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In 2012, the Boston Red Sox had exactly one pitcher finish inside the bottom 50 of major league baseball in a statistic called 'Swing Rate Against,' (tracked by Baseball Prospectus) which is the percentage of the time opposing hitters swing against a certain pitcher. Last year, the John Farrell-managed Blue Jays had five pitchers finish among the 50 lowest Swing Rates Against.
This year, without John Farrell, the Blue Jays currently have two pitchers in the bottom 50 in Swing Rate Against, and after adding him, the Red Sox have four pitchers in the bottom 20. Usually, a manager doesn't have that much of an impact on the way already-established guys pitch, but Farrell is clearly a pitching-centric manager, and a swing that huge cannot solely be attributed to coincidence. So, what's changed about the way the Red Sox pitchers are pitching this year?
Having a low swing rate itself doesn't necessarily correlate to success. Pitchers can put up good stats with high or low swing rates—Stephen Strasburg, Felix Hernandez and Matt Harvey are all in the top 10 highest Swing Rates Against so far this year. So, what specifically has changed about Ryan Dempster, Clay Buchholz, Jon Lester, and Felix Doubront to garner this lower Swing Rate Against, as well as make them improve as pitchers? Let's go one by one and see how each has changed their pitching approach this season.
Clay Buchholz: Buchholz has shown the starkest improvement among the Red Sox starters this year, which was mirrored by him also having the starkest contrast in his Swing Rate Against the last two seasons. In 2012, Buchholz posted a 44.55 percent Swing Rate Against, good for 113th in baseball, whereas this year he has a 38.14 percent mark, good for 13th in the league.
That change can be largely attributed to a shift in Buchholz's pitching style and control—in 2012, the Sox starter managed to land only 52.1 percent of his pitches in the strike zone, and this year he's upped that number all the way to 66.8 percent. That has led to hitters chasing less against him, but on the other hand, also to way fewer hitter-friendly counts, allowing Buchholz to remain ahead of the hitter in most at bats against him. I think Buchholz's newfound control is legitimate, and I have him in my top 25 starters the rest of the way.
Jon Lester: The biggest change for Lester this year has been the efficacy of his fastball. In his prime, Lester's best pitch was his cutter, but as of last year (and continuing into this year) the pitch has been below average for him. The meat of Lester's arsenal is his fastball/cutter combination, and if those two things can't play off each other, he won't have success.
That being said, this year, even if the cutter isn't back to its old tricks, it is setting up his four seam fastball really nicely. This is leading the pitch to a Fangraphs pitch value of 5.3 so far this year, good for 12th among starters in the majors. Lester is utilizing both his four-seamer and cutter more than in 2012, using the two pitches 61 percent of the time (then) versus 69 percent of the time (now). Even if the cutter hasn't shown efficacy itself, it has helped his fastball regain its former value. The more he uses both, the more comfortable he'll be.
Ryan Dempster: Dempster already garnered very few swings-against coming into this year, with a 38.60 percent Swing Rate Against in 2012. That's nothing compared to his 32.13 percent rate this year, good for lowest in the major leagues. Farrell has really shifted the way Dempster has used his arsenal, as he went from a mostly sinkers guy, throwing his fastball only 18 percent of the time in 2012, to a mostly fourseam fastballs guy, using it 41 percent of the time this season.
Not only is he using the fourseamer more, though, Dempster is also locating the pitch significantly better, largely by just not leaving it up as much. In 2012, he left his fastball in the upper part of the zone or higher 34.5 percent of the time, and so far in 2013 that number has dropped down to 25.5 percent despite using the pitch much more often. This improved command and greater utilization of the fastball has contributed to Dempster's career-high strikeout rate and, while I don't think he will stay at that 11.51 K/9 number, I do think he will finish the season above 9.0 K/9 for the first time in his career.
Felix Doubront: Doubront is the only pitcher on this list who is a true "buy low" right now. The biggest shift in Doubront's pitching style makes the fact that he is garnering way less swings this year make a lot of sense: last year, 19.2 percent of his pitches were in the 'middle plane' of the strike zone (neither outside the zone nor on the inner or outer third). This season, only 15.7 percent of his pitches are in the middle plane and in the strike zone.
Focusing his attention on the inner and outer planes of the plate has led Doubront to elevate his walk rate, but as he works out the kinks and works on his control, he should be able to get that walk rate back down into the 4.0 BB/9 range. Right now, Doubront's BABIP of .397 is the third highest in major league baseball, and that should lead savvy owners to be able to acquire him for a fraction of his value. Doubront has serious strikeout upside, and I'd project him for a 3.50-3.75 ERA the rest of the way with some solid positive regression.
Overall, the moral to the Red Sox story is that John Farrell isn't the type of manager who has one, overarching theory that he applies to all of his pitchers; rather, he is the type of manager that takes each pitcher case by case and figures out the best strategy to maximize their specific talents. Going forward, any pitcher that goes to the Sox should be treated with the leeway we used to associate with Dave Duncan and still associate with Don Cooper—Farrell just has a way of figuring out how to make these guys pitch their best.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency this week has found about $40 million to refill disaster aid accounts and now expect the relief fund to stay solvent until at least Friday, the end of the budget year.
The agency had to hunt through every financial nook and cranny to find extra money with its disaster relief fund about to run dry and Congress at an impasse on proposals to refill aid accounts.
The newfound money was left over from projects to rebuild infrastructure from disaster damage that occurred before August's Hurricane Irene.
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Textbook Reading: Voet, Voet & Pratt p. 180-186; Alberts et al., 4th Edition, Chapter 16. (See notes for particular page references.)
Some recent articles
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J. V. Small, T. Stradal, E. Vignal & K. Rottner (2002) "The lamellipodium: where motility begins," Trends in Cell Biol. 12: 112-120.
H. Higuchi & S. A. Endow (2002) "Directionality and processivity of molecular motors," Current Opinion in Struct. Biol. 14: 50-57.
A. Glading, D. A. Lauffenburger & A. Wells (2002) "Cutting to the chase: calpain proteases in cell motility," Trends in Cell Biol. 12: 46-54.
A. Yildiz, J. N. Forkey, S. A. McKinney, T. Ha, Y. E. Goldman & P. R. Selvin (2003) "Myosin V walks hand-over-hand: single fluorophore imaging with 1.5 nm localization," Science 300: 2061-2065.
R. D. Vale (2003) "Myosin V motor proteins: marching stepwise towards a mechanism," J. Cell Biol. 163: 445-450.
M. J. Tyska & M. S. Mooseker (2003) "Myosin-V motility: these levers were made for walking," Trends in Cell Biol. 13: 447-451.
E. M. De La Cruz & E. M. Ostap (2004) "Relating biochemistry and function in the myosin superfamily," Current Opinion in Cell Biol. 16: 61-67.
F. Buss, G. Spudich & J. Kendrick-Jones (2004) "Myosin VI: cellular functions and motor properties," Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 20: 649-676.
F. J. Kull & S. A. Endow (2004) "A new structural state of myosin," Trends In Biochem. Sci. 29: 103-106.
Z. M. Jaffer & J. Chernoff (2004) "The cross-Rho'ds of cell-cell adhesion," J. Biol. Chem. 279: 35123-35126.
M. Vicente-Manzanares, D. J. Webb & A. R. Horwitz (2005) "Cell migration at a glance," J. Cell Sci. 118: 4917-4919.
M. Krendel & M. S. Mooseker (2005) "Myosins: tails (and heads) of functional diversity," Physiology 20: 239-251.
L. Bosgrasf & P. J. M. van Haastert (2006) "The regulation of myosin II in Dictyostelium," Eur. J. Cell Biol. 85: 969-979.
O. M. Hernandez, M. Jones, G. Guzman & D. Szczesna-Cordary (2007) "Myosin essential light chain in health and disease," Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. H1643-H1654.
1.a. Diagram the structure of
myosin II. What is its subunit composition, and what are the major structural features of the myosin heavy
chains? What is the role of the head domain? Briefly describe the myosin
nucleotide-binding domain.
b. Diagram and describe how small assemblies of myosin II form and cause relative movements of actin filaments. Briefly describe a specific example of a cellular motility process that involves myosin II.
c. How does the structure of myosin V differ from that of myosin II? What is meant by the statement that myosin V is a processive motor? What is the significance of the myosin V step length? How is its processive reaction mechanism suited to the role of myosin V?
2. You may be asked to briefly describe the postulated role of each of the following in ameboid movement. If relevant, include mention of where it tends to be localized relative to the leading edge or tail region of a moving cell: profilin, myosin I, myosin II, Arp2/3, cofilin, actin capping protein, G-actin, F-actin, PIP2, Ca++, calpains.
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NORRISTOWN Ś Creative MontCo, the relatively new civic initiative aimed at cultivating the cultural and economic future of the county, received an oversized check from PECO during Thursday morningÆs Board of Commissioners regular meeting.
Thanks to $20,000 from the electricity supplying giant, Creative MontCo can expand its reach into the community and build on its mission of attracting and retaining businesses in the county with a creative twist.
Dr. Karen A. Stout, president of Montgomery County Community College and chair of Creative MontCo, said Montgomery County has a residency that ōspends more money per capita on the arts than most communities across the country.ö
ōWhat we donÆt have is a strategy to capitalize on all those assets, and thatÆs what Creative MontCo and our plan will do,ö she said.
Last September, the group unveiled a 10-year plan, which had some very early adopters in funding and investing, of which PECO was one of them.
ōWhile public investment is important in the arts, we know that public investment is tight and funding from the public sector is not always available,ö said Stout.
ōWeÆve decided we canÆt wait for public sector investment, and thatÆs why today is so important. WeÆre hoping to leverage this to get more private funding.ö
Montgomery County Foundation, Inc. is the fiscal agent of the organization and will be receiving private donations on behalf of Creative MontCo.
ōWe hope that as we go forward, weÆll be able to leverage these dollars, because this is a unique project Ś itÆs a grassroots project. ItÆs all funded from the community and foundations,ö said Virginia Frantz, president and CEO of the Montgomery County Foundation, Inc.
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BWW Interviews: Composer Michael Daugherty on 'Reflections On the Mississippi For Tuba and Orchestra'
Michael Daugherty is one of America's most successful modern orchestral composers. Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he has also been an NEA and Guggenheim Fellow, among other fellowships, and has been Composer-in-Residence for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony as well as several others. The composer of "Metropolis Symphony" (1988), inspired by Superman, he has been influenced by such diverse inspirations as popular culture - his opera, "Jackie O" (1997) - and Georgia O'Keefe in his orchestral work "Ghost Ranch" (2005).
We caught up with him shortly before the premiere of his new work, "Reflections On The Mississippi For Tuba and Orchestra", to be performed in Philadelphia by the thrice-Grammy-nominated Temple University Symphony Orchestra with soloist Carol Jantsch, principal tubist of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center on March 24, 2013.
BWW: You're from a musical family, as so many musicians are. Can you tell us about your family's musical background?
MD: My father was a drummer. Our household was surrounded by popular music, and we grew up watching Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason. I didn't grow up with classical music, but that's true of many composers. I wound up writing for orchestra and wind ensembles because I love the timbre.
BWW: You're from the Midwest, and you live and teach in the Midwest. Do you find that affects your sensibility, as opposed to being an entrenched New York or Los Angeles composer?
MD: I live in the middle of America, so I have all American influences hitting me simultaneously. It's the best of all worlds. It's only an hour flight to New York from Detroit. I have instant access to what I need.
BWW: When I think of your work, "Metropolis Symphony" immediately comes to mind. This new work has a completely inspiration.
MD: Yes, I hope so. That was twenty years ago. What you do when you're fifty-eight is different from when you're twenty-five, for actors and for composers. This piece is a reflection on my growing up - good memories of it. Some composers focus on bad memories but there's enough of that in the world.
And when I wrote "Metropolis", most orchestral music was atonal and non-melodic so it was shocking at the time.


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Al Jefferson scored 27 points and chipped in with 15 rebounds for Charlotte on Monday, leading the Bobcats to a 95-93 victory over Atlanta at Philips Arena.
Charlotte did not, however, defeat the Hawks against the spread, which closed at 5 at most sportsbooks. Totals bettors, meanwhile, saw the game go UNDER the closing number of 195.5.
Charlotte got 17 points from Gary Neal and another 10 points from Luke Ridnour. Kemba Walker contributed 7 assists, while Al Jefferson cleaned the glass with 15 rebounds.
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"Truth Sessions" - Insights on the Common Struggles of Life - Session One: Needing to be Heard David Guilbault â Doug Vann â Keven Furiya â Andy Zadrozny
Session One: Needing to be Heard
de Guilbault Vann Furiya Zadrozny
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"Truth Sessions" - Insights on the Common Struggles of Life - is a multimeda storytelling project by filmmaker David Guilbault, photographer Doug Vann, painter Keven Fruiya, and composer Andy Zadrozny. The first session features interviews with ten people living in the low income Frye Apartments in Seattle, Washington across the street from the Tashiro Kaplan Artists Lofts where David Doug, Keven and Andy live and work. The multimedia show was presented November 6 - December 31, 2008 at Corridor Gallery in Seattle, Washington. You can also follow the project and watch he video interviews at: http://truthsessions.tv.
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- Categoría Arte y fotografía
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80 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación dic. 10, 2008
- Etiquetas low income, Truth, Insights, interviews, multimedia, Seattle, struggles, life, heard, storytelling, Sessions
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Doug Vann is a freelance photographer and image collection consultant residing in Seattle, Washington. HIs career began with an internship at The Village Voice in New York City, in the late seventies and was destined to evolve into a celebration of life. As a photographer and much lauded picture editor, Doug has devoted his 30 year + career in the arts to documenting the moments of men and women, from birth to death and beyond.
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Subject: Re: [DNA] age estimations (TMRCA and ASD)
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:03:49 +0100
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Here's a link to the results of John McEwan: look in table 1
I calculated for E3b1 only and came to some 7,500 years, but that was a very
small sample, so don't take it for granted.
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Onderwerp: Re: [DNA] age estimations (TMRCA and ASD)
Looks like we're in the ballpark for M-78 (E3b1). The upper range of your
ASD calculation overlaps with that of Cruciani, noting that Cruciani did NOT
give his generational age distance in the paper in question (at least I
didn't see it there.)
My calculation for the smaller set of E3b haplotypes (from YSearch) used a
generational distance of 25 years, so it is still somewhat "shorter" than
your calculation at the same distance. (16,842 vs. 21,239 ybp). This is
undoubtedly due to the assumed preponderance of E3b1 (alpha) in my YSearch
data set, which appears to be shortening the average somewhat. The E3b
Project has substantially more E3b2 and E3b3 results, no doubt. Also, they
will have more individuals with E3b1(beta) and (gamma) clusters, remembering
that E3b (M35) includes all of these geographically distinct subclades and
Funny, if E3b1 is 23 KYA, and the alpha cluster showed up in the Balkans
about 8000 years ago, I wonder what they were doing in between? Supposedly,
they had a leapfrog migration through Anatolia, not a real settlement there.
Were McEwan's results also with E3b?
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October 2004 News
J.-J. Cohen
The Best American
Poetry of 2004
Rae Armantrout – "Almost"
Three new faculty members joined the department effective July 1, 2004:
Rae Armantrout. Professor of Writing
Rae Armantrout received her M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 1975. Ms. Armantrout began her career in the Bay Area, where she was at the center of the first generation of Language Poets. She has published eight books of poetry and is widely acclaimed as one of the finest poets writing in the United States today. She was twice named as a California Arts Council Fellow in Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pen Center USA Poetry Award. Ms. Armantrout has taught as a lecturer in the Literature Department with minor interruptions since 1981, and also at San Francisco State University, San Diego State University, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. She will offer undergraduate courses on poetry and poetics, the personal narrative, and U.S. literature, and will serve as a core member of the faculty for a proposed new M.F.A. in Writing.
Fatima El-Tayeb. Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Culture
Dr. El-Tayeb received her Ph.D. magna cum laude from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 2001. From 2002-04 she was a Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She has published a book, Black Germans: Race and National Identity 1890-1933, and has written widely on popular culture and minority agency in contemporary Europe. She also co-authored the screenplay for the film "Alles wird gut" (Everything will be fine). Dr. El-Tayeb is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Transcoop Grant and the co-organizer of the international Black European Studies Project that has received major funding from the VW Foundation. She is also a curator of the Black Atlantic Project exhibit taking place this fall at the Haus der Kulturen in Berlin. Dr. El-Tayeb's areas of specialization and teaching will include African-American literature, African Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnic Minorities in Europe, Postcolonial Studies, Visual Culture Studies, and screenplay writing.
Meg Wesling, Assistant Professor of American Literature
Meg Wesling received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell University in June 2004. Her dissertation, "States of Culture: Pedagogy and the Making of American Citizens," studies the discourse of citizenship in the U.S. in the first half of the century. She is interested in the role played by the expansion of compulsory public education, the extension of suffrage to white and African American women, and the production of public discourse around issues of citizenship in a democratic society. At Cornell University Dr. Wesling won the Martin Sampson Award for Excellence in Teaching.
New Lecturers
Visiting Scholars
Welcome to twenty PhD students entering this fall, including four who have "re-enlisted" in the department: Isa Murdock, Elizabeth Richardson, Michelle Stuckey, Alexa Weik
Literatures in English major Edward Avila, who graduated from UCSD in 2002, has also enrolled in the PhD program this year.
Fifteen students join the department after having obtained BAs or MAs from as nearby as San Diego State University to as far away as the Sorbonne. They're listed below (alphabetically, not geographically).
Caralyn Bialo (BA, University of Pennsylvania), Scott Boehm (BA, University of Georgia), D.J. Campbell (MA, Portland State University), Eunjeong Choi (MA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Melissa Hidalgo (MA, University of Chicago), John Higgins (MA, University of Chicago), Adam Lewis (BA, University of Minnesota), Viviana McManus (BA, Occidental College) Annie Mendoza (MA , University of Miami), Michael Pozo (BA, St. John's University), Irene Robles-Huerta (MA, University of Pennsylvania), Carla Rodriguez, (MA , San Diego State University), Sarah Shnack (BA, University of San Francisco), Amanda Solomon (BA, University of San Francisco) Edwige Tamalet (MAIT, University of Paris, Sorbonne).
Milos Kokotovic has been promoted to Associate Professor effective July 1, 2004.
Lisa Lampert has been promoted to Associate Professor effective July 1, 2004.
President: Chris Guzaitis
ABD Representative: Irene Mata
MA Representative: Jessica Lopez-Vazquez
Literatures in English: Elizabeth Steeby & Amie Filkow
Comparative Literature: Michelle Stuckey
Cultural Studies: Benjamin Balthaser & David Najar
Composition: Iris Ruiz
Literatures in Spanish: Gabriela McEvoy
Bram Dijkstra's American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950 (Harry N. Abrams, 2003) was awarded the 2003 Silver Medal for Non-Fiction at the 73rd annual California Book Awards ceremony in June. (See UCSD news story.)
Margaret Fajardo received a $3,000 summer dissertation fellowship in from the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
Rosemary Marangoly George gave the keynote address at the "Narratives Of 'Home' in South Asian Literature" conference organized by SOAS [School for Oriental and African Studies], London, June 24-25 2004. Her talk was titled: "Fortuitous Slippage: From Malgudi to Madhupur."
Jorge Mariscal's article "Military Targets Latino Youth." published by War Times in November 2003, has been chosen for the #19 story on Project Censored's list of Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2003-04, to be published in their yearbook of undercovered news, Censored 2005. Other journalists in Censored 2005 include Amy Goodman, Greg Palast, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Michel Chossudovsky, Dennis Bernstein, Juan Gonzales, and many others.
David Morrow has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Michigan State University.
Eileen Myles's opera, Hell, will be performed at various venues throughout the country this fall, including at the UCLA Hammer on Saturday, October 16, at 8:00 pm. Hell's libretto was written by Eileen Myles, the score by Michael Webster.
Laura Pierson (MA student in Literatures in English) was named TA rookie of the year at Eleanor Roosevelt College's Making of the Modern World for 2003-2004.
Roberto Strongman accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position to teach courses in Caribbean literature in the Black Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara effective July 1, 2004.
Lisa Yoneyama gave a keynote address at the "Metropolitan Catastrophes:Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations in the Era of Total War," conference organized by the Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR (Institute of Historical Research) at School of Advanced Study of the University of London, London, July 12-13, 2004. Her talk was titled: "Memories in Ruins: Politics of Remembering and Forgetting Hiroshima's Atomic Annihilation."
PhD Defenses
Honors Reception
& Awards
Honors students feted at the Honors Reception on June 8 include Jessica Lingel, who was awarded the Burckhardt Prize, and Deborah Fitzgerald and Corrine Fitzpatrick, who tied for the newly instituted prize honoring former faculty member Sherley Anne Williams.
October 9, 7:00 pm -
D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard
Avenue, La Jolla
|NEW WRITING SERIES - Fall 2004 readings begin October 6 with a reading by UCSD School of Medicine professor Sanjay Nigam.
|NEW !!! For a listing of fellowship and grant opportunities, please go to funding opportunities.
Faculty members are reminded that the UC Humanities Research Institute will be conducting a proposal development workshop at the Supercomputer Center on Wednesday, October 6. Go to UCHRI for details.
A reminder, too, that UC President's Research Fellowship in the Humanties proposals are due October 15.
American Studies Association, November 11-14, 2004 – Atlanta
(Registration closes October 11, 2004.)
Modern Language Association, December 27-30, 2004 – Philadelphia
(Registration closes December 1, 2004.)


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ALBUQUERQUE — Shavonte Zellous scored 15 of her team-high 21 points in the second half, leading Pitt to a 63-58 first-round victory over Wyoming this afternoon in the NCAA women's basketball tournament at the University of New Mexico's The Pit.
Pitt (23-10) advances to the second round, where the Panthers will play No. 3 Baylor Monday. The Bears defeated Fresno State, 88-67, earlier today.
Wyoming (24-7) was led by Justyna Podziemska's game-high 23 points. The Cowgirls shot 40 percent (20 of 50) from the field but made only 8 of 27 (29.6 percent) 3-point attempts. Pitt was 22 of 51 from the field and 17 of 23 on free throws, making 7 of 8 in the final 1:41.
Pitt sophomore Sophronia Sallard scored a career-high 15 points, including 13 in the first half on 6-of-6 shooting. Marcedes Walker added 13 points and six rebounds.
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Tracing What is Making Us Feel Bad and Bad About Ourselves
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Hidden Sources Of MSG In Foods
From the book 'Excitotoxins - The Taste That Kills'
By Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD
MSG->Glutamates: Deliberately hidden into foods and snacks with various names to trick us to buy only their product, and as result eat more into overweight so we don't care anymore. Also the root cause of Celiac Disease which is the widening of the pores of the intestines so matter that is otherwise designed to be contained leaches right into the purity of the blood. Now trace your propensity to continue to eat and keep eating because it tastes too good yo stop, low energy, headaches, aches and pains not only to earlier discussed Colic indigestion, but food poisoning via hidden MSG derivative compounds deliberately put into foods to chemically override the free will when taken in in even the smallest amounts.
It is put in almost - as a rule - into nearly every processed food product sold on store shelves.
If your eyelids get puffed, and your skin on your face for your next photo looks like you somehow are 10-15 years older it is most likely either MSG, or a derivative compound that can be traced to what you ate earlier. You search store shelves for the healthiest ingredient of perhaps pizza, and the next day you feel like you have a food hangover. The glutamic acid loose free in the blood and as a salt causes bloating and weight gain, the open flow of poisons via GastroIntestinal walls whose pores are chemically held open the poisoning the blood with acidity and you get acid aches and pains like you get the day after a major muscle workout where everyone has heard: "that's just lactic acid reaction in the muscles and tell you though very sore to exercise again and you'll flush it out".
How do you even shop for food properly if it doesn't say MSG in the hard to read ingredient list and you just want to think about how good you'll feel tasting it when you are really hungry and simply want to just grab and go and feel good about buying that item off the store shelves?
How to quickly scan package Ingredient lists for deliberately deceptive adding of MSG derivatives into your food choices meant to deliberately own your responses, override your free will, and consequently later make you look terribly bloated lackluster, poisoned, feel headachey-achey-pain-y and cause you to eat often twice as much..?
Read up and get your personal power back. ( that has been knowingly, deliberately stolen from us, meant to trick us who purchase products in the marketplaces behind out backs and against our knowledge and our individual free will ).
Once you start to feel like heaven in your body all the time you can start directly tracing what you have newly eaten differently. Trace one day where you may have been on a good roll and feeling great, and then experiencing waking up low energy, headachey, a bad hair day all in one the day or two following where you normally would simply blame it on a bad day.
The freedom to be able to retain control and a-forehand be able to plan and predict that you are going to feel good and shine on a day ahead in your schedule will soon be enough of a goad to quickly scan and eliminate all above listed chemically deceiving flavor enhancers from every single one of your store visiting purchases.
"I'd rather feel better, & simply not have to later deal with that achey-pain-y bloated dragged out look & feel the next day for getting MSG derivative flavor enhancer chemically poisoned..?
Beers & Wines:
All cheaper beers can give same reaction and you mistakenly may tend attribute how you feel to the alcoholic content. They are "not required" to tell you they've even spiked all well known name brand beers some friend offers you with it, so they don't.
Sulfites in Wines = MSG reaction ( Organic Wines not )
The wagon train of the digestion of many a person's diet is so continually load reinforced with MSG derivatives that they cannot trace back when they ever felt good enough to single out the difference.
Pets are continually eating massive amounts of MSG in pet food brands so they will not be picky & even beg for a particular brand even though it is secretly actually known by the producer as potentially unfit for them to eat.
Pets that receive only MSG loaded food making them overeat and consequently overweight and sedentary or Chlorine Bleach-Fluoride Water "only" while held in captivity with no other access to pure water are consequently urinating out their trace Iodine built-in Immune System protection against disease and their owners are responsible for lack of long lifespan, acidic overload joint problems, Vet required visits, and all their poor health/ feeling bad during their lifetimes.
*Empowering Solution Tips..?
First Need Portable Water Purifier
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link to en.wikipedia.org
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Those ignorantly quoting a doctrine of " Original Sin "
Are simply ignorantly functionally illiterate concerning the Mercy of the Law:
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Turn off the box in the corner of the room and dig for gems...
Take a pen or highlighter and circle/ mark right on the pages so eventually you have a treasure trove...
Matt Erwin Unless you're packing the full Holy Spirit on board on your journey, no need to haggle or get into arguments with potentially misguided Holier-than-thou oppressive religious type s overcome with half-baked understandings of what is actually the spirit of the Law that can sometimes unwittingly present as more unloving than not, if they really want to argue? Just go zen and send 'em to me..?
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The prolonged Republican primary campaign appears to be taking a toll on independent voters' faith in Mitt Romney. According to the latest Pew poll, only a minority of independents now describe Romney as "honest and trustworthy" and slightly more than half of independent voters now favor Barack Obama in a race against Romney, who led the president in that category only a month ago.
As is pointed out every four years or so, so-called independent voters typically decide presidential elections.
The survey shows Rick Santorum bolting into a tie with Romney among Republicans. Among registered voters of all stripes, Obama now leads Romney, Santorum and Newt Gingrich in hypothetical match-ups by 8, 10 and 18 points, respectively.
Obama fans would do well to not get too excited at this stage of the race. As of July 1988, Michael Dukakis held a 17-point lead over George H.W. Bush. —PZS
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Law Enforcement Covers July 4th Holiday
The Houston Police Department Traffic Enforcement Division has everything ready and in place for the 4th of July revelers. They will be deploying extra officers to high-risk areas around the city during the times alcohol-related incidents most frequently occur.
Texas Parks and Wildlife and other agencies will also be enforcing BWI laws on area waterways.
"DWI and BWI both have the exact same punishment, which is up to 6 months in jail, two years probation and up to a $2,000 fine," Warren Diepraam from the Ft. Bend and Montgomery County's D.A.'s office tells KTRH News.
The No-Refusal program with mandatory blood draws is 24/7, and it applies to DWI and BWI. Diepraam says in addition to boats, jet skis and water skis are considered watercraft under Texas law and therefore individuals can be cited if intoxicated.
Last year HPD reported nine fatal traffic accidents, four of which were alcohol related. Traffic fatalities increase during the summer months, with the period May to August being labeled the 100 deadliest days of the year by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.


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What is a good thesis statement about the Great Depression Speculation?
Your thesis statement must include factual information plus your position/opinion/stance. Without your position on the topic, it isn't a true thesis statement. So think of this sentence as the angle you want to take on the topic and what you intend to prove by the end of your paper. (If your statement is simply factual, then there's nothing to prove!)
This is one of the very best places I've seen online to help students write good thesis statements. It shows you sentences that aren't thesis statements and how to turn each one into real thesis statements.
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As per the "Notice of Charrette" in last week's paper, no, the USS Charrett, a Navy destroyer launched in 1943, isn't coming; and we are not getting a charrette in front of the horse as usual. Charrette, an American design supply retailer headquartered in the Boston area, is not locating next to Walmart.
Osama Bin Laden, you were judge and jury for all the lives you took. Now you have to stand before the ultimate judge. And you have been sentenced.
This is my belief – you and Hitler were the worst mass murderers in history. The Bible tells us not to judge, but it is my belief that you are with Hitler, for all those innocent lives you two took. You are now paying the price.
The United States stop-ped Hitler. We stopped you. And anyone who hurts or kills, we will stop. It may take 10 years, as it did with bin Laden, but the United States will prevail.
The Fort Lawn Community Center would like to thank the following individuals for their time and many efforts benefiting our fourth annual Spring Festival held April 16.
Even though the threat of severe weather hampered the number of visitors, we still consider the event a huge success and the total amount of income earned from the festival was $9,570.75.
Veterans Remembered is the sixth in a series written in support of the Veterans Monument being built for the veterans of Lancaster County in hopes it will stimulate readers to remember those veterans who touched their lives and provide support of the Veterans Monument project.
May 11, 2011, marked the 15th anniversary of the tragic loss of a great friend, John Patrick Barnhart Jr. of Indian Land.
A tribute I wrote about him was published days after his life was swept away, at age 19, by the deceiving current where he and other friends were swimming in the Catawba River under the Highway 5 bridge near Bowater. It was May 11, 1996 – Mother's Day and the birthday of his sister, Christina B. Rogers, and another friend, Billy Bennett Jr.
I'd like to encourage everyone to take a minute to recognize our local law enforcement officers during National Police Week, which runs May 15-21.
Give them a pat on the back and thank them for the selfless jobs they do for this community each day. They face many unknown risks and challenges and their sacrifice and service is often taken for granted.
Show your support and let a deputy, police officer, highway patrolman, wildlife officer or corrections officer know just how much their work means to you this week.
I am writing in reference to the letters about the lack of historical pictures in the new Pleasant Valley Fire Department station. I am sorry people have hard feelings about this.
We could not locate a picture of Mr. Crawford, who was a fire chief years ago. The only picture we received was with a group of people and we couldn't use it.
Jerry Kessiah was also a Pleasant Valley fire chief years ago. He had two daughters that we don't know whom they married, so we don't have a last name for either.
When the annual July Fourth celebrations roll around this summer, a central figure will be missing.
Harold Williams, who played the part of "Uncle Sam" in the Charlesboro and Heath Springs parades, died earlier this month.
"Uncle Sam" is a common national personification of the U.S. government, which was originally used during the War of 1812. The figure is depicted as a stern, elderly man with white hair and a goatee beard. Typically, he is dressed in clothing that features elements of the U.S. flag.
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As a sad aside, my wife's 2010 GT with just 7K miles had some intermittent left turn signal issues that seemed to self-resolve. She went in today for an oil change and someone must have disconnected the battery, Radio stations all gone, left signal no longer works, warnings on vertical headlight adjusters out, adaptive headlights out, and more. All from a trip to the dealer. Thay have the car back and will likely have it for an extended time as they have no idea what's wrong. their wonder diagnostic machine can't find a fault and even if it can, they're certain they won't have parts.
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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Shares of Athenahealth ( ATHN) are diving on Thursday afternoon, the day of its annual investor outlook event, where the company provided an earnings outlook below the Street consensus for 2011.Athenahealth is the most volatile stock in the niche health care information sector. It traded as high as $47 early in 2010 before cratering to as low as $22 after failing to meet earnings expectations. It has since rebounded above the $40 mark in the past few months after finally delivering a excellent third quarter. It's long been a favorite of shorts in the health care sector for its aggressive targets, and that short trade worked out well in the first half of 2010, after Athenahealth failed to deliver on the aggressive expectations it had set at last year's version of the annual investor day, in December 2009. Athenahealth shares fell around 8% on Thursday afternoon and trading volume spiked to quadruple its average daily volume. The stock dive began as Athenahealth CFO Tim Adams was making his financial presentation at the annual investor event. The health care information company expects 2011 earnings per share in a range between 68 cents and 75 cents. The Street consensus for 2011 is 85 cents. Athenahealth's revenue guidance for 2011 is in line with expectations, at $300 million to $315 million. The Street consensus is $309 million.


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The first-ever Global Standards Symposium concluded yesterday in Johannesburg, South Africa, with broad agreement on the need to take aggressive action to streamline standards work and end the duplication of efforts within the sector. The one-day symposium brought together government ministers, diplomats, senior executives from the private sector and lead officials from other standards bodies.
Opening the Symposium, ITU standards chief Malcolm Johnson noted that without global standards the ICT world would be a very different place. "Imagine a world with no Internet or no telephone calling from one side of the world to the other. Literally thousands of standards pin together this framework of technologies that keeps the world's businesses and consumers connected," Johnson said, adding that clarity and efficiency must be brought to bear as the standardization scenario gets more complex by the day.
"We must ensure we all pull together and avoid duplication of effort and waste our increasingly limited resources. Even large organizations are having difficulty resourcing this effort, so how can small organizations, especially from developing countries, hope to play a role?"
Addressing Global Challenges
Participants at the Global Standards Symposium also addressed ICTs and climate change, increasing developing country participation in the standardization process, and accessibility to ICTs for persons with disabilities. Delegates were called on to set an example by committing to specific programs to limit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduce their carbon footprint and help ensure that the expansion of the global communications network is done in an environmentally friendly manner.
The importance of the work of the ITU Focus Group on Climate Change was recognized; in particular the need for a standardized approach to measuring the impact of ICTs on the reduction of GHG emissions. Malcolm Johnson noted that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had underlined ITU's role in addressing climate change.
"From a standardization perspective, ITU has already produced a checklist for standards authors to ensure climate change is taken into account in the development of our standards," Johnson said. "Industry is faced with probably it's biggest ever challenge but also its biggest every opportunity in terms of corporate social responsibility. There is the challenge for the ICT industry to limit its own emissions, but also the opportunity to maximize its potential to help other sectors reduce their emissions. This could make for a tremendously good news story for the ICT industry."
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4 tips to help your baby sleep well
As a sleep specialist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, I've dedicated my career to helping kids get the sleep they need to reach their full potential. One of the most difficult times to get enough sleep is after you bring a new baby home.
Sleep is important at every age, but it's especially important for a baby who is growing and developing at a rate faster than at any other stage of life. It's also important for the health and well-being of other family members because if baby isn't sleeping well, it's likely that nobody else in the house is, either.
From birth to about age 18 months, babies need 10 to 18 hours of sleep a day. To help them — and other members of your family — get the sleep they need:
- Develop daytime nap and bedtime schedules and stick to them.
- Create an enjoyable bedtime routine that you do every night with your child.
- Put infants to bed drowsy, but not yet asleep, to encourage them to fall asleep on their own.
- Establish a safe sleep environment by following the ABCs of safe sleep for babies. This means your baby should be:
- Alone, without any toys, bumper pad, loose blankets, pillows or other people.
- On his or her back. Babies are actually less likely to choke if they are lying on their back when they spit up, rather than on their stomach.
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Income investors desire dividends that are backed by strong management teams and a tendency for dividend growth. In this article, I will highlight a few natural resources stocks, specifically oil companies whom offer strong dividend yields. Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) owned, until upstart Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) became the tablet industry leader, the largest NYSE market capitalization. Exxon and Mobil merged at the end of the 1990s; Exxon Mobil Corporation represents the biggest publicly traded integrated oil player.
Fair Value
If examining the fair market value for Exxon, one has to consider a number of factors. These can include the price to earnings (P/E) multiple and growth prospects. Exxon is trading at 10 times its 2011 earnings per share of an estimated $8.50 per share.
Evaluate the Dividend
Exxon pays an annual dividend of 2.2%. Just in comparison to a bank savings or 30-year Treasury bond, the company's dividend return offer is far better. While not a stellar payout, the quarterly dividends have consistently grown over the last ten years, paying 23 cents per share in May 2002 to 47 cents per share as of November 2011. Exxon went ex-dividend on February 8, 2012, for the 4th quarter of 2011.
1995 - 2011 Dividend History
What's more critical, however, is how the current dividend level relates to the company's value. Exxon gets big marks in the availability of company cash to release to shareholders as well as keeping a lid on debt compared to total capital. On the cash side, as mentioned earlier, Exxon has consistently paid its dividend for a decade.
Oil Peer Group
SandRidge Mississippian Trust I (NYSE:SDT)
SandRidge is a U.S. Royalty Trust that pays a high distribution on a quarterly basis. The parent, SandRidge, has hedged oil production in the early years to ensure high distribution yields.
British Petroleum (NYSE:BP)
British Petroleum has survived the Gulf of Mexico accident and is proceeding ahead as a global energy leader. Per the above table, the company has provided a lower total annualized rate of return due to the unfortunate accident that could occur to any oil company.
Chevron (NYSE:CVX)
Chevron operates two primary units, upstream and downstream. The upstream segment includes exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas.The downstream unit is involved in the refining of crude oil into petroleum products, and the marketing of crude oil and refined products.
ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP)
ConocoPhillips is engaged in the upstream and downstream markets. The company is spinning off its downstream unit by the end of June 2012. The goal is to establish Conoco as a pure play energy and production company. Phillips 66, the spin off company, will retain the chemical joint venture with Chevron and midstream joint ventures.
Company Background
Exxon has remained a stock market blue blood of the Fortune 500 for decades. Competing with such other oil giants as Chevron and ConocoPhillips, Exxon has remained a steady ship as a conservative investment choice. The company continues to invest heavily in pursuits of new oil resources to bolster its reserves as well retain market share. Additionally, Exxon is a major player in both American and world oil politics, with subsidiaries and affiliates spanning the globe. Finally, unlike British Petroleum in the 2011 Mexican Gulf rig disaster, Exxon has kept itself out of trouble since 1989 and the Bligh Reef Alaskan oil spill of the Exxon Valdez.
Moving forward, Exxon continues to bolster its full integration approach, combining oil exploration, refining, and retailing in one organization. Doing so, Exxon has repeatedly produced large profits for its owners and shareholders, even when the general economy has been in the doldrums. Future oil prospects are requiring more advanced exploration and recovery, which is right up Exxon's alley when it comes to deep water or unconventional oil mining methods. For example, like Chevron, the company is a major player on the Alaskan Northern Slope in terms of oil drilling alone.
Exxon is Blue Chip Buy
Nobody should be fooled that Exxon is not currently trading at a bargain. Given the current oil market and the coming warm season, consumer gas prices have the potential to climb over $4 per gallon by Memorial Day on average. This means places like California, for example, could see actual prices reach $4.50 per gallon or even $5. Oil is a necessary product for North America citizens.
Given that much of the refining for the summer supply is already done, much of the gas price cost increase could end up in Exxon's bank account for its sales. Again, consumers will pay, people will be shocked at the end of the year at the company's profit reports, and the dividend will consistently pay out on time. This makes Exxon a reliable, conservative investment for long term creep gain over time. It's not going to fly high like a tech company, but the oil company won't lose an investor's shirt either. That's a lot of promise given it was just about three years ago that the stock market saw its total capital cut in half with the real estate crash.
For conservative investors, investing in Exxon Mobil offers a stable and growing dividend. The company has focused upon purchasing back shares, in addition, along with increasing its dividend. The company has decreased its outstanding shares from 6,930 million shares in 2000, to 4,979 million at the end of 2010. As oil is above $100 per barrel, Exxon Mobil is a blue chip dividend stock worth holding in a diversified portfolio.
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2008 Critics' Choice Awards
Critics' Choice Kicks Off Award Season
The Golden Globes may be canceled but not all award shows are affected. The 13th Annual Critics' Choice Awards kicked off the season and a-listers like George, Don, and Brad and Angie came out to walk the red carpet. Brad looks like even he is growing a strike beard which is another reason we should end this writers' strike quickly. The Hairspray and Juno casts were all smiles as well as Javier who would
win big that night. Seeing the stars dressed up so nicely makes us hope they still go big for the revised globes news telecast since it would be a shame to waste all those beautiful dresses that are already reserved. One lady who was definitely taking advantage of the red carpet glamour was Emily Deschanel. She really took it seriously - tell Bella do you love it or hate it?
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Book VIII Summary and Analysis
Aristotle begins a lengthy discussion of friendship that will take up the next two major sections of the work. He notes that friendship seems to be a naturally desirable thing among humans as well as among other animals of the same species. Bonds of friendship seem to be holding communities together and are linked closely with justice. While all seem to agree that friendship is a good thing, there are some points about it that people disagree on, he states. Some believe that people who are similar are likely to become friends. Others note that people who are too similar are often quarreling with one another. Some think that friendship is a higher force that also applies to other natural phenomena. Aristotle puts aside the questions of friendship as a natural force as it does not apply to human activity, which is his subject. He asks whether all people are capable of being friends. He mentions that some think there is only one kind of friendship and that it exists in greater or lesser degree. Aristotle suggests that this belief is incorrect.
Before further examining this question he has posed, Aristotle takes up the subject of what is lovable. He returns to his three "objects of choice" from Book II (p. 21). These are goodness, usefulness and pleasure. These are the three reasons humans have for loving an object or a person. Aristotle removes the love of objects from the discussion, since we do not call that friendship. Friendship is partly love of another person, and wishing what is good for that person, but it is not really friendship unless the love is returned. However, even people wishing well for each other are not called friends, Aristotle continues, unless they are aware of each other's feelings.
There are three kinds of friendship, Aristotle claims, each corresponding to one of the types of love. Those who love each other out of usefulness or pleasure do not love each other for the sake of the other person, but a separate thing that the person provides. These friendships easily dissipate, Aristotle says. If a person loves someone because they are useful to him, he will no longer love him if he no longer is useful. The same is true of those who love for pleasure. If a friend ceases to be pleasing, the friendship will disappear.
Only friendship based on loving goodness is "complete" friendship, Aristotle argues. It is between two people possessing similar virtues who wish well to each other for the sake of the other and not for some benefit they receive themselves. These kinds of friendships take time to develop, he notes, but they also last. They are not common. Aristotle still considers the other two types of friendships to be friendship but only by coincidence. Thus, he has addressed the point he partially dismissed in the opening part of the section that some believe there is only one kind of friendship, but that it varies in degrees. He seems to suggest that there is indeed only one kind of true friendship, but that it does not vary. What others call variations in the level of one kind of friendship, Aristotle calls different types of incomplete friendship.
Friendship is a state, Aristotle says, not only an action. Friendship is not dissolved only because friends are far apart and not actively engaged in friendliness toward one another. It is different from love, since love can also be directed toward non-human objects. It is a kind of equality between good people, Aristotle explains. Even the incomplete kinds of friendship are between equals, Aristotle adds, but the friendships do not last because they are incomplete. Because of this equality, a person who offers friendship is also doing what is good for himself, for he receives back what he gives.
It is possible for those who are not equal to have friendship, Aristotle explains, and indeed these are often good friendships, as those between parents and children and between rulers and the ruled. To maintain an equality, however, the amount of loving in these friendships is proportionate to the difference in equality between the two parties. A ruler must be loved more than he loves, Aristotle claims, for the friendship to have proper balance and be complete.
This notion of equality between friends addresses Aristotle's earlier question of whether similar people are most likely to become friends or not. He has already defined complete friendship as being between good people of similar virtue, so it is clear that he thinks similar people attract. The incomplete kinds of friendship are more likely to be between people who are different, he explains. A useful friendship between a rich person and poor person, for example, or a friendship based on erotic pleasure between two people where one loves the other more than he is loved. These friendships do not last, he reiterates.
Aristotle once again speaks to friendship and justice. They are similar in ways, and related to one another. This is shown by how we commonly judge the severity of an unjust action when it is considered in light of friendship. It is considered far worse to steal from a friend than from a stranger, for example. Friendship is tied closely to community, with different types of communities, such as soldiers, sailors and families, based on particular forms of friendship. All of these communities aim at some benefit for their members, Aristotle remarks, and all are part of the larger political community, which aims for the benefit of all.
Thus, Aristotle moves into a discussion of political systems and the role of friendship in them. He defines three primary types of political systems, each with its own variant, or "deviation." The first is kingship, the second aristocracy, and the third timocracy, or rule based on property. The deviation from kingship is tyranny. The deviation from aristocracy, or rule by the best, is oligarchy, or rule by the few. The deviation from timocracy is democracy. Both are similar in that they are rule by those considered equals. Aristotle notes that families seem to have these kinds of political arrangements as well.
In each of these systems, friendship exists in proportion to justice. In a kingship, a worthy king rules to benefit his subjects, which is a form of superior friendship. This is also the kind of friendship shown between a father and his children. In aristocracy, each person is given the task he is best suited for. This is similar to the friendship between a husband and wife, Aristotle claims, with each taking on the role in the family best suited for them. The friendship between brothers is like the friendship between equals in a timocracy or democracy. There is little or no justice in the deviant forms of tyranny and oligarchy, Aristotle states, hence there is no friendship. Democracy, however, allows for the strongest friendships because everyone is equal and has much in common. Aristotle expands on the subject of friendship within families, noting that it is natural and good. Because friendship is so closely linked to justice, these familiar types of friendship provide a model for acting justly toward one another.
Aristotle takes up the matter of disputes that arise between friends where both are equals, or where their friendship has been equalized in some way. Disputes are most likely to arise in friendships based on usefulness, as these involve getting something of worth from the other person. Friendships based on pleasure to not result in disputes so often, but many times lead to accusations, he says, based on jealousy. Complete friendships between equals do not lead to disputes or accusations, however. In the matter of friendships between those who are not equal, these friendships usually dissolve because each person has an aim that is contradictory to the other. Aristotle will explore this further in the next section.
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