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CAIRO — Egypt's defense chief warned that political unrest could bring about the "collapse" of the state, after almost a week of street battles killed dozens and piled pressure on President Mohamed Morsi.
After ignoring a curfew Monday night, protesters in the Suez Canal province of Port Said, one of three areas the president has placed under emergency rule, vowed Tuesday to continue their defiance. Monday, the main secular opposition bloc rejected calls by Morsi for a national dialogue, saying "serious" political discourse was needed, not security solutions.
The conflict between the political forces "and their disagreement on running the country may lead to the collapse of the state," Defense Minister Abdelfatah Al-Seesi was quoted as saying in a statement posted on the armed forces' official Facebook page. The political instability and economic challenges "represent a real threat to Egypt's security."
The unrest has gathered momentum since Jan. 25, the second anniversary of the start of the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak, leaving at least 50 dead in the past week. It is undermining efforts to restore political order and revive an economy still struggling to recover. The pound has slid 7 percent in the past month, and the government is seeking a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund.
Morsi's efforts to quell unrest and advance Egypt's transition, including decrees that temporarily widened his powers and support for a constitution drawn up largely by Islamists and passed in a referendum last month, have only fueled the discontent.
The largely secular and youth activist-led opposition says he has reneged on campaign pledges and is intent solely on cementing Islamist rule at the expense of the nation's interests.
Many of the key opposition groups, operating under the National Salvation Front alliance, have rejected Morsi's calls for a dialogue. They say Morsi must accept responsibility for the latest deaths and set up a national unity government and a balanced committee to amend the constitution.
The front "takes its cues from the street activists, not the other way around," Hani Sabra, a Middle East analyst at the New York-based Eurasia Group, said in an email. Opposition leaders like Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei "fear that meeting with Morsi would compromise their support at the street level," he said. "The rift in Egyptian politics is likely to continue to widen and the likelihood of more explosive violence has increased."
The rejection of dialogue by opposition leaders "reflects their lack of understanding of responsibility and the dangers" confronting the nation, Galal Mora, the secretary-general of the Salafi Nour Party, an Islamist bloc separate from Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, was quoted as saying by state-run Ahram Online.
The army, which ran the country between Mubarak's ouster in February 2011 and Morsi's election in June last year, has said it is taking no sides and is interested only in safeguarding the nation.
In Port Said overnight, thousands chanted, "Leave, leave," drawing on the vernacular of the 2011 uprising in rallying against the Islamist president, whom they blame for the deaths there. Some hoisted what they called an "independence" flag. The military, which has been deployed in the city as well as in Suez, did not intervene.
The fatalities in Port Said came after death sentences were handed down against 21 people in connection with last year's fatal stadium riot in the city that left over 70 dead. The province's governor gave public employees the day off Tuesday and vowed he would work to have the curfew lifted if order is restored, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported.
In unveiling the 30-day emergency measures, Morsi warned that attacks on civilians and state installations would be dealt with firmly. Even so, the demonstrations still targeted local government buildings and police stations in several Nile Delta towns, the south and in the coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt's second-largest.
Unrest also flared up in Cairo Tuesday as about a dozen people ransacked a Nile-front five-star hotel that overlooks the scene of much of the fighting. Crowds later swelled on the Qasr El-Nil bridge where the clashes of the past days have been concentrated.
One person was killed in the capital Monday. Two others died in Port Said and more than 240 were injured nationwide in skirmishes with security forces, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
A group of hooded activists, which first appeared on the streets during the anniversary protests last week under the banner of the "Black Bloc," was described by the public prosecutor as "an organized group carrying out acts of terror," according to MENA. He ordered its members be located and arrested. The group has called on its Facebook page for the overthrow of what it dubs a Muslim Brotherhood regime.
The tensions have sounded alarm bells in Western capitals. In Washington, Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, urged all sides "to work together through dialogue" and called on the government to respect citizens' rights.
— With assistance from Salma El Wardany.


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The Native Plant Collection was established in 1931. At the time, 60 acres had been set aside to create the Connecticut College Arboretum. Twenty acres of this original allotment, between Williams Street and Gallows Lane, were dedicated as the Native Plant Collection. This long-standing commitment to native plants is a mainstay of the Arboretum.
As of June 2016, the Native Plant Collection contains a total of 2,427 accessioned plants, including 353 taxa with 1,039 trees, 1,353 shrubs and 35 woody vines native to eastern North America and hardy in southeastern Connecticut. Accessioned plants are from both wild and cultivated origins. The various species take turns displaying their beauty throughout all the seasons: shadbush in April; dogwood and azaleas in May; mountain laurel in June; giant rhododendron, sourwood and sweet pepperbush in July; brilliant autumn foliage in October; evergreens and conifers year-round.
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As soon as we heard the news that Nick Jonas was hired as the Creative and Musical Director for Demi Lovato's Neon Lights tour, we were secretly waiting/hoping/wishing that Nick might join Demi on stage for a little duet! And our dreams came true (!!) last night at the tour's San Jose show, when Nick joined demi for a stunningly beautiful acoustic rendition of their famous song Catch Me and Demi's track Here We Go Again. The crowd was freaking out so loudly that it's almost hard to hear them sing (duh), but it's basically the best thing your ears will hear all day today.
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The folks at America's largest state library system, the Texas Library Association, have named BB WOLF & THE 3 LPs to their 2011 Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List! The book, written by J.D. Arnold with art by Rich Koslowski, is a thrilling story of race, revenge, and Delta blues that adapts a classic fairytale to Jim Crow-era Misssissippi.
The Texas Maverick list is the first (and so far, only) recommended reading list dedicated to graphic novels issued by a state association. It's designed to spotlight great comics for grades 6-12 in a variety of styles and subjects. BB WOLF is specifically recommended for the oldest age group, "Young Adult / Adult."
We note with pride that Super Spy author Matt Kindt is on the list as well, with his newest book 3 Story.
Thanks to everyone on the Maverick committee and congratulations to all the honorees!
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One-acts worthy of Shawnee stage time
Three never-before-seen comedies hit the Shawnee Playhouse stage this weekend as the Worthington Players present the 2012 One-Act Winners of the Shawnee Original Playwright Series.
This year's offerings are "Real Friends Help You Move" by K.K. Gordon, "Gettin' Out the Green" by Paul Kodiak and "Succession" by Charles White.
Playhouse Executive Director Midge McClosky of Shawnee-on-Delaware said the theater is proud to continue its support of local writing talent.
"Giving new playwrights the opportunity to have their works heard is something that has been important to our executive producers, Charlie and Virginia Kirkwood, for more than a decade. Four years ago, the Worthington Players made this process more formal by creating our Shawnee Original Playwrights Series or SOPS, where we hear more than a dozen plays read by our Worthington Players acting company," she said.
McClosky added that getting a new work on stage is important for a writer. "Many of the playwrights use this opportunity to fine-tune their works. Once they see it on its feet, they oftentimes see a section that doesn't read quite the way they had imagined it or think of a new way to accomplish a goal," she said.
Gordon, a Scranton resident, said the chance to see his work on stage is crucial to his artistic development.
"For a struggling playwright, every opportunity to have your work produced is important. For me, an unproduced play is just dirty copy paper. Production allows my work to come alive for other people."
Gordon, an award-winning writer who has had his plays staged in several states, added that he hopes his play will leave the audience laughing. "Holly — the perfect displaced homemaker now freshly back in the dating pool — needs her head-banging sister's help when it comes to the disposing of a certain body. Wackiness ensues," he said.
Amy Cramer of Analomink Lake, director of "Real Friends Help You Move," likened directing a new work to taking your car off cruise control and taking a few laps around a raceway.
"An original script is like sending your tachometer screaming to its red line in a daring inside pass at 180 mph on Pocono's third curve — life-threatening, terrifying and thrilling," she said.
Cramer went further to say that working on a new script is like jumping into the great unknown. "It's risky ... anything could happen, any decision made by a director, any spontaneous chance taken by an actor might send the whole thing spinning into total cataclysm or artistic brilliance."
Gillian Bender of East Stroudsburg who is directing Kodiak's "Gettin' Out The Green" takes a more practical view of staging a new work.
"Directing an original show has its advantages, such as being able to converse with the playwright and not having the pressure of people expecting to see what they saw done in other productions," Bender said. "However, because of the originality, it also makes the storytelling aspect even more important as people will not have the prior knowledge of the show."
Kodiak, of Bethlehem, has another of his plays, "The Messenger," running in New York City.
Kodiak described his play debuting at The Shawnee Playhouse as a radio play within a play. "The radio play is about a family of backwoods hillbillies who enter a reality TV contest to see which family can become the most environmentally green. The winning family will receive a million-dollars prize, and these folks will do just about anything to get their hands on that prize money. They'll even eat their own. I affectionately call it a one-act disaster," he said.
While the show may be a well-staged disaster, McClosky pointed out that any of the three comedies on the bill might just be the next hot show in New York City.
"It is so much fun on so many levels to be working on these original pieces. We look forward to it every year. Who knows? We might have the next big Broadway hit debuting here this winter," she said.
WHAT: One-Act winners of the Shawnee Original Playwright Series WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday and Jan. 12, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11 and 13 WHERE: Shawnee Playhouse, River Road, Shawnee-on-Delaware PLAYS: "Real Friends Help You Move" by K.K. Gordon, "Getting' Out The Green" by Paul Kodiak and "Succession" by Charles White COST: Adults, $18; seniors, $15; children, $10 INFORMATION: 570-421-5093, theshawneeplayhouse.com


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Pocono teens charged in murder part of Juggalo gang known for violent rap
Between the clown face paint and the goofy name, Juggalos aren't always taken seriously. But the Monroe County Gang Task Force considers some Juggalos a dangerous and growing gang.
Juggalos are everywhere, authorities said, but they have been especially prevalent around Cresco, Canadensis and Kunkletown.
"The Monroe County Gang Task Force has definitely seen an increase in crime from this group, which includes theft, vandalism (graffiti), assaults and now homicide," Detective Emmanuel Varkanis, of the Monroe County District Attorney's Office and the gang task force, wrote in response to questions from the Pocono Record.
The two accused killers in the Michael Goucher case, Ian Seagraves and Shawn Freemore, identify themselves as Juggalos on their MySpace pages, which were removed Wednesday afternoon.
"We recently validated over two dozen Juggalo members into our database who have been arrested by local departments. The task force has been looking into this group for quite some time, but only recently have we seen the group explode in numbers in the county," Varkanis wrote.
Just what is a Juggalo? They are a subculture made up of several subsets. Some are gang members, others are not. It is difficult to tell the difference at a glance. One thing they all have in common is an intense appreciation for the violent music of the rap group Insane Clown Posse, or ICP.
For many, music is the only connection. Others live a Juggalo lifestyle and consider ICP's music a religion. Juggalos consider themselves a family, not a gang.
They identify themselves with distinct clothing, often dark and depicting clowns or the gang mascot, the Hatchetman, a dreadlocked character running with a hatchet. Homicide suspect Shawn Freemore was arrested wearing an ICP T-shirt. Juggalos often get ICP-related tattoos.
Some carry knives and hatchets, similar to the cleaver found near Goucher's body.
Juggalos have a distinct language, much of which is a mixture of teen slang and ICP lyrics. Females are called Juggletts.
"Most of the local police departments are familiar with the Juggalos and have approached members in the same manner they would approach any other street gang, cautiously," Varkanis wrote.
"The local departments have been collecting gang paraphernalia, taking pictures of members and their activities, which are then forwarded to the appropriate members of the gang task force and stored in a database. We are collecting as much information about this group as we can, not only to educate our officers, but to learn how to deal with this particular group when we encounter them."
When asked to estimate how many Juggalos are in Monroe County, Varkanis said, "Plenty. There are kids and adults who listen to the music for entertainment only. And then there are the ones who actually believe that there is a "real message" in the vulgar and violent lyrics in these songs. Some of the members are acting out violently, by damaging property and assaulting innocent people.
"It's sad that some people cannot distinguish what's real and what is fantasy, which basically ruins it for the rest," Varkanis wrote.
At juggalofaith.com, ICP lyrics are explained as a gateway to God for outcast kids who would not consider going to church. ICP's collection of albums makes up the "dark carnival": songs that are supposed to be interpreted as what not to do. In the end, people who do the right thing will end up in Shangri-La, Juggalo heaven. Unfortunately not everyone hears the same message.
Seagraves, Freemore and the Juggalo supporters connected to them through MySpace showed a fascination with ICP's violent lyrics and a fierce loyalty to each other. Instead of showing remorse over the death of Goucher, Juggalo friends posted words of encouragement on the accused killer's site until the site was shut down Wednesday.


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At June 2008, capital city Statistical Divisions (SDs) were home to 13.7 million people, or around two-thirds (63.9%) of Australia's population. The capital city SD of Melbourne experienced the largest increase in population of capital cities between 2003 and 2008, followed by Sydney and Brisbane. In terms of percentage growth, however, Darwin was the fastest growing capital city between 2003 and 2008, with an average annual growth rate of 2.3% per year. Perth and Brisbane experienced the next highest average annual growth rates over this period (both at 2.2%). Table 7.15 illustrates the changes in population of Australia's major regions over the five-year period 2003-08.
Generally, the largest growth outside capital city SDs occurred in Australia's coastal regions. Of these regions, the largest increase in population between 2003 and 2008 occurred in Gold Coast-Tweed, up by an average 16,700 people per year (or 3.3% per year). Hervey Bay recorded the fastest growth over the same period with an average growth rate of 5.4% per year. This growth was also faster than any capital city. Mandurah and Bunbury, south of Perth, also had average annual growth rates above 4.0% during the same period.
Interstate migration
A key contributor changing the distribution of Australia's population is internal migration. During 2007-08, 360,800 people moved from one state or territory to another. This is an increase of 2,100 people compared with the previous year.
In 2007-08, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory all experienced net interstate migration gains, while New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory experienced net interstate migration losses. Queensland has experienced positive net interstate migration for more than 30 years; in contrast, New South Wales has experienced net losses every year since 1978-79. As table 7.16 illustrates, however, any losses due to interstate migration in 2007-08 were offset by growth due to natural increase and/or net overseas migration.
Queensland was the most popular destination for Australians moving interstate, receiving the largest number of arrivals during 2007-08 (100,600 persons). New South Wales and Victoria followed with 85,200 and 65,500 arrivals respectively.
The most common moves were between the three most populous states: New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. The largest interstate flow was from New South Wales to Queensland (50,400 persons), while the counter flow from Queensland to New South Wales was the second largest (35,500 persons), followed by the flow from New South Wales to Victoria (23,500 persons).
There were also significant movements between bordering states and territories. This is especially apparent between the Australian Capital Territory and surrounding New South Wales, with 10,900 arrivals to the Australian Capital Territory from New South Wales and 10,400 departing from the Australian Capital Territory to New South Wales in 2007-08.
The largest net flow in 2007-08 was between New South Wales and Queensland with Queensland gaining a net 14,900 from New South Wales, and the second largest net movement was between Victoria and Queensland, with Queensland gaining a net 4,400 people from Victoria.


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There are a lot of people, organizations, and governments that are interested in the innovative culture of Silicon Valley as well as PBwiki's unique structure that focuses on hiring (and listening to) some of the brightest people in the world. We've hosted a delegation from the French government in our office, spoken to SwissCom, and most recently our founder, David Weekly, gave several talks in Mexico. Here's the slides for the talk he gave this month at ITSEM, one of the most prestigious business schools in Mexico.
Watch a video of this talk (in three parts). You can also see David's pictures on Flickr from his trip to Mexico City, which includes a tour of some of the major pyramids and rafting down the Filobobos River in Tlapacoyan.
You can also watch David's July 14 talk at University of Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico. The talk resulted in a SuperHappyDevHouse being thrown in Hermosillo the next month; it was attended by PBwiki employee Joel Franusic and was the first in Latin America. (Video)


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5v5: 48% (121)
4v4: 41% (103)
don't care: 12% (30)
But some time later, id software's method released a map called Ironworks. Definetly a good map. For 4v4.
Therefore, the European community was forced to make a decision, also influenced by the quakecon CTF format: use the 4v4 system in order to use a decent mappool. Fair enough. I eagerly followed the movement! But now that we have the possibility to use maps like japanese castles, shining forces... Hell even maybe Courtyard (edited), Stonekeep (I like!) and Industrial Accident... Why not give 5v5 a chance again ?
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Scott Chacon, who is running in the CA-11 against Richard Pombo, makes a good point about recent emails he's received from both Democrats and Republicans. The Dem emails are overly long, and when you get down to it, ask simply for you to send more money. The GOP emails he received where shorter and asked for action:
(The GOP email) rather than smearing the other side as evil devils in a 600 word rant then asking for money, they ask you to adopt 25 voters, give them personal attention, ask them to vote and talk about the issues. It is easy to help, easy to read, inclusive and respectful – all in about 200 words.
There have been some good examples of using internet tools (email, websites, yadda, yadda) to pull people into the process, to engage them. Asking for money and votes are the two least important ways to engage people. Votes are of course the nut of any campaign, but not democracy; engagement is.
Money, on the other hand, while it fuels the campaign has also help develop a professional political class that seems to say "anything worth while on a campaign or in politics needs to be done by a professional." Politics shouldn't be a business. There should be smart people involved, but it should also be open.
As a party, we shouldn't be asking people to cut us checks and then going off and spending it as we see fit. We should be urging them to get involved in the party, campaigns and politics in general.


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Isn't this just the best example, like EVER, of how to approach an agent?
Dear Agent [I haven't got time to find out your name but if you could just pass it on that would be great]
I have written a fabulous novel called 'It's All About Me' which is about 90,000 words long (I haven't bothered to check but that's about the usual length, right?) anyway, I thought I would give you first refusal as you are first in the book and I'm going through it alphabetically.
My book is my own life story which is absolutely fascinating; my mum says so. My main reason for writing the book is because I want to make lots of money and as such I am sure you want to as well, which would be a really good reason not to miss out on the chance of signing me. I would be looking for a three book deal with a large advance. I'm not really into giving interviews and I don't use social networks but to be honest, I can't see that to be a problem, after all, my book is so great everyone will just want to read it. I don't need the extra publicity personally, but I can see how it would benefit you and your agency.
I have a very impressive writing history. I had a poem published in the school newspaper when I was 12 and I wrote lots of stories, none were taken on by the magazines but my mum said they were really good and she couldn't understand what the problem was.
I've enclosed the whole manuscript as I am sure you will want to read it all. If you could get back to me within the next three weeks that would be great – after that I cannot guarantee I would be able to accept your offer. I am approaching as many agents as possible and if necessary you can enter a bidding war for the publishing rights.
As my mum says, my book is fabulous so please don't waste any time, I am a really busy person.
Yours sincerely
Jay Kay Roley
What do you mean, no?
Having recently been on a writing workshop run by the lovely Julie Cohen, we touched on the subject of approaching agents and what we should put in a letter. I think it's fair to say that the above example, is not the way to do it.
Everyone needs to be able to bejazzle their bio/letter but there are no doubt more subtle ways.
Has anyone got any tips for approaching an agent they could share?
Thanks, Sue x


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"I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be—in a better light than any light that ever shone—in a land no one can define or remember, only desire—and the forms are divinely beautiful."The quote is from Sir Edward Burne-Jones. His painting "Love Among the Ruins" (1894) is in the collection of the Wightwick Manor in Wolverhampton, link.
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The Romantic Dream
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I wish he could have illustrated the books by E R Eddison...
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I see he used the pre-raphaelite model Jane Burden Morris
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Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang lĭn yü´täng´ [key], 1895–1976, Chinese-American writer, translator, and editor, b. Lunqi, Fujian, educated in China and at Harvard, Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig, 1923. Lin spent most of his life in the United States and wrote most of his many works in English. His nonfictional books include My Country and My People (1935); A Leaf in the Storm (1941), about war-torn China; Between Tears and Laughter (1943), and The Pleasures of a Nonconformist (1962). Among his novels are Chinatown Family (1948) and The Flight of the Innocents (1965). He translated and edited The Chinese Theory of Art (1968).
See his Memoirs of an Octogenarian (1980).
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What We Know Now About How to Be Happy
Recent science has shown how important our minds are to our bodies, but they also reveal how difficult it is to define and promote happiness.
Every day there are new studies linking our mental health to our physical health. Our moods or mental states - positive, neutral, negative - seem to be related to the risk of disease, and indeed, our likelihood of death.
Just last month, for example, a study reported that cardiovascular health is significantly better in people who report being happier. On one level, there is an obvious explanation to the phenomenon: Happy people are more likely to engage in the healthy behaviors - exercise and eating right - that lead to good hearts in the first place. While this relationship may have a lot of explanatory power, the plot seems to be thicker than this.
Are "happy" people set up differently to begin with? For example, their physiologies seem to be different from those of less happy people, with lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, reduced inflammatory biomarkers, and even changes in the wiring of the brain. All of these differences might make happy people better able to deal with the adverse events that life throws at them, and less likely to feel the effects of stress, which takes a toll on everybody's health. The happiness-health relationship is at the very least a two-way street.
Psychologists have debated for a while about whether happiness and unhappiness are two sides of the same coin, or whether they're unique entities.
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But what is happiness in the first place? Is it about seeking out activities that make us feel good - indulging a fancy car or going out for a satisfying dinner - or does it have to do with a deeper sense of personal satisfaction over the course of a lifetime?
It's this question that may be at the heart of the matter. The kind of happiness you experience - and seek - may matter most to your health. In fact, it may be what defines it. There's a lot we still have to learn about how our heads contribute to bodily health, but here's what we know about the relationship so far.
As most people have probably experienced, there are different types of "happy." There's the happiness we get from buying a new iPad and there's the happiness we get from having a fulfilling job that lets us buy the iPad. This fundamental difference is one that researchers have tried to tease apart, and they've described two distinct forms of happiness.
"Hedonic" happiness has to do with pleasure and being satisfied in an immediate sense ("hedonism," of course, comes from the same root). It's about how often you feel good, and experience feelings like excitement, interest, and enthusiasm.
People who are higher in eudaimonic, or long-term, happiness have reduced biomarkers of inflammation, like interleukin-6.
"Eudaimonic" well being, on the other hand, has to do with being satisfied with life in a larger sense; it's about "fulfilling one's potential and having purpose in life," explains Julia Boehm, who studies the relationship between happiness and health at Harvard. How autonomous or self-sustaining you feel, how interested you are in personal growth, the nature of your relationships with other people, whether you have a deep purpose in life, and your degree of self-acceptance are some of the variables that researchers try to measure to get a good idea of whether a person has eudaimonic happiness.
Some scientists have studied the two forms of happiness in the lab and found some significant differences. Work at the University of Wisconsin has found that people who are higher in eudaimonic happiness have reduced biomarkers of inflammation, like interleukin-6. These biomarkers, according to researcher Carol Ryff, are linked to a number of health problems like metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, so lower levels of them might offer a protective benefit. Ryff has also found that having a strong social support network - an integral part of long term life satisfaction - is connected with lower levels of the same biomarkers.
Eudaimonic happiness (or we could call it personal or inner satisfaction) may even help set up the brain differently. Hedonic or short-term happiness has more to do with the kind of "feel good" behaviors that light up the "reward circuits" of the brain, which rely on the neurotransmitter dopamine. These areas are also important in addictive behaviors, which makes sense, since satisfying an addictive craving is the ultimate form of short term (hedonic) pleasure.
On the other hand, when people who are happy in a deeper way (have more long-term, eudaimonic happiness), are faced with negative stimuli, they have more activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which governs executive planning and higher-level thinking. They also have reduced activity in "lower" brain regions, like the amygdala, the seat of our stress and fear responses. People with eudaimonic happiness are also slower to evaluate negative events as being such, which could mean that they are also less likely to "freak out" over real upsets in life.
Do Definitions Matter? Yes.
Some researchers aren't so sure that the two concepts need to be separated - and that one good definition of happiness could be sufficient. Boehm says that she prefers the term "positive psychological well-being" over eudaimonic happiness, because, as she says, "It captures a broad range of terms including happiness, purpose in life, optimism, life satisfaction, etc... It can be characterized by the positive feelings, thoughts, and expectations that a person has for his or her life. Essentially, positive psychological well-being is an indicator of psychological functioning that goes beyond the mere absence of disease, e.g., depression, anxiety." (More on this shortly.)
Whether eudaimonic and hedonic are the best labels for happiness is perhaps not so important. But what is clear is that the "feel good" sensations that we tend to think of as happiness may be quite different from what researchers consider happiness - the kind of long-term satisfaction that is shown to be reflected in our mental and physical well-being. If you revise your concept of happiness to include more emphasis on its long-term aspects, you could be on your way to a happier life just from that.
Making the discussion even more interesting (but stickier) is the fact that happiness is more than just not being depressed. As Boehm says, "just because you don't have symptoms of depression or anxiety, that doesn't mean you are functioning optimally." Psychologists have debated for a while about whether happiness and unhappiness are two sides of the same coin, or whether they're unique entities. Psychological "ill-being" (depression, anxiety, and anger) has been linked to everything from higher stress hormone cortisol to increased heart risk to increased belly fat to lower "good" HDL cholesterol.
It's not enough to not be depressed - being happy is what actually gives the physiological benefits that we all want to gain.
But psychological well-being has been linked to different aspects of health, as mentioned earlier, like inflammatory biomarkers and cardiovascular health, though it's been studied less. One study directly compared the biological changes associated with well-being and ill-being, and found enough differences to suggest that well-being and ill-being are not likely two sides of the same coin, but that they are fundamentally different entities. This may explain why it's not enough to not be depressed - being happy is what actually gives the physiological benefits that we all want to gain.
If you're not the happiest person in the world, don't panic. There are ways to increase your satisfaction in life and develop a stronger sense of the kind of well-being that could serve you well mentally and physically, now and in the future. Spending some time thinking about the kinds of things that give you pleasure might be the first step.
A couple of years ago, a team of researchers reported that the types of "American Dream"-type goals we often think of as being the ultimate happiness-inducers aren't so happiness-inducing at all.
By getting in touch with your values and finding ways to give back, you might, unwittingly, be serving yourself. Doing things that just make you feel good won't cut it.
People whose goals involved personal growth and the community were much happier than people who sought money or fame. This sounds a lot like the hedonic/ eudaimonic divide. "By attaining the 'American Dream goals,' [big house, fancy car, designer clothes]" said the study's author Edward Deci, "you are actually feeling less satisfied in the need for autonomy and feeling effective in the world [because you are dependent on external measures outside your direct control], and that leads to more ill−being."
So it seems like going after the material goods that are so appealing - a nice house, car, or bottle of wine - may actually make us more psychologically impoverished than the "larger" goals, like personal growth and self-satisfaction.
This study underlines the divide between what we may think makes us happy and what actually makes us happy - and, by extension, healthy. By getting in touch with your values and finding ways to give back, you might, unwittingly, be serving yourself. Doing things that just make you feel good won't cut it. "If you are living a full life," says Deci, "you will experience a lot of positive affect [emotions]. If you want to know something about living a meaningful life, just looking at subjective well-being is not enough." In other words, finding activities that have intrinsic value, and being a part of them - by doing work you believe in, volunteering, or helping out your community in other ways - is probably much more beneficial.
In the end, the relationship between happiness and health is not simple, and there's a lot we don't know. It's beyond the scope of this article, but we're also learning that happiness, or more specifically, having a sense of purpose in life, is linked not only to physical health, but also to brain health.
For example, Alzheimer's patients who have a sense of purpose in life have fewer symptoms (cognitive deficits) than people who have less purpose. On the flip side, people who are depressed in their middle or old age are at higher risk of developing certain forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's. These relationships also complicate our understanding of happiness and health, and are worth keeping in the back of our minds.
The bottom line is that we know that there are strong relationships between health and happiness, life satisfaction, and purpose, but how it works is still being mapped out. Mental well-being, ill-being, social support, lifestyle choices, and physical health all make up a vast matrix of variables that influence and play off one another.
While researchers are still working on pulling apart these relationships, taking some time to get in touch with your purpose will likely benefit your health, not to mention make your day-to-day life more pleasant in the process. The coming years are likely to bring a much deeper understanding of what happiness actually is, psychologically and physiologically speaking, and this may itself result in a deeper understanding of what health actually is.
This article originally appeared on TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com, an Atlantic partner site.


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In the name of democracy - What secularists and women have to lose in the Tunisian elections
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October 22, 2011
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On the eve of the elections in Tunisia that will shape the future of the country and even that of the Arab world as well, Western do-gooders and Islamic fundamentalists hand in hand rejoice in 'Tunisia's first free elections' and its access to ' democracy'.
The recent history of Iran and Algeria have taught us better… And women in Tunisia watch in horror the rise of Muslim fundamentalists, as a possible replication of the Algerian scenario of 1989 .
'Until the Ayatollahs came to power in 1979, Tehran, Istambul, Beirut, Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Baghdad, Algiers, Tunis and any city in Morocco and even Tripoli, had among their populations the most secular elites…. How was the secular stamp rubbed out in most of these societies in the space of three decades?', asks Saeed Naqvi in an article ('Turmoil in the Arab World: Attack on Secularism') published on October 20 in the Deccan Herald.
The answer is simple: 'By terror', by terrorizing dissenters,- as we have seen in Algeria, with 200 000 victims in ten years time in the 90s. As was the case in Iran. As is now going on in Tunisia.
Since the self immolation of young Mohamed Bouzidi on December 18, 2010, in protest against the situation of jobless Tunisian youth - moreover harassed by the police -, what are the facts that the international community and the Left at large chose to ignore or underplay ?
The euphoria of 'the people's revolution' systematically eludes the main question: who are 'the people'? What are the political forces at work within it.
Who were they, who are they in Tunisia today? Let us judge by their actions.
It took them less than a month after the first anti Ben Ali demonstrations to appear in the open:
Saturday, Jan 29: While thousands of citizens march peacefully ' for equality and citizenship' and to demand secularism, here is a first hand testimony published on face book by a woman demonstrator; she describes how a group of youth 'headed by a bearded man', started chasing peaceful demonstrators, especially women; she herself is sexually assaulted and 'beaten up with the wooden stick of a flag', her colleagues are 'beaten on their back while they try and flee, their banners are torn and some are slapped in the face'. She states: ' These thugs demonstrated that these extremists are in no way the 'democrats or moderates' their leaders pretend they are, as is said in all the media'.
On March 21, Ms Belhadj Hamida, a jurist at the Cassation Tribunal in Tunis, and co-founder of the AI Tunisian section, participating in a conference in Algiers on women in the Tunisian revolution, declares that 'What An Nahda says in public is a far cry from what it says in small meetings'. She denounces the 'double speak' of its representative. She adds that fundamentalists 'put in question the personal status code which was adopted in 1956'. She warns that ' the An Nahda movement is growing bigger everyday and it already controls all the mosques in the country'. She also stresses that it 'has financial means that no other party enjoys'.
Saturday April 9, ten thousands activists and supporters greet and acclaim Ghannouchi at the airport when he comes back from exile in London. He immediately starts touring Tunisia, holding public meetings in mosques.
Let us note in passing that London housed numerous Algerian fundamentalists, and even refused for years to extradite to France one of the accused in the Paris metro bombing. Numerous fundamentalist publications were issued from the UK and spread all over Europe and the Arab world.
April 20, A large group of women's organisations publishes a Women's Manifesto for Equality and Citizenship, in which they state their position 'against the reactionary voices which get at the rights that women already acquired, under the pretext of religious and cultural specificities, and which lock up identity in a fixed prescribed form'.
In May, the popular café Le Paon ( The Peacock) is attacked and devastated. Similar attacks take place on brothels in Tunis, Sousse, Kairouan, 'in order to purify our cities'. ( As a reference point, let us be reminded that attacks on women workers, branded prostitutes because they live alone without a guardian ( wali) and earn their living away from their families, to 'purify the city' and 'chase the devil out of the city' were conducted since 2001 in southern cities of Algeria and continue to this day).
In Ariana, salafists raid the beach in Raouad, forbidding women to wear swimming suits.
In Ibn Sina ( ourskirts of Tunis), while families are celebrating the successes of their children in the baccalaureat exam ( end of secondary school), groups of men armed with machettes forcibly enter houses in order to check whether alccool is served on the table.
After Yousra Fraws, lawyer and founding member of the AI Tunisian section, speaks on Al Jazeera, she receives more than 1200 hate messages on face book.
June 20: tourists are forbidden to access the Okba Ibn Nafaa mosque in Kairouan.
June 28, attacks on unveiled women, artists, bars, brothels, and hospital Charles Nicolle.
The group Echami, that brings together 80 organizations supporting freedom of expression, organizes a series of events titled ' Hands Off Creative People' to support artists targeted by fundamentalists.
On July 1st in Kairouan, the Tunisian flag is lowered and salafists mount their black flag
In Menzel Bourguiba ( north of Tunis) several hundred fundamentalists attack a police station, beat up policemen, five of them seriously, and leave with looted arms and weapons. (A strategy that Algerian fundamentalists used since the 70s in order to prepare their armed uprising)
On July 2, An Nahda calls for demonstrations after the Great Friday Prayer in Sfax and Sidi Bouzid.
A sit in is organized on the steps of the City theater in Tunis to warn against 'fundamentalism, extremism and violence'. Banners say: 'No to Algeria of the 90s', ' against any religious extremism', 'no to violence, yes to tolerance'.
On July 3, activists from the communist party ( POCT) are physically assaulted by Islamists to prevent them from holding a meeting in a sports hall in the poor suburb At'tadhamoun. Communists are called ' miscreants' and aggressors chant that ' secularism is kofr'.
July 4: Lawyers are badly beaten up by Islamists that came to the Tribunal to demand the liberation of their fellow 'brothers' accused in the attack of Afric'Art cinema.
The redactor in chief of the daily paper Ach Chaab ( Left) declares : 'As such things are repeated so much and grow each time, one is scared to witness, plain and simple, the rise of fundamentalism'
July 7, In the Zitouna mosque in Tunis, in front of hundreds of believers, the ulemas launch the attack on Nadia El Fani and call on the government to prevent ' attacks against the sacredness of God, and the dignity of the Tunisian people and its arabo-Muslim identity'.
On the same day, about a thousand people take to the streets in protest against fundamentalists' violence against artists and intellectuals.
July 12: In poor suburbs of cities, En Nahda activists openly claim that a war is needed between believers and 'impious' people.
Islamists take all possible advantages from the new freedom that was allowed after the fall of the Ben Ali regime. Everyday in the At'thamoun mosque, a self proclaimed veteran of the Afghan and Soudan wars, delivers its teaching to children. These self proclaimed imams are not even known to the Ministry of religious Affairs of which they depend in theory. In this area, veiled women are a majority.
An Nahda controls the 380 000 inhabitants area, as well as the local Council of Salvation of the Revolution. They are extremely popular as people in this area are very poor and An Nahda activists go settle the unpaid bills of poorest families at the local groceries.
July 25: Attack on Afric'Art, a cinema hall that shows the documentary film by Nadia El Fani, initially entitled 'Neither Allah nor Master', renamed under fundamentalists' pressure as 'Secularity, Inch'Allah'(i.e. : if Allah wishes), where she declares herself an atheist and apostate.
In protest against ' attacks against Islam', Habib Beheldi, the owner of Compagnie Familiale Production who owns the cinema hall is punched on the eye. Film maker Nouri Bouzid, honored at the last Cannes Film Festival, is injured on the head after being beaten by an Islamist.
'Infidels' gathered to watch the film are sprayed with tear gas, demonstrators shout: 'Tunisia is an Islamic state'.
Fundamentalists' protests take place not just in Tunis, but also in Sfax ( south), Sidi Bouzid (center); in Bizerte ( north of Tunis) leaflets denounce 'attacks on Islam and conspiracy with foreign political parties'.
Threatened from May onwards, Nadia El Fani declares in an interview on September 21 that she still puts hopes in the important urban middle class in Tunisia to prevent fundamentalists to come to power. She admits that non fasting people ( de-jeûneurs) now have to hide in Tunisa, which is new !, and dates this fundamentalist trend to the initial Ben Ali period when he allowed prayers to be called on national TV as soon as her got in power; while Bourguiba had opposed such concessions as well as special working hours during Ramadan, etc…
Nadia El Fani now faces a court case in Tunisia: she is accused by fundamentalist lawyers, who nevertheless declare that they have not seen her documentary film, of 'attacking the sacred, attacking good morae, attacking a religious principle'.
July 31, Giuliana Sgrena, a well known Italian journalist who befriended women in all the Arab world for decades, testifies to the fact that Islamists are 'bolstered with money from rich oil countries', that they' increase their influence among the poor by offering financial support to women willing to leave their jobs and stay at home, and to men who grow their beards to show religiosity'. ' The Islamists also organize collective weddings, picking up the costs'. She acknowledges the fact that they are 'becoming visibly aggressive, resorting to violence during demonstrations and threatening women'.
Buying up the poor is a main strategy fundamentalists employed from Algeria to Turkey, to Bosnia…
On August 10, Giuliana Sgrena also notes that the number of veiled women is totally unusual in the streets of urban Tunisia. Women observers of the Tunisian elections process testify to the fact that, this week of late October, numerous women in niqabs stroll the streets, something never to be seen before in Tunisia. A Premiere !
October 7, University of Sousse , 150 km south of Tunis: After the university refused to register a totally veiled student, very violent demonstration of fundamentalists; they physically attack the General Secretary of the University, provoking panic and terror among teaching staff and students.
In response, 200 women march to 'denounce the retrograde forces and fanatics, to put an end to intimidation campaigns and to struggle against religious fanaticism'.
October 9 and 10, numerous acts of violence and intolerance take place: for instance customers in bars are beaten up in the suburbs of Tunis; a journalist from an Arabic speaking Daily records testimonies of victims and take photos; he concludes: ' their intention is to mark the new Tunisia with their seal, even if by force'.
October 14: Unprecedented threats on Nessma TV. 300 men attempt to set Nessma TV offices on fire in protest against its showing the French-Iranian cartoon film 'Persepolis' that describes the life in Tehran seen by a little girl.
A huge demonstration gathering thousands of people starts from the Great Mosque El Fateh which is the rendez vous departure point of the March; they march towards Nessma TV. Police intervenes only when the march approaches the Prime Minister Office. The march lasts for two hours. People march Qur'an in hand, chanting 'Allah Akbar' and ' La Illah ila Allah Mohamed Rassoul Allah'. Shop keepers get scared and pull down the shutters over their windows. All along the march, more people join the demonstrators. Posters were pasted on the walls of the city before hand, calling for 'a popular demonstration after the Friday prayer, starting from mosques, and from universities, protesting attacks on God'.
Interestingly, Ghannouchi condemns the 'attack' in order to develop the image of An Nahda as a 'soft' Islamist party, Turkish AKP style (acceptable to the European Union?), but he also immediately issues a statement expressing astonishment at the timing of the film, stating that it was 'inciting hatred' and that Nessma TV should be condemned for that. The statement also urges the media to avoid ' provocation and sensationalism'. The President of the Channel apologizes for having shown the film…
October 16, the Aatakani march gathers 5000 people on avenue Mohamed V against 'the wave of salafist violence'. It is the first time since the revolution that a demonstration gathers so many participants.
Zouari, the representative of An Nahda, declares that 'secularists want to force others to be secular'.
Can anyone now doubt what they are up to?
En Nahda has a huge network of influence developped during its 20 years underground and it can mobilize instantly through mosques. The party is extremely structured and well financed. The En Nahda weekly El Fajr (The Dawn) sells 70.000 copies per week.
Not one party on the progressive and secular side can compete. It is chaos, with 10. 000 candidates, 1600 lists, 105 parties represented, most of them brand new to the 'democratic' game.
As in Algeria in 1989, it is fundamentalists who are likely to be the only beneficiaries of the legitimate popular revolt against undemocratic governments.
Like other fundamentalist movements in other Muslim countries, En Nahda surfs on the wave of the legitimate discontent of the people, and recruits among them.
Unemployment which was already 14% under Ben Ali, is said to have risen to 20%. Most unemployed youth only dream of leaving Tunisia, as was clearly shown by the number of boat people trying to reach Italy, in the days after the fall of Ben Ali.
Armed with the concepts of human rights, free speech, freedom of expression and democratic liberties, En Nahda aims at appearing perfectly innocuous and democratic. In front of the media, they are soft spoken and praise moderation, but they also have to satisfy their extremely conservative basis. Hence the discrepencies between the official discourse, the party meetings discourse, and the actions of their troops.
'They are doing double speak and everyone knows it', says Ibrahim Lataief from the very popular Radio Mosaique FM.
It is certainly time to reflect on democracy, its aims and means. And to see its limits.
Courageous Tunisians dare spell it out:
'July 24 (initial date planned for the elections) is a favor to En Nahda…/… It is suicide', says a member of the Republican Alliance, "With En Nahda in power, it will be Iran'.
He is echoed by Ibrahim Letaief from Radio Mosaique: 'A democratic Tunisia depends on the banning of En Nahda'.
It is the democratic opening in Algeria that brought to power the FIS party at local level for one year before legislative elections were cancelled under pressure and street demonstrations from unions, women's organisations and left parties – a fact generally hidden in the media reporting. In one year under the fundamentalist boots, people were scarred and wanted to step back.
Easier said than done. Fascists usually don't leave power easily. Classical fascisms such as Salazar's in Portugal or Franco's in Spain, but new forms of fascism too, such as Iran's….
If democracy, defined as the power of the people expressed through its vote, i.e. parliamentary democracy, it is certainly far more just than monarchy or oligarchy. However let us not forget that Hitler was elected by the people, in a free democratic election. I have little doubt that the six million victims of its reign cared little about the democratic process that led to their elimination, and that they certainly deplored the failure of the undemocratic 'coup d'état' that planned to assassinate Hitler.
Democratic means and processes can engender very undemocratic and unjust regimes.
Fundamentalists claim that 'if (they) have the law of God, why would one want the law of the people? One must kill all these unbelievers', as Algerian FIS n°2 Ali Belhadj said in 1989. Coming to power through democratic means and immediately ending any democratic process and representation, this is one of the strategies of fundamentalists.
Can 'democrats' the world over watch this in silence and clap their hands when anti-democracts win elections? I know there is no easy answer to the question I am raising here. But how long can one go on refusing to even address the issue?
It is without any surprise, as we are by now used to these unholy alliances, that we saw the Guardian UK open its columns, on October 17, to En Nahda's Ghannouchi who went on and on praising the democratic process in Tunisia. He concluded that in any case 'democracy' will be the big winner of these elections: ' a day to inspire all Tunisians, whether Islamic or secular: what is important is that democracy thriumphs'.
Let us doubt it.
Tunisians in general but women in particular have everything to loose in the upcoming elections, whether En Nahda comes out with 'only' 20 or 25 % votes and hevily weight on the drafting of the Constitution, or whether they score more and become the absolute rulers of the new Tunisia.
Tunisia was - I think it is only fair to use the past tense now… - the first country in the Arab world to withdraw reservations to CEDAW that it already signed in 1980 ! They are ore than 20% of the MPs. Tunisian women have the right to vote since 1957.
Starting with independence (1956) and the coming to power of Bourguiba, women have been granted many rights, and personal status laws have continued to be improved till recently. Women have equal rights to pass on their nationality to their children, equal rights and responsibility in marriage and divorce, equal rights in guardianship of children and adoption, equal personal rights as husband and wife, including that to choose family name, profession, occupation, etc…, and near equal property rights. It is indeed the best situation for women in any given Muslim context today.
Nevertheless, women kept fighting for additional rights such as a status for unwed mothers, total equity in property rights, the repeal of the impossibility for Muslim women to marry non Muslim men and the repeal of the impossibility for non Muslim women to inherit from Muslim husbands (as a consequence, non Muslim women citizens in Tunisia do not have equal rights with Muslim women citizens). This inequality stems from article 2 of the Constitution which makes Islam the religion of the state. Women were and are till today calling for a change in the Constitution to make it entirely secular.
This is all what women have to lose, should fundamentalists come to power in Tunisia.
In the upcoming elections, women initially felt on the safe side as they thought they would have had 50% of candidates, however only 5% of them are heads of lists: there is now little chance that they will participate in and influence in any significant way the elaboration of the new constitution.
What is to be feared is, as Pervez Hoodbhoy recently said of the situation in Pakistan, that 'Europe's Dark Ages have descended upon us". In the name of democracy.


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How do you say "Renaissance Man" in Chinese?
Chris Smither is one of our favorite people. Not only is he a talented musician, but he's a fun guy to hang out with, AND he's fluent in a bunch of languages. He's also determined that OTHER people should be fluent in more than one language, too – which is why he's doing a benefit show for the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School. He stops by the bunker to chat, play some tunes, and show off his Chinese. And French.
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Bustle, the unfortunately named and ill-marketed woman's publication launched by Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg in August, has lost at least one prominent investor. Google Ventures has pulled its initial investment of $100K out of the company's latest round of funding, divesting after deeming the startup out of touch with its values, sources tell us.
This past summer, Goldberg ham-handedly announced that he had raised $6.5 million to build what he considered to be a rare bird in the new media world, according to his analysis: A publication singularly focused on women.
His announcement post was quite possibly one of the most tone-deaf things ever published on a tech blog, the very definition of "mansplaining":
"Isn't it time for a women's publication that puts world news and politics alongside beauty tips? What about a site that takes an introspective look at the celebrity world, while also having a lot of fun covering it? How about a site that offers career advice and book reviews, while also reporting on fashion trends and popular memes?"
It caused a cyclone of outrage, with most critics citing that his lack of market research almost inversely correlated with the amount of capital he had managed to amass. Yes, Bryan, it's time someone built a woman's publication that puts world news and politics alongside beauty tips. It's about time someone built, well, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Refinery29, xoJane, HelloGiggles, Rookie, Bust and many more.
The best part about Bustle's poorly-conceived launch and the resulting bluster is that Goldberg didn't even know that "Bustle" meant a girdle, something that has traditionally kept women constrained, both physically and symbolically.
He revealed this in 'The New Yorker':
"Goldberg told me they'd already proved his instincts correct by suggesting the site's name—Bustle—which he loved. 'A guy who's successful, busy, cool, and popular—people would say he's a real hustler,' he told me. 'A woman who's successful, busy, living in a city—maybe she's a bustler!' He added, 'It's also a type of old-fashioned dress accessory. I did not know that. I know now.'"
As a self-proclaimed expert in "markets and audiences," he should have known that.
Google Ventures, not wanting any part of this obviously, decided to pull its money out of the startup that launched a thousand "Well I'm going to start an online men's publication called 'Codpiece'" jokes. The share shuffling happened as part of a new (unannounced) Bustle funding round according to someone familiar with the matter, and is relatively rare in the VC world.
From what we know, the decision was not made because of the backlash specifically, but because Google Ventures and Bryan Goldberg were not on the same ethical page. I've heard that reports of Goldberg's misogynist comments and his glossing over of San Francisco's socio-economic issues in a PandoDaily guest post were the straws that broke Bustle's Google backing.
"Throwing that kind of money at someone who has no real knowledge, understanding or respect for a space is an insult to the target audience," Jezebel's Jessica Coen, who was one of the site's most vehement detractors at launch, tells me.
So if you've ever caught yourself asking, "How is it that people give people like this guy money while you're are still working at, oh I don't know, Aol?" consider this some sort of karmic reparation. Google Ventures has declined comment and I have received no response from Goldberg.
Update: Sarah Lacy has written that the Google Venture shares were bought back by Brian Goldberg and possibly sold to Time Warner, who will lead Bustle's Series A round.


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Jewish Al-Sisi Runs Egypt; Now an Israeli-Occupied Territory
The Greater Israel Project – a long-standing Zionist scheme to steal all the land between the Nile and the Euphrates – is halfway there.
They just stole the Nile.
The problem is not that Egypt's new thug-in-chief, General Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, is a Jew. (His mother, Malikah Titani, is a Moroccan Jew from Asefi, which makes al-Sisi a Jew and an automatic citizen of Israel.)
If the Egyptian people want to elect a Jew president in a free and fair election – like they elected the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to the Lower House with 73% of the vote, the Upper House with 80% of the vote, the presidency with 52% of the vote, and approved the MB Constitution with 64% of the vote – that's fine with me.
The problem is that al-Sisi has concealed his Jewish identity and Israeli connections from the Egyptian people…and destroyed their nascent democracy through deception and mass murder.
An even bigger problem: al-Sisi is almost certainly a Mossad agent. That means al-Sisi's Egypt is not just a brutal, banana-republic-style dictatorship. It is Israeli-occupied territory: The newest and largest province of ever-expanding Greater Israel.
No wonder the Israeli ambassador called al-Sisi "a national hero for all Jews."
Al-Sisi's uncle, Uri Sibagh (sometimes spelled as Sabbagh) served in the Jewish Defense League (Hamagein) from 1948 to 1950, made his aliyah to Israel, and became a bigwig in Ben Gurion's political party, serving as the secretary of the Israeli Labor Party in Beersheba from 1968 to 1981. Uri's sister – al-Sisi's mother – presumably emigrated to Egypt on a mission from the Mossad. That mission culminated when the Mossad overthrew President Morsi and installed its agent al-Sisi in the coup d'état of July 3rd, 2013.
The implication: Al-Sisi has been a lifelong Mossad agent. His mission: infiltrate the highest levels of power in an Arab Muslim country. Al-Sisi is today's version of Elie Cohen, who infiltrated the highest levels of power in Syria under the name Kamal Amin Thabet before he was exposed and hanged in the public square in Damascus.
George H.W. Bush's famous line, "If the people knew the truth, they would chase us down the street and lynch us" applies – in spades – to al-Sisi.
It has been widely reported in the mainstream media, as well as by more reliable sources, that al-Sisi has long served as the Egyptian military's liason with Israel. During the coup d'état of July 3rd, al-Sisi was in permanent liason by telephone with the Israeli and American militaries. (Israel promised its full support, and guaranteed that US aid would not be cut off, while the US waffled.)
The Egyptian coup, especially its propaganda component, had all the earmarks of an Israeli black op. A massively financed campaign run through Egypt's Israeli-linked mainstream media (yes, the same folks own big media there as here)anti-Hitler salutes while they were orchestrating the al-Sisi coup – thereby giving their game away.
Since the coup, Israel has been lavishing praise, money, and support on al-Sisi. Mossad agent al-Sisi has virtually declared war on Palestine by going all-out to close the Gaza border tunnels that keep the people of Gaza alive. Meanwhile, al-Sisi has taken billions of dollars from the Rothschild puppets and likely donmeh crypto-Jews who call themselves the "House of Saud."
Obviously the Zionist-dominated West and its Middle Eastern puppets will not allow Muslims to elect relatively honest leaders in free elections. Instead, they will use deception and violence to pursue their schemes for regional and global domination.
The Egyptian people – who elected the Muslim Brotherhood by a greater landslide than any US political party has won in all of American history – need a real Islamic revolution to create a genuine democracy. Without it, Egypt will indefinitely remain "a boot stamping on a human face – forever"…and a permanent province of Greater Israel, ruled by a Jewish-Zionist thug who has appointed himself pharaoh, while hiding his real background and loyalties.


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Calvary Chapel High pitcher Larisa Petakoff started off last year injured and barely got back to being herself by the end of the softball season.
This year she is stronger than ever and motivated to have a senior season to remember.
Petakoff continued down that path Saturday by leading the Grizzlies to the Ontario Christian Tournament championship and winning MVP honors in the process.
She threw a one-hitter in a 12-1 win over St. Matthias and then pitched a three-hitter to top Ontario Christian 7-1 in the title game. In four tournament games, Petakoff allowed just six hits, two runs (one earned) and didn't walk a batter until the finale.
"She's more mature – not that she was ever immature – but this being her senior season, she wants to go out and finish her career on a high note," Calvary Chapel coach Tom Osburn said. "She came in this year physically stronger just solid."
Which translates into dominating. Petakoff improved to 9-1.
"She did a great job," Osburn said. "She had control, mixed up pitches and kept batters off-balance. And she did a good job at the plate, too."
Bridget Castro, who earned all-tournament honors, hit a two-run double off the fence to key a five-run second inning that put the Grizzlies (9-1) in front of Ontario Christian (6-2). Jasmyn Lopez hit a solo homer in the sixth and finished with two RBIs.
Poly 5-6, Savanna 4-4: Anessa Cepeda had five hits in seven at-bats, including a double and homer for three RBIs in the first game, and picked up a win and a save as the Jackrabbits (4-3) swept a nonleague doubleheader. Annie Amados added a homer in the nightcap.
Valley Christian 5, Santa Monica 4: Pitcher Heaven Garcia won her second game of the day, hitting a game-winning line drive in the bottom of the sixth inning that scored Anna Collier, as the Crusaders (4-5) won the consolation championship at the Downey Tournament. In the first game, Valley Christian defeated Bell Gardens 15-0.
Los Alamitos 9, Mater Dei 6: Megan Geer and Rachel Sellers each hit home runs and drove in four runs to lead the Griffins to a comeback win over the Monarchs at the Best of the West Tournament. Earlier in the day, Tiara Bomde drove in all three runs for Los Al in a 6-3 loss to Norco.
Jordan 8, Roosevelt 5: Jackie Araujo went 2 for 2 with two RBIs to help lead the Panthers (2-7) on a ferocious seven-run comeback in the sixth inning at the Lincoln Classic. Pitcher Amber Roman allowed five hits and two earned runs and went 2 for 2.
Starter Tyler Megill struck out eight in four innings and combined with relievers Chase Broersma, Dusty Hayes and Darren McCaughan on a no-hitter as Los Alamitos (5-3) defeated Bishop Montgomery 6-0 in a nonleague game.
Boys volleyball
Austin Marriott had seven kills to lead Los Alamitos to a 2-0 win over Laguna Hills at the Dave Mohs Tournament. In a second match, Cole Thompson led the Griffins with 10 kills in a 2-0 victory over El Dorado.


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High schools rife with hazing, Maine study finds
By David Sharp
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine — Authors of an ambitious survey of hazing in colleges and universities have turned their attention to high schools and discovered that many freshmen arrive on campus with experience — with 47 percent reporting getting hazed in high school.
As in college, high school hazing pervaded groups from sports teams to the yearbook staff and performing arts, according to professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden of the University of Maine's College of Education and Human Development.
The hazing included activities from silly stunts to drinking games, with 8 percent of the students drinking to the point of getting sick or passing out, they said.
Just like college students, high schoolers are susceptible to getting swept up in group activities and doing things they might not otherwise do, the authors said.
"That group dynamic can lead to the escalation where you have the hazing that's been reported in the news, some horrendous incidents," Madden said.
Among them: a "powder puff" event in which several seniors at a suburban Chicago high school were suspended or charged with roughing up junior girls, and junior varsity football players being sodomized by teammates at their New York high school.
The professors' findings, to be presented Thursday during the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting in San Diego, suggest that little has changed since the last major survey of hazing in American high schools in 2000.
That survey, led by Norm Pollard at Alfred University, indicated that 48 percent of high schoolers belonging to school groups were hazed.
While lack of any significant improvement is bad enough, the nature of hazing has become more dangerous and destructive, some educators say.
"We're still having hazing incidents in this country in high schools. They're getting more brutal. They're getting more sexual. And they're being pushed down into middle schools," said Elliot Hopkins of the National Federation of State High School Associations.
Allan and Madden previously reported on college hazing using a survey of 11,480 students at 53 colleges and universities. The result was the biggest study of hazing in higher education to date, said Pollard, who served as an adviser.
This time, the professors tapped the same pool of participants to explore what happened to them prior to their arrival on college campuses.
Allan and Madden found the highest rates of hazing among members of sports teams (47 percent), ROTC (46 percent), and bands and performing arts organizations (34 percent). The average for other school organizations was 20 percent, the researchers reported.
Hazing-related activities included being required to associate only with the peer group (28 percent), singing or chanting in public (21 percent), verbal abuse (19 percent), sleep deprivation (12 percent), and getting a tattoo or piercing (12 percent), they said.
Twelve percent of the survey's respondents participated in a drinking game, and 8 percent drank until getting sick or losing consciousness, they said.
Hopkins said he is particularly worried that activities are becoming more sexually charged in cases of cheerleaders being forced to undress and shave in front of their peers, or boys and girls being forced to simulate sex acts to join a group.
At its worst, hazing can lead to sexual assault, as happened with a highly publicized incident involving a football team from Long Island, N.Y., he said.
In that case, several junior varsity players were sodomized with sticks, pine cones and golf balls at preseason training camp in Pennsylvania. Four students were charged, five football coaches fired and the team's football season canceled.
The psychological harm from hazing can follow into students' relationships, marriages, parenting and workplace, Pollard said.
"It's not just 'boys being boys.' It teaches impressionable young adults about power, control, humiliation and how you treat other individuals," he said.
Allan and Madden, who are based at the University of Maine campus in Orono, say they were disturbed to learn that hazing is taking a back seat as high school administrators focus on bullying.
"We've had educators say, 'Isn't that the same as bullying?"' Madden said. "It just indicates the amount of education that's needed all around."
Bullies do not want the victim to be part of their group, and their goal is to humiliate, ostracize and degrade to make themselves feel bigger and better, Madden said. Hazing is different because it involves a group dynamic and coercion.
"The coercion can be subtle, but it's powerful," Allan said. "You have these really nice people who are generally reasonable kids making sound decisions for the most part. And then all of a sudden they're swept up in his group dynamic — it contributes to impairing judgment."


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Mick Jagger's girlfriend found dead in NYC
L'Wren Scott may have committed suicide, AP says
L'Wren Scott, a fashion designer and celebrity stylist who was Mick Jagger's girlfriend, was found dead in Manhattan of a possible suicide, a law enforcement official said Monday.
Images: Notable deaths
The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the victim's next of kin had not yet been notified.
The official said Scott's assistant found her hanging from a doorknob at 10 a.m. Monday. The official said no note was found and there was no sign of foul play.
A spokeswoman for Mick Jagger says the singer was "completely shocked and devastated by the news."
The Utah-born Scott had her own fashion label popular with celebrities. She was a fixture on Jagger's arm and, at around 6-foot-3, towered over her famous boyfriend.
She founded her high-end label in 2006 and recently created a more affordable line of clothes with Banana Republic.
On the red carpet, she has dressed stars like Nicole Kidman, Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Jessica Parker and Angelina Jolie.
Just last month she canceled her London Fashion Week show, due to reported production delays.


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It's that lovely time of year again. The time when kids are singing the blues that their vacation is coming to end and are busy cramming in their summer reading and worrying about who will be in their classes and who will not. It's also the time of year where moms are secretly high-fiving each other that the relentless declarations of "I'm Bored" will be over soon and the high hopes that soon, the refrigerator might just stay a little bit fuller (at least during the day).
It's also the time of year to go back-to-school shopping. This annual ritual is just about all the kids look forward to at the end of the summer and something that many parents fear because of the continually-rising expense of it all. I am not going to let disorganization fill me with dread this year; I have a plan that I've been constructing for months now.
I have three children and one ex-husband. We've decided to do things a little differently this year. We will each budget $200 for our two oldest, Katie, 14, and Hannah, 13. My ex will be completely responsible for paying the costs for Katie and me for Hannah. This makes it an even deal. For Matthew, 10, we have decided that I will buy his clothes and he will buy his new sneakers and socks. We are both very happy with this arrangement and feel it is as equal as you can get.
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Before shopping, I am making Hannah write out a plan. She will peruse websites and sale flyers to find out where the best deals are before she hits the mall. I have challenged her to get five outfits using that money and if she does, I will cook a special dinner for her and a friend. She understands that she'll have to find plenty of "Buy-One-Get-One sales, but she is confident.
Matthew is so easy. He doesn't even want to go. So far, I have bought him four brand-name t-shirts at a discount store for $5 a piece and four pairs of jeans at the same store for $10 per piece. Sixty dollars for four outfits is great!
For school supplies, our local dollar store is the place to start. While I can't get everything on the list, I can wipe out pencils, pens, erasers, markers, composition notebooks and pencil boxes for only $1 a piece. Why would you go anywhere else? For all of these expenses (about $350) I have been putting $50 a month away for the last 6 months. I am so proud that I actually planned for this! There's a first time for everything!
How will you save money on your school shopping? Share your ideas!


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Life is an emotional roller coaster — happy, mad, sad, intense, quiet — but that's because we're emotional creatures! Tomorrow, famous playwright Eve Ensler releases I am an Emotional Creature, a new book of monologues to capture 'the secret lives of girls around the world.' But this isn't just a new must-read book — it's the start of a whole new movement!
Along with the book, Ensler launched the V-Girls Network on v-girls.org, where you can blog, create a book club, and join voices with other readers on the forums. Just as seventeen.com's Get Advice! community gives you a place to ask questions about anything online, V Girls gives you an outlet to share photos, videos, and writing that speaks to your dreams and thoughts on the world.
Tomorrow, you can get a copy of I am an Emotional Creature and begin reading the monologues, or performing them aloud with your friends. In the meantime, read on for three questions with the author and our favorite excerpt!
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Excerpt from 'Manifesta to Young Women and Girls':
Cherish your solitude
Take trains by yourself to places
you have never been
Sleep out alone under the stars
Learn how to drive a stick shift
Go so far away that you stop being afraid of
not coming back
Say no when you don't want to do something
Say yes if your instincts are strong
even if everyone around you disagrees
Decide whether you want to be liked or admired
Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out
what you're doing here
Q: You wrote The Vagina Monologues, which are performed at college campuses across the country, to raise awareness of women's issues and fundraise for anti-violence programs. Are there similar plans for I Am an Emotional Creature to be performed in high schools?
A: It won't happen right away — first there will be a commercial production, we hope, of Emotional Creature, but after the commercial production, I will do the same thing I did with The Vagina Monologues and let it go out. It won't happen for a few years...but then it will hopefully become something that can be done at high schools all over the world.
What's really exciting is that a curriculum was developed over the last year that will accompany the book. With each monologue, there's a way of exploring and dissecting and creating dialogue.
Q: Who would be some of your dream young women to perform these monologues?
A: I don't know that I know them yet. I want to discover them. This season, Miranda Cosgrove and we hope Keke Palmer are going to do readings of it in LA. What I'm really moved by is that in New York, Rosario Dawson is directing a benefit reading on February 5, and I'm just knocked out by the girls who came in off the street, who auditioned, who read, who wanted to be a part of it. They're incredible. I hope we discover the next new fabulous generation of teenage girls.
Q: One thing we always ask around Seventeen is, 'When I was 17, I was...'
A: When I was 17, I was sadder than I should have been.
Are you going to read Emotional Creature? Let us know what buzz you've heard about it below!