recognized 'sense' of it) undergoes a series of affective
transformations through a corresponding series of (rather gradual)
Accordingly, identification in its current implication would express the
infant's earliest emotional affiliation with the identity of someone or
something, with the recognized 'sense' of identity referring to the internal
object (i.e., the self or the inner world) and the affiliated
identity of someone or something pointing to the external object (i.e.,
the outer world) (cf. Freud, 1921:134). On the face of it, any instance of
identification would necessitate at least two psychical entities: an entity
which initiates the act of identification (that is, the person who does
identify himself/herself with a person or a thing) and an entity which
instigates the same act (that is, the person or the thing that is
identified with). The person who does identify himself/herself with a
person or a thing (henceforth, the identifier) is embodied in the actual
being of the infant, and the person or the thing that is identified with
(henceforth, the identified) is incarnated in the perceived
character-trait (or -traits) of the parent of the same sex or any other (human
or nonhuman) agency which stands proxy for him or her. As such, the resultant
relationship between the identifier and the identified may conduce towards
psychical construction (in which case there seems to exist remarkable affective
convergence between the two entities) or may even culminate in psychical
destruction (in which case there appears to exist considerable affective
divergence instead). It is, therefore, this perceivable polarity of
psychical construction and psychical destruction which indicates that
identification has both positive and negative (or pathological)
imports, the imports that do correspond to the generated feelings of idealization
and aggressivity referred to above.
With regard to the positive import of
identification, the identifier-identified designation may be conducive to the
psychical construction of the identifier, a construction which is modified in
the 'non-deviant' direction of the psychical make-up of the identified, and
is well observable in the 'normal' course of libidinal and ego
development. In this case, the psychical construction would recapitulate itself
in the assiduous presence of affective convergence between the identifier
and the identified, thereby sustaining what may be called a gradual series of
psychical reconstructions (or even constructive transformations) through
a corresponding gradual series of (non-alienating) identifications. As
such, the two typical instances of the identifier-identified designation in its
'positive' import may run as follows: the girl identifies herself with the
mother (or this latter's female proxy), and the boy identifies himself with
the father (or this latter's male proxy). Such 'positive' import would
indicate a sort of idealization on the part of the identifier, an
affective procedure by means of which the identifier takes the identified as
his/her ideal or model (Freud, 1921:134f.). Hence, the libidinal tie that
is liable to emerge from positive identification would characterize itself as a
variant of the 'homosexual' object-cathexis (or Besetzung,
'investment') in the narcissistic type of attachment, which is in fact a
type of object-representation[3].
This libidinal tie seems to stand in sharp contrast with the libidinal tie that
tends to arise from the more familiar phenomenon of the Oedipus complex,
a phenomenon which would exhibit itself as a variant of the 'heterosexual'
object-cathexis in the anaclitic type of attachment, as will be seen presently.
It is, therefore, tempting to suggest that the present relationship which
actually exists between the identifier and the identified is in principle a
direct or an indirect replication of a past relationship which has already
existed between the parent and the grandparent of the same sex (or the
latter's proxy), a diachronic replication which appears to circumscribe the
phenomenon of identification with both ontogenetic and phylogenetic auras.
With respect to the negative (or pathological) import of
identification, on the other hand, the identifier-identified designation may be
contributory to the psychical destruction of the identifier, a destruction that
is triggered by the 'deviant' direction of the psychical make-up of the
identified, and is also well observable but in the 'abnormal' course of
libidinal and ego development. In this case, the psychical destruction would
aggravate itself in the pertinacious presence of affective divergence
between the identifier and the identified, thereby undergoing, so to speak, a
gradual series of psychical re-destructions (or rather destructive
transformations) through a corresponding gradual series of (alienating)
identifications. Thus, in order to counteract the imminent effects of the
psychical destruction being talked about, identification turns into a potent
defence mechanism which is described by Anna Freud as identification with the
aggressor (Freud, A., 1937:109f.), though its implications have been pointed
out by her father in connection with the unpleasurable frightening experiences
that are assimilated by the infant (the identifier) to seek "pleasure from
another source" (Freud, 1920:286; 1931:383f.). The apparent resort to this
defence mechanism is nothing else than a contumacious attempt to master, and
therefore to overcome, a form of anxiety or even phobia. It may occur in
situations where the identifier seeks to identify himself/herself with an
aggressive character-trait (or -traits) that he/she still experiences in the
identified, thereby generating the feeling of aggressivity, as mentioned
above. Typical examples of these situations point to a boy who merely realizes
the existence of an insolent teacher and involuntarily imitates the grimace of
this teacher, or to a girl who simply imagines the presence of a dreadful ghost
and 'voluntarily' pretends to be this ghost. Thus, by impersonating the
perceived aggressivity of the identified, the identifier seems to
wittingly transform himself/herself from the defensive passivity of behaviour to
its offensive activity, a transformation which marks the reversal of the role of
the aggressee into the role of the aggressor. Hence, the libidinal
tie which is liable to emanate from negative (or pathological) identification
would not be classifiable under the aforesaid narcissistic type of attachment,
as is the case with positive identification, but would rather be categorizable
under the sadomasochistic type of attachment, which is, in fact, an
abnormal fusion of libidinal and aggressive impulses (cf. Lagache, 1962:111f.).
This sharp contrast between the positive and
negative (or pathological) imports of identification presupposes its ambivalent
nature and characterizes it as a derivative of the oral phase of libidinal and ego
development, in which the object is now desired and then destroyed (just as the
cannibal who initially exhibits notable devouring affection and yearning for
his/her fiercest adversaries but who ultimately devours his/her most intimate
inmates) (Freud, 1905a:116f; 1921:135). It appears, therefore, that the
sharp contrast in question is well comparable with the classical distinction
between the two sub-phases of oral-sucking and oral-biting
propensities as the designated terms would clearly indicate (Abraham, 1927).
Given that the libidinal zone of the mouth orifice is the primary eroto-genic
zone (i.e., the main source of pleasurable experience) in the oral phase,
the infant who becomes unconsciously fixated on an external object in this phase
tends to negatively (or pathologically) identify himself/herself with that
external object rather than positively identify himself/herself with it as a
related person or a related thing (i.e., the related outer world),
thereby entertaining his/her susceptibility to serious manic-depressive
oscillations at later stages. Thus, the infant's unconscious fixation on the
mother's breast, which is the only external object that is available for
him/her in the oral phase, would simply result in his/her negative (or
pathological) identification with it, an identification that would subsequently
oscillate between the aggressive possession of the mother as well as her breast
at the one extreme (viz. manic oscillation) and the disappointing forfeiture of
either or both of the two external objects altogether at the other (viz.
depressive oscillation). Moreover, even in the case of the infant's positive
identification with the parent of the same sex (or his/her proxy), the
identifier's abnormally excessive expression of the emotional affiliation
which is concomitant with it, especially when the emotional affiliation is
narcissistically overstressed and unduly encouraged by the identified as a means
of filling certain psychical gaps in his/her precarious self-awareness, this
abnormally excessive expression of the emotional affiliation would eventually be
destined to similar (if not the very same) manifestations of these
manic-depressive oscillations. In consequence, the sharp contrast between the
positive and negative (or pathological) imports of identification would be
radically neutralized, and would eventually be modified in the 'deviant'
direction of the negative (or pathological) import, thus foreshowing the
inception of the 'abnormal' course of libidinal and ego development.
It follows that, in the 'delayed' absence of its negative (or
pathological) import, identification seems to fit in, and pave the way for, the
phenomenon of the Oedipus complex, since the former phenomenon, in virtue of its
ambivalent nature, resembles the oral phase of libidinal and ego
development. In addition, the oral phase, as its primary eroto-genic zone would
clearly signify, is considered the earliest of the three phases which mark what
is known as the pre-Oedipal period (the other two being the anal phase and the
phallic phase). Yet, identification would still exert its influence in the
'nascent' presence of the Oedipus complex, with the identifier exhibiting
two psychically discrete types of emotional affiliation: firstly, emotional
affiliation with the parent of the same sex (in the case of identification); and
secondly, emotional affiliation with the parent of the opposite sex (in the case
of the Oedipus complex). The two typical instances of these two types of
emotional affiliation may run as follows: the girl who identifies herself with
the mother (or her female proxy) begins to develop a true object-cathexis
towards the father (or his male proxy), and the boy who identifies himself with
the father (or his male proxy) begins to develop a true object-cathexis toward
the mother (or her female proxy). As mentioned above, the libidinal tie of
identification is radically differentiated from the libidinal tie of the Oedipus
complex: while the former tie suggests a variant of the 'homosexual'
object-cathexis in the narcissistic type of attachment, the latter tie refers to
a variant of the 'heterosexual' object-cathexis in the anaclitic type of
attachment. For a certain period, these two types of emotional affiliation (or
libidinal tie) are engendered side by side without the immediate exertion of any
influence of the one upon the other, a state of affairs which underlines the psychical
divergence between the two. Then, with the inevitable advent of their mutual
interference, the two types become 'identified' with each other, as it were,
a state of affairs which underpins the psychical convergence instead,
with the normal manifestation of the Oedipus complex originating from this
interference, especially when identification reflects its negative (or
pathological) import, or in Freud's words, when it "takes on a hostile
colouring" (Freud, 1921:134).
It also follows that the abnormally excessive
expression of the emotional affiliation (or libidinal tie) that is concomitant
with positive identification may well actuate the inversion of the
Oedipus complex, an inversion which demarcates the psychical transformation
whereby the identifier tends to develop a true object-cathexis towards the
identified. Accordingly, the inversion of the Oedipus complex would point to
situations in which the transformed phenomenon exemplifies a variant of the
'homosexual' object-cathexis in the narcissistic type of attachment, as is
the case with identification. In these situations, the distinction between the
identifier's idealization of the identified and the identifier's objectivization
of the identified (i.e., the infant's choice of the parent of the same
sex as an object) amounts to a corresponding distinction between the identified
who is what the identifier would want to be and the identified who is
what the identifier would want to have (Freud, 1921:135)[4].
Given that the embodiment of positive identification is already possible before
the identifier's development of any object-cathexis, the distinction depends
on whether or not the emotional affiliation (or libidinal tie) endeavours to
mould the identifier's own ego after the fashion of the identified.
With the inversion of the Oedipus complex, from this viewpoint, identification
seems to display its ('pent-up') ambivalent nature more conspicuously under
the analysis of certain psychopathological symptoms. Thus, in the case studies
of neurosis, on the one hand, the identifier's symptom may reproduce the same
symptom of the identified when the latter is idealized, as in the case of
the little girl who was developing her mother's excruciating cough. Here, the
neurotic symptom expresses the girl's hostile desire to occupy her mother's
position, while a parallel true object-cathexis is directed towards her father
under the effect of a sense of guilt (Freud, 1921:136). In the case studies of
hysteria, on the other hand, the identifier's symptom may also recreate the
same symptom of the identified but when the latter is objectivized
instead, as in the case of young Dora who was involuntarily imitating her
father's tormenting (catarrhal) cough this time. Here, the hysterical symptom
expresses the girl's true object-cathexis towards her father in her
wholehearted sympathy and concern for him, while a genuinely non-hostile desire
to empathize with her mother's affective illness is unconsciously entertained
(Freud, 1905b:119f.). Consequently, with the (intervening) inversion in
question, the identifier would derive no more than a single character-trait from
the identified whether this latter is idealized aggressively or objectivized
This single character-trait (or nur einen
einzigen Zug) is considered by Lacan to be a 'signifier' in virtue of
being an element of a signifying system, a signifier which is initially
represented as a primordial symbolic term (a mere sign), and is then introjected
under what is termed 'symbolic identification' (Lacan, 1960-1:431f.). In
psychoanalytic practice, 'symbolic identification,' which is taken to
literally mean 'identification with the signifier,' is ultimately looked
upon to denote 'identification with the symptom,' for which reason it marks
what may be called, a symptomatic signifier (the assimilated painful
cough in the above two examples). 'Symbolic identification' has already
undergone considerable theoretic changes in Lacan's writings: at the one
extreme, it is seen as 'identification with the father' in the inversion of
the Oedipus complex; and at the other, it is rather viewed as 'identification
with the imago' within a genetic theory of the ego, with the
latter pointing to the parent of the same sex in conformity with the normal
psychical operation of the phenomenon, as has been the unmarked case with the
Freudian formulation (Lacan, 1953:12; 1966a:22f.; 1966b:95f.). In
either extreme, moreover, 'symbolic identification,' as a 'developed'
psychical operation, is sharply contrasted with the earlier ('primitive')
psychical operation of what is termed 'imaginary identification,' an
operation which signifies 'identification with the image' in the mirror
stage, where the most pristine form of 'reflexive' self-realization is
jubilantly assimilated by the human infant (compared with the animal infant,
whose primal absorption of its own image does not appear to meet with its
approval). Imaginary identification would, thus, enter exclusively into the
realm of the imaginary order[5],
and would refer to the psychical transformation (or transformations) which the
identifier is pre-ordained to pass through when he/she assumes a specular
image of his/her own, an image that may well incarnate the threshold of the
outer world (the visible world per se) (Lacan, 1966a:2f.;
1966b:76f.). Hence, introjections under 'imaginary identification'
would mark what may be called, a specular signifier (in contradistinction
with the aforesaid symptomatic signifier). However, the sharp contrast in
question would not indicate that symbolic identification belongs exclusively to
the realm of the symbolic order and has nothing to do with that of the imaginary
order: it is characterized with the realm of the former order (the symbolic),
simply because it represents the final stage of the identifier's passage into
it by means of the signifier. It seems, therefore, that the fundamental
motive behind these remarkable theoretic alterations is the great difficulty in
specifying the determinant medium (the imago or the signifier)
which may conduce towards the constitution of a rather developed form of the ego,
given its 'primitive' form before the inversion of the Oedipus complex and
its 'less primitive' form after the inversion.
The inversion of the Oedipus complex, so it
appears, is the beginning of its inevitable destruction (i.e., its
ineluctable resolution or dissolution) and, like the case of identification, is
explicable both in ontogenetic and phylogenetic terms, with the ontogeny
referring to the infant's experience of afflictive disappointments and the
phylogeny suggesting the timeliness of the destruction when the next
(predestined) phase of libidinal and ego development sets in (just as the
milk-teeth tend to fall out when the permanent teeth start to grow). By the same
token, the ambivalent nature of the Oedipus complex is also discernible in the
infant's obdurate search of pleasurable satisfaction via his/her alternating
adoption of a masculine (or an active) attitude and a feminine (or a passive)
one towards the parent (an adoption which fluctuates between the identifier's
objectivization and idealization of the identified). However, the aforesaid
(pre-Oedipal) phallic phase of libidinal and ego development may well
become contemporaneous with the Oedipus complex before its ineluctable
destruction, thereby highlighting the crucial difference between masculine
sexuality and feminine sexuality, even though both are subjected to that phase
in infantile behaviour. This crucial difference is normally embodied in the
girl's acceptance of, and then submission to, the castration complex as an
unpleasantly accomplished fact (or fait accompli) at the one extreme, and
the boy's pent-up apprehension and rejection of the possibility of its dreary
occurrence at the other (Freud, 1924:320f.; 1925:332f.). The ineluctable
destruction of the Oedipus complex may well indicate, therefore, that it begins
to succumb to a differentiated quantum of repression (viz. primary
repression), by which the initial emergence of instinctual drives is suppressed
in the id and on which all phases of libidinal and ego
development are dependent. For this reason, the seemingly dwindling residuum of
the Oedipus complex (or of the phallic phase, for that matter) portends the
incipience of an impending period of emotional and libidinal stagnation known as
the 'latency period,' which ends roughly at the age of puberty. Thus, the
object-cathexes become debilitated, so as to be abandoned, and thence be
substituted for the more strengthened introjection (or introjections) of
identification, with the perceived authority of the identified being introjected
into the ego of the identifier and forming the nucleus of the latter's superego.
As a result, the superego tends to appropriate the 'imposed' severity
of the identified and perpetuate his/her prohibition against incestual ties, if
any, thereby preventing the ego ethically from recapitulating the same
development of the object-cathexes through their desexualization (Freud,
1924:319) or libidinal normalization (Lacan, 1966a:2; 1966b:76).
This conflictual interrelation between the workings
of identification and those of the Oedipus complex appears to be reminiscent of
the positive and negative (or pathological) imports of the former phenomenon,
given its indirect contribution towards the aforementioned
desexualization of object-cathexes (which would result in their sublimation or
their transformation into affective impulses) on the one hand, and its direct
constitution of primitive forms of these object-cathexes (which would represent
themselves as primitive instinctual drives in the id during the
pre-Oedipal period) on the other. Accordingly, the (early) establishment of
identification in either import seems to play an extremely significant role in
the psychical progression or psychical regression of the identity of the
identifier, depending for the most part on the identity of the identified. While
the positive import may conduce, without the immediate intervention of other
defence mechanisms, towards the development of the superego, the negative
(or pathological) import tends to combine with a defence mechanism of some sort,
thereby forming one of the ego's most powerful weapons and inducing it
to overcome anxieties or even phobias. Clearly, therefore, the conflictual
interrelation between identification and the Oedipus complex highlights the
libidinal and affective content of the ego, thus underlining the
beginnings of the developmental dimension of this psychical entity.
3. Summary
To conclude, identification (in the lexical meaning of its reflexive
implication) is the psychical expression of the infant's earliest emotional
affiliation with another person's identity (the parent of the same sex or
his/her proxy). This emotional affiliation, so it seems, is concomitant with a
parallel libidinal tie with that person, a libidinal tie which manifests itself
as a derivative of the 'homosexual' object-cathexis (or -cathexes). While
the positive import of identification tends to operate in accordance with
the narcissistic type of attachment (thereby generating the identifier's
feelings of idealization towards the identified), its negative (or pathological)
import seeks to function in conformity with the sadomasochistic type of
attachment instead (thus generating the identifier's feelings of aggressivity
towards the identified). Hence, the sharp contrast between the two imports of
identification highlights its ambivalent nature and characterizes it as a
variant of the oral phase of libidinal and ego development (a phase which
is predominant in the practice of cannibalism), with the result that the
identifier entertains his/her susceptibility to serious manic-depressive
oscillations at a later phase (or phases). What is more, identification itself
fits in, and paves the way for, the more familiar phenomenon of the Oedipus
complex, a phenomenon which, paradoxically, ensconces itself in a derivative of
the 'heterosexual' object-cathexis (or -cathexes) and works in congruity
with the anaclitic type of attachment. Subsequently, identification tends to
contribute towards the inversion of the Oedipus complex, thereby converting its
operation back into a variant of the 'homosexual' object-cathexis (as though
identification were 'identified' with the Oedipus complex), meaning that the
implicit distinction between the identifier's idealization and objectivization
of the identified amounts to the explicit distinction between having and being.
In such a perspective, identification appears to exhibit its ambivalent nature
more conspicuously in certain psychopathological cases, where the identifier
would only assimilate a single character-trait from the identified, given the
(intervening) inversion in question. This single character-trait is considered
to be a 'signifier' that is represented as a primordial symbol (a mere
sign), and is then introjected under 'symbolic identification' to ultimately
denote 'identification with the symptom,' which suggests, in turn, the
formation of what may be called the symptomatic signifier (as opposed to
the (earlier) formation of what may be called the specular signifier in
the mirror stage). The inversion of the Oedipus complex is, therefore, the
insipience of its inevitable destruction (i.e., its resolution or
dissolution), which marks its submission to primary repression, thus underlining
the climax of the conflictual interrelation between the complex and
identification. In consequence, the culminating conflictual interrelation would,
in turn, highlight the libidinal and affective content of the ego, as
well as the beginnings of the developmental dimension of this psychical entity.
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It is worth noting, however, that Freud also uses the term identification
with reference to the lexical meaning of its ditransitive
implementation in the context of the dream-work specifically. In this
context, the relationship of equation or identicalness referred to in the
text is underlined to underline the analogy between identification
and substitution.
the process whereby an image is identified with another, for example,
is analogous with the process whereby an image is substituted for
another, simply because the two images in question are equated or treated as
identical (cf. Freud, 1900:231f., 431f., etc.).
Given that object-representation refers to the psychical representation of
an external object or the outer world (i.e., an object which exists
outside the self or the inner world), and that the internal object indicates
the subject's self in the linguistic sense (i.e., the reflexive
implementation of identification mentioned in the text), the latter entity
should not be confused with the one that has acquired the significance of
the former entity. If an internal object is psychically represented to
acquire the significance of an external object, then the internal object
would be comparable with an image which 'initially' occurs in the realms
of fantasy, imagination, reverie, and day-dreaming. For this reason, the
term identification in its present formulation is often confused with
other terms, such as internalization, incorporation, and
the like.
This latter distinction may have been the major inspiration to Erich
Fromm's coruscating and compelling (yet almost forgotten) book To Have
or To Be (1979) which brings to light a significant distinction between
two modes of existence that are struggling for the spirit of humankind.
Firstly, the having mode, which is by far the dominant mode in
modern industrial society, owing to its unduly fixation on material values
(such as, one's wasteful 'passion' for the accumulation of capital,
property, etc.) and illusory power (such as, enslaving oneself to maintain
'academic,' 'bureaucratic,' 'political,' or even 'social'
status). This mode of existence is undoubtedly rooted in rapacity,
enviousness, and possessiveness, attributes which are typical of the anal
character. Secondly, the being mode, which is the alternative
mode of existence, since it manifests itself in the pure pleasure of shared
experience and truly constructive rather than destructive activity.
This mode of existence is essentially based on aim-inhibited love (in
fact, divine love regardless of any professedly religious
considerations) and the ascendancy of human values over material ones.
Concerning mental functioning specifically, there exist in the Lacanian
formulation three essential orders which may be summarized as follows.
Firstly, the imaginary order, which comprises the world of
signifieds, and in which the narcissistic (dual) relationship between the ego
and the specular image is initially formulated in the mirror stage. This
relationship is constructed on the basis of illusion, seduction and
deceptions. Secondly, the symbolic order, which includes the world of
signifiers instead, and in which the 'anaclitic' (oppositional)
relationship between the ego the other is later formulated in the
discourse of the unconscious. This relationship is constructed on the basis
of the structure of desire in the Oedipus complex, given that the signifiers
do not have positive existence. Thirdly, the real order, which
embraces a world that contradicts the imaginary order (with its signifieds)
and, at the same time, resists the symbolic order (with its signifiers),
thus ultimately suggesting the impossibility of (true) articulation in
general. Such impossibility is, at bottom, attributable to the spurious
nature of the signified at the one end, and the negative nature of
the signifier at the other.


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Hello fellow monsters!
Anyone have any creative ways of managing or leveraging a more direct integration between your digital order management system (DSM, Operative, FatTail etc) and off site, demand side platform buys? Placeholders and lines are fine, but a swivel chair typically happens for entry/campaign management/forecasting etc and I was hoping to get some insight into how other folks are either integrating or treating as a completely separate process.
Hey Tom,
We're a startup in the OMS space and we're always trying to learn about new problems within publisher workflow. We're working with our beta clients to include offline product but curious to learn more about the DSP problem.
I'd love the opportunity to learn for the benefit of our product and I promise no sales effort on our behalf.
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I've been looking into this myself. I've explained the use case to Operative and to FatTail (I'm a client of both). Currently they don't handle it very well. As you suggested, they can mostly support placeholder line items. They do say they can do unified reporting across both DSP and AdServer activity using these placeholders, but it mostly involves AdJuster doing the heavy lifting.
Ian - very curious to see what Centro Media Manager can do in this regard.
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This is the first 80 rounds from my first handgun I have ever owned. I love this gun, SA XDm40. Shots were from 15yds (except for the double taps-to head shots, which would have been 18 of the rounds, these were from 10yds) I was very pleased...
1st - body hits
2nd - shots to the head after a quick double tap to the body
3rd - and the culprit, haha, love this gun!
If I ever get another striker fired weapon it will be one of those.
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In the mid-fifteenth century, writes Anthony Bryer, George Kastriota, surnamed Skanderbeg, was acclaimed as a powerful champion of Christianity on the eastern shores of the Adriatic.
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Such is the case with the wooden Improved Davis Windmill currently displayedbut easily overlookedon the inside north wall of the Micke Building at the San Joaquin County Museum. Windmills of this kind were often called "Italian Windmills." Here's the story behind that artifact.
Truck farming was the entry point into self-directed agriculture in San Joaquin County from about 1900 into the 1940s, especially for immigrant Italians and Japanese. Truck farmers were small-acreage family farmers who grew a variety of vegetables and fruits that they delivered by small trucks and horse-drawn wagons for sale at the Stockton Growers' Market.
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Truck farmers grew season-specific crops year round to use best their family labor force, to spread the risk of crop failure or low prices, and to have an ongoing cash flow. Thus they introduced many new varieties of vegetables and fruits that came to represent the diverse agriculture of this region.
John S. Davis was one of the earliest windmill makers in San Joaquin County. By 1858, he was manufacturing about sixty windmills per year. In 1883, Richard F. Wilson purchased the company and renamed it the Davis Regulating Windmill Company of Stockton. The Stockton Daily Evening Mail in 1891 called Wilson's Davis Regulating Windmill Company "one of the most successful windmill manufacturers in the country."
Wilson's company made a twenty-two foot wooden windmill called the Improved Davis Windmill. The windmill could be connected to a rocker arm between two wellsone pump worked on the down stroke and the other on the return stroke. It was said that the Improved Davis could lift five hundred gallons of water per minute, or more than two hundred thousand gallons per day. The Improved Davis Windmill in the Museum's collection may be the only surviving example. A Linden truck farmer used it to irrigate his vegetable garden.
The Improved Davis Windmill and other large windmillssome as large as thirty feet in diameterwere called "Italian windmills" because Italian truck farmers used them extensively. Many truck farmers continued to use these wooden windmills long after the switch to galvanized metal mills because the metal models required more frequent maintenance. Wooden windmills, which were ultimately replaced by gasoline and electrical pumps, often lasted thirty years or more.
These giant windmills were typically mounted on twenty- to thirty-foot towers. Many of the Improved Davis Windmills had no weather vanes or ruddersthe example in the Museum collection has oneso they had to be tied into the wind with ropes attached to a tail shaft. When the wind blew too hard, they were secured edgewise to the wind to protect the fragile wood fans.
For protection from winter storms, owners often disassembled the giant wooden mills and stored them flat in the fields or tied them upright to the towers. This was a difficult task and was treated like a "barnraising"friends and neighbors pitched in to help. After the workers secured the windmill, they brought out wine and the gathering became social. The work party moved from neighbor to neighbor until all the windmills were put away. In the spring, they brought out block and tackle and reassembled the big windmills.
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I need help with my 49 Dodge
I am sort of new to the hot rod building thing. I have a 49 Dodge Coronet that I want to start building. I heard you can adapt a chevy front clip to use a chevy drive train. should I go for that or stick with a mopar power plant. also, does anyone have pictures of a 49 dodge coronet that might have some modifications that I can get ideas from. if so can you email them to me?
help if you can.
if you are going to subframe your car, you'll have to measure the track of the front wheels. Then from that you can find a donor car. If you are going with GM a lot of guys use camaro subframes. If you're going to stay mopar (which any dedicated mopar lover would do) then you could use a volare. But make sure you measure first. As far as finding other Coronets there is a website @ www.heminet.com which has a registry and you can search for vehicles. Also, i haven't had any personal experience with this yet, but everybody says that GM stuff is about half the cost of Mopar. FYI.
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The GM front clip you want will be the first generation Camaro and Nova's. They have the tie rod in front of the axle. These can also be narrowed 3" by buying narrowed A Arms from FatMan. The rear steer later cars will give you a more difficult time trying to adapt the steering column into your car and may give you some interference issues with exhaust etc. The point made previously about cost is a real issue. There just are not many Chrsler parts available and the prices are high in the engine/transmission area. If you decide to go GM, I would suggest you look for a whole car and buy the whole enchilada. This will give you the front suspension, motor mounts, a block to rebuild, a TH350 transmission (probably), emergency brake setup and the rear end. If you are't going to build a monster engine, the camaro/nova 7.5" rear end will handle under 300hp. Also these are easy to convert front spindles to disc brakes if it comes as a drum. I suppose that the use of lots of parts would also apply to the Aspen/Volare cars as well. One nice thing about these is the torsion bar suspension which is infinitely adjustable to give you ride height as you want it.
I dont know what the 49 cornet looks like so.....its got to be diff(thats cool) As far as clips you dont need to clip it to put a GM motor in it.What every you do DONT buy anything from FAT MAN.You can not narrow a-frames and not change roll centers ,bump steer and a whole bunch of other stuff.He is getting really bad with his fix all parts,and sells some real JUNK. Measure measure if your going to do a clip.There is a lot to it.Like how the fenders and radiator mount when your done.Getting the wheels centered in the wheel wells.Like everbody says check the trac width,if this is your first attempt get some help.If you cut the frame on a 49 cornet and make a mistake its lights out for the car. Hey a nice 340 mopar would be nice in it(more money than a smallblock chevy but neat)Do some measuring on the frame to see how wide it is,than pull the tires off the front and measure the width of the frontend from the flange on the brake drum to the brake drum on the other side(do this by tieing a plumb bob on a wheel stud on each side).Post back and we can tell you what clips are close .
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Nouriel Roubini: There is a Chance of QE3
Roubini, aka Dr. Doom, is at it again with his pessimistic analysis. In an interview with CNBC on Saturday, Roubini said the probability of QE3 will become significantly higher if US economic weakness persists and the stock markets correct 10 percent or more.
S&P 500 is already down 5% for the month of June.
Here are some of the sound bites from Roubini's interview:
Especially because we cannot do another round of fiscal stimulus, the pressure is going to be on the only policy that is available, [that] is another round of quantitative easing, he said.
You have the problems of rising oil prices, of [a] weak labor market, of housing double dipping, the fiscal problem in the state and local government, the facts of the federal deficit problem, he said.
All these things imply that economic weakness could persist in the second half of the year.
Troubled EURO ZONE Economies
They're still in risk and they've not been resolved and [will] eventually require debt restructuring.
Outflow of Capital away from Emerging Markets
First of all, the FED is not going to raise interest rates for a long time; two, they're not going to reduce base money, he said. And if they're not going to increase it further, and therefore the fundamentals of relative growth differentials, or relative interest differentials and still a wall of liquidity chasing assets are going to imply that money could flow and continue to flow into emerging markets.
China's Battle against Inflation
One is whether the increase in oil, energy and commodity prices is going to continue, he said. Two, it depends on how much China is able to slow down their economy through monitoring their credit and other types of controls and they've done somehow but they've not done enough.
Read: David Tepper: No QE3, unless Stocks Drop More
Read: Goldman: QE3 Optimism is Excessive
Read: Top Economic and Market Forecasters Predict: QE3 Is Coming
Read: Fed's Fisher: No need for QE3, US Dollar Implications


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FOOTBALL: Gordon Lee, Trion set to renew pleasantries tonight
Gordon Lee versus Trion.
Not much more needs to be said.
The oldest, continuously played rivalry in the entire state will be renewed at 7:30 tonight when the Bulldogs come to Chickamauga to face the Trojans.
"Think of Georgia-Georgia Tech, Florida-Florida State, even Lakeview-Ringgold," Gordon Lee head coach Charlie Wiggins explained. "It's two small communities close together, and when you cross over and play them, it's a big game. It's a pride game."
Trion won last year's clash, 6-0, snapping Gordon Lee's two-game winning streak in the all-time series. The Trojans had won six of the last seven from the Bulldogs before last year, although Trion still owns a pretty significant 56-21 edge in the series, which also includes one tie.
"The kids sense and know it's a big game," Wiggins continued. "There have been times in this series history where both teams have made runs. It's been an ebb-and-flow type of series for each."
The two fierce rivals have met on the gridiron every year since 1946, according to the Georgia High School Football Historians Association website, save for 1943 and 1945 when the game was interrupted by World War II.
And as has been the case many times, this year's game will have its share of playoff implications.
Trion (4-2, 1-1) currently sits ninth in the most recent Class A public school power rankings and needs the win to help them move into the top eight where they would secure a first-round game at home.
Meanwhile, Gordon Lee (3-3, 0-2) is 14th in the rankings, and with only the top 16 teams qualifying for the playoffs, needs the win to help their hopes alive.
Both teams opened the year with three straight wins, but have slipped in recent weeks. Trion lost two in a row to subregion leaders Darlington and Mount Paran Christian before getting back on track with a win over Mount Zion two weeks ago. The Bulldogs were off last Friday night.
However, Gordon Lee followed up their three wins over LFO, Coahulla Creek, and Armuchee with losses to Whitefield Academy, Christian Heritage, and Darlington, failing to score a single point in all three games.
"We've been in a dry spell, offensively," Wiggins said. "We just haven't made the plays when we've needed to make them. When you drop a pass or two here and miss an assignment there, you put yourself in holes that you can't be in if you expect to win, especially in big games."
Senior quarterback Cory Bethune leads the Bulldog offense, while running backs Malik Martin and Chandler Lathem give Bethune a solid one-two punch out of the backfield. Up front, Trion will have a size advantage with the likes of senior Bret Peterson (6-4, 285) and senior Daulton Hegwood (6-3, 310).
"They are a big team," Wiggins added. "Bethune is a good player on both sides of the ball, and they are good at making teams work for points. They don't give up a lot. They only common opponent for us is Darlington. We gave up one less point then they did, although they scored a few more points than we did against them. It should be an interesting game."


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David Cameron was today accused of sending out "mixed messages" about the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan after raising the prospect of a pullout beginning next year.
In interviews from Washington, where he has been holding talks with the US president, Barack Obama, the prime minister said the UK could follow the US, which hopes to start withdrawing its forces from next July.
But Cameron later emphasised that the timetable for the 9,500 British troops to leave would be based on "conditions on the ground" and insisted there was no change in government policy.
Responding to an update from the foreign secretary, William Hague, in the Commons, the shadow foreign secretary, David Miliband, accused the government of failing to present a clear message to British troops and those they were at war with.
"The foreign secretary has said he will be very surprised if this process of security transition takes longer than 2014; the prime minister then said British troops would be out of combat by 2015," Miliband said.
"Last night, in Washington, the prime minister said British troops could begin pulling out of Afghanistan next year. However, the defence secretary has said that he expects British troops to be the last to leave Afghanistan."
Miliband said Cameron had previously stressed the importance of a process based on "success" rather than "artificial timelines".
He said 318 service personnel had died in Afghanistan, adding: "We owe it to them to make sure that we have a clear vision of the end game, that we are consistent in what we say and that we provide the leadership necessary to see this through."
Miliband also seized on what he said were contradictory remarks by the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg.
He said Clegg had told MPs nothing was "chiselled in stone" but "then insisted, I think, six times that there would be no British combat operations from 2015".
Miliband said Lord Guthrie, a former head of the military, had warned of the danger of "mixed messages".
Speaking on the second day of his visit to Washington today, Cameron played down suggestions that he was shifting Afghan policy, stressing that his remarks were in line with the previous Labour government policy.
He said the start of a withdrawal next year remained a goal rather than a firm deadline.
The PM said he would set out plans to hand over areas of Afghanistan to local control at a Nato summit in November, adding: "We are going to set out, at the Lisbon Nato conference, the steps that are going to be taken for transitioning from Nato control to Afghan control districts and provinces of Afghanistan.
"As and when that happens, clearly there will be opportunities to reduce [troop numbers] – but it should be based on conditions on the ground."


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Posted by Michele Pelino on June 26, 2010
Each year, Forrester analysts field over 20,000 inquiries on a variety of topics, which provide insight into the key issues and challenges facing our clients in a variety of roles, including CIOs, enterprise architects, vendor strategists, and marketing professionals. Forrester defines enterprise mobility as the ability of an enterprise to communicate with suppliers, partners, employees, assets, and customers irrespective of location. During 2009, analysts fielded nearly 700 inquiries related to enterprise mobility issues, jumping from 550+ inquiries in 2008 and 360+ inquiries in 2007. What are these inquiries asking about? The key focus of these inquiries is on mobile applications, mobile devices, and mobile employee segmentation.
Questions about mobile applications accounted for over 20% of all enterprise mobility inquiries in 2009. The majority of these application inquiries were focused on vertical applications, including fleet management solutions in the transportation industry that enable more efficient, real-time routing of vehicles. Today, email and calendaring mobile applications are mainstream in most enterprises, so many companies are broadening their mobile application initiatives to address the needs of particular types of line-of-business workers in their industry (e.g., retail, healthcare, transportation, financial services.) We expect continued growth in the number of mobile application inquiries during the coming year.
Posted by Michele Pelino on June 25, 2010
Enterprises are deploying a wide range of horizontal and vertical mobile applications. Results from Forrester's 2010 Network and Telecom survey of IT decision makers at North America and European firms show that horizontal mobile applications such wireless email, have been implemented or are being implemented by 86% of firms, and calendaring and personal information management applications have been deployed by 68% of firms. The next wave of mobile application deployment is focused on meeting the needs of line of business (LOB) workers such as sales force and field service professionals, or industry-specific requirements such as inventory management applications in retail, or location-based applications in the transportation arena. Survey data shows a persistent level of application implementation and planned deployment among 14% – 19% of enterprises for mobile sales force, field service and emergency response applications. We expect this mobile LOB application deployment to gain momentum in 2010.
The methods enterprises use to acquire and develop these mobile applications vary widely. Homegrown or in-house mobile application development is commonly used by 40% of North American and European enterprises. Approximately 30% of all enterprise organizations use a local, regional, or national external developer for mobile application development requirements. North American enterprises are significantly more likely to purchase mobile applications from a mobile service provider portal site or from a mobile application store. Between 24% and 29% of North American enterprises use these two types of mobile application development approaches, compared with only 11% to 15% of European firms.
Posted by Michele Pelino on June 6, 2010
On Monday, June 7th, AT&T will introduce two new smartphone data plans, which will replace the current $30/month unlimited data plan offer and will make smartphone data packages affordable to more customers. The DataPlus package does, indeed, lower the entry-level price for smartphone users. The DataPlus package costs $15 per month for 200 megabytes of data, with the option of purchasing an additional 200 megabytes of data for $15. Customers who are heavy data users can purchase the DataPro plan, which is a 2-gigabyte package for $25 per month. If customers go over this limit, an additional gigabyte of data costs $10. DataPro customers can also use their mobile devices as wireless modems to connect other devices (e.g., laptops) to the network for an additional $20 per month.
The net-net of these new packages is that customers using the DataPlus plan get a voice and data plan for $55 per month and customers on the DataPro plan pay $65 per month, compared with the current price of $70 per month. These price cuts will benefit the increasing number of employees who are responsible for paying for their own voice and data plans. Results from Forrester's 2010 Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey show that approximately 30% of over 1,000 surveyed enterprises have already cut the number of employees who qualify for corporate-liable mobile data and voice services, and 17% plan to cut the number of employees on corporate-liable voice and data services this year.


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Can this unit be used to power a ROV? Ie has this enough thrust to push something forward/down? How deep can this unit go? 10m or beyond would be perfect.
That's perfect. So with some good soldering you could get a 0805 resistor or similar under there?
How do I see the tall part? Does it stand of the PCB, ie is there a gap between the SD card and the pcb?
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It was a familiar sight when One Direction visited Canada earlier this week and once again, some fans were injured when thousands of them show up to support their favourite boyband.
However, the cause of the injuries were slightly different this time round, as the night before the boys were due to make an appearance in Montreal, more than 300 girls camped out from the night before, despite the temperatures falling to -10°C. 14 of the fangrils needing medical treatment as a result.
Hours before 1D showed up, police were called in once more and forced to close off streets and erect extra security barriers, as more than 2,000 screaming teenagers joined the crowd.
The boys received a similar welcome when they performed in Canada earlier this month, but this week they were back in the country to promote the Candaian release of their debut album 'Up All Night.'
Harry, Zayn, Liam, Louis and Zayn made an appearance on Musique Plus before travelling to Toronto for more promotional stops.
Niall Horan seems to be loving the trip and tweeted;
'What's the craic toronto, can't get out of the leaba! Really like it here in canada ,good vibe everywhere!'
Meanwhile, on their return to America, Louis Tomlinson seemed to be taking some time to himself and out of his hectic schedule and was pictured strolling around LA yesterday, with his stunning girlfriend Eleanor Calder.
The model looked effortlessly beautiful in the photos and flew to America earlier this week, to catch up with her busy boyfriend between work commitments.
It seems that the pair have been having quite a giggle and yesterday, Louis tweeted:
'So @EleanorJCalder just asked me if Randy Jackson was in the Jackson 5 …'
The boys are almost finished in the US and will soon jet out to Australia, where they will tour and make an appearance at the lLogie Awards.
They will be returning to The States in May, for their first ever headline tour of the country, in which they will be supported by fellow X Factor UK star Olly Murs.


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Multilingual and decidedly multicultural, but with an edge heavily influenced by the punk rock of the Clash, Mano Negra seemed comfortably at home anywhere, be it North Africa or North America, in their music. Operating as a collective, without a manager, wasn't the best way to guarantee international success, and their attempts to break the U.S. at the start of the '90s didn't work -- America simply wasn't ready for their musical ratatouille. However, Europe loved them, as did South America. In 1992 they began a seemingly odd tour of Latin America, traveling by boat with actors and a circus, playing in port cities on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides, aided and abetted by various political guerilla groups, which sometimes didn't sit well with governments. In 1995, Chao moved the band to Spain, where he also formed another outfit, Radio Bemba Sound System, employing both musicians from Mano Negra and outside, which, according to rumors, caused rifts within the ranks, leading to the split of Mano Negra.
Chao then returned to South and Central America, spending the next few years drifting around with his guitar and a four-track, recording here and there. The resultant collection of songs was released in 1998 (1999 in the U.S.) under the title Clandestino and included a reworking of the Mano Negra track "King of Bongo," which was picked up for use on the soundtrack to Madonna's The Next Big Thing. The album itself took off very slowly, but after a year was going stronger than ever, a sleeper that found its niche in the burgeoning Latin alternative scene (even though its lyrics freely mixed English and French along with the Spanish). In 2000 Chao played a rare pair of shows in Los Angeles, and in June 2001 released Proxima Estacion: Esperanza, which showed that his musical self had been spending the last couple of years soaking up the sounds of the Caribbean. This was further explored on Radio Bemba Sound System, a live recording done in 2002 that was taken from the tour following Proxima Estacion: Esperanza. In 2004 Chao released his first French-only album, Sibérie M'était Contéee, about Paris, and in 2007 Radiolina, the artist's first studio album in six years, came out. It was followed in 2009 by the release of another live album, Baionarena, and by further heavy worldwide touring, including a number of high-profile festival appearances. ~ Chris Nickson
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Track List: Baionarena (Live)
Track List: Politik Kills Remix Ep
Track List: La Radiolina
Track List: Siberie M'etait Conteee
Track List: Radio Bemba Sound System
Track List: ...Proxima Estacion... Esperanza
Track List: Clandestino
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