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The Poetry of Russ Allison Loar
This Fire
However much I love you,
You do not
Hang upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
You do,
Glow in the illumination of the street light
Where you wait for me,
Not yet noticing my approach,
Eager to burn
In this fire we have ignited.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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When it comes right down to it,
I know little more about
Than a duck knows about
Newtonian physics.
Try as he might,
The duck cannot explain,
Or defy,
~ Russ Allison Loar
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My dead relatives see a future they never imagined.
And here I thought the future was so far ahead
I could scarcely imagine it,
Beyond the usual flying cars,
Electricity from air,
Freedom from disease.
My dead relatives say I'm living in the future.
I don't have to look too far back to see how right they are,
Or too far forward to see how wrong they are.
But right now, right here,
What is this exactly?
It moves so quickly I don't have time to focus,
My thoughts are blurred,
My explanations obsolete.
I am skipping across the surface of time,
Watching my hair turn white.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Think Of Me
Years from now
When your hair begins to gray,
Think of me.
Remember the sound of our laughter,
The color of my eyes,
The warmth of my hand.
Years from now
When your cheeks are wrinkled,
Think of me.
Remember my awkward mistakes,
My overzealous pronouncements,
My prayers.
Years from now
When time has washed all the hurt away,
When you no longer understand old age,
Be young and unblemished again
And think of me.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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The Things We Do When Love Is Gone
The things we do when love is gone,
The things we buy,
The things we eat
When love is given up,
The way we face the world,
The way we speak
When love no longer calls,
The things that must be done,
The order that we seek
When love falls apart,
The road we take,
The convictions we make
To shun the lure,
To escape the hook,
The ugly way we look
And feel
When love's no longer real.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Because You Love
So worried,
About money,
About accomplishment,
About failure.
So overwhelmed,
By work,
By family,
By modern life.
Late at night,
Early in the morning,
In the middle of the day,
You wonder who you are,
Why your life turned out this way,
So uneventful.
Love is all you have left,
Mad unrestrained love,
For your family,
For movie stars,
For your friends,
For total strangers,
For babies,
For dogs and cats and birds
And all living things,
Every tree and flower,
For even the sky-darkening clouds
And the rain,
The individual drops of rain
That fall on your cheek
Like tears of forgiveness,
And you realize
You are forgiven,
All is forgiven
Because you love,
And that is enough.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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They Are Golden Now
I see them,
Two little boys waking for school
In toy-stuffed bedrooms,
Staring blankly through sleep
At the half-conscious morning,
Rubbing their eyes with tight little fists.
So sleepy.
They expect to see me still,
Straightening a tie,
Gulping coffee,
Complaining about the time.
So sleepy.
They have not yet remembered
I am gone.
Mother is in the shower
And the sound of her
Triggers something.
Now they recognize the wrenching feeling,
Recognize and identify their wounds.
Like hospital patients
Who dreamed themselves home,
Who could stay in the dream
No longer,
Now they are awake.
I see them,
Hear them call for me
Watch them speak in hushed voices
About where I could be
And when I'll come back.
I rub my eyes
And struggle to emerge
Into the blank morning
From a night of difficult dreams
In this cardboard motel room.
I love them,
Always loved them,
Loved them all,
Loved too much to ever say no,
Never, ever say no.
Enslaved by meaningless demeaning work,
Smothered by demanding reprimanding family,
Bound in the chains of my own making,
They are now the chains of my own breaking.
I see them,
Shattered and broken.
They are golden, now,
As they move through the diaphanous light
Of my feverish thoughts,
As I move darkly into the day
Toward this unrelenting madness
I can no longer disobey.
They are golden, now.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Theresa is large and dark
And sits outside the library
When the library is closed.
She sits and sings,
Or just shakes
From what her brain does to her body.
Theresa is large and dark
And exchanges a kind greeting
When she is not shaking,
When she is not dangling
From the end of some string,
Pulled by whatever demon has her.
Dance with me,
She said.
And though I was never a dancer
And afraid,
We danced 'round and 'round
In a clear blue sky,
Theresa is large and dark
And wears a towel wrapped around her head,
An exotic headdress,
And a necklace of silver napkin rings.
Her possessions are packed in a plastic laundry basket,
Notebooks filled with carefully drawn letters,
Favorite words written small and large,
Black and blue ink,
Over and over again.
Theresa is large and dark
And sits outside the library
Where she sings
And shakes,
Where she finds heaven
And hell
In equal measure.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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The day will come
When Earth is done
With all of us
And everything.
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At Play
You call it freedom,
Those afternoons on your dappled horse,
Kicking up dust sparkling in wet ocean air,
Cantering round and round solitary paths
Worn around your father's estate
Where an old Mexican woman with scars on her knees
Scrubs heel marks off the Spanish tile.
Your orange and white tomcat snags a butterfly,
Yanks off a fluorescent wing
With his needle-nose teeth.
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That's Why
Because God allows everything.
That's why.
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That One Precious Word
Dear one,
When your life is full of tears,
When love is ripped from your heart
And there is no one,
No one you can tell,
Really tell,
Know you are not alone,
For I too have cried,
I too have stumbled and fallen
When the weight of the world was too great to bear.
Dear one,
Let us join in spirit,
In recognition,
And give each other strength.
We are the wounded ones of the world
Yet we must endure,
We must hold on to that one precious word,
~ Russ Allison Loar
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A Worried Man
A sleepless night,
So worried,
So sure something was about to go wrong,
Every time the clock struck the hour,
He counted the strikes,
Fearing the clock might make a mistake.
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Another Day
Because my days are almost done
I walk this late afternoon by the hillsides,
The fog-chilled air pushing against my cheeks,
The spit of moisture falling on my forehead,
The first crickets beginning,
Singing the sun down behind the ancient mountains
Newly green with spring.
A beautiful young girl with translucent blue eyes passes by
With a small puppy straining against the leash.
She smiles without hesitation and says hello.
Ah the joy,
The joy of another day.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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O you sanctimonious souls,
I ask you:
At this very moment,
Do you hear the words of the angels?
Do you see the blinding white light?
The greatest temptation of all,
The temptation of knowing.
The hardest thing to surrender,
The sin of certainty.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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The Kiss
After the kiss goodnight the world was glowing.
How wonderful to wake each day,
He thought,
Knowing there is someone in the world who loves me,
Someone I can kiss.
He fell asleep on a cloud of bliss.
After the kiss goodnight the world was threatening.
I will never let that happen again,
She thought.
In the morning she would send him a message,
Something about friendship.
She fell asleep on a cloud of regret.
O the power of a single kiss,
What it starts,
What it stops.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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The Killer Asteroid
When we knew the asteroid was coming,
The killer asteroid,
We knew it would be the end of us,
All of us,
Even the inhabitants of the space station,
Although they would be the last to go.
What a vision they would behold,
The exploding Earth,
The smothering black clouds
Enveloping all.
The fragmented debris
Hurtling through space,
Sounding like hailstones inside the space station,
The last humans,
I've always felt sorry for the dinosaurs,
Their terrible majesty vanquished,
Survived by cockroaches.
As the killer asteroid accelerates,
As the end of the human experience draws near,
I wonder,
What manner of life will survive?
What will replace us?
It is said the meek shall inherit the Earth,
But cockroaches?
~ Russ Allison Loar
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It's not nostalgia that brings me back,
Back to this place where I once lived,
This place where my life was young,
Where my sons were little boys,
Where my wife was a lovely young woman,
Where so much of our lives,
Imagined in dreams,
Residing in hope.
It's not the ache of memory that brings me back,
But the search for something lost,
A part of me that slipped silently away,
Unnoticed amid the clash and clutter of growing old,
A part of me I cannot precisely name,
Something incompletely perfect,
Distilled now in my restless heart.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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It was too hot for a week,
Another week,
A month and more,
And I forgot how temporary weather can be
Until I awoke late this morning.
I feel a different breeze on my skin,
Hear it singing through my open window.
I see the languid leaves
Drinking in the last sun of summer.
Remembering how temporary weather can be,
This tree summons courage,
Stiffens resolve,
Knowing all its lovely leaves will soon be gone,
First autumn,
The slow sleep of winter coming on.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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After the hardhearted words,
After they are all spoken,
The impassioned phrases
So proudly pronounced
During love's disillusioned duel
Angry echoes
In the deep, dark dungeon of despair
That never quite die out,
That seem always on the lips,
In the cold stare
Of the one you still somehow love,
Who still somehow loves you.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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I'd like to take just a moment
To reach you,
But your cell phone is ringing
And you must answer.
I'd like to take you to a quiet place
And tell you about this ache inside,
But you are already late
And have a busy day ahead.
In fact, the entire week looks bad,
So much to do.
When was the last time
You stopped
And let someone take your hand
And talk about love?
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Nothing At All
Just when I thought my little calico cat
And I
Had reached a meeting of minds,
An unspoken understanding
As she sat on my lap,
Joining me in early morning contemplation
Of life's distractions and essences,
Winnowing away illusion,
Hearing without sound,
Seeing without sight,
Knowing without thought,
That eternal absence that embraces all,
Kitty leaps from my lap,
Pads daintily across the room,
Sits on her haunches
And stares at the corner of a wall,
At nothing at all.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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The Annunciation
More than a job,
More than mere employment,
It was a career,
A calling,
A framework of talents and skills
Honed by discipline,
Heightened by dedication,
All your years of earnest labor,
Come to this,
Your life's work,
Your self-worth,
In your lowest moments,
In your despair,
The growing realization:
You are the master of your fate,
The captain of your ship.
Navigating your way through perilous seas,
Tossed and buffeted by the storm,
The annunciation:
You are free.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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There Is Wildness Here
There is wildness here,
Raw and raging
Beneath this exterior,
There are visions here
Of soaring over lifetimes of leaf-filled trees
And rust-colored hills,
Over yellow fields,
Over oceans.
There is forgetting here
Of the small things people say,
The small things people do.
There is a last angry echo
Of the unheard voice,
The deeper self,
The truer self,
The wilder self
That wearies of all man-made things.
There is a silence here
That grows and infuses,
Like the melancholy tint
Of an old photograph,
An old photograph you walk around in,
Examining with wonder the frozen, yet flowing
Moments of a life.
There is a wildness here
That rises like an immense stone,
Floating impossibly
In the pure blue sky
Of a secret spring.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Turn It Off
Hooked on technology
So bad,
Whole generations
Will not miss
A life they never had.
Speaking quietly
Into the night,
Measuring the silence against the soul,
Just thinking about how the busy days go,
Seeing life from afar
Like a firefly in the dark,
Like a candle,
Like a star,
Turn it off,
Be who you are.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Truth Is Not Hard To Find
Truth is not hard to find,
It's everywhere we are,
In the good and the bad,
In the indifferent.
It's what actually happens,
Right here,
Minute by minute.
But we resist the truth
When it collides with what we believe
Truth should be.
Our handcrafted truths can be hard to maintain,
What with truth itself,
Getting in the way.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Lost Child
Whose little babe is this
Who now slumbers on city sidewalk
Bundled in tattered sleeping bag
In back of brick and mortared building
Knocked crooked by time . . .
Whose little boy is this
Who now wakes in a garden of cigarette butts
And abandoned pages of old newspapers
On ragged cement
Where only the most desperate weeds
Dare to grow . . .
Whose mother's son is this
Who now pulls himself up and out
Of the brief escape of sleep
And stands in icy morning air
Extending his thoughts only as far
As the ashen tip of the smoldering cigarette
He sips like a cool, sweet glass of juice . . .
All his generations reduced to this,
A life too young for such resignation,
Too old for much renewal,
Too far from home,
This lost child.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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The Truth Has Jagged Edges
The truth,
Oh yes, even the truth is mutable,
But tonight will be dark,
For the Earth does revolve around the sun
Despite centuries of disbelief.
Truth is hard.
Self-deception is easy,
Self-deception is logical.
The truth has jagged edges.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Stone Age
How long has it been?
Not long since the days of the cave.
Seems like only yesterday
We were bringing down bison,
That old gang of mine.
All this was savanna,
Over there,
Near that big boulder,
The barbecue pit.
Ah, the feasting,
The fermented berries,
The grunting.
I took a girl
And our bodies worked well together
Making many children.
We lived a while.
On my last day
My oldest son told me
He would bring me back,
And that I would bring him back,
In turn,
For we are all fathers and mothers,
Sisters and brothers,
Since the beginning of everything,
When every stone could sing.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Sweeper Man
When it rains,
At last the rain,
He goes to his secret place
Behind the dumpster
And gets his broom,
Old, worn and stiff
But still good for sweeping the water on its way.
He sweeps the gutters,
Sweeps trash and leaves into the river's flow,
Sweeps the water,
Speeding the motion,
The sound.
He is a tool of nature,
Called by God
To do this work,
To help with the cleansing,
The cleansing of it all.
Standing near a busy intersection
He works
And the sound of his furious sweeping echoes.
He is not self-conscious,
He is proud of his job,
Called at last in this year of drought,
Called to do this work.
An underfed scarecrow of indeterminate age,
Eyes ablaze with obsession,
Leather face taught with purpose,
He wears a long, dark coat,
So wet and wetter,
A woolen cap with ear flaps,
And galoshes — galoshes!
Where on Earth did he get those yellow galoshes?
There is too little rain in this place
To wait for rain
And so he sweeps whenever he is called,
But it is futile, desperate work
When all is dust and dirt and dust.
For the drought is over today,
At last,
And God has called him
To help with the cleansing,
The washing away,
All the jumbled years,
The wandering days,
The frightened nights
Trying to sleep,
To sleep and dream
His favorite dream
Of a world washed clean,
A world swept clean,
Everyone and everything
Starting over again.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Still Dreaming
Acquisitive by nature,
And nurture,
My inclination is to possess,
Especially in matters of love,
Especially romantic love,
Especially you,
But I am defeated by depth,
By the depth of my love for you,
Love beyond selfishness,
Love for who you are without me,
Who you must be without me,
Without me,
This relentless romantic,
Still dreaming of you
With (almost) no hope.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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WWE legend Kamala was hospitalized over the weekend in breaking news that spread worry across the WWE Universe, while also prompting messages of support from wrestling fans across the globe.
On Saturday, Kamala was taken to hospital with what was at first labelled as an undefined ailment, but now for the first time it has been revealed why the legendary wrestler was rushed to the emergency room.
It turns out that Kamala, real-name James Harris, was taken to hospital because of peritonitis, which is an inflammation of the thin layer of tissue that lines the inside of the stomach.
Horrific news
"We noted over the weekend that WWE Legend James "Kamala" Harris had been hospitalized for an unknown condition. Kamala has been hospitalized in Mississippi due to a case of peritonitis, which led to an infection in the membrane that lines the stomach," NoQU reported.
But there is good news for WWE fans, with James Harris, aka Kamala, now recovering in hospital after a successful surgery. "Kamala had stomach surgery a few days ago and has been recovering in ICU ever since," added the website.
Related articles
- Jake the Snake Roberts joking with nurses after bronchoscopy
- Hulk Hogan in training for potential WrestleMania match
- Huge CM Punk return talked up by WWE legend
Legendary wrestler
Kamala was a dominant wrestler in his heyday. Although he only appeared in the then WWF periodically in the 1980's and 90's, his character still had a loyal following.
He had several runs in the wrestling company, the first of which began in 1984. Kamala went toe to toe with Andre the Giant on numerous occasions, with their most famous duel being a high-profile steel cage match. Other notable matches of his included his face-off's against huge WWE legends Hulk Hogan and Jake 'the snake' Roberts.

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One of Oldham Athletic's sponsors has ended its association with the club as the League One outfit prepares to announce the "imminent signing" of convicted rapist Ched Evans.
Craig Verling, the director of Verlin Rainwater Solutions, said it would send out the "wrong message" if the two parties continued their affiliation considering Evans was recently released from prison following his conviction for raping a 19-year-old woman.
In a statement, Verling said: "After receiving the news regarding the imminent signing of Ched Evans, it is with great regret that Verlin Rainwater Solutions will no longer be associated with Oldham Athletic.
"We would like to take this opportunity to make clear that we feel that Mr Evans should be able to lead a life without further punishment after serving his sentence, although our feelings remain the same that this should not be within the public domain where his previous behaviour may influence the next generation.
"We sincerely wish the club a very successful future and have no regrets about being associated with Oldham Athletic over the past few seasons, but feel our continued support would be sending out the wrong message."
Mecca Bingo posted a message on Twitter earlier this week stating the firm will sever ties with Oldham if the club signs Evans.


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Preparing for a release is tedious
Now that Slackware is nearing a new release (that would be 13.1 of course), it is again obvious how tedious this process of finalizing is. Even though I am not the maintainer, just someone on the side (albeit pretty close to the fire) there are so many small issues to be taken care of… I am glad about all the people installing the release candidate and reporting their findings through http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ , Freenode's ##slackware channel and other means (email, this and other blogs). It's typical that there is always a flurry of bug reports right before a release. Apparently many folks out there are triggered by the message "this is Release Candidate…" and decide that Slackware-current is stable enough to try it out.
I welcome any remarks about installing slackware-current over a network (NFS/HTTP/FTP/Samba) and using LVM/LUKS. If anything should be added to the README files, this is the moment, and it will pass soon.
There are (again) several items on my private TODO list which I did not find time for during this release cycle… I want to write a script to create a Live DVD out of the installation ISO (for demonstration purposes) – nothing like the Linux-Live scripts which enable you to convert a running Linux system to a Live CD… those scripts are awfully complicated and I want to have something basic. I also wanted to work on the mkinitrd_command_generator.sh and the liloconfig scripts – I want to make it easier to create an initrd.gz during installation, for use with the generic kernel and especially in those cases where an initrd is required like when you are using LVM, or LUKS encryption.
Something needs to be left for the future I guess, so that I have something to look forward to 🙂
On the other hand, I am glad that I managed to update the usbimg2disk.sh script though so that you can create a complete USB installer for Slackware quite easily now (without destroying the data on your USB stick even, if you want). Read my old blog post for usage instructions. The move to KDE SC 4.4.3 in Slackware 13.1 is something I am delighted by as well – I had not thought Pat Volkerding would accept this version into 13.1. Perhaps I should now shift my attention to the development of KDE 4.5 packages…
On another note, the http://slackbuilds.org/ site has closed the submission form in anticipation of the new Slackware release. The admin team needs time to get the database ready for accepting new entries and there are very interesting new features coming up. Be sure to watch the site closely in the near future!
Have fun, Eric
Posted: 18 May, 2010 in Me, Slackware.
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Comment from dolphin77
Posted: May 18, 2010 at 10:43
Hi Eric. Thanks for all your work, which I appreciate as probably many Slackers do.
There is a typing mistake above.
>The move to Slackware 4.4.3 in Slackware 13.1 is something I am delighted by as well
Should be
The move to KDE 4.4.3 in Slackware 13.1 is something I am delighted by as well,
I think ^)
Comment from alienbob
Posted: May 18, 2010 at 22:02
Hmmm indeed, thanks. Fixed.
Comment from escaflown
Posted: May 19, 2010 at 00:39
Hi Eric. Concerning LVM/LUKS, will Slackware 13.1 support the unlocking mechanism of root partition through keyfile on usb stick?
Comment from alienbob
Posted: May 19, 2010 at 07:53
@escaflown – indeed all the requirements for using a LUKS keyfile on external USB stick are satisfied in the mkinitrd package of Slackware 13.1. The new "-K" parameter allows you to specify the FAT label and the full path to the keyfile on the stick, like this:
-K LABEL=ALIENUSB:/private/laptop.key
You still have to manually add the keyfile into one of the free LUKS keyslots using cryptsetup of course. It is recommended to have a normal passphrase in the first slot so that you can always decrypt your hard drive even if you lose your USB stick.
Comment from escaflown
Posted: May 19, 2010 at 13:29
Thanks Eric!


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Let's not play the Blame Game. That game stinks.
Rule #1 of the Empowerment Game: No one is in this alone.
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- A medical ID bracelet for your child
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Wouldn't this all be fantastic? To leave a place where your child was just diagnosed, with a full set of resources, connection, people who get it, and information to help you get on with caring for your child.


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Why They Came
By W. J. CAMERON, Ford Motor Co.
A Talk Given on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour, February 9, 1941
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VII, pp. 300-301
IT is a common assertion that the original settlers of this country came here in search of religious liberty. Specifically, it is made of the Pilgrim Fathers, but it does not accord with the fact. The Pilgrim Fathers went to Holland for religious liberty, and found it there, and enjoyed it to the utmost of their desire, and from thence they brought it here. What the Pilgrim Fathers came here for was economic opportunity.
Gov. William Bradford, in his "History of Plymouth Plantation," which he began to write ten years after the landing of the Pilgrims, settles any doubt that may exist on that point. Bradford lived with the Pilgrims in Holland, and he says that when they came to Amsterdam "they saw fair and beautiful cities, flowing with abundance of all sorts of wealth and riches, yet it was not long before they saw the grim and grisly face of poverty coming upon them like an armed man, with whom they must buckle and encounter, and from whom they could not fly." So they moved to Leyden, in Holland, where they worked at such employment as they could, Bradford himself becoming a fustian-maker, Edward Winslow a printer, one of them a brewer, another a hatter, two of them wool-carders, and so on. Yet so hard was their lot that many who came to them out of England to enjoy religious liberty with them, found economic conditions so insupportable that, as Bradford says, they went back home, choosing persecution in England "rather than this liberty in Holland with these afflictions." Most pathetic of all is Bradford's reference to the burden of that hard life upon the Pilgrims' children,driving some of them to run away as sailors or soldiers. Besides, there was the constant threat of war.
Then, as others have done in every generation since, and millions would be doing now if the gates were open, the Pilgrims came to the New World—to America. They had their religious liberty and that they brought with them, but they had no economic opportunity, they hoped to create that here. This nation had its birth from these and other settlers who felt the burden of economic scarcity and knew its power to blight every level of life. Life is not complete until its kitchen-side, its economic element, is mastered.
That is why we never feel that we are dealing with merely material things nor stressing a materialistic emphasis when we speak of the economic element. Men are not made materialists by the possession but by the lack of adequate material supply. The Pilgrims in Holland were saddened by the devitalizing effect of scarcity on the ideals they tried to inculcate in their children, and all the world has been saddened to see how, under economic pressure and in hope to relieve it, large groups of mankind willingly have surrendered the higher elements of liberty for promises of bread. And, as from age to age History informs us with monotonous regularity, they lose both their liberty and their bread.
Liberty is a trinity. It is the truth that makes men free—the truth in a three-fold relation. It first endows men with a sense of spiritual freedom—the truth concerning man as a living soul—without which it is idle to speak of or hope for any other form of freedom. Spiritual freemen cannot long remain political bondmen—they are bound to discoverand apply the truth concerning the life politic. And having attained these, and living in a manner not too unworthy of them, men begin to enter into economic liberty—the truth concerning things; for things are made to subserve the higher and permanent values of life. Surrender any element of this tri-unity of truth, and a blow is dealt to all.
There seems to be an appointed order in these matters with which we tamper to our loss. It would seem that the economic liberation we desire, and toward which we have been moving for a century and a half, has its roots elsewhere than in itself, and if deprived of the nourishment of those roots, its growth is retarded.
It is no disparagement of the nobility of those who firstbegan to build this country to say that they came here for economic reasons. But it is a reflection on us if we fail to see that only their possession of those other qualities enabled them to set forth so courageously and so completely on the economic enterprise. Such equipment as they possessed never had been present in such balance at the foundation of any nation. And, in time, our economic sense will recognize that. The purpose of things—of all production and all exchange—is to implement political liberation and to serve moral liberation; and these in turn will widen the service of things. It is a great order of development, and it has attained here, not for our sake only but for all the world, the most serviceable "high" in history.


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Recently Paul Checkley, our Clinical Director, was invited as a guest speaker at University College London, Ear Institute for the Masterclass in Advanced Amplification and Rehabilitation. Other contributors included Mezzo Soprano, Janine Roebuck , Guardian entertainments editor, Nick Coleman and Professor Todd Ricketts, from Vanderbilt University in Tenessee, USA. The day focussed on the specific needs of musicians with hearing loss and strategies to implement hearing protection programmes in the music and entertainment industry. Also on the agenda was the latest technology designed to improve the quality of amplified music and tips for clinical audiologists in the assessment and treatment of musicians.
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New York (AFP) – European stocks ran into profit-taking Friday as many investors, wary of global uncertainty and US President Donald Trump's volatile Twitter diplomacy, cashed out before the weekend, traders said.
Bourses in Paris and Frankfurt had posted solid gains earlier in the session after Trump put off a decision about military strikes in Syria, giving investor nerves a welcome break.
Although tensions appeared to be easing, few dared to carry positions into the weekend, fearing they may regret it come Monday morning. Equity markets in Europe finished with modest gains.
"Traders remain cautious heading into the weekend," said Craig Erlam at OANDA. "Given the backdrop of a trade conflict with China and rising tensions with Russia over Syria, any rallies may be somewhat gradual."
Despite the lackluster ending to the week, European markets "have pulled off a third straight week of gains," said Jasper Lawler at LCG, crediting "Trump Twitter fatigue" for the overall resilience of equity markets.
US stocks opened in positive territory, but quickly were under pressure after a batch of earnings reports from large US banks sparked a selloff in financial shares.
Although earnings from JPMorgan Chase and other large banks bested analyst expectations, the sector had risen in anticipation of the reports and the results — while good — were not strong enough to propel the stocks higher, analysts said.
"You had a sector selloff in financials," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities. "When the group started selling off, it took the whole market with it."
"It feels like we just ramped up expectations too much," he added.
US earnings season picks up momentum next week with results from other large banks, as well as from General Electric, Netflix and others.
Analysts are hoping a successful US corporate earnings season will lift US stocks following a rocky period.
The market has been pressured by fears of a trade war, concerns about higher US interest rates and worries about the Trump administration's prospects following myriad controversies and the near-constant churn of White House staff.
Among other markets, oil prices finished at fresh three-year highs after a report by the International Energy Agency highlighted turbulence in Syria in the oil-rich Middle East and the effectiveness of a deal between OPEC and Russia to limit output.
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New York – Dow: DOWN 0.5 percent at 24,360.14 (close)
New York – S&P 500: DOWN 0.3 percent at 2,656.30 (close)
New York – Nasdaq: DOWN 0.5 percent at 7,106.65 (close)
London – FTSE 100: UP 0.1 percent at 7,264.56 (close)
Frankfurt – DAX 30: UP 0.2 percent at 12,442.40 (close)
Paris – CAC 40: UP 0.1 percent at 5,315.02 (close)
EURO STOXX 50: UP 0.2 percent at 3,448.12 (close)
Tokyo – Nikkei 225: UP 0.6 percent at 21,778.74 (close)
Hong Kong – Hang Seng: DOWN 0.1 percent at 30,808.38 (close)
Shanghai – Composite: DOWN 0.7 percent at 3,159.05 (close)
Euro/dollar: UP at $1.2338 from $1.2327 at 2100 GMT
Dollar/yen: UP at 107.35 yen from 107.33
Pound/dollar: UP at $1.4241 from $1.4228
Oil – Brent North Sea: UP 56 cents at $72.58 per barrel
Oil – West Texas Intermediate: UP 32 cents at $67.39 per barrel


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That Hell was born and raised not in some dark and edgy urban enclave but in the rolling hills of Lexington, Kentucky, can feel incongruous. It's too soft, where he comes from—too genteel. Yet having emerged from a region Hell considers a Nowhere—not in the ugly or pejorative sense, but in the empty sense, a place that was just like any other place, a blank place—allowed for wild self-creation later on. These are ideas that repeat for Hell: blankness, voids. He is someone who understands how to make something from nothing.
It was around this time that my father and his friends started a gang. They were all blanquitos from Condado: Yasser Benítez, Claudio LaRocca, Tommy Del Valle, and Juanma Thon. On the night their gang became official, they downed a bottle of Bacardi, then smashed it into pieces and used a shard to cut their arms. Then they rubbed their wounds together, so the blood passed from arm to arm.
Sketches of Tennessee.
From the time I was about ten years old, my mother and I put in our time by visiting with Irma for an hour or two every day. We'd bring her the Enquirer and Star and try to cheer her up by pointing out the most salacious stories and the home remedies for arthritis. Sometimes she'd enlist me to rub her back, and I'd perch monkeylike on the back of the couch, kneading her knots as she growled, "I could hug yer neck fer that."
A new-society vision in Jackson, Mississippi.
Chokwe Antar Lumumba saw Jackson as a last chance. This was a place where long-marginalized black communities could build a new economy for themselves, a democratic and fair society, a foundation for good lives to grow from. In his mind, this black-majority city that sat in the middle of the state with the highest concentration of black people in our country had to be the staging ground for this particular experiment in moving past economic and governance systems that weren't working for so many.
A story by Jesmyn Ward, the third and final excerpt from her forthcoming novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.
The officer is young, young as me, young as Michael. He's skinny and his hat seems too big for him, and when he leans into the car, I can see where his gel has dried and started flaking up along his hairline. He speaks, and his breath smells like cinnamon mints.
We both loved Gary Stewart, and we both loved Grace.
My wife Grace's father was a big man. He wasn't much more than six feet tall, but I think folks thought of him as taller because he carried himself large. He tried being a hippie once, he said, but couldn't abide the non-violence (too many people needed to get their asses kicked). At the first job he ever had, on a ranch, he got a business card with his official title: COWBOY. He kept that card. He wore a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. He had the best hunting dogs in Levy County. For a while he ran a sawmill. For a while he was a watermelon farmer, then a beekeeper, then he raised buffalo on the family farm. That's just a small sampling. His name was John. He went by Chuck.
Wendy Brenner's classic 2005 profile of snake enthusiast Dean Ripa, who died Saturday.
By now I've grown accustomed (and rather devoted) to Dean's rhetorical style—outrageous overstatement, subsequent qualification—but I think I recognize something else, something authentic here: a certain strain of introverted misanthropy that often leads people to commit their lives to animals, something I think I know about from my family. Introverts and loners love animals. It runs the spectrum, I think, from my father's boyhood shyness to full-fledged autism—Temple Grandin and all those like her who understand animals better than people. Whether it's a quirk of personality or a genuine disorder, it's a trait I find familiar and strangely comforting.


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This old children's storybook belonged to my father, Arthur Clark Carmichael, 1905 -2000. It survived years of change, from the days of horse and buggy, the years of the Great Depression, and to our present age of advanced technology. The pages are quite delicate at this time but still hold a charm and story that all children can relate to. A child's first books are long remembered into adulthood. I remember my first books; read to me by my mother or father. The innocent mind of a child truly appreciates the worth of a good storybook.
Where are your family's treasured recipes?
Where are your family's treasured recipes? Where Do I Begin to Create a Family Recipe Book? Begin by planning to research your family's recipes and the favorite meals that have been handed down from generation to generation. Start with the recipes that you have in your possession. You are probably already cooking the meals that were your favorites when you were growing up. These recipes may not be written down, but instead, have been handed down from the previous generation simply by telling or showing how it was done. Preserving these tried and true, old family favorites by writing them…
Summer Garden
The rainy season has begun here in Florida and that means mowing our three acre lawn every week. However, the garden is prolific with flowers and plants that grow in our semi-tropical climate. My husband is the gardener and he loves growing things. In fact, he loves it so much that he can hardly bear to trim and cut and take a sickly plant out. He has a plant hospital behind the guest house where he nurses them back to health. A pastor's heart… Some of our favorites.
Our summer get-away
Our summer cottage in F airfield Co. Ohio is the perfect place for a get-away. The cottage was built in 1882 and still retains much of the quaint and charming interior of those early days. We have upgraded the outside with new siding and windows and a deck on the back that overlooks a ravine. It is not winterized so it is definitely a summer home but a home away from home.
In December, we took photos of our visit to Ohio and to the farm where I grew up, a place I still call "home". My sister Laura and her husband, Steve, still live there and it is always so welcoming and cozy. Laura has a touch for decorating and the farm reflects her style of primitive decor. It suits the farmhouse well. I always leave with a little sadness but I am so glad that the farm is still part of all our lives. It is truly a legacy. The Carmichae4l farm near Sugar Grove Ohio The farmhouse, a…
Winter Memories
In this farm scene, you can see the road that meanders along the Carmichael farm where I grew up. Dad's old hay rake rests unused now, and when I go home, I see Dad there, his rough hands working to provide for his family. That same road brought my husband to me and then…took me away again. Wright took this photo on our recent trip home. It is forever etched on my memory, especially in wintertime.
Autumn scenes…
On the Ohio farm where I grew up, there are always pumpkins for sale. This one was the king of pumpkins SEASONS OF LIFE I cannot return to spring again To plant when sowing days are gone, Nor till the still soft earth of spring When summer suns have come and gone. Lord, help me know my times on earth To work the plan Your hand does show, Oh, let me bring at harvest time A life made whiter than the snow. ©ruthellinger2000
Our Maine Mini-Vacation
The inspiring sea coast of Maine. Our five day mini vacation Enjoy! A place of shelter. The tower is a storehouse of food and water Head lighthouse, picture perfect Flower garden near chocolate shop Memorial to fisherman who dedicate their life to the sea Lobster shack Lobster traps Misty path to the sea Purple Clematis Queen Anne's lace A memory garden Beautiful rocky coast View from the bedroom Another gorgeous sunset A quilter hangs out her quilts in the yard. I loved looking A Scottish thistle among the flowers…just for me I think Looking from our cottage. Sunsets…
Mother's Day Tea
Teatime Treasures The cake plate has a thistle design and makes a wonderful centerpiece Anna and Olivia Vintage treasures Great Grandmother Emma's teapot. Each night she took this to bed with her favorite tea Favorite things The lovliness and fragrance of lilacs When spring arrives, it is time to have tea in the garden beneath the blooming jasmine that has taken over the garden fence and are working its way up to climb the roof. I love the smell of spring, especially the jasmine and gardenia The Colors of spring It is spring in our part of the country…
The Art Shows
During the months of January and February, we have our most delightful weather. The strawberries are ripe and the festivals abound all over the state. Audry's art projects did especially well this year, winning three first place and 2 second places. Here are photos of her latest projects. Audry is 12 years and an aspiring artist. The photos do not do justice to the actual artwork (of course)


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Andrés Santiago is an associate attorney at Noble & Vrapi, P.A. where he represents immigrants in family based cases and deportation proceedings.
Andrés received his B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Temple University in his hometown of Philadelphia, PA, and his J.D. from St. Thomas University in Miami, FL where he also graduated Magna Cum Laude; receiving a Merit Scholarship and Dean's Award for every semester. While in law school, he served as the Executive Notes and Comments Editor for the St. Thomas Law Review, Vice President of the Lambda Law Society, and a Certified IRS Site Coordinator for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program. Andrés quickly developed an interest in Immigration Law and Federal Litigation interning for the Honorable James Lawrence King and various immigration firms.
Starting his career in Florida, Andrés relocated to New Mexico where he has continued to practice in the area of Immigration Law. Fluent in both English and Spanish, Andrés is an asset to his clients, colleagues, and the community appearing on La Linea de Ayuda de Univision (Univision Radio Channel 41) and Radio Tricolor (105.9 KRZY-FM). He is also a part of numerous professional associations such as the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Andrés continues to dedicate his career to immigrant families through his work at Noble & Vrapi.
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She is remembered as a nurse who cared for fallen soldiers during the Crimean War. She carried a lamp at night while looking after soldiers who could not sleep, she would help them read letters from family and help them write letters back.
What many people do not know though, is that from her time in the Crimean War, Nightingale would go on to become an icon of Victorian culture. She would revolutionise sanitation in hospitals and establish Nursing as a profession.
So how did one lady do this? Nightingale was home schooled as a child and had a natural gift for mathematics. She was an accomplished statistician and as a Nursing Manager in the Crimean War she was tasked with reporting to politicians why so many British Soldiers were dying in hospital.
Inquisitive by nature and compassionate, she started to collect raw data at the same time as caring for the soldiers. In 1854, her first winter during the Crimean War, over 4,000 soldiers died - the highest death count of all hospitals in the region.
Nightingale's big challenge was getting her superiors to see the data and understand the problems she was facing. She then needed MPs in Parliament to act on the data. Her fear was that no matter how grim the figures looked, politicians thousands of miles away would simply ignore or overlook the seriousness of the situation these wounded soldiers faced.
What did Florence do? Instead of reporting data in its raw format, she transformed the data and created unique graphs that helped civil servants and politicians to understand the results and visualise clearly that soldiers were dying from infections caught whilst in hospital - not on the battlefield.
These unique illustrations were called "Polar Area Diagrams," or "Nightingale Rose" diagrams, and groups of them were called "coxcomb". These diagrams would be used extensively by Nightingale during the Crimean War to present reports to Civil Servants in London which showed the true nature and magnitude of the conditions of medical care in the war.
Later in her life, Nightingale would be recognised as 'a true pioneer in the graphical representation of statistics'.
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This image above, called the "Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the East," was published in Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army and sent to Queen Victoria in 1858.
This graphic indicates the number of deaths which occurred from preventable diseases (in blue), those which were the results of wounds (in red), and those due to other causes (in black).
The impact these diagrams had was comprehensive. Hygiene standards and sanitation in war hospitals improved massively and as a consequence thousands of soldiers lives were saved.
Her legacy and lasting contribution have been her role in founding the modern nursing profession, but it could be argued that she revolutionised sanitation in public hospitals and private houses; her lobbying eventually helped strengthen the proposed Public Health Bill and that enacted the Public Health Acts of 1874 and 1875. It is believed that this reform had a greater impact on average life expectancy between 1871 and the mid-1930s than medical science had on most fatal epidemic diseases.
Nightingale went on to be elected the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.
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In the first meeting ever between the schools, ETSU held just a 3-point lead with 10 minutes left in the game, but the Buccaneers were able to overcome one of their worst offensive games of the year to pick up a win in the Atlantic Sun Conference opener for both teams 67-60 at Memorial Center. With the win, ETSU improves to 7-7 on the year, 1-0 in A-Sun play, while USC Upstate drops to 2-13, 0-1.
"The most important thing is getting a win," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow, whose team improved to 5-0 at home this season. "We did a lot of good things. We allowed just 60 points, forced 20 turnovers and we held them to 34 percent from the floor. Offensively, we just couldn't make shots. I thought we were ready to play, but you have to make shots. There was a lot of good on defense, but a lot of bad on offense. Obviously, we had too many turnovers."
Four Bucs reached double figures, led by a game-high 14 points and team-high seven rebounds from senior forward Andrew Reed (Port Richey,
For USC Upstate, forward Bobby Davis posted a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds, while teammate Jeremy Byrd posted a game-high 14. Luke Payne and Mezie Uzochukwu each added 11 points apiece for the Spartans.
In the first half, ETSU used a 16-4 run from the 16 to 11-minute mark to build a 22-8 lead. From there, the Bucs basically maintained that advantage thanks to 50 percent shooting from the floor, ultimately holding a 39-27 advantage at the intermission.
In the second half, the Bucs just could not get going offensively. In fact, ETSU would hit just five field goals after the break and allowed the Spartans to get within three points on a 3-pointer by Rashawn Brailsford with left in the game. Luckily for the Bucs, they managed a 7-0 spurt to make it a 10-point game at the mark, and the Spartans were only able to get as close as five points at 55-50 the rest of the game.
For the game, ETSU hit on just 41 percent of its shots, but held the Spartans to 34 percent. The Bucs out-rebounded USC Upstate 36-35, and ETSU was a decisive 25-of-33 from the foul line for a 76 percent clip. The Spartans had 10 steals and forced 23 turnovers by the Bucs.
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You know that we at Clusterstock love a good piece of literature about anything surrounding the financial crisis, so we're having "The New New Deal" by Time Magazine writer Michael Grunwald shipped to us right away.
The book comes out on Tuesday, but we'll hopefully have ours on Monday to share with you ahead of time. In the meantime, we checked out a few blurbs via Politico's Ben White.
Here are some of our favorites:
Pp. 126-128, Grunwald (the author) explains how the behavioral economists insisted that Making Work Pay should be done through decreased withholding instead of big fat politically popular checks, displeasing White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel: "Politically, when you give people a tax cut, you want them to notice it and appreciate it and remember it. This felt like sending flowers to a romantic interest without signing the note. Rahm argued that 'we're denying ourselves an Ed McMahon moment,' the grateful squeal of Publishers Clearinghouse pleasure that would greet an envelope arriving from Obama"
Pg. 336, Romer gets mad after Geithner, Peter Orszag, and Larry Summers kept implying that the bond markets would go haywire and the dollar would go flippety flop unless Obama stopped talking about stimulus and pledged to reduce deficits to precisely 3% of GDP. ... Romer: "I understand that there's a Treasury secretary. I'm tired of having three."
P. 338, Obama tells his team to stop bugging him to make stimulus speeches. "Look, I get the Keynesian thing. But it's not where the electorate is."
We're pretty confident that's not the end of juicy stuff, so when we get our copy in the mail, you'll be the first to hear all about it.


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By Gustavo Alavedra, June 2011
Every summer the streets of Helsinki turn into a blur of colours, rhythms and dancing bodies as samba schools from around the country compete in the annual Helsinki Samba Carnaval. Our videographer joined the party to capture the exotic atmosphere and find out how this Brazilian tradition has settled happily up here in the far north.
The samba event, arranged now for the 21st time in Finland, gathered 20,000 spectators in downtown Helsinki. Over a thousand dancers of all ages took to the streets to show their talents and costumes under the bright northern summer sun. As the caravan wound its way through the city we met Annami Nieminen, a dancer in the samba school União da Roseira and vice member of the board of the Association of Samba Schools in Finland, to find out more about the relationship between Finns and the samba.
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E study of basic human values by psychologists is not new. Probably the best-known theory of basic values in psychology is abraham maslow's hierarchy of needs, which dates from the early 1940s. But the psychological study of values has been growing, in both volume and empirical quality of research, and philosophers interested in ethics ought to know something about it.
Unfortunately, growing though it may be, the psychological study of values is nevertheless not in a particularly advanced state of development. Accordingly, there are multiple, conflicting theories of human values (and corresponding virtues) in the psychological literature. A sampling that I spent just a few minutes pulling together is: braithwaite and law (1985), cawley, martin, and johnson (2000), crosby, bitner, and gill (1990), feather and peay (1975), hofstede (1980), maloney and katz (1976), peterson and seligman (2004), rokeach (1973), schwartz (1994, 2012), and wicker et al. (1984). My impression is that on the one hand there is considerable loose agreement in the results of these studies, but on the other hand the agreement is indeed loose, and there are significant differences between theories, especially when it comes to the conceptualization of the results.
I myself am not well enough acquainted with this research to comment on these differences. What I want to do in this post is just describe the one of these theories that seems to me to be the most serious, ambitious, well-developed, and well-supported, namely the schwartz theory of basic values, due to shalom schwartz (1994, 2012). At the end I will briefly discuss some implications of schwartz's theory for political philosophy.
By values we refer to beliefs concerning what situations and actions are desirable. However, values for schwartz are not attitudes toward particular situations or actions, like having a chicken dinner right now or having $20k in my bank account. He restricts the term value to broad motivational goals. Schwartz sees values as stable standards by which we evaluate everything else, including the appropriateness of any norms, attitudes, traits, or virtues that may be suggested to us. It is also characteristic of values that some are more important than others. Multiple values are normally implicated in any proposed action, for better or worse, and the all-things-considered evaluation of an action will depend on the relative importance of the competing values it implicates.


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2012: A Horrible Year For Chicago Sports
2012 is finally over and it couldn't have come fast enough. In my 27 years on earth I can't remember a more depressing and all around disaster of a year in Chicago sports than 2012. All five of the major sports teams had little to no success and either suffered from collapses, injuries or just... Read more »
Bears Still Hopeful, But Playoffs Still Seem Hopeless
The Bears did their part by beating the lowly Arizona Cardinals in Phoenix 28-13 thanks to the defense returning to form and keeping their playoff hopes alive at least for another week. The score may have read 28-13 but it sure didn't feel like a dominant victory by any means. The offense continued its season... Read more »
With Season on the Line, Lovie Needs to Put Up or Shut Up
It will be around 6:30 PM Central time on Sunday when we will learn whether the Bears have given themselves a chance at the playoffs or if they squander it with a loss to the Cardinals. Should the Bears lose it will also be the official beginning of the "Fire Lovie Smith" campaign. Smith has... Read more »
The Bears Are Closer to Collapse Than Contenders
Another Sunday, another Bears loss. That is the pattern as of late and with the season rapidly winding down there aren't many more Sundays left for mistakes. The Bears lost to the Green Bay Packers for the second time this season and for the sixth time straight. The Packers left Soldier Field NFC North champions... Read more »
The Bears' Defense Is Now A Cause For Concern
In this city we are used to the Bears' defense being the offense of the team. Creating turnovers, scoring plays and leaving opposing quarterbacks battered and bruised. These last few games have shown us a different side of the defense we haven't seen very often. They look bad. Not just bad, but old. Two of... Read more »
The First Annual Chicago Sports Holiday Awards
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Cutler, Bears Go Down To Texans 13-6
It was going to be a tough test for the Bears offense to move the ball consistently against a tough Texans defense. It got even tougher when Jay Cutler left the game at halftime with a concussion. Backup Jason Campbell couldn't jump start the stagnant offense and the Bears fell to the Texans 13-6 in... Read more »
Music City Murder: Tillman, Bears Destroy Titans In 51-20 Rout
When Charles Tillman's football career is over he can always find a job as a teacher. His patented "ball punch" will certainly be a move coaches around the league attempt to integrate into their defensive players' repertoire after Sunday. Tillman flat out dominated the Titans by personally forcing four fumbles as the Bears cruised to... Read more »
The 'Attitude' Debate? Give Me That Any Day Over Another QB Controversy
Going a day without hearing someone talk about Jay Cutler's attitude or demeanor is like turning on the Weather Channel and not hearing about Hurricane Sandy. It ain't happening! The Bears are off to a 6-1 start and look to be contenders for a spot in the Super Bowl but all I have been hearing... Read more »
Why The Bears Are Super Bowl Bound
You may want to start checking for flights to New Orleans in early February. You also might want to dust off those pairs of Zubaz pants in your attic and find a cassette player that can blare the 'Super Bowl Shuffle' because our Chicago Bears are heading to the Super Bowl! You read that correctly,... Read more »


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Self-injury — also known as self-harm — is simply the act of inflicting deliberate injury onto oneself, in order to relieve emotional pain. The most common form of self injury is making shallow cuts onto one's skin, usually on the arm or leg. It is a type of coping mechanism used by a person when their emotional pain is simply too great to handle.
Why do people self injure? Physical pain is more real and a more concrete sensation to experience for some people than emotional pain. By inflicting physical pain, the emotional pain is temporarily relieved.
Self-injury tends to provide a temporary relief, therefore someone who self-injures will often have to continue to do so in order to continue to enjoy relief from emotional pain. Many times when a person self-injures, they do so only when under extreme stress.
While self injury has become more commonplace in the past decade, it is not a common way of dealing with emotional pain. Self injury is more common amongst teenagers and young adults than older adults.
Some people consider taking drugs or alcohol as a form of self harm. Unfortunately, such a broader definition can mean that any behavior taken to an extreme — that is, that results in a person's own harm — can be considered "self harm," even if harm to oneself was not intended (as usually the case with drugs or alcohol, which are primarily used as a method for escape or personal pleasure).
Self-injury is often caused by the lack of more appropriate coping skills. Therefore treatment for self injury focuses on helping a person learn to cope with their emotional extremes using more adaptive coping mechanisms that don't rely on actual physical harm to one's body. This can often start with adapting other less extreme self-injury behavior to replace the usual self-injury behavior (such as cutting). Substituting gripping an ice cube in one's hand, for instance, can be just as painful, but causes less physical harm.


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Not all of us have an easy time accepting our identity, let alone two of them. "To this day," Mr. Nimoy confessed years after the "Star Trek" series had ended, "I sense Vulcan speech patterns, Vulcan social attitudes and even Vulcan patterns of logic and emotional suppression in my behavior." Still, he added, "Given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock."
He is survived by, among others, Mr. Spock, who still lives in syndication, the closest television actors may come to eternity.
Then there are the adventures of the fictional that turn into real-life parody, as when the ever humorless
It was clearly a match made in eco-heaven. The couple in (considerable) question?
Ms. Hayes' record abounds with dubious deals. For example, after accepting
She also accepted a six-figure "fellowship" from another leftist lobby in exchange for unspecified services, whereupon the group's leader was named the governor's highest-paid aide.
Somewhere along the way
Let's just say none of this looked good for the governor or his inamorata. I'm not sure whether their love story now seems more sordid or comic, but it would make a great television series. If it hadn't already been made -- and aired to rave reviews.
It was called "Portlandia."
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Exploring Fitness Directions
So far, some of what we have covered includes energy systems, movement, exercise modalities, sequencing modalities and more. Today we cover how to integrate these together and possible scenarios one can experience by having the right fitness components in your workouts.
How do workout sample programs look?
1. Speed/Power Athlete – training for events that conclude in under 60 seconds (energy system) (modality).
The power athlete must develop the ATP-PC system, or also commonly called the phosphagen system. This system has very few steps necessary to unleash huge stores of energy in a very short period of time, and requires the most steps to replenish and be restored to full capacity. Not only does this this system peak fast and drop in effectiveness very quickly, to develop properly it must be repeated many times. After a maximum of about 6-8 seconds the Anaerobic Glycolytic (AG) system really starts to be noticed. That tremendous "burn" you feel is this system peaking in the 25 to 75 second range. So the power athlete must take this into consideration while training. Shot putters, discus throwers, and Olympic lifters don't have to worry about the AG system, those events last about 2-5 seconds. The 200 meter, 400 meter and 400 meter hurdles, 50 and 100 meter swimming events do have to worry about the AG system. It is quite probable that every event lasting less than about ten minutes will require repeated efforts of intervals.
Picking your modalities is the key, and MUST include the discipline within which you are training; if you are swimming you must swim, sprinting you must sprint. Plyometric exercises are an absolute necessity. Resistance exercise is critical, and should be in the form of repeated calibrated efforts, with a cap on the duration of the effort AND a rest to work ratio from 3 to 1, up to around 20 to one. For instance, when peaking for a 200 meter race, one might be able to only complete one effort every ten minutes at >98%. Regardless of marketing in fitness videos, human metabolic efforts are very limited by recovery time. You can't peak anaerobic systems with a 1 to 1 rest to work ratio, Tabata or not, it can't be done period.
Plyometrics are jumps and throws, and are always ballistic involving bouncing explosive movements. To be effective and peak, times need to be limited to under ten seconds, and rest to work ratios need to be at least 5 to 1, no more than 5-6 sets.
Weights and resistance exercise should be in the form of explosive Olympic style lifts, power cleans, hang cleans, clean and jerks, power clean and jerks, lunge jumps, dumb bell jumps and snatches. To peak, the sets need to be under 7 seconds, since FORM BREAKS ARE VERY DANGEROUS. Your rest to work ratio should be any where from 3 to 1, up to about 20 to 1. Again, you can't peak anaerobic systems with a 1 to 1 rest to work ratio!
2. Power/Stamina Athlete – training for events and sports where repeated high level effort is required, most team sports, racket sports, fighting sports, (movement, sequencing modalities (athletic skill set development), energy systems).
The power/stamina athlete has to train for repeated bursts of effort, sometimes of various duration, and there is usually much more in the athletic skill set to learn. You are learning the subtle nuances of a sport, including rules and regulations as well as technique. All energy systems need to be developed. While the endurance aerobic system is developed in the speed/power athlete, this is merely to enable training and recovery to take place faster.
The power/stamina athlete has to deliberately develop this system, as a derivative of the more important anaerobic systems. Power and performance may be called upon, or face immediate defeat or losing the game for your team mates, an ignominious position. Much of the training from the speed/power athlete applies here, but some 2 to 1, 1.5 to 1, and even 1 to 1 rest to work ratios are necessary. It is very difficult to cover a receiver all game long, always reacting and hoping anticipation can replace some of the effort, otherwise needed to prevent completions and touchdowns.
3. Adventure Racer – Outdoor competition lasting multiple hours (Movement, sequencing modalities (multiple athletic skill set development), energy systems)
First, for this athlete, one must be very clear what events and disciplines are embedded in the event as a whole. Practice will be critical in moving with economic efficiency. The type of training for the power/stamina athlete, will apply here as an adjunct to Aerobic Energy System development. This athlete will find it necessary to have the brute strength to complete tasks, and the endurance to finish. There is a delicate balance between too much muscle mass and not enough. Clearly, too much muscle mass is preferable, since a finish is possible, but if you don't have the strength to climb a rope, your competition may be finished, if completion of all embedded events is an absolute requirement. If not, the question is whether you came overcome the time penalty usually assessed.
The adventure racer will need some periodic multi-hour days in various disciplines once a week or up to once every two weeks, this eclipses the power/stamina workout in importance, yet the power/stamina workout is absolutely necessary. At times there is NO REST PERIOD, since there isn't during the event. Time keeps ticking, whether you are moving or not! The power/stamina work out rest to work ratios, are from no rest to 3 to 1. Plyometrics should be done sparingly, if at all, instead incorporating slower classic weight lifting, that most gym rats are familiar with.
4. Endurance Athlete – Marathoners, swimmers, cyclists, triathletes, ultra endurance, through hikers, trekking. (Energy system, exercise modalities)
With the straight up endurance athlete, cardio is king, but to qualitatively increase exercise capacity and to most importantly tune the skeletal muscles, long repeats, such as 800 meter runs, should be done. Long Slow Distance (LSD) efforts at sub maximal effort levels are important, these need to be done in all of the disciplines in the event. This promotes fat burning, critical to finishing. LSD is not meant to be done at full throttle. You should be able to talk while doing LSD. Your training will have a gap in intensity. Minimize medium and mediocre efforts, so called "junk mileage." At the higher intensities, which should never go into the ATP-PC system, several minutes per repeat should be done, when junk mileage is eliminated that gap leads to almost all LSD training. The repeats should emphasize the slow fast principle, where the second half of the repeat is finished faster than the first half.
It is questionable whether extreme endurance training is something that makes you healthier, evidence suggests it isn't. Thin may be in, but sick or damaged is not. I am dedicated to wellness, which includes health and fitness. Pursuing absolute endurance performance degrades fitness, compromising anaerobic energy systems, muscle mass, flexibility and incredibly sometimes even cardio health! Aerobic exercise is very important, just not at the expense of other weighted variables. If you are able to hike 4 to 5 hours straight with a pack, you should feel satisfied, this is the sort of activity our ancestors did, only now is that called "exercise."
Using the Integrated Athletic System (IAS) system will allow you to engage in these types of training regimens, with some modifications, specific to what you are doing. Elite results requires elite training and carefully considered refinements. The IAS system is the best system for the multi-discipline speed/power, power/stamina athlete or adventure athlete. I have tried many systems, over decades. Only utility and quality was taken from these systems. Where necessary, new sequences multi planar movement modalities and compounded exercises were integrated to produce amazing results. The IAS system is the new way to the zenith of fitness and functional capability.
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Holiday Eating Or Feeding?
Do you remember what you ate Thanksgiving? The average American consumed between 3000 and possibly more than 4500 calories, this last Thanksgiving. Sadly this may not be limited to just this day, have you looked around at your fellow Americans lately? The best strategy to avoid excessive consumption and not insult anyone who brought holiday food, is to take ONE bite, or a partial bite of all dishes, so you can say, "yes I tried your casserole." This is the only way out of sticky holiday situations, regarding food, family, and friends, or don't be there. Remember, most Americans are overweight, obese or morbidly obese. You have no right to expect them to understand your desire to put the brakes on feeding.
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Clemson vs. Oral Roberts Clemson Super Regional – Clemson, SC June 10, 2006
Clemson Head Coach Jack LeggettOpening Comments"The first thing I want to do is commend Oral Roberts because I think they have a fine baseball team. These were probably two of the toughest ballgames we've played back-to-back all year long. They showed a lot of resolve last night and a lot today. Fortunately, our kids matched it. We played extremely tough. You probably saw two of the hottest teams in college baseball on the field this weekend. That's why the games were so close. We want everybody to know how much we appreciate their effort. I'm really proud of our team. I'm very happy for our seniors, assistant coaches, and athletic administration. The university itself is a great support. This win also goes out to our fans. They were outstanding the whole season. To see them out in the numbers that they were at the Regional and Super Regional is a credit to the kind of fans we have here at Clemson. I have a good friend, Keith LeClair, who has listened to every word at home. This one was for him too." On his goals for the team in Omaha"Our goal is obviously to win the national championship. We're going to enjoy this and come back to practice at 2:00 on Monday. We'll get out there and get ourselves ready to go. We're playing a very good team (Georgia Tech) that we're very familiar with. They're an excellent offensive team and I'm sure they know they are looking at us and know they have a great challenge ahead of them too. We're going out there to win. We'll get refocused and get squared away about when we're going to get out there. Then we'll get zeroed in on what we have to do to get the next prize." Clemson Shortstop Stan WidmannOn the go-ahead RBI"I wanted to protect; I didn't want to strike out looking. He just gave me a pitch over the plate that I could handle. I just put a good swing on it and somehow it got through. They had me guessing the whole weekend. When I was thinking slider, they were throwing fastballs. When I was thinking fastball, they were sliders. I was thinking pretty much 'see the ball, hit the ball' at the point. It looked like the shortstop was going to catch it, but somehow it was out of reach." Clemson Designated Hitter Herman DemminkOn the team's toughness"This team has shown that kind of character all year. It's been evident in the past few games. Once we were down 4-0 and we were still in the third inning, coach pulled us aside and reminded us that we played a tough ballgame yesterday. It was big for us to have Taylor (Harbin) come up and get a three-run home run. Luckily, we came out on top." Clemson Winning Pitcher David KoppOn the postgame celebration"I can't describe the feeling. It was amazing. I wanted to go out there and put the team in a situation to win the ballgame. When Stan (Widmann) came up with his hit, I wanted to go out and attack their hitters and throw strikes. I let the defense do the work behind me. It was an unreal feeling (pile-on celebration); something I'll be able to tell my kids about someday." On staying in to pitch the final two innings"When I got the double play in the eighth inning, I went in the dugout and Sully (pitching coach Kevin O'Sullivan) said 'go get it for us' and that's when I knew it was my time to go out and get three outs to Omaha."
Oral Roberts QuotesHead Coach Rob WaltonOpening Statement"It was another battle. Chris (Ashman) really battled today. He has a bad blister on his finger and each inning we were trying to take care of it. He was just trying to give us everything he had. He is a gutsy kid and has great character and heart. With Nick (Jones) unhealthy last night, we had a little bit of bad timing from a pitching standpoint. I was really proud of both of them for the way they competed. They took the mound and just gave what they could. I was really proud of that effort." "The things we've been doing offensively and defensively are what we've been doing all year long. We have really played well. We've just been a little unlucky with some health issues on the mound. Other than that, they were two great ballgames. That is a very, very good club in Clemson. Give them a lot of credit. We just came up on the short end."On sticking with Erik Crichton in the eighth instead of Sean Jarrett"I was debating on which breaking ball was better in that situation. Erik had a pretty good slider going, and Sean's was backing up a little bit, which is uncharacteristic. We tried to get Erik through the inning. We needed to bounce a breaking ball to (Stan) Widmann. We're 95% sure he would swing through it. Every time we put one in the dirt, he moved on it. We were just trying to bounce one short, and it didn't happen. (Erik) left it up. All weekend, when we hung a breaking ball, (Clemson) didn't miss it. We hung way too many. It was a good job by Widmann to capitalize on one in the zone."Chris Ashman, pitcherOn the pitch to Taylor Harbin"I think that was a two-seam fastball. That was not where I wanted it to be. (Clemson) is a great hitting team. They handle the ball well, and I left it over the plate. It didn't run as much as I thought it was going to run, which left it over the middle of the plate and waist-high, and (Widmann) did want he was supposed to with it."Brendan Duffy, right fielderOn what to take from the Super Regional experience"There are a lot of positives to take. I think getting there is a positive. Throughout the game, we got big hits. We had the lead towards the end of the games."
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Will you and your family be ready when the power goes out? Whether two hours, two days or two weeks, power outages can be more than just an inconvenience – they can be dangerous. We want to make sure you know what to do to prepare your home and family so this week's emergency preparedness focus is on power outages.
What to Do Right Now:
1. First and Foremost
Make sure your emergency kit is ready. If you've already read our emergency kit preparation article, you've already got a stash of extra batteries, flashlights and battery-powered radios (and a car-charger for your mobile phone). If the batteries in your kit are old or losing their charge, dispose of them properly and replace them with new ones.
2. Turn up the Heat
If you live in a cold climate, you will need to have a means of staying warm during prolonged outages. For a short period of time, blocking off a single internal room in your home to occupy will help you stay warm. For longer outages, staying warm will become a real concern. If you've got a wood stove or fireplace and enough wood, you will be fine. If not, consider a secondary heater and fuel, such as a propane or kerosene heater. If you do add these to your emergency preparedness plan, make sure you also add a carbon monoxide detector such as the one Frontpoint security offers with their home security systems.
3. Keep on Cooking
Your emergency kit should be well stocked with non-perishable foods. Your refrigerator, however, is stocked with foods that will spoil during extended power outages. If the power is gone, do you still have a way to cook? Whether it's your charcoal or propane grill or a small camping stove, it will come in useful to cook and warm food during the outage.
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Invest in a backup generator. For as little as $500, you can get a small generator that will power some appliances or you can spend thousands to have a powerful backup generator attached that will keep your household running even when the grid is down.
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If you know there's a strong storm system headed your way, there are steps you can take to help you and your family weather a power outage:
- Charge all your portable electronic devices and mobile phones before the storm arrives and make sure your car has a full tank of gas.
- Check your supplies – do you have fuel for your generator or wood for your stove? Charcoal for the grill?
- You can help delay food spoilage by filling up any empty space in your refrigerator and freezer with water in containers.
- Fill your bathtub and other large containers with extra water.
Taking the time to make sure you, your family and your home are ready for a power outage will make getting through the emergency much easier – and safer. In our next post, we'll go over what you need to know to keep your family safe during a power outage. In the meantime, we recommend you visit Ready.gov to learn more about emergency preparedness and how you can participate in National Preparedness Month.


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Through their UnHate Foundation, Benetton is asking us all to "stop hating, if you [are] hating. Unhate is a message that invites us to consider that hate and love are not as far away from each other as we think. Actually, the two opposing sentiments are often in a delicate and unstable balance. Our campaign promotes a shift in the balance: don't hate. Unhate."
Let's look at the campaign.
In what seems to be a bit of a gay panic, Ablow writes "the only psychological interpretation of such ads that makes sense to me as a psychiatrist is that the corporate leaders at Benetton literally believe that homosexual sex between world leaders--or at least homosexuality as an orientation--would lead to world peace."
You watched the video, right? There were some same sex kisses going on--the one that tickled me most were the two women lovers, dressed in a way suggesting they were Muslim, stealing an intimate moment to kiss. Beautiful. Transformative. A message that inspires me to be more than I am.
Where do you suppose Ablow is coming from in his critique? Let's read more.
Ablow has really gone off the reservation here. There is a lot in his argument that is just poppycock. Men kissing, in and of itself, is not homoerotic. Men kiss all the time. Women do, too. I'll be returning home for the holidays soon: I'll be giving my father a kiss. There isn't a speck of homoerotic interest there. When I am reunited with close friends--male or female--I'll give them a kiss. I won't be disrobing and bedding them on the spot. A kiss isn't always about sex. A kiss, often times, is about love. It is about compassion. It is about caring for a friend so much that you wish to enter their space and touch lips to lips (or lips to cheek) and share an intimate moment of the beauty that is human connection.
I'm not exactly sure where Ablow is getting into the motif that marital fidelity, heterosexuality, and faith are the sources of hate. Do you see this in the video? The images of world leaders kissing are shocking, yes, but do you see these images the same away as the celebrity psychiatrist does?
I don't. I see Ablow offering up a hateful spectacle he puts out in the world veiled under the guise of psychiatry. I see Ablow pandering his unexamined viewpoints to the world. I also see Ablow engaging in an awful lot of cognitive distortions. Check out this list and see if you can name the distorted styles of thought employed in the Fox opinion piece.
In his gay panic, Ablow is busy seeing homoerotic imagery hiding in every dark corner, leaping out at him from every closet door, and destroying the universe. I'm no sure he really bothered to investigate the campaign, explore his own reactions to the imagery used, and reflect upon how his responses reflect pieces of his world view and pieces of his own internalized system of homonegativty and heteronormativity.
You forget, Dr. Ablow, that connection, love, and compassion, transforms that which what we are into a thing of beauty and peace.
Ablow has a larger message. It is rooted in his world view. He uses his platform as a celebrity psychiatrist to push his personal agenda--an agenda that is apart from his profession of psychiatry--and apart from the larger group of healing professionals around this country.
It seems that this celebrity psychiatrist is saying here that gay and lesbian people do not deserve respect or decorum. Do you hear that in his words? Do you hear how in his words he robs people--all people--of the transformative power of compassion? Do you hear how in Ablow's words he creates a world of us versus them? Do you see how he treats those he considers "other"?
I hear it in his words. Those words don't belong in the field of psychiatry. They don't belong in the field of psychology, either. How must it feel to sit in the office with Ablow, expose your inner world--your fears of being different or unloved--and have him respond with a system that further turns you into the category of the other.
Shame on him.
I'm reminded tonight of the words of a psychologist who deeply influenced my work. In a letter to her patients shortly before her death, Irene Stiver wrote:
"It has become even clearer to me that love is what it's all about. Not only at this time, but throughout our relationship, I have felt your love and deep caring for me. In turn, I hope that you feel my love for you. My hope is that you will hold onto this love and build on it in your life. Thank you for the privilege of being part of your life."
Do you see outrage here, or do you see love?
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54 total plays
52 guest plays
2 Scirra member plays
38 unique players
36 unique guests
2 Scirra members
Game stats last updated 0.00156000333333333 minutes ago
4 minutes 33 seconds total play time
46 seconds average play length
2 highest number of simultaneous players
Monday, September 14, 2015
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Last night Geekydaddy was bathing geekybaby.
"when should I get him out of the tub?" he called out
"It's not late, so when he's not having fun anymore" I yelled back.
Five minutes later I hear "Help, bring a diaper. Argh, Oh No. Poop in the tub"
As one of us cleaned up the baby and the other sterilized the tub and myriad bath toys I saaid
"The answer to your question should always be, 'before he poops in the tub'"