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More and more Americans hop on the web to get a little bit of Internet fix
A new Harris Poll reveals that
four out of five American adults are Internet connected
The poll was conducted between July and October of 2007 and surveyed 2,062 adults. Its findings were that 79 percent of these adults go online making estimates of America's total online body count at around 179 million adult users. In addition, the poll found that adults spend an average of 11 hours a week on the Internet -- some
regulars spend particularly more.
Regina Corso, director of the Harris Poll, sees the usage figure as a significant milestone. "We're up to almost 80 percent of adults who now are online, or are somehow gaining access to the Internet. That's a pretty impressive figure," she said.
Surprisingly, elderly are flocking online in increasing numbers. People over the age of 65 years old accounted for 9 percent of Internet usage in the poll, while they account for 16 percent of the population at large. It looks like the elderly
use more technology than just Wiis
after all.
Some groups stayed level between the percentage of Internet users in the particular group and the total percentage of the population in that particular group. For example, 13 percent of Internet users are Hispanic, while 13 percent of America's population is Hispanic.
Young adults, between 18 to 29 years old account for 22 percent of the U.S. population and 25 percent of the estimated Internet use.
Harris Poll started collecting information on Internet usage in 1995 – at that time; only 9 percent of adults went online. Since then usage has grown more than eight fold.
The new poll showed that in 2006 that 72 percent of adults went online at home, 37 percent went online at work and 31 percent went online elsewhere. "They are finding however possible to get online ... A third of the people who are online, that's how they're getting there – some alternate way," Poll director Corso said.
Corso hopes to begin analyzing what devices the population uses to get online and America approaches a fully Internet connected adult population.
Corso feels that we will soon reach nearly 100 percent usage noting the recent gains. She says, "We're getting closer. Every year it's getting more and more like the general population picture."
While the poll indicates overwhelming usage, it does not investigate what exactly people do online; from browsing news sites like
to perusing
the Internet's less savory backstreets
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The Cabot Water and Wastewater Commission, which has voiced concern in the past month about other water systems operating inside city limits, took the first step Monday toward buying Ward water customers who live in Cabot.
Ward Mayor Art Brooke said during the Monday Ward Council meeting that he told Cabot officials Wards customers in Cabot could be bought for $17.5 million.
They didnt think that was outrageous, Brooke told the council. Theyre not going to buy it, but they didnt think it was outrageous.
That price is up from the $10 million price he quoted in 2000, Brooke said.
Brooke told his city council that he met earlier that day with Cabot Mayor Eddie Joe Williams, Tim Joyner, general manager of Cabot WaterWorks, and Bill Cypert, secretary and spokesman for Cabot Water and Wastewater Commission, and that negotiations would continue. None of the council members voiced any objection to selling part of the Ward water system.
Contacted Tuesday, Joyner said WaterWorks hopes to eventually purchase all the customers inside Cabot who currently belong to other water associations or cities.
Exactly how many Ward water customers live in Cabot is unclear. Deborah Staley, who runs the water billing office in Ward, said she keeps track of Wards 3,000 customers by where they are located in the system, not by city boundaries.
Joyner said he knows of at least 45 Cabot residents who are billed by Cabot for sewer and Ward for water. But Cypert said there could be as many as 500-700 Ward water customers inside Cabot because some of them have septic tanks and dont require sewer.
These are some of the areas in Cabot that could be part of negotiations: Diedrich Lane, Mary Lynn Circle, Kingwood and Castle Heights.
Although the Cabot commissioners admit that one issue is territory that they want Cabot WaterWorks to provide water and sewer to all Cabot residents Cypert said the real concern is fire protection.
The areas served by Ward have several high-dollar homes, he said, and the rural water lines there could be too small for adequate fire protection.
Cypert said Cabot wants to test the Ward lines, and that Brooke hasnt said no.
As for buying the lines inside Cabot, Cypert said the Monday meeting was simply to start the conversation.
The ball is in their court, he said. We made it clear that were not aggressive, that we just want to clean it up and get it in our city.
In other business, the Ward Council City passed resolutions necessary for a nonprofit group to apply for state grants to build a youth center on the city hall grounds.
The council also approved an annexation that brought two subdivisions Golden Meadows on the corner of Wilson Loop and Moon and Nans Place off Ray Sowell Road into the city.
Potentially 60-80 homes could be built in the two subdivisions, and council members said they were concerned that a dozen had been built before the annexation and that meant the city lost sales tax revenue from the building material.
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It received 915 letters of objection compared to 315 letters of support.
MPs Edward Davey and Zac Goldsmith had both spoken out against the plans in the run-up to the meeting but the Kingston Society had backed them.


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Once inside Bethlehem, Charlie took us to Johnny's Souvenir Shop, where he said he would arrange for a guide to take us to the Church of the Nativity because he was wary of driving his Israeli car through Bethlehem. Johnny's Souvenir Shop was empty, as was the Alexander Hotel next door. It closed last year for lack of guests. A white mini-van appeared within a few minutes and we piled in for the short drive to the church.
My Palestinian guide, Issa, told me he used to lead 15 tourist groups a day, but we were the first visitors he'd taken to the Church of Nativity in a month. "Before one year ago maybe you need two hours to get into the church. But now, nobody," he sighed.
The caves below the church, where the place of Jesus's birth is marked with a golden star beneath an ornate altar, were all but empty. The medieval portion of the church seemed more like a vacant community hall than a place of holy worship; there were no pews, no people, just stone floors and beam ceilings. Outside, Palestinian children frolicked where lines of visitors once stood.
From the church courtyard the Jewish settlement of Har Homa, a conglomeration of glowing white houses perched on a hilltop, lies just across a small valley. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the proximity of the "other". From Jerusalem you can see Ramallah, a few kilometres off, where the Israelis began holding Arafat under arrest in December. From the Church of the Nativity in Palestinian-held Bethlehem, you can see the settlements that arouse so much anger and hatred. The enemy in these parts is not some mythical beast across an ocean or desert or mountain range. He's a neighbour, and undeniably human.
Yossi Klein Halevi is a contributor to The New Republic and the Los Angeles Times among others, and is a columnist for Ha'aretz, a Tel Aviv daily well known for its relatively liberal editorial stance. Once a peace-seeking leftist, his outlook has been darkened by the depressing nature of the present conflict. "The first intifada ended the illusion that we could occupy another people. The second intifada has ended the illusion that we can make peace," he told me. "We are in the position of having to recognise that we are post-peace. We tried that and it failed. During the Oslo years we became dangerously optimistic. I now try to confine my utopian fantasies to my spiritual rather than political life."
Nafez Nazzal, a Palestinian academic who lives in the West Bank but works in Jerusalem for Brigham Young University, is equally weary. "Sometimes I'm so frustrated I say we deserve each other," he says.
If the depression weren't so contagious and pervasive - and the threat of violence so real - now would be a great time to visit Israel. Tourists could, theoretically, have almost all the major attractions to themselves. The haunting memorial at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem was the most crowded site I visited during my 10-day stay, and that was only because a few groups of American and Canadian Jewish university students remained undaunted by the violence and were determined to take up their free trips to the homeland sponsored by the Birthright Israel program.
The Western Wall and the Temple Mount used to be a popular tourist site. Now only the faithful come, and they don't mix. "This whole area used to be full," says Tommy Zakin, a Jerusalem policeman, waving his hands across the giant courtyard in front of the wall and pointing to the pedestrian ramp leading to the top of the Temple Mount and the Al Aqsa mosque.
At Yardenit, a Galilean kibbutz that was once a popular site for Jordan River baptisms, the expansive dining room of the tourist centre was all but empty and the gift shop was filled with kitsch untouched for almost a year and a half. Same thing at Ein Gedi, the spa on the Dead Sea, where a meagre group bobbed in the buoyant waters and covered themselves in therapeutic mud.
Ein Gev is a kibbutz founded in 1937 at the foot of the Golan Heights. For two decades after Israel's founding in 1948, the community was on the front line for Israeli-Syrian hostility, and kibbutzniks dodged artillery as they went about their daily lives. It has a collection of small businesses - from cultivating mangoes and bananas to raising ostriches and selling insurance policies. After the Israeli annexation of the Golan in 1967, it opened a motel on the Sea of Galilee. The motel has few visitors today.
Arnie Sasportas, a kibbutznik who manages the motel, sees the community's recent woes in the context of a broader history. "All of a sudden, a year and four months ago, the tourists stopped. So we've been trying to make ends meet. We're the Jewish people living on the land of Israel, defending the land of Israel, and we're going to get through this."
The situation is no better for hoteliers in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. In Tel Aviv's Yemenite quarter, the restaurants serve a mainly domestic clientele, for the nearby high-rise hotels no longer send guests in search of a genuine Middle Eastern meal. There are no guests to send.
At the beachside Dan Panorama Hotel, where I stayed in Tel Aviv, my room had a beautiful view of the Mediterranean - and of the Dolphinarium disco where more than a score of young Israelis perished in a suicide bombing last year. Most guests these days are Israelis on weekend shopping visits. The 500-room hotel is running at 10 per cent occupancy. "All hotels are the same here; nobody knows when it will get better. Every month something happens, and if something happens, people cancel," laments the reservations manager, Sigal Arev, a young Israeli.
The twin bedrock of the Israeli economy is struggling, too. Israel has more companies listed on the tech-heavy NASDAQ exchange than any country outside North America. Fuelled over the last decade by the influx of more than a million immigrants from the former Soviet Union, the tech sector in Israel exploded. But the US slowdown has hit hard here, and the fallout has been sobering. The most common profession in Jerusalem these days is either an out-of-work tour guide or an out-of-work programmer.
Meleni Sobol, a member of the Kol HaNeshama synagogue in Jerusalem, says her middle-class congregation used to devote its community activities to helping the local poor, but these days their charity efforts have turned inward. "We have so many people within the congregation who were tour guides or who are out of work, we're all trying to help them out," she says. "My fiance is a tour guide, and it's been difficult."
I never felt unsafe in Israel - even when I went to Bethlehem (before the reinvasion of the West Bank and the stand-off at the Church of the Nativity) - but I suppose that's precisely what is so stressful about living here. The danger comes without warning.
For many Israelis peace and the messianic age seem to blur together - both too far off to count on, both too comfortable to imagine. For the visitor, the geography of the Bible and the geography of violence combine. Oh, so that's where Jesus supposedly had the Last Supper; oh, so this is the Sbarro pizza parlour where a suicide bombing last August killed 15 people.
Israelis and Palestinians will both tell you about their struggle, and usually they define it as a struggle for justice, for security, for homeland, or for dignity. But underlying all of these claims is a struggle for peace.
Kifah Massarwi, a Palestinian-Israeli woman in her 30s, is a local government official in the municipality of Baqa El Gharbiya, a town that lies about halfway between the Sea of Galilee and Tel Aviv, close to the Green Line. Massarwi says people in her town "feel morally a part of the Palestinian people, we share their suffering". But the latest bombings have had severe effects as several of the perpetrators are reported to have crossed into Israeli territory at Baqa, causing more stringent military checkpoints in and out of the town. "We [in Baqa], as Israeli citizens, really want the bombing to stop; we believe that we will all benefit from a return to negotiation," she says.
Her work as the town's director of cultural affairs sees Massarwi organise mock peace negotiating sessions with Palestinian and Jewish youths. They are asked to role-play each other in the hope that adopting the position of "the other side" will build understanding.
Menachem Hafetz is equally desperate for peace. The spry 67-year-old tour guide from Jerusalem normally peppers his commentary on the Holy City or the Galilee with jokes. But when you talk to him about peace, his eyes well up with tears. "I would give up almost anything for peace," he says. "I want peace yesterday, not tomorrow, yesterday."
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text: Culture 23 August 2007 Dazed and confused Steve Coogan is far too kind to his latest creation, a washed-up former roadie <strong>Saxondale Sign up for our weekly email * Steve Coogan has admitted that he was disappointed by the low-key response last year to the first series of Saxondale, in which he plays an ex-roadie-turned-pest-control expert with anger management issues; he couldn't understand why more people didn't get it. Well, I did get it, and I wanted to love it: the title sequence, in which Tommy Saxondale's custard-coloured Mustang powers through the streets of Stevenage to the sound of "House of the King" by Focus, promised so much. (Focus, pop pickers, is a prog-rock band from the Netherlands; "House of the King" was also used as the theme tune for Don't Ask Me, the Seventies science show that made Magnus Pyke a household name, and is often mistaken for a Jethro Tull number.) An exuberant fart of flute and petrol, it announces the man so succinctly, Coogan could afford to cut back on Tommy's character-establishing range of tics - though he doesn't, of course. Why limit yourself to one twitch if you can get away with a dozen? So why didn't I love it? It wasn't funny. The first series was ruthlessly well-observed, from the way Tommy chomped his beard (it was like watching a tortoise in a wig go at a nice bit of butter lettuce) to the way he pottered at home (the red-brick doll's house on a close that he shares with his girlfriend, Magz, is as far from backstage madness as Genesis are from being cool). Rasmus Hardiker, who plays Tommy's ghostly assistant Raymond, was divine: a giant Adam's apple in overalls. But everything the characters said had the feeling of having been worked to within an inch of its life. Tommy would bare his awful teeth, some long and overly rehearsed line would lollop out, and all I could picture was Coogan and his co-writer Neil MacLennan splitting their sides at their own devastating wit. As Tommy might put it, the script was like Phil Collins: however hard it tried, it never quite managed to sing. I couldn't fathom how they were going to crank out a second series and, now I've seen the first part (23 August, 9.30pm), I know that they barely can. There's the comedy of embarrassment, and then there's plain embarrassment: boring plots, lame and repetitive jokes, the sight of talented actors clinging desperately to the fact that they are better than their lines (Morwenna Banks, who plays Vicky, the secretary at the pest-control business, might as well have a sign above her head that says: "Directors, please audition me! I'm great, even in dross like this!"). The pity of it is that, occasionally, you see flashes of what Saxondale could be. It's good when a surrealist note creeps in. In the opening scene, Tommy was at his anger management group, trying to make a fool out of a man who'd boasted of his adventures with cocaine and prostitutes. Tommy listed a series of his own ever more outlandish escapades, which ended with him saying: "Then I stole a live dolphin and used it as a bong." If you pay close attention (actually, you could watch it with one eye closed and the other on Philip Roth and still notice this), you'll grasp that Tommy Saxondale is just late-era Alan Partridge with a beard and a Captain Beefheart T-shirt: neither one can control his rages, both are living on past glories, both have a desperate desire to get one over on the more successful. But late-era Partridge was hilarious and very black; it had something genuinely savage to say about celebrity. Tommy, on the other hand, was never much of a success in the first place - an East Coast tour with Emerson, Lake and Palmer was about the height of it - and now he is cosily ensconced with Magz, who makes him pea-and-ham soup and strokes his crinkly hair. This sweetness is the work of a comic (Coogan) who is entering middle age himself; perhaps he can't help but be a bit kind to his creation. But it's a fatal weakening on his part. The monster market - Partridge, David Brent, Malcolm in The Thick of It - relies for its success on its creators' unblinking and pitiless detachment. Moist eyes and fond smiles just will not do. Pick of the week Boys From the Brown Stuff27 August, 9pm, BBC2Fascinating film about "flushers" – the men who unblock sewers. OutnumberedStarts 28 August, 10.35pm, BBC1Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis star in new family sitcom. The RestaurantStarts 29 August, 8pm, BBC2Raymond Blanc assesses nine couples running their own place. Rachel Cooke trained as a reporter on The Sunday Times. She is now a writer at The Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 27 August 2007 issue of the New Statesman, Bush: Is the president imploding? More


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Nicole Dunlap's Four Elements and Tribute
Show us your ink! Starting today, we kick off a new series, MARKED, where we ask locals of all ages, professions and backgrounds to roll up their sleeves, pant legs, and so much more to reveal their marks. Here are their stories:
photo by Jez Noble, courtesy of Nicole Dunlap
Name: Nicole Dunlap
Age: currently 24, 21 when I got the arm piece, 23 when I get the foot/leg piece (both were designed by Eric James, co-owner of Phoenix Tattoo Company)
Arm Piece:This is a quarter sleeve on my left arm, it's a collage of the four elements as natural disasters. When I'm wearing a T-shirt, lots of folks mistake the tornado for an elephant trunk. There isn't so much of a "story" behind this tattoo. My initial interest in the elements resulted from my involvement and research in astrology. From there I just liked the idea of all of them coming together in their purest, most destructive form. I have one giant, beautiful storm on my arm. It took 15 hours to complete.
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My leg/foot piece is a bit more involved. It covers the top of my right foot, covers the side of my ankle and stops about halfway up my calf. It is a dedication to my childhood girlfriend who passed away a couple years ago. It was a difficult experience for me, to say the least.
Both the tattoo and the tattoo process played an active and positive roll in my grieving, though it still wasn't easy. It was the most intense and emotional few hours I've ever spent in a tattoo chair. But the result is a stunning image that represents one of the most beautiful ladies I've known in my life.It's my favorite tattoo, by far.
photo by Jez Noble, courtesy of Nicole Dunlap
Some people think it's morbid to have a cemetery be a part of a dedication piece. What they don't understand is that the gravestones are not representative of her death, they represent the cemetery in my hometown where we used to hang out together. Cemeteries are peaceful to me - this collage of images is not meant to be morbid at all, but instead reminiscent of our memories and childhoods together. It took about seven hours to complete.
Both pieces were freehand which means I didn't see a design before he started tattooing. He vaguely sketched out the design on my skin with sharpie right before he took the needles to my skin. Eric is a painter before a tattoo artist, he's extremely talented and I trust him completely.
Next tattoo? I'm still conceptualizing my next tattoo. I know it will stretch from my right collarbone, over my shoulder and down my back. I want it to be very organic and flowy, black and gray work representing the idea of progression, mainly. Moving forward, embracing change, always growing, etc. I'm currently collaborating with my artist friends about the imagery to use that will represent these concepts.
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Keira Knightley never wanted to be "the girl in the film that stands there and looks pretty".
Half her luck, most of us might say. Didn't she get to kick some serious butt in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? Films that also gave her enough clout to never to have to appear in a conventional teen flick, though she did make her mark in an unusually good one, Bend it Like Beckham.
But there's little doubt Knightley was indeed caged by her beauty in the Pirates series. And let's not forget she was initially deemed "too beautiful" to play Elizabeth Bennet in 2005's Pride & Prejudice, even though she went on to receive a best actress Oscar nomination for her performance.
Knightley's answer has been to embrace the dark side, venturing into the souls of tragic and difficult characters. Indeed, as few women of her age have done before; she's still only 26.
Knightley doesn't rule out more blockbusters in the future but for now she's taken "a different path". That path sees her let rip as Russian Sabina Spielrein, the tortured patient in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, which opens in Australia this week. She's also tackling the difficult lead role in Joe Wright's production of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, which could well be the defining moment of her adult career.
The daughter of playwright Sharman Macdonald and stage actor Will Knightley, she has long been up for a bigger challenge, though she clearly doesn't underestimate it.
"Film is a collaborative art form and it requires every single tentacle to be exactly in the right place and a lot of the time it is not," she says. "It's not through anybody being lazy or through a lack of talent or anything like that when things don't come together. But it's incredible when they do."
I first met Knightley in London for Pride & Prejudice, where the effusive, gangly, then-20-year-old scrunched up her nose throughout our interview – a habit she has to control when acting – and seemed about as natural as young movie stars come. Unusual, though, was her love of period dramas and research. It would hold her in good stead when she landed the role of Spielrein with the well-read Canadian with a razor-sharp mind, David Cronenberg.
Knightley's facial mannerisms came in handy in her portrayal as the tortured Spielrein, who went from believing she was inhabited by demons to playing an important but largely unacknowledged part in the development of psychoanalysis through her treatment.
"In her diary, Sabina wrote how she felt like a demon or a dog," Knightley explains, "so I thought that was an interesting place to start, as a physical thing. I felt her compulsive behaviour was about trying to release emotion, so I showed David a couple of options for how she would look and he went, 'That one!' "
Spielrein's illness stemmed from her fraught relationship with her sadistic father. She sought out the treatment of Carl Jung and asked him to punish her – to spank her. He tied her up at his Zurich clinic in 1904 and did what was asked.
Knightley, a "huge fan" of Cronenberg, was torn about accepting the role when she read the confronting scenes. This is an actor who has long been plagued by rumours of anorexia and still feels uncomfortable in her own skin: "I feel like a complete dickhead every time I pose for photographers; I have never got over that feeling." Yet when the director, whose explorations invariably involve human flesh, suggested they find a way of doing the scenes without revealing her breasts, Knightley agreed it was necessary for the role.
I feel like a complete dickhead every time I pose for photographers.
It helped that Jung was played by the amiable Michael Fassbender.
"He's my mate," Knightley admits with a grin. "We had two shots of vodka and I said to him, 'If you touch me, I have a security guard out there and I am going to call him and he's going to break your legs!' He said, 'Keira, you are tied to a bed, you are in no position to make threats.' "
Her confidence in Cronenberg helped. "In lesser hands I might have been freaking out," she says. "We didn't have any rehearsal; we literally stepped in and somehow David creates an atmosphere of complete confidence. I think that is f---ing extraordinary."
Knightley, who is dating the Klaxons keyboardist James Righton after splitting with the actor Rupert Friend, seems content with where her career is headed. Working with Cronenberg and reteaming with writer Christopher Hampton (Atonement) who adapts his own play here, is the latest in a long line of good career choices. She's also chuffed to finally work with Tom Stoppard on his adaptation of Anna Karenina.
"It's a monumental book and it's a monumental part and I'm incredibly excited and I'm absolutely terrified," she says.
One thing's for sure. You are unlikely to see Knightley – who next stretches her acting muscles as Steve Carell's neighbour in the very black comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World – playing the girl who stands there looking pretty for some time.
Freud v Jung: what was it all about?
IF YOU'VE ever been to a shrink, you probably owe these guys. But unless you studied psychology at university, all you probably know is the old chestnut about the sex-obsessed Sigmund Freud and the younger, more spiritual Carl Jung, who believed there was a lot more to the human psyche.
They were chalk and cheese but, raised a Jew and an atheist by choice (like David Cronenberg), Freud knew he needed the upright young Christian to give credence to his groundbreaking work.
Jung, like Keira Knightley's Sabina Spielrein, was working through his own demons. Fastidiously groomed and decidedly uptight, Jung wondered why people devoted so much effort to suppressing their most natural instincts. He believed in the communal approach and his ideas were instrumental in the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. Polite circles don't mention that he also gave credence to flying saucers.
Spielrein married and had children but always held a candle for Jung. While still dealing with her own psychosis, she pioneered the field of child psychology, though was sent to concentration camps and was killed during the Holocaust. With the help of his followers, Freud made it to London, to die in 1939 at 83 from ''oral cancer''.


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A Revisionist Perspective on Framing Effects
Jiawei Liu and Dietram A. Scheufele
There is a dichotomy in framing research that can be traced back to its multidisciplinary origins in psychology and sociology. Definitions of framing rooted in psychology are concerned with the differential presentation of the otherwise identical information and are often referred to as equivalence framing. Definitions rooted in more sociological traditions investigate how a message can be constructed with different sets of information to highlight contrasting perspectives on the same issue. The latter is typically referred to as emphasis framing. Although often subsumed under the same label, equivalence framing and emphasis framing are systematically different, both conceptually and operationally. Therefore, the two traditions need to be carefully distinguished in terms of their origins, conceptualization and operationalization of frames, underlying mechanisms, cognitive outcomes, and their relationships with other media effects theories.
Categorizing existing studies revealed two major pitfalls in framing effects literatures. First, many political communication studies to date have adopted the emphasis framing approach. However, as substantial manipulation of information introduces confounding variables making it difficult for researchers to attribute the effect on the audience to the change of frames, this approach has relatively low internal validity in experiments and can hardly be distinguished from other cognitive media effects models, such as agenda setting and priming. Thus, the bias toward emphasis framing needs to be addressed by conducting research with equivalence frames so that a more concrete causal relationship between message framing and its effects can be established. In addition, little attention has been given to visuals in framing effects research so far. Considering that people consume information in a multimedia environment online, visual frames and verbal-visual interactions need to be further investigated.
Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Policy Analysis
Aaron Rapport
Cognitive theory encompasses mental activities such as the observation of different stimuli in an environment; the memorization and recall of information; pattern recognition and problem representation; and complex activities like social judgments, analytic reasoning, and learning. Cognitive psychology also highlights the constraints that prevent individuals from acting as utility-maximizing, fully rational decision-makers. These constraints lead people to rely on a regularly occurring set of cognitive mechanisms to simplify the decision-making process.
Scholars of foreign policy have drawn from several prominent areas of cognitive psychology to inform their research. One such area looks at the beliefs and belief systems that are the building blocks for most judgments. Researchers have also examined how actors use cognitive biases and heuristics to cope with uncertainty, which is abundant in foreign policy settings. An important set of cognitive mechanisms examined in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) relates to judgments about policy risks and costs. Factors that facilitate and inhibit learning are crucial for understanding the conditions under which such judgments may improve over time. No cognitive process operates in a vacuum; instead these processes are moderated by an individual's group context and emotions.
There are several challenges in applying cognitive theory to FPA. Such theories are biased toward populations that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. They are usually first tested using controlled experiments that measure group-level differences; whereas FPA scholars are often interested in the cognitive processes of individual leaders operating in chaotic environments. Individual-level psychological mechanisms may augment or offset one another, as well as interact with variables at the governmental, societal, and international levels of analysis in unpredictable ways. In light of these challenges, FPA scholars who employ cognitive psychology may wish to conceive of their enterprise as a historical science rather than a predictive one.
Counterfactuals and Foreign Policy Analysis
Richard Ned Lebow
Counterfactuals seek to alter some feature or event of the pass and by means of a chain of causal logic show how the present might, or would, be different. Counterfactual inquiry—or control of counterfactual situations—is essential to any causal claim. More importantly, counterfactual thought experiments are essential, to the construction of analytical frameworks. Policymakers routinely use then by to identify problems, work their way through problems, and select responses. Good foreign-policy analysis must accordingly engage and employ counterfactuals.
There are two generic types of counterfactuals: minimal-rewrite counterfactuals and miracle counterfactuals. They have relevance when formulating propositions and probing contingency and causation. There is also a set of protocols for using both kinds of counterfactuals toward these ends, and it illustrates the uses and protocols with historical examples. Policymakers invoke counterfactuals frequently, especially with regard to foreign policy, to both choose policies and defend them to key constituencies. They use counterfactuals in a haphazard and unscientific manner, and it is important to learn more about how they think about and employ counterfactuals to understand foreign policy.
Emotions in Foreign Policy Decision Making
Rose McDermott
There are lots of ways that emotions have been studied in psychology and various ways that their use has been examined in the context of foreign policy. Perhaps one of the most useful ways to examine the influence of emotion on foreign policy is through the lens of risk and threat assessment. Some approaches to emotion tend to categorize emotions as valence-based, in terms of broad-based positivity or negativity. Certainly, elements of this kind of approach can be useful, particularly in terms of thinking about the ways in which political conservatives appear to have a negativity bias. However, an investigation of discrete emotions allows a more sophisticated and nuanced exploration of the effect of emotion on risk analysis and threat assessment, in particular the effect of fear, anger, and disgust on decision-making under conditions of risky threat. Genetic, as well as environmental, circumstances can influence individual variance in the experience and expression of such emotions, and any comprehensive approach to understanding the influence of emotion on decision-making should take all these factors into account.
Face Value: Facial Appearance and Assessments of Politicians
Colleen M. Carpinella and Kerri L. Johnson
The facial appearance of political candidates provides information to voters that can be vital to the impression-formation process. Traditionally, psychological research in the field of appearance-based politics has concentrated on investigating whether politicians' physical appearance impacts perceptions of them. Recently, the focus has shifted from examining whether facial cues matter for impression formation to determining (1) which facial cues matter for voters' perceptions of politicians and (2) how such visual cues are utilized within the political decision-making process. This shift in research focus has ushered in an appreciation of facial competence and physical attractiveness, and it has been marked by a renewed interest in studying how gender stereotypes impact the influence of politician appearance on perceptions of male and female politicians. In addition, this renewed interest in studying underlying mechanisms in appearance-based politics has spurred on research that includes a broader range of downstream consequences such as evaluations of leadership potential, voting behavior, and even basic political party affiliation categorizations.
Foreign Policy Learning
Guy Ziv
An improved understanding of foreign policy learning necessitates a clarification of what foreign policy learning is, who learns, and how such learning occurs. Cognitive and social psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists situated in a variety of subfields have contributed to the understanding of foreign policy learning, a multidisciplinary area of inquiry. Learning theorists seek to show how a change in an actor's beliefs due to experience or observation can lead to changes at other units, such as organizations and within the government. This cognitive dimension is important because actors may pursue a new course of action for politically expedient reasons rather than having genuinely "learned"—a distinction referred to as "complex" vs. "simple" learning.
Foreign policy learning can be internal or external. The former type of learning entails what individuals, governments, or organizations learn from their prior experience. Learning theorists who focus on the individual level of analysis borrow insights from political psychology in an effort to shed light on the personal characteristics, the belief structures, and the cognitive psychological mechanisms of political actors that can better inform policymaking. Leaders whose cognitive structures are described as relatively open and complex—like Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, whose learning brought about the dramatic changes that ultimately led to the demise of the Soviet Union—are more likely to alter their beliefs than their cognitively closed and simple counterparts.
Yet external learning occurs as well. Policy diffusion studies show that learning can result from demonstration effects. Foreign policy learning via diffusion is not instrumental, but instead occurs through osmosis. Privatization in the former communist states, China's Foreign Direct Investment liberalization, and the diffusion of environmental norms in the European Union are examples of learning that is contagious, not chosen. A more conscious mode of learning than diffusion is policy transfer, which entails policymakers' transferring ideas from one country and implementing them in another. Technological innovations, unlike lessons that involve political ideology, are generally easier lessons to transfer—for example, Japan's success in applying lessons from the West to modernize its army in the second half of the 19th century.
The constraints to foreign policy learning are formidable. Decision makers are not always open to reconsidering views that challenge their beliefs. Leaders tend to resort to, and misuse, analogies that prevent learning. Even a change in a decision maker's beliefs may not lead to foreign policy change, given the myriad political pressures, bureaucratic hurdles, and economic realities that often get in the way of implementing new ideas. Indeed, foreign policy learning and foreign policy change are not synonymous.
Scholars face significant obstacles in studying foreign policy learning. There is no consensus on the definition of learning, on what constitutes learning, on how actors learn, when they learn, or on how to assess whether learning has taken place. Despite attempts to make sense of the confusion, scholars face the daunting challenge of improving understanding of how learning is shaped and funneled through the interaction of agents and the structures in which they are situated, as well as the relationship between learning and foreign policy change.
Intractable Conflict and Peacemaking from a Socio-Psychological Approach
Soli Vered and Daniel Bar-Tal
Intractable conflicts are demanding, stressful, painful, exhausting, and costly both in human and material terms. In order to adapt to these conditions, societies engaged in such protracted, violent conflict develop an appropriate socio-psychological infrastructure that eventually becomes the foundation for the development of culture of conflict. The infrastructure fulfills important functions for the societies involved, yet stands also as a major socio-psychological barrier to peaceful resolution of the conflict. Transforming the nature of the relations between two societies that were in hostile and violent rivalry requires a dramatic societal change of replacing the socio-psychological repertoire among society members and establishing a new culture of peace. This process of peacemaking is very long and extremely challenging; however, if successful, the past rival sides may establish stable and lasting peaceful relations.
Open-Minded Cognition and Political Thought
Victor Ottati, Chase Wilson, and Erika D. Price
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
Dogmatic or closed-minded cognition is directionally biased; a tendency to select, interpret, and elaborate upon information in a manner that reinforces the individual's prior opinion or expectation. Open-minded cognition is directionally unbiased; a tendency to process information in a manner that is not biased in the direction of the individual's prior opinion or expectation. It is marked by a willingness to consider a variety of intellectual perspectives, values, attitudes, opinions, or beliefs—even those that contradict the individual's prior opinion. In the research described in the present article, open-minded cognition is assessed using measures that specifically focus on the degree to which individuals process information in a directionally biased manner. Open-minded cognition can function as an individual difference characteristic that predicts a variety of social attitudes and political opinions. These include attitudes toward marginalized social groups (e.g., racial and ethnic minorities), support for democratic values, political ideology, and partisan identification. Open-minded cognition also possesses a malleable component that varies across domains and specific situations. For example, open-minded cognition is higher in the political domain than religious domain. In addition, open-minded cognition is prevalent in situations where individuals encounter plausible arguments that are compatible with conventional values, but is less evident when individuals encounter arguments that are extremely implausible or that contradict conventional values. Open-minded cognition also varies across social roles within a given situation. Because political novices possess limited political knowledge, social norms dictate that they should listen and learn in an open-minded fashion. In contrast, because political experts possess extensive knowledge, social norms dictate that they are entitled to adopt a more dogmatic cognitive orientation when listening to a political communication.
Political Narratives and "Abraham Obama"
Molly Andrews
Political narratives examine the ways in which stories, or narratives, are used to investigate the political world. Historically, stories have not been regarded as legitimate sources of data for such explorations. In recent years, however, this has changed, as "the narrative turn" hit the social sciences; still, while disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology were more amenable to this alteration—representing, as it does, not only different methodologies, but also a different epistemological framework—many political scientists continue to resist the idea that political narratives can offer a very particular, and almost unique, perspective on how individuals and groups construct the political world and are constructed by it. One of the most dramatic uses of highly effective political narratives, which blurs the boundaries between the personal and public, is that of Barack Obama, which is used as a central case study in this article.
Political Partisanship as a Social Identity
Leonie Huddy and Alexa Bankert
Partisanship remains a powerful influence on political behavior within developed and developing democracies, but there remains a lively debate on its nature, origins, and measurement. In this debate, political scientists draw on social identity theory to clarify the nature of partisanship and its political consequences in the United States and other developed and developing democracies. In particular, social identity theory has been used to develop an expressive model of partisanship, which stands in contrast to an instrumental model grounded in ideological and policy considerations. Included here are a discussion of the key motivational and cognitive components of social identity theory and an explanation of how the theory can be applied to the study of partisanship. The focus is on the measurement of partisanship, its social nature, its origins in convergent identities, and its ability to generate strong emotions and drive political engagement. Lastly, areas for future partisanship research are discussed. These areas include the study of negative partisan identities, coalitional identities in multiparty systems, and the political situations in which expressive and instrumental aspects of partisanship are most common.
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The best of 2012: film
The Time Out film team reflect on the movies of the past 12 months
As 2012 draws to a close, Time Out's film critics offer up their five favourite films of the year, plus their least favourite movie, a film hero, a favourite scene and a quick look ahead to 2013.
It's been a very strong year for international cinema, and our critics' lists reflect that, with the French-Austrian co-production 'Amour', Turkish cop drama 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia', American indie 'The Master', Portuguese oddity 'Tabu' and homegrown Olympic tie-in documentary 'London: The Modern Babylon' proving the most popular overall.
Click on the thumbnails below to see each critic's top five films – and one stinker.
Nigel Floyd's best films of 2012
Haneke's forensic portrait of an ageing, cultured couple (Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emanuelle Riva) is a devastating affirmation of love in the face of mortality.
Director-actor Ben Affleck proves that an entertaining mainstream political thriller need not insult the audience's intelligence.
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In Peter Strickland's haunting puzzler, Toby Jones excels as a timid English sound engineer suffering psychological dissonance while working on a gruesome horror film in Rome.
Killing Them Softly
Andrew Dominik's verbally brutal gangster movie has explicit political overtones and fine performances by Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins et al.
Silent Souls
A poetic Russian (Merjan?) evocation of all that's important in life and death: love, food, drink, sex, cultural identity, social rituals and, above all, friendship.
Nigel Floyd's worst film of 2012
Nigel Floyd's film hero of 2012
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Great Expectations: SS baseball coach has high hopes for season
By JOSEPH ELERSON, News-Telegram Sports Writer
Feb. 21, 2008 - SSHS baseball coach Jerrod Hammack has led the Wildcats to the Class 4A state playoffs his first two seasons at the helm and this year wants to make it a third straight trip with what he considers as one of his best teams.
Coming off a 16-12 season last year in which the Wildcats lost to the Nacogdoches Dragons in bi-district, Hammack compared this year's team to his district championship team of two years ago.
"We are really excited about this team. I really believe that we have the capability of being as good as my first year," the coach said. "Maybe even better than that team, and I know that may be a mouthful because that first team was really good and special. This team has a great combination of senior leadership and great camaraderie with each other, even with guys that are competing for spots."
This Wildcats return seven lettermen and are led by senior hurler Brittan Diamond, who was the District 11-4A MVP last year and was an Honorable Mention All-State selection. He compiled an 8-3 record with a 1.47 ERA on the mound, plus he hit .347 and led the team in hits, runs, doubles and triples.
Hammack said Diamond, a Texarkana College signee, will be the opening day starter against Van in the Wills Point tournament at 11 a.m. today and will bat in the No. 3 hole in the lineup.
"It is great to have him (Diamond) back and I told some of the guys that you are going to have to relish this year," Hammack said. "You are not going to have this combination of talent and leadership too many times. I want to enjoy this season day-by-day. Brittan is a solid player. He is very talented and a great leader, and he is truly the district MVP."
The Wildcats also have back all of their pitching staff from last year in Jeff Beck, Kevin Mabe, Brandon Whittle, Dalton Abner and Dustin Gant. SSHS can also use Mason Rawson, Colton Jones, Josh Anderson and Brady Harmon on the mound this year. Senior Josh Dunn returns after batting .307 last year to handle the catching duties for the Wildcats.
"We are pretty solid without a doubt on the pitching staff," the coach said. "We are just trying to narrow the gap between Brittan and everyone else on the staff. If we can close that gap and get them up to speed with him or close, then we will be really tough.
"We have every single pitcher that threw an inning back with Jeff Beck, Brandon Whittle, Kevin Mabe and then some JV guys like a Mason Rawson, Colton Jones and Josh Anderson, who has done extremely well in the scrimmages. Brady Harmon has been a very pleasant surprise for us in the scrimmages and he is relaxed now with the team and has a lot of ability for us."
The Wildcats open the regular season today in a nine-team tournament divided up into three pools with three teams in each poll. Saturday's match-ups will be determined based on play of the Thursday and Friday games.
"We will face Van in the opening game and then we will play a TAPPS 4A school in Arlington Pantego Christian on Friday," the coach said. "After that, it is difficult to read and it will depend on all three pools and how those teams do and how we do as to who we play after that."
Following the Wills Point tournament, the Wildcats will travel to Mount Vernon and then will play their second tournament of the year at Kilgore next Thursday-Saturday. The Wildcat's final tournament will be at Ennis.
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Grilled Hen-of-the-Woods Mushrooms with Sesame
"Hen-of-the-woods are often shredded and sautéed, but when you cook them whole, they become crispy outside and meaty and moist inside," says Jean-Georges Vongerichten of his preferred method of preparing the coral-like mushroom. "I'm a purist when it comes to beautiful ingredients, so serving the mushrooms in big clusters keeps them the way they grow in the woods."
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- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 2 pounds hen-of-the-woods mushrooms (maitake), separated into 8 wedges total
- Extra-virgin olive oil, for brushing
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons thinly sliced parsley
- Lime wedges, for serving
How to make this recipe

In a small skillet, toast the sesame seeds over moderate heat, stirring a few times, until golden, 3 minutes. Transfer to a plate.

Heat a grill pan and preheat the oven to 425°. Gently and generously brush the mushroom wedges with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill the mushrooms in batches over moderately high heat, turning occasionally, until browned and crisp, about 8 minutes per batch. Transfer the wedges to a large rimmed baking sheet and reheat for about 4 minutes. Arrange the mushrooms on a platter. Sprinkle with the parsley and sesame seeds and serve with lime wedges.


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The notion that Canada is a mosaic while the United States is a melting pot does not survive scrutiny. In 1994, a study by two University of Toronto sociologists, Jeffrey Reitz and Raymond Breton, found that language retention of third-generation immigrants was less than 1 per cent in both countries. This was significant. One would expect foreign languages to dissolve into the American melting pot. But Canada is supposed to be a mosaic: a set of separate and distinct cultural entities. If it really were a mosaic, ancestral languages would survive through the generations. But they don't, because the offspring of immigrants are quickly absorbed into the dominant language milieux of North America.


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Hillwalking Edradour
Walking Pitlochry Pitlochry Accommodation Pitlochry Fishing
Some of my walks which are part or near to the Pitlochry area below
Killiecrankie Loch Faskally Edradour Ben Vrackie
Beautiful Edradour is located to the east of Pitlochry on the hillside looking down on the busy tourist town.
The main road that runs through Pitlochry is the main A9 road that links Perth to Inverness.
Hillwalking Edradour - Scottish Walks.
|Length: 3 mile
|Duration: 2-3 Hours.
|Difficulty: 3/10
Leaving Pitlochry, just past the Atholl Palace Hotel and the Blair Atholl distillery, there is a road, signposted on the left for the Black Spout car park. From here starts a forest walk, which ends at the Edradour Distillery, Scotland's smallest and open to visitors in the summer. The walk is relatively short, 2 hours. maximum return.
Roughly halfway, a slight, signposted, detour takes you to the waterfall known as the Black Spout, a 50 foot cascade. If you feel energetic, just after the Spout, another path can take you to the small village of Moulin, which sits under Ben Vrackie, a few miles away, if not carry on to the distillery.


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So after the first questioning session, 9 days later they decide they want to question again, they don't have to read the Miranda rights any more?
I will of course let Attorney Holbrook speak for himself on this, but I suspect he was not thinking in terms of the time separation you posted in your comment. I do not think a court would find a 9-day-old Miranda Waiver to be of continuing validity. Again, these issues are very fact dependent. The best course of action is not to waive that most important right at anytime.
What I said was that once the detectives have advised the suspect of their rights, they do not need to re-advise during the remainder of the questioning session. Once the session is over, if they decide to re-question, they need to re-advise. Deciding to question again, nine days later, would appear to me to be a whole new session, requiring a re-advisal of those rights.
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In Commonwealth v. Ingram, 814 A.2d 264 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2002), the Pennsylvania Superior Court held that Miranda warnings are required whenever a suspect is subject to a "custodial interrogation," meaning, whenever a person has "been deprived of his [or her] freedom of action in any significant way." Specifically, the Superior Court found:
Miranda warnings are required where a suspect is subject to custodial interrogation. Custodial interrogation has been defined as "questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his [or her] freedom of action in any significant way." Interrogation occurs where the police should know that their words or actions are reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response from the suspect.
Id. at 270-71. The term Miranda, of course, refer to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) where the high Court upheld the fifth amendment's constitutional privilege against self-incrimination finding that:
the prosecution may not use statements, whether exculpatory or inculpatory, stemming from custodial interrogation of the defendant unless it demonstrates the use of procedural safeguards effective to secure the privilege against self-incrimination. …. Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him, and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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Description: The TS3A5017 IC from Texas Instruments is a dual single-pole four-throw (4:1) analog switch. It is capable of switching both digital and analog signals up to 3.6V in either direction. The ability to handle analog signals makes this a great tool for audio and video signal routing as well as communication circuits. It's also a handy way to read multiple analog sensors from a single ADC pin on your microcontroller.
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