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Rafael A. Rosillo
Caracas, Venezuela.
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Prior Education:
2001, LL.B., Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Faculty of Law.
2006, Master's Degree in Taxation and Management (thesis pending), Universidad Metropolitana.
What I Did Before Law School:
I worked for two years as an in-house corporate attorney for an engineering company before joining an accounting firm in which I was the Head Litigator of the Tax Department.
Why I Chose Penn Law:
I wanted a law school with a very interesting and diverse curriculum as well as a great faculty. Penn Law had both, in addition to a great reputation and an amazing campus with outstanding facilities. I also wanted to be surrounded by the most intelligent and inquisitive students out there, making the classes more enriching and lively.
My Best Experience at Penn Law:
Every day at Penn Law is filled with great experiences. The collegial environment at Penn Law makes relationships among students (LLM's as well as J.D.'s) team-like. Here you will make bonds that will last for the rest of your life. La Gran Fiesta, LALSA´s annual spring party, was one great experience that stands out from the rest.
Professor Who Influenced Me Most:
All of my professors surpassed my expectations, but there are three that stand out. Professor Michael Wachter is the greatest teacher I've ever had. His way of teaching is just amazing, he will ask you questions until you can see and understand any complicated subject on the table. Professor Reed Shuldiner is one of the nicest guys around here. His classes are very rich and he makes you think about even the slightest details surrounding an issue. Professor Thomas Gallagher is an impressive professor and practicing attorney. His joyful way of teaching makes his classes a pleasure to attend, and he always makes you think as if you had to explain what you've learned to your clients. I have to say that all of these professors have inspired me more than ever to make the move to academia at some point in life.
My Favorite Course:
The Tax Policy Seminar opened my eyes to the policies behind the tax laws and gave me an in depth look at the most innovative tax issues and proposals around the world, as well as meeting the tax scholars behind them. The Advanced Corporate Law seminar was also very enriching, and it gave me the chance to receive lectures by Delaware's Vice Chancellor, the Honorable Leo Strine.
My Favorite Philadelphia Moment:
This city is filled with fun people and great historic sites. It's impossible to single out just one favorite moment. I enjoyed skating and running along the Schuylkill River, walking around the city and visiting all the museums and historic sites, as well as all the great restaurants that Philly has to offer.
What I'm Most Proud Of:
Being a board member of the Latin American Law School Association (LALSA) as the LLM, representative. This gave me the opportunity to attend the weekly LALSA board meetings and discuss issues affecting the Latin American community at Penn Law, as well as any issue arising from the LLM class. I'm also proud of having been offered an internship with the IRS.
My Extracurricular Activities at Penn Law:
Board member of the Latin American Law School Association (LALSA) as the LLM, representative. LLM advisor for Penn Law's Journal of International Law
My Favorite Place or Activity on the University Campus:
Locust Walk is always a great place to be around and meet people from different schools. Penn Law's courtyard is always filled with joyful students and it's an amazing place to sit around and talk to your colleagues about anything.


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Bill Lofgren of Portland, Oregon, has memories of a dear friend built into the modifications of this 65. Bills childhood pal, Bruce Stevenson, bought the car when it was about a year old. It was a race car then with a built 396. Bruce ran the car long and hard, eventually replacing the 396 with a 427. Bruce had many other cars, and developed a long relationship with Steve Frisbee of Steves Auto Restorations in Gesham, Oregon. Bruce and Steve became close friends, and many cars passed through the shops doors. Longtime employee and master car builder Dave Eckert was there when Bruce brought in the 65 for a total makeover. When you build a project for a customer from the ground up, you get to know him very well, and Bruce and Dave became very close. Dave and his crew were devastated when Bruce suddenly passed away.
The 65 was only half done then, and the family sold the car to Bruces old buddy, Bill. Bill planned to finish the project himself, but when he realized the complexity of it, he decided to have Steves Auto Restorations (S.A.R.) help him. After talking with Steves crew, Bill decided to see the project through as his departed friend Bruce would have liked it.
That isnt the factory silver paintits Silver Mist, a Toyota shade! Air conditioning is by Vintage Air and S.A.R. The redesign of the front spoiler, hood ducts, and wheel flares offer telltale clues about what lies underneath. That front spoiler has a built-in engine oil cooler, and ducts to cool the front brakes. A good share of a 93 ZR-1 is plugged into the revamped frame of the old car, and it boasts steering, brakes, and suspension components from 96 Corvette technology. Dave Eckert modified the frame in such a way that the car has a 50/50 balance, 1,700 pounds front and 1,700 pounds rear, and he says with its LT5 engine turning 450 hp, it will outrun any Corvette on the road.
Bill Lofgren can be proud that he has carried out his friends dream, making it his own. This timeless Corvette is classic in design, improved with modern technology. Its tag reads, appropriately, 65ZR1.

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Tofino, BC (July 6, 2012) - As announced for the first time this morning on NBC's Today Show, the readers of Travel + Leisure Magazine selected their Worlds Best Award winners and have rated the Wickaninnish Inn the Top Resort in Canada.
The prestigious travel magazine polls readers for their 'World's Best Awards' each year, and for the first time the 2012 poll devotes a category exclusively to Canadian properties. The Inn has ranked favourably in the US/Canada division for many years, most recently having been selected the #1 property in Canada in 2011 and twenty fourth overall in this combined category last year. In other excellent news Vancouver Island was also selected as the #1 island in the Continental USA and Canada and for the first time ever also among the top 10 islands worldwide!
"The fact this ranking comes to us from the knowledgeable readers of T+L whose participation in the poll is not known to us makes it even more meaningful. We are also recognized for the first time as a Hall of Fame winner for consistently making the 'Worlds Best Awards' list for over 10 years which is even a bigger testament to our ongoing commitment to outstanding service and quality" said Charles McDiarmid, Managing Director of the family owned and operated Wickaninnish Inn.
As part of efforts to continuously improve the guest experience, the Inn recently completed a thorough renovation of all 45 original Wickaninnish-at-the-Pointe building guestrooms. The public areas of the Inn also received a detailed revitalization. One intriguing new element is the refurbishment of the steam room in the Ancient Cedars Spa which has become a magical 'sea cave' fashioned with glass starfish and a true cave like atmosphere.
The Inn is honoured to receive this latest award from Travel + Leisure, as well as other reader's choice awards from Condé Nast Traveler Magazine (June 2012, #1 Spa in Canada), Condé Nast Johansen's (2012 Award of Excellence), Wine Spectator Magazine (2011 Award of Excellence), Andrew Harper's Reader Survey (#7 International Hideaway out of 1,000 Inns in 2011), Vancouver Magazine (2012 Gold, Best Resort Dining in BC) and many more.
The Wickaninnish Inn is pleased to welcome guests year round to experience "Rustic Elegance on Nature's Edge" in a world class setting overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
About the Wickaninnish Inn
The iconic Wickaninnish Inn, perched on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island near Tofino, is a year-round destination exemplifying "rustic elegance on nature's edge". A Relais & Châteaux member property since 1997, the Inn is owned and managed by the McDiarmid family of Tofino, and is exclusively located on beautiful Chesterman Beach. Each one of the 75 oceanfront guest rooms and suites is designed to AAA/CAA Five Diamond standards, welcoming guests with a beach or ocean viewscape, gas fireplace, soaker tub, local art, and an individual balcony. The Wickaninnish Inn is home to The Pointe Restaurant, boasting 240º Pacific Ocean views and an innovative culinary program, and the award-winning Ancient Cedars Spa. Contact the Inn's on-property reservations team 24 hours a day by calling toll-free 1.800.333.4604 or visiting www.wickinn.com.
About Travel + Leisure's World's Best Awards
A questionnaire developed by the editors of Travel + Leisure, in association with ROI Research Inc., was made available to Travel + Leisure readers at TLWorldsBest.com from December 15, 2010, to March 31, 2011. Readers were invited to participate through Travel + Leisure magazine (January, February, and March issues), and online at TravelandLeisure.com. To protect the integrity of the data, after March 31, 2011, respondents were screened by Travel + Leisure and responses from any identified travel-industry professionals who completed the survey were eliminated from the final tally. The survey website, TLWorldsBest.com, was maintained, monitored, and kept secure by ROI Research Inc., which collected and tabulated the responses and kept them confidential. The scores are indexed averages of responses concerning applicable characteristics. Respondents were asked to rate hotels, islands, destination spas, golf resorts, and rental-car agencies on five characteristics: rooms/facilities, location, service, restaurants/food and value. For each characteristic, respondents were asked to rate a candidate on a scale of 1 to 5, where "5" means excellent and "1" means poor. Required component ratings were then averaged, creating an overall score. A minimum number of responses was necessary for a candidate to be eligible for inclusion in the World's Best Awards listings. www.travelandleisure.com


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I don't understand the logic behind religion or spiritualism at all. How is it that you can stigmatize scholastic reasoning and believe in something that violates it? Religions often use these weird existential terms that don't make sense to me at all. I don't understand how there can be "something deeper" or how we can have a relationship with someone we cannot interact with. Sure, I can understand having a relationship with God if He actually talked to you, became manifest or showed you the Uncreated Light--like some of the Saints experienced--but for the average Joes like us, how can we have a relationship with Him? It doesn't make sense to me at all. I also don't get what people mean when they say humans are "spiritual" or all that other weirdo existential stuff. As far as I am concerned, if I cannot perceive something with my reasoning faculties and five senses, then it is irrelevant and out of my grasp. What else do we have? Be honest here. What other ways do we have for attaining knowledge other than empirical reason? The mind is all we have. Even our feelings are interpreted by our mind. So what exactly is so wrong with Scholasticism? Can you really blame people for leaving religion when it spits on the face of all logical reasoning? You should be happy that people are thinking for once opposed to adhering to something just because their parents made them or because society told them to.
One day you're up, the next day you're down. One day you're ranting about the church, then about how righteous you are. One day you want spirituality, then it's all science.What is it with you?
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Poteau soccer boys win state title; Clark's goal in second OT period lifts Pirates past OKC Santa Fe Saints
TULSA — Twelve years ago, the majority of players on the Poteau Pirates soccer team started their soccer careers. Their record was perfect. They did did not win a game. However over the years, these young Pirates learned how to play soccer. Then, too, their physical abilities and agilities began to develop, and they started to win games. For the past four years, the Pirates have improved their status one step at a time. This year the Pirates took the final step.Ashby Clark's goal with 6:44 left in the second 10-minute overtime period not only gave the Pirates their first lead in Saturday night's Class 4A state title match against Oklahoma City Santa Fe South at the University of Tulsa, Clark's goal gave the Pirates the state title as they won the game 4-3.


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Note: This story originially ran in the Chicago Tribune on July 22, 2012
In one of baseball's sweetest traditions, Stan Musial would play "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on his harmonica for the so-called seventh-inning stretch of baseball's Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Johnny Bench has stepped in for the 91-year-old Musial, doing a pretty good Harry Caray imitation.
On Sunday, in Ron Santo's honor, Bench put on a Cubs jersey before he went to the podium and slipped into character.
"Ron would have loved it," Vicki Santo, Ron's widow, said afterward. "He and Johnny were such good friends. He would have thought it was hysterical. He would have laughed hysterically."
There were tears in Cooperstown on Sunday, for sure. But with regard to the Cubs' third base and broadcasting legend, they were the kind that Santo's daughter, Linda Santo Brown, had said her father would have cried had he lived to see his induction as one of 297 members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
"He would say thank you over and over again and he would most definitely thank the (Golden Era selection) committee and just say how gracious and honored he is," she said. "He would be emotional. I know he would cry, and they would be really true tears of joy."
On a sunny afternoon in a pastoral setting on the edge of this quaint village, Santo's family and friends -- along with thousands of Cubs fans who considered him a friend even if they never met him -- came to pay tribute to the legacy of one of the toughest men to ever play baseball.
With former Reds shortstop Barry Larkin also being inducted, fans in blue and red filled the hillside behind the Clark Sports Center awaiting the afternoon's Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Santo's No. 10 was being worn everywhere you looked, along with banners like the ones at Wrigley Field in the 1960s, when Santo was in his prime.
"It was a sea of red, a sea of blue, all intermingled," Larkin said. "It was awesome."
Only one thing was missing.
With Santo dying of complications from bladder cancer in December 2010, after a lifelong battle with Type 1 diabetes that caused him to have both legs amputated late in his life, the posthumous induction was certain to be a bittersweet event for many.
But in her acceptance speech, Vicki Santo spoke of it as a joyous occasion.
"This is not a sad day," she said at the beginning of the speech. "This is a happy day, an incredible day for an incredible man."
Vicki Santo nicely summed up the Hall of Fame career of a natural athlete who got to the big leagues at age 20 and played 15 years as a third baseman, 14 of those with the Cubs.
But he fought a daily battle against his disease, which was discovered in a physical after he had turned down many better offers to sign a $20,000 deal with the Cubs.
"It was a spectacular journey fraught with trials and tribulations, incredible lows and highs," she said. "Ron's life was never about the lows. It was always about the highs."
Pat Hughes, Santo's longtime broadcast partner on WGN-AM 720, referenced how the time since Santo's retiring after the 1974 season created generations of Cubs fans who know Santo more for his work as a broadcaster than a player.
"They don't know what a great ballplayer he was," Hughes said. "That's part of why it's so great he's in (the Hall). The guy was one of the all-time ballplayers."
Santo played in a golden era for the National League, a time when Hall of Fame pitchers such as Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax and Juan Marichal made life miserable for hitters. He was a career .277 hitter who hit 342 home runs and drove in 1,331 runs.
"This is such a deserving, overdue day," said Randy Hundley, who played alongside Hall of Famers Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ferguson Jenkins and Santo on Leo Durocher's Cubs teams of the late 1960s and early '70s.
"This was a great day. It's hard to believe that we now have four Hall of Famers from that team."
Vicki Santo spoke about Santo's style as a broadcaster.
"He approached it from the standpoint of the world's greatest Cub fan," she said. "He had no emotional filter. When you listened you heard the joy and sadness of a real fan."
Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts headed the franchise's delegation at the induction.
In addition to the Hall of Famers and Hundley, Glenn Beckert attended and got a call-out by Bench.
It was a sunny weekend in Cooperstown, which Williams found fitting.
"When the sun came out, we knew that Ron was looking down on us and smiling," he said.
Santo had endured three decades of disappointment in regard to Hall of Fame voting, first on the ballot for voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America and later the Veterans Committee, which at the time was composed mostly of living Hall of Famers.
"Dad really wanted this, but not for himself," Santo Brown said. "He wanted it for his family, his kids and his grandkids. He wanted it for friends. It's really a bonus in our eyes. Dad's real legacy is JDRF and the work he did there. That's bigger than the Hall of Fame."


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The UST Tigers will win the Men's Volleyball Tournament with only 2 of the S71 champion squad leaving due to graduation.
I think the Ateneo Lady Spikers will be in contention and will make it a 3-cornered fight with UST and FEU, who, together with Adamson will experience a major overhaul of its core players.


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FOREWORD and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
|The unique world created by Natalya Nesterova is palpable and yet ephemeral and unreal. Everything she creates seems simple at first glance, and this sense of apparent understanding works like a trap for the viewer. The artists characters exist in more than one dimension, and in more than one world, but it often seems to the viewer that it is the world of his daily life. And once the viewer has complete certainty of being comfortable "inside" the artists visible world, Nesterovas trap springs shutand the viewer is in her hypnotic world, feeling delight and at the same time psychological discomfort, tranquilizing calm, and a strange, aching longing. Nesterovas paintings elicit either the most loyal homage or an ostracizing rejection, but never, under any circumstances, indifference.
|Working with Nesterova for almost a decade (Natalya participated in every group exhibit I curated), I was always amazed by her creative unpredictability. You never know what her next work or series will be, where her imagination or mood will take her. But every new series, which might seem to the uninitiated eye unexpected or experimental, is the continuation of a single logical inner line of her metaphysical search, the expression of her unique depiction of a moment in the world around her. The multitude of creative approaches Nesterova takes to express her inner feelings and sensation and the abundance of artist means is impressive. Nesterova is an orchestra of an enormous number of instruments, but it is a well-coordinated orchestra that obeys the conductors imperious hand.
|Organizing this exhibit was a four-year project, requiring the location and selection of over 100 works, created by Nesterova in the last two decades in Russia, America, France, and Germany. Even for an artist who has exhibited in more than 25 countries, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Ludwig Museum of Modern Art in Cologne, The National Gallery of Modern Art in Seoul, and The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, and whose works are in these museums collections and the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the National Jewish Museum in Washington, this exhibit is the largest and most representative of Natalya Nesterovas creative biography, and the catalogue, with articles by art historians from Russia and America, is the most exhaustive publication on her work.
|Natalya Nesterova is one of the most talented modern artists of Russia, known and respected throughout the world. Nesterova was awarded title "Honored Artist of Russia", elected Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, and awarded the State Prize of Russia in the Fine Arts. Monographs have been written about her work, chapters in books and articles in leading journals and newspapers all over the world have been devoted to her work. This retrospective exhibit and the publication of the book coming out in connection with the exhibit required the help of many people in America, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Germany, Hungary, China, France, and Korea, to whom I would like to extend my gratitude.
|I would like to thank the people in all the cultural institutions that were interested in the work of Natalya Nesterova and who opened their doors for the exhibit Natalya Nesterova: Russian Wanderings; Elizabeth Kessin Berman, Curator, Phyllis Hideman, Museum Chair, and Rebecca Sobol, Exhibition Coordinator, Bnai Brith Klutznick National Jewish Museum; Richard Hideman, President, and Dan Mariaschin, Executive Vice-President, Bnai Brith International; Susan Hoeltzel, Director, and Mary Ann Siano, Associate Director, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York; and Laurel Spencer Forsythe, Curator of Exhibitions, Education and Collections, Paine Art Center and Gardens. Nesterovas exhibit is not my first collaboration with these museums and galleries, and each project we have done jointly has been a wonderful creative act of mutual understanding.
|I would like to thank Ambassador of the Russian Federation Yuri V. Ushakov, Mrs. Svetlana M. Ushakova, and Cultural Attache Ludmila Antonova for organizing the opening night for Natalya Nesterova at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D. C., a wonderful preview of the exhibit at the National Jewish Museum, and their help in organizing this show. And I also thank Consul General of the Russian Federation Pavel A. Prokofyev for organizing an opening night for Nesterova in New York, a foretaste of the artists retrospective at the Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY. Working with the Embassy and the Consulate was a memorable experience in collaboration with the new Russia of today.
|I deeply appreciate the creative contributions to this book of Dr. Alexander D. Borovsky, Jamie Ellin Forbes, Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Robert C. Morgan, Maria Valyaeva, and Solomon Volkov, as well as of Elizabeth Kessin Berman, Susan Hoeltzel, and Laurel Spencer Forsythe. Examining aspects of Nesterovas art from various creative positions and esthetic platforms, they give art lovers an opportunity to get a deeper understanding and appreciation of her work, create an all-encompassing and rounded image of the artist, and excite the readers imagination with their extraordinary and thought-provoking points of view.
|My special thanks go to Gloria Cancro for her inspired poetry, which captured so sensitively Nesterovas spiritual strivings and the beauty of her paintings; Antonina W. Bouis for her translations, profound understanding of the subject, and brilliant knowledge of Russian culture and art; and Elizaveta Plavinskaya for her painstaking research in Moscow archives on Russian art of the 19th century and early 20th century.
|I am grateful to the directors, curators and staff of museums in several countries for allowing viewers to see the works of Natalya Nesterova from their collections: Lisa Dennison, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Kim Bush, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Eugenia N. Petrova, Deputy Director, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; Dr. Annette Lagler, Chief Curator, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen; Vladimir A. Radionov, General Director, Tatyana V. Turtanova, and Alena Rezchikova, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Tatyana N. Soldatova, Director, State Museum of Ukrainian Fine Arts, Kiev; Dr. Evelyn Weiss, Vice Director, Ludwig Museum of Modern Art, Cologne; Stephane Aquin, Curator of Contemporary Art, and Linda-Anne DAnjou, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Katalin Neray, Director, and Krisztina Szipocs, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Ludwig Museum Budapest; Susan Fisher Sterling, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; and Nina E. Ganebnaya, Director, State Art Gallery, Ekaterinburg.
|I would like to extend my gratitude to all the private supporters and lenders to the exhibition for their generosity and for sharing the beauty of their collections with us all: Mr. and Mrs. E. Michele Kruse; William J. Strizever, Chairman, SAUPRA Foundation; Mrs. Alice Wallace; Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Nearenberg; Boris and Olga Palant; Richard and Susan Marshall; Oliver Pomeroy; Michael Kaplan; Mrs. Dorothy H. Needle; Hal Bromm; and Mr. and Mrs. Alan Grossberg.
|I would like to thank Tracy Besser for producing innovative websites for Natalya Nesterovas exhibit and for the INTART Foundation, Petro Hrycyk for his fine photography, Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev for his photograph portraits of Natalya Nesterova in her Moscow studio, Melissa Henry for her creative design, Suzanne St. John for her keen eye for color, and Victor Bennet Forbes, Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder, SunStorm Arts Publishing Co., Inc., for his devotion to the arts, sparkling energy and creativity which he used in putting this publication together. I extend my appreciation to Axel E. Solis, Assistant Managing Director, INTART Foundation, Mark Nearenberg, Esq., Joan Straumanis, Ph.D., Ronald Allan, Jr., Esq., Dr. Ori Z. Soltes, Joshua J. Kaufman, Esq., Vladimir Dobkin, and Nicolaas Soedjiman, for their great efforts on behalf of this exhibition.
|And, in conclusion, it gives me great pleasure to express my very special gratitude to Parker H. Hallberg, Chairman, Board of Trustees, INTART - The International Art Foundation of Former Soviet States, Inc., for his support of the Foundations goal of making contemporary Russian art better known to the American public, and to Ira Smolin, Director, Foundation for Jewish Arts and Artists, whose mission is to find and promote artists whose voice speaks of their own time and culture. Ira Smolin was of great help in realizing the Nesterova project and his love of the arts and creative energy I value a great deal. As he put it: "Natalya Nesterovas body of work is very personal and engaging. The viewer is invited into her paintings regardless of their environment, be they street scenes, parks, a restaurant, or the beach. Many of her figures appear to be caught in time. When will they move, where are they going? Is this an expression of Russia today? Enter her paintings and find out."
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Have Muscle Cars Finally Gained The Acceptance Of The Straight-Laced Street Rod Crowd? The Goodguys Nats In Columbus, Ohio, Is Proof They Have.
If you could revisit a typical street rod show 20 years ago, you'd be greeted by vastly different sights and sounds than what we see at a Goodguys show in 2010. Cabbage Patch Kids cleverly mounted to grilles, over-the-hill gals in poodle dresses, old men loafing in folding chairs, and doo-wop songs pouring syrup-like from loudspeakers were the stock and trade of rodding events until just a few years ago. If you were lucky, some octogenarian might pour some high-octane juice into his fairgrounds motor and get his blown, chromed-out highboy to do a burnout on his way out the gate-provided he remembered to take his Geritol that morning. Yes, for many years, performance slept quietly, living only in faded vintage magazines sold in the swap meet area.
Meanwhile, muscle cars played the part of whipping boy. While street rods received all the lavish fabrication and craftsmanship, muscle cars were doomed to one of two lives: either become restored to like-new condition and wind up in a collection, or be unceremoniously hacked up into a bracket racer. Yet a few cars remained on the road, serving as reminders of our greatest automotive days. These survivors often found themselves in the hands of those who we now think of as visionary. Hot rodders who saw the light got involved with fast street car racing, fast appearing stock tire racing, open-road racing, autocrossing, road racing, and the nascent Pro Touring movement. These guys weren't content with restoring and garaging; they wanted to live life on the edge.
Those intrepid muscle car men learned much, and got faster. Engines, suspensions, brakes, chassis, and fabrication methods improved, much of that know-how ironically coming from the top echelon of the street rod biz. Now, construction quality and style-paint-mattered. Street rod insiders watched in disbelief (and magazine readers with cynicism) as muscle cars became "street rodified." Fortunately, we'd been down that road before. When R&B music morphed into disco in the early '70s, smart listeners recognized the error, and the "disco sucks" movement arrived in the nick of time to squash the errant style. Within a few years, the genetic defect known as "disco" was extinct. (Can we get an "amen?") Like disco, rodified Pro Touring cars are getting a righteous beat down from the real McCoys. And those real McCoys have one primary destination on their calendar: the Street Machine of the Year (SMOY) competition in Columbus, Ohio.
Enigmatically, the Goodguys' SMOY competition places seemingly opposite values on car building. A SMOY contestant must be possessed of award-winning style and build quality, while being capable of very real performance. Every SMOY entry must complete a thorough flogging on the autocross, regardless of pristine paint or sparkling undercarriage. At least that's what's supposed to happen-when it doesn't rain, as it did for the '10 competition. Be that as it may, prior years have seen fierce autocross competition at SMOY, and that's exactly what this year's competitors signed up for.
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|2010-07-05, 19:09
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If anything I think the Beatrice in the portrait was created after this image of Battler's ideal lover was created. Since there seems to be no physical description of Beatrice before the portrait appeared other than Rosa's flashback.
|2010-07-05, 19:14
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There are two obvious reasons to be evasive or misleading in interviews:
So no, it really isn't "the solution." All it does is raise more questions that can't be answered.
|2010-07-05, 19:14
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|2010-07-05, 19:16
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Battler said it: "LIKE jessica, but not her". More than enough to want to became another person.
|2010-07-05, 19:25
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Why is Shkanon special? <- Silly point. Magical characters are dismissed as false by default, Beatrice needed to create credible characters to make it work.
What does it solve? <- It explains what is the dirty trick used by Beatrice.
How does it make the murders and rooms easier to explain? <- You are using a preposterous logic. By demonstrating that "X doesn't explain everything" you try to claim that "X doesn't explain anything". Who are you trying to fool with that apart yourself?
How does it explain their on-board motive? <- Beatrice's motive is quite clear! She exists for the sole purpose of loving Battler and being loved by him, but she's less than a human and she cannot be seen without love. Forcing Battler to understand what furnitures are how they come to existence and why is a way to make him acknowledge and understand her own existence.
Why is Meta-Beatrice protecting it from Battler? <- Protecting it?! Quite the contrary that's the very thing she wants him to understand!
Why is he so sad when he figures it out? <- What the hell are you talking about?
Why is Meta-Battler protecting it from Bernkastel? <- You kidding me right? By exposing the true nature of a furniture you kill them.
Why would Bernkastel care? <- See above
|2010-07-05, 19:31
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|2010-07-05, 19:33
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Oh wait that's what your saying... nvm
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|2010-07-05, 20:01
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So you really didn't understand anything about Beatrice. She can't serve Battler the answer on a silver platter! Battler needs to find the answer by himself.
What is the purpose of a riddle? A purpose of a riddle is to be solved, but does that mean that a riddle must give you the answer straightforward? Quite the opposite.
If you think that making things difficult to understand when the purpose is to make someone understand is illogic, then you really haven't understood much.
There is no mention, ever, of a dirty trick used by Beatrice. Ryukishi said he put a "dirty trick" in. Him, the author. <- Not completely true. EP6 clearly claims that there is a trick that "will expose Beatrice's heart" and that's the very trick she used to save Battler.
But no one, ever, ever, has been able to point to one killing in ep1-4 that is made easier by Shkanon <- Wrong! The whole EP3 is joke if Shannon and Kanon only died as furniture. No red has ever been stated about the original person to have died.
It's important and sensitive enough he has to figure it out rather than simply being told. Why? <- Wow you really will have an hard time with women if you expect them to tell you everything right away and if you don't understand why they'll want you to understand stuff by yourself.
Beatrice does not exist on the board. There is a "Beatrice," but Meta-Beatrice != "Beatrice." You're dodging the issue. Again. <- Beatrice is different than Meta-Beatrice? I don't know what are you talking about. Beatrice exists. Of course she exists the same way Shannon and Kanon exist. That means she doesn't always exist, she shares the same soul and body with others.
So Battler's morose realization in ep5 and strange behavior in ep6 are just a random thing, now? He's realized something of great importance. Why is Shkanon so important? <- He realized his sin there, that's what made him sad. He realized how much he has hurt Beatrice or rather the original person. Plus Beatrice died just in front of his eyes. I think that was perfectly clear in EP5, why are you lost in such a thing?
I... don't remember that coming up... ever? And Bern is perfectly content with trying to kill Beatrice directly. She doesn't need Shkanon to do it. <- Now really? Exposing Beatrice's nature wouldn't kill her? That's what Bern clearly stated to pursue at the end of EP6. What about the metaphor of ripping of the entrails from a body? Wasn't that clear? Oh wait she said the same thing in EP5 she said she wanted to uncover all the truth about Beatrice.
I'm not sure how should I comment that "she doesn't need shkanon". If shkanontrice is the truth knowing shkanon would inevitably bring to the rest. That's a sufficient reason to no let her know.
|2010-07-05, 20:07
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You really need to stop personally insulting me and suggesting I don't know what I'm talking about. I haven't been attacking you personally and I agree with a lot of your conclusions on other issues, but this is one that never ceases to fluster me because no one who supports it can respond with anything but personal insults and "you clearly don't understand." If it's that clear, you should be able to explain it to me. I'm not dumb, and I've been listening. Honest. Just explain it. You can do that, right? If it's the answer, it should make sense when it's explained. It should "click." It should make people go "Ohhhhhh, right!"
So lay it on me. Stop dodging questions, saying "wow, you really don't get it," and give me a reason to want to believe in it.
I'm tired of having the ball thrown back in my court when I'm not the one convinced I "know the answer." I'm not the one who's failing to adequately convey something which is apparently so self-evident in its truth that it finally explains things, if only people who just don't get it would understand. I don't think this is an unreasonable request, but you wouldn't know it from all the answers I haven't ever been given.
Why does this have to be true? Why does it make the story better? If you are honest, you can convey it simply and effectively.
|2010-07-05, 20:29
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The fact that you keep on claiming that I... that no one ever explained what shkanon explains is way too irritating. Sorry if I couldn't help using sarcasm (and sarcasm it is, because I don't think you actually didn't understand all that), but it really pisses me off knowing that even after this discussion you'll keep on saying that.
If you just said that none of the explanations that were given to you satisfied you, that would be okay.
Anyway I'll excuse myself, I'll put the sarcasm aside and I do recognize that you are nowhere close to be stupid. I also recognize that doubting shkanon is perfectly reasonable. But you are not recognizing that believing in shkanon is, what you say is that it doesn't make sense and I can't take well that someone claims that one of my theory is devoid of logic. Especially if it's one of the few theories which I consider to be pretty solid. I'm not idiot either.
That being said, sarcasm apart I think the answers I given to you before are valid.
1) There's a core trick which is strictly tied to Beatrice's nature
2) the dirty trick of personalities can die can explain the whole EP3
3) people in love wish for the other to understand things about themselves without the need to tell them. This is also true for Battler since he clearly state that in EP6
4) I believe that Beatrice exists on the gameboard whenever she takes control of the host body and that she's one and the same with Meta-Beatrice.
5) Battler's sadness after realizing the truth came from his knowledge about his broken promise, as the song itself suggests. Evidently he's also angry at "Beatrice" for taking it so seriously since he called her "stupid". However he wouldn't reach to this conclusion without realizing first that Beatrice=someone else.
6) Bern's clear intent is to expose the truth about Beatrice which is stated in both EP5 and EP6 tea parties. At the same time Bern believes that by doing so she would kill Beatrice once and for all.
|2010-07-05, 20:50
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However, I personally believe people are intentionally refusing to provide explanations because they have none which adequately answer questions asked. So they answer questions I didn't ask, and pretend like they've "explained" things. If they really had, I would understand why they believe it. As yet, I have not received an answer which satisfies me because, in my estimation, I have not received an answer at all.
Don't get me wrong, I have received answers to some things. But not the things that concern me, and not the things I asked about. Merely giving "an" answer is insufficient even if that answer is correct. If the answer given to "what is 2+2?" is "elephants are gray," it's not that the answer is wrong, it's just not addressing the question.
That's why I'm not satisfied.
In Battler's shoes, I want to believe it all made sense, that all the pain and suffering weren't in vain, that the lies told were told to make me understand something I could not have grasped without them, that everything that happened happened for a reason. And that reason is... "Because I'm actually not one servant, but at least two!" Seriously?
Has it occurred to you, perhaps, that Bern doesn't care about "the truth?" That she cares about some construct she can weave that will be taken as "truth," no matter who she has to make suffer for it? Would it satisfy her to learn that everyone quietly played cards for 48 hours before the boiler accidentally exploded, and the message bottles were a hoax from some random person? That maybe, just maybe, she actually enjoys causing suffering and is willing to compromise her stated "values" to do that?
How many trollfaces does she have to put on before it becomes clear her motives are biased and her behavior is driven by something other than an actual desire to understand any information that doesn't hurt people when it's revealed?
|2010-07-05, 21:20
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I'm going to take this matter seriously but you need to take this seriously as well, some of your answers here don't leave me with the impression that you are trying to understand what I'm saying.
1) The trick she uses to save Battler is stated to be connected directly to Beatrice's heart. I won't reply to any claim that "x is not reliable". The only things I have to help me to understand this mystery are facts shown in the story, if you keep denying the reliability of everything no progress can be made. And no, red alone is not sufficient. Anyway this is beyond the purpose of what you ask. If I tell you that "x explain y" I have absolved my purpose. If you then say "but y is bullshit" I can't do nothing about that. But I have absolutely no obligation to agree with your personal interpretations which are by no means facts.
2) The matter of personalities is explained more in detail in EP6, there's quite a good block of text about it. I don't believe such a blatant explanation should have been necessary before this point.
3) I believe I explained this point. Understanding shkanon equals to understand furnitures and by extension "Beatrice". This is absolutely vital for Beatrice that Battler understands what she is. Battler can't simply understand that she's the same as the original persona because Beatrice does not consider herself to be the same person. I don't think I need to prove this point, you should remember her answer to Battler when he told her that the sin was against her.
4) I am absolutely antifantasy. the metaworld is generated by the real world. When I say that Beatrice takes control of the host body I mean that Beatrice as a personality takes control in a person with conflicting personalities. You don't even need to think about DID. A person who's torn apart between two loves could be said to have two different personalities in her each one loving someone else. Beatrice is the personality that loves Battler.
5) Because as I said before Beatrice doesn't consider herself to be exactly the same person. Such a thing is difficult to explain with words, which is why Beatrice needed Battler to understand it by himself. Even if she told him straight away he wouldn't understand. He was to understand that he sinned against a person which is Beatrice and at the same time isn't.
6) I do not intend to reply to a baseless claim that anything that Bern says is a lie. Actually... when did Bern lie? I don't remember any instance. She's deceiving, certainly, but a liar? I see absolutely no reason to question that her true motives are to expose Beatrice's true nature and kill her. I cannot accept that you refuse a theory on the base that it conflicts with your own theories. I want facts. Prove that Bern was lying there.
But I have the feeling that your own replies are making me straying from what is you really want me to answer. So why don't you think about a single question that can have perfectly straight answer?
|2010-07-05, 21:39
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By the way.. "Beatrice is the personality that loves Battler." <-- Maybe this would be better explained as, "In the fantasy explanation, Beatrice ends up being a full personality, representing in the real world a particular person's desire for Battler."
Also, I have a feeling the single question is:
What is the truth that Battler reached, regarding Beatrice that allowed him to unlock the entire mystery?
I think this is the truth that the message bottles hinted at and the 'key' that Ryukishi has said in a recent interview that some people have found but not used it to go back and unlock the whole story...
I think some people believe there's some funny stuff with Shannon, Kanon and Beatrice, but would like for the theory to be the Master Key before they'll believe.
|2010-07-05, 21:46
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I can't believe it's just a fantasy explanation.
We know that there's a person that claims herself to be Beatrice and acts as if she's the Beatrice of the legend. Considering this is extremely unlikely that the text Lyricalaura translated a while ago is to be interpreted as a metaworld event. It really did happen. That person really thought all that in the real world.
For what concerns her, Beatrice is a separate entity from herself. It doesn't matter if this is actually true, this is what she believes.
|2010-07-05, 21:49
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|2010-07-05, 21:54
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In regards to Shkanon and Beatrice there really has been something I've been wondering about from this conversation. From the beginning we've beleived that Beatrice itself is a human dressed up in a disguise. This comes from a statement from Kyrie that "if anyone were dressing up as that the women would be the number one suspects". Shkanontrice Introduces an unnecessary layer on top of that. That is: a disguise on top of a disguise. The only evidence we have for a Beatrice disguise itself is that people are suspicious of one. Other than statements suggesting a disguise exists no more than two people at a time have ever seen it and even when Battler did he never saw it up close. A Kanon disguise on the other hand has no such statements and only exists to make the theory work, which is not entirely a problem if you suppose this original person is a "Chinaman" that has expertise in disguise (and you wouldn't put it past him), but then your looking for completely different kinds of hints.
That's my little rundown now where does it lead? Suppose that none of these disguises or personalities exists, what does it leave us with? If the Beatrice disguise does not exist that means people are lying about what they saw. So all we're left with is a murderer and no disguise. If the Kanon disguise does not exist all we have is Shannon (or whoever you associate Kanon with) with Kanon not being seen anywhere becuase he does not exist and therefore cannot be seen. So if that's the narrative that means there are less problems and not more.
|2010-07-05, 22:01
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|2010-07-05, 22:03
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|2010-07-05, 22:03
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There's also a certain irony in claiming that dead doesn't mean dead but that you base your conjectures "facts shown in the story." You were shown a fact, but you don't agree with it because it isn't convenient to your point. How is that any different from my own doubts?
What else could it mean? What about the authorship/stage metaphor that's been kicked around?
The act of Beatrice's creation as narrated in ep6 is deliberate. It is not an accident. It is not a persona "arising." It is a persona created. Why, then, is it not simpler to believe that whoever "Beatrice" is considers the Beatrice persona a conscious facade? Why is a conflict of personalities necessary? How does it make the story better and more interesting?
I'll tell you: It does not. It is godawful. It is bad mystery, bad fantasy, bad literature. I believe ryukishi is too competent a writer, from the body of evidence of the work he's already created, to do any such thing. If there were a considerably comprehensible and valid literary reason behind it, perhaps, but I don't think he's that good an author.
Why not the literature/theater metaphor? Beatrice is a part she plays in a story which is clearly fiction (in literal on-the-board terms, a part that plays a love which couldn't be). How is that not equally valid and considerably more thematic?
Okay so what about that part where she said she was Battler's (or the player's) ally? That she wanted the truth? Or that time she lied to Ange, you know, that thing Lambda came back and pointed out? That she had any objective in the fifth game but ruining everything for her own amusement? That she even wants this game to end in the first place outside of the natural consequence of destroying everyone involved in it?
She is deceptive, as you said. She tells half-truths. Half-truths are lies. They are intended to produce a deceptive reaction in the person hearing them. Ange listened to her to her own detriment. She was lied to, and Bern was the one who did it, and Bern took pleasure in her self-destruction and Battler's suffering as a consequence. And then she admitted she was doing it to motivate him. So even if she had "told her the truth," she'd still be lying to Ange about why she wanted her "help."
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A Revisionist Perspective on Framing Effects
Jiawei Liu and Dietram A. Scheufele
There is a dichotomy in framing research that can be traced back to its multidisciplinary origins in psychology and sociology. Definitions of framing rooted in psychology are concerned with the differential presentation of the otherwise identical information and are often referred to as equivalence framing. Definitions rooted in more sociological traditions investigate how a message can be constructed with different sets of information to highlight contrasting perspectives on the same issue. The latter is typically referred to as emphasis framing. Although often subsumed under the same label, equivalence framing and emphasis framing are systematically different, both conceptually and operationally. Therefore, the two traditions need to be carefully distinguished in terms of their origins, conceptualization and operationalization of frames, underlying mechanisms, cognitive outcomes, and their relationships with other media effects theories.
Categorizing existing studies revealed two major pitfalls in framing effects literatures. First, many political communication studies to date have adopted the emphasis framing approach. However, as substantial manipulation of information introduces confounding variables making it difficult for researchers to attribute the effect on the audience to the change of frames, this approach has relatively low internal validity in experiments and can hardly be distinguished from other cognitive media effects models, such as agenda setting and priming. Thus, the bias toward emphasis framing needs to be addressed by conducting research with equivalence frames so that a more concrete causal relationship between message framing and its effects can be established. In addition, little attention has been given to visuals in framing effects research so far. Considering that people consume information in a multimedia environment online, visual frames and verbal-visual interactions need to be further investigated.
Attitudes Toward Women and the Influence of Gender on Political Decision Making
Mary-Kate Lizotte
There is a great deal of research, spanning social psychology, sociology, and political science, on politically relevant attitudes toward women and the influence of gender on individual's political decision making. First, there are several measures of attitudes toward women, including measures of sexism and gender role attitudes, such as the Attitudes Toward Women Scale, the Old-Fashioned Sexism Scale, the Modern Sexism Scale, and the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. There are advantages and disadvantages of these existing measures. Moreover, there are important correlates and consequences of these attitudes. Correlates include education level and the labor force participation of one's mother or spouse. The consequences of sexist and non-egalitarian gender role attitudes include negative evaluations of female candidates for political office and lower levels of gender equality at the state level. Understanding the sources and effects of attitudes toward women is relevant to public policy and electoral scholars.
Second, gender appears to have a strong effect on shaping men's and women's attitudes and political decisions. Gender differences in public opinion consistently arise across several issue areas, and there are consistent gender differences in vote choice and party identification. Various issues produce gender gaps, including the domestic and international use of force, compassion issues such as social welfare spending, equal rights, and government spending more broadly. Women are consistently more liberal on all of these policies. On average, women are more likely than men to vote for a Democratic Party candidate and identify as a Democrat. There is also a great deal of research investigating various origins of these gender differences. Comprehending when and why gender differences in political decision making emerge is important to policymakers, politicians, the political parties, and scholars.
Climate Change and Justice
Christopher Armstrong
Understanding the complex set of processes collected under the heading of climate change represents a considerable scientific challenge. But it also raises important challenges for our best moral theories. For instance, in assessing the risks that climate change poses, we face profound questions about how to weigh the respective harms it may inflict on current and future generations, as well as on humans and other species. We also face difficult questions about how to act in conditions of uncertainty, in which at least some of the consequences of climate change—and of various human interventions to adapt to or mitigate it—are difficult to predict fully. Even if we agree that mitigating climate change is morally required, there is room for disagreement about the precise extent to which it ought to be mitigated (insofar as there is room for underlying disagreement about the level of temperature rises that are morally permissible). Finally, once we determine which actions to take to reduce or avoid climate change, we face the normative question of who ought to bear the costs of those actions, as well as the costs associated with any climate change that nevertheless comes to pass.
Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Policy Analysis
Aaron Rapport
Cognitive theory encompasses mental activities such as the observation of different stimuli in an environment; the memorization and recall of information; pattern recognition and problem representation; and complex activities like social judgments, analytic reasoning, and learning. Cognitive psychology also highlights the constraints that prevent individuals from acting as utility-maximizing, fully rational decision-makers. These constraints lead people to rely on a regularly occurring set of cognitive mechanisms to simplify the decision-making process.
Scholars of foreign policy have drawn from several prominent areas of cognitive psychology to inform their research. One such area looks at the beliefs and belief systems that are the building blocks for most judgments. Researchers have also examined how actors use cognitive biases and heuristics to cope with uncertainty, which is abundant in foreign policy settings. An important set of cognitive mechanisms examined in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) relates to judgments about policy risks and costs. Factors that facilitate and inhibit learning are crucial for understanding the conditions under which such judgments may improve over time. No cognitive process operates in a vacuum; instead these processes are moderated by an individual's group context and emotions.
There are several challenges in applying cognitive theory to FPA. Such theories are biased toward populations that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. They are usually first tested using controlled experiments that measure group-level differences; whereas FPA scholars are often interested in the cognitive processes of individual leaders operating in chaotic environments. Individual-level psychological mechanisms may augment or offset one another, as well as interact with variables at the governmental, societal, and international levels of analysis in unpredictable ways. In light of these challenges, FPA scholars who employ cognitive psychology may wish to conceive of their enterprise as a historical science rather than a predictive one.
Counterfactuals and Foreign Policy Analysis
Richard Ned Lebow
Counterfactuals seek to alter some feature or event of the pass and by means of a chain of causal logic show how the present might, or would, be different. Counterfactual inquiry—or control of counterfactual situations—is essential to any causal claim. More importantly, counterfactual thought experiments are essential, to the construction of analytical frameworks. Policymakers routinely use then by to identify problems, work their way through problems, and select responses. Good foreign-policy analysis must accordingly engage and employ counterfactuals.
There are two generic types of counterfactuals: minimal-rewrite counterfactuals and miracle counterfactuals. They have relevance when formulating propositions and probing contingency and causation. There is also a set of protocols for using both kinds of counterfactuals toward these ends, and it illustrates the uses and protocols with historical examples. Policymakers invoke counterfactuals frequently, especially with regard to foreign policy, to both choose policies and defend them to key constituencies. They use counterfactuals in a haphazard and unscientific manner, and it is important to learn more about how they think about and employ counterfactuals to understand foreign policy.
Don't Expose Yourself: Discretionary Exposure to Political Information
Gaurav Sood and Yphtach Lelkes
The news media have been disrupted. Broadcasting has given way to narrowcasting, editorial control to control by "friends" and personalization algorithms, and a few reputable producers to millions with shallower reputations. Today, not only is there a much broader variety of news, but there is also more of it. The news is also always on. And it is available almost everywhere. The search costs have come crashing down, so much so that much of the world's information is at our fingertips. Google anything and the chances are that there will be multiple pages of relevant results.
Such a dramatic expansion of choice and access is generally considered a Pareto improvement. But the worry is that we have fashioned defeat from the bounty by choosing badly. The expansion in choice is blamed for both, increasing the "knowledge gap," the gap between how much the politically interested and politically disinterested know about politics, and increasing partisan polarization. We reconsider the evidence for the claims. The claim about media's role in rising knowledge gaps does not need explaining because knowledge gaps are not increasing. For polarization, the story is nuanced. Whatever evidence exists suggests that the effect is modest, but measuring long-term effects of a rapidly changing media landscape is hard and may explain the results.
As we also find, even describing trends in basic explanatory variables is hard. Current measures are beset with five broad problems. The first is conceptual errors. For instance, people frequently equate preference for information from partisan sources with a preference for congenial information. Second, survey measures of news consumption are heavily biased. Third, behavioral survey experimental measures are unreliable and inapt for learning how much information of a particular kind people consume in their real lives. Fourth, measures based on passive observation of behavior only capture a small (likely biased) set of the total information consumed by people. Fifth, content is often coded crudely—broad judgments are made about coarse units, eliding over important variation.
These measurement issues impede our ability to answer the extent to which people choose badly and the attendant consequences of such. Improving measures will do much to advance our ability to answer important questions.
Emotions in Foreign Policy Decision Making
Rose McDermott
There are lots of ways that emotions have been studied in psychology and various ways that their use has been examined in the context of foreign policy. Perhaps one of the most useful ways to examine the influence of emotion on foreign policy is through the lens of risk and threat assessment. Some approaches to emotion tend to categorize emotions as valence-based, in terms of broad-based positivity or negativity. Certainly, elements of this kind of approach can be useful, particularly in terms of thinking about the ways in which political conservatives appear to have a negativity bias. However, an investigation of discrete emotions allows a more sophisticated and nuanced exploration of the effect of emotion on risk analysis and threat assessment, in particular the effect of fear, anger, and disgust on decision-making under conditions of risky threat. Genetic, as well as environmental, circumstances can influence individual variance in the experience and expression of such emotions, and any comprehensive approach to understanding the influence of emotion on decision-making should take all these factors into account.
Face Value: Facial Appearance and Assessments of Politicians
Colleen M. Carpinella and Kerri L. Johnson
The facial appearance of political candidates provides information to voters that can be vital to the impression-formation process. Traditionally, psychological research in the field of appearance-based politics has concentrated on investigating whether politicians' physical appearance impacts perceptions of them. Recently, the focus has shifted from examining whether facial cues matter for impression formation to determining (1) which facial cues matter for voters' perceptions of politicians and (2) how such visual cues are utilized within the political decision-making process. This shift in research focus has ushered in an appreciation of facial competence and physical attractiveness, and it has been marked by a renewed interest in studying how gender stereotypes impact the influence of politician appearance on perceptions of male and female politicians. In addition, this renewed interest in studying underlying mechanisms in appearance-based politics has spurred on research that includes a broader range of downstream consequences such as evaluations of leadership potential, voting behavior, and even basic political party affiliation categorizations.
Foreign Policy Learning
Guy Ziv
An improved understanding of foreign policy learning necessitates a clarification of what foreign policy learning is, who learns, and how such learning occurs. Cognitive and social psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists situated in a variety of subfields have contributed to the understanding of foreign policy learning, a multidisciplinary area of inquiry. Learning theorists seek to show how a change in an actor's beliefs due to experience or observation can lead to changes at other units, such as organizations and within the government. This cognitive dimension is important because actors may pursue a new course of action for politically expedient reasons rather than having genuinely "learned"—a distinction referred to as "complex" vs. "simple" learning.
Foreign policy learning can be internal or external. The former type of learning entails what individuals, governments, or organizations learn from their prior experience. Learning theorists who focus on the individual level of analysis borrow insights from political psychology in an effort to shed light on the personal characteristics, the belief structures, and the cognitive psychological mechanisms of political actors that can better inform policymaking. Leaders whose cognitive structures are described as relatively open and complex—like Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, whose learning brought about the dramatic changes that ultimately led to the demise of the Soviet Union—are more likely to alter their beliefs than their cognitively closed and simple counterparts.
Yet external learning occurs as well. Policy diffusion studies show that learning can result from demonstration effects. Foreign policy learning via diffusion is not instrumental, but instead occurs through osmosis. Privatization in the former communist states, China's Foreign Direct Investment liberalization, and the diffusion of environmental norms in the European Union are examples of learning that is contagious, not chosen. A more conscious mode of learning than diffusion is policy transfer, which entails policymakers' transferring ideas from one country and implementing them in another. Technological innovations, unlike lessons that involve political ideology, are generally easier lessons to transfer—for example, Japan's success in applying lessons from the West to modernize its army in the second half of the 19th century.
The constraints to foreign policy learning are formidable. Decision makers are not always open to reconsidering views that challenge their beliefs. Leaders tend to resort to, and misuse, analogies that prevent learning. Even a change in a decision maker's beliefs may not lead to foreign policy change, given the myriad political pressures, bureaucratic hurdles, and economic realities that often get in the way of implementing new ideas. Indeed, foreign policy learning and foreign policy change are not synonymous.
Scholars face significant obstacles in studying foreign policy learning. There is no consensus on the definition of learning, on what constitutes learning, on how actors learn, when they learn, or on how to assess whether learning has taken place. Despite attempts to make sense of the confusion, scholars face the daunting challenge of improving understanding of how learning is shaped and funneled through the interaction of agents and the structures in which they are situated, as well as the relationship between learning and foreign policy change.
Forgiveness and Ressentiment in the Age of Traumas
Nicolas Demertzis
Various therapeutic discourses on trauma claim that a successful working through of a traumatic experience amounts to forgiveness and the victim's reconciliation with the past. Recently, several voices have been raised against this claim, arguing that refusal to forgive is a sort of moral dignity, a defense of the victim's integral subjectivity, and a moral protest against the unjustifiable evils and wrongdoings the victim has suffered. Among the emotions the victim is left with after the traumatic experience and after the reluctance to forgive the perpetrators and get along with life are, of course, anger, hate, indignation, depression, humiliation, and shame. An additional and far more complex emotion that characterizes the posttraumatic experience is ressentiment.
Forgiveness and ressentiment are discussed as moral stances against evils and traumas. The basic tenets are: (1) the link between agency, forgiveness, and memory; (2) the moral nature of ressentiment as a Schelerean concept that parts company not only from resentment (qua moral indignation) but also from grudges and envy; (3) the dismembering of forgiveness and ressentiment premised not on the victim's resistance to dealing with the past (or moral hypermnesia), as is usually thought, but on the process of transvaluation inherent in ressentiment, which places forgiveness beyond the victim's hermeneutic horizon.
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Troy University has been named among the best colleges and universities in the southeastern United States by The Princeton Review.
The designation marks the ninth year in a row TROY has been named to the list that includes only 643 colleges and universities nationwide and 138 colleges and universities in the Southeast. These institutions represent about 25 percent of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges.
"The most important thing we do at Troy University is serve students," said Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr., TROY's Chancellor. "I am convinced that the real standard in education that will sustain an institution is quality. Recognition such as the Princeton Review rankings is validation of our commitment to quality at the highest standard."
The inclusion is the result of a survey that asks students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their experiences. Topics include: academics/administration, life at the school, their fellow students, and themselves. Surveys are conducted on campuses and via the Princeton Review website at which students have the option of completing a secure survey online.
According to Princeton Review, TROY was chosen as a "regional best" college due to excellence in academic programs, institutional data collected from TROY, school visits by Princeton Review staff, their opinions and the invited opinions of college counselors and advisers. Princeton Review also uses an 80-question survey of current students. Only those schools that permit the independent survey are eligible.
TROY was rated on academics, admissions selectivity, financial aid, fire safety, quality of life and green initiatives.


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Jeanne (Roach) Croce
February 17, 1920 - March 17, 2014
Jeanne (Roach) Croce, age 94 of Stockton passed away on March 17, 2014. She was born on February 17, 1920 and was a lifelong
resident of Stockton. Jeanne was preceded in death by her husbands James Roach and David Croce, daughter Judith Giannellhini and son Ronald Roach. She is survived by sons James Roach and Stephen Roach of Stockton; 8 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
Per Jeanne's request, no services will be held.
To sign the guest book, please visit www.frisbiewarrencarrollmortuary.com


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John Shields finds much to love in his ancestral home of Ireland. Shields has taken time to share with us his love of the Emerald Isle, a spot where he retreats to recapture his inspiration and rejuvenate his soul. For more information on visiting Ireland, go to discoverireland.com.
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Weekend DIY: 6 Projects with Pumpkins
Getting closer to Halloween it is finally time to do something with our pumpkins. Why not try a slightly untraditional approach this year? Here are 6 projects that will keep you and your children entertained!
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Man, do not steal a recipe for Eben Freeman:
After the seminar, I spoke to Freeman, who admitted he came up with the idea for the talk after becoming fed up with other bartenders and establishments taking credit for and profiting from his recipes and techniques. (Fat washing, for example, the process by which a spirit can be infused with, say, bacon, was pioneered in part by Freeman, yet is often attributed to others.) "Someone needs to get sued … to set a precedent," he told me.
"In no other creative business can you so easily identify money attached to your creative property," Freeman went on. "There is an implied commerce to our intellectual property. Yet we have less protection than anyone else."
No disrespect to Freeman, who is understandably frustrated, but he fails to address the purpose of intellectual property in copyrights and patents. This is neatly summed up in the Constitution:
[The Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Intellectual property exists to promote progress. Its purpose is not to ensure that no one's ideas are stolen or that creative people can earn a living, unless those things are needed to promote progress in a field. The granting of temporary monopolies in the form of patents and copyrights is the price we pay for progress, not a goal in itself.
It might be completely true that bartenders are shamelessly stealing from each other, and that's certainly something we should condemn, but we probably shouldn't get the law involved unless we can show that this theft is causing mixology to stagnate. Along with fashion, cooking, and even magic, we're in an industry that's arguably better off with weak IP. This decade's boom in craft cocktails is a sign that we're doing OK without stricter protections, and I'd be worried that additional threats of lawsuits would have a chilling effect on the sharing of new techniques and recipes.
Perhaps Freeman or someone else has a workable, beneficial idea for expanding intellectual property related to cocktails, but I have a hard time imagining what that would be.
Update 9/1/10: Ezra Klein agrees.
Two Pimm's, one cup
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Shine, Baby, Shine
By Corine Gatti
The world is a constant bombardment of how to improve your overall physical appearance. Not much attention is given to developing inner beauty. So are you ready to find that inner sparkle and polish those old self-defeating thoughts that have left you tarnished? Here are a few tips to awaken your inner beauty queen!