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You may not have been able to hear them shouting it for all the shrieking about racism, biting or the decline and fall of western civilisation that was no Premier League clubs reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League, but the supporters of West Bromwich Albion Football Club had their best season in more than thirty years last season. Albion hadn't finished as high up the English league system as the eighth-placed finish that they managed last season since 1981, and on top of that the continuing decline of their bitter rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers will have added an extra layer of gloss to a job extremely professionally done.
It probably wasn't supposed to be like this, either. The appointment of Steve Clarke as manager last summer came with inherent degree of chance about it. Clarke had become a professional assistant manager and coach through his previous roles at Chelsea, West Ham United and Liverpool, and there were those who questioned whether he would be be able to make this step up into the higher pressure environment of the manager's seat. These were questions that were answered with room to spare, not lease in terms of his club's handling of the situation that blew up in the club's face as a result of the petulant behaviour of Peter Odemwingie when the club wouldn't give him the "transfer of his dreams" to Queens Park Rangers. Crisis averted. Highly respectable league position achieved.
Of course the problem with such an achievement in your first season is that expectations will start to swell, even though the job of even matching last season's finish doesn't become any easier. In a congested bottom two-thirds of the Premier League, Albion were the best of the rest and to match that isn't going to be easy, but everybody wants their club to be in a perpetual state of progression and the possibility of the pressure starting to rise should the club not get off to the flying start with which they began last season does remain on the horizon. Fortunately, Albion have one of the easier starts to the season that any club has. The opportunity is there to get points on the board early on and bed in for a nice season of mellow fruitfulness in the middle of the table.
The complete imbalance of the resources of clubs in the Premier League can be seen in the thorniest challenge that the club has had to face this season. Albion's top goal-scorer last season, Romelu Lukaku, was on loan to the club from Chelsea and his return to Stamford Bridge this summer had an air of inevitability about it and the club have opted for experience in replacing him with Nicolas Anelka. Now, Anelka comes with his own peculiar form of baggage, but he is a fine striker on his day and the early signs from his performance in the pre-season is that he has arrived at The Hawthorns with his head in the right place. If he can match Lukaku's achievement last season, then Albion might just start to wonder whether they can match or perhaps even better last season's performance.
Other than that, it was a relatively quiet summer for the club, with Diego Lugano joining the club from Paris St Germain, Matej Vydra and Goran Popov arriving on loan from Dynamo Kiev and Udinese on loan and Zoltan Gera returning to the club after a short period as an unattached player following the injury that ruined last season for him. The spine of the team is strong. Goalkeeper Ben Foster has found himself after not quite living up to the lofty weight of expectation that was placed upon his shoulders at the start of the season, Youssouf Mulumbu a rock at the centre of their midfield, and a fine young defender in the form of Callum Jones, who was given an opportunity by Steve Clarke towards the end of last season and may well flourish this time around. Obviously too good to go down – a prediction which may, of course, come back to bite us on the backside come next spring – this is a squad that seems built to consolidate rather than try to set the Premier League alight this season.
And there's nothing wrong with this. After several seasons of yo-yoing between the Premier League, West Bromwich Albion are now seasoned contenders at this level. Exceptionally well run from a financial perspective and now set to cash in as the voluptuous new television deal agreed with Sky and BT Sport starts to kick in, the club may well start to turn its attention to bringing some silverware back to The Hawthorns. Many middle-ranking Premier League clubs may well have watch Swansea City lift the League Cup at Wembley last season with an air of envy. Not all of them, of course, can match this achievement, but West Bromwich Albion are better placed than most. It might turn out, of course, that Clarke decides, as modern fashions dictate, that all that matters is Premier League survival, but if the ambitions of those that do wish to progress beyond last season's final league position are to be assuaged, the domestic cups may off Albion their best chance of further development on the pitch and the possibility of European football.
If West Bromwich Albion are to match the achievements of last season, then they are going to to need Nicolas Anelka to be at his best and, while his absolutely best years may be behind him, his pre-season has been strong enough to suggest that he might be capable of following Romelu Lukaku with distinction. Another season in the middle of the Premier League, wondering what tweaks might be made to try and challenge those just above them in the table, awaits for the club. Steve Clarke, however, beat all expectations when he succeeded Roy Hodgson as the club's manager in the first place and it would feel foolish to bet against him pulling another rabbit out of the hat this time around.
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This is the first Snow Peep
Friday, 15 November 2013
It's Snow Fun!!! Unity Style!
This is the first Snow Peep
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fathers be good to your daughters
My dad turns 65 today.
My dad would appear to be an unlikely role model and certainly not a prime candidate for father of the year. When I was younger, I was determined to distance myself as much as possible from his unhappiness and do everything I could not to be like him. It used to worry me that I am so much my father's daughter. He is complicated, emotional, intense, and moody. His worship of beauty expresses itself in his passion for books, music, travel, and the outdoors.
So much of him, the best and the worst, fell straight into me. Not all bad, but our house lived and died by his moods. There are countless times when his black moods and misplaced anger brought me to tears. His drinking shattered our lives for years. And even when he was sober, he was ridiculously strict and downright Draconian in his ideas about curfew, makeup, and boys.
When I was a little girl, we got along wonderfully. I was a happy chatterbox and a daddy's girl and we'd play silly games and go places together. He'd come home from work and surprise me with presents for no reason. I remember walking into the kitchen and seeing my parents kissing and I'd pretend to be disgusted and they'd pull me into their embrace and kiss me too. Memories made all the more precious because of how rare they are, drowned out by louder, uglier things. The older I got, the more we clashed.
To say that we have had a stormy relationship would be a profound understatement. But it seems that we have finally found the peaceful way of relating to each other that only time, distance, and grace can bring. Anger has finally been subsumed by respect. And I finally told him how watching him survive everything life has thrown at him has taught me the real meaning of strength. He grew up poor in rural South Korea, had to take care of his family when the father he worshiped was killed, and once he moved to the U.S. and had a family, he was again consumed by the role of provider and all of his dreams and ambitions fell by the wayside. Both of my parents' lives are strewn with such sacrifices and lost dreams. Very Joy Luck Club. My dad has battled alcoholism, cancer, and a lifelong struggle with depression. He's been beaten down by life. But he's still kicking.
And even though he's not in the best of health and as grieved as he is by his estrangement from my brother, he's finally found a measure of peace. He spends a lot of time tinkering in the garden and renovating the house. He goes to church and his faith brings him a lot of comfort. He's really…mellowed, there's no other word for it. I was a little worried about how he would react to my breakup but I underestimated him. He was as sympathetic and comforting as anyone could be. He even said girlfriend type things like how I would have plenty of other chances to find love and to follow my heart and wait for the right person who would make me happy for the rest of my life. Shades of Oprah from a man I used to find unbelievably intimidating.
He's changed a lot. He's always been the stereotypical Asian dad, bringing to bear unrelenting academic pressure. It was foreordained that I was going to get a Ph.d long before I knew what that meant. But the last time I was home, he told me that the most important thing was for me to do something that made me happy, regardless of what he or others might want me to do. He said if he could go back and do things differently, he would have taken the time to make himself happy. To have hobbies and go out with friends and have some sort of life, because he knows now that he sacrificed too much and because he was so unhappy, he was in no condition to make his family happy. Something I've known for years.
He's made a lot of mistakes as a father, some of which I know have scarred me, but I also know he did the best he knew how in constantly difficult circumstances. And I know that he loves me and my family unconditionally. In his usual overprotective way, he was so worried about me being lonely after the breakup that he even wondered if my mom should have come to stay with me. And he reminded me that if I ever needed anything, he was just a day or so's drive away.
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Privacy Reforms – What do they mean for the aged care industry?
By Julie McStay13 Feb 2014
Significant reforms to the privacy laws in Australia are set to commence on 12 March 2014. The Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012 (Cwth) (the Act) makes changes to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cwth) (the Privacy Act) including the introduction of a new harmonised set of privacy principles, the Australian Privacy Principles (the APPs).
Generally businesses with an annual turnover of $3 million or less are not required to comply with the APPs. However aged care providers are covered by the Privacy Act and the APPs because they provide a health service to individuals and are an exception to the $3 million turnover rule.
In this article we have set out the basic information you need to know about the changes to privacy laws. This article is not a substitute for legal advice. If you are interested obtaining further advice, obtaining a compliant policy or attending one of our webinars please contact us.
Failure to comply
A failure to comply with the new APPs may have significant consequences for entities. After 12 March 2014, the Privacy Commissioner will have new powers in dealing with non-compliance with the APPs and other privacy laws. Fines of up to $1.7 million for organisations and $340,000 for individuals may apply for serious and repeated breaches of the APPs.
The Australian Privacy Principles
The APPs will replace the National Privacy Principles and the Information Privacy Principles that currently apply to Australian businesses and Australian Government agencies.
There are a number of APPs that are new and significantly different from the current principles that are likely to impact on the activities of aged care providers. In particular, the APP introduces:
- more onerous obligations in respect of the storage of information;
- new rules regarding the collection of unsolicited information;
- new rules about notifying individuals whose personal information is collected by an entity; and
- changes to the rules relating to direct marketing.
There are also significant changes surrounding cross boarder disclosure of information. While these changes will mostly impact those businesses operating internationally they will also affect those providers who use off shore data storage.
The key changes are outlined below:
Open and transparent management of personal information
All APPs must be read in the context of APP1 which provides that you must take reasonable steps to implement practices, procedures and systems to ensure compliance with the APPs. In addition to having a compliant privacy policy, you will be required to take a proactive approach to privacy compliance. This means you may have to upgrade your information systems, collection policies and staff training.
Importantly, the APPs will require entities to have a "clearly expressed and up to date" APP policy. This document should be tailored to aged care providers as it must be specifically account for the types of information collected by facilities (i.e. health information). A "cookie cutter" approach will not be acceptable.
Unsolicited information
The APPs create new rules on how an entity must deal with "unsolicited information." Unsolicited information includes any personal information, not relevant to the entities functions, which the entity did not actively seek to collect.
If you receive unsolicited information then you will be required to "de-identify or destroy the information as soon as practicable". For example, if a prospective resident in filling out a resident agreement accidently provides personal records not relevant to their care or financial position, then this would constitute unsolicited information and should be destroyed.
Notification of the collection of personal information
Under the current privacy principles, an entity is required to inform an individual about various matters, such as, the identity of the organisation collecting the personal information, the purpose of the collection and the rights an individual has to access their personal information. However, post 12 March 2014, entities will be required to provide additional information to an individual such as, whether the personal information will be disclosed to overseas recipients (if so, the location of the recipient), how the individual can access and correct their personal information and how the individual can make a complaint about a breach of the APPs.
The rules about the collection of sensitive information (ie health information) are essentially the same. An entity will only be able to collect sensitive information if the individual consents and the information is reasonably necessary for the entity's functions.
Direct marketing
The APPs now provide that an entity must not use or disclose personal information for the purposes of direct marketing unless the individual has consented or at least been given an opportunity to opt-out.
Security of information
Under the current privacy principles, entities must ensure that an individual's personal information is protected from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. The new APPs will place an additional requirement on entities to ensure that personal information is secure from "interference".
For example, this means aged care providers who hold personal information on computers or other electronic devices must ensure that the information is protected from computer viruses, and other forms of virtual-attacks. Aged care providers should at a minimum review their record security, computer systems, software and information technology practices to ensure there are adequate security protections in place.
Where to from here?
If you have not undertaken a thorough review of your facility's privacy policies and procedures, you should do so because it is likely you will need to make some changes to your systems to ensure you are compliant post 12 March 2014.
Quick steps for compliance
As a minimum aged care providers should:
- Conduct a privacy audit – Review the types of information they hold, how the information is collected, how the information is stored and disclosed, the steps in place for de-identifying or destroying personal information, whether the current privacy policy document is compliant and their staff training.
- Update and review your privacy policy – Ensure you have an up-to-date and compliant APP policy specifically tailored to aged care providers and the types of information collected.
- Review how information is stored – Review your system of storing personal information to ensure the information is secure.
- Update and review policies for de-identifying and destroying information – Ensure you have policies and procedures in place for dealing with unsolicited information or information no longer required by a facility.
- Update and review collection statements – Implement policies on how an individual will be notified that their personal information is being collected.
- Appoint a privacy officer – Appoint a privacy officer, who will be responsible for providing staff training, dealing with complaints and inquiries and monitoring the performance of your privacy policy and procedures. An existing employee could assume the role of privacy officer and it does not have to be their only role. The person who does take on the role needs to clearly understand the organisation's privacy obligations and the steps that the organisation has taken to become compliant.
Hynes Legal and Simply Legal can help you comply. Our privacy policy for aged care providers is available now. If you are interested in the policy, legal advice or in attending one of our webinars please contact us.


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Criminal Justice Degree Online: Criminal Justice Majors
Whether you are inspired by Law and Order and Criminal Minds or whether it is simply a childhood dream come true, a criminal justice major is an excellent choice for a career and an increasingly large number of students are pursuing criminal justice degrees online. An online criminal degree makes for a very interesting course and also helps you make a career where you serve the public.
Major In Criminal Justice: Associate, Bachelors & Masters
You can choose to major in criminal justice with an Associate, Bachelor or Masters Degree. Most US law enforcement organizations require potential employees to have some sort of criminal justice degree. The Associate criminal justice degree online is the quickest way to complete criminal justice courses. For those interested in pursuing their criminal justice majors further, you can transfer your credits from your Associate program to a Bachelors Criminal Justice Degree Online. A bachelor's degree with a criminal justice major will make you eligible for higher paying jobs.
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As criminal justice graduates, you will be playing a very important role in controlling crime within your community. As a result, those with criminal justice degrees online are expected to be of extremely good character with flawless criminal records.
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Sept. 4, 2015
At approximately 9am today and unidentified male threw a suitcase off the rail of the Pedestrian Bridge which crosses over to the airport onto North Broadway and into the traffic below. He followed his suitcase over the rail and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Is that how it happened?
You saw the guy jump? Jessi, 30-year-old rent-a-car employee -- looks incredulously at the car wash employee from behind the Hertz counter.
The Do-Dah Man
Working off a quad injury on the elliptical – third floor – empty gym. Oh, yeah, except for the guy behind me which makes me kind of nervous like I wish there were more mirrors in the gym so I could see what's going on behind me.
I got my one hour run playlist playing on my headphones. Runnin' Down a Dream. I will survive. Jump on top of me baby. Truckin'!
60th Anniversary
My father wheezes now –it is sort-of-a deep down in the
lungs hissing, like a train or some white noise that my sister had once mistook
for a radio. This is what is left of his 45 year smoking habit which ended
about 20 years ago – he is 89 years young.
He isn't as reluctant as he used to be to take your arm when
you walk beside him on uneven terrain. He can't golf anymore, or read . . . but
the first thing to go was his horseshoe throwing ability. His fingers crippled
in an arthritic freeze – escher-like but not as pretty. He drops things because he can't grip. His
fingers fail to grasp and his food often ends up in his lap or on the
My mother shaves him, but then she has participated in the
shaving ritual I believe long before he really needed help shaving. I remember his face dotted with bloody
toilet paper even when I was just a little girl, staring at him in God-like
admiration across the breakfast table.
My mother also cuts his toenails. They are an ungodly shade
of yellow – a shade that would look much prettier on a wall and less pretty as
a growth underneath the bed of the nail of a small pinkie toe. But then, he has also been fighting this
growth of fungus ever since I can remember. There was always a can of athletes
foot spray near the base of his lazyboy.
This was the place where he would also kick off his running shoes, put his feet up and snooze in between golf
tournaments and Laker's basketball. My
mom would bring him coffee or something
cold to drink. A sandwich. Anything he
wanted because that was what she did in between her 50 hour a week job as a
bank officer, cooking all our meals,
baking on Saturdays, watching us play basketball and softball. It was just what
she did. He asked and she served. And
she never complained or asked for anything in return. Even when she lost a
breast to cancer – hours out of the hospital, I imagine her still bringing him
his sandwich and a glass of cold lemonade. Maybe not.
But the thing I notice more than anything else on this trip
– this trip to Mesa to celebrate a 60th anniversary – is his shoes.
His shoes irritate me. Everything else looks the same. Same tall slender frame,
slightly stooped, but not too much. His colorful Scandinavian print sweater ,
khaki's cinched around his tall skinny frame with a brown leather belt and
reading glasses that hang on a cord around his neck – the same glasses he is
always looking for. But the style of his shoes has changed. No longer does he
wear a favorite pair of Nike's or New Balance, a colorful athletic shoe with a
swoosh or logo – he is now wearing black patent leather nursing type shoes with
Velcro enclosures. Old man shoes with the Velcro straps that little boys wear
before they learn to tie their shoes or old men wear when they can no longer
master that art that they learned when they were little boys. Either their
backs don't bend as far or their fingers are no longer limber enough – it's
like we start with no hair. We end with no hair. We start with no teeth. We end
with no teeth. Our first shoes have Velcro enclosures – and so do our last.
Later on, though, I watched my father – the same man who
looked horribly wobbly and imbalanced walking across the lawn, play pool in his
Velcro shoes. Muscle memory, I imagine, years of balancing with feet wide
spread across the expanse of that green table came back the minute he picked up
that cue. He couldn't tell a stripe from
a solid. Sometimes he couldn't tell the cue ball either but somehow, some way,
he made his shots. Not shaky or teetering. His arthritic fingers found
themselves at home around that stick – and he shot with conviction as that of a
young man wearing shoes that laced with a swoosh that could still kick off an
easy two mile run before throwing the ball around with me and my sister in the
My father wheezes now. He can't read or play golf or
horseshoes or . . . but for now he can
still play pool and for now that seems to make him (and me) feel a little bit better
about those Velcro shoes.
Blog 09-15-13
Two women came in my store on Saturday. One of them was a
regular customer whom I always considered quite beautiful – tall and stately.
Very kind and gentle. Soft-spoken. I had estimated her to be about my age, but while talking at the register discovered
her to be a bit (surprisingly) older. She had a great-grandchild. A GREAT
I registered my surprise and asked her what her secret was.
She told me it must be her wrinkle cream. I said "Really? How long have you
been using it?"
She looked at me with her head kind of cocked like she was
thinking real hard. She smiled wryly and said "oh . . . about three days!"
I laughed. And so did she. I told her she looked just as
young and beautiful three weeks ago pre-wrinkle cream . . .
Later in the day I had another brush with beauty . . . one
might say.
A much younger woman came in the store. Hmmm . . . I would
guess her age to be early 20's. She was in the store with another equally
attractive woman about the same age.
They were immaculately and stylishly dressed for a Saturday afternoon in
a Minot bookstore – and something, I can't really explain, told me they were
from out of town.
As she was explaining to me that she was Fargo-nian she
handed me a card that explained why she was in town. It seemed that she was selling some kind of
band that you put around your stomach that miraculously erases all your fat and
cellulite. Also, as the picture attested, besides giving you six-pack abs it
also gives you a tan. WOW! She was a snake-oil salesman! A real walking/talking
info-mercial in my own little bookstore.
Short of pointing to the door and saying out out out (she
did buy something, after all). I also had the desire to grab her and shake her
and tell her to get a real job and stop selling crap. I thanked
her and threw away the card after she left.
I was exposed this day to two, at first glance, beautiful
women –one who was 70 who knew from those extra years of living that when
someone tells her she is beautiful that it isn't
the wrinkle cream – and one woman who was 45 years younger ( with flawless
skin) who looked at me and thought my 54 years of living didn't teach me
ANYTHING about beauty (not to mention snake oil).
There is a moral here – as I often try to find
the moral in all small encounters in my life. "Truth is Beauty! Beauty is Truth!" What better place to encounter this than in a
bookstore . . .
A simple drive to the store has not been the same since the summer of 2011.
You think everything is fine, just going about your normal business-- and out of the corner of your eye you get the quickest snapshot of someone else's life.
Today the snapshot came from behind the Arrowhead Shopping Center -- one of the hardest hit areas of the flood. I turned just in time to see an elderly woman just inside the doorway of very small and older home, with a broom, sweeping the dust and debris out of her home. Only there was no door. The doorway was now a giant rectangular swath cut out from where the door used to be. On the front steps a stooped over elderly gentleman stood talking to a younger man.
In that moment I wish I was a photographer with a camera. Such a candid black & white post-flood recovery picture that would make -- more than 1000 words encapsulated in that space of that oversized doorframe.
It was obvious that they were trying to fix up their house. They had probably lived in it most their lives. It was paid for. It was all they had and wasn't it bad enough that they lost all their perennials -- iris and tulips and several trees that they had raised from seedlings well over 20 feet tall when the waters came -- but now they have no door. And the wind blows. And the dust gets into the corners. And the warped floors have become coated with brown sawdust and white sheetrock dust and the black mixture of mud and dust from all the strangers that continually come in and out and under that doorless entryway.And this is all I can do, she thinks. Sweep. It keeps her from going crazy. It gives a meaning to the horrific destruction of her life. The simple swish swish of the broom pushing the dust outside the door to be picked up by the wind and be brought back in -- much like the continual rolling of the boulder up the hill -- She has become Sysiphus, sentenced to an eternity of useless efforts and unending frustration. Only, she is not frustrated. She is doing what she knows best at this moment in time. Keeping the dust out of her house. Keeping house! And, in so doing, reclaiming her house with a broom as her own and as something still worthy of claiming.
She is, one might say, quite regal with that broom in hand. The broom becomes her scepter, proud queen of her own domain -- her only domain -- door or no door. It is hers. It is, rather, theirs. And they have worked their entire lives for this particular home on the corner of N. 16th St. She isn't about to let 7 feet of water take that away from her or muddy up her entryway.
And all this, we see, with a simple drive to the store!
(In Reference to Amazon Paying Shoppers to USE Main Street as a Showroom on Saturday Dec. 10)
Today, you have a choice. You can shop here, (naked and barefoot and with your pet toy poodle if you want) and pay sales tax and support your local economy or you can shop an out-of -state on-line retailer that doesn't support or care about your local economy or community. BUT, one choice we will NOT ALLOW AT MAIN STREET BOOKS IS YOUR CHOICE TO BRING IN YOUR AMAZON Price comparison APP AND USE IT to compare prices and then get paid NOT TO BUY HERE but TO purchase from AMAZON. WE ARE NOT A SHOWROOM FOR AMAZON. If AMAZON wants to pay you $5 FOR YOU NOT TO PURCHASE FROM US -- it JUST means that our MESSAGE to SHOP SMALL is WORKING against their own CORPORATE GREED and EFFORTS to close down your favorite local businesses . . .
More people are EMBRACING the SHOP LOCAL message. INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES have seen a MARKED growth. People are making their choice and are starting to UNDERSTAND the Price our country is paying for CHEAP (aka Amazon).
Today, you still have a choice. SHOP LOCAL and support the community you LOVE or let GIANT corporations like AMAZON drive your shopping habits to the point that there are no MORE choices and NO MORE LOCAL to SHOP
News flash . . . Magic City is losing its luster.
Where do we begin to tell this story? Was it the proliferation of big corporations that "The Magic Fund" sought to, and successfully wooed into our midst?
Was it the shortage of housing that this proliferation of workers brought into our community?
And finally, was it the deluge of water that came with the 2011 flood that washed away the last sparkle of a community that valued family and home above all else?
I imagine I could go on and on. I kvetch about the injustices done in our community from the people I love to the people I barely know to families that I feel for although I have never met. And I have no answers.
I do know, however, that my ideal community values core family tradition above growth and prosperity. My ideal community sounds like childrens' laughter, smells like backyard family barbecue and looks like Main Street at Christmas time.
I drive by Oak Park every day on my way to work. Past the vacant houses -- standing ghostlike, some skeletal and others with open doors and broken windows, piles of belongings still sitting alongside curbs. They lie waiting for the first snowfall to bury what was left of the lives that they once contained. Few have signs on the lawns "I'm Coming Back!" Some have FEMA trailers filling up the back and front yards where children once sang and played. There are no hopscotch marks on the sidewalk and the only bikes lay in the rubbish alongside the curb.
I drive by Oak Park every day. "America's Favorite Park!" which just received a grant for $100,000 from Coca Cola to rebuild. I voted. I voted about 100 times for my favorite park. But, I am afraid the question has not become "Where will the children play?" the question has become "Will there be any children left to play?" Let me add this to our growing list of the "Haves and the Have Nots" in "The Once Magic City." Have parks! Have not children to play in them!
My daughter, a single mother, was fortunate (or so we thought) during our recent flood disaster. Living in a manufactured home park, Talbots, she was fortunate to find a mover to have her trailer moved the night before the waters hit the park.
We thought we did everything right during this disaster. We stayed in contact with the owner of the court during this disaster hopefully waiting to go back into our lot when the park was re-opened. The owner continually gave us vague answers about the future of the park.
Last week I drove through Talbots and noticed that all the damaged trailers had been removed and that some heavy equipment was present. Knocking on several doors in the area I was given information that the park had been sold and through more research contacted the gentleman who bought the park to inquire about moving back in.
Again, I got vague answers. He informed me that there would be no lots available for manufactured homes and that he was putting in "Apartment Type" structures (another "Man Camp?" What about a displaced mother and children camp?). He was friendlier when he told me he did have some homes for sale in Robindale if we were interested in purchasing a manufactured home. Out of curiosity I went to see what $60,000 can buy you in a trailer court in Minot. After discovering the cracker jack crap people are trying to sell displaced people because people have no choice due to the non-existence of lots we exercised our other option: apply for a FEMA trailer.
According to FEMA my daughter does not qualify for a trailer because her home sustained no damage. Granted, the lot was destroyed, she was evicted without notice and she now has a $500 month trailer payment for a trailer that can't get hooked up anywhere because all the lots have been purchased by out-of-state interests or are being taken up by FEMA for "Temporary" housing. FEMA states that it is their goal through temporary housing to get people into permanent housing. Wouldn't it be in FEMA's interest to have some of those lots for people who have permanent housing and no where to permanently put their housing.
I call every trailer lot in the county weekly. There is nothing and they tell me that the doors swing open and shut all day long with people begging for a lot.
I suppose my daughter and her children could live in their home without heat, water or sewer throughout the winter and blame FEMA for freezing to death . . . but they have family and it seems that that's about all we can count on during this disaster.
There is a greed and corruption that is slowly permeating our community that began with the oil, has filtered through to the property owners (landlords) and that attempts to send our women and children into the streets. Somebody's profiting off this flood. It is not the daughters or the grandchildren of our community. And it's ugly. And it's wrong. And no one seems to care!
This month the Souris River, flowing through my hometown of Minot North Dakota, broke a century old record – with water flowing over the dikes, thousands were forced from their homes.
I was one of the lucky ones. My business, Main Street Books, was spared by two city blocks. My current house, sitting on ten acres, was spared by twenty miles of highway. Our new house, which we are slated to close on in three short days, was spared by another two city blocks. The people I know and love in this city weren't so lucky!
The new homeless in Minot include three employees, a large percentage of my customers, my daughter and three grand-children, my step-son and his wife, and many friends to include two women that, if I was 16, I would refer to as my BGF's.
But this year I turned 52 and, despite my age and throughout my life, I have found the relationship of "girl friend" not only a hard one to consider – but also the hardest of my relationships to nurture. Prioritizing time for friends hasn't been an easy or socially comfortable part of my personality.
The warnings about the flood came while I was on vacation in California. Struggling mightily to save my daughter's trailer, I called one of my best friends, Jeanine, and asked her about the situation in Burlington, a tight knit community that was right in the path of the flood. I had helped Jeanine sandbag her Burlington home when the first wave of evacuations and warnings came a month earlier. She had no reassurances for me. I had none for her.
Last minute pleading found a home mover who finally acquiesced to "work all night" in order to find the time to move my daughter's trailer up and out of the flood plain.
I returned home on Tuesday to find road closures, the city overtaken by National Guard and a 24-hour local newscast detailing river projections, crests, dam release CFS , as well as a town filled with U-Hauls, campers and flat-bed trucks full of the worldly possessions of people who were destined to lose everything else that they couldn't contain in that small space of mobility.
Thankfully, the altruistic nature of North Dakotans is unsurpassed. Regretfully, there is also a survivor's guilt that has creeped into my consciousness– and perhaps the two go hand in hand. This makes it easy to run down the block to help sandbag a neighbor, yet difficult to call your best friend and ask how she is doing – especially when you know you were one of the lucky ones.
I didn't call my best friends. Which isn't to say that I didn't cry when I saw the videos of Jeanine's city Burlington go under. Which isn't to say I didn't hyperventilate or search for her cell number in a dozen different ways when I saw the videos of Heidi's section of town -- only rooftops peeking above the raging river. I just didn't call them. I didn't know what to say! I felt guilty! My house was dry! My business was dry! I had a home!
My first contact with Heidi came the following day by way of Heidi's husband, Joe. Joe stopped by the bookstore to check on me. Me. Mrs. High and dry. While he talked on the phone to Heidi, relaying my messages to her that if she needs anything, anything at all "please let me know," he had a message for me that stopped me short: Heidi says she loves you!
I think I had a split second deer in the headlight look and then quickly regained my composure . . . "I love her too!" I finally sputtered. He relayed my reply to Heidi – while I quickly looked away, in the sudden realization and shame that this was the first time I had ever told a friend I loved her. How many men, in my life had I pledged that kind of devotion to?
A couple hours later, Jeanine called me, expressing her apologies for not having the time to help my daughter and also expressing concern for all the women on our softball and volleyball team that lost their homes. I assured her that I was here for her and apologized profusely for not calling. Survivor's guilt. I knew also that she had lost her home and yet she didn't mention that fact.
"I love you," I told her.
"I love you, too!" she responded, without the hesitation – the hesitation that I had exhibited just hours earlier.
52 years of living and not once have I said those three simple words to a friend.
Today I said it not once, but twice, to my two best friends in the whole world.
Today I can stand out in the middle of the road outside the door of my bookstore and see the river rushing through the town where there was once homes and businesses and families and baseball games and zoos and fairgrounds . . . all gone. But I would also see something else in that torrent of water that is destroying homes – I would see those rivers tie us closer as a community. From Jeanine in Burlington, living in a camper outside a schoolyard – to Mrs. High and Dry Bookstore owner me – to Heidi's submerged home down river – there are those three words flowing rising from those murky waters. "I love you."
And that, my friend, may not be enough. But for today, that may be all we have.
When is enough enough?
Three years of the worst winters ever -- record breaking snow, snow melt, rain, moisture, saturation -- AND NOW THIS!
Roofs peaking out through the river. Water creeping up Central toward Main Street. The Niess Impression's building sandbagged to the windows and still losing the battle.
An 85-year-old woman being dragged from the only home she has known for 60 years. Single mothers sleeping in shelters with their four children-- one a baby! A single pink child's lawn chair disappears quickly down a raging river!
Walking south toward Niess' Impressions today to see if they needed help sandbagging, I hung around a little bit, caught a national guardsman's attention to see if there was anything I could do: they were filling up Tesco Barriers with sand throughout the downtown area . . . I was told that the family was told that they had to leave the building and were expecting six foot water up to the walls.
I slowly wandered away -- watching the surreal activity: roads blocked, people meandering, piles of sanbags abandoned . . . when I heard a noise behind me. When I turned a National Guardsman, one who I recognized as a regular customer of mine, was running toward me with a big smile on his face -- "It looks like the bookstore is going to be okay!" He beamed . . . and in the midst of all the chaos around me I am reminded of a bright spot.
"The Bookstore is going to be okay!" And it matters. Just like it matters that many things aren't going to be okay. Can I count my blessings as century old buildings crumble and disintegrate to dust? I will try. Maybe tomorrow, or the next day, I will try. And in the meantime it is nice to know that there is a guardsman out there who is fighting to save our town who is counting my blessings as his own--at least until I can count my own. Thank you!
When people stop caring about each other. Then, and only then, will enough be enough.
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Kanawha Project Introduces Climate Change to Interdisciplinary Faculty and Students
Madison Koenig
March 20, 2014
When it started in 2007, the Kanawha Project focused on introducing Ohio University faculty to environmental sustainability topics that they could incorporate in their classes. Now the project is moving in a new direction.
"The overall goal of this project is to build climate change literacy," said Nancy Manring, an associate professor of political science. She co-leads the project with Lorain McCosker, outreach coordinator with the environmental studies program at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs.
The project is a collaboration between the Voinovich School and University College.
Following a similar model from Emory University, Manring and Michele Morrone, director of environmental studies at the time, ran the project in its first year under an 1804 grant. McCosker soon joined the team and they successfully applied for a two-year grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, which helped them expand to the regional campuses. Manring and McCosker received a second 1804 grant in 2010, which allowed them to invite more faculty members and begin including student scholars.
Now, the organizers are incorporating a specific focus on climate change as a part of their sustainability education.
This round of the Kanawha Project began in December, when faculty and student participants attended a day-long workshop at the Voinovich School. Presentations introduced the issues surrounding climate change, including its impact at international and local levels.
This semester, participants meet every month for learning communities that each focus on a different topic. In January, Ryan Fogt, assistant professor of meteorology in the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed the science behind climate change. In February, participants toured the Lausche Heating Plant and learned about the operation of the coal plant and its upcoming transition from coal to natural gas, then met with local author Jeff Wilson to talk about energy conservation and efficiency. The meeting in March will be led by student scholars.
Students' initiative is a key component of the Kanawha Project. Sara Sand, a freshman studying engineering physics, heard about the project from an older student who was a participant last time. She is interested in studying alternative energy, and thought this project would be a good opportunity for her to learn more about the issues surrounding the topic.
"It's a cause that I'm passionate about, and any chance that I get to share that with other people and spread that news on campus and improve our campus in that way is really exciting to me," she said.
The scholars are planning to reach out to other students and educate them about climate change issues. On Friday, March 14, they began a project to showcase support for environmental responsibility. They have begun taking pictures of students and faculty holding a white board with their reason for caring about climate change and thoughts on preventing it. They will present this campaign, along with other efforts by members of the Kanawha Project, at the 2014 Student Research and Creativity Expo on April 10.
Faculty participants are also a key element in the Kanawha Project, and they come from a range of disciplines, including communication studies, English, sociology and mathematics. McCosker said that the interdisciplinary aspect is one of the biggest draws for faculty participants.
"Faculty love this project because they come together out of their disciplines," she said.
Manring added, "Each time we've done it, the project has such life and vibrancy because it's such a great opportunity for diverse faculty members to interact."
The interdisciplinary aspect was certainly a draw for Molly Gurien. For Gurien, the most valuable part of the Kanawha Project is the interaction with other professors and the opportunity to learn about all of the resources Ohio University has to offer.
"We were not just learning more information about climate change, but also different ways to better communicate this information with students and across campus, and also learning about different resources," she said.
The instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences teaches a class called "Conservation and Biodiversity," and hopes to include more information about climate change's impact on plants and animals after participating in the Kanawha Project.
You might not expect a doctoral candidate in creative writing to have much in common with Gurien. However, Maggie Messit, a nonfiction writer who has worked as a journalist in South Africa, shares her passion for the environment. She teaches a class called "Writing about Environmental Sustainability," a junior-level composition course that introduces students to different writing approaches to environmental issues, from poetry and songs about coal mining to government documents detailing the impacts of acid mine drainage.
"We explore the importance of storytelling in educating people about these issues," she said.
Messit encourages he students to think about how environmental issues intersect and impact each other, and she hopes to use the information and resources from the Kanawha Project to better explain how climate change interacts with other environmental issues.
McCosker noted that although the project has changed over the years, it still finds support from the Ohio University community, in terms of both participation and financial support.
"We're very pleased that the University continues to fund these projects," she said.
Manring agrees, saying that the support has allowed the project to grow in new directions.
"We've received three 1804 grants over the years; that says something about the value of the Kanawha Project," she said.


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Dawn Meehan, Corinne Kaplan and Michael Snow of the Bikal Tribe compete in the Immunity Challenge during the seventh episode of SURVIVOR: CARAMOAN – FANS VS. FAVORITES, Wednesday, March 27 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. #Survivor. Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS© 2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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British oil major BP failed in its attempt to halt payments from a commercial fishermen's compensation fund, after alleging some of those named as suffering losses since the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill do not exist.
A US Federal court denied BP's request to stop payments from the $2.3bn (€1.7bn, £1.4bn) fund, as the company alleged that some individuals who supposedly suffered commercial loss from the spill did not exist. BP argued that the $2.3bn amount was inflated, as more than half of the 40,000 victims represented by attorney Mikal Watts are not real.
The company added that Watts used fake Social Security numbers and other fraudulent documents in the compensation scheme.
The company has already paid more than $1bn from the Seafood Compensation Fund to the victims, and it wanted the second round of payments suspended.
However, district Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans, who is overseeing litigation related to the oil spill, said a suspension of payment is unnecessary.
Barbier added that most of Watts' clients were deckhands and other workers who were usually employed on a temporary basis with little or no evidence to prove their past employment and losses suffered. They are not likely to get a large percentage of the $1bn-plus amount remaining in the fund, according to him.
"They were at best the tail wagging the dog. Maybe the flea on the tail wagging the dog," Barbier said.
"They were significant in numbers but not significant in value as far as I can tell."
BP's Rising Costs
In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the BP-owned Macondo Prospect, which spilled oil into the surrounding Gulf of Mexico waters over a three month period.
Eleven workers on the rig died in the explosion and environmental devastation slicked its way through the waters, poisoning marine life as well as a number of clean-up workers and Gulf of Mexico residents.
BP has been hit by a number of civil and criminal litigations from people and businesses affected by the spill.
The company's cumulative total costs from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill hit $42.7bn at the end of 2013, leading to a significant decline in the company's full-year profit.


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A Review By: The First Post
The following review by Danny Graydon appeared in The First Post, the free and independent daily current affairs magazine, on 23 September 2008.
Funny peculiar: One of comics' greatest strengths is that no subject is off limits. Anything can be explored: superheroes, the Holocaust, philosophy, opera, relationships and - as Paul Gravett's novelty tome The Leather Nun… helpfully teaches us - lesbian unicorns (yes, really)! In this highly enjoyable and often eye-opening jaunt through the outer reaches of comics' weirder moments, mythical gay horses are just the tip of the iceberg. With more than sixty equally mad examples, highlights include the ultra-patriotism of Reagan's Raiders (led by Ronnie himself), a sweet, blonde girl fanatically devoted to Nazism, Trucker Fags in Denial (which speaks for itself) and an exploration of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's (exceedingly) troubled youth. Non-PC heaven.


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Miss Teen Donaldsonville Tamiko Stroud and Miss Teen International Louisiana 2013 Bria Virgil are escorted by Vincent "Cy" Tortorich.
On an ideally brisk Saturday afternoon, the annual Christmas parade rolled through Donaldsonville.
Volunteers and employees of the Donaldsonville Fire Department bring Christmas cheer.
With an "Ugly Sweater" theme, the celebration featured several community groups, representing local schools, clubs, and organizations.
The Lowery Middle School dance team performs.
Local resident Murray Walker, of the Community Outreach Ryders, organizes the annual parade.
Event organizer Murray Walker is all smiles as he trails the parade in a cart.
After the parade, the group hands out toys and bicycles to the children of the community.
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Ryoya Takashima's videos are not only great for cooking inspiration, but it's also some of the most 'oddly satisfying' things on the Internet so far. You can learn how to make various Japanese dishes, such as anpan, teriyaki bowls and soba noodles, in ASMR mode – what else could you want?
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I have an experiment for you all – go to the Control Panel on your computer and click on Ease of Access Center >Make the computer easier to see>Choose a High Contrast color scheme. Now pick a high contrast setting, hit apply and try to use it all day as you do your work. Report your results in comments below.
Do you remember the first time you saw Hi-Def TV? And how it took time to adjust to looking at it? Maybe it made you slightly uncomfortable or even a little nauseous. Have you ever had sea-legs, when you step off the boat and you feel that world is just not moving right? How about a swirling-drunk head where your visual perception changes? You know that annoying tingling sensation you get in your lip when the Novocain from the dentist first starts to wear off? How about that feeling of a moment of stupid – when you see someone you know, but you can't remember their name? Oh, wait, I know – do you find it particularly hard to communicate over IM sometimes when your friend writes a disjointed, cryptic sentence and you don't know whether they meant to emphasize one word or another, which would completely change the meaning?
Now imagine that somewhere inside your head there is a trigger that someone else has their finger on, and without warning it could go off at anytime, allowing all of those sensations to hit you at once, all over your body. Boom! Then times the intensity by one hundred or so and pass out. This is what a seizure is like.
Maybe you are at work, in the middle of sex, driving, caring for your child, grocery shopping, out with friends, or home alone with no one to help you. You won't see any of this coming. It will just hit you one day and you realize your life will never be the same again. There is no going back. There is no cure. This is it – you will be constantly wondering when it will happen again.
Then imagine for a minute, that you could take a magic pill that would take it away. But it would take away other things too – shapes would change; colors would change; words would be hard to find; emotions would no longer have associations or meanings. Nothing you have ever known or experienced in your life would seem quite real. It would be a shallow, flat, and desolate experience. I wish I could tell you more, but how can I tell you the shape and color of Mozart? I could say that his music is substantially blue and green and to the left and down and to the right and up and then behind you. Rachmaninoff, on the other hand, expands from the center of your head, just behind your jaw is orangish-reddish-peachy and swirls at the edges. Not just one song. All of their songs. I can know something was written by Mozart without ever having heard it before – it's like recognizing the face of someone you know in various photographs even if you haven't seen that particular picture of them.
Synesthetes do not know that anything is "wrong." They recognize their synesthesia early in life but without external input, they will not realize that what they are experiencing (colors, tastes, sensations) is unique. In the eyes of a color-graphemic synesthete, her synesthetic percepts are shared by the whole world. When the synesthete does recognize that he or she is doing something unusual, he or she may be reluctant to discuss what's going on for fear of being labeled a freak, shunned, misunderstood, accused of lying, or even diagnosed with a mental illness. It is common for a synesthete to remain silent about his or her synesthesia for decades until a magazine article or radio program makes the synesthete realize that she's not alone and he's not crazy. – synesthesia project
A study done at the Center for brain and cognition, UCSD, La Jolla, suggests that S2 receptors for Serotonin play a major role in syensthesia. http://cogns.northwestern.edu/dbrang/images/Brang_MedHyp_2008.pdf
Keppra has a strong effect on the inhibition of S2 receptors for Serotonin.
Autism and epilepsy occur with synesthesia more often than chance predicts.
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This is the most bland, colorless, tasteless dish I can think of to give you a taste of what a world without Synesthesia is like. Don't worry, I hear it's very healthy for you. This is how I experience the world now. Not too exciting.
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I have this named Catching Summer because this was the last week I get to be a bum and so it was literally catching up my summer 2013.
By the way, this is what I wore during the TOMS Event and when we ate at Bulgogi Brothers.
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Fireplace Mantel Jazzed For Spring
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Spring has sprung and soon it will be Summer! Fireplace Mantels are thought of often during the cold months, but sadly neglected during the warm ones. Don't neglect your mantel! Take it on as an easy creative challenge. Introduce pops of bright colors (greens, corals, oranges, blues, and for the uber daring…PINK!) Use accessories, artwork, botanical prints, living walls — whatever you chose, have it make a statement just as it would during the holiday season.
We LOVE how the designer used bright paint to jazz up the logs in the fireplace in the below photo! If looking for a larger pop of color try a garden stool like the one from Emissary in the collage above (may also be used for additional seating). Pull out bright colored books and stack them in baskets in or around the fireplace. Don't forget pillows for your sofas and chairs to tie in your Springy vibrant colors!
Lastly, if possible, bring some lighting near your fireplace to provide year-round ambiance. Cheers!
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The auction began April 9 and will continue through April 30.
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Silver Key is a non-profit agency serving thousands of senior citizens in Colorado Springs and outlying areas.
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Gunter-Wolff Gallery, 2605 W. Colorado Ave., will hold a public opening of ceramic artist Jerry Rhodes' second annual raku exhibition, "Rhodes Raku Rendezvous," Saturday, April 21 from 6 to 8 p.m.
The exhibit ends May 15. The gallery is open Wednesday through Monday. The phone is 520-9494. The website is www.gunterwolffgallery.com.
Eric Cefus has been named executive director of the Catamount Institute.
The non-profit environmental agency has offices at 740 Caramillo St. (inside the Beidleman Center), where it specializes in science-based nature programs for schools.
During a 19-year career, Cefus has held several management positions in engineering and sales; most recently as international business coordinator for Sturman Industries in Woodland Park,
Since 2006, he has been a member of the Catamount board of directors. The current board consists of Julie Francis, Ted Worcester, Charlie Campbell, Jennifer DeCesaro, and Ann Zwinger (director emeritus).
The Community Partnership for Child Development (CPCD) will host an "enrollment event" for its free preschool and infant/ toddler programs Thursday, April 19 from 1 to 4 p.m. at its Westside headquarters, 2330 Rob-inson St.
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OPC Connectivity with Nova BioProfile 400
March 7, 2008 – Finesse Solutions, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, a manufacturer of measurement and controlsolutions for life sciences process applications, and Nova Biomedical, Waltham, MA, a world leader inbiotechnology process monitoring announced the first TruBio™ OS plug-in for OPC connectivity betweenTruBio™ OS and Nova BioProfile 400, 100 Plus, Basic 4 and Basic 2 analyzers. Both companies confirmed that a TruBio™ OS plug-in for OPC connectivity to the Nova Flex is currently in development.OPC (Openness, Productivity and Collaboration) has become the de facto standard for data exchangein process control systems. It has been adopted by the majority of the control system manufacturers inthe bioprocess industry and has proven to be a reliable method for sharing information across differenthardware platforms.
Automatic data exchange using OPC between a lab analyzer and control system reduces errors andtime delays of manual sampling, and provides automated reporting of results. It also allows the controlsystem to adjust process parameters without a 24/7 operator presence, and, in the event of processalarm conditions, alerts off-site personnel and/or takes automatic corrective action.This level of integration enables direct consolidation of off-line lab analyzer results into existing historicaldata collection, automates batch report generation, and creates a complete electronic record. Printouts ofstandalone analyzer results do not have to be manually attached or tracked with electronic batch reportsthat control systems already provide.
"Taking advantage of OPC connectivity between Nova analyzers and the Finesse bioprocess controlsystem will improve quality and yield, while reducing operating costs. For example, programming a Novaanalyzer to automatically standardize an in-situ probe, or using the resulting sample data in real-timecontrol algorithms, will increase both process understanding and control accuracy," stated Dr. MarkSelker, CTO and co-founder of Finesse.
"By redefining the standard associated with offline data to include complete integration and the value ofthose data as they are applied to the bioprocess automatically, Nova and Finesse continue to provide thecutting edge technology required to bring the biotechnology industry into a new era of effectiveness andprofitability. The value lies in the actions upon that information. Nova and Finesse provide the complimentto each other's technologies thereby allowing our customers real-time benefits that, until now, wereimpossible." says Bob Fox, Director of Sales.
About Finesse Solutions, LLCCalifornia-based Finesse Solutions, LLC, leads the way in developing new measurement and controltechnologies, in order to enable the transition to single-use systems, bring new capabilities to existingbioreactor platforms, and harmonize global bio-process information transfer. Our current product familyprovides comprehensive measurement and control solutions for upstream processes in the biotechand pharmaceutical industries. For more information, please visit us at www.finesse.com.
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text: Samuel Mareel is a postdoctoral research fellow for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the department of Literary Studies of Ghent University. He holds an MA and a PhD (2007) from Ghent University. He is currently working on two projects: (1) Text, Space and Ritual. Dutch Poems Posted in Catholic Places of Worship (1400-1600), and (2) Transcultural Critical Editing: Vernacular Poetry in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1450-1530. Other research interests include 16th C. Bruges, Habsburg literature, orality and manuscript in the early age of printing and literature and the visual arts. Samuel Mareel is a member of the Young Academy of Belgium.


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Monday, June 16, 2008
Women and lesser animals
4 comments:
- CK Dexter said...
The "unfairly advantaged" idea is a bit silly--as though the human species would be wiped out by the animal world--but the more general implied point seems comprehensible: what motive do I have to accept a moral obligation to another who doesn't grant the same obligation to me? Humans _could_ choose not to eat yet to be eaten, but why should they (without appealing to a non-Hobbesian kind of ethical framework, of course)?
- June 18, 2008 at 7:19 AM
- Kinch said...
I'm not sure that Hobbes's argument that dominion over children resides in the mother is so terrible. He seems to have in mind his idea that if someone has the power to determine who is sovereign, then the person who has that power of determination is the actual sovereign, unless or until he or she relinquishes that power by transferring the sovereignty. If the mother can effectively deny any purported father's claim to dominion, then she has control over the would-be sovereign, i.e. she is the actual sovereign.
On the main point, wouldn't the Hobbesian construal be that humans can always kill or domesticate animals because humans have a natural right to do whatever they judge conducive to their self-preservation? A natural right can only be alienated by covenant or contract; there can be "no covenant with beasts" (Lev. 14.22); therefore between them animals and humans have no obligations that infringe on the state of nature situation in which they are allowed to do whatever they judge fitting for their own preservation. I commit no more wrong in killing the lion than the lion commits in killing me.
- June 26, 2008 at 8:09 PM
- Hobbes today said...
Surely those who can determine who has power need not themselves have power. The 5th justice of the Supreme Court who tipped the scale in 2000 as to who would be president did not thereby exercise the powers of the president.
- August 12, 2008 at 11:01 PM
- Hobbes today said...
But back to the main point, CK's concern that humans have no motive to accept obligations toward lesser animals because they cannot reciprocate, I worry that the requirement of reciprocation is too strong. Human infants cannot reciprocate, and never will, unless we extend them a huge courtesy (for which they will owe us forever.) That is the Humean idea of justice.
To Kinch's point, it is true that humans can have no contractual obligations to beasts, but that doesn't mean that they can have no natural duties (for instance to refrain from cruelty) toward beasts. By the right of nature they are permitted to do whatever they sincerely judge necessary for their preservation, but I see no licence for them to enslave and exploit non-human animals willy-nilly and at their pleasure.
This is why I am impressed by Hobbes's comment about "unfair advantage." Even if all I said above is true, it remains the case that for humans to pull their punches against animals who cannot reciprocate the same consideration may place humans at a relative disadvantage.
The question is whether Hobbes is right or wrong that this fact gives humans a free pass to do whatever they please to non-human animals. (Enslave them, strip their fur for fashion, eat their fat livers for gustatory excess.) I see no law of nature that permits this.
I cannot imagine how it possibly could.
- August 13, 2008 at 8:53 AM