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Hay farmers struggling due to wet summer
June prime haying month in Maine
Maine hay farmers say they are struggling due to the wet weather this summer.
The rain that fell in June has put many hay farmers behind. That is because June is a prime month for haying.
According to farmers, by the end of June, they would have already harvested their first crop during a usual year. But this June registered as the seventh-wettest on record.
The Idle Knot Farm in Falmouth has about 70 acres of land used for hay owner Elwin Hansen usually has thousands of hay bales stacked up to the ceiling of his barn by this time of year. However this year, Hansen has only nine bales.
"The reason is because I didn't get started until the second week of July," he told News 8. "Normally I'm starting the second week in June."
Growing hay requires three to five days of good weather without rain, according to agriculture experts.
The hay farmers like Hansen grow is traditionally sold in bulk to feed livestock, but the rain is having an effect on the nutritional value of their crop.
The usual green hay is changing color. "That is a sign of losing nutrients," UMaine Extension Education Dr. Richard Brzozwoski explained. "They are mostly concerned about protein, so the farms that get hay rained on, they don't like because it diminishes the value of the hay feed value, and also the monetary value."
The farm said it hopes its second crop, which will be harvested in August, will be better. "We lost June. July, we normally don't have it as wet as it is. We normally have a drier month. Now we're hoping August is going to be taking in the bulk of the hay," Hansen said.
Even though the quality and amount of hay may be low currently, the demand is still very high. Hansen said he can't bail hay fast enough to sell it and he's already placed an ad in the paper looking for help when it's time to harvest the second crop.
"One thing about the farmer, we have to work with Mother Nature, whether she's good or bad. And right now, she's being a bit difficult," he said.


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|May 25, 2019
Farmers Market
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Address: Orange and State St, Redlands, CA 92373
Description: Residents and visitors to Redlands who have a taste for fresh, locally-grown fruits and vegetables will find just what they're looking for Saturday mornings in Redlands historic downtown. A new Saturday morning Certified Farmers' Market brings local growers to the City parking lot south of Redlands Boulevard between Fifth and Sixth streets near Ed Hales Park.
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PLATE + PLACE: In our get-anything-anywhere-at-any-time-world it can be a little easy to forget the experience of supping in a spot that has much to do with what you're supping upon. Nope, you don't have to eat an apple beneath an apple tree to enjoy all of its apple-y pleasures, but, on occasion, being at or close to the spot something was grown or harvested or netted or picked moves us back to the beginning of our food's story. (And the story of food has become, of course, understandably higher profile in these days of sustainable eats and local growers.) This is all to say that if you want a plate of seafood -- some prawns or a lobster or shrimp or all of the above -- savoring it near the ocean, if not on the ocean, is a rather wonderful. And if you have to do anything near the ocean, doing it in Santa Barbara, which, you may have heard, is rather picturesque, is also rather wonderful. Combine the enjoyment of fruits de la mer and a seafoodie's day out in the American Riviera and what do you get? The annual Seafood & Harbor Festival, which will again serve up the barbecue albacore, clam chowder, and fish tacos on Saturday, Oct. 12.
PRESENTED BY... the city of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, the Harbor & Seafood festival "coincides with lobster season," meaning you might see a bright red crustacean or two or two hundred among the diners. The dishes above will be served, too, as well as crab, gumbo, and other goodies. And, yep, you're right on Santa Barbara Harbor, which has a knack for appearing on postcards of that stretch of coast. (And, please: You know practically any street in Santa Barbara can be made into a postcard, so that's saying plenty.)
ALSO COOKING... is epicure s.b., a month-long food-and-wine-and-cheer event that encompasses the whole city, and a few surrounding communities. The California Avocado Festival, prix fixe deals at restaurants, and the lemons of Goleta are a few delicious highlights.


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Street Food: 99% Vegetarian Food Cart
The best food from the street.
I stopped by Vendy award rookie finalist 99% Vegetarian exactly a week before Thanksgiving. The truck currently parks right across the street from Liberty Plaza, where customers looking for a quick meal are a dime a dozen. I was therefore surprised to find no one—literally, no one—in line at the still-very-lunchy hour of 1:30.
Maybe I just don't get the Financial District crowd. Or maybe it's a matter of advertising: Miguel, the owner, has neither a website nor a Twitter account, and relies only, it seems, on reviews and his fixed location to spread the word. (Another possibility is the branding. I used to be a vegetarian myself, and I definitely remember having to convince my friends of the merits of soy.)
Regardless, I was a little befuddled. Especially since 99% Vegetarian has a pretty solid lunch deal, as far as I'm concerned. $6.00 gets you a heaping plate of four choices, with any of the sauces you want (I would suggest the ginger carrot, which was delicious and went with a great deal more than you might expect). Take a gander above if you're curious about the options.
That said, the items on my own lunch plate were a little hit-or-miss. I decided to try out the baked ziti, the fresh mashed sweet yams, the veggie "chicken," and the vegetarian chili.
The baked ziti was my least favorite. The pasta itself was quite overcooked; the cheese was all but non-existent; and the tomato sauce, while satisfactory, did not salvage the rest.
The sweet yams, on the other hand, were quite delicious. Their consistency was wonderful--just a little lumpy, which I like--and the yams were sweet but not cloying. Throw a little salt and pepper on them and you have a wonderful dish.
The veggie chicken was, I'm afraid, another miss. It was nice and moist but a step too pliable to be convincing, and the gravy was tongue-numbingly bland. I decided to try mixing my ziti and the veggie chicken together, and the results were better. The tomato sauce gave the chicken a little kick, and the mixture of textures drew attention away from the overcooked pasta—each bite a little better than the sum of its parts.
Last but not least, I had the sweet and mild vegetarian chili, the most delicious of the bunch. The fake meat was hearty and convincing and the beans were wonderfully flavorful. It also made just about everything it touched better. The yam and chili combo was wonderful, and the chicken and chili combo brought the chicken to a much happier place.
All in all, I think 99% Vegetarian deserves another try. What it does well, it does very well, and there are so many options that it seems it would be relatively easy to avoid the less tasty offerings.
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Little Free Library & Prayer Bowl
In 2012, St. Luke's built and installed the Outdoor Prayer Bowl and a Little Free Library.
The Outdoor Prayer Bowl, installed in October 2012, is an extension of St. Luke's practice of praying for each other throughout the week. Each week, parishioners asks for prayers by putting their written prayers in a bowl, and then people pull prayers out of the bowl to take home and pray for during the week. With the outdoor prayer bowl, we reach out to our neighbors and invite them to put their written prayers in the bowl so that we can add their prayers to ours and pray for them during the week.
The Little Free Library, installed in August 2012, partakes in a mission to promote literacy and the love of reading by building a worldwide free book exchange.


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So where does the time go? I don't get it. This year is seriously flying by and it's already April. Alas, this year has been filled with fun things thus far!
This weekend on Saturday I worked out at the gym in the morning and rode my bike 12 miles. I haven't ridden that far yet and it was a bit dauting but I did enjoy it. With the help of a friend at work I mapped out a route for me to take to work on my bike. I'm a little scared to ride my bike to work, but would love the extra workout it would give me. I hope by the end of this week I get enough courage to take the route! :/ Sunday morning I went for a short run and my calf was a little tight, but it was easy and I got done quick.
Saturday night, I got the opportunity to go to the Special Olympics "A World Of Difference" Fundraiser Dinner. This is one of my favorite events that we go to for work and it truly is a very amazing cause and I love going. This year was my 2nd year going.
What a special evening to celebrate these athletes and Special Olympics! They even had this amazing Beach Cruiser with the athletes creed on it up for auction.
Such a fun event that I really look forward to every year.
Sunday afternoon was spent doing nothing crazy, just cleaning and some baking. I will have to post my baking extravaganza sometime this week.
As for races… here's my schedule for the next few months, so far.
Salt Lake City Half Marathon – 4/21
Color Run 5K – 4/22
CSULB Reverse Tri – 4/29
And I'm contemplating the Laguna Hills 1/2 on May 28th and of course must do the La Palma Days 4th of July race on the 4th! We'll see how it pans out in the upcoming months. See how I signed up for that tri and snuck that in there? :)


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Beyonce Knowles intends to "stay busy" while she is pregnant with her first child. Beyonce Knowles wants to "stay busy" during her pregnancy.
The 'Best Thing I Never Had' hitmaker – who turns 30 today (09.04.11) – is currently four months pregnant with her first child with music mogul Jay-Z, but intends to keep working.
A source told the Mail on Sunday: "Beyonce wants to stay busy. She plans to take part in a Michael Jackson tribute concert in October at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium via satellite link, and although she'll take time off after the birth, she's committed to her role in Clint Eastwood's film 'A Star Is Born' and to launching a perfume next year."
Beyonce – who has always claimed she would get pregnant by the time she turned 30 – announced her pregnancy at the MTV Video Music Awards while performing her song 'Love on Top' urging the crowd to "feel the love" inside of her before taking off her jacket to reveal her growing baby bump.


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This forum provides a list of active beekeeping associations, organized by State. It is set up "moderated", but anyone can post updated information or add an association which is not already on the list.
Each State has it's own thread. The first post in each state thread contains the "Master List" of associations in alphabetical order, which is edited by the moderator.
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Select the appropriate State and "Post Reply" to that thread. Your post will remain hidden in que and the moderator will organize/verify the information from your post, adding it to the master list. To add a group to the list we will need an active association website, and to keep the lists orderly and concise we would like to limit the information to the following:
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Friday, March 16, 2018 - 2018 Postgraduate Certificate Program,art crime,Arthur Tompkins,Chappell,Dick Drent,Dick Ellis,Dorit Straus,Ivan Macquisten,Marc Balcells,Marc Masurovsky,Noah Charney,Valerie Higgins No comments
Is art crime understudied? We think so, but you can help us change that.
Who studies art crime?
ARCA's Postgraduate program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection is still accepting applications.
Late applications will be accepted through 30 April subject to census limitations.
In 2009, ARCA started the first of its kind, interdisciplinary, approach to the scholarly study of art crime. Representing a unique opportunity for individuals interested in training in a structured and academically diverse format, the summer-long postgraduate program is designed around the study of the dynamics, strategies, objectives and modus operandi of criminals and criminal organizations who commit a variety of art crimes.
Late applications will be accepted through 30 April subject to census limitations.
Turn on the news (or follow this blog) and you will see over and over again examples of museum thefts, forgeries, antiquities looting and illicit trafficking of cultural goods. Intentional heritage destruction during armed conflict, once a modern-day rarity, now affects multiple countries and adds to regional instability in many areas of the globe. Looted art, both ancient and Holocaust-related, finds its way into the galleries of respected institutions, while auction houses and dealers continue to be less than adept at distinguishing smuggled and stolen art, from art with a clean provenance. Thus making dealing with art crime an unrelenting problem and one without any easy solution.
Taken incident by incident, it is difficult to see the impact and implications of art crime as a global concern, but when studied across disciplines, looking at the gaps of legal instruments, country to country, one begins to have a clearer picture of the significance of the problem and its impact on the world's collective patrimony.
The world's cultural heritage is an invaluable legacy and its protection is integral to our future.
The world's cultural heritage is an invaluable legacy and its protection is integral to our future.
At its foundation, ARCA's summer-long program in Italy draws upon the overlapping and complementary expertise of international thought-leaders on the topic of art crime – all practitioners and leading scholars who actively work in the sector.
In 2018, participants of the program will receive 220+ hours of instruction from a range of experts actively committed to combatting art crime from a variety of different angles.
One summer, eleven courses.
Taught by:
Fabrizio Rossi, whose law enforcement experience with the Italian Carabinieri's art squad delves into criminal investigations surrounding plunder. His tireless work reminds those interested in purchasing ancient art, be it from well-known dealers or auction houses, that crimes committed 40 years ago still taint many of the artifacts and fine art that find their way into the illicit art market today.
London art editor and lecturer Ivan Macquisten who eloquently paints a picture of the burgeoning business which is art, whilst examining the interplay between our cultural obsession with risk and collecting. Macquisten disentangles the paradoxical alliances between the financially lucrative art market and the collector relationships that feed upon the art market's unregulated trade, sometimes profiteering from the lack of transparency in its transactions.
Duncan Chappell, the Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Australian Research Council's Center of Excellence in Policing and Security. Chappel is a national award winner for his lifetime achievements in criminology and will be lecturing on the growing number of bilateral, regional and global legal agreements that reflect a growing realization that transnational art crime has to be addressed through international cooperation, and that just as criminal groups operate across borders, judicial systems must consequently do the same.
Marc Masurovsky, co-founder of HARP, the Holocaust Art Restitution Project who will lecture on the variations among countries' historical experiences and legal systems, as well as the complexities of provenance research and the establishment of claims processes. Focusing not only on the implementation of the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-confiscated art but also on modern-day examples that underscore the difficulties facing any heir in recovering their property, Masurovsky underscores the need for fully trained provenance experts within museums and auction houses.
Richard Ellis, private detective and the founder of the Metropolitan Police-New Scotland Yard Art and Antiques Squad. His law enforcement background reminds us that trafficking in art and antiquities provides criminals with an opportunity to deal in high value commodities that are often poorly protected, difficult to identify and easy to transport across national boundaries. Ellis' lectures paint a little-talked-about portrait of the motley cast of characters who operate in the high-stakes world of the art crime. His course introduces students to sophisticated criminal organizations, individual thieves, small-time dealers and unscrupulous collectors who don't just dabble in hot art, but who also may be involved in other crimes, such as the smuggling and sale of other illicit commodities, corruption or money-laundering.
Criminal defense attorney and criminologist Marc Balcells, whose animated lectures on the anatomy and etiology of art crimes will illustrate that even if every art crime is unique unto itself, often the underlying causes of criminal behaviors fit into certain established patterns. With Edgar Tijhuis, students will explore various theories of crime causation each of which are key to understanding the crime and the criminal as well as evaluating its danger to our cultural patrimony.
Museum security and risk management expert Dick Drent, whose role in the recovery of two Van Gogh paintings from a Camorra reminds us that finding stolen works of art is much harder than protecting them in the first place, especially when organized crime is involved. In Drent's course students will learn about safeguarding culture before it goes missing, analyzing practical approaches to securing a collection, using risk and decision analysis as a form of analytics to support risk-based decision in museums, galleries and reference institutions around the globe.
New Zealand District Court Judge and founding trustee of the New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust, Arthur Tompkins who gives us a fast-galloping 2000-year romp through the history of art crimes committed during war and armed conflict. Tompkins reminds us that armed conflict, whether interstate or intrastate, poses various threats to cultural monuments and cultural property and that while laws have been enacted in an attempt to prevent or reduce these dangers; better laws are also needed to sort matters out after the fact.
New Zealand District Court Judge and founding trustee of the New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust, Arthur Tompkins who gives us a fast-galloping 2000-year romp through the history of art crimes committed during war and armed conflict. Tompkins reminds us that armed conflict, whether interstate or intrastate, poses various threats to cultural monuments and cultural property and that while laws have been enacted in an attempt to prevent or reduce these dangers; better laws are also needed to sort matters out after the fact.
Independent art & insurance advisory expert Dorit Straus, who serves as a member of AXA ART Americas Board of Directors and Presidential appointee to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) explores the worlds of specialist fine art insurers and brokers, who underwrite the risks associated with the fine art market. As the former Vice President and Worldwide Specialty Fine Art Manager for Chubb & Son, she knows firsthand the active, financially-motivated role insurance firms play in analyzing the risks involved in owning, dealing, buying, transporting or displaying art to the public. While art insurance expertise is sometimes overlooked as a less-than-sexy side of the art world, insurers have served to make galleries, museums and private collector's collections safer, as their oversight and contract stipulations have produced a dramatic reduction in attritional losses.
ARCA's founding director, Noah Charney who draws upon his knowledge of art history and contemporary criminal activity to explore several of the most notorious cases of art forgery. Emphasizing that art forgery not only cheats rich buyers and their agents, ruining reputations, his course illustrates how crime distorts the art market, one which once relied heavily on connoisseurship, by messing with its objective truth.
Valerie Higgins, archaeologist and Program Director for the master's in art management program at the American University in Rome examines material culture as the physical evidence of a culture's existence, illustrating that through objects; be they artworks, religious icons, manuscripts, statues, or coins, and through architecture; monumental or commonplace, we can and should preserve the powerfully potent remains which truly define us as human.
To request further information or to receive a 2018 prospectus and application materials, please email:
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Interested in knowing more about the program from a student's perspective?
Here are some blog posts from and by students who have attended in 2016, 2015, 2014, and in 2013.


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According to the 2012 Norton Cybercrime Report by Symantec, nearly 556 million people around the world last year fell victim to cybercrimes, such as computers viruses or email scams, costing nearly $110 billion in damages to consumers.
With cases of cyber crimes now increasing worldwide, thanks to the growing adoption of the Internet, are cyber criminals now an unstoppable force that could one day cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars?
Check out this infographic, which highlights the facts and figures on how Cyber Crime is gradually growing day by day.
Related: Cybercrimes Cost Consumers $110 Billion In One Year: Study
Related: Will The Next Economic Disaster Be A Cyber Crisis?: Kenneth Rogoff


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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Max Stirner and the Problem of Compassion
One of the more amusing crosses that atheists must bear is the odd backhanded compliment. "If you don't believe in God," asks the local bible thumper, "What is to stop you from just doing whatever you want, murdering, stealing, raping, and heaven knows what else?"
Good point. If your belief in God is all that stops you from doing such things, I'm entirely in favor of your continuing your belief. I personally have other reasons for not murdering, raping, or stealing. For example, I'm pretty sure that somewhere in either the actions or the consequences lies something that I wouldn't enjoy. But, hey, that's just me. De gustibus non disputandem.
Speaking from pure self-interest, a heavenly afterlife is mighty appealing. I'm not entirely sure about the whole "eternal life" thing, (a billion years of reruns might well get pretty tedious), but life is too damn short as it stands. I'd sign on in a minute if the price was right and the deal guaranteed. Oh, but wait, you're supposed to buy the whole thing on faith, and besides, the check is in the mail. Also, I would be doing it for the wrong reasons, since you're not supposed to be doing it for selfish purposes. I haven't found a Jehovah's Witness yet who could explain how angling for eternal life was altruistic, but I haven't met them all yet.
Still, the contradictions that can be found in the followers of religion is a fair match to the contradictions in those who purport to be philosophical egoists. The nature of those contradictions is likewise revealing.
Who purports to speak for "The Individual?" The phrase itself is a betrayal, a collective label as subversive to its target as a religious tract. Those who claim the throne of individualism are often labeled "Right Wing." Libertarians, Nietzscheans, Randites, Social Darwinists, denizens of think tanks like the Cato Institute, authors of papers in Mankind Quarterly. They are tough-minded, almost to a man (including the women). Reading what is written by these individualists, what do we find? Endless arguments over what is the best way to set up an individualist society. In other words, endless prescriptions for how one's fellows are to behave. Precious little about one's own behavior, as nearly as I can tell.
But there are telling little slips. Once at a lecture given by Ayn Rand, someone asked during the Q&A: What would be done for the poor in an Objectivist society? Rand's reply: If you wish to do something for them, you will not be stopped. Then came applause. Of course. That put the bleeding heart in his/her place.
Consider Stirner's response to a similar question:
But is my work then really, as the Communists suppose, my sole competence? Or does not this consist rather in everything that I am competent for? And does not the workers' society itself have to concede this, in supporting also the sick, children, old men in short, those who are incapable of work? These are still competent for a good deal, for instance, to preserve their life instead of taking it. If they are competent to cause you to desire their continued existence, they have a power over you. To him who exercised utterly no power over you, you would vouchsafe nothing; he might perish. – Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own
And there is the essence of the struggle, is it not? Children, the sick, the elderly, those who are incapable of work, those people may still have a power over you, to whatever extent you have compassion for them. And there are those who hate that power, the power to move through compassion. So they deny it. They attempt to rip it from themselves and to deny its rightful existence.
How is this not a diminution? Someone without compassion is a sociopath. Is a sociopath better than a compassionate man?
We applaud the painter, the musician, the playwright (if their work suits us, of course). The playwright and director move people about in such a fashion that we find the result pleasing. Why does not the philanthropist get at least the same praise? Why is putting a fiver in the hands of a beggar not considered a work of art? And lest anyone impugn the motives of the philanthropist, remember, Lord Rothschild's beggar nevertheless got his fiver.
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- TStockmann said...
You may find the June 18 discussion on the distribution of philathropy interesting or you may not. Sorry, if you can link to individual entries on that blog, I don't know how to do it.
When are you going back to copyrights and patents? The implication that somehow artistic copyright reflected inherent rights and corporate drug patents were just graft was cute, if a little nakedly self-interested. Perhaps a litle suggestive of arguments regarding capital gains from another class.
I hope you can write a more convincing defense of schadenfreude than of compassion.
Gore Vidal said, "It is not enough that I succeed; others must fail." You're a writer - have you ever written a line as fine as that? I, sadly, haven't.
- June 20, 2007 at 3:37 AM
- James Killus said...
Gore Vidal said, "It is not enough that I succeed; others must fail." You're a writer - have you ever written a line as fine as that? I, sadly, haven't.
Of course you have. You just did. True, it was not original to you, but it wasn't original to Vidal, either, as I have seen it attributed also to Oscar Wilde, David Merrick, and that paragon of fine prose, Anonymous.
My favorite variation is, "It is not enough that I succeed; my best friend must fail." That gets a single google hit, as "an old showbiz saying.
Which rather seques into your query about copyrights and patents. Wherever did you get the notion that I believe that "somehow artistic copyright reflected inherent rights?" When I stated "Copyrights are not 'natural.'" (First, topic sentence in para 11 of the May 22 entry, Playing the Rent VI –Qualms About Copyrights), didn't you think that maybe I was hinting that I didn't consider copyrights "inherent?"
Also, I said that patents (like copyrights) are "a form of patronage." Patronage is not graft; you could look it up, to quote Casey Stengel.
As for writing a "convincing defense" of compassion" that was not my intention. You either have it or you don't, and you can choose to either accept it or deny it. My point is that people who possess it yet still deny it are performing self-mutilation. I do not consider that opinion to be a defense of compassion, but rather an example of it.
BTW, to put html links into comments and such, you use the html coding. The easy way to do that is to get the "source text" from your browser (usually from the View menu), and copy the "a" tag (it begins with an "a" inside of two html brackets) reference line.
- June 20, 2007 at 10:18 AM
- TStockmann said...
Now, now - the attributions to Wilde are inferior and even if they weren't, I didn't correct your Latin so you shouldn't go all pedantic on me.
Reread your posts on patents and copyright back to back. Can detect a little, umm, tonal difference? Anyway, I don't see that there's any difference in material and intellectual property, although I'd characterize it as license in all cases rather than patronage. There's nothing more intrinsic in a deed than a patent or a copyright. Hope you go back to the discussion, especially f you intend to be more severe with your chest-beating listserv friends' views.
The point about schadenfreude - since you're making me get all obvious about it - it that your emotivism (which I assume is what you oppose to those nasty rationalists) is that compassion is only one part of the spectrum of socially-cohesive emotions, and neither the most common nor perhaps the most useful in that sense.
I don't encounter as many doctrinaire individualists as you do - I understand they're more common in the sf world, because there is something vaguely perpetual-adolescent about both (thinking about Disch's observation about sf as a variety of children's lit). But I'm dying of curiosity - have you actually met someone you would characterize as a genuine Nietzschean, not a cartoon version? I simply can't imagine.
And still would like to hear the line you wrote that youd line up against Vidal/Wilde/Anon's.
- June 21, 2007 at 7:21 AM
- James Killus said...
Well, first, if you don't want pedantry, you've picked the wrong guy's blog.
Second, by all means correct my Latin. Then, at least, I'd know what you are referring to.
Third, it is utterly unsurprising that you detect a "tonal difference" between my essays on patents and copyrights. No one is trying to make patents perpetual; no one uses patents for the purposes of private censorship, and I have not recently seen anyone refer to patent infringement as equivalent to rape. However, as I noted in the essay on copyrights, most of what I might say is very well said elsewhere, and I'd advise you to follow the links. I am too lazy to redo others' very fine work, especially when some of those others are lawyers. And frankly, I doubt that I can be "more severe" on those in the Making Light discussion than they were on each other, so again, why bother? I try avoid repetition (he repeated).
But you really see no difference between intellectual and material property? I mean, the law does. Theft of material property is a crime, whereas violation of copyright or patent infringement is a tort. Put another way, if I steal your car, you don't have it any more. If you violate one of my copyrights (say by running off 10,000 copies of SunSmoke and selling them or giving them away--an act that I would strongly encourage, by the way), I still have the copyright to my novel.
Moving on, I would not characterize my position as "emotivism" but rather as "relativism," the recognition that viewpoint is critical in moral and ethical judgements and even in the formulation of the self. The recognition that there are multiple valid viewpoints leads perhaps to "perspectivism" and compassion, sympathy, and empathy are all critical to that. The phrase "spectrum of socially-cohesive emotions" strikes me as even more pedantic than you accuse me of being, but de gustibus, and, again, feel free to correct the Latin.
But I'm dying of curiosity - have you actually met someone you would characterize as a genuine Nietzschean, not a cartoon version? I simply can't imagine.
That is because a "genuine Nietzschean" would be a cartoon character.
And still would like to hear the line you wrote that youd line up against Vidal/Wilde/Anon's.
Groucho Marx and George Burns were once sitting at the Friar's Club in Los Angeles, having a discussion about Charlie Chaplin. Marx was being dismissive. He said. "Chaplin wasn't that funny. Hell, I'm funnier than Chaplin."
Burns scowled. "Go right ahead," he said, then raised his voice. "Hey everybody, Groucho is about to say something funny!"
I am, however, quite fond/proud of The Emperor of Dreams
- June 21, 2007 at 10:52 AM
It is not enough that I succeed; others must fail.
I used a somewhat reversed version of this leading up to Y2K. I had responsibility for some of the significant systems in my organization.
I was fine if our stuff worked & everyone else's worked. I was also OK if our stuff failed and everyone else's failed - even if it meant burning our furniture and slowly starving to death. What was not tolerable was our stuff not working and everyone else's working - that would be intolerable ... and you would be alive to have to deal with it.
- June 21, 2007 at 2:51 PM
- James Killus said...
Back when I was on a bowling team I told people that the odds were in my favor. If the team won, I felt good even if I bowled badly. If I bowled well, I felt good even if we lost. To bowl well and also win was great, and if I bowled badly and we lost, well, at least I had company.
- June 21, 2007 at 7:47 PM
- TStockmann said...
You left out the "est" in "...non est disputandum."
Of course I see a difference in the current treatment of real and physical property, but part of that is that physical property has been around long enough that it looks like a given, a basic right - once heard the original version of "life, liberty, and the pursuit or happiness" was "life, liberty, and property." It's no longer obvious that government creates property through what I call a license rather than codifying some natural law of just possession. Look at the arguments writers who'd like to make copyright eternal - if there were enough of them and it went on long enough, intellectual property would be able to assume the more robust protections or real property - not that the current record company jihad on college students isn't a good distance down that direction.
I think if my occasional nastiness doesn't get me tossed off your blog. you'll come to see me as even more relativistic than you are.
You're wrong about Nietzsche, but that's not surprising and pretty much illustrative of why I phrased the question that way. He might be a saint of the wrong religion. as Yvor Winters characterized Hart Crane, but he was not Leopold or Loeb, let alone Rand.
And, yes, the prose of your Emperor more than passes and the psychology of the unamed writer's rejection of that ending is acute. Since I'm a little obsessed about truth claims and meta-moststuff- while the frame is clearly not to be meant as a literal roman a clef, does the possibility (to me, ay least)) that you might have a genuine deceased writer in mind with a metaphorical connection to the theme of the story do anything to the rhetoric? And if you did, what do you think actually using his name would do to the story?
- June 23, 2007 at 7:32 AM
- TStockmann said...
Hmm, it also occurred to me that the FBI warning at the beginning of The Little Mermaid threatens me with criminal as well as civil penalties for copyright violation, so prety sure it's more than a tort now.
- June 24, 2007 at 12:12 AM
- James Killus said...
ts, I believe that the FBI warning at the beginning of DVDs and videotapes refers to laws against the interstate commerce in counterfeit goods (trademark violations), which are considered criminal fraud, not copyright violations, though I haven't been able to find exactly what legal sanction the FBI actually possesses here, other than vague allusions to "cybercrime." It may be noted that the FBI has not shown itself to be the most law-abiding agency itself, so I don't consider their warning to be a legal judgement.
There are also some things that date from the so-called Bono Act in 1998, which attaches criminal penalties to attempts at breaking copy protection schemes, among other things.
I will note that I am not wrong about Nietzsche, but I misunderstood your question. In science fiction, there is a thing called a "Heinlein character," a paragon of self-sufficiency and multiple talents that cannot actually exist, but that does not stop people from trying. So it is with Nietzsche, whose Übermensch has been taken as an aspiration by many, usually to ill effect, in large part, as you imply, because people do not understand Nietzsche.
However, you were asking about whether or not I had ever known anyone who attempted to follow Nietzschean philosophy. My answer to that question can be found here: Nietzsche and Me
The writer in "Dreams" was Lin Carter, except he wasn't and many of the things that happened in the framing story happened to people other than myself. The line between truth and fiction gets blurred a little too much these days, so I did not want to push that line too far.
Ah, and one last thing: I learned it as de gustibus non disputandum est, except that Miss Whitley was careful to note that the verb "to be" in Latin is rarely required and is thus often optional. Indeed, the entire phrase is often simply truncated to "de gustibus," so I'm going to have to do worse than that to fail my memories of Miss Whitley.
- June 24, 2007 at 12:11 PM
- TStockmann said...
Great answers all, but I hope you take my point that most of the essential differences between the two classes of property have more to do with the age of the tenure, habituation giving the appearance of a priori, and why further evolution in the direction of this is likely for the younger class. The SB Copyright Protection Act you mention is one such move; there are similar tendencies in patent and trademark law. The key difference between this and the folks who use this simularity to promote enhanced copyright protection is the first eliminates the apparent transparency of hard property and the latter attempts to use the accreted morality of the older class to lend legitimacy to expanded rights for the younger.
Kind of pruning back Natural Law, which a perspectivist should appreciate.
- June 25, 2007 at 7:59 AM
- James Killus said...
It's my understanding that the legal theory of real property (i.e. land) has come to the belief that such property rights are a "bundle of rights" and as such, many of those rights have become quite abstract.
To that extent, and assuming that I understand you correctly, many, if not all property rights are coming to be viewed by legal theorists as abstract, statutory constructions. The difficulty, as you imply, is that most people still hold naive views of "natural" rights, which views are then exploited by those wishing to tie the expansion of their statutory rights and privileges to those emotional hooks.
That said, I will note that there are practical (at least) differences between those forms of property that can be maintained by private action, without recourse to large organizations (e.g. the legal system and its various enforcement arms), and those that require such recourse, even to the extent of violating what would otherwise be private rights, as, for example, when there is a police raid on a building where a suspected software counterfeiting operation is housed.
- June 25, 2007 at 4:22 PM
- TStockmann said...
Case in point, so to speak.
I think what I'd say is that what can be defended irrespective of the state is possession rather than property.
- June 27, 2007 at 3:39 AM
- James Killus said...
I think what I'd say is that what can be defended irrespective of the state is possession rather than property.
Ah. Very good point. That has all sorts of implications, and I'll have to ruminate on them for a while.
- June 27, 2007 at 10:45 AM


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I'm reading Kac's Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras. In Chapter 4, he classifies the affine root systems. Bourbaki classified the affine Coxeter groups, but multiple root systems can give the same Coxeter group. Kac denotes the elements of his classification by $X^{(r)}$, where $X$ is a symbol denoting a finite root system (e.g. $G_2$) and $r$ is $1$, $2$ or $3$.
When $r=1$, everything makes sense to me. $X^{(r)}$ is a root system which gives rise to the affine Coxeter group which Bourbaki would consider to be of type $X$.
When $r$ is $2$ or $3$, I believe I understand the object Kac is defining. However, I do not understand how he chooses its name. For example, look at the root system he calls $A_{2 \ell-1}^{(2)}$. The root system is of rank $\ell+1$, not $(2 \ell-1)+1$ as you would expect. The corresponding Coxeter group is the affine Coxeter group of type $B_{\ell}$. If you look at Macdonald's very readable paper Affine root systems and Dedkind's $\eta$-function, Macdonald denotes this root system by $B_{\ell}^{\vee}$, which makes much more sense to me.
Similar issues apply to every entry in table 'Aff 2'.
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Why does Kac choose the notation he does?
Is Kac's notation so established that I have to use it? Is there a mainstream alternative? I find Macdonald's much more reasonable, but I'm pretty sure that hasn't caught on.


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Detroit just filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in history on Thursday, July 18, and it's going to hurt. How did this happen, what does this mean for Detroit's economy, and what is going to happen next?
Plummeting Human and Economic Capital
Unfortunately, it's not like Detroit's bankruptcy should be a total surprise; Detroit's biggest export over the last three decades wasn't cars, but people. 25 percent of the city's population fled the city limits between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, and 60 percent of the population vanished since its peak of 1.849 million in 1950.
Meanwhile, Michigan itself had hemorrhaged 450 thousand of the 900 thousand manufacturing jobs it had in 2000.
Fiscally, Detroit's deficits were devastating. Their cash flow statement pre-bankruptcy is a nightmare of red ink, bleeding out 327 million per year in deficits as of 2011, and had racked up debts of about $18 billion.
Translated to human terms, that's a deficit of $444.60 for every man, woman and child in the city. A family of four would have to cough up an additional $1,778.40 every year just to keep the debt from getting worse.
The total Detroit debt amounted to $25,218 for every resident – a number that crept higher for every person who hit the 8-Mile Highway out of town. Available assets won't even come close to covering the shortfall. Some people are kicking around the idea that Detroit's pension funds are going to be able to collect just ten cents on the dollar.
The Gloomy History of Municipal Debt Nationwide
But wait, it gets worse. If you've been reading this space for a while, we've been sounding the alarm on municipal debt. Analyst Merideth Whitney also sounded the klaxons in 2010, predicting 50 to 100 sizeable defaults in the coming months. Since then, municipalities have been buoyed up by lingering stimulus expenditures and a rebound in the housing market that helped boost property tax receipts. Munis had a little hiccup following Whitney's gloomy prediction, but rallied again, and continued to rally through the Stockton, California bankruptcy, then the largest municipal Chapter 9 filing in U.S. history.
Well, the market doesn't always notice when a fish dies. But this bankruptcy is like a massive humpback whale washing up on the beach; it stinks, it's hard to ignore, and efforts to deal with the problem may lead to unpleasant and unintended consequences.
Detroit's long and sordid road to federal bankruptcy court didn't begin with the last recession. The seeds were sown when labor unions, sheltered temporarily from global competition by Pax Americana and the economic devastation of every viable competitor thanks to WWII, learned they could force huge concessions from American automakers.
After all, American skilled laborers and the post-war manufacturing plant unscathed by foreign bombers was the only game in town.
Management played along, failing to make the strategic case that after two generations of auto workers that were no longer productive but still collecting pension benefits, that newer upstart manufacturers without these oppressive long-term obligations would eat them alive. Detroit got fat, dumb and lazy, while the Big Three began building lousy cars and destroying their brand until Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, Mitsubishi, Mercedes, BMW and Nissan blew them up like a whale carcass.
Meanwhile, the actual City of Detroit had to compete in the labor market with the auto makers, and wound up committing itself to generous long-term pension obligations that it had no way of keeping. Attempts to raise taxes to cover them would only accelerate the depopulation of Detroit, leaving the debt burden to be distributed more and more heavily on the shrinking remaining population. As it happened, Detroit saw its tax base cut in half, even as pension obligations and promises mounted.
A Timeline: The Long Road to Bankruptcy
Perhaps something could have been done earlier – not to eliminate the damage but at least blunt it so that pensioners would recover 80 cents on the dollar instead of 10 cents. However, iconic mayor Coleman Young was driving white and middle class Detroiters out of town during his tenure in the 70s, and Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, presiding during the relatively prosperous years 2002-2008 and who probably had the best chance to turn things around at the last minute, was too busy engaging in a pattern of corruption, bribery and fraud to lead the city to face the ugly truth.
This disastrous long-term history of mismanagement and absence of strategic planning is, according to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, attributable to bad luck. "For the most part the city was just an innocent victim of market forces," Krugman writes – as if the city had gotten that way by losing a bar bet or something.
So what of the broader municipal market? Well, markets took it in stride when Stockton declared bankruptcy. But Detroit is different. Not only was Detroit nine times more populous than Stockton at Detroit's peak, but it is still more than twice as populous – and defaulted on a lot more debt.
Further, Stockton is really a local California problem; Detroit is a marquee name in American industry. So since Detroit filed bankruptcy – and since the President told them to drop dead when they requested a federal bailout, we've seen a broad pullback in munis, and some outflows, but no panic selling.
Indeed, in the last two weeks, we've seen two healthy developments that are actually good for bondholders, in the long run:
- First, Detroit finally recognized the inevitable and filed for bankruptcy before things got even worse, and there would be even less to recover.
- Second, the Treasury Department's refusal to fund a bailout for Detroit sent a positive message to cities like Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and other struggling municipalities nationwide: Get your act together, because you're not getting bailed out either.
Secretary Lew's refusal was a shot across the bow to free-spending states and cities – and a much-needed one.
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325g small new potatoes, thickly sliced
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"We are in the middle of a public health crisis with meth," Goddard said. "Meth cookers are poisoning our children, putting our public safety officers in unacceptable dangers and imposing high costs on taxpayers, businesses, healthcare systems and the environment."
Goddard is working with legislators and a broad coalition of law enforcement officials to adopt anew law to make methamphetamine production more difficult by moving chemicals used by criminals to cook meth behind the pharmacy counter. The goal of the legislation, sponsored by Rep. Tom O'Halleran, is to reduce meth cooking in Arizona, begin a coordinated education effort on the dangers of meth, and update existing laws governing environmental remediation and child abuse.
"Meth is the number one illegal drug contributing to violent crime in Arizona," Dupnik said. "Local law enforcement needs more tools to prevent the use and production of this dangerous drug."
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So maybe you finished Skyrim months ago and haven't picked it up in awhile, or perhaps you just picked it up in the most recent sale on Steam. Either way, this article is here to help bring you the best Skyrim experience around through the use of handy Mods. A quick note, this is only for PC versions. Sadly you can not mod or alter content on the console versions of Skyrim, sorry!
Skyrim UI (SkyUI)
Skyrim UI doesn't change the graphics, or add dozens of new weapons. It doesn't reshape your character or even add new perks. With that said, it is still one of the best mods a player can hope to find for Skyrim.
As you can see, Sky UI changes the inventory screen to a more traditional list based system. It gives you more information up front about your current inventory and allows for better sorting and management. This UI change also feels snappier than the original and allows hoarders to have better control over the abundance of items they may be carrying on themselves.
This mod can be found on the Steam Workshop, but it does require some additional content before it will work. They people who set up the mod have laid it out very clearly though, and anyone with a PC copy of Skyrim should look to grab this as soon as possible.
Realistic Lighting
Lighting is one of the most important factors in any game. It seems like a simple thing, but how light acts around your character can drastically change how you perceive the world around your character. Realistic Lighting is a mod that does that very thing. It reworks the lighting in the game, making it more dynamic and natural. This also causes the shadows to become more realistic and appear deeper and more natural.
The Realistic Lighting mod isn't very demanding and anyone who can play Skyrim on their PC should be able to run this mod also. It is found easily enough on the Steam Workshop, but is also available on most modding forums like the Skyrim Nexus
Unofficial Skyrim Patch
As the name implies, this is less a mod and more a patch. This is a fan made patch that people have released that fixes hundreds of various things throughout Skyrim. It exists because sometimes it is easier for modders to fix a bug or glitch than it is for the developers. This isn't for everyone, some people may never even find a single glitch in their game. However, if you are looking for the most flawless experience possible, look into picking this handy patch up. It does require a little more modding know how to get working, and isn't available on the Steam Workshop. It can be found here however, at the Skyrim Nexus, https://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19/?
Immersive Armours
This is the first mod in our list that actually adds content to the game. Immersive armours is a great mod that adds plenty of new armor sets to the game, without removing any of the old Armor. The person who created it even went so far as to add them to the distribution lists used in dungeons so that there is a chance to find these pieces of gear in the open field. The new armor spans many categories, so whether your a mage or a tank, their will be something for you.
The Immersive Armours mod can be found at the Skyrim Nexus. It is fairly easy to set up and doesn't require any additional CPU or GPU power. Check it out here, https://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19733/?
Legendary Creatures
Ever wondered what a 100 foot tall Frost Troll would look like? Well look no further. This mod adds some new enemies to the game that act as large scale boss battles. Most are just super sized versions of enemies found in the game but have much better stats and drop special gear upon their death.
The creatures can be found scattered around Skyrim and hunting them down is a great thing to do when you run the quest lines dry or want to hook your character up with some epic loot. To get this great mod, you only need to look on the Steam Workshop.
Pure Waters
Skyrim is full of water. Sometimes that water might not look the greatest. That is where Pure Waters comes in. Pure Waters changes how the water looks for nearly every body of water in the game. The great thing about this mod is that many bodies of water have been specifically reworked in a unique way, making each pool of water different then the next. The Pure Waters mod is great in conjunction with the Realistic Lighting mod found above. The combination turns the environments into visual wonders.
Since this mod is subtle and doesn't drastically alter how water is handled in the game, players should be able to run it with no issues. It can be found on many modding sites as well as on the Steam Workshop.
Xenius Character Enhancements
The Xenius Character Enhancement mod (XCE) is a subtle mod that changes how characters appear in Skyrim. It changes small things like scars and skin tones to make them more realistic while also altering larger aspects of the character, like giving them more defined fingers and toes.
There are many other things this mod changes, with a full list being available on the various sites this mod can be found on. It is also available on the Steam Workshop, giving everyone easy access to it. Due to the subtle nature of the changes, any player who can run Skyrim on normal or above settings will be able to handle this mod.
Moonpath to Elsweyr
Moonpath is less mod and more expansion. This excellent mod adds an entire new section to Skyrim. More specifically it adds Elsweyr, the home of the Khajiit. Players will be able to explore this new land and go on completely new quests that have their own story and brand new voice over recorded by the modders. If you are looking to expand your Elder Scrolls experience then you should look no further. This mod stands up there with expansions released from Bethesda and should be experienced by every PC player.
Since this is fan made content, players should keep in mind that things might not be on the same quality level as a Bethesda released expansion. There are a few oddities within this mod and the occasional spelling error. Don't let that deter you from playing however as this adds tons of great content. It is easily installed via the Steam Workshop and since it is built on Skyrim code it should run well on most computers.
Midas Magic
Another great mod, Midas Magic adds tons of new spells to the game. Dozens upon dozens of spells get introduced, some being completely new, some rehashes of old spells. The mod also makes them a bit of a challenge to obtain, adding a sense of accomplishment to obtaining them. Many spells fall within the normal realm of Magic, adding new destruction or restoration spells to a mages repertoire. Some however are just handy spells to help make life easier, like the Bind Pickaxe spell, allowing you to summon a pickaxe at any time.
A word of warning for eager spell slingers. Some of these spells are large and full of effects. This will cause extra strain on computers so if you are running an older machine, you may experience issues. With that in mind though, Midas Magic can be picked up on the Steam Workshop and many other modding sites. They are currently on version 15 of the mod, which adds over 150 spells to the game. This is a must have for anyone who enjoys magic, so go check it out!


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As we sprung forward into daylight saving time last spring, and lamp lighting was given a one-hour reprieve, I was admiring the still-bright stars early one morning and thinking about their luminance and how lucky many of us are.
These thoughts stayed with me as I traveled into Boston on a cold and damp morning. Getting close to Cambridge, I saw the usual collection of men who congregated in a particular area, each holding up placards that described their situations. On that morning the driver ahead of me was slowing down for the red light with his car window open and his arm outstretched. In his fist was a wad of money.
Both our cars stopped at the red light. None of the men saw the cash in his hand. The man began waiving his arm to attract their attention. Finally, a blond man whose worn-out face was clean-shaven and who was dressed in a shabby green pea coat walked towards the outstretched arm and reached for the money. As he took it, I saw on his face a profound look of sadness and shame.
The man who had given him the money kept his hand out as if to shake the man's hand. The homeless man didn't notice the still outstretched hand, he was looking at the bills within his cupped hand and his head was bowed. The light turned green and the car ahead of me started to move.
The man finally looked up and saw the still outstretched hand. Rather than reaching out for the hand, he ducked. In that brief instant, I saw the reflex movement of a dejected man, a man who perhaps was used to being hit, a man for whom an outstretched arm usually meant pain. His movement reminded me of a dog who has been beaten down; cowering and fearful of any outstretched hand. I thought about this man's face all that day; it is a face I shall not soon forget.
While this country struggles to emerge from the recession that continues to stranglehold our economy, other countries are drowning in the tsunami of our debacle. Our crisis has become the world's crisis and its fallout continues to impact foreign markets and economies around the globe.
Even with all this disaster in the wind, we need to be reminded of the daily suffering of the poorest of those that share our planet. Those whose children die from hunger, those who sleep on dirt floors, those who will never in their lifetime feel the hope that their lives can and will get better.
The World Bank counts that 500 million people live in absolute poverty.
Each year 15 million people will die of hunger. Malnutrition is the leading cause of child deaths worldwide, a percentage unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death. One out of eight children in this country goes to bed hungry.
For the price of one missile, a school full of children could eat lunch every day for five years. One in four people (or 1.3 billion) live on less than $1 per day. Three billion struggle to survive on $2 per day.
According to UNICEF, the world's billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of the countries that contain 45 percent of the world's people.
To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only $13 billion U.S. dollars. This is the amount that the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
For too long many of us read these statistics and feel helpless. We wait for others to do something to help. We need not wait any longer.
In 1976 Professor Muhammad Yunos did extensive research to examine ways to loan very small amounts of money to the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh. Based on his research, the Grameen Bank, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, was born in 1983. (Grameen means rural or village.)
It is here that the word and idea of microcredit was born, and the Grameen Bank provides un-collateralized loans for the poorest of the poor. These loans represent tiny sums; yet these sums finance major changes in the lives of these poor and formerly hopeless people. Most of the recipients had never even touched money. Since its founding Grameen has lent $9 billion in small amounts to 8 million in Bangladesh.
This new form of "banking" has morphed into becoming microfinance with savings plans, insurance, home mortgages, and scholarships. Grameen does not charge interest nor accept donations — nor does it function as a charity. Its paybacks are close to 99 percent and it actually earns millions in profits.
The code that Yunos had cracked after his painstaking research was that even though the poor have no collateral, they have something more important; their reputation in their villages. Using all he had learned, the Grameen Bank was able to create the model for a totally different kind of bank — a bank that functioned completely opposite from every other bank in the world.
We may not be able to fund a bank that can provide microloans, but we can do two things. Stop spending money on needless things and put that money aside. Pass over high-priced fragrances for inexpensive ones. Retire next year's holiday lights and donate the money saved on electrical bills. Let the glow of the night sky and the starry firmament light the way for accomplishing extraordinary things, one saved dollar at a time.
Take one hour to find those charities whose percentage of giving to those in need is the highest, whose staff salaries are the lowest, whose offices are the most barebones. Imagine what change 1 million households can make if they each save and then donate $50 a year on just two things. That, my friend, is the sweet smell of success.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us."
— Marianne Williamson


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Students and teachers alike look forward to the longest holiday of the year, 'summer'.
In the past summers for me meant packing my bags with all that I would need and move down to Agami, a summer resort just outside of Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea, where my parents had a beach house. There I would spend my days in shorts, t-shirt, swimsuit and flip-flops with my beach bag ready for the beach. Two to three months of swimming, tanning, reading, playing volleyball, running a summer camp for children and catching up with old friends whom I hadn't seen since the previous summer.
Times have changed and friends have moved on. I have not been back to Bianki since 2007. I miss the times, I had there during my teenage years. It is there where I made some of my most memorable memories and met some very interesting people and dear friends. To date, my summers are split between Alexandria and going abroad to various destinations to get away from the stress that the post revolution has left and the political roller coaster of electorial disappointments we have had to take part in, witness and accept the results of.
The beginning portion of my summer for the past two years has been spent in Alexandria with my parents. My mother and I have been motivating one another to get back in shape and eat healthy. (This as some of you may know has been an ongoing process for me. After 1.5 years of battling the bulge, I am 13Kg away from my target weight!) I would spend an hour working out at home, doing various crunches and sit-ups as well as using an elliptical bike and 3 hours of the day would be spent swimming laps and using various apparatus to help strengthen and tone my arms and legs. For a few weeks, I or we would go abroad.
To go abroad for me is a chance to recharge, re-evaluate, relax and look at things from a different perspective (the change in scenery and climate is also an added bonus). This year my mother and I ventured to London to visit briefly with my sister and to Ireland to attend a family wedding and strengthen family connection with our cousins, whom we had lost contact with over the past few years.
I am fascinated with our family genealogy, especially on the Irish side. I have found that not only do I look Irish, I have a lot of the Irish family traits in me and from listening to stories, I find I learn more and more about myself and why some of the members of our family are the way that they are.
As a young girl London never appealed to me, I had formed an image of it being a dark, grey and gloomy place, much like the Industrial time in England. My opinion changed quickly when I first visited 3 years ago. I look forward to my visits there now, not solely due to it's undeniable allure but because I actually feel normal there. I don't worry about what I'm wearing and if I'll be harassed as I walk down the street or how long it will take me to get to my destination. When I am there the stress of constantly having to be aware of the people around me and looking for signs of possible sexual harassers trying to invade my personal space drops from 100 to 1.
Time spent with my sister, her husband and other members of our family are precious and they always take priority. I try to spend as much time with them as I can, to keep our family bond strong and because I simply love being in their company. There is never a dull moment when we congregate! On extended visits I like to walk around and take in the sights, museums, shows, take pictures and of course shop! (One has to make a contribution to the economy of the country one happens to visit, no?)
It was also exciting to have been there pre-Olympic ceremony. To see the city decorated with flags of the different nations taking part in the games. The excitment and pride of the nationals to host the games. My mum and I missed the ceremony but watched many of the highlights and events once we had made it back to our hotel room and back to Egypt after our trip. The athletes are phenominal in their dedication and inspring!
I have always been very proud and patriotic of my Irish heritage. When I visit I can't help but be in awe of her beauty. Her beauty, in my opinion becomes more enhanced by her people, who have such a cheerful, friendly, helpful and funny disposition about them. I can't help but find so many similarities in them and the 'old' Egyptian culture that I grew up knowing, ( it saddens me to think that what remains of the 'old' Egypt, might soon be lost, if things are not sorted out soon).
During this trip to Ireland, I made sure that I would not be rushing through like a forest fire, but I would actually have time to walk the streets, visit historical landmarks, eat in pubs, shop and talk with the locals, as well as visit with family.
I can not tell you how much I enjoyed touring the capital, learning about how Ireland earned its Independence, driving through the grounds of Phoenix Park, visiting Trinity College and sitting in its grand library of ancient manuscripts and books that were written and read by some of the greatest minds on earth and where some members of my family attended. Although my connection to the country itself isn't strong, I think this journey has definitely strengthened it.
My cousin whom I had only reconnected with over the last three years and hadn't seen in twenty, invited my family and I to attend his wedding. The place in which the nuptials took place and the ceremony itself was unlike any wedding that I have ever been to or seen before. It was a Humanist Wedding/Ceremony, filled with spirituality, tradition and love. It was held on a bridge on a beautiful summer's day with beautiful landscape encompassing the couple and their families and friends. Nothing could have made it more magical, meaningful or beautiful in my opinion. The two-day event was packed with entertainment, food and great times. Most importantly it was shared with people who truly cared for the couple and genuinely wished them nothing but happiness in their future life together. It was at this event, where I made new connections and bonds with members of our family whom I had lost contact with and those I had never met before. (Now, I know where I get my energy, drive, motivation to succeed, love of learning, sense of humor and love of partying from, The McSorley Clan)
The third part of our trip was spent visiting the area of where my grandmother and generations before her had come from. In some strange way, Wexford, a small county by the sea reminded me of Alexandria. It is here where my mother attended boarding school as a young girl and where she spent many summers with her aunt, uncle and cousins at a nearby resort called Rosslare. As I walked the quay and breathed in the fresh Irish sea air and took in the scenic views, I couldn't help but be grateful for the opportunity to have traveled to the land of my ancestors, to see where half of me is from and to be able to pass down the stories that have been told to me by my aunt, mother and cousins, so, that our history isn't lost or forgotten.
In Wexford we strengthened existing ties with family we are in touch with. It was also a second opportunity for my mother to spend time her aged aunt of 97 years and to thank her for all the wonderful summers she had spent with them as a child and all the other things she and her late husband did for her growing up. (Moments like that should be seised, because they may never come again).
There is so much more for me to see and learn of Ireland but I have an itching desire to learn as much as I can about my family as I can. I hope to be able to go back there again soon in the near future.
Upon returning to Egypt I couldn't help but feel depressed. Ireland might be in dire straits economically but the people have the drive to rebuild the country to get it back on its feet again. Egypt, a nation of great potential and historical as well as cultural wealth seems to be sinking before our eyes and very few seem willing to get their hands dirty. I have said it before and I will say it again. I fear for Egypt's future and her children. I pray that I am wrong and that she will not suffer in the hands of men like Rasputin. Perhaps the Egyptian Olympians who preformed so well at the London 2012 games, might inspire their country men and women that hard work does pay off and that they can not only achieve great things but be recognised for them in the long run, if they pull together and move forward in rebuilding the country rather than pointing the finger of blame.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Chris Wondolowski's pair of second-half goals, including one in the 92nd minute, gave the San Jose Earthquakes a 2-2 tie against the Portland Timbers on Wednesday at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Wondolowski, who came on in the 58th minute, scored his 20th and 21st goals – extending his franchise single-season record, career-high and league-leading total – to help the Quakes salvage a result in stoppage time yet again.
Portland, who got a pair of goals from Danny Mwanga, blew a golden opportunity for their first road victory of 2012. Instead, the Timbers remained winless in a 16th straight road match and are in line to be just the fifth MLS side to go a full season without a road victory.
OPTA CHALKBOARD: Quakes go Route 1 in comeback
Mwanga used his strength to create his own goal-scoring chance in the 45th minute, staying upright despite a hard challenge from Víctor Bernárdez. The big Honduran defender's attempted dispossession of Mwanga fed straight to Rodney Wallace in the middle of a stretched-out San Jose defense.
The midfielder calmly slid a through ball right back to Mwanga, who took one dribble to avoid converging Quakes defenders and charging goalkeeper Jon Busch and found the empty net.
Mwanga, acquired from Philadelphia in June, completed his first Timbers brace with a crackling 25-yard blast across the face of goal to the upper corner of the far post on the other side of halftime. The play was set up by a 40-yard run through the midfield by Franck Songo'o, who easily swiveled around Bernárdez before feeding the forward, who had plenty of time to line up his shot before ripping it past Busch for the 2-0 lead.
San Jose brought on Wondolowski and Alan Gordon – initially rested in the midst of a three-games-in-eight-days stretch – in search of what looked like an unlikely comeback. But as has been the story all season at Buck Shaw, it was only a matter of time.
In the 73rd minute, Gordon flicked on a long lead pass from Bernárdez, and Steven Lenhart got a sliding touch on it to free Wondolowski, who converted with his left foot from 16 yards. It was Wondolowski's first goal in the run of play since July 14, making it 2-1.
The furious rally continued, with the Quakes throwing numbers forward and tempers from both teams starting to flare. It made for an emotional home crowd, and an emotional Wondolowski when he rescued the point with an open header at the back post after an attempted flick clearance by Portland defender Hanyer Mosquera fell to him.
San Jose (17-6-6, 57 points) extended their unbeaten streak at Buck Shaw Stadium to 16 straight matches – the Quakes are 11-0-5 there since Aug. 13, 2011 – and remained three points ahead of Sporting Kansas City in the Supporters' Shield race. They travel to Seattle to face the Sounders on Saturday.
Portland (7-14-8, 29 points) sit eighth in the West, one point ahead of Chivas USA. They'll travel to Real Salt Lake on Saturday.


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By now, my century long-depressed baseball brethren on the north side of Chicago are aware that, despite Prince Charming occupying the king's seat at Addison and Clark, Cubbie Land might still get turned on its head.
Oh yes.
Ryne Sandberg.
If Ryne Sandberg becomes the new manager of the St. Louis Cardinals — THE WORLD CHAMPION ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — then I think I might just pee on myself.
Oh, the joy… to think, that one of the greatest Cubs in the history of the world — THE SAME CUB WHO WAS SNUBBED OVER FOR MIKE "LAME DUCK" QUADE — could sit at the St. Louis helm with those beautiful, beautiful birds on the bat, blazing across his Hall of Fame chest.
Oh sure, Francona would be great. Oquendo too. Hell, even Pettini is good in my book.
But Ryno… oh Ryno… *SALIVATES*
A friend of mine ran into Ryno, his wife and some friends of theirs in Times Square this summer. He said he was so in awe of the Hall of Fame second baseman that he sort of lost track of his thoughts and the forced conversation sorta became… awkward.
I imagine it was the same sort of awkward that would come from him championing the Cardinals to a World Series title in 2012…
Hate me! Just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right!