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by DougJ | July 21, 2011 8:26 pm | 104 Comments
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I've said before that I think the main reason there hasn't been more teahadist terrorism is that most teatards are too old to get off the Barcolounger and blow shit up. But what if you could you be a terrorist without leaving the comfort of your own home, simply by causing a massive government default?
I know there are many moderate, pro-business conservatives who feel the same way about a government default that I do. Some have written about this quite eloquently — Howard Baker and the guys at OTB, for example. I mean no disrespect to them when I say this: for many conservatives, catastrophe is a feature, not a bug.
Polls have shown that most conservatives say they don't think default would be a big deal. I think the embrace of default goes deeper than that, though — even if default is cataclysmic, that cataclysm could be an opportunity to put the country back on the right track. Many conservatives are truly revolutionary and would embrace a Franco-style dictatorship as long as it promoted a commodity-backed currency, low taxes, and the proper reverence for Reagan/Rand/Burke/Jeebus/Founding Fathers, while abolishing sexting, deconstructionism, welfare, and low-rise jeans.
It's not just teatards, either, it's neocons too. You think Bobo wouldn't trade democratically elected officials for a $50 Edmund Burke coin?
No one wants to admit this, people want to say that the only reason conservative aren't afraid of default is that they think it'll just cause a day or two of long lines at the ATM. The truth is, many of them want a revolution, by any means necessary.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
some do want 'creative destruction' (wasn't that a neocon buzz word of the early years in Iraq?) Others are bears of very little brain
* Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) took a very hard line on Congress refusing to raise the debt ceiling. Then he discovered his own state's credit rating is at risk. Now he believes lawmakers have "got to get this done immediately." (This gave me the best laugh I've had all day.)
From Benen's daily wrap up
As long as they don't have to work for it, or do anything much more than dress up like Paul Revere.
even if default is cataclysmic, that cataclysm could be an opportunity to put the country back on the right track
we see the exact same sentiment here, all day long.
fine, let it burn down! then they'll see just how crazy the GOP is!
I've reluctantly come to agree that a significant number of Rs actually want (whether they admit it or not) to see the country default. I'm not certain they are a majority of Rs, but I'm pretty certain we'll find out in about 10 days.
Moderate Republicans have been playing a too-cute-by-half game for a long time. They've benefited from the recklessness of the Tea Party types while keeping a distance with a wink and a nod. These seditious shenanigans will force them to take a side. There's no telling which way they will go.
khead
The G-fund is supposed to be the most solid thing on the planet. I'm gonna be pissed if someone fucks it up.
I think the embrace of default goes deeper than that, though—even if default is cataclysmic, that cataclysm could be an opportunity to put the country back on the right track.
I don't think that's a feature of conservatism, but of radicalism. (And maybe there is no difference).
I've certainly seen posts and comments on liberal blogs saying, in effect, "if only things were bad enough, we'd get real reform."
The real difference is that conservatives right now have power to make it happen.
scav
Revolution or Rapture?
I think we may have two crowds with slightly different sets of pompoms cheering here.
Ol' Dirty DougJ
Who here says that?
@Ol' Dirty DougJ:
your blog boss, for one. and commenters all day long.
OT, but NFL owners have approved the CBA. We won't have a functioning economy, but at least we'll have football. Yay!
I hate to step on Dennis's domain here, but taking two things here:
1) Nationally, the tea party only has support from seniors who want the government to not fuck up their entitlements.
2) Regionally, the tea party has support from damn near everyone.
Is it not reasonable to conclude that this isn't just the teatards Fort Sumter? From what I can discern, most of the bulletproof support for this is coming from an area drawn between AZ to VA extending south, with a handful of prominent folks from Wisconsin, of all places.
To be fair, John's post seem more like frustration rather than aspiration. But as I mentioned above (#6), I've seen lefty bloggers take the view of "tear it down."
Wooooohoooo! NFL contest in Delaware
@khead:
The G-fund is supposed to be the most solid thing on the planet.
For a second there I thought you said, "G-funk" and I was all like Yeah-uhh!!
"Pay the doctors boyeeee!!"
@cleek. All things in context. I don't think Cole really *wants* default. He just thinks that if anybody *deserves* it, its the teabaggers and firebaggers. And I'd add a half-dozen or so wreck-list regulars at the GOS.
For a second there I thought you said, "G-funk" and I was all like Yeah-uhh!! Pay the doctors boyeeee!!"
Flashlight!
Kirk Spencer
DougJ, I'm sorry, but you're just realizing this?
See Turner Diaries. Notice the high overlap between tea party and militia movement.
Remember when Instadouche asked why don't we default cause all it would do is balance the budget? He got all butthurt when a bunch of actual economists told him what a dumbass he was. I think that's what most of these idiots think.
Actually, does anyone still read Instadouche, even just to mock him? It's like he's too big of an idiot to even bother with.
Smiling Mortician
Many conservatives are truly revolutionary and would embrace a Franco-style dictatorship as long as it promoted a commodity-backed currency, low taxes, and the proper reverence for Reagan/Rand/Burke/Jeebus/Founding Fathers, while abolishing sexting, deconstructionism, welfare, and low-rise jeans.
Don't disagree that they'd embrace this, but I think that makes them reactionary, not revolutionary. Not that it really matters what we call them while they're pissing on the embers of the system they destroy . . .
I said Flashlight!
Just look at that suit, dammit!
Trollenschlongen
The real giveaway as to the retardation of the Teatards (Teatardation?) is that this country is being administered in a more right wing style than it generally ever has been, taxes are lower than they almost ever have been, and this is STILL not enough for them, and they think they want a revolution. Please.
I want a real revolution, if it must come to that, but from the LEFT, for god's sake. Obama and congressional dems couldn't be anymore accommodating to non-insane right wingers, hell, they're right wingers themselves, and it is still never enough.
Corporate/government rule is upon us, it is the second Gilded Age for the rich; yet Obama wants to cut Medicare/Medicaid/SS because THOSE are the problem.
As I said above…Please.
Moderate Republicans have been playing a too-cute-by-half game for a long time.
Honestly, in elected,national office, are there more left than the Maine Sisters? And boar-tits could justly call them useless. There are a couple who are moderate in temperament, actually, one: Lugar, but he seems to be as weak as Snowe, while old man Grassley seems just as cranky and confused as McCain. I thought Murkowski might get mad and show a little independence just for the sake of revenge, but, no. I think Mike Castle and McHugh (? NYer who became Army Secretary?) were the last of the breed in he House.
@Baud:
To be fair, John's post seem more like frustration rather than aspiration.
yes, of course. but we only know that because we're familiar with his style. i don't think i know enough about anyone else who says it to know how serious they really are.
and that's kinda my point (though i know i totally bailed on trying to make it, back there): people say shit like that all the time. it's not always easy to tell who is really serious.
i'm not sure the teabaggers or "conservatives" who say it are serious, or if they even know what they're talking about. i'm sure some are and do – there's a little anarchist in everyone.
MattF
Important to bear in mind that wingers have no use for the Constitution and its pesky Bill of Rights, separation of powers, habeas corpus, and so forth, despite all claims to the contrary. The winger historical revisionism– that, e.g., the Founders were really all proto-evangelical Christians determined to create a theocracy is only the most obvious case of galloping cognitive dissonance about these questions.
They are, in fact revolutionaries– but it's that other kind of revolution…
@khead: Actually, I was going for a little G-Funk, but I can get down with some P-Funk.
Beta Magellan
When I look through this thread, I see a bunch of people who enjoy conjuring hypothetical disasters wallowing in self-pity.
DonkeyKong
Funny thing is, we've been here before, just not recently. William Tecumsah Sherman had this to say the last time the assholes in this country tried to burn it all down to get what they wanted.
"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth—right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail."
Thank God cooler heads prevailed!
G fund
that's where most of my TSP is right now. jesus, if that shits the bed i'm turning out the lights and calling it a life.
Actually, I was going for a little G-Funk, but I can get down with some P-Funk.
FTFY.
All these people have been told for years by the likes of Glenn Beck that society is about to deteriorate into a Mad Max world. They've been spending all their money on ammunition, survival seeds, and converting their money to gold coins. And damnit, they want the the devastation they were promised, and if that Kenyan Marxist ain't gonna do it, they'll do it themselves.
I'm sure they already have their talking points about how its all Obama's fault and why that had to start shooting all the brown people with the AK-47's and M-16's they've been hoarding.
Ben Cisco
@khead: ahem.
That is P-Funk in the video.
@24 cleek
people say shit like that all the time. it's not always easy to tell who is really serious.
I agree. I actually think a majority of Republicans recognize that it's important to raise the debt ceiling. A lot of the resistance is (1) playing to their base, (2) fear of being seen as giving up leverage in negotiations, and (3) fear of being among the first to stick one's head out and being labeled as a Benedict Arnold.
Felinious Wench
The truth is, many of them want a revolution, by any means necessary.
Yes, yes, and yes. It's the point of the Tea Party, complete with Don't Tread on Me flags. They dress up as American Revolutionaries for a reason.
This is the goal. They're open about it.
stuckinred
Make sure you read this to all the left wing armchair revolutionaries as well.
Meanwhile President Obama, who is a maddeningly mainstream Democrat, is portrayed as some kind of wild-eyed radical of a type never previously seen in the halls of power.
What is the analog of the run on the banks that led up to TARP, for defaulting? Everyone has seen the pictures of the lines outside the banks from the 30s, and even the proto-teatards knew they didn't want that for themselves. The teahadists seem to think only Obama and Nancy Pelosi will be affected by defaulting. They really need to understand what they will personally lose.
TX Expat
@DonkeyKong:
Except these days the "assholes who want to burn shit down" are not just concentrated in the South. Teahadism is not a regional issue, it's everywhere.
Take a look at where the extremist class of 2010 are from: IL, CA, CO, WI, NY, NJ and so on.
I think we need to distinguish between regular people who truly don't understand what a default means (my sense is that most folks think of it as a governmental shutdown) thus don't get the enormous implications for the country and legislators (who are willfully ignorant). I think that there are a small percentage of true revolutionaries in the regular population (lazy or otherwise), but most everyone else is misinformed. The revolutionaries are in the elected class.
@Beta Magellan:
Not me dog!
"Sounds like someone wants to get…funky."
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@cleek:
I think that a number of the teabaggers are serious about wanting a revolution, but they have no clue what it would actually mean. Because people did not experience the US from the 1890-1930s, and they don't read their history, they don't know how hard it was on most people. They seem to think that peeling back the New Deal will take them to the 1950s.
And that I think is a lot of our frustration: How do you show these people what will happen if we did what they wanted without destroying the country in the process?
artem1s
while abolishing sexting, deconstructionism, welfare, and low-rise jeans.
I wouldn't mind seeing low-rise jeans abolished too but I'm not willing to burn down the Levi's plant in order to get it done.
always love an Uncle Billy quote! Shorter version…I'm smarter than you and if you don't listen to me you're going to really regret it when US and I are tearing up your back yard.
Shit is always changin'.
This 1000x.
It is frankly shocking to me that this is not the biggest political scandal in American history. A radical minority is literally—literally–holding the nation's credit and economy hostage, attempting to extract as ransom a number of their longstanding ideological goals.
Teabaggers: Don't raise the debt ceiling!
Everyone else: If we don't, X will happen and it will be catastrophic to the nation.
Republican Party: So do what we want and that won't happen.
This is nothing short of economic terrorism. In a sane, just world, half of the elected Republicans in Congress should be hauled before a grand jury and indicted on RICO and extortion charges, or whatever else relevant they can make stick.
I'm dead serious. What they are doing right now is criminally irresponsible and malicious. And we need to ensure that we never allow them–or the country–to forget that betrayal. They need to be challenged to defend the indefensible every time they go before the press or appear on TV.
The Republican Party should be discredited and shunned by society until its elected officials answer for their domestic terrorism and are legally and legitimately removed from office.
The Populist
This bullcrap is affecting business. My business sells health products that usually have regular as rain customers (usually middle age/old age customers) and business has been downright dead for weeks now. I have to conclude this worry about the default is affecting these people and how they will spend their cash.
Obama handled the answer to the question, if SS checks will be sent out if the debt ceiling was allowed to expire, very poorly. I believe people are holding their money for anything other than food/rent/etc until they see an agreement.
This crap is hurting a lot of people like me who have our own bills to pay. Shoot.
Donkey Kong @28: That's really eloquent. Can you give a precise reference?
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
some do want 'creative destruction' (wasn't that a neocon buzz word of the early years in Iraq?)
Back in the 90s Newt's office staff used to play TMJ's theme song because they liked the chorus that said, "to create you must destroy".
Oh and to add to my point…GOP go fuck yourselves for acting like this mess is GOOD. It is messing up the economy a lot more than you admit.
I especially love how Cantor flipped when he was asked about his wealthy constituents asking to pay more taxes. LOL, I bet they are businesspeople who see the folly in this nonsense. His responmse, typical Cantor, was to lie even more and feign concern for the middle class. Fuck these asshats.
OzoneR
Obama handled the answer to the question, if SS checks will be sent out if the debt ceiling was allowed to expire, very poorly.
Wait a minute, I thought he was supposed to use the bully pulpit to force people to see how horrible the GOP is, and one way to do that was to threaten that SS checks wouldn't go out. No?
There is a reason America was dominantly voting for the dems after this period. People need to get educated…
I get the same vibe from the anti-Obama crowd, Dougj.
These folks think disaster will work in their favor because it'll wake the public up to the evils of conservatism and hearken a new golden leftist age within a generation or two.
He should have framed it differently. While he had a point to SAY that he could not guarantee they would go out, it scared people in the wrong way and fed the GOP talking points machine.
I wish he would have just said that he would do his BEST to pay out everybody's SS checks. THAT is how he should have said it. Just sayin'…
Linda Featheringill
Some of those folks, like the governor of VA, apparently don't understand the meaning of "Union."
They don't understand that we are pretty much all in this together.
And I'm awfully sure they don't understand how collapsing foreign economies would be disastrous for the US.
Huh? If the anti-Obamaites get disaster I'd think they would believe it would make people go out and destroy Obama and all the evil he encompasses (not my belief, theirs).
I think DougJ and others sounding the alarms are right. It's not just the usual blather. For one thing, allegedly sane, responsible member of the grand old P are saying things that are crazy and obviously so. Lots of people in this country are really really upset and would be happy to see a radical change that takes us to a 'dark place' (quoting General Stuck). It's very hard to understand what's bothering them, since the reasons they give for being discontented are full of factual claims that are obviously, manifestly false. Instead of answering the question "why so angry?" their answers just raise a further question "why on earth do they believe what they claim to believe?"
Holy shit. My AC just decided to quit working.
I blame someone….. just not sure who….
Seeing as how 9/11 was wingnut Christmas (see: Glen Beck's 9/12 project). I would not be the least bit surprised to learn that a bunch of these morons think default would be the awesomest thing evah!
I heard some fella from some "coffee" movement that was a former tea partier on Thom Hartmann's show today. This was his sentiment, we are all in this together and he is doing everything he can to show his old comrades that even if you disagree with somebody WE ARE ALL AMERICANS. Forget the guy's name but he was a good interview.
If there is a central complaint about the Presidents approach to all this it is his insistance on bringing his 11th dimensional "I got this!" chess set to a headbutting contest.
Problem with their logic is that nobody will be shouting USA USA USA and waving flags everywhere. Their will be pain followed by some serious problems.
arguingwithsignposts
@khead: It's Obama's fault. If only he'd used his Bully Refrigerant!
@41:
" They seem to think that peeling back the New Deal will take them to the 1950s. "
Never heard it put that way. But I think it captures the way the (thankfully) very few but (not so thankfully) very proud teabaggers in my family think.
Something about that way of thinking does not quite add up… hmmm… wonder what it could be?
I meant the left-wing anti-Obama crowd up there. Gah.
I think DougJ and others sounding the alarms are right. It's not just the usual blather. For one thing, allegedly sane, responsible member of the grand old P are saying things that are crazy and obviously so.
Me thinks Boehner would make a deal tomorrow if he didn't sense his party would destroy him.
I fear that the very tea party these corporate and monied interests created has turned into a monster they can no longer control. The Idiot party is more apt than tea party. They don't do anything with any sense of responsibility. They just talk out their asses about the things they THINK are real even if it's been debunked a million times over.
Gotcha…just curious :)
you know, there's no difference between Gore and Bush, and a second Nixon term will be the end of the Republican Party.
Funny, when you bring up the growth in the 50s it's always accompanied by the facts of how that was accomplished. These people get all butthurt as if you dare attack their god given beliefs or something :(
Judas Escargot
@Cat Lady:
The teahadists seem to think only Obama and Nancy Pelosi will be affected by defaulting. They really need to understand what they will personally lose.
They seem psychologically incapable of understanding this.
It's as if the chlorine of Rapturism has finally mixed with the ammonia of radical "individualism" to form something more toxic and destructive than either.
Two decades ago, I used to enjoy tweaking Randriods by making the case for Ayn Rand's actually being a Soviet agent, sent by Stalin to hasten America's demise by making it more Capitalist (contra FDR's attempts to save it). Silly as it sounds, under Marxist theory, the argument can be made: Infect pop culture, convince the American people to vote themselves into laissez-faire, and watch as pure Capitalism collapses under its own weight as Marx predicted, paving the way for scientific soshulism in the former US.
I never seriously believed this –just enjoyed the results– but lately I find myself wondering if the "memetic warfare" argument isn't inadvertently true.
Tomorrow? Try three weeks ago.
The Populist:
Exactly. They think Obama will get blamed and then after a few years of President Bachmann the left will be totally energized and sweep itself back into power.
I think this was the right thing to do. It's pretty clear to me that a lot of these tea party types are on SS and Medicare. They are obviously stupid as shit, so they need to be reminded from time to time that these entitlements don't come from magical unicorns.
Davis X. Machina
Self-government is hard work. Monarchy is easy — let someone else do the job. Find someone who actually likes that politics stuff.
A lot of Obama-bully-pulpit-green-lantern thinking on the left is driven by exactly the same (entirely human) impulse.
Our own Kay is a very busy, very tired, very salutary counter-example.
It's pretty clear to me that a lot of these tea party types are on SS and Medicare. They are obviously stupid as shit, so they need to be reminded from time to time that these entitlements don't come from magical unicorns.
It's just too bad so many of them seemed to take it as "Obama will hold seniors and soldiers hostage until he gets tax hikes"
cmorenc
This reminds me of a smaller-scale cataclysmic outcome many environmental/green types of folks have fondly dreamed of for years: the catastrophic failure of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River and the restoration of the Eden-like beauty of the Glen Canyon section of the Colorado River which it drowned when the dam's gates closed in 1963. To them, it's an analogous sort of abominably dysfunctional intrusion inflicted by the federal government's overreach that the New Deal and Great Society Programs seem to arch-conservatives, and as momentarily destructive and even hurtful as the cataclysm would be, they think within a decade it would have a cleansing result. I confess to be guilty of these sorts of thoughts myself about Glen Canyon Dam, but the point here is that this does give me at least some tepid understanding of the sort of radically idealistic state of mind many of these wingers have about resizing the reach of the federal government.
Self-government is hard work. Monarchy is easy—let someone else do the job.
The essence of the McConnell "solution", with a frosting of cheap, opportunistic cynicism.
MazeDancer
@TX Expat:
Teahadism is not a regional issue, it's everywhere.
Not a week goes by that I don't come to understand the Civil War more clearly. When my anger at these crazy people destroying our country with their stupidity and hate bubbles up so high, even pacifist me wants to wipe 'em all off the planet.
If geography had all the right wingers in one place and all the progressives in another, the risk of violence would be greater. We can't physically cut each other out of the nation. It's the "everywhere" that, in some ways, keeps the peace.
It's the "everywhere" that, in some ways, keeps the peace.
Until it explodes, then it's the "everywhere" that turns us into Rwanda.
Anyone who A) Does not want higher taxes, and B) Wants to keep their expensive entitlements, and C) Is "deeply concerned" about the debt they are leaving to their grandchildren should not be kept alive. I'm not saying we should kill them, mind you, I'm just saying that someone who wants to wreck the financial future of my family should not be kept alive using the fruits of my labor.
The weirdest transformation of political terminology isn't what's happened to the word 'liberal' since John Stuart Mill—it's what happened to the word 'republican' The present GOP is interchangeable with the Bourbon faction in early 19th c. France.
All they want is the Restoration — they certainly have no interest in governing. When the king comes into his own again, 'politics' can return to its God-intended form: courtiers jockeying around the Throne for grace and favor and preferment, for pensions and governorships abroad, and royal monopolies. The king is the government—even, or especially, when a feckless king reigns, and the ministers do all the heavy lifting.
Parliament can become again what it was meant to be, a gentleman's club that bestirs itself occasionally to vote credits for the king's wars.
So yeah, Republicans are monarchists.
Heliopause
Be fair, Doug, many of us on the left are disciples of George Carlin and also have a morbid fascination with catastrophe.
Speaking of Kay (if you're around) I hope you didn't just miss, as I did, the OH House minority leader talking about the your pal Johnny The K
When fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a Gadsden flag and waving a fife.
Tonal Crow
The irony, it's shifting earth's magnetic field.
Steeplejack
"First they came for the inhabitants of Sol 3, but I didn't say anything, because I wasn't a Terran. . . ."
Anyway, I thought your sun went supernova, so don't get on your high horse (or appropriate cultural metaphor) with us.
@J:
Lots of people in this country are really really upset and would be happy to see a radical change that takes us to a 'dark place' (quoting General Stuck). It's very hard to understand what's bothering them, since the reasons they give for being discontented are full of factual claims that are obviously, manifestly false. Instead of answering the question "why so angry?" their answers just raise a further question "why on earth do they believe what they claim to believe?"
I think that most of it arises from decades of Kool-Aide abuse. Republicans have told each other (and themselves) that Democrats are evil — so vociferously, and for so long — that they not only believe it despite all the data to the contrary, they believe it as an article of religious faith. The belief is, quite literally, beyond reason.
Scratch a Teahadist, get a Bolshevik.
dead existentialist
@ https://balloon-juice.com/2011/07/21/if-youre-talking-about-destruction/#comment-2683878
We need to talk.
Comrade Kevin
The players' union still needs to approve it, which apparently is not a given.
Republicans have told each other (and themselves) that Democrats are evil—so vociferously, and for so long—that they not only believe it despite all the data to the contrary, they believe it as an article of religious faith. The belief is, quite literally, beyond reason.
I'm currently having a discussion about this with a friend of mine whose family lives in ruby red Mountain Brook, Alabama. She identifies these problems
i don't really get it either. but i do know it's mostly based on monetary issues and keeping as much of it as possible. and currently it's mostly based on un-truths they're told via Fox News.
i'm not quite sure how to fix this problem. Selfishness and greed is a problem that can't be educated away.
No, it's regional. CA has 53 districts. We sent one GOP freshman and that was previously held by a R. Illinois sent 5 out of 19 districts. NY sent 5 out of 29. NJ sent 1 out of 15.
Alabama has 6/7 total seats as R. South Carolina, 5/6. Texas, 23/32. Tennessee 7/9. Even Florida, 19/25.
The only reason you see freshmen out of states like NY is that they had so few Republicans to begin with (even now they only have 7/29 Rs) and short of creating new seats in the south, there was really no way to squeeze more reps out of there.
karen marie
The Populist: You're talking about this guy, Shane Brooks.
Wrong! What the racist / retards want is a return to a mythologized past that never was. And, of course, to remove that black man from the white house.
Because it really is all about race and a deep seated fear of change.
Mr Furious
I love the fact they all want to go back to the salad days of the fifties, yet they fail to grasp that the reason things were good was income taxes on corporations and wealthy were orders of magnitude higher, and a much larger percentage of the country's workers belonged to unions.
Result? Their utopian American middle class. All as a result of progressive policy and demand-side economics.
No matter what happens in the near term this has two possible endings: they die out and demographics change or we have a second civil war. I am hopeful for the first but resigned to believe that myself or my children will have to deal with the second. Fortunately I have guns.
Except in the south. In the south, every solid middle class family could afford to hire help. Those were the salad days. No properly finished white girl need to learn how to cook or do laundry or even to change a diaper. That was the aristocracy that they deserved, and a decade later those black housekeepers demanded real wages and could strive for better jobs.
Housewives in the south now need to get jobs, or do housework, while their mothers or grandmothers got the spend the day playing bridge and having their friends properly catered to.
Hedges Ahead
Maybe all of the conservatives have read 'Interface' by Neil Stephenson. That was the one where the shadowy Network made a Manchurian presidential candidate out of a stroke-suffering Illinoisan governor, for the sole reason of creating a POTUS that would continue to pay off the nat'l debt, payments toward beings the Network's main income (3% of GDP is really nothing to sneeze at!). It's also the book that gave us the micro-traunches of demographics for political studies, everything from "post-confederate gravy eater," "burger-flipping history major," "stone-faced urban homeboy," to "bible-slinging porch monkey,". Really something for a book written in 1994.
@cmorenc: That's from a different era of environmentalism, I have to say. Considering that global warming presents the next catastrophe on the horizon, I don't see good enough reason to oppose hydropower projects.
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What the racist / retards want is a return to a mythologized past that never was. And, of course, to remove that black man from the white house.
That is pretty much it with a large chunk of Republican supporters. The clearest tell is the way in which their opinions move so quickly and so solidly to whatever position is identified as "anti-Obama."
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@97 Hedges: Interface was an awesome book. Try to find Cobweb if you can.
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The Republicans have become so extreme that the Democrats now represent the conservative, steady as she goes opinion.
Mr Furious @ 94: now there's an op-ed that would write itself…
"Teabaggers, you want to go back to the good old days of the 50's?? No prob – let's start with Eisenhower era tax rates and 50%+ union membership"
This was more or less the premise behind the original "Manchurian Candidate" – that if McCarthy was spending so much time accusing everyone of being a commie, it could only be to draw attention from the real commie plant, e.g. himself.
I don't think anyone really believed that either, they just thought it was an entertaining way to pay back the Red Scare crowd in kind. Funny, though. And the theme of wealthy capitalists colluding with the communist enemy out of greed came back in quite a few movies and TV shows (the early James Bond films, for one).
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Make sure you read this [The Sherman war quote] to all the left wing armchair revolutionaries as well.
Is there any such animal left?
I would pay good Ameros to sit and chat with a living, breathing example of the species Sochalisticus Americanus
Does it have to do with the sorts of analyses and goals held by said person, or more to do with behavior and attitude patterns?
If it's the former, glad to meet you. If it's the latter, I'm sure you can find a blog or two or 8,000 to help out.
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Kestrel 4000-1987
Kestrel, a company formed by a group of ex-Trek Bicycle Corp. employees, set out in 1986 to revolutionize performance bicycles. When the Kestrel 4000 was introduced, it was the first commercially available bicycle frame completely made of aerodynamic carbon fiber tubing. Although carbon fiber, a super-lightweight, and strong material, had been utilized in smaller bicycle parts, this design set a precedent for what became a standard in today's performance bicycle production. The Kestrel 4000 was also the first bicycle frame designed using finite element analysis (FEA), a computerized method that predicts how the frame will react to physical forces such as vibration, heat, air flow, etc. This then cutting-edge methodology, a customary tool today, aided in the study of wear and allowed designers to perfect the frame.
Kestrel's innovative approach to bicycle manufacturing made them one of the biggest names in cycling; however, all this innovation came with a hefty price tag! The Kestrel 4000 earned the nickname "the dentist's bike" as only wealthy and professional cyclists could afford them. Today the bikes sell for $3,179- $10,599 depending on components (2017).
Designer/builder: Kestrel USA
Country of Origin: Santa Cruz, California, USA
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Rediff.com » Business » South Korea allows mango exports from India
South Korea allows mango exports from India
March 20, 2017 11:07 IST
Mangoes from India are popular in the Middle East, the Far East, the United States and European countries.
Mango exports from India might see a significant jump this year after South Korea allowed imports of this exotic fruit following stringent pest risk analysis.
South Korea imported mangoes worth $48 million in 2016, mainly from Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Australia, Peru and the United States.
India's entry into the South Korean market will intensify competition. Mangoes from India are popular in the Middle East, the Far East, the United States and European countries.
In an advisory on March 14 to its members, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda), said: "The South Korean animal and plant quarantine agency has finally agreed on importation of Indian mangoes into South Korea after vapour heat treatment.
Export will be allowed for produce sourced from registered farmers under the Apeda Hortinet system. Interested exporters may book their slots for processing of mangoes for export to South Korea." India's exports of fresh mangoes declined nearly 15 per cent last year.
Apeda estimates India's exports of fresh mangoes were 36,329 tonnes in 2015-16 compared to 42,998.31 tonnes in a year ago. In value terms, however, exports remained flat at $49.49 million in 2015-16 against $50.26 million in the previous year.
The United Arab Emirates imports over 50 per cent of Indian mangoes in volume terms and 60 per cent in value terms followed by the United Kingdom.
"We have started booking orders and are enquiring with suppliers. By now, we could have dispatched some consignments," said Dheeraj Patel, owner of the Ahmedabad-based VB International, a mango trader and exporter.
Australia, too, has hinted at liberalising norms for import of mangoes from India. The Australian government has accepted the operational work plan for export of irradiated mangoes from India as another post-harvest quarantine measure.
Leading exporters like Desai Fruits, a unit of Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals, have dispatched the first consignments of this season. Others like Mohammad Ashfaq and Co, a Lucknow-based mango exporter, are yet to start shipments.
Trade sources expect shipments will start in full swing in a week with the arrival of export-quality mangoes. Cold weather followed by a sharp increase in temperature have affected the mango crop this season.
Mango flowering remained high this year, which led to expectations of a higher fruit output this season. A normal monsoon last year prompted the government to forecast a 3 per cent higher mango output this year.
But the cold wave hit the early variety. Normal and late varieties of mango were also affected by a heat wave. Also, there were reports of intermittent rainfall in the north-east, a major mango growing region.
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Fired staffer accuses B.C. minister Jinny Sims of defying FOI rules
Angela Jung, Reporter / Web Journalist
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Published Tuesday, May 14, 2019 3:29PM PDT
Last Updated Tuesday, May 14, 2019 6:37PM PDT
The NDP cabinet minister responsible for upholding B.C.'s freedom of information rules has been accused of breaking them by a fired former staffer.
Minister of Citizens' Services Jinny Sims allegedly instructed her constituency staff to communicate with her via unconventional channels such as iMessage, WhatsApp and personal email while doing government business, according to a letter that was released this week by the Opposition BC Liberals.
The letter was drafted by a lawyer on behalf of Kate Gillie, who worked as a constituency assistant for Sims for about six weeks earlier this year, and sent to B.C.'s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Attorney General David Eby, the Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists for B.C. and Critic for the Solicitor General.
It claims the minister told Gillie "to only communicate using these methods in order to avoid her communication from being captured by Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act law."
The letter also alleges Gillie was reprimanded on several occasions when she would communicate with Sims' ministry staff using their government emails. "Now I'm going to have to delete that. We've spoken to you about this before," they told her, according to the letter.
Sims denies allegations
Asked about the allegations on Monday, Sims said she has two different phones that she uses for ministry matters and constituency matters, and that staff are instructed to keep them separate.
"I absolutely am clear with my staff that government business is to be communicated on my government phone and they are not to use my government email to send constituency stuff," Sims told reporters.
"This is an HR matter. I cannot get into the details because of privacy reasons."
During Question Period, Sims said she does use WhatsApp to communicate with her mother and other family matters.
Just last year, Sims admitted to and apologized for using her personal email to conduct government business. She said since that time, there has been ongoing training for staff to ensure they know what the policies are.
The letter from Gillie's lawyer states the former constituency assistant isn't seeking financial compensation, but is trying to bring to light what she believes was a lack of record keeping.
Gillie became increasingly concerned about the issue while working at the office from Jan. 8 to Feb. 22, and made an effort to communicate whenever possible using FOI-captured communication methods to ensure there was a way of documenting the conversations, according to the letter.
It claims she was eventually fired for being "disrespectful" and told she couldn't be trusted.
Opposition says FOI requests turn up 'no records'
BC Liberal House Leader Mary Polak said the allegations are concerning, and if true would mean the minister is purposely trying to thwart the Freedom of Information process.
"If it's a government record, it ought to be disclosed," said Polak. "The reason that someone, a minister, might choose to use (use unconventional channels) is because it's much harder for Opposition or anyone else to find out that those messages are there to request."
Polak said the BC Liberals have made multiple FOI requests over the past two years, only to be told there are "no records."
So far, it is unclear whether any of the offices that received the letter will take any action.
"I hope to see the premier and attorney general review all the pleas for help I sent during and after my employment with Jinny Sims, and call for an investigation on all that I witnessed," Gillie said in a statement to CTV News.
During Question Period, both Premier John Horgan and Eby said they have not seen the letter, but given the serious allegations, they said they will take a look at it right away.
B.C. NDP cabinet minister Jinny Sims responds to allegations that she instructed staff to communicate through private email. May 13, 2019.


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With Soul and Sincerity, Sheldon Hunt is "Here To Stay" [Song Premiere]
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If you like music that not only sounds good but feels good, then you're going to find a lot to like with Sheldon Hunt. The singer-songwriter has released his brand new single "Here To Stay" off of his forthcoming EP, Separate Days, which is scheduled to be released this fall.
Impressive on so many levels, the song emphasizes the many musical influences that have made Hunt into the artist that he is. There's a very prominent classical blues influence laden throughout the track with Hunt's soulful delivery reminding you of the legends that popularized the genre over 50 years ago. It's just one of many sounds and styles you'll hear throughout Separate Days' five tracks with Hunt leaning heavily on his love of not only soul, but also traditional folk and indie rock to create a multi-layered, dynamic sound that never sounds predictable or derivative.
Explaining the development of "Here To Stay" and it's soul-inspired sound, Hunt commented, "I was inspired to write the song after a breakup with a long term girlfriend. We had moved to the city of Toronto together before the relationship ended, so the song is about feeling alone in a new city, and being unable to shake all the reminders around you of a lost love. This song was originally written in 4/4 timing, but while brainstorming the production style, (producer) Paul (Phelan) suggested trying out the song in 6/8 timing and taking it in a different direction with a soul feel. Being a huge Otis Redding and soul fan in general, it felt natural to take on that style.
The recording process was eye opening as studio recording was a fairly new process for me. We brought in some session musicians: Lewis Spring on drums and John Mavro on bass (both of which would later join me for live shows) to give the song its backbone. We then brought in Thomas Hammerton to play Wurlitzer on the track, which I think with Paul's 'slap you in the face' guitar really gives the song its tone and finesse. For final touches, we have Claire Hunter and Carleigh Aikins doing the back-up vocals that you hear in the chorus. All in all, it was very inspiring to work with so many truly talented musicians."
Hunt has been hard at work on refining his style and his skills over the last few years in the local Toronto music scene. Born and raised off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, he moved to Toronto to more seriously pursue a career in music, while also working as a carpenter by day. Being creative is in his nature, something you'll take note of in listening to Separate Days with Hunt experimenting with different genres all in the hunt of crafting his own original sound. Whether it be music or carpentry, Hunt is always working on something new with plans to start recording a proper full-length record in the near future. Honest, down to earth, authentic, and full of talent, Sheldon Hunt is an artist that's almost impossible to dislike.
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Mount Sinai Health System, Contessa launch home-based medical care
ByLIBN Staff
In an existing joint venture with Contessa, a Nashville-based provider of home-recovery care, Mount Sinai Health System has launched Mount Sinai at Home.
The new service offers a "continuum of home-based care," comprising home health, hospitalization at home, rehabilitation at home (instead of at a skilled nursing facility) and palliative care in a patient's home.
The new entity folds in Mount Sinai South Nassau's home health agency into the joint venture.
"This new initiative accelerates our strategic goal of delivering a continuum of home-based care to more Mount Sinai patients," Aaron Stein, chief operating officer at Contessa, said in a statement. "Mount Sinai at Home provides a strong offering to patients, providers and health plans. Together, we are truly changing healthcare by rendering care where patients want it the most, their homes."
Mount Sinai Health System and Contessa first partnered in 2017 to provide hospitalization at home and expanded in 2021 to offer palliative care at home. Mount Sinai at Home treats nearly 3,000 patients each year and maintains a 4-star quality rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.
"The team at Mount Sinai South Nassau's home health agency have a stellar reputation and rating because of the passionate people who work hard every day delivering exceptional care to their patients. They share the same mission, vision and values of bringing high-quality care into patients' homes," Stein said.
Surveys show that patients and physicians prefer a continuum of home-based care. A recent Capital Caring Health survey, for example, revealed that 90% of Americans over the age of 50 want to remain in their homes and age in place. CarePort, a care coordination software company, said home-health referrals have increased, while referrals to skilled nursing facilities decreased, since COVID.
"The pandemic forced healthcare into the home, and it is a trend that is only growing," Margaret Pastuszko, president and chief operating officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, said in a statement.
"Mount Sinai at Home build upon this momentum and offers consolidated opportunities for patients and physicians, decreasing the fragmentation that often plagues the healthcare industry. It's exciting to be creating a care model that is blazing the trail for advanced care at home," she added.
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Reinecke, Franck, Schumann: Chamber Music for Flute and Piano
Composer(s): Carl Reinecke, Robert Schumann, César Franck
Artist(s): Raffaele Trevisani, Flute | Paola Girardi, Piano
Instrumentation: Flute, Piano
Period: Romantic
Reinecke, Franck, Schumann: Chamber Music for Flute and Piano quantity
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Carl Reinecke, César Franck, Robert Schumann
Paola Girardi, Raffaele Trevisani
Flute, Piano
FROM ALBUM NOTES by Edmondo Filippini:
The collective imagination of Romanticism still has today an artistic and musical perspective whose core is the continuous struggle between the sublime, inexpressible in words, and the transcendental, therefore tangibly inexpressible. An opposition dating back to the 12th century Sturm und Drang: the tension to everything that cannot have verbal expression and that only in the art of sounds can be fully satisfied. It originated the typical German Sehnsucht partly affecting the whole eighteenth century aesthetic. […] (Translation by Marco Beccari)
Carl Reinecke: (b Altona, 23 June 1824; d Leipzig, 10 March 1910). German composer, teacher, administrator, pianist and conductor. He was given a thorough musical education by his father, J.P. Rudolf Reinecke (b Hamburg, 22 Nov 1795; d Segeberg, 14 Aug 1883), a respected music theoretician and author of several textbooks. From 1845 Reinecke travelled through Europe, from Danzig to Riga; in Copenhagen he was appointed court pianist in 1846, where his duties included accompanying the violinist H.W. Ernst as well as giving solo recitals. He was given a particularly friendly reception in Leipzig by Mendelssohn and the Schumanns, and Liszt, whose daughter was later taught by Reinecke in Paris, spoke of his 'beautiful, gentle, legato and lyrical touch'. In 1851 he moved to Cologne, where he taught counterpoint and the piano at Hiller's conservatory. He also gave concerts with Hiller, who recommended him to Barmen. There as musical director and the conductor of several musical societies between 1854 and 1859, he significantly raised the standard of the town's musical life. He then spent ten months in Breslau as director of music at the university and conductor of the Singakademie. By 1860 his growing reputation brought him an appointment to teach at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he became the director in 1897. By selecting capable teachers who shared his conservative views and by improving the facilities and the syllabus, Reinecke transformed the conservatory into one of the most renowned in Europe. Grieg, Kretzschmar, Kwast, Muck, Riemann, Sinding, Svendsen, Sullivan and Weingartner were all pupils there; and to this distinguished list could be added many other names of equal repute, showing how exaggerated was the reproach, made particularly in north Germany, that Leipzig was a hotbed of reaction (although this criticism had some justification after 1880). But it cannot be denied that Reinecke considered it his responsibility as director to perpetuate the example of the Classical composers; he was very conscious of his position as a representative and guardian of tradition, and also made it his business to foster the music of the pre-Classical composers, particularly Bach, even exploring as far back as Palestrina. He was a sympathetic teacher who firmly believed in the necessity of a thorough grounding. In Leipzig, he was also the conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra until 1895 (when Nikisch succeeded him); a stern disciplinarian, he achieved a high standard of virtuosity from his players by his insistence on clarity of execution. Reinecke became a member of the Berlin Academy in 1875, received the honorary doctorate in 1884 and became a professor in 1885. He retired in 1902, though his creative work continued until the end of his life. As a composer Reinecke was best known for his numerous piano compositions, representing virtually every musical form of the time and, despite being influenced by Mendelssohn's melodic style, was stylistically nearer to Schumann. The exercises for young pianists and the piano sonatinas have become classics because of their charming melodies, as have the canons and nursery rhymes which are highly inventive and totally free from bourgeois sentimentality. Reinecke was a master of the so-called 'Hausmusik' and of the simpler forms popular at the time. His chamber music is distinguished and, in the later works in particular, attains a Brahmsian majesty and warmth within a variety of forms. His sonata for flute and piano, Undine, is his most frequently performed work. His most successful concertos are those for flute and for harp, and the first and third for piano, which well display his pleasant melodic sense and his admirable ear for orchestration; the piano concertos avoid grand soloistic mannerisms, and his own style of playing, with hands still and fingers curved, reflected his belief in classical practice. Of his three symphonies, the first employs small forces, while the second is a cyclically organized work on a grand scale. His operas, despite their Wagnerian trappings, were not successful; his better-known musical fairy tales, based in part on his own texts (written under the name Heinrich Carsten), were composed in a tasteful folk-style. Gifted in many fields, he was also a talented painter and poet. His lucidly written books and essays contain many observations still of interest.
César Franck: (b Liège, 10 Dec 1822; d Paris, 8 Nov 1890). French composer, teacher and organist of Belgian birth. He was one of the leading figures of French musical life during the second half of the 19th century.
Robert Schumann: (b Zwickau, Saxony, 8 June 1810; d Endenich, nr Bonn, 29 July 1856). German composer and music critic. While best remembered for his piano music and songs, and some of his symphonic and chamber works, Schumann made significant contributions to all the musical genres of his day and cultivated a number of new ones as well. His dual interest in music and literature led him to develop a historically informed music criticism and a compositional style deeply indebted to literary models. A leading exponent of musical Romanticism, he had a powerful impact on succeeding generations of European composers.
Girardi, Paola (Pianist) studied at the "Civica Scuola di Musica" in Milan with Lucia Romanini Marzorati, graduating with honors, in 1978, from the "G. Verdi" Conservatory in Milan at the young age of 17. She won numerous competitions for young artists, among which: The National Young Pianist Competition in Bari and the International Competition in Senigallia. She then completed postgraduate studies with Maria Tipo and Konstantin Bogino, and also studied with Paul Badura-Skoda attending the "O. Respighi" Academy in Assisi and the Chigiana Academy in Siena, where she received a diploma with honors. Pursuing her interest in chamber music, Ms. Girardi has studied with the Tchaikowsky Trio, the Quartetto Academica, the Fine Arts Quartet and the Trio of Trieste. During her career, she has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Maxence Larrieu and Ilya Grubert, of which she has also been pianist for their postgraduate courses in Italy and abroad. Ms. Girardi has also been official pianist, together with Phillip Moll, for James Galway's International Summer courses held in Weggis (Switzerland) and Dublin from 1990 to 2008. She plays regularly with Raffaele Trevisani, giving concerts in Europe, USA and Japan. She is also her partner in several CDs recorded for Delos International. She's piano teacher at the "International Academy of Music" of the Foundation of the Civic School of Milan.
Trevisani, Raffaele (Flutist) virtuosic technique and brilliant musical personality are consistently praised by the public and critics. Raffaele Trevisani studied with Sir James Galway who regards him as "…one of the best flutist of the day for his beautiful singing tone, perfect technique and dedication to the art of music..". He also received unanimous appreciations from Jean Pierre Rampal, Maxence Larrieu and Julius Baker. Long time before receiving his diploma from the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan, he quickly became the young student of Sir James Galway, studying privately with him. For four years (1984-1988) he collaborated with the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala in Milan and for the last thirty years, Mr Trevisani has been performing all over the world. Maestro Trevisani began his solo career with I Solisti Veneti, performing in numerous prestigious concert series in Italy and around the world. He has also performed as a soloist with the Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, I Cameristi della Scala, I Solisti della Scala, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Kammerorchester "Arcata" Stuttgart, Bielefelder Philarmoniker and many others. He has played all over the world for the most important musical Societies and Festivals. He performed in many prestigious halls such as Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Wigmore Hall in London, Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Bunkakaikan and Suntory Hall in Tokio. He has participated in well-known music festivals such as Settimane Musicali in Stresa, Settembre Musica in Turin, Rheingau Music Festival, Miagi Music Festival and for the celebrations of "Ten years of freedom" in South Africa. He has been invited to play and give master classes in Europe, Japan, USA, South Africa and in the most prestigious flute festivals around the world (Boston, Frankfurt, Detroit, Chicago, Rome, Las Vegas, Milano, New York). He is a Delos recording artist, a worldwide recognized label company for highest achievement in quality recording and has recorded for the Italian RAI, the German SDR, the Japanese NHK, the English BBC, the Russian Television and the Brazilian Television; moreover, Globo Brazilian Television and RAI Corporation Television in New York (for the program "Italiani in America") have dedicated to him specials with interviews and live concerts. He has been invited to play duo concerts with Maxence Larrieu and with Sir James Galway for the Italian Television. Raffaele Trevisani plays a 14 carat gold Muramatsu flute belonged to Sir James Galway and a 14 carat gold Powell flute.
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A stroke is both unpredictable and life-altering. Immediate care, including physiotherapy is needed in order to get on the right track to a full recovery. This is a valued member of the treatment team that works is specific ways to facilitate an increase in strength, mobility and improved quality of life for anyone that has suffered a stroke.
Physiotherapy methods have the ability to focus on areas of the body that have become partially or fully paralyzed from a stroke. It is generally one side of the body, or the other, but there are times that both arms, hands, legs or feet can experience a level of paralysis from the event. Restoring nerve sensation and use of limbs takes time, but a steady routine makes all the difference in quality of life for the patient.
A stroke can damage areas of the brain that keep you balanced. Sitting, standing and walking can be difficult when posture is affected and your balance center is thrown off. When there is numbness and paralysis on one side of the body, it will definitely have a detrimental affect on balance. The use of canes and walkers can help get patients up and mobile again with less fear of falling from balance problems.
The affected side after a stroke can experience a lot of stiffness in both the muscles and joints. Shoulders are prone to partial dislocations, called frozen shoulder, which is painful to experience. Stiff muscles, spasms and spasticity all have to be overcome through manipulations, exercise and massage. The sooner a patient is encouraged to get up and mobile, the more successful the recovery will be.
There will most likely be areas of the body that are dramatically weakened from a stroke. Intense attention is given to these areas to help increase strength, making mobility possible again. Life-skills exercises and strength-training exercise is used to helped bring the weakened areas back up to speed.
A physiotherapist is an important part of the treatment team for anyone that has suffered a stroke. They will work with all doctors, nurses, home health aides and family members to ensure the patient is given the best of care. They will offer recommendations on how to position a patient, when they should be turned and what mobility devices are needed at the present time. They are an important part of the recovery process for any stroke victim.
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This short documentary about the Netsilik Inuit was shot in late June and much of the land is bare. There is plenty of activity in the camp as a man fashions a bow from bone and sinews while the children play. The following day the men move out on the sea ice to look for seal pups.


The Grand Prix Arena is an outdoor arena situated in Willinga Park's stable area. The arena is surrounded by 32 luxury stables, a warm-up arena, catering facilities plus training and vet facilities.
The Grand Prix Arena is situated in Willinga Park's stable area. Only recently completed in late 2016, the Grand Prix Arena features the latest in arena flooring technology combining sand and fibre Ebb and Flow surface system that can be adjusted to suit your event's needs. For example the surface can be wet and firm for showjumping and dressage or dry and soft for barrel racing.
The Grand Prix Arena is surrounded by 250 permanent seats with additional room available for mobile grandstands should your event require it. Situated to one side of the arena are BBQ and catering facilities together with seating for approximately 50 people with capacity for more. This area makes an ideal location for pre or post event functions with great views of the arena itself.
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Seattle Repertory Theatre Now More Accessible
By Matt Busekroos | April 01, 2016
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The Seattle Repertory Theatre has taken steps to improve the listening experience for guests with hearing loss.
The theater announced the installation of induction hearing loop systems in both the Bagley Wright and Leo K. Theatres, as well as in the theater's lobby.
This technology permits users to connect wirelessly to onstage microphones, which activate once guests press a button on their hearing aid or cochlear implant. This in turn triggers a telecoil found in most aids and implants. The loop installed throughout the theater allows the telecoil to transmit sound to the listener.
"Patrons who have telecoils will no longer have to stand in line to check out a receiver, remove their own hearing device to wear the venue's headphones, or fumble with volume controls in the dark," said Cheri Perazzoli, director of advocacy for Hearing Loss Association of America - Washington (HLAA-WA) and founder of the Let's Loop Seattle initiative.
The Seattle Rep is one of three establishments in the Seattle area to install the technology. The induction hearing loop system is commonly found in theaters and opera houses in the U.K. and Scandinavia. However, the induction of this technology is starting to become more prevalent throughout the United States.
The theater first made the technology available to patrons in need for its recent production of "Luna Gale." The Rep will host a more formal unveiling of the hearing loop system on April 24 ahead of that evening's performance of "Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem."
"Our patrons were telling us our assistive listening systems needed an upgrade, and we're pleased to introduce this to the Seattle arts community," said Jeffrey Herrmann, managing director. "Creating an inclusive arts community is a priority for the Rep, and we hope other theatres will follow."
Inclusivity has been in the news lately as TDF continues to stage autism-friendly performances of well-known shows such as "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and "Wicked," as well as the launch of of Theater Access NYC, a website that filters shows by accessibility.
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How To Defend Against Trademark Counterfeit Claim
Matt: Hi, and welcome back to Trademark Law Radio. I'm Matt Plessner. Today we're going to be discussing trademark counterfeiting, and how to defend yourself against claims of trademark counterfeiting. To help us, we're speaking again with Brian Hall of the Traverse Legal office of Traverse City, Michigan…Brian, nice to have you back.
Brian: Thanks Matt, it's good to be here again.
Matt: Now Brian, first of all, what is trademark counterfeiting?
Brian: That's a great question, Matt. A lot people are aware of trademark infringement and related claims, but trademark counterfeiting is something that people think about when they're buying or selling a product that isn't the actual or genuine product, but instead has been produced by someone else to look like that product and it bares the mark of the actual product. So, under law, the Lanham Act, which is the act that specifically deals with trademarks (and it is a federal act), it prohibits the use and commerce of counterfeit trademark in a matter that's likely to cause consumer confusion, and it's further provides that anyone using the counterfeit trademark in that way, meaning as a counterfeit, will be liable in a civil action to the registrant of the trademark. So, put simply, what it means is, under law, if someone uses the trademark of another on a product that's not the actual product or a genuine product then they can be liable for trademark counterfeiting.
Matt: And Brian, what kind of liability does a trademark counterfeit face?
Brian: It's huge. There's civil liability and there's criminal liability. We're talking about civil liability, again, we're looking at the Lanham Act and what trademark counterfeiting damages could be, and it's up to 2 million dollars per counterfeit. So each use of the mark on a product can amount to 2 million dollars in statutory damages, so long as it's well-formed and other things that go along with it. So typically when we are talking about counterfeiting it's a strict liability defense. There's no way around it-you either did it or you didn't. Now, facts might go toward what the damages amount might be, so if you didn't sell a lot of product, or if you were committing counterfeiting innocently, meaning maybe you purchased products overseas and sold them here thinking they were genuine products when in fact they weren't. That could go to damages, but ultimately, i can be up to 2 million dollars on the civil side. So you could be a named defendant. The trademark owner would sue you, and the litigation would commence with the hopes, at least from a trademark owner's standpoint, of getting that high damages amount. But civil liability isn't the only thing. There's also criminal liability. And obviously criminal liability would require that some kind of municipality brought the action against you, be it the us government, be it a particular state, or otherwise. But if a prosecutor decides to move forward, criminal liability can carry with it jail time, money awards, [and] those kinds of things as well.
Matt: So if i receive a notice to cease and desist trademark counterfeiting in that regard, what should i do, Brian?
Brian: The first thing you should do is speak with a trademark attorney, and i don't say that because i'm a trademark attorney, but because it's critically important, that the response the would are going to put together isn't going to incriminate you further if, in fact, you are most likely to be held liable for trademark counterfeiting. But also, if there are defenses available and you potentially might not even be liable for trademark counterfeiting, under law, a trademark attorney is going to be in a position to advise you that that's the case. What happens often is that somebody gets a letter to cease and desist as trademark counterfeiting, and they might stop doing it but they don't take any further action. They ignore it and hope that it goes away. Well, more often than not, the trademark owner is gong to take further action, and that could mean a lawsuit. It can them notifying the authorities and potential criminal prosecution happening. So there's all kinds of additional things that can happen if you aren't strategic and smart in responding to a cease and desist letter. And really the way to be strategic and smart and responding to a cease and desist letter for trademark counterfeiting is to speak with a trademark lawyer.
Matt: And how can a seller protect against being accused of trademark counterfeiting, Brian?
Brian: It really comes down to good decision making. So, if it's too good to be true, it probably is. And what i mean by that is, if you are a reseller, and everywhere you look you can find…Let's just go with handbags as that's typically the one people think of when they think of trademark counterfeiting. If a handbag costs 200 dollars at a retail store online from it's actual seller, and you're finding it for 10 dollars online, especially on sites that might sell from China or other overseas locations, it's probably a counterfeit item. So, if you have a belief that it's a counterfeit item and you want to insulate yourself from liability, the smart thing to do is to look into that reseller vender from which you're purchasing it. And the reality is, if you're really concerned about it, a lot of trademark owners have particular units within their company or even employ outside firms that will review particular items to make sure that it's not counterfeit. So that could be an option as well if you're really looking to prevent being accused of trademark counterfeiting.
Matt: Well thank you very much, Brian, and one final question for you: Are owners active in their anti-counterfeiting actions online?
Brian: Absolutely, and now more than ever. If you think about it, back in the day, the only way that trademark owners, before the internet, could police their goods was to have people on the ground. So they'd send people overseas; they'd send people to commonly known areas where counterfeit items are sold, be it Central Park in New York, or various streets in other major cities. And they would simply look for the product. They might go get court intervention to cease the product and get an injunction and all those things that go with it. But that obviously took a lot of resources. So now, with the proliferation of the internet and the ability for people to use online market places such as eBay and various other sites to sell items they can constantly be monitoring what is being offered for sale and sold. So, there's software programs out there that help identify where marks are being used, and they can look and see: Is it being used appropriately. And one of the appropriate ways it could be used is if somebody purchases a genuine product, they have the right to re-sell that under the first sale doctrine. So they wouldn't be liable for trademark infringement, trademark counterfeiting, etc. But where they see that they're selling a product that is not a genuine product, and that they didn't buy it knowing it wasn't a genuine product, that's trademark counterfeiting. And they're going to take actions, and those actions might be some of the things we talked about, like a cease and desist letter, a lawsuit, [or] it might be using tools that various online markets have these days such as eBay's VeRO program (or v-e-r-o program), but they're going to take action because it costs them too much money in the long run not to. And as you and i have discussed in the past, [with] a lot of these companies, their strongest asset is their brand, meaning their mark. So if they don't police it, if they don't enforce it, the could ultimately loose rights in it.
Matt: Alright, well Brian, again, thank you again for talking with us today.
Brian: Yeah i appreciate it. Have a good day.
Matt: You too. And this is Matt Plessner, wrapping it up for Trademark Law Radio.


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Karen Turner is a clinical psychologist and research academic. She is Deputy Director (Programs and Innovation) at the Parenting and Family Support Centre. Her research activity concerns the nature, causes, prevention and treatment of behavioural and emotional problems in children. She is a foundational co-author of the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program and has published 13 professional manuals, 20 parent workbooks and tip sheet series, and 14 DVD programs, which are currently being used in 27 countries, in 20 languages. She has also co-written television segments and four interactive online parenting programs. She has clinical and research experience relating to the prevention and treatment of a variety of childhood behavioural and emotional problems, including work with feeding disorders, pain syndromes and conduct problems. Her doctoral research focused on the development and evaluation of brief primary care interventions in the prevention of behaviour disorders in children, and the subsequent dissemination of these interventions to the professional community. She has also conducted series of research into: online delivery of parenting programs; the cultural tailoring of mainstream parenting programs for Indigenous families; and enhancing the training and post-training environment for Indigenous professionals. Her current work includes further resource development for primary care settings, early education settings, and an ongoing focus on making evidence-based parenting support programs more accessible for families in low-resource communities.
Associate Professor Turner has over 27 years of experience in the development, evaluation and dissemination of behavioural family intervention and prevention programs. Her work has primarily revolved around the UQ flagship Triple P – Positive Parenting Program, which has been subjected to over 280 research trials by over 1170 researchers in over 350 institutions; is used by more than 77,000 trained and accredited practitioners from different disciplines; and has reached more than an estimated 7 million children. The key theme of her program development and research endeavours has been increasing access to evidence-based parenting and family support for all families, with the aim of reducing population prevalence rates of child behavioural and emotional problems, family conflict and adversity. The impact of this work is both instrumental (in shaping policy, professional practice and family outcomes) and capacity building (in building community, organisational, professional and individual skills), and is establishing enduring international connectivity. It has led to adoption of evidence-based parenting programs by most state governments in Australia, and from a county/province to a national level in other countries. Her work in the cultural tailoring of programs for Indigenous families has engendered interest from other First Nations and Indigenous populations (e.g. Canada, New Zealand) and refugee families in Australia.
Turner, Karen M. T., Dittman, Cassandra , Rusby, Julie C. and Lee, Shawna (2018). Parenting support in an early childhood learning context. In Matthew R. Sanders and Trevor G. Mazzucchelli (Ed.), The power of positive parenting: transforming the lives of children, parents, and communities using the Triple P system (pp. 1-1) Sydney, Australia: Oxford University Press.
Markie-Dadds, Carol, Sanders, Matthew R. and Turner, Karen M. T. Every parent's family workbook 2nd ed. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2011.
Sanders, M.R. and Turner, K.M.T. Facilitator's manual for Selected Triple P 3rd ed. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2011.
Sanders, Matthew R. and Turner, Karen M. T. Facilitator's manual for Triple P discussion groups. Brisbane QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2011.
Turner, Karen M. T. and Sanders, Matthew R. Presentation guide for Triple P discussion group series 1. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2011.
Turner, Karen M. T. and Sanders, Matthew R. Triple P discussion group workbook: Dealing with disobedience. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2011.
Turner, Karen M.T. and Sanders, Matthew R. Triple P discussion group workbook: Developing good bedtime routines 26 ed. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2011.
Sanders, Matthew R. and Turner, Karen M. T. Triple P discussion group workbook: Hassle-free shopping with children. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2011.
Sanders, M. R. and Turner, K. M. T. Triple P discussion group workbook: Managing fighting and aggression. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2011.
Turner, Karen Mary Thomas, Sanders, Matthew R. and Markie-Dadds, Carol Consultation flip chart for Primary Care Triple P 2 ed. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International Pty. Ltd., 2010.
Markie-Dadds, Carol, Sanders, Matthew R. and Turner, Karen M. T. Every parent's self-help workbook 3rd ed. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2010.
Turner. Karen Mary Thomas, Sanders, Matthew R. and Markie-Dadds, Carol Facilitator's kit for primary care triple P 3 ed. Brisbane, Australia: Triple P International, 2010.
Markie-Dadds, Carol, Sanders, Matthew R. and Turner, Karen M. T. Every parent's group workbook 3rd ed. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2009.
Turner, K. M. T., Sanders, M. R. and Markie-Dadds, C. Every parent's workbook for Indigenous Triple P. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International Pty, Ltd., 2006.
Sanders, M. R., Turner, K. M. T. and Markie-Dadds, C. The Preschooler Book. Queensland Australia: Triple P International, 2006.
Turner, Karen Mary Thomas, Sanders, Matthew R. and Markie-Dadds, Carol Every parent's supplementary workbook module 1: Practice. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2005.
Markie-Dadds, Carol, Sanders, Matthew R. and Turner, Karen Mary Thomas Every parent's supplementary workbook module 2: Coping skills. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2005.
Sanders, Matthew R., Turner, Karen Mary Thomas and Markie-Dadds, Carol Every parent's supplementary workbook module 3: Partner support. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2005.
Markie-Dadds, Carol, Turner, Karen Mary Thomas and Sanders, Matthew R. Every parent's supplementary workbook module 4: Maintenance and closure. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Triple P International, 2005.
Sanders, M. R. and Turner, K. M. T. Triple P tip sheet series for Selected Triple P. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Triple P International, 2004.
Sanders, M. R., Markie-Dadds, C. and Turner, K. Theoretical, Scientific and Clinical Foundations of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program: A Population Approach to the Promotion of Parenting Competence. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: The Parenting and Family Support Centre, 2003.
Markie-Dadds, C., Sanders, M. R. and Turner, K. Every Parent's Self-Help Workbook. Milton, QLD, Australia: Families International, 1999.
Sanders, Matthew R. and Turner, Karen M. T. (2017). The international dissemination of the Triple P - Positive Parenting Program. In John R. Weisz and Alan E. Kazdin (Ed.), Evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents 3rd ed. (pp. 429-448) New York, United States: The Guildford Press.
Sanders, Matthew R., Turner, Karen M. T. and McWilliam, Jenna (2016). The Triple P - Positive Parenting Program: a community-wide approach to parenting and family support. In Mark J. Van Ryzin, Karol L. Kumpfer, Gregory M. Fosco and Mark T. Greenberg (Ed.), Family-based prevention programs for children and adolescents: theory, research, and large-scale dissemination (pp. 134-159) New York, NY, United States: Psychology Press.
Sanders, Matthew R. and Turner, Karen M. T. (2015). Triple P—Positive Parenting Program. In James J. Ponzetti, Jr. (Ed.), Evidence-based parenting education: a global perspective (pp. 225-243) New York, United States: Routledge.
Sanders, Matthew R., Turner, Karen M. T. and Markie- Dadds, Carol (2007). Paediatric Psychology and the Treatment of Childhood Disorders. In Jay S. Birnbrauer and Paul R. Martin (Ed.), Clinical Psychology: Profession and Practice in Australia (pp. 287-314) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Macmillan Education.
Sanders, Matthew R., Turner, Karen M. T. and Markie- Dadds, Carol (1996). Paediatric psychology and the treatment of childhood disorders. In Paul R. Martin and Jay S. Birnbrauer (Ed.), (pp. 287-314) South Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Macmillan Education.
Turner, K. M. T. and Sanders, M. R. (2013) Triple P Online. Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Triple P International.
Turner, Karen M. T. (2011) Triple P Discussion Group Series 1: session presentations. Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Families International Pty. Ltd..
Does the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program provide value for money?
Sanders, Matthew R., Tully, Lucy A., Turner, Karen M. T., Maher, Clare and McAuliffe, Christine (2003) Training GPs in parent consultation skills: an evaluation of training for the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. Australian Family Physician, 32 9: 763-768.
The Role of the Media and Primary Care in the Dissemination of Evidence-Based Parenting and Family Support Interventions.
Sanders, Matthew R. and Turner, Karen M. (2002) The Role of the Media and Primary Care in the Dissemination of Evidence-Based Parenting and Family Support Interventions.. The Behavior Therapist, 25 9: 156-166.
Wall, CR, Sanders, MR and Turner, KMT (1996). The eating behaviour, attitude and nutrition knowledge of mothers of children with persistent feeding difficulties. In: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand, Vol 21. 31st Annual Conference of the Nutrition-Society-of-New-Zealand, Dunedin New Zealand, (102-104). Aug, 1996.
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Silencing debate: Obama and the prop-children
The White House, clearly short on intellectual arguments to ban guns, is bringing out the kids to do their dirty work…again. First he used the kiddie-shields during the signing of his 23 executive actions. Now the White House has produced 4 of the letters from the children('s parents) into videos.
Here's one example from third grade student Hinnah:
"Dear President Obama, my name is Hinna. I am a third grader in school number 8. I just wanted to tell you that I feel really sad also. I feel terrible for the parents who lost their children. Mr. President, can we do something which will stop all of these terrible problems?"
TheBlaze.com has the rest of the videos here.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/17/white-house-posts-videos-of-children-asking-obama-to-do-something-about-guns-the-only-thing-they-do-is-harm-or-kill/
Pat noticed how it's almost humorous how similar the children in the video sound to the impersonation he did of one of the president's prop-children.
Pat and Stu are far from alone in their disgust over the way this administration uses children as policy-shields from any kind of negative discourse or political challenge. TheBlaze's Will Cain made his opinion well known on CNN this week as well.
I cannot find an ounce of appropriateness in this. I find it despicable. I find it stomach churning. This is why: It's part of a larger narrative, which President Obama actually explicitly stated yesterday. And it's impugning the motives of anyone who disagrees with him. It's draping yourself in the emotionalism of the debate. Avoiding an intellectual debate. Avoiding the policy debate.
"Will Cain just destroyed you, Mr. President," Stu commented after hearing the audio clip.
So, what's the moral of this lesson? If you ever have any Constitution-violating, freedom-restricting legislation to push through Congress…just make the kids do it.
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The Heartland Institute's Justin Haskins joined Glenn Beck on the radio program to break down the results of this exclusive poll, including the disturbing revelation that roughly half of Democrats polled supported shockingly authoritarian COVID-19 policies. For example, nearly half of Democrats polled said they think federal or state governments should require unvaccinated people to live in "designated areas or facilitates," or essentially camps. Nearly half of Democrats supported a proposal "to fine or imprison individuals" just for questioning the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications. And, when asked if people who refuse to get vaccinated should lose custody of their children, 20% of Democrats answered "yes."
But the poll showed some good news, too. Watch the video clip below for more details:
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Q: Worldsheet constraint Bosonic String I am currently studying David Tong's notes on String theory and there's a step taken in writing out the worldsheet constraint in lightcone coordinates $\sigma^{\pm}$ for the closed string that I'm not sure about. We have the constraint eq 1.38 written out on page 26 as
$$(\partial_{-}X)^{2}=\frac{\alpha^{'}}{2}\sum_{m,p}\alpha_{m}\cdot\alpha_{p}e^{-i(m+p)\sigma^{-}}=\\\frac{\alpha^{'}}{2}\sum_{m,n}\alpha_{m}\cdot\alpha_{n-m}e^{-in\sigma^{-}}.$$
It looks like my $p$ index was changed to $p=n-m$ but I'm unsure how this action is valid considering I have an exponent hanging around. Also Wouldn't this change in $p$ change my summation? How am I able to have a summation for $n$ after this change in $p$. I'm not sure if I'm overthinking this change but I can't seem to convince myself why this change in $p$ would be valid.

A: It is just a dummy variable change, from $p$ to $n:=m+p$. Since $m$ and $p$ run through all integers, $n$ also runs through all integers. $\newcommand{\ex}[1]{\mathrm{e}^{#1}}$ Stripping off the physics we have
$$ \sum_{m=-\infty}^\infty\sum_{p=-\infty}^\infty a_m\  b_p \ c_{m+p} = \sum_{m=-\infty}^\infty\sum_{n-m=-\infty}^\infty a_m\  b_{n-m} \ c_{n} = \sum_{m=-\infty}^\infty\sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty a_m\  b_{n-m} \ c_{n}.$$

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