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I logged onto my myspace and saw this add. Has anyone else seen this? Do you think they are taking things to far with the whole "the world is going to end in 2012" thing.
I just thought it was a little nuts.
here is the linkhttp://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/
whoa-- how totally intriguing!!!
a load of crap, but intriguing nonetheless.
Its crazy, i am exploring the site now and the three diffrent possible ways the earth is supposed to end. Now my question is how in the world do they plan on saving people IF any of this happened? I mean do they plan to take people into space until everything is over with and they can come back?? And would that really makes sense because if the entire world is destroyed how are humans supposed to survive. I mean with nothing left but human how are they going to function??
This is crazy in my eyes. They dont even tell you how they plan on saving your life.
NO ONE can know when the earth will end- soooo many people have made predictions and ALL have been wrong thus far!
wait i found it. they do plan on taking people into space...
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Thats weird. I registered just to see what it was, and it gave me some number.
I don't know what this website is. But I highly doubt the world is going to end.
Well.. The world will end. We just don't know when. :D
wow i was looking tha the lil family underground thing. and it makes me think of blast from the past movie. oh wait is that the movie? or am i getting the title wrong?lol
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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- The post-Carlos de los Cobos era begins for the Chicago Fire, and it is no secret that interim head coach Frank Klopas' squad has a deep hole to climb out of.
The Fire are 1-4-6 and have tied a franchise-worst nine-game winless streak (0-4-5). Chicago attempts to end the ongoing skid when it hosts Seattle Sounders FC on Saturday at Toyota Park.
"Everybody's definitely wanting to get back on track," said Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson, who returned to the starting role last week for the first time since April 14. "We're always optimistic that we can progress toward getting to the playoffs. The reality is we're 1-4-6, so we've got to get out of this rut."
The Sounders (5-4-5) are coming off of one of their biggest victories, a 2-1 decision over Real Salt Lake, ending Salt Lake's dominant 29-game home winning streak at Rio Tinto Stadium. Lamar Neagle tallied the game-winner for his first MLS goal.
Seattle also has been in the driver's seat throughout its all-time series against the Fire since joining MLS in 2009. The Sounders are 3-0-2 against the Fire, defeating Chicago twice last season and posting a 2-1 victory over Chicago this year on April 9 at Qwest Field.
The April 9 match marked the start of the Fire's current nine-game winless stretch and was the team's first loss of the 2011 season. Sounders goalkeeper Kasey Keller was the difference maker with several clutch saves in the second half to preserve the one-goal advantage for Seattle.
The Fire have a jam-packed June schedule, and they start the month without midfielder Marco Pappa, who is away with the Guatemalan national team for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Pappa is tied for the team lead with four goals.
"Marco's a very talented and important player," Klopas said. "But I believe in the other players to step in and perform because it's all about the team. When you lose one guy and you bring in someone else, it's all about the ideas and how we want to play. It's not one guy taking the ball. How we attack and defend, it puts more emphasis on the group."
There is curiosity as to how things will be different under the Klopas regime. Clearly the team did not get the game-time results under De los Cobos, and Klopas said that he will "fine tune" things in the Fire's game plan. Klopas' leadership of the team will be viewed under a microscope since the majority of the squad was assembled with him in the technical director role.
From a personnel standpoint, the Fire already made one move Friday by loaning second-year defender Kwame Watson-Siriboe to FC Tampa Bay of the second-division North American Soccer League. Watson-Siriboe had not seen a single match this season after playing in 10 matches (seven starts) during his 2010 rookie campaign.
"Sending Kwame to FC Tampa Bay for the remainder of the 2011 season allows for Kwame to play games and continue to develop as a defender," Klopas said.
The weak performances from the bulk of the Eastern Conference bring some element of optimism from the Fire's standpoint. Chicago enters the weekend second-to-last in the East and 11 points behind the first-place Philadelphia Union. Philadelphia and D.C. United are the only two East teams that have posted two victories in their past five matches.
"I guess there's always time until you're mathematically out," Fire captain and defensive midfielder Logan Pause said. "If we continue to say we've got time, we'll wake up and it'll be like, 'oh man, I wish we had more time.' We've got work to do."


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This course is designed to give you an introduction to your personal talents and potential. Learn Like a Superhero introduces you to the way you learn as an individual with Accelerated Learning. SHowing you the best ways to approach any projects more effectively. From completing Accredited and Non Accredited Training to remembering more and reading more effectively.
Think like a Supervillain shows you how you can tap into your creativity in ways you had never previously imagined. WIth techniques taken from geniuses thinkers and artists that have helped shape the world we live in today.
Along the way you will also pick up a couple of NLP skills to help you continue your life in a more successful and manageable way.
Your first lecture on the path to becoming a superhuman learner, giving you a simple and understandable introduction into Accelerated Learning.
Do you remember when you learned at your best? Was it last week, last year, when you were at school? This lecture will give you a brief run through of your abilities and how to reawaken your learning potential.
All of us will go through the same essential stages in every learning process, whether we are aware of them or not. This lecture will show you the 4 stages so that you can take control and learn more successfully.
How intelligent do you consider yourself to be? The chances are you are vastly underestimating you true abilities. You may not have known this but all of us have multiple intelligences which means different strengths. When you understand your strengths you can then begin building a superhuman learning program.
Our multiple intelligences are currently agreed at 10. We each have our strengths and weaknesses. What matters is how we use them to our advantage. This lecture will show you how to start.
Multiple Intelligence - Linguistic. Probably the most well know of the ten, put simply how good are you with words?
Multiple Intelligence - Logical / Mathematical. When it comes to numbers and problem solving how would you rate yourself? Are you a human calculator and a Sudoku demon or do numbers leave you cold and confused?
Multiple Intelligence - Artistic / Visual. What do you think about art? Is it important to you or just something people waste money on? What impact does imagery have on you, can you read maps and instructions?
Multiple Intelligence - Musical. Does music make your world go around and if so does this make you more intelligent, find out here.
Multiple Intelligence - Interpersonal. Are you a people person who loves being part of a team? If so I bet you never thought all of this socialising made you more intelligent did you?
Multiple Intelligence - Intrapersonal. If you would rather sit down with a good book then mix with people guess what could be one of your strengths as well. This lecture will show you how you privacy can be a unique strength in your super learning arsenal.
Multiple Intelligence - Physical / Kinaesthetic. Sometime just getting stuck in is the only way to learn isn't it. If that sounds like you then you never know you may just be a physical / kinaesthetic learner.
Multiple Intelligences - Naturalistic. I have some of my best ideas when walking my dog, this give me a Naturalistic learning strengths what other ways can nature impact on our ability to learn? This lecture will give you a few examples.
Multiple Intelligence - Emotional. Attaching emotion to something is one of the best ways to remember something. Emotions should not be bottled up they should be embraced, if you don't you could be missing out on one of your key learning abilities.
Multiple Intelligence - Existential. Have you ever looked up into the sky and asked "Where did we all come from?". If you have chances are you are an existential learning a great strength as you always have a question. Want to know more? Then watch this lecture for some answers.
Once you have learned a little about how you can be far more intelligent than you previously imagined. This simple test will help you to discover your top 3 intelligences so you can start exercising your strengths and building up any weaknesses, to become a truly rounded learner.
If you are completing this course via an App then you may not have been able to view the Multiple Intelligences test. This is an alternate walkthrough to ensure that you are able to complete the exercise
Now you have completed your test and discovered your potential, this lecture will give you a few ways to take advantage of your strengths and build upon your weaknesses. Here you will find a couple of dozen ideas that you can implement pretty much straight away into your learning regime.
In addition to this technique being a fantastic approach to learning anything. It can also be used as a fantastic project management tool and motivational exercise. This is one of the techniques that I genuinely use on everything that I do. in the next few videos you will learn how to really become a MASTER at anything.
Motivation is a key first step in any project. If you start off with the wrong intention you are only setting yourself up to fail. This lecture show you how to quickly establish the right motivation for any learning project.
We are spoiled for choice about where we can learn today. Discovering the right way of Acquire the information is what this lecture is all about.
Do not get Search mixed up with Acquire. This video will show you what makes the difference between knowing something and becoming an expert in something. You can trust me I am an expert and I will show you how here.
In our lifetime we will literally learn millions of facts and figures. Just how can you be expected to remember all of them. Well it's not easy but with triggers this will show you how to remember what really matters.
A little diversion into Neuro Linguistic Programming here. It shares a few ideologies and techniques with Accelerated Learning and I will share with you one of the simplest and most well known.
If you carry this out along with the video you will not be disappointed. Anchoring is one of the quickest techniques you can learn and it can be used with almost everything from learning to boosting confidence to relaxation. If you like it let me know maybe I will add a couple more techniques for you to try.
Exhibiting is all about showing the world what you know, whether you do it on line in the flesh or in the mirror. As long as you take the time to practice and share what you know.
Once you have completed any learning activity in fact any activity at all you need to look back and reflect. this lecture will show you what to look out for and make the most of that time.
Even the smartest of us could do with a few pointers in remembering effectively. This section is all about memory and by the end you should with practice be able to use yours more effectively. Be prepared thought these techniques while easy to learn take effort to master. These techniques are similar to those used by world memory champions so you can if you want develop them as far as you want to.
If the first thing you think about when you see this title is a famous boxer then you are already halfway there to learning this technique. Watch the lecture to find out how to get the rest of the way.
Memory skills are great to build this one will show you how easily you can remember 10 great scientists from the 20th Century. I had no knowledge of half of these scientist when I found this list but when I put them through this technique I can now remember who they are and what they did quickly and you can too.
This technique is rumoured to be thousands of years old and it still works today. In only 12 minutes you are going to learn one of the easiest and most memorable ways of remembering around.
In Accelerated Learning we do not expect you to become experts instantly in fact we encourage repetition and practice, but managed the right way. This is your chance to quickly refresh on the Scientists Journey. I would recommend you rematch this video at least a couple of times the first week after learning and then revisit every few weeks until you know them all off by heart.
Congratulations you can now remember 10 scientists you can now achieve anything. Well that may not be true but there are multiple other uses for the Journey method and here are just a few.
Similar to the Journey method this is a great simple and in fact even faster way of remembering a list of items. In this instance items that are good for your brain when you eat them. The PEG system is a fast system that anyone can master in literally minutes.
Apart from hanging up your washing what else are pegs good for, here are a couple of examples.
I can already hear some of you saying "I don't just want to remember lists". This is why this lecture will give you some of my personal approaches to remembering things. If you use them all and the PEG and Journey you will be well on your way to a superhuman memory.
Have you ever really tried speed reading? How did you get on? Power reading is an alternative approach to speed reading focussing more on reading more effectively rather than just faster. Some of the following techniques were my introduction to Accelerated Learning and I have been honestly using them for almost ten years now. Try them all out I am sure you will find at least one that works for you.
As an introduction to Power Reading I am going to take you through a simple 5 step process. When you are ready we will begin.
As you will have seen in the MASTER motivation is vital. Reading isn't always fun so finding the right motivation will help you find the resources and energy to complete the exercise the right way first time.
We all have our particular approach to reading that we do not even think about "Unconscious Competence" if you will. This section is simply about having a look at what and how you currently read and thinking for a moment about how effective it is for you.
Now you have looked at the way you read, it's useful to understand the process behind that. This video should hopefully give you a little insight into how you can improve your reading.
Some of you may think that parts of this section may talk down to you, they don't. Sometimes in life we have to go right back to the beginning and correct what we have done wrong as well as learn what we have been doing right all these years and build upon it.
The final step in Power Reading for now and if you practice every step and begin incorporating what you have learned, you may not instantly read twice as fast. However what you will find is you read more effectively and in time you will read faster whether you read twice as fast is all about how motivated you are and how much effort you choose to put in, it is possible though.
This half of the course is going to show you how to come up with truly innovative ideas as well as amazing fresh approaches to problem solving. So if you are ready to start Thinking Like a Supervillain, jump on in.
It is very common for people to get Creativity and Talent mixed up and even think that they must go together. This lecture will give you a little run down on your possibilities.
A simple and fun start to creative thinking. These questions can be answered multiple ways but they do require a little lateral thinking. See how many you can get right.
What could you really do with Creative Thinking? This next section will show you a couple of amazing approaches to new product development that you never know could lead to your million pound idea.
I have only just been informed of a problem with the video with lecture 48. Until I am able to fully correct this issue this is a presentation I gave with my former business Clear Futures Group. It covers pretty much the same as the video for lecture 48 you just have to suffer looking at me while you learn it. One other thing I have to apologise for the poor sound quality, the air conditioning was up full and no one in the building had any clue as to how to shut it down.
Once you have completed your first idea box for drawing it is easy to think that all it is good for is creative artistic projects. As with every other approach to thinking there are always easy it can be incorporated into a business development way. This lecture will show you how you could incorporate an idea box into expanding your business or inventing the next big thing.
Now that I have shown you two really fantastic uses for the idea box, it's really time for you to get used to creating your own. This lecture will just take you through the very simple steps you need to follow to start your own.
This techniques is an almost perfect selection of questions to ask yourself when you begin any project. Each section can be useful on it's own but when you add two together you start to begin to see true opportunities and when you complete all 7 sections you will often find you are left with a really incredible new innovation.
What can you think of to run a SCAMPER through?
The first step in your SCAMPER will be to discover just what can be substituted in your product, process or idea.
The second step is to look at what things can be brought together and combined. Just think about a swiss army knife for example, some of those are ridiculous in size now that they have combined nearly everything into a pocket knife (you just need really big pockets).
Third is looking at what sometimes simple Adaptions can be made to change the idea completely. Sometimes it is the smallest changes that make all of the difference.
Now we look at Modify also know as Magnify and Minimise. Just changing the size makes all the difference, think about you mobile phone and your TV how would you get on with those twice the size of half the size?
What else can you use this for? Often products and services get missed because we believe they can only be used for one thing. Vinegar and lemon juice make great window cleaners, sometimes a little experimentation pays off.
Eliminate is all about getting rid of what doesn't work. Sometimes it can just be too old or cumbersome sometimes it could be a character in a story you are writing. Eliminating in a SCAMPER helps make the process easier by putting it all into perspective.
When we look in a mirror everything looks the same yet slightly different. This is the same when we take a different perspective to what we are working on. Try turning it upside down, inside out on it's side, see what works for you.
The Idea Box and SCAMPER are fantastic for developing new ideas, but creative thinking is so much more than that. Problem Solving is something we have to do everyday in one form or another applying a little creativity to that activity can make the old new, the boring fresh and may even help you overcome that barrier that has been standing in your way for years.
What are the other possibilities with Creative Thinking? The rest of this course will show you some of my favourite ways to come up with solutions to problems you may not even be aware of, yet.
To begin with lets just think for a moment about what genius means to us. Do you have a friend that you consider to be a genius or do you hold scientists or musicians us as genius creators? We all have people we aspire to that we look up to, just what is it that makes these people so special?
I believe that genius is simply a state of mind and the right motivation. We can all achieve incredible things if we just put the effort in. This lecture will introduce you to your state of mind and the most effective ways of thinking.
When do you come up with you best ideas? When you are active or when you are relaxed?
This lecture will begin your journey into achieving a creative state of mind fast.
Do you have any idea what effects daydreams have had on our evolution. Science is often built upon the work influenced by daydreaming.
One of the greatest Surrealists Salvador Dali had a great technique of achieving an incredible daydream creative state that I will take you through.
Before you begin the Daydream exercise there are a couple of steps that I would like you to prepare for.
Now just get yourself comfortable and prepare to let yourself just relax into your own daydream world, enjoy.
By day I am a professional marketer incorporating more than 10 years of experience in a full mix of both on and offline approaches to marketing. By night I become my Personal Development persona dedicated to helping people to achieve their potential through sharing my discoveries and experiences as a trainer and a coach.
Therefore I have two main approaches - 'Mythical Marketing', all about incorporating the old and the new approaches to creating great Marketing Messages and helping businesses to grow.
Then there is 'Learn Like a Superhero' with two books already available on Amazon focusing on Accelerated Learning, Creative Thinking and Personal Development.
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Ever wonder how much it would cost to jet down to the Caribbean for a weekend trip on a Citation XL? Or maybe, how much a short private jet trip would cost for a business function?
At PrivateFly, we're often asked "How much would it cost me to fly from A to B on a private?" and while we deal with all sorts of flight requests from all over the world, no two flights are ever the same – even if the route might be.
As a snapshot, here are five flights we arranged this week, along with their prices.
Los Angeles To Las Vegas
We've been receiving an influx of bookings to Las Vegas lately, one of the most popular destinations for private jet customers. While the city is usually known for its wild parties, this week it was a flight for a businessman, looking to meet a new client in the Las Vegas area.
Since the flight was for business, the client was looking for the most cost-effective aircraft he could choose. Thanks to PrivateFly's software which allows customers to compare private jet prices online, our client was able to wisely choose the best aircraft for his trip and budget.
How much does it cost by private jet?
- Itinerary: LA Van Nuys to Las Vegas McCarran Intl
- Aircraft: Cessna 510 Mustang
- Flight Time: 51 Mins
- Price: $3,600
Paris to Zurich
One flight we flew this week was from an executive at a major corporation who was flying from their home office in Paris to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
With its annual winter meeting this week, multiple private jet bookings have been coming in from clients attending the event. Every year, Davos drives peak private jet traffic to Zurich and its surrounding airports, with around 725 unique business aircraft flying in for last year's event.
You can learn more about who's flying in for Davos 2015 in our blog.
How much does it cost by private jet?
- Itinerary: Paris Le Bourget to Zurich Airport
- Aircraft: Citation XLS+
- Flight Time: 51 Mins
- Price: $10,100
Lyon to Courchevel
We know that maximizing time on the slopes is a key priority for our customers. That's why we've recently launched our exclusive ski transfer service, which offers the very best service and pricing for helicopter transfersto and from some of Europe's most popular ski resort.
This week, one of our clients took advantage of our new offer, and received a VIP helicopter transfer for him and his friends (plus their ski equipment), who were spending a weekend skiing in Courchevel.
How much does it cost by helicopter?
- Itinerary: Lyon Bron Airport – Courchevel Ski Resort
- Aircraft: AS350
- Flight Time: 40 mins
- Price: $2,750
Punta Cana to St Kitts & Nevis
With the peak of Caribbean season upon us, we've been receiving many inquiries recently for those seeking to leave the cold weather behind. This week, we flew a couple who were enjoying the warmth of more than one Caribbean Island, by flying by private jet to multiple islands.
When it comes to getting around the many islands in the region, private aviation is a popular choice as many of the islands' runways are too short for larger aircraft and can only be reached by a small plane, such as a BN Islander. (To see the most popular Caribbean destination by private jet travelers, visit our Top Caribbean Private Jet Airports page.)
How much does it cost by private jet?
- Itinerary: Higuey Punta Cana to Basseterre R. Bradshaw Intl
- Aircraft: Beech BE100 King Air
- Flight Time: 1 Hrs 30 Mins
- Price: $6,100
London to Lithuania
PrivateFly has extensive experience in arranging all sorts of specialized flights, including medical evacuation and air ambulance flights. This experience came in especially handy this week when a client required an immediate paramedic escort back to their home after a road accident.
By using our PrivateFly app, our Flight Team was able to arrange the last minute flight quickly, and stayed in regular contact with the operator and customer to ensure that everything necessary for a smooth trip was provided.
How much does it cost by private jet?
- Itinerary: London City to Vilnius Intl
- Aircraft: Learjet 35A
- Flight Time: 2 Hrs 28 Mins
- Price: $27,200
For a personalized quote for your flight itinerary, use our flight search on the website or apps, or contact us – our Flight Team is available 24 hours at (866) 726-1222.


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My mom was absolutely stunning. I have a picture with her and my father walking out of the church after their wedding (she was 19
) and when my in laws saw it, they seemed so surprised about how good looking my mom WAS.
That completely threw me off and hurt my feelings, since it implied that they thought she was no longer attractive.
I think my mom is still attractive, but I do not think she goes out of her way to play up her best features. She is widowed and will cometimes say stuff like "If I hada boyfriend, I'd get dental implants" (she wears a partial up front) or some other thing. I think she should go ahead and do that stuff for HERSELF instead of reasoning that she would only have a reason to do it if she had an SO.
Personality-wise, she is a generous person and has strong convictions. She always means well and has improved and matured with age.
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Another brony is modding Super Mario World with pony stuff! So far gummy is the main addition. You can find the embed after the break!
Now would someone please create that Lyra Megaman game already?
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She five-star liked it!!!
That is all sorts of awesome. Here's the review on her blog.
Thanks ever so much, Sheila.
So now with that important and joyful announcement, I'll move on to apple pie.
There in the corner of my backyard is a huge apple tree and this year it is loaded. Oh my stars! This tree only produced a few apples last year. It's made up for it. We have apples and apples and more apples.
Hubby and I have been collecting recipes and racking our brains over what we're going to do with all the apples.
In our search we found a recipe for apple pie in a jar. I got it from Our Best Bites cookbook, but you can also find their recipes on their blog Our Best Bites.
I was a little skeptical, this would work, but decided to try it out. I didn't want to make pie crust, so Hubby bought pie crust dough. And did we have fun.
Look what we did! You can't tell from the picture, but I cut out little dough leaves and put on the top of each one.
We cooked a jar up and talk about good. (It was almost as good as my five-star review, but nothing tops that.)
And the best thing is . . . we have eleven more jars of apple pie in the freezer ready to cook when we want them. You really need to try this recipe.
Have you found a recipe that surprised you and tasted better than you ever dreamed it would?


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James Jackson Jr. and Amber Martin Set for LAST TUESDAY... at Duane Park Tonight
Last Tuesday...with James Jackson, Jr. with special guest Amber Martin is set for tonight, September 24th (Doors: 7:00pm/Show: 8:00PM) at Duane Park, 308 Bowery (btwn Bleecker St & Houston St). Free w/ table reservation. RSVP: (212) 732-555.
Performance artist James Jackson, Jr. is back at the East Village burlesque mainstay, Duane Park, at 308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston Streets (home of the former Bowery Poetry Club) hosting a new monthly event entitled "Last Tuesday..." Boasting some of the hottest cabaret artists, musicians, and live performances New York City has to offer, each showcased and sharing the stage with MR. Jackson as host for the evening.
This month's guest is celebrated vocalist, dancer, and comedic monologist, Amber Martin. The New Yorker dubber her "a powerful woman whose heightened sense of the ridiculous goes head to head with her distinctly American voice". Amber currently lives, writes and performs in NYC.
In Portland, Oregon she established a new-genre musical performance group, House of Cunt, which swept through Portland's avant-garde theater arts scene (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art) and eventually established her as an award-winning solo artist in her own right (2003 Portland Drammy Award for Best Solo Artist).
As a solo artist, Amber has created a small world of original characters, through which she shows her broad vocal range as well as her vast knowledge of music and pop culture history. If you missed her recent tribute to Laura Nyro at 54 Below...you missed out. Writing, curating and starring in her own shows Martin has been lauded by The New York Times as "pitch-perfect and multi-talented, seamlessly float(ing) between multiple costumes, personae and skits, never once leaving the stage, and carrying the calm of a seasoned performer".
Amber has recently performed onstage with such artists as Joan Rivers, Sandra Bernhard, Karen Black, Joyce Dewitt, Justin Bond, and The Scissor Sisters, appearing as a featured vocalist on the second single off their album Magic Hour (Polydor). She was also featured in Jonathan Caouette's new film "Walk Away Renee" and appeared on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice for the second season in a row.
With a band lead by handsome piano man extraordinaire Elliot Roth, and a story lead with James' unrivaled sass this team has cooked up a brew that is bound to bring Duane Park to it's knees once again.
About James Jackson, Jr: James Jackson, Jr. was undergraduately reared by lesbians in the New England Berkshires after artistically growing up in Boston under the soul-food tutelage of a deep southern family. The shoes; Birkenstocks. The music; Indigo, Simone, Franklin & Difranco-nian. The relationships; many, lost, and strong.
Deposited in New York City over a decade ago & the real work began. Dance belts, regional stage yelts, demanding Brits, and a rather unfortunate stop in Branson, Missouri lead to his discovery of artistic truth on prestigious stages like Radio City Music Hall and Carnegie Hall.
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The scope of the plan to settle Jews on the land in Soviet Russia has been considerably reduced this year, it was declared here today in circles closely connected with the colonization work.
The original plans were prepared when it was believed that the entire sum of $15,000,000, which is to be raised in the United States by the United Jewish Campaign, would be available for colonization purposes in Russia. According to the new plans only 4,000 families will be settled during this year in Ukrainia. Eighteen hundred families will be settled during the spring, beginning next Monday. Twenty-two hundred families will be settled during the autumn.


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With a market cap of has a large market cap size. Quest Diagnostics Inc. (NYSE: DGX) has been on the stock market since its IPO date on the 12/26/1996. Quest Diagnostics Inc. is in the Medical Laboratories & Research industry and Healthcare sector. Average volume for Quest Diagnostics Inc., is 1170.9, and so far today it has a volume of 226075. Performance year to date since the 12/26/1996 is 21.67%.
To help you determine whether Quest Diagnostics Inc. is undervalued the following values will help you decide. P/E is 14.9 and forward P/E is 15.63. PEG perhaps more useful shows that Quest Diagnostics Inc. has a value for PEG of 1.91. P/S ratio is 1.58 and the P/B ratio is 2.63. The P/Cash and P/Free cash flow is 41.97 and 33 respectively.
At the current price Quest Diagnostics Inc. is trading at, 84.78 (-0.47% today), Quest Diagnostics Inc. has a dividend yield of 1.88%, and this is covered by a payout ratio of 27.10%. Earnings per share (EPS) is 5.72, and this is looking to grow in the next year to 6.72% after growing 28.60% this past year. EPS growth quarter over quarter is 68.70%, and -1.00% for sales growth quarter over quarter.
The number of shares outstanding is 139.45, and the number of shares float is 138.48. The senior management bring insider ownership to 0.40%, and institutional ownership is at 96.90%. The float short is 4.54%, with the short ratio at a value of 5.37. Management has seen a return on assets of 8.20%, and also a return on investment of 12.30%.
The ability for Quest Diagnostics Inc., to deal with debt, means it current ratio is 1.4, and quick ratio is 1.3. Long term debt/equity is 0.85 and total debt/equity is 0.85. In terms of margins, Quest Diagnostics Inc. has a gross margin of 38.70%, with its operating margin at 20.70%, and Quest Diagnostics Inc. has a profit margin of 11.00%.
The 52 week high is -2.38%, with 44.31% being its 52 week low. The 20 day simple moving average is 3.15% and the 200 day simple moving average is 16.63%.
Disclaimer: Remember there is a risk to your investment, this is not a recommendation, nor personal advice, never invest more than you are able too loose.


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Environmental Factor, September 2010, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Upcoming distinguished lecturer Patricia Donahoe
By Angelika Zaremba
September 2010
NIEHS will welcome the first speaker in its 2010-2011 Distinguished Lecture Series Sept. 14, when Patricia Donahoe, M.D., addresses the potential of Mullerian inhibiting substance (MIS) in ovarian cancer treatment. Hosted by NIEHS Principal Investigator and Chief of the Laboratory of Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Kenneth Korach, Ph.D., Donahoe will discuss "Chemotherapeutic Agents vs. Mullerian Inhibiting Substance on Stem/Progenitor Cells in Human Ovarian Cancer."
Donahoe(http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/Donahoe.html) is the Marshall K. Bartlett Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, the director of Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital, an associate member of the Broad Institute, and a senior faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. She served as president of the Boston Surgical Society and is president-elect of the American Pediatric Surgical Association.
Donahoe was elected to membership of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institute of Medicine. The National Cancer Institute and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development have funded her seminal research continuously for 30 years.
The Donahoe group(http://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/membership/profile/member/190/0/) specializes in developmental biology and genetics. One of the group's major focuses is the potential of MIS, also known as anti-Mullerian hormone, as an anticancer agent. During development, this gonadal protein hormone causes regression of Mullerian structures in fetal males. The group discovered that as a naturally occurring growth inhibitor, MIS inhibits cell growth and induces apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells and other reproductive tumors.
Donahoe's laboratory is also investigating the differences between ovarian somatic stem cells and ovarian cancer stem cells. The group is interested in the molecular mechanisms of sex differentiation and is searching for gene defects that cause congenital anomalies. One of the group's goals is to design in utero pharmacologic therapies to reduce the severity of abnormalities at birth.
MIS is now in development as a novel treatment for cancer, and preclinical tests are underway in preparation for phase I clinical trials in human ovarian cancer patients.
(Angelika Zaremba, Ph.D., is a visiting postdoctoral fellow in the NIEHS Laboratory of Signal Transduction Inositol Signaling Group.)
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Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term
The optimal term of copyright has been a matter for extensive debate over the last decade. Using a simple model we characterise optimal term as a function of a few key parameters. We estimate this function using a combination of new and existing data on recordings and books and find an optimal term of around fifteen years. This is substantially shorter than any current copyright term and implies that existing copyright terms are too long.
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Kent confirms no duplication on ozone monitoring, questions his own reliability
Environment Minister Peter Kent has confirmed that there is no duplication in ozone monitoring technologies that his department is planning to cut, while casting doubt about whether he can be trusted as a reliable source.
In a statement submitted to Parliament in response to a written question from Liberal MP Sean Casey, Kent acknowledged that two techologies, brewers and ozonesondes, measure different characteristics of the ozone layer.
"The former measure the total thickness of the ozone layer above while the latter measure ozone concentration as a function of altitude," said the statement, signed by Kent.
"These measurements complement, but do not duplicate each other. Satellites can retrieve both quantities, but they need both types of ground-based measurements to validate their measurements to validate their measurements due to various limitations of the retrieval algorithms."
The comments confirm a previously-released briefing note from Kent's assistant deputy minister, Karen Dodds, who approved similar background advice in a September document.
However Dodds actually suggested the opposite, less than a week later, in media interviews that suggested the government could combine the two technologies to reduce costs.
Earlier this week, Kent said that opposition MPs who questioned him about the advice from his bureaucrat were using "questionable" sources, but Liberal environment critic Kirsty Duncan suggested that Kent, a former award-winning broadcast journalist, should actually check those sources.
"The minister of the environment has twice denigrated reporters when his position is challenged. But clearly the real problem is the news reader across the way," Duncan said Wednesday in the House of Commons.
"I have the briefing note which says there is no duplication in Canada's ozone monitoring networks, which means they cannot be optimized and streamlined, only cut. Answers to an order paper question signed by the minister also says there is no duplication."
But Kent was apparently not even convinced by his own statement.
"I reject all of the assumptions of my hon. colleague yet once again," Kent said. "I would also again suggest that she use more reliable research than that to which she has made a practice of using."


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Originally posted on Fox Sports Midwest | By NATE LATSCH | Last updated 10/29/13
ST. LOUIS -- Robert Quinn knows these opportunities don't come along often. The St. Louis Rams hosted the Seattle Seahawks at the Edward Jones Dome on Monday in their first Monday Night Football matchup in nearly three years, and Quinn and his defensive teammates seized the chance to strut their stuff. Seven sacks of quarterback Russell Wilson. A paltry 135 yards of total offense allowed. Only 14 points. A performance that gave the Rams a chance to win on the final play of the game. That the Rams' offense sputtered on a game-ending fourth-and-goal did little to diminish the dominating performance by the Rams' defense -- one in which the defensive end tandem of Quinn and Chris Long notched three sacks apiece in a 14-9 loss. "You don't get too many Monday nights at home or at all," Quinn said. "I think everybody stepped up to the plate. Of course, we would have liked the W, but we fell short. We'll look at it, build on it, get better. We've got young, talented guys. I don't think anyone got discouraged because of this game because we fell short. Everyone's looking forward to going in on Wednesday and looking at the film, seeing what we did good and what are some things that we can correct. We can finish the season strong." The 23-year-old Quinn, in his third season out of North Carolina, showed a national TV audience that he is one of the top young defensive players in the game with his second three-sack performance this season and the third of his young career. The Rams' speedy 6-foot-4, 264-pounder helped set the tone for the St. Louis defense, recording a sack on third down of the Seahawks' first possession, and then had back-to-back sacks near midfield in the final minute of the first half when Seattle led 7-3 and was trying to add to its lead. Quinn now leads the NFC with 10 sacks and is fourth in the NFL behind Indianapolis' Robert Mathis (11 12), Buffalo's Mario Williams (11) and Kansas City's Justin Houston (11). His sack total almost matches that of his entire 2012 season, when he had 10 12. Quinn was the No. 14 overall pick in a 2011 draft that has already produced some premier pass rushers -- Denver's Von Miller (No. 2 overall), San Francisco's Aldon Smith (No. 7) and Houston's J.J. Watt (No. 11). Miller, Smith and Watt were all selected for the Pro Bowl a year ago, and at this rate Quinn could be on his way this year. "We've got a really good group," Long said. "It just starts with No. 94 right there. He was on fire in that first half. He's probably the most dominant football player I've played with and been on the field with. So it's a lot of fun lining up with him every day. Our whole D-line deserves a lot of credit." Long also recorded the third three-sack game of his career. He now has 5 12 sacks this season and 47 12 in his six-year career, which includes 13 in 2011 and 11 12 in 2012. "Those two rushers are as good as it gets for the most part," Wilson said. "You have to give that defense a lot of credit." The Rams made life miserable for Wilson, running back Marshawn Lynch and the rest of the Seattle offense. Seattle averaged only 3.4 yards per play. Lynch was limited to 23 yards on eight carries, a 2.9-yard average, as the Seahawks rushed for just 44 yards on 15 attempts. Wilson completed 10 of 18 passes for 139 yards and two touchdowns --with the bulk of the yardage coming on an 80-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate in the third quarter --but lost 48 yards on the seven sacks. "We played one of our best defensive games this year," Quinn said. "You look back and you're like, 'Ah, I wish I could have made this play or that play.' But that's a great football team, as we all know, and we went toe to toe with them. We came up a play short, but like I said, I think playing on this Monday night really opened a lot of people's eyes to what the Rams have got. We just keep building from here, make a few more plays on both sides of the ball, and we're definitely going to really get this season turned around." You can follow Nate Latsch on Twitter at @natelatsch or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Confidence is one of the most important traits in achieving a happy and successful life. In fact, a recent study published in the scientific journal Nature explains how confidence once played an important role in our evolution.
According to the research, confidence motivates us to take action in the face of uncertainty. So the more confident we are, the more motivated we are to face life's challenges and fight for the resources we need to survive.
Throughout our evolutionary history, individuals without confidence were much less likely to survive and reproduce.
Of course, the truth is life is filled with uncertainty. We never really know how the future is going to turn out. And often due to this uncertainty we go into new situations fearing mistakes, rejection, and failure.
Confidence is what ultimately inspires us to overcome these fears.
In today's world, we might be deathly afraid of being rejected by at a girl at a bar. So instead of taking the risk and starting a conversation, we just hang with our friends and never approach her.
Or maybe we are afraid of starting a new career because we don't think we will be any good at it. So instead we stick with our old job, even though we hate it and get paid half the salary.
Lack of confidence can cause us to sabotage ourselves in all sorts of ways, before we can even give ourselves a chance to succeed.
Let me ask you a question. Do you think guys like Michael Jordan, Bruce Lee, and Tiger Woods got to where they are without believing in themselves? Of course not! They believed they were capable of great things, and that belief motivated them to work hard and make it happen.
That's the whole purpose of confidence – to motivate and inspire us to move forward and make the most of our lives, even though we never know for sure exactly how things are going to work out.
Of course, sometimes due to years and years of being down on ourselves, it's hard to find confidence. Here are useful tips to help build more of it in your life, but remember it takes time and practice:
- Reflect on your strengths. Create a list of your strengths and save it as a positive reminder in the future.
- View obstacles as learning experiences. Learn how to reframe any experience into something positive and growth-oriented.
- Repeat positive affirmations about yourself.
- Find a positive and supportive social circle. The people you surround yourself with (both online and offline) have an influence on your own attitude.
- Practice power posing. Often times mirroring "confident" and "dominant" body postures can help create a more confident attitude.
- Exercise and stay healthy. If you treat your body right, your mind will think better of yourself.
- Visualize a more confident version of yourself. Use your imagination to get your mind thinking in a more positive direction.
Most of these are commonsense. But if you actually practice them, you will see more confidence in your life.
I've been studying psychology for 5 years now. Throughout those years I've discovered that there is nothing more important to our success than what we think about ourselves.
This is because confidence can be like a self-fulfilling belief. Often when we have positive beliefs about ourselves, that influences us to act in ways that bring us the results we want.
Evolutionarily, this is probably why confidence became a desirable trait.
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YourJanissary 4 years ago#61
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who know about binary, those who don't, and those who didn't realize this joke is in ternary.
Sona_Buvelle 4 years ago#62
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Physically? Probably Ezrael, Lux, or Sona.
albelclaw posted...
And for the new champion:
Kind of steps on Vayne's toes. Her parents were murdered in front of her and now she seeks revenge on evil. She hides in shadows leaping on rooftops stalking evildoers(with a focus on mages). She has devised tools to help purify the wicked. Her name is Sasha Vayne. Also, she is strongest late game(with time to plan as it were).
i feel like this topic got derailed a little bit, so i'll put my 2 cents in on both topics
weakest champ is probably heimerdinger as stated earlier. he is a great scientist, but not a great combatant by any stretch of the imagination.
batman is the best superhero under normal circumstances but there have been a few cases involving omnipotent power levels where i think batman would fall a bit short.
Ahri is mai waifu
Join the glorius evolution!
Batman kicked Superman's ass.
ontopic: All the hamster people are weakest.
Rumble, Teemo etc.
MizunoRyuu 4 years ago#66
Back on topic, my vote goes to Poppy. Her strength comes entirely from the fact that she has diplomatic immunity. In a real fight, she'd be slaughtered. Well, I mean, she does have a cool hammer and armour, and she at least knows how to use the hammer, but the others have so much more going for them.
Evelynn is my waifu.
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lol@Iron Man
Is one of the people you are referring to Bane?
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The-World-Seven 4 years ago#68
XcaIIion posted...
i feel like this topic got derailed a little bit, so i'll put my 2 cents in on both topics
Yeah, Power Rangers would kick Batman's ass
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Suffer_Not 4 years ago#69
In order to determine who is weakest or strongest, it helps to know what specifically we are looking for. Caitlyn would lose to most champions in arm wrestling, but in terms of total power, she is the Sheriff of a fairly powerful city state. We can confirm that she has allies; if you tried to punch her in the face, Vi would likely break your arm. The equation is a bit more complicated if we want to includea champion's position and allies into the equation.
For the most part, we can rule the magical champions out as being the weakest. In the League, they tend to only have 4 spells at their disposal, but they all know how to cast more spells than that. Lux can turn invisible, Sona knows more than 3 songs, Annie can incorporealize creatures and bind them in stuffed animals, but a Summoner can only attune themselves to a portion of a champions power, hence why they get less spells than they would normally know. This tends to be handy, as it keeps things fair for champions that aren't using magic (Melee champions would have a hard time dealing with Annie if she could cram them into stuffed animals), but it also makes it hard to tell how powerful they are in relation to each other.
But we can say that they are stronger than champions who rely only on one weapon without any intrinsic ability to stop themselves from being turned into cupcakes. If we look at for example Graves, all he has is his shotgun and his head; he doesn't even have allies after years of being in prison. Vayne is similarly pretty weak. She has her tools, and her athletics, but she specifically works alone. So if she ever got into a fight, she would be on her own.
With this in mind, my top 5 weakest champions in terms of total power are:
Graves. He has a custom shotgun and is a wanted criminal in most city states, and that is all he has. Not only does he have no allies or special powers, but a lot of people already hate him.
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Suffer_Not 4 years ago#70
Vayne. She has her weapons and her training and at least has money, but she's also a criminal (vigilantes tend to be) and doesn't have any allies. Not only that, but her actions in the League make her noticed. She joined specifically to practice killing the witches and warlocks and other dark magic abusers that she fights on her own time, but as she studies them, they study her. Noxus is quite interested in seeing her dead, and more than a few Noxian Summoners have been inside her head from time to time.
Sivir used to be a part of the Noxian Military as a long term mercenary leader. She broke her contract with them after she pointed out the mistakes they were making in planning the war; she predicted that a long and bloody stalemate would happen (which totally did happen) and refused to lock herself into that when she could join the League and make twice as much money. So although she's richer than Vayne, she also has no allies and can't really protect herself if someone with an army decides to kill her.
Rumble takes spot number 4, simply because he is a Yordle. Inventors have proven themselves within the League. Jayce, Singed, Heimer, Viktor, and Rumble are all fairly powerful champions, and we can assume that Science gives them the edge they need to compete with Magic if they have enough time. But Yordles have a crippling weakness; their physiology requires that they spend time with other Yordles. Otherwise, they turn sour. Veigar because lost in his madness, Amumu became lost in despair, and Teemo is close to becoming a sociopath, spared only by the camaraderie he has with the other yordles in his command (ie Tristana). But Rumble has no one. He's already started talking to his machine as if it were alive. How long does he have before his isolation ruins him? Insanity works just fine for Veigar or Amumu's black magic, but it doesn't work nearly as well with mechanics. He's more likely to blow himself up, assuming someone like Viktor doesn't install a logic center in him to keep him from turning.
Zilean. I know I said that mages tend to be a big deal, but Zilean has chrono-displasia, which is an illness where his mind does not (normally) exist within the same time period as his body. So Zilean could be in next Tuesday while someone is attacking him today, leaving him more or less unable to help himself. Although he is being treated by the League, there is no known cure for this disease, and it's very condition would make it very hard for him to defend himself. It's fine for him during League matches since someone else is controlling him when he is summoned, but there is nothing he can do to prevent you from shooting him if he drops into a year ago before he knew you were trying to kill him when you pull the trigger. So just like Rumble he is a victim of disease, but at least he has trained specialist trying to help him overcome it.
For the people saying Twitch, he is Twitch because he's infused by crazy Zaun science and elixers. And he's a popular champion for Zaun. He's at least got a few allies, and is closer to Gragas when it comes to how his powers work.
For the people saying Amumu, he is kept animate by the dark magics of Shurima, the same place where Xerath used to live before he bound himself to a sarcophagus as his pseudo Egyptian brothers nuked themselves out of the history books. He can't be killed and he's clearly Cursed. He's stronger than many give him credit for.
And for the record, honorable mentions go to Taric and Miss Fortune. Taric's magic is fueled by gems from his home planet; one wonders how many of those he has left, and what will happen to him if or when he runs out. And Miss Fortune has her guns, her money, her ship, and not much else. She is trying to unite Bligewater into a city state by it's own right, at which point she's have quite a bit more power, but until that happens she's pretty weak.
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In this second installment of the essay on the coordinator class, I want to use the history of colonialism in Africa to illustrate how a coordinator class is created in a colonial state. It is my belief that the project to create a coordinator class becomes apparent in a colonial state.
It is in the colonial states that the creation of the coordinator class among the natives is not easily distorted by the 'Capitalists vs Workers ideology'. In the colony, the colonialists are unambigious about the creation of this class. The colonialists create the coordinator class among the natives simply because they are interested in producing a subservient native class that supports and takes care of the interests of the colonialists and the empire. The concept of the coordinator class adequately explains why colonialists have always created a class of educated natives wherever they went.
Some African writers, such as Frantz Fanon, have often referred to this class as 'elites' or the 'petty bourgeoisie'. Both concepts miss the point. This is because these two concepts (i.e. the elites or petty bourgeoisie) are usually used in accordance with the Marxist perspective of only two classes – the capitalists and the working class. This way of looking at reality compels one to work in terms of the property ownership viewpoint; resulting in formulations that say that the elites or the petty bourgeoisie are people who own a little but not a lot of capital. Consequently, the notion that something other than ownership differences can be the source of class division and even class rule is not conceivable in this intellectual framework, writes Albert.
In their own words, Marx and Engels wrote, "society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat (1992, p.14)." According to Marx and Engels, the conditions that create these two classes are property relations. They add that in countries where modern civilisation has become fully developed, a new class of petty bourgeois has been created, and it fluctuates between proletariat and bourgeoisie. In other words, as far as property relations are concerned, this petty bourgeoisie is defined as a group of people who own a little but not a lot of capital.
This is the kind of logic that permeates the critique and the analysis of the African nationalist movements and governments in the post-colony. Hence, Fanon (1990) argued that because the national bourgeoisie of under-developed countries has no capital, it soon discovers its historic mission: to become the transmission line between the nation and capitalism. He adds that under a colonial system, a middle class which accumulates capital is an impossible phenomenon
Having adopted the Marxist property ownership standpoint, Fanon fails to see this class for what it is – a coordinator class that relates to the capitalists as intellectual workers. A coordinator class that has certain antagonistic relations with both capitalists and workers "and thus certain tendencies toward oppressing, oppressed, and rebellious relations toward each of these classes," according to Albert and Hahnel (1978).
What leads to coordinator class rule in the post-colony is the ideological orientation of the nationalists movements and Marxist organisations that have been the agents of change on the continent, historically. With slight variations in between, the ultimate goal of these organisations has been the abolition of private ownership of the means of production. The nationalists wanted to replace white capitalists with black capitalists, while Marxists organisations agitated for a centralised economy. Given the ideological framework of the nationalists, one could easily predict that were they to win their revolution, old bosses would be replaced by new ones in the guise of black capitalists. Similarly, given the ideological framework of the Marxists, one could easily predict that were they to win their revolution they would get rid of the old bosses and replace them with the Bolsheviks.
In either scenario we end up with bosses. Although the nationalist coordinator class expresses its interests differently to the Marxist coordinator class, the point is that this class exists and when the conditions are ripe for revolution, this class invariable hijacks the revolution and pushes for its own coordinator class agenda. When this happened in post-apartheid South Africa, some writers called this phenomena an 'elite transition'.
As I have pointed out in this article, the concept of elites is usually used in accordance with the Marxist perspective of only two classes – the capitalists and the working class. Furthermore, the concept 'elite' is misleading for it forces us to focus on a small section of the coordinator class instead of focusing on the coordinator class as a whole. It is not an intellectual leap to point out that the coordinator class is stronger and richer at one end, and weaker and poorer at the other end. "It is true also of capitalists and of workers. All classes have a broad reach and variation, naturally," writes Albert. Thus, we are able to say that the richest of the rich and the far less wealthy but still 'coupon clipping owners' are all capitalists, simply because they have something that we think is important in common, despite many other differences. The same logic applies when we talk of the coordinator class.
It becomes clear that the Marxist perspective does not contain adequate tools to help us unpack the creation and the maintance of the coordinator class. Fanon's use of a Marxist perspective to critique nationalism is the case in point. He writes that the nationalists " have come to power in the name of a narrow nationalism and represinting a race; they will prove themselves incapable of triumphantly putting into practise a programme with even a minimum humanist content… (p. 131)." The first part of this sentence is correct, nationalism is narrow and tends to focus only on race, just like orthodox Marxism is narrow and focuses only on the economy. The scond part of that sentence completely misses the point. It is not because the coordinator class is incapable of putting in place a programme that has humanist content; it's just that they are not ideologically inclined to carry out such a programme. It would not make any sense if the coordinator class decided to sabotage its own project.
Similar to other social classes, this is a class that is out to advance and defend its own agenda and privileges. The fact that this coordinator class happens to be made up of black faces in the colony does not mean it is going to behavior different than the Bolsheviks. The only difference is that the coordinator class in the colony has to fight two battles at once – i.e. race and class struggle. The antagonistic relations which this class has with both white colonial capitalists and the colonised masses manifest itself when the coordinator class engages in this battle to exist. Thus, this coordinator class misuses legitimate race struggle to gain sympathy from the colonised masses, while simultaneously positioning itself in a powerful and influential class position.
That is why, as Fanon correctly points out, having won independence from the colonialists, the 'national middle class' constantly demands the nationalisation of the economy. However, this is not because this class views the nationalisation of the economy as placing the whole economy at the service of the nation and satisfying the needs of the nation. Fanon explains that for this class nationalisation projects mean the transfer into native hands of those unfair advantages which are a legacy of the colonial period.
Still using the Marxist perspective, Fanon attempts to understand this class. He writes that the native bourgeoisie, which has adopted unreservedly and with enthusiasm the ways of thinking characteristic of the colonialists, realises that it lacks something essential to be a bourgeoisie: capital.
It is clear that the notion that something other than ownership differences can be the source of class division and even class rule, is not concievable within Fanon's intellectual framework.
The Creation of a coordinator class in the colony
As I have already stated in this essay, the main characteristics of the coordinator class in a colonial state is that: this class has antagonistic relations with both the colonialist and the colonised masses of the people. Education is the most potent weapon that the colonialist uses to create this schizophrenic existence of the coordinator class.
Referring to the socialisation of this class in the colony, Fanon (1986) writes that: "The middle class in the Antilles never speak Creole except to their servants. In school the children of Martinique are taught to scorn the dialect (p.20)." And for those who put in a lot of effort and stay long enough in school to master the colonial language, they acquire more than just language skills; they also learn how to fit in, how to conform and the need to support the colonial power structure, to paraphrase Chomsky.
The colonial power structure is based on white supremacy and capitalism. White supremacy does not benefit the black coordinator class, hence they have historically fought tooth and nail against it. However, this same class is comfortable with a capitalist economy, simply because under this system with their relative monopoly over empowering work, the members of the coordinator class have much higher incomes and more social status than working class people.
However, because Fanon does not have intellectual tools rooted in radical politics to grapple with the character of the coordinator class in the colony, he resorts to mainstream psychology to explain this social class. Consequently, instead of analysing the ideology and the hidden curriculum that goes with the colonial education, he pursues intellectual dead-ends by psychoanalysing what it means for the colonised to speak the language of the coloniser.
"The Negro arriving in France will react against the myth of the R-eating man from Martinique. He will become aware of it, and he will really go to war against it. …Furtively observing the slightest reactions of others, listening to his own speech, suspicious of his own tongue – a wretchedly lazy organ – he will lock himself into his room and read aloud for hours – determined to learn diction (Fanon, 1986, p. 21)."
This might well be the case. However, the motivation that drives the person arriving in France to want to speak impeccable French might not be the inferiority complex. I am inclined to think that this person is behaving in this manner simply because he wants to pass for a coordinator class member. He wants to alert the French that he has gone through all the indoctrination processes in the colony, and therefore wants to demonstrate that he has mastered the colonial language – indirectly implying that he has also mastered the other cultural and social conventions that were on offer at school.
The reason behind this is that colonial education does not exist to produce graduates who are ideologically oriented toward the colonised. For example, in his book entitled 'Disciplined Minds', Schmidt (2001) reveals how medical students are selected for training under a capitalist system.
"It is crucial to note that the underrepresented majority is not necessarily better served merely by selecting working-class, minority or women students instead of middle-class white males; it is possible to do that in a way that produces doctors who are no more oriented toward the underrepresented majority than are the traditional lot. In fact, when the standard criteria do admit members of the underrepresented majority, they do so in just that way (p.110)."
The research I conducted last year (2007) on University of Cape Town graduate students shows similar findings. The students I interviewed were graduate psychology students.
Four out of five African students that I interviewed felt that the psychodynamic theory they were being trained to practice in was almost impossible to work with. One student explained that:
"…Psychodynamic theory is difficult to apply in areas I wanted to work in, such as in community health clinics and public hospitals. Psychodynamic theory can be very individualistic; it's about the person, it's about the infant and it's about the intra-psychic person. And when you are based at a community health clinic or in public hospital, one does not have the luxury of exploring those things. In most cases, to intervene in the community needs a systemic kind of perspective."
Another student expressed similar views.
"I felt that the course material did not represent anything about me as an African person. … I felt that the course required a dramatic shift in my identity as an African. This shift, which was experienced on a personal level, placed me in an awkward and extremely uncomfortable position as I could not bring anything of my own culture to this new position. I felt extremely lost and the material felt alien."
Another student argued that the UCT programme ought to be tailored within the Afrocentric psychological challenges. A black female student said the programme was too Eurocentric, "I remember I used to sit in seminars and think 'that's for them [whites], it does not apply to me'." In addition, she felt that psychodynamic theory is not easy to work with in South Africa, especially if one is based at public hospitals and at community health clinics.
The quotes above show a group of black students being compelled to assimilate without questioning a Eurocentric perspective – the only worthwhile and meaningful way of interpreting reality, so it seems (hooks, 2000). This is how the coordinator class is created in the post/colonial states.
Part three follows…
Albert, M. (2003). Class: What do we want, how do we get it? Zcommunication. Retrieved from: http://www.zcomm.org/znet/viewArticle/16634
Albert, M. & Maass, A. (no date). A debate between Albert and Maass about Marxism. ZCommunication. Retrieved: http://www.zmag.org/isoreply1maass.htm
Albert, M. & Hahnel, R. (1978). UnOrthodox Marxism: An essay on capitalism, socialism and revolution. Boston, South End Press.
Fanon, F. (1986). Black skin, white mask. London: Pluto Press.
Fanon, F. (1990). The wretched of the earth. London: Penguin Books.
hooks, b. (2000). Where we stand: Class matters. New York: Routledge.
Marx, K. & Engels, F. (1992). The Communist Manifesto. New York.
Schmidt, J. (2001). Disciplined minds: A critical look at salaried and the soul-battering system that shapes their lives. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.


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Not that I'm slamming anyone's opinion, but there is an awful lot of hyperbole in this thread. No, Prometheus and The Dark Knight Rises are not two of the worst films of all time. If some really do believe they're two of the worst films of all time, your exposure to films is clearly limited to new releases at the cinema. Even then, calling them "abominations" is still pushing it, IMO.
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Gotta Say Dark Shadows.
Due to having 2 young children, I don''t get out much. The only movies I saw in the theaters this year were The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, The Amazing Spiderman, and The Hobbit. Out of those, The Amazing Spiderman was my least favorite. I prefered the geeky Peter Parker of the earlier franchise over the teenage angst Peter Parker of the new film. Granted that Spiderman 3 was a stinker, I still prefered the first 2 Spiderman films over this new one.
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I should also add that Rock of Ages was pretty horrible, too. Catherine Zeta Jones needs a better agent. She was terrible in it.
Yea TDKR was the worst BM film this year and in the franchise...Warner get's too "cute" with their properties and let's other people change them or make them "real" news flash this is a movie about a comic book character NOT a real life person keep it out of the real world unless your going to do it RIGHT...
Nolan is starting to remind me of a younger Michael Bay where he thinks he knows it all......
Normally when I dislike a movie I can still find one or two positive things to say about them, like The Dark Knight, I hate that but I admit the action is good and Ledger did a great job as the Joker. But Prometheus was just a colossal waste of my money and I can't think of anything good to say about that crap.
so ya I still say it is the worst movie ever made and if some people want to disagree well then that is up to them
I really liked Prometheus. I thought it was the best movie of the year.
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He is like Bay when he wants to change something thing that shouldn't...He had a hand in making the Tumbler in Batman as the Batmobile??? C'Mon really?
This is why DC will be second fiddle to Marvel when it comes to movies they had the edge back in the day but now they are totally dropping the ball...And if they make a JLA movie they should re-cast Batman because Bale was horrible...and NOT believable.....................
Except The Dark Knight IS the greatest comic book movie ever and will never be topped.This is why DC will be second fiddle to Marvel when it comes to movies they had the edge back in the day but now they are totally dropping the ball...And if they make a JLA movie they should re-cast Batman because Bale was horrible...and NOT believable.....................
Bale was believable as he was both Bruce Wayne and Batman. Keaton was a good Batman but his Bruce sucked. Kilmer was a good Bruce but his Batman was awful. West and Clooney were just worthless crapshoots who got the job for being in the right place at the right time. They were neither Bruce or Batman. In fact, both were perfect for Batmite.
Nevertheless, this is not the topic to discuss this.
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I saw Birdemic in a theater this year, so that trumps just about everything. That movie was so bad I think they actually made it so someone would do an MST3K or Rifftracks commentary on it. If I give credit to the Rifftracks audio that came with it (which couldn't fully redeem the badness of the movie--it was that bad), then I'd have to say the worst movie I saw in a theater was Snow White and the Huntsman. Yeah, Dark Shadows was bad too, but I expected a lot better from the Snow White movie than the 1 expression of Kristen Stewart, a wasted screaming Charlize Theron, watered down Thor, and a soulless action movie finale that made Willow look like Raiders of the Lost Ark. I loved movies like Spider-Man, John Carter, and Prometheus though, so I'm sorry to see anyone disliked them enough to name them "worst."
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I know Dark Knight Rises has some flaws in it, but I really liked it. Same with Prometheus. People have different tastes. That is really what it all boils down to.
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See when it comes to movies based off of video games,books or comics they are going to be people that actually love them or hate them.If you love them and see them as being great fine but do it because you like the film not the actor,director or character...Amazing Spider-Man was WAY better than Spider-Man 3 because it didn't seemed forced.I love the Batman character but felt like these last three movies were not great (Except for TDK) mainly because Of Heath Ledger...
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Well, I don't get out much so the best movie and the worst that I saw were the same. And I didn't dislike it so...
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Wasn't crazy for Dark Shadows (and this is coming from a Tim Burton fan).
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was probably the worst film I saw in a theater this year. I didn't expect greatness, but... wow... terrible film.
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I recently had the challenge of retrieving a country based on the browser language. It was used to pre-select a country in a drop down list so the user didn't have to. I knew it wasn't going to be 100% accurate but probably more like 80-90%.
That's because some people change the browser language instead of their native language and others use a non-ISO standard language. And last, some clients just don't send language information.
It wasn't an option to use a database that mapped IP addresses to countries, so the country had to be resolved from the browser alone.
Resolve the culture
I decided to split the functionality up into two methods. The first one resolves the CultureInfo based on the browsers language.
public static CultureInfo ResolveCulture()
string[] languages = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserLanguages;
if (languages == null || languages.Length == 0)
return null;
string language = languages[0].ToLowerInvariant().Trim();
return CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(language);
catch (ArgumentException)
return null;
Resolve the country
The next method uses the ResolveCulture()method above to create a RegionInfo object. The RegionInfo contains all the country information needed such as ISO code, EnglishName, NativeName and DisplayName.
public static RegionInfo ResolveCountry()
CultureInfo culture = ResolveCulture();
if (culture != null)
return new RegionInfo(culture.LCID);
return null;
Now I am able to get all the culture and country/region information I need based on the browser's language, with a margin of inaccuracy I can live with.
You should soon make a utility DLL, with all that fancy methods you have constructed. And share that :)
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Get country from a browser in ASP.NET
Instead of null, you could also return a "defaulte" locale/region if you can't resolve the request's locale. I have similar code, but I use en-US as default because of all the localization interface.
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Its look good, we can resolve country.
But i am having a different problem. I am having my server hosted in US, but most of my users are from india. When a user enters a record i am entering date and time in the database in "AddDate" column, But in C# coding when i am using Date.Now to get date and time then it gets the US time whereas i want it according to india time. Can u give me a code for this problem.
You need to store the dates into the database using DateTime.UtcNow (universal time). You can either default your website to India's timezone and subtract/add the correct number of hours before displaying the data, or you can grab the user's timezone information from the browser and pass it back to the server.
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I think you should use JavaScript for that, because it gets the date and time according to the local time zone, so basically get them with JavaScript and send them to the server.
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One thing: please, don't make non-optional decisions based on that like some Microsoft's sites do. I had to change languages in my browser just to be able to download English version of WLW or something like that.
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Coca-Cola – Co. will release the U.S. beverage giant's first hot carbonated drink Oct. 21, making Japan the first country to taste it.
Kirin Beverage Co. is set to follow suit Nov. 5.
Canada Dry Hot Ginger Ale took four years to develop, Tim Brett, president of Coca-Cola's Japan unit, said at a press conference Wednesday. The product came about after Coca-Cola came up with a technique for containing bubbles when the drink is heated.
The company is hoping the new drink will shore up sales in winter, when demand for cold sodas typically fizzles. The suggested retail price for a 180-milliliter can is ¥120.
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I've been primal for 4 days, yay! I havent had anything sweet for about 3 wks and no grains now for 5 days. Dont miss them at all (yet). I am also on day 25 of the Supreme 90 program, and that coupled with primal eating is a great combination! I am loving primal so far and I love that it's 80/20, not 100% adherance. I can have my 'cheats' here and there (weekends only) and it's ok. Since I started Supreme 90, I had been eating clean during the week, and on the weekends I would still have a couple of pieces of pizza, some wine and even mexican food and still lost 10.5" in 20 days! So I'm sure I will have an indulgence or 2 this weekend after no slip ups during the week, and after reading some of your comments about how your body responds, I'm a little worried about what my body will do if I give it grains & bad carbs! It'll all work out though
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