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A pair of bills passed by Pakistan's parliament today have made it illegal to throw acid on women or force them into prostitution. Progress!
The Anti-Women Practices Bill seeks to ban five crappy things that sometimes happen to Pakistani women, from forced marriage to deprivation of inheritance based on sex. It's also illegal for families to give women away in order to settle disputes or prevent their daughters from marrying. In addition, sexual torture is now illegal.
The second bill, which doesn't have as cool a name as the first bill but which seems like a good idea all the same, bars people from throwing acid or other corrosive substances at women. Women who had been deformed by acid attacks testified at the hearing. According to the Express Tribune, dozens of Pakistani women are injured every year in acid attacks. Now, men who attack women in that manner will be subject to prison terms up to 14 years long.
Both bills passed unanimously.
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From: Sean Clark
(yes, I'm only 26)
Subject: Beta Testers
I used to generate a 6-Figure income per year by
manually reselling digital products online. Now I make
every month on complete Auto-Pilot! Don't believe me? Check out the
VIDEO PROOF above!
If you can spare 10 minutes of your time, watch how I made $40,000
in 3 months using the "manual" method of reselling ONE digital product; and how I now generate
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products with just 2 mouse clicks! This video will prove to you just how profitable resale rights are.
If you don't have the time to watch this video, don't worry. There is a shorter & more exciting video further down the page, of how an Alpha Tester made OVER $400 in less than 24 hours reselling digital products on AUTOPILOT using my incredible system!
I do understand how frustrating reselling digital products can be, and that not everybody has the time or resources needed to resell successfully. For example, you may need to:
As you can imagine, all of this is quite time consuming and very expensive.
HOWEVER... the main issue I personally find myself running into is...LIMITATION! I can only target a few niches at a time and resell a limited number of products "manually". As
a result, I actually lose out on many many potential sales each and everyday!
My team and I have developed an innovative, unique, profit-pulling, turnkey web site, that will do the reselling for you on a MASS SCALE...and much more:
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your profits!
Slightly Confused? Let me explain...
As you seen from the video above, I sold one product "manually"... and generated an income of $40,000 in just 3 months. One year, and thousands of dollars later, Resellers-Heaven has taken Reselling Digital Products to an "automated" level, allowing you to duplicate and multiply my $40K income...into an even greater amount - just like I did!
This automated web system actually connects to Resellers-Heaven Directory, which is a directory of all the digital products that I
personally resell online; and imports these products straight into your very own Automated Digital Empire Store - with the click of
What is Resellers-Heaven Directory?
Resellers-Heaven Directory has become the foundation of the new ADE Store, therefore it is important to understand what the Directory is...
Our Search Engine Digital Directory is the original service that I began offering my members. It is composed of 32 HOT categories/niches, each filled with eBooks, software, scripts, videos & much more. The Directory is purpose-built for those who resell digital products "manually". The majority of the products contained in the directory are ones that I have sold manually and found very profitable.
Believing that automation is key, I have integrated many of the Directory's features into the ADE Store. This enables you to import all of the containing products, and their attributes, into your store - instantly. Look at the diagram below for a more visual understanding.
Moving onwards...
Not only have we strived to make reselling digital products easy & fun, we have virtually automated the entire process for you.
No HTML knowledge necessary, no need to research hours on end to decide which product(s) to resell, and most importantly...no more wasting YOUR money!
By developing this custom eCommerce solution, which connects to Resellers-Heaven Directory, you are able to provide your consumers with new, high quality, high in-demand products every week - which puts more money into your
And it doesn't end there!...
We have developed a true "business in a box", allowing you to earn 6 streams of income from just one web site!...enabling you to focus all your efforts on marketing your new, highly converting resale store. AND... I'll even show you the same advertising methods that I use - Piece of cake!
Income Stream 1: Direct Product Sales 100% profits for you
Income Stream 2: Affiliate Sales - YOUR ONLINE STORE COMES WITH BUIL-IN AFFILIATE SYSTEM FOR YOU FOR FREE
Income Stream 3:
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Income Stream 4:
Adsense Revenue (COMING SOON)
Income Stream 5: Banner Ad Rotator
Income Stream 6: Built-in Referral System
Hi Sean...
I have just finished the site configuration (took me 10 minutes) and I must say I found your video tutorials to be the best in the industry for getting set up.
This is truly one of the few online purchases where downloaded instruction required no support calls to get my site up and running - well done! I've launched my 1st ad campaign I have already had my first customer. I hope your product will lead to many more. Thank you!
George Furneaux
Regina, Canada
Alpha Tester
Hey Sean,
It's John Denton here from the Connection2Wealth eBusiness Center and I just wanted to give you Kudos for this amazing automated ebook store you have created. I mean this is a "Real Game Changer"...
Especially if you're a newbie. I absolutely
LOVE the automation where everything is
automatically added in with your personal
affiliate codes, etc. I was literally up and
running without having to use any fancy dancy
HTML, scripts or code in mere minutes. Your
system did it all, 110%! Sorry, but if I sound
excited I AM! I can't wait to put this thing
to use for myself, and this is coming from a
guy who knows code and web site building like
the back of my hand. This just makes it too
darn easy! I think I've lost my inner Geek
after using Resellers-Heaven :-)
John Denton - President of: JustAskBigJohn.com
Naples, FL
The ADE Store has been purpose-built to convert all traffic into revenue!
The main goal is to resell digital products & earn $13,000 per month. However, we want to maximize your income. So after quite a bit of research, and common sense, we found that on average only 5% of targeted traffic will make a purchase. So what happens to that other 95% of traffic?... They just leave your site!
As a result...
I made it my mission to turn that exiting traffic into revenue!... Hence the 5 additional streams of potential income!
If they're not interested in your digital resale products, for whatever reason, they won't just leave your site; instead...they could:
Whatever your visitors choose to do, they will not leave your site without putting money into your pocket!!
Sean and Team (You know who you are Lucas!),
Resellers Heaven has put together an awesome product! One, that after less than a week gave me my first sale... I haven't looked back since!
The site set-up instructions were so easy to follow that I'm sure anyone could do it. After-all, if I can – anyone can! Now that it's all set up and sales are coming in (kinda like magic), I only have to spend about 20-30 minutes A WEEK on it – and that's just fine with me!
This is truly a no brainer for making a great profit online – with VERY little work! I highly recommend Resellers-Heaven ADE stores to anyone willing to put in that 30 minutes of work each week when new products are delivered!
Thanks for the opportunity and for a great product!
Anne Jamieson
Milwaukee, WI USA
Alpha Tester
"Income Stream 1" put to the test!...
We were not prepared to take on Beta Testers until we were 110% sure the ADE Store was functioning efficiently. Furthermore, we wanted to ensure that this system could produce the same level of profit, that I make, when I sell these digital products manually. (Using the same advertising methods I use)
Soooo...we found our very first Alpha Tester back in 2009, who was more than eager to test the very first version of the new ADE System! In less than 24 hours of her store going live, she made $400+ in pure net profit! Check out the video below to see her ADE Admin Account and PayPal Proof.
"...A dream come true..."
Resellers-Heaven is a dream come true for me! I've always wanted to supplement my income but didn't want the demand of more hours in another work setting.
I'm a self taught computer user and found this opportunity! This has worked out very well for me. I had my 1st sale on the 2nd day I was up and running!
The instructions are easy to follow and the support desk is quick in responding. The downloadable products are varied and diverse and grow EVERY week. It's so easy to sync the new product
It's all here…at your fingertips! I'd advise anyone with an interest in ecommerce to give Resellers-Heaven a try!
Dube and Diana
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Alpha Tester
This is an amazing opportunity that you do not want to pass up! I'm giving LIMITED Beta Testers A FREE & EXCLUSIVE Automated Digital Empire Store...
Which Allows You To Import Over
$25,500's Worth of Digital Products, With The Click of A Button...
Have New Products Added To Your Store On A Weekly Basis...On Complete AUTOPILOT!
Start Your Own ReseLLER Business Online Store Today!!
There are over 100 features included in your Administration Panel. These easy-to-use features give you full control of your site. To view each one, please click on a category below:
And Much More..
As you know the ADE Store has many advanced features, which give you full control of your Virtual Shop.
Even though this system is pretty straight-forward, and user-friendly, I wanted to create a Step-By-Step Training Manual.
This will ensure that novices, & even experts, won't get lost.
You can download this Manual from your account as an eBook. If you want you can even print it off, so as to make for easy referencing.
I know know the majority of the Beta Testers will be new to this. Therefore, I have written a 55 Page Step-By-Step Manual! However, this is so easy you most likely won't even need this manual!
Areas covered:
1. Administration Features
2. Configuration
3. Categories & Products
4. Payment Modules
5. Customers Accounts & Orders
6. Report System
7. Tools - Templates, Newsletter, Banner Manager, Logo, EzPages
8. Affiliate System
9. And Much More...
This Quick Start Guide will no doubt get you where you need to be, and fast.
I actually recommend that you read this eBook first, before reading the Training Manual.
Areas Covered
1. How To Quickly Request Your ADE Store
2. How To Choose Your Free Domain Name
2. What Sync Subscription Best Suits You
3. What Free Affiliate Accounts To Create
4. The Essential Store Settings To Configure To Be Up & Running ASAP!
The Training Videos aren't quite finished...
However, they will be recorded once we get our 20 Beta Testers onboard; and after the 20 ADE Stores are up & running...
The Videos will cover all aspects of your ADE Store - and is great for those of you who are visual learners!
Areas That Have/Will Be Covered By Video:
1. Requesting Your ADE Store
2. Choosing The Right Sync Service For You
3. Administration Features
4. Site Configuration
5. Categories & Products
6. Payment Modules
7. Customers Accounts & Orders
8. Report System
9. Tools - Templates, Newsletter, Banner Manager, Logo, EzPages
10. Affiliate System
11. And More
There are currently over 4 hours of video training recorded, with many more tutorials to come.
The "Advertising Secrets Exposed" eBook is CLASSIFIED, and EXCLUSIVE to Reseller-Heaven Members only.
You will not find this eBook on any of my other sites. It has been created for ADE Store Owners ONLY!
The eBook covers not one, not two, but 7 HOT advertising methods that I use, which will guarantee you SALES!
- $2885 Free Pay-Per-Click Advertising Credit
- 6000 High Quality Free Images
- Professional
Sales letter to choose from for your ADE store
- Great Icon images to use if you wish
- Two SUPRIZE bonuses worth $1,427
- "Advertising Secrets Exposed" eBook that will explode your online sales!
- Free set-up and installation
- Free Training Material
- Free Online Support
- 1-on-1 Optional Expert Coaching
- 1 Month's Free Access To Resellers-Heaven Directory - UNLIMITED Downloads
This is a "Beta Tester" offer. We only need LIMITED people who are eager to own an ADE Store and are willing to provide us with their feedback for our official release. As a result we want to give you everything shown above, absolutely free.
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Look At The Benefits of
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I am way past delighted with Resellers Heaven. I have been working on setting up my site and will finish it tomorrow. Then I intend to follow your Marketing Program to the letter because this is the FIRST time that someone has actually delivered what they have advertised and done so professionally, on time and made is impossible to fail. I am your newest and strongest fan. What a terrific product!...
Rick Robey
Chattanooga, TN, USA
Alpha Tester
What a great opportunity you have created here! As an Alpha Tester I have been super impressed with how everything has worked so well from day one.
You have provided me with an admin section that's been a pleasure to use with the help of your excellent instructional videos. If this is only the pre-release, I'm really looking forward to the complete version. Keep up the good work!
Ken Allan
Durham, United Kingdom
Alpha Tester
Places Remaining
Once you have fully tested the Beta Version, we would appreciate if you could provide us with your reviews and comments, so as to make the Official Release better for you and future ADE Store Owners.
The ADE Store will be launched officially sometime in the summer, costing $685. So SAVE yourself close to $700 and be one of the lucky few people who will own this powerful "business in a box" at a bargain price - and no doubt be on your way to a 6 figure income!!!
your success,
Frequently Asked Questions
How Much the Resellers Heaven
Digital Store?
This only a
payment of $97 Unlimited Access
What is
the Monthly Sync Fee?
The Monthly Sync Fee
is FREE, will allow you to market any Resellers-Heaven
products in the directory.
Is the
Monthly Sync Fee mandatory?
Of course not. This is an additional service
designed to help automate your ADE Store even further,
thus allowing you more time to focus on other aspects
of your new store.
At your request, we will also import all of the current products within our Directory, to your site, for one time only. For example, if you paid the one time activation fee today, and we had 700+ products in our directory, at your request those 700 products would be imported to your store.
Read Full FAQ
If you delay any further, your chances of securing a BETA TESTER position, will be ZERO! In fact, the page below is what you will see once we have enough beta testers!
Secure Your Copy IMMEDIATELY!!
Sean...You've really outdone yourself this time!...
This ADE Store is a very powerful system, which I can see has the potential to generate a great income for anyone, who gets the opportunity to use it!
Your turnkey solution even allows complete beginners, to own and manage their very
own professional online business. Not to mention the countless advanced, yet easy-to-use features, which give the end-user full control of their web store - without having to learn any html.That's just fantastic! This innovative and automated eBook store is definitely a must have!
Chris Douthit
Hey Sean,
Steven Johnson here...
I'm just dropping by to say that this package you have put together is nothing short of amazing! The content you provide on the inside is second to none...
You provide all the tools needed to make money on total autopilot...It is truly a business in a box and I will definitely be recommending to my subscribers...
Steven Johnson
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SAN DIEGO >> Will Venable hit a leadoff homer in the ninth inning to give the San Diego Padres a 4-3 victory over the New York Mets on Sunday.
Venable sent a 1-2 pitch from Pedro Feliciano (0-2) just inside the right-field foul pole for his team-high 17th home run, increasing his career high. Venable, who also drove in a run in the fifth, extended his career-best hitting streak to 15 games, the longest active streak in the majors.
Huston Street (1-4) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win.
Matt Harvey pitched six solid innings for the Mets and regained the NL lead in strikeouts. New York split the four-game series and is 4-6 on an 11-game road trip, its longest of the season.
Yonder Alonso led off the San Diego eighth with a walk against Gonzalez German and went to third on Chase Headley's one-out double. Chris Denorfia's infield single scored Alonso to tie the score 3-all.
Feliciano relieved and, after a groundout, intentionally walked Nick Hundley to load the bases. Jaff Decker flied out to end the inning.
Pinch-hitter Andrew Brown followed a two-out double by Omar Quintanilla with an RBI double off the center-field fence against Eric Stults in the seventh to put the Mets ahead 3-2.
Harvey rebounded from a subpar outing, allowing two runs and six hits. He struck out six to increase his season total to 187, five more than Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw.
Harvey, who did not walk a batter, had his 16th no-decision but lowered his ERA to 2.25, second-best in the majors behind Kershaw's 1.80.
The right-hander lost his previous start 4-2 to the Dodgers, giving up four runs and eight hits in six innings with a season-low three strikeouts.
Stults permitted three runs and six hits over 6 2-3 innings.
Justin Turner reached on a one-out double in the New York first and scored on Marlon Byrd's double. Wilmer Flores added a sacrifice fly in the fourth.
San Diego tied the score at 2 after Logan Forsythe was hit by a pitch leading off the fourth and Hundley singled. Following a sacrifice bunt, Venable's infield single brought home one run and Alexi Amarista's sacrifice fly knocked in the second.
NOTES: Mets manager Terry Collins hasn't decided who will fill RHP Jenrry Mejia's spot in the rotation. Mejia was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with a sore right elbow, and New York called up RHP Greg Burke from Triple-A Las Vegas. Asked if Mejia's season might be over due to a bone spur, Collins said: "I can't say I know for sure, but it certainly doesn't look very good. There has been plans to do surgery on his bone spurs in the offseason, and now I would assume more sooner than later." ... The slumping Headley, who was given Saturday off, batted fifth for the first time this season. ... The Mets head to Minnesota to play a makeup game Monday afternoon, with RHP Dillon Gee (8-8, 3.79 ERA) facing RHP Kyle Gibson (2-3, 6.27). ... San Diego hosts Pittsburgh on Monday night, with RHP Andrew Cashner (8-7, 3.87) facing Pirates LHP Francisco Liriano (13-5, 2.68).


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LOS ANGELES—Jim Carrey recently talked to us about being a grandfather for three years now. Jackson Riley was born in 2010 to Jim's daughter, Jane, and her husband, Alex Santana of the metal band Blood Money. Sometimes, the actor said, "There's still a little Hollywood ego that goes, 'What if anybody finds out?' But I couldn't be more thrilled. It sounds cliché but, honestly, it's indescribably joyful to me."
The comedian added: "It's these little things that we're afraid of. You know, 'Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can have a kid.' And now, a grandson! Oh my God, what am I going to do? But these are the things you end up looking at in those times of really personal trials. You go, 'That's the reason I'm here.' Well, it's great."
He described one of his joys—reading to his grandson. "One of the most special moments people can have is [being] with their kids at the end of the day. You read that book together… a slice of heaven to me is that moment when you're both completely absorbed. I've always been good at that because I can be all the characters. I can really animate it so I find that, a lot of times, the kid is looking at me instead of the book. It's really fun. There's a lot of things I do for him—for instance, acting like a penguin and stuff."
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The grandson's mom, Jane, joined "American Idol" last year but was eliminated during Hollywood Week. "It was an interesting experience because it was not something I wanted her to do," Jim admitted. "But she grew up in a different world than [the one I grew up in]. Opportunities for musicians have narrowed down. She said a lot of people think that 'Idol' is a major part of the music business now. I said, 'Okay, I think you could be great on it but they won't see the whole artist.' Because her real genius is in songwriting. She's brilliant. She's a great singer but her songwriting is incredible. Her lyrics are
Jim continued, "I don't think I could do that—stand in front of Steven Tyler and sing and be judged. I thought she handled it nicely. She was just up and running and wanting to do it."
The actor dabbles in music himself. "I get together with musicians who play," he said. "I wrote a song maybe 25 years ago with a friend of mine named Phil Roy (with John Shanks and Rick Neigher). I wrote the lyrics and the melody to a song called 'Heaven Down Here.' It was recorded by the jazz duo, Tuck & Patti. No one really knows that I wrote that song. The other day I mentioned it to somebody and he went, 'I'm a Tuck & Patti fan. What are you talking about?' I said, 'Yeah, I wrote that song.' "
(FROM left) Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey in "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone"
Jim continued: "A lot of these other songs [of mine] are funny. I'm recording a song and doing [a video] shoot with Funny Or Die (a website of funny videos). The song is 'Cold Dead Hand,' about the gun issue. It's kind of a Sons of the Pioneers song, an antigun song."
Artistic fashion
Asked about his "fashion statement" at Elton John's annual Oscars party, in which he wore tiny angel wings and huge prosthetic feet, Jim, who also dabbles in art, smiled and said, "It's my reaction to public events. I am, believe it or not, a shy person. I find giant gala events to be a bit like being hit over and over with bags of oranges. It's an intense energy and I'm not comfortable in it. I generally try to [get] into something artistic so that I can feel good. It's always thought out. There's always something behind it. It's not for nothing."
He revealed the inspiration for that scene-stealing look: "I actually modeled it after a painting I did years ago called "Envy The Perfect Soul." It's an angel with giant feet and tiny little wings. That's how I feel a lot of times, like I have tiny little wings and giant feet. I want to get off the earth and go into a spiritual place but I'm grounded all the time by my own flaws. That's basically what it signified—my awkward spiritual journey when I can be so blissful and so with God a lot of times and then just turn and get completely caught up in anger. Then I remember that I'm not separate from anybody."
Latest role
In "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," Jim Carrey plays a street magician who becomes a threat to star magicians played by Steve Carrel and Steve Buscemi. The latter two admitted in interviews that they sometimes ended up just watching Jim in awe.
Jim described his Steve Gray trickster character, who has his own share of ego, as representing those who are not loved: "Maybe he wasn't what daddy wanted. People like that pretend to reject the world that they really want badly. It's the people who mess their hair for three hours to look like they don't care."
Does he know anyone like that? He cracked, "I don't want to name names but most people in Hollywood."
He said putting on temporary tattoos for roles has its rewards. "It's funny because whenever I put on any kind of tattoo on my body for a part, whoever might be at home goes, 'Just leave it on for tonight.' That kind of thing. Girls like tattoos."
Long hair, too
Sporting those tattoos and long hair changed his original approach to the role, according to Jim. "When I heard about that part, I went, 'That's rock and roll, man.' But when I put that wig on, I realized that it was a different guy completely than we had planned. The director said, 'Oh my God, it's incredible. Who is that?' Which was what happened on 'Lemony Snicket's…' too. Often, the characters were changed 10 minutes before I went in front of the camera—a strand of hair, any little thing can change a person's personality completely. When I put that wig on, suddenly the director said, 'Who is it?' I said, 'This is a guy who thinks he's superior to everyone, that their tiny brains amuse him. He's a manipulator and constantly tries to undermine the confidence of the people around him. He seems to be rejecting what they do but he really just wants what they have.
On his diet to achieve that super fit look, Jim shared, "I joke that I was eating antimatter at that point. That's not necessarily the healthiest place to be to get washboard abs but it's good for my jug band."
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After postings gigs listings all over the world, Radiohead finally announce three UK dates.
October 2012
Sat 6 - Evening News Arena, Manchester
Mon 8 - O2 Arena, London
Tue 9 - O2 Arena, London
Tickets go on sale on Friday March 9th at 9am
In an attempt to prevent secondary ticketing for Radiohead shows the group has put a number of measures in place for ticket buyers. These include implementing a paperless ticketing system, limiting the number of tickets per transaction, disallowing name changes after purchase, and requiring photo ID to gain entry to the shows.
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CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense) is a measure taken to fight cbrn warfare and hamzat incidents. Soldier protection and safety is an area of focus for defense ministries around the globe. The CBRND Market is growing rapidly due to the concerns for protection of civilian lives and maintenance of economic stability. The threats from terrorist groups and geo political issues are responsible for driving the demand for cbrn defense. Due to the initiatives of demilitarization like reduction of cbrn weapons stockpile and increasing investments in the cbrn warfare, the cbrn security products are likely to be developed by manufacturers with good detection capabilities and better effectiveness and rapid decontamination functions.
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Long-time Almanac North host Darren Danielson hung up his microphone at the end of April, after 14 years beside co-host Julie Zenner, in the WDSE•WRPT studio. The Darren and Julie duo had been a staple on Almanac North each Friday night, teaming up for more than 600 shows since 1997. With 40 plus years of broadcast experience between them, their partnership has provided a consistent, professional and respectful platform for exploring and debating the region's most important issues.
Before coming to WDSE, Danielson worked as a news anchor at KDLH-TV in Duluth during the mid 1980's. He left broadcast television for a career in the investment field before he was lured back, part-time to replace original Almanac North co-host Jack Setterlund. Danielson's departure will leave big shoes to fill, and a search is underway for his replacement on WDSE•WRPT's flagship news discussion program.
But Danielson won't be far away. He is moving across the Duluth hillside to ABC affiliate WDIO, where he will replace long-time anchor Dennis Anderson, weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m. Darren credits his years in the Almanac North co-host chair for keeping him on WDIO's radar when it came time to replace Anderson. All of us here at WDSE•WRPT wish him the best of luck in his new career!


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FDA: Bacteria found in other drugs made by New England Compounding Center
Other products made by the New England Compounding Center have tested positive for bacterial contamination, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday.
Three lots of methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) steroid injections made by the Framingham, Mass. company -- which up to 14,000 patients may have received -- have been linked to a 19-state outbreak that has infected 377 people with fungal meningitis and nine others with fungal joint infections.
Tests by federal agencies have confirmed presence of the fungus Exserohilum rostratum in recalled MPA vials and an FDA investigation last week reported 83 vials of the steroids contained "greenish black foreign matter" with another 17 containing "white filamentous material. These injections have to date been thought to be the main disease-spreading culprit.
However out of caution, agencies have been testing other products made by the New England Compounding Center, and the results released Thursday found bacteria -- not fungus -- in preservative free betamethasone and cardioplegia solutions.
Betamethasone is a medication used to various skin conditions; cardioplegia solutions are given during heart surgery.
The FDA found different types of Bacillus bacteria in three separate lots of betamethasone and one lot of cardioplegia solution from NECC, with each lot producing different types of Bacillus.
- FDA finds contaminated vials, bacteria and mold at New England Compounding Center
- Ameridose, company linked to New England Compounding Center, issues recall
- Three more meningitis deaths reported, toll at 28
The agency notes it has not received reports of infections due to Bacillus or closely-related organisms, from these medications. Fungal tests of these drug lots are still pending.
Two types of Bacillus found, Bacillus idriensis and Bacillus circulans, have rarely been reported as a causes of human disease, the FDA noted.
The agency had previously been investigating fungal infections in one patient who received cardioplegic solution during heart surgery and two patients who had another type of steroid injection made by NECC, triamcinolone acetonide.
"Although final laboratory results on additional samples are still pending, the previous finding of fungal contamination of MPA and recent finding of bacterial contamination of betamethasone and cardioplegia solution reinforce the FDA's concern about the lack of sterility in products produced at NECC's compounding facility and serve to underscore that hospitals, clinics, and health care providers should not use any NECC-supplied products," the FDA said in a statement.
The FDA's preliminary investigation had also found the Compounding Center did not adequately perform sterility tests on medications and had mold and bacterial contamination in "clean" areas where drugs were prepared.
On Wednesday, the FDA had announced Ameridose, LLC, a company that shares ownership with the New England Compounding Center, had recalled all its products in circulation after the FDA expressed concerns for the company's sterility testing process following an investigation.


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Using illegal drugs would violate the terms of Hurd's $100,000 bond that kept him free pending his federal drug conspiracy trial. That trial was to have begun in Dallas on Monday but has been postponed until Oct. 9.
Hurd is a former Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys player. He and others are accused of trying to buy large quantities of marijuana and cocaine to launch a drug-distribution network. The 26-year-old Hurd was arrested last December outside a Chicago-area steakhouse, and he was cut shortly afterward by the Bears.
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This is part of a series of mini-Redlands Connections. This is Part 3 of the series, Quick Visits. Magic Johnson and John Wooden showed up at the University of Redlands as part of a Convocation Series. This piece on Tom Flores was another one. Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, former NBA player John Block, legendary high school coach Willie West showed up. There are others. Cazzie Russell, for instance, came to Redlands with an NCAA Division III basketball team from Savannah, Ga. Russell, out of Michigan, was the NBA's overall No. 1 draft pick by the New York Knicks in 1966.
I saw Ed Vande Berg. In Texas. Pitching. He hurled 2 1/3 scoreless innings of relief in a 6-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. I was one of 26,526 fans that Thursday night. Arlington Stadium. Hall of Famers Paul Molitor and Robin Yount were in Milwaukee's lineup. It was July 14, a Thursday night, in the summer of 1988.
Vande Berg, a Redlands baseball-playing product, was playing for enigmatic Bobby Valentine, the Rangers' manager. It was one of the last appearances of Vande Berg's seven-year MLB career.
Attended legendary Arizona State, where Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson and Jim Palmer – not to mention Barry Bonds – played collegiately, among others.
Rarely did Vande Berg ever throw an important pitch in a meaningful game during his MLB career. Who cares? He was a major league pitcher — with promise. It should be noted, however, that Vande Berg's 1982-88 career span did not include playing for a team that finished at .500.
He was a left-handed specialist, a long reliever and, at one point, a starter.
Managers like Rene Lachemann, Del Crandall, Chuck Cottier, Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda, Pat Corrales or Bobby Valentine might summon him to pitch against the likes of Fred Lynn or Eddie Murray, Don Mattingly or Lou Whitaker, maybe a Tim Raines, Darryl Strawberry or Keith Hernandez.
He had surrendered Reggie Jackson's final career hit. Vande Berg, then with the Rangers, watched a broken bat single off the bat of the Hall of Famer.
Check out the website on Ed Vande Berg some time. Click on images. When you do, your entire computer screen should light up with baseball cards – Vande Berg with the Seattle Mariners. Or the Los Angeles Dodgers. Or the Cleveland Indians. Or the Rangers.
He was an Alaska Goldpanner.
An Arizona State Sun Devil. Appeared in the College World Series.
Not to mention that Vande Berg was a Redlands Terrier.
Here was the background on Vande Berg, said by plenty of Redlands baseballers not to be much of a prospect while playing for Terrier coach Joe De Maggio.
When he showed up at San Bernardino Valley, Vande Berg took instruction well enough to burnish a slider. It was a new pitch.
The result was an 18-1 record. State Player of the Year.
Fascinating! Movement, plus zip on his fastball, earned his way to Arizona State — a hub for future MLB players.
That got him on the radar of MLB scouts, who drafted him no less than three times before he signed.
He was a Rookie Team All-Star in 1982, the year he finished 9-4 with the Mariners, who had drafted him out of Arizona State. A league-leading 78 games accompanied that 2.37 earned run average over 76 innings pitched.
Vande Berg's draft history was pretty interesting.
San Diego took him in the third round (1978), but Vande Berg didn't sign.
A year later, the St. Louis Cardinals took him in the fourth round. Again, he didn't sign.
In 1980, Seattle waited until the 13th round. This time, he signed.
That '82 rookie season, though, was something. Only 54 hits were allowed in those 76 innings pitched, including just five HRs. He was 23 when he made his MLB debut with the Mariners.
In 1984, the Mariners made Vande Berg, a 6-foot-2, 175-pounder, a starting pitcher. He logged an 8-12 record (4.76, 130 innings) for a 72-90 team on a pitching staff topped by Mark Langston. Alvin Davis (27 HR, 116 RBI, .284) was American League Rookie of the Year.
Ruben Sierra was clearly the Rangers' best player. Vande Berg was part of a bullpen backed by closer Mitch Williams. The staff's ace was likely ex-Dodger knuckleballer Charlie Hough.
It was one season before Nolan Ryan signed with Texas.
By then, Vande Berg was gone. Released. Final season of his career.
Who would remember the trade that sent Vande Berg from Seattle to the Dodgers in 1985? It was a straight-up deal on Dec. 11. Catcher Steve Yeager, who had played in three World Series with L.A., was the player sent back to Seattle.
The Dodgers paid Vande Berg $455,000.
That season, Vande Berg registered a 3.41 ERA over 60 games (71 1/3 innings).
Teammates included Cy Young Award winners Fernando Valenzuela and Orel Hershiser, both managed by Lasorda, a Hall of Fame manager. Vande Berg had relieved both pitchers during that 1987 season.
Granted free agency in each of the following two seasons, Vande Berg found homes in Cleveland and Arlington, Texas.
Among Vande Berg's Cleveland teammates was Joe Carter, who hit the game-winning World Series homer for Toronto a few years later. Another teammate was the ageless Julio Franco, who made Cleveland just one of his stops on a seven-team, 23-year career.
For a season and a half, incredibly enough, Vande Berg was teammates with another Redlands product, Julio Cruz. The two spent the entire 1982 season in M's uniforms, but in 1983 Cruz was sent to the Chicago White Sox in a trade deadline deal.
His final game came at age 29 against, of all teams, the Seattle Mariners – the team he spent four of his seven-year MLB pitching for in the northwest.
The end result was a 25-28 lifetime mark … 413 games … surrendered 52 HRs … 3.92 earned run average … 22 saves … not a bad career.
A couple months after I watched Vande Berg pitch against Milwaukee in Texas, the Redlands product pitched his final game. Against his old team, the Mariners.
On Friday night, Sept. 30. At the Kingdome that night, 7,870 fans watched.
He pitched a full inning. With home plate umpire Rich Garcia calling balls and strikes, Vande Berg surrendered three hits, including a Rey Quinones double.
In Seattle's lineup that night was Davis, not to mention future MLB Network broadcaster Harold Reynolds. Darnell Coles, from Vande Berg's former Citrus Belt League rival Rialto Eisenhower, was also in the lineup.
A lowly Rangers' squad beat the lowly Mariners, 11-6.
Exactly one month earlier, Vande Berg picked up his final career victory In an 8-6 win over Minnesota, Cecil Espy's bottom-of-the-ninth, two-run HR cracked a 6-6 tie. Vande Berg, who had pitched a scoreless ninth inning in relief of starter Bobby Witt, logged the win.
It was career victory No. 25.


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Part one of the report highlights the issue of reform, which was a major feature of the experience of many organizations of the United Nations system during the year and which has had significant implications for the work of ACC. The actions taken by ACC to promote the coordinated follow-up to major global conferences by the United Nations system, including an assessment of the work of the three task forces set up for that purpose, as well as the inter-agency work undertaken in relation to the special session of the General Assembly to review the implementation of Agenda 21, are also covered in part one. A number of other issues on which there was significant collaborating among the organizations of the United Nations system are also addressed.
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Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council Invasive Plant Manual
Common Name: Privet
Scientific Name: Ligustrum spp.
Several species of privet have been widely planted in Tennessee, primarily as a hedge in landscaping. They are difficult to distinguish and include common privet (L. vulgare L.), Chinese privet (L. sinense Lour.), and Japanese privet (L. japonicum Thunb.). All belong to the Oleaceae (Olive) family and easily escape cultivation to invade adjacent areas and form dense monocultural thickets.
Management Recommendations
Mechanical Controls
Mowing/Cutting: This method is appropriate for small initial populations or environmentally sensitive areas where herbicides cannot be used. Repeated mowing or cutting will control the spread of privet, but will not eradicate it. Stems should be cut at least once per growing season as close to ground level as possible.
Hand Pulling: Privet is effectively controlled by manual removal of young seedlings. Plants should be pulled as soon as they are large enough to grasp but before they produce seeds. Seedlings are best pulled after a rain when the soil is loose. Larger stems, up to 6 cm (2.5 in), can be removed using a Weed Wrench or similar uprooting tools. The entire root must be removed since broken fragments may resprout.
Biological Controls
Privet has no known biological controls. A foliage-feeding insect native to Europe, Macrophya punctumalbum, is a known pest. Privet is also susceptible to a fungal leaf spot, Pseudocercospora ligustri, and a common root crown bacteria, Agrobacterium tume-faciens.
Herbicidal Controls
Foliar Spray Method: This method should be considered for large thickets of privet where risk to non-target species is minimal. Air temperature should be above 65°F to ensure absorption of herbicides. The ideal time to treat is in late fall or early spring when many native species are dormant.
Glyphosate: Apply a 2% solution of glyphosate and water plus a 0.5% non-ionic surfactant to thoroughly wet all leaves. Use a low pressure and coarse spray pattern to reduce spray-drift damage to non-target species. Glyphosate is a non-selective systemic herbicide that may kill non-target partially-sprayed plants.
Triclopyr: Apply a 2% solution of triclopyr and water plus a 0.5% non-ionic surfactant, to thoroughly wet all leaves. Use a low pressure and coarse spray pattern to reduce spray-drift damage to non-target species. Triclopyr is a selective herbicide for broadleaf species. In areas where desirable grasses are growing under or around privet triclopyr can be used without non-target damage.
Cut Stump Method: This control method should be considered when treating individual bushes or where the presence of desirable species preclude foliar application. This treatment is effective as long as the ground is not frozen.
Glyphosate: Horizontally cut privet stems at or near ground level. Immediately apply a 25% solution of glyphosate and water to the cut stump making sure to cover the entire surface.
Triclopyr: Horizontally cut privet stems at or near ground level. Immediately apply a 25% solution of triclopyr and water to the cut stump making sure the entire surface is covered.
Basal Bark Method: This method is effective throughout the year as long as the ground is not frozen. Apply a mixture of 25% triclopyr and 75% horticultural oil to the basal parts of the shrub to a height of 30-38 cm (12-15 in) from the ground. Thorough wetting is necessary for good control; spray until run-off is noticeable at the ground line.
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Designed for introductory-level survey courses in World History.
The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history-from the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts.
This global world history text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while at the same time assessing the development of major societies. Encompassing social and cultural as well as political and economic history, the book examines key civilizations in world history. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of global contact.
Peter N. Stearns
Peter N. Stearns is provost and professor of history
at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D.
from Harvard University. Before moving to George
Mason University, he taught at Rutgers University,
the University of Chicago, and Carnegie Mellon,
where he won the Robert Doherty Educational
Leadership Award and the Elliott Dunlap Smith Teaching Award. He has
taught world history for more than 15 years. He currently serves as chair
of the Advanced Placement World History Committee and also founded
and is the editor of the Journal of Social History. In addition to textbooks
and readers, he has written studies of gender and consumerism in a world
history context. Other books address modern social and cultural history
and include studies on gender, old age, work, dieting, and emotion. His
most recent book in this area is American Fear: Causes and Consequences
of High Anxiety.
Michael Adas
Michael Adas is the Abraham Voorhees Professor of
History and a board of governor's chair at Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Over the
past couple of decades his teaching has focused on
patterns and processes of global and comparative
history. His courses on race and empire in the early
modern and industrial eras and on world history in the 20th century have
earned him a number of teaching prizes. In addition to texts on world
history, Adas has written mainly on the comparative history of colonialism
and its impact on the peoples and societies of Asia and Africa. His
books include Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and
Ideologies of Western Dominance, which won the Dexter Prize, and the recently
published Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and
America's Civilizing Mission. He is currently writing a global history of the
First World War.
Stuart B. Schwartz
Stuart B. Schwartz was born and educated in Springfield,
Massachusetts, and then attended Middlebury
College and the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico.
He has an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University
in Latin American history. He taught for many
years at the University of Minnesota and joined the
faculty at Yale University in 1996. He has also taught in Brazil, Puerto
Rico, Spain, France, and Portugal. He is a specialist on the history of colonial
Latin America, especially Brazil, and is the author of numerous
books, notably Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
(1985), which won the Bolton Prize for the best book in Latin American
History. He is also the author of Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels (1992), Early
Latin America(1983), and Victors and Vanquished (1999). He has held fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Institute for Advanced
Study (Princeton). For his work on Brazil he was recently
decorated by the Brazilian government. He continues to read widely in
the history and anthropology of Latin America, Africa, and early modern
Marc Jason Gilbert
Marc Jason Gilbert is the holder of an NEHsupported
Chair in World History at Hawaii Pacific
University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a former University
System of Georgia Distinguished Professor of
Teaching and Learning. He received his Ph.D in history
in 1978 at UCLA, where he built his own program
in world history out of a mixture of more traditional fields. He is a
founding member of the World History Association and one of its initial
elected officers.More than a decade ago, he founded and served as executive
director of the Southeastern World History Association. He has codirected
two Summer Institutes for Teaching Advanced Placement World
History. He has attempted to bring a global dimension to the study of
south and southeast Asian history in numerous articles and books, such
as Why the North Won the Vietnam War.
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Preface xiii
Supplements xix
About the Authors xxi
Prologue xxiii
CHAPTER 1 The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth
of Civilization 10
Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers 11
Tales of the Hunt: Paleolithic Cave Paintings
as History 15
Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization: The Neolithic
Revolution 17
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Representations of Women
in Early Art 21
The First Towns: Seedbeds of Civilization 22
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Idea of Civilization in World
Historical Perspective 24
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Neolithic Revolution
as the Basis for World History 26
Further Readings 26
On the Web 26
CHAPTER 2 The Rise of Civilization in the Middle
East and Africa 28
Early Civilization in Mesopotamia 28
Later Mesopotamian Civilization: A Series of Conquests 33
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Mesopotamia in Maps 34
DOCUMENT: Hammurabi's Law Code 35
Ancient Egypt 36
THINKING HISTORICALLY:Women in Patriarchal Societies 38
Egypt and Mesopotamia Compared 40
Civilization Centers in Africa and the Eastern
Mediterranean 41
The Issue of Heritage 44
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Early Civilizations
and the World 45
Further Readings 45
On the Web 46
CHAPTER 3 Asia's First Civilizations: India
and China 48
The Indus Valley and the Birth of South Asian
Civilization 50
Aryan Incursions and Early Aryan Society in India 53
DOCUMENT: Aryan Poetry in Praise of a War Horse 56
A Bend in the River and the Beginnings of China 56
The Decline of the Shang and the Era of Zhou
Dominance 60
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Nomadic Contacts
and the Endurance of Asia's First Civilizations 62
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Mapping the Rise
of Civilizations 64
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Contrasting Legacies: Harappan
and Early Chinese Civilizations 66
Further Readings 66
On the Web 66
CHAPTER 4 Unification and the Consolidation
of Civilization in China 80
Philosophical Remedies for the Prolonged Crisis of the
Later Zhou 81
DOCUMENT: Teachings of the Rival Chinese Schools 85
The Triumph of the Qin and Imperial Unity 85
The Han Dynasty and the Foundations of China's
Classical Age 89
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Xunzi and the Shift from Ritual
Combat to "Real"War 90
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Capital Designs and Patterns
of Political Power 96
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Classical China and the World 100
Further Readings 100
On the Web 101
CHAPTER 5 Classical Civilizations in the Eastern
Mediterranean and Middle East 102
The Persian Empire: A New Perspective
in the Middle East 104
The Political Character of Classical Greece 106
The Hellenistic Period 110
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Political Rituals in Persia 113
Greek and Hellenistic Culture 113
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Defining Social History 114
Patterns of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Society 118
DOCUMENT: The Power of Greek Drama 119
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Persia, Greece, and the World 121
Further Readings 122
On the Web 122
CHAPTER 6 Religious Rivalries and India's
Golden Age 124
The Age of Brahman Dominance 125
An Era of Widespread Social Change 127
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Inequality as a Social Norm 129
Religious Ferment and the Rise of Buddhism 132
The Rise and Decline of the Mauryas 134
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of the Gupta Age 136
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Pattern of Trade in the Ancient
Eurasian World 138
Intensifying Caste and Gender Inequities
and Gupta Decline 141
DOCUMENT: A Guardian's Farewell Speech to a Young
Woman About to Be Married 142
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: India and the Wider World 143
Further Readings 144
On the Web 144
CHAPTER 7 Rome and Its Empire 146
The Development of Rome's Republic 147
Roman Culture 151
DOCUMENT: Rome and a Values Crisis 153
How Rome Ruled Its Empire 153
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Religions in Rome 156
The Evolution of Rome's Economic
and Social Structure 156
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Classical Civilizations
in Comparative Perspective 158
The Origins of Christianity 159
The Decline of Rome 161
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Rome and the World 162
Further Readings 162
On the Web 163
CHAPTER 8 The Peoples and Civilizations
of the Americas 164
Origins of American Societies 166
Spread of Civilization in Mesoamerica 171
DOCUMENT: Deciphering the Maya Glyphs 175
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Different Times for Different
Peoples 176
The Peoples to the North 177
The Andean World 180
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Ancient Agriculture 183
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: American Civilizations
and the World 184
Further Readings 184
On the Web 185
CHAPTER 9 The Spread of Civilizations
and the Movement of Peoples 186
The Spread of Civilization in Africa 188
DOCUMENT: Myths of Origin 194
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Language as a Historical
Source 198
Nomadic Societies and Indo-European Migrations 198
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Varieties of Human Adaptation
and the Potential for Civilization 204
The Spread of Chinese Civilization to Japan 204
Political and Social Change 208
The Scattered Societies of Polynesia 209
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Emerging Cultures 214
Further Readings 214
On the Web 215
CHAPTER 10 The End of the Classical Era:World
History in Transition, 200-700 C.E. 216
Upheavals in Eastern and Southern Asia 217
DOCUMENT: The Popularization of Buddhism 219
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 221
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Problem of Decline
and Fall 225
The Development and Spread of World Religions 226
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Religious Geography 229
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Late Classical Period
and the World 230
Further Readings 230
On the Web 231
CHAPTER 11 The First Global Civilization:
The Rise and Spread of Islam 244
Desert and Town: The Pre-Islamic Arabian World 245
The Life of Muhammad and the Genesis of Islam 250
The Arab Empire of the Umayyads 253
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Civilization and Gender
Relationships 260
From Arab to Islamic Empire: The Early Abbasid Era 262
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Mosque as a Symbol of Islamic
Civilization 264
DOCUMENT: The Thousand and One Nights as a Mirror
of Elite Society in the Abbasid Era 266
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Early Islam and the World 267
Further Readings 268
On the Web 268
CHAPTER 12 Abbasid Decline and the Spread
of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast
Asia 270
The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle
and Late Abbasid Eras 271
DOCUMENT: Ibn Khaldun on the Rise and Decline
of Empires 276
An Age of Learning and Artistic Refinements 276
The Coming of Islam to South Asia 280
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Patterns of Islam's
Global Expansions 281
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Conversion and Accommodation
in the Spread of World Religions 286
The Spread of Islam to Southeast Asia 288
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Islam: A Bridge Between
Worlds 290
Further Readings 290
On the Web 290
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of Islam 292
African Societies: Diversity and Similarities 293
Kingdoms of the Grasslands 297
DOCUMENT: The Great Oral Tradition and the Epic
of Sundiata 300
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Architecture of Faith 303
The Swahili Coast of East Africa 303
Peoples of the Forest and Plains 305
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Two Transitions in the History
of World Population 306
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Internal Development
and Global Contacts 310
Further Readings 310
On the Web 311
CHAPTER 14 Civilization in Eastern Europe:
Byzantium and Orthodox Europe 312
Civilization in Eastern Europe 312
The Byzantine Empire 314
VISUALIZING THE PAST:Women and Power
in Byzantium 317
The Split Between Eastern and Western Christianity 318
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Eastern and Western Europe:
The Problem of Boundaries 321
The Spread of Civilization in Eastern Europe 321
The Emergence of Kievan Rus' 323
DOCUMENT: Russia Turns to Christianity 324
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Eastern Europe and the World 326
Further Readings 326
On the Web 326
CHAPTER 15 A New Civilization Emerges in Western
Europe 328
Stages of Postclassical Development 329
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Peasant Labor 331
DOCUMENT: European Travel: A Monk Visits Jerusalem 337
THINKING HISTORICALLY:Western Civilization 339
Western Culture in the Postclassical Era 340
Changing Economic and Social Forms in the Postclassical
Centuries 342
The Decline of the Medieval Synthesis 346
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Medieval Europe
and the World 348
Further Readings 349
On the Web 349
CHAPTER 16 The Americas on the Eve of Invasion 350
Postclassic Mesoamerica, 1000-1500 C.E. 351
Aztec Society in Transition 357
DOCUMENT: Aztec Women and Men 359
Twantinsuyu:World of the Incas 360
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Archeological Evidence of Political
Practices 362
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The "Troubling" Civilizations
of the Americas 364
The Other Peoples of the Americas 367
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Americas and the World 370
Further Readings 370
On the Web 370
CHAPTER 17 Reunification and Renaissance
in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang
and Song Dynasties 372
Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era 373
DOCUMENT: Ties That Bind: Paths to Power 378
Tang Decline and the Rise of the Song 380
Tang and Song Prosperity: The Basis of a Golden Age 384
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Footbinding as a Marker of Male
Dominance 388
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Artistic Expression
and Social Values 390
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: China's World Role 392
Further Readings 392
On the Web 393
CHAPTER 18 The Spread of Chinese Civilization:
Japan, Korea, and Vietnam 394
Japan: The Imperial Age 395
The Era of Warrior Dominance 400
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Comparing Feudalisms 402
Korea: Between China and Japan 406
Between China and Southeast Asia: The Making
of Vietnam 409
VISUALIZING THE PAST:What Their Portraits Tell Us:
Gatekeeper Elites and the Persistence of Civilizations 412
DOCUMENT: Literature as a Mirror of the Exchanges
Between Civilized Centers 415
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: In the Orbit of China: The East
Asian Corner of the Global System 415
Further Readings 416
On the Web 416
CHAPTER 19 The Last Great Nomadic Challenges:
From Chinggis Khan to Timur 418
The Transcontinental Empire of Chinggis Khan 420
DOCUMENT: A European Assessment of the Virtues
and Vices of the Mongols 424
The Mongol Drive to the West 426
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Mongol Empire as a Bridge
Between Civilizations 429
The Mongol Interlude in Chinese History 430
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Global Eclipse
of the Nomadic Warrior Culture 434
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Mongol Linkages 436
Further Readings 437
On the Web 437
CHAPTER 20 The World in 1450: Changing Balance
ofWorld Power 438
Key Changes in the Middle East 439
The Rise of the West 442
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VISUALIZING THE PAST: Population Trends 443
DOCUMENT: Bubonic Plague 444
Western Expansion: The Experimental Phase 447
Outside the World Network 448
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Problem
of Ethnocentrism 450
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: 1450 and the World 451
Further Readings 451
On the Web 452
CHAPTER 21 The World Economy 466
The West's First Outreach:Maritime Power 466
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Causation and the West's
Expansion 471
Toward a World Economy 472
VISUALIZING THE PAST:West Indian Slaveholding 475
Colonial Expansion 477
DOCUMENT:Western Conquerors: Tactics and Motives 478
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The World Economy-
And the World 483
Further Readings 484
On the Web 484
CHAPTER 22 The Transformation of the West,
1450-1750 486
The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce,
1450-1650 487
The Commercial Revolution 492
The Scientific Revolution: The Next Phase of Change 495
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Versailles 497
Political Change 497
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Elites and Masses 498
The West by 1750 500
DOCUMENT: Controversies About Women 501
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Europe and the World 504
Further Readings 504
On the Web 505
CHAPTER 23 The Rise of Russia 506
Russia's Expansionist Politics Under the Tsars 506
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Multinational Empires 510
Russia's First Westernization, 1690-1790 511
DOCUMENT: The Nature of Westernization 513
Themes in Early Modern Russian History 516
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Oppressed Peasants 517
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Russia and the World 519
Further Readings 519
On the Web 520
CHAPTER 24 Early Latin America 522
Spaniards and Portuguese: From Reconquest
to Conquest 524
DOCUMENT: A Vision from the Vanquished 529
The Destruction and Transformation
of Indigenous Societies 532
Colonial Economies and Governments 533
THINKING HISTORICALLY: An Atlantic History? 534
Brazil: The First Plantation Colony 537
Multiracial Societies 540
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Race or Culture? A Changing
Society 541
The 18th-Century Reforms 542
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Latin American Civilization
and the World Context 547
Further Readings 547
On the Web 548
CHAPTER 25 Africa and the Africans in the Age
of the Atlantic Slave Trade 550
Africa and the Creation of an Atlantic System 551
The Atlantic Slave Trade 552
African Societies, Slavery, and the Slave Trade 557
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Slavery and Human
Society 558
White Settlers and Africans in Southern Africa 563
The African Diaspora 566
DOCUMENT: An African's Description of the Middle
Passage 567
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Cloth of Kings in an Atlantic
Perspective 569
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Africa and the African Diaspora
in World Context 571
Further Readings 571
On the Web 572
CHAPTER 26 The Muslim Empires 574
The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors
to Empire Builders 575
DOCUMENT: An Islamic Traveler Laments the Muslims'
Indifference to Europe 583
The Shi'a Challenge of the Safavids 583
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Gunpowder Empires
and the Shifting Balance of Global Power 586
The Mughals and the Apex of Muslim Civilization
in India 590
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Art as A Window into the Past:
Paintings and History in Mughal India 594
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Gunpowder Empires
and the Restoration of the Islamic Bridge
Between Civilizations 597
Further Readings 598
On the Web 599
CHAPTER 27 Asian Transitions in an Age
of Global Change 600
The Asian Trading World and the Coming
of the Europeans 602
Ming China: A Global Mission Refused 609
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DOCUMENT: Exam Questions as a Mirror
of Chinese Values 611
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Great Ships of the Ming
Expeditions that Crossed the Indian Ocean 615
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Means and Motives for Overseas
Expansion: Europe and China Compared 616
Fending Off the West: Japan's Reunification
and the First Challenge 617
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: An Age of Eurasian
Protoglobalization 621
Further Readings 621
On the Web 622
CHAPTER 28 The Emergence of Industrial Society
in the West, 1750-1914 636
The Age of Revolution 637
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The French Revolution
in Cartoons 640
The Consolidation of the Industrial Order, 1850-1914 644
DOCUMENT: Protesting the Industrial Revolution 646
Cultural Transformations 649
Western Settler Societies 652
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Two Revolutions: Industrial
and Atlantic 653
Diplomatic Tensions and World War I 656
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Industrial Europe
and the World 657
Further Readings 658
On the Web 658
CHAPTER 29 Industrialization and Imperialism:
The Making of the European Global Order 660
The Shift to Land Empires in Asia 662
THINKING HISTORICALLY:Western Education and the Rise
of an African and Asian Middle Class 668
Industrial Rivalries and the Partition of the World,
1870-1914 670
Patterns of Dominance: Continuity and Change 673
DOCUMENT: Contrary Images: The Colonizer Versus
the Colonized on the "Civilizing Mission" 674
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Capitalism and Colonialism 677
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: A European-Dominated Early
Phase of Globalization 682
Further Readings 682
On the Web 683
CHAPTER 30 The Consolidation of Latin America,
1830-1920 684
From Colonies to Nations 685
New Nations Confront Old and New Problems 689
Latin American Economies and World Markets,
1820-1870 692
DOCUMENT: Confronting the Hispanic Heritage:
From Independence to Consolidation 698
Societies in Search of Themselves 701
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Explaining
Underdevelopment 704
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Images of the Spanish-American
War 706
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: New Latin American Nations
and the World 708
Further Readings 710
On the Web 710
CHAPTER 31 Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman
Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China 712
From Empire to Nation: Ottoman Retreat and the Birth
of Turkey 713
Western Intrusions and the Crisis in the Arab Islamic
Heartlands 717
THINKING HISTORICALLY:Western Dominance
and the Decline of Civilizations 718
The Last Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Qing Empire
in China 723
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Mapping the Decline
of Civilizations 724
DOCUMENT: Transforming Imperial China
into a Nation 732
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Muslim and Chinese Decline
and a Shifting Global Balance 733
Further Readings 734
On the Web 734
CHAPTER 32 Russia and Japan: Industrialization
Outside the West 736
Russia's Reforms and Industrial Advance 737
DOCUMENT: Conditions for Factory Workers in Russia's
Industrialization 742
Protest and Revolution in Russia 743
Japan: Transformation Without Revolution 746
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Separate Paths of Japan
and China 748
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Two Faces ofWestern Influence 751
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Russia and Japan in the World 754
Further Readings 754
On the Web 755
CHAPTER 33 Descent into the Abyss:World War I
and the Crisis of the European Global Order 770
The Coming of the Great War 772
A World at War 775
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Trench Warfare 776
Failed Peace and Global Turmoil 782
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The Nationalist Assault on the European
Colonial Order 783
DOCUMENT: Lessons for the Colonized from the Slaughter
in the Trenches 784
THINKING HISTORICALLY:Women in Asian and African
Nationalist Movements 792
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS:World War and Global
Upheavals 795
Further Readings 795
On the Web 796
CHAPTER 34 The World between the Wars: Revolutions,
Depression, and Authoritarian Response 798
The Roaring Twenties 799
Revolution: The First Waves 804
THINKING HISTORICALLY: A Century of Revolutions 810
The Global Great Depression 817
The Authoritarian Response 820
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Guernica and the Images
of War 823
DOCUMENT: Socialist Realism 828
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Economic Depression, Authoritarian
Response, and Democratic Retreat 830
Further Readings 831
On the Web 832
CHAPTER 35 A Second Global Conflict and the End
of the European World Order 834
Old and New Causes of a Second World War 835
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Total War, Global
Devastation 837
Unchecked Aggression and the Coming of War in Europe
and the Pacific 838
The Conduct of a Second Global War 840
DOCUMENT: Japan's Defeat in a Global War 847
War's End and the Emergence of the Superpower
Standoff 848
Nationalism and Decolonization in South and Southeast
Asia and Africa 849
VISUALIZING THE PAST: National Leaders for a New Global
Order 852
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Persisting Trends in a World
Transformed by War 857
Further Readings 857
On the Web 858
CHAPTER 36 Western Society and Eastern Europe
in the Decades of the Cold War 860
After World War II: A New International Setting
for the West 860
The Resurgence of Western Europe 864
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The United States and Western
Europe: Convergence and Complexity 868
Cold War Allies: The United States, Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand 870
Culture and Society in the West 872
VISUALIZING THE PAST:Women at Work in France
and the United States 874
Eastern Europe After World War II: A Soviet Empire 878
Soviet Culture: Promoting New Beliefs and Institutions 881
DOCUMENT: A Cold War Speech 886
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Cold War and the World 887
Further Readings 887
On the Web 888
CHAPTER 37 Latin America: Revolution and Reaction
into the 21st Century 890
Latin America After World War II 892
Radical Options in the 1950s 894
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Murals and Posters: Art
and Revolution 895
DOCUMENT: The People Speak 898
The Search for Reform and the Military Option 898
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Human Rights
in the 20th Century 902
Societies in Search of Change 905
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Struggling Toward the Future
in a Global Economy 909
Further Readings 910
On the Web 910
CHAPTER 38 Africa, the Middle East, and Asia
in the Era of Independence 912
The Challenges of Independence 913
DOCUMENT: Cultural Creativity in the Emerging Nations:
Some Literary Samples 921
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Artificial Nations and the Rising
Tide of Communal Strife 922
Post-Colonial Options for Achieving Economic Growth
and Social Justice 924
Delayed Revolutions: Religious Revivalism and Liberation
Movements in Settler Societies 930
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Globalization and Postcolonial
Societies 935
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Postcolonial Nations in the Cold
War World Order 935
Further Readings 936
On the Web 936
CHAPTER 39 Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-Building
in East Asia and the Pacific Rim 938
East Asia in the Postwar Settlements 939
The Pacific Rim:More Japans? 946
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Pacific Rim Growth 948
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Pacific Rim
as a U.S. Policy Issue 950
Mao's China: Vanguard of World Revolution? 951
DOCUMENT:Women in the Revolutionary Struggles
for Social Justice 956
Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam 958
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: East Asia and the Pacific Rim
in the Contemporary World 963
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On the Web 964
CHAPTER 40 Power, Politics, and Conflict in World
History, 1990-2010 966
The End of the Cold War 967
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Symbolism in the Breakdown
of the Soviet Bloc 974
The Spread of Democracy 975
DOCUMENT: Democratic Protest and Repression
in China 976
The Great Powers and New Disputes 977
The United States as Sole Superpower 980
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Terrorism, Then and Now 982
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: New Global Standards,
New Divisions 984
Further Readings 984
On the Web 986
CHAPTER 41 Globalization and Resistance 988
Globalization: Causes and Processes 989
DOCUMENT: Protests Against Globalization 996
Resistance and Alternatives 998
THINKING HISTORICALLY: How Much Historical
Change? 999
The Global Environment 1000
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Two Faces of Globalization 1003
Toward the Future 1005
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Civilizations and Global Forces 1006
Further Readings 1006
On the Web 1007
Glossary G-1
Credits C-1
Index I-1
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Emma Watson, Rupert Grint Talk Snogging for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Feb 10, 2009
While at the BAFTAs over the weekend in London, England, actress Emma Watson made some new remarks on the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Telegraph reports that Emma is a bit anxious about her first screen kiss as Hermione Granger, especially when it involves her long time co-star, actor Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley). Quotage:
"Well I've never had to do it before so I can't say I have any techniques,"
she says. "I've never had to kiss anyone on screen so it is all new to
"Of course I am nervous about it. But, apparently it gets quite boring
after a couple of takes, that's what Dan said to me anyway."
The same article also contains older comments from Rupert on the upcoming kiss, where he said "As I've known Emma for so long, I reckon it will be 10 times worse," he
"I really love the seventh book, but there is no way it will be tame with
the Hermione stuff."
The actor claimed he fills in crosswords to ease the awkwardness between takes
and will bring "a stack of crosswords" to the Harry Potter set.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows formally goes into production later this month, with part one due to be released in November, 2010, followed by part two in May, 2011.


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Daughter: "6 months after the car accident."
Mrs. Mother: "NO! You mean they started immediately after the car accident!"
Daughter: "I mean they started immediately after the car accident."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Are they suing the person they got into the accident with?
Don't know.
These are not the droids you're looking for.
We've even had patients call and ask if it's possible to fake their tests.
You wanna buy some death sticks?
You don't want to sell me death sticks.
I don't want to sell you death sticks.
You want to go home and rethink your life.
I want to go home and rethink my life.
I thought you had to be over 21 to buy death sticks? And the convenience store says they check ID.
Sounds very much like a case of compensitis!
Obviously this parent hasn't mastered the art of "before we get out of the car" conversations. Works great when you are trying to get your children to put on a show....
Is this an adult daughter, and if so, does she have medical insurance? I could see them trying to get this covered through the car insurance if the kid's not covered under mom's health insurance plan.
My own daughter (20) isn't covered anymore, and if I thought there was a serious problem, and we had a recent car accident to blame it on/get at least partial health coverage for, I might be tempted.
My wife used to work in medical records. She dealt with a fellow who was trying to claim that his son was 3 months YOUNGER for Little League purposes. Didn't fly.
Dangit @AMY said what I was going to say...
I believe you only have to be 18 to buy death sticks. And I don't believe most convenience store clerks check ID.
Speaking of checking ID, and this has nothing to do with the post and I'm going way off on a tangent here, but when I was in college I worked as a cashier at a grocery store. One woman came in and was writing a check so I needed her ID (this was back in the dark ages when we had to do everything manually....no scanners of any type). When I looked at her birth date, I noticed that she was only 19. The drinking age in New York was, and still is, 21. Had she been buying alcohol, I would not have asked her for ID, she looked about 45. A little while later someone else came through and that person was buying beer. I thought that person looked about 14, so I asked for ID. According to the ID, that person was 35. Holy cow. I've often wondered if they swapped ID's at some point.
Man confused me, I still don't know when they started.
Sarah G - my parents once made a fake birth certificate for my sister because she was one year too young for summer day camp at the rec centre near our house.
Kim - It happens. I am 32, yet at 5 foot and 105 lbs, still look like a older teen (my tshirt and jeans look doesn't really help either)
Alaina, when I was 32 everyone thought I was about 21. I will be 40 in February, and I don't know what happened but suddenly I look like a middle-aged librarian! Well, a middle-aged librarian who wears nothing but t-shirts and jeans, and the only footwear I wear are sneakers, birks and hiking boots!
Dude, I mean whatever my Mother says I mean!
[Mom whips out a laser hairpin and dictates what to write in *patient notes* to quaking Doc]
Another episode in the longest running antediluvian soap we all know and *love*: *Revenge of the Matriarch Stormtroopers*
What's a death stick? Deep fried corndog on a stick? Deep fried Mars Bar on a stick?
Sounds like someone is trying to get some more money out of an insurance or civil settlement relating to the car accident. It could be legitimately related to the accident, but that makes it sound suspect, lol.
A death stick would be a cigarette. :)
I had a similar conversation with a patient recently. She was given a medication which definitely crossed into breast milk. I knew that she was breastfeeding because she asked me about it. When I explained that the drug was dangerouse for the baby in that the infant could experience anything from extreme sedation to coma or death, she turned and looked at her mother and said, "The pharmacist said that if I take this the baby will sleep better. What do you think?" Just when we thought counseling was important!!!
Why do I smell a lawsuit?
Seems Legit!
Little Calf Creamery. Delicious homemade ice cream and food in Thousand Oaks!


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Joe Peacock really ruffles my feathers. You may have already had the misfortune of reading Peacock's newest tirade against what he calls "geek posers". This newest installment is specifically against those geeks who just happen to be female. In it, he claims that attractive girls who cosplay or wear "geeky" attire at Cons are "poachers." He claims these poachers are women who resort to wearing skimpy outfits because they are incapable of finding companionship outside of the legions of mouth-breathing, desperate nerds. The outfits, according to Peacock, supposedly make these women feel better about themselves and impress the basement-dwellers at the Cons.
Wait, back up. How exactly can he make this argument, anyways?
The Clubhouse
Let's start with what we know about Joe Peacock's stance on the matter generally. Joe has already made his views clear on how he believes the geek community should be regulated in previous articles. Mr. Peacock has this belief that, if you now become interested in the geek community or its myriad topics, you must be a "poser". For Peacock, this is doubly-true if you are an attractive woman, since you're here just to boost your self-esteem (more on this later).
See, according to Joe Peacock, if you weren't in the clubhouse already, you must only be in it now for the popularity contest, because you had ample opportunity to get in before it became cool, but you just couldn't bring yourself to do it.
I contend that this is just factually incorrect. Geeky pursuits of all varieties have had varying (but mostly low) levels of public exposure for a long time, and much of it has been negative. Sure, people outside the "inner circle" knew about these pursuits–but were they actually exposed to them?
Let's also not forget that everyone has to come to this community somehow. I am lucky in that my Dad made me watch Star Wars as soon as I was old enough to understand the plot, but that doesn't make me a better geek than someone who watches Star Wars for the first time today and throws themselves into it–it just makes me an older geek. Why is it less legitimate for someone to come to enjoy geeky pursuits now?
The insistence of people like Joe Peacock on holding aloft their geek credentials like some kind of rallying point is troubling. When did this community become a clubhouse, anyways? We should be welcoming new minds and hearts to our geeky pursuits of choice, not discounting them based on timing or gender, as Joe would have us do.
We can't exclude people based on their gender, physical appearance, or their relatively new arrival to the community. What we should be doing is encouraging new geeks, not trying to shut them out of our clubhouse. Joe does state that he is willing to teach the "posers", and I believe that what we're seeing from him is likely a genuine love for "geek culture", or whatever you want to call it. He states:
"'Geek' is what happens when passion overrides your need to be accepted or fit in. It's loving something so much that you throw yourself wholeheartedly into it."
This is an interesting (if somewhat poetic) description. The sad part is that Joe feels that he is able to both define the parameters as to what constitutes a "real" geek and also to decide who fits this description ahead of time, thus regulating the whole community. The argument he presents is basically "if you're not as passionate as me, you must not be a real geek."
The Poachers
Specifically, he shows us his lurking fear of geek girls.
I give Peacock credit for identifying the entertainment industry's increasingly common attempts to reach the geek demographic, but this fact does not an argument make (or at least not this one). Is the entertainment industry trying to introduce more geek-friendly programming and icons (including female icons)? Sure they are: they see it can make them money. Love it or hate it, that's how capitalism works.
But Peacock takes this and runs too far with it. Does this mean that the attractive girl in the Cammy outfit is only at the Con because she has low self-esteem and wants to be idolized by nerds? No, that is a leap even Mario would have trouble making.
Yet here Joe finds himself:
"I get sick of wannabes who couldn't make it as car show eye candy slapping on a Batman shirt and strutting around comic book conventions instead.
I'm talking about an attention addict trying to satisfy her ego and feel pretty by infiltrating a community to seek the attention of guys she wouldn't give the time of day on the street."
Joe tries to soften this blow by stating beforehand that he knows beautiful geek girls who are "bona fide geeks." That's great Joe, really great. Couldn't you consider that the girls you dismiss offhandedly as being "attention addicts" could also be legitimate geeks? Why is that so difficult for you to believe, and what gives you the right to act as ultimate arbiter over the status of any geek girl you see at a Con that you don't personally know?
Why does anyone have to prove anything to you?
I am not a champion of the cosplay community, so I allow for the possibility that this kind of person could exist. Even so, you cannot pre-judge someone based solely on their appearance. Even if you positively ascertained that someone is a "poacher" by talking with them (again, this is a stretch and no one is obligated to prove anything to you), wouldn't it be better to try to show them the joy that is our hobby rather than kick them to the curb? And ultimately, even if they were one of these mythical "poachers", what harm have they done to you? Matt Dukes (@direflail) of Critical Hits echoes my sentiments on Twitter:
If you're not a geek and you're just hanging around geeks for attention, I don't give a crap as long as you're not a jerk.THE END KTHXBAI
— Matt Dukes (@direflail) July 25, 2012
Joe does betray some of his feelings on the topic by using the word "Infiltrating," though. He seemingly views geek girls as invaders or outsiders. What damage they are doing to him, or even to the community at large, is not elaborated upon with any amount of clarity:
"They're poachers. They're a pox on our culture. As a guy, I find it repugnant that, due to my interests in comic books, sci-fi, fantasy and role playing games, video games and toys, I am supposed to feel honored that a pretty girl is in my presence. It's insulting."
I can't speak for Joe or anyone else, but not once have I ever been at a Con where an attractive woman in a costume walked up to me and demanded that I feel honored in her presence. Of course, no one is actually insulting Joe–he's just threatened or maybe confused by the fact that an attractive woman at a Con might actually enjoy the same things as him. I don't know why this is difficult for him to believe. Anyone can be a geek.
Perhaps even more disturbing is that Joe equates these women with Olivia Munn immediately afterwards, claiming they have no investment in the culture. Reality check: regardless of your personal thoughts or feelings on Olivia Munn, she was being paid by organizations with a vested interest in expanding the types of viewers they could attract. You can argue whatever you want about Olivia Munn, but an attractive woman cosplaying at a Con does not have anything in common with her besides her gender, as far as you know.
And I can't help but feel that this is part of Joe's real issue.
Though he gives props to Felicia Day and allows for the existence of "real" attractive geek girls, it seems like he is unwilling to implement these beliefs at the ground level. To him, these new attractive geek girls are poachers, until proven otherwise. He's already counted them out. But then, he ironically goes on to claim that he is not the one objectifying women:
"However, you "6 of 9s" out there? You're just gross. There's an entire contingent of guys in geekdom who absolutely love you, because inside, they're 13 year old boys who like to objectify women and see them as nothing more than butts and a pair of boobs to be leered at. Have fun with them, and don't be shocked when they send you XBox Live messages with ASCII penises.
Those of us who actually like substance? We'll be over here celebrating great comics, great games, great art, great movies and great television, because we're actually attracted to a completely different body part: the brain."
Honestly, it was a shame that this section was left until the end of Joe's piece, because if he had put this at the beginning of the post, it would have been better for everyone involved. Joe has excluded these women and reduced them to nothing but "butts and boobs" by dismissing them as poachers without allowing them the possibility to just be attractive geeks. Perhaps my favourite and most telling reply to the article came via Twitter, from Felicia Day (@feliciaday):
I just feel like articles like that don't do anyone good. Where are the articles on men "exploiting"? Let's just be inclusive and move on!
— Felicia Day (@feliciaday) July 25, 2012
Inclusivity is what the geek community needs, and what will make the community a stronger and better place to share all our geeky joys. Any man or woman can be a geek. No one person has sufficient geek cred to pretend like they get to decide that.
Unfortunately, inclusivity is the one thing that Joe–and people like him–are not willing to compromise on. They're too busy deciding who the "real" geeks are.
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