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Q:RE: Identity and the Web: This a wonderful examination and all, but I'm pretty sure there are some who do not want to be labeled, do not care about UPP, and simply take the internet for what it is: interconnected machines, not a whole new land where cities shall rise and wars shall rage and people fight others and themselves for stature. It's mainly a playground, not, as the saying goes, srs bzns. let sites allow anonymity, let sites require identity, just don't force a global decision.
Well put. If it seems like I took a stance in this post, instead of qualifying Moot's model against my own, then I mis-represented my argument.
Identity and the web: Lessons from social evolution and the Industrial Revolution
I've been meaning to write this post for a while. I entertained the idea most when stories about digital identity from the likes of Moot topped the front page of Hacker News, producing abstract ideas sourced by no basis in history or diligent study. Despite these granted voids of credibility, discussions on identity can often only be conducted in relative, imagined terms where quantifiable data has no place. While I likewise come without gifts to the discussion by way of data, I do have a few lessons to share from my coursework in the social sciences (economics, anthropology, geography) which do have a historic context that can be verified and applied to the present situation.
Little known fact: identity [as we know it] is a new abstraction of the past two centuries with roots in the Industrial Revolution. Prior to this, should you had asked someone who they were (to identify themselves), they could only do so in relation to their limited scope of experience. "I'm a neighbor of John, I reside in this town." Due to their limited means of travel, limited awareness of outside territories, and very locally-specific knowledge, they wouldn't even have been able to fill out the basic minimums of a facebook profile. A lack of resources per person (RPP) is behind this. Before the Industrial Revolution, individuals (save for monarchs and aristocrats) just didn't have the possessions and experiences to warrant meaningful self-identification.
Taking a step back, the RPP-identity dynamic is also evident in the transition from nomadic bands to tribal communities to chiefdoms to finally modern-day states. To demonstrate this, I will have to resort to leaving snippets from a midterm paper I wrote at UCLA on this very topic for a course taught by Jared Diamond:
"Nomads consider the possession of concepts to be a form of madness, while the settled see only meaningless drivel in undefined roaming through experience" (Flusser 50). For the nomadic individual, possession of surplus is perceived as a risky liability to his only known way of life: survival.
Organized around a non-existent to weakly effective social infrastructure, tribes cannot amass a surplus and so private property is not of crucial concern… Identity is neither compromised nor negotiated amongst tribesmen, and thus it is not a distinctive element of tribal societies.
Identity is neither compromised nor negotiated amongst tribesmen, and thus it is not a distinctive element of tribal societies… Whereas in a nomadic or tribal society, members perform collectively shared roles toward their own survival, individuals within chiefdoms are expected to perform specific tasks in a specialized manner to receive a share of surplus in return… In addition, greater social infrastructure implies heightened per-labor productivity (Hall 114) which entitles the individual to more resources. If the roles sanctioned by the social organization of the chiefdom are varied and are unevenly productive, a class system may form which has a much clearer defining role on the perceived identity of the individual.
Concerning complex chiefdoms: In the previous three society types, privacy is indistinctly interwoven with the survival experience, lacking in conscious attention. Specialization of labor under this level of social infrastructure allows for the individual's productivity to increase enough such that leisure time finds its footing amongst the surplus produced… Identity is freed up to be imagined and performed by the individual so long as it is consistent with his lessened obligations to society as a laborer.
Whereas the nomad and tribesmen knew their place and role by the necessity of survival, individuals within the state possess many options for occupational roles, and many options as well for how to fill their surplus leisure time. The individual becomes stripped of his solid identity and is faced with a feeling of no longer belonging to anyone. It is plausible that the alienation of the individual from his once-personally amassed resources and surplus might in turn feed back into the individual's demand for privacy and comfort obtained by acquiring private property.
The major trend to take away is that over time, the complexity of a society is based on its accumulation of wealth, most evidenced by my paper in terms of RPP. While growing RPP freed from their basic need for survival, individuals became increasingly able to describe themselves based on their traveled experiences and possessions—their biographies could be significantly distinguished from those of their neighbors. The Industrial Revolution in particular—which cheapened the costs of goods and opened up the possibility of cheap travel—enabled more and more individuals (as a percentage of the total population) to amass references for their identity through these terms. Monarchs and aristocrats prior the Industrial Revolution escaped this trend as outliers of their day in terms of RPP and hence had identities which could be recorded and passed on through history (think of the pyramids).
With more RPP came the heightened requirements for privacy, which serves to protect the experiences and resources of the individual. Somewhere along the way, privacy began to precede identity, launching a feedback loop between what one owned and what was allowed to be known by outsiders about the individual, which in turn actually affected what one chose to possess as a self-identifier on the basis of who could know it.
While the Industrial Revolution brought upon a "modern" age (related to knowing and classifying things in concrete, predictable ways), this RPP-privacy dynamic gave way to the all-too-meta "postmodern" (related to the different ways of being able and unable to know and classify, which provides wiggle room for meaning).
And that's where we finally find ourselves when we log on to the Internet:
Social infrastructure's expansion to the Internet has provided individuals with a means of escaping the question of identity by ignoring the concept's very legitimacy. "Cloakroom communities" exist where an individual may switch identities easily by willed and probably falsified self-descriptions, which is unverifiable to the individuals to whom they're identifying themselves (Bauman 31).
Welcome to the Internet, welcome to anonymity, welcome to Moot's ideal of the prismatic identity. There is a single glaring issue regarding this ideal: early web communities were plagued by the chaos of anonymity, the misuse of words, and the toeing of lines. Nobody in their right mind wanted to be there—these were just the pioneers, and often individuals whose RPP was significantly greater online than in the material world (think low-income households with an Internet connection). On the Internet, with its digital abundance of consumable media, anyone could be an aristocrat and erect monuments to themselves (websites). If you were an early consumer of the Internet, you may recall how few people were there who you actually knew in person as well. The appeal was missing to everyone else because, as non-pioneering individuals, they likely did not have the skill or initial will to create websites or any presence which took more work than going outside and kicking a ball around. The early web's propensity for identity and privacy was similar to that of nomadic bands and tribes—you could exist, but only to survive and persist. Once you stopped, you faded from view.
And then we got Myspace. Maybe my experience is unique, but I recall Myspace's rise as the first time all my friends began to go online. On their easy-to-build profile pages, they could easily provide information about their identities, falsified or factual, and in effect erect monuments (like the pyramids). More importantly, many people felt bound to their real names in order to strengthen the power of these monuments to themselves, whereby this attracted more views. The lure of Myspace, its foundation in real identity references (names not withstanding), came in that it represented the real world. The age of early social networks with relation to identity and privacy was like chiefdoms and complex chiefdoms in that people finally found persistence at a much lower personal cost, and could find a basis for describing who they were in more accurate terms than not.
Facebook and its notion of identity correlate most with that of modern states. Characterized by a rigidity which bounds certain identity aspects (name, location, friends), Facebook's notion of identity was right insofar as providing a reflection of your real world identity would hypothetically award you with more Facebook friends than otherwise, and hence you actually begin to matter. The assumption is that because people are looking at your profile, that they actually care for and believe the information published. Facebook profiles are very effective monuments to oneself when compared to Myspace profiles, both by virtue of clean design representation (as a safety net), and more importantly by the ease of navigation between individuals which accentuated the perceived view-count. Perhaps it was by mistake that Myspace actually allowed you to see the number of visitors to your profile, as the lack of this information might compel you to run away with your imagination instead.
By increasing the importance of the Facebook identity monument-to-self, perceived RPP—for the self in particular—was above and beyond anything within reach of most individuals offline. At this phase, identity is what you write about yourself, the pictures you get tagged in, and even less the name you go by. Identity is a luxury which did not comparably exist [for most] prior to any comfortable self-recollection induced by the cheapened price of possessions and experiences first after the Industrial Revolution. Facebook identity, more than anything, became a first online experience for millions of people who otherwise had nothing worth their time on the Internet. While concrete and rigid for its requirements of name and limits to creative expression, it does this to the end of maximizing value to the user in terms of utility per person (UPP). UPP upends RPP because the digital medium pins identity less to "who has what" and more to "who expresses/publishes what", which is a matter of their own choosing and not to significantly variable personal cost. From my paper on social networks and postmodernity:
Objects and fact are subject to concrete laws in the modern imaginary, bounding what is possible for individuals to accomplish by their inherent abilities—"the more ability, the more possibility, and omnipotence makes anything possible" (Hacking, 1986, p. 229). Social networking sites position their members in a virtual environment where "having" is just a matter of "imagining having", "being" is just a matter of "imagining being", and so form. Virtually, they are omnipotent. This is distinctly postmodern, rather than an extension of the modern, because the very world individuals are imagining themselves to be in control of is a world unbounded by laws distinctly imposed on them, such as laws of nature. They are free to live in their own imagined spectacle (Course lecture).
In a digital world where everyone has some sort of identity to protect and make private in some way or other, the self becomes an abstraction, only manifest in the individual's own autobiographical memory (ABM). ABM is what leads us to believe Facebook identity is not enough. It's what drives some of us to Reddit, to 4chan, to Foursquare, to anywhere that isn't Facebook. We want to believe that we are beyond ourselves; we want to look at ourselves in a digital mirror and see something exceptional, above the average. Reddit provides an added group identity which is perceivably massively valuable. 4chan provides us with the sense that we are frontiersmen once again as some of us were on the early web, trudging around in the unpredictable piffle of anonymity. Foursquare adds another dimension to our identity, whether anyone is on the outside looking in or not. A lot of other services that are not Facebook provide this service, on the condition that it's easy to use (high UPP) and that there is a significant amount of people who might see it and have their perception of you affected (higher UPP). ABM is what keeps us experimenting and trying new things to maximizing our UPP online. Consequently, it becomes a certain engine for online activity and presence.
So let's go back to Moot and his claims that Facebook and Google+ (which I'm including because it's essentially a Facebook clone) got it wrong on identity. He asserts that being restricted to a real name (G+ no longer does this) rather than anonymity or a pseudonym is incorrect, because it restricts what we do and share. Is he wrong? Yes, absolutely. Facebook's identity restrictions are likely what give the Internet any foundational value at all for people who otherwise have no originally-desirable place (UPP) online. The fact that so many people are online today who we know in our daily offline lives is the very basis for that growing UPP which makes pseudonyms valuable in the first place (without the entertainment value of Maddox and the social stickiness / virality of his rants, who would read him?). Are pseudonyms appropriate for Facebook and social networks which actually add some necessary and comforting order to the chaos of the web? Absolutely. If you have a nickname, and everyone else knows you by that nickname in person, going by that nickname is effectively the same as going by your real name on Facebook. In that case, yes, pseudonyms are desirable, but in effect they are not strictly pseudonyms afterall.
But anonymity? No way. Anonymity doesn't grow UPP. Identity and privacy only matter because of increased UPP. ABM only matters because of UPP, which itself is an imagined, perceived variable. ABM might be boosted by anonymity and pseudonyms, as a way to pull down barriers to risky behavior, but anonymity and pseudonyms do much less for aggregate UPP than postmodern, perceivably rigid reflections of reality on Facebook do. Monuments and view counts do not anonymity make.
You can have a dozen identities, but the one founded by reality is the one which gives the rest even a small foothold and starting point for meaning. The identity founded by reality and pinned to Facebook is the one that empowers the postmodern, abstract pseudoanonymous. Within the scope of non-Facebook communities, Moot is correct. Regarding Facebook itself, Moot's argument is more akin to pointing out how the fruit of a tree is much better than its stem or trunk.
Key points:
Identity refers to how we reference ourselves, primarily in relation to relationships, experiences, and possessions.
Facebook's identity model is rigid at face value but necessary for the sake of driving web use, and necessary for incentivizing the use of identity-augmenting social networks (Foursquare, Instagram).
Anonymity and pseudonyms cannot stand valuable on their own without anyone to promote them. They rest on the shoulders of Facebook's utility-per-person boosting role, and cannot be valuable for all without the safety nets and foundations of rigid identity to promote their stage.
Follow me on twitter @weirdpikachu. I forgot to mention twitter in this post. Twitter is a fine hybrid platform for identity, but it doesn't have the same adoption numbers as Facebook. If twitter were all pseudonyms and nobody important to follow, I doubt it would be as successful as it is today. I also doubt that the humorous tweets from gag accounts significantly drive aggregate usage of Twitter.
If you would like to read the sourced papers in their entirety, you can download them below. I warn you beforehand that the jargon is loaded and sounds nonsensical at times for the sake of conciseness.
Neovella: crowd-sourced stories, the sales figures after 12 hours
On Valentines day of 2011, neovella.com launched with the promise of "instantly co-author stories with your friends". It hit Hacker News front page for the day, got tweeted around a great deal, and even landed me a few media interviews. Despite all of this, somethingawful.com drove the best-quality traffic—I won't divulge why in this point (my special sauce). The premise of the application is that you can take turns writing a story with multiple people, such that you are constantly building on top of a plot that no one individual is driving. The hypothesis there was that creativity levels would be unbounded, and the results would be quite unpredictable—but ultimately, they would be socially validated by virtue of the method, and their quality can't be too horrible if so many people are going to continue giving up their free time to write.
Neovella.com launched with a promise of publishing the best-quality stories to come out of this literary production mode. A few days ago, after much editing, calculating, and emailing, I finally released our first volume ebook on Amazon: Neovella, Volume I: Not Safe For Work.
Yesterday, May 9th, I began the process of marketing the work. First, I hit up the somethingawful.com forums, since their users had a majority stake in the work. This produced respectable sales figures. Next, I had a link to the Amazon page posted on Hacker News under the title "First 100% Crowdsourced Book (80 authors)". Clearly, no one can so factually claim the status of "first" these days—what, with 12% of all humans ever in existence being alive today? I chose the title because of some figures I found on HN not too long ago regarding front-page link title statistics: numbers appealed to the math crowd, any claim of 100% is inherently controversial with room to debunk it, "crowdsourced" is a beloved buzz-word, and the claim of a "first" was bound to inspire the investigative skepticism so thoroughly rampant on HN. (Then again, perhaps the success of a front-page post lays in the sheer amount of people one might have willing in collusion to up-vote an item, and the karma of those individual's accounts.)
On HN, many commentators posted that this was not the first crowdsourced book at all. The proper rebuttal was that Neovella is crowdsourced on a more granular level: every sentence could potentially be contributed by a different author—heck, every-other-word would also be possible with the app on neovella.com. The other crowdsourced books mentioned would only compete if the Neovella volume were 17 stories by 17 authors, compiled into one book. Hence, there is no direct competition in crowd-sourcing techniques.
On twitter, another small dispute brewed about the controversial claim of "first" in the new and uncharted waters of the term "crowdsourced." It ended reasonably and in good taste.
So what does this attention translate to in terms of sales for our first volume? Well, before I go there, I want to share with you our rankings after about 12 hours in the spotlight (at the height of it all).
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #774 Paid in Kindle Store
#7 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Short Stories
#9 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories
#27 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Comic
#29 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor
At some point, while I as asleep, http://www.alexa.com/whatshot listed Not Safe For Work (Neovella) at the #2 spot. Of course, over time all these rankings fall due to stagnating sales. The only way I imagine the magic might continue is perhaps a visit to the Colbert Report, The Daily Show, or perhaps even a small shoutfest with Bill O'Reilly. Does anyone know a guy who knows a guy?
So, how many ebooks do you have to sell to reach these rankings? Apparently, not a whole lot. 120 ebooks were sold in total for that 12-hour time period, receiving 4 stars and 8 reviews, including a video review. As a startup, we take 10% of royalties after Amazon grabs 30%, and as an author contributing to several of these stories I amassed about 5%.
$37.26 is how much I made in a day with the publication. The entire publication made $248.40. For a day, it's not bad—but who knows how long this can sustain in sales, even on a top-10 list competing against well-known, highly-recommended fiction? Maybe I should go find a day job? Actually, the next volume is probably going to be here sooner than later.
As of 5/13/2011, we have sold 216 e-books.
Everyone is Wrong, why you Should NOT be a Startup Entrepreneur
… because if you really should be a startup entrepreneur, it wouldn't matter if you saw some blog post by ANYBODY telling you how to analyze your own highly-contextualized situation. Hell, you probably wouldn't even bother reading that article is you truly had the balls to throw down everything and take a risk. If they told you to give up, no matter who they were, you would still be a Startup Entrepreneur. I will tell you a million times not to be one and you will go right ahead and be one anyways. Only then should you really dive in.
Now quit spamming Hacker News with this pseudo-self-help how-to-clean-up-after-yourself how-to-be-an-entrepreneur bullshit. It doesn't work like that. You are who you've made yourself as a result of your experiences, NOT what you have read anywhere by anyone else.
Time-space says you're too late to the game
At large, we appear to be disillusioned by what has already happened. Did you see something in the night sky that amused you today? Chances are, it's old news—older than you can fathom. Thanks to the laws of physics, that strange blinking star in the sky emitted those patterns millions of years ago, and probably much earlier. Yet you sit there as if that's all happening right here and now. You sink into your own perceptions and assume yourself in sync with the present that is in fact a long-gone past. You perceive, you take in the signals of history, and you react. You think you're just fine—but really, you're too late, and you can do better.
If I've lost you already, here's a true story from my high school days in marching band: our instructor had a trumpet player stand at the opposite end of the football field from where the rest of the band was. Upon the instructor's hand wave signal, the trumpeter would play a loud note synchronized to the motion.
The instructor waved and we watched the trumpet player output a note. A split second later, we finally heard it. The visual signal traveled at the speed of light while sound moved much slower, and so visual cues were ruled errant and we were told to watch the marchers around us for when we should march.
So there you are, trying to come up with a great strategy or scheme to get ahead in the business world. You're waiting, you're looking for opportunities, and you're looking for a safe market to open up for your labor investment.
You can pick up the crumbs of those involved with letting those signals go public, but the process of waiting on information damned you from reaping the greatest rewards from the very beginning.
To hold influence, to change the world immensely, or to become a person of persuasion, you really have to move first and become the force that drives the ears and eyes of those who wait for the safe route. We have sheep and we have sharks—the former wait for opportunity while the latter instinctually pursue it—but they're still far behind in their appetite for blood.
There is a type of individual/animal far above the shark and sheep—both of which can be devastated by environmental disasters. The enigmatic influencer has to act independent of environmental cues, instead emitting them. By the time any signals or cues are internalized to be acted upon, the competition for their utilization has already ramped up. Be the cue, be the impact, be the signal to everyone else that opportunity exists—or else you won't even have a shot at getting to the top.
If you're reading this instead of doing that, I'm sorry to have your eyes averted.
The Chain Game for Change: Willed Path Liberation
Fix a new future otherwise unlikely and your interpretation of the past will change to suit it. Better yet, the real result is that new future chosen and unfolded. The future is freed from the past that has "passed" already. Reality finds a new direction, linked by the temporal chains of perception.
By establishing a future, you select a conscious tunnel vision which leads to that "only" destination. The past, condemned to the same flexibility, is also selectively recalled to prop up this newly chosen temporal momentum.
For a single individual to change the reality and future of other persons, perception must be swayed for all. Work backward. What are the necessary triggers for that future? Split up responsibility for its outcome and set up the dominos. To mimic natural momentum, circumstance and happenings must not be traceably centralized in the domain of a single player. Divide up the innocent tasks which will compound into triggers for the eventual grand finale. Self-interest fuels the natural schema, so offer incentives to each influential player. Work behind shadows.
The more chains linked the less risk of suspicions of reality-creating. One person's demands and actions alone are a selfish atrocity of tyranny—an entire population's abnormal desire-tugged activities are a grand phenomenon, a "natural" force of reality unfolding. The former can be beheaded whilst the latter suffers no ill consequence for the same motivations. Reality is responsible, the individual innocent of intent.
You are irresponsible for the outcome! As a watcher, a perceiver only, your innocent existence both defines and self-defines what comes up ahead. To watch and to be aware is your exhilarating freebie—the visible world is not your doing. It is simply simultaneously synchronized to your most heartfelt desires, most-just outcomes. You exist too now.
By looking at a single future, you neglect past events which would otherwise make it impossible. This implies the past is non-binding.
By looking at the past in a certain definitive scope, you leave the future open to only a very limited few possibilities.
See no past? The future quickly comes to you, per the exogenous forces at work.
See no future? You remain in the past and no future may congeal quickly.
Be blind to past and future? Right now becomes king and you rule everyone's present, if open.
Causation is a myth. The complex circumstance and context of existence tends to a future yet realized, but readily linked to it. No one or thing can be entirely, alone, responsible.
People believe that their actions are based on decisions made in the present. Yet the "present" is based on the storied past. Without influence, exogenous life triggers recollection of certain reminders of the past. Yet if I am able to selectively reproduce a past in an individual's recalled memory, only that past will lead to any certain and immediate future. The future can be selectively invented!
My silent suspicions seem to be the perceptive-passive forces which animate my experience and reality through time.
"The neurocognitive model claims that dreams are usually forgotten because they are internal narratives; unless internal experiences are tied to external cues, such as times and places, they are bound to be forgotten."
Create a context, and then maximize the rewards. As the designer of conflict, victory is with the wise planner.
We invent the past, locally. The whole appears to invent the local. You can change the whole locally, a dynamic component from within it.
In sum: commit to your dreamed fantasies with indestructible certainty.
Uniques in two months, exciting but non-indicative
I didn't make any changes to neovella.com that day, didn't advertise, and only received a single extra login when all was said and done. How does something like this happen?
Did the Internet industry spearhead economic decline?
- Why does it matter if a farmer now knows how an airplane works?
- Why does it matter if a student who wants to become an accountant, now knows how to program in five languages?
- What does it matter if the factory worker has the knowledge to become a successful manager, if the labor mobility is not there?
All of these empowering knowledge gains required some time and hence out-crowd opportunity for further current-employment specialization.
Knowledge without opportunities for its productive application: for now, it is a waste.
Did the Internet information industry, by way of Google and facebook, spearhead the economic decline? There may have been a financial meltdown, but in a world where knowledge (as vastly available and spread as it is today) has productive ($$) application, those mortgages may have been able to be paid off.
We are well below our productive ability as an economy. When someone finally develops a way to put a money-making value on the information we consume every day, this recession (now "ended") will, in retrospect, be read as a silly blind-spot in applied employment. Common employees are worth more than ever before.
tldr; employees are now much more valuable than ever before, with high MVP, but our economic modes of production do not take full advantage of the related human capital input.
Epiphany in Contexts & Scales
I was driving down from Berkeley to Los Angeles two nights ago. Without strong FM signal or an mp3 player, it turned out to be a very mindful drive.
An idea occurred to me, perhaps only for its counter-conventional entertainment value. What if instead of myself driving a car over the earth from one geographic point to another, my car was remaining stationary and rotating the earth unidirectional underneath it? In the scope of spatial understanding and functional value, this proposition is incorrect—but who is to say? From the context of myself in my car, the idea that the interaction between my tires and the universe produced movement only outside of itself was not entirely wrong. Context always matters immensely.
Economic equations and models can only be accurate insofar as the variables in place are the variables that exist. Exogenous forces can throw off accuracy, but the internal context and its outcomes should be stable with respect to each other otherwise.
So while it may not be true that my car and I were stationary within a moving universe, it is also not right to say that my car was independently propelling itself over the landscape. If there were a strong wind in the favorable direction or even, for the sake of proposition, an objection in LA with massive gravitational pull for my car only, these would also have to be included in the description of how reality unfolded.
Both the micro and macro scales for observation and description are correct with respect to their variables, but they remain incomplete. We are only as good as the information we have. Every smallest unit of space is independently interdependent, causally or correlated, but the biggest picture is still yet to reflect perfect accuracy. The unknown is simply what's next. Space-time wins.


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Is your increased productivity taking a job from someone else?
Despite sales growth, consumer products companies are holding back on hiring, largely because their current workforce is more productive, AJC writer Jeremiah McWilliams reports.
Instead of expanding payrolls, McWilliams writes, consumer products companies are squeezing more Coke or bleach or breakfast cereal from the proverbial turnip.
Meanwhile, AJC reporter David Markiewicz writes that it will be 2014 or 2015 or 2016 before metro Atlanta returns to its pre-recession employment levels.
What's been going on with your job? Are you working 1.5 or twice as hard to keep it? How long has that been going on? Are you burning out?
Many companies — especially the large ones — are sitting on a pile of cash. What's it going to take for them to use it to hire more people?
- Henry Unger, The Biz Beat
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June 21st, 2011
6:35 am
Until Obama is gone….there will be no more jobs. When will people get that?
June 21st, 2011
6:44 am
Tom Hanks… is SO right… Obama is NOT business friendly… with taxes, regulations, labor unions… look at the new Boeing Plant in S.C… Obama appointed a Union hack to head the NLRB… then they want to shut down the ( already built ) plant because S.C. is a right to work State that voted out the Union .. these are high paying jobs.. can you believe Obama wants to create jobs ???? !!!!
June 21st, 2011
7:13 am
All Heil the Obamanation!
Who needs jobs?
Your government will provide everything you need.
Just come over here and Take the Mark …..
June 21st, 2011
7:18 am
Hey Comm. Reese – you reading this?? I supervise workers in 3 counties who determine eligibility for GA Medicaid – over $300 million of your tax dollars, fellow Georgians. My workers average $24K (with a degree)before the furloughs and I make a whopping $29K – $27K after the furloughs. No raise in 5 years and a hiring freeze for over 2 years means everyone is stressed, and most are looking to leave. The supervisors I know all travel to their counties on their own dime as the State won't even pay us to go do our jobs. Tired of it? YES!! Planning to leave? YES!!
June 21st, 2011
7:41 am
When the Obama adminstration began, many people warned us about the effect of more regulation, business animosity and the threat of ever higher taxes. We have tried this path before and the result is high enemployment and a stagnant economy.
Remember Joe Biden calling 2010 "Recovery Summer"?
Rham Emanuel, Obama's closest advisor said not to "waste" a good recession. He and the rest of hte adminstration seemed to have no clue that their choices would depress economic activity and delay the recovery. He was eager to take advantage of the downturn to implement his agenda. He should have been worried about the accountability for failure that will follow the party in power.
Nothing will be better until we change course.
June 21st, 2011
8:08 am
In March, I was laid off from my old job after 11 years. Since then I have been able to find two lower paying jobs and regain the level of income I had before. The catch? I'm working 70 hours a week to do it. It's a fact that if you want to get ahead in the current economy you have to find a way to work better, faster and cheaper.
Is the current administration to blame? No doubt. But what we are experiencing now is the result of mistakes made over the last 40-50 years. Likewise Obamas mistakes will effect us and our kids for many years into the future.
June 21st, 2011
8:43 am
I will provide government jobs to all who bow down to the Democratic Party.
June 21st, 2011
8:56 am
Get used to high unemployment, it's the future. Larger upper class, larger lower class,it's the Washington way.
June 21st, 2011
8:57 am
Wow, the sheep are out early. Let me fill you all in on a little secret. As business owners, my partners and I only hire when we have the demand to justify it. The same holds true for most organizations. In case you missed reading the article and decided to go straight to the Obama bashing, it stated that productivity is up, and there is plenty of cash to go around. There is no hiring, because there is NO DEMAND. I'm not a fan of Obama, and I haven't voted since I helped to put GW into office the first time, but I am a realist. If the comments on here reflect the limit of you analytical thinking, I have two pieces of advice for you. 1. If you have a job, hold on to it. Your lucky someone is still willing to pay you. 2. If you don't have a job, be grateful that Obama is willing to throw you the cash, becuase no one will want you.
June 21st, 2011
8:59 am
I like my job fine despite 4 years of no raises, greatly reduced bonuses and higher insurance costs. Nevertheless I'm holding on for dear life until I get to 62 (just shy of 58 now) and then, if still employed to 66. On the other hand I see many people leaving and getting better jobs and salaries so the economy is improving. But for older workers such as myself it's definitely a stressful time.
June 21st, 2011
9:06 am
You folks take a serious subject and make a mockery of it. You aren't satisfied unless the subject leads to "Obama Bashing". The fact is, your Republican politicians and their business cronies have succeeded in robbing the Unitied States of it's middle class. The sad part is, YOU ALL KNOW THIS, but because of your deep hatred of anything other than Republican, you allow yourselves to be manipulated with false propaganda by your leaders.
Mr. Unger stated, "Meanwhile, AJC reporter David Markiewicz writes that it will be 2014 or 2015 or 2016 before metro Atlanta returns to its pre-recession employment levels."
President Obama had absolutely nothing to do with the employment situation in Atlanta. Remember, your Republican politicians run this state. Ya'll voted them in. Now, why don't ya'll just stop with the bashing of the US President and take a serious look at your own state politicians. What you folks here fail to realize is that, "No one takes you serious when you take a discussion and twist and turn it to fit your agenda."
June 21st, 2011
9:08 am
@Tom Hanks Can't say I've heard any Republicans offer any ideas how to increase employment and/or the economy. All I hear out of them is more Obama bashing, which does nothing to resolve our problems.
Even if McCain had won I think the economic stresses had already started that would put our economy into its present state. Both Bush and Obama used stimulus funds (Bush for banking, Obama for business) to try to work our way out of the recession. Whether or not the stimulus helped or hurt is rather precarious but simply getting rid of Obama will not resolve our problems.
June 21st, 2011
9:17 am
Two major challenges face our country:
*First, our public school system must develop literate and globally competitive graduates. Instead of improving in math, science, reading, and now — history, our kids continue to fall behind. Businesses are paying a heft price in taxes to do business in the US at present. Our corporate tax rate is second highest in the world. Businesses can ill afford to assume the responsibility of teaching their workers what they failed to acquire while they were in the public school system. It is much cheaper for them to go to China or Korea where the work force is better prepared. IT IS NOT ALL OF THE TEACHER'S FAULT! Over recent decades, too many parents have pressured teachers into grade inflation — in part due to the Hope Scholarship in Georgia. If parents are not applying discipline at home; setting high academic standards for their kids; and applying some "sticks" when needed, the child may be spending a lot more time with their parents when they reach their 20's.
Second, under the Obama administration, businesses CANNOT PLAN ON ANYTHING. An example, after Obama extended the Bush tax cuts December 2010, he immediately started threatening businesses that he was going to rescind that policy and commence taxing income over $250,000. Such a policy would cause some smaller businesses to close their doors, so why should they hire anyone? For larger businesses, would hate to see our future predicated on political appointees on the NLRB! The current Boeing fiasco is sending chills with major businesses — if they are told where they can build plants and where they can't! Candidly, that is NONE OF GOVERNMENT'S BUSINESS!! Further, there appears to be a lack of comprehension on the part of the Obama administration regarding the law of 'SUPPLY AND DEMAND'. Why are we not pursuing becoming energy independent — we have oil, gas, coal and of course nuclear? Instead, we roll over and pay $4 a gallon for gas, with oil coming from overseas. OIL DRIVES OUR FOREIGN POLICY! How is that working for us gang??
Unless things drastically change, fully expect to see more jobs move overseas. Our young people who prepare themselves to compete globally will be in a position to obtain employment (overseas). They will have to acquire a foreign language, but they will work. For those who are not prepared, GOD HELP THEM!
June 21st, 2011
9:18 am
Remember the word 'Payola'? It was a scam of the record industry decades ago. The songs that became popular were the ones the record companies actually paid the stations to play. 'Pay for play' It was revealed and was a huge scandal of the industry. Songs were not appreciated or attained success on their own merits; they unfairly rose to the top by virtue of an industry 'bribe' so to speak.
This is exactly how Obama has run the economy. The industries and vehicles that made him President (SEIU, Auto Workers, Welfare recipients, and Gov't workers) were richly rewarded with lavish bailouts, unprecedented access both to the Pres and to creating policy. The entities (in this case Businesses big and small) that were operating on their own – did not get the same assistance. In fact they got higher taxes, the ogreish threat of regulation, the eventuality of a healthcare system that would cripple any hope of hiring, and the resultant economy that makes capitalism not work well.
Problem for Obama is that he rode the horse too hard. He got his pet agendas passed. He paid off the people he owed for it. But he didn't have the experience to see or know or the humility to even acknowledge that his policies further crippled our macro economy. He is in wayyyyyy over his head now and we have no hope of coming out of this until he a)resigns – which a narcissist would never do, or b)is voted out, which I think becomes more and more likely every single day – thank goodness!
The only real debate left on the issue is; can the American way of life and economy continue to tread water until the end of this horrible Administration?
June 21st, 2011
9:20 am
Bobby – "Whether or not the stimulus helped or hurt is rather precarious but simply getting rid of Obama will not resolve our problems."
Excellent observation! If companies are able to do more with less, then that means they are able to add more to the bottom line. It doesn't matter one way or the other who the sitting POTUS is. Do you honestly think that a company is suddenly going to open the employment floodgates simply because the they like the President better? Business is business, whether there is a DEM or a Repub in the whitehouse, business will continue to increase and decrease payrolls based on demand.
June 21st, 2011
9:21 am
June 21st, 2011
8:57 am
Fletch, very good post with rational thinking and justification. In my heart, I do not believe that so many of these posters honestly believe the crap they post, where they blame everything from A to Z on President Obama, when things don't go their way in life. Hell, even the FOX stations are now admitting to an improving economy. Now, I know many of these posters have comprehension problems when it comes to reading, but again, FOX repeated it, so what is their problem now? Is it just, "An opportunity to bash President Obama?" Man I will tell you, these people lose credibility daily.
June 21st, 2011
9:23 am
"Whether or not the stimulus helped or hurt is rather precarious but simply getting rid of Obama will not resolve our problems."
It will be the first giant step for man and a giant leap for mankind.
June 21st, 2011
9:29 am
Henry, don't you know any economics? Or did you just go to journalism school?
June 21st, 2011
9:33 am
Granny – "Second, under the Obama administration, businesses CANNOT PLAN ON ANYTHING. An example, after Obama extended the Bush tax cuts December 2010, he immediately started threatening businesses that he was going to rescind that policy and commence taxing income over $250,000. Such a policy would cause some smaller businesses to close their doors, so why should they hire anyone?
Wow, where to start. By Grannies reasoning, we had all better pull every last dollar out of the stock market, too much uncertainty there. While your at it, better stay home and never drive on the Atlanta freeways, Too much uncertainty. In regard to businesses not hiring, please spare me the "they need to have certainty" to do so mantra. There is no company in the world that will hesitate to hire if the denad is there. As to the tax rate for the corporations, it's offset by deductions they are legally allowed to take. Perhaps Granny would prefer to level the playing field in order to be more competative with our foreign counterparts. Fine, please tell me which one of you is willing to take a job paying a dollar a day in order to bring manufacturing back from China? Which one of you IT professionals will be willing to work for $15,000 a year in order to bring those jobs back from India? Anyone, anyone?
June 21st, 2011
9:40 am
the economy's worse than ever and the job market is terrible. Hope and change!!! Yes we can!!!! Power to the unions!!! More jobs shipped overseas!!!!
June 21st, 2011
9:40 am
June 21st, 2011
9:18 am
Just one question Gwinnettian. Where were you from 2000 – 2008, when we (Americans) were being led down this hole by the Bush administration. Oh yea, it was a Republican Administration!
June 21st, 2011
9:47 am
I am reading in the "Charleston Regional Business Journal" about the $5.9 billion per year impact of Boeing's impact will have on South Carolina. Now however, the Department of Labor is bringing suit against Boeing for building the plant in SC rather than building it in Washington state. Based upon the DOL action, I think Boeing should have built the plant in Mexico.
June 21st, 2011
9:56 am
futurist – "More jobs shipped overseas!!!!"
As in my previous post, which option do you want the dollar a day for manufacturing or the $15,000 a year for I.T.?
By the way, the economy is a subjective matter. if you invest wisely, take advantage of the tax code and continue to carefully gropw yoiur business then the economy is fine. If however, you only survive paycheck to paycheck (broad assumption based on your juvenile post) then yes, you probably do have it harder than some. However, the choice is up to you, are you going to spend the rest of your life bitching, or are you going to actually do something about it?
June 21st, 2011
10:07 am
What was the question?
June 21st, 2011
10:24 am
Fletch is my Hero!
June 21st, 2011
10:35 am
The world needs ditch diggers too!!!
June 21st, 2011
11:15 am
Granny makes some excellent points. Why is it taking upwards of SIX years for some of our kids to get a four year degree — and usually in a soft discipline? Businesses are not going to underwrite hard skill training when kids do not have the basics. Ask your local colleges what percent are having to take remedial courses in math, science, English — if they can read!! We kid ourselves about enhancing our kid's 'cognitive skills' when they are not accustomed to comprehending what is in a text book!
June 21st, 2011
11:31 am
Businesses need TAX INCENTIVES to bring jobs back to America. Hire american workers. Send the illegals packing.
Use the Prisoners for cheap labor on the farms!! They are just sitting around, forming gangs in the prisons. Make them get out and do physical labor. Nothing deters bad decisions like a little physical labor. You broke the law, no go work for $1.00/hour in the hot sun, picking peanuts.
June 21st, 2011
12:10 pm
Its about time the AJC hires someone with some knowledge of economics.
June 21st, 2011
12:49 pm
Fletch, thank you for being honest and stating the obvious. I have said over and over that businesses will not hire for those exact reasons. After the massive lay-offs, productivity went up. Employees are working harder and are being cross-trained in other departments; thus, saving the company tons of money.
June 21st, 2011
2:45 pm
"Many companies — especially the large ones — are sitting on a pile of cash. What's it going to take for them to use it to hire more people?"
Henry companies don't owe anyone a job. Their "pile of cash" is an asset that they'll deploy as needed. It's not some social engineering tool that they're obligated to spend on warm bodies for the greater good.
Hats off to any business that produces as much, or more, with fewer workers. That's more profit for the owners and shareholders.
June 21st, 2011
3:06 pm
Thanks for the kind words, Alan, but we have lobbyists with actual influence who do that for us. Moreover, no one likes a kiss-*ss; you're not, nor will you ever be, one of us.
June 21st, 2011
5:36 pm
Sarge and Fletch,
This old vet is with you 100%. These right wing zealots are rushing off a cliff as fast as they can and want to drag the rest of us with them. btw, I'm a small business owner who saw this coming way back when Bush launched his personal war on Saddam AND cut taxes. Over the next few years I trimmed my payroll to just my daughter and myself, banked as much as I could, and I'm riding out the storm ok for now. Just hope I can hold out until Ryan and the so-called conservatives self-destruct.
June 22nd, 2011
1:21 pm
I work in the Financial Arena and I own a business. The only way to get this economy moving is to promote businesses to open and hire. That will only happen when money is available to lend and costs and taxes are lowered. It is time for a leader to stop the bleading of jobs to foreign lands and foreign nationals and illegal immigrants. Many come to this country to study and stay on hired by the corporations. Americans lose Jobs. Others are looked over due to lack of education which is because of the political correctness of our schools. These children are not being taught fundamentals but are being brainwashed in the elite social experimentation. Businesses and American ingenuity are being stiffled by regulations, and high taxes and rules that make no sense to anyone but the elite which again wants the government to be a nanny state and what neighbors turning in neighbors as in past communist regimes. Again only when we have a leader that will reject the social elite for the absurd way they think and are leading this nation. Lets start by taxing Foreign Corporations. If they want to sell Americans and not employ Americans they they should pay. Second we should loan to Americans. Money needs to go to individuals and to corporations that want to add jobs and employ Americans. Third we need to favor Americans. If the Government is going to buy it must insist that the goods are produced in the US. It sounds like Fletch just needs to go to India or China. He apparantly does not understand that Government policies do make a difference. They can make or break this Country. So far OBAMA gets an F in doing anything to help this nation recover. In fact he is keeping us in recession. Now Republicans are full of talk but little on ideas of really how to change the policies that are costing this country a middle class and a future. However one Republican has been saying the right things giving us substance but the MSNBCs and the leftist media wants to destroy his campaign before it starts.I guess they are scared. I am standing with Newt Gingrich because we need thoughtful leadership not just people who can talk but those that will act. Listen He has a plan and it will change our direction and our country.


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Blues was no big stretch for the vocalist -- his Crescent City output was solidly rooted in the idiom. On this LP, he does a fine job on Eddie Vinson's "Kidney Stew," and Paul Perryman's "Just to Hold My Hand," and his own blasting "I've Got the Blues and the Blues Got Me." ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi


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Were you searching for Mobile Phone Insurance ? This site is dedicated to iPhone insurance for your Apple handset.
There are many benefits to obtaining iPhone insurance online, through non-network providers. The most important advantage is lower cost. Purchasing plans through carriers at the point-of-sale usually cost twice as much as non-carrier plans. There are a variety of special, discounted deals available from online businesses. Comparing their rates and securing plans is a simple process.
It is important to check the details of the components that are covered. Not all independent iPhone insurance plans provide the same levels of coverage. Some advertise very low premiums, but have very basic plans. Some offer policies which are no better than extended warranties.
Many plans do not cover loss or water damage. The best plans provide worldwide coverage of loss, accidental damage, theft, liquid or water damage, and fraudulent call protection. In addition, policies that offer instant coverage options, and 48-hour claim services are among the top-rated.
iPhone insurance policies offered through network providers can have minimum terms of two years. The policy periods for independent insurers are generally one year. Online providers offer a couple payment options. They include monthly premiums, or single up-front payments with debit or credit cards. The monthly installment option frequently involves automatic direct debit deductions from a bank account, eventhough paid for monthly, in the event of a claim, the full premium my become due before a replacment handset is issued. This step was brought in by some iPhone insurance companies after massive insurance fraud around the launch of the iphone 3GS. Read the full terms and conditions to find out if this applies to you.
The requirement for full payment before claims can be processed provides the insurer with protection against fraudulent claims and scams. Without this condition, a scamster can pay one month's premium and then submit a claim for a lost phone. She or he then pays a small excess fee, obtains a new phone, and cancels the insurance policy. Many times, the scamster then sells the phone that was claimed lost. The phone must be sold to a buyer outside the United Kingdom. Otherwise, the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) database for the country will recognize the phone's serial number, and flag it as being involved with a claim.
These mobile phones have become very popular around the globe. Their advanced features and ease of operation makes them ideal for personal as well as business use. The features include Facetime, two cameras, Retina display, multi-tasking functions, high-definition (HD) video recording and editing, and a five megapixel camera with an LED flash.
Facetime is a user-friendly video-calling feature. It functions right out of the box, with no initial set-up required. To use this application, simply choose a person from the contacts list, and tap the Facetime icon. That will send an invitation to the person to participate in the video call. When she or he accepts, the connection is established. It works in both landscape and portrait modes.
This advanced mobile device has two built-in cameras. One is in the front, the other is in the back. The front camera is used during Facetime sessions. It is programmed to provide the perfect focus of the user's face when held at arm's length. If the user wants to capture a picture during the video call, she or he can tap a switch, and the back camera is engaged. Another tap switches back to the front camera.
The Retina display is very high-resolution, and contains four times more pixels than other phones. The pixel density is so high that the human eye cannot discern individual pixels. Images are very sharp, text is very well-defined. The technology used is called in-plane switching (IPS), which provides great resolution from wider viewing angles. No matter how the phone is held, the display is crisp and clear.
The Retina display glass is the same type used in high-speed trains and helicopters. It has been strengthened by chemicals which make it extremely durable, hard and scratch-resistant. The glass has also been treated with an oil-resistant coating, which keeps it smear-free and clean. Ambient lighting and LED back-lighting sensors maintain optimal brightness levels.
New multi-tasking features allow users to switch between applications instantly without affecting the performance of the foreground applications. Double-tapping the home button reveals a list of recently used applications. Users can scroll through the list, and tap the icon of the desired application. It loads instantly. The apps are programmed with memories. When a user returns to an app, she or he can pick-up right where she or he left off. For example, reading materials and games can be resumed from their points of pause.
The multi-tasking function also allows users to listen to music or other audio (baseball games, newscasts) while playing games, browsing the Web, or performing other tasks. Voice calls can also be conducted while performing other tasks, such as checking e-mails.
Also, GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) services can run in the background. They keep current positions updated, and can provide spoken directions while users are listening to music. When directions are spoken, the music levels are lowered.
The video recording and editing features allow users to record in high-definition. A built-in LED light and back-side light sensor allows images to be captured in all light levels. The phone also has a built-in tap-to-focus feature. When recording scenes with foreground and background images, the user can tap the part of the image she or he wishes to focus upon. The camera then automatically focuses on that region, and adjusts the exposure to match the lighting conditions.
The five mega-pixel camera has an LED flash. The front-facing camera allows users to take self-portraits. The HDR (High Dynamic Range) setting provides the ability to capture images in a wide range of light intensities. When using the HDR function, the camera snaps three exposures of each picture. The images are then layered to capture the best exposure levels. On the camera roll, both the HDR and the regular shot are stored.
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iPhone insurance coverage provides valuable protection against damage, loss and theft. These advanced mobile devices are expensive to replace. Securing coverage helps protect this investment. Plans offered by online sources tend to be about half the amount of the plans offered through network providers.
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Summit View
Summit View is in an idealic setting with panaromic views of mountains, rivers and waterfalls. Only 40 mins from Kandy and 15 mins from the Botanical gardens. It consists of two garden chalets, a poolside room and two rooms upstairs, one with large balcony, all with panaromic views of the mountains. Enjoy a family atmosphere with 2 children, 3 dogs, and a cat. also for your relaxation there is the swimming pool, badminton courts and basketball. Ayurvedic treatments from a professional practioner available in house at the ayurvedic hut with its stunning views and clear air help you relax completely and enjoy the beauty of Summit View.
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Go to the town of Peradeniya on the Kandy Colombo road, cross the bridge and take first on right into the University of Peradeniya - road is signed Galaha. Continue for about 4 km then the road forks into 2 - take the right hand road signed Gampola. Continuefor 6 km to the village of Kalagamuwa, see a bus stand then take the 1st on the left up a steep hill. Pass a shop then take the first on left up another very steep hill and Summit View is the last house at the end of this road - black gate and red roof.
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The Music Never Stopped
"The Music Never Stopped" is an indie feature film based on the essay "The Last Hippie" from AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS.
The film features music from the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Crosby, Stills and Nash. It was chosen as the gala premiere film for the Sundance Festival.
"The film is a moving testament not only to the love between a father and his son, but to the miraculous power of music to heal a damaged brain. Remembering music, listening to it or playing it, is entirely in the present, and, while it lasts, it can bridge even the abyss of extreme amnesia or dementia. Music can be more powerful than any drugs."
– Dr. Oliver Sacks
About The Last Hippie
In 1977, Dr. Sacks met Greg F., the patient on whom the character of Gabriel Sawyer is based. Greg, a young man with devastating amnesia caused by a brain tumor, could remember no new events in his life, but his memory for music, particularly that of his beloved bands of the 1960s, remained intact. Music could reach him as nothing else could. After almost fifteen years of working with Greg, Dr. Sacks arranged for Greg to meet drummer Mickey Hart and go to a Grateful Dead concert. Dr. Sacks wrote about Greg and the Grateful Dead in "The Last Hippie," a chapter in his book An Anthropologist on Mars. Here is the beginning of Greg's story:
Greg F. grew up in the 1950s in a comfortable Queens household, an attractive and rather gifted boy who seemed destined, like his father, for a professional career—perhaps a career in songwriting, for which he showed a precocious talent. But he grew restive, started questioning things, as a teenager in the late '60s; started to hate the conventional life of his parents and neighbors and the cynical, bellicose administration of the country. . . .
Increasingly he fell out with his parents and teachers; he was truculent with the one, secretive with the other. In 1968, a time when Timothy Leary was urging American youth to "tune in, turn on, and drop out," Greg grew his hair long and dropped out of school, where he had been a good student; he left home and went to live in the Village where he dropped acid and joined the East Village drug culture—searching, like others of his generation, for utopia, for inner freedom, and for "higher consciousness."
[Greg later joined the Hare Krishna and went to live in their temple in New Orleans, where his parents found him, very ill from a brain tumor, and brought him to a hospital in New York. I met him in 1977, shortly after his brain tumor was removed.]
Questioning him about current events and people, I found the depths of his disorientation and confusion. When I asked him who was the president, he said, "Lyndon," then, "the one who got shot." I prompted, "Jimmy . . . ," and then he said, "Jimi Hendrix," and when I roared with laughter, he said maybe a musical White House would be a good idea. A few more questions convinced me that Greg had virtually no memory of events much past 1970, certainly no coherent, chronological memory of them. He seemed to have been left, marooned, in the '60s—his memory, his development, his inner life since then had come to a stop.
Dr. Sacks writes more about music and music therapy in his book MUSICOPHILIA, including this passage from the preface:
While music can affect all of us—calm us, animate us, comfort us, thrill us, or serve to organize and synchronize us at work or play—it may be especially powerful and have great therapeutic potential for patients with a variety of neurological conditions. Such people may respond powerfully and specifically to music (and, sometimes, to little else). Some of these patients have widespread cortical problems, whether from strokes or Alzheimer's or other causes of dementia; others have specific cortical syndromes— loss of language or movement functions, amnesias, or frontal-lobe syndromes. Some are retarded, some autistic; others have subcortical syndromes such as parkinsonism or other movement disorders. All of these conditions and many others can potentially respond to music and music therapy.
"The Last Hippie" is an essay from Oliver Sacks' book, AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS, and has inspired the indie feature film, The Music Never Stopped.


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LOS ANGELES, CA — Less than a week after unveiling its new Greenhouse Gas FastTrack program, Enviance announced one of the program's first high-profile customers: Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).
LAWA, a city department, operates three of the region's busiest traveling hubs: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), L.A./Ontario International Airport (ONT) and Van Nuys Airport (VNY). The FastTrack program will allow new facilities to begin monitoring and reporting emissions in less than 60 days.
LAWA is an existing Enviance customer, using the enterprise resource planning software to build a compliance calendar to help it meet changing environmental regulations, namely the EPA's mandatory reporting rule that went into effect in January. According to Business Week, only LAX will report its emissions to the EPA; emissions from the other two ariports fall below the reporting threshold.
"LAWA and its network of airports have the same complex emissions requirements and reporting challenges as a medium-sized city," Nigel Nugent, Enviance's vice president of sales, said in a statement Thursday.
LAWA is part of a growing wave of airports trying to make their operations environmentally friendly. For example, the Mineta San Jose International Airport's $1 billion expansion project includes a range of environmentally friendly features, including energy efficiency software for its HVAC system and an upgrade of its chillers.
The George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston received $8.8 million in grants to replace its gas-powered steam energy system, expected to slash emissions at the facility by 60 percent.
At the same time, the Portland International Airport is experimenting with innovative ways to trim waste, while San Francisco International Airport is offering carbon offsets to passengers interested in neutralizing their travel.
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LAX to 'FastTrack' its Carbon Footprint
LOS ANGELES, CA — Less than a week after unveiling its new Greenhouse Gas FastTrack program, Enviance announced one of the program's first high-profile customers: Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).
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Are people of faith in fact gullible?
Gullibility is the belief in something with no substantiating facts to support that something. I contend that if you believe in something based upon Scripture, whichever religion you belong to then you are gullible. That is not to mean evil or stupid but simply gullible. This also differs somewhat from credulous depending on what actions you take in support of your beliefs or faith.
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Apr 29 2013: Perhaps instead of practicing Neo-Atheism, the question of what makes people gullible in general can shred light on some issues here...
First off, people of faith? I will assume 'religious fundamentalist' is your inference, since faith is STRONG belief and as emotional intelligence theory suggest - the separation between emotions and reason are not the fine line philosophers would love to suggest. I have faith humanity will not destroy itself, faith that European countries (plus America) will stop being ignorant toward foreign policies... Yeah I guess that makes me gullible, since the contrary of these faith-based thoughts are more likely.
So, what makes a group of people gullible? Or an individual within a group? (social cognition studies)
Well, like I am sure you read some fine atheist materials (blogs, forums, articles, etc) we can call them scripture. Yet, they are not ancient nor bound to predisposed organizations (per say), but many people would have read the same scriptures and would have based mutual arguments off of them. What we have here is the idea of 'people' letting 'people' know what to think. Well that is a part of human thinking... When I want to know if something is worth thinking, I research or find someone who has the knowledge to get me started with that certain thinking. How can I at any point begin to Question without having known previous answers, questions and solutions to previous Questions?
Essentially what makes people gullible is a state of emotional acceptance they involve themselves with others in order to be comfortable with overall cognition.
A child will accept your candy without thinking you're a stranger, but thinking candy brings them joy. Emotions trumped reasoning, but not a fair example, since as adults we think about what makes us happy as a part of our reasoning.... right?
What you want is a justified way to insult individuals who practice dogmas and biased band wagon thoughts... hard to do when guilty of such....
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Kimbo Slice Asks You To Watch TUF Live on FX Tonight.
Former Ultimate Fighter Kimbo Slice wants you to tune in tonight to watch the premier of the Ultimate Fighter Live on FX. Tune in at 9:00 PM ET.
How can I watch this in uk?
Only on fx in canada, I dont have that channel.
So i'm streaming it, i'd post a link but i'm not sure if bruno allows links.
espn in the uk!
so washed up. Kinbo is nothing now
Why is Kimbo doing this? He doesn't have anything to do with the UFC anymore… odd
Wonder why, besides $$$$, did kimbo do this? He doesn't have anymore contractual obligations to the UFC that I could imagine. Is this a precursor to something like a return or guest appearance on TUF?
isnt he hosting a show on spike to counter ufc programming haha.
@Everyone on here-Kimbo was a household name. FX thought it was a good idea to have a popular street fighter/UFC hopeful, announce the next generation of up and coming fighters. Come now, use some business smarts we all learned in undergrad.
Bruno are you posting a link for TUF last night?
Bruno: here. http://www.mmatko.com/the-ultimate-fighter-tuf-15-live-on-fx-video-episode-1-complete-show/
Cool to see Kimbo get a payday…
I get the game of golf as a living. What more is it possible to request – getting money for doing that which you love.
For a number of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because residence is the sole place they're able to manage to choose it.
Kimbo says "Dominick Cruz and Ariah Faber…Ummm, Kimbo sir, it's Uriah Faber!!! That's ok buddy, you probably didn't show up for English class, as you were outside brawling on the racquetball courts…
chiroguy – He's a fighter not a poet! Also he shows up on music club sets for reality p*** as a bodyguard….er someone told me that..
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'Climategate' review clears scientists of dishonesty
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN July 7, 2010 10:28 a.m. EDT
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An independent report released Wednesday into the leaked "Climategate" e-mails found no evidence to question the "rigor and honesty" of scientists involved.
In November 2009, the integrity of the CRU and its research were called into question after the publication of more than 1,000 emails, dating back to 1996, to and from scientists employed there.
Particular attention focused on one e-mail from the unit's head, Professor Phil Jones, which referred to a "trick" being used on data submitted to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1999.
Jones wrote: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years ... to hide the decline."
The scandal fueled skepticism about the case for global warming just weeks before world leaders met to agree a global deal on climate change at a United Nations conference in Copenhagen last December.
The seven-month review, led by Muir Russell, found scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) did not unduly influence reports detailing the scale of the threat of global warming produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The review found the figure supplied for the WMO was in fact misleading, given its "subsequent iconic significance (not least the use of a similar figure in the IPCC Third Assessment Report)."
It said: "We do not find that it is misleading to curtail reconstructions at some point per se, or to splice data, but we believe that both of these procedures should have been made plain."
Of the language used by the CRU scientists, the report said that it was generally "informal, using slang, jargon and acronyms."
In his submission, Jones told the review that "the word 'trick' was not intended to imply any deception, simply the 'best way of doing or dealing with something.'"
The review found, "crucially, the e-mails cannot always be relied upon as evidence of what actually occurred, nor indicative of actual behavior that is extreme, exceptional or unprofessional."
My comments:
I don't know about you, but as for me, this is so insulting that even when these charlatans are exposed for their false claims, fabrications and outright frauds, these investigations conclude to find no evidence to question these "scientists" "honesty".
There is not even a mention of consequence for the head of this conspiracy of global warming "research" Professor Phil Jones and the scientist who was referred to in Jone's email, Michael Mann who were caught red-handed for their "dishonesty" and deception. Remember: these "discoveries" and the findings that these "scientists: come up with, cost American tax payers, billions of dollars. This is nothing short of a MONUMENTAL COVER-UP!
And the outcome will predictably be that the Congress and this President will shamelessly continue with this train-wreck by burdening the American People with a loathsome Climate Energy Global Warming Tax and Spend Bill that will destroy small businesses and therefore the American economy irreparably, (the giant corporations, who are taking the lead of this bill will weather this shell game just fine) forcing an economic depression and breakdown of the American system.
I am noting these climate-gate conspirators of infamy that were mentioned in the article as defenders of this junk science scam, not including those who pay these "compromised" "scientists" their exorbitant salaries, because they are really deserving to be forever designated to the Hall of Shame: Phil Jones, head of Climate Research Unit team (CRU), when this expose' took place, Michael Mann, the scientist whose email was exposed in this conspiracy, Edward Acton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Penn State University, Brian Hoskins, at London's Imperial College, and Muir Russell.
How can we, the American people, put up with this sort of dishonesty and deception any longer from people that can't even call such behavior and falsehoods for what it is: A LIE AND GIGANTIC WORLD-WIDE FRAUD!
Climate scientist Michael Mann, referred to by Phil Jones' email about "Mike's Nature trick,' said he hoped Wednesday's report would put this "bogus, manufactured scandal behind us." What! Oh, I get-it; it's us citizens who are at fault.
Think about what is happening to us for a minute as we are being subjected to comments like this by the man who was caught in a conspiracy of fraud and manufactured pseudo science, when he, Michael Mann, describes this investigation as bogus - he can say this without any shame whatsoever, "a bogus, manufactured scandal" that can now be put behind us". I just can't stand this arrogance and elitists thinking that we are being subjected to. This is out and out tyranny and we Americans are accepting it as just another bump in the road. Where is our outrage! Where is our call to action and demand for accountability?
But instead, they will get away with this, without condemnation from this phony news media or from our Congress and President without even hardly a moment of reflection to instead, "lets just move on people"
The American people and the population of the world are being raped, ravaged and killed by these "world mega corporation controllers", and we have learned to accept it as just part of our every day way of life.
As Americans, we're not just asleep - no, we're in a coma.
Ed Greer
For entire CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/07/07/climategate.email.review/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
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The crew of space shuttle Endeavour arrived in Florida Thursday morning. Endeavour is scheduled to launch Monday at 8:56 a.m. on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station.
Endeavour's STS-134 mission crew, Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Gregory H. Johnson and Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, arrived at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility around 9 a.m.
During the 16-day mission, Endeavour and its crew will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre.
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Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg was very confident of Google's inability and unwillingness to prevent Facebook from rolling out Home on Android, because of the search engine commitment to opennness.
Google is aware of what we are doing and we talked to them about this and all of that. But fundamentally Android is just a more open system, so we don't have to work directly with them in order to build an experience like this. So we can even go deeper that we're talking about today. They've designed Android from the ground up to support deep integration.
"I think this is really good for Android," Zuckerberg told the audience at the launch event in Menlo Park, Calif. Developers do their best work on the iPhone first, but with Home, Facebook is putting Android first. If consumers want the Facebook Home experience, they'll have to get an Android phone.
In a statement, Google seemed to agree. "This latest device demonstrates the openness and flexibility that has made Android so popular.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined Android that aims to create a software package that takes over messaging, key communications and runs like "system software not an app you run."
Mr.Zuckerberg noted that Facebook Home is the "highest quality experience you can have on Android." Facebook has retooled Android's chat with "chat heads," cover overlays and other key perks. Bottom line: If you live in Facebook, Facebook Home is gold for you. If you live beyond Facebook, Facebook Home may strike you as alarming. Facebook literally becomes your phone. For good measure, Facebook forged Facebook Home partnerships with AT&T and HTC to have its overlay work right out of the box.
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