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The American men and women teams won during last week's National Wheelchair Basketball Association tournament that saw 250 players from seven countries take over gyms across Huntersville and Cornelius.
The tournament was deemed a rousing success as hundreds visited the area and turned out to watch the games in person and thousands streamed the games live online.
Dick Bryant, president of the league, told the Huntersville town board Monday that he was very happy the partnership could be struck with the town and Visit Lake Norman. The tourism agency and the town's Parks and Recreation Department were able to secure the gyms needed to hold the week of games Aug. 7-14. Games were held at Lake Norman Charter, Huntersville Elementary, JV Washam Elementary and Bailey Middle schools, as well as Huntersville Family Fitness and Aquatic center.
Bryant told the Huntersville board he hopes the games were able to inspire as well as entertain.
"We want young people to see that if you're dealt from a deck of cards that may not have all 52 in there," Bryant said, "you can still do something with your life."
The National Wheelchair Basketball Association is in talks to hold the games in Huntersville next year.
Tournament results:
1. USA Blue (6-1)
2. Great Britain (4-3)
3. Canada (5-2)
4. USA White (3-4)
5. Australia (3-4)
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PITTSBURGH The message is delivered differently, and with no spittle accompanying it. Mike Tomlin took over Bill Cowher's team two years ago next week, yet he never promised to be just like Bill.
He hasn't been, either, even if the results are strikingly similar. The Pittsburgh Steelers changed coaches for only the third time in 38 years when Tomlin replaced Cowher, but they didn't change the way they do business.
As Tomlin related Tuesday, Steelers owner Dan Rooney wouldn't stand for that. That's why the franchise's five Super Bowl trophies line a hallway linking the practice field to the coaches' offices – not to intimidate, but to inspire.
"I love the high expectations that come with this job. I'd rather have high ones than low ones," Tomlin said. "The tradition is awesome. You can't put a price tag on it. It's inspiring. ... Those who come before us set the standards for us. We understand that when we come into the building, when we take to the field, and we hope the way we go about our business honors those guys."
Much like Cowher in 1992 and, too, Chuck Noll in 1969, Tomlin wasn't well known outside the NFL when the Steelers hired him. The job was expected to go to either offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt or assistant head coach Russ Grimm, but Tomlin beat them out in the interview process.
Whisenhunt, passed over by the Steelers, has since resurrected the Arizona Cardinals and has them in Sunday's NFC championship game. Grimm is one of his assistants.
Some Steelers players who had friends with the Vikings, where Tomlin was the defensive coordinator in 2006, or the Buccaneers, for whom he coached the defensive backs from 2001-05, called to ask about Tomlin, who was only 34 when Pittsburgh hired him.
"I think everyone's unsure about the direction of this team," safety Troy Polamalu said before Tomlin's rookie season. "He inherited a team. He didn't build it up from 13 years of being in the league, for example. Obviously, it's going to take time, as a natural product of being a new coach."
Didn't take that long. Tomlin made certain there was no time for the Rooneys to be second-guessed for choosing him, getting the Steelers off to a 9-3 start in 2007 before injuries wore them down. They were eliminated by Jacksonville in a wild-card playoff game.
Cowher's record his first season: 11-5. Tomlin's: 10-6. Cowher's record his first two seasons, counting the playoffs: 20-14, with no playoff wins. Tomlin's: 23-11, with one playoff win.
This season, the Steelers withstood a brutal schedule (the Giants, Colts, Chargers, Patriots, Cowboys, Ravens and Titans among their final 10 opponents), a slow-to-develop offensive line, numerous injuries and the free-agent departure of former All-Pro guard Alan Faneca to put together the franchise's fourth 12-win season since 1979.
"I think we're more comfortable (with Tomlin)," Hines Ward said. "He's probably more comfortable with us."
Like Cowher, Tomlin is a hands-on coach during practice. He can be seen talking to players about subject matters big and small, but he is certainly not a coach controlled by his players, no matter their salary or level of stardom.
Cowher yelled more frequently and visibly along the sidelines than Tomlin does, but that doesn't mean Tomlin's message doesn't get delivered. He'll sit a starter for weeks if he thinks it's necessary, even a Pro Bowl player, as he did with overweight lineman Casey Hampton during training camp.
While Tomlin's players occasionally offer insights into the way he coaches, Tomlin said he neither reads nor truly cares about what they say.
"I'm not interested in evaluating my performance and, particularly, I'm not interested in my players' evaluation of my performance," Tomlin said. "I'm paid to evaluate their performance."


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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A military spokesman for the African Union mission in Somalia says the AU has canceled a planned troop rotation by Sierra Leonean forces because of the Ebola outbreak.
Col. Ali Aden Houmed told The Associated Press late Thursday that the Union decided to halt the deployment of a new battalion in an effort to prevent the disease from crossing into Somalia.
The West African nation is currently facing the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history. More than 700 people have died. Sierra Leone is one of five nations that sends large numbers of troops to Somalia to protect the government and fight al-Shabab militants.
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The Mountain West Conference announced its 2009-10 preseason women's basketball poll and all-conference team today at its Basketball Media Day held at The Mtn. Studios in Denver, Colo. The Wyoming Cowgirls were picked to finish fifth in the nine-team league, which matches where UW was seeded in last year's MWC Championship.
The voting panel consisted of the league's nine head coaches and select women's basketball media.
Last season, UW was 16-14 overall, 8-8 in the MWC. The Cowgirls return three starters and nine letterwinners, including 2008-09 Second Team All-MWC selection Hillary Carlson and Kristen Scheffler, who was named Honorable Mention All-MWC as a freshman. Carlson will be a junior this season, while Scheffler will be a sophomore. UW also will benefit from the return of redshirt junior Aubrey Vandiver, who missed last season. Vandiver was a Third Team All-MWC selection in 2007-08 as a sophomore. Wyoming will be coached by Joe Legerski, who is in his seventh year
San Diego State was tabbed as the preseason favorite after sharing the 2008-09 MWC regular-season title and earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Aztecs received 25 first-place votes and 240 total points. TCU collected three first-place votes and finished second with 216 points, followed by Utah with 185 points. New Mexico (168 points) placed fourth, followed by Wyoming (121 points), BYU (109 points), UNLV (97 points), Colorado State (57 points) and Air Force (31 points).
Last year's all-MWC first-team member, San Diego State senior guard Jené Morris, earned Preseason Player of the Year honors, while teammate Jessika Bradley was named Preseason Newcomer of the Year. Utah's Taryn Wicijowski was tabbed Preseason Freshman of the Year. Four of the nine MWC teams were represented on the all-conference team, including three seniors and two juniors. Morris is a two-time all-MWC selection and earned WBCA State Farm Honorable Mention All-American accolades last season. She is joined on the preseason all-MWC team by teammate Paris Johnson, New Mexico's Amy Beggin, TCU's Helena Sverrisdottir and Utah's Kalee Whipple.


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So apparently the WAC lost two major teams in their conference, Fresno State and Nevada. They are now going to the Mountain West Conference. Now the WAC has only five teams in the conference, which is not acceptable. They definitely need to find some more teams to come aboard to WAC a conference. So far they have looked at bringing Texas State and San Antonio over. But just think about it. What if Cal Poly was able to squeeze its way into the WAC? That would be huge for this little town. We would be in a major conference and be able to play with the big leagues. Hey, maybe we can even bring UC Davis along for the ride.
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Retirement Income Security in the United Kingdom
Liu, Lillian, Social Security Bulletin
This article examines the U.K. retirement income security system from the American perspective. It addresses issues that most concern U.S. analysts: how the United Kingdom has kept its future public pension costs at a manageable level, the extent to which privatization of public pensions has contributed to low pension costs, the popular appeal of individual pension accounts, and the impact of privatization on retirement income. These issues are best understood in the context of the U.K. pension program's particular institutional structure and policies, two of which- "contracting out" of public pensions, and strong reliance on means-tested benefits-have been largely rejected in the evolution of U.S. policy to date.
Particular use is made of recently available data on coverage rates for public and private pension programs over the total working population and administrative records on inactive personal pension accounts.
The impetus for Social Security reform in the United States has been gathering momentum over the past several years, fueled primarily by the projected long-term actuarial imbalance in the system. This has led many of the baby boom generation and younger workers to ask: "Is Social Security going to be there for me when I retire in the 21 st century?" The 1994-96 Advisory Council on Social Security examined problems and prospects of the system and presented three options for reform. In addition, members of Congress and nongovernment groups have also presented reform proposals of their own. A common feature among many of these proposals is a call for establishing individual pension accounts, either to partially replace the existing Social Security program or to add onto the current system. Two of the three contending options presented by the Advisory Council on Social Security, for example, recommended the introduction of individual accounts, though they differed in the specifics of how these accounts should be funded and managed (Advisory Council on Social Security 1997, Vol. 1, pp. 28-33, 102-134, and 158-159). At this writing, there are a total of 11 Social Security reform bills pending in both Houses of the U.S. Congress, and all of them feature individual accounts.1
A number of countries around the world have, in recent years, transferred their government public pension programs in whole or in part to private arrangements such as individual accounts.2 However, only two-Chile and the United Kingdom-have accumulated 10 or more years' experience with these accounts as a direct alternative to government programs. While neither of them has had a long enough history with individual pension accounts to measure the eventual impact on retirement benefits,3 various aspects of these countries' privatization efforts may be instructive for the United States.
The near-total privatization in Chile since 1981 has received extensive and intensive study in this country and abroad as a model for reform.4 However, few studies in the United States have referred to the U.K. experience, even though it seems to be of greater relevance to the United States.5 Not only do the British and Americans share a common cultural heritage, but the U.K. experience is more relevant to that of a large developed economy, and it also involves partial privatization of the public system, similar to most proposals made for the United States.
Several aspects of the U.K. experience are worthy of examination. First, because the United Kingdom has been lauded for having put its fiscal house in order, it is instructive to review the reported successes in financing the U.K. public pension system. The National Insurance Fund (NIF), which finances the retirement pension program (together with other income security programs, such as survivors, disability, sickness and maternity benefits, unemployment, and work injury), does not appear to have either short-term or long-term solvency problems. In addition, some comparative studies have demonstrated that the U. …


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El Segmento de Subducción Subhorizontal de los Andes Centrales Argentino-Chilenos
The western active margin of South America, characterized by the Andes mountain chain, shows a high variability along strike. Different segments have a diverse topography, crustal roots and surface geology. Among these segments the flat-slab segment of the southern Central Andes, depicts a remarkable geology between 28ş and 33ş S. The lack of an active volcanism due to the subhorizontal sub-duction and the strong coupling between the Nazca plate and the South America plate, have produced the highest mountains in the Andes, with mount Aconcagua, almost 7,000 m a.s.l. This segment is also characterized by the thin-skinned fold and thrust belt of Precordillera, and the Sierras Pampeanas, broken foreland basement blocks Uplifted During The Andean orogeny.
These characteristics controlled the excellent exposures of this amagmatic segment, without a late Cenozoic volcanic cover along the axial part of the Principal Cordillera. Therefore, most of the structures that produced the present uplift can be identified. On that bases, severas conceptual models have tried to explain the deep structure of the orogen, although the lack of deep seismic information hinders the evaluation of the mechanisms that produced the present orogenic shortening. A deep seismic reflection sounding will provide information to answer many of the questions that relate subduction to mountain building in one of the best sections of an Andean-type orogen.
Subhorizontal Subduction Segment. Central Andes. Argentina.
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A six-month narcotics operation led to a drug bust in Martin County.
The Martin County Narcotics Unit arrested nine people, according to the Sheriff's Office. The suspects are from Robersonville, Hamilton and Williamston.
David Hall, Deiante Goddard, Linwood Campbell Jr., Diane Holiday, Duane Coffield, Ricky Marshall, Alfred Perez Jr., Joshua Keel and James Wilson were arrested. Their charges include trafficking in opium, possession of a stolen firearm, and maintaining a dwelling to keep or store controlled substances.
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I'm 5'4 curently at 190lbs and losing 30lbs to 160lbs before surgury on 12/19/12.I have 3 kids and tied my tubes.Now I'm ready to fix the damage!I went to see several docs that said I need a TT do to the heavyness of my stomach.I want my BBL & I went to see doc and he said that it's best to do a TT 1st then a BBL.I feel that i want all the fat sucked out then tighten up, I feel I'm going backwards. He also said if I get BBL 1st that he can't do the TT until up to 1 year later. I'm confused,HELP!
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Tummy tuck before BBL
This is a great question. I have experience with this scenario. I would recommend having a tummy tuck done first to remove the extra skin, and then a BBL 3-4 months later. One reason to do it in this order, is that you only have to wait 3-4 months to have the BBL. Another reason is that if for any circumstance (e.g. financial, personal), you are not able to have the second procedure (i.e. BBL), your body will look significantly improved. If you choose the reverse order and have the BBL done first, you are likely to have loose hanging skin after the liposuction, specifically in the lower abdomen. You generally have to wait about 6-9 months for the inflammation from the liposuction to subside, before proceeding with a tummy tuck. If you cannot have the second procedure which is the tummy tuck (e.g. for financial or personal reasons), you are left with hanging skin and an unattractive figure. Many patients worry about having enough fat for the BBL if they do a tummy tuck first. If you go to a surgeon who is experienced with liposuction and the brazilian butt lift, he or she will let you know if you have enough fat. So therefore please consult with a board-certified plastic surgeon who is well versed in these procedures.
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congratulations on losing the weight. certainly i have not examined you, but i would be concerned about not using the fat from the tummy tuck in your bottom. i would probably do both at once. i would start with liposuction of your tummy. once done, flip you over and continue with the lipo of the back and hips. then after processing the fat, place it into your buttocks as necessary. after this, flip you over and finish the tummy tuck. i would want you off your bottom for the first 24 hours. so you could be on your side laying down. the next day you could sit up. this way all this could be accomplished with one surgery.
Is It Best to Get a TT Before You Get a BBL?
Great question and I see your confusion. I must assume your surgery would be in an office operating setting. That is why your chosen surgeon (?if board certified PS?) or the clinic you visited tried to explain the rules/regulations, guarding you, during office surgery in Florida. By Board of Medicine rule any combination of surgeries, in your case full TT with Liposuction and BBL, limits the total volume of lipoed fat to 1 liter (ONLY) removed. So the amount of possible transferrable fat is less that that. Thus the BBL result would be very limited. If doing ONLY liposuction this amount of pure fat removed increases to 4 liters. Thus in that case the BBL could be done using much more fat to transfer. This all changes if you are done as in patient in hospital operation setting with over night stay. But the fees also might increase significantly. We would be interested in who you say and where the planned operation is being done.
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Tummy tuck before brazilian butt lift
i would actually advise you to lose weight prior to any procedures. You will be healthier and have a better result. The tummy tuck should be the first procedure you should do.
Suction vs tummy
I will soemtimes do belt lipo suction as the patient is losing weight.This provides soem encouragement to the patient.?They lose their extra 20 or 30 pounds then I do the TT.This is good.If you have loose skin then you have to cut it away.
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I've told the story several times. But at the risk of being repetitive, I'll tell it again...
Back in the 1999 to 2000, I was listening to an investor conference call in which Merck's (NYSE:MRK) chief executive, Raymond Gilmartin was speaking.
After running through a litany of reasons why he thought that Merck was well-positioned to grow in the future, an analyst asked whether the company was planning to merge, combine or otherwise acquire another large drug maker.
The question was particularly relevant as a number of high-profile pharmaceutical firms had recently combined forces or were planning large-scale combinations.
Gilmartin nixed the idea right off the bat, essentially saying (and this is my interpretation of his response) that Merck didn't need to combine forces because the company was No. 1.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Gilmartin ended up eating a big slice of humble pie as Merck's drug pipeline languished, and its earnings paled in comparison to those at some of the other big pharmas.
What i found really disturbing about the whole event was that by so readily dismissing the idea of combining forces with another big player, Gilmartin essentially took a potential stock-driving (or supporting) catalyst right off the table. Soon after those comments were made Merck's stock was relegated to the doghouse - between 2001 and 2005 the company saw its stock price almost cut in half.
Merck Hasn't Learned
Earlier this week, I was perusing the news and I came across an article in which Merck's president for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Canada, Stefan Oschmann, said that he thought that the U.S. drug maker might be interested in bulking up its pipeline by purchasing biotech firms - particularly those with late-stage drugs in the hopper. This seemed good.
However, in conjunction with these comments he also indicated that a large-scale mega merger probably wasn't in the cards. Specifically Oschmann said, "Mega mergers have in most cases not delivered what they had promised ... We don't necessarily think that a mega merger is the right thing."
I just don't get it. The company has the obligation to tell the truth, particularly to its shareholders. However, to taking that potential catalyst off the table again is just a questionable move.
Merck's stock has made a nice comeback over the last year, and is now pretty valuable currency. Plus Merck's reputation seems to be on the mend. You'd think that it would want to keep the momentum going by aggressively scooping up smaller companies or keeping its options open and at least kicking the tires of possible pharma targets?
The Bottom Line
As I mentioned in my last piece on MRK, I think the shares are a 'buy', and I still stick by that. (To read the entire article, see Two Big Names With Big Upside (PG, MRK) .)
However, I am really put off by Oschmann's comments. Going forward, I hope that management learns to keep its options open, and to remember that a few simple words can have a big impact on the share price.
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I suppose tons of work has been done in coming to an understanding of the development of language, individuality and society, but I would like to describe here the views of an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist named George Herbert Mead. His most prominent work was a piece of the same title as this post: Mind, self and society (1934).
The main theory that he came up with is symbolic interactionism, parts of which I describe in this article. To me it seems to be a very pragmatic way of looking at the development of language, an individual sense of self, and society as a whole – both in terms of the historical evolution of those phenomena, as well as how we learn language, develop a sense of self and form society today.
Filipe Carreira da Silva gives a pretty decent, simple overview of Mead's works, and most of my insights come from da Silva's work. Let me give a run-down of how I see symbolic interactionism working in contemporary society.
A child is born with certain instincts (we won't go into too much detail there). So, for example, the child might experience a certain kind of discomfort, in response to which the child instinctively cries. If this cry (a "gesture", in Mead's terminology) is followed by food from her mother and thus satisfaction (the "response"), the meaning we eventually attribute to this interplay of gestures and responses is hunger.
The meanings of things, therefore, are constructed. Meaning is not something that is inherent in our daily lives – it is something that we create in our minds and in our interactions with one another. This has tremendous implications for language as a whole: for example, Derrida noted that the meaning of a word is altered with every single use of that word, over time. Each word stands on top of this massive "pile" of meaning then, constructed, morphed and tweaked over the ages.
A practical example of this would be the word "dog". I'm quite sure that the first thing that comes to your mind when you read that word is something not exactly the same as in my mind: you might envision a small, white dog, or a large, brown one, whereas I would envisage a black one. My experiences with dogs would be linked to my internal representation of "dog", and your experiences would most likely be linked to your internal representation of the word "dog". An understanding of how our brains are wired seems to give a little understanding as to why our associations would be subtly different: each and every human brain is uniquely wired.
Some people say that each neuron in our brains is wired to between 7,000 and 10,000 other neurons. We also apparently have 100 billion neurons in our brains. That's a lot of interconnectivity: interconnectivity that's nudged and tweaked continuously by tiny processes every second of every day, from when we're born to when we die.
Surely it's not possible then to share meaning precisely? If I read a piece of text, I might get a relatively similar understanding of it to you, but there doesn't seem to be any chance that we will interpret it in exactly the same way. I will hopefully cover the implications of this when I write about the systemic way of thinking.
In our super-individualistic society today, it seems as though the common picture of society is that it's a group of individuals – that is, we all develop rather independently, and come together to form society.
Mead thinks of it the other way round. He said that it is society which exists prior to the individual, and the individual is first formed by society, and then goes on to form and be formed by society. Let me explain with an example.
When a child is born, he soaks up stimuli like a little sponge. He learns simple behaviours and starts mimicking sounds made by his parents (who are part of society).
At a later stage, the child starts to play. The child, for example, pretends to be a cop, and a friend pretends to be a robber, and they chase each other round the garden pretending to shoot each other. Let's look at what happens here: the child pretending to be the cop, in Mead's words, "takes on the attitude" of the cop. In other words, the child has some kind of built-up picture of what a cop is and does (potentially from watching movies or reading stories or seeing them in everyday life), and acts out from that perspective – making decisions as if he were a cop, in his understanding of how a cop would make decisions. A similar dynamic occurs with the friend who pretends to be the robber.
At some point, the child also begins to engage in more complex social behaviour involving co-ordination amongst several other people. A classic example of this used by Mead (1925, p 269) is a baseball game:
The child must not only take the role of the other, as he does in play, but he must assume the various roles of all the participants in the game, and govern his action accordingly. If he plays first base, it is as the one to whom the ball will be thrown from the field or from the catcher. Their organised reactions to him he has imbedded in his own playing of the different positions, and this organised reaction becomes what I have called the "generalised other" that accompanies and controls his conduct. And it is this generalised other in his experience which provides him with a self.
According to Mead, every group has its own "generalised other", which I see as an "average" or "sum total" or "least common denominator" of sorts containing the attitudes of that group. Strong examples of this would be stereotypes: "blondes", "car mechanics", "cat lovers", "men", "women". Do you have the inherent ability to pin down a few attributes of each of these groups of people? If so, you've built up generalised others in interaction with them over time.
The child, in reflecting his actions off of other people and groups as he develops, constructs a sense of self such that he can say: "I am a [X] type of person". He can list his attributes in comparison to other individuals and groups, and is eventually capable of self-awareness. The conversations between him and society have built up a self.
Given this understanding of the development of the self, what is your mind then? This is certainly quite a complex thing to answer, because it's affected by so many things right down to the biology of your brain and body.
According to Mead, the phenomenon of mind is simply conversation with generalised others that have been internalised. In other words, we talk to the "blondes", "car mechanics", "cat lovers", and so on, or even generalisations of specific individuals, in our minds. We build up pictures of who we think other individuals or groups of people are, and then we often rehearse conversations with them in our minds prior to seeing them, trying to establish what we think their responses will be. Society as a whole, also, will have a generalised other in your mind – in case you ever have to communicate with the whole of humanity.
"I" and "me"
There's something rather mysterious in this whole conception of mind and self by Mead. Let me illustrate.
Think of the last time you had lunch. Imagine viewing yourself while you were eating. What were you thinking of? Who were you at that point?
Two questions are posed.
- Who is it that you're looking at in your mind's eye?
- What's doing the looking?
Mead conceptualises the self as having two phases: the "I" and the "me" phases. In answering the first question, Mead says that this is your "me" phase of self, or object self – the one constructed in interaction with society over time. As for the second question, Mead calls this the "I" phase of your self, or subject self.
Note how you can't ever really look at your "I" phase. Every time you think of yourself, you think in terms of the object version of your self, or your "me" phase – your "I" phase is always actively doing the looking, and any thinking about your self is done retrospectively. David Bohm (I wrote a bit about his work in this article) seems, to me at least, to speak of the "I" phase of self as being part of the immeasurable, and is thus rather mysterious.
Another interesting thing about the "I" and "me" phases of self is that different people seem to live more through the one than the other. The vast majority of people seem to live through the "me" phase of their selves: they're the people who are rather predictable, who can tell you exactly who they are and that they know themselves well.
Da Silva gives some examples of people throughout history whose "I" phase of self was very strong, such as Buddha, Jesus and Socrates. Such individuals are apparently more likely to be unpredictable and often act from an unknown (and possibly unknowable) source. Mead says that the "I" phase of self is a source of novelty and thus creativity. The stronger your "I" phase of self, the more powerfully you could potentially change a group of people (think of the impact that individuals such as Buddha, Jesus and Socrates have had on modern society).
Everyone else is somewhere in between being creative and predictable.
Social control
Social control then need not be something forced upon people – society and sub-groups within society already implicitly control those whose "me" phases are strong. They act according to who they think they are, but who they think they are is simply a product of the groups that have influenced them the most. We all suffer from this to a certain degree, and it's not necessarily a bad thing.
People who don't conform to the group often get ostracised, and as Malcolm Gladwell points out at the beginning of Outliers, it seems as though we need a certain amount of community to be healthy. Erich Fromm, in The Fear of Freedom, noted that life seems to be a trade-off between individuality and community.
How does this control look? It's actually quite simple. When you're thinking of doing something, if you start thinking it's a bad idea, often it's because the "generalised other" of the person or persons who will be affected by this action say it's a bad idea, so you don't do it. Or, something fits quite well with your conception of who you think you are (your "me" construction), and so you do it (you're the kind of person who likes to go for long walks on the beach, so you go for a long walk on the beach, but you wouldn't consider going for a quick run because you're not that kind of person). This kind of social control is thus a form of self-criticism.
"Society" then is defined by Mead (from da Silva, p 61) as
the organised set of responses individuals can use for the purposes of social control – which … operates in terms of self-criticism.
Krishnamurti, who apparently influenced and was influenced by David Bohm, wrote about society in The First and Last Freedom (p 36):
The act of relationship between you and another, between you and me, is society.
So, "society" is a blanket term that we use to describe the complex network of relationships between all of us, each of us seeming to have an "I" and "me" phase to our selves, where the majority of us act according to the "me" phase (for a variety of reasons, of course). Thus, we allow dominant groups to influence our thinking.
If two groups are vying for your attention, what is it that will cause you to allow one of them to influence you and not the other? Surely it's the amount of power you perceive them to have over you? I'll hopefully write a bit about power and social influence soon.
I hope you've managed to stomach this rather philosophical article. I find it all very interesting, and I will hopefully tie this together with a few of my other articles (and some yet to be written) to show why this is all important in present-day society. In the meantime, I hope you see, as I do, the potential value of Mead's relatively practical framework in coming to understand present-day society and societal patterning.


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The end of the world a generic which was discounted months ago and taken into account in company guidance. Market reaction to the event the stock goes up .Bucket Goes Down.
Bucket comments additional trails means S110 is in trouble. To freaking stupid to comment on.
Bucket predicts price of 2.75 which he maybe be confusing with his IQ
Bucket misses 30% move which for those who averaged down at the 4 level have recouped what ever loses there were from the high . If not doesnt matter the 6.90 price will soon be a thing of the past along with Buckett
Once a dolt always a dolt.
we are up 30%+ in last 14 trading days. how come the bucket of s%&* of brains forgot to predict the bounce and tells us all to buy. he left so much on the table. what a dolt
Have your fun pumpettees. The same group that talks about longterm, have very short term memories. Little math for Pumpettees, you're still down $16,000.00 on valuation for every 10K shares you own.
Since these two pumpettees want to point to a different direction, how about either dolt expreess how many shares they own. This way they can show us how smart they really are. Neither expresses that they only got back 45% of what they gave up. Well soon the focus will turn to burn, so I can be patient about reminding you of this fact.
Well you hope and pray that something materially happens and I still predict $2.75. I don't have to sweat out the impact of the next 3 years earnings. You do. Don't you fret about the street understanding this investment, when dacogen sales start to go south, they will not hang around to find out. The shorts are already preparing to make your 30% move look like a nonevent.
I believe the focus becomes burn, specially after this next quarters earnings. It does seem that when one pumpettee posts something here, it's sure to get echoed by another similar response. Just be careful of these fools, they look at losing $16K as if they made money.
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Coffee is about to get ridiculously expensive. I sit here in Kenya as I write this, having set aside 271 bags of amazing coffee, but at prices that would have been unbelievable, even last year. Auction prices have hit new highs, $10.08 in last week's auction. It's hard to speculate if those particular lots were bid up due to some prior arrangement with a buyer who specified no cap, or whether 2 parties thought the coffee was that good. (I cupped a different lot that went over $10 in the auction and did not think it was a real Gran Cru coffee).
The Coffee Cupping Reviews for our green coffees usually recommend how long you should roast a particular coffee relative to the sounds of the roast; thefirst crack and the second crack. While it's an imperfect way to talk about the "degree of roast," let me explain why we chose cracks as reference points for how dark the roast is, and the alternatives.


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Cable companies have marked their territories. Live in Rockford and you most likely get Insight Communications. Watch TV in Rochelle and likely it's Comcast Cable. It's been this way for years. But if the Governor signs a bill that allows AT&T to provide cable, internet and phone like other companies do, there's a chance you could save money.
"If you get more players, Insight will have to come up with different packaging different pricing and there would be somewhat of a war going on," says Insight customer Michael Stickels.
Insight Communications just started offering the three-play package. For phone, basic cable and high speed internet, it costs less than a hundred dollars. AT&T reps won't say how much they plan on charging. However unlike Insight, AT&T offers the ability to send live streaming video from a cell phone to a TV.
"We have absolutely no fear of competition we know we have a good solid product and have the best people to provide the service that our customers are looking for," says Joan Sage of Insight Communications.
AT&T will spend billions of dollars to convert existing phone lines to ones that could provide internet and cable. And when this happens, Insight customers like Michael Stickels say they'll look into making the switch.
If the Governor signs the bill and AT&T starts offering service in our area, expect to sign a contract if you decide to make the switch. AT&T requires a-one year contract. Insight Communications does not. So there's some options to weigh.
AT&T would not comment on when they plan on offering service in our area. However, if the Governor gives it the ok, we could see them sometime by the end of the year.


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ORANGEVALE, CA - In Playboy online, she was a "Cyber Girl of the Week" under the name Carlie Christine. But when officials in the San Juan Unified School District found out she was also Carlie Beck, cheerleading coach at Casa Roble High School, it apparently cost her her job.
According to district spokesman Trent Allen, Beck was hired in February and paid a stipend to coach cheerleading. But now, in Allen's words, "She's no longer employed by the district."
Allen would not elaborate, citing personnel confidentiality.
"I posed for Playboy before I was employed by the district," Beck told News10. "I feel I was honest and forthright about my modeling history before I was employed."
Cheerleading tryouts were postponed last week but started up again this week under the district's assistant cheerleading coach.
Parents and students were stunned at the news.
"It's kind of shocking because I had no idea that she would do something like that," said cheer parent Susan Calhoon. But she said her daughter enjoyed having Beck as her coach, adding, "She did a good job with the girls. I never heard anyone complain."
Some parents say the issue of Beck's pictures online came from parents who were upset their daughters didn't make the cheer squad.
"Jealousy issues or whatever between parents and other students and stuff like that with Carlie herself brought this all on," said parent Richard Spradling. His daughter is a cheerleader who says morale went up and the team turned around under Becker's guidance.
Calhoon said she believes the original complaint came from one disgruntled parent whose daughter wasn't allowed to try out for the team.
"I don't think it would have been an issue if her daughter would have been able to try out," Calhoon said.
Another parent, Sue Feather, said she felt sorry for Beck, but added it was a lesson for students, including her own freshman daughter at Casa Roble.
"Be careful what you get out there because it will follow you all the way through your life. And this is a great example for this gal and it's a great teaching moment as a mom for my child," Feather said.
Beck says she agrees that kids should be careful what they do online. "I went into this understanding that it would be on the internet and I think it's important that anything you put on the internet will be there the rest of your life and there is access to it, so it's important to understand that," she said.
Students who were aware of the situation generally seemed to feel the firing was unfair.
"I think that it shouldn't have anything to do with the school or anything. It was her personal life and it shouldn't have to be brought (up) for her career," said Casa Roble senior Rachael Powell.
Junior Megan Arosteguy agreed. "If she kept it secretive and made sure it wasn't any part of her cheer job, then I don't think it should have anything to do with it," Arosteguy said.
Beck says she plans to continue on with a modeling career that's included several less racy assignments. She says losing her coaching job was difficult for her. "I really learned to love these girls as well as their parents. And I definitely appreciate all of the support that I have been shown," she said.
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Rivers of Colorado
Upper Colorado River | Credit: Ken Neubecker
Many people associate the Colorado River with images of magnificent canyons, giant reservoirs, and terrifying rapids. For me, I think of a small trout rising to eat a Royal Wulff fly on a creek not much wider than my office. I grew up fishing on the headwaters of our nation's seventh longest river just west of Rocky Mountain National Park. The river rises in the park and flows 1450 miles to its delta near Yuma, AZ.
Unfortunately, the Colorado's headwaters will likely not look the same for my son when he is ready to cast a fly rod. Currently, 60 percent of the river's flow is diverted across the continental divide to provide water for irrigation. A proposed expansion of this diversion project would further divert another 15 to 20 percent, leaving just a small trickle of our state's namesake river headwaters for fish, wildlife and people. American Rivers and our partners are advocating for smarter, more cost-effective solutions that ensure we have enough clean water for generations to come.
Across the continental divide, the Arkansas River, the Mississippi River's second longest tributary (1460 miles) rises near the town of Leadville. For years the river was hammered by unchecked mining that polluted its water and killed fish. As mines shut down and mining companies improved their operations, the health of the Arkansas has rebounded.
It currently supports a world class trout fishery and one of the most prolific Mothers Day caddis hatches anywhere . It is also one of the most popular and exciting whitewater rivers in the country supporting a multi- million dollar rafting industry. If you are a boater and have never been, you have to check out the Royal Gorge or Browns Canyon sections.
The Arkansas River is certainly not without its threats. Recently the Bureau of Land Management approved an Environmental Impact Statement for a massive art project called Over The River. The project plans call for 5.9 miles of silver plastic panels to be suspended over the river between Salida and Canyon City. The project may impact the fishery, cause serious traffic problems, and harm Bighorn Sheep habitat. Denver Post writer Scott Willoughby recently wrote an article about the proposed project. He made a good point suggesting that it is a grave mistake if we confuse art for beauty.
Clearly, the issues facing rivers in Colorado are diverse and far-reaching. But in my six months as the Colorado conservation director for American Rivers, I have encountered great support from our members and partners – support that will drive us in our bold effort to protect and restore the state's rivers for future generations.


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Chopping Block Chopped
Three episodes, and Marco Pierre White's baby is put to bed.
After just three little episodes, NBC has apparently decided to pull the plug on Chopping Block, Marco Pierre White's mildly brutal answer to the Ramsay spectacle Hell's Kitchen. Hollywood Reporter on the move: "The network informed affiliates Thursday night that the reality series starring renowned chef Marco Pierre White will be off Wednesday nights as of next week ... 'Block' will be replaced with repeats of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent.'" [HR via Eat Me Daily]


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WILKES-BARRE - A gunman fired off at least five gunshots at a Hazle Street house Monday afternoon, narrowly missing a woman who was holding her 5-month-old grandson in the living room.
Rae Ellen Andrews, 41, said she was holding her 5-month-old grandson, Darnell, in the living room when gunshots erupted as a family friend was arriving.
"I was sitting on the couch and bullets came flying through when someone opened the front door," Andrews said. "One of us could have got hit. Someone could have got killed."
The gunfire rang out just after 2 p.m. at 302 Hazle St. Wilkes-Barre police were searching for a silver car in connection with the shooting, but they had not released a detailed description or named any suspects by Monday evening.
Andrews showed reporters the bullet holes in the wall of her living room and one that traveled through a hall way - because the front door was open - and struck the refrigerator in the kitchen.
Andrews said she lives at the home with her grandson and her son's girlfriend, who was not home. She said she doesn't know if her home was targeted, or the family friend who was arriving.
"I don't know if there's a vendetta against someone," Andrews said. "It's time to get out of here. This is too close to home."
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I'm making the switch from Mediacom to Direct TV this week. I'm trying to decide on which package to go to. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Right now with Mediacom I have HBO just for Entourage. I do have an HD TV which is a main reason I am switching.
If you've got Direct TV is there a package you would recommend?
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Originally Posted by CyGuy33
I'm making the switch from Mediacom to Direct TV this week. I'm trying to decide on which package to go to. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Right now with Mediacom I have HBO just for Entourage. I do have an HD TV which is a main reason I am switching.
If you've got Direct TV is there a package you would recommend?
I have the everything package, all the movie channels, all the sports channels plus MLB extra Innings and MLB super fan.
If you want to spend a bunch of money, get what I have.
I do enjoy getting all the channels.
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The total choice package is like $55-60 a month and has alot. Too many channels for me. You also get the versus and Fox sports regional channels which I bet we will be on a time or two come football season. Tell them your thinking about some movie channels and ask if there is a spcial discount for trials. They should give you some options such as Starz for a couple bucks a month. I've done this alot with their movie and sports channels. It works!!
The nice thing about DirecTV is you can cancel and or signup for HBO or SHOWTIME etc in seconds. We only have HBO while Entourage is on or Dexter and a few other shows are on Showtime.
Just make sure you tell them you want the HD package. It's like 5 bucks more but then you get all the extra HD channels instead of the standard ones.
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I need to decide between Direct TV and Dish.
Are there any significant differences between the basic packages for the two different companies?
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Yes DiercTV has the NFL sunday Ticket which no one else has. That is the primary reason I got it in the first place and have been suprised by the amount of programming. If I am not mistaken they currently have more HD channels as well. I have had very few problems with the service and any time I need customer support they have very easy to deal with. As far as dish is concerned my sister has it but I can't say I have heard her say anything about the service either positive or negative. If you are an NFL fan with an out of region team there is not choice DirecTV is it.
Directv is usually more expensive but has better channels IMO. Here is what I would do.
#1 Start out with a package like total choice or CHOICE XTRA / PLUS DVR / PLUS HD DVR. It's not the biggest package but you always can upgrade later without breaking your contract. It's harder to downgrade once you sign the contract.
#2 If you think there is any chance you'd like a DVR and HD than get an HR21(HD DVR) NOW before you sign the contract. Once you sign the contract you'll be paying full price for each additional receiver.
#3 Get all the receivers you want now. Adding them later will be $$$.
Here is an HD comparison between the 2. I don;t know if it's up to dat.
Last edited by dmclone; 06-29-2008 at 12:54 PM.
I don't think it makes since to get anything, but the Plus HD DVR Package. If you are going HD it cost $10 more anyway so why not throw in the HD DVR box also.
This is regularly $72.99/mo. - Don't buy a package based on some promotion because it will end and then you will have to pay full price for it. (unless you plan on switching to a lower tier)
What people fail to realize is that there are other TV's in most houses that don't want to be on the same box. That cost $5 more a month per box.
So if this was my house I would be $73 + 15(additional receivers) = $88
This gets you no Premium channels though. I think you can get everything they offer for $120 (that would be One HD DVR Box with HD/DVR service) - No internet or phone included. I could be wrong on some of this, but that is they way I see it online and from a guy that was trying to sell it from me.
Here is what I have and what I pay (not including discounts)
2 HD DVR's
Total Choice w/locals 50.99 (older package that I'm grandfathered in)
3 receivers 9.97 (The first receiver is free)
Tax 3.95
If I was a new customer
3 receivers 9.97 (The first receiver is free)
Tax 3.95
You can also add premium channels like HBO for $10 month
Last edited by dmclone; 06-29-2008 at 01:06 PM.
Originally Posted by dmclone
Here is what I have and what I pay (not including discounts)
2 HD DVR's
Total Choice w/locals 50.99 (older package that I'm grandfathered in)
3 receivers 9.97 (The first receiver is free)
Tax 3.95
If I was a new customer
3 receivers 9.97 (The first receiver is free)
Tax 3.95
This helps a lot. Thanks,
But, is the Total choice an old package or something? All I see is
FAMILY (29.99) This package is horrible.
PREIMER (104.99) -still need to buy dvr and hd service on top of this.
EDIT: Thanks. Plus DVR/HD is the package that would be my choice with a couple extra boxes.
Last edited by HandSanitizer; 06-29-2008 at 01:30 PM.
I just attempted to get set up with DirecTV and had nothing but problems. Installer never showed, called install company and got treated rudely and then hung up on, directv didn't seem to care about this, gave me the On-Time guarantee, but as I told them that doesn't cover me having been rude to and hung up on. I told them to take a flying leap, stuck with mediacom.
Got 2 hd dvr boxes, starz, extra digital channels and internet for $99/month with no promotions. I've not had rude service from mediacom in the past 5 years so I'll stick with them.
I'll miss out on some HD channels. But I'll still get all the locals as well as ESPN and ESPN 2 and I think like TNT, TBS and a few others for now.
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Couple more questions. Direct TV doesn't have Dual DVR boxes do they? I really like that feature.
Also. How much of a pain is it to get a UHF remote setup on a Direct box.?
I recently returned to Des Moines from the desert of southern California. While there, I had Time Warner cable. It is light years better tham Mediacom. While there, I moved into a home for which TW had not yet installed the trunk into the community, so I had to go with DirectTV. It cost me $300 for an HD receiver, and I couldn't get local channels and had to pay an extra $1.50 per month per channel to get the LA local channels.
Although the service and quality was very good with DirectTV - and I'd take DirectTV over Mediacom, cable providers in other areas of the country kick BOTH Mediacom and DirectTV.
Not an answer for you, but if I was starting from scratch in Des Moines, I'd take DirectTV as long as the local channels are provided.
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Originally Posted by HandSanitizer
Couple more questions. Direct TV doesn't have Dual DVR boxes do they? I really like that feature.
Also. How much of a pain is it to get a UHF remote setup on a Direct box.?
If you're talking about dual tuner, yes they do. HR21 HD dvr.
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