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Ethan and Evan have been reunited with their mom. They live here in town but I have yet to run into them.
I suspect a judge forced my husband's sister to return them and fleeing to another city did nothing for her cause.
Ethan and Evan have been reunited with their mom. They live here in town but I have yet to run into them.
I suspect a judge forced my husband's sister to return them and fleeing to another city did nothing for her cause.
Today my son turned 13. Where did the time go?!
In addition to our new home, we have something else new dwelling among us –a beautiful, bouncing baby boy! His name is Che and he is perfect! He has totally brought light into our dark days. He is the smallest of the sultans in the Queendom of Morocco! His nickname is the Emperor!
I We just looooove him to pieces!
Today marks the two-year anniversary of my mother's death. It seems like just yesterday. I miss her.
In honor of my mother's 48th birthday today, I thought I'd share a story about her. When I was about 6 years-old and my brother was 4, my mother cooked us a batch of pancakes for breakfast. Mind you, she was a young mother and was not very experienced in the kitchen. To top that off, she was not in a good mood that day so I knew there was no way she would allow us to eat something else.
When she placed the plates in front of us; I immediatedly noticed how weird they looked. I glanced at my brother and he looked fearfully at the flat, lifeless circular blobs. I, too was appalled that she expected us to eat those things!
My mother noticed our reluctance and warned us that we better eat every single piece of our pancakes. For a few minutes she stood guard over us to make sure we'd do just that. I courageously took a bite hoping for the best. It was the worst of times. Even at my young age I realized she put too much baking soda in the mix! Satisfied with my mouthful, she left us to own devices.
My brother sat there with tears in his eyes while I was busy thinking. We lived in a high rise and was many floors up. It finally dawned on me that we could throw them out the window if I was clever enough. I cut my pancakes in fours and did my brother's next.
Glancing around furtively for her probing eyes, I made my way to the window. The coast was clear so I rapidly dumped some of our pancakes out the window.
I told my brother to shuffle the remaining pancakes on his plate to make it appear as if he was eating. My mother checked on us again and saw the diminishing stacks and smiled.
When she walked away I excused myself from the table with a napkin of carefully concealed pancakes. My plan was to flush them down the toilet.
Once back at the table I dropped the rest of her culinary science project out the window. We were saved!
At my grandmother's repast, someone with a camera snapped a picture of me that perfectly captured the face of grief. Over the years I have worn that visage many times.
Today is the one year anniversary of my mother's death.
Today marks three months for my husband, too.
I miss them so very much!
Nicholas usually calls me Mom. Sometimes he calls me Mama or Mommy.
Mom reminds me that he is growing up.
I love it best when he calls me Mommy. It makes me reminisce about his baby days. But it is equally sweet when he calls me Mama. I picture myself as a Mama bear, and he of course, is my little cub.
He has created nicknames for me–"Mother-of-Pearl" and "Mutter" (mother in German). Lately he has been calling me "Mother Goose" and "Mama Mia."
Jazmine calls me "Mymom." She oftens hears Nicholas referring to me in this manner.
To my husband I am "Baby" or "Boobie" and sometimes "Moroccan."
Evan and Ethan know me simply as Morocco. But on occassion, Evan has called me Mommy, Mom, and/or Stepmama.
Which do you prefer? Do your children have any pet names for you?


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GENEVA, May 23 – The annual assembly of the UN's World Health Organization adopted its only country-specific resolution yesterday by condemning Israel, and ordering "health-related technical assistance" to "the Syrian population in the occupied Syrian Golan" — yet said nothing about the Syrian population being slaughtered in Syria. See the vote count at bottom.
In a written statement featured on yesterday's WHO agenda, Syria demanded urgent action on "inhuman Israeli practices" that target "the health of Syrian citizens." Click here for documents.
Observers of the world body in Geneva said the annual hypocrisy reached a new low this year.
"To see the Assad regime point the finger at Israel out of professed concern for the health of Syrians is, frankly, a sick joke," said Hillel Neuer, exectuive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, a non-governmental monitoring group accredited to the UN.
"They've slaughtered 80,000 of their own people, and are now busy destroying the lives of millions more. The real question is this: Why is the UN allowing mass murderers to deflect attention from their crimes by scapegoating democracies?"
"A world health assembly should be about Hippocrates, not hypocrisy," said Neuer. Continue reading 'Hypocrisy: Syria & UN Health Assembly Slam Israel'


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National Antimicrobial Utilisation Surveillance Program (NAUSP)
The National Antimicrobial Utilisation Surveillance Program (NAUSP) is administered by SA Health and funded by the Australian government through the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC). NAUSP is one component of several programs within the Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Australia (AURA) project, and participation in the program assists with the antimicrobial stewardship requirements for National Safety and Quality in Health Care Standards accreditation.
The program provides contributor hospitals with the ability to download various reports on their antimicrobial usage rates, enabling them to compare their usage to similarly peered hospitals and identify areas for improvement. Annual reports provide hospital benchmarking data by peer group, in a de-identified manner. Further benchmarking by jurisdiction is now available.
If you are interested in joining, a New Contributor Checklist can be found in the Related Resources section along with Program data definitions and principles. All new registrations are completed via the NAUSP Portal; for training videos and further documentation, visit the Portal homepage. Initial enquiries may be directed to email@example.com.
Antimicrobial surveillance
Surveillance of antimicrobial usage is a fundamental component of antimicrobial stewardship within a health facility in order to target interventions to improve antimicrobial prescribing. It is also a required action for hospitals to comply with Standard 3 of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
From a public health perspective, antimicrobial surveillance enables us to investigate links between antimicrobial use and bacterial resistance.
Types of surveillance
Types of antimicrobial surveillance can be classified as being:
- volume-based (observing trends in quantities of antimicrobials used)
- quality-based (observing the appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing. An example of quality-based surveillance is the National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (NAPS)
NAUSP is an example of volume-based surveillance. Data from this type of surveillance can be used to follow trends in antimicrobial usage, and for comparing usage rates with other hospital groups.
NAUSP uses dispensing and occupancy data supplied by contributing hospitals to analyse trends in usage over time. NAUSP collects information for a wide range of antimicrobial agents (PDF 164KB).
Monthly antimicrobial usage data (derived from pharmacy dispensing records) and patient admission data (overnight occupied bed days) are converted to the internationally recognised drug usage rate of defined daily dose (DDD) per 1000 occupied bed days.
The standardisation of data enables comparison of usage rates between agents and between hospitals, and can be used to generate a national average usage rate for each agent. However, this method is not currently validated for populations where doses vary, such as in paediatric and neonatal settings. Consequently all paediatric and neonatal data are currently excluded from NAUSP.
For further details relating to NAUSP methodology, see the NAUSP Data Principles and Definitions (PDF 409KB) and NAUSP Portal User Guide (PDF 1.5MB).
NAUSP Portal
Contributing hospitals load and extract antimicrobial data through the NAUSP Portal. From March 2017, enhancements allow contributor hospitals to load and extract at specialty level. An increased range of benchmarking options is available.
More information on the NAUSP Portal can be found on the NAUSP Portal homepage or by contacting the NAUSP team.
Standard NAUSP reports
Standard NAUSP reports include usage rates for six antibacterial classes and individual agents within those classes, enabling contributing hospitals to track their usage internally, and compare it to usage rates from similarly peered hospitals.
Hospitals are peered according to the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare (AIHW) classification. Benchmarking within jurisdictions is also possible.
Biannual reports containing aggregated data by peer group and state/territory are available from the Antimicrobial utilisation surveillance statistics page.
Annual reports
Each year a more detailed report is produced for the National program. This report provides annual aggregate data and longitudinal trends for an expanded number of antibacterial agents (PDF 507KB).
Individual hospital data are reported in order to appreciate the amount of variation in usage rates between hospitals. Confidentiality is maintained by the use of a contributor coding system.
To access the annual reports see the Antimicrobial utilisation surveillance statistics page.
Further reading
- McNeil V, Antimicrobial utilisation surveillance: Strengthening Antimicrobial Stewardship presentation, May 2015
- Turnidge JD, Thursky K, Chen C, McNeil VR, Wilkinson IJ: Antimicrobial use in Australian hospitals: how much and how appropriate? Medical Journal of Australia; 2016; 205(10): S16-S20
- Danish antimicrobial usage surveillance reports (DANMAP)
- Swedish antimicrobial usage surveillance reports (SWEDRES)
- Netherlands antimicrobial usage surveillance reports (NethMap)
- UK antimicrobial usage surveillance reports (ESPAUR)
Further information
For further information on National Antimicrobial Utilisation Surveillance Program, contact the Program Coordinator on (08) 7425 7169 or email email@example.com.


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Best restaurant in Paramatta tells you everything about tea
No matter which Chinese restaurant, be it a dumpling bar or a fine dining place like Parramatta Phoenix, the first question the waiters will ask is probably "what tea would you like to have?" That is how important tea is in Chinese dining culture.
Chinese cuisine varies from countries to countries; same principle applies to teas too. Here are some tips for tea pairing: For instance, Jasmine tea is usually paired with strong dishes like lamb or green onion pancakes in northern China.
Next, oolong tea, there are a few levels of intensity to choose from – light, floral or dark. Oolong usually goes with dim sum dishes like fried spring rolls. Imagine the roastiness of the tea matching with the crisp breading around the fried spring rolls! Puer, sure you heard of it before, is tea that is aged over time to give it the distinct earthy aroma. It is really popular as can dispel grease in your system after a big meal. You can easily pair it with any fried or spicy food.
Now with all these Chinese tea tips, you are all set to start pairing your food with tea at the best Chinese restaurant in Parramatta – Parramatta Phoenix.


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I just Eat Real Food
This idea is simple and healthy. All you have to do is to start eliminating sources of food that you eat that come in packages or that are processed. The closer your daily diet is to food that comes from the original source the better your health will be.


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Posts Tagged 'Angel'
Monday Night Links!
* A good start! Grinnell Forfeits Football Season.
* This photo of a Bengal Tiger is composed of only 2500 pixels. That's the number of Bengal Tigers that are still alive.
* We need to start talking about seemingly drastic approaches to the climate crisis, such as sun-dimming aerosols, right now — or we risk losing democratic control of the process. It's Time to Talk About Solar Geoengineering.
* Police have taken pre-emptive action against environmental protesters who are planning to cause disruption in Westminster.
* I study collapsed civilizations. Here's my advice for a climate change apocalypse.
* I work in the environmental movement. I don't care if you recycle.
* Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born?
* US to step aside for Turkish assault on Kurds in Syria. Top Military Officers Unload on Trump. Sounds like my man is on the brink of self-impeaching. Trump at serious risk of losing the mandate of heaven. Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman: Trump wrong to seek help from Ukraine, China. 'Out on a limb': Inside the Republican reckoning over Trump's possible impeachment. Trump allies sought Ukraine gas deal. Trump's Not Richard Nixon. He's Andrew Johnson. Nine scenarios.
* Last Week, Warren May Have Won The Democratic Race.
* Political Operatives Are Faking Voter Outrage With Millions Of Made-Up Comments To Benefit The Rich And Powerful.
* Bronx Prosecutors Release Secret Records On Dishonest Cops.
* Slain witness Joshua Brown was expected to testify in lawsuit against Dallas police.
* How the Prison Economy Works.
* Sacramento Amazon Workers Are Protesting after Woman Was Allegedly Fired for Spending Extra Hour with Dying Mother-in-Law.
* Journalist says a CBP officer withheld his passport until he agreed he writes 'propaganda.'
* Robots to Cut 200,000 U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says.
* 24 Reasons "Angel" Was Perfect, and one pretty big reason why it wasn't.
* Joker and the vacuity of influence. Joker and white male resentment. (I liked what Noah Berlatsky had to say on this subject, too; I thought a lot about it while I was watching.) Joker Is a Viewing Experience of Rare, Numbing Emptiness. 'The Greater Danger to Society May Be If You Don't See This Movie.' My own meager contribution to The Discourse: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
* I think I linked this once before, but I saw it on Twitter and wanted to link again: Ida Yoshinaga's Disney's Moana, the Colonial Screenplay, and Indigenous Labor Extraction in Hollywood Fantasy Films.
* This tweet got inside my fucking head.
* In an effort to deter other gymnasts from trying skills they are not physically capable of doing, the International Gymnastics Federation watered down the value of a new element Biles plans to do at the world championships. That's right. Penalize the reigning world and Olympic champion, who is almost cautious when it comes to adding difficulty, for the potential recklessness of others.
* They say America's best days are behind it, but Someone Beat Minecraft Without Mining Any Blocks.
* Of course you had me at hi-rez, open-licensed recreation of the 1968 Disneyland souvenir map.
* But at least Rick and Morty's coming back. Everything's coming up Canavan!
Sunday Night Closing All My Tabs
* My review of Kim Stanley Robinson's (excellent!) New York 2140 is finally up at the Los Angeles Review of Books: Utopia in the Time of Trump.
Where most contemporary histories of the future imagine climate change as either an annoying irritation or else the end of history — the disaster that will end civilization — in New York 2140 Robinson cuts more of a middle path. Climate change does indeed prove utterly catastrophic in this novel, laying waste to the coastal cities where a startling percentage of the world's population currently lives, and devastating a huge amount of infrastructure and fixed capital, costing trillions of dollars — but humans are incredibly versatile problem-solvers, and we adapt. Technical solutions like sea walls and skybridges are really only the start of what would be necessary in a flooded Manhattan. Think of the immense social changes, the legal, economic, and architectural structures that would need to be innovated when huge areas of major cities are permanently underwater, or indeed become part of the intertidal zone. Even by 2140, nearly 100 years after the start of the crisis, the long work of retrofitting civilization to rising sea levels goes on, and not all of it is even that unhappy; it's no secret that the capitalists use the same phrase to denote both crisis and opportunity, creative destruction….
* Don't worry, kids, it's just a story.
* More Hugos lists! Octavia E. Butler is actually listed on a few of these! Keeping my silly Hugo dream alive.
* Also at LARB: A Mark Fisher memoriam and a review of his last book, The Weird and the Eerie.
* Getting ready for Marquette's big Buffy at 20 conference: Every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ranked. Buffy the Vampire Slayer video games, ranked from best to worst. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a feminist parable for everyone – including Anthony Stewart Head. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the greatest show in the history of television. The Enduring Legacy. Genocide of the Vampires. How Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Most Hated Season Became Its Most Important. On "The Body." Twenty years later, the world needs Buffy more than ever. A few more at MeFi. And from the archives, David Graeber.
* CFPs at Science Fiction Studies on climate change fiction and Frankenstein.
* And don't sleep on the CFP for SFRA 2017, due at the end of the month.
* Marquette: a university on the… grow?
* Want To Know About Racially Motivated Policing? Ask Literally Any Person of Color in Milwaukee.
* Data Draws Link Between Metro Milwaukee's Segregation and Poverty.
* 50th Anniversary of the Milwaukee Fair Housing Marches.
* #4.
* This isn't a complete picture — it is too nostalgic for a lost age of exclusion, and misses completely the despair caused by the total collapse of the profession — but all the same I found it a powerful critique of the university today: Our Hallways Are Too Quiet.
* Probably the best piece of art criticism ever written: Appraising the Brady Bunch's Art Collection.
* More Lovercraft from the great Ali Sperling! H.P. Lovecraft's Weird Body.
* The New York Times reviews Lower Ed by the great Tressie McMillan Cottom.
* Sold! Wild New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships.
* Think Twice About Escaping Earth to an Exoplanet. Trappist-1 is already ruined.
* In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
* On zeitgeist: Ozymandias statue found in mud.
* What will the 25th Century Call the 21st?
* The Handmaid's Tale in the Age of Trump.
* A Women's Strike Syllabus. And another.
* U.S. Colleges: Where Does The Money Go?
* Rutgers also diverted $11 million in student fees and $17.1 million from its general fund to cover the athletic shortfall. The average undergraduate now pays more than $300 in activities fees exclusively for the university's N.C.A.A. teams.
* Gotta spend money to explain why you aren't spending money.
* Bodies on the Gears at Middleburg. And from the right: Middlebury Reckons With a Protest Gone Wrong. From Mother Jones to Middlebury: The Problem and Promise of Political Violence in Trump's America.
* Ideology of the March for Science.
* Are the Democrats totally screwed? The Democratic Party Seems to Have No Earthly Idea Why It Is So Damn Unpopular. Outsmarted: on the Liberal Cult of the Cognitive Elite. There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble. The SEIU at the end of the world.
* Trump can't even do a standard thing like firing all the US Attorneys without turning it into a train wreck. But here's how he can turn it around. Why the Russia Story Is a Minefield for Democrats and the Media. Descent into Liberalism. Fantasizing about President Pence. Of no fixed address. Here's How Much 'Trumpcare' Fucks You, Based On How You Get Your Insurance Now. Who wins and who loses under the Republicans' health care plan. A Trumpcare flashback. Truly, freedom isn't free.
Then, before you know it, the Wall Street Journal is an oracle of truth. You're rooting for Cold War II. The FBI is your BFF. You're a Democrat.
* This is so evil: Bill Would Let Employers Demand Workers' Genetic Tests.
* In the future, everyone will publicly beg for health care for 15 minutes.
* If you want a vision of the future.
* The Perils of the New, Shiny George W. Bush.
* The Revolutionary Force of Stupidity: A Conversation with Matt Taibbi.
* Enemies of the People: How hatred of the masses bridges our partisan divide.
* Trump's Mar-a-Lago is heaven — for spies!
* The Great Lakes Are Sicker Than You Think. Editorial: Don't slash funding for the Great Lakes.
* It is long past time to save this world; the task now is to end it. To begin anew seems like the only realistic way out.
* Towards a Unified Theory of Why Men Send Dick Pics. Obviously, more research is required.
* Neonazis! I hate these guys. Indiana Jones and the Okay Fine We'll Try Again.
* Why Dentistry Is Separate From Medicine.
* Twenty-First Century Headlines: Radioactive Boars in Fukushima Thwart Residents' Plans to Return Home.
* Brain activity recorded as much as 10 minutes after death.
* West Virginia county sues drug distributors over opioid crisis.
* Today in the massive screwed-uppedness of American democracy.
* George Republicans Pass Mid-Decade Re-Gerrymander Just in Case.
* Purple America Has All But Disappeared.
* Every semi-competent male hero has a more talented female sidekick. Why isn't she the hero instead?
* Star Trek: Discovery announces exciting "the captain is probably evil and in any event will die at the end of the season" arc.
* Knives out for Marvel: they finally made a mistake big enough to be noticed. More from Noah Berlatsky.
* Study: Hillary Clinton's TV ads were almost entirely policy-free.
* Officials with Alberta's environment agency inspected the water lines on Tuesday afternoon and proclaimed it safe, while the town completed the required repairs by the end of day. Town's Water Turns Pink In Horrifying Ghostbusters Throwback.
* Requiem for a Dil. We're Looking for People with Management Potential. An Experiment to Determine if Rats Can Be Made to Hate Thanksgiving. It's Not So Bad. Sad Truths: Mythological Creatures Edition. I wish human beings were as peaceful and loving as bonobos. We all have our struggles.
* Silicon Valley's Secretive Alt-Right Followers.
* Review is back, thank heaven.
* Nostalgia for the childhood you never had: The Japanese opening for the X-Men Animated Series.
* Inside the cruellest RollerCoaster Tycoon park ever created.
* The arc of history is long, but Rookie Doctors Will Soon Be Allowed To Work Up To 28 Hours Straight.
* The Psychedelic Miracle: How some doctors are risking everything to unleash the healing power of MDMA, ayahuasca and other hallucinogens.
* Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia.
* "King Kong" and American Cultural History.
* 20 million at risk of starvation in world's largest crisis since 1945, UN says.
* Interesting: The New Avatar Theme Park Is a Giant Spoiler.
In an interview conducted inside the park, Cameron said that the park is set in a timeline after the five movies. A time when the war between humans and Na'vi is over. A time when the Na'vi have begun to welcome humans onto their planet with opens arms.
* Eighteen hundred former NFL players say their teams had them popping addictive painkillers like candy, to keep them from being sidelined by injuries.
* How the 20,699-word iTunes T&Cs became this year's hottest graphic novel.
* Should California lower its voting age to 17? Yes.
* And dibs on the screenplay: Right now, in a vault controlled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, there sits a 752-pound emerald with no rightful owner. This gem is the size of a minifridge. It weighs as much as two sumo wrestlers. Estimates of its worth range from a hundred bucks to $925 million. Over the past 10 years, four lawsuits have been filed over the Bahia emerald. Fourteen individuals or entities, plus the nation of Brazil, have claimed the rock is theirs. A house burned down. Three people filed for bankruptcy. One man alleges having been kidnapped and held hostage. Many of the men involved say that the emerald is hellspawn but they also can't let it go.
Tuesday Morning Links!
* The course descriptions for Marquette's Fall 2017 English classes are up at the department website. Check them out! I'm teaching Tolkien and a grad seminar on utopia.
* Also in Marquette news! Marquette to host 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' conference in April.
* Becoming a parent forces you to think about the nature of the problem — which is, in a lot of ways, the problem of nature […] the realities of aging and sickness and mortality become suddenly inescapable. […] [My wife] said something during that time I will never forget. "If I had known how much I was going to love him," she said, "I'm not sure I would have had him." Mark O'Connell on transhumanism and immortality.
* From the great Ali Sperling: Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene. And this review of Alan Moore's Jerusalem from the great David Higgins!
* Adam Roberts reviews New York 2140. Another review, from a climate scientist. And an interview with Stan. My review comes out in LARB this weekend…
* The Most Cringeworthy Monuments to Colleges' Innovation Jargon.
* Perverse outcomes: UC Berkeley deletes 20,000 audio and visual lectures in the name of compliance with the ADA.
* Speculative Fiction and Survival in Iraq.
* Is it really so hard to understand that when your students go broke just trying to graduate they aren't exactly moved to donate later?
* The liberal arts at Harvey Mudd College, whose graduates out-earn Harvard and Stanford.
* You-might-be-from-Wisconsin-if at Ask MetaFilter.
* President Roosevelt signed the order on February 19, 1942, almost exactly 75 years ago. By spring, American citizens would be arriving at the Fresno and Pinedale camps: our neighbors.
* Wisconsin is apparently harassing trans state employees.
* Chaos, again. This is fine. Even James Comey. Twilight of Reince Preibus. Ten Questions for President Trump. Ten More Questions for President Trump. Remember when it was scandalous that Obama, years before he became a politician, once sold his house?
* It is through the Justice Department that the administration is likely to advance its nationalist plans — to strengthen the grip of law enforcement, raise barriers to voting and significantly reduce all forms of immigration, promoting what seems to be a longstanding desire to reassert the country's European and Christian heritage. It's not an accident that Sessions, who presumably could have chosen from a number of plum assignments, opted for the role of attorney general. The Department of Justice is the most valuable perch from which to transform the country in the way he and Bannon have wanted. With an exaggerated threat of disorder looming, the nation's top law-enforcement agency could become a machine for trying to fundamentally change who gets to be an American and what rights they can enjoy.
* The emerging effort — dozens more rules could be eliminated in the coming weeks — is one of the most significant shifts in regulatory policy in recent decades. It is the leading edge of what Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump's chief strategist, described late last month as "the deconstruction of the administrative state."
* "Forever war, but too much."
* An Afghan family of five that had received approval to move to the United States based on the father's work for the American government has been detained for more than two days after flying into Los Angeles International Airport, a legal advocacy group said in court documents filed on Saturday. Profiles of immigrant arrested in Austin. Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws. (Note this lawsuit was filed in 2014.) This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World. And if it were a book, it'd seem laughably contrived: A letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump's grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Resisting ICE. Here we go again.
* 4chan and the Great Meme War.
* Russia and the Cyber Cold War.
* And while we're on the subject: The Basic Formula For Every Shocking Russia/Trump Revelation. I think this is a very good reminder of the need to stay calm and detached from the chaos of the news cycle.
* Instead, a new model is proposed: the president keeps everyone in a constant state of excitement and alarm. He moves fast and breaks things. He leads by causing commotion. As energy in the political system rises he makes no effort to project calm or establish an orderly White House. And if he keeps us safe it's not by being himself a safe, steady, self-controlled figure, but by threatening opponents and remaining brash and unpredictable— maybe a touch crazy. This too is psychological work, but of a different kind.
* Democrats keep trusting demographics to save them. It hasn't worked yet — but maybe this time…
* NASA unveils plan to give Mars an 'Earth-like' atmosphere.
* House Republicans Unveil Bill To Repeal Obamacare. The GOP health bill doesn't know what problem it's trying to solve.
* Austerity measures don't actually save money. But they do disempower workers. Which is why governments pursue them in the first place.
* No! It can't be! Researchers have found strong evidence that racism helps the GOP win.
* Contrary to What You Learned in Sex Ed, You Can Get Pregnant While Pregnant.
* Mid-decade gerrymander in Georgia.
* What We've Learned from Giving Dolphins LSD.
* In a world first, a teenager with sickle cell disease achieved complete remission after an experimental gene therapy at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris, researchers say.
* Possible lynching outside Seattle, in 2017.
* In the richest country in human history, children have "lunch debt."
* The only way in which a game is guaranteed to end is when the player abandons their device. Everything else is game design.
* "These devices don't have emotional intelligence," said Allison Druin, a University of Maryland professor who studies how children use technology. "They have factual intelligence." How millions of kids are being shaped by know-it-all voice assistants.
* Finding a jury of your peers in a racially segregated society.
* Divination hasn't disappeared; it's taken over the world.
But these second-order obstacles aren't enough to explain the current collapse of poll-driven political certainty. They're just excuses, even if they're not untrue. Something about the whole general scheme of polling—the idea that you can predict what millions of undecided voters will do by selecting a small group and then just simply asking them—is out of whack. We need to think seriously about what the strange game of election-watching actually is, in terms of our relation to the future, our power to choose our own outcomes, the large-scale structure of the universe, and the mysteries of fate. And these questions are urgent. Because predictions of the future don't simply exist in the future, but change the way we act in the present. Because in our future something monstrous is rampaging: it paces hungrily toward us, and we need to know if we'll be able to spot it in time.
When I said that opinion polls are sibyls and soothsayers, it wasn't just a figure of speech. Opinion polling has all the trappings of a science—it has its numbers and graphs, its computational models, its armies of pallid drones poring over the figures. It makes hypotheses and puts them to the test. But polls are not taken for what they are: a report on what a small number of people, fond of changing their minds, briefly pretended to think. Instead, we watch the tracking graphs as if the future were playing itself out live in front of us. The real structure of the electoral-wonk complex is more mystical than materialist: it's augury and divination, a method handed down by Prometheus to a starving and shivering humanity at the faint dawn of time. Behind all the desktop screens and plate-glass of his office, the buzz of data and the hum of metrics, Nate Silver retreats to a quiet, dark, and holy room. He takes the knife and slits in one stroke the throat of a pure-white bull; its blood arcs and drizzles in all directions. He examines its patterns. And he knows.
* There's a never-ending fount of stories you can write about when someone is breaking away from canon or not, and create many controversies all the way through preproduction and production and even until a movie opens, about whether or not they're breaking canon. Is it a blasphemous movie or not? At some point, you gotta stop and say, Is there this expectation that it's like we're doing Godfather Part I and II, only it's going to nine movies? And we're just gonna cut them into this kind of Berlin Alexanderplatz that never ends? We're gonna suddenly take a moment to really savor the fact that these movies exist in an identical tone? The reality to me is that you can't have interesting movies if you tell a filmmaker, "Get in this bed and dream, but don't touch the pillows or move the blankets." You will not get cinema. You will just get a platform for selling the next movie on that bed, unchanged and unmade. James Mangold on Logan.
* The making of The Silmarillion.
* And we have but one choice: the Ring must be destroyed.
Wednesday Links!
* Some CFPs I posted yesterday: Buffy at 20! SFFTV Call for Reviewers! And Paradoxa 28: "Global Weirding" has officially appeared in the world as well; see a table of contents and our introduction, and then get one of your very own…
* I'm still gathering the loooooing list for the Pioneer Award — so let me know if you know of a peer-reviewed edited collection in SF studies broadly conceived, published in 2016, or a peer-reviewed article on SF published in a non-SF-studies journal, also in 2016!
* Visiting MLA 2017? Can I interest you in #s444?
444. Infinite Jest at Twenty
Saturday, 7 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 112A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
A special session
Presiding: Gerry Canavan, Marquette Univ.
1. "Infinite Jest's Near Future," Lee Konstantinou, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
2. "Aesthetics of Trauma in Infinite Jest," Carrie Shanafelt, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Teaneck
3. "No Year of Glad: Infinite Jest after 9/13/2008," Gerry Canavan
Responding: N. Katherine Hayles, Duke Univ.
* I shared that one, so here's the debunking: The Bad Research Behind the Bogus Claim That North Carolina Is No Longer a Democracy. I guess I relied on the journalistic summaries (classic blunder) didn't realize how bad the base research was. North Carolina is still not a legitimate democracy, though.
* And while we're on the subject: The Constitution has strangled American democracy for long enough. We need a constituent assembly.
* Drexel, Twitter and Academic Freedom.
* Oh boy: A Turning Point in the Campus Culture Wars? For Some, Trump Raises Hopes.
* Rethinking the legacy of writers who worked with the CIA.
* Why saving the congressional ethics office isn't as big a victory as it seems. At least it was a win!
* Here's How We Prepare to be Ungovernable in 2017. Six policy ideas that can lay the groundwork for a more progressive America.
* Why liberals need to get a grip on Russia.
* The coming restaurant crash.
* The End of Progressive Neoliberalism.
* Rogue One editors reveal which scenes were part of reshoots. Women's Health and the Fall of the Galactic Republic.
* An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton.
* The 16 Black Panthers Still Behind Bars.
* Twilight of the curly quote.
* 47% of Jobs Will Disappear in the next 25 Years, According to Oxford University.
* Counterpoint: Why Star Trek: Discovery Belongs on CBS All Access.
* An oral history of the Sokal hoax.
* Towards an abolition ecology.
* Darkest timeline watch: Wisconsin Senate leader says he's open to toll roads.
* And with 2016 over, a toddler has now shot a person every week in the US for two years straight. We did it, everyone. We did it.
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This one-day conference invites scholars working on film and television, literature, philosophy, history, folklore studies, religion, and related academic disciplines to explore the ongoing legacy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as it turns twenty years old this year. Undoubtedly one of the best-loved (and best-studied) television programs of all time, Buffy has left an indelible mark on contemporary genre fiction and contemporary fandom both. But where do we go from here? What is the place of Buffy today, in a media ecology that in many ways has moved beyond the stale genre conventions and offensive sexist assumptions that made it feel so revolutionary in its moment? Does Buffy really still matter, all these years later? We submit it does, and invite papers that advance novel and innovative interventions in Buffy studies that point the way towards another twenty years (at least)
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Another excerpt from John McWhorter's The Power of Babel: a natural history of language:
"The prestige of writing as the vehicle of education and its physical constancy in contrast with the ephermality of, as the late Anthony Burgess put it, a mouthful of air mean that we tend to conceive of written language as the prototype of 'language' itself, as how language 'should' be. … The existence of a language in writing tends to lead its speakers, if most of them are literate, to reconceive spoken language as a kind of pale, sloppy reflection of the 'real' language on the page. Changes in the spoken language are regarded as a kind of shaggy entropy, a defacement of something considered set, eternal, the alteration of which constitutes destruction. This is our tacit sense of what 'English' is, for example. [Speakers of languages that haven't been regularized on the page] neither mentally 'see' their languages … nor process what comes out of their mouths as a 'version' of something 'best' expressed by scratches on paper."
There is a "seductive power [to] having been there first," McWhorter says. Although we learn language first in the homey environs of the family, the written exerts an authority by seeming to have a greater age, by seeming to predate the language learned from Mom and from Billy and LaVonda on play dates. And what is written is older in this sense: it retains features speakers are beginning to (or have already) discarded. The language as spoke is always morphing, is always becoming new. The language as writ, much less so.
"The dialect and time slice of a language chosen to write in feels … anointed [because] it just happened to be the one to get immortalized on the page." It's pure happenstance what moment in time a language learned to lie down on a sheet of paper. The language that lies there represents the vital immediate language of its first paper training but time goes by, the spoken language renews itself, and the written language clings to its old self. Yes, gradually the written word changes to catch up with the language living in people's mouths and hearts. After all, older versions of written English look strange to us. Presumably Shakespeare was writing the way people spoke at the time (or, at least, more like). Eventually older written Englishes will be as incomprehensible as books written in Old English or Latin. In purely oral languages the change happens much quicker.


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'The Rise of Fascism' by F.L Carsten is a compact but highly detailed book that explains much about fascism. The book explores the origins and political development of fascism throughout Europe. The author mainly deals with countries that experienced severe fascism like Germany, Italy, Spain and Austria. The small and insignificant fascist movements in Holland and Norway were omitted by the author since they were short-lived and bore little bearing in the course of the world's history. Some of these omissions show that the author was not attempting to explain everything about fascism. Carsten's main aim was "… to explain how it was possible for the fascist to be developed and become mass movements that seized power in nations that had strong culture, highly educated and practiced traditional civilized behavior.
Fascism is a radical, authoritarian political attitude and mass movement that arose between the First and the Second World War. The expression 'Fascism' is adapted from the Latin word 'fasces', which refers to 'an ax tightly wound with sticks.' The policy advocates for creation of a totalitarian single-party rule in the country. Fascists seek to flush out forces, ideas, and systems considered being the source of moral corruption and relapse. Fascism seeks to produce the nation's rebirth based on dedication to the national community based on organic unity where individuals are bound together by links of lineage, customs, and blood. Fascists think that a nation needs tough leadership, singular communal identity, and the determination and ability to commit acts of aggression and wage war in order to keep the nation strong. Fascist governments prohibit and restrain disagreement with the state.
Fascism entails giving full economic, social and judicial authority to a single dominant ruler. Such a ruler exercises power characterized by terrorism, police brutality and sheer infringement of fundamental human rights. One of the major building points of fascism is the belief that one's race or ethnic group is better than all others are. Fascist nations strongly believe in violence and war. For such states, war and aggression is seen as a means of maintaining national regeneration, spirit and vitality. Conflict is viewed as a fact of life that is dependable for all human progress. Fascists laud militarism as providing constructive renovation in society, in providing spiritual restoration, education, instilling of a will to govern people's character, and promote national solidarity through military service.
F.L Carsten observes, "There was nothing like fascism before the First World War" (9). In fact, fascism as we know it was as a result of "this great upheaval (first world war), the resulting destruction and the consequent financial crisis" (9). Before the First World War, prosperity and economic progress were the order of the day. Western and central Europe was a haven of peace, and order was established. "The security of the governing orders, the economic and social system, and the prosperity of the middle class seemed to be protected for all eternity" (9). Most countries in Europe were more concerned in partition and acquisition of colonies in other continents than in changing the local politics.
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Some strong feelings of nationalism were exhibited in France after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and 1871. France lost the war to Germany and consequently, two of its richest coal mining areas; Alsace and Lorraine were taken by the victor. This bitter loss stirred up deep feelings of nationalism and calls for revenge. In the 1880's, a movement formed by General Boulanger marched across the Rhine and attempt to free the lost provinces. This movement was crushed by the government and peace and calm returned. Anti-Semitism then found its way to France. A journal was published to fight the international influence of Jewish financiers.
Like in most parts of pre-war Europe, Jews were the strongest and most powerful group economically. Jews were more prosperous than the native tribes were. This lower class versus middle-class bigotry morphed in a murderous rage and animosity. After 1919, the Jews, who made up around one percent of the population, controlled almost half of the economy. More than half of the private banks were Jewish owned. Eighty percent of the country's press was run by Semites and the stock exchange was dominated by Jewish stockbrokers. Feelings of anti-Semitism brewed deep within the local's blood. "Jewish immigrants, such as the Rothschild's had amassed vast fortunes in France: their wealth caused all the evils from which France was suffering" (11).
Carsten traces the beginning of fascism in France to the formation of Comite d'Action Francaise, a movement that sharply attacked parliamentarism and individualism. It elicited strong anti-Semitic emotions and maintained that France must be made as strong as it had once been. "Long before 1914, the Action Francaise showed many of the characteristics which later distinguished Fascist movements. Its hatred of liberalism, democracy and the parliamentary system; its glorification of power and violence, which it did not hesitate to use against its enemies, its advocacy of strong leadership, its marked anti-Semitism and anti-freemasonism were features which we shall find time and again among the Fascist groups of the post-war period.
The historical origins of the Italian republic are traced in 'The Rise of Fascism.' Carsten reports that after its unification, Italy still remained a desperately poor country. However, there were high spirits and anticipation of better things among the Italians. "After Cavour's death in 1861, the Italian governments proved weak and inefficient" (17). Italy lacked any significant mineral deposits, was mountainous and agriculturally unfit. The Industrial revolution was lagging due to lack of capital investment in the country. The citizens were very illiterate and hugely uninterested in politics. There were few voters and the government was based on poor practices. Still, somewhere in the middle of all this crap, there existed a few individuals who had dreams of great-power politics. Francesco Crispi was among one of the founding Fascists. As Prime minister, he waged war against Ethiopia but lost bitterly.
Later, one of his ardent followers, Enrico Corradini, founded a nationalistic journal that ani-socialist, anti-democratic and anti-parliamentarian. The journal denounced the noble society as unheroic, cowardly and pacifist. Corradini lauded and spoke in volumes about the moral values of war and imperialist growth. The spirit of war and aggression would conjure new spirits and lead to rebirth of the nation. In an attempt to achieve such goals, Italy waged war against Libya. Benito Mussolini gained popularity due to his vocal and aggressive opposition of parliamentary procedures and socialist ideologies. Mussolini advocated for the use of force in the class struggle against powerful landowners and the church. The deep love for violence made Mussolini visible among his fellow socialists. Mussolini's glorification of war and strong emphasis on acquisition of colonies made him extremely popular in Italy.
Mussolini set up the 'fascio di combattimento' (fascist movement) in 1919. The movement consisted mainly of ex soldiers who were disgruntled with the liberal regime and the result of the First World War. Mussolini began to make assurances that he would reinstate Italy to its past glory. He ran his own tabloid ' Il popolo d'Italia' that was the perfect tool with which to encourage his fascist principles and spread propaganda. The 'fascio di combattimento' movement also used brutality in their quest to convert the nation into the idea of Fascism rather than Socialism. The feeble Liberal government and the fast ascent of Socialism terrified many citizens, thus allowing the budding support for the Fascist movement.
From the beginning of the 1920's Mussolini's reputation really began to grow. Furthermore, he was supported by the Roman Catholic Church, and the Italian police. As 1921drew to an end, the Fascists had increased to over 200,000 members. Liberal leaders attempted to make pacts with Mussolini to bring him into government. He refused saying that unless he was appointed as Prime minister of Italy, he would not think about the deal. Mussolini later declared that unless he was made Italy's Prime minister, he would compulsorily grab authority. Since the 'fascio di combattimento' had gained such enormous recognition, Mussolini knew they would be able to grab authority.
In 1922, they strategized on how to take over the local governments and the ultimate protest on Rome. However, the march was unnecessary as the King asked Mussolini to form a government, partly to prevent the threat of Civil war. Fascism sprouted in Italy as a result of people's disgruntlement with the product of the First World War. Carsten clarifies that, unlike other countries in Europe, there was little anti-Semitism in Italy. Antisemitism developed in Italy from Germany during and after the Second World War. This weird observation is due to the fact that the Jews in Italy were less wealthy or intellectual than their counterparts in other Nordic countries. (22)
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In the 'Rise of Fascism', Carsten analytically compares Germany to her neighbors. Germany had vast coal and mineral deposits and was a country of great military strength. The Industrial revolution took place in Germany at a higher rate than in any other European nation. "There was rapid economic progress, especially in the heavy industry, railway industry and in banking" (22). Town populations skyrocketed, and industry workers began to unionize in order to fight for better working conditions. Anti-Semitism was discovered as an appealing weapon by radical German politicians like Adolf Stoecker. Emancipation of the German Jews had taken place in the early nineteenth century. The Jews were very active in trading and in the financial sectors of the economy.
They had deep roots in the country's political leadership and in elite professions such as medicine, law and journalism. Stoecker proclaimed that the Jews, through their irreligious power and massive wealth, were trying to convert Berlin to a Jewish town and form an aristocracy. Such statements made the lower class natives feel threatened by the immigrants. Stoecker gained massive popularity after demanding administrative measures from the government to limit the advance of Jews into the fields of education and law. He even requested social protection of the middle class and workers. Violent anti-Semitic demonstrations broke out in regions like Berlin and Dresden.
The events that occurred during and after the First World War had a direct bearing on the development of Fascism. Carsten uses the example of Italy to show the origin and development of fascism. This is because Italy had the most clear and comprehensive model of Fascism led by Benito Mussolini. At the beginning of the First World War, Italy chose to remain neutral. The local politics were divided as to whether to support the allies or the entente. Italy continued to delay until they saw it favorable to back the western powers against Germany and Austria. Nationalistic insurgence and agitation grew in the country as many nationalists demanded that Italy should join the war on the side of the allies. This would enable Italy to win back its lost province of Alto Andige.
From the beginning of 1922, Fascist rebels transformed their plan from one of attacking socialist agencies and residences of socialist leadership figures to one of aggressively occupying towns. The Fascists encountered diminutive serious struggle from authorities and went ahead to take over numerous cities, including Ferrara, Bologna, Trent, Bolzano, Fiume, and Cremona. Carsten attributes this success due to the fact that, "The fascists were supported by the big landowners and industrialists who feared the seizure of their estates and factories. They also received aid from the army_ a factor which came to be of vital importance in bringing about their victory" (55). The Fascists seized the command center of communist and Roman Catholic unions in Cremona and forced the German-speaking population of Bolzano and Trent to be taught and converted into Italians. This process was referred to as Italianization. After seizing these cities, the Fascists made plans to take Rome.
Come October 24th 1922, the Fascists held their yearly assembly in Naples. Mussolini instructed Blackshirts to be in charge of public houses and trains and to congregate on three specific areas around Rome. A protest would be led by four well-known Fascist leaders representing its different factions: General Emilio De Bono, Italo Balbo, a Blackshirt leader; Cesare Maria De Vecchi, a monarchist Fascist and Michele Bianchi, an ex-syndicalist. Mussolini remainedd in Milan to wait for the results of the proceedings. The Fascists were able to seize power over numerous post offices and trains in northern Italy while the Italian government, led by a left-wing alliance, was internally estranged and not able to react to the Fascist confrontation.
The Italian government had been in a constant state of chaos, with multiple governments being formed and then being overpowered. The Italian government initially tried to thwart the Fascists from going inside Rome. However, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy realized that the peril of violence in Rome in an attempt to disband the Fascists was extremely high. Victor Emmanuel III decided to appoint Mussolini as Prime Minister of Italy. He went to Rome on 30th October to acknowledge the appointment. Fascist propaganda aggrandized this incident, known as "March on Rome", as "seizure" of authority because of the Fascists' valiant missions.
Carsten goes as far as to give the historical account of German anti-Semitism in the era of Adolf Hitler and the implications throughout Europe. The most significant factor that elevated the dislike of Semites by Hitler is the belief that they cost Germany victory against its enemies in world war one. "The core of his hatred lies at the defeat of Germany in WWI… Hitler blamed the Jews for defeat of the country, the collapse of the monarchy and the ruination of millions" (Riecker 47). On an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Riecker reported that "Hitler saw the state 'poisoned' from within. Hitler lived in Munich, where Jews played a leading role in the revolution against the monarchy on Nov. 9, 1918. So suddenly the delusion came to his mind, that the Jews where the reason for the 'inner poisoning' of Germany and that they had stolen the victory from Germany. Hitler accused the Jews for the Russian revolution and said that they were out to promote Marxist theories in Europe.
He maintained that Jews were in an elaborate plan to take over the world together with the Marxists. Hitler's derogatory and incisive remarks were the foundation for discrimination and prosecution of nearly six million Jews worldwide. The growing tension and animosity sparked the Second World War. After his ascent to power in 1930's Hitler, turned on Jews and started a nationwide discriminatory campaign against Semites. Hitler aimed at making life for the Jews so unpleasant that they would be forced to emigrate. Jewish shops were boycotted, and Jews were banned from using social amenities such as public parks and swimming pools. On Crystal night, over eight thousand Jewish businesses were torched down, four hundred synagogues destroyed and over twenty thousand Jews placed in concentration camps. This and other subsequent events were the climax of Hitler's animosity against the Jews. More than six million people were killed during this period, in and around countries that surround Germany. This came to be known as the Holocaust.
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'The Rise of Fascism' is a clear, articulate and comprehensive book. All the relevant facts about the origin and development of the fascist movements are well discussed. There is a smooth and clear flow of events in a chronological manner that further holds the attention of the reader. This is possibly because the book was written with the needs of students and budding historians in mind. The book is an in-depth guide through the fascist struggle. It allows the reader to understand why fascism became such a popular movement and political ideology in Europe after the First World War. The factors that contributed to its popularization are explained in all possible angles. Carsten goes on to show the formation of fascist governments all over Europe and its effects. The governments built on foundations of aggression are analyzed using various yardsticks such as development, law and order, social welfare and national unity.
Carsten's expertise and knowledge of facts are matched by very few historians. This could be attributed to his background and the extensive years of research, he has undertaken on the subject of fascism. Carsten was born in 1911 and had a first-hand experience of most events, which he talks about in the book. Carsten was a Jew born in the affluent and influential Borns family. They were part of Berlin's Jewish aristocracy. Professor Carsten was a distinguished lawyer and economist, but he devoted most of his time to politics in Berlin within the communist fold. Carsten considered himself a Nazi refugee mainly as a result of his work and not his Jewish origin. Vast amounts of information mentioned in the book, especially in Germany, are his personal observations and recollections.
He talks about the inter-student political discussion at the time, meetings where Otto Strasser, Adolf Hitler and other nationalists spoke and the general political atmosphere at the time. The writer was cautious not to bring his personal judgment and opinions in the book. The personal recollections are meant to color the reader's imagination and present the political atmosphere during the period. The writer achieves these goals and succeeds in maintaining the objectivity and reliability of the book as a historical record.
'The Rise of Fascism' by Professor F.L Carsten was excitedly received by the academic and literary world. The book has been lauded for producing in-depth and objective insights into the origin and development of Fascism. The reviews and critiques by most newspapers and other scholars were all positive as can be attested by the blurb. The review by The Historian says that, "Professor Carsten surveys the major and minor European fascist groups which flourished during the world wars including such movements as were active in Romania, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Britain and Belgium. In doing so, he has produces a useful, brief, addition to the growing number of studies on this subject." Foreign Affairs talks about 'The Rise of Fascism' as "a short, responsible survey of how Fascism came to power in Italy and Germany, with some valuable comparative data on fascist movements in other European countries." The American Historical Review simply calls it "the best scholarly description of European fascism available." These favorable reviews shoe that 'Rise to Fascism' is an authority in the field of European fascism and a must-have student companion for any student of History.
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90 local kids and their parents have a lot to smile about.
Saturday Houston County's HIPPY program held it's end of the year awards ceremony.
The HIPPY program promotes school readiness by working with research based age appropriate curriculum.
The work is delivered to parents at home who have 3, 4 and 5 year old children.
"It's our last hooray for the year and it's been a great process to see how much these kids have grown over the course of 30 weeks in our program," said HIPPY Program Coordinator Collins Trott.
The HIPPY program helps prepare both children and parents for the expectations of Kindergarten.
It also gives them a solid foundation to begin their educational career.


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One of the things people sometimes don't realise about the work that WWF carries out around the world is that often it is not related to working directly with wildlife or working in 'nature reserves'. This is particularly true in East Africa where local people's ongoing reliance on nature and its products (fruit, fish, timber etc.) for their everyday needs means we have to work on addressing both poverty and conservation.
During a recent trip to Tanzania I had the opportunity to visit one of our programmes that aims to do exactly that. The Rufiji Delta, Mafia Island and Kilwa District (Rumaki) collaborative fisheries management programme which includes two key components:
Firstly the programme is helping to protect local reefs, seagrass beds and marine life by forming village level Beach Management Units (BMU's) and then building their skills and knowledge in how to best manage their local coastal waters in a more sustainable way.
BMU's undertake regular patrols to deter illegal and destructive fishing practices – seizing illegal gear such as home-made 'dynamite' bombs – and cutting of mangroves, designate landing sites for migrant fishers so that they are better able to control numbers and monitor their activities and regularly collect information on turtle nesting sites and fish catches, so that we are able to monitor any changes.
BMU's also raise awareness within their communities on marine conservation issues, relevant local and national legislation, as well as practical skills such as how best to free turtles accidentally tangled up in their fishing nets.
Secondly the programme is supporting over 150 Village Cooperative Banks (VICOBA's). Each VICOBA has a maximum of 30 members who each week save a small amount of money – some to build up the overall capital of the VICOBA which can be used for loans, some as a fund for medical emergencies and some specifically to save for their children's school fees and costs.
The savings slowly build up and then loans are provided to members who have small businesses to invest in. As the business succeeds the amount that can be saved increases and thus the amount that can be loaned in the next loan cycle also increases – opening up new and more profitable business opportunities for members.
In rural coastal communities such as those under the Rumaki programme in southern Tanzania these small businesses include small grocery shops or 'dukas', frying and selling fish, honey making, rearing goats and cattle, clothes making and small eateries or cafes.
The VICOBA's have been very successful with members reporting increased income to improve their housing, clothes and sending their kids to school as well as increased confidence, pride and hope.
How does this benefit our conservation work?
Firstly as the small businesses succeed and sources of income are diversified, local people become less directly dependent on natural resources for their everyday needs. Secondly the work builds significant trust, working relationships and an openness and willingness to working with us, as we seek to address local environmental issues.
To work effectively in conservation with local communities in East Africa, we have to adopt holistic approaches such as these that aim to reduce local poverty whilst preserving nature – the Rumaki programme provides a great example.
We are grateful to the EC, UK Department for International Development, Barclays Bank and M&S for their support of the WWF-Tanzania Rumaki programme.
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Actually, as the title suggests, "Ariel's Beginning" isn't a sequel to Disney's modern classic, but a prequel, revealing an early adventure of the undersea princess. (There's no telling where this fits in with the 1992 "Little Mermaid" TV series, itself a prequel, but it doesn't really matter here.) The story opens when Ariel is just a little girl, her parents happy rulers of Atlantica. But Disney can't go a year without killing off a cartoon mom, so pretty soon the queen is killed when a pirate ship crashes. (Don't worry, parents: it's delicately handled off-screen.)
Oddly, this is the last we'll see of the pirates, who offer no other importance to the story. Instead, we watch as King Triton (voiced by Jim Cummings), heartbroken over the loss of his dear wife and desperate to hide himself from the thing that will remind him most of her, decrees that music is banned from the kingdom.
Jump ahead a few years. Ariel (Jodi Benton, reprising her 1989 role) is a rebellious teen, the most problematic of the king's seven daughters. The conniving Marina Del Ray (Sally Field!) - a sort of minor league Ursula - is the princess' nanny, a job she loathes. She'd rather kick our old crustacean pal Sebastian (Samuel E. Wright) out of the kingdom and take over as Triton's attaché. At Marina's side is Benjamin (Jeff Bennett), a soft-spoken manatee who's way too friendly to be a villainess' henchman.
As for Ariel, she sneaks out one night, meets our favorite fish pal Flounder (Parker Goris), and discovers an underground nightclub where music thrives, a sort of speakeasy where tunes are the vice of choice. A hip calypso/jazz band tears up the joint, and surprise: Sebastian's the lead singer! Ariel informs her sisters, who also want to thrill to the music. Which is, for a Disney cartoon, quite subversive in its own little way, what with girls sneaking off to be seduced by illicit thrills - especially since we've seen the original movie and know Triton will eventually allow music back in the kingdom, meaning the girls are right to dare to stick it to the man.
The actual plot is quite thin: the girls get busted, Ariel and Sebastian run away, Marina gets power mad, and so on. What a movie like this needs, then, is a collection of great songs to keep pushing us through the so-so story. Unfortunately, what we get instead is a series of bland originals (for the life of me, I can't remember how a single one goes, let alone leave the movie humming); the only real keeper here is a cover version of the old school calypso favorite "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)," which is peppy and fun, even if the movie repeats it throughout the feature, as if to dilute its kicky glory.
Screenwriter Robert Reece previously worked on "Cinderella III," while fellow scripter Evan Spiliotopoulos helped write "The Lion King 1˝." For all their flaws, both those films delivered a nice amount of in-joke play, and that sense of for-the-fans fun repeats here. "Ariel's Beginning" works best when it lets loose with the winking humor, as in one giddy segment where Marina struts her stuff, allowing the filmmakers to parody an iconic shot from "The Little Mermaid." This sort of knowing silliness is much welcome, and it rewards the intelligence of kids who will thrill to the chance to spot the references. Better still, first-time director Peggy Holmes has a knack for quick-paced physical comedy, as she fills the screen with mugging characters, appealing visuals, and a nice, steady flow.
But that goofiness often gets buried too often underneath a blah story that's much too run-of-the-mill to allow the emotional oomph of the characters' plights to truly impact. Triton's misery is less about character and more about plot, which is fine enough if you just want to make a fluffy piece of video shelf filler to rake in a few bucks until the next DTV project rolls around, but not enough if you want to allow your project to rise above the flat expectations of the genre. There's enough going on in "Ariel's Beginning" that works - kids will enjoy it plenty while parents won't object too much - but there's just not enough to make it memorable.
The DVD
Video & Audio
As mentioned, the animation, while not completely matching the high quality of the original film, is still far above that of the usual Disney DTV fare. As such, the film truly sparkles in this anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) transfer, which makes the most of bold colors and crisp detail. Simply dazzling.
The soundtrack comes in both Dolby 5.1 and DTS, both of which offer a rich, clear dynamic range, especially when the music kicks in. French and Spanish Dolby 5.1 dubs are also included, as are optional English SDH subtitles.
As with most Disney discs these days, "Ariel's Beginning" is coded with the studio's "Fast Play" option.
The bonus material kicks off with two deleted scenes ("Sebastian Follows the Girls" and "Ariel Follows Flounder"), presented in a storyboard format. Director Peggy Holmes hosts both clips and discusses why they were cut from the final film, which helps illustrate (no pun intended) the lengthy writing process of an animated movie. (5:41 total; presented in 1.78:1 flat letterbox)
Under the "Music & More" label, you'll find quick links to four of the movie's musical scenes, along with an option to play the entire film with on-screen lyrics. (Those lyrics comprise additional subtitle tracks in English, French, and Spanish, and as such, you can also bypass this menu and activate any of those tracks with your remote during regular playback.)
"Mermaid Discovery Vanity Game" isn't so much a game as a bit of clickable exploration, where you can visit the vanities of all seven princesses. Use your remote to click on various objects to learn more about them, and about the characters that own them.
"Splashdance: A Dancer's Adventures Under the Sea" offers an interesting take on the behind-the-scenes featurette. As Holmes hosts these making-of clips and cast and crew interviews, we learn that she's a dancer who's made the unlikely career jump to directing. Holmes admits she has no experience in drawing and animation; we see footage of her dancing and acting for the animation staff, which is admittedly a pretty nifty approach to the material. The rest is your typical (yet nicely presented) how-they-made-it stuff. (7:21; 1.78;1 flat letterbox)
"The Little Mermaid: Under the Sea and Behind the Scenes on Broadway" finds Sierra Boggess hosting a surprisingly detailed look at the "Little Mermaid" Broadway adaptation. Boggess (who plays Ariel on stage) offers a peppy tour of the backstage experience, with plenty of clips of the show's biggest moments and interviews with the supporting cast mixed in for good measure. (10:26; 1.78 anamorphic)
The usual batch of Disney previews rounds out the set; some previews also play as the disc loads.
Final Thoughts
Most Disney cheapie sequels are terrible, this we know. "Ariel's Beginning" falls into a second category, the sequel that's perfectly watchable yet not entirely memorable. Most grown-up fans will do fine to merely Rent It, but, keeping parents in mind, I'll add that kids will want to rewatch it enough to make a purchase worthwhile. Factoring in the solid transfer and decent extras, I'll call it Recommended.


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Jogging to spots and selfishness a problem for Wizards offense, Flip Saunders and Shaun Livingston talk about the issues
The Wizards lost in typical Wizards fashion on Friday against the Chicago Bulls. Through three quarters, they fought hard against a team with playoff urgency … well, actually, the Bulls never really looked like a playoff team. But still, it wasn't too shabby for the Wiz to be down just 76-75 after three quarters to a team 14 better in the win column.
Then the fourth quarter came. Before it started, Washington had 19 assists to nine turnovers and out-scored Chicago 40-32 in the paint as well as 19-10 on second chance points.
But in the final period, the Wizards didn't score until the 8:29 mark when Fabrico Oberto hit a couple free-throws, and only scored two points on a couple free-throws after the 4:26 mark. Overall, Washington only made two field-goals and were out-scored 19-12 by Chicago to close out the game 95-87.
So what was the problem?
Flip Saunders ran the gambit of reasons after the game … the Wizards got tired, the Bulls did a good job of protecting the basket, etc.. But the most damning accusation handed down by the coach is the fact that his team became selfish.
Click below to hear a clip of Saunders talking about his team after the Bulls game.
Flip Saunders on the Wizards 4th quarter offensive woes > April 2, 2010
From the players' perspective, there probably isn't a better person to speak with about the offensive problems than the starting point guard, Shaun Livingston.
After the game I asked Livingston what the Wizards didn't do, or what the Bulls did do, which lead to the stalling offense in the fourth quarter. Shaun hit the nail on the head, indicating with his words that concise execution is a problem with this team. Guys play hard some games (such as in New Orleans) and in others they severely lack intensity.
Here's what Livingston said:
Yea, jogging to spots when trying to run an offense sounds like some guys on the team aren't giving a full effort. Now part of this has to do with fatigue, but that is also a direct result of mental toughness.
Some issues with these Wizards are unavoidable. And that's okay. They are young, they are inexperienced and they don't have a whole lot of chemistry developed together.
However, adding selfishness to the mix is highly disappointing. Such factors more controlled by individuals and not so much because the team hasn't spent a lot of time together will undoubtedly come into consideration this summer when the hammer and nails reconstruction begins.
Just because some guys like Andray Blatche, Nick Young and JaVale McGee are under contract for next season, don't assume their standing with the franchise is safe.
As an aside, and because I'm a blogger and I can, I'll say that Shaun Livingston has become my favorite Washington Wizard. Yes, as Flip said after the Bulls game when I asked about if he looks to Livingston, or another point guard, to better keep the offense in check, Livingston is young and he is trying to come back. But he, unlike others, makes acceptable mistakes.
Listen to what Saunders said about Livingston on Friday below:
Flip Saunders on Shaun Livingston > April 2, 2010
But as both a player and a person, you can tell Livingston has composed intelligence. If he's not with the team next season, and for a reason which the Wizards' front-office has screwed up, a la Alonzo Gee, then criticism will be readily abundant.
For more on Livingston and the first time he's ever played against fellow Illinoisan Derrick Rose, check out, 'An Illinois Reunion In D.C.' by Rashad Mobley at Hoops Addict.
And now here are some Livingston pictures from site photographer Adam Douglas.
[Photo Credits: Adam Douglas – Truth About It.net]


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Differences between the Remington 700 and 783
For the hunters and the firearms enthusiasts among us, and more specifically the Remington loyalist, this article is for you. However, even if you are just starting to get acquainted with rifles, you will learn a few things here as well. The Remington Model 700 has been manufactured since 1962, and is a series of centerfire bolt-action rifles. The Model 700 was a development of the Remington 721 and 722 which were introduced in 1948.i
To be clear, the Remington Model 783 has a reason for the numbers. The "7" is for the model designation as being in the 700 line of rifles. The "8" is to reflect back to the Model 788 which was discontinued over 20 years ago. The "3" is for the year 2013ii. So now you know the reason for the number "783".
No Good Reason to Compare
The Remington Model 700 has been the standard for the Remington brand for more than five decades and still going strong. The Model 783 was not introduced in 2013 to compete or even replace the Model 700. Rather, it was engineered and placed in the market to compete against competitors such as the "Savage Axis", the "Tikka T3" and the "Ruger American Rifle". These guns have shown that sacrificing accuracy is not a matter of price. The question of "can I have an inexpensive rifle and still have accuracy" came into play. The answer was a resounding "yes". Remington also wanted to keep features that are important to hunters. A superb trigger, pillar-embedded stock and free-floating barrel inclusive of a target crown, to name a few! However, since this article is about comparing the Model 700 with the Model 783 we will do our best. It will mostly be a descriptive review of the Model 783, with the assumption that the readers are already familiar with the Model 700 due to its popularity and long history.
The Model 700, by its design was a top loading gun. This means that there is no metal going over the top or the bolt. However, the 783 is magazine fed. This creates a smaller ejection port, creating a frame that is more rigid. It would be assumed that the machining time from this design would be reduced as a result. The detachable box magazine is metal, not plastic. It is easy to load, not having to be concerned about the plastic box inability to sometimes not load properly. Just place on bottom of rifle and give it a snap.
The Model 783 did not sacrifice accuracy for price. It has a one-piece cylindrical receiver and small injection port. The accuracy is improved due to more mass and rigidity passing through the receiver. In addition, the trigger and the barrel are considerations for accuracy. The barrel is magnum contoured, 22-inchor 24-inch button-rifled fitted with a barrel nut. The trigger is user adjustable, but is factory set at 3.5 pounds. This feature alone makes the Model 783 become a much more personal rifle to the user. The experienced non-Remington field-testers that were the first to test the rifle for accuracy all came down to the Model 783 being a very well manufactured rifle, with extreme accuracy that was in the inexpensive price range. A big win against the competition!
Durability and Features
The question of durability will come into play here. The reason is that Remington makes it clear is that it is a factory made rifle that is inexpensive. It is of course mass produced. However, it appears to be able to take the beatings and constant use that most hunters place on their rifles. As far as the features, they are best summed up here by Bob Shelliii
- New Crossfire trigger system, factory set at 3.5 pounds, user adjustable from 2.5 to 5 pounds
- Carbon steel magnum contour button riffled barrel
- 22" standard chambering and 24" on magnums
- Pillar-bedded stock and free-floated barrel
- SuperCell Recoil Pad
- Model 783 accepts two Model 700 front bases
- Available in 270, 308, 30-06d and 7 mm Rem Mag.
- MSRP starts at $439.00
It was a little difficult to compare the Model 700 to the Model 783 simply because one was not meant to replace the other. It was to answer to the charge of competition of producing a rugged, inexpensive and accurate rifle. The Model 783 was also manufacture for durability, ruggedness and to produce in the hunter the knowledge that this rifle was made just for them personally. We trust you enjoyed this brief description and comparison. Now go out, and enjoy the hunt.
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Someone gave me a remington 78 in 06. However, itnis.missing the bolt. Will a remington 700 LA bolt work?
Yeah yeah, I know to have it headspaced
Will a modle 700 bolt work on a 783
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Patricia Barber has long been an important voice on the progressive jazz scene. Barber, an internationally acclaimed pianist, vocalist and composer, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, the only songwriter ever to be so awarded. Her ability to craft sophisticated lyrics has been documented on a series of fine recordings, which continued until some years ago.
Fans of her artistry will be delighted to listen to her return. Smash is another artistic triumph for Barber, who dazzles the listener with a program of a dozen compositions. This new recording is Barber's debut for Concord with a band that includes guitarist John Kregor, bassist Larry Kohut, and drummer Jon Deitemyer. The band explores deep material, love & loss, with creativity, and searing poetry. The album's opener, "Code Cool", is an exploration of the experience of traumatic brain injury. "Redshift" is inspired by Barber's research into the creation process for a star. The new record reunites Barber with recording engineer Jim Anderson and the results are sublime.
Born the daughter of Floyd "Shim" Barber, a saxophonist who worked with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Patricia began playing classical piano at the age of 6. Initially deciding to avoid the pitfalls she feared waiting a woman in jazz, Patricia enrolled at the University of Iowa with studies in classical piano and psychology. The muse was too hard to resist, however, and Patricia moved back to Chicago to play jazz and in 1984 launched her career, playing five nights a week at the Gold Star Sardine Bar.
Years of dedication and an "independently poor" lifestyle began to pay off in 1994, with the release of Café Blue on Premonition Records, and a move to the Green Mill, hailed by many as the nerve center of the Chicago jazz scene. Wide national and international acclaim began to follow in the late 1990's.
Patricia Barber is an accomplished jazz pianist/vocalist/composer, well known for her witty, intellectual songs which take the listener into unexpected musical territory, embracing songs extracted from the jazz and pop worlds, as well as from her own pen. Smash will further cement that well-deserved reputation.
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Stingray Belt Buckle, RAN103
Using the riveting process to frame exotic skins in metal, this limited edition collection - limited to 10, numbered and signed - gives the ultimate in customization. All belts are made with hand sawed sterling silver with copper backing, stingray leather shown at buckle through cutout, with Italian leather belt straps. All styles come in any color combination of more than 15 stingray and 5 belt colors. This belt is shown with Sparkle Purple stingray and Black belt, 1.5 x 3.5 inches, size medium. Choose "custom" in the drop down menu to order this style with different stingray & belt colors or size.


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Hello all!
Today I'll be talking about Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation & Power. I started to use it in January 2011, when I couldn't find my beloved Maybelline Superstay Silky in shops.
Let me start by saying that I don't like this foundation anymore!!! I used to like last year when, by some reason it wasn't so orange (and I bought it in ivory-the lightest shade). Things changed last Autumn when I repurchased it (first time it was bought from Romania, second time from Finland). Unfortunately it doesn't have an ingredients list on it to see if any of the ingredients changed, but the second one looked orange and cakey on my face, plus that it made me brake out. After some time when it is oxidizing more on my skin, I look like an orange.
For some reason the shade of the powder (I have also the lightest one) is not as orange as the shade of the foundation (which is a good thing),, but it still doesn't make it a good powder for me. Why is that ? I do NOT have dried skin, but this powder makes me look like I have. The powder in the picture looks quite used because it is the one that I bought last year and I really wanted to give it a chance to work....but it didn't. I ended setting my foundation with a loose powder that my aunt gave it to me as a present.
All in one, I do not like these foundation (at least not anymore) and powder. Maybe for others worked well, but for me just made things worse.
Did you tried it ? How did it work for you ?
Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation & Powder
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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