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Trick or Treat

October 31, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

Lisa over at Sociological Images has been giving a lot of thought to her Halloween costume. And everyone else’s. One of the themes she notes is the ethnic caricature: Asian, Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern, etc. There’s a “Rapsta” child’s outfit. And costume companies even have outfits for dogs.

(Click on the image to see a larger version.)
(Note that the above costume is in the “Religious Gifts” section of the Website.)
The other theme is Sexy, especially in female costumes. I was going to say “women’s costumes,” but as Lisa and many other commentators have pointed out, even the costumes for girls are often sexualized – fishnet stockings and the like.

During the recent (and future) flap over Roman Polanski, there was some talk of the idea that while American attitudes condemned categorically sex with younger teenagers, Europeans were less absolute, more tolerant. I don’t know whether that assessment of sexual mores is accurate, but you certainly wouldn’t know it by looking at the Halloween costumes on sale here in the US. Not only are costumes for girls sexualized, but as Lisa notes, the costumes for adult females include sexualized versions of young girls. The sexy schoolgirl is probably the classic example, though this year she is joined by her classmate from Hogwarts.

But you can also now find Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Alice (from Wonderland), Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, a generic Girl Scout, and probably others.

I wondered if a French costume site would have similar costumes. Admittedly, this is not thorough research, but everything listed under enfant>fille was Disney-pure. Perhaps the French draw the line between enfant and adulte at a lower age. But in the costumes for women, I didn’t find the variety of sexualized pre-teens that Lisa found at the US site. One Little Red Riding Hood, one Gretel, and one schoolgirl, as opposed to the dozens of variations at the US site.

The French site did have several different nun costumes. This fits with the strategy of sexualizing a status that in reality is usually unsexy: soldier, police officer, nurse, pirate, witch, angel, etc. Or even sponge.
(Click on the image to see a larger version.)

Note the price of the Bob l’Éponge Sexy costume, more than twice the nun. Must be the licensing fees. (The Olive Oyl costume – not shown, and not sexy – goes for 79€.)

Happy Halloween

A Sell-by Date for the Tax Breaks

October 30, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

Maybe you missed yesterday’s special section on Wealth and Personal Finance in the New York Times. Maybe you didn’t need to read articles like
  • “Exotic Bets to Hedge a Portfolio”
  • “Foreign Bonds Provide a Buffer . . .”
  • “ . . . Keeping the Heirs Quiet”
  • “For Equestrians, a Buyer’s Market in Horses”
Maybe you wondered who those articles were for. If so, you could have opened to page 8, to this chart, which is not to be missed, especially by those who might have thought that the benefits of the Bush tax cuts were broadly distributed and didn’t go just to the very rich.

(Click on the chart for a larger view.)

The people in that big, blue circle, that’s who those article are for. The top 1%, the folks (to use a Bushian locution) yes, the folks who take down over $ ½ million a year and more, much more, and had their taxes reduced by nearly as much, those are the folks the Times must have had in mind with this special section. (Full article by David Cay Johnston here.)

When the Bushies bestowed this largesse upon the wealthy, they had to make it look a little less devastating to the federal budget, so they wrote in an expiration date – the end of 2010. The Bushies and their friends probably expected the Republican domination of all three branches of government to continue in perpetuity, so that when the time came, the tax breaks would be extended. They also expected that the economic strategies of tax cuts and deregulation would usher in an era of permanent prosperity rather than the worst economic period since the 1930s.

But a funny thing happened on the way to Republican paradise, and it now looks as though the sun will set on these tax breaks. Nearly a decade of the government going deep into debt in order to give you fistfuls of money as though it were trick-or-treat candy is not such a bad deal. But now . . .

What’s a poor millionaire to do? Buy another horse? Another house? Hedge the portfolio? Or might the heirs be quieted more with foreign bonds? Decisions, decisions.

Dithering and Talking Points

October 28, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

The Daily Show calls itself “a fake news show,” but it often does what the “real” news shows won’t. It documents how what people on news shows try to pass off as “spontaneous and unrehearsed” (as the opening of Meet the Press used to put it) is really planned and scripted at Talking Points Central. The Daily Show will give a quick montage of clips in which different people on different shows all use the same unusual word or phrase.

Last night it was “dithering.” A series of right-wingers, culminating in Dick Cheney, all accuse President Obama of “dithering” on Afghanistan.

(The Daily Show does not allow me to embed the video. But click here and slide to the 8:30 mark.)

It was just like the old days, when The Daily Show would string together clips from Bush Administration figures and right-wing commentators all using the same key words. But then, the statements all came on the same day, so the central direction was obvious. (I mean, it was obvious to Daily Show viewers, not to viewers of “real” news programs.)

The popularity of dithering may be more a case of contagion than planning. Note the dates of the O’Reilly and Cheney clips, more than two weeks apart.

Dithering is not a frequently used word. Lexis-Nexis shows only 27 instances in TV news transcripts for the first nine months of the year. The first use in connection with Afghanistan comes on September 24 – on Australian ABC, but the speaker was from the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. So it’s likely that dithering represented one idea of how to attack Obama. That idea took hold.

Over the course of the next month, dithering begins to reverberate. Republican senators use it in hearings in early October, TV news people bounce it back, and right-wing commentators start yodeling it loudly.
They are changing the rationale for why we are in Afghanistan. Whats really going on here is a dither, a big dither, indecisiveness. (William Bennett on CNN, Oct. 18)
And finally the Cheney quote on Oct. 21 that is echoed in every news story about that speech.
The White House must stop dithering while Americas forces are in danger.
Quite possibly, Cheney’s speech was written by someone at the American Enterprise Institute or someone else in that neo-con circle. Still, I don’t see the dithering as a matter of “talking points” distributed by the RNC. Instead, it’s an example of what I mentioned in yesterday’s post – a word (dithering, issues) that spreads because it just sounds “right,” at least to certain people.

I expect that the dithering life cycle will be mayfly brief. Issues to mean problems was slower to catch on, and it may hang around for a good while.

Houston, We Have an Issue

October 27, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

When did problems become issues?

I remember when an issue was a point of contention, something people disagreed about, like the issues in a political campaign. Now, an issue can be just another difficulty, or what we used to call “a problem.”*

This morning my orthopedist told me that he too has “shoulder issues,” especially when he’s under stress and unconsciously tenses his shoulders. I wanted to say that I didn’t have issues, I had pain, and that the pain was a problem.

But I didn’t. Not enough time. This doctor works fast, and talks fast. “Trap strain” was his diagnosis, and it took him about as long to make it as it took you to read this sentence.

I and everyone I’ve mentioned it to think that issues started among psychotherapists. Patients’ problems became “issues.” (“You seem to have an issue with women you perceive as powerful.”) Those patients were disproportionately educated and wealthy; more of them also might have worked in the media. A Robert Weber New Yorker cartoon shows two parents as their infant child in a highchair throws food wildly all over the kitchen. The caption: “He has some food issues.”

He has some food issues.

That was in 1999, and apparently issues was fresh enough to be funny to New Yorker readers and their therapists. But I suspect that it was already late in the day and that the term was already filtering out into much broader use. I doubt that the magazine would publish that cartoon today. Last May, their “Ask the Author” page contained the sentence, “There are allergies, peculiar diets, and all sorts of food issues.” And nobody was chuckling.

So it all starts with psychotherapy and the media elite, to use a term of denigration popular on the right (George W. Bush used to pronounce it as a single word – “medialeet”). It then flowed downward and outward, much like fashions in names and clothing. To repeat an anecdote I used in an earlier post on language, only few years after that cartoon appeared, I heard a burly jock, a former defensive lineman for the Jets, talking about the team’s prospects in the upcoming season. “Well, the Jets have right tackle issues.”

At least, that’s my guess. But I need some some evidence. If I were a linguist, I’d know how to track these changes. I tried Lexis-Nexis, searching for “has an issue.” But Lex thought I was just kidding about the has, despite my using quotation marks, and it returned everything with the word issue.

I wish I could figure out how to solve this problem. Or do I mean how to resolve this issue?

*Issue as a point of contention is not the earliest meaning of the word, but it does go back to at least the early 1500s. My OED, admittedly not a recent edition, does not even mention the problem sense of the word.

Wisdom and Crowds, One More Time

October 25, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

In the early months of this blog, I had some posts about The Wisdom of Crowds. The argument that James Surowiecki makes in his book of that name is that the collective wisdom of the general public, at least those who are interested in some topic, is superior to that of a few experts. (See this post for an example).

In other posts, I framed the issue as The Wisdom of Crowds vs. The Smart Money, and I wanted to see how the contest played out on the gridiron. Well, not the gridiron exactly, but in the betting about what went on there. My thesis was that the bookies (The Smart Money) were better at predicting outcomes than was the general public. (See here and here.)

Today, the NFL offers us two games that will provide more evidence. In the Steelers-Vikings game, the bookies made the Steelers a 4-point favorite. Since the beginning of the week, the public has been backing the Vikes. Three-fourths of the money has been bet on Minnesota. Usually, that would drive the line lower as bookmakers tried to make Steeler action more attractive in order to balance their books. But instead, the line has gone up to 6. Even with their books heavily weighted with Viking bets, the bookies seem to be asking the public to bet still more on the Vikes.

The Jets-Raiders game later this afternoon has a similar discrepancy. Jets opened as 7-point favorites. Public money came in on the Jets (about two-thirds of all action), but the line went down. Most books have it as 6 ½ or even 6, and it may go even lower by 4 p.m.

In both games, the bookies were responding not to the wisdom of the crowd but to the wisdom of a small number of sharp bettors, i.e, smart money.

If you follow the smart money, take the Steelers minus 6 (less, if you can find it) and Oakland plus as many as you can get (one online book still has them at 7). On the other side, the crowd, in its wisdom, 1) loves Bret Favre, and 2) doesn’t see how anyone can ever bet on the Raiders.

Sociologists, of course, will back the team whose head coach was a sociology major. Go Steelers!

(Mike and Ben having a chuckle over a basic flaw in Parsons' Social System.)

UPDATE: The Steelers won and covered, thanks to a couple of turnarounds by the defense. Twice, the Vikings looked certain to score only to have the great Bret Favre fumble or toss an interception that the Steelers returned for a TD. The smart money on the Raiders didn't look so smart. The Jets won easily, 38-0.

Culture, Relativism, and Bank Ads

October 23, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

The word values has become pretty much the property of conservatives, who take an absolutist position. Values tell us what’s right and wrong, and by God some things are just wrong. Abortion, gay marriage, Al Qaeda. And some things are just right. The War on Terrorism, Freedom, Democracy.

This view is neatly summed up in William Bennett’s phrase “moral clarity,” which stands strong against the wishy-washy liberal view called moral relativism. Sheesh, don’t get conservatives started on moral relativism. Here’s a guy on Glenn Beck’s show:
a certain segment of society who has been indoctrinated with a certain moral relativism. . . . And it quite frankly puts our civilization in danger.
Here’s Bill Bennett himself:
Most Republicans believe there are such things as objective values, things we can arrive at through reason, and discussion, and experience, and faith . . . A lot of liberals are still suffering from the relativism of the '60s and '70s. [Nice word choice – “suffering.”]
But for the past year HSBC has been banking on cultural relativism with their Different Values ad campaign.

Some of the ads give a pair of value-laden words (good, bad) with a picture for each. Then the pictures are switched. Papaya - good; chocolate cake - bad. Or is it the reverse? Same words, different pictures.

Other ads show the same picture, but with different value labels. What idea is triggered by this old convertible – Freedom? Status Symbol? Polluter?

(Click on the image for a larger view, and read the relativistic ad copy.)

(I especially like this one. Is having four kids the self-indulgence that comes with privilege, or is it sacrifice?)

The idea, neatly summed up in the tag line of the original ads is, “different values make the world a richer place.” OK, let’s forget about the intentional double meaning of richer. And maybe we should temporarily ignore the hypocrisy of HSBC, having gobbled up local banks, now coming out as the promoter of local values.

What the ad illustrates – and this is how I’ll use them in class next week when we start talking about culture – is the idea of culture as a “meaning system.” What something means depends on the culture of the people interpreting it – as in the shaved head ad.
Those interpretations are based in experience, and the experiences we have depend on where we are in the society – as in the computer/baby ad.

Or the carpet ad.

(Can we still call them “Oriental” rugs? I guess it depends on our culture. But if we can’t call them Oriental rugs, what are they?)

UPDATE. A few hours after I posted this yesterday, I went to Brooklyn for dinner with friends. Getting out of the subway, I glanced back at the skyline of Manhattan, the island much glorified (by some), much vilified (by others), and much gentrified. Then I started up Montague St., and one of the first things I passed was an HSBC bank with this ad inside.

Service Without a Smile

October 20, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

Jenn Lena links to a site where DJ s tell stupid-club-patron stories.
dude: got any Jurassic Five?
dj: it's a Brit pop night tonight, so it wouldn't really fit in
dude: ok, what about Nirvana?
dj: Nirvana are American
dude: oh, I see. then how about The Smashing Pumpkins?
Waiters tell similar stories about diners. The blogger at Waiter Rant managed to get his blog published as a book. Teachers tell stupid-student stories. RateYourStudents, is payback for RateMyProfessors, but the tone is different, more like the DJ s’ and less like advice on who to avoid. Doctors probably tell stupid patient stories; they just don’t do it on the Internet.

People in most service occupations, it seems, have stories about the stupidity of those they serve. The dudes or blondes, students, customers and occasionally the employers are inevitably ignorant, and exasperating. They are also often selfishly inconsiderate. And they don’t even realize it.

Why do we tell these stories? They seem to have a defensive quality, as though the self is threatened , for in most cases the moral of the story is, “I deserve better.” They are literally self-serving. They serve to defend the self. The threat to self is especially acute when the clients have some power and can make demands. Most of the DJ stories, like the one above, involve requests. Ditto for waiter stories. But even when control over one’s work is not an issue, even when the client has almost no power, as with teachers and doctors, people need to distance the self from the implications of the situation.

When we sit around and swap these stories, we are telling ourselves that we are in the business of creating pearls, and we do create them. But the demands of our job require us to cast them before swine (or, as we say now, before H1N1).

Times They Are a-Changin'

October 16, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

There were several empty seats when I got to class yesterday, so I asked the students if it was still early. A couple of them flipped open their cell phones.

Doesn’t anybody have a watch? I remembered all those mornings when my son went off to high school, and I would see his wristwatch lying on the dresser. “Aren’t you taking your watch?”

So I took a survey. How many of you don’t wear a wristwatch? They all raised their hands (and bare wrists) except for one student, and even she wasn’t wearing hers that day. It’s all cell phones. “The new pocket watch,” said one student. I suggested he ought get a chain and waistcoat.*

It looks like the wristwatch is another generational marker, soon to go the way of the typewriter.
But a wristwatch isn’t just for telling time. It’s jewelry, it’s conspicuous consumption. A friend who worked at Canyon Ranch (an expensive spa) told he had witnessed a small misunderstanding there. One client (rancher? camper?) had mistaken another as an employee. The one who felt he’d been slighted thrust out his arm at the other man. “That’s a five thousand dollar Rolex,” he announced.

Cell phones are democratizing. Yes, some cost more than others, but the top of the line phone, the best phone, the iPhone, is within reach of most people. The most expensive model I could find online today costs $750. And the cheaper iPhones look just like the expensive ones.

Watches, on the other wrist, have limitless potential as status markers. That Rolex would be put to shame by even a low-end Patek Phillipe, like this $16,000 model (which looks strikingly like a Timex I used to own.)

Or this De Bethune with a MSRP of $95,000.

But why not get something really good like this Blancpain? It’s only 250,000 (the website didn’t say whether that was dollars or euros. If the latter, multiply by about 1.5. But if you have to do the math, you probably can’t afford it anyway.)

*I also told him of the line I heard Woody Allen use on the Johnny Carson show ages ago. Woody took out a pocket watch as if to check the time, and Carson admired it. “My grandfather,” said Woody somberly, “on his deathbed,” he paused, “sold me this watch.”

Taking an Incomplete in Religion

October 13, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

In comments on my “Christian Is Not a Religion” post, Man of Letters says that minority and majority perceive things differently. Stephen Colbert’s, “I don’t see race” nicely illustrates the idea that privilege, when it’s working well, is invisible, especially to the privileged. Nonwhites may find it harder to unsee race.

The privileged position (white, male, etc.) is the default setting. As with default settings for machines or software, most people don’t even notice that these settings exist. After a while, the default setting just seems to be the “natural” way, the way things are. The default also comes be seen not just as the way things are but as the way things should be. To say that male is the default setting for sex implies that other settings, female for instance, are, well, faults. Being male is right and natural; it’s what we all should be doing. Women just aren’t as good at it.*

A similar set of assumptions seems evident in Justice Scalia’s idea that it is “outrageous” to think that the cross honors only Christian war dead. In Scalia’s view, even if you’re not a Christian, the cross is still for you. And if you don’t feel honored by that cross, well maybe there’s something wrong with you. In Scalia’s case, these ideas still seem to be unexamined assumptions. Others make the case more explicitly. Theologian Ann Coulter, among others, says that in relation to Christians, Jews are “uncompleted” or “unperfected.” When Jews are completed and perfected, they will be Christians.

Jews, given their centuries-long experience with others seeking to perfect them, may understandably be less than enthusiastic about Ms. Coulter’s beneficence.

*This assumption has been the basis of TV sitcom plots going back to “I Love Lucy.” Lucy tries to do something that men usually do (for example, working or having a job), only to fail hilariously.

The New York Walk - High Line Edition

October 11, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

Our semi-annual New York walk yesterday took a different route from any previous walk. We hit the High Line, the elevated train tracks that had long fallen into disuse and that the city converted into a pedestrian walkway. Here’s a before-and-after.

(Click on the picture for a larger view.

If you give people in the city a place to walk, they will. The High Line is fairly narrow, as you can see, and not all that long. But people walk up and walk back, even though there are not a lot of things to do – no shops or displays to look. But people stop and take photos of one another. Here’s part of our group.

(George, Paulo, Joe)
Our itinerary was briefer than in previous years. It included another recent New York innovation – the conversion of several blocks of midtown Broadway into a pedestrian area, with chairs. We had lunch at the Chelsea Brewing Company at Chelsea Piers, which was offering a menu of about 30 locally brewed beer, ale, and stout.

But the New York Walk is about walking. Especially on the High Line, I was reminded of the passeggiata, the non-utilitarian walk that Italians take after dinner, strolling about town talking and looking at the other people who are strolling and looking. Italians may be more aware than New Yorkers that they themselves are the attraction, what others have come out to review. But in either case, walking for no purpose but to look at other people is a pleasure afforded almost exclusively by cities. It is to New York’s credit that it recognizes this special urban possibility and has tried to enhance it.

Christian Is Not a Religion (and Jews Have a Cross to Bear)

October 9, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

In the flap over Sonia Sotomayor’s gender and ethnicity, when the right went nuts over her “wise Latina”comment, I noted (here) the invisibility of dominant characteristics.
White male is the default setting. White is not a race, male is not a gender. Only blacks, Hispanics, and others have race. Only women and gays have gender.
I should have added that usually these are invisible only to the whites and the males. I also should have added that, in the US at least, Christian is not a religion.

From Wednesday’s New York Times
As the Supreme Court weighed a dispute over a religious symbol on public land Wednesday, Justice Antonin Scalia was having difficulty understanding how some people might feel excluded by a cross that was put up as a memorial to soldiers killed in World War I.

“It’s erected as a war memorial. I assume it is erected in honor of all of the war dead,'” Scalia said of the cross that the Veterans of Foreign Wars built 75 years ago atop an outcropping in the Mojave National Preserve. “What would you have them erect?...Some conglomerate of a cross, a Star of David, and you know, a Muslim half moon and star?”'

Peter Eliasberg, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer arguing the case, explained that the cross is the predominant symbol of Christianity and commonly used at Christian grave sites, not that the devoutly Catholic Scalia needed to be told that.

''I have been in Jewish cemeteries,'' Eliasberg continued. ''There is never a cross on a tombstone of a Jew.''

There was mild laughter in the packed courtroom, but not from Scalia.

“I don't think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead that that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion,” Scalia said, clearly irritated by the exchange. [emphasis added]
Just as white is the universal race (in the eyes of whites) and male the universal sex (in the eyes of males), Christianity is the universal religion. The Times writer says that Scalia did not need to be told that the cross is the symbol of Christianity. But Scalia says that it’s “outrageous” to think that the cross honors only Christians. In other words, the Christian religious symbol is the universal religious symbol . . . at least in the eyes of Christians like Scalia. I think Justice Ginsburg might disagree.

UPDATE. The Times this morning published a letter which says, in part, “The cross does not represent ‘establishment’ of a particular religion. It is a simple, and neutral, recognition that those honored were, by an enormous margin, Christians.” The writer, Ron Holdaway, is a retired judge in Wyoming.

What a persuasive choice of words. Neutral! Neutral is good (by Polonius). The old neutral cross.

That saying, “It’s Sinatra’s world, we just live in it,” is funny when it’s about Ol’ Blue Eyes. But when it’s changed to “It’s Christianity’s world; we’re just allowed to live in it,” it loses much of its humor.

(As for Judge Holdaway, I picture my grandmother, were she alive: “Holdaway, Ron Holdaway,” she muses, rolling the name around in her mind, looking at it from different angles for several seconds. Then, “Doesn’t sound Jewish.”)

Losing a Teachable Moment

October9, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

Bureaucracy was the topic in class yesterday, and a student had a wonderful anecdote. The trouble was that I couldn’t figure out what it was an example of. I still can’t.

Here’s the story.
She needed a copy of her birth certificate, and eventually she found the right government building and the right office, only to find a sign on the door saying that the person she needed to see was away for a one-day seminar. She went home and returned the next day. Same sign.

Maybe the person was late in getting back. When she came back a third day and the same sign was still there, she went into another office to find out what was up.

Another worker explained that the person in that office was off for a week vacation, but they didn’t have a sign that said that. The only sign they had was the one-day seminar sign. So that’s what they posted.
There are some lessons to be learned here – don’t believe everything you read, close enough for government work, etc. Beyond the practical implications though, I had the feeling that story also illustrated some more general sociological concept or principle. But whatever that might have been, it was, and still is, hidden someplace in the shadows.

Any ideas? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Before It’s Too Late . . .

October 6, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

Act now — while there’s still time.

A Preference for Bad News

October 4, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

Brad Wright links to an article by Rod Dreher claiming that “our news media, through heavily biased reporting and analysis, are turning significant numbers of American voters against religious conservatives.”

I was skeptical that the media have this power. The “media elite” may be secular, and their views may be be at odds with those of conservative Christians. But the only evidence Dreher gives that their politics influence viewers is the finding that people who watch more TV news are more likely to think that “Christian fundamentalists are ideologically extreme and politically militant.” That’s probably because extremism of any stripe is what gets on the news. Or maybe it’s because it’s true, and people who pay more attention to the news have a more accurate view of what’s happening.

Besides, Dreher goes on to maintain that the US is still a religious nation with a populace that generally takes a dim view of nonbelievers. That contradicts his main point. If we are still religious, even after decades of our media being dominated by secularists, their anti-Christian influence must be very weak. So why get all worried? Why pay so much attention to the beliefs of the people who write the news?

Then on Friday, David Brooks echoed my sentiments, not about religion but in reference to the right-wing media. Limbaugh, Beck, and the rest, he said, make a lot of noise, but their ability to change votes is minimal.

Now I found myself in the position of Dreher. Although I had scoffed at Dreher’s idea that the secularism of US newsrooms was swaying the country, here I was, insisting that Limbaugh and Fox TV had to be having some effect. But why did I react that way? Why would we (Dreher from one side, me from the other) insist that the people we didn’t like were so influential?* Why wouldn’t we take comfort in the idea that they were, as Brooks says, like the Wizard of Oz – seemingly large on screen, but in reality small and powerless behind the curtain?

At first, I was reminded of the joke my mother told me long ago about the old Jew who subscribed to the newspaper of the American Nazi Party. His neighbors were appalled. “You should read the Jewish Daily Forward” they insisted. “Why do you read that garbage?”

“If I read the Forward, what do I see? Jews killed in Germany, pogroms in Russia, anti-Semitism in Poland, Jews persecuted everywhere. If I read the American Nazi paper, what do I see? Jews control the government. Jews own all the banks. Jews have all the money. . . .”

My second thought was that our preference for bad news – our insistence that our enemies must be having some nefarious impact – was yet another instance of what Lindesmith called the “evil-causes-evil assumption.” If something is evil, it must have evil consequences. This assumption must be a very powerful indeed. Even when faced with the possibility of good news – that our enemies are ineffectual – we’ll cling to our assumption and keep reading the bad news in the Forward.

* I’m referring here to my initial gut reaction. In fact, Brooks doesn’t provide much convincing evidence that the right-wing voices go unheeded. He cites only one systematic study of the absence of a Limbaugh effect, but that study was focused on one narrow issue – Rush’s urging Republicans to cross over and vote for weaker candidates in the Democratic primaries.

My Message Is Heard

October 1, 2009
Posted by Jay Livingston

In yesterday’s post about the Polanski case, I predicted that some people would make an argument that his prosecution would deter child rape.
No doubt, some people will argue that the case, especially because Polanski is famous, will “send a message”
The Times must have been listening. Here’s a letter from this morning’s paper.
Robert Harris asks who benefits from the arrest of Roman Polanski, more than three decades after his admission of having had sex with a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles. The answer is society and all children at risk of becoming victims in the future.

Even if Mr. Polanski succeeds in negotiating his immediate freedom, the fact of his being made to answer before a court would be salutary.

It would send a message about the seriousness of such crimes, rather than the “who cares” message that Mr. Harris sends (and that the three French presidents, who, Mr. Harris reports, have dined with Mr. Polanski, also send).
I’ve already voiced my skepticism about these messages (here). I suspect that while the court’s action may have some effect on the feelings of the partisans on both sides of this debate, its impact on sexual crimes against children will be nil.


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Democratic National Convention: Michelle Obama America’s Fat Czar in your face

Internet pic of our nation’s Fat Czar walking her dog

Not only will the Democrats be trotting out their past failed president, Jimmy Carter to speak; but they will be presenting their First Lady White House occupier.

This Monday evening our nation’s self appointed Fat Czar will be speaking to the convention. Will she have finished eating her cheeseburgers and fries before addressing this august assembly of rabid liberals intent on molesting traditional and patriotic America with their sacramental liberal beliefs of political correctness and multiculturalism principles?

What will Fat Czar Michelle Obama recommend? Will she call for more government interference in the lives of American families, vis-à-vis with their school aged children? Will she advocate for increased government control in the government controlled public school industry and paid for by rank-in-file American taxpayers? Will Michelle Obama invoke national teacher unions to carry out her Fat Czar Recommendations, proposals and platitudes?

Mrs. Obama’s 2nd-Term Agenda: ‘Impact Nature Of Food In Grocery Stores’ –

>>>>>>>> ( – Asked by Parade magazine, “What do you hope to accomplish in your second term?” First Lady Michelle Obama said she wants to “impact the nature of food in grocery stores” with the aim of cutting sugar, fat and salt.

“With ‘Lets Move!,’ our goal is to end the problem of childhood obesity in a generation,” Mrs. Obama said. “And while we’ve seen some very profound cultural shifts, we still have communities that don’t have access to affordable and healthy foods. We still need to find a way to impact the nature of food in grocery stores, in terms of sugar, fat, and salt.”

Will Fat Czar Mrs. Obama ever get food off her mind?

Mrs. Obama also discussed the challenge of “educating families” on healthy lifestyles in a society where “TV is rampant.” …… <<<<<<<< –

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14 thoughts on “Democratic National Convention: Michelle Obama America’s Fat Czar in your face

  1. The size or sex of a person does not indicate their character, beliefs, morals etc so why would you attack somebody on these grounds. In Australia we have a female Prime Minister who is attacked daily by the opposition and her detractors and all their comments are gender based not performance based.. Surely we have evolved from grunting in a cave.

    1. littlepaddocks –

      Thank you for visiting – and thank you for your comment. Did I attack Mrs. Obama’s character? And, if I have, how have I done that? Am I not free to offer my American free speech First Amendment opinion? I’m providing some news with a certain bent. When the First White House Occupier lady puts herself out there in the public; why should she be immune to stark contrasts? My posting was a mini commentary on Michelle Obama’s self-appointed position as “Food / Fat Czar.” Is that term a little more comfortable for you, being that you live in Australia where you don’t have free speech American First Amendment rights?

      Furthermore, I think she should stay out of the food lecture business. Personally, I think that some web readers need to lighten up a bit. If you would like to criticize some and take them to task – how about America’s MSNBC?

      MSNBC: Network of bigotry hate mongering and racism

  2. BREE says:

    Let me tell you something, first, there is not going to be any second term for her. And secondly, there is going to be greater food shortages and higher prices to deal with than ever before. I live in the mid west, the bread basket of America. You should see what the severest drought in history has done to our corn crops. To eat healthy good foods, it will cost an arm and a leg so she better be prepared to serve food in the soup kitchens instead of “reforming” our grocery stores.

    This woman is such a big joke that it isn’t worth writing about really. Try to imagine a country without the Obamas. Just pray we have enough left of America to still plough a field and grow a garden. I am sick to death of anything remotely called a “Czar”. Let us get them out of our White House and the grocery stores!

    1. BREE –

      Excellent observations! Thank you again for visiting Your comments are always welcome here!

      I’ve lived in the Midwest all my life. I’ve lived in rural areas. I’ve worked for farmers. Many of my relatives are farmers. I know of what you are speaking about!

      While reading your comments, I thought to myself: “Has Michelle Obama ever worked with her hands and ever really gotten them dirty, outside of her photo opt White House “garden?”

  3. BREE says:

    Not sure why my comment is in moderation but if there are rules of policy on this site, I would like to know them or I will no longer post. Thank you

    1. BREE –

      I just responded to your last comment and approved it, along with my response. I’ll double check; but I think everything is working fine on my end. That is, unless there was some comment in the past few days that I did not see; or, approved and it got stuck in the facility’s moderating mode.

      Please, don’t let some time lapse discourage your commenting. I appreciate your comments.

  4. BREE says:

    Oh thank you Nathan, I just do not want to do anything wrong and I’m always weary from Patriot Update moderating me when honestly I don’t break any of their policy rules either. So I will try to be more patient and just let me know if I do something wrong to correct it. I like your blog here and it seems more free to speak so I just did not restrain myself. I am a Christian and I do not try to be unruly or anything. I am not much of a political debater but I like to learn as much as possible from those who are. I have also only been blogging a few months so you can see that I am no pro. I can only say I hope to improve.

    1. BREE –

      No matter how long one is at blogging; there is still something to learn.

      I think I know what you mean about that one “Patriot” website; the one in which there are hardly any comments because they have such a high [almost sanctimonious] standard. But, since I’m mentioning the word, “Patriot” I don’t want readers here to think of – which I find to be a very good site and accommodating to those who would like to register their comments.

      Finally, in the future; be patient if there is a long period of time in which your comment may not appear. There are times in which I have other business and it takes me away from a computer for considerable lengths of time.

      And, it is nice to hear of your professed Christian faith. I’m happy that you are interested in the political realm. This country needs more Christians involved in the political process – that is genuine Christians, not CINOS – Christians in name only, such as is Obama:

      Obama Not Christian – No More Than the Man in the Moon

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Common Sense-LESS

Do you ever wonder how you’re going to make it through the day without literally stabbing someone in the eye with a fork?  Worse, now that I know jiu jitsu, how am I supposed to make it through the day without dreaming about taking people down, then proceeding to choke them, armbar them, or triangle them…oh wait…I know Muay Thai too…spinning back kick to the body or head would work too…darn…I might get in a wee bit of trouble if I did that.  That’s what happens when you are surrounded with the common senseless.  Plus, a girl can dream can’t she…there is no harm in that…whatever it takes to make it through the day.  Since I can’t do any of the above, I’m going to celebrate quitting time and no-gi classes on Fridays instead.  Warning to my wonderful training partners at Dirty Bay…you guys will just have to bear the brunt of my angst…sorry…that’s the price you pay for being good training partners.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Anything is possible

Last Wednesday was possibly one of the best days ever!  It was my 20th wedding anniversary (WOOHOO!!  We did it honey, and here’s to many, many more).  It’s not often you have a spouse that completely and utterly supports your love affair with jiu jitsu.  Not only did I celebrate 20 years of marriage, but I got my blue belt.  You heard me right…Mrs. Ibarra finally got her blue belt (it only took me 27 months).  I was honestly beginning to think I would be the oldest living white belt alive.  Coach took me completely by surprise.  It was a surreal moment...hearing my name called and seeing coach holding that blue belt....shaking and fumbling and crying a little bit.  But I am honored and happy and excited and thrilled and a little nervous.  Tonight I will tie that new blue belt around my waist for the first time and train.  The journey continues...

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

They say time heals everything...I'm still waiting

I’m missing my Dad today.  While most of the world was watching in horror at the events as they unfolded on 9/11/2001, my Dad was in the last stages of his fight with cancer.  It was a tough day already, we were exhausted on every front…mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually…and then 9/11 happened.  I couldn’t tell you much about that day, or the days that followed.  My Dad lived only 16 more days after that and we were focused on taking care of him and we were grieving.  It had been a long battle with cancer, brutal on the body and soul, he fought hard, but he didn’t win.  I wouldn’t say that I was a Daddy’s girl, but I would say that my Dad and me were kindred spirits.  We had similar feelings about life and love and people and second chances.  He always gave people second chances.  He felt people were always worth another try.  He always saw the good in people, until they showed him otherwise.  I’m sort of like that…maybe a bit more cynical that he was…but I do tend to see the good in people, unless they show me otherwise.  He was my sounding board when things were sucky at work, when I was having a difficult time with people.  He always gave me good advice.  Always be on time.  Do your best.  Work hard.  Be dependable.  And my favorite, don’t burn your bridges with someone…one day they might be your boss (oh Dad, if you only knew).  Well today I was wishing he was here to be my sounding board, but he’s not.  And all day I get reminded what a horrible day 9/11/2001 was.  Trust me, I will never forget.


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Bungee Jump Experience in London at O2

Recently, I did a Bungee jump near London’s iconic O2 (more formally The Millennium Dome).

I tried searching on “What to expect when Bungee Jumping”, but got only the general stuff like weight, weather conditions, etc… Nothing much about detailed personal experiences.

I had a light breakfast in the morning and arrived early for the jump. There were a few guys ahead of me that went. All of them were quiet, relaxed, and diving as though they were going down a kids slide. No mad screaming. I thought it might be the same for me.

As soon as I crossed the barriers and into the box which the crane lifts to go up, I felt like I had stepped into another world. I don’t know why I had booked the jump. Am I really going to just walk out of the box at 160 ft and let the cord I’m attached to save me? What’s the worse that could happen – splatter all over the concrete pavement because I wasn’t going straight down and miss the air cushion. Not a pretty sight.

I had done a 15,000 ft skydive from the safety of the fuselage, attached to a Pro-skydiver who did most of the work. This was a mere 160 ft but much worse, no one is attached to you and you can look down and see yourself fall on your own.

As the crane lifted us up, I could feel the winds getting stronger. The uneasiness had spread to my legs.  Once at the top, I used both hands to lift myself up as I was given instructions on how to jump – walk off, or be pushed! It reminded me of Peter Pan being pushed off the plank.

I tried to talk to the instructors in order to stall by asking random questions about the weather, other high jumps, how they got started, etc… They said if I’m scared, I could fold my hands around my shoulders, and they could push on the count of three if it’d help. Nope, it didn’t. I asked for a few more minutes.

Then I decided to let them do the countdown and once they reached 1, I could ask for a few more minutes. He started, 3… push

I’ll let you experience what happens after.

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I was dizzy with the screaming. I felt blood had drained from my head and body.

My wife came up to me and said that as I was the only jumper that had screamed, I got a round of applause which no one else did. She also saw my face had turned yellow and eyes bloodshot. I must have been really scared. I should’ve let go and jumped myself. But as a first-timer, I couldn’t gather the courage for a free fall. I was not in control and was relying on the cord. All returned to normal an hour later.

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Roosevelt’s eponymous debut album received a glowing review on this site when it was released last year, and rightly so. The man also known as Marius Lauber combines immediately accessible songs with clever lyrics and diverse instrumentation. He wrote, recorded and produced the record himself over a period of two years. Five of the twelve tracks have been previously released as singles. It doesn’t take long for the album to suck you in and immerse you.

Fast forward six months, and with that debut still fizzing beneath the surface, Lauber has no intention of resting on his laurels. ‘Moving On’ is a smooth, groove-ridden slice of Balearic new wave about recovering from what that partner took with them along with their departure. Since release the track has become a live favourite, which is why it's now being released as a stand-alone single. Video director Hector Prats reflects on its accompanying visual, "It's about how we deal with something that we believed was true, but from one day to the other, looks like never happened.”

Roosevelt is on tour with Glass Animals in the UK this week, before setting off on his own European tour in late March and through April.

Live dates:

13 March - CAMBRIDGE UK - The Junction*

15 March - BRISTOL UK - Academy*

16 March - LONDON UK - Brixton Academy*

17 March - NORWICH UK - UEA*

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:Food Friday - Sweet Pork and Green Salad

>> Friday, October 30, 2009

I don't know the name of this dish as I'm not the one who ordered this and it's my first time ever to eat there. This menu if from Outback restaurant in Libis where I had lunch with my bosses. We intended to eat in our favorite Causeway resto but we'll have to wait for three tables to vacate before we can eat so my boss changed our lunch venue. I was surprised he picked this resto because it's their competent as they owned a steakhouse also. Anyway he ordered big ribs on the barbie, tenderloin, fresh baked ziti, this sweet pork and green salad and fruit shakes.

I'm very fond of salad any salad that is! Be it green salad, fruit, buco, macaroni and any other salad I just love it. This one was served with sweet pork (I don't know the name of the menu here) and lettuce salad. All are deliciously prepared and originally flavored and we enjoyed our lunch. I just found the ribs too sweet for my liking.

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♥peachkins♥ October 30, 2009 at 10:46 PM

whatever it is, it looks good!

Jay - agent112778 November 3, 2009 at 2:23 PM

korek si ate peach, kung ano man yan, lets eat

my entry is here

Great day for us Food Weekenders:)

Thanx for the Visit :)

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Limitless (3 of Clubs) DVD and Gimmicks Review

Official Review

February 10th, 2015 6:58am
Reviewed by Doc Johnson

This is a great method that can be used for many amazing routines.

The method is very easy, and requires just a bit of practice. Any beginner could perform with ease.

They explain several top notch performances using this method, but many more are possible.

The ad copy describes a large number of routines that are explained on the DVD. They originally created a list of routines that was much larger than what they explained, and they narrowed the list down to what is still a rather large list, but of just superb effects. The effects range from mentalism, to do-as-I-do, to predictions, to story telling, to a great souvenir effect called Photo Finish, to many more. I really liked many of the routines, but Photo Finish is just tremendous as the performer hands the participant a blank card and takes a photo of the participant and their friends holding the blank card. Their thought of card appears on the photo on their camera.

The deck is made with Phoenix decks because apparently Phoenix decks are a higher quality.

I gave this four stars and not five. While you can do some of the most stunning effects you can imagine, the outcome will always be the same card. You will need to purchase an expansion set to get a different force card. The expansion sets are available at a slightly lower price.

So, you are trading off a gimmicked deck which you can’t easily use for most routines involving a regular deck, for the ability to easily do some mind blowing routines.

If you are OK with the limitations of a single force card and a gimmicked deck, this method provides for some really powerful effect possibilities.

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Product info for Limitless (3 of Clubs) DVD and Gimmicks

Author: Nardi, Peter
Publisher: Alakazam UK
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Retail Price: $40.25
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Limitless allows you to do just that, and the best bit? Your spectator will believe they had a totally free choice.

Limitless gives you the power to perform routines with a mentally selected card that appear absolutely impossible.

I designed limitless to be my secret weapon. The routines I have developed cover every aspect of my performances from close up magic and Mentalism to stage.

With Limitless your spectator is asked to think of a card as you riffle through the deck, that thought of card can now instantly vanish from the deck and appear in your wallet, a bottle, behind a window, have a different colour back. The possibilities are truly LIMITLESS!

Limitless has been custom design and printed by the USPCC (and printed on premium Phoenix card stock) to ensure the quality, feel and handling of the deck is second to none.

Your Limitless pack will come with everything you need to get you going, including the Limitless deck, training DVD and some extra bonus cards. Not only that but you will also receive a special registration code which will grant you access to bonus training footage, covering up-to-date handling tips and some killer new routines.

Please note Limitless does not rely on Rough & Smooth, Short & Long or sticky Cards.

Routines Include

Thought Of Card At Any Number!

Spectator one thinks of a card from a deck. Spectator 2 counts down to any number using a second deck. This could quite possibly be the cleanest looking Card at any number out there!

Dead Man's Hand "The Story Of Jack Brown"
Your spectator somehow divines the dying thoughts of Jack Brown, the notorious wildwest gunslinger, who was shot dead at the poker table

Blank Canvas
A Pseudo hypnosis routine perfect for a mix and mingle/walk-around situation.

Unconscious Mind
A hard-hitting, Brainwave style effect, with a super slick premise that really hits them between the eyes.

A Word In Thousands
One spectator thinks of a card from a deck the other a word in a book. Impossible as it may seem you have correctly predicted both way ahead of time!

This is a super commercial routine, which packs a triple kick. This is a serious crowd pleaser

Mystical Creature
The word Joker changes to become the name of a thought of card. (Custom Designed and printed joker also included)

The $3 Scam (Dollar Bill Prediction)
Inspired by Paul Wilson incredible "Predator" effect. A though of card gets revealed. Not only that but the name of the card has been pre written on the backs of the 3 Dollar bills.

Thought As I Think
Dave Loosleys double deck routine where the spectator learns to read your mind!

Photo Finish
A thought of card magically materialises on the face of a previously blank card, while your spectator is holding it. What's more, the moment is even caught in a photograph taken with your spectators own phone

Correctly tell your spectators the exact location of a card they are only thinking of!

Thought Of Card To Box
Imagine having your spectator think of a card. You instantly spread the deck to show their card has vanished. Not only that but the card has now appeared in a previously empty matchbox

"Control their thoughts and blow their minds. Peter Nardi has done it again...When does this man sleep?!?"
- Luke Dancy

"The title says it all. Limitless is one of the most powerful utility decks I have ever seen, opening up a world of possibilities, limited only by your imagination!"
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Making database backups is one of the most important things in the process of administrating MySQL databases, because some critical data loss can be irreplaceable.

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I’m sorry, the old Natasha can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, BECAUSE SHE MET TAYLOR SWIFT! When I first received a Twitter message from Taylor Nation, Taylor Swift’s management team, I had to read it at least…

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Hello lovely people! I am a bit late to the game with my monthly favorites but I figured I would still share what I kept reaching for this month. I started to pay more attention to my skin this month…

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Hello lovelies! I am back to discuss my May favorites with you. But first, can we talk about the fact that 2017 is absolutely FLYING by?! If it could just slow down a bit, that’d be real great. But until…

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Intro to RA at Monterey Bay!

IMG_1676To kick off the spring semester, nearly 40 CSU Monterey Bay and Ohlone College faculty members came together to explore discipline-specific literacies through an Introductory Reading Apprenticeship workshop at CSU Monterey Bay on January 17, 2017.  These faculty members teach in diverse disciplines and learning contexts, including Cinematic Arts and Documentary Film Production, English, First Year Seminar, Chemistry, Physics, Library, Nursing, and many more.  Throughout the day, the participants practiced key Reading Apprenticeship routines and engaged in metacognitive conversations to examine various approaches to embedding metacognitive conversations into courses across the disciplines.  In one of the interactive portions of the workshop, the participants generated a robust Reading Strategies List (see 1st picture), leading to rich conversations about leveraging students’ strengths while scaffolding particularly challenging texts to support students’ construction of meaning and problem solving.  Speaking of problem solving, the 2nd picture shows that work the group did to unpack a Physics text using a combination of a Think Aloud and Talking to the Text.

Participants feedback included the comments below:

“Great tools and practices were introduced. Great balance between discussion, activity, lecture, etc.”

“This was a tremendously helpful session….I’m excited to start the semester with all of these new ideas.”

Thank you to CSU Monterey Bay for hosting this engaging workshop.

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New property listed in Britannia Beach, Squamish

I have listed a new property at 930 THISTLE PL in Britannia Beach.
In search of a home with exquisite craftsmanship, thoughtful design and attention to detail? This brand new home boasts ocean views and is ideally located on a quiet cul de sac in the thriving oceanside community of Britannia Beach. With a masterful floor plan featuring on main floor; master bedroom w/wrap around ocean view deck, spa inspired ensuite bthrm, massive walk in closet, with chef’s kitchen flowing into a modern open concept living/dining space that is a dream for entertaining. Upper floor boasts 2 add. bdrms and den/tv area. The walk out lower level feat. huge, bright, LEGAL 2 berm suite great for revenue and can also be incorporated into the house. No need to leave home when you have your own movie theatre and flex room; perfect for a gym/ yoga space or additional storage. Invest now in your future as this home offers incredible value in the Sea to Sky area!

Squamish Today:

The Squamish (or Sḵwxwú7mesh in the Squamish language) is the name of the aboriginal people who have inhabited this part of southwest BC (including North and West Vancouver, Howe Sound, Whistler, the areas surrounding the tributaries entering Howe Sound) since time immemorial. Squamish is the English pronunciation of Skwxwú7mesh, the traditionalautonym for the people. The name Keh Kait was the traditional name for the site of downtown Squamish.

The Skxwxu7mesh territory comprises 6,732 km2. The largest village of the Sḵwxwú7mesh in the Squamish area is Chiyakmesh, which is in the area of Brackendale and is the namesake of the Cheakamus River. Another main village is located near the south entrance of town, St'a7mes, which lies below the Stawamus Chief, which gets its name from that village. Though within municipal boundaries, residents of these Indian Reserves are not governed by the municipality but are members of the Squamish Nation. It also includes villages in North Vancouver and a number of other reserves at Gibsons and elsewhere in the general region.

What Makes Squamish Special:

Squamish is known as the Outdoor Recreation Capital of Canada. Attractions include the Stawamus Chief, a huge cliff-faced granite massiffavoured by rock climbers. As well as over 300 climbing routes on the Chief proper, a majority of which require traditional climbing protection, there are steep hiking trails around the back to access the three peaks that make up the massif, all giving great views of Howe Sound and the surrounding Coast Mountains. In all, between Shannon FallsMurrin Park, The Malamute, and the Little Smoke Bluffs, there are well over 1200 rock-climbing routes in the Squamish area (and another 300 or so climbs north of Squamish on the road to Whistler). In recent years, Squamish has also become a major destination for bouldering, with over 2500 problems described in the local guidebook.

Another activity for which Squamish is well known is mountain biking, with over 600 trails suitable to all riders that can ride ultra-steep trails with huge gaps and steep rock surrounding the town. One of the more famous events supported by the Mountain Biking Community is the Test of Metal, a 67-kilometre, cross-country, mountain-bike race held annually in late June. Limited to 800 riders, the 2007 race sold out in under an hour.

Kiteboarding and windsurfing are popular water sports in Squamish during the summer. Predictable wind on warm sunny days makes theSquamish Spit the top kiteboarding location in western Canada.

Squamish's extensive quality trail system is a key feature of an annual 50 mile ultra trail run, the Arc'teryx Squamish 50. Solo runners and relay teams run on many of the same trails as the Test of Metal, and pass through Alice Lake Provincial Park and Quest University. "The Double" is an award offered annually to the participant with the fastest combined time for both the Test of Metal and Arc'teryx Squamish 50.

Other tourist attractions in Squamish include Shannon Falls waterfall; river-rafting on the Elaho and Squamish rivers; wind surfing and kite surfing at the mouth of the Squamish River; snowmobiling on nearby Brohm Ridge; and bald eagle viewing in the community of Brackendale, which has one of North America's largest populations of bald eagles. Squamish is also a popular destination among Greater Vancouver hikers, mountaineers and backcountry skiers, who visit the large provincial parks in the surrounding Coast Mountains.

For more information, please visit: Squamish Tourism

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School/Football/Gym--Coming in on I-35, take Hwy 30 west exit.

Go west on Highway 30 to South Dakota exit (3rd interchange). Turn north (right) on South Dakota, go 1⁄2 mile to Mortensen Road and turn east (right) go to stop, Turn on Left(north) on Dotson Drive, go around curve the football field is on the right (east) Small parking lot.  We play on the farthest East football Field.

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We believe that what we do within each ministry should flow purposefully out of what we value and love. Whether you have a family of 5 or are single and love to travel, you'll find a place to help you experience God.

Children's Ministry focuses on connecting children to Jesus for life.  This ministry teaches children (three years old to fifth grade) how to know Jesus as their Savior and helps them grow like Jesus--intellectually, spiritually, physically and socially.

This ministry builds the next generation of true worshippers.  We create an atmosphere where our teens and pre-teens are consistently being exposed to the real love of Jesus.  We endeavor to teach them in every aspect of life, not only spiritually but also socially and academically through a variety of age-appropriate lessons, fellowship, and fun activities.

Community Groups

Our Bible studies are done in community groups.  A community group is a small group of 12 to 20 members who gather together on a regular basis for the purpose of fellowship, connection, and spiritual growth.  For more information about our community groups please contact Allen and December James at 702.570.3466.

The Kingdom Academy

Our programs emphasize spiritual formation, leadership development, excellence in the word, the advancement of world evangelism and, the Five Fold Ministry. More info email  or text 702.400.7374

Antioch Community Counseling and Achievement Center

Our mission of ACS Community Center is to enhance the lives of those who live in our community.  We are committed to the preservation and stabilization of the family by offering individual, couple, family and group counseling.  We are equally committed to supporting educational and academic success through our center.


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Quail West in Naples, FL 34119

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Mediterranean-inspired architecture, Spanish tile roofs, graceful archways, charming courtyards and intricate ironwork create the signature timeless beauty of Quail West's private residential community. Homes are gently tucked behind the gates within the community's 1,180 acres of rolling golf fairw... View Details

StoneCreek in Naples, FL 34119

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Azure at Hacienda Lakes - Estate Collection in Naples, FL 34114

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Amaranda at Fiddler's Creek in Naples, FL 34114

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La Morada - Carriage Homes in Naples, FL 34120

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La Morada Naples Carriage Homes, with 1,710 to 2,376 air conditioned square feet, offer maintenance-free living with two and three bedrooms, two baths, and flex spaces or dens to customize into hobby or guest rooms. The Antigua Carriage home offers convenient first-floor living and offers expansive... View Details

Maple Ridge at Ave Maria in Naples, FL 34117

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Maple Ridge is a new development of single-family homes in Ave Maria, a master planned community east of Naples, Florida- ranked the #1 Best-Selling New Home Community in Collier County and as one of the Top Places to Retire in the USA. Fourteen model homes are open daily and showcase four luxurious... View Details

Stock Signature Homes in Naples, FL 34119

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Lely Resort in Naples, FL 34113

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Compass Landing in Naples, FL 34119

Mattamy Homes

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Elegant, stylish and affordable living just minutes from Naples' famous beaches, with quick access to I-75. Thoughtfully designed to accommodate how modern families live, our robust line up offers 10 new single-family home plans. With both single-level and two-story layouts, Compass Landing homes be... View Details

Golden Gate in Naples, FL 34120

Maronda Homes

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Whether you are a Northerner looking for a permanent escape from the frigid temperatures, or a Florida resident looking for the next big thing; Maronda Homes is expanding throughout the Gulf Coast in 2018.Golden Gate is the newest scattered lot area by Maronda Homes. Located in Naples, Golden Gate i... View Details

Fiddler's Creek in Naples, FL 34114

Ashton Woods Homes

$649,990 - $1,371,615

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Come home to your own tropical resort, a master-planned community on the coast of Naples. Here, neighbors come together for golf at an award-winning course, for boat trips out of the private marina, and for socializing in the expansive clubhouse. Ideal for making lasting memories at the beach club w... View Details

Azure at Hacienda Lakes - Heritage Collection in Naples, FL 34114

Toll Brothers

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Size: 2,282 SqFt - 3,190 SqFt
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The Heritage Collection will feature award-winning, single-family home designs in an exclusive, gated community, just a short drive to Naples shopping, dining and beaches. Choose from a variety of flexible floor plans with impact rated glass on front windows and doors, built with Toll Brothers comm... View Details

Regatta Landing at Windstar in Naples, FL 34112

$563,990 - $817,990

Size: 2,348 SqFt - 3,856 SqFt
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Regatta Landing in Windstar on Naples Bay is a new gated coach home community featuring a maintenance-free lifestyle for enjoying all that Southwest Florida's Paradise Coast has to offer. Located within the 320-acre Windstar on Naples Bay master-planned community, Regatta Landing offers only sixty-f... View Details

Naples Square in Naples, FL 34102

The Ronto Group

$764,000 - $1,221,000

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At Naples Square, you're intimately close to what you love most. Fun on 5th Avenue South is right next door. The boat slips and bistros at Bayfront are just across the street. 3rd Street South is practically around the corner. And a day at the beach is an easy bike ride away. Your furry, four-footed... View Details

Azure at Hacienda Lakes - Villa Collection in Naples, FL 34114

Toll Brothers

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La Morada - Manor Homes in Naples, FL 34120

$419,999 - $514,999

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Azure at Hacienda Lakes - Signature Collection in Naples, FL 34114

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Dads and Lads event - new date announced!

Wednesday, March 13 2019

Join us for some high-speed family fun on Saturday 22 June when PalmerSport hosts another fabulous 'Dads and Lads' day. Spaces always sell out fast for these special events so book now to save disappointment!

PalmerSport offers guests the unique opportunity to go head-to-head in eight incredible machines on the purpose-built circuits at Bedford Autodrome to see who can record the fastest lap time.

And our latest 'Dads and Lads' event is just after Father's Day - what better way to celebrate and enjoy some quality time together?

The PalmerSport car line-up has been refreshed for 2019 with the addition of the BMW M2 Competition and the Caterham Seven PalmerSport Edition, meticulously developed by Jonathan Palmer himself. Our Palmer JP-LM has had an off-season facelift too, with a stunning new navy and yellow livery.

The event is available at a special price of just £1,848 including VAT and damage cover* for two guests (additional guests can be booked for £924 each).

Don't forget, these events are not only for the boys! Mothers and daughters, grandparents and siblings are all welcome, or indeed any combination of family members and friends.

Our stunning line-up of cars features:

Renault Clio Cup
Formula 3000 Singer Seater
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Caterham Seven - PalmerSport edition - NEW
BMW M2 Competition - NEW
Land Rover Defender
Caterham head-to-head pursuit
Sodi Karts

If you're short on time but still want to sample the fantastic PalmerSport programme, how about PalmerSport Sprint? The new compact option features the Renault Clio Cup Racer and Formula 3000 single-seater and has three time slots during the day on either Thursday 25 April or Saturday 29 June. PalmerSport Sprint is available from just £280 per person plus VAT.

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Hi-Rez Studios and Level Up Partner Bring SMITE To Latin America

The SMITE World Championship, to be held in Atlanta in January, 2015, will include teams from Spanish-speaking Latin America and Brazil.

ATLANTA. JUNE 5, 2014. Hi-Rez Studios, a leading developer of free-to-play online action games, and Level Up, a premiere online game publisher in Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin America, today announced a strategic partnership to publish SMITE throughout Latin America.

“We are thrilled to bring SMITE’s unique action gameplay to this growing and vibrant market,” said Todd Harris, Chief Operating Officer of Hi-Rez Studios. “And we are especially excited to partner with Level Up, whose local presence and expertise in Latin America allow us to offer the best possible experience to our players in these countries.”

In addition, Hi-Rez and Level Up revealed that the top team from Brazil and the top team from Spanish-speaking Latin America will join teams from Europe, North America and China at the SMITE World Championship. The finals will be held in Atlanta in early January, 2015 and regional qualifiers are set to begin later this year.

Once a localized version of SMITE is released in Latin America and Brazil, SMITE players currently using the North American or European SMITE servers will have an opportunity to transfer their accounts to the Level Up servers, including gods, skins, XP, favor, gems and mastery levels.

“The Latin American players are extremely competitive, and SMITE brings such a thrilling and refined level of competitiveness that fits our tastes. That’s why the game has already proven very popular within our market” said Julio Vieitez, CEO of Level Up. “With local, dedicated servers and support in both Spanish-speaking Latin America and Brazil, we believe SMITE will be a leading game, for professional gamers and casual players both, in Latin America.”

Timelines for the Latin American and Brazilian beta of SMITE will be announced later this year.

For more information, and to play SMITE for free, go to www.smitegame.com. Tutorials, gameplay videos, and more community content can also be found at www.youtube.com/smitegame.

To learn more about Level Up, please visit the regional sites http://www.levelup.com.br/ and https://www.juegoslevelup.com/. Fans may also like https://www.facebook.com/SmiteLU and https://www.facebook.com/smitehispanoamerica on Facebook to receive updates on SMITE in Latin America from Level Up.

Further information on the SMITE World Championship and SMITE eSports can be found at esports.smitegame.com.

Buy SMITE Gems and Smite Godpacks at Markee Dragon Game Codes!

SMITE is the online Battleground of the Gods, a mythology-themed action game for the PC. Since launching in Europe and North America in March, 2014, the game has quickly established itself as one of the Top 3 games in the rapidly growing MOBA genre, with over 4 million players. Offering a third-person camera and more game modes than any other leading game in its genre, the game provides a unique, action-packed experience that puts the player in the thick of the action.

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NBA Pro Basketball Sports Betting Match up Previews for Saturday

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The NBA action for Saturday November 10th features ten games on the schedule to the delight of pro basketball bettors worldwide.

Bet NBA pro basketball at Oddsmaker sportsbook, where bettors can now Claim their Free 100% Bonus up to $1000. Sign up today and get into the excitement of watching and wagering on NBA pro basketball all the way up to the Finals scheduled for early June!

The lone game over national television begins at 8:30PM Eastern Time on NBA TV as the San Antonio Spurs host the Houston Rockets. The current odds available for wagering at Oddsmaker, where the bonuses are the best in the business has the road team Houston Rockets favored by -2 points with the total set at 209 ½ points. Houston will travel to San Antonio with a 4-6 record. Rockets had their three game win streak snapped in a 98-80 road defeat at Oklahoma City on Thursday as a -5 point favorite. Rockets have been held to 98 points or fewer in four of their past five games. This is not the same team as last year. Houston has been struggling shooting the basketball hitting on 42% with 32.7% from three. San Antonio is on a two game losing streak with a 7 point defeat at home to Orlando then on Wednesday it was a 95-88 defeat at Miami. Spurs have struggled on the defensive end of the court giving up 47% shooting. Spurs with be without Rudy Gay with a heel injury and Pau Gasol with foot soreness San Antonio is 6-4 on the year and was called out by head coach Gregg Popovich for being soft in their loss to the Heat.

The late night game tips at 10PM Eastern Time on NBA League Pass channel with the Sacramento Kings at home to the LA Lakers. LA is favored by -5 ½ points with the over under of 240 points. Lakers have won three of their past four games after their 114-110 home victory to Minnesota on Wednesday failing to cover as a -5.5 betting odds favorite. LA moved to 5-6 with the win. LA has struggled defending on the season by giving up 47.3% shooting. Sacramento is one of the earlier surprises in the NBA as the team is off to a 7-5 start. They will be on a home back to back on Saturday as they come off the 121-110 home victory to the Minnesota Timberwolves as a +2 betting odds underdog. This broke a two game losing streak. Kings are a good shooting team connecting on 49.1% with 39.3% from three. Point guard De’Aaron Fox has bulked up his body and been effective averaging 18.5 points and 7.5 assists per game.

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DIVER/CITY – Unity in Diversity with IDACO in NYC

"Italian Dance Connection" (IDACO NYC) announces the fifth annual NYC festival, May 21 through Friday, May 24. Four days long contemporary dance performances and art events with Italian artists.

The Italian Dance Connection, IDACOnyc, will return to NYC for its fifth anniversary season, Tuesday, May 21 through Friday, May 24, a platform that connects Italian dancers, choreographers and filmmakers with the international New York dance scene and artistic community. The theme of this year’s IDACO Contemporary Dance and Film Event is DIVER/CITY – unity in diversity, an understanding that our differences enrich human interactions.

The Fifth Anniversary IDACOnyc program will open at the Italian Cultural Institute (686 Park Avenue) with a thematic roundtable & film screening
 on Tuesday, May 21 at 2pm, and an opening presentation and video screening with site specific performances at 6:30pm at the same location.

The program will continue with four performances over three days at The Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker Street (Greenwich Village) at 7:30pm on May 22nd and 23rd, and at 6pm and 9pm on May 24th.  Fourteen emerging and established Italian choreographers and artists will present sixteen innovative and experimental choreographic works, ten in premiere. Twelve films will be shown, seven of them for the first time in the USA. TICKETS: bit.ly/2I2FGfM.

In addition, IDACO 2019 will collaborate with Emerging Choreographic Series for a weeklong artist’s residency with coaching by choreographer Susie McHugh and led by Mare Nostrum Artistic Director Nicola Iervasi. (The Sheen Center showcase will include their resulting dance work.) A partnership with the Between the Seas Festival will connect their artists with those of IDACO nyc to produce an off-site dance event, location to be announced.

According to Vanessa Tamburi, IDACO’s Artistic Director, “a number of Italian artists have found fertile creative ground in NYC, with its considerable stimulation and creative input. We hope to give contemporary dancers and choreographers from Italy the opportunity to connect with New York’s local artistic communities, bring their ideas abroad and have their work seen and acknowledged in the USA.”  IDACOnyc hopes to encourage networking and artistic research between multiple creative resources, cross cultural boundaries and offer an artistic platform while cultivating a sense of shared identity.

The 2019 IDACOnyc theme is DIVER/CITY. Unity in diversity is a concept of "unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation." DIVER/CITY - unity in diversity, an understanding that our differences enrich human interactions.

The 2019 IDACOnyc season is curated by Vanessa Tamburi/Flusso dance, Cecilia Fontanesi/Parcon NYC, Nancy Allison Dance & Film, IDACO Artistic Board and is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute (NY). IDACO 2019 will be presented in partnership with INSCENA!, Vivo Ballet, Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama, Ticino in Danza, and Valentina Celada. The program is sponsored in part by Arvero il limoncello.

IDACOnyc 5th Anniversary Season Performances at The Sheen Center

18 Bleecker Street, New York, NY  10012

(212) 219-3132

Wednesday, May 22 (7:30pm)

Thursday, May 23 (7:30pm)

Friday, May 24 (6:00pm)

Friday, May 24 (9:00pm)

TICKETS:  bit.ly/2I2FGfM

General Admission - $30.

Student - $20

(Two, three and four-day ticket passes available at discounted rate

Wednesday, May 22nd at 7.30pm

Corinne Darde/ Virgilio Sieni (film) - Michele Manzini (film)- QBC Company -

Vito Alfarano (film) - Balletto di Sardegna - Trina Mannino - LineOut Dance Company

Thursday, May 23rd at 7.30pm

Alice Nardi - Li Chiao-Ping Dance - Ariadne Mikou (film) - ECS/Susy McHugh Dance - Abe Abraham (film) - LineOut Dance Company - Iuvenis Danza/Davide Biancheria (film)

Insieme Irreali/Pietro Marullo

Friday, May 24th at 6pm

Corinne Darde/Virgilio Sieni (film) - Azul Dance theatre - Gessica Cipriano (film) - Patrick O’Brien Dance -  Alvaro Congosto (film) - Natalie Marrone/the Dance Cure - Augenblick (film) Noha Dance Company

Friday May 24th at 9pm

Alice Nardi - Filomena Rusciano (film) - Detox Movement Inc. - Anabella Lenzu (film)

Lineout Dance Company - Baptiste Rouveure (film) - Vivo Ballet

Balletto di Sardegna IT, Insieme Surreali IT/ Belgium, LineOut Dance Company IT, NOHA Dance Company IT, VIVO Ballet - Enzo Celli USA/IT, Alice Nardi /IT, Azul Dance Theatre JP/ USA, Detox Movement Inc USA, Patrick O'Brien Dance Project USA, Li Chiao-Ping Dance USA, Natalie Marrone / The Dance Cure USA, QBC Company  USA/TAIWAN, Trina Mannino  IT/USA,

ECS - Susie McHugh + Dancers USA

Vito Alfarano  IT, Augenblick IT, Abe Abraham USA

Gessica Cipriano IT, Alvaro Congosto USA, Corrine Darde/ Virgilio Sieni FR

Iuvenis Danza/Davide Bianchera IT, Anabella Lenzu USA, Michele Manzini IT, Filomena Rusciano IT, Ariadne Mikou USA, Baptiste Rouveure FR

IDACOnyc was founded by Vanessa Tamburi and Enzo Celli in 2015. The organization hopes to create space for new collaborations, and offer a supportive, inspiring and creative environment for dancers, movers, performance artists, video artists, musicians, and all creative people interested in the art of movement.