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New Technologies, New Worlds
Work Required
Class Assumptions
ENG/IMS/CLS F103, Section A
Professor Judith de Luce
Professor Laura Mandell
de Luce: 529-1480; Irvin Hall, 105A
Mandell: 529-5276; 370 BAC
de Luce: (H) (before 9 p.m.) 523-0176
Mandell: (H) (before 9 p.m.) 765-647-2096
MWF 10:00-10:50 a.m.,
163 Upham
de Luce: M 8:00-9:00, T 9:30-11:30, W 8:00-9:00, 1:30-2:30, R: 8:00-11:30, F 8:00-9:00, 1:30-3:00, and by apptmt.
Mandell TR 9:00-12:00 and by apptmt.
Syllabus Available Online: go to http://www.muohio.edu/englishtech
and click on our class.
delucej@muohio.edu
mandellc@muohio.edu
It seems like a relatively simple intellectual task to think about the impact of technology on our lives. Since the development of the automobile and the computer, life is more harried: we are expected to do more, to produce more, to be more places at once. But there are much less obvious ways that new technologies affect us, and many more serious consequences to these changes than those having to do with speed.
Science Fiction as a genre first arose to question the moral, political, and personal effects of technology on our lives. We will study Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel to figure out the major issues and questions about how technology changes what it means to be human. Some of these changes are visible only if one takes a look at the special connection between media (computer, television, film) and form. What is form? Well, of course, there is literary form: the sonnet is a poetic form that first made its way into English during the 16th century; the novel is a prose form that arrived more recently, during the 18th century. But in a broader way, everything we perceive or think is in some form or another, whether it be in the form of a word or an image. Anything formless is also unthinkable: reality must be always be formed in some way or another in order to be conceivable at all. Moreover (and this may surprise you) many literary theorists think that our idea of what it means to be a person -- the set of expectations, beliefs, feelings, and ideas we have about what it means and feels like to be a self -- took on its modern form during the late 18th century, at the moment in "the print revolution" of mass publication and mass literacy. Will "the computer revolution" change our ideas, our feelings, our sense of who we are?
This class is organized into three units: Narrative as Technology, Metaphor as Technology, Technology and Identity. The major premise of this course is that various forms (sentence structure, narrative, metaphor) are themselves "technologies." --Wait, you probably wish to say, are you suggesting that a sentence is like a car??? Well, sort of, except that it is a technology for thinking rather than for moving. What kind of technology is any given form? That is, what kinds of knowledge or feeling do various forms produce, and how? We will look at how narrative forms which change depending upon their media affect the way we tell our life stories, and consequently what we think and feel about ourselves. Metaphors provide pathways for thought and feeling without us being conscious of them: we will look at the part they play in emotions such as anger, even the explosive anger leading to violent crimes such as rape. Why look at these "old" technologies? To help us better understand the new. New media also produce forms of life and thought, sometimes by changing narrative forms (and even sentence structures, as we will see), sometimes by offering new metaphors and with them, new ways of being human. Thus in the last unit, we will look at how new technologies affect our sense of identity. What kinds of selves are now imaginable, that weren't before, given that we use digital technologies to think with, in the same way that we use sentences to think with? Of course computers enter not only into our practices and habits, but also into our dreams: how do we view ourselves now that we use computers as metaphors for delimiting what it means to be human?
History of this Class
This class has received two large grants from the State of Ohio to develop, as you can see from going to the web site we produced for that grant called "Technology and the Humanities." You can see previous versions of the class at the English Technology web site.
This is a thinking class. In order to think well, one must read carefully, slowly, write about what one has read, and then discuss it with others who have different ideas and perspectives. Light on reading assignments (we'll read a great variety, but not a great number of pages!), this class requires the equivalent of about 3 double-spaced typed pages per week of writing. For each assignment, you will turn in a paper copy of your written response and then post it to your own Blog (which we'll help you set up). We'll return your work with suggestions for revision and will attempt to push your thinking further. It is precisely these questions that will be asked on your final exam. There will be one three-page, double-spaced, typed formal paper that is written in stages, turned in with accompanying the project you co-develop in Assignment 5. Your final Blog revisions must be completed 5/1, before the Final Exam.
Notice that 70% of your grade will come from averaging your weekly grades: it is not possible to pass this class by doing the Blog at the end of the semester. Blog assignments cannot be turned in late except under special circumstances: they are due at the time of our class meeting even if you are unable to attend class.
Web Blog, Weekly Grade
Assignment, Module 5, Creating Oneself In Media
Class Participation (if you are shy, post to the class listserv.
A+ 97-100 C 73-76
A 93-96 C- 70-72
A- 90-92 D+ 67-69
B+ 87-89 D 63-66
B 83-86 D- 60-62
B- 80-82 F 0-59
C+ 77-79
Attendance is critical to your success in this course. Failure to come to class, and to come prepared, will not be looked upon with favor. Please do not expect me to sanction or otherwise tell you it is okay to miss class for anything other than documented illness or a real emergency. You are in college, and I expect you to make your own decisions about whether or not it is worth your while to attend a class for which you or someone else is paying tuition. Except in the case of sustained medical problems recognized as such by the university, more than three absences, even if some of them are excused, will lower your grade; after five absences, you will be asked to drop the class.
You are welcome to use any Blog you would like to use, as long as you can give me the URL and as long as it has the capacity to accept comments from your classmates. But if you don't have a preference, it is VERY EASY to start your Blog:
Go to http://www.blogger.com/start
Follow the instructions for making your Blog.
Send me the blog address: http://__________.blogspot.com
All the URLs for Blogs will be posted at our Class Blog List Site: http://www.units.muohio.edu/englishtech/ENGF103BSpring2006/blog.htm
As is usual with all new technologies, it is best to save your work just in case there is some kind of failure. After you work in your Blog or in the Blog of a classmate, highlight what you have written with your cursor, and then click on "Edit, Copy" at the top of your browser. Open Word and click on "Edit, Paste." Save your document as the class date (MMDDYY) in a folder called "NewTech"
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, ISBN: 0226468011
Joseph Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace
Edward Tufte, "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint," ISBN: 0-9613921-5-0
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, ISBN 0-451-52771-2
Isaac Asimov, Caves of Steel, Bantam 1991 ISBN: 0553293400
All the class readings other than these books are available at the public Web Site or here, below. When you come to a link in your Schedule (below), click on it: a new window will open containing the reading and/or the Assignment.
Some of the Readings are available via e-reserves at King Library.
Class Schedule of Readings and Assignments
Also available at: http://www.units.muohio.edu/englishtech/ENGF103Spring2006/F103BSchedule.htm
Readings (have these items read by the time class meets)
Assignments Due at the beginning of this Class Meeting
Introduction to the Class
Spencer Holst, "The Zebra Storyteller" (online)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Birthmark" (online)
Assignment NT1.1
(no class on Monday)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: author's introduction through chapter 5, pp. xxi-47
Frankenstein (cont'): chapters 6 through 12, pp. 48-96
Frankenstein (cont'): chapters 13 through 20, pp. 97-152
Frankenstein (cont'): chapters 21 through 24 (end), pp. 153-198
clips from Frankenstein movies will be seen in class
Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel: author's introduction through chapter 5, pp. vii-71
"Robot Receptionist Dishes Directions and Attitude" (online)
Asimov, Caves of Steel (cont'): chapters 6 through 10, pp. 72-143
Asimov, Caves of Steel (cont'): chapters 11 through 14, pp. 144-209
Asimov, Caves of Steel (cont'): chapters 15 through 18 (end), pp. 210-170
Homer, The Iliad (Ian Johnson translation, online: lines 458-522)
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (excerpt; HO)
William Dickey, "Androids," a poem in In the Dreaming, on electronic reserve
to be seen in class: excerpts from I, Robot;Star Wars (R2D2)
Archetypes (notes from David Leeming, Mythology, the Voyage of the Hero; HO)
Film Terms from William H. Phillips, Film: An Introduction (online)
Scott Fisher, "Storyboards," Multimedia Authoring (excerpt; HO)
Show your movies in class
Make a movie using the Learning Narrative Tool:
pick a newspaper story to create it in the tool, then tell an excerpt from your own autobiography, a story about you.
Marie-Laure Ryan, Introduction to Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling (excerpt; HO)
Barthes, Greimas, Genette: Narratology (online)
to be seen in class: excerpts from The Wizard of Oz
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of the Forking Paths" (online)
(no class Monday; exchange day)
Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message"
Steven Krug, Don't Make Me Think! (excerpt, HO)
Jakob Nielsen, Designing Web Usability (excerpt, HO)
In-class presentation: Storyboarding
Team up to work in groups of 2 on Assignment 5
Part I of Assignment NT5.5 is due at the beginning of class; bring it with you to work on this assignment with a partner during class time.
Work in class with your partner on Assignment 5
Present your team-projects
Finish Assignment NT5.5: you will turn in all of it on Monday, including the storyboard designed by your peer with your peer's name on it and the web site that you designed. Make certain to write the essay described in the final part and to turn that in as well.
George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" (online)
Joseph Williams, Style (sections on sentences as stories, active voice, nominalization)
How to Improve Crabbed Prose, and Figure Out What You Yourself Think
Edward Tufte, "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint"
Clive Thompson, "PowerPoint Makes You Dumb"
Stephen Shugart, "Beyond PowerPoint"
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860-61) (excerpt; online)
Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (excerpt; online)
Assignment TI1.2
projection (online)
to be seen in class: excerpts from Elephant Man
S P R I N G B R E A K
Erving Goffman,The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (excerpt; online)
to be shown in class: excerpts from The Three Faces of Eve
Create your MOO character per MOO Instructions
MOO Class
Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet ( "Aspects of the Self," Ch. 7, online)
MOO Instructions
Discussion of MOO Class
Ovid, Metamorphoses (excerpts; handout)
Homer, The Odyssey (excerpts; handout)
Margaret Atwood, the "Circe/Mud" poems, from Selected Poems 1965-1975 (excerpts; handout)
Anne Sexton, "Cinderella" from Transformations (online)
Sut Jhally, "Image-Based Culture" (online)
Jean Kilbourne, Killing Us Softly 3 (scroll down, then click "Play Video" on the left-hand side of the screen)
The Dolls, by Jackie Kari (online)
Slide show on women in advertising
excerpt from Jack Goody, Intro. to Interface Between the Written and the Oral (excerpt); "Technologies of the Intellect: Writing and the Written Word" (from The Power of the Written Tradition) (HO)
George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, pp. 1-51
Assignment MTintro.2
Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (cont'), pp. 77-114
Metaphor Exercise
William Blake, "A Poison Tree" (with pictures; text only)
Judy Collins, Both Sides Now
Assignment MT1.2
George Lakoff, "Anger," from Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (on e-reserves at the library)
Nell Bernstein, "The War Off Drugs"
Nell Bernstein, The Drug War's Littlest Victims
excerpt from, Joe Klein, "How to Build a Better Democrat"
Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (cont'), pp. 139-146
Philip E. Agre, "Imagining the Next War"
Rabbi Moshe Waldoks, "Bomb them with Butter"
Michael T. Kaufman, [Winning the Battle, Losing the War]
"A true and most dreadful discourse of a woman possessed with the Devill . . . ." (published 1584)
Mind as printing press:
excerpt from John Locke, "Of Perception," Of Retention"
Oxford English Dictionary: Impression
Mind as Computer:
excerpt from Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think"; Biography of Vannevar Bush
Steven Johnson, "Bitmapping: An Introduction"
Mark Taylor, The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (excerpt; online)
J. M. Balkin, Cultural Software (excerpt; online)
Sense-dataum Theories, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Oxford English Dictionary
Current Ideas about How the Mind Works
Course Evaluations
Class Party
Turn in your final Blog before taking your Final Exam: cut and paste your blog into a Word document, print it out, and turn it in Monday, May 1.
FINAL EXAM:
DATE: Wednesday, May 3
TIME: 9:45 to 11:45 a.m. -- you may not work on the exam after 11:45, so please be on time.
PLACE: 163 Upham
No one will be allowed to take the Final Exam who has not previously turned in their final Blog.
Class Assumptions -- in the form of an FAQ:
How much time should I spend on this course? The general rule of thumb for an undergraduate course is that you need to spend two hours outside of class for every hour in class. So, ordinarily you need to spend at least six hours a week in preparation for this class. Since this class meets twice a week, you need to plan your work very carefully. Waiting until Monday night to do the reading for our class isn't a very good idea.
What will the class be like? This will be a discussion class. That doesn't mean that people will simply say things off the top of their heads. It means that the work we do together will happen through the tool of disucssion. The professors are there to facillitate this work and will NOT under any circumstances do it for you. If people come unprepared, we will all sit in excruciating silence -- how this course goes is UP TO YOU. Please remember to be respectful of each other (and yourself!) in everything you say during class.
How can/should I prepare for class? Here is the single most important thing you can do to succeed in this course: make sure you have done the assigned reading before coming to class. Reading through assignments before you begin to read will help to focus your reading for a particular class; the assignments provide a basis for in-class writing and discussion. Studying with a friend is fun and helpful. And of course ask questions!
How can I become a more astute reader and critic? Try this link to "The Rational Critic."
My written English usage is not always effective; Joseph Williams's Style is an excellent guide to grammar and style. Is there any help on the Web? Take a look at Strunk's Elements of Style. It's old, but still helpful. In the most extreme cases, consider a tutor. Show us a rough draft. Have a friend read out loud what you have written; our writing never sounds so good or so unpersuasive as when someone else reads it out loud.
What is the one thing I should never ask a professor, unless I want her/him to laugh hysterically at me or to conclude that I am at best a mediocre student? Never ask any professor if s/he is going to do "anything important" in a class you are planning to cut. Of course, it's important. Read The Opportunity Cost of Missing Class (Tim Tweten).
How important are due dates? THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR RULE. Due dates and guidelines for assignments will appear in the syllabus in a timely fashion. You are responsible for meeting them. If you miss a deadline, you must contact one of us within twenty-four hours to try to negotiate a make-up, but please remember that we do not ordinarily schedule make-ups except in instances of documented serious illness or real emergencies. Please do not abuse my patience or my understanding. Sometimes the unspeakable happens and there may be good reasons for a missed assignment; in that case, come talk to me. Wanting to leave for spring break a week early, however, is not a compelling reason.
Suppose I have a suggestion about the course, a topic I wish we could discuss, some great link I found on the Web? Talk to us; we welcome suggestions.
In order to meet the course objectives, we need to agree on some underlying Principles.
We will assume that dogmatic assertions of the "Truth" need to be examined carefully.
We will use language which is precise and accurate. I expect your spoken and written work to be in clear, meaningful, formal English appropriate to a classroom. The expression "whatever" is very popular on campus these days, yet most of the time it is the equivalent of the equally unhelpful and lazy "Ya know?" To say that slavery "sucks" is not only vulgar but does not say anything at all. Say what you mean; if you conclude that slavery is a vicious aberration of human behavior whereby one allegedly human group denies dignity and human rights to another group, then say so.
We will try to avoid any behaviors which demean or disparage individuals on the basis of their membership in particular groups (e.g., sexual orientation, gender, political ideology, physical or mental capacity, age, race, class, religion, etc.) We should all be able to expect a classroom community which is safe and comfortable. I would appreciate knowing if at any time you feel that something has been said or done which has interfered with your learning and participation in this class.
Honesty: I expect you to do your own work, to take credit for your insights and creative answers and to take responsibility for reconsidering your own misinterpretations or errors. Consult the Miami University Student Handbook about cheating and other forms of academic dishonesty, but be warned that I do not take issues of academic dishonesty lightly. Penalties range from failure on an assignment to failure in the course. Tempted by the term papers available (@$6.00-9.00 a page) on the Web? Don't be. Bear this in mind: 1) it is dishonest to claim as your own work which you have not in fact done; 2) how do you know that the author of the paper knew what s/he was doing, looked at reputable sources, didn't plagiarize something we have written or a scholar whose work we know well has written; 3) we spend our time doing literary analysis, i.e., studying texts; what are the odds that we cannot detect plagiarism, and are you really willing to risk the consequences of our discovering it? Not sure what plagiarism is or if you have inadvertently committed it? Look at this site.
Finally: If you have a condition of any kind that will affect your ability to do the work assigned in this course, please see us within the first week of class. This self-disclosure will enable us to make adjustments that will allow all students to participate fully and equitably.


In the past three decades, we have seen many boy bands come and go. pop artists such as the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and One Direction have all seen great success, with armies of fans supporting their music and careers. Because of the popularity of such groups, a system has developed within pop culture that allows boy bands to quickly rise to the top of the charts and reach a staggering amount of fame like never seen before. In August 2017, a new boy band by the name of In Real Life has emerged. This group is taking full advantage of that system, and has the potential to make boy band history.
In Real Life officially formed August 24th, 2017 through a competitive TV series called "Boy Band" which aired through the network ABC. On the show, 18 talented young men competed to earn America's votes in order to become one of the five members of what what pitched as "America's next boy band".
From a systematic standpoint, the show was genius. Having media coverage right from the start of an artist's career can propel that artist directly towards fame. Throughout the show, the audience was able to learn everything there was to know (or that the producers wanted audiences to know) about the boys; their lives, their interests, and their goals were aired for everyone to see. That immediate connection allows the audience to understand that the boys came from backgrounds that people could relate to.
Boy Band also allowed for an immediate following of the band; fans of the individual contestants would in turn become the first fans of In Real Life. Social media plays a huge factor into how soon the band reaches stardom. The five boys have gained followers by the thousands since ABC's Boy Band first aired on June 22nd, 2017. Twitter, Instagram, and other social media websites are now a major part of the system which is currently benefiting In Real Life.
The start-up of a boy band, or any other artist, can be difficult without being signed to a label. The show's promise of an instant record deal was kept: In Real Life is under the label Hollywood Records, which isn't surprising; the Disney Company owns both ABC and Hollywood Records. Artists such as Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and Nick Jonas first got their start through Disney's primary record label. In Real Life's first single, Eyes Closed, debuted on August 24th, 2017, and charted at #9 on the iTunes sales chart on the day of its release. Although this position was only kept for 5 days, the sheer number of fans that the band gained through ABC's Boy Band is worth noting.
Although the band is still fairly new and has not yet become a staple in pop culture today, I predict that the names of In Real Life's members will soon become celebrities in the households of teenage girls, and eventually become as commonly known as the likes of Justin Timberlake and Harry Styles.


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Second impressions: E-40 survives the demise of hyphy
by Brandon Perkins
NOTE: This show has been moved up from Thursday ... to TONIGHT!
E-40 with Tech N9ne, Glasses Malone, Stranger Haze
8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26
Firestone Live, 407-872-0066
$25 (purchase tickets here)
Charlie Hustle. Forty-Water. Forty-Fonzerelli. E-Fizzle. E-Bonics. E-Pheezy. The Ballatician. Ambassador of the Bay. Forty Belafonte. Earl Stevenson. A man of many monikers, there's only one E-40.
"My voice might be a little horse from all these shows, but you do know you're talking to E-40," says Bay Area rapper without irony. "I don't put nothing extra on my vocals; how I rap is how I talk. My voice pokes out like a turd in a punchbowl."
Quick to slip into different voices or switch cadences several times in a single verse, it's not only E-40's voice that pokes out but the manner in which he delivers words. His enunciation is his accent. His accent is a trip. E-40's syllables bubble like a hot pot of water and the soup he's boiling features an ingredient list of his own invention (E-40's Dictionary Book of Slang has been rumored and legitimately anticipated for years). After 22 years in the game, his occasionally absurd singularity is instantly familiar on record and on the phone, but it certainly isn't universally acclaimed. It's hard to find anything written on the man that doesn't include a disclaimer such as, "Whether E-40 is your flavor or not ... " and one out of three rap nerds will have an entire diatribe as to why the man's music is wack. Still, his innovation is rarely questioned.
"To be honest with you, my biggest fans to date thought I was wack when they first heard me," says E-40. "They didn't understand me. They might get something [out of my music] the third or fourth time and by the fifth or sixth time, [they're] hooked."
Once (or perhaps more appropriately, if) E-40 hooks a fan, his voice acts as an instrument and turns tired hip-hop territory into high-speed scene-stealers. "Money under the mattress money drug abuse loot / Dirty fingernail smell, booger, sugar, goop," he booms on "On Oil (Turned Up)," each O and double-O sound bottoming out like a keyboard bass underwater, almost at a frequency just outside of human hearing. The absence of vowel sounds makes his consonants pop with a bizarre confidence that recalls a less urgent, more lackadaisical RZA, but few others. That lack of instancy is a West Coast thing, and E-40 could only have stemmed from the Bay Area.
In 2006, MTV and numerous trend-humpers wondered aloud if Oakland's hyphy movement would spread outside of Northern California, but that one-hour "My Block: The Bay" special was perhaps the high point of its national recognition. And as "Ambassador of the Bay," a man whose "Tell Me When To Go" was the furthest reaching hyphy document (complete with instructions and a glossary), E-40 isn't shy about answering questions about the perceived disappointment.
"Sometimes the truth hurts, but the truth also provides information for people who need to know," says E-40. "Have you ever heard of the word player-hater? The Bay Area invented that."
Of course, more than just its home base for naysayers kept hyphy – known for its uptempo, bass-heavy beats and frenetic dances – from sweeping the nation. Perhaps even more visible than the movement's music was the physical act of "ghostriding the whip," now better known for its YouTube-ready failures than its initial message of cool. And nothing is less cool than anything with Failblog potential. Like E-40, the culture is so specific that its path from fad to chart dominance was innately paved with speed bumps.
"Everyone wanted to claim [hyphy], but it was the streets of Oakland that made it up – not a particularly rapper," says E-40. "Keak da Sneak may have said it first in a verse that I know of, but as far as the ghetto activities and dances, that was just the streets. The big stunner shades might have gone out just like anything else, but ghetto games [are] still going on. Uptempo beats have been in hip-hop since the beginning, so it wasn't like hyphy was new. It was just a name put to it and its certain ghetto games."
Maybe contemporary trends are too fickle, too divided, too niche, or just plain online too much, but E-40 is proud to exist before, during and after just one of the many movements he's seen come and go over the span of his double-digit discography. Revenue Retrievin: Day Shift and Revenue Retrievin: Night Shift, the latest additions to his catalog, dropped earlier this year on the same late March day and were his first solo releases away from major labels Jive or Warner Bros. in 15 years. Two more Revenue Retrievin volumes – Overtime Shift and Graveyard Shift – are scheduled for the second week in February 2011, and like the series' title suggests, E-40 isn't about to be late on his timecard.
"When I went to Warner Bros., I had success with 'Tell Me When to Go' and 'U and Dat Booty,' and I did that in the studio not even tripping. It just happened. Then my next record, The Ball Street Journal, Warner Bros. wanted the same success, and I went in there trying to do something commercial. All I got out of that was [a] lost interest [from] my fan base."
It may be a hip-hop cliche to shout about the return to roots once independence rears her pretty head, but one of its more interesting benefactors has been E-40's producer son, Droop-E. While Us Weekly salivates over the potential of Jayoncé's firstborn and Will Smith's invasion of offspring, Droop-E's grown-man contribution to his father's music is palpable.
"It's like he's been here before," says E-40 of the son that arrived the same year as his debut album. "He knows how to do rap from the '80s, '90s mob music, today's style and we have some of the best chemistry. It's a beautiful thing; it don't get no better. That's not just my son, that's my best friend on earth besides my wife, his mama."
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The Human Truth Foundation
By Vexen Crabtree 2018
#afghanistan #atheism #christianity #dualism #hong_kong #incest #india #Iran #islam #judaism #marriage #mithraism #monotheism #polytheism #zoroastrianism
Links: Pages on Zoroastrianism, Other Religions
God(s) Atheist / Dualist Monotheist / Polytheist
Adherent Zoroastrian
Adherents Zoroastrians
Texts Avesta
Heritage Prehistoric
Area of Origin Persia (now Iran)
When Before 5th century BCE
Founder By Zoroaster
Numbers in the UK (Census results)
2001 3 738 2011 4 105
Zoroastrians Worldwide (Pew & WM)
World: 0.00278%. Iran (0.0924%), Tajikistan (0.036%), Seychelles (0.03%), Kyrgyzstan (0.015%), Kazakhstan (0.015%), Afghanistan (0.014%), Sri Lanka (0.012%), Canada (0.01%), Australia (0.00807%), Hong Kong (0.00786%) 1
Zoroastrianism is one of the most ancient religions about which anything is known, and is over 3,000 years old2. It still has followers today3,4. It arose in ancient pre-Islamic Iran "in the eastern and south-central regions of the Iranian world, between the great mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush and Seistan, an area that today is divided between Iran and Afghanistan" and it still survives there, although it faces constant and sometimes violent persecution. It was supposedly founded by Zarathustra (Zoroaster)2.
It is in many ways monotheistic, in that there is a single creator god (Ahura Mazda)5, and this makes it a significant precursor to many of the religions that later rose in a similar vein, including the monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But Zoroastrianism is often called dualistic6 because most concerns are to do with Ahura Mazda's twin children "Spentu Mainyu ('beneficient spirit') and Angra Mainyu ('hostile spirit')"2. The hostile spirit is better known by its Middle Persian equivalent: Ahriman. Their different temperaments arise "from the choice they made between 'truth,' asha, and the 'lie,' druj, between good thoughts, good words, and good deeds and evil thoughts, evil words and evil deeds"2. The battle between these two define the theology of Zoroastrianism and this dualistic idea of 'spiritual warfare' remain with monotheistic religions to this day, especially Christianity and Islam6, although the perceived balanced between God and Satan is different.
"Zoroastrian scholarship has always had to contend with considerable difficulties because sources of knowledge about the religion, in particular those pertaining to its earliest period, are few and conflicting. The Avesta, a collection of texts gathered in writing during the fourth and sixth century CE, has survived only in part, and it presents a heterogeneous picture."
"The Encyclopedia of Religion" by Eliade Mircea (1987)7
Problematic Doctrine: Incest and Decline: Zoroastrianism, like Judaism, has strict rules against marrying outsiders (called exogamy)8. Followers of Zoroaster in India are called Parsis, and some of that community moved to Hong Kong, but at even their height there were never more than 100 of them8. Such a small community, only marrying each other and the occasional Parsi from Mumbai in India, struggled to expand9. Incest is part of official Zoroastrian doctrine, wherein it is called Xvaetvadatha - marriage between cousins in particular was called 'marriages made in heaven'. Zoroastrian culture is also very wary of accepting conversions8, and this combined with incest and a shrinking base of adherents has placed Zoroastrianism in a poor position globally, and the religion is "significantly declining"8.
Mithraism: The Roman mystery religion Mithraism developed out of Zoroastrian ideas. See: Mithraism and Early Christianity.
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(2011) The Oxford Handbook of The Sociology of Religion. Originally published 2009. Current version published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. A paperback book.
(1987, Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Religion. Published by Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, USA. 16 huge volumes. Eliade is editor-in-chief. Entries are alphabetical, so, no page numbers are given in references, just article titles. A hardback book.
Momen, Moojan
(1999) The Phenomenon Of Religion: A Thematic Approach. Published by Oneworld Publications, Oxford, UK. A paperback book.
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(2009) Hammond Atlas of World Religions. Published by Hammond World Atlas Corporation, Langenscheidt Publishing Group, New York, USA. Contributing authors: Stuart A.P. Murray; Robert Huber; Elizabeth Mechem; Sarah Novak; Devid West Reynolds, PhD; Tricia Wright; Thomas Cussans. A hardback book.
Plüss, Caroline. Assistant Professor in the Division of Sociology School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore.
(2011) Migration and the Globalization of Religion. This is chapter 27 of "The Oxford Handbook of The Sociology of Religion" by Peter B. Clarke (2011)1 (pages 491-506).
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The second type of space heating comprises a boiler that gives hot water to the radiant heat loops and a storage tank for heated water. In place of using a boiler, a tankless gas water heater provides instant heated water for the purpose of domestic use and company a hydronic heat cycle. Tankless hot water heaters are generally situated fairly close to the level of use, which is generally the bathroom or kitchen and only give localized space heating and instant heated water in a single outlet. Boilers, on the other hand, could be large enough to supply an entire home.
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This entryway organizer hold coats, hats, gloves, and more to keep clutter under control, and looks great doing it. You can build one yourself using several basic tools, a few pieces of plywood, one board and some inexpensive molding. With a shelf-pin jig, and you can add adjustable shelves, too.
Cut four Bench Uprights to size from 3/4" plywood, as shown in the cutting diagram. Then, with your pocket-hole jig set up for 3/4" material, drill pocket holes where shown. Note that you'll be creating two "pairs" of uprights.
When you buy plywood, it usually has one face that looks better than the other. When building this project, place the pocket holes in the less-attractive face. The better-looking face will be the one that shows, so by positioning your pocket holes this way, the best-looking face of each plywood part will be the most visible.
Cut three Bench Backs to size from 3/4" plywood, as shown in the cutting diagram. Then, with your pocket-hole jig set up for 3/4" material, drill pocket holes where shown. When drilling these pocket holes, note that along the side edges, the pocket holes are offset. That's so when you assemble the bench later, the screws won't run into each other.
Cut three Bench Rails to length from a 1x4 board, as shown in the cutting diagram. With your pocket-hole jig set up for 3/4" material, drill pocket holes where shown. These three Rails are all identical.
Sand the parts smooth, and then assemble the bench base, as shown. To do that, you'll attach the Bench Rails and Bench Backs to the Bench Uprights using 1 1/4" pocket hole screws. Make sure all of the parts are oriented properly before you drive in the screws.
Cut a Bench Top to size from 3/4" plywood, as shown in the cutting diagram. Then sand the Bench Seat Smooth.
Now you can attach the Bench Seat, as shown. Align the Seat so that it overhangs the base by 3/4" at the front and ends. Then attach the Seat using 1 1/4" pocket hole screws.
Cut four Locker Uprights to size from 3/4" plywood, as shown in the cutting diagram. Select two to be the left and right "outer" Uprights. With your pocket-hole jig set up for 3/4" material, drill pocket holes where shown. The other two will be the "inner" Uprights. Drill the same pocket holes in these inner uprights. To add adjustable shelves, use a shelf pin jig (we used one made by Kreg) to drill shelf pin holes, as shown. The advantage of a shelf pin jig is that it makes it easy to get consistent shelf spacing so that you'll have level, wobble-free shelves.
The other two Locker Uprights will be the "inner" Uprights. Drill the same pocket holes in these inner uprights. To add adjustable shelves, use a shelf pin jig (we used one made by Kreg) to drill shelf pin holes, as shown. The advantage of a shelf pin jig is that it makes it easy to get consistent shelf spacing so that you'll have level, wobble-free shelves.
Cut three Locker Backs to size from 3/4" plywood, as shown in the cutting diagram. Then, with your pocket-hole jig set up for 3/4" material, drill pocket holes where shown. Note that, once again, the pocket holes along the side edges are offset.
Cut a Locker Top to size from 3/4" plywood, as shown in the cutting diagram. Then drill four holes through the Locker Top, near the front edge, as shown. These holes will be used later to screw the upper cubby section of the organizer to the lockers. You can also go ahead and cut four Locker Shelves to size now, too. Sand the Locker Top and Shelves smooth.
Sand the parts smooth, and then assemble the locker base, as shown. To do that, you'll attach the Locker Backs to the Locker Uprights using 1 1/4" pocket hole screws. Make sure all of the parts are oriented properly before you drive in the screws.
Now you can attach the Locker Top, as shown. Make sure that the four holes you drilled in the Locker Top are positioned at the front, and that the Top overhangs the base by 3/4" at the front and ends, and. Then attach the Top using 1 1/4" pocket hole screws.
Cut four Cubby Uprights to size from 3/4" plywood, as shown in the cutting diagram. Again, you'll make two "pairs" of Cubby Uprights. With your pocket-hole jig set up for 3/4" material, drill pocket holes where shown.
Cut three Cubby Backs to size from 3/4" plywood, as shown in the cutting diagram. Then, with your pocket-hole jig set up for 3/4" material, drill pocket holes where shown. Note that, once again, the pocket holes along the side edges are offset.
Cut a Cubby Top to size from 3/4" plywood, as shown in the cutting diagram. Then sand the Cubby Top Smooth.
Sand the parts smooth, and then assemble the cubby base, as shown. To do that, you'll attach the Cubby Backs to the Cubby Uprights using 1 1/4" pocket hole screws. Make sure all of the parts are oriented properly before you drive in the screws.
Now you can attach the Cubby Top, as shown. Make sure that Top overhangs the base by 3/4" at the front and ends, and. Then attach the Top using 1 1/4" pocket hole screws.
Now you cans start final assembly. Start by positioning the Locker assembly on top of the bench. Make sure that lockers are positioned evenly from side to side, and that the Locker backs are flush with the rear edge of the Bench Seat. Then secure the Lockers using 1 1/4" pocket hole screws.
Next, position the Cubby assembly on top of the Lockers. Make sure that cubbies are positioned evenly from side to side, and that the Cubby backs are flush with the rear edge of the Locker. Now insert a drill bit into holes in the Locker Top from underneath and press to mark locations of holes in cubby uprights. Remove cubby assembly and drill pilot holes about 3/4" deep in the Cubby Uprights. Then, reposition the cubby assembly. Secure the Cubby Backs using 1 1/4" pocket hole screws. Secure the Cubby Uprights by driving 2" screws through the Locker Top and into the Cubby Uprights, as shown.
With everything assembled, you'll want to cover the exposed plywood edges. Simple screen molding works great. Cut the screen molding pieces to fit. Where pieces meet at the corners of the Seat and Tops, you can miter the ends at 45°, or simply make straight cuts, overlap the pieces, and then sand the corners smooth. Once the glue dries, sand your organizer as necessary, and then apply paint or stain. Install coat hooks in the outer lockers, slip in the shelves, and you can put your organizer to work.
You can glue the screen molding on and use strips of masking tape to hold the molding until the glue dries. If you have access to an air-powered brad nailer, though, you can speed up the process. Just glue on the molding and then drive in brad nails. It's a lot easier than trying to pound nails in with a hammer, and, with an air nailer, you don't have to worry about drilling pilot holes to prevent splitting. Though the glue will hold the molding on tight, the brad nails hold everything in place while the glue dries—without the need for tape or clamps. The nails are small and hardly show, but you may want to cover the nail holes with wood filler before you paint or stain.
(4) bench upright	, 3/4" ply x 19 1/4" x 15 3/4"
(3) bench back , 3/4" ply x 14" x 10"
(3) bench rail, 3/4" x 3 1/2" x 14"
(1) bench seat, 3/4" ply x 20" x 46 1/2"
(4) locker upright, 3/4" ply x 11 3/4" x 46 1/2"
(3) locker back, 3/4" ply x 14" x 46 1/2"
(1) locker top, 3/4" ply x 13 1/2" x 46 1/2"
(3) locker shelf, 3/4" ply x 11" x 13 7/8"
(4) cubby uprights, 3/4" ply x 12 3/4" x 11 3/4"
(3) cubby back, 3/4" ply x 14" x 11 3/4"
(1) cubby top, 3/4" ply x 13 1/2" x 46 1/2"
Nice Project - Very nice project. Good plans, easy to follow, turned out nice.


The Texas Transportation Code states that "an operator may not drive at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances then existing". Therefore, regardless of the posted speed limit, every driver has a duty to drive at a reasonable and safe speed for the conditions at that time.
There are two kinds of maximum speed limits. All roadways in Texas have a default speed limit called the prima facie limit based on the type of roadway. This applies to residential streets (30 mph), alleys (15 mph), interstates (70 mph), etc. If the controlling jurisdiction believes that the prima facie limit is unreasonable or unsafe due to conditions on a specific roadway, the speed limit can be changed. In Grapevine, this has to be substantiated by an engineering and traffic investigation, adopted by the City Council, and then posted on speed limit signs.
An engineering and traffic investigation typically involves a survey of actual motorist speeds during free flow conditions. The survey provides the 85th percentile speed, which is the speed at or below which 85% of the motorists are traveling. The speed limit is typically then set within 5 mph of the 85th percentile speed. The speed limit can be adjusted slightly to account for sight distance restrictions, accident history, presence of driveways, and other factors. Setting the speed limit close to the 85th percentile speed ensures that the speed limit reflects the speed that the majority of drivers consider to be reasonable and prudent based on the conditions.
Residents often request that speed limits be lowered with the expectation that this will lower traffic speeds. However, studies have shown that most people drive at the speed they are comfortable with for the given conditions regardless of the posted speed limit. There is little or no significant change in speeds following the posting of a revised speed limit. This is true whether the speed limit is increased or decreased. Also, safety is not improved by establishing unreasonably low speed limits, since this only encourages more variation in vehicle speeds, leading to more conflicts.


The research paper I am reviewing today was published on December 5, 2016, in the journal Biomedical Central. The title of the paper was,"Nut Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Total Cancer, All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies".
For many years, I discouraged my patients from eating nuts because of their high fat content. Even though nuts contain healthy fats, I just felt that eating nuts too regularly would contribute to weight gain, and weight gain is a risk factor for many health conditions.
But in recent years my mind has been changed by the flurry of studies showing that eating the equivalent of a handful of nuts per day – about 2 tablespoons or 20 grams (gm) of nuts, is associated with a significant reduction in heart disease and other health conditions. The analysis of all current studies, as reported in the December 5, 2016, issue of the journal Biomedical Central, yielded some very eye-opening results. The key findings were that 20gm a day of nut consumption– equivalent to a handful — can cut people's risk of coronary heart disease by nearly 30 percent, their risk of cancer by 15 percent, and their risk of premature death by 22 percent. Consuming an average of at least 20g of nut consumption daily was also associated with a reduced risk of dying from a respiratory disease by about a 50%, and diabetes by nearly 40 percent, although the researchers note that there is less data about these diseases in relation to nut consumption.
In total, the researchers reviewed 29 available studies that looked at nut consumption and disease risk. They concluded, "higher nut intake is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality, and mortality from respiratory disease, diabetes, and infections".
How does the consumption of nuts protect us against these diseases? The researchers point out that nuts are a rich source of magnesium, polyunsaturated fats and fiber – nutrients that are beneficial for cutting cardiovascular disease risk and cholesterol levels. Some nuts, such as walnuts and pecans, are also high in antioxidants, and some studies have shown that walnuts, in particular, are highly protective against heart disease and cancer.
Note that consuming more than 20gm per day of nuts was not associated with any further health benefits and that the extra fat calories may, in fact, increase weight gain. So, I like the idea of having a handful of nuts per day. I added it to my daily wellness checklist in recent months due to the emerging evidence showing that regular nut consumption is associated with reduced risk of heart disease, cancer, all-cause mortality and other health conditions. I suggest that you consider doing the same, and when possible, make your nut of choice, walnuts. When looking at all the research on nuts, walnuts show the strongest protective effect in some very well-designed studies. But other nuts are also beneficial.
I've included a link to the research papers in the text below.
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Ultrabooks can be defined as the small laptops, which can be carried in a purse or briefcase but are as productive as the normal laptops. These ultrabooks are very popular due to the fact that most of the people don't want to carry bulky and big laptops when they are traveling for business and pleasure. They want a laptop, which is as productive as the laptops and very light in weight. Due to the increasing demand worldwide, many companies have launched various types of ultrabooks on the market. But, there are some features, which are shared by the best ultrabooks.
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Visibility – The ultrabooks have 160-degree viewing angles, which mean that the screen of the ultrabook has full HD and 400 nit displays, which look crisp and clear from any seat and angle. A full HD display can be normally defined as the twice numbers of the pixels when compared with the standard display. Due to this, you can see the fine lines, edges, and details. You can also easily see your screen in outdoor and brightly lit settings.
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The way most of us are always on the move, Ultrabooks have become more of a necessity these days because of their slim built and uncompromising hardware. So if an Ultrabook is what you are after, the following comparison is definitely going to help you choose your dream laptop. Incredibly thin and incredibly powerful, the Samsung Notebook 9 and the Asus Zenbook UX330UA are the slimmest one on this list with a 0.55" thin profile. But if we compare the Samsung Notebook 9 with the Asus Zenbook UX330UA, both having similar specs like 13.3" display, 256GB SSD, Intel Core i5 processor, Intel HD Graphics, we can notice that the performance is going to be more or less similar. And that's when we can talk about the convenient Fingerprint Reader of the Zenbook, which clearly puts it on the classier edge when compared to Notebook 9.
However, the Razer Blade is already a class-apart with its high-end features like Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 and VR-ready for gaming. Apple MacBook Pro has the rank 1 on the list for a reason. Its Retina Display on a 13.3" screen feels magnificent and for performance, the Intel Core i5, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, and Intel HD 620 Graphics have been meticulously optimized to perform to their full potential. For business requirements, the HP Pavilion has been launched with 360 convertible touchscreen and lighter specifications like Intel Core i3, 500GB HDD, multi-gesture touchpad and more. But to make sure the laptop doesn't lag during multitasking, 6GB RAM is on board and always ready.
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Photos by Claire Avis and Wendy Bennett from round 9 of the British SXS Championship.
Check out this awesome video featuring rounds 7 & 8 of the British SXS Championship 2013.
Photos from round six of the British SXS Championship at Neuadd Farm, Llandrindod Wells. Photos by Catherine Hopwood.
With the launch of the new Polaris RZR XP1000, UTV underground teamed up with SXS and Pro-Lite racer RJ Anderson to make this awesome video.
One week after racing his Polaris RZR XP900 in the British SXS Championship, Monster Energy Athlete Liam Doran took an incredible Gold at the 2013 X-Games in Munich.
Photos from the PAR Homes Challenge Cup at round 3 of the British SXS Championships. Featuring a star appearance from Monster Energy Athlete and X-Games/Rallycross Champion Liam Doran.
It was a wet and muddy round 3 at the superb PAR Moto Park in Llandrindod Wells. The British SXS Championship was full of the usual adrenaline fuelled action. Check out the photos from races 1,2 & 3.
Check out this incredible movie which shows the guys and girls at the Polaris Factory making the Ranger XP 900.
Sunday 10th Feb 2013 so the RZR Racing teams descend onto Dorset town of Weymouth for the annual beach race. This year there was an RZR class which proved to be very popular with spectators. Here are some of the photos from race one.
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Published 1990 by Open University Press in Milton Keynes [England], Philadelphia .
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Statement Roger Dale ... [et al.].
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Contributions Dale, Roger.
LC Classifications LC1047.G7 T85 1990
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If you like plenty of bonuses and features from your video slots, then you may well find Dancing Dragon Spring Festival rather dull. There's very little dazzle on the features front. It is a lovely looking and sounding game though and the stacked symbols can keep the base game ticking over. That wasn't really enough to win us over though. This is one for fans of the Chinese theme only. I would rather play other Playson offerings with the superb Dracula's Family highly recommended.


Rearranging the proverbial deckchairs on the Titanic is the work of the career politician.
Their other role is to listen to lobby groups and bend economic policy to suit the needs of vested interests.
But when politicians gift economic power to the corporates who pollute our environment the most, it makes taking real action on climate change nearly impossible.
So, whilst the icebergs continue to melt, how do we begin a different conversation that allows us to take proper action on the biggest issue that confronts us all?
Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by author and campaigner, Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik and the executive director of War on Want, Asad Rehman.


Amy Lumban Gaol is the World Agroforestry Centre's Communications Coordinator for the Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi (AgFor) project based in Makassar, Indonesia. She coordinates an integrated communications strategy within the three provinces where AgFor is working (South and Southeast Sulawesi and Gorontalo), including video production, writing stories and promoting AgFor through various media. Her interests include photography, social media and humanitarian activity.


After 10 months of renovations, The Hake reopened in October of 2016. This gourmet seafood restaurant in the heart of downtown La Jolla boasts panoramic ocean views and a beautiful, all new 1,200 square foot kitchen.
Southern California Restaurant Design Group was brought in to The Hake project to help create a more functional and efficient kitchen. The renovation involved gutting the existing space down to the floorboards which essentially doubled the footprint of the kitchen. With that, came the need for careful planning of equipment, prep areas, and storage to maintain the most efficient flow of the kitchen workspace.
Chef Aarti talks about the importance of seafood and what inspires her in her cooking style.
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Read more about Southern California Restaurant Design Group's relationship with The Hake from Chef's Roll.


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There is more than one occasion where a mugen radio controlled car has been the winner of a major rc racing event held across the world. This has been possible because a mugen car comes engineered with the latest technology in the racing circuit. Search for mugen race winners and you will find some very popular mugen rc car models.
Mugen radio controlled car offerings change over time to keep up with the technological upgrades and market demand. So here we have listed down the latest mugen portfolio.
MTX-4 is a 1/10 scale four wheel drive mugen car powered by gas. This touring car has a length of 380 mm and width 199 mm with a wheel base of 259 mm. Its main features include four wheel belt drive, bevel gear type rear differential, 2 speed gear box, Adjustable anti roll bar at the front, front and rear rebound stop that can be adjusted, battery holder with low CG, carbon radio plate, turn buckle steering rod and belt tensioner among others.
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After a woman was recently sentenced to jail time for stealing $150,000 from her employer, HRM investigates the best practice for dealing with a suspected case of theft within the workforce.
A judge discarded a woman's excuse that she was depressed when she stole almost $150,000 from her boss in a Tauranga District Court case this week.
Lesley Hunt was sentenced to 23 months in jail for one count of theft, an offense which took place between April 2010 and October 2014.
She committed the theft by using a merchant card from her employer – Triac Lighting, Sound and Visual Hire – to transfer refunds into her personal account.
Judge Robert Wolff ruled that Hunt's depression was no excuse for her actions.
Due to the extent of her offending, the judge decided that home detention was not sufficient penalisation for Hunt.
The judge considered Hunt's guilty plea as well as other mitigating factors, and sentenced her to jail for 23-months with six months standard release conditions.
The court heard that Hunt managed to steal a total of $146,175.60.
Triac's owner, Neil Turner, said that Hunt had worked for him for 15 years and was considered a trusted employee.
Turner claimed that initially, he refused to believe the allegations made against Hunt, although the company's profits were not matching its productivity.
He instead chose to believe that this was just down to the costs of running a business, even after money continued to disappear following him changing the security codes on his bank account.
But his wife questioned how Hunt was living beyond her means and had the money to build hot rods and go on cruises.
However, Turner's wife began to question how Hunt was living beyond her means, noticing her splurging on luxuries that her salary would not stretch to cover.
"Not only did she steal off the company, which couldn't afford it anyway, she stole off me, my wife and children, as I had been pumping my own money into the company to keep it afloat," Turner said.
The New Zealand Police's website outlines the best practice for employers who suspect or have evidence that an employee is stealing from their company.
"You need to address two issues here," the guidelines say. "First is the issue of their employment; second, whether they have committed any criminal offences.
It is also advised that employers carry out all steps of the fair process under the Employment Relations Act before reporting a suspected staff member to police. If this is not done and police decide not to prosecute, any later decision to ask a staff member to leave could be deemed unfair dismissal.
Fully investigate any suspicion or accusation made about an employee.
Give the employee due advance notice of an interview, stating that it may have a bearing on their continued employment and that they may bring along a representative to the interview.
Put the accusation or evidence to the employee and then provide an opportunity for them to give an explanation.
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Once you have carried out a fair process under the Employment Relations Act, notify the police about any criminal issues.
Employers who are in doubt about the Employment Relations Act are directed to contact the NZ Retailers Association or their legal advisor.


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The Development of a Consistent Europe-Wide Approach to Investigating the Economic Impact of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS): A Report from the European Network on ME/CFS (EUROMENE)
Pheby, Derek F.H., Araja, Diana, Berkis, Uldis, Brenna, Elenka, Cullinan, John, de Korwin, Jean-Dominique, Gitto, Lara, Hughes, Dyfrig A, Hunter, Rachael M, Trepel, Dominic and Wang-Steverding, Xia (2020) The Development of a Consistent Europe-Wide Approach to Investigating the Economic Impact of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS): A Report from the European Network on ME/CFS (EUROMENE). Healthcare, 8 (2). e88. ISSN 2227-9032
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We have developed a Europe-wide approach to investigating the economic impact of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), facilitating acquisition of information on the economic burden of ME/CFS, and international comparisons of economic costs between countries. The economic burden of ME/CFS in Europe appears large, with productivity losses most significant, giving scope for substantial savings through effective prevention and treatment. However, economic studies of ME/CFS, including cost-of-illness analyses and economic evaluations of interventions, are problematic due to different, arbitrary case definitions, and unwillingness of doctors to diagnose it. We therefore lack accurate incidence and prevalence data, with no obvious way to estimate costs incurred by undiagnosed patients. Other problems include, as for other conditions, difficulties estimating direct and indirect costs incurred by healthcare systems, patients and families, and heterogeneous healthcare systems and patterns of economic development across countries. We have made recommendations, including use of the Fukuda (CDC-1994) case definition and Canadian Consensus Criteria (CCC), a pan-European common symptom checklist, and implementation of prevalence-based cost-of-illness studies in different countries using an agreed data list. We recommend using purchasing power parities (PPP) to facilitate international comparisons, and EuroQol-5D as a generic measure of health status and multi-attribute utility instrument to inform future economic evaluations in ME/CFS.
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J. D. McCLATCHY is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Hazmat, a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. He has also written three books of essays, including American Writers at Home, and, in addition, edited dozens of other books. He teaches at Yale University, where he runs its Creative Writing Program and edits its distinguished journal, The Yale Review. For the past two decades he was worked in the opera house as well. He has written many libretti for operas performed around the world, including Tobias Picker's Emmeline, Ned Rorem's Our Town, Lowell Liebermann's Miss Lonelyhearts, Lorin Maazel's 1984 (with Thomas Meehan), and Elliot Goldenthal's Grendel (with Julie Taymor). He has also written a new singing translation of The Magic Flute, which debuted in January 2006 at the Metropolitan Opera. His libretti for operas soon to be premiered are The Secret Agent for Michael Dellaira and Little Nemo in Slumberland for Ned Rorem. He is a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.


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RICHARD JOHNSON: Mick Jagger, 78, has finally found satisfaction with his 35-year-old girlfriend
Cam Reddish out 'a while' with ankle injury before joining Knicks' rotation logjam
By Dennis Young
Cam Reddish won't begin his Knicks tenure with a revenge game against the Hawks.
The Knicks are headed to Reddish's old home in Atlanta for a matchup against their new nemesis on Saturday, but Reddish is out for "a while," Tom Thibodeau said Friday.
Reddish has been dealing with an ankle sprain for much of this season and aggravated it during a Jan. 9 game against the Clippers, leaving after just three minutes of action. Thibodeau wouldn't define "a while," but said Reddish had joined the team in New York and was taking a physical.
His current and former teammate, RJ Barrett, welcomed the move.
"It's great to play with my Duke brother again," a smiling Barrett said Friday. "It's gonna be a lot of fun, I'm happy, can't wait til he gets here."
[More Knicks] Cam Reddish opens up about trade from Hawks to Knicks: 'It was just time to make a move for me' »
Barrett said he gave Reddish the "rundown" on Thursday after the trade was announced.
Barrett, Reddish and Zion Williamson were the top three recruits in their high school class in 2018, and joined up for a single season at Duke. That Duke team was knocked off in the Elite Eight by Michigan State, and dominated the 2019 draft, with Williamson going first to the Pelicans, Barrett third to the Knicks and Reddish tenth to the Hawks.
Now Reddish figures to slot in behind Barrett in a crowded wing rotation in New York.
Hawks GM Travis Schlenk said Friday that Barrett had requested a trade after it was clear in the offseason that he would be moved to the bench after starting in his first two seasons.
"Cam had come to us during the offseason and expressed the desire to maybe get to a situation where he could have a little bigger role," Schlenk said. "He went about it the right way, there was no public proclamation."
[More Knicks] Julius Randle scores 24 as Knicks beat Hawks for third straight win »
Presumably, the Knicks would not have given up a first-round pick for Reddish without planning on giving him minutes. But Thibodeau famously has no patience for erratic defense, which Reddish has been known to provide. And there's no obvious slot for him in the rotation. Barrett is blossoming into the team's best player, and Quentin Grimes, Julius Randle, Evan Fournier and Alec Burks are among those logging heavy minutes on the wing.
Thibodeau acknowledged that reality. "Sometimes a change of scenery is good for people, so we'll see how it unfolds...We're loaded at the wing position right now," he said Friday.
Reddish (right) won't be joining Kemba Walker on the court just yet. (Adam Hunger/AP)
At the same time, the Knicks badly need offense, where Reddish has improved this season in fewer minutes. "I don't think you can have enough wings, that's sort of the way our league has gone, and I like his versatility," Thibs added. "He can play three positions, and in today's NBA, I think that's important."
With Reddish out indefinitely because of the ankle injury, Thibodeau wouldn't commit to whether he would start or come off the bench at first.
Barrett's scouting report was more effusive. "He's 6-8, he's very skilled, shoot the ball, finish with both hands, plays great defense," he said.
[More Knicks] Tom Thibodeau says Cam Reddish has to earn his minutes with glut of wings »
There's no question Reddish is capable of all of those things. The question in his pro career has always been if he can deliver all of them at once. If he gets it all together while staying healthy under Thibodeau, the Knicks got a steal.
KNOXED OUT
Cutting bait on Kevin Knox in the Reddish trade means the Knicks' most stunning streak continues. No player they've drafted in the first round has received a second contract from the team since Charlie Ward (picked in 1994) in 1999.
Knox (the No. 9 pick in 2018) followed recent lottery picks Frank Ntilikina (2017) and Kristaps Porzingis (2015) out the door. Barrett, eligible for an extension this offseason, could break the curse. Mitchell Robinson is an unrestricted free agent this offseason, although he was picked in the second round.


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September 10, 2012 MLB, New York MetsAtlanta Braves, Chipper Jones, Mets 2012, Mets Memories, New York MetsCoop
Something about the chill in the air in September that gets me wistful. I think about baseball season coming to an end which is always sad. I think about when I was a kid and school would start, which meant that leaves would change, plant life would die, and birds go south for winter. Growing up at the shore it meant the bennies would all go home and make it enjoyable again.
Now that I'm older it reminds me not only of that piece of information (that I'm not getting any younger that's for sure), but as sure as death and taxes, the Mets leave me wishing for more.
What's more: I was also reminded of better days. I remember watching Mets games in October as a child. I remember watching Mets in the playoffs as an adult in October.
But ultimately, I was reminded of Chipper Jones not only in my youth but in his youth. And though I rode him mercilessly, it brings me back. To the simpler days. To when I watched Mets postseason games at Uncle Gene and Aunt Melissa's house. How when my dad told me when we were leaving San Francisco one year that Chipper Jones won the MVP award, I muttered, "Larry Fine."
Some things will remind me that I'm getting older. Like the fact that when I drink a milkshake my ass jiggles for a week. Like that I'm training for the marathon, and I'm not recovering from harsh workouts like I used to. That I might need to invest in plastic surgery because gravity is taking toll.
But mostly that something weird is that I was sad to see Chipper Jones leave us at Not Shea for the last time. Not that I'll miss him kick our ass. That part I won't miss.
It means I'm no longer young. The retirement of Chipper Jones means part of my youth is also gone. Gone are the days of watching the Mets and Braves in the playoffs. Yes, I know those were long gone. But those memories I hold near and dear to my heart. The Mets will always be around, testing the very limits of futility.
I always get sad when baseball season ends. But I feel like a part of my youth is gone w/ Larry Jones retiring
— The Coop (@Coopz22) September 9, 2012
I first learned about him in my 20s during the Braves hey-day in the late 1990s. I got to know him intimately during the late season runs with those lovable black jersey wearing Mets in those years. As sure as death and taxes, like the Mets leaving me to wish for something more, Chipper was going to stick it to us no matter what.
And yesterday we got to show some respect to the man who probably played the game the right way. His name was never tarnished with PEDs. His team was always in the thick of things late in the season.
As the pre-autumn chill hit the air, and the first football games were played for the 2012 season…I saw Chipper Jones take his last at-bat in Flushing.
And I was actually sad about it.
Like I said, it's mostly for selfish reasons. Most people know my slight obsession with Cal Ripken from the Baltimore Orioles. When he retired, I was in my 20s still. I drove down to Baltimore to see him play at home one last time for this retirement game. I was sad to see him go but in a different way. I never saw him intimately involved with killing my team personally. I was sad for baseball that a great was leaving.
This time around is different. It's really the end of an era, for me as a Mets fan.
A generation has passed. A generation of futility. The one person to remind us of it was Larry Wayne Jones. Now he's no longer around to do it.
The only person reminding us of our futility is ourselves.
That's no fun.
Let's face it. For years and year, Larry Jones made it a habit to kick our ass when it counted. Now we just kick our own ass when we're down and it doesn't even count. That's no fun. At least there was an element of collaboration there. Now it's simply self-defeatist.
A wise man once sang that "Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes," and it's time for goodbye again. This time it means something.
It means we're getting older. It means another fall is going to pass, and turn into winter. It also means that spring and summer will be around the corner once again.
It means that we'll never see Chipper Jones play against the Mets anymore. Some people are happy about it, but I'm sad.
It means that I have to acknowledge that I, too, am getting older. And that's no fun at all.
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Home and business owners who wish to enhance the value of their property also benefit from the installation of an auto gate. Not only does the property look more inviting from a curb appeal standpoint, but the presence of an automatic gate is bound to pique the interest of interested buyers, should you ever decide to sell the home or business.
Whatever the needs of your property maybe, an auto gate can be crafted to fulfill them. Whether you want your gate to recede into the property's perimeter, lift up or swing open, the decision is always yours. An auto gate can also protect any number of different properties,whether they are privately owned or commercially owned. This allows the home or business owner to select the auto gate that is most able to suit their specific needs.
One of the most common misconceptions about auto gates is that they are costly to install and maintain. However, an auto gate can be designed to fit any budget and they also come with a high level of durability. Very little maintenance is required, as the gate is constructed from high quality materials that are able to withstand the test of time. No ongoing repairs are needed and you can enjoy the enhanced security for years to come.
We have a few different styles and designs of auto gate for you to choose from Stainless Steel Folding Gate, to Stainless Steel Sliding Gate, Stainless Steel Swing Gate and Stainless Steel Fences. We also build beautiful Stainless Steel Window Grill and Stainless Steel Garden Swing for your homes and offices.
For more information about how an auto gate can spruce up your property, contact Berjaya Steel Railings today and get a superb offer!


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