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A Few Obvious Points on Norway Massacre
Posted on July 24, 2011 by Richard Bartholomew
I don't usually use this blog for general ruminations and observations, but here goes:
1. Given the continuing threat from Islamic extremists, it was reasonable to suspect (although not to conclude) that the terrorist attacks on Oslo-Utoya were the work of Jihadi terrorists.
2. However, if you're right-wing nationalist or "anti-Jihadist" who confidently asserted that this was Islamic terrorism and that it revealed the true face of Islam, the discovery that the attacks were in fact the work of a right-wing nationalist and "anti-Jihadist" ought to be a cue for a long period of silence.
3. If you're an anonymous Norwegian right-wing nationalist who writes about the impossibility of co-existing with the left and the inevitability of civil war, you have little ground to complain if people suspect you're the same person as a Norwegian right-wing nationalist who has just massacred a large number of people who identify with the left.
4. If you've endorsed or promoted the writings of an anonymous Norwegian right-wing nationalist who writes about the impossibility of co-existing with the left and the inevitability of civil war, you have little ground to complain if people suspect you have links with a a Norwegian right-wing nationalist who has just massacred a large number of people who identify with the left.
5. Just because someone who is unsavoury may appreciate something that you have written or said, it does not therefore follow that your views are tarnished by the association.
6. However, if you use conspiracy theories and inflammatory rhetoric to whip up hatred, you ought to feel some shame if someone who admires your writings is then inspired to do something terrible.
There. Apologies for stating the obvious.
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Andrew Brown, on July 24, 2011 at 8:02 am said:
And it's worth noting that Breivik gave explicit shoutouts to Fjordman and the GoV — in fact he called his ideology "The vienna school" — on a board where FM himself was active.
eg "(Vienna school of thought) like Fjordman, Bat Yeor, Spencer + many others have already contributed so much. For the last three years I have been working full time on a cultural conservative work which will help to develop and market these political ideas".
[ACB translation] from http://goo.gl/1i4ZZ which is Google's cache of his writings on Dokument.no
Further, a very quick skim with F3 through ABB's long English-language manifesto shows that he reprints, in full, 33 of Fjordman's blog postings/essays, as well as numerous other references.
Jody, on July 24, 2011 at 2:21 pm said:
You write: "Given the continuing threat from Islamic extremists, it was reasonable to suspect (although not to conclude) that the terrorist attacks on Oslo-Utoya were the work of Jihadi terrorists."
Fair enough, but it is one thing for an individual or even a blogger to think this way, an entirely different matter when newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, with their enormous reach and influence, rush into print with such conclusions. Rushing to such judgements has a distasteful history that goes back to Oklahoma, at least, and by now responsible newspapers should at least pause before going to print, especially when they do so on the basis of information provided by faux terrorism experts.
cahillcahill99, on July 25, 2011 at 11:26 am said:
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We have a far-right pseudo Christian cult in Benevent l'Abbaye that boasts of its roots and missionary status in the USA.
Former members speak of a cache of semi-automatics hidden nearby to Benevent l'Abbaye.
The similarities between this openly paedophile, violently extreme cult, and the published views of Anders Behring Breivik justify further investigation;
Mysewlf, on July 25, 2011 at 4:55 pm said:
I repect your views, and you are cleverer than me, but I think we should react to what he has done. It is symptomatic of the extremist attitudes of many hard right commentators in the Anglosphere. The horrendous hatred of Muslims is dreadful. His belief the EU is the "EUSSR" is a belief held by many Eurosceptics and I feel this is a terrifying statement. It's ok to support withdrawal from the EU, but to think it is a dictatorship like the USSR is extreme. All it does is decided by elected leaders of Europe, or the EU parliament or by institutions ACCOUNTABLE TO THEM. Of course there will be extremists WITH EXTREME ACTIONS, if extreme beliefs are so run of the mill. I read the quote "EUSSR" on loads of forums, its disgusting as is constast demonising of centre left activists and thinkers which has happened in mainstream right wing papers for decades. Additionally deliberate missinterpretation by right wing tabloids and commentators of the views of the left will surely cause many to hate left wingers. Look at US right wingers, they have such horrible language about Obama, the hard right in the world need to tone down. You could say all terrorists are madmen, but they do not come out of thin air. The Oklahmoma Bombers, the 2001 Anthrax attacks, the KKK, the OAS, The ELD, the P2, and Oktoberfest bomber, and Franco are all in living memory, and have antecedants today, we should always react to such events, whether political or non-political events, and we should remember that peace, freedom, fraternity and equality are right every time. Just as his victims would have wanted I am sure.
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Did Citizens United Help Democrats in 2012?
By Molly Ball
Much as they decried the Supreme Court's campaign-finance decision, progressive groups may have exploited it most in this year's election.
After a year Democrats mostly spent fretting, freaking out, and fulminating against Citizens United--the 2010 Supreme Court decision that unleashed this year's flood of unfettered political spending--it was a bit unexpected to hear Michael Podhorzer, the political director of the AFL-CIO, say on Friday, "Super PACs are so awesome. It was long overdue that the Supreme Court recognized that corporations are people like everybody else."
Podhorzer, who spoke on a panel at the RootsCamp left-wing organizing conference, was being sarcastic--sort of. Progressives still really hate Citizens United. But in one of the most ironic turns of the 2012 election, groups on the left were some of the most skilled exploiters of the 2010 court decision.
Take Podhorzer, who got a new title this year: executive director of Workers' Voice, the super PAC the AFL-CIO started in April. Prior to Citizens United, under a 1947 law, unions were only allowed to communicate politically with their own members; they couldn't campaign to the general public. When the Supreme Court was hearing Citizens United, the AFL-CIO actually filed an amicus brief aimed at this provision--and got its wish.
The result, Podhorzer said, was like "taking off the handcuffs." The AFL-CIO and other unions conducted door-knocking, phone-banking and advertising campaigns this year aimed at the general public in elections they hoped to influence, and made a big difference.
It was a similar story for Credo, a for-profit phone company that supports progressive causes. As a corporation, it was subject to pre-Citizens United campaign-finance restrictions that prevented it from spending money on campaigns. But this election cycle, the company formed a super PAC and targeted 10 vulnerable Republican congressional incumbents with an intensive, volunteer-based campaign of field organizing in their districts. Five of them, including firebrand Florida Rep. Allen West, were defeated.
"Allen West raised $17 million, spent $13 million and lost by a couple thousand votes," Becky Bond, political director of Credo Mobile and president of the Credo Super PAC, boasted. "With just a few hundred thousand [dollars], we made the difference."
At first, Bond said, the group worried that its members would recoil from the embrace of Citizens United that the super PAC represented. But they found exactly the opposite. "We got very little blowback at all," she said. "People were very excited that this was our super PAC. People thought the super PAC was super."
Both Workers' Voice and the Credo super PAC focused on ground organizing and eschewed paid advertising. They saw their ability to use data-based, person-to-person campaigning as an asymmetrical advantage against better-funded groups on the right. But another super PAC on the left, Priorities USA, focused on using television ads to discredit Mitt Romney; despite being massively outspent by GOP groups, including the $300 million-plus raised by Karl Rove's Crossroads groups, Priorities has been widely cited for its superior effectiveness. Its ads helped cement the image of Romney as a corporate raider that would prove such a liability in the general election.
This may be one of the major takeaways of the 2012 campaign: When liberals learned to stop worrying and love Citizens United, they benefited from it more than the conservatives who supported the decision.
Nonetheless, they insist they'd still prefer the situation--and the decision--be reversed. "We're against Citizens United. We're trying to overturn it. We would close down every super PAC if we could," Bond said.
But with the current state of affairs in campaign finance looking unlikely to change in the near future, progressives are seeing the silver lining. "Labor obviously has a lot of money," Podhorzer said. "We could have given it to Priorities and the House Majority Fund, and what we would have had on November 7 would be canceled checks."
Instead, in its volunteer-powered super PAC, the union has a standing army. Since Election Day, the members of Workers' Voice have kept up the pressure on potential swing-voting members of Congress, urging them not to compromise on taxes and entitlements in the fiscal-cliff talks.
"What we have now is hundreds of thousands of volunteers and a recognition by a lot of politicians that they need to listen to the people they represent," Podhorzer said. "That's a far better outcome .... That doesn't happen when we write checks, no matter how big."

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The Bachelor's Colton Underwood Jokes He Already Got a Contestant Pregnant
The reality star recently finished filming for season 23 of the ABC show
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Colton Underwood may not be a virgin anymore!
The Bachelor star joked that his new girlfriend might have a bun in the oven in a photo shared on Tuesday night. In the funny picture, Colton poses with a "mystery lady", who has been hidden by an over-sized emoji of a pregnant woman, while at a Denver Nuggets game. He captioned the pic: "Date night success."
Immediately after sharing the tweet, Underwood's followers began speculating about who the lucky lady might be. In response he told the loyal Bachelor Nation fans, "You guys read in to things wayyyy too much... can't a guy just take his pregnant gal out on a date without speculation on his virginity?"
However, one super sleuth follower realized that the 26-year-old was messing with them. Turns out, the hidden figure is in fact former Bachelor contestant Blake Horstmann. On Blake's Instagram Story, he joked, "Sorry to disappoint you America, but i'm @coltonunderwood's plus one."
Bachelor & Bachelorette Status Check: Find Out Who's Still Together
While some people were disappointed there was no tea, others were delighted to see how funny Colton can be. "I've always been this way. You just see me crying or kissing on TV," the 26-year-old said, alluding to the dramatic nature of the reality show.
Hopefully this time around there will be less tears and more laughter when season 23 of the Bachelor premieres on Jan. 7, 2019.
And Colton is very excited to finally meet his match on the hit show, after coming away from the franchise solo in two different seasons.
Although, apparently, the experience made for one awkward Thanksgiving dinner this year. The former college athlete joked on Twitter, "If you thought you had it bad trying to dodge relationship questions over Thanksgiving with the family.... imagine explaining to grandma that you dated 30 women and it will air on TV this January." Yikes!
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Nephelomys albigularis, llamada también Rata Guliblanca de Bosque Nublado es una especie de roedor en el género Nephelomys de la familia Cricetidae. Descrito en 1860, fue la primera especie de Nephelomys que se descubrió. Originalmente se describió en el género extinto Hesperomys como Hesperomys albigularis y se consideró relacionado con el H. longicaudatus mucho más pequeño (actualmente Oligoryzomys longicaudatus). En 1894, fue colocado en Oryzomys, como Oryzomys albigularis, y asociado con el que es ahora Nephelomys meridensis. A principios de los años sesenta, el alcance de la especie se amplió considerablemente para incluira a la mayoría de las especies que se encuentran ahora en Nephelomys, así como un solo nombre, boliviae, que es actualmente sinónimo de Euryoryzomys nitidus. A partir de 1976, varios de ellos fueron reconocidos como especies separadas.

En 2006, un análisis filogenético por Marcelo Weksler de la familia Oryzomyine, en el que tanto Oryzomys y Nephelomys se clasifican, proporcionó una fuerte evidencia de que Oryzomys como se reconoce entonces era un género polifilético. O. albigularis y uno de sus sinónimos anteriores, O. levipes, fueron incluidos; se agruparon consistentemente en un solo grupo dentro de un grupo más grande que incluía especies ahora colocadas en Hylaeamys, Euryoryzomys, Transandinomys, Handleyomys, y Oecomys. En consecuencia, el grupo de especies alrededor de O. albigularis fue reclasificado en un nuevo género, Nephelomys, con albigularis como su especie. Desde entonces, la especie ha sido conocida como Nephelomys albigularis. De los siete sinónimos todavía colocados como N. albigularis en el 2005,, cinco fueron reclasificadas como especies separadas, N. childi, N. maculiventer, N. moerex, N. pectorales, y N. pirrensis, un (oconnelli) fue colocado bajo N. childi, y el último (villosus) no fue mencionado.

Antes de que las otras cinco especies fueran reconocidas como separadas, se registró que se distribuía desde el norte del Perú a través de los Andes de Ecuador y Colombia hasta el este de Panamá y el noroeste de Venezuela. No se ha publicado ninguna distribución revisada teniendo en cuenta el reconocimiento de las otras especies. Habita en los bosques montanos a altitudes de 900 a 3300  Es nocturno y omnívoro.

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Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp.
Reid, F., Samudio, R., Tirira, D., Boada, C., Weksler, M., Anderson, R.P., Rivas, B., Delgado, C. and Gómez-Laverde, M. 2008. . In IUCN. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved on 24 de abril de 2009.
Thomas, O. 1894. Descriptions of some new Neotropical Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)14:346–365.
Tomes, R.F. 1860. Notes on a third collection of Mammalia made by Mr. Fraser in the republic of Ecuador. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28:260–268.
Weksler, M. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of oryzomyine rodents (Muroidea: Sigmodontinae): separate and combined analyses of morphological and molecular data. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 296:1–149.

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Go Daddy, the world's largest registrar of domain names, denied Tuesday that an hours-long outage at the company Monday was caused by a hack or denial of service attack. Instead, the company said, its own internal systems — not an attack — were to blame.
A person claiming to be a lead hacker within the Anonymous hacking collective had taken credit for bringing the site's severs down. Under the Twitter handle "AnonymousOwn3r," the person continued even after Go Daddy's denial to say that he or she had attacked the site.
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TWiB! Season 3 Ep#6 -"A National Conversation on Race"
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The summer of 2009 was an interesting one for race in America.
Between Pat Buchanan being his usual batshit crazy self, the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation, a Philadelphia swimming club kicking a bunch of young black kids out due to their "changing the complexion" of the pool, and a host of other wacky nonsense I was fairly sure we were living in some of the worst times in the last few years of race. It would take some sort of powerfully magical spell cast upon America for it to become more racialized than things were last year.
Then came summer 2010.
I don't know where to begin.
I honestly have spent most of this summer baffled, confused and insulted by virtually all race-related events/scandals. I'm constantly being told (on the Internet and by Fox News) that I (and most minorities and liberals) am somehow making everything about race. Due to my apparently progressive views I obviously want to demonize working-class whites.
"It's not about race!"
Well, fine. You've convinced me, guys. It's not about race. It's about idiots. Idiots who want to ignore race and history in America. If it was simply about race we could talk about it. We could have this much-requested "national conversation on race with America" so that we could enlighten and move forward. We could share our differences in order to truly see how we are the same and have similar needs, wants and desires.
But it's not about race.
It's about a lack of understanding of how America's incredibly fucked-up history has affected its people. It's about praising the Founding Fathers as the pinnacle of political thought although they participated in one of American history's greatest travesties, i.e., slavery. Tim Wise gave a speech at July's Netroots Nation where he told the story of a poor white man who wrote him complaining that Wise doesn't talk about the hardships for poor white America. He claimed that Tim Wise, who is an outspoken author and orator on race in America, seems to only focus on the black struggle and that Mr. Wise himself had forgotten about him and other struggling white Americans.
Tim then alerted him that maybe he should care about the black struggle as well. If it wasn't for the racializing of public programs that would help him and other struggling whites in times of need perhaps there would be more help for all poor folks. Maybe if the term "welfare" wasn't connected to brown skin then politicians wouldn't campaign on policies that require leaving so many of the nation's poor to fend for themselves in a country that is built for the haves, not the have nots.
See? I'm totally going along with this thought process now! It's not about race. It's about horrendous politics. It's about capitalizing on the fear of "other" whether that other be race, nationality or religion. It's about Americans being delusional in how everyday life plays out. It's about being completely oblivious to those who don't have your life experiences. This isn't a race thing. This is a failure to acknowledge the worst of our society's actions and their systemic effect.
Awesome. Now I can move on, huh?
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Ward Cleaver Makes a Playdate, or, the Great Man-cession
On a recent sunny morning, Norm Elrod was standing in front of the freezer case of a little market near the Jackson Heights apartment he shares with his wife, Amanda, a graphic designer, and their two cats. He was having trouble deciding between two bags of frozen edamame: one 40 cents cheaper, the other an ounce heavier. He surmised, correctly, that the smaller bag was a better deal, then repeated the process with tortilla chips.
Mr. Elrod, 38, a former marketing manager who is currently unemployed, now does most of the grocery shopping and other household stuff. It just makes more sense, he explained.
When Norm returned to his apartment, Amanda quietly explained he got the wrong kind of edamame-these are shelled, and she wanted the whole kind. Not to worry, he told her. He was planning on going to get an iced coffee soon, and he can pick up the right kind. It's no big deal. He has time.
Pretty soon after this, Amanda bustled off to her office in midtown Manhattan. Norm had mentioned earlier that he sometimes waits, June Cleaver-style, for her to get home. "I don't lack for things to do, but I do notice when it's, like, 7:15 and she's not here yet," he said. "I'm like, 'Oh, let's go on IM, is she still at work, oh, she logged off, I wonder when she logged off ...'"
Welcome to the Problem That Has No Job: a kind of upside-down Mad Men meets Mr. Mom where wives and girlfriends are out all day making money while the city's unemployed guys mop floors, cook dinner and experience all the attendant ennui. In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's germinal study of the restless American housewife, the author singled out 1960 as the year when women began to realize in droves that something was wrong with their domestic lives; she called it "the year American women's discontent boiled over." A half-century later, three years into the most recent recession, the tables seem to have turned. Men have been disproportionately affected by layoffs; they make up anywhere from 70 to 82 percent of those laid off, according to government statistics. The average length of unemployment is more than seven months, which Congress acknowledged last month by passing a benefits extension allowing those who have been out of work for more than six months to continue to receive unemployment pay.
Meaning that Norm, and guys like him, have had a lot of time to settle into a new kind of routine.
yes, it's one of those new-york-obsessed-with-itself articles, but it was enjoyable to read. it also reminded me of all that talk of japan's "grass-eaters." but as someone who left a job at the height of the recession, left new york to move to a cheaper city, and struggled with several months of "what am i doing with my life?" this article spoke to me. what do y'all think?
also, i think we need a "men" tag?
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Expired medicine donated to Gaza
There is no doubt that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are in dire straights, desperately in need of medicine and technology.
However, millions of dollars worth of useless, out-of-date or expired medicine is being sent to the enclave as aid. The expired medicine is ending up in landfills, which are not properly equipped to deal with medical waste.
Gaza's hospitals and clinics relay on international donations, and no one is accusing donors of acting with malice.
But doctors and health officials in Gaza say they want to be consulted before new donations are sent to the Strip to ensure that patients in Gaza are getting what they actually need.
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gaza, health care
lafinjack
Make a Rape Report, Go to Jail
fuck the police, police, rape, women, womens rights
donalbain_
With one of its alumnae, Elena Kagan, poised for confirmation as a justice on the United States Supreme Court, it should be a triumphant season for Hunter College High School, a New York City public school for the intellectually gifted.
But instead, the school is in turmoil, with much of the faculty in an uproar over the resignation of a popular principal, the third in five years.
The events fanned a long-standing disagreement between much of the high school faculty and the administration of Hunter College over the use of a single, teacher-written test for admission to the school, which has grades 7 through 12. Faculty committees have recommended broadening the admissions process to include criteria like interviews, observations or portfolios of student work, in part to increase minority enrollment and blunt the impact of the professional test preparation undertaken by many prospective students.
Eliminating the test, which has remained essentially unchanged for decades, is not on the table, said John Rose, the dean for diversity at Hunter College. The test, he said, is an integral part of the success of the school, which has a stellar college admissions profile — about 25 percent of graduates are admitted to Ivy League schools — and outstanding alumni like Ms. Kagan and Ruby Dee.
As has happened at other prestigious city high schools that use only a test for admission, the black and Hispanic population at Hunter has fallen in recent years. In 1995, the entering seventh-grade class was 12 percent black and 6 percent Hispanic, according to state data. This past year, it was 3 percent black and 1 percent Hispanic; the balance was 47 percent Asian and 41 percent white, with the other 8 percent of students identifying themselves as multiracial. The public school system as a whole is 70 percent black and Hispanic.
When Justin Hudson, 18, stood up in his purple robes to address his classmates in the auditorium of Hunter College, those numbers were on his mind. He opened his remarks by praising the school and explaining how appreciative he was to have made it to that moment.
Then he shocked his audience. "More than anything else, I feel guilty," Mr. Hudson, who is black and Hispanic, told his 183 fellow graduates. "I don't deserve any of this. And neither do you."
They had been labeled "gifted," he told them, based on a test they passed "due to luck and circumstance." Beneficiaries of advantages, they were disproportionately from middle-class Asian and white neighborhoods known for good schools and the prevalence of tutoring.
"If you truly believe that the demographics of Hunter represent the distribution of intelligence in this city," he said, "then you must believe that the Upper West Side, Bayside and Flushing are intrinsically more intelligent than the South Bronx, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Washington Heights. And I refuse to accept that."
More at the source. I encourage you all to read his entire speech (PDF format). Damn this guy had a lot more courage than I did at his age. More people need to acknowledge the reality of testing bias in school admissions and fight for equality of opportunity. Mods, I'm having trouble with adding tags but hopefully they're there.
education, race / racism
evildevil
The Constitution is Too Libural and Radical for Our Times
REPORT: The GOP's Agenda To Change The Constitution
Since President Obama took office, Republicans have shrouded their agenda of opposition by wrapping it in the flag and the Constitution. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) even went so far as to label her radical anti-government views "constitutional conservatism." Yet, for all of their constitutional pablum, the GOP's agenda is nothing less than a direct assault on America's founding document. Time and time again, Republicans have called for basic constitutional freedoms and fundamental aspects of our constitutional government to be repealed either by amendment or by activist judges:
REPEALING CITIZENSHIP: Numerous GOP lawmakers, including their Senate leader and the most-recent Republican candidate for president, are lining up behind a "review" of the 14th Amendment's grant of citizenship to virtually all persons born within the United States. Such a proposal literally revives the vision of citizenship articulated by the Supreme Court's infamous pro-slavery decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford. It has no place in the twenty-first century.( Collapse )
conservatives, law, tea bagging, tinhats
ONTD_Political's PotD: August 4, 2010.
HEAD UP: Dadang, who buried himself in the ground for about three hours to protest a local government's plan to evict him from his home, got a sip of water in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday. Officials plan to evict about 90 people from illegally built homes.
Reuters | Beawiharta
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Fox's Six Tricks: How to Spot the Next Sherrod
I know this isn't exactly news but... neither is Fox.
If the FTC could theoretically apply deceptive advertising laws to television content, there would be an hourly disclaimer on Murdoch's network, "Video ads brought to you by the RNC" (e.g., Palin, Gingrich, Huckabee are employees).
For professional reasons, I watch a lot of Fox News. And it's not easy to fully convey its nightly mendacity. Of course, two weeks ago the conservatyive cable network was caught hyping the Andrew Breitbart political smear of Shirley Sherrod, first on its well-read web site (this was very pre-firing) and then on Hannity and O'Reilly. But like repeat pyromaniacs who waltz away from the fires they start, Fox has neither explained what went wrong nor sincerely apologized for it.
So it will happen again. Already has.
To arm yourself for the next fake scandal, ideally go to MediaMatters.com, Bill Press's new book Toxic Talk, or numerous clips on Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert/Rachel Maddow. Otherwise, here's a brief guide to the six parlor tricks that Fox News incessantly uses to mislead the credulous:
*Rhetorical Questions. "Is the NAACP racist?", asked Bill O'Reilly last month, leading some viewers to an obvious -- though false -- answer. "Will the [New START Treaty] leave the U.S. defenseless until it's too late?", wondered anchor Megyn Kelly. Rinse. Repeat. Every day.
*Creating reality by repeated slogans. Fox's anchors and hosts reiterate certain loaded phrases to see if they'll catch on and reframe the political conversation. Sometimes they do, like "death taxes," "death panels" and "climate-gate." Only problem is that none of them existed. (No one pays a tax because they die, though the top two percent do pay an "estate tax"; there were no "get grandma" panels in the health reform law; and five independent studies have cleared British scientists of charges that they manipulated climate data.)
*Conclusory lies delivered with certainty. To rational minds, facts lead to conclusions -- at Fox News, conclusions lead to 'facts.' The key is that they are said so quickly and confidentially -- think of Limbaugh's theatrical and deep-throated delivery -- that they sound self-evident.
Last week Fox hosts authoritatively said that the public opposes both Wall Street re-regulation and a comprehensive immigration reform bill -- but all polls show the opposite.
I have two things to add to this rather good piece:
1. One of the techniques I don't think he mentioned (or at least didn't single out on its own) is where Fox News not only asks leading questions, but also frequently makes statements that are pure conjecture, attributable to no one. Like, "Some say that President Obama is actually going to lead an army of Reticulans to Earth in order to enslave us all. What do you think, America?"
2. The other thing I wanted to say is kind of in response to their article's title, "How to Spot the Next Sherrod". While this article is certainly useful in helping to deconstruct their various tactics, I actually have what I think is a far simpler response to it........ASSUME IT'S ALL BULLSHIT UNTIL SOMEONE (CREDIBLE) PROVES OTHERWISE.
barack obama, bill oreilly is a terrible human being, birthers, conspiracy theories/theorists, fox & friends, fox news, lies, msnbc, nazism, propaganda, race / racism, rachel maddow, scapegoating, sean hannity, sonia sotomayor, stephen colbert, the daily show
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Fighting for Safe Passage on Indian Streets
On blogs, Facebook and Twitter last month, hundreds of women across India shared their experiences as "Action Heroes" — facing up to sexual harassment on this country's sometimes terrifying streets. The event organized by Blank Noise, a community art project that fights the abuse of women in public spaces, focused fresh attention on "eve teasing" — the common euphemism for the hostility and violence women experience on the streets in large parts of India, especially in the more patriarchal north.
In 2006, the then-fledgling Blank Noise, run by Jasmeen Patheja, a young artist, had invited Indian women to emulate the Take Back the Night marches women have staged in other parts of the world to assert their right to walk in public areas without fear. A Reclaim the Night march had been held in 1978 in Bombay, now known as Mumbai, in protest of the rape of a woman on the street, but not repeated. And so, 28 years later, here in the Indian capital, a small group of women went out for a walk at 10 p.m.
Two police vans stood by to ensure their safety, for this was not a "normal" thing to do. In northern India, women don't step out of their homes for a stroll once it gets dark. It's not safe. It could get one harassed or molested or raped.
"Blank Noise started as an art project," Ms. Patheja said recently. "I was experiencing street sexual violence every day, and if not every day it was the threat of it that kept me on guard, hyper and alert. Moreover, it wasn't being taken seriously by those around me — 'It happens,' 'There's nothing you can do about it,' 'It's only teasing."'
feminism, india
witherwings
Segregated Oldham (Manchester UK) schools to merge
In a bold attempt to bridge the racial divide in the town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, two of its most segregated schools are merging.
Race riots in the town almost a decade ago (wikipedia link added by me, not in original article) revealed deep divisions between its white and Asian populations. The Home Office said it was a place of "deep-rooted" segregation, with communities leading "parallel lives".
Nine years on, many feel little has changed, and some fear the education of Oldham's children could be overshadowed by potential racial conflict. Newsnight's Catrin Nye talks exclusively to the parents and pupils affected.
Newsnight Source.
Come Dine With Me
education, race / racism, uk
Senate confirms Elena Kagan
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to a seat on the Supreme Court on Thursday, giving President Obama his second appointment to the high court in a year, and a political victory as the Senate neared the end of its business for the summer.
Ms. Kagan, a former dean of the Harvard Law School and a legal adviser in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, was approved by a vote of 63 to 37 after hearings and floor debate that showcased competing views of Democrats and Republicans about the court, but exposed no significant stumbling blocks to her confirmation.
She becomes the fourth woman ever named to the court, and will join two other woman currently serving, including Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Obama administration nominee, who was confirmed almost exactly one year ago.
Thoughts? I actually like that a non-judge was put up on the bench. I'm not her biggest fan because I hate US v Comstock, but I have to stop being angry and realize she was just doing her job.
PS - mods I hope someone doesn't post this in the 10 mins it took me to copy/paste and bold
No One Knows My Plan - TMBG
Church Carnival Has Completely Innocent 'Shoot the Black Guy in Suit' Game
In Roseto, Pa., a carnival company closed down a shooter game called "Alien Attack," after complaints and news stories that President Obama was one of the targets.
The black "alien leader" is holding a scroll titled "Health Bill" and wearing a presidential seal belt buckle. He also has antennae and a troll doll with a KISS T-shirt on his shoulder.
The owner of the carnival company, Goodtime Amusements, dismissed a complaint, saying the figure is not meant to be Obama.
"She [a carnival-goer] said she was offended by it. I said if you are, you might want to be. But you're interpreting it as being Obama. We're not interpreting it as Obama," said the owner, Irvin Good Jr.
After drawing more attention from the press, however, Good shut down the game and apologized.
"I didn't think it was offensive, and you know, I made the wrong judgment on it," he said. "And that's all I can say about it. We did away with it, and I'm apologizing to everybody in the world, I think."
A spokesman for the Secret Service says they've spoken with Good and that they'll take "whatever action is appropriate."
(Sauce at TPM. Apologies for forgetting tags on the first submission.)
fuckery, race / racism, religion, stupid people
Would You Like a Google With Your Verizon?
Google Pushes Back On Times' Report Of Verizon Deal
Google is disputing a New York Times report that the company is close to a private deal with Verizon in which Google could pay Verizon to ensure that its content received priority in reaching web users.
The potential deal between Google and Verizon has been widely reported, but the companies are taking exception to what they see as the Times' depiction of it as a financial agreement.
"The New York Times is quite simply wrong," Google spokesperson Mistique Cano told TPM in an email. "We have not had any conversations with Verizon about paying for carriage of Google or YouTube traffic."
"We remain as committed as we always have been to an open Internet," she said.
Google Public Policy's twitter feed had tweeted a similar statement earlier in the day. "@NYTimes is wrong. We've not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open internet."
Verizon released a statement along the same lines on it's Policy Blog:
The NYT article regarding conversations between Google and Verizon is mistaken. It fundamentally misunderstands our purpose. As we said in our earlier FCC filing, our goal is an Internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability, and incorporates specific FCC authority, while maintaining investment and innovation. To suggest this is a business arrangement between our companies is entirely incorrect.
The Times is standing by its story, according to Wired:
"We stand by our reporting which is based on information from sources in a position to know about the conversations," said Times spokeswoman Diane McNulty. "Google's comment about The New York Times story refutes something The Times story didn't say."
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that the FCC has called off closed-door talks on Net Neutrality with industry lobbyists.
FCC Chief of Staff Edward Lazarus, in a statement, said the effort "has been productive on several fronts, but has not generated a robust framework to preserve the openness and freedom of the Internet." He added, "all options remain on the table as we continue to seek broad input on this vital issue."
An agreement between Google and Verizon as reported by the Times would deal a blow to Net Neutrality advocates, who maintain that no content should be favored over any other on the web. An April court decision undercut the FCC's ability to enforce any such neutrality, and the agency has since been looking at other ways of establishing regulations for the Internet.
FCC ABANDONS Efforts At Net Neutrality Compromise
Federal regulators are abandoning efforts to negotiate a compromise on so-called "network neutrality" rules intended to ensure that phone and cable TV companies cannot discriminate against Internet traffic traveling over their broadband lines.
The announcement Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission ends weeks of FCC-brokered talks to try to reach an agreement on the thorny issue among a handful of big phone, cable and Internet companies. And it comes as two big companies that have been taking part in those talks – Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc. – attempt to hammer out their own separate proposal for how broadband providers should treat Internet traffic.
fcc, google, internet/net neutrality/piracy, technology / computers, telecom
Marginalization as Labor On Demand and the Tone Argument
How many people have heard "You have a responsibility to educate?" Or prompted a defensive response when saying "It is not my responsibility to educate you?"
It is my duty to constantly deconstruct other people's privilege, to explain to them what they're doing wrong, that I am required to either give a full 101 course right there on the spot or just walk away. I'm not allowed to say "You know, I found that offensive" and leave it at that. If I don't do the education, how will anyone learn? Right?
Except what this means is that my energy and effort are available on demand. I have to be ready at a moment's notice to provide an exhaustive and exhausting rundown on all of the reasons why something someone said or did is oppressive and offensive. Occasionally, they may even demand scientific research to back this up.
And what do they most often do when you give them this education? When you have allowed yourself to be at their beck and call for however long it took? Most often, they reject it (you're just being oversensitive), or they try to argue it down to a lesser offense (I didn't intend to offend anyone) or just make it about them entirely and ignore the fact that they just engaged in the verbal equivalent of punching you in the face.
The Clash, "The Call Up"
lgbtq / gender & sexual minorities, opinion piece, oppression, transphobia


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Penn State Basketball: Tim Frazier Signs With Memphis, Setting Up Potential Meeting Against Lamar Stevens On Thursday
Former Penn State basketball guard Tim Frazier's NBA career will continue, the Texas product singing a hardship exemption deal with the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday.
Penn State Hockey Falls to Michigan State 5-1 to Split Series
January 4, 2021 Connor Donohue
The Penn State hockey (4-6, 2-6 Big Ten) offense struggled for the second straight game as Michigan State (4-4-2, 3-4-1 Big Ten) defeated the Nittany Lions 5-1.
Penn State Hockey: Nittany Lions Notch 1-0 Win Over Michigan State
Penn State opened the second half of its season with a 1-0 victory on Sunday afternoon. Sam Sternschien had the lone goal of the game late in the first period. Oskar Autio earned his first shutout of the season and made 23 saves. Drew DeRidder also had a good game for the Spartans making 28 saves.
Penn State Football: Castro-Fields Set to Return for 2021 Season
Penn State senior cornerback Tariq Castro-Fields will return for the 2021-22 season he announced on Twitter early Saturday night.
Penn State Basketball: Sunday Meeting with Wisconsin Postponed Following Positive COVID-19 Results
Penn State men's basketball's Sunday afternoon game with No. 6 Wisconsin has been postponed following two positive COVID-19 test within the program a source confirmed to StateCollege.com on Saturday.
Penn State Football: Recruiting Matters, but Transfers Set to Become Bigger Piece of the Pie
Over the past few weeks Penn State football has added four transfer to its 2021 roster, a number that marks not only a change in the projected depth chart but what is likely a change in player management as well.


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Each new frame by Tony Pereira is greatly anticipated by lovers of fine bicycles, and this noble 29er was no exception. It wowed the judges at the 2012 NAHBS, enough for them to slap one of their coveted awards on it — for Best Mountain Bike. It caused a sensation on the internet a week ago when Tony uploaded photos of it, but there's s special story behind it that wasn't told: it's a tribute to Tony's very good friend, Jeff Bates, who was taken well before his time by skin cancer.
"On August 27, 2011, Jeff beat his riding buddies to the finish line of life. His spirit lives on in every bike I will ever build.
…And we'd like to thank Tony for sharing Jeff's story with us. Maybe 'Rest In Peace' is a little out of place here. Jeff, keep shredding. May the single trail upon which you ride extend forever forwards, and be full of well-cambered twists and turns.


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Illmaculate & OnlyOne: Only & Ill
Posted on October 26, 2015 by Sherron Shabazz
Photo courtesy of Dunn Deal PR
Two members of the Pacific Northwest collective Sandpeople, Illmaculate and OnlyOne have recorded together for years. Each emcee appeared on each other's solo projects in addition to group releases, but have never released an album together – now they have.
Illmaculate & OnlyOne's first album as a duo is appropriately titled, "Only & Ill". Only & Ill features appearances by Crooked I, Bigg K, J Rome, C Plus, Neka Perini, Sapient, HANiF, Yukmouth, and Chase Moore. The album is produced by Chase Moore, DJ FlipFlop, Hippie Sabotage, and DJ Epik.
Illmaculate and OnlyOne spoke to The Real Hip-Hop about the Portland rap scene, their penchant for intoxicants, and their new album, Only & Ill.
TRHH: Why'd it take so long for you guys to release a full-length album?
Illmaculate: It's been in the works for a minute. We put out several singles, we had a weekly going, but at the end of the day we just wanted it to be right. We weren't quite happy with it until we got the album that we have now. We went through four different drafts of it over the last year or two. It's good to finally put it out.
TRHH: What did you need to hear to know it was right?
Illmaculate: There was a couple times were we thought we had it, then we just sat on it for a second, listened to it and tried to look at it objectively. There was just something missing. Once we had this batch of songs and we whittled a couple down, there were bangers that we loved but it just didn't fit within the context of the record. Once we put these songs together in a playlist and bumped them front to back, that was it, it was ready to go.
TRHH: The new single "Can't Take That Away" is a pro-drugs song to say the least. What specifically was the inspiration behind that song?
OnlyOne: It's definitely a drug anthem. The inspiration is self-explanatory. Definitely hallucinogens, marijuana, and alcohol played a big part in the making of that song. Also the past that we know of with our friends and family and everybody else. The drug culture is a big part of our music – the positives and negatives of it. We felt it important to make a song that empowered both the positives and negatives of drugs.
TRHH: Weed is legal in Oregon, right?
Illmaculate: Right.
TRHH: Have you guys taken advantage of that?
Illmaculate: There's not like recreational facilities yet. They're still getting the legislation right. I think by January it will be fully ready to go. We both take advantage of the medicinal use as far as having cards and going to the dispensaries. Shops haven't opened up yet as far as being able to go in and buy some recreationally.
TRHH: Angel's Bathwater is a dope name. What does it mean and how'd the Angel's Bathwater tour go?
Illmaculate: The tour has been great. It's been fun connecting and finally performing some new material. As far as the origin of Angel's Bathwater, it's basically Jameson's Irish Whiskey. Goldini Bagwell who is on the tour coined that a few years back. We have a lot of references in our songs to angel's bathwater and it's really just referencing Jameson's Irish Whiskey which is our unofficial sponsor of this tour [laughs].
TRHH: I spoke to Myke Bogan a few months ago and he said the Portland Hip-Hop scene doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Would you agree with that statement?
Illmaculate: Yeah, I would agree as far as talent. There is an abundance of talent – it's crazy. It's pretty incredible when I think of my peers from Portland. I could name 'em but I'd definitely forget someone and get heat about it. I've been a lot of places and I always come back and say "We have some of the best emcees out here, period." I think the market and the economy isn't there yet and that's where I think the lack of recognition comes from. That's on the side of fans, but it's also on the side of industry and money and investors that are willing to invest in building a long sustaining culture of Hip-Hop in Portland. It also kind of gets stifled by the city to some degree. It caught some recognition on the negative side from Buzz Feed and Vice articles. I'd put the pure raw talent in Portland against any city in the nation to be honest — pound for pound.
TRHH: That's a big statement, man.
Illmaculate: I stand fully behind it, man.
TRHH: Battle rappers get tagged with not being able to make good songs. How did you overcome that to excel in song writing?
Illmaculate: To be honest I was writing raps for years before I ever freestyled or battled. I was in the studio for 2-3 years before I ever got involved in battle rap. I was a part of groups and learned song structure. That was there first — that was my first love. I feel like a lot of people, especially battle rappers, get involved with just freestlying at parties and their homies say they're pretty good when they're drunk so they think they should make songs. That was never me. I took writing raps, and recording songs seriously first before ever delving into freestyling and battling. I don't look at myself as a battle rapper as much as a lyricist, an emcee, and an artist that happens to battle. That's where the difference is.
TRHH: I have to ask, who is the girl in the "Gattaca" video?
OnlyOne: That's just a model that the director of the video, Kyle Gray chose.
Illmaculate: Yeah, I miss her.
OnlyOne: She's just a model though. No we didn't have sex with her during the video shoot. I've gotten all these questions. Young kids are like, "You must know that model!"
TRHH: It's unfortunate you didn't have sex with her.
OnlyOne: [Laughs] It's disappointing. Every time I watch the video I'm disappointed. What could I have done better?
Illmaculate: If we could go back…
OnlyOne: If I could go back I wouldn't wear the gas mask.
TRHH: The song "Audiobiography" has some personal information in it regarding your families. Were you apprehensive at all about releasing that song?
OnlyOne: Ill wasn't but I was. It was actually my idea and my concept. I came to the Chase beat and had been thinking about doing an audiobiography song for a while. When I wrote it and laid it down I knew I had to get Ill on it. Once the song was done we knew it was a keeper and wanted to put it out. Since marinating on it I've actually been apprehensive to perform it for smaller crowds or if I don't feel the venue is right. It's just a really personal song. We knew we were going to put it out as soon as we made it.
Illmaculate: As far as the content of it being personal and being apprehensive about putting it out, that was never in the equation because this is what we do. This is our art and our music. That should be reflected in the music. Like Only said, once it was done we knew it was going on the album and it would be a pivotal song on the record.
TRHH: Who is the Only & Ill album for?
Illmaculate: I think the album is made for anybody who appreciates raw lyricism. I feel like everything is in there. People always say, "There's something in there for everyone!" I think from the standpoint of the people who appreciate substance, questioning authority, but also partying, smoking, having a good time, and appreciating dope lyrics, that's who I think this is for. I think most people fit into that and would fuck with the record if it was put in front of them.
OnlyOne: Adding on to that, the record is also a really good sign of the times. If you pay attention to the time that we're in, in Hip-Hop and in our society there are a lot of younger kids that are starting to rap. Rap is still really young and exploding in a lot of circles that it wasn't in decades ago. In our album you can see a culmination of a new kind of Hip-Hop that's political and is this and that. As long as the beats are there we're happy with it. We're always trying to push to a new level. I think the record is a good sign of where the times are at as far as making music that is more tech in the rap aspect for people that do rap, and also for the people that do just listen to it still.
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Though the prosecution "tried", it failed to prove any "politician-police" nexus in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife Kausar Bi and his aide Tulsiram Prajapati, a special CBI court had said while acquitting all the 22 accused on December 21.
Special CBI Judge S J Sharma had acquitted all the accused due to insufficient evidence while expressing sorrow over the loss of three lives.
"I have no hesitation to conclude that the evidence which has been laid and adduced and discussed and appreciated vividly, though the prosecution has tried, it failed to prove any politician-police nexus," he said.
The remarks were part of the 358-page judgement. Copy of the full judgement was only made available on Monday.
The court stated that the CBI probed the alleged fake encounter killings with a 'pre-conceived and premeditated' theory to implicate political leaders.
Of the 22 accused who were acquitted, 21 were junior level police officials from Gujarat and Rajasthan police.
The court has noted in its judgement that it was incumbent on part of the prosecution to procure sanction from appropriate authority to prosecute the 21 accused as they were all government servants.
"The 21 accused were certainly acting in discharge of their official duties. The 21 accused were doubtlessly public servants when the alleged offence is alleged to have been committed," the judgement said.
"In such circumstances, it was necessary for the investigation agency to obtain sanction of competent authority before filing charge sheet. In absence of the sanction, the accused are entitled for acquittal," the court said.
According to the CBI, the police officials were part of teams which abducted and killed Shaikh, his wife and Prajapati in staged encounters.
The court said there was nothing to show that service weapons of the accused policemen were used in the killings.
The three victims who were returning to Sangli in Maharashtra from Hyderabad in a bus were taken into custody by a police team on the intervening night of November 22-23, 2005. The couple was taken in one vehicle and Prajapati in another.
The CBI had said Shaikh was killed on November 26, 2005, allegedly by a joint team of Gujarat and Rajasthan police, and Kausar Bi three days later.
Prajapati, who was lodged in Udaipur Central Jail, was killed in an encounter on the Gujarat-Rajasthan border on December 27, 2006, the investigation agency had alleged.
The court also noted that the prosecution had failed to prove that Prajapati was killed in a fake and staged encounter.
"No doubt that Tulsiram Prajapati suffered a homicidal death," the court said.
It added that statements of witnesses on Prajapati escaping from the custody of Rajasthan police in December 2006 appeared "cogent and convincing".
The court noted the evidence showed that there was an incident of cross firing between Prajapati and a police team.
The CBI had charged 38 persons, including BJP chief Amit Shah, who was the then Gujarat home minister, Gulabchand Kataria, the then Rajasthan home minister, and senior IPS officers like D G Vanzara and P C Pande in the case.
The prosecution examined 210 witnesses, of which 92 turned hostile.
Shah was arrested in the case in July 2010, but released on bail by the Gujarat High Court in October that year. He was discharged by the CBI court in December 2014.
The December 21 verdict was Judge Sharma's last judgement of his career. He is set to retire on December 31.


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This paper tackles the problem by introducing a new Generic Autonomic Social-Collaborative Framework (GASCF). It focuses on a high-level social-context based self-adaptive system, and its use of intelligent agents called autonomic adapters(AAs) that are driven by predefined policies. The paper describes the archi- tecture of autonomic adapters and the general representation of policies. It explores the effectiveness of the approach by applying it to a large-scale collaborative healthcare service called GRaCE (www.egrist.org) that supports mental-health within the United Kingdom National Health Service and other organisations.


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The Kane Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Kane Mountain at Caroga in Fulton County, New York. The station includes a , steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1925, an observer's cabin built about 1960, and foot trail.  The tower and trail are contributing resources. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation and provided a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

The Kane Mountain Fire Observation Station can be accessed via three separate foot trails leading to the summit of Kane Mountain. The main trail runs from Green Lake Rd. This 0.5 mile hike climbs 600 ft. to the top of the mountain at 2200 ft. above sea level. The trail is moderate in difficulty. The second trail runs from Schoolhouse Road. This is a shorter ascent to the top, however its difficulty is higher due to a steeper grade and rocks. A third trail can be accessed either from the Green Lake Rd. trailhead or from the Pine Lake Campground.

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The article reports on a preliminary agreement reached by 4Rivers Bioenergy Inc. to acquire the existing business and assets of Midwest Renewable Energy LLC (MRE). The transaction includes the acquisition of Midwest Renewable's Phase II expansion project in Sutherland, Nebraska.
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Jan 1, 2016, 00:00 AM by Julia Essex
The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to welcome John Stonestreet, PhD as a Visiting Scholar. Dr. Stonestreet will be in residence from January 1, 2016 through June 30, 2016.
Dr. Stonestreet earned a doctorate from the Ohio University Individual Interdisciplinary Program. During the course of his doctoral studies, he dipped his toes into health services research, medical sociology, philosophy of art, philosophy of medicine, theology, spiritual health, healthcare innovation, and the theory and practice of health communication. He attempted to bring his gleanings from these diverse fields together to analyze an auto-ethnographic account of a case study from his own clinical experience in his dissertation entitled Mythological Epistemology for Health Communication.
Dr. Stonestreet earned a Master of Divinity from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies with a concentration in Rhetoric from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also completed the Clinical Chaplaincy Residency program at Duke University Medical Center, the professional training in Integrative Health Coaching at Duke Integrative Medicine, earned a certification as a Master Trainer of shared decision making from the Association for Healthcare Quality and Research, and trained in Palliative Care at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Stonestreet plans to begin the Supervisory Education Program in Clinical Pastoral Education at Baycare Health System in Tampa Bay, Florida. Baycare Health works in partnership with the country's largest non-profit hospice. After completing the program, John hopes to use the spiritual orientation, family systems theory, and conversation analysis aspects of CPE to play some role in helping to train a wide variety of clinicians and patient advocates in navigating the communicative aspects of end-of-life healthcare decision making.
While in residence at IMH, Dt. Stonestreet will be working to complete his first book project.
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I don't know how you do, but I love those long winter evenings that I enjoy a cup of my favorite green tea. Not only warms up the body, but also cheers up the soul, giving me a large portion of energy even after the toughest day full of activities. Until recently I treated it only as a drink, not knowing that it has a lot of health properties and what is most important for us, also slimming. It is therefore worth replacing other varieties of tea, black or earl grey, equally tasty but harmful when we drink larger amounts.
This tea variety comes from faraway Asia, namely China and Japan, where it has been known for centuries, being widely used in this region of the world also in natural medicine. Of course, it was first appreciated for its exceptional taste, which also captivated me, although they are so specific that not everyone will like them. Over time, it turned out that in addition to them has many valuable health properties, which is influenced by the chemical composition of green tea, full of vitamins: A, B, C, D and E, minerals such as zinc, calcium, potassium, fluorine, manganese and copper. Each cup of infusion, made from selected, hand-picked leaves, also contains extremely strong antioxidants, catechins and polyphenols.
delay all natural aging processes of the body, especially the skin, which will always be firm and elastic.
As I try to introduce you to the best and most effective ways of weight loss and the substances that make it easier, I must also include green tea. I've been drinking it for years, but I've never thought about the fact that it was thanks to it that I was able to reach my dream, low weight. I was made aware of this only by a pharmacist I know, they are giving a lecture on the salutary influence of polyphenols and catechins, which increase the chance for a positive ending of each weight loss treatment. Green tea also has no energy value and by drinking it we will certainly not gain weight, but in return we will gain a much better assimilability of all the nutrients that we supply with food. So you can fully stabilize your body weight, quickly reducing excess body fat.
This is due to the intensification of thermogenesis processes, which involve safe raising of body temperature and burning all unnecessary calories in this way. Our metabolism is also becoming equally efficient, our internal organs, at the forefront of the liver cope better with digestion of even the heaviest dishes, and green tea shows the fullness of its health power drunk about half an hour after the end of a meal. The best results will be achieved by combining this tasty and healthy drink with a well-balanced, light diet and physical activity, without which we will certainly not be able to lose weight.
osteoporosis, associated with calcium leaching.
However, this type of tea should be permanently introduced into your diet, remembering at the same time that it requires a completely different brewing. It cannot be flooded with boiling water, but with hot water at a maximum temperature of 70 – 80 degrees Celsius, which preserves all its valuable nutritional properties. This should also not take too long, because the result will be a tart infusion, practically unsuitable for consumption, even after sweetening or adding a slice of lemon.
Tea brewing itself is so troublesome that it is better to consider the use of dietary supplements that have it in composition. I don't always have time to prepare a cup of drink, so for some time I regularly take Silvets. Thanks to it I manage to control and maintain proper body weight, and in each tablet apart from green tea extract there are also other 100% natural plant ingredients, such as acai berries, cayenne pepper, piperine and guarana. All of them not only have a beneficial effect on our health, but also have proven slimming properties.
You can also read about Silvets other slimming pills in my ranking.