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Spike: A bear! You made a bear!
Buffy: I didn't mean to...
Spike: UNDO IT! UNDO IT!
Want to make a bad situation worse? Add a bear!
Just as monkeys and penguins are guaranteed to make something funnier or cuter, bears have a knack for scaring the crap out of everyone. Polar and brown bears are the largest extant land-based predators in the world (The African lion is slightly smaller though stronger physically), with a penchant for aggressive behavior, might be a reason for that (polar bears, the largest of bear species, can weigh up to 1500 pounds and have been known to hunt walruses and beluga whales). Because of this, throwing a bear into a scene is the best way to let the audience know that our heroes have gone beyond rock bottom and are now totally screwed.
It's also a great way to raise the credentials of your villain or Anti-Hero if you give them a bear. Especially as a mount, because there's nothing more cool than riding a bear.
... Except maybe a robot bear or zombie bear, or a bear made of fire or ice. Or a shark, or a crocodile, or a wolf pack, or bees, whose honey is bound to attract the bears.
Note that this trope only seems to apply to adult bears. Cubs are treated in the same way other cute cuddly animals would be treated.note Pandas as well, regardless of age. Polar bears also tend to get a bit less of a bad rap than brown bears and black bears; their prominence in shows dealing with their vulnerability to melting ice caps makes them The Woobie in some people's eyes. note Ursine Aliens can also invoke this.
Compare with Grumpy Bear, where a bear can't get the respect it deserves, and Mama Bear, where the bear will make things worse for you when you mess with her cubs.
Contrast Pandaing To The Audience; though giant pandas are indeed bears (and not related to raccoons as originally believed), and are as tempremental in reality, they tend to be portrayed as a lot more cute and friendly.
Bears have such a long history of scaring the Pooh out of human beings that most of the names we've ever given them are derived from conciliatory euphemisms, as part of an old taboo against naming something so dangerous. The English word 'bear' originally meant "brown one", and the Slavic word medved originally meant "honey eater". The original Proto-Indo-European word such words are avoiding was related to the word for "harm" or "injury", proving just how ancient this particular Primal Fear is.
Do not confuse this with the gay slang for a big hairy Manly Gay guy, who are mostly not scary. In Australia, you should watch out for Drop Bears.
Subversions of this would be Beary Funny and Beary Friendly, or perhaps a teddy bear, but even then...
Originally named "Everything's Worse With Bears", but the community decided a pun on the film title The Bad News Bears was better. Not to be confused with Bearer of Bad News.
Truth in Television. Being between a mama bear and her cub has been justly described as the most dangerous place on earth, but any number of bears can be very dangerous indeed.
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Simple Machines announces the release of SMF 1.1.11, addressing multiple vulnerabilities found in SMF 1.1.10. Also for those still using the SMF 1.0.x branch, an upgrade to 1.0.19 was released. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible.
Upgrade automatically by visiting your administration center, where a notice will be displayed prompting you to upgrade. Click the link, confirm the changes and your forum will be up to date again. Additionally, you can upgrade using the package manager by downloading the attached patch, uploading it to the package manager, and applying it as prompted. For help with this refer to the Package Manager section of the Online Manual.
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Anybody upgrade to 1.1.11 yet .. not seeing it in package manager as yet ...
Try it now, not all scripts had been properly updated yet :)
I just used the package manager to update my 1.1.10 test site, worked just fine
Good Job on the new release ^^
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Should I go back to school now, or wait until my toddler's older?
My son's 2. I'd like to begin my undergraduate degree, but wonder if I should wait until I've had another child and they're both old enough to go to school. Or should I get started on it now and delay having our next baby? The course will be demanding and runs for at least three years. It would be easier to manage with one child. But I don't know if a five- or six-year age gap between children is what we want, either. I'm 30, so it's not as simple as saying 'you can do it when you're older.' Please help.
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I had just started my undergrad. when I found out I was pregnant with my first son (now 6 yrs. old), I took a semester off when he was born and then went back. I loved college and even joined a sorority (where they loved and spoiled my son and he was allowed at meetings and they were very good to him and supportive of me). I had a wonderful support system at home, in my parents. And my son has not suffered for it, in fact, I think he's better off for having seen me have the courage to continue to go to school and get my degree. I was in my next to last semester in graduate school when my youngest son (1 yr. old) was born. The semester had only been in session for 5 weeks when he was born but I was determined to go as long as possible as I didn't have much further to go to graduate. He was born on a Friday, I took the following week off from school, then went back. My mom took care of him for the couple of hours I was at school, and I only went to school three days a week, until he was old enough for daycare. He has not suffered for my having gone to graduate school (and have now graduated). He's done well and the daycare was and is a wonderful daycare. So, I say that if you feel that it is what you want to do and you feel that you are able to, then I say jump in. It's like getting into a cold pool, sometimes you gotta take a deep breath and jump in with both feet and in no time you'll be warm and having fun.posted 02/12/2007 by Chaddy99
I started my master's program when I was 7 months pregnant...it was EASY when he was an infant, but now that it is able to go and do - it is harder. BUT you have to remind yourself that the time you do get to spend with them is important - so take the time you have to work on your school work and do it and when you have time with your baby, make it JUST time with your baby!! My son is over a year now and I have 2 classes to go - I didn't stop taking classes and I have kept going - now that I am at the end, I am glad I did it now and not later!!posted 02/18/2007 by a BabyCenter Member
I say go for it now! You can choose how many credit hours you can handle with the children. Why wait to start? Even if you are taking one class at a time, you will still be on your way to finishing. I started college long, long ago. I have been going pretty strong at my elementary education degree now for about two years. I have 3 children - 5, 4, and 18 months. Sure it is stressful and a ton of work. Most nights I stay up late doing homework after I put them in bed. It's so worth it though! You can definitely do it. I go full-time now - only 3 classes to go!! Just start out slow and maybe take one or two classes at a time. If you feel like you can handle more, then go for it. Good luck!posted 02/18/2007 by pinkie30
I say, Go for it. I recently started taking classes again. My son is 13 months old. I was taking an online class when I found out I was pregnant( May 2005). I am taking my prerequisites for nursing school. My husband is also in school 2 nights a week. We both work full time jobs. I am 30, husband 33. I am sure we will face this dilemna as well. But I know I am going to continue school no matter what. It can be done. You have to have good self discipline and be very organized. My husband and I want to have a second child before we get much older. It is all about bettering yourself and your life.posted 02/13/2007 by calvinsgyrl2
If you believe in yourself and you have a strong support system you can definitely do it. I have a 15-month old whom is the center of my world but I also have a full-time job and I am studying for my graduate degree part-time. It's definitely hard at times but I just keep pushing forward knowing that I am ultimately doing this for my son. My husband is my rock. As long as you have that support system set up there is nothing you can't accomplish!posted 02/12/2007 by little kevin's mommy
I am 25 years old, have a 2-year-old and one on the way. I am also a full-time student and I work part-time. This semester, I'm only taking 6 hours, but I knew that if I didn't make myself go and I took the semester off, I probably wouldn't go back in the fall. It's hard, it's demanding, but I feel that it's worth all the work. I think what makes my situation so hard is that I'm a single parent. Luckily, I have a mother that supports me 110%. My son goes to daycare 3 days a week and is with my mom the other 2-3, pending on my work schedule. My biggest bit of advice is to have a good support system. My best friend started school again last fall, she is married and they have a little girl that will be 3 this summer. Her husband told her that he would be supportive in the beginning, but now, only one semester later, he's acting like he really resents her for being in school. I think a lot of that comes from him wanting to be in school himself, but he works to support them. I guess I'm lucky in the sense that I don't have anyone that is holding me back like that. Whatever you decide to do, good luck. It may be tough, but it's not as bad once you get into it.posted 02/14/2007 by KrystaJune
Being a teacher, I am required to take more classes to renew my license. I plan on going back to school full time in an on-line masters program designed for currently working teachers. I have a 20 month old and am expecting my second in October. If you use your children as an excuse to not get your education now while they are young, it will be more difficult for you to go back as they get older and involved in more activities. I say go for it now and good luck (but I didn't say it would be easy because post secondary work is never easy)!posted 03/01/2007 by greenlem
I actually had the same problem. I am graduating and getting my associates this may but I wanted to continue and get my BA in Psychology. So I did some research and found an online college that offered degrees fully online. You could get your degree fully through on line classes but you had the option of going to the college for classes as well. I dont know where you live but the college is Mercy College and they have several locations. Maybe you could check into it. It is a great option because you can go to school while still being able to stay home with your children.posted 05/15/2010 by Bobbie Rae C
It is possible. I was pregnant while going to school and am still going now that she has turned one. It is not an easy task but it can be accomplished with a supportive family and especially time management!!!posted 02/14/2007 by kieragianna
My daughter is 22 months and I just put my noticed in at work and I have never been happier. Working full time (45+ hrs) and taking 2 classes online while trying to make time for my daughter was stressing me out. I applied for a federal education loan and it payed for a year worth of tuition. I am a vetern so I am going to do school full time and using my montgometry gi bill to pay the bills. By working part time also, I can afford to spend more time with my daughter and get my bachelors in under two years. I never thought it was going to be possible when I had my daughter. There are ways just don't be afraid to look at options and research.posted 02/13/2007 by Caffine
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Is a Carbon Tax a Good Idea? >
A Carbon Tax Should Be Included in a Deficit Reduction Deal
A carbon tax will address greenhouse gas pollution and bring in revenue
December 10, 2012
The carbon tax is a "two-fer" that would give businesses and households a better price signal to guide their decisions about energy use and raise revenue as part of a balanced deficit-reduction package. So, if you think that we should address the environmental damage caused by greenhouse gas pollution, and if you think that revenues have to be part of any sustainable agreement to stabilize deficits and debt, the carbon tax is a good idea.
A carbon tax is not most people's first choice (except among economists). Fear of the "tax" label was surely one reason why policymakers pursued "cap-and-trade" in their initial efforts to address greenhouse gas pollution. Many environmentalists are not as confident as economists that businesses and households would change their behavior sufficiently under a tax to make a difference; they prefer the certainty about the amount of emissions reductions that a cap seems to provide. But a cap has its own uncertainty—namely, how costly it might be to keep emissions under the cap.
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The decisive advantage of the carbon tax, however, is that it is starting to get into the conversation, while cap-and-trade is not.
Most carbon tax advocates want to use the revenues not for deficit reduction but instead to cut other tax rates judged to be more costly to the economy, fund energy efficiency investments, or provide rebates to consumers that offset the higher energy prices. We at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, for example, think it's very important that policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions don't impose additional hardships on the poor or drive more people into poverty; we have worked hard to ensure that climate legislation includes robust protections for low income people.
Adjudicating these competing claims in a stand-alone carbon tax bill would be very difficult and deficit reduction could well get short shrift. But in a larger deficit-reduction deal, the dynamic could be different. Carbon tax revenues would not be earmarked to specific purposes, so some policymakers could embrace a carbon tax in the belief that it allowed more significant tax reform than otherwise would have been possible, while others could adopt it as a way to protect entitlement programs.
There is little evidence that the carbon tax is on budget negotiators' radar screens yet. But maybe it should be.
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Force Using Closest Estimate
will signal Vivify to assign the closest estimated birth date calculated when conflicting dates prevent it from establishing a clean estimate. This will result in less than accurate estimates and should only be used when want all persons to be resolved regardless of their accuracy.
Assume Flourishing For All Vendor Specific Event Types
allows you to specify that any events of an unknown event type that occur while a person is living also occurred while the person was flourishing. This is useful if you've added new event types to your database. Do not check this option if you use these new event types for children.
Export Updated GEDCOM File
Vivify now supports adding the birth date estimates to your database, and exporting the updated database to a GEDCOM file. When selected, the resulting GEDCOM file will automatically be presented for download, and then deleted after. Users who choose this option will need to verify for themselves that the resulting GEDCOM file meets their needs. The easiest way to do this is to view the differences between your original and the downloaded file to make sure no other changes have been made. Besides adding the estimated birth dates, Vivify will also make corrections to line lengths as a normal course of exporting a GEDCOM file. Users should always retain their original file as a backup. The exported file is available "AS IS", no warranty or guarantee is provided.
Maximum Child Baptism Age
is the maximum age at which a person was baptized or christened as a child. Adult christenings are not considered in this context.
Minimum Marriage Age
is the minimum age that a person could have been married. Betrothals and Contracts are not considered in this context.
Maximum Wife's Marriage Age
is the maximum age at which a woman could have been married.
Maximum Age Between Spouses
is the maximum number of years of age between spouses.
Minimum Child Bearing Age
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are the range of ages within which a woman could bear children.
Minimum Flourishing Age
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are the range of ages that a person is considered to be an adult and would be found containing adult attributes and events such as Nobility Title or Occupation.
Maximum Age (Life Span)
is the maximum age at death of a person.
Maximum Event Age Error
is the maximum error expected between an event and their known age. A common phenomenon in genealogical records results in persons being listed at the time of an event with an age that is not accurate. Making this value too narrow may prevent Vivify from being able to resolve conflicting dates preventing it from establishing an clean estimate.
Ian, I emailed you links to your report and modified GEDCOM file.
Make sure to backup your existing GEDCOM file before replacing it and please do try to verify that the new GEDCOM file did not stomp on any other data besides the estimated birthdates. I generally test mine using one of the many freely available text file difference checkers.
Bonkers will find all sorts of issues including duplicates using the loop checker. It will also list persons whose birthdates could not be estimated.
Hi Tim,
I have submitted 'mull.ged' again this morning (Monday). Thought it would be just as quick than setting up yet another account. Would be good to receive an updated GEDCOM file but would be more than happy to receive an update report.
Do I take it that your duplicate loop check program would identify more possible duplicated after the estimated birth dates have been added.
Many thanks for all your help and assistance.
Best regards,
Ian, I can use the last GEDCOM you uploaded, or if you want to upload something larger, you can put in a dropbox or a copy.com box (see my link on how to create an account and get extra space: http://timforsythe.com/blog/how-to-get-20gb-free-cloud-storage ) and share a link with me via email (email@example.com) so I can download it.
I use estimated dates for the same purpose and yes it is a pretty intense algorithm. I just implemented a simple duplicate loop check ( http://timforsythe.com/blog/detecting-ancestral-loops ) which just walks a persons ancestors recursively looking for a reference to themselves.
Hi Tim, Many thanks for your prompt reply. 'I would like to automate offline batch execution, but haven't gotten to that yet. ' Know the feeling only too well. One of my tasks was to calculate missing dates of births and place an 'Estimated' date against those records that I could reasonably accurately calculate a date. The objective is to try and identify possible duplicate records of which I know I have a good few. Then I saw your program and thought it would save me a good bit of time writing and testing a program. The longer term objective is to move the data to a MySql database from the existing Microsoft Access database. Currently I use Cumberland Family Tree program to maintain the data. It outputs a GEDCOM which I read into a program which I wrote that outputs the GEDCOM as an Access database. I then use .asp script to display the data. No commercial program will handle the searches needed. Being mainly scottish names I need to be able to display both 'Mc' and 'Mac' spellings regardless of the surname entered. A similar problem exists with forenames in that a good number are interchangeable ie Sarah and Marion and James (English/Scottish) and Seamus (Gaelic). Have cracked this issue by using lookup tables. So cutting back to the chase, I would be grateful if you could run Vivify against my GEDCOM file offline. Please let me know how I can get the GEDCOM file to you. Best regards, Ian
Ian, large databases can take quite awhile to run, using server resources. I would like to automate offline batch execution, but haven't gotten to that yet. If you would want me to run a larger database like this one offline, I can, just let me know which tool to run and make sure you've setup your config. If the database has not yet been uploaded, then send me a link to where it can be downloaded. I'll email you a link to the report when complete. It may take a day or two depending on how busy I am at the moment. I usually run batches over night.
Would be great if the program handled larger files. I have a database of 56k individuals many of which have the same or alternative names and / or surnames. One way of identifying possible duplicate entries would be to estimate their dates of birth and then sort. Records are available for viewing at www.mullgenealogy.co.uk


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MetaPath is a tool for the analysis of metabolic pathways and associated visualization of experimental data. Built on the MetaCyc database, it provides an interactive map in which multiple pathways can be simultaneously visualized. Multiple annotations from the MetaCyc database are available, including synonyms, associated reactions and pathways, and database unification links. Metabolomics change data can be imported via simple CSV formats for visualization on targeted pathways. Pathways can be mined and removed algorithmically to identify key regulated pathways within a given dataset, providing a simper route to metabolic functions.
SQL::Yapp is a Perl module which embeds SQL completely into Perl. It checks SQL syntax at compile time and fully parses SQL to allow usage of any Perl scalars, arrays, and hashes in an intuitive and safe way. It makes SQL injections virtually impossible while making you feel as if SQL syntax were native to Perl.
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jEncrypt is a commandline file encryption archiver. Files are encrypted with the AES-CTR mode, which was recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2001 (NIST SP 800-38A). AES-CTR mode only provides confidentiality. It requires a message authentication code such as CBC-MAC to ensure an encrypted message is not accidentally modified or maliciously tampered with, which jEncrypt currently does not provide.
osis2epub is a a program that converts a Bible text stored in Open Scripture Information Standard (OSIS) format to an EPUB book. The resulting eBook can then be read on various eReaders or converted to another format. Conversion to a simple text format and to a collection of HTML files with an accompanying stylesheet and file list (for direct viewing or subsequent conversion) is also supported.
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Mother Jones Falls Short with 'My Summer at an Indian Call Center
by Guest Contributor Kirti Kamboj, originally published at Hyphen
Mother Jones recently published "My Summer at an Indian Call Center," which looked at the other side of the "these people are stealing our jobs!" outsourcing scenario. It was written by Andrew Marantz, an American who spent a summer in India and took a training course for call center agents, and focused on his experiences during this training and his views of the industry. Some parts were interesting, such as the strange and amusing anecdotes from his cultural training bootcamp, and it provided a much needed counter to the idea that the current system of globalization brings greater happiness and prosperity to everyone.
Points like this were particularly insightful:
Call-center employees gain their financial independence at the risk of an identity crisis. A BPO salary is contingent on the worker's ability to de-Indianize [16]: to adopt a Western name and accent and, to some extent, attitude. Aping Western culture has long been fashionable; in the call-center classroom, it's company policy. Agents know that their jobs only exist because of the low value the world market ascribes to Indian labor. The more they embrace the logic of global capitalism, the more they must confront the notion that they are worth less.
But its critique was ultimately limited, full of over-generalizations, and at times contradictory. Below are four reasons I found it so, and why I would hesitate to recommend this article.
(1) Near the beginning of the piece, Marantz quotes a 2003 Guardian article which states: "The most marketable skill in India today is the ability to abandon your identity and slip into someone else's." It's factually correct that this is a marketable skill, but by labeling it the most marketable skill the article is overreaching. It also fails to make a distinction that few Indians overlook. Namely, that there's very little money that a middle class urban Indian can earn by slipping into the identity of, say, a villager in Orissa, or a farmer in rural Nigeria. The marketable skill is the ability to slip into an affluent Westerner's identity.
By itself, this is a small omission and overgeneralization, but there are similar ones throughout this article, forming a pattern indicative of a lack of awareness or concern for the underlying hierarchies that govern many aspects of a call center employee's life, as well as a lack of nuance.
(2) The most interesting, as well as most questionable, parts of the article were those which talked about the cultural training call center agents are required to undergo. In this training, Marantz says,
trainees memorize colloquialisms and state capitals, study clips of Seinfeld and photos of Walmarts, and eat in cafeterias serving paneer burgers and pizza topped with lamb pepperoni. Trainers aim to impart something they call "international culture" — which is, of course, no culture at all, but a garbled hybrid of Indian and Western signifiers designed to be recognizable to everyone and familiar to no one.
While in this instance learning "international culture" is obviously corporate doublespeak for "If you sound too Indian, you'll be fired," to claim that there's no international culture seems similar to the claim that white people have no culture, especially in its glossing over of underlying hierarchies. The point of this culture training, it must not be forgotten, is to give the Indians at these call centers names, accents, mannerisms, and cultural signifiers that help them to pass for Westerners, to circumvent the "protectionism" instincts of the callers. This isn't a melding of two cultures into something no one is familiar with; it's the attempted erasure of one to avoid instigating the anger and scorn of those from the other.
Furthermore, to say the signifiers of this "international culture" are recognizable to everyone and familiar to no one is to imply that the playing field is equal, that there's no hierarchy in the making of said signifiers or in the awareness/consumption of them. It glosses over the history of colonialism as well as current economic inequalities, and implies something that's partly disproven by the author's own experience: that an American, walking into a call center recruiting office, would have the same chances of being hired as an Indian.
Marantz further exacerbates this by characterizing call centers, where Indians are pressured to pass as Westerners, as "one of the largest intercultural exchanges in history." And the unacknowledged irony is that in this globalized world, it's Westerners such as Marantz — who have spent a semester in Nepal, or gone through some call center training, or have had their jobs outsourced — that largely define for international culture what it means to be an Indian call center agent.
(3) The author makes statements that seem factually questionable, such as the following:
Every month, thousands of Indians leave their Himalayan tribes and coastal fishing towns to seek work in business process outsourcing, which includes customer service, sales, and anything else foreign corporations hire Indians to do.
Most workers in the BPO industry, of which call centers form a part, are not from Himalayan tribes or coastal fishing towns, but are "urban English-speaking youths". One of the prerequisites of working at call centers, as Marantz himself states, is complete mastery of English, which is difficult to achieve in most schools to which Indians from Himalayan tribes and coastal fishing towns have access. Here, it seems like Marantz is trying to shove the lives of call center agents into a certain assimilation narrative — ambitious young men leave their traditional communities to make a name for themselves in (increasingly Westernized) cities, and in the process lose their identity — whether or not all the facts fit.
There are two other problems with this. The first, to paraphrase Charles Ramirez Berg, is that this assimilation narrative endorses the very system it sets out to criticize, because the only happy ending sends the ethnic/non-Western Other back to where he began, leaving him to cope with the negligible opportunities that exist for him there. The second is that it presents an oversimplified, binary view of the world. This is also evident in other parts of the article, where Marantz makes quite sweeping generalizations. For example, when describing a call center trainee, Marantz writes, "Growing up in rural Haryana, Nishant got his picture of the world from grainy Sylvester Stallone movies on a neighbor's TV. Like all the boys in his village, he dreamed of living in California."
For many young men and women, particularly those living near poverty, globalization has displaced nationalism as an ideal. For them, success is defined not in climbing local hierarchies, which can be quite rigid, but in bypassing them entirely and reaching affluence by finding work abroad. That said, I would have suspected at least one or two of the boys in Nishant's village to have dreams of becoming, say, world famous cricket players, professions that would not require living in California. That Marantz doesn't makes me wonder at the absoluteness of his perceptions.
And from parts such as this –
Twenty years ago, before India opened its markets to the world, career prospects were bleak. Men might have been laborers or government workers, but even the most ambitious women often gave in to social pressure and stayed home.
– it's clear that Marantz sees pre-1991 India as having almost nothing to offer ambitious men and women. That this statement ignores doctors, businessmen, professors, etc, is perhaps belaboring the obvious. What is also questionable is the implication that the last twenty years have brought nothing but progress. For while it's true that middle and upper class urban Indians, on average, have become more affluent in this time period (and not always, or even mainly, by adopting Western identities, even in the BPO industry, despite the impression this article gives), the same can't be said for others. When India bowed to international pressure and began opening its markets, some of the largely ignored consequences were greater income inequality, increased poverty, currency shocks, food insecurity, and a "crisis of extinction" faced by small rural farmers.
(4) The concluding paragraph of the article comprises the main reasons that I'm hesitant to recommend it. It begins:
In a sense, Arjuna is too westernized to be happy in India. He speaks with an American accent, listens to American rock music, and suffers from American-style malaise. In his more candid moments, he admits that life would have been easier if he had hewn to the traditional Indian path.
As stated above, I believe that this article contains a much needed — though limited — critique of the justifications of global free market capitalism. However, it often implicitly and explicitly reiterates the same essentialist East/West binary that such justifications rely on, the worldview that the East is conservative, traditional, stagnant, and ultimately (and deservedly) powerless against the dynamic, modern, independent, and ruggedly individualistic West. The statement that Arjuna is "too Westernized to be happy in India" contains an unthinking reliance on this East/West dichotomy — which is also present in the statements quoted above — and works to undermine Marantz's critique of Western-style free market capitalism not being the path to happiness and prosperity.
I know of desis who were born and brought up in America who are now living quite happily in India, as well as Indians who are unhappy with their "traditional Indian" path and those who are happy with their "modern Western" one (I put these in quotes because I would be quite curious to know the exact criteria that distinguish a traditional Indian path from a modern Western one). The crucial difference, it seems to me, isn't the degree of Westernization, but the available career opportunities. And however lucrative call center jobs might appear in the short-term, in the long-term such jobs are physically- and emotionally-demanding career dead-ends.
From the facts stated in the article, it can be inferred that Arjuna is highly educated and comes from a relatively privileged family. The problem isn't that such a person became too "Westernized to be happy in India," but that even with all his education and privileges, there were few options available to him. All that he — and hundreds of thousands of other Indians — have to show for their efforts are graveyard shift call center jobs that leave them physically and mentally disconnected from the world outside. Jobs where they're required to speak English even among themselves, where they must take timed bathroom breaks and don't have the freedom to step outside, where they're minutely judged on their ability to pass as those more valued in global hierarchies and passively endure whatever abuse the customer throws at them. And the problem is that these are some of the people who are considered globalization's success stories, and the hardships others face — those, say, from "Himalayan tribes and coastal fishing towns" — are generally greater and far more pressing.
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Ok… so there's some over-generalizations and some artistic license taken (particularly the "Himilayan/Fishing village") passage… but otherwise, your main point is that he doesn't give equal time to the negative effects of globalization on India? That it's been good for some, and not for others? Or that there aren't actually, Indians in these call centers who feel a sense of cultural disengagement? Your use of a personal anecdote ("I know of desis…") doesn't really sell me. I also know desis in the US, who constantly struggle with the pressures of traditional family structure and how to navigate the cultural differences between themselves, their parents, and their relatives in India. Not really sure what your main point is. This seems (to me) to be a short experience-based piece, with lots of direct quotes, focusing on cultural issues. Not an in-depth foray into the harsh realities of BPO in India.
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"[The article] provided a much needed counter to the idea that the current system of globalization brings greater happiness and prosperity to everyone.
But its critique was ultimately limited, full of over-generalizations, and at times contradictory. Below are four reasons I found it so, and why I would hesitate to recommend this article."Kamboj clearly delineates four specific reasons–using evidence from the text and a helpful numbered list–why Marantz's piece provides a less than elucidating look at the realities of "a summer at an Indian call center". Her last point identifies and deconstructs perhaps the most salient failing of Marantz's article:
"As stated above, I believe that this article contains a much needed — though limited — critique of the justifications of global free market capitalism. However, it often implicitly and explicitly reiterates the same essentialist East/West binary that such justifications rely on, the worldview that the East is conservative, traditional, stagnant, and ultimately (and deservedly) powerless against the dynamic, modern, independent, and ruggedly individualistic West."
At no point does Kamboj purport to provide "an in-depth foray into the harsh realities of BPO in India". What she does do, and quite well at that, is provide a cogent and succinct critique of a rather naive article.
"This seems (to me) to be a short experience-based piece, with lots of direct quotes, focusing on cultural issues."
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Kirti Kamboj
Hey! First, thanks for the feedback. It appears I wasn't as clear as I wanted to be in my original article, so to address your points:
Ok… so there's some over-generalizations and some artistic license taken (particularly the "Himilayan/Fishing village") passage…
I think where we mainly differ is that what you view as some artistic license taken, I view as blatant (though unwitting) misrepresentation, in ways that mainstream American media usually misinterprets things when looking at the ethnic Other, both within its borders and outside it, revealing underlying prejudices and an essentialism on which hierarchies are based. In this particular instance, Marantz implicitly draws a picture of an authentic Indian culture, mired in tradition and an unsustainable stasis, completely at odds with the Western world.
Or that there aren't actually, Indians in these call centers who feel a sense of cultural disengagement? Your use of a personal anecdote ("I know of desis…") doesn't really sell me.
I'm not trying to sell you on anything here. I never said there weren't Indians in these call centers who feel a sense of cultural disengagement; I think it would be extremely difficult for anyone working at one to remain connected to the world around them. What I object to is Marantz portraying said sense of disengagement as Indians having become "too Westernized to be happy in India".
I also know desis in the US, who constantly struggle with the pressures of traditional family structure and how to navigate the cultural differences between themselves, their parents, and their relatives in India. Not really sure what your main point is.
My main point is that almost every single story I hear or read in mainstream American media relies on the tradition and hierarchy-bound stagnant East vs the dynamic modern West binary, relies on the contrast between an imaginary authentic ethnic culture versus an equally imaginary idea of the West, no matter what the actual facts of the situation might be, no matter how much more complicated the situation is. And this article is no different (and indeed, your anecdote about desis you know in the US is not much different either). Quite a few people would undoubtedly also classify my own life as a struggle to reconcile my modern individualistic Western upbringing with my traditional Eastern background/family/culture, and it is a simplification that I'm quite wary of, especially when it is the only one I ever hear in certain places.
This seems (to me) to be a short experience-based piece, with lots of direct quotes, focusing on cultural issues. Not an in-depth foray into the harsh realities of BPO in India.
If by this you mean, the original Mother Jones article, then we completely agree (aside from the "short", which I wouldn't label either the Mother Jones article or my response to it). My point in writing the rebuttal above was, partly, to (try!) and point out how some common Western misgeneralizations and artistic licenses, based on and reinforced by hierarchies, might have influenced Marantz's views, as well as the reception that his article has received. Judging by your comment, I didn't succeed with you, but hopefully this reply will further clarify where I'm coming from. -
I'm a bit unsatisfied with this review… It seems too US-centric: Your phrasing implies that "White culture = US culture". I beg to differ. My culture exists, is alive and is not American. I'm also White. Don't take on board the Mother Jones' author's mistake: What he calls "international culture" (yikes!!!) is not "White culture", it's a small tiny fragment of "US culture".
Kirti Kamboj
I'm sorry that I seemed to imply White culture = US culture. When I said things such as "it's Westerners such as Marantz" and "the ability to slip into an affluent Westerner's identity", I was trying to make clear that class plays a part in this as well.
And while the US might make up a large part of it, imo, international culture is not just a tiny fragment of US culture, and it's not just US accents and customs that call center employees are made to ape. International culture is also a tiny fragment of British and Australian and (in other contexts) French and Spanish culture, among others — the Western countries that colonized those of the Global South and/or are presently economically dominant. And in a lot of places in India, it is not American culture that sets the standard but the British one.
Kirti Kamboj
Thanks for the succinct summary of my main point. I was beginning to wonder if I had been completely unclear in what I intended to get across, and it was good to know that wasn't the case.
Kirti Kamboj
It's likely from a lack of knowledge about the deeper complexities of Indian culture which (granted, the author could have researched better) causes the author to reduce the subjects into American/Eastern Traditional/Modern binary… but it's a binary that's pretty much the philosophical underpinning of the "West" (in general, America in particular), so to me, it's not surprising.
I believe the lack of knowledge on Marantz's part stems from unquestioned privilege, both in his reliance on some Orientalist tropes and his misinterpretation of some basic facts. And I completely agree with you, that said binary is the philosophical underpinning of the West, and these days America in particular, and I wish that I found it surprising! It's sad that what I find surprising is when I read an article here that doesn't rely on it.
I can understand your wariness/weariness towards this manner of thinking, as I'm sure that (like the workers in the article) you're a complex cultural being that is much more complicated than a simple set of either/or distinctions…
It's more than that, though, yeah? I wouldn't really care if these things only had limited personal consequences. But said binaries also seem to form the basis on which justifications for things, such as the British colonization of India, the prioritizing of developed country agendas in international "free" trade agreements, are built. So I feel it important that anytime they arise, they should be deconstructed (though I often don't have the time/energy to do so myself, because as you pointed out they are the rule rather than the exception).
I personally found it useful (original author's viewpoint aside) was in hearing the direct voices of the workers; the words are rarely heard in the US media, even in publications like Mother Jones.
*nods* You're right, the other side of the outsourcing story is rarely ever discussed in US publications, and I was also happy to see it being done so on Mother Jones, at least initially. If you want to read more on this, I'd recommend Amitabh Pal's Indian By Day, American By Night, if you haven't come across it already.
I just felt as though you were treating the original article as a "critique", when it's meant to be (in my eyes) mostly a bit of trite travel-journalism.
ah, thanks for elaborating. That's a weakness in my original piece, that I didn't make clear that I was responding as much to the reception of said article, in certain liberal circles I'm part of, as the article itself. I agree with you that the article is more of a travel-journalism piece (though I would rather call it Orientalist than trite) than a critique of global free-market capitalism. I appreciate you further explaining where you were coming from on this.
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Dennis in Orlando, Florida 76 months ago |
My experience with IKEA was less than stellar. Recently applied for a creative job at the new store to open in Orlando. After asking for my portfolio, I felt like I was strung along until someone else was hired. Never did get that interview even though it was promised. Also, the website hiring interface was clunky and hard to use. My two cents. |
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Does anyone know of a phone # to contact if you've applied for a store? There is one opening up here in Charlotte, NC and I can't find a way to contact the human resource department since technically the store will not be open until Spring 2009. |
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How are they on criminal backgrounds?If they are over 10 yrs old? |
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i have a phone interview tomorrow with a rep. from ikea, what will they ask? |
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Months after applying for a position, I was contacted for a phone interview. They asked simple questions such as my work history, availability and desired pay. This was for a part time position(less than 20 hours) in the Swedish Food Market which paid 9.15 an hour. I was told the store would contact me if they were interested. I didnt receive another call for about a month or two, but the store manager contacted me to set up a interview. At the interview I wasnt really asked typical interview questions such as why i chose ikea, they were more like: tell me about a situation where you went above and beyond, tell me about a time where you paid attention to detail, tell me a situation where you helped to save your last company money. They also asked what I knew about Ikea as a company and their products. About three weeks later I received a call to set up a second interview, which actually just ended up with me going in and them offering me the job. There was an immediate drug test, and I was given my schedule for the next three weeks. Once your hired you go through two days of "Before the Floor" training which is a store tour and learning about the company. |
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Yeah definitely aren't you heard -- Gasoline demand -- third -- and around prices at the pump turning slightly higher today.
After 28 days of consecutive declines the national average for retail unleaded now stands at 373 -- gallon.
That's actually about 23 cents lower than this time last year for my next guest says that number is misleading Tom close that is cheap oil analyst at openness.
Tom you are the man with your finger on the pulse of the gas hike is of gas pumps had -- says but let me ask you don't looking up -- -- RS.
Why do you think that numbers misleading.
It's misleading Melissa because of the West Coast has gone absolutely not so last week which -- prices their -- of fifteen to -- accents.
Really the rest of the country appear anywhere east for the Iraqis to do -- sort of a slow slipped.
Lower and I I suspect that may continue for awhile but you if you would -- -- -- western time -- really have to watch -- these are the lowest gasoline inventories.
Since may of 1992.
At least for bag and that's a lot of people been added to the motor pool and that's.
Yeah I mean we have a map that really shows -- you can see it in places like you -- Virginia Kentucky using gasoline is down.
Better than thirty cents but then when you look on the West Coast of the exact same time of the same month.
Using gas in California go up twelve cents what did you say is the reason behind that.
Well I I -- We -- refinery issues on the West Coast that we have the lowest basic inventory of gasoline into wanna years now eighty there's plenty of motivation to run these refineries you can sell gasoline -- on the West Coast so.
In the Pacific northwest for about a 150 dollars a barrel.
The equivalent of that -- the Gulf Coast as you -- gasoline for about a 117.
So we've got tremendous diversity and there's -- big profit motive to get those things -- and on the West Coast and I suspect they well.
-- -- -- the East Coast a little bits and we've seen prices decline it you know for about twenty days they've seen seem like -- sort of -- that we sought tick up overnight.
I -- thing on the East Coast we've seen a bottom and they're coming back higher.
I wouldn't say that no I think prices in the second quarter and really for the next few weeks are going to be zombie like her a little bit lower and I do see pressure on the crude oil market the second -- allows you period for crude he won't have -- ran as part of the equation probably till July.
And we do have a lot of domestic crude that's accumulating in the middle of the country but it's misleading to.
Look crude oil figures and say it's the highest US stock since 1990.
That we had a couple continents that really didn't participate in global demand back then.
Briefing the -- loyalists -- we watched a breakdown -- you know 91 box and changed dates back to 93 but really low levels where you think it's going.
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It may be something in the 85 to ninety dollar a barrel range for WTI.
Gasoline I think we're looking at something between three to 45 -- for nationally.
Which is you know pretty comparable to last year but it's very high relative to all other years except 2008.
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THE MAROON MAROON.LOYNO.EDU FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2001 VOL. 79, NO. 18 THE EAST-WEST PROPOSAL I CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION Renovations on the main campus will give Loyola new look for new century By Crystal Bolner Staff writer Imagine Loyola without Stallings Hall. Now take a second look at Monroe Hall; picture it blanketed in new red bricks with two more floors added on top. Members of the university Board of Trustees' buildings and grounds committee are working on an "East-West plan" to change the look and feel of the main campus. If the plan to renovate buildings and grounds on the main campus comes to fruition, students will see major changes at Loyola in the next five to six years. Plans would include the following: the renovation of the old library into an art center; the relocation of City College to two newly constructed floors on Monroe Hall; the demolition of Stallings Hall, which would be replaced by a larger, taller building to house the physics, math and computer science programs; and the floor-by-floor renovation of Monroe Hall, which would be resurfaced in red brick. Lee Ledbetter Architects will begin the conceptual design for the old library renovation this month, according to the Rev. Bernard Knoth, S.J., university president. Malcolm Woodall, vice president for Institutional Advancement, and Rhonda Cartwright, vice president for Business and Finance, are in charge of financing the construction. THE CHANGING FACE OF LOYOLA Preliminary plans are being considered by the Board of Trustees' buildings & grounds committee to relocate City College, renovate and add two floors to Monroe Hall, demolish Stallings Hall and replace it with a taller new building and redesign the green areas over a period of about five to six years. Stallings Hall (Priority: 3) Building would be demolished except for its base. A new, taller edifice would house the physics, mathematics and computer science departments. It is now used for City College and the College of Arts & Sciences courses. A renovation of the Academic Quad will also be phased in Old Library (Priority: 1) Future home of the Fine Arts Center, which would house the visual arts and drama & speech departments. Peace Quad The memorial Jesuit martyr quad will be the first of the quad areas to be redesigned because no building construction is needed in the area. Reconstruction of the Academic Quad and the Horseshoe will be phased into plans as renovation goes on around them. Monroe Hall (Priority: 2) Two floors will be added to accomodate City College, making the building seven stories high. A floor-by-floor renovation and resurfacing in red brick to match other campus halls also are proposed. The building now houses the math and science departments and plays host to many other courses. STAFF GRAPHIC BY ROBERT TREADWAY Faculty and students glad to keep Knoth By Nick Boeglin & Crystal Boiner Staff writers Loyola University Chicago's Jan. 19 announcement produced much relief among administrators and faculty at the school's southern counterpart, Loyola New Orleans. LUC selected the Rev. Michael Garanzini as , S.J., as univeristy president over Loyola New Orleans' president, the Rev. Bernard Knoth, S.J. "It's their loss and our gain," said the Rev. David Boileau, philosophy professor. "I'm proud he was considered. He's a young, very talented administrator." Many faculty, staff members and students said they were happy Knoth was not picked in the LUC search. "It's been terrifically exciting since he's been here," said Ted Cotton, associate English professor and director of the university honors program. Ryan Holmes, Student Government Association president and music education senior, said he believed Loyola could survive if Knoth were to leave New Orleans. "I don't feel like we (Loyola) would lose any momentum. Father Knoth has done a lot for the Loyola community, but it still moves on." The Rev. Lawrence Moore, S.J., associate dean of Academic Affairs for the law school and secretary of the treasury for the Board of Trustees, said he is delighted Knoth won't be leaving New Orleans. Moore was chairman of the committee that selected Knoth in the fall of 1995. "It would have left us in a terrible situation. His initiatives would have slowed down, and Knoth was not a good fit at Loyola Chicago," Moore said. Moore said the conditions at Loyola Chicago will be difficult for the new administrator. "Loyola Chicago is in a troubled situation," he said. "Anyone going in there would be facing serious challenges. They have a faculty that is very unhappy." Brazil's Snow White virus sets sights on Loyola's campus By Danielle Mastropiero Staff writer Last week, officials from Tulane University warned Loyola's Information Technology staff about a new virus called Hybris that is making rounds on both campuses through listservs, according to Steve Navarre, Loyola's computer services network adminstrator. Hybris affects only IBM and IBMcompatible computers. The virus manifests itself in an e-mail with subject head, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — The REAL story!" The return address is from email@example.com. Its message reads: 'Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at morning, they promissed (sic) a "huge* suprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlenty (sic), the door open, and the Seven Dwarfs enter ..." The e-mail includes an attachment with a random file name followed by .exe. When the file is downloaded, the user's computer is infected. Once a computer is infected, the virus sends a copy of itself to everyone on a user's mail list. It also hides several copies of itself within Windows. Even if the original is erased, the virus can remain on a computer's hard drive undetected. The virus displays a large animated spiral on the 59th minute of every hour in the year 2001 and on Sept. 24 of every year. Although the spiral display may seem to be more nuisance than threat, some virus authorities are concerned about Hybris because of its unique makeup. Because it contains plug-in devices, it can potentially be updated and strengthened. For this reason, the Pentagon's Joint Task Force Computer Network Defense labeled the worm a "high-risk status." Security Focus.com vulnerability analyst Jeremy Pacquette recommends practicing what he calls "safe exe" and not opening files from strange addresses. MSNBC.com ranked the virus as the fourth most prevalent in the world, and said it shows no signs of slowing. They call it the Sleeper hit of 2001. Navarre said Hybris, also called the Snow White virus, is a type of virus called a worm that can send copies of itself to everyone in an infected person's address book. "A virus is a real tricky situation," Navarre See FUTURE, Page 4 See KNOTH, Page 5 See VIRUS, Page 3 TALLY HO!: ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE, Page 6 • LIFE & TIMES: EXPLORE YOUR WORLD, Page 12 Loyola University New Orleans NEXT WEEK: New plans for Cabra Hall
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If you're a Celtics fans, you probably don't know Zarren. The team wants it that way. The less that is known about Zarren and his methods the better. Go on the team's website and there is no biography for him, even though he carries the title of assistant general manager. The Celtics guard his advanced statistical analysis like it's the security code to owner Wyc Grousbeck's house.
Ask the Green's stats guru why the Celtics have been up and down this season and he all but pops a cyanide pill.
Zarren, who joined the team in 2003 as an intern, is Ainge's database-devising aide de camp, dealing with new-age basketball stats such as Pace factor (average possessions a team uses per 48 minutes) and true shooting percentage (a team's weighted shooting efficiency adjusted for 3-pointers and free throws). Zarren was also one of the stars of the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which invaded the Hynes Convention Center yesterday and runs through today.
"If you're a Celtics fan, we're doing everything we can to make the team as good as we can,'' said Zarren. "If you're not a Celtics fan, maybe this is an interesting part of other sports that you don't know about. It's not stuff that everyone will be interested in, but like every other field that is becoming more scientific, this stuff is not going away.''
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Everton Football Club has launched a search for this season's number one Blues fan.
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Women grow more than half of the world's food. It's the unknown fact of global agriculture.
I have vivid memories of women working the fields across my travels in Asia, and find it amazing that when people talk about farmers, it's almost always about men. In the U.S., for instance, 30.2% of the 3.3 million farm operators counted in the 2007 census were women. In the Global South, women remain guardians of sophisticated and extensive knowledge about traditional agricultural practices that have sustained communities over centuries. The fact is that women are the 'hidden resource' supporting much of agriculture across the globe.
I want to share some good news that brightened my day. One of the largest pesticide manufacturers in the world — Bayer CropScience — announced on September 15 that it will withdraw its most hazardous pesticides from the global market.
This is huge victory for the PAN International network and other NGOs from Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa who have campaigned for years for Bayer to take this step. While I'm happy that Bayer finally did the right thing, it saddens me that the company waited 16 years to act after it first promised to withdraw these pesticides back in 1995. Who knows how many pesticide poisonings worldwide could have been avoided?
Most kids are back to school now, and one of the unfortunate realities parents have to deal with this time of year is lice infestations. It always amazes me that lice shampoos made with harmful pesticides such as lindane and malathion are still readily available.
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Feels like a hundred years ago when I last shot a REDONE... and when I did, it felt like it doubled in size and complexity to use, strange how that happens.
I picked up a 435 last year and it felt so weird, I have used that camera for 15 years! and it quiet literally did my head in... in my right ear was a scratching mechanical sound of film rolling through spools and cogs, It's a sound that I did not remember hearing, I thought something was wrong with it... But still an amazing camera.
But the RED ONE... 4k!!! 3 years ago! such a life changing camera for us when it came out. it quite literally made us millions in those last 3 years.
I was just looking at the specs again of the Scarlet... tossing back and forth wether to buy one or not...more as a toy with such a disposable price, and then realised it was so close to REDONE specs!! .. but for less that half the price and is less than 3rd the weight... and 1/3 the size...
How the hell did RED do it... Congrats guys... :) this little camera seems like a gift! you can buy ten of these over an ALEXA... when you start comparing specs with the ARRI as well.. even these little guys eat the Alexa.. (accept for Alexas new lower res 120 FPS function in PRO RES) but hey!...
Regradless... all I can say is WOW... 10k for a small 4k camera.
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Things I liked:A very hard hitting rifle using a heavier pellet. Accuracy is only average for me. Could be just me though. Trigger adjustment is much appreciated. A Rabbit is no match for this one. Plenty of power. Things I would have changed:Not much I can think of. I don't understand why some people were not happy with the included scope. I like it. What others should know:Keep it lubed and it will last a long time. This is not a toy! Mine penetrates a 2X4 approx. 1.75 inches up close at point blank range. Things I liked:I like the weight of the rifle for stability. The workmanship done in making the rifle is pretty good. Cocking the rifle is not difficult. Things I would have changed:The rifle is a little too loud when fired. What others should know:A well made, and good looking rifle for the price. Things I liked:The rifle looks very nice. Nothing fancy and that's what I wanted. It shoots very hard, around 800+ feet per second with 7.9 gr lead pellet. I have over 300 pellets thru it and the accuracy is one slopy hole at 10 yards. (range in basement) I will test it at 30 yards when the weather breaks. Things I would have changed:The open sights are nothing to write home about. I really think they were trying to get rid of the scope by adding it as a package deal. The trigger pull is extreemly long. but you can get use to it. What others should know:The cocking effort is a little more than I expected. Guess that helps it hit harder. If you are going mount a scope on it, you will want to purchase a better one. I did. I like it for its hard hitting (800fps) power and the accuracy. For $100.00 you can't go wrong. I can hunt with it and not worry about getting it scratched up. By the way, be sure you clean the bore before you shoot it. You would not believe the crap that came out of there. Comments
800fps is extremely low for this gun. I'd at least check the main and breech seals for leakage... It should be at least 900fps, and if you fix all the flaws they can do 1000fps which is more than a 50% gain in power. Cocking effort should be no more than 28lbs, if so there may also be friction issues. Show Other ReviewsCreate an online review and share your thoughts with other customers
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