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Engineering and Technology, The War Years (1775-1783) June 24, 2020 June 23, 2020
Tower of Victory
The Santee Indian Mound and remains of Fort Watson. (Ser Amantio di Nicolao)
As far back as the eleventh century B.C. attackers confronted by fortified cities and towns, castles, and forts, used siege towers to elevate their own soldiers to heights equal to the defenders. The Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, and Chinese all used such weapons to defeat enemies situated behind high walls. These machines of war provided the inspiration that produced a "towering success"[1] in an American Revolutionary battle in 1781.
After the Pyrrhic victory at Guilford Court House, North Carolina, on March 15, 1781, Lord Cornwallis was forced to take his small army to Wilmington to rest and refit. This left the supply line between the bulk of the remaining British troops at Camden and Charleston, South Carolina, vulnerable to attack. Nathanael Greene, loser at Guilford Court House but still commanding a sizable force, sent Col. Henry Lee with about three hundred Continental troops of his own "legion" to attack the posts protecting the British line of communications. The string of outposts included Fort Granby, Orangeburg, Fort Motte, and Fort Watson.
On April 14, Lee joined forces with local militia leader Francis Marion, who commanded about eighty militiamen, and decided that their first target would be Fort Watson, a lonely outpost along the Santee River. Inside the fort were about 114 British regulars and Loyalist militia. Just as the Americans advanced on the position, the commander and namesake of the fort, Col. John Watson, rode to Camden to conference with Lord Rawdon, the commander of British forces in South Carolina. Left in command was Lt. John McKay. "The fort stood on an Indian mound, about forty feet high, and was stockaded, and had three rows of abbatis round it."[2] "Light Horse Harry" Lee reported that it was surrounded by "table land"[3]—low, level land.
Marion and Lee moved quickly to place their troops between the mound and a nearby lake, the source of the British garrison's water. Unfortunately for the attackers, Lieutenant McKay responded by digging a well within the fort's abatis (tree branches sharpened and tangled together to form a fenced barrier). The American forces had no tools for digging siege lines and no cannon to blast the British from their position. Confounded in their task, the Americans could only take cover and harass the British defenders with long-range musket fire. This failed to intimidate the defenders. The British had no cannon but because of their height advantage were able to keep the besiegers away from their works by their own musket fire. The Americans sent a request for surrender by white flag but Lieutenant McKay refused to capitulate. It appeared that neither side could gain an advantage.
Marion and Lee proved to be open minded and creative. Among the officers under their command was Maj. Hezekiah Maham. Born in South Carolina in 1739, Maham was a well-known and financially accomplished planter. Although popular locally, he was also a cantankerous contrarian. He served as a member of the Provincial Congress when the conflict with Britain began in 1775. He joined a militia unit in 1776 and eventually became a major of light dragoons. In 1780 he joined Marion's detachment as commander of cavalry.
The siege tower constructed at the advice of Maj. Hezekiah Maham to successfully attack Fort Watson. (From Lossing, Pictorial Field-book of the American Revolution)
Maham approached the leaders of the expedition and shared an idea. He suggested that they construct a tower of a "strong oblong pen, to be covered on the top with a floor of logs, and protected on the side opposite to the fort with a breastwork of light timber."[4] It would allow riflemen at its top to shoot down into the British fort. The American leaders quickly agreed. With plenty of trees nearby, the troops set to work. Materials were prepared and under the cover of darkness on the night of April 22 the tower was constructed at the base of the mound. On morning of April 23, riflemen took to the top of the fifty-foot tower and began shooting down into the British stockade.
As soon as the fire from the rifles forced the British defenders under cover, infantrymen led by Ens. Baker Johnson of Lee's Legion began moving forward up the mound toward the abatis. The British tried to resist the approaching troops with musketry but were driven from the walls as soon as they exposed themselves. As the first Americans began pulling away the branches of the abatis, Lieutenant McKay came to the conclusion that further resistance would be futile. He ordered a white flag mounted atop the stockade. It was 1:30 in the afternoon. In addition to the entire garrison, a great amount of stores also fell to the Americans, including asubstantial amount of ammunition which the Americans "soon turned to great advantage."[5] The fall of the fort also severed the communications line between Camden and Charleston.
Maham would later command his own body of horse as a lieutenant colonel. He served in several skirmishes and earned a reputation among the Tories for his ability. He also earned a reputation as a jealous and cantankerous subordinate. Ill and unable to continue fighting, he retired to his plantation in 1782. Tory militia took him prisoner but allowed him to remain at home on parole. Maham would survive the war, serving in both parish and state offices. He died in 1789.[6]
Colonel Watson brought a relief force of about four hundred troops toward Fort Watson but it was too late. Intimidated by Lee and Marion, he fled. The Americans chased the British forces long enough to prevent their participation in the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill. The Americans then resumed attacking the British supply line. They attacked Fort Motte on the Congaree River on May 8. They would use another creative tactic—flaming arrows—in capturing that post on May 12.[7] Maham's idea of building a tower was used again successfully in the sieges of Augusta and Ninety-Six in May and June.
[1]Colorful phrase provided by Don Hagist in "Most Famous Weapon?" Journal of the American Revolution, July 14, 2016, allthingsliberty.com/2016/07/most-famous-weapon/.
[2]William Dobein James, A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and A History of his Brigade, from its Rise in June, 1780, until Disbanded in December, 1782; With Descriptions of Characters and Scenes, not heretofore published (Marietta, GA: Continental Book Co., 1948), 109.
[3]Henry Lee, Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States Volume II (New York, Bradsord and Inskeep, 1812), 51.
[4]Ibid, 51.
[5]James,A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion, 110.
[6]Walter Edgar, ed. The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina (Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2012).
[7]Jeff Dacus. "The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Misfortune: The Fall of Fort Motte," Journal of the American Revolution, March 19, 2020, allthingsliberty.com/2020/03/the-slings-and-arrows-of-outrageous-misfortune-the-fall-of-fort-motte/.
Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Fort Granby, Fort Motte, Fort Watson, Francis Marion, Hezekiah Maham, Light Horse Harry Lee, Lord Rawdon, Siege Tower
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By Nearphotison on Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Here is page five of a very old commissioned comic I'm finally getting around to wrapping up. ^_^ With all the blowjobs in the last page, it's time for Alex to get his dick wet in some different holes.
It's been a long time since I frequented MLP porn sites, but I seem to recall there being some debate over how to handle their sex parts. I know for a while it was very popular when keeping the character equine to have them shown with horse-like vaginas and boobs on their pelvises. The client who bought this comic prefers the approach I used here, with breasts just gone completely and the pussies looking decidedly more human. So that's what I went with.
So here's the fourth page of this old commissioned comic I'm finally wrapping up. The client wanted a page just dedicated to seeing each of the ponies giving blowjobs from two different angles, hence what we see here. There's still three more pages of this comic to go, and my goal is to wrap them all up before the end of the year.
Okay, so it's been long enough most of you may not even know what this comic is, but July 24 is a My Little Pony commissioned comic I sold back in 2016. The person who bought the pages has been very patient with me while I work on other projects, but now my rotation of comics has come around to this one. After this page, there are four left, so I think what I'd like to do is just stick with this one until it's over. It's been long enough, and the comic is short enough, that I think it's only fair I try my best to finish it sometime in 2020. We'll see how well I do on that, but for now we've finally got page three! This is also the first pornographic page of the comic, so that's exciting. Hopefully it won't be too terribly long before I'm back with page four!
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Celestia's Diary, Part One
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So for a little over a year, now, I've been wanting to take a stab at some anthro versions of the cast of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I was discussing the idea with my goof friend Anya Lykke, and through discussion and bouncing ideas off of each other we eventually arrived at a new series of pics I'm trying out. The premise is pretty straight-forward… Princess Celestia has lead a full, slutty life, and when Twilight discovers documentation of her escapades she's so excited that (after enjoying her favorite parts) she begins to share the diary with her friends. This will allow me to try out anthro designs for each of the mane six, and they'll all be tied together by this nice little theme. Anya is providing the diary excerpts, as she's quite the talented writer, so all credit for that portion goes to her.
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The World's Cascade of Disasters Is Not a Coincidence
Monday, 26 July, 2021 - 05:00
"It never rains, but what it pours," sang Judy Garland to Mickey Rooney in 1938, memorably describing what happens "if Lady Luck should happen to desert you."
You stub your toe, ouch,
You hit your elbow, ooh,
You bump your head, ooh.
You step on a tack and you let out a howl.
There's soap in your eyes and you can't find a towel.
You try to comb your hair but can't arrange it,
Spill orange juice on your dress and have to change it.
Then all day long
Everything you touch goes wrong.
"The same thing happens in life," the song goes on. "But on a very much larger scale."
Too right. Poor humanity just can't catch a break these days. No sooner does the Covid-19 pandemic appear to be receding than a new delta variant sweeps the world, far more contagious than earlier versions of the coronavirus. Simultaneously, there are disastrous floods in Europe's Rhineland and China's Henan Province. Huge wildfires rage in Siberia and in Oregon. And in a succession of countries — Afghanistan, Cuba and Haiti, to name just three — political order threatens to break down.
The idea of a time of troubles — a period when somehow everything goes wrong — is deeply rooted in the human imagination. In the book of Exodus, God inflicts no fewer than 10 plagues on Egypt. He turns the water of the Nile into blood. He sends frogs, then lice, then flies, then a pestilence that kills the livestock, then a plague of festering boils, then a hailstorm, then locusts, and then three days of darkness. He signs off with a disease that kills the first-born children of every Egyptian family — not to mention the first-born calves.
It never rains but it pours.
In our secular age, we seek similar meanings in bad times. The obvious inference from images of cars reduced to flotsam and jetsam by torrential rain in places as far apart as Kreuzberg and Zhengzhou is that we need to get a lot more serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. No doubt. But there is more to all this tribulation than that.
Superficially, in the phrase made famous by Lemony Snicket, it's all just "a series of unfortunate events" — no more than a very nasty coincidence that the latest wave of the pandemic should happen at the same time as so many extreme weather events and a wave of social and political unrest. On closer inspection, however, we can see that there are connections between these disasters — and that they are in fact parts of interlocking trends.
It looks as if the world is bumping up against some kind of ceiling. It appears that, given the constraints of our existing energy technologies, we cannot support much more than our current population of 7.9 billion humans without destabilizing the planet, even though the United Nations projects that we shall get to 10.9 billion by the end of the century. I doubt that. As if to curb our numbers, our technological advances and demographic expansion have created ideal conditions for significant, life-shortening disasters.
It is precisely the expansion of human settlement that has increased the probability of new zoonotic diseases emerging. It is precisely the growth of international air travel that has increased the probability of pandemics. It is precisely the way we have constrained major rivers with dams and rigid banks that has increased the probability of disastrous flooding, quite apart from still-rising carbon dioxide emissions.
This is not to say that we cannot overcome these problems. History suggests that we can. European populations by the 1300s had become rather too large in relation to the basic technologies of that era, at a time when the world's population was just over 390 million. With most people engaged in subsistence agriculture, it did not take much — a succession of bad years, of bad weather and bad harvests — to render the population highly susceptible to a pandemic of bubonic plague.
The population of England began to decline before the Black Death struck in the 1340s. The combination of climatic disappointments and a novel pathogen led to demographic disaster. The plague then unleashed a kind of cascade, as mass death led to economic and social dislocation, which in turn led to religious and political upheaval.
At this point we move from coincidence to causation. In a vain attempt to ward off further divine retribution, thousands of European men wandered from town to town as flagellants, whipping and scourging themselves in collective acts of expiation. At the same time, in numerous towns — especially in Germany — Christian communities turned on the Jewish minority, whom they blamed for the plague.
The Black Death fundamentally destabilized European society. Drastic population declines led to labor shortages which led, in turn, to attempts by landlords and the state to bind peasants more strictly to the land. In England, these measures ultimately precipitated the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
As in our time, plague and war competed to shorten lives. It is not easy to wage war in a time of pandemic, but somehow the English and the French managed. For the next hundred years, the warring kingdoms clashed on land and sea, the efforts to seize territory from one another generally petering out when their armies fell too sick to keep fighting. It was the same story in Italy.
We are not only 700 years ahead of the people of that time. We are countless scientific discoveries ahead of them. Nevertheless, our experience resembles theirs in eerie ways. Waves of pandemic coincide with severe weather. These natural disasters then precipitate economic, social and political crises.
Predictably, it is some of the world's weakest states that have been the first to succumb to this kind of contagion. With the US intent on remaking the movie "Saigon 1975" in Kabul, Afghanistan is sinking back under the rule of the Taliban, a theocratic regime with a vision of social order that dates back even further than the Black Death.
Cuba, one of the last remaining communist dictatorships of the old type, is teetering on the brink of collapse, deprived of the revenue from tourism that kept its economy afloat and now held together (like its chilly northern European counterpart, Belarus) by brute repression. Haiti, a morass of anarchy and poverty that was barely a polity before, has now descended into complete mayhem following the assassination of its president, Jovenel Moise. Myanmar is on the brink of civil war in the wake of a military coup.
Other poor countries will go the same way. Some 155 million people across 55 countries suffered from acute food shortages or full-blown famine in 2020, according to the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises, an increase of 20 million compared with 2019. The Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen are among the hardest-hit countries. The latest Global Peace Index, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, names Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Honduras and Zambia as the five "most deteriorated countries" in terms of political stability.
Yet this contagion from pandemic to political chaos is not confined to the most wretched nations of the earth. The IEP estimates that there was a 10% increase in violent demonstrations in 2020 from the year before. Political instability deteriorated in 46 countries.
Not all those countries were dirt poor. Half of all people in Brazil, Mexico and the Dominican Republic report violence as the greatest risk to safety in their daily lives. Lebanon was once "the envy of the Arab world," to quote Al Jazeera. But its per capita gross domestic product has fallen by a staggering 40% since 2018, the World Bank estimates, as a result of political paralysis, corruption and inflation. South Africa is the richest country in sub-Saharan Africa. But more than 200 people died in political violence in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng following the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.
To an extent not fully appreciated, the US, too, is experiencing unrest and instability. Since the extraordinary wave of protest that followed the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis last June, there has been a marked increase in urban violence, specifically in the number of homicides, which rose by 25% in 2020. (Data for 2021 are patchy, but in Chicago the 2020 level has thus far been maintained.) At the same time, the deterioration of conditions in Central America has led to a surge of new migrants across the southern border.
Superficially — and to the relief of the mainstream media — political normalcy has been restored at the top, in the person of President Joe Biden, who has done his best to make the presidency dull again, after the four years of overexcitement under Donald Trump.
Yet this normalcy is illusory. Trump has not gone away. He remains the front-runner to be the Republican nominee in 2024. He retains an ardent base of supporters. Worse, the weird network of conspiracy theorists — who lean toward Trump politically — continues to deter a significant proportion of the population from getting vaccinated against Covid, ensuring that the next wave, brought to you by the delta variant, will kill tens of thousands.
In a poll published last week, one in five American adults said it was definitely or probably true that "the US government is using the Covid vaccine to microchip the population." Is there any real difference between such magical thinking and the superstitions that led medieval peasants to flog themselves?
The cascade of disaster is ubiquitous, in other words, as the social and political consequences of the pandemic, the lockdowns and extreme weather play out. Yet we should not deceive ourselves into thinking of 2020 as a strange annus horribilis that abruptly brought all these evils into the world. The trends toward both a pandemic and a crisis of public order were visible well before last year.
Covid was not the first public health emergency caused by a new coronavirus. SARS in 2003 and MERS in 2012 provided the overture to this dance of death. In the same way, the global peace index shows that the rising trend of public protest can be traced back 10 years. The IEP estimates that what it calls "major unrest events" increased by 251% between 2011 and 2019. (Interestingly, the same is not true of either war or homicide, both of which declined globally.)
A new paper published by three economists at the International Monetary Fund identifies a rising frequency of social unrest events since the mid-1980s, with peaks in 1999, 2011 and 2019. As Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Samuel Pienknagura and Luca Ricci point out, there is a kind of feedback loop, whereby a major unrest event is associated with a 1-percentage-point reduction in GDP six quarters after the event. They cite the yellow-vest protests in France in 2018 and the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong a year later as examples of the process whereby unruly protests make a country's economic situation significantly worse.
The most systematic attempt to explain such phenomena is by researchers led by Edward D. Lee at the Santa Fe Institute. Looking at statistics from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project that cover warfare in Africa since 1997, Lee and his team hypothesize a kind of contagion effect. "At each newly infected region," they write, "conflict becomes endemic, generating instability, news reports, and fatalities."
What they call "conflict potency" only wanes as distance reduces both the relevance of the original bone of contention and the density of transport infrastructure. They describe the phenomenon of spreading violence as a "conflict avalanche." I believe we are living through a global version of such an avalanche.
The reason I find this approach so attractive is it captures two important realities about the historical process. First, most states and societies are complex adaptive systems, meaning that the interactions of all the multiple elements are very difficult indeed to model accurately and are characterized by emergent properties and phase transitions. Second, the most important characteristic of human societies is the way social networks cause all kinds of contagion, from the spread of novel pathogens to the dissemination of crazy memes like "anti-vaxx."
It is not for me to hypothesize what really lay behind the 10 plagues that struck Egypt during the captivity of the Israelites. Suffice to say that this was probably not the first time in human history that a combination of natural and man-made disasters left a whole nation vulnerable to multiple forms of contagion.
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The natural progression of the sun's shadow was how humans first learnt to tell time. However as the human evolution has been at a rapid pace, time telling too has travelled a long way. From the sun's shadow to watches today, time telling has got easier and more convenient. Watches today are much beyond the practicality and purpose of use; they are all about a sense of status, a fashion statement and conversation starters.
Nothing much has changed in terms of a wristwatch's functionality since the early ages. The 16th-century portable clocks to the 17th-century pocket watch to the 18th-century modern-day wristwatch and the 20th-century smartwatch; they all are primarily for time-telling. Although today in the lap of luxury; watches have seen a tremendous visual transformation also ensuring added features.
With the development of hi-tech watches over the last few years, there has been an equal rise in the demand for vintage pieces too. Although youngsters today look for a lot of digitalisation even in the wristwatch department, the rich history of a vintage brand is never overshadowed. However, when a brand brings together the rich history of Titan along with the digital enhancements of Fastrack, it is sure to create a stir and emerge a winner. Today the Indian wristwatch market is estimated at around INR 5000 crores of which Titan commands a market share of 60-65 percent. 25% of this market share is due to the continuously growing youth segment as well as a well catered to women audience.One thing that the humble accessory has managed to do is to maintain its importance in the course of time. Even today in the age of smartphones watches have their own sparkle and still appeal to a huge section of the masses. Both men and women watches have stood the test of time, and are still considered a symbol of class and individuality.
Personally, I own six timepieces and am always looking to add to the tally. With timely offers that I receive from my favourite online portal, I'm planning to add not only a Bluetooth enabled piece but also a chronograph to my collection.
So what are you flaunting on your wrist?


A few weeks ago the blogosphere was all up in arms over a Declan McCullagh interview of Federal Election Commission (FEC) member Bradley Smith. Smith wasn't shy about suggesting that bloggers might be overstepping their political bounds, and that bloggers and news organizations might "risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate's press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines." It was difficult to reconcile such a point of view with the First Amendment.
That's a much more minimal oversight than Smith suggested, and which some people feared.


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Q: Why is my JupyterLab notebook code console not displaying 'command history' as it should? I am using an Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb) within JupyterLab and have created a new notebook console for the Jupyter Notebook by clicking on 'Create New Console for Notebook' in the File tab. However, I'm unable to view a 'command history' or a simultaneous display of the code cells I run in the Jupyter Notebook.
As mentioned in the documentation (https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/code_console.html), the code console can be used as a log of computations in that kernel.
What I know for sure is that the Jupyter Notebook and Code Console are definitely linked and are using the same kernel. However, I am unable to have the code console display a history of the code cells that I run in the Jupyter Notebook.
I have tried running code cells in the Jupyter Notebook by selecting Run->Run Selected Text or Current Line in Console. This procedure does display the code and output in the Console.
The documentation makes it seem that this should occur by default when the Jupyter Notebook and Code Console are linked. Hence my predicament.

A: It seems you have activate the option to show all kernel activity:

*

*Click on the console tab (to activate)

*Go to Commands

*Under "Console" heading look for "Show All Kernel Activity" and click on it

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Rana is an entrepreneur, an executive and a products geek. Rana brings extensive experience in consumer electronics, software, mobile, product development, business strategy and emerging markets.
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Microsoft and Thomson have reached an agreement to develop a broadband and home network-enabled version of the MSN TV Internet receiver, the companies announced.
The new MSN TV terminal, said to be "a complete overhaul of the existing [dial-up] device and service," is based on standard Microsoft technologies and adds advanced technology from Thomson, according to an advance statement given to TWICE.
The product will be available through major retailers, including Best Buy, Circuit City, Amazon.com and others, beginning in October at a $199 suggested retail. It will ship with a wireless keyboard and remote control.
The unit will be equipped with an Ethernet port for either wired or wireless in-home networking solutions. Among the capabilities of the new system will be the ability to link to a home PC to stream digital music, video and digital image files from a remote PC's hard drive to a home entertainment system connected to the MSN TV device.
Users who have installed in-home networks would be able to download certain files to their PC's hard drive and play back the content through the MSN TV terminal, according to a source. A printer port will also be included in the device.
The terminal was said to be based on the Windows CE operating system. Microsoft said it would discuss "further details and specifications" at a later date. The company is also still determining the monthly subscription fee for the broadband MSN TV service.
"Thomson is a valued partner that shares our vision of making it easy to connect the digital world to your living room," said Sam Klepper, general manager, MSN TV, in a prepared statement. "That's why we selected them to design and manufacture our next-generation system. It is a giant leap forward that will appeal to a much broader set of consumers."
"For the past four years we have partnered with the MSN TV organization to give consumers the ease of use, reliability and affordability they value in accessing the Internet on television. As a leader in delivering interactive video solutions to consumers, we are excited to be working with Microsoft on product innovations that will make MSN TV's service more appealing for users at all levels — including digital media enthusiasts with exciting new options," said Keith Wehmeyer, Thomson's IP decoders general manager.


Switch-hitting MLB outfielder who spent the first four years of his career with the Oakland Athletics and won a World Series Championship with the New York Yankees in 2009.
He starred as a strong safety on the football field at Parkersburg High School in West Virginia, yet decided to pursue baseball as his career.
In 2011, he released an album of cover songs to raise money for children with health problems; the album featured fellow major league players Bernie Williams and Barry Zito.
His father Steve Swisher was an MLB catcher. He married actress Joanna Garcia in 2010. They had a daughter named Emerson Jay Swisher on May 21, 2013.
He was managed by Joe Girardi during his time with the New York Yankees.


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Ballet companies everywhere are trying to stay relevant, agonizing over how to build audiences and attract a younger demographic to the opera house.
Oakland Ballet's straightforward strategy is to take ballet to the streets -- literally and figuratively. Their latest program, Oakland-esque, a love letter to the artists and musicians who give the city its vibrant soul, closes with the dancers trooping gleefully out of the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts and inviting the audience to join them on the street as they wrap up the final number, artistic director Graham Lustig's irresistible Turfland.
Against the bold backdrop of urban art by Samuel Renaissance, Lustig showcases the talents of Garion "Noh-justice" Morgan and Rayshawn "Looney" Thompson of the famed Turf Feinz crew, drawing out the similarities between their style of hip hop and ballet. The terrific Oakland Ballet dancers -- the women in tutus with knee socks and ripped tights, the men in sneakers -- bust all kinds of moves: moonwalking on pointe, pirouettes on the tips of their sneakers, flips, body waves, tutting. Sonsherée Giles and Joel Brown from Oakland's acclaimed physically integrated dance company, AXIS Dance, join in the fun, expertly maneuvering Brown's wheelchair in a series of daredevil spins and flips.
In a nod to the complex geometries of ballet, Lustig deftly weaves the dancers in and out of formations more formal than the typical b-boy and b-girl battles. In the most telling of contrasts, Steph Salts explores the dynamics of balancing in a forced arch on pointe on one leg, shifting her head, arms and upper body to maintain her balance over a flexed hip, knee and ankle; seconds later, Noh-Justice takes on a similar challenge while balancing in a deep pistol squat on one leg.
In a moment both comic and poignant, the sound of rain interrupts the music, and the men hike the women into the air as the women extend their bodies rigidly parallel to the ground -- like umbrellas. Street dancers are always prepared for weather.
The program opens with Sonya Delwaide's smart and sassy Rocky Road, a tip of the hat to the Oakland inventors of the ice cream flavor during the Great Depression, and to Oakland jazz great Earl "Fatha" Hines. The pointework is jazzy and delightfully stilted, amid a cascade of cheeky gestures, stomping, leaning, lunging, wiggling and hitch-kicking. Brief solo turns elicit admiring Whoa's from the ensemble, attired in snappy athletic-inspired wear and fire engine red pointe shoes and ballet slippers.
Molissa Fenley's cerebral Redwood Park provides a sharp musical contrast to the rest of the program. Scored entirely for an array of percussion instruments (gong, elephant bells, temple blocks, bongos, ratchet, woodblocks, and bass drum) by Joan Jeanrenaud, and requiring a highly precise interplay between musicians Nava Dunkelman and Anna Wray, the piece is meant to convey the feeling of hiking the Oakland redwood trails. The choreography explores the timbres and rhythms of the score - impressionistic, and without a dramatic arc, it calls to mind some of Merce Cunningham's work. With their stiff, hyperextended arms and simple, playful movements that include flat-footed turns, floor skimming hops, and leg swings, all executed with balletic precision, the dancers in their jewel-toned pajamas might have been birds flitting among the redwoods.
The high point of this ambitious program of world premières was Robert Moses' TIP, set to the music of bass guitarist Larry Graham (of Sly and the Family Stone fame, and later, Graham Central Station). Graham pioneered the technique of slapping the electric bass, which has since defined the modern funk genre. Moses winds provocatively around the beat of the music, his dancers invariably elegant as they slide, twist, and explode off the floor, vibrating at a very high frequency. The women, clad in halter tops and playfully printed short shorts, bounce off the men, in matching bike shorts and muscle T's, with the super-cool attitude of "I got this." The women often initiate the whiplash lifts and spins, and at one point, a man kicks a woman in the shoulder, trying to raise a little hell, but she isn't fazed, just flashes him a grin.
Vincent Chavez and Emily Kerr are superb in a feisty duet with breakneck transitions in which neither of them appears to break a sweat. Moments later, the two-timing Chavez is wooing Steph Salts in a more overtly sexual and hungry mood. Things with Salts don't seem to work out either, and Chavez expresses his loneliness and frustration in an intense, savage solo.
Salts won't give Chavez the last word, however; she reappears for a blistering solo that hooks the riveting and lyrical Matthew Roberts. They dance together on her terms -- without physical contact. A magnificent close to a captivating work that takes us to unexpected places emotionally and intellectually.
It is a great pity that Oakland Ballet's resources only stretch to the briefest of seasons. A program that celebrates this spirited city with such style and invention deserves a long run, in many different venues. Purists may grumble, but this is the future of ballet. Companies in other cities should pay attention.
1. Oakland Ballet Company dancer Vincent Chavez (left) and Rayshawn "Looney" Thompson (right) of the Turf Feinz in Graham Lustig's TURFLAND. Photo by David DeSilva.
2. (Left to right): Oakland Ballet Company dancer Sharon Wehner (left), with guest dancers from the Turffeinz, Rayshawn "Looney" Thompson (center) and Garion "Noh-justice" Morgan (right) in Graham Lustig's TURFLAND. Photo by Christopher Dunn.
3. (Left to right): Oakland Ballet Company Dancers Steph Salts, Sharon Wehner and Megan Terry, Rayshawn "Looney" Thompson of the Turf Feinz, Oakland Ballet Company dancer Tori Jahn in Graham Lustig's TURFLAND. Photo by Christopher Dunn.


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"They will ultimately say whether there is enough left under the panels to qualify," said Richard Burts, a Columbia developer who renovated the old Olympia community center into the 701 Whaley arts and event venue.
Burts, who is handling the renovation project for Torrance, Calif.-based Red Curb Investments, wouldn't say if the renovation would go forward without the historic building status.
"It would be a hard sell" without the tax credits, he said. "But I'm not thinking about any downside."
The building was completed in August 1913 to house the Union National Bank. At the time, it was Columbia's second "skyscraper" behind the 12-story Barringer Building, which is now the Capitol Places apartments, and preceding by four months the 12-story Palmetto Building, which is now the Sheraton hotel.
At the time it was built, the building gleamed with white-glazed terra cotta and was topped with spindles and a stepped parapet. The paint faded through the years and in the 1980s the owners hacked off the original window headers to install cheaper, smaller windows and the green glass panels, said architect Michael Watson, who will design the renovations if they go forward.
John Sherrer of Historic Columbia said the reason the owner reduced the details of the building was to make it look more modern.
"We're constantly reskinning buildings," he said. "But the level of destruction on One Main was pretty heavy-handed. The good news is, there is enough detail and enough photographs to result in a good rehabilitation and restoration of the facade."
The interior renovation will be interesting, Watson said, because the building is very narrow at only 28 feet, and a second stairwell will have to be cut through all 11 stories.
Burts estimated the renovations would cost between $8 million and $10 million.
"Right now we are looking at mixed use – residential and office flats," he said.
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Видобувний гірничий комбайн (, , ) — комбінована гірнича машина, яка одночасно виконує операції руйнування пласта корисної копалини та навантаження відбитої маси на конвеєр.

Історія
Серед здобутків вітчизняного гірництва слід відзначити розроблені на Луганщині та успішно випробувані на шахтах Донбасу (30-і роки XX ст.) перші у світі очисні комбайни (О. І. Бахмутський, В. Г. Яцкіх, Г. І. Роменський).

Сучасні видобувні комбайни
 широкозахопний (ширина робочого органу 1,0-1,8 м),
 вузькозахопний (ширина робочого органу до 1,0 м),
 фланговий,
 фронтальний,
 з однобічною та двобічною та човниковою схемою роботи,
 з канатною та ланцюговою системою переміщення,
 з безланцюговою системою переміщення,
 з переміщенням по підошві пласта,
 комбайн, який працює з рами конвеєра,
 з баровим, барабанним, дисковим, корончастим, буровим, шнековим та комбінованим робочим органом.

Основні складові частини К.в.: механізм подачі комбайна, тяговий орган, різальний робочий орган, привод, бар, розштибовувач, система пилепридушення. Основні схеми роботи очисних комбайнів наведені на рис.

Країнами-лідерами у проектуванні і виготовленні К.г.в. є Україна, Англія, Росія, Польща, ФРН. На шахтах ФРН, Англії і США використовують в основному двошнекові комбайни із симетрично розміщеними по кінцях корпуса шнеками. У цих країнах широко застосовують комбайни фірм «Eickhoff», «Bucyrus». У Франції застосовують комбайн «Сиріус», у США — комбайн 4LS. Зростає енергооснащеність комбайнів — до 2568 кВт. В Англії, США та ін. країнах для тонких пластів застосовують комбайн АМ420, «Електра-550», «Електра-1000» і комбайн «Трепаннер» із приводом до 1000 кВт фірми «Андерсон Стресклайд». Фірми «Бритіш Джефрі Даймонд», «ACE» і ін. підвищили потужність двигунів комбайнів. В Росії К.г.в. виготовляють на Юргенському та Копейському машинобудівних заводах. Останні розробки: комбайни КДК500, КДК700.

В останні роки в Україні одержали поширення видобувні комбайни РКУ, ГШ, К103М. Основні вітчизняні виготівники К.г.в. — Горлівський машинобудівний завод та НКМЗ. Горлівський машинобудівний завод випускає комбайни 1К101УД, 2ГШ68Б, РКУ10/13/16, ГШ500; КПВ та КСП. Комбайн КПВ не має аналогів, застосовується для крутих пластів потужністю 0,55-1,0 м з кутом падіння 35-90°. КСП використовується для пластів великої потужності, загальна встановлена потужність електрообладнання 685 кВт. Для ГШ-500 сумарна встановлена потужність електрообладнання 564 кВт, пласти товщиною 1,27-2,70 м. Новокраматорський машинобудівний завод випускає комбайни УКД3 та УКД200 для високопродуктивних лав (розробки «Донецькдіпровуглемаша»).

Галерея

Шнековий виконавчий орган гірничого комбайну

Забезпечує в складі очисних комбайнів функції відділення вугілля від масиву й навантаження відділеної гірничої маси на вибійний конвеєр. Складається (рис. 1) з корпусу 1 з лобовиною 3 і спіральними лопатями
2, що переміщують гірничу масу в осьовому напрямку на конвеєр. До лопатей і лобовини
к р і п л я т ь с я тримачі 4 різців, несучі різці. З боку вибою шнек з а к р и в а є т ь с я знімною кришкою 5. Самозарубні шнеки на
торці лобовини несуть різці, що розміщуються в гніздах 6. Вони з а б е з п е ч уют ь впровадження виконавчого органу в масив при самозарубці. Для евакуації гірничої маси при виконанні самозарубки на
лобовині є вікна 7. На рис. 2 представлена можлива схема обробки вибою з вийманою потужністю Нр комбайном із двома шнеками номінального діаметра Ді. Тут також позначені: Vп — швидкість подачі, nоб — частота обертання шнеків, Н1 і Н2 — висоти пачок вугілля, що виймаються Ш.в.о. Для поліпшення якості навантаження відбитого вугілля застосовують вантажні щити.

Шнекові органи прості конструктивно, мають високий ККД, забезпечують човникову схему роботи й можливість самозарубки, добре пристосовані до відробки границі «вугілля — вмісні породи». Вони є найбільш поширеними виконавчими органами для очисних комбайнів, призначених для виїмки вугільних пластів із кутами падіння 0-35°.

Література

 Горбатов П. А., Петрушкин Г. В., Лысенко Н. М., Павленко С. В., Косарев В. В. Горные машины для подземной добычи угля. // Учеб. пособие для вузов. Под общ. ред. Горбатова П. А. — 2-е изд. перераб. и доп. — Донецк: Норд Компьютер, 2006. — 669 с.

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Unilever SAP and transformation on track
Sales drop, but efficiency programme continues on course
By IDG Staff
Anglo-Dutch household goods manufacturer Unilever said its business transformation programme, which includes a move to a standardised SAP platform, will be completed by the end of this year. Announcing its figures for the first half of 2008, the company said sales had slowed.
Unilever manufactures and sells products for every room in the average household, including Flora margarine in the kitchen, Dove soap in the bathroom, and Domestos bleach for the toilet.
The One Unilever transformation program, which began in 2007, aims to reduce costs in IT and manufacturing. One Unilever will make the company easier to work within, and at its heart is a standardisation onto SAP across all three global Unilever operations in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Unilever claims the programme saved €1bn last year.
Unilever expect the efficiency programme to deliver €1bn in savings again this year. "The changes already implemented in the business have made us nimbler and better able to respond to market conditions," said Patrick Cescau, group chief executive. "Our innovation programme focuses on opportunities in heath and wellnes, the use of superior technology and rapid deployment into new markets."
Unilever announced that Western Europe will now be managed as a single region by a new president Doug Baillie. The region completed its move into a single office in Italy and announced the closure of four factories. Western Europe will compete the SAP integration by the end of the year; three quarters of the business are now live on SAP.
The Unilever rationalisation programme has included a deal in April to sell its financial shared services centres in Brazil and Chile to Capgemini. As part of the deal Capgemini provides tax services to Unilever in Brazil. Hewlett-Packard secured a £340m deal to provide infrastructure to the American, Asian and African division. HP provides Unilever with It management and services for the regions.
Unilever achieves €1bn in savings, IT plays major part


How can i flush toxins out of bood?
It depends on how much you smoke. the liver is not able to metabolize the THC in the body very quickly; the unmetabolized THC binds to the fat cells in the body. Between periods of active marijuana use, the fat-bound THC is slowly released back into the blood. So the more and more often you smoke, the longer it will stay in your system. As for flushing toxins out of your body, I found a sarsaparilla tes steeped for 3 minutes, drink 4 times a day for 3-5 days usually leaves me feeling refreshed. It is said to flush your body of toxins.
Another way is the brown rice fast. For 10 days, eat only brown rice and nothing else. Eat only what your two cupped hands can hold. The first 3 days are hard. The 5th is the worst. But if you can make it to day 10, it is the best fast you'll ever have. I felt like a new person!
How can I reduce my sweat? And How Can I reduce my body heat?
How do I flush the systems of mine and my unborn baby's of THC?
how much niacin to flush cocaine out?


HA note: The following is reprinted with permission from Sarah Henderson's blog Feminist in Spite of Them. It was originally published on her blog on September 3, 2013.
In my last post, I made a brief mention of how living in a state of survival affected my mental health. I thought it would be a good idea to expand on this issue, because in my opinion it is the crux of why having quiverfull families and homeschooling in chaos is abusive to the children involved.
As I have mentioned before, doing something that causes harm to your child is abusive regardless of your intentions or religious justification. Children are do not become raised in a vacuum. Children do not have the ability to protect their own interests, and as I have shown in a previous post, in fact unfortunately do not have the right to do so. Therefore it is a parent's job to try to protect their children from harm as much as possible – no perfection required – and to introduce good things and reduce negative influences as much as possible. It is my belief that that most parents would not argue with this assertion, because most parents have their children's best interests in mind.
When a child is raised a quiverfull family, there is a core belief involved that stipulates that older children should help raise their younger siblings.
This is commonly known to those outside the quiverfull movement as the "buddy system", but survivors sometimes call this "sister-moms". The use of older siblings to care for younger siblings can cause various levels of neglect depending on how organized the family is and whether there is homeschooling involved. It is typically simply impossible for a mother of 6 or more children to recover from childbirth and unending pregnancies at the same time as being able to provide adequate care to that many children, provide adequate schooling for that many different grades, cook nutritious meals, do laundry, and keep house. Don't get me wrong, I do not object to children having chores. I do object to a ten year old child being responsible for a whole department of parenting or housekeeping, such as all cooking, or all laundry or all cleaning or all child care.
This is the difference between a child helping with chores, and "the use" of children to help raise other children or "take over" certain aspects of being a housekeeping mother. When there is a high level of chaos, the older children can become invested in running the household. Indeed, that is the goal of quiverfull families: to pass on the ideals of raising a big family and having women stay in the home and replicate the family values as soon as they are old enough. However, this emotional investment will have one of two outcomes: either the sister-mom will succeed in pulling off an inappropriate amount of responsibility in the home and move on to their own submissive marriage and many children without ever experiencing her own life, or she will fail at the vast amount of work required to raise a family as a young teen. If she succeeds, it is a tragedy.
If she fails – and many fail – she will be subject to shame by others inside and outside the family. The problem is, in order for a daughter to participate in the investment I described above, there is a certain amount of self-deception required. The girl must become oblivious to her own needs and desires, ignore her own sexuality, and truly believe in the moral obligation to participate, to the exclusion of all other life paths. Otherwise she will object to what is being taken from her.
The other important factor apart from self-deception is self-preservation.
In a chaotic situation, there is difficulty in maintaining discipline, and some parents do not have the skills to do so with a few children, let alone over half a dozen. Child abuse and "squeaky wheel" parenting is very common, where children are punished for being loud and only receive help when they are insistent enough to get it but not loud enough to warrant punishment. In this type of environment, there is not enough parental supervision to guarantee good behavior, so they may depend on older children to help supervise the younger children. Sometimes this means that if younger children misbehave, the child responsible for watching them may also be punished for not preventing the infraction. When this happens, the goal becomes less about moral behavior and more about each child protecting themselves from punishment.
A sister-mom who has juggled age-inappropriate levels of chores and child care for years, and is responsible for the behavior of others, lives in a haze of survival. They do not let themselves fully absorb what is going on around them, and do not allow themselves to experience the unfairness in their lives. When a failure takes place, the entire facade crumbles down. The girl will realize that the very parts of herself, the very skills she takes pride in, are what makes her different and scarred compared to others the same age. She will realize other girls have something she does not have: an identity outside of someone else's children and ideology. If a girl fails at being a sister-mom, there is nothing left unless she makes something happen. If you have no other identity and no social skills, building these from scratch as a teenager seems like an insurmountable task.
The process of disillusionment that takes place is terrifying and horrifying.
Imagine spending several years working on something you really believed in, and investing every moment of every day in it, and believing that it was your life purpose, and one day it simply falls away. Teenaged girls in this situation are typically quite sheltered as well, and tend to not know much about depression and self-harm, which means that they are exposed to the life-changing effects without understanding what is going on, and believing that they are deficient in some way and are the only one in the world going through those feelings.
Quiverfull families are not open to exploring such issues and seeking help, and such help would be counter-productive to the goals of the ideology. Sometimes such girls retreat from their moment of clarity back into the haze and try again. Others are given help within the ideological circle, and the girls are encouraged to suppress their feelings. Others leave.
For the ones who leave and start their lives over outside the quiverfull community, it can take years to start to feel normal. It is difficult to feel normal when you are not living the purpose you have been taught, and are no longer pursuing those goals. Another important aspect is that as a sister-mom, a girl will raise children who are not hers. When she leaves, she walks away from small children who she loves and they know her as the source of food and comfort. It is impossible to fully describe the loss this causes, and the unselfish teachings from childhood can make it difficult to move forward with one's own life when there is a huge part of the soul that is still attached to the raising and protecting of younger siblings.
When a girl starts to open up to her own life, she will start to realize how much of her life has been used up to pursue the goals of someone else. There is resentment towards both the parents and the siblings, which brings with it the conflict of not wanting to resent siblings for what they had no control over. Sister-moms are taught to not pursue their own goals and to malign typical 'worldly' goals, and it can be painful to process what is right and wrong and pick a moral code to live by. Sister-moms who leave will often also simply miss their families and feel rejection because they cannot stay and live their lives. They will feel confusion and shame, and be afraid of going to hell for their actions.
They experience the conflict of self-preservation both while living in the haze and while getting out. All these experiences can trigger depression, self-harm, and self-destructive behavior, and when a girl is used to living in a haze of denial, it is very difficult to get out of the new haze of depression if she falls into it.
A parent risking a girl's mental health to get help with child raising other children is abuse.
So much painful truth in this post.
I really want to comment but the words keep falling away. What you said, Jeri.
I am so sorry for this path you have walked. It is good you are seeing more clearly. I pray that you will continue to find what you are looking for and seeking!
On a side note, although I agree with all the above, I LOVED looking after my baby brothers. They are still my best friends today. I am sure this is because of the early companionship. I do strongly feels there needs to be waaaaaayyy more awareness and balance of this issue however.
…. "'squeaky wheel' parenting is very common, where children are punished for being loud and only receive help when they are insistent enough to get it but not loud enough to warrant punishment." So, so true. I was one of those "sister-moms" who objected and thought that I deserved a parent too. So I was always "rebellious" and a disappointment. Less so now. But this article right here captures so much of what I'm talking about when I say that our family had aspects of QF, and my siblings don't understand what I mean because they only think "patriarchy" when they hear QF.
I'm so sorry that you felt like a disappointment to your parents, I did too. I still do. I was also rebellious and headstrong and yet simultaneously I felt so guilty and horrible for being a bad daughter. I felt like I owed my parents (especially my mom) because I was such a difficult child. I had even been their most difficult baby. So sacrificing my childhood to be a junior mom was really the least I could do. The occasional tantrums that I still threw just put me further into their debt. What pains me now is that they have pretty much forgotten or glossed over those years and I am now their least favorite child because they do not approve of some of the choices that I have made and because I am not beautiful and sweet and cheerful like my younger sisters. I know they are still disappointed in me.
I was one of only two children, due to my mom's inability to carry any of the many children conceived after a vasectomy reversal. I saw alot of the above in familes we were around, though, and it is sad. There are some who seem to parent all of their children, and just expect help and responsibility from all of them. Alot of the QF families, though, seem to try really hard to parent the first few children, but then they are too tired to care any more by the last few, and chuck them off on the older siblings. Why keep having kids when you don't want to parent them, then force your older children to give up their childhood to do what you no longer wish to do? It's sad!
My family, though religious, was not a part of the quiverfull culture but my mother had 7 children plus two stillbirths and too many miscarriages for me to even remember how many it was. I was the second child and the first girl. My parents were not abusive but I was given many, many responsibilities for housework and childcare. I was a strong-willed child and often got in trouble (usually for reading books instead of doing chores) but I was always very responsible and mature when it came to childcare. My two youngest siblings were like my own children, and I was asked many times by rude strangers if I was a teen mom. We also homeschooled and I would teach my siblings daily. Their education was much more important to me (and oddly, to my parents) than my own education. While my other siblings had lots of friends and played sports or musical instruments or had dance lessons, I did nothing but take care of my own family and babysit for other families for money. I loved babysitting because it was so easy! Much easier than working at home. I pretty much went to church, babysat, and took care of my home and family. My mother was my best friend and she really is a sweet person, but she was often ill, pregnant, or depressed so it was really hard.I always felt like I needed to protect her. When I turned 18 I got my GED and left home to be a nanny in a big city. It was like a beautiful vacation! I suddenly had weekends and evening off! I even began to consider going to college although I hadn't really done any school work other than studying GED prep books for years. I met a wonderful man and got married very young, my parents HATE my husband and my mother and I have had a strained relationship for the past 13 years now because I got married to a man she hates. My husband gave me the courage and unconditional love and support I needed to finally attend college. I am now working on my second degree. My mom belives that my success is due to the homeschooling but really it is in spite of it. Out of 7 children only 3 of us have gone to college, and in the case of the other 2 they actually went to public high schools (mostly to play sports) which prepared them for college. My kids will not be homeschooled and I am trying very hard not to make my oldest daughter into a "sister-mom." I want my children to have the freedom to pursue their own dreams and not feel as though they have to take care of me or their siblings.
Never heard the term "sister-mom" until now, but I guess that was what I was. My parents didn't homeschool for religious reasons, but I believe largely because of some sort of cluster B mental illness that my mother suffered (everyone else was incompetent according to her.) I originally thought that my father just acquiesced to her wishes, but Now I think he suffered his own brand of mental issues. My best guess is mom was tired of raising kids, and pulled us middle girls out of school to help shoulder the burden of raising the younger siblings that she felt less inclined to do being in her forties. Truth is, we preferred when she left for the day to do whatever she did so that we didn't have to endure her mercurial moods and abuse. I feel fortunate that I had some public schooling under my belt, but my younger siblings did not fare so well considering that virtually no schooling took place. What did usually played out like scenes from "Mommy Dearest." My father seems to believe that their foray in homeschooling was a tremendous success and has completely turned a blind eye to the horrific educational neglect that we suffered. OAN, it always shocked me how helpless my friends seemed growing up I.e. their mothers would awaken when they did to fetch them breakfast, they didn't know how to do laundry in high school, needed "training" on how to change a diaper before the birth of their first child. I was incredulous at how unskilled they were when I had been performing all the above since the age of five. I guess I feel fortunate, in some weird regard, that my mother believed that organized religion was beneath her as well. I could see how the religious steamrolling could've made it that much more unbearable.


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By Donald Barthelme
The New Yorker, February 24, 1973 P. 44
Rebecca Lizard is a homosexual lesbian schoolteacher who goes to court to have her last name changed because it is ugly and reptilian. The judge refuses her and tells her she is cluttering up the court's calendar. Miss Lizard goes to a dermatologist whose diagnosis is: "slight greenishness, genetic anomaly, nothing to be done." Rebecca's lover, Hilda, came home late. She had a drink with Stephanie. Rebecca started an argument because she was jealous of Stephanie. In her anger Hilda said she didn't like Rebecca's greenishness. They drank together. Hilda said that at one point she did like Rebecca's greenishness, but no longer. Hilda added to the fire by saying that she can continue loving Rebecca in spite of her condition. Rebecca is angered-she doesn't want it that way. They come to the conclusion that there are important parts of all of us which must be gazed past. They sit down to dinner together and talk about the McKinley Administration. Writer ends by saying the story was written for several reasons-nine are secrets, the tenth is that one should never cease considering human love. Which remains as grisly and golden as ever, no matter what is tattooed upon the warm tympanic page.
This article appears in the print edition of the February 24, 1973, issue.
The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America.


"Both candidates did a good job tailoring their positions to the latest opinion polls, making promises they cannot keep, and refusing to answer direct questions. I would say, though, that I thought Mitt Romney shredded President Obama's policies on energy and the economy and called him out for his lack of leadership on entitlement reform.
"First, all this talk about the 'middle class' is wrong and divisive. America is not a class society, we are an opportunity society. 'Middle-income people' today are likely to be 'lower-income' or 'upper-income' people in just a few years, based on the choices they make. Mr. President, please stop talking about the 'middle class.' It makes you sound like a Marxist.
"Second, Mr. President, you didn't create jobs, build pipelines, drill more wells, pump more oil, or do any of the things you are taking credit for. You didn't build that. In fact, your policies have destroyed jobs, banned pipelines and drilling, and impoverished millions of American families. Mr. President, please stop taking credit for all the good things the American people are doing despite your policies.
"I don't see much difference between the man who gave us Obamacare and the man who gave Obamacare to the man who gave us Obamacare.
"I don't understand how Romney's plan to drop tax rates is supposed to boost the economy if rate cuts are offset by ending deductions and exemptions so there is no actual tax cut for people most likely to invest and hire people. But Romney's plan beats Obama's plan to raise taxes on those people. Romney's plan to end taxes on dividends, capital gains, and earned interest would be pro-growth, so that's good, but it's really nibbling around the edges.
"I was disappointed in the lack of discussion on spending. Obama referred to the Clinton tax rates and said they resulted in economic growth and a budget surplus. Would have been nice if Romney had pointed out during Clinton's eight years in office, total federal spending rose 32 percent versus more than 80 percent during the eight years under George W. Bush. It would have been a good lesson for Obama. Then again, Romney might have been in a tough spot because Bush was a Republican whose spending binge was aided by Republican legislators including Romney's running mate Paul Ryan, who voted for Bush's Medicare prescription drug plan (the largest entitlement spending increase since the 1960s), No Child Left Behind, the $700 billion bank bailouts, the Chrysler and General Motors bailouts, and earmarks including the infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere,' among other things.
"It is unfortunate Romney didn't point out that 800,000 people living in Germany, Obama' s prime example of 'clean energy,' can't afford their energy bills. And Germany also faces blackouts because the wind and solar energy can't produce reliable power, much less at an affordable cost. The government should not be picking winners and losers, mostly losers in Obama's subsidies and loan guarantees, in determining our energy mix.
"It is unfortunate Romney didn't emphasize more strongly that Obama is keeping his promise to bankrupt the coal industry, and to bring about skyrocketing electricity bills, and how his Environmental Protection Agency could end up shutting down one-third of our nation's electrical generating capacity. Without affordable, abundant, reliable energy, the U.S. cannot possibly compete for manufacturing jobs.
"It is unfortunate Romney didn't point out the taxes in Obamacare amount to some $500 billion, to be paid by people at all income levels.
"It is unfortunate Romney didn't point out contraceptives paid for by somebody else do not solve women's economic problems, especially not when their insurance premiums go up $3,000 per year and they can't find a job. While it may provide free contraceptives and pay for abortions, Obamacare's Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) will deny mammograms and treatments such as joint replacements to women who need them to relieve pain and disability. Obamacare is about redistributing wealth, but also about redistributing care from the sick to the politically favored healthy.
"It is also unfortunate Romney didn't point out that Obamacare was rammed through in violation of the rules without a single Republican vote. The administration calls it a tax, or denies that it is a tax, depending on its purpose (politically it isn't, for purposes of defending it in court it is). It has granted vast numbers of waivers to labor unions and other allies. The cost estimate of $1 trillion has already been more than doubled, and it counts on cutting at first $500 billion and now $716 billion from Medicare.
"Experience and life choices will eventually shine thorough. Gov. Romney has struggled successfully to save organizations and communities. He has turned around companies, states, the Olympics by using his well-developed analytical and personal skills. In a long and successful life of service, effort, and learning he has chosen to take on increasingly more difficult challenges and to learn as he worked with others for solutions.
"President Obama has had rewards handed to him without his own effort. He famously 'doubles-down' and blames others rather than learning and developing as a manager and leader. He takes the easy road. Lead from behind? So, as these two life strategies come head-to-head, Gov. Romney can draw on vast and deep experience. President Obama has only shallow and narrow skills and limited background.
"The deep and broad versus the shallow and narrow is now on display, both in the Romney-Obama match and the Ryan-Biden match. While last night's debate may initially be scored as balanced, Romney's command of the facts and realities, his strength of character, and the depth of his experience will show up in the national consciousness (and the polls) after a few days. Obama just cannot learn enough in a few days of debate prep to compete with a man who has spent his whole life learning. The first debate showed that he realizes this.
"One area where Romney failed to respond effectively to Obama concerned the Obama administration's contraceptive mandate. Obama said he deplored men making health care decisions for women. In fact, Obama wants the federal government to dictate what health care coverage women (and men) must get. As is typical of his administration, Obama scorns the free market. Without the contraceptive mandate, women would be free to buy their own contraceptives ($9 dollars a month at Wal-mart for some of the most commonly used kinds), or simply seek out an employer who offers contraceptive coverage as most do.
"Quite aside from the religious freedom issues, employers have every incentive to provide whatever sorts of coverage employees want, although they don't have the luxury of pretending it's 'free.' They have to face trade-offs that the federal government can pretend don't exist.
"As a committed believer in capitalism and economic liberty, the policy differences between presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are very stark. Regarding taxes, Romney supports broad tax reform including lowering rates while limiting deductions and loopholes whereas Obama supports only raising taxes on the nation's top earners. Romney missed an opportunity (one of several he missed) by not aggressively pointing out just how little money Obama's tax hike would raise, even within the liberals' fantasy world of static economic modeling.
"Similarly, President Obama's claimed support for exploiting our nation's vast fossil fuel resources is a tale so unbelievable that one looks for Obama's nose to be growing every time he says it.
"Barack Obama's repeated statements that the economy grows best by giving tax credits to the middle class are of a piece with Nancy Pelosi's belief that food stamps are a great form of economic stimulus.
"Although there is a legitimate issue of China stealing American intellectual property, both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama ignore the benefits of China's providing cheap goods to Americans – even if it comes through an 'artificially weak' currency, a situation which I doubt is true to any significant degree at this time given the yuan's large increase in value since 2006 and its relative stability so far this year. Barack Obama talked about saving 'a thousand jobs' by putting tariffs on Chinese tires, but forgets the fact that those jobs come at a cost of more expensive tires for hundreds of thousands of American car owners.
"The November elections will determine the direction of U.S. climate policy – and, therefore, energy policy and the pace of economic growth, the creation of jobs, our standard of living, and the level of federal budget deficits and inflation. Obama has already promised to make climate change the centerpiece of his concern – with all that implies: 'Green' energy policy can be linked to loss of jobs (Keystone pipeline disapproval), rising gas prices (ethanol mandates), and crony capitalism (Solyndra).
"By contrast, Romney is a climate skeptic and Ryan has been quite outspoken – the perfect anti-Gore. The science supports Romney-Ryan, notwithstanding the UN-IPCC, and the bulk of the climate scientists living high on the hog on government grants.
"Energy played an important role in tonight's presidential debate, scoring as one of the top topics. Unfortunately, the president didn't have his facts right and didn't actually answer the question on gasoline prices. The global economy is far worse now, and gas prices more than double what they were when President Obama took office.
"The tremendous growth that has occurred in U.S. oil and gas production over the last few years redounds almost completely to the significant advances in oilfield technology pioneered by many of our domestic oilfield service companies and the implementation of such techniques by America's independent producers and the major integrated oil companies. The president's attempts to mislead the public into thinking that his policies have been responsible for such growth ignore the important role of innovation within the private sector that has made this driver of improved national energy security possible.
"Romney let Obama off the hook when it came to so-called 'green' energy. Obama's boast about investing in solar and wind went unchallenged by Romney during this second debate. Also unmentioned was the recent crash of Obama's heavily funded electric car business including now-bankrupt battery maker A123.
"President Obama and Gov. Romney discussed education as a tangential issue, which is appropriate given that the federal government has no constitutional directive to meddle with education. But it came up twice on two central fronts: Pell Grant subsidies to college students, and in discussing what role culture has in helping prevent gun violence.
"Both candidates displayed a disturbing preference for federal programs that contribute to the national deficit while adding nothing to the national welfare. Pell Grants, for instance, are direct federal subsidies to low- and middle-income households. They have been linked by research with the skyrocketing cost of college because when you increase the money students have to pay for college, colleges increase prices to capture more of that money. They are also a terrible tax expenditure, since only 40 percent of Pell recipients get college degrees.
"Missing from the debates so far – with the exception of a brief excursion in Denver – has been a substantive discussion of K-12 education and the federal government's role in shaping state and local policy. Both candidates have spoken generally about education.
"When Gov. Romney said that a necessary consequence of continued large deficits would be tax increases on everybody, this was not exactly correct. Yes, tax increases are a possibility; the more probable consequence is a new inflationary spiral.
"Currently, the Fed is engaging in Quantitative Easing without inflation breaking out because of (a) the depressed state of aggregate demand as the private sector de-leverages, (b) the sequestering of money within banks due to a policy innovation by the Fed (paying interest on bank reserves), and (c) the issue of inflation-indexed securities, especially to foreign holders of treasuries, allaying their concern for inflation. The last, while not a policy innovation – since such securities were first issued during the Clinton administration – the aggressive use of this form of debt is significant. While the delay of inflation has been remarkable, the work of Tom Sargent and Chris Sims indicates that continued large deficit will eventually spark inflation.
"Where Romney was correct on taxes is that the kind of increases in taxes that would be needed to close the deficits that would be forthcoming with the spending initiatives in the president's proposed budgets would have to be European-style payroll or VAT taxes, not 'soak the rich' taxes. The soak the rich taxes would be quite high relative to marginal tax rates on income from capital in other countries (except France). They would be self-defeating. The purpose in proposing to soak the rich is to make tax increases on the middle class palatable.
"The president was good in saying that not all jobs that have been outsourced will return. This is a tough sell, politically. But, economic theory indicates that it is optimal for us, as a highly advanced economy, to specialize in high value-added manufacturing and services. The problem right now is that we're stuck in depressed economic conditions, well below our capacity. What we need is a vibrant economy, not protectionism.
"Tonight's debate can be summarized simply. Our current president is intent on being the divider-in-chief, constantly targeting one group, and generating envy among citizens. The president wants us to believe that we can help employees by punishing their employers. If raising taxes helps the economy, why are tax-raising states such as California and Illinois seeing their populations move to states with lower taxes while the economies of California and Illinois are declining?
"In the exchange on energy last night between Gov. Romney and President Obama, the president said something that illustrates that he doesn't understand the nature of profits or he is hoping the voters don't. As Mr. Obama was explaining why there are fewer permits to drill on federal land, he said that his administration canceled contracts from companies that were not drilling since he decided that they could not just sit there and wait for the time when the prices are high so they could get the most profit. However, that is precisely what we want oil companies to do.
"Although the president obviously came better prepared this time and found the town hall format more to his liking, the policy differences between these two candidates remain clear, if not stark.
"The president believes that the answer to the nation's continued economic woes is more of the same top-down government spending directed to favored industries and constituents. His challenger, Gov. Romney, believes in unleashing the power of individual initiative through simplifying the tax code and reducing the regulatory burden of the administrative state.


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