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To completely kill the mood at a bar by playing music on the jukebox that is unbefitting of the establishment, such as country at a trendy urban lounge, hardcore rap at a West Virginia honky tonk, or Celine Dion just about anywhere. Will often result in a mass exodus of people, costing the bar hundreds if not thousands of dollars in revenue, and really piss off the bar owner.
Jerry totally jukebombed The Playaz Club on Saturday night by queuing up 20 consecutive Michael Bolton songs. The place was packed before it started, but by the end of the third Bolton song, it was so quiet that you could almost hear crickets chirping.
by Nicholas D February 27, 2009
An act of social terrorism that culminates in the art of singing a song with the full intention of infecting listeners brains for the remainder of the day with a melody that won't go away short of lobotomizing surgery.
Bob drops his Purple Rain juke bomb daily earning his moniker the uni-juke-bomber.
by whippedness, man card, lie, gi March 04, 2011
The act of walking into a bar, dropping a $20 in the Juke Box, selecting the same Justin Bebeir song (the most effeminate one he sings which in my opinion is all of them) over and over again until the money is gone, then immediatly exiting the premises with haste.
The bikers attempted to make it throught the fallout of a strategically placed "Juke Bomb" of the Justin Beiber song "One Less Lonely Girl". After the third playing, the bar was forced to clear out, and the man hunt for the assailent was on!
by BloatedYak February 05, 2012
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- Dec 26:
- County extends contract with emergency notifications provider
- Sep 25:
- Morgan County Commissioners vow to send rural representation resolution to state
- Sep 9:
- Secession will not be on Morgan County ballot
- Aug 27:
- Not enough signatures for secession vote in Morgan County
- Aug 21:
- Informal secession petitions circulating in Morgan County
- Aug 14:
- Leave secession up to the residents
Commissioners calendar
Aug. 15: 9 a.m. — Air quality control meeting, Morgan County Commissioner Laura Teague.
Aug 16: 12:30 p.m. — Career enrichment graduation, Morgan County Department of Human Services.
Aug. 19: 8:30 a.m. — Office meeting.
10 a.m. — Human resources staff meeting.
11 a.m. — Progressive 15 executive board call, Teague.
1:30 p.m. — Treasurer's budget meeting.
2:30 p.m. — Retirement board meeting.
Aug 20: 9 a.m. — Board of Morgan County Commissioners meeting.
— 10 a.m. — Morgan County Economic Development Corp. lodging budget meeting.
— Noon — Lodging and tourism panel.
— 1:30 p.m. — Finance department budget meeting.
— 2:30 p.m. — Fleet department budget meeting.
If the residents of Morgan County want to join a movement to secede from the state of Colorado, they will need to bring a completed petition to the Board of Morgan County Commissioners by Aug. 26.
"As a board, we feel that if secession is something the people would like to pursue, this process should be initiated by the citizens of Morgan County," Morgan County Commissioner Jim Zwetzig read at the board's meeting Tuesday.
Consequently, the board decided that such a petition would need to contain the signatures of 15 percent of the active voters of Morgan County — which comes to 2,300 authentic signatures from registered voters. That petition must be turned in by Aug. 26. A spot will be reserved on the ballot for a measure should one be approved.
Some Weld County commissioners have proposed that Northeast Colorado secede from Colorado and form a separate state called North Colorado. While the Weld commissioners have said that they were joined by other counties in Northeast Colorado in a desire for secession, that is not quite true.
The Morgan County commissioners said weeks ago that any such move would be up to the county residents.
This petition process gives locals a specific way to approach that. A petition form can be requested from the Yuma County commissioners office at 970-332-5796. Yuma is more or less coordinating this process.
Board Chairwoman Laura Teague said the board had a conference call with other county commissioners in the region recently.
Weld County has proposed ballot language saying that Morgan County would pursue becoming part of the 51st state of the United States of America.
Proponents of secession have said they are pushing for it because the state government seems to ignore the needs and desires of rural counties like those in Northeast Colorado. Specifically, they have said they were concerned over recent changes such as gun control laws and a requirement for rural electric associations to have a certain percentage of their electricity come from renewable energy sources.
Teague said the Morgan County commissioners understand the frustration of rural residents with a legislature and governor that are more concerned with urban interests.
She said there is a lack of rural influence in the state capitol.
However, they are also cognizant of the cost to area residents if such a course is taken, she said.
For example, there would be immediate challenges to water rights, Teague noted.
Local agricultural producers depend on those water rights to grow cattle and crops. Morgan County's economy relies on that agricultural production.
Also, another ballot issue to pay for the financial costs of secession would have to be passed before anything could be done, Teague said.
Zwetzig said that the board had continued a discussion of a new form of representative government during a recent meeting of the Colorado Counties Inc., eastern district meeting. This new idea would reform the Colorado Senate by having a state senator elected from each county, which would give rural counties more clout in the state legislature.
That will be an uphill battle, but is probably more winnable than secession, said Morgan County Commissioner Brian McCracken.
Shared info
The board approved an intergovernmental agreement with the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District to give it the digital geographic information system data the county has collected on land parcels and roads.
In return, the conservancy district would give Morgan County its GIS data, said Information Systems Manager Karol Kopetzky.
This is a new kind of agreement, the first of its kind in Morgan County, that is meant to promote sharing of information with local governments and nonprofit organizations, she said.
The Northern Conservancy District would not be allowed to redistribute Morgan County's information to others, Kopetzky explained.
The county and the district had meetings which led to quite a bit of collaboration, Teague said.
Mobile home
Betty Carney of Greeley asked the board to help her with an issue that developed over an abandoned mobile home in her mobile home park in Hillrose.
The mobile home was abandoned in 2006 and over the years thieves and vandals have stripped it, she said. Plumbing pipes, the water heater, the furnace, the toilet and cabinets are missing, and walls were taken down and there are holes in the flooring.
A mobile home cannot just be removed under current regulations, Carney said. It must be taken apart and moved.
Having a new mobile home in that space would add one more residence to a county with a housing shortage and more property taxes would be paid, she said.
She would like to pay a minimal amount of the mobile home's back taxes to get straight with the county, since the people who abandoned it will never pay that.
County Treasurer Bob Sagel said $389 is owed on back taxes. The mobile home was offered at auction on a tax lien sale, but no one bought it. Under county regulations, it is for sale to anyone who pays the back taxes, but the commissioners can do what they want in this case.
Carney said an appraisal showed it was not worth any amount of money.
Teague said the board would take the matter under advisement.
The board also approved:
A maintenance contract with HOV Services - Lason Systems for the county's microfilm printer that reproduces old documents for people to use. Morgan County still uses this to make copies of documents that are on microfiche or photographed.
A permit allowing the Morgan County Quality Water District to bore across Morgan County Road 5 about half a mile north of Highway 144 to install new water service.
A permit allowing the Morgan County Rural Electric Association to bore under MCR Q about 1,800 feet west of MCR 8, starting at a power pole on the north side of MCR Q and ending on the the the south side of MCR Q to install a new electrical main.
A contract with the Unleashed Band to play at the Morgan County Fair's steak fry.
Submission of an EIAF grant request for energy impact funds.
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The Menil Collection in Texas is attempting to save a painting by Pablo Picasso that was vandalized recently with spray paint. The incident, which was captured on video and posted to YouTube, involved a man using black spray paint to deface Picasso's 1932 "Woman in Red Armchair."
Soon after the incident, the Houston museum rushed the painting to its conservation lab where experts are attempting to save it, according to the Houston Chronicle. The vandal stenciled an image of a bull and the word "Conquista" on the painting.
The museum told the Associated Press that its chief conservator has been working on the painting since it was damaged on Wednesday. Police in Houston are investigating the incident, according to the AP.
CNN quoted a Menil Collection spokeswoman saying that "the prognosis is excellent" for the painting.
A YouTube video (warning: adult language) showing the act of vandalism lasts about 25 seconds and shows a figure dressed in dark clothes spray-painting the Picasso work and then walking away.


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SUWANEE, Ga.—Junior Bruce Maxwell has been named the SCAC Baseball Offensive Player-of-the-Week for games played Monday, March 5, through Sunday, March 11, the league office announced today.
Maxwell, a catcher/first baseman from Toney, Ala., helped BSC win all four of its games this week, all on the road. Against Millsaps on Wednesday he was 3-of-4 (including two doubles and a home run) with three RBI. In the series against Sewanee, he was 3-of-6 (including two doubles).
He hit .600 (6-of-10) for the week with a total of seven runs, three RBI, 13 total bases, and eight walks. Maxwell also posted a 1.300 slugging percentage and a .778 on-base percentage.
Maxwell and the 23rd-ranked Panthers are in action again this weekend on the road, facing Maryville College in a three-game series, Saturday and Sunday in Maryville, Tenn.


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Diagnosing Seizures and Epilepsy
At the University of Chicago Medicine Epilepsy Center, we know how important a correct diagnosis is to a successful treatment plan. To help us make an accurate diagnosis, physicians use data from EEG, CT, and MRI tests to create functional 3D models of a patient's epileptic focus within the brain without using an invasive procedure. These models enable us to pinpoint the source of seizures. Finding the seizure source is the first step toward successful treatment.
Diagnosing epilepsy isn't always straightforward. Tonic-clonic seizures, which involve full-body convulsions, are easily noticed and can be frightening to someone who has never witnessed one. However, partial seizures with subtle symptoms, such as fainting spells, staring or brief confusion, often are missed by family members and even the patients themselves. If you visit the Epilepsy Center at the University of Chicago Medicine, we will perform a thorough evaluation that includes:
- Obtaining your medical history
- Performing a physical exam
- Performing an EEG to measure your brain waves and activity
- Neuroimaging studies
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG) test
- Neuropsychological testing
- WADA test
Obtaining Your Medical History
It's very important for your doctors to learn as much about your seizure(s) as possible. And since you won't likely remember the seizure well, we may need to get a description of the seizure from someone who was there when it happened.
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Performing a Physical Exam
A physical exam cannot diagnose or uncover epilepsy. But results of a physical exam can help us determine things, like how well your reflexes work, that may help us find out if part of your brain isn't working properly.
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Performing an EEG to Measure Your Brain Waves and Activity
The EEG, also known as an electroencephalogram, charts and records the electrical activity in the brain. Certain abnormal patterns, such as spike and sharp wave activities on an EEG, can help support or confirm a clinical diagnosis. There are several different types of EEG studies. A routine outpatient EEG study typically lasts for approximately one hour. An ambulatory outpatient EEG study typically lasts 24 to 48 hours. A long-term video-EEG study lasts five to seven days, and we typically perform it in the hospital.
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Neuroimaging Studies
At the University of Chicago Medicine, we offer various structural and functional neuroimaging studies to help diagnose epilepsy and localize the seizure focus. These tests include high-resolution brain magnetic imaging (MRI), functional MRI (fMRI), and positron emission tomography (PET).
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Test
MEG is a new technique for mapping brain activity by recording magnetic fields produced by electrical currents that occur naturally in the brain using very sensitive magnetometers. Since magnetic fields are less distorted than electrical fields by the skull and scalp, MEG has a better spatial resolution than EEG in detecting and localizing seizure activity in some patients with epilepsy.
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Neuropsychological Testing
Many people with epilepsy may also have co-existent medical conditions, including depression, anxiety and cognitive impairments (i.e. poor memory and concentration). We often partner with a neuropsychologist to assess cognitive functions, mood, and personality.
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WADA Test
Epilepsy patients who are candidates for surgery may undergo a WADA test. A neuroradiologist performs the procedure in the presence of a neuropsychologist and a neurologist. The WADA test helps determine which side of the brain controls language and memory capacity of each side of the brain. This information is important for planning epilepsy surgery and minimizing the risks of language and memory deficits.
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What is the best pump for FT working mamas?
I had gotten the Avent Isis Duo Electric, because it seemed like it got decent reviews and it was cheap. Get what you pay for, right? I only get 3 oz, and that's with compressions and massage the whole time. I'm not pumping nearly enough for DS; yes, I do believe he was getting over-fed---we'e fixing that out of necessity since we're out of frozen milk--but I'm not even pumping enough for the 1.5 oz/hr guide.
What have you found to be the most reliable pump that gets you good output?


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A couple areas in Wednesday night's presidential debate of import to cities such as Philadelphia were completely overlooked.
I understand the debate focus was the general economy, but lost in the flurry of economic numbers was any mention of urban issues.
No real reference to urban poverty. Philadelphia is one of the poorest cities in America with a poverty rate of 26.7 percent, according to U.S. Census figures.
No real reference to gun violence. Philadelphia, among the nation's 10 largest cities, has the highest homicide rate (the result of gun violence), according to FBI statistics.
I suppose the politics behind this is obvious: the Obama camp feels it need do nothing to win urban America; the Romney camp knows it can do nothing to win urban America.
This plays to a point often noted by Republicans disgusted with crime and poverty in big cities and Republicans interested in making political inroads in cities.
That point is this: the poor and most urbanites repeatedly, consistently vote Democratic and yet the problems of the poor and many urbanites always remain the same.
I suppose the Democratic argument is both poverty and crime would be far worse under GOP governance since, presumably, social programs aimed at combating the former in hopes of reducing the latter would be eviscerated if Republicans run the show.
Still. Be nice to hear such arguments played out as part of a presidential debate. But then people and the public good would be served -- rather than the politics of the moment, and the reach by both candidates to capture middle-class independent undecided voters.


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not a big halo fanatic like some but i will say this.
on topic though, Reach was the stand before last, not the first in the war (IIRC, and i probably don't, its actually some 20+ years into the war)
and this "OMG THE MP IS SOOO AWETHOME!" bullox makes me laugh, the series has bare bones generic MP, and until recently didn't have jack to shake it up.
I agree on most parts except for the mistake concerning how humans knew about their vehicles. Reach was not the first planet attacked in the war, but one of the last. They'd been fighting the covenant for years beforehand and were very familiar with their tech.
I'm surprised milk didn't come out of my nose because that part really cracked me up!
As far as a game standing on multiplayer alone, I agree to an extent when it comes to games like Modern Warfare where the multiplayer is more of where the game is at. But it also makes me think of the prospect of separating the single player and online portions for different desires.
Sixty for the full package is fair, but for someone like me who doesn't play online, that's a bit steep if there's only "half" single player with the rest being a feature I won't even use. I feel a bit more strongly towards the 360 games specifically because you have to pay for the usage of online multiplayer on top of the game's original cost.
Overall I was surprised by my enjoyment with Reach, short-lived as it was. The new additions and balancing felt the most natural of the Halo games to me.
But now that Yahtzee mentioned it, the "standing on the edge of a ramp mid-air" thing perplexed me throughout the game. I mean, yeah, I guess I'd be more casual about where I decided to hang out hundreds of feet in the air if I knew that I could survive a fall entering a planet's atmosphere.
Uh, I don't think Yahtzee's as well-read on the Halo story as he thinks, as Reach isn't the start of the Human-Covenant war. It's just the Human's most devastating loss. It was their most high-tech facility around, and then the 'covvies' showed up and reduced it to slag.
If they wanted to make a game depicting the beginning of the war, it'd be Halo: Harvest, and would feature Sgt. Johnson.
Although I do have to agree, Armor Lock is near-useless. The best use I can think of for it is to not die from a sticky grenade. Though, Drop Shield and Hologram are quite fun.
Alot of appreciation for Oni here. Positively surprising.
...and by "nerdrage" I assume you mean "lose all respect for anyone stupid enough to find that funny"
But then they should just remove the single Player and replace it with Botted Training Maps or Perfect Dark 64 esque multiplayer for its single player. They have a story adn i had friends who followed the story but The story is no longer really the main point in the game. I understand that multiplayer is the selling point but if they took 20 min and looked at the story and said "shit. We have nothing.....Wanna scrap it and leave just the multiplayer?" They would have sold just as much. then it would be made for its targeted demographic and not singleplayer. Then they could have bigger multiplayer.
Thank you, Ben. I have been so tired of the Halo hype after the first 2 games failed to impress me enough. I'm a 360 gamer, but I never really got what made Halo so popular.
It is definitely a "that guy" kind of thing to say.
May I just point out one minor fact, Reach was not the first run-in humanity had with the Covenant, just throwing that tidbit out there. Frankly I enjoyed the game and that despite all the flaws you have pointed out it's a fun game regardless.
So the ending is just like the ending of Doom's first chapter?
Yes, you can. But, you're not the first.
Ok fine so I'm not the first, nor will I be the last.
I didn't need Yahtzee to tell ME that this game is a dud!
I still can't believe that people still play Halo when there are sooooo many other games that are soooo much better.
GAH! *quotes self*
You seem to be under the delusion that I actually care about the Halo games or ever bothered to really play them or learn anything about them. I would have thought that my statement about the games having no appeal for me would indicate that I've never really played them; except for the 4 days that I owned Halo 2, hated it, and traded it in for Metroid Prime 2, which was a far superior game, too.
When it comes to FPS games, I stick with the Rainbow Six games, the Metroid Prime games, and the occasional Call of Duty games. Halo is the Wal-Mart of FPS games: Everyone goes there, the prices are cheap, the store is large and comfortable; but, the selections are bland, the employees have no real excitement, and there are half a dozen different stores that have lots of stuff better anyway. You just have to be willing to fork over the cash.
Okay, I've seen people say this before, and it's bullshit. Yahtzee has played a ton of FPS games, some easy, some hard, and considering in his Haze review he called it "insultingly short and easy," I don't think he needs to play an "easier" FPS.
I'm not saying that wouldn't have been a better move, but remember a lot of people really do like the single-player as well. What I mean is that the whole make up the game, and it is designed to be both single and multiplayer. Yathzees review covers one part, but to dismiss the other is wrong. I would totaly approve of selling the game in two parts, single and multiplayer.
Halo: Reach isn't the start of the war, but I can't blame you for not noticing.. But I like how you liked it. It was a good game to be honest
And as someone who has played Half-Life 2...it was meh at best. There was next to no story, it was an incredibly linear game that was still very counter-intuitive in terms of pointing out where you need to go, and for the majority of the game, just wasn't fun.
@YoungZero: Halo has introduced new weapons, new enemies, many more new gameplay elements (e.g. sprint, armor lockup, drop sheild, jetpack, and evade all in one game), all the games have switched settings & Reach introduced a new storyline, and new characters have been introduced. As for old enemies in disguise, what was so covert about soldiers shooting at you, zombies attacking, or animals attacking you (unless your simply meaning a reskin)? And I've yet to find any depth in HL2, so either it stayed at zero depth or you're saying it gained a negative amount of depth.
As for your P.S., is that why there's only a very small amount of games which are defended like that, and they are all AAA titles that have been made by some of the best studios in the video game industry, and many games are hated universally despite having multiplayer, even if made by the same studio as one that is liked?
Halo fanboys: Thinnest skins in the west. Saying anything needs improvement is mean, and Halo shouldn't be compared to other games, because that's unfair. It should be judged on its own merits, and every feature of the game judged on how it perfectly matches past Halo games.
And once again, the Halo-players do nothing to show me they can speak to others on an adult level. Hell of an effort.
This entire thread could use a reminder as to what the word "subjectivity" means.
...Did you see what he said near the beginning of the review? You know, how he said "apparently you have to have done all that to know what the fuck's going on"? He clearly admitted that he hardly knows anything about the Halo story.
You're quite right. I think I should've made it clear that I wasn't counting in the price.
In the end, it doesn't really matter since this is just an opinion and some want their entire package to be flawless while others will be satisfied with just a stellar part of it.
Then again I have to pay ~$100 USD for a new console game so fuck, I have to enjoy everything.
The only thing that I found slightly surprising is that he didn't mention Firefight or Forge, those are fun by themselves.
Yea I was thinking the same thing
And here we go again. You misunderstand me to the extent that you're probably just trolling, and you have no idea how much it is taking me to remain civil here.
As I said, there are some of us with positive enough outlooks on life to be satisfied with a game. For us apparently privileged few, every game doesn't need to be absolutely perfect, totally deep, and completely innovative. We possess the apparently unusual ability to focus on what we think the game does well, and how it's fun. This is why I don't envy game critics - they're paid to be the opposite of this mindset, pointing out every niggling flaw in a game.
There, understand me now?
loved the review :D yahtzee is always amazing
If bungie added that then it would have made certain routs accessible that shouldn't have been. It is not there because it balances gameplay.
Oh Yahtzee, why do you assume this is the first time humans have engaged the Covenant? They have a whole contingency plan in place for when the Covenant find Reach - that was the whole point of the first mission of the game, you know, the one called Winter Contingency?
I know you hate it when people say you have to read the Halo books etc. in order to appreciate the story of the Halo games but I've personally only played Halo 1, 3, ODST and Reach - the same ones you've played. I've been paying attention and clearly you haven't.
I could go on, but I don't have the time. You don't like Halo and I get it. But stop making it so obvious you're not even trying.
Yeah, it is repetitive. And Multiplayer is no different. You shoot different colored people, but in the end you're the only white spartan on the board and everyone calls you racist for killing the douchebag who just threatened your mom with sexual assault. The levels are just Halo 2 on a new planet (Angry Joe said it too). And It's been like 3 weeks and I'm already fuckin' bored of it. Congrats Bungie for makin' an utterly average game.
Gee, Yahtzee likes shooters that don't depend on cover based combat? Especially if they have with characters, story and writing? As well as some space-dogfights?
Hmm, what does that remind me of?
Yeah... You sure showed me with that post. I'm not at all thinking of an chimpanzee going into a hysterical giggling fit when someone jingles their keys.
Man, you people are bad at this. "YOR STOOPID. Now respond to my non-thought-out point, YU STUPED MEENY!" You're the kind that read the novels and considered them high art, aren't you?
No no, merely having such standards isn't trolling. What you are doing is trying to assert that your views are correct and being demeaning (or rather, trying and failing to be demeaning) towards those who disagree with you. That right there is either trolling or flaming (or both), take your pick.
See, I would have had no problem with you if you just said "meh personally I don't like Halo, I prefer my games to be deep and all that". What you are instead doing is trying to make enemies by saying "My personal standards mean I look down upon this pathetic excuse for a game from my godly perch and lol at those noobs who like it".
Sometimes I think "the Escapist" should be renamed "the Elitist".
(And by the way, quit with the insults, they don't do much for your credibility or your argument).
Hey now, what do you have against "the novels?"
By that logic, Gears Of War 2 is ten times better than Halo: Reach, because at the end of that review he pointed out that the reason why most things become popular is that they're good... or they star Will Smith.
His reaction to Reach sounds like a funnier version of mine to the first game. About a minute into any level, I'd already start getting a bit bored with the repetitive level design and combat. I very likely would have finished the game if not for having to replay the demo level (which had me getting lost for the second time in a bunch of samey looking corridors and ramps) and pushing the game past my boredom threshold. Which is not to say that the game was bad. The story and gameplay were solid enough, but the things I most valued in a FPS just weren't there... and it's quite obvious from every review I've ever read, they still aren't. I like a lot more variety in weapons, enemies, and levels than Halo offers.
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Just at that moment the elf mound opened, and an old-maid elf minced out of it. The woman had no back, but otherwise she was quite properly dressed, with her amber jewelry in the shape of a heart. She kept house for her distant cousin, the old king of the elves, and she was very spry in the legs. Trip, trot, away she went. How she hurried and scurried off to see the night raven down in the marsh.
"You are hereby invited to the elf mound, this very night," she told him. "But may I ask you to do us a great favor first? Please deliver the other invitations for us. As you have no place of your own where you can entertain, you must make yourself generally useful. We shall have some very distinguished visitors-goblins of rank, let me tell you. So the old elf king wants to make the best impression he can."
"Who is being invited?" the night raven asked.
"Oh, everybody may come to the big ball-even ordinary mortals if they talk in their sleep or can do anything else that we can do. But at the banquet the company must be strictly select. Only the very best people are invited to it. I've threshed that out thoroughly with the elf king, because I insist we should not even invite ghosts. First of all, we must invite the old man of the sea and his daughters. I suppose they won't like to venture out on dry land, but we can at least give them a comfortable wet stone to sit on, or something better, and I don't think they'll refuse this time. Then we must have all the old trolls of the first degree, with tails. We must ask the old man of the stream, and the brownies, and I believe we should ask the grave-pig, the bone-horse, and the church dwarf, though they live under churches and, properly speaking, belong to the clergy, who are not our sort of people at all. Still that is their vocation, and they are closely related to us, and often come to call."
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Female elves have hollow backs.
The night raven, which is a bird characterized by strange screams and silent flight, has in folklore become an exorcized ghost, cf. jvf. Flemming Hovmann's comment in vol. 7 of H.C. Andersens eventyr, Dansk Sprog- og Litteraturselskab / Borgen 1990, p. 100.
The church dwarf is a pixie, that maintains order and correct behaviour in church kirken. In Thiele's Danmarks Folkesagn (1843-60), 1968, vol. 2, p. 219ff, church dwarfs fight to keep ghosts of drowned bodies at the beach away from the church.


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You really have to ask how much longer this can go on.
You really have to ask how much longer this can go on.
How much longer will Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva pick and choose among the rules he will obey and the promises he will keep?
How much longer will City Manager Bob Deis wave his finger in the mayor's face like he's some incorrigible child?
Not that Silva doesn't often act like a child. Not that Deis isn't just as cocksure as Silva that his is the one honorable path. Not that both Deis and Silva haven't seemed genetically predisposed toward mutual dismissiveness from the day they met.
Their latest run-in came last week when the mayor said he would out the city manager's private comments to him by producing a recording of that conversation. The matter was quickly referred to the county prosecutor's office because in California, it is generally illegal to record conversations without permission of those involved.
Silva, who said he had a recording while allegedly waving his cellphone at Tuesday's council meeting, claimed later only to have taken notes. Deis said when they met in his office before the meeting Silva wasn't taking notes.
It's a he said/he said situation that probably won't go anywhere with overworked county prosecutors, the illegality of the alleged recording notwithstanding.
Still, Silva's antics last week came only days after he flouted other rules one presumes he would expect other Stocktonians to obey. As president of the local Boys & Girls Club, he illegally closed a public street to hold a fair for children.
We're all for children. We're all for fairs. We're just not for endangering children by closing public streets without notice and proper barricades. This is at least the second time Silva has pulled this stunt.
"I expect the back door deals to end," Silva said at the council meeting. He wants them to end unless he's engineering them, like ignoring the permitting process for closing streets (or proposing a shadow government to administer the tax he proposed in order to circumvent the council).
And it's not like he doesn't have priors.
Silva was president of Stockton Unified's school board in 2007 during the Franklin High football recruiting scandal involving players from American Samoa.
That October, with Silva at the head, trustees directed then-Superintendent Jack McLaughlin to allow the banished players to participate in a game against Tracy High even though they had been ruled ineligible by the California Interscholastic Federation Sac-Joaquin Section. The school board's action worsened an already bad situation, resulting in severe sanctions and national embarrassment for Stockton Unified.
In that situation, as in the continuing run-ins with Deis and others, Silva deems what he wants is more important than rules, fairness or even common courtesy.
Silva likes to claim, as he did last week, that the city treats its citizens "like peasants," and by his rules-are-for-suckers behavior, he plays to residents who feel they've been mistreated or ignored by councils past and present.
Certainly there is a city divide, a chasm splitting north from south once largely along racial lines but today just as likely along poverty lines.
Silva could give voice to those often voiceless, but instead, he has fallen in love with the sound of his own voice, more and more at the expense of hearing the words of others. That's a shame, because the new council includes members whose personal stories of triumph over challenge are every bit as compelling as his.
He could form alliances and move the system toward greater responsiveness.
Instead, he has chosen the lone-wolf role, alienated fellow council members, and infuriated Deis so much that the city manager said he would stay beyond his announced retirement date if the sales tax proposal failed to get the unanimous council vote needed to put it on the November ballot.
At the council meeting, Silva went on a rant about how bad the tax plan already backed by a majority of the council members was. It just is not as good as the single-purpose tax plan he'd unsuccessfully pushed, he said. Silva's proposal would have just funded more police officers.
"The public likes simple things that they can understand," Silva said.
Talk about talking down to voters.
The simple truth is this: The Deis-proposed plan funds even more cops on the street but also provides money to pay creditors once a settlement is reached in the ongoing bankruptcy case. If there's not some money on the table for creditors, there'll be no exit from bankruptcy.
Voters can understand that, even if Silva can't (and after all that public preening, the mayor voted for the Deis proposal).
One thing Silva doesn't seem to understand is that he is but one among equals on the council. He has no power to hire and fire city staff. He doesn't control the city purse strings. He doesn't decide where to dispatch police cars.
In reality, in a city manager-operatedcity - and that's what Stockton is - the mayor is ribbon-cutter-in-chief and has the gavel at council meetings.
The one important power the mayor has is to represent the city before the public and press.
To say Silva represents the city poorly would be charitable. He has been childish, amateurish and at times foolish. The video recording of last Tuesday's council meeting, with particular attention to the mayor, should be required viewing for Stockton voters.
The city has so many problems. The mayor's behavior should not be one of them. But it is. And Stocktonians are left to wonder what will be next. Another out-of-control council meeting? Another broken rule? Another personal attack on city employees or fellow council members?
Silva is not going to step down. He likes the limelight in an I-don't-care-what-you-say-as-long-as-you-spell-my-name-correctly sort of way. That means absent some external event or force pushing him out, the city is in for at least three-plus years more of this.
It is often said that we get the government we deserve. Silva puts the lie to that idea.


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IN THIS SECTION: 1. BRIEF 2. COMPREHENSIVE BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method Chapter 2: Culture Chapter 3: Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age Chapter 4: Social Interaction in Everyday Life Chapter 5: Groups and Organizations Chapter 6: Sexuality and Society Chapter 7: Deviance Chapter 8: Social Stratification Chapter 9: Global Stratification Chapter 10: Gender Stratification Chapter 11: Race and Ethnicity Chapter 12: Economics and Politics Chapter 13: Family and Religion Chapter 14: Education, Health, and Medicine Chapter 15: Population, Urbanization, and Environment Chapter 16: Social Change: Modern and Postmodern Societies COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method The Sociological Perspective Seeing the General in the Particular Seeing the Strange in the Familiar Seeing Society in Our Everyday Lives Seeing Sociologically: Marginality and Crisis The Importance of a Global Perspective Applying the Sociological Perspective Sociology and Public Policy Sociology and Personal Growth Careers: The "Sociology Advantage" The Origins of Sociology Social Change and Sociology Science and Sociology Sociological Theory Seeing Sociology in the News "In Poor Economy, Laid-off Workers Flocking to Community Colleges" The Structural-Functional Approach The Social-Conflict Approach Feminism and the Gender-Conflict Approach The Race-Conflict Approach The Symbolic-Interaction Approach Three Ways to Do Sociology Positivist Sociology Interpretive Sociology Critical Sociology Research Orientations and Theory Gender and Research Research Ethics Research Methods Testing a Hypothesis: The Experiment Asking Questions: Survey Research In the Field: Participant Observation Using Available Data: Existing Sources Putting It All Together: Ten Steps in Sociological Research Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 2: Culture What Is Culture? Culture and Human Intelligence How Many Cultures? The Elements of Culture Symbols Language Values and Beliefs Norms Ideal and Real Culture Technology and Culture Hunting and Gathering Horticulture and Pastoralism Agriculture Industry Postindustrial Information Technology Cultural Diversity High Culture and Popular Culture Subculture Multiculturalism Counterculture Cultural Change Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism Seeing Sociology in the News "US Troops Train for Both Combat and Conversation" A Global Culture? Theoretical Analysis of Culture The Functions of Culture: Structural-Functional Analysis Inequality and Culture: Social-Conflict Analysis Evolution and Culture: Sociobiology Culture and Human Freedom Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 3: Socialization: From Infancy to Old Age Social Experience: The Key to Our Humanity Human Development: Nature and Nurture Social Isolation Understanding Socialization Sigmund Freuds's Elements of Personality Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development Carol Gilligan's Theory of Gender and Moral Development George Herbert Mead's Theory of the Social Self Erik H. Erikson's Eight Stages of Development Agents of Socialization The Family The School The Peer Group The Mass Media Seeing Sociology in the News "The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their Twenties" Socialization and the Life Course Childhood Adolescence Adulthood Old Age Death and Dying The Life Course: Patterns and Variations Resocialization: Total Institutions Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 4: Social Interaction in Everyday Life Social Structure: A Guide to Everyday Living Status Ascribed and Achieved Status Master Status Role Role Conflict and Role Strain Role Exit The Social Construction of Reality Seeing Sociology in the News "For Teenagers, Hello Means 'How about a Hug?'" "Street Smarts" The Thomas Theorem Ethnomethodology Reality Building: Class and Culture Dramaturgical Analysis: The "Presentation of Self" Performances Nonverbal Communication Gender Performances Idealization Embarrassment and Tact Interaction in Everyday Life: Three Applications Emotions: The Social Construction of Feeling Language: The Social Construction of Gender Reality Play: The Social Construction of Humor Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 5: Groups and Organizations Social Groups Primary and Secondary Groups Group Leadership Group Conformity Reference Groups In-Groups and Out-Groups Group Size Social Diversity: Race, Class, and Gender Networks Formal Organizations Types of Organizations Origins of Formal Organizations Characteristics of Bureaucracy Organizational Environment The Informal Side of Bureaucracy Problems of Bureaucracy Seeing Sociology in the News "Professor Suspended after Joke about Killing Students on Facebook" The Evolution of Formal Organizations Scientific Management The First Challenge: Race and Gender The Second Challenge: The Japanese Work Organization The Third Challenge: The Changing Nature of Work The "McDonaldization" of Society The Future of Organizations: Opposing Trends Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 6: Sexuality and Society Understanding Sexuality Sex: A Biological Issue Sex and the Body Sex: A Cultural Issue The Incest Taboo Sexual Attitudes in the United States The Sexual Revolution The Sexual Counterrevolution Premarital Sex Sex Between Adults Extramarital Sex Sex over the Life Course Sexual Orientation What Gives Us a Sexual Orientation? How Many Gay People Are There? The Gay Rights Movement Seeing Sociology in the News "Making a Prom Date Changes His Fate" Sexual Issues and Controversies Teen Pregnancy Pornography Prostitution Sexual Violence: Rape and Date Rape Theoretical Analysis of Sexuality Structural-Functional Analysis Symbolic-Interaction Analysis Social-Conflict and Feminist Analysis Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Sample Test Questions Chapter 7: Deviance What is Deviance? Social Control The Biological Context Personality Factors The Social Foundation of Deviance The Functions of Deviance: Structural-Functional Analysis Durkheim's Basic Insight Merton's Strain Theory Deviant Subcultures Labeling Deviance: Symbolic-Interaction Analysis Seeing Sociology in the News "Ex-Employees Turn to Cyber Crime after Layoffs" Labeling Theory The Medicalization of Deviance Sutherland's Differential Association Theory Hirschi's Control Theory Deviance and Inequality: Social-Conflict Analysis Deviance and Power Deviance and Capitalism White-Collar Crime Organized Crime Deviance, Race, and Gender Hate Crimes The Feminist Perspective: Deviance and Gender Crime Types of Crime Criminal Statistics The Street Criminal: A Profile Crime in Global Perspective The U.S. Criminal Justice System Due Process Police Courts Punishment The Death Penalty Community-Based Corrections Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 8: Social Stratification What is Social Stratification? Caste and Class Systems The Caste System The Class System Caste and Class: The United Kingdom Classless Societies? The Former Soviet Union China: Emerging Social Classes Ideology: The Power Behind Stratification The Functions of Social Stratification The Davis-Moore Thesis Stratification and Conflict Karl Marx: Class Conflict Why No Marxist Revolution? Max Weber: Class, Status, and Power Stratification and Interaction Stratification and Technology: A Global Perspective Hunting and Gathering Societies Horticultural, Pastoral, and Agrarian Societies Industrial Societies The Kuznets Curve Inequality in the United States Income, Wealth, and Power Occupational Prestige Schooling Ancestry, Race, and Gender Social Classes in the United States The Upper Class The Middle Class The Working Class The Lower Class The Difference Class Makes Health Values and Attitudes Politics Family and Gender Social Mobility Myth versus Reality Mobility by Income Level Mobility: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Mobility and Marriage The American Dream: Still a Reality? Seeing Sociology in the News "Waking Up from American Dreams" The Global Economy and U.S. Class Structure Poverty in the United States The Extent of Poverty Who Are the Poor? Explaining Poverty The Working Poor Homelessness Class, Welfare, Politics, and Values Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 9: Global Stratification Global Stratification: An Overview A World about Terminology High-Income Countries Middle-Income Countries Low-Income Countries Global Wealth and Poverty The Severity of Poverty The Extent of Poverty Poverty and Children Seeing Sociology in the News "The Child Catchers" Poverty and Women Slavery Explanations of Global Poverty Global Stratification: Theoretical Analysis Modernization Theory Dependency Theory Global Stratification: Looking Ahead Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 10: Gender Stratification Gender and Inequality Male-Female Differences Gender in Global Perspective Patriarchy and Sexism Gender and Socialization Gender and the Family Gender and the Peer Group Gender and Schooling Gender and the Mass Media Gender and Social Stratification Working Women and Men Seeing Sociology in the News "Women on Board: Breaking the 'Bamboo Ceiling'" Gender, Income, and Wealth Housework: Women's "Second Shift" Gender and Education Gender and Politics Gender and the Military Are Women a Minority? Minority Women: Intersection Theory Violence against Women Violence against Men Sexual Harassment Pornography Theoretical Analysis of Gender Structural-Functional Analysis Social-Conflict Analysis Feminism Basic Feminist Ideas Types of Feminism Opposition to Feminism Gender: Looking Ahead Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 11: Race and Ethnicity Race Ethnicity Minorities Prejudice and Stereotypes Measuring Prejudice: The Social Distance Scale Racism Theories of Prejudice Discrimination Seeing Sociology in the News "In Job Hunt, College Degree Can't Close Racial Gap" Institutional Prejudice and Discrimination Prejudice and Discrimination: The Vicious Circle Majority and Minority: Patterns of Interaction Pluralism Assimilation Segregation Genocide Race and Ethnicity in the United States Native Americans White Anglo-Saxon Protestants African Americans Asian Americans Hispanic Americans/Latinos Arab Americans White Ethnic Americans Race and Ethnicity: Looking Ahead Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 12: Economics and Politics The Economy: Historical Overview The Agricultural Revolution The Industrial Revolution The Information Revolution and Postindustrial Society Sectors of the Economy The Global Economy Economic Systems: Paths to Justice Capitalism Socialism Welfare Capitalism and State Capitalism Relative Advantages of Capitalism and Socialism Changes in Socialist and Capitalist Countries Work in the Postindustrial U.S. Economy The Changing Workplace Labor Unions Professions Self-Employment Unemployment and Underemployment Workplace Diversity: Race and Gender New Information Technology and Work Corporation Economic Concentration Conglomerates and Corporate Linkages Corporation: Are They Competitive? Corporations and the Global Economy The Economy: Looking Ahead Politics: Historical Overview Politics in Global Perspective Monarchy Democracy Authoritarianism Totalitarianism A Global Political System? Politics in the United States U.S. Culture and the Rise of the Welfare State The Political Spectrum Party Identification Special-Interest Groups Voter Apathy Should Convicted Criminals Vote? Theoretical Analysis of Power in Society The Pluralist Mode: The People Rule The Power-Elite Model: A Few People Rule The Marxist Model: The System Is Biased Power beyond the Rules Revolution Terrorism War and Peace The Causes of War Social Class and the Military Seeing Sociology in the News "GI Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier" Is Terrorism a New Kind of War? The Costs and Causes of Militarism Nuclear Weapons Mass Media and War Pursuing Peace Politics: Looking Ahead Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 13: Family and Religion Family: Basic Concepts Family: Global Variations Marriage Patterns Residential Patterns Patterns of Descent Patterns of Authority Theoretical Analysis of Families Functions of Family: Structural-Functional Analysis Inequality and Family: Social-Conflict and Feminist Analysis Constructing Family Life: Micro-Level Analysis Stages of Family Life Courtship and Romantic Love Seeing Sociology in the News "Prenuptial Agreements: Unromantic, but Necessary" Settling In: Ideal and Real Marriage Child Rearing The Family in Later Life U.S. Families: Class, Race, and Gender Social Class Ethnicity and Race Gender Transitions and Problems in Family Life Divorce Remarriage and Blended Families Family Violence Alternative Family Forms One-Parent Families Cohabitation Gay and Lesbian Couples Singlehood New Reproductive Technologies and Family Families: Looking Ahead Religion: Basic Concepts Theoretical Analysis of Religion Functions of Religion: Structural-Functional Analysis Constructing the Sacred: Symbolic-Interaction Analysis Inequality and Religion: Social-Conflict Analysis Religion and Social Change Max Weber: Protestantism and Capitalism Liberation Theology Types of Religious Organization Church Sect Cult Religion in History Religion in the United States Religious Commitment Religion: Class, Ethnicity, and Race Religion in a Changing Society Changing Affiliation Secularization Civil Religion "New Age" Seekers: Spirituality without Formal Religion Religious Revival: "Good Old-Time Religion" Religion: Looking Ahead Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Makin the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 14: Education, Health, and Medicine Education: A Global Survey Schooling and Economic Development Schooling in India Schooling in Japan Schooling in the United States The Functions of Schooling Schooling and Social Interaction The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Schooling and Social Inequality Public and Private Education Access to Higher Education Greater Opportunity: Expanding Higher Education Seeing Sociology in the News "New Meaning for Night Classes at Two-Year Colleges" Privilege and Personal Merit Problems in the Schools Discipline and Violence Student Passivity Dropping Out Academic Standards Grade Inflation Issues in U.S. Education School Choice Home Schooling Schooling People with Disabilities Adult Education The Teacher Shortage Schooling: Looking Ahead Health and Medicine Health and Society Health: A Global Survey Health in Low-Income Countries Health in High-Income Countries Health in the United States Who Is Healthy? Age, Gender, Class, and Race Cigarette Smoking Eating Disorders Obesity Sexually Transmitted Diseases Ethical Issues Surrounding Death The Medical Establishment The Rise of Scientific Medicine Holistic Medicine Paying for Medical Care: The United States The Nursing Shortage Theoretical Analysis of Health and Medicine Structural-Functional Analysis: Role Theory Symbolic-Interaction Analysis: The Meaning of Health Social-Conflict and Feminist Analysis Health and Medicine: Looking Ahead Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 15: Population, Urbanization, and Environment Demography: The Study of Population Fertility Mortality Migration Population Growth Population Composition History and Theory of Population Growth Malthusian Theory Demographic Transition Theory Global Population Today: A Brief Summary Urbanization: The Growth of Cities The Evolution of Cities The Growth of U.S. Cities Suburbs and Urban Decline Sunbelt Cities and Urban Sprawl Megalopolis: The Regional City Edge Cities The Rural Rebound Urbanism as a Way of Life Ferdinand Toennies: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft Emile Durkheim: Mechanical and Organic Solidarity Georg Simmel: The Blase Urbanite The Chicago School: Robert Park and Louis Wirth Urban Ecology Urban Political Economy Urbanization in Poor Nations Environment and Society The Global Dimension Technology and the Environmental Deficit Seeing Sociology in the News "Boyz Under the Hood" Culture: Growth and Limits Solid Waste: The Disposable Society Water and Air The Rain Forests Environmental Racism Looking Ahead: Toward a Sustainable Society and World Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Making the Grade Visual Summary Chapter 16: Social Change: Modern and Postmodern Societies What Is Social Change? 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It was going to be the final resting place for a man's dear, departed dog in a sweet spot of Southeast Texas. But as evidence would later show, it was already the resting place of something else – an effigy doll dated back to the time of Christ. Texas Archeology Study Association of East Texas (TASA) president Bruce Lockett said it is the find of the century, mostly because of what century it came from.
"This guy, who doesn't want to be identified but lives between Saratoga and Sour Lake, dug up a little mound in his yard to bury his dog," Lockett told The Examiner. "A piece of the dirt was left unearthed and a little rainfall overnight cleaned this guy (pointing at the effigy) right off."
At approximately 4 inches in height, the miniature sculpture could have easily been lost to time.
"If it wouldn't have been for the perfect set of events occurring, we would never have discovered this," Lockett said. "This is quite amazing, to say the least."
Although small in stature, the artifact still holds lots of information. An analysis of the find revealed the effigy doll to be roughly 2,000 years old, and made in the likeness of Texas' earliest settlers – the Atakapa Indians.
Historical and archeological studies have revealed the Atakapa to have inhabited the Gulf Coast region for at least 2,500 years, with some estimates dating the tribe back as much as 12,000 to 15,000 years. Research performed on the local find by Texas Historical Commission Archeological Steward Charles Bollich revealed the effigy to be more than 1,000 years old, up to roughly 2,000 years old.
America's first European settlers noted about 500 years ago that the Atakapas were "man-eaters," a fact Lockett's findings have also revealed.
"There is evidence that did occur," he said, although it is unclear why cannibalism was instituted as a way of life. Some historians believe the Atakapa roasted their enemies, others believe the Atakapa diet was just not that discriminatory.
As a whole, Lockett said, the Atakapa were an advanced civilization. The effigy doll found on the Hardin County property Aug. 5 showed evidence of advanced craftsmanship as well as paint residue.
"This is a major find," Lockett said. "These are rare, ancient, and amazing."
Lockett said he has reason to believe more buried treasure may be in the area. Anyone wanting to report an archeological find for further review can contact Lockett at (409) 769-3069.
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Debates could hit energy issues
Wednesday's presidential debate offers one of the final chances to pin down the candidates on the energy issues that have loomed so large in this campaign — from gasoline prices and green jobs to the Keystone XL pipeline and Solyndra.
On some of the biggest issues, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been content to evade the specifics.
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Obama, for example, has never offered a detailed response to more than 18 months of Republican attacks about how his administration handled the failed $535 million Solyndra loan guarantee — aside from his defense that all decisions were based on the "merits." And Romney has left plenty of wiggle room in his shifting stances through the years on what, if anything, the government should do about global warming or incentives for renewable energy.
Debate moderator Jim Lehrer could also explore the wide gulfs between the nominees' competing energy visions — Obama's emphasis on green jobs and his call for repealing oil industry tax breaks versus Romney's promises to dramatically expand oil drilling and repeal Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
In some areas, the candidates' rhetoric has been quite similar, including their discussions of energy independence and an all-of-the-above energy policy — even though they disagree on what exactly those words mean. And although Romney has pledged to approve Keystone on Day One of his presidency, plenty of observers expect that the pipeline would win approval in a second Obama term, as well.
So what should Lehrer ask Wednesday night? POLITICO compiled this list of suggestions with the help of environmentalists, industry representatives, independent experts, campaign surrogates and congressional staff from both parties.
The debate's setting in Colorado could offer an ideal backdrop: It's a politically purple bellwether state that has been a hotbed for green energy as well as oil and gas.
1. Climate change
Questions for Romney: How do you explain the seemingly dramatic shifts in your position on climate change since you were governor of Massachusetts? As governor, you worked to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and opposed a coal-fired power plant because it "kills people." And you initially supported a regional cap-and-trade program although you ultimately declined to sign on to the program. Today, you oppose cap and trade and have criticized Obama's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. What specifically would you do to address climate change?
Questions for Obama: Your administration has proposed a climate change regulation for new power plants that opponents say will contribute to the death of the coal industry. How do you defend the regulations? And will your administration propose additional measures to address climate change in a second term, including rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants? Lastly, if it were politically feasible, would you again pursue cap-and-trade legislation?
Question for both: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says July was the hottest month in the contiguous United States since record-keeping began in 1895. Do you see this and other extreme weather as the result of climate change?
2. Renewable energy
Questions for Romney: Your campaign has said you oppose the extension of the production tax credit for wind energy, which expires at the end of the year. But you have never discussed wanting to kill the tax credit in interviews or on the campaign trail. Why not? Backers say ending the tax credit would cost thousands of jobs, many in key battleground states, such as Iowa and Colorado. Are they wrong?


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Instructor(s) Tai, Stephanie
Recent bestsellers such as The Omnivore's Dilemma and Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life have brought greater public attention to the environmental impacts of agriculture, especially industrial agriculture, than in the recent past. Legislative attention has also been on the rise with the current debates over the proposed Food and Energy Security Act of 2007, which contains provisions dedicated to conserving and protecting the environment on tens of millions of acres of farmland, ranch land, and wetlands. We will explore current federal, state, and international debates over how agricultural legal systems can affect the natural environment through case studies of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), soil conservation programs, biofuel incentives, organic certification schemes, and other controversies. Students will have several options in lieu of a final examination: a longer independent research paper that would satisfy the
upper-level writing requirement; a longer directed-research paper in collaboration with a relevant agriculture/environment organization; or a shorter independent research paper and a shorter directed-research paper. Depending on student interest, appetizers cooked from locally grown ingredients may also be provided.


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Street scenes can lack for spontaneity as easily as those in a studio.Bruce
all we're left with as viewers is 'photo of some mug in a gorilla suit'.
I didn't say that.
I am trying to figure out why everyone is assuming every photograph is about ambiguity?
Then you haven't been reading the threads. Nobody's expecting a landscape to be ambiguous. Nobody's expecting editorial documentation to be ambiguous. Nobody's expecting architecture to be ambiguous. Nobody's expecting portraiture to be ambiguous.
Right.And in much photography that is done of people on city streets (I'm avoiding using a categorical name), one of the most interesting features is very often ambiguity. Why? Because it stimulates the viewer's mind to do some creative work on his/her own rather than just being a passive bystander.Ambiguity is very often present in the work of the great Street Photographers, as Russ so often points out. It can also work well in many abstract images, and perhaps in some other types of photography. If you have several layers of possible meaning in an image, it can give you something different each time you view it. And that gives it more staying power, for those of us who enjoy variety.
And in much photography that is done of people on city streets (I'm avoiding using a categorical name), one of the most interesting features is very often ambiguity. Why? Because it stimulates the viewer's mind to do some creative work on his/her own rather than just being a passive bystander.
Some of you need to get out more often.
Here's a suggestion, Guy: "Get out" now and go to the local library. When you get there see if you can find books by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Elliott Erwitt, Helen Levitt, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand. Also, look for Bystander: A History of Street Photography, by Colin Westerbrook and Joel Meyerowitz, and Street Photography Now, edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren. Once you've gone all the way through those books and studied them you'll be in a somewhat better position to make ex-cathedra pronouncements. It usually pays to know at least a little bit about a subject before you expound on it.
If the viewer is a "passive bystander" that can only mean one thing since viewers are by definition not part of the physical process of making the photograph: It means the photograph is dead. It has no intellectual, emotional, or visual message. It is unable to engage the viewer. Passivity in this context can only mean "not engaged." Any aspect of the photograph that engages the viewer, takes the viewer from passivity to activity. The activity of course is the emotional, intellectual or visual interaction with the photograph. Now, your position in the above is to suggest that only "ambiguity" engages the viewer. Really? That's got to be the most strictly narrow and limited view of the power of photography (or any art) that I have ever heard declared. I have already listed a few of the many characteristics of photographs that can engage the viewer so I won't relist them here again. But I will say that if your position were true, photography would have died in 1840. I can only feel a kind of sorrow for anyone who can only be moved by ambiguity in art.
This coming from the guy who has yet to explain his definition for "street photography," or what was the other one?---"photographic geometry?" But let me guess.....wait..here it comes....YOU know it when you see it! Am I right? One's art isn't found in a book at the library. But yes, people can go on their whole life trying to copy other artists and pretend they have found something. Happens all the time. Some are even quite good at citing the references by page number. I get that you're the peacock and you've made your royal pronouncements about art or street photography and the sheep are following along nicely to the dominant personality. Very common in fora. But behind your back, some of your flock ain't all that happy fella. So, unless the moderator kicks me out, I think I will stay and ponder all your fabulously ambiguous "street photography."


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For decades, MBDA has supported expanded trade through minority-owned and operated businesses recognizing that minority-owned firms have the most favorable export attributes of any sector of the U.S. economy. In 2011 MBDA began the formal process of institutionalizing efforts to aid minority-owned businesses globally. With President Obama's launch of the National Export Initiative, the focus on minority exporters and their ability to support domestic job growth has taken on added importance.
Part of MBDA's work to increase foreign trade opportunities for minority-owned businesses includes facilitating seminars and networking events at the annual National Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week Conference. This year's event will feature a seminar titled "Access to Markets: Leveraging International Opportunities in Emerging Markets". The workshop will explore Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) which currently account for more than a quarter of the world's land area and more than 40% of the world's population. The increasing demand for consumer goods, coupled with major infrastructure needs in these markets, underscore their potential as key export destinations for U.S. goods and services.
The growing commercial opportunities in the BRICS markets and the best practice models for developing export strategies will be the topic of conversation at the MED Week Conference, December 5-6. The 2012 MED Week Schedule at a Glance is available. To learn more about MBDA's global business development initiatives, view the Agency website www.mbda.gov.


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The congratulations have poured in from all corners of the world for Danica Patrick, but she's trying to keep her career-best Sprint Cup finish in context.
Just as she did in starting ninth and finishing seventh Saturday while whipping around Kansas Speedway at more than 200 mph, Patrick is taking a methodical approach to her improvement in NASCAR's premier series.
"That's a good way to do it," she told USA TODAY Sports in a phone interview Tuesday. "Not every weekend goes like that for the best of drivers. The ultimate goal is to be in the top 10 every weekend and then wins and good things happen from there. But I have to be rational and understand I can't just skip past getting in the top 15 consistently and skip to top 10s. That's unrealistic at this point in time.
"But that weekend showed when the car is good enough to do those things, I'm ready."
Patrick, who had only one top 10 (eighth in the 2013 Daytona 500) and five top 15s in 56 prior starts, still could bask in the afterglow. She received glowing text messages from six-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and NASCAR's 11-time most popular driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., as well as their powerhouse car owner, Rick Hendrick. A group of girlfriends in Scottsdale, Ariz. (her former home) sent a photo of them cheering while watching her in the 5-hour Energy 400, and Twitter was awash with fan support, too.
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"Everybody came through and said a lot of really nice things," said Patrick, who was busy Tuesday promoting sponsor Aspen Dental's Healthy Mouth Movement and MouthMobile that provides free dental care in communities that lack it. "Sponsors, partners, friends. It was a good night. It's a confidence-builder for sure. I spent a lot of time running around some really good cars. It was really cool."
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It's been another great May so far for Patrick, who became the first woman to lead the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and has a career-best third in that Memorial Day weekend classic. She and boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (who drives for rival Roush Fenway Racing in Cup) recently added a Miniature Siberian Husky named Dallas to Stenhouse's new house in the Charlotte area.
Patrick and Stenhouse have been using social media to post photos of the 2-month-old puppy, which they got Sunday -- Mother's Day. The Miniature Siberian Husky is relatively new with only a handful of breeders in the country. Dallas came from one in Asheville, N.C.
"Isn't she the cutest thing you've ever seen? Gosh!" Patrick said with a giggle. "She's learning how to do everything so quick. Within one day, she went from biting on a rope when I gave it to her to playing with it on her own and playing tug of war.
"She sleeps all day and she's up all night, so she's just like Ricky. Even though we agreed that he's the up all night guy, so he can take care of the puppy at night. But who takes her out at 4 o'clock in the morning every night? Me. He said, 'Well babe, once I get to sleep, then I'm asleep.' I said, 'Well, that's not how it works.' "
She has tweeted photos of their new pup, including these:
--"She didn't take nine months to make, but we do love our new little Dallas."
--"She's so sweet. Just like a baby, eats, sleeps, plays. And was up every 2-3 hours last night. And I don't even mind!"
--"Had to fly out early for @AspenDental and @StenhouseJr said Dallas slept next to my pjs cuz she misses me! Awwww!"
In an interview with USA TODAY Sports, Patrick touched on her impressive performance at Kansas, her Indy 500 connections and her charitable efforts:
Q: This finish seemed to come somewhat out of nowhere as you hadn't finished higher than 22nd in nearly two months. Was there a "eureka" moment for you at Kansas when it clicked?
A: Before qualifying, (Stewart-Haas Racing teammates) Kevin (Harvick) and Kurt (Busch) were really helpful and giving me tips. It goes a long way. It really does. That's what really helped me in qualifying. From there, it was about (crew chief Tony) Gibson making decisions that we had talked about what we wanted to get the car right. The cars are very sensitive to being a little off. They did a really good job. It's about getting everything right. It's a complicated process to nail. They made good changes. The race was just a matter of having good restarts and keeping my head on straight and being confident to give good feedback. It was just a good night all around.
The short-version answer is my teammates helped me a lot in qualifying, and Gibson made good decisions on what to do with the car for the race.
Sprint Cup is so hard. It is so hard. This just shows how important it is to be great at everything. Everything has to be awesome, from the car to the engine to the driver to the calls to the setup. You have to nail it. It's hard to do that every weekend, for sure. (Kansas) just shows when you put the effort in, good things happen.
Q: Have you talked to Kurt Busch about his Indianapolis 500 attempt and does that help keep you connected to the race?
A: Kurt expressed curiosity at Richmond, and he wanted to sit down and talk at length about closing rates and stuff like that. We talked a few minutes, but we had just arrived at an appearance. He's definitely curious about a few things. I'm happy to help with anything I thought could help him.
Of course I care and still am curious about Indy. I'm not someone who walked away thinking, 'I don't want a thing to do with it.' I like racing. The start of (Saturday's Grand Prix of Indianapolis), while not good, it was dramatic. For someone watching a race for entertainment, it was surely entertaining, though I felt bad for Sebastian (Saavedra, the pole-sitter who couldn't get his engine fired and was rear-ended by two other drivers, ending his day). But yeah. I watch every chance I can get. By nature, I'm going to lose touch with what's going on and the stuff about cars and drivers, but I still watch it like a fan.
Q: Does Busch's shot at Indy make you think, "Hey, two of my NASCAR teammates have tried this. Maybe I can?"
A: I never say never, because you just never know what's going to happen in your life. But at this point, I'm not seeking it. But it doesn't mean it might not seek me out at some point in time. I'm open. But right now, my focus is Cup.
Q: You've got a new sponsor this season in Aspen Dental, and you're acting as a spokeswoman for its Healthy Mouth Movement and something called the MouthMobile. What is it?
A: It's free oral health care. They travel especially to places for people who don't have a dentist nearby. ... They had talked about the MouthMobile and the Healthy Mouth Movement, but it's a whole other thing to do it. To see it all come together and get the dentist's office on wheels moving is quite the undertaking.
I'm going back to Roscoe, my hometown, with the MouthMobile after the Chicagoland Speedway race. They might even come to Indianapolis during the Brickyard.
Q: Many drivers have foundations; are you planning on doing your own for charitable efforts?
A: When I first started in IndyCar, I created a foundation and then realized it was going to be a lot of red tape and a lot of money had to flow through it, and it just all seemed very difficult. So it was dissolved pretty much immediately after being put together. So since then, I always thought about it, and I've realized the easiest thing I can do is help other people with their charities -- show up at golf tournaments and charity dinners and bid on auction items to help drive the price up. Or shoot, I'll buy them myself, I don't care. There's already a lot of great stuff that drivers and other companies have going on for their charitable causes. Participating and attending those is the biggest thing for me. There's a lot of that coming up.
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"Parallel Circuits," an exhibition that evolved from a graduate seminar course, Design Perspectives and Issues, will open Dec. 10 at UNL's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.
With an emphasis on the evolution of "Do It Yourself" movement and advancements in technology, students explored the DIY culture examining historical and contemporary texts, including how-to instructional magazines, online video tutorials and personal experimentation. Students learned how to create soft circuits, dissect electronic devices, and investigate new technology like muscle wire and conductive thread.
This exhibition features work by students, faculty and invited artists, emphasizing the importance of the senses: sight, hearing and touch. Wendy Weiss, professor of textiles, clothing and design and director the the Hillestad Gallery, directed the seminar. Participating students are: Adrienne Anderson and Lindsay Ducey of Omaha; Samuel Berner of Rockville, Md.; Gregory Scott Cook of Murray, Ky.; and Molly J. McPherson of Glen Lyon, Pa.; with additional work by Bryan Day, Jay Kreimer and Weiss.
Cook merged pieces of his personal history, hidden information and tactile familiarity to create an installation that allows the viewer to manipulate field-recorded sound. Berner's paintings invite interaction with the audience using electronics to animate the painting itself. Music is the focus of Ducey's work. She incorporated electronics into textiles to produce sound through fabric speakers. Anderson used white-work to feature electroluminescent wire couched into traditional motifs applied to a white jacket of her design. McPherson's traditional embroidery techniques are blended with current technology in a multi-part piece exploring public commentary.
Little Bits, an open-source library of electronic modules that snap together, provided a starter kit for demonstration in the gallery. Visitors will have a chance to build their own snap-together circuits at a workspace set up in the gallery. The products are designed for ages 8 and older.
The collection will be on display through Jan. 18 and will feature an artist reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 11. The gallery is located on the second floor of the Home Economics Building on 35th Street north of East Campus Loop. All events are free and open to the public. For more information call 402-472-2911.
- Wendy Weiss
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We've all been there. We're walking around, minding own business and then — ewwww.
Right there, causing our eyes to bleed, is Exhibit A of what not to wear. And we're asking ourselves, "What was she (or he) thinking?"
The vast majority of us follow the common-sense rules of summer dressing. Not too short, tight, baggy or revealing — most especially not any of those at work.
The workplace, in fact, is an area where a lot of otherwise smart people go terribly wrong when the temperatures climb.
"The best rule of thumb is, if you're not sure, it's better to be too formal than too casual," advises Fran Liontakis, regional vice president of OfficeTeam, a division of the temp placement firm Robert Half International.
Top no-no's, she says, are sheer clothing, flip-flops, crop tops and low-rise pants.
"You should always dress to the position you aspire to," says Liontakis, who cites an OfficeTeam survey of 659 companies that found only 1 in 4 had a relaxed summertime dress code — even though employees often dress like there is one.
Some of the major sins of summer, at least when it comes to clothing, could be avoided by checking a full-length mirror, front and back, before appearing in public.
In the meantime, here's a handy photo guide to fashion crimes that I've spotted in my travels around the city.
Other summer fashion faux pas
Men's sandals with socks
Anything that shows underwear
Stockings with open-toe/open-back shoes
Tops that look like lingerie
Revealing sundress at work