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The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living – more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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- C. E. Webber
- Donald Wilson
Episode 1 - The Eleventh HourRelease Date: 2010-04-03
The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has just 20 minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.
Episode 2 - The Beast BelowRelease Date: 2010-04-10
Amy Pond takes her first trip in the TARDIS when the Doctor whisks her away to the distant future and they discover Britain in space. Starship UK houses the future of the British people as they search the stars for a new home. But when Amy explores she encounters the terrifying Smilers and learns a deadly truth inside the Voting Booth...
Episode 3 - Victory of the DaleksRelease Date: 2010-04-17
The Doctor has been summoned by old friend Winston Churchill, but in the Cabinet War Rooms far below the streets of blitz-torn London, it's his oldest enemy he finds waiting for him, as the time-travelling adventures continue. The Daleks are back – but can Winston Churchill be in league with them?
Episode 4 - The Time of Angels (1)Release Date: 2010-04-24
A crashed spaceship, a shattered temple and a terrifying climb through the maze of the dead - River Song is back in the Doctor's life, and she's brought more trouble than even he can handle. The last of the weeping Angels is loose in the ruins of Alfava Metraxis, and the Doctor is recruited to track it down. "Don't blink!" everyone tells Amy - but Amy is about to discover, not blinking might just be the worst thing you can do...
Episode 5 - Flesh and Stone (2)Release Date: 2010-05-01
There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, The Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner. Meanwhile, in the forest vault, the Doctor's companion, Amy Pond, finds herself facing an even more deadly attack.
Episode 6 - The Vampires of VeniceRelease Date: 2010-05-08
Dessicated corpses, terror in the canal and a visit to the sinister House of Calvierri – the Doctor takes Amy and Rory for a romantic mini-break, as the Tardis touches down once again. But 16th-century Venice is not as it should be. The city has been sealed to protect it from the Plague, although Rosanna Calvierri may have other plans...
Episode 7 - Amy's ChoiceRelease Date: 2010-05-15
It has been five years since Amy Pond last travelled with the Doctor, and when he lands in her garden again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, she finds herself facing a heartbreaking choice – one that will change her life forever. They will have to choose which is the dream world and which is reality.
Episode 8 - The Hungry Earth (1)Release Date: 2010-05-22
In 2020, the most ambitious drilling project in history is under way. Dr Nasreen Chaudry and her team have reached 21 kilometers into the Earth's crust - but something is stirring far below. Amy Pond discovers there's nowhere to run when you can't even trust the ground at your feet.
Episode 9 - Cold Blood (2)Release Date: 2010-05-29
It is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony… or the start of its final war. The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet and he tries desperately to ensure Alaya's prediction of a massacre does not come true. Meanwhile, what fate will befall the captured Amy and can Tony and his friends be trusted?
Episode 10 - Vincent and the DoctorRelease Date: 2010-06-05
Terror lurks in the cornfields of Provence, but only a sad and lonely painter can see it. Amy Pond finds herself shoulder to shoulder with Vincent van Gogh, in a battle with a deadly alien - saving the world has never been so ginger! But can even the Doctor save Vincent?
Episode 11 - The LodgerRelease Date: 2010-06-12
There's a house on Aickman road with a staircase that people go up, but never down... To solve the mystery of the man upstairs, the Doctor must pass himself off as a normal human being, and share a flat with Craig Owens.
Episode 12 - The Pandorica Opens (1)Release Date: 2010-06-19
The Doctor's friends unite to send him a terrible warning; the Pandorica - which is said to contain the most feared being in all the cosmos - is opening. But what's inside, and can the Doctor stop it?
Episode 13 - The Big Bang (2)Release Date: 2010-06-26
The Doctor is gone, the Tardis has been destroyed, and the universe is collapsing. The only hope for all reality is a little girl who still believes in stars.


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Optimization of Design Parameters of a Novel MEMS Strain Sensor used for Structural Health Monitoring of Highway BridgesH. Saboonchi, and D. Ozevin
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University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
The novel Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) based Piezoresistive stain sensor is presented in this paper. The main goal of this sensor is to monitor the localized strain in the highway bridges especially near the crack tips. Monitoring the crack growth on the bridges can lead to early detection and prevention of bridge failures.
The COMSOL Multiphysics software was used to optimize the size of the MEMS strain sensor with the objective that the sensor could measure fine strain gradient at the crack tip.

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Monday, February 1st, the submission deadline for challenge 1 of the Forensic Challenge 2010 has passed. We have received 88 submissions and Tillmann who has been judging them mentioned there were some excellent submissions in the mix. Tillmann will be highlighting some answers when we announce the results on the 15th of February.
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Just like our restaurants, which we are proud to say are carbon neutral, so is our blog. Thanks to the "my blog is carbon neutral" initiative, which was originally started in Germany by the "Make it Green" program, carbon dioxide emissions are being reduced through the planting of trees. A tree is planted for each blog taking part in the program, thereby neutralizing a blog's carbon footprint for the next 50 years. Everyone can make a small contribution to the environment. Every tree counts!
According to a study by Alexander Wissner-Gross, PhD, physicist at Harvard University and environmental activist, an average website causes about 0.02g (0,0008oz.) of carbon dioxide for each visit. Assuming an average blog gets 15,000 visits a month, it has yearly carbon dioxide emissions of 3,6kg (8lb.). This can mainly be tracked back to the immense energy usage from (mainframe) computers, servers, and their cooling systems.
To offset the CO2 impact, German Make it Green (Mach Grün) has partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to help reforest Northern California's devastated Plumas National Forest. Beginning this spring (2010), the Arbor Day Foundation will aid in replanting 5,500 acres of the 88,000 acres of the forest that burned 2007. And you can help.
For each participating blog (participating means spreading the word as we're doing here), the Arbor Day Foundation will plant a tree. How will a tree make a difference to your blog's carbon footprint? Glad you asked. A single tree can absorb the CO2 emissions of one blog for fifty years!
The scheduled start plant date was Monday, April 19, 2010 and the trees are being planted by a contracted crew. The roads are being plowed, all contracts solidified, and twelve shipments of 150,000 seedling each are being assembled.
There are still some trees looking for a sponsor. So if you have a blog or website, it can be carbon neutral too! Every tree counts. To participate visit Make it Green's Carbon Neutral Program website today.


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OCEAN CITY — A new policy adding an armed forces veteran's designation on Maryland driver's licenses went into effect this week and an Ocean City resident was likely the first in the state to acquire the honor.
Last year, the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation allowing for the addition of a veteran's designation on the state's driver's license for those who are serving or have served in the past. Among other things, the designation creates a viable database of veterans in the state and allows those who are eligible to display their newly adorned Maryland driver's licenses to take advantage of benefits and other discounts offered to veterans.
The law officially went into effect on Jan. 1, and early Wednesday morning, Ocean City resident and most recent Past Commander of American Legion Post 166 Sarge Garlitz arrived at the MVA offices in Salisbury with the appropriate paper work in hand.
"I was up at the DMV first thing this morning and got in line with my paperwork," said Garlitz. "I got my new license with the veteran's designation on the back around 8:45 a.m. right when they opened for business and they told me they thought I was probably the first in the state to get it."
It remains possible another veteran at a different MVA office somewhere around the state edged out Garlitz by a few minutes, but if the past commander of the American Legion post in Ocean City was the first, it was fitting and appropriate. Garlitz has been a strong advocate for all veteran issues that have gone through the General Assembly in recent years including the legislation adding the veteran's designation to driver's licenses.
A similar bill was introduced in 2011 but failed to pass as the session expired. Introduced again last year by Senator Jim Mathias and cross-filed by Delegate Norman Conway in the House, the legislation sailed through with unanimous votes in both chambers. Through the debate, Garlitz was front and center and testified on behalf of veterans.
"Sarge was there first thing this morning and although I'm not entirely certain, I think he was the very first to get his veteran's designation on his driver's license," Mathias said. "If he wasn't, he was definitely a close second. It's fitting if he was the first because he was so instrumental in helping us get this passed and so instrumental in many of the other things we've been able to do on behalf of the veterans in this state."
The veteran's designation will also allow veterans who acquire the designation easier access to benefits, discounts and other opportunities offered to them.
"If you go the Lowe's, for example, they offer discounts for veterans, but most veterans aren't walking around with their photo ID's or honorable discharge papers," said Garlitz. "The same goes for a lot of other places."
To get the designation, veterans need to provide to the DMV the appropriate paperwork including an honorable discharge certificate, or DD214, or a letter from the Personnel Center in St. Louis confirming veteran status.
Garlitz praised the local representatives in Annapolis for getting the bill passed.
"Jim Mathias and Norm Conway really did a great job for us on this bill," he said. "They were able to get it through with no opposition whatsoever this time and our local veterans really appreciate what they did with this. As a veteran, this is a huge step for us."
Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and also the highest ranking elected official in the nation to have served a tour in Iraq, added, "I would like to thank Senator Mathias and Delegate Conway for their leadership on this effort to help us better serve those who have bravely served our country."


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Alumnae pen new anthem for Rookie magazine
February 19, 2014
Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities Marianna Ritchey BA '99 recently collaborated with Katy Davidson BA '99 to write a theme song for Rookie magazine that captures the publication's mission of empowering teenage girls. The result is "Go Forth, Feminist Warriors," a triumphant anthem that includes the talents of more than a dozen musicians.
The starting point for Ritchey and Davidson's writing process was "We Are the World," a song written in 1985 for African famine relief that featured several popular performers of the time. Their ultimate goal was to write something catchy and overtly political, with a focus on feminism.
"It was an unspoken given that it should, somewhat by definition, also be funny," Ritchey explained. While Davidson came up with the beat and chord progression, Ritchey wrote many of the melodies and the Rookie staff contributed suggestions for lyrics.
Davidson and Ritchey have been collaborating musically since their first year at Lewis & Clark, when they were placed together as roommates. The duo's earliest songs were inspired by topics of discussion in their conversational Spanish class, with Davidson on acoustic guitar and Ritchey on banjo.
Following graduation, Davidson and Ritchey parlayed their hobby into a touring and recording indie pop band called Dear Nora. The group's earliest formation—which took its name from James W. Rogers Professor of Music Nora Beck—consisted of Davidson as songwriter and lead vocalist, Ritchey on drums, and Ryan Wise B.A. '99 on bass.
As Ritchey got involved with additional bands, Dear Nora became Davidson's solo project, though the duo resumed their collaboration in 2007 by establishing the more experimental Lloyd and Michael. They continue to perform live, with a show at Portland's Mississippi Studios on March 6.
Even with years of experience under her belt, Ritchey does not view this theme song as a major departure from the music she made with Davidson while attending Lewis & Clark.
"Funnily enough, I think that this song is more like the songs we wrote in our dorm room than anything we've done in between," Ritchey said. "It's musically simple, slightly silly, and reminiscent of our younger selves' broad-strokes style."
Katrina Staaf '16 contributed to this story.
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"Running is one of the best solutions to a clear mind." --Sasha Azevedo, athlete
I met Jack Dwyer, oh, nearly 15 years ago now at one of the many trucking shows we reporters cover for a living and quickly stuck the nickname "Iron Man" on him. At the time an avid marathoner, Jack would somehow regularly clock in 10- to 15 -mile training runs despite the long days and nights us hacks faced when we attended these conventions.
I met up with him once, outbound on a morning jog (more like plodding, actually) in Arizona, while he was coming off a 10 miler. He hung with me for a couple of miles and I just couldn't believe the pace he could set -- and keep -- after logging in that kind of distance. He didn't pound out those kinds of miles every day, of course, but he didn't slack off on the road either -- he kept to a solid routine, despite his travel schedule, and it really paid off healthwise for him.
I mean, here was a guy in his 60s with the energy and looks of someone in his 40s -- lithe, not a spare pound of flesh on him, able to run circles around me, then in my mid-20s. He pulled the same brutal hours everyone else did, but his high level of physical fitness enabled him to hold up better than most -- especially in terms of maintaining the mental agility needed for writing stories on the fly.
A great story I got about him was the time he took the train down from his home to run in the Boston marathon. He walked from the train station to the starting line, ran 26.3 miles, then walked down to the now-closed Eliot Lounge for a post-race party, walked back to the train station and then went home. THAT, my friends, is the definition of endurance.
I relate Jack 'Iron Man' Dwyer's tale because it proved to me that physical fitness really does matter -- exercise really DOES provide the health benefits all the doctors keep telling us about. Now, this doesn't mean drivers must start clocking in 15 milers every day. What it does mean is that with some creative planning and a willingness to stick with it, staying healthy on the road is not only possible, it can sustain you for the long term. I myself am trying to stick to Jack's method -- though at most I cover 5 miles on a run or speed walk, I try to exercise every day, especially on the road. And I find exercise helps sustain me when I travel, not only in terms of physical health but mental clarity as well.
I talked with Jack not long ago and he told me he's given up marathoning -- and most other running -- now, instead volunteering at marathons and half-marathons and going to the local Gold's Gym for a one-hour workout almost every day. He's still sticking to his schedule, though the form of exercise he uses has changed. My hope is that I can stick with it, too, and end up looking like him when I am in my 60s.


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Each week we post a round-up of some of our most exciting national and international PUP book coverage. Reviews, interviews, events, articles–this is the spot for coverage of all things "PUP books" that took place in the last week. Enjoy!
Interested in a seemingly simple philosophical quandary? A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge, he will topple onto the line and, although he will die, his chunky body will stop the train, saving five lives. Would you kill the fat man?
The question may seem bizarre. But it's one variation of a puzzle that has baffled moral philosophers for almost half a century and that more recently has come to preoccupy neuroscientists, psychologists, and other thinkers as well. In Would You Kill the Fat Man?, David Edmonds, coauthor of the best-selling Wittgenstein's Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have struggled with this ethical dilemma, sometimes called the trolley problem. In the process, he provides an entertaining and informative tour through the history of moral philosophy. Most people feel it's wrong to kill the fat man. But why? After all, in taking one life you could save five. As Edmonds shows, answering the question is far more complex–and important–than it first appears. In fact, how we answer it tells us a great deal about right and wrong.
The New York Review of Books recently reviewed Edmonds' book. Reviewer Cass Sunstein said of the book: "[E]legant, lucid, and frequently funny….Edmonds has written an entertaining, clear-headed, and fair-minded book."
Want to start reading this funny yet complex book? Find Chapter 1 here.
Nothing speaks more of an individual's interest in a particular field than a life dedicated to its study, and David Roy is the prime example. Roy has been teaching Chinese literature since the 1960's and after over a decade of work translating, has complete the fifth and final volume in one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. The novel, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form–not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.
With the possible exception of The Tale of Genji (ca. 1010) and Don Quixote (1605, 1615), there is no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature. Although its importance in the history of Chinese narrative has long been recognized, the technical virtuosity of the author, which is more reminiscent of the Dickens of Bleak House, the Joyce of Ulysses, or the Nabokov of Lolita than anything in earlier Chinese fiction, has not yet received adequate recognition. This is partly because all of the existing European translations are either abridged or based on an inferior recension of the text. This complete and annotated translation aims to faithfully represent and elucidate all the rhetorical features of the original in its most authentic form and thereby enable the Western reader to appreciate this Chinese masterpiece at its true worth.
With a project as compelling and committed as translating The Plum in the Golden Vase, it is helpful to better understand the man who has made it all possible. Author David Roy was recently interviewed by the South China Morning Post. Check out the interview here.
Start reading from this historic work with Chapter 1 of the final volume here.
Interested in a bit of ancient history? 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed tells of marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen?
In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages," Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries.
A review of 1177 B.C. was recently featured in The New York Post.
"In his new book, archaeologist Eric H. Cline introduces us to a past world with eerie resonance for modern times….However stark a bellwether this represents for us, we can at least take comfort in knowing that should our society collapse, chances are good that something fascinating will emerge in its place."—Larry Getlen, The New York Post
Author Eric Cline was also interviewed for Newstalk Radio's Moncrieff Show in Ireland. Listen to the interview below.
Last week, we took a look at The Son Also Rises, an in depth explanation of just how much ancestry does affect our social status. In the book, author Gregory Clark uses a novel technique–tracking family names over generations to measure social mobility across countries and periods–to reveal that mobility rates are lower than conventionally estimated, do not vary across societies, and are resistant to social policies.
The Son Also Rises has since been reviewed in the Literary Review by Eric Kaufmann.
"Who should you marry if you want to win at the game of life? Gregory Clark, […] offers some answers in his fascinating new book, The Son Also Rises." -Eric Kaufmann, Literary Review
Want to start reading The Son Also Rises? Find the Introduction to the book here.


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use of physical force or power with the intent to inflict harm
Violence is any act of aggression and/or abuse that causes or intends to cause injury to persons, animals, or property. It may include random violence, (such as unpremeditated or small-scale violence) and coordinated violence (such as actions carried out by sanctioned or unsanctioned violent groups -- including war, revolution, or terrorism).
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- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation, Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1942, (This appears three times in "Bridle and Saddle" which is titled "The Mayors" in the 1951 novelization). It plays on the famous quote by Samuel Johnson (1775): "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
- I had long put on one side the purist pacifist view that one should have nothing to do with a social revolution if any violence were involved... Nevertheless, the conviction remained in my mind that any revolution would fail to establish freedom and fraternity in proportion to its use of violence, that the use of violence inevitably brought in its train domination, repression, cruelty.
- Fenner Brockway, Inside the Left (1942), also quoted in Martin Ceadel, Pacifism In Britain 1914-1945: The Defining of a Faith, Clarendon Press, 1980.
- No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge — it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights.
- Judith Butler, The Believer, Interview - Issue 2.
- Peace is a resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.
- Judith Butler, The Believer, Interview - Issue 2.
- "I wish your revolt well, my friend," said Bakhtin, "but beware that you don't end up merely repeating the same old story. The state abhors only one thing in the end, and that's the sound of laughter. Violence it can understand."
- Terry Eagleton, Saints and Scholars, Chapter 4 (1987).
- Excerpted from a fictional conversation between Mikhail Bakhtin and James Connolly.
- For he will rescue the poor who cry for help,
Also the lowly one and whoever has no helper.
He will have pity on the lowly and the poor,
And the lives of the poor he will save.
From oppression and from violence he will rescue them,
And their blood will be precious in his eyes.
- Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
- Albert Einstein, "Mein Weltbild" (1931) [English: My World-view] translated as the title essay "The World As I See It" in The World As I See It (1949) [1], New York: Philosophical Library, ISBN 0806527900.
- Violence is man re-creating himself.
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, Chapter 1 (1961).
- Violence shouldn't be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed to looking for the true drama in the situation. That's a shortcoming of a lot of films and television shows. I think certain presentations of violence are not immoral, but amoral.
- I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
- David Fincher, Gavin Smith goes one-on-one with David Fincher (1999) Interview with Film Comment magazine, Gavin Smith, Film Comment, October/November 1999 issue.
- "Victory won by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary."
- Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919.
- Hitler...Mussolini...and Stalin are able to show the immediate effectiveness of violence. But it will be as transitory as that of Chenghis' slaughters. But the effects of Buddha's nonviolence persist and are likely to grow with age.
- Mahatma Gandhi, March 1937, quoted in Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase. Volume 2; Navajivan Publishing House, 1956 (p. 802).
- If "violence never solved anything," cops wouldn't have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it's better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Clichés begin arguments, they don't settle them.
- Jonah Goldberg, ([2] Starbucks "The Way I See It" #22])
- Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.
- Robert A. Heinlein, in Starship Troopers (1959).
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, "Cowley" (1781).
- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King Jr., "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?" (1967).
- … violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
- Errico Malatesta, "Anarchism, Authoritarian Socialism and Communism" in What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction by Donald Rooum, ed. (London: Freedom Press, 1992, 1995) p. 59.
- Huey: I don't get this whole thing with video games.
- Riley: What, you mean why you keep losing?
- Huey: No, everyone is worried about kids and violence, right? And kids using guns – so why don't they go after the gun manufacturers and gun dealers instead of people who make video games, it doesn't make sense.
- Riley: Sure it does, pretend your some stupid parents activist person…
Who would you rather start a beef with – some nerd who makes video games, or some dude with a warehouse full of AK-47s?
- Huey: You know – I'm actually much more impressed by that point than I care to admit.
- Riley: Of course, I'm deep, just don't tell nobody.
- Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, (11/19/2000)
- Violence creates nothing but violence, no matter what we call it and what the excuse. And so it goes, down all the centuries.
- Michael Moorcock, The Steel Tsar (1981), Book 2, Chapter 8
- The only sound way to appraise the state of the world is to count. How many violent acts has the world seen compared with the number of opportunities? And is that number going up or down? [...] To be sure, adding up corpses and comparing the tallies across different times and places can seem callous, as if it minimized the tragedy of the victims in less violent decades and regions. But a quantitative mindset is in fact the morally enlightened one. It treats every human life as having equal value, rather than privileging the people who are closest to us or most photogenic. And it holds out the hope that we might identify the causes of violence and thereby implement the measures that are most likely to reduce it.
- Steven Pinker and Andrew Mack, "The World Is Not Falling Apart", Slate, December 22, 2014
- Anyone loving violence [God's] soul certainly hates.
- Psalms 11:5
- Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.
- Steven Spielberg, in an interview by the Brazilian magazine Veja (1993), cited in Awake! magazine, 1993, 3/8, article: Watching the World.
- Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.
- Herbert Read, Anarchy and Order:Essays in Politics, 1954.
- Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence. Recourse to violence then is an indication of weakness, not of strength, and the revolution with the greatest possibilities of a successful outcome will undoubtedly be the one in which there is no violence, or in which violence is reduced to a minimum, for such a revolution would indicate the near unanimity of the population in the objectives of the revolution. … Violence as a means breeds violence; the cult of personalities as a means breeds dictators--big and small--and servile masses; government--even with the collaboration of socialists and anarchists--breeds more government. Surely then, freedom as a means breeds more freedom, possibly even the Free Society! To Those who say this condemns one to political sterility and the Ivory Tower our reply is that 'realism' and their 'circumstantialism' invariably lead to disaster. We believe there is something more real, more positive and more revolutionary to resisting war than in participation in it; that it is more civilised and more revolutionary to defend the right of a fascist to live than to support the Tribunals which have the legal power to shoot him; that it is more realistic to talk to the people from the gutter than from government benches; that in the long run it is more rewarding to influence minds by discussion than to mould them by coercion.
- Vernon Richards, "Anarchism and violence" in What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction by Donald Rooum, ed. (London: Freedom Press, 1992, 1995) pp. 50-51.
- Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
- Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1976).
- "Violent delights have violent ends."
- You should not use violence.
- Šuruppak, Instructions of Shuruppak (3rd millennium BCE). [3]
- All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
- Leo Tolstoy, The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908).
- As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence — as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.
- Leo Tolstoy A Letter to a Hindu (1908), p. 20.
- People in favour of the use of force all think that it is just a means of attaining justice and peace. But peace and justice are free from violence...That is the final objective of history. If you abandon non-violence, you have no sense of history. You pass history by, you put history on ice, you are a traitor to history.
- André Trocmé, quoted in Petra Kelly, Fighting for Hope, Chatto and Windus, 1984.
- If a rapist comes to your door, then your own fears and anger and aggression have brought him there. You have broadcast your feelings, and he has picked them up . . . There is a reason -- there are no accidents.
- Susan M. Watkins in Conversations With Seth, Book 2: 25th Anniversary Edition, Volume 2, p. 5.
- Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- George F. Will, International Herald Tribune (7 May 1990).
- I wouldn't use physical violence even if I could, because one of my romantic ideas is that physical violence is beneath the dignity of a man, and that whatever you get by physical aggression costs more than it is worth.
- Nero Wolfe, in Rex Stout's novel Too Many Cooks (1938), chapter 10.
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- Violence is as American as cherry pie.
- H. Rap Brown, press conference at the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee headquarters, Washington, D.C., July 27, 1967, as reported by The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., July 27, 1967, p. 1.
- The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
- William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion, p. 78 (1970).
- Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
- William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion, p. 88–89 (1970).
- I'd hate to be in those [slum] conditions and I'll tell you if I were in those conditions, you'd have more trouble than you have already because I've got enough spark left in me to lead a mighty good revolt.
- Hubert Humphrey, speech to the National Association of Counties in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 18, 1966, as reported by The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, July 19, 1966, p. 18.
- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, p. 62–63 (1967).
- I feel that we will continue to have a non-violent movement, and we will continue to find the vast majority of Negroes committed to non-violence, at least as the best tactical approach and from a pragmatic point of view as the best strategy in dealing with the problem of racial injustice. Realism impels me to admit, however, that when there is justice and the pursuit of justice, violence appears, and where there is injustice and frustration, the potentialities for violence are greater, and I would like to strongly stress the point that the more we can achieve victories through non-violence, the more it will be possible to keep the non-violent discipline at the center of the movement. But the more we find individuals facing conditions of frustration, conditions of disappointment and seething despair as a result of the slow pace of things and the failure to change conditions, the more it will be possible for the apostles of violence to interfere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., televised interview, "Meet the Press", March 28, 1965.—Transcript, p. 9.
- Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
- Thurgood Marshall, speech at the national convention of Alpha Phi Alpha, St. Louis, Missouri, August 15, 1966, as reported by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 17, 1966, p. 1.
- Our most serious challenges to date have been external—the kind this strong and resourceful country could unite against. While serious external dangers remain, the graver threats today are internal: haphazard urbanization, racial discrimination, disfiguring of the environment, unprecedented interdependence, the dislocation of human identity and motivation created by an affluent society—all resulting in a rising tide of individual and group violence.
- To Establish Justice, to Insure Domestic Tranquility, final report of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (1960), p. xxxii. Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower was chairman of the commission.


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Over the past 20 years, vocalist, Karrin Allyson, has recorded 13 albums that cover a vast musical territory. She's explored The Great American Songbook, the musical styles of Brazil and France, the blues and the work of more contemporary songwriters. She's recorded a tribute to John Coltrane, a CD of late-night ballads and earned 4 Grammy nominations.
Despite being so busy, every time her tour schedule brings her to Seattle, she visits her friend, jazz host Dick Stein, in the KPLU/Jazz24 performance studio to give us a sample of the music she currently exploring … and there's no telling what that might be.
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ST. PAUL, Minn.—The Minnesota contingent in London this week isn't just the Vikings gearing up for their cross-Atlantic football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman have made the trip, too, in hopes of drumming up tourism, foreign exposure for their cities and business connections.
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TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
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