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Welcome to PWInsider.com's live, ongoing TNA No Surrender PPV coverage from Orlando, FL.
TNA No Surrender opened with a moment of silence for those who lost loved ones on 9/11. The entire TNA roster was assembled on the stage of the Impact Wrestling Zone. After the moment of silence, they played a very solemn orchestral version of the national anthem. Jesse Neal was in his Navy outfit while Rosita, who lost her father in the World Trade Center attack, held an American flag. Very classy.
TNA went into the official opening video for the PPV.
Taz and Mike Tenay discussed the top matches for the PPV and the finals of the Bound for Glory series.
Kid Kash vs. Jesse Sorensen
The winner will be the top contender for the X-Division championship. Sorensen gave a signed football to a kid at ringside.
Kash and Soresen went back and forth, locking up and reversing standing switches. Sorensen grabbed a hammerlock. Kash escaped and rebounded off the ropes. They went back and forth with deep armdrags before facing off.
Kash teased a test of strength and nailed Soresen with a right hand. Sorensen fired back and caught Kash with an armdrag, then cinched in an armbar. Kash was forced back into the corner but shoved Soresen away. Sorensen nailed him and whipped Kash into the opposite corner, only to be caught with a drop toehold. Kash nailed him with a kick for a near fall.
Kash picked up and dropped Sorensen down rudely with a brainbuster variation for a two count, then choked him against the ropes. Kash nailed Sorensen hard with a chop in the corner and bullied him in the corner. Sorensen fired back with chops but was cut off. Sorensen nailed a series of knee strikes and a dropkick for a two count.
Sorensen nailed a neckbreaker for a two count. Sorensen nailed a big bodypress off the top for a two count. Sorensen nailed Kash with a series of rights but was nailed low. Kash slammed Sorensen and dropped a kneedrop across the forehead. Kash began jawing with the fans then turned his attention back with Sorensen with a number of strikes to the chest and mid-section. Kash begins arguing with the referee over his strikes.
Kash slammed Sorensen hard and went to the ropes. Kash nailed a double springboard moonsault onto Sorensen for a two count. Kash chopped Sorensen. Kash went for a move but Sorensen floated over and nailed a reverse suplex into a slam, scoring the pin.
Your winner, Jesse Soresen!
Solid back and forth match. Kash's work as a heel is just great and Sorensen plays the young babyface well.
Jeremy Borash interviews TNA champ Kurt Angle and Hulk Hogan. Angle said that he doesn't know what his reaction is to having to defend the title with no notice. He told Hogan that he joined Immortal to be protected and wanted answers. Hogan said that he brought Angle in to be the heart and soul of Immortal and he's in the same situation with Angle. Hogan said they walk the same road together now and asked Angle, "What do you want me to do?" Angle walked off and Hogan told Borash, "Don't look at me like I'm the bad guy."
Bound for Glory Series: Bully Ray vs. James Storm
They noted that Storm needed to get a submission to get ahead and points and guarantee his way into the title match. So, they are going to advance guys by points as opposed to a traditional tournament. Taz claimed that Storm reached out to some people for help with submissions.
Bully Ray, who claimed during the pre-game that he dropped 70 lbs., stalled early. Ray was slowing down the match by strolling around outside when Storm chased him around, but Ray was back outside again. The story here is that Ray was killing time. The crowd chanted, "P*ssy Ray", which is pretty damn funny.
They went to lock up but Ray slipped himself out of the ropes, then nailed Storm. That was good. Ray controlled Storm and went after the kidneys and lower back.
Storm came back with a series of armdrags and locked on a cross armbreaker. Ray began fighting towards the ropes and grabbed it finally. Ray rolled out to the floor immediately, holding his arm. When he returned, Storm went right back after the arm. Ray tried to roll him up and Storm turned it back into another cross armbreaker in the center of the ring.
Ray retreated back to the floor. This time, Storm followed and nailed him with several shots to the face, then slammed his arm against the steel stairs. As Storm returned to the ring, Ray nailed him from behind and pulled him down, crashing down facefirst onto the apron. Ray grabbed a chair and brought it into the ring but the referee took it away. That allowed Ray to spray beer into Storm's eyes.
Ray worked over Storm with headbutts and chops. He went for a Bubba Bomb but Storm reversed it into an armbreaker in the center. Ray was able to squirm over and get his leg under the ropes. Undaunted, Storm went for a Sharpshooter in the center. Ray crawled towards the ropes but was dragged back to the center. Ray finally made it to the ropes.
Storm kicked at Ray's shoulder and locked on a Fujiwara armbar. Ray reversed it into a rollup for a two count. Storm was backdropped over the top to the floor but recovered. He went to spit beer in Ray's face but Ray ducked and Jackson James got it. Storm locked on the crossarm breaker and Ray tapped but the referee disqualified Storm.
Your winner, Bully Ray!
Storm shoves down the referee. He's mathematically eliminated from the Series.
Socal Val tried to interview Ray but he chased her off. Ray asked "Can you believe me now?" He promised to be the next TNA champion and headed to the back.
Match was good. They did a good job telling the story of Storm trying to get the submission, especially given the shoulder problems he had coming into the match. Finish was not good.
TNA Knockouts champion Mickie James vs. Winter (Angelina Love)
James came out in a Wonder Woman inspired outfit. Looked great. Winter tried to jump her before the bell, but James dropkicked her, then nailed Love on the floor with a series of punches. That allowed Winter to attack her from behind but James sent her into the ring steps and the guard rail.
Winter took over and tossed James into the corner. James fought her off and used a headscissors out of the corner. Love distracted James, allowing Winter to nail a kick to the back.
Winter suplexed James over and scored a two count. James snapmares her over but was cut off with a hard running clothesline. Winter slammed James backward down to the mat by her hair. Winter choked James against the ropes, setting her up for Love to do the same as Winter argued with the referee.
Winter continued the assault but James wouldn't stay down. Winter nails her with an over the knee backbreaker, then forces James backwards, trying to force a submission. Winter goes for a slam. James tries to escape with elbows to the face but is still dropped down across Winter's knees.
Winter cinches in a side chinlock but James drapes her leg over the bottom rope. She takes down Winter with a double leg takedown and attempts a jackrabbit cover for a two count. James nailed a neckbreaker but was too hurt to make the cover.
They each recovered and battled back and forth in the center. James scored with a series of clotheslines and a flapjack. James went to the ropes. Love tried to interject herself but James knew Winter was coming and kicked her for another two count.
Winter went for a jawbreaker but James escaped. James locked on a single leg Boston Crab but Winter made it the ropes. Winter tried to use the title belt as a weapon but the ref grabbed it. James used a rollup with a bridge for another two count.
Winter attacked James in the corner with a series of shoulderblocks and kicks. James fought back and went for a move out of the corner but Love pulled Winter out of the ring. James nailed a Thesz Press off the apron onto Winter.
James chased Love to the stage but Love grabbed her when she returned to the ring. Winter went to spew blood into James' face but Love got it instead. James ended up getting it spewed in her face again and Winter scored the pinfall.
Your winner and new Knockouts champion, Winter!
Not as good as their match on Impact but another decent back and forth. The interference, as always, took away from the match.
They noted that Gunner and Robert Roode had to win by submission to tie with Bully Ray in the Bound for Glory Series. Gunner was interviewed by Jeremy Borash. He said that he will do anything he has to tonight and if he has to break Roode's arm or leg to get to the main event of Bound for Glory, he will. Bully Ray showed up and scoffed at the idea of Gunner main eventing the PPV and talked down to Gunner that no matter what, he was not allowed to submit. He called Gunner a "Young Boy" and told him to do what he was told. They faced off and Gunner walked off. Bully then told Borash that "Bullying is my business…and business is good."
TNA Tag Team champions Mexican America (with Rosita & Sarita) vs. Devon and Pope Dinero
There's been a lot of talk about the shape Bully Ray has gotten into but Devon has dropped a ton of weight as well.
Devon and Anarquia kick it off. Devon was sent off into the ropes but nailed a shoulderblock. Devon begins working over his arm and tags out to the Pope. Pope and Devon tagged in and out, controlling the early portion of the match.
Hernandez tagged in but Devon continued controlling. Anarquia tagged back in. The challengers doubled on Anarquia. Rosita got on the apron and trash talked Pope. He kissed her. She slapped him. He grabbed her by the hair and held her off the apron. Anarquia nailed him from behind and Rosita took a bump to the floor.
The champions controlled the challengers. Devon tagged in but was worked over in the mid-section for several near falls. Hernandez was whipped into a splash in the corner on Devon. As the referee argued with Pope, Sarita jumped off Hernandez' back and drilled Devon with a dropkick in the corner.
Hernandez locked in a bearhug. Devon fought his way out and made the hot tag to the Pope. Pope nailed clotheslines on Anarquia, then dropkicked Hernandez off the apron to the floor. Pope nailed a nice flying shoulderblock, then hit a pimp slap. He hit a flying bodypress for a two count. Anarquia drilled him and Hernandez hit a top rope splash.
Devon broke up an attempted double team and the challengers worked over the champs in opposite corners. They send the champions into each other and then drilled Hernandez with a double shoulderblock. The girls tried to interfere and were both spanked.
Pope nails a lungblower variation on Anarquia. Hernandez tried to get involved but Devon nailed him. Rosita distracted Devon, allowing Sarita to interfere and trip Pope during a suplex into the ring and set up Anarquia getting the pin.
Your winners and still TNA Tag Team champions, Mexican America!
They all worked hard here and it was better than I expected going in. Still, way too much interference, to the point it was hard to take the idea that the referee was missing it at all serious and it badly overshadowed the work.
Jeremy Borash interviewed Mr. Anderson. He said that he and Sting go way back but then admitted they don't like each other. He said that they share a common bond in that they both hate Immortal. He started ripping on members of Immortal. He said that if they have to team to eliminate Angle tonight, they will, but then it'll be back down to them again. He jokingly said "Let the better man win" and then ride off to the sunset, only there is no sunset because they are indoors. He said that perhaps the a**hole does what he wants and then gets his way. Good promo.
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Lowriding careers can take on many twists and turns, and sometimes push us to expand our building horizons from one model to the next. Enter Jorge Enriquez, a Lowrider from Lancaster, California who was introduced to the culture by his family in 1994. Although his family members had traditional Lowrider cars like Impalas and Bombs, Jorge's first ride was a 1989 Chevy Camaro, sitting on Daytons. It was his next ride – the 1963 Chevy Impala that he got from his father as a graduation present a short time later – that really boosted Jorge's involvement with the Lowriding lifestyle. From there, he went on to own a slew of '63 and '64 Impalas over the years, and it seemed that Jorge had become an Impala man at heart. Things were destined to change, however.
Recently, Jorge had sold a 1964 Impala convertible and was in the market to buy another ride. His friend Mark had told him about a Cadillac that he just "had to check out." Jorge had always had a slight interest in Cadillacs, so he decided to heed his friend's advice and check this one out. The car was a rare opportunity indeed; it turned out to be only the third '93 to '96 Fleetwood model to ever be converted from a four-door hardtop to a two-door convertible! Regarded as the last of the big body Cadillacs thanks to their larger size and chrome bumper, these '93-'96 models were solely available in a four door-hardtop model, making this uniquely converted ride a must-have for Jorge.
Topo of TS Designs in Paramount, California (he was formerly of Mafia Customs) was the man with what seemed to be a magic wand with these cars, transforming these machines into custom made two-door hardtops and two-door rag tops. His attention to detail and perfection made these final creations look like they came stock from the Cadillac factory as a two-door vehicle. In reality, only the Cadillac Fleetwood Le Cabriolets from the 1980s came from the factory as two-door convertibles and those were very rare. Topo based the fusion of these later model Fleetwoods on the styling of these earlier, older "LeCab" models.
Jorge didn't hesitate to purchase this unique and rare ride and shortly thereafter, he began customizing it in his own fashion, having it repainted a custom shade of green and having the top redone by Area 51 Kustoms. Jorge's brother, Robert "Gangster" Enriquez, refreshed the trunk beautifully with a custom display.
Jorge says the Cadillac is just in phase one; he already has plans to change up the interior and engine and eventually have the car repainted again. He sends big thanks to Tru Love Detailing, Area 51 Kustoms, his Good Times Car Club brothers, his family and also sends a special thanks to his wife for her support through all the good and bad times in getting this car finished.
Tech Specs
Owner: Jorge Enriquez
Vehicle: 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood
City/State: Lancaster, CA
Club: Good Times Car Club
Engine: Stock V8 LT1
Body/Paint: Topo of TS Designs originally converted this four-door hardtop Cadillac into a two-door convertible. Luis Lopez of Classic Eagle in Santa Fe Springs, California spearheaded the general bodywork prep before laying down a custom minka green finish. Mike Tippett of Rancho Cucamonga, California added his elegant pinstripes for the final touches.
Interior: Joe at California Upholstery in Bell Gardens, California made a complete custom leather interior that matched perfectly for this newly converted two-door. The convertible top was eventually redone by Area 51 Kustoms in Bellflower, California.
Sound System: Stock
Setup: Chavo of G Motorsports in Banning, California installed two hydraulic pumps powered by four deep cycle marine batteries and controlled by two switches.
Tires: 155/80/13 Cornell whitewall
Wheels: 13×7 OG Wire Wheel

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Discussion in 'Hunting Videos' started by oneshotlu, Jan 31, 2011.
(I believe these are copies of the original video posted)
Amazing, great thing is hunter wins. Happy to see they could all laugh at the end of the encounter.
wow, he is a lucky guy. That leopard could have done more damage, and thank God no one caught a stray bullet.
Definitely, all were very lucky in the end.
Wow. I can just imagine the pain this guy's in. Broken wrist, I think he said. From the wounds I saw, he's actually probably VERY lucky. I read somewhere for every second a leopard is on you you'll likely need a 100 stitches. By those standards, he's VERY lucky. Lots of puncture marks, and one slash on the wrist that I saw. No blood gushing at any rate. He's soooo lucky that no one hit him, but instead his buddy's were on target on the cat and got it off of him. That was WAY closer than I care to ever get to a cat, thank you very much! I'll stick with my housepet cats for that close an encounter! LOL!
could not believe the action how cool was that but the poor guy who was attacked how lucky was he
Been there done that without getting bit... We were very lucky! There's a saying that for every second a leopard is on top of you it is a 1000 stitches. They are lighting fast and wait untill you are in their comfort zone before charging which is usually about 15 to 20 yards.
Good luck on all hunting leopard in the future... ;-)
As I hear it the guy that got jumped was a PH in training...and decided on a new career after this incident.
From what I can tell the guy that got jumped was not carrying a guy. To me, trailing a wounded Leopord....Shutgun / 00 Buckshot would be the way to go and everybody would have one, except maybe the hunter who would have his rifle.
You see how fast that was and the guy with the double rifle missed twice. That is dang scary stuff.
Actually, it appears he WAS carrying a gun. He had a long item in his hands when this thing jumped him, and later one of the other guys picked up a long gun that was lying on the ground.
Seems to me the person with the best chance of hitting an animal coming in like that would be the intended target. There's no lead required. Seems the best thing would be to get down into a kneeling position, in order to get the aim in direct line of sight pointing at the animal as he bears down on you. That said, easier said than done! It would take a large brass pair to do so with a pissed leopard coming in at warp speed like that!
The PH (Chap) that was injured was not in training. He is a licensed PH. He has hunted since. The guy shooting the double is Martin Pieters. It is actually a 12 gauge shotgun.
Chap was carrying a bolt gun and shot and hit it as it ran past Martin. It probably would have been worse had ne not. Note the tracker running towards Chap and the leopard with a daemo (axe) to kill it, but luckily the leopard was shot and killed.
Shaun Buffee is filming the incident along with another camera man. You see him several times in the clip holding a camera. He was the PH on my last hunt. I also hunted with Martin in 2009.
Good info Mike, thanks for sharing! I am glad he came out OK in the end. It could have been worse!
Chaps scars are quite impressive. Fun PH.
That was a tough year for Chap. He also almost got nailed by an elephant and I believe his tracker took a hit from a buffalo.
I would have hung it up.
@ Terminator, he was indeed carrying a rifle...Marty picked it up after the action..In something like 90% of Leopard attacks where guys get 'Kitty Rash' (bitten and scratched...leaving itchy scabs!) the guys using a shotgun! 00 buck doesn't penetrate well...most people shoot for the cats face / head. When you look at the angle of the head in a charge, you'll find the brain cavity is well hidden behind lots of bone as the heads up. Problem also is that the semi auto shotguns jam with alarming regularity. but if one insists on carrying one for cat follow ups...use slugs in a slug barrell! @ Il Capo you're 100% right...getting down onto one knee is the correct thing to do as the cat only then gets bigger and bigger in the sights as it bears down on you...but it takes serious experience and courage to make yourself so 'vulnerable'!
Years ago, a PH and I had a fairly heated discussion throughout one season on the issue of shotguns and cats. Later that year his client wounded a Lion. The following morning he was out there with a 10 gauge 3 1/2" magnum loaded with LG shot. Fortunately he also had some backup with 458's. The Lion charged from about 19m away. He got off three shots between 19 and 3m. The Lion then died from multiple 458 rounds. On inspection, not one of the pellets had penetrated the skull nor the rib cage. Some had skidded around the skull under the skin, others smashed the teeth and others were stuck in the skin under the chest area. Now if those had been slugs it would have been a different thing altogether I reckon!
Interesting. I wouldn't have thought of using a shotgun on cats for just this reason. And I would think slugs would be a must in any case. I also wouldn't use a semi-auto, although I'm of the understanding semi-autos aren't allowed in many African countries anyways, yes? I, for one, am for pumps. In fact, I have two pump-action rifles too. For fast and reliable actions, they can't be beat. @ Ole Bally. Thanks for the come back. I was only guessing being I have no experience in that kind of hunting. It just struck me as being logical. And regarding courage, that's what I meant by having big brass ones! It's one thing to KNOW what to do, but a whole other ball game to actually DO IT! : )
It makes one think that wearing light Carhartt clothing would be a good thing too. That way the leopard would have a hard time chewing you apart! I agree light slug loads and a pump shotgun...are very deadly medicine. I have a pump rifle and like it very much too!
What kind of pump do you have enysse? I have two Remington 760 gamemasters. One is in .30-06, another in .35 Remington.
The .30-06 is the standard 22-inch barrel model, reblued in a satin finish which I had fitted with a green/grey/brown camoflage laminate stock from Reinhardt-Fajen. It has a Monte-Carlo style buttstock. Topped it off with a Pentax 2-7X36mm scope.
The other I also had redone in a satin blue, after having it cut down to a 18 1/4-inch barrel, then fitted it with a green/grey laminate thumbhold sporter stock from Boyds, and topped off with a Millett Buck Lightening 1.5-6x44mm illuminated reticle scope. That's my hog/east coast black bear gun. For 100 yard or less shots, it's deadly.
Well I have a Browning BPR 270 Win that shoots super accurate. I shoot 140 grain Swift A frame bullets and hit quarter inch groups at 100 yds with it any day of the week. It's a super deer gun, great for spotting and stalking.
They were selling those Browings ridiculously cheap...got mine for $480. Could never understand why the public hated Brownings clever invention?
My favorite pump gun is my Remington 870 Wingmaster...it feels like a extension of my own body....put some slugs or sabot and I'd follow up on a leopard or lion...point and shoot!
Nice. I'd like to add a Browning BPR to my line up, but I already have a load of guns. My wife would KILL me. With my latest addition -- the .30-06 barreled action, which I must have a stock made for -- I have 15 hunting rifles ranging from .222 Remington to .35 Whelen. : ) Some people would call it an "arsenal." For us gun "nuts," it's just a collection.
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Most of the available activities are on-campus, there's not a whole lot to do in the Claremont Village. However, there is never any lack of things to do on campus, perhaps for that very reason. There are parties, dances, sporting events, and random get-togethers planned by clubs and groups of friends that can use school funding and school spaces. There's also the city of LA about 45 minutes away in low traffic. Freshmen aren't allowed to have cars (unless you have a permit), so most freshman get a Zipcar account to use the cars on campus or take public transportation... or just don't go to LA.Read More
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NASA has recently launched [no pun intended] a NASA Commons Flickr page for images that appear to be out of copyright. Definitely worth a look.
And one has to give it to John Glenn. He's climbing into a space capsule that looks like it's held together with heavy duty red tape..
"On Feb. 20, 1962 at 9:47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule with assistance from technicians to begin his historic flight."
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Enthiran (aka Robot) took the world by storm with its crazy robo-centipede action. Can Shah Rukh Khan's Ra.One bring the same level of special effects and insanity? We're cautiously optimistic. Watch the first full-length trailer and decide for yourself.
Khan, also known as SRK, also did a new interview in which he explained a bit more about the film, coming in October. According to SRK: "Ra.One is not a science fiction film though it is based on computers, which today have become integral part of our lives. It's a regular superhero film, which should be a family entertainer." He also says the movie is named after the villain, because audiences tend to be more excited about villains. And yes, Ra.One stands for "Random Access One." Khan's character is "Jeevan, protector and giver, the superhero, who is a positive character."
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The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Csa". (Mediterran Climate).
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The Cubs are positioned to win their second series in a row after beating the Phillies this afternoon 5-1 behind a dominant Matt Garza. Garza was nasty, going 7 innings, only allowing 1 hit and 1 walk while striking out 10. Garza, the victim of some poor run support and tough luck finally got some help to record the victory. Tony Campana was once again the spark plug for the Cubs offense, this time leading off, as he went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and another stolen base. Bryan LaHair and Jeff Baker also had productive days at the plate. LaHair went 3-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored, while Baker went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Joe Mather chipped in with a solo home run which is the only home run hit by a Cubs outfielder on the season, yikes. Full box score, and highlights after the jump.
Game Highlights:
Garza's Brilliant Outing
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Campana Scores on a Sac Fly
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Anne-Marie Slaughter's July/August cover story, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," broke every online-readership record for the magazine: most readers (more than 1.2 million in the first two weeks alone), most Facebook likes (nearly 200,000), most comments (more than 2,400). The New York Times called it "that rare essay that stopped the American chattering class in its tracks." It prompted hundreds of responses via The Atlantic (see theatlantic.com/debates/women-workplace), other magazines, newspapers, blogs, and radio and TV shows, addressing such issues as feminism, work-life balance, and gender equality. Readers also questioned The Atlantic's framing of the story, as well as the wisdom of the author and other women in leadership roles, including Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg's appointment as Facebook's first female board member, and then newly named Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's pregnancy announcement, renewed the debate. As The Washington Post noted, this article "struck a deep societal chord."
If feminism is supposed to provide women with complete fulfillment, and allow them to have it all, then anyone who's less than fully pleased by her lot—who works long hours, struggles to pay bills, spends more hours over dirty dishes than her mate, who's guilty about missing her kid's play or her business partner's PowerPoint, who feels tugged in ways that she perceives her husband does not—is not simply experiencing firsthand the ways in which sexism, the economic divide, the wage gap, and patriarchal models for public and personal life persist. She's not even simply experiencing the human condition of dissatisfaction and yearning.
No. Thanks to the "have it all" phantom, she's experiencing betrayal at the hands of feminism itself … [which] takes the blame because thousands of years of sexual inequity have not been reversed fully in the past 50 years.
We don't lay the same booby traps for men … If we did, we might find out that they … also feel stressed, guilty, anxiety-stricken, unfulfilled, questioning. But it's not likely that we would then use their admissions of discontent to diagnose a larger male inability to balance effectively, or conclude that they are not realistically able to maintain the dominance they've enjoyed for millennia because having so much power is (a) bad for them, (b) unnatural, or (c) impossible. We'd probably just blame their dissatisfaction on feminism …
The Atlantic has made a damaging and dishonest error in selling [this] piece … not as a specific personal critique and a rallying cry, but as a broad statement of feminist futility … It's particularly galling, since Slaughter, whom I admire deeply, admits in the piece that she has a career … that is emblematic of the possibilities that feminism has wrought …
There are miles to go before feminism sleeps. But part of the point is: Look how many miles we've come, in such a short amount of time! We are still very much in the midst of reversing eons of gendered injustice, overheated headlines (from the, uh, Atlantic) about contemporary female dominance to the contrary. Brains are still getting rewired, systems are still being reworked to accommodate evolving roles. Backlash politics (like the packaging of this article, if not the article itself) pushes back against every female stride, every achievement, and there's still enormous effort to put into righting gender (and racial, and sexual, and economic) injustices that make true equality elusive. A document like Slaughter's offers a valuable testament to these remaining challenges. But its presentation as a deadening diagnosis of insurmountability is antifeminist, anti-woman, cheap, and reactionary.
Rebecca Traister
Excerpt from a Salon article
The idea that there is one homogeneous definition of "it all" that all women are supposed to desire is painfully reductive. "Let us rediscover the pursuit of happiness," Slaughter says, "and let us start at home." That's the most presumptuous line in the whole article. Maybe some women don't find happiness at home. Maybe some women do find happiness in their careers … Or in being alone. There isn't a singular goal for any person—man or woman—and yet feminism has sold us this prepackaged notion of success that, when you open it up, is totally undefined … [Slaughter] seems to think that this nebulous goal, "having it all," … is a damaging one, yet she legitimizes it by writing about it so reverently.
Lindy West
Excerpt from a Jezebel blog post
Let's implement all Ms. Slaughter's suggestions before I graduate from law school in 2015 so I can have a hand in raising my son while managing a successful legal career. I gave up my first career to be with him, because I just couldn't handle being away so much, and he was more important. This time around, with Ms. Slaughter's help, hopefully it won't be quite so challenging.
Oh, I'm a guy, by the way. Men in my generation strive to have it all, too.
Michael Gosling
Encinitas, Calif.
I love Anne-Marie's article. It caused this "Emperor's New Clothes" moment—the educated class admitting in public what is so true but usually only talked about in private: it's hard to get an A in parenting when you're balancing your career and your family. I was so impressed that she opened up and put her power and prestige on the line to show that a lot of our assumptions are outdated. Her eloquence and honesty have forced a real conversation about these issues.
Karen Kornbluh
Then–U.S. Ambassador to the OECD
Excerpt from a Current Mom interview
When I carry a naked baby in my briefcase, I get in trouble. But it's okay for a woman to do it. That's something you have that men don't have.
Stephen Colbert
The Colbert Report with Anne-Marie Slaughter, July 16
It was a great victory for gender equality when people finally stopped routinely saying "She's awfully good at her job—for a woman." The next big step forward will be when people stop saying, "It's awfully tough to balance work and family—for a woman." It's tough for men and women. We need to push for work-family practices and policies that allow individuals to customize their work lives according to their changing individual preferences and family obligations, not just their traditional gender roles.
Stephanie Coontz
Co-chair, Council on Contemporary Families Excerpt from a CNN blog post
Women like Slaughter are welcome to do what many high-achieving men have always done: marry a partner who will stay home to take on the burdens—and the joys—of family life. Climbing the ladder has always required sacrifice. Now that it is women who are making those sacrifices, there are demands that the system change to better meet their needs and desires. And this is sexist against whom, exactly?
Tom Paynter
TheAtlantic.com comment
While I too dream of a society where women, and men, can have it all, I see nothing unjust about conferring the top jobs on those willing to sacrifice parenting, hobbies, and other pursuits to attain their goal. The notion that women and men fail when they moderate their careers to spend more time parenting is the saddest and most preposterous premise occupying this whole debate.
Richard Hetke
Hinsdale, Ill.
Maybe I'm naive to think that if more women were in positions of power, there'd be a wave of family-friendly policy following—maybe the kinds of women who are gonna make it into the absolute highest positions of power and stick there are, by definition, high achievers who don't give a shit about anyone's family. But it couldn't hurt!
Dan Kois
Excerpt from a Slate roundtable
I am in my late 20s and am the daughter of a high-powered woman who was in the Clinton administration. The story hit close to home. My mother exemplified the idea that a woman can do anything she sets her mind to, even in a field dominated by men. When I was younger, I struggled with the fact that work was my mother's first priority. But now that I am embarking on my own career, I realize that I could never have asked for a better role model. Work was the norm for my parents (particularly my mother), and I have ended up stronger for it. I couldn't be prouder that I am my mother's daughter.
Mari Cohen
Washington, D.C.
Being able to ask if "you're having it all" comes from such a place of middle-class privilege it makes my head spin. It presumes that you have the choice not to work. That you have the choice to stay at home with your kids instead of going to the office if you simply can't hack the dual pressures. And it presumes that you have a partner that is willing to (a) pick up the slack if you choose motherhood over a career, and (b) be emotionally and financially supportive of your desire to have both. The vast majority of working women aren't Anne-Marie Slaughter—a highly educated, well-employed woman with an extremely supportive husband in academia—and she readily admits that. But for most of us, working is a necessity—and for those of us who want to have kids, there will be no debate about "having it all"—because it's a foregone conclusion that work is part of our personal and financial equation.
Julie Gerstein
Excerpt from a TheFrisky.com blog post
My solution for the author: raise a better generation of men. You have two sons. Think of the impact you can have on society.
Carol Levin
Boston, Mass.
The Twitterverse exploded with conversations about @SlaughterAM's "Why Women Still Can't Have It All."
Shed a tear of frustration & one of relief while reading @SlaughterAM's #HavingItAll piece in @TheAtlantic. Feeling new hope for my future. @MelodyRowell
reading people's thoughts on @SlaughterAM's piece, amused that many echo same sentiments but frame it in a neg attack first. #havingitall @Semhar
Thx @SlaughterAM for #havingitall piece in @TheAtlantic. 1st work/life balance piece I've seen that addresses tradeoffs. Also only one I like. @SamanthaLasky
Can there be two Career Type AAA in one family? Someone has to give, right? #havingitall @stevebeste
Can't stop thinking about @SlaughterAM article. Do men ever think about the work/family/kids balance as much? #havingitall @RashaKash
Talking #havingitall with my mom & our perspectives are almost identical. Wonder how much your take on it ties into generational values. @meghan_frick
What @SlaughterAM's piece really shows is that we have normalized an unhealthy way of living & wanting, in our quest for #havingitall @AmeenaGK
They should just retitle The Atlantic as The Magazine From Which Your Mother Sends Articles To Scare You. @rachsyme
The real question is not whether "women can have it all." Rather, it is how a sophisticated foreign-policy professional can write as if countries like Canada and the Netherlands simply did not exist.
In Canada, couples with a baby may sequence six-month leaves of absence at up to 90 percent pay. In the Netherlands—the best scenario I have seen yet—families can take a day off each week, and the government subsidizes full-time day care. This solution was not framed as a "women's issue," but as a family benefit. And Dutch women have simply moved on, focusing on other interesting goals in their personal and family lives.
In America, by contrast, the Chamber of Commerce and other business interests lobby hard to keep politicians from ever proposing such solutions. They know that billions of dollars are made from hiring women at lower income levels than men, and then ensuring that a work-family conflict derails women's careers before they become too expensive to compensate fairly.
Naomi Wolf
Excerpt from a New Europe blog post
While family life has been completely revolutionized by women's entry into the workforce over the past half century, our economy hasn't done the same …
While it's become increasingly acceptable for women to work, it still hasn't become acceptable for them to step back from motherhood. And that battle over what takes precedence plays out in women's lives in harmful ways. Women are often putting in more hours than men: a recent survey of over 5,000 full-time professionals found that more than half of women work nine or more hours a day compared to just 41 percent of men, plus 11 percent of women work six to seven days a week while only 7 percent of men do. One would hope that as women dial up the time they spend working, they could dial down the time they spend on parenting and home labor by off-loading some of it to dad. Yet that's not happening. Insure.com calculated that the value of what a father contributes to his household in labor, if paid at the going rate for outsourcing those tasks to someone else, would come to $20,248 this year—actually down since 10 years ago, adjusted for inflation. When it did the same analysis for what a mother contributes, it found [her work to be worth] $60,182.
Bryce Covert
Excerpt from a Forbes blog post
I knew early on that the workplace was not structured as I needed. When I was in my late 20s, I decided to stay home to raise my children. This was not an easy decision, and I often felt as if I had betrayed all of my feminist heroes. I actually canceled my subscription to Ms. magazine because I couldn't take the derision routinely heaped on women who chose to stay home with their children. I returned to my career when my kids were in middle school, and finally reached what I really wanted this past year: I became a principal. If you looked at my career path, you would see many twists and turns, but I have no regrets. No career attainment could replace the years I spent with my children. Thank you, Ms. Slaughter, for having the courage to say what I recognized 30 years ago.
Georgia Becker
Milwaukee, Wis.
The Atlantic has made this 27-year-old woman depressed about her lot in life. First you tell me that my generation is at a permanent disadvantage from entering the workforce during the recession. Then it's that there are no quality men for educated, ambitious women, and I should kiss my hopes for getting married goodbye. Now it's that even if I can move ahead in my career and find a decent guy to marry, I'm going to be strung out and unfulfilled.
Don't get me wrong: I appreciate Slaughter's article. But I give up! I'm going to start a lady commune on a remote desert island where we can just drink rosé and lie in the sun. Why bother competing when the odds are so stacked against us?
TheAtlantic.com comment
The thing that I ultimately know is that I can't do everything I'm doing, well. I can just try and juggle. And everybody in my family pays a price for my job. Nobody in my family pays a price for my husband's job.
Mika Brzezinski
MSNBC's Morning Joe with Anne-Marie Slaughter, June 25
Anne-Marie Slaughter replies:
In an article on women in Washington, responding in part to my own article, National Journal observed that although women in the U.S. capital have come a long way, "they still face career barriers, and often the biggest one is having a family."
That, in a nutshell, is why I wrote my article—to identify this problem and launch a conversation about it. It's an empirical fact: having a family is a career barrier for women in a way that it is not for men. Notwithstanding the tremendous progress women have made, thanks to generations of feminist women and men, we need another round of deep social, economic, political, and cultural change to achieve real equality and to be able to draw on the full talents of both halves of our society. Stephanie Coontz and Bryce Covert highlight both the numbers and the attitudes that need to change.
As I wrote in a response at TheAtlantic.com, I agree with Rebecca Traister that the phrase having it all obscures and distorts this basic point, at least for this generation. As I tried to make clear in my article and countless times since, "having it all" for the women of my generation meant having the same things men have: a career and a family too. But in the era of the 1 percent and the 99 percent, in a time of desperate economic hardship for so many, the phrase itself has become a lightning rod for debates about privilege, perfectionism, and greed. The problem of inequality in the United States is huge and vital; it is a canker destroying our society and our values from the inside out. But I was writing about a different kind of inequality: persistent inequality between men and women, a problem that far too many people, particularly in elite circles, want to believe has been solved.
A number of the responses here proceed from the same basic assumption that a former high-government official recently expressed to me in a conversation about my article. "We're ready for a post-feminist age," he said, "because now it is clear that women can do anything that men can do." Umm … not quite: we still haven't had a woman president, secretary of defense, or secretary of the treasury, although here's hoping that President Obama can rectify the latter two in a second term.
But the deeper problem is the idea that women now enjoy equal opportunity to pursue any career they want; it's simply up to them to take it. That's exactly the assumption that makes so many women, hundreds of whom have written me directly, feel that they have failed when they can't be Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, or countless other terrific women who have, with the aid of money, luck, supportive spouses, and superhuman effort, made it to the top. I applaud all those women and, for the record, count myself among them. But the success of the few cannot be the answer to the problems of the many, any more than the election of Barack Obama means that the problems of race in American society are solved.
But, chickpeaz, here's the good news. I have received a number of e-mails from women telling me that their bosses read my article and called a meeting to discuss concrete changes. And I have received many e-mails from men who are determined to be part of the change, taking the same position as Michael Gosling. Indeed, the very scale of the reaction and ongoing discussion, around dinner tables as well as in new and mainstream media, both confirms my view that change is needed and convinces me that American society is ready for it.
And yes, Naomi Wolf, the United States has much to learn from other societies, but I suspect that as with so many issues, change here will come as much from the bottom up as from the top down. I will do everything I can to be a part of it.
The Conversation At Aspen
Earlier this summer, in conjunction with its annual Ideas Issue, The Atlantic co-hosted the Aspen Ideas Festival with the Aspen Institute. Here are some of the highlights from the yearly gathering in Colorado.
In the midst of the media frenzy surrounding her July/August cover story, Anne-Marie Slaughter sat down with Katie Couric to delve further into the issues she raised in her cover story, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All."
On the "ambition gap" noted by Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg in her famous Barnard commencement speech: I see lots and lots and lots of women who have plenty of ambition. What they don't have is accommodation—accommodation for letting them have more flexible space … Yes, there may be an ambition gap—I know there's some research that shows it. What I see is much more an accommodation gap.
On high-powered jobs: If you [had said to] me when I was 30 or 35, "You're going to get the job of your dreams, and then you're going to have the chance to be promoted and stay on," I would have said there is nothing that would stop me from [staying on]. But where I sit now, I say to younger women: "Yes, you can do it, and I want you to do it. But be aware that it's going to take a huge toll, and you may well do it for two years—not four, six, or eight … Plan for it. Expect it. Understand these trade-offs are there" … When you're ready to go back in—this is critical—what most women say to me is, "I can't go back in, because there's this blank spot on my résumé of three or four years where I worked from home or I didn't work, and then I'm not eligible." And I want to say, "Those three or four years—let's call those 'living up to your responsibilities.' Let's call those 'being a national-security mom and investing in the next generation.' "
On maternal instinct: When I felt that [my son] was making life choices that were very bad life choices, and they were going to affect the rest of his life, I felt, you know—he didn't ask to be born, I brought him into the world … it is my responsibility to him. And even if I'm in a job that's affecting possibly millions of people around the world, as I wrote, there's lots of people who could be in that job. There is only one person who could be [his] mother … It didn't even feel like a choice. In the end, this is something I have to do … If you feel that, act on it and feel good about it. Yet so many women are made to feel bad about those choices.
Dele Olojede, a Nigerian Pulitzer Prize–winning newspaper editor, questioned universal suffrage.
Hard experience shows that if you have a large number of citizens who do not yet fully grasp even the concept of the state, who are largely very poor and uneducated, who struggle daily to survive and [are] susceptible to a $5 bribe, democracy sometimes seems like a sham. And we have to think about if there are other ways. In a society, some will be more ready than others. I cannot think of an example of a reasonably successful democracy that started out with universal franchise. What I haven't figured out yet is what should be the criteria for the franchise.
Walter Isaacson, the president of the Aspen Institute, discussed the country's founding principle of balance and its continued importance today.
It's not simply that you have to find compromise or middle values. You have to figure out a way to weave them together. [Alexis de Tocqueville] says that America has two different strands—a strand of individualism and a strand of working together as communities—and that these two strands are in conflict. Actually, these two strands aren't. There's something magical about the American system, that those strands become the warp and woof of the fabric of what we do in America … [Balance] was the great original idea of the United States—that people of different faiths and different backgrounds, ethnicities, and tribes could all work together in a cohesive fashion. The opposite of balance, of course, is the great scourge of the world today, which is fanaticism and fundamentalism. That will be the great struggle of this coming century … The question is whether we as a nation, we as a world, can remain the types of societies that look for balance rather than those who seek to win arguments.
Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, elucidated the problem of misinformation in a non-fact-checked era.
All of us grew up with an assumption that what we were seeing on television, especially in legitimate news, was edited and properly vetted. That's no longer the case. Furthermore, you can anticipate [that] very powerful forces will attempt to do misinformation campaigns to you, for one business objective or another. That it will be worth it to them to spend millions of dollars to create fake Web sites and so forth, to convince you that something that is really bad for you is really good for you. Because they have a business interest to do so, and the Internet allows that. We have to rank against [false information]. But you all have to be aware that searching for something doesn't mean you have to believe it.
In an impromptu panel discussion after the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, David Brooks, a New York Times columnist, parsed John Roberts's actions.
Clearly, he didn't want to provoke an institutional crisis. He's the chief justice. He didn't want to go to war … This is entirely consistent with his record. This Court has been generally very modest. The Rehnquist Court and the Warren Court overturned, on average, eight laws a year; this Court has overturned, on average, three laws a year … It's much, much less likely to assert itself to overturn precedent. It's also been a relatively non–ideologically divided Court, at least not more than previous Courts … There's been a lot of overwrought coverage of this Court, as if it's some really aggressive, activist Court. It's just not.
Alexis Madrigal, an Atlantic senior editor, expanded upon the idea of the "quantified self," explained by David H. Freedman in his June cover story.
Thanks to the glories of science, we now know many strange things about how human beings work … And yet, all this knowledge about how to improve our bank accounts and bodies is locked away in scientific journals or deployed by marketers and advertisers. I contend that a change is sneaking up on us that's going to allow us to take control of how we prime ourselves to live better lives … what I call "the programmable self" … New sensors that constantly measure your heart rate and skin conductance within your environment will be able to tell you that your sense of well-being is correlated with your living room but not your dining room, your kitchen but not your den. All the thoughts we've had about ourselves, all our intuitions, will be subject to the rigors of data-driven decision-making … Self-improvement meets cybernetics; behavioral psychology meets machine learning; the soft, warm body meets cold, hard data. If the 20th century was spent looking for the soul in the machine, the 21st might be [spent] discovering the machine in the soul.
Robert Putnam, a Harvard public-policy professor, urged people to shift their focus when discussing demographics.
Relatively speaking, racial differences, controlling for class, are decreasing, while class differences, controlling for race, are increasing in America. Nonwhite folks with a college education are looking more and more like white folks with a college education, and white folks who haven't gotten beyond high school are looking more and more like nonwhite folks who haven't finished high school.
Michael Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the stresses endured by soldiers and their families since 9/11.
If I'm a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the Army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom … has deployed at this pace, I'm now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four, or five times … My whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families … Now we are coming home. By no means are we home. We still have 90,000 troops in Afghanistan. And I believe we're going to see a couple decades of challenges associated with the stresses we've not been dealing with and the issues we've been packing away. Indicative of that is the incredible suicide rate we have on the active side, which—even despite all the efforts of leadership to contain it—is, in the Army this year, higher now than it was a year ago. And … we've got 18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States.
July/August's "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" cited a study by Michelle Arthur of the University of Mexico. Arthur is affiliated with the University of New Mexico.
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Not to be outdone by Java, Linux, or other high-profile technologies, Microsoft is staking its own claim in the connected-device space that is widely becoming known as the Internet of things.
Microsoft's horse in the burgeoning Internet of things race is its 15-year-old Windows Embedded OS, says Bob Breynaert, Microsoft's director of Windows Embedded. Microsoft is pitching the OS, which has had several names over its lifetime, for applications ranging from vending machines to robotic controls to sales terminals, its traditional type of use. It's also pitching Windows Embedded for ruggedized tablets for a variety of proprietary deployments. Such custom hardware systems are what embedded OSes like Windows Embedded, BlackBerry's QNX, Oracle's Java ME Embedded, and Java SE Embedded, Embedded Linux, and even Google's Embedded Android are designed for.
What's different about old-school embedded devices and today's Internet of things is that current devices are meant to be part of a fabric of services, not isolated items. Thus, Microsoft is touting its applications like SQL Server to manage data, Windows Azure cloud solutions to provide common computing and integration, its various business intelligence tools to analyze data from connected devices, and its various systems management tools to manage the whole fabric.
"The Internet of things to me is about the flow of data all through the enterprise," linking devices themselves to back-end systems, Breynaert says. As an example, he details a system in which intelligence is gathered from Coke vending machines to tally information on what is selling and when, what is not selling, and the machines' internal temperatures. BI tools allow people to query those details, who can then make decisions on whether to power down machines or reduce refrigerants. "All this is cost savings that goes through the bottom line of the company" and improves customer satisfaction, Breynaert says.
Breynaert does note that connected devices can be targets for intruders -- as evidenced in the recent security breach at thousands of Target and Neiman Marcus stores. (In fact, sales terminals often run Windows Embedded, as was the case in these breached systems, though it's unclear whether Windows Embedded was hacked in these instances.) "We need to build in security," Breynaert says, and he claims the easiest way to do this is by managing devices as Microsoft Active Directory objects.
If you equate the Internet of things with embedded systems, Microsoft is by one measure the leading operating system vendor, with 35 percent of the market's OS revenues, says Christopher Rommel, an executive vice president at VDC Research. But Rommel suggests not reading too much into that figure because two main embedded OS competitors are free: Linux and Android. Regardless of its actual share of deployed devices, Rommel says, Microsoft is absolutely going to be a player in the Internet of things.
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By Spring 1862, the discussion in the North about slavery increasingly was not whether to free the slaves, but instead about the best way to achieve this goal. Opinion on this question was divided, first, on whether emancipation should be immediate or gradual. Second, there was a difference over whether or not loyal slaveholders should be compensated (under the terms of the first Confiscation Act, compensation for rebel slaveholders was out of the question). Third, disagreement existed over whether freed slaves should be required to leave the United States.
So, for example, in March 1862, President Lincoln reiterated his support for gradual, compensated emancipation initiated at the state level with federal financial assistance to pay off slaveholders and purchase ex-slaves transportation outside the United States. As he wrote influential newspaper editor Horace Greeley on March 24, 1862:
If I were to suggest anything it would be that as the North are already for the measure [i.e., slave emancipation], we should urge it persuasively, and not menacingly, upon the South. I am little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District [i.e., Washington, D.C.], not but I would be glad to see it abolished, but as to the time and manner of doing it. If some one or more of the border-states would move fast, should greatly prefer it; but if this can not be in a reasonable time, I would like the bill to have the three main features—gradual—compensation—and vote of the people.
Lincoln in Spring 1862, preferred emancipation initiated at the state level, because given 1857's Dred Scott decision (which ruled unconstitutional federal legislation to control the spread of slavery), any attempt to pass legislation in the U.S. Congress to free the slaves outside the District of Columbia would be subject to challenge in the federal courts, where it likely would be overturned.
Others looked to foreign precedents on how slave emancipation might be accomplished peacefully and with a minimum of social disruption. In its March 16, 1862 issue, for instance, Harper's Weekly published an article entitled, "What to do with the Negroes." Harper's considered examples of peaceful emancipation in the Caribbean under the British and French. It read, in part:
With the exception of the crazy people down South who are being whipped into reason by the armies of the Union, every body now agrees that, sooner or later, in one way or another, slavery ought to be abolished on American soil. The main question thus decided, it is high time that the people began to think of and discuss the questions yet undetermined of the how and the when.
We have two historical precedents—that of Great Britain and that of France. In the year 1833 the British Parliament passed an act emancipating the slaves in the British West India Islands, with compensation ($100,000,000) to the owners; the act was only to take effect in 1838. In 1848 the revolutionary Government of France with a stroke of the pen freed all the slaves in the French West Indies: no compensation was granted to the owners, and the act took effect immediately.
These two plans of emancipation were carried under the most diametrically opposite circumstances. Emancipation in the British colonies had been brought before Parliament every year for twenty years, and only succeeded at last through the support of London bankers, creditors of the slave-owners in Jamaica and Barbados, who saw in a parliamentary grant their only chance of collecting the debts due them. The measure was adopted after full deliberation, and five years were granted the slaves and their owners to prepare for the change. In France emancipation was decreed from the impulse of the moment, without outside pressure from any quarter, and without preliminary notice of any kind to the parties immediately concerned.
So far as practical results show, the French scheme succeeded better than the English. The British colonies began to decay after emancipation, relapsed almost into a desert condition, and have only begun to recover very recently. The French colonies have undergone but little change.
It would, however, be rash hence to infer, that immediate and unconditional emancipation works better than the gradual and conditioned abolition of slavery. Emancipation worked badly in the British colonies mainly in consequence of the besotted and imbecile nature of the white slave-owners. With stolid pigheadedness, they refused to accommodate themselves to the new condition of things; haughtily declined to pay wages to the colored laborers who had once been slaves, and sank into ruin with their estates for want of common sense. Slavery had rotted their hearts and minds out, as it has done with the whites of several of our Southern States; and the failure of emancipation, for nearly a quarter of a century, was due to their stupidity. The slave-holders of the French islands, on the contrary, with their national versatility, adapted themselves at once to the new order of things, paid wages cheerfully to the emancipated slaves, and went on growing tropical products as before.
In neither case was it proposed to expatriate the slaves after emancipation, and both British and French colonies, since the abolition of slavery, so far from seeking to get rid of the negroes, have complained loudly of the want of labor. The Jamaica government has even tried to import free negroes from the United States.
In studying these precedents it must be remembered that the slaves in our Southern States are at least ten times as numerous as the slaves in either the British or the French colonies. They now exceed four millions in number, and men now living will, in all probability, see the colored race on this continent more numerous than the entire population of the country at the present time.
In Jamaica and Barbados the mulattoes are steadily gaining power and influence, and the end can not be mistaken. The white race must eventually go to the wall. To avoid this result, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Blair, and those who agree with them, propose to colonize the negroes of our Southern States—to send them to Hayti, or Central America, or somewhere else.
To be effectual this remedy must be thorough. The entire four millions must be exported.
Let us assume that the National Legislature adopts the colonization scheme, and decides to carry it into effect. To carry the 4,000,000 slaves now in the Slave States to a foreign port would require at least 8000 vessels of 1000 tons each—in other words, all the large sailing vessels in the world for a couple of years. The cost of transportation alone, assuming that the place of disembarkation were in the West Indies or Central America, could not fall short of $100,000,000. It would likewise be necessary to support the 4,000,000 slaves so exiled for at least one year in. their new abode, which could not well cost less than $100,000,000 more. The moment they were sent away our Southern States would raise the cry which has been raised by the British West Indies ever since emancipation—for more labor. Cotton, sugar, and rice plantations would go to ruin for want of labor. Prosperous regions would relapse into wilderness, and we should be driven, as the maritime nations of Europe have been driven, into adopting systems of coolie and negro immigration. In the mean while, under the fostering influence of a tropical sun, a negro empire would be rearing its head menacingly somewhere on our Southern border. This empire would number 10,000,000 souls in 1875, and 30,000,000 in 1900. Would not such a neighbor be more dangerous than any of the perils which we have tried to ward off by adopting the Monroe doctrine?
We have said nothing of the probability that the negroes would object to be exiled, and of the monstrous difficulty of exporting 4,000,000 human beings against their will. This is an obstacle which could be surmounted, though to overcome it would involve much expenditure of money, time, and energy.
So, while not directly advocating a position, Harper's Weekly with simple logic, demonstrated just how impractical it would be deporting nearly four million ex-slaves. Not to mention the cost of compensating slaveholders in merely the loyal slave states. The fact they were even being discussed was due to the specter of Haiti, where emancipation had come in the 1790s through a bloody race war. Many Americans, North as well as South, were convinced that large numbers of former slaves could not be trusted to live peaceably with their ex-owners and other white Southerners. These concerns, of course, would prove illusory. But to many white Northerners that favored emancipation in Spring 1862, they seemed all too real.
Sources: 1) http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/april/what-negroes.htm; 2) http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/content_inside.asp?ID=48&subjectID=2.


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Apple plans a major overhaul of iTunes that will integrate iCloud more and add new music-sharing features, according to a report.
The news comes from unnamed sources by Bloomberg News, which reports that the more integrated iCloud file-storage service with iTunes will let users "seamlessly" float from gadget to gadget (i.e. iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac.)
iTunes is one of Apple's cash cows, raising $1.9 billion last quarter alone, and it also has more than 28 million songs, 650,000 apps and 45,000 movies. The unnamed source told Bloomberg that the overhaul will improve access to their downloaded files.
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One of the main ways Apple will attempt to improve discovery is by making it easier for people to share songs, a popular feature of Spotify Ltd.'s music-subscription service. Apple has been negotiating with major record labels for rights that would let a user listen to a song sent to them from a friend for free, one person said.
Apple will also have closer ties with social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, allowing the social networks to share what users are hearing. There's also an effort to create more multimedia features for music.
However, don't expect Apple to offer a monthly fee like Spotify to access the digital store. Apple doesn't want to emulate Spotify *that* much. That would also mean changing the ka-ching model that paid the company $1.9 billion last quarter.


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Today, there was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake off the coast of Tohoku in northern Japan. It happened near the same spot as the 3/11 earthquake last year. This time, it wasn't so big, but it was the biggest earthquake I've felt in quite some time. It was still a big earthquake.
Here in Kanagawa, it was a 3 on the Japanese intensity scale, which basically means we felt a lot of shaking. It was quite long, too. Up in Tohoku, TV newscasters were urging people to evacuate the coast, remember 3/11. There was a tsunami warning issued, and a 1 metre wave hit the coast. It could have been worse.
To everyone around the world, and especially to my friends and family in Canada, USA and elsewhere, we're fine. There's no damage. Our evening is carrying on as usual. So don't worry!
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|The Dynamo won the 2007 MLS Cup without two regular starters: Brian Ching (injury) and Ricardo Clark (suspension).
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#39. Change of Plans (2007)
It was the second year in a row that New England and Houston met in the MLS Cup final. In 2006, the Dynamo downed the Revs in penalties, dooming the Revs to their third Cup final loss.
Surely, it couldn't happen happen for the fourth time to the Revolution.
The Revs had been one of the top teams in MLS all season in 2007, led by the talented and well-balanced midfield trio of Shalrie Joseph, Jeff Larentowicz and Steve Ralston. They were the centrifruge of coach Steve Nicol's unique 3-5-2 formation — and on the day of the final, it was working to perfection.
"They played the 3-5-2 better than anybody at that particular time," recalls Houston coach Dominic Kinnear. "They had Shalrie, Larentowicz and Steve in there, and Steve was getting free quite a bit. We had only Richard [Mulrooney] and Dwayne [De Rosario] in there, and I felt the workload for those two was too much."
Too much, indeed. The Revs' numerical supremacy in midfield paid dividends in the 20th minute, when Joseph found Ralston on a run in behind the Houston defense. Ralston served up a tantalizing cross, which Taylor Twellman headed home to give the Revs the lead.
The score was still 1-0 at halftime, and Kinnear knew he had to do something.
"We were losing at halftime, and we hadn't played particularly well," he says. "Our forwards weren't holding the ball up top well at all in the first half, so we couldn't get our outside backs into the attack.
"So for us, for our attack and to make it easier on Richard and Dwayne, I thought I'd throw another guy in midfield and try to push the ball out wide."
Kinnear is a confirmed disciple of the 4-4-2, and the Dynamo had only lined up in a 3-5-2 a few times during the year, mainly late in games when they were down a goal. Here, he was taking a gamble by going to an unfamiliar setup so early in the match. He pushed usual left back Wade Barrett up to the left midfield position, and had Brad Davis joined Mulrooney and De Rosario in the middle.
"We felt that with [right wing Brian] Mullan and Barrett on the outsides, both good runners, we'd have more success," he recalls. "Plus, it got Brad a little bit more of the ball, and it put Dwayne more forward."
The tactical adjustment worked more than Kinnear could've imagined. In the 61st minute, De Rosario found himself in possession deep in the Revs penalty area, and his low cross was finished by striker Joseph Ngwenya.
Then in the 74th minute, De Rosario's stunning snap header from a Brad Davis cross beat goalkeeper Matt Reis and gave the Dynamo their second straight MLS Cup.


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theresa necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a unique and striking logo for our brand new, exciting and innovative business - thinkingthin.co.uk. This is the first stage of our branding so it's pretty much an open book and clearly, if we like your style, there could be lots more work where this came from!
Thinkingthin.co.uk is a totally unique concept in the weight loss arena in two ways. Firstly it offers weight loss coaching programmes via the internet and secondly it approaches weight loss from a mindset perspective. If you don't change the way you think, then you don't change the way you behave. Change the way you think about food, your relationship to food, yourself and your life and weight loss will become much easier, more enjoyable and sustainable.
Just imagine having your own personal weight loss coach but at a fraction of the price it would cost to hire one! Someone who gives you step-by-step guidance on goal-setting, self-motivation, changing your relationship with food, exercise, nutrition, changing your mindset, staying on track, sustainability and much much more!
Thinkingthin provides just that through a series of different media – on-line courses, home study programmes, group telecoaching, motivational CDs and even personal telephone coaching. Whatever suits your needs, your budget and your life.
The core target audience is ABC1C2 women 35-55 years old who are more than a stone overweight and have probably struggled with their weight all/most of their adult lives. The secondary audience is all women aged 20-65 who are overweight and have tried unsuccessfully to deal with the issue.
Brand Values : Professional, credible, responsible, caring, supportive, positive, forward-thinking, holistic, inspiring, motivational, empowering.
- Item 1...A unique, striking, simple, clean design.
Colours not yet determined but I like white out of black very much, am quite keen on the colour purple for this type of business and am also thinking in terms of new beginnings and unlimited opportunities so a nice verdant green, a sky blue or a combination of the two might work well.
Possible strap-line – 'The missing link in weight loss' so it would be good to see the designs with and without the strap-line.
- Item 1...Anything un-original
Capital letters
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The tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef harbour an ecosystem rich in marine diversity and exquisite natural beauty. Join Spirit of Freedom for your choice of a three, four, or seven night expedition to world renowned diving destinations of the Cod Hole, Ribbon Reefs, and Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea.
These unique ecosystems showcase an amazing diversity from picturesque coral gardens crowned with delicate anemones and colourful reef fish to the 1,000 metre walls of the volcanic atolls of the Coral Sea, home territory for reef sharks, whalers, schooling hammerheads, mantas, schools of barracuda and mackerel, and massive red and yellow soft corals.
Spirit of Freedom is one of Australia's most comfortably appointed live-aboard dive vessels, with three decks of living space, generous cabins with private bathroom, and all the amenities of a hotel, complimented by first class meals and outstanding service. Departing out of Cairns every Monday, the seven day expeditions offer a combination of the best sites on the Ribbon Reefs and also Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea. Shorter three or four day itineraries are also available, including a flight into or out of Lizard Island to start or end your tour.
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Join Spirit of Freedom for three days and nights to dive the world famous Cod Hole and Ribbon reefs. Departing from Cairns, Mondays at 12pm, you dive the outer reefs from Cairns this day, before travelling north to the turquoise coral chain of reef, aptly named the Ribbon Reefs. You will spend the next two days exploring coral gardens, canyons and isolated pinnacles. You will encounter a resident family of giant potato cod, clouds of colourful tropical fish, anemones, and various amazing tropical marine creatures. Also suitable for snorkellers, this tour is inclusive of up to 11 dives, accommodation in en-suite cabins, chef prepared gourmet meals, and low-level flight from Lizard Island to Cairns. Return to Cairns approximately 11.30am on the Thursday.
Join Spirit of Freedom for four days and nights to dive the Ribbon reefs and Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea. Your tour begins with a one hour flight over the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns to meet Spirit of Freedom at Lizard Island, before sailing to the top of the Ribbon Reefs to dive sites such as 'Pixie Piannacle' and 'Lighthouse Bommie'. You will also dive the remote Osprey Reef with 1,000 metre walls, massive soft corals, and one of the world's most incredible shark dive. The last day you will dive the Ribbon reefs, before returning early morning on the fifth day. This tour is suitable for mid to advanced level divers, and is inclusive of up to 15 dives, spacious ensuite cabins, gourmet meals, and the flight to Lizard Island.
Join Spirit of Freedom for seven days and nights to dive the two amazing eco systems of the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea. You will visit the world famous Cod Hole and Ribbon Reefs, where you will encounter the giant potato cod, masses of tropical fish, anemones, and magical corals gardens. You will also travel out to remote Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea, renowned for crystal clear water and sheer walls that descend thousands of metres. Here you will find massive soft corals, manta rays, schools of pelagic fish, and one of the world best shark dives. This tour is suitable for mid to advanced level divers, and is inclusive of up to 26 dives, spacious en-suite cabins, and gourmet Australian style meals.
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Eva Longoria Parker made a splash earlier this week when a promo for the MTV Europe Music Awards hit the web showing off her rapping skills, and she's pleased the clip has been such a hit.
"See, another thing I can add to my resume is rapper," the actress, who will host the MTV EMAs on November 7, told Access Hollywood at Thursday's premiere of "Latinos Living The American Dream," which she produced and directed in partnership with Pepsi's YO SUMO initiative.
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Although her husband — NBA star Tony Parker — raps, she didn't ask him for pointers.
"Tony raps, he has a rap album. No, Tony did not help me," she said of her husband, who has released a hip-hop album in his native France.
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In Eva's rap EMA video (Click HERE to watch), she wore a sexy black cut out outfit as she tossed out lyrics about her life.
Eva said filming the clip helped build up her anticipation for hosting the EMAs.
"It was a lot of fun doing the promo for MTV and I can't wait to go host those awards. It's in another month, so hopefully I'll be healed up by then," she added, referring to the stiffness that resulted from a minor auto accident she was involved in, in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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Eva said the incident, which occurred when another driver allegedly turned left in front of the "Desperate Housewives" star, left her a little banged up.
"I've been better. Got in a little fender bender…" she said. "I'm fine. I'm just so sore and stiff today, so it's kind of hard to turn my neck."
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Despite the pain, Eva said there was no way she was going to miss the premiere of "Latinos Living The American Dream."
"I could not miss tonight because it was a really big night for this documentary I directed — my directorial debut," she said.
Eva explained that her documentary was originally inspired by the census.
"It's exciting. Pepsi had this amazing campaign for the census and we kind of wanted to take the idea a little further and do a documentary showing ordinary people doing extraordinary things and how Latinos are shaping the landscape of America," she said.
The actress said that during her first stint behind the camera, things went well because she took charge.
"Well, l I'm naturally bossy and so I think I did pretty well," Eva laughed. "You have to talk to the cast and see what they thought."
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Honestly, Im too tired to type. Insominia is eating away at me, I'm just tired all through the day then come night Im wide awake. My speed awareness course wasn't half as bad as I imagined and I was told I looked like a prostitute in the post office. Just a random outfit I snapped last week, Didn't really want to post these, but people on Twitter told me to. Peer pressure and all that! I'll try and be on form again tomorrow!
Monday, December 19, 2011
shortly before the end
Honestly, Im too tired to type. Insominia is eating away at me, I'm just tired all through the day then come night Im wide awake. My speed awareness course wasn't half as bad as I imagined and I was told I looked like a prostitute in the post office. Just a random outfit I snapped last week, Didn't really want to post these, but people on Twitter told me to. Peer pressure and all that! I'll try and be on form again tomorrow!
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A prostitute!? Horrible people! You look beautiful here Lily! XReplyDelete
your nail polish is perfect!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, December 19, 2011 8:12:00 pm
nap, and then nap some more! glad your course went okay, my brother had to do once recently and he didn't mind it. i love your necklace!ReplyDelete
Nice cardi! xReplyDelete
gorgeous rings! And the cardi looks so cosy :)ReplyDelete
Love the necklace, and your nails! :)ReplyDelete
wtf? a prostitute? sometimes poeple are so baaad to each others, makes me sick! urggh! You look so sweet, as always. Your necklace is so damn nice :) *ReplyDelete
Your nails look lovely! xReplyDelete
I still love this outfit!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, December 19, 2011 8:34:00 pm
oh gosh ive had to do one of those speed awareness course before! nightmare! you definatley DO NOT look like a prostitute!!ReplyDelete
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Awwwwwwwww you look so cute!ReplyDelete
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Love this outfit of yours Lily! Looks comfy and cute!ReplyDelete
what a horrible thing to say to someone! you most definitely don't look like a prostitute!ReplyDelete
I love this outfit, and your nails are gorgeous. I'm sure you didn't look like a prostitute! xxReplyDelete
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A prostitute in that outfit? A high end one then! Like the outfit combo. I'm always late on nights out because of naps ;( I started taking a multi vitamin with iron and it's helped my energy levels through the day. Works a charm!ReplyDelete
The marbled knit is beautiful. Get some rest, dear!ReplyDelete
I love the flecks of white in the cardigan... I think dark grey might be one of my favourite colours to wear! Pretty :-)ReplyDelete
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Love the necklace!ReplyDelete
LOVE the cardigan! Looks so cosy!ReplyDelete
It's always nice to be told you look like a prostitute aha, loove the nails xReplyDelete
want that necklace! yet again a lovely outfit! :) xReplyDelete
love your nails! xReplyDelete
Oh my lord, people are so rude! Hope your feeling better soon honey!ReplyDelete
Love the nail varnish and cardigan. They go perfectly together :)ReplyDelete
a prostitute! but you never dress sluttily!!!ReplyDelete
love your nail polish
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I love that cardigan and nail polish. Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
You look lovely xReplyDelete
Love the nail varnish!ReplyDelete
I love the cardigan !ReplyDelete
Woah! For real? I can't believe some people these days... Some peoples behaviour is just disgusting. You're a stunner, certainly no hooker! x xReplyDelete
adore your nail varnish!!!ReplyDelete
Krissy xoxo
I was just thinking how much I loved the cardigan, of course it's an old one and I can't get my hands on it! Lovely, festive nails!ReplyDelete
totally going to try to match those nails for Christmas. I am in total need of some new nail polish updates and I love all the things you are doing.ReplyDelete
Oooooh your hair is looking gorge! As much as I love ombre hair I think its time I got rid of mine :( hair is so damagedReplyDelete
Your eye makeup looks beautiful xxReplyDelete
I like it, it's simple and nice..and the makeup is great as usuallReplyDelete
your hair is beautifulReplyDelete
love it irene wibowoReplyDelete
That's a really terrible thing to say. It never ceases to amaze me how rude people can be... it's just disgusting. You look fabulous and they can go suck it.ReplyDelete
Hope you get some sleep! That cardigan looks so cute and cozy!ReplyDelete
Haha did you manage to laugh in their face when someone called you a prostitute or did you get offended?! Please tell me you did not. I would've laughed. In their faces. And said, "Your mum's a prostitute" Ouch xDReplyDelete
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Who told you that you look like a prostitute? You should have smacked them in the balls/breasticles.ReplyDelete
You look amazing Lily!! :)xxReplyDelete
Love this look. Beautiful :) xxxReplyDelete
Lily you look so pretty! Your nails are gorgeous xReplyDelete
The cardi looks fab xoxoReplyDelete
love ur cardi :) xxxxReplyDelete
who says you look like a prostitute? must be some weirdo who hasn't ever heard about style. let me beat him/her up for you ;)ReplyDelete
i love the colours of this outfit, even though it's a lot of grey, but i love how everything matches...
Lily your hair looks so long and healthy considering that you bleach it! Do you use Moroccan Oil? I'm unsure whether to splash out on it or not :/ReplyDelete
I love your blog! your outfits are always amazing :) love your nails too.ReplyDelete
you could NEVER look like a prostitute!! They just don't understand your mad style!! I hope things get better for you:) You look wonderful in these pictures!ReplyDelete
I love your necklace! Im sure you didnt look like a prostitute! even if you did..who the hell says things like that!?ReplyDelete
Have you got those photos of the photosesion of violent lips? Could you post them?ReplyDelete
omg i love your cardigan! ive been looking for a really cosy cardigan can't find it anywhere!ReplyDelete
definitely don't look like a prositute!ReplyDelete
love the outfit - especially the jewellery!
I am totally in love with that cardigan, my heart sank a little bit when you said it was from 3 years ago ;-). You definitely don't look like a prostitute! Haha. xxReplyDelete
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as if the post office isn't traumatic enough, how bloody rude?! xmas turns people into monsters. reckon they are just jealous, you always look lovely! love your cardi, looks so snug. and love the colour combination, greys/black/silver is so simple but so chic. need to invest in some nice silver bling myself!ReplyDelete
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