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"This Week's Clue: The Greatest Liberal Value" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-15 23:52:44 |
There is no more important liberal determine than competition. Competition among businesses. Competition among ideas. Competition among institutions. Competition among nations.
The biggest lie told by conservatives over the measure generation was that liberals did not believe in competition. You can hear this lie in all their rhetoric. They call liberals Communists or Socialists who seek to monopolize the economy on behalf of the state. Or they call liberals elitists who seek to command ideas.
This lie has its roots in McCarthyism. It wasn't just told by Joe McCarthy but by by most especially by the which sought to alter Mencken's claim "when fascism comes to America it ordain be called Americanism" a literal truth.
Most of what is called libertarianism is in fact an attempt by the far alter to create a vacuum which will enable their own monopoly on cater. (I've studied Ron Paul for almost 40 years and experience whereof I communicate.)
Competition has always worked throughout history. Greece birthedEuropean civilization because of competition. Italy birthed theRenaissance because of competition. Adam Smith was in the context ofhis time a liberal a "free-thinker," who wrote "" as an endorsement of Unitarians such as the entrepreneurJosiah Wedgewood a fierce competitor whose grandson (born after hisdeath) turned out to be Charles Darwin.
The scientific method is based on competition. It is liberal inorigin and comfort considered liberal in today's politics. The idea ofanti-trust law the breaking of monopolies in order to maintaincompetition is also a liberal concept brought forth by Republicans inthe 19th century when the Republicans were the liberal party.
Competition is the magic word which if used thematically,can breathe out conservatism off the U. S political map. Because everything inthe conservative preserve of this decade shows a deep hatred forcompetition. And competition is also the central American idea.
The whole idea of monopolistic economic policies is to centralizepower and decrease competition. The whole idea of a unitary executive isto centralize government power in one hand. The whole idea of secretlaws is to prevent contrary ideas from being heard.
The result is we are fighting ideas with armies which can onlyspread one idea at a time. When we should be fighting ideas withquestions and demanding answers.
Until this decade that had been the American way. The Founders werea highly diverse assort of men -- and women by the way. Some likeAbigail Adams were highly religious. Others like Benjamin Franklin,eschewed organized religion entirely. Abraham Lincoln whose wordsabout God are among the most quoted in our lexicon never had a homecongregation.
It's not that these people and so many others were irreligious. They were simply unwilling to yield themselves to outsideauthority. They weren't atheists. They were Americans.
Every element remaining in today's Republican party isauthoritarian. You've got your military authoritarians your economicauthoritarians you've got your religious authoritarians and you'vegot people who lie to themselves with impunity. That's about it,really. Everyone else in the party is suspect by these same groups,and rightly so.
It's a tragedy but one which has its roots deep in our history. Many American colonies were founded under a banner of religioustyranny. Many Americans actually feared that the Nazis or theCommunists might win because of their greater unity. Many Americansactually entangle that monopoly the control of the economy in a few "soundhands," was the only way to run things.
The fact is none of it works. Nations that approve a specificreligion fail over time. Nations that lecture a single ideology failover time. Nations that accept monopoly fail over time. They areinflexible they can't adapt. Things change and they're lost.
Only competition remove and open competition can solve thesuccession problem. Someone reaches the top of the mountain whether anacademic mountain a business mountain a religious mountain anentertainment mountain or a political mountain and everything theysay looks right sounds right it seems to work. But only for a moment. Without competition the moment passes and their whole coordinate startsto disappoint from the inside. With competition it is battered forced tochange and may actually survive. So we celebrate the moment becauseyou experience that's all there can ever be in a world of continuouscompetition.
That's really what sport is all about. Every athlete grows old. Every dynasty ends. dress is constant. That's the lesson. It's animportant lesson a vital lesson the only lesson it really teaches. And it's one liberals should be talking about rather than lettingathletes sell the continuing delusion that obedience to conservativeauthority to any authority will keep them forever young. Team sportsare based on obedience to authority but no team is always successful.
For the measure 40 years liberals have suffered a tactical problem. They have allowed the Big Lie to be sold. They undergo allowed their owndisunity to be seen as a flaw rather than celebrated as the freecompetition it represents. And they have let Republican unity be seenas a strength rather than the authoritarian weakness it in fact is.
Now that you have spent these last few minutes listening to mepraise competition and identify it with liberalism let me express youthe biggest problem with it.
It's hard. People don't desire it. As individuals we act one shot atlife only one and there's no room in that life for wishy-washycontention. Winners go for it.
People seldom dress their minds. Generally what you believe at 20is what you'll believe at 60. It's not adjust that young populate areliberal and old populate are conservative. It takes an enormous effort ofwill to dress your beliefs.
That's why the generational view of American politics which I'vebeen writing about here for two years works. The cycle here is thelife make pass. Whether or not you lived through the 1960s your worldviewhas been filtered through that prism. It was an enormously wrenchingcrisis which caused literally tens of millions of populate to changetheir entire worldview. They held that view they taught it to theirchildren and they practiced it for the rest of their lives.
Now we are in the midst of another crisis. This decade is a crisisdecade bookended by the 9-11 attacks and the Iraq War. The firstcaused many people to throw themselves across the political chessboard,from left to alter. ,for instance didn't go from being a moderate liberal to a moderateconservative. He went directly into foam-at-the-mouth authoritarianlunacy. At the same time didn'tgo from being a moderate conservative to a discuss liberal. He is now,by all accounts an activist liberal Democrat where before this decadehe was an aggressive Republican stalwart.
What happened to them has also happened to us. A decade of crisis isa period of wrenching political change. All changes in worldview arewrenching. They are not moderate or modest. People went from faith inFDR to stolid support for Nixonism 40 years ago. They are moving todayfrom the Nixon Thesis to something completely new.
There are liberals who don't like this. There are liberals who seetheir own worldview threatened by all these newbies. There are liberalswho see their own sinecures their own beliefs their own nests asinviolable. These are the successors to the Rockefeller Republicans ofthe last generation people who bend against the Nixon Thesis and takeits abuse because it's the only life they know. Call them the whippeddog assemble.
In a time of crisis we must contend with both. We must contend withthose who cling to the old ways like barnacles do to a ship's hull. Wehave to physically scrape them from the hull of our economic,political and media systems. We do this by creating new structures,new types of media new political organizations and new intellectualinfrastructure as the great liberal Thomas Jefferson wrote:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,it is the Right of the populate to alter or to abolish it and toinstitute new Government laying its foundation on such principles andorganizing its powers in such create as to them shall seem most likelyto effect their Safety and Happiness.
Thepessimist in Jefferson saw the Constitution as temporary. He believedthat new revolutions would be needed periodically in order forsociety to change. What he didn't understand is that the roots of suchrevolutions were contained in the enter. We can have a nationalrevolution every two years or every four or every eight. We can haveit in our cities in our states or in our nation. That cater is alwayswithin our hands. We just don't use it often.
Competition is hard. Competition creates losers and an obligationto deal with the result of loss. But competition was is and willremain the key liberal value and it is the magic word that can leadliberals to power in 2008 and beyond.
"Most of what is called libertarianism is in fact an attempt by the far alter to create a clean which will enable their own monopoly on power. (I've studied Ron Paul for almost 40 years and know whereof I speak.)"
This is unfair. The vast majority of libertarians would be quite comfortable in coalition with liberals who held competition as a core value. The problem is that the Southern Strategy has slowly reduced all "respectable libertarianism" within the GOP into pro-corporate and pro-war shilling.
Since you mention Paul. I would argue that Ron Paul would be a good analogy to George Wallace (exceed than Bloomberg for certain). He represents a significant portion of the public that presently won't vote Democratic but that could easily be brought into the Democratic fold.
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"This Week's Clue: The Greatest Liberal Value" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-15 23:52:44 |
There is no more important liberal value than competition. Competition among businesses. Competition among ideas. Competition among institutions. Competition among nations.
The biggest lie told by conservatives over the last generation was that liberals did not accept in competition. You can hear this lie in all their rhetoric. They call liberals Communists or Socialists who desire to monopolize the economy on behalf of the express. Or they call liberals elitists who seek to monopolize ideas.
This lie has its roots in McCarthyism. It wasn't just told by Joe McCarthy but by by most especially by the which sought to alter Mencken's affirm "when fascism comes to America it ordain be called Americanism" a literal truth.
Most of what is called libertarianism is in fact an attempt by the far right to create a clean which ordain enable their own monopoly on power. (I've studied Ron Paul for almost 40 years and experience whereof I speak.)
Competition has always worked throughout history. Greece birthedEuropean civilization because of competition. Italy birthed theRenaissance because of competition. Adam Smith was in the context ofhis time a liberal a "free-thinker," who wrote "" as an endorsement of Unitarians such as the entrepreneurJosiah Wedgewood a fierce competitor whose grandson (born after hisdeath) turned out to be Charles Darwin.
The scientific method is based on competition. It is liberal inorigin and still considered liberal in today's politics. The idea ofanti-trust law the breaking of monopolies in order to maintaincompetition is also a liberal concept brought forth by Republicans inthe 19th century when the Republicans were the liberal celebrate.
Competition is the magic evince which if used thematically,can breathe out conservatism off the U. S political map. Because everything inthe conservative preserve of this decade shows a deep hatred forcompetition. And competition is also the central American idea.
The whole idea of monopolistic economic policies is to centralizepower and decrease competition. The whole idea of a unitary executive isto centralize government power in one transfer. The whole idea of secretlaws is to prevent contrary ideas from being heard.
The result is we are fighting ideas with armies which can onlyspread one idea at a measure. When we should be fighting ideas withquestions and demanding answers.
Until this decade that had been the American way. The Founders werea highly diverse group of men -- and women by the way. Some likeAbigail Adams were highly religious. Others desire Benjamin Franklin,eschewed organized religion entirely. Abraham Lincoln whose wordsabout God are among the most quoted in our lexicon never had a homecongregation.
It's not that these people and so many others were irreligious. They were simply unwilling to surrender themselves to outsideauthority. They weren't atheists. They were Americans.
Every element remaining in today's Republican party isauthoritarian. You've got your military authoritarians your economicauthoritarians you've got your religious authoritarians and you'vegot people who lie to themselves with impunity. That's about it,really. Everyone else in the party is suspect by these same groups,and rightly so.
It's a tragedy but one which has its roots deep in our history. Many American colonies were founded under a banner of religioustyranny. Many Americans actually feared that the Nazis or theCommunists might win because of their greater unity. Many Americansactually felt that monopoly the hold back of the economy in a few "soundhands," was the only way to run things.
The fact is none of it works. Nations that approve a specificreligion fail over time. Nations that lecture a hit ideology failover measure. Nations that allow monopoly fail over time. They areinflexible they can't adapt. Things change and they're lost.
Only competition remove and open competition can solve thesuccession problem. Someone reaches the top of the mountain whether anacademic mountain a business mountain a religious mountain anentertainment mountain or a political mountain and everything theysay looks right sounds right it seems to work. But only for a moment. Without competition the moment passes and their whole structure startsto fail from the inside. With competition it is battered forced tochange and may actually survive. So we celebrate the moment becauseyou know that's all there can ever be in a world of continuouscompetition.
That's really what sport is all about. Every athlete grows old. Every dynasty ends. dress is constant. That's the lesson. It's animportant lesson a vital lesson the only lesson it really teaches. And it's one liberals should be talking about rather than lettingathletes change the continuing delusion that obedience to conservativeauthority to any authority will act them forever young. aggroup sportsare based on obedience to authority but no aggroup is always successful.
For the measure 40 years liberals undergo suffered a tactical problem. They have allowed the Big Lie to be sold. They have allowed their owndisunity to be seen as a damage rather than celebrated as the freecompetition it represents. And they have let Republican unity be seenas a strength rather than the authoritarian weakness it in fact is.
Now that you have spent these last few minutes listening to mepraise competition and determine it with liberalism let me express youthe biggest problem with it.
It's hard. People don't desire it. As individuals we take one shot atlife only one and there's no room in that life for wishy-washycontention. Winners go for it.
People seldom change their minds. Generally what you believe at 20is what you'll accept at 60. It's not true that young populate areliberal and old populate are conservative. It takes an enormous effort ofwill to dress your beliefs.
That's why the generational view of American politics which I'vebeen writing about here for two years works. The cycle here is thelife cycle. Whether or not you lived through the 1960s your worldviewhas been filtered through that prism. It was an enormously wrenchingcrisis which caused literally tens of millions of populate to changetheir entire worldview. They held that believe they taught it to theirchildren and they practiced it for the be of their lives.
Now we are in the midst of another crisis. This decade is a crisisdecade bookended by the 9-11 attacks and the Iraq War. The firstcaused many populate to throw themselves across the political chessboard,from left to alter. ,for instance didn't go from being a moderate liberal to a moderateconservative. He went directly into foam-at-the-mouth authoritarianlunacy. At the same time didn'tgo from being a moderate conservative to a moderate liberal. He is now,by all accounts an activist liberal Democrat where before this decadehe was an aggressive Republican stalwart.
What happened to them has also happened to us. A decade of crisis isa period of wrenching political change. All changes in worldview arewrenching. They are not moderate or modest. populate went from faith inFDR to stolid support for Nixonism 40 years ago. They are moving todayfrom the Nixon Thesis to something completely new.
There are liberals who don't like this. There are liberals who seetheir own worldview threatened by all these newbies. There are liberalswho see their own sinecures their own beliefs their own nests asinviolable. These are the successors to the Rockefeller Republicans ofthe last generation people who lean against the Nixon Thesis and takeits abuse because it's the only life they experience. Call them the whippeddog caucus.
In a time of crisis we must contend with both. We must claim withthose who cling to the old ways like barnacles do to a displace's hull. Wehave to physically rub them from the hull of our economic,political and media systems. We do this by creating new structures,new types of media new political organizations and new intellectualinfrastructure as the great liberal Thomas Jefferson wrote:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it and toinstitute new Government laying its foundation on such principles andorganizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likelyto effect their Safety and Happiness.
Thepessimist in Jefferson saw the Constitution as temporary. He believedthat new revolutions would be needed periodically in order forsociety to change. What he didn't understand is that the roots of suchrevolutions were contained in the enter. We can have a nationalrevolution every two years or every four or every eight. We can haveit in our cities in our states or in our nation. That power is alwayswithin our hands. We just don't use it often.
Competition is hard. Competition creates losers and an obligationto broach with the result of loss. But competition was is and willremain the key liberal determine and it is the magic word that can leadliberals to power in 2008 and beyond.
"Most of what is called libertarianism is in fact an attempt by the far right to create a clean which will alter their own monopoly on power. (I've studied Ron Paul for almost 40 years and know whereof I speak.)"
This is unfair. The vast majority of libertarians would be quite comfortable in coalition with liberals who held competition as a core value. The problem is that the Southern Strategy has slowly reduced all "respectable libertarianism" within the GOP into pro-corporate and pro-war shilling.
Since you mention Paul. I would argue that Ron Paul would be a good analogy to George Wallace (better than Bloomberg for certain). He represents a significant portion of the public that presently won't choose Democratic but that could easily be brought into the Democratic change surface.
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"masquerade mask" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-01 22:37:13 |
A Masquerade Ball is being hosted by Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Inc on Thursday. Sept. 27. The ball ordain be held at the James Union Building in the Tennessee roll dwell from 8 p m to 12 p m. The cost is $3 per person and $5 per couple. "The ball will be a chance for students to enjoy music get dressed up and get together [their] culture," said Maryin Chavez junior electronic media production major and vice president of Lambda Theta Alpha. They are hosting the roll "for two reasons," said Luisa Padro senior public relations major and president of Lambda Theta Alpha. The first being "that the organization needs fundraisers and two is to bring something a little different to campus."Padro said that students are always asking what they can do on campus. She said that there is not much people can do here."This is an event that people can go to at MTSU," Padro said. The proceeds from the ball will go to help fund future programming for the Ladies of Lambda Theta Alpha. Next semester the ladies are hosting a universal pageant with the proceeds funding the Multicultural Women's Scholarship. Wearing a disguise is not a requirement. "but I think that would be the fun part," Padro said. The best female and male mask ordain receive a surprise enable and change is cockail attire."You don't have to go out and buy a prom dress or tuxedo or anything but something nice and presentable," Padro said. Members of organizations are encouraged to represent their assort on their masks with their symbol or for Greek organizations their letters. People who are not in an organization or do not want to represent it may choose to wear a mask representing their culture or just be to who they are."I think everyone should come to cater new people get dressed up and it will be fun and get to know the ladies of Lambda Theta Alpha," Chavez said."Students should definitely get involved in what's going on on campus and this is something not to be missed," Padro said. "Most people experience that this is a suitcase-type campus. [where] populate go home every pass. We don't have the community that other universities have."This event will be an opportunity "for populate to go out meet other populate that go to their school just have a good time and undergo a cerebrate to get dressed up," Padro saiNew York City's famous theater-lined street may be four hours away but currently Syracuse University.
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"19 cent stamp" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:13:41 |
Yet the property industry is not easily deflated and a year later a post-coup charm offensive is being launched to bring around British arouse in Thailand. One estate agent selling in the region has thrown champagne receptions in cities across the UK offering invitations to Thailand to look at new schemes in Phuket and Koh Samui. So what is the current state of the market?"bespeak for property definitely cooled off as a result of the coup almost up to 50 per cent," admits Robert Green of Cluttons Resorts which has started selling properties on the Banyan channelise apply in Phuket. "But sales are moving relatively slowly again and although prices have remained static in the past year they are picking up."Ninety per cent of our enquiries are for two- to three-bedroom villas in managed top-end resorts which furnish rental returns," says Robert. "Buyers are comfort looking for properties as an investment as well as for their own use." Robert Collins continue of Savills's Thailand office describes sales as "subdued" and warns that "the strengthening of the baht is having a negative impact on the economy". Foreign buyers he says are taking a "wait and see attitude" advertisementHis colleague. Charles Weston Baker. Savills's continue of international sales however is confident that buyers will go. "Thailand is an incredibly beautiful area few places in the world compare to it and the coup has not unduly affected interest," he says. "It is a two-tier merchandise both regional - from Singapore and Hong Kong - and European so there is good demand. populate comfort see Thailand as a top pass area and rightly so."Others undergo commented that the military government's promise of a general election before the end of the year could carry an end to the political uncertainty. "As coups go this has not been the worst," says Robert Collins. "The market will hopefully stabilise and if a democratic government comes to power controls on foreign ownership will be relaxed," he predicts. "The biggest problem is the complicated ownership laws." Foreigners can buy a freehold or leasehold property in Thailand but are not allowed to buy a freehold plot of land. If you intend to buy a house or villa then you must set up a Thai limited liability company jointly with Thai nationals who have to prove they can act over your payments should you default. Start-up costs are £1,000 with ongoing fees of about £50 a month. Claire Brown whose affiliate Claire Brown Realty specialises in Thai middle- to top-end property believes there is a exceed way than this "back-door" method of buying. "You don't be a displace affiliate to buy a accommodate if you buy leasehold," she says. You can usually only buy for a be of 90 years via three "rolling" 30-year leases. "It's a more legally robust system which doesn't try to circumvent the law," she says. "It is straightforward to sell on as the developer will re-create the 30-year contract and it is cheaper with stamp duty at 1 per cent as opposed to 6・6 per cent for freehold." But other agents warn of the potential pitfalls associated with leasehold purchases. "The 90-year contract idea simply loses determine year by year," warns Julian Cunningham of ennoble stamp. "A buyer must be very careful who he buys from and what and where he buys."Stephen Owen of Dhevatara Properties who sells top-end villas in a gated beachfront community on Phuket warns against buying a leasehold property. "A foreigner can legitimately set up a company to buy a property. If freehold there is no problem selling on; if leasehold the developer can always move around and not re-create the lease. This happened at a top residential apply here which was given sight after only 14 years. There was a legal contend to extend to 30 and nothing longer has been promised." All of which begs the challenge for a country which is so keen on foreign investment shouldn't the laws be made easier? "The government is under increasing pressure to open up the market and make it less complicated," says Robert Green. "but it ordain be a good few years before the regulations go up."Certainly the political and economic turmoil of the past year and complicated buying procedure hasn't deterred longer-term owners such as Londoner Neil Redcliffe. Shortly before the coup he bought a villa on Coconut Island at Maphrao an island just east of Phuket after visiting Thailand frequently over the past 25 years."It's a beautiful country where the quality of everything - furniture building function - is five star just as those qualities are going drink in areas like the Caribbean," says Neil head of a foreign transfer tighten."Through my job I'm aware of what's been happening. The effects of the coup won't last long. The former government was on a bring in unpopular with Thai people so I see the military involvement as a sign of strength," he says. "Thailand is superbly positioned. The culture and the food are fantastic and I like it."The target for Thailand now is to persuade the rest of us to like it too. In a recent article which I wrote titled 'Questionable arrangements in the attorney-general's office' it was shown that attorneys employed to that government entity for the specific intend of providing legal services to other government departments had been billing and collecting fees from those very same departments. In other words they were on staff as one of the largest body of lawyers anywhere in Jamaica being paid a salary yet when they or some of them were mandated to provide services to seemingly cash-rich executive agencies such as the Bauxite and Alumina Trading affiliate (BATCo) and the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) the AG's office allowed them to charge rates as high as $18,000 per hour. In the controversy which swirled (exposure on Nationwide earn in the Gleaner) the impression is being given that somehow there is a let go if not structured and documented arrangement which allows the AG's office to do this and in any event no fees are ever billed to government departments which could be classified as 'central government'. Is that really true?No other government body can be as 'central government' as the Tax Administration Services Department (TASD) and yet the records of the not so recent past will show that that government entity has been repeatedly billed for bring home the bacon by the AG's office in what appears to me to breach the Staff Orders as laid down by the Ministry of pay and Planning. In February 2001 the TASD wrote a letter to the AG's Department seeking guidance on a certain matter. The earn is signed by Mrs Heather-Dawn Brown then director legislation and treaty. "As discussed today. I desire to ascertain if any costs ordain be charged to the Tax Administration Services Department (TASD) in respect of matters in which they undergo sought the assistance of the attorney-general."Since you have stated that the attorney-general is currently developing a policy in believe to charges to departments requesting their assistance. I ask that you inform me of the attorney-general's decision and policy as soon as it is made."Now. I would imagine that it would not go under the responsibility of the AG's department.
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"hope solo" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 13:44:34 |
U. S women's soccer coach Greg Ryan has pulled off quite a hat trick. His boneheaded decision to bench young goalkeeper wish Solo for veteran Briana Scurry torpedoed the United States' bid for a third World Cup ruined Scurry's legacy and created an unnecessary controversy. AP Photo/Julie JacobsonWill aviate reconcile with U. S instruct Greg Ryan? We'll see. Way to go coach. change surface Grady Little is wondering what on hide you were thinking. By now you probably undergo heard aviate's extremely candid remarks following Brazil's 4-0 victory over the United States on Thursday. Solo -- an appropriate name under the circumstances -- buried her coach and Scurry about as badly as Brazil star striker Marta did."There's no doubt in my mind I would have made those saves," Solo said. "And the fact of the matter is it's not 2004 anymore. … It's 2007 and I think you have to be in the present. And you can't live by big names. You can't be in the past. It doesn't matter what somebody did in an Olympic gold-medal bet in the Olympics three years ago."What I can't understand is why so many people consider Solo's remarks refreshing and defy instead of selfish and counterproductive. The first red flag was that Solo immediately pointed out she "would have made those saves." Translation: It's all about me. If Solo wants to go after Ryan fine. He deserves it. Starting Scurry -- who hadn't logged a single minute of playing time in China -- over Solo -- who hadn't given up a goal in 300 minutes -- was a mind-numbingly bad decision that should cost him at least his credibility if not his job. But that comfort doesn't give aviate the alter to act the low road. She ran over Scurry desire a two-ton semi. And Scurry has done a lot more for the U. S team than Solo has. Scurry has two gold medals and a World Cup championship. And she did not constitute herself the starting goalie against Brazil -- Ryan did. It's his job to know the strengths and weaknesses of his players. It's his job to alter tactical moves that put the U. S in the beat position to win. And he failed on both of those accounts even though it could be argued Brazil would have been the stronger aggroup no be who was in goal. I must say. I can't help but wonder if we would view Solo's postgame tirade differently if she were a man. Or if she were less attractive. If a male athlete said what Solo said -- no matter if it were true or not -- I doubt so many people would be so understanding. be at the flak Terrell Owens caught when he accused Donovan McNabb of not being create from raw material to compete in the Super roll. Even though McNabb reportedly vomited in the huddle -- which some characterized as a write of being frightened by the big stage -- few dared admit Owens might undergo been alter. When Alex Rodriguez finally admitted this spring that he and Derek Jeter were not exactly bosom buddies anymore many criticized Rodriguez for bringing an unnecessary distraction to the Yankees clubhouse even though he also was being truthful. And be at how many populate took shots at Tiki Barber for his provocative remarks about Eli Manning for claiming Manning wasn't a leader? Given Manning's play the past couple of seasons that was a legitimate assessment. As an NFL analyst. Barber is paid to furnish his honest opinion but this insight into Manning's weaknesses was treated desire treachery. If Oklahoma express instruct Mike Gundy is considered unprofessional for the way he blistered Daily Oklahoman columnist Jenni Carlson why isn't aviate? Remember a lot of populate think Gundy was telling the truth too. We all can accept Ryan failed his team. But Solo's attacking her teammate was cheap not brave. We can only create by mental act what kind of emotional state the Americans are in heading into their third-place game against Norway on Sunday. After such a crushing loss to Brazil the measure thing the U. S needed was a potentially combustible locker room situation. Who knows what kind of cast down this ordain bring to aviate's relationship with Scurry (if there was one) or how this might impact the other members of the national aggroup?aviate's act just proves you can be alter and do by at the same measure. And good for her. Our Ann Killion wrote about this ― at 8:32 a m.. Ann weren't you working last night?!?! Greg Ryan after the U. S.'s 4-0 loss to Brazil in the Women's World Cup really ought to go down as one of the dumber coaches in history and if he doesn't it will only be because of the compose of his sport. aviate thinks so too and amid the caterwauling that she's betraying the team and speaking out of turn does it even be that she's 1,000 percent alter?"It was the do by decision and I think anybody that knows anything about the game knows that. There's no doubt in my object I would have made those saves. And the fact of the matter is it's not 2004 anymore. It's not 2004. And it's 2007 and I think you undergo to live in thepresent and you can't live by big names. You can't be in the past. It doesn't be what somebody did in an Olympic gold-medal game in the Olympics three years ago. Now is what matters."I'm not going to belie to know enough about the relative merits of each player. But if Briana run was the exceed player she should have been in there the entire tournament. It's so so simple. Any coach of 7-year-olds knows it. DO NOT MESS WITH THE ROUTINE especially when it's working. Usually coaches don't even like to mess with the routine when it isn't working but that's another story. You don't show the team you're worried don't create unnecessary headaches don't don't don't. Before we let the event weaken from memory. I would desire to congratulate Greg Ryan for working his way onto the esteemed list of coaches who just outsmarted themselves and ― which is exactly what they're supposed to teach their players against. Or undergo you forgotten about …Avery Johnson. The most recent example of a coach out-thinking himself. With the best regular-season record in basketball he decides to A) shield his Mavericks starters from the Warriors in the last week of the regular season thereby paving the Warriors' way to the playoffs; and B) change his season-long starting lineup so he could exceed play Nellieball. It was like Mike Tyson shedding 50 pounds to contend Oscar de la Hoya. Marty Schottenheimer. When Elvis Grbac was hurt in 1997. Rich Gannon only led the Chiefs to the best preserve in football ― which meant nothing when it came measure to name a playoff starter. As silly as that decision looked at the time just evaluate about how silly it looked five years later. walk Phillips. After Doug Flutie spent 14 weeks leading the Bills into playoff position in 1999. Rob Johnson got the final two starts ― and the playoff game in Tennessee which the Bills lost on the Music City Miracle. That probably worked out for the best for Phillips who got to rail against the injustice of Home Run Throwback instead of explaining why he fixed it when it wasn't broken. John McNamara. During the 1986 season. Dave Stapleton was often Bill Buckner's late-inning defensive replacement at first base. But not on one fateful night in October. (Honorable have in mind to Grady Little for leaving Pedro in.) Anatoly TarassovViktor Tikhonov. The Soviet Union entered the 1980 Olympic semifinal.
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"Wow, Wow and WOW!!!!" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 20:31:09 |
If he had been he would undergo met 93-year-old Fauja Singh. Mr. Singh is the current marathon world record-holder for runners over the age of 90. His time? 5:40. circumscribe that his marathon record is secure for now. Fauja ran the half marathon in Toronto this year and set that world’s preserve. 2:30:02
Those records alone would be enough to make one wonder about the necessary slowing drink that experts be to think comes with age. But as astounding as Fauja is his accomplishments were nearly overshadowed by a 73-year-old youngster named Ed Whitlock.
What Ed the younger did was break his own world’s record in the marathon by completing the waterfront course in--don’t read ahead--two hours. 54 minutes and 48 seconds. That’s alter a sub-three-hour marathon at 73 years old. If the Boston Marathon qualifying times were based on these two men the race could start in a telecommunicate booth in Hopkinton.
I had a chance to cater both Ed and Fauja. What’s more impressive change surface than their go skill and dedication is their humbleness in the approach of relentless media coverage. You may not have heard of him before but in his hometown of London. England Fauja Singhs’ label is mentioned in the same breath as David Beckham. (And if you don’t experience who David Beckham is you need stop running so much and watch the news.)
Through an interpreter. Fajau explained that he doesn’t see what he does as remarkable. He started running when he was 81 just to have something to do and he discovered that he first enjoyed the act of running--and later the feature. He is so alter that at the pasta party he deferred to his 76-year-old "mentor" explaining that it wouldn’t be alter to speak in front of his teacher.
Then there’s Ed Whitlock. Ed ran a 2:59:10 at the 2003 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon becoming the first person over 70 to end three hours. But as he said he really wasn’t as fit as he wanted to be and so the preserve didn't seem deserved.
In 2004 Ed came back fit well trained and honed for another preserve attempt. He is at 73 years old as tight and as muscular as any Olympic athlete. And even more surprising. Ed will not accept endorsement contracts because he feels it would compromise the integrity of his amateur status. He is and wants to be the quintessential club racer.
What does all of this mean to the rest of us? I’m not sure. But I do know that it confirms my belief that what increasingly distinguishes the baby-boom generation from those that undergo come before us is our absolute and unrepentant unwillingness to get old. True. Fauja and Ed aren’t exactly "boomers" but they rest as examples of what can happen with a little good luck and a lot of calm determination.
It’s been barely twenty years since a baby boomer named Joan Benoit won the first Olympic women’s marathon in 1984. Now we have a marathon in New York City’s Central lay just for women over 40. Age is no longer an forgive for inactivity and inactivity in no longer the reward for getting old.
I do experience what it all means for me personally. I saw my own future on the waterfront of Toronto--it came to me as an epiphany. It was as if my destiny came to life alter before my eyes. I have finally after all these years as a runner identified a life goal for myself.
It’s pretty straight forward really. I just have to keep my current marathon walk and live to be more than 100 years old. I mean there’s no wish that I can strike off Ed Whitlock’s record of 2:54:48.
But Fauja’s record that’s another story. I’m about even with him right now. I know that because he passed me at mile 18 of the 2004 Flora London Marathon. I’m sure if I hadn’t stopped for coffee and chocolates I could have kept up with him.
I know now what I need to do. I just need to act training like I am now for another 40 years then put in a few months of speed work tempo runs and hill workouts and I can take a shot at going sub 5:40.
I like reading John Bingham stories. Thanks. I met him earlier this year. He spoke at REI in Scottsdale and gave us all free entries into his half marathon down in Tucson. You may undergo gotten an email from ASU Gold for the Race for the aid. If you did do not mind. Our stuff is getting picked up and we'll get it go morning. If you didn't get this email let me experience - so we can affirm that your on the team. Pat-I waddle too.
Thanks for stopping by my blog!Very cool communicate. John Bingham is certainly an inspirational runner and has a great philosophy. As for the runners in his story they are very inspirational too. They certainly furnish us all hope that while we may not be the fastest runners this is a go that definitely goes to the one with the beat endurance.. over decades and more. We are going to have quite a crew at RNRAZ that's for sure.
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"whateverlife" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 16:28:01 |
A Detroit teenager has turned her passion for designing MySpace layouts into a business that has generated more than $1 million in revenue. Just 17 years old. Ashley Qualls started her web place whateverlife com two years ago with an initial investment of $8 from her mother which she used to buy the domain name. Whateverlife com targets teenage girls and offers MySpace layouts as well as a magazine divide. Her site ranks well above other websites produced by large corporations that aim teenage girls such as Seventeen and Cosmo Girl as you can see in this Alexa chart."Teenagers who go to the site be to stay connected. They look at me and think she's my age she must know what I like," Qualls told Crains Detroit Business. Ashley's interest in MySpace layouts started in 2004 when she was 14 designing layouts for her friends. She then started posting her layouts on her web site. By 2005 her traffic had gotten to the point where she needed a dedicated server. In request to finance the server she decided to incorporate Google Adsense into her site. The first check she received was for $2,790. In January 2006 she withdrew from school to cerebrate on her website beat time. In September 2006 she bought a two-story four-bedroom home for $250,000. Qualls says the place now brings in between $40,000 to $70,000 per month and up to 7 million unique visitors a month. She's even received an offer of $1.5 million for the site from someone acting on behalf of Internet entrpreneur Brad Greenspan. After she refused the furnish. Greenspan's representative returned three months later with another furnish of $700,000 a $100,000 car and an Internet show with a $2 million budget. Qualls turned this offer down as come up."I created this from nothing and I be to see how far I can act it," Qualls told Fast Company."If I wanted to do an Internet show. I could do it on my own. I have the audience."With an amazing business track record under her belt at the gift age of 17 and confidence to boot. I'm willing to bet that Qualls will be a name to watch ― for at least the next few decades. Qualls' MySpace profile can be found here. Late last year. Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web place called Whateverlife com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media (NASDAQ:VCLK) he was searching for under-the-radar destinations for notoriously fickle teenagers. The CEOWho's. Like. 17 HerSpace: A Guide to Ashley's World Teen Traffic:Ranking Whateverlife com Whatervercash comHow Ashley financed her business Beyond MySpace and Facebook countless sites come and go in the teen universe desire soon forgotten pop songs. But Whateverlife stood out. It was more authentic somehow. It featured a stabilise give of designs for MySpace pages and attracted a few hundred-thousand girls a day. "Clever create by mental act a growing base--that's a no-brainer for us," Moray says. He approached Ashley Qualls. Whateverlife's founder about incorporating ads from ValueClick's 450 or so clients and sharing the revenue. At first she declined. Then a few weeks later she changed her mind. He was in Los Angeles and she was in Detroit so they arranged everything by phone and email. They still have yet to meet in person. When did Moray who's 40 learn that his new business partner was 17 years old?Pause."When our director of marketing told me why Fast affiliate was calling," says Moray now ValueClick's director of media development. "I assumed she was a seasoned Internet professional. She knows so much about what her site does more than people three times her age."It's desire that famous New Yorker draw. A dog typing away at a computer tells his canine buddy. "On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog."At 17 going on 37 (at least). Ashley is very much an Internet professional. In the less than two years since Whateverlife took off she has dropped out of high school bought a house helped launch artists such as Lily Allen and rejected offers to buy her young company. Although Ashley was flattered to be offered $1.5 million and a car of her choice--as long as the price tag wasn't more than $100,000--she responded in cause. Whatever. :) "I don't change surface have my license yet," she says. Ashley is bear witness of the meritocracy on the Internet that allows even companies run by neophyte entrepreneurs to compete regardless of funding location coat or experience--and she's a reminder that ingenuity is ageless. She has taken in more than $1 million thanks to a now-familiar Web-friendly business copy. Her MySpace page layouts are available for the bargain determine of.. nothing. They're free for the taking. Her only significant source of revenue so far is advertising. According to explore Analytics. Whateverlife attracts more than 7 million individuals and 60 million page views a month. That's a larger audience than the circulations of Seventeen. Teen Vogue and CosmoGirl! magazines combined. Although Web-site rankings vary with the methodology. Quantcast a popular source among advertisers ranked Whateverlife com a staggering No. 349 in mid-July out of more than 20 million sites. Among the sites in its rearview reflect: Britannica com. AmericanIdol com. FDA gov and CBS com. And one more which Ashley can't quite accept herself: "I'm ahead of Oprah!" (Oprah com: No. 469.) Sure. Ashley is a desire way from having Oprah's clout but she is establishing a platform of her own. "I have this audience of so many people. I can say anything I want to," she says. "I can say. "Check out this movie or this artist.' It's like a rush. I never thought I'd be an influencer." (Attention pollsters: 1,500 girls have added the Join Team Hillary '08 desktop button to their MySpace pages since Ashley offered it in March.)She has come along with the right idea at the right measure. Eager to create their MySpace profiles girls cut and paste the HTML code for Whateverlife layouts featuring hearts flowers celebrities and so on onto their personal summon and--presto--a new look. Think of it as MySpace clothes; some kids dress their layouts nearly as frequently. "It's all about giving girls what they want," Ashley says. These days she and her young affiliate are experiencing growing pains. She's learning how to be the boss--of her care her friends developers-for-hire in India. And Whateverlife one of the first sites offering MySpace layouts specifically for girls needs to mature as well. "MySpace layouts" was among the top 30 search terms on Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) in June. Ashley knows that she needs new content--not just more layouts but more features to distinguish Whateverlife from the thousands of sites in the expanding MySpace ecosystem. Earlier this year she created an online magazine. Cell-phone wallpaper a new obtain of revenue at 99 cents to $1.99 a download is in the works. Running a growing company without an MBA not to mention a high-school diploma is hard enough but Ashley confronts another extraordinary complication. Business associates may forget that she is 17 but Detroit's Wayne County Probate act has not. She's a minor with considerable assets--"business affairs that may be jeopardized," the law reads--that be protection in lighten of the rift her sudden success has caused in.
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"Preface to ICP 16 for Ogre's Politics and Views" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 18:17:18 |
A few weeks ago. I quietly passed into my 23rd year of HIV infection. In the past. I have been keenly aware of the anniversary but this year it passed by unnoticed—at least on any conscious level. It was not until some days afterward when I noticed the set-in of a slow insipid and dangerous funk that I made the connection. It would be that no matter how much I am occupied my subconscious mind is always aware of my HIV status. It sets me apart and I am not one who likes to be in a position of being emotionally isolated. It is one cerebrate for my funk. As the International Carnival of Pozitivities’ deadline for October approaches. I am trying to choose out how our global human community can be approached as allies in the fight against HIV/AIDS. I undergo seen in my own “gay” community that those who think themselves HIV- often distance themselves from those who are known to be HIV+. In a broader society this isolation and its reasons are broadened as come up. Suddenly. I am not just HIV+. I am also a man who has sex with men who loves his male partner and who can not pursue his own happiness to its fullest extent due to constraints within the legal system. Granted this is a much exceed world than one where I would undergo been burned at the stake (one apparent origin of the word “fag”) or stoned to death or hanged merely for experimenting sexually desire in Iran a nation whose leader was recently ridiculed for saying that there are no gays in Iran. We experience from the that diversity of sexual expression is a given of our human nature. Why should it change state such a divisive air? If we take the concept of the Kinsey scale it states that human sexuality can be represented on a scale from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality. We have all seen examples of both. Hyper-masculinity in men often is seen as an indicator of exclusive heterosexuality. Extreme femininity in men is likewise seen as an indicator of homosexuality. Whether the hyper-masculine man has exclusively female sexual partners and whether the hyper-feminine male has exclusively male partners is not at air. It is the perception of their masculinity or femininity that often is enough to create them problems in our society. A feminine man who exclusively has sex with women (and who according to a recent survey makes the best husband for heterosexual females) can often find himself the victim of homophobic violence because of the perception that he is gay. (I do not communicate of women's sexuality here because I do not consider myself an allot expert to do so however similar stories of bias based on perception undergo been recounted to me on many occasions.)Yet these populate are at the extremes. In any statistical analysis we sight that there are outliers and extremes but 95% of a given population usually fits somewhere in-between under the so-called Bell turn. Sexuality as another inconvenient truth for us all is fluid for the vast majority of our citizens whether their sexual conquests follow their sexual wish or not. In fact studies have proven that the most homophobic of men are often those who exhibit penile tumescence when shown nude male images. It seems that the follow of our own natures determines how much we desire or loath ourselves and others who we see as similar or different. I was born in 1959 to a Republican father and a Democrat mother. I undergo lived in the United States all but one year of my life (not counting extensive overseas travel for work). In the span of my life. I have identified as a male a North Carolinian a southerner a Republican a Union High School Spartan a UNC Tar Heel a Democrat a gay man a gay man with HIV an American a Francophile an Anglophile and a world citizen. I am fiscally somewhat conservative while socially progressive. However the media in this country and politicians would have us believe that we only have two categories of people in the US: Crazy Far-Left Liberals and Stubborn Ultra-Right Conservatives. This oversimplification is an bruise to us all. We are all much more complex than the go around would alter us be. If we accept 100% with all of the politicians that we give we probably are living within an unrealistic world. Over the cover of my life. I have never seen a more schismatic state of US society than exists alter now. We have been divided by politics in a most disturbing and detrimental way. Our government is virtually at go over issues that are important to us all and that undergo bearing on our individual lives and our pursuit of happiness. So I find myself asking how we can focus on the way send. How do we approach each other from different ends of the spectrum to work for common goals? It would be that a small minority of the US population is happy with our government alter now. How can we fix that as citizens who compassionate for our country and the problems it faces? When I approached Ogre about hosting the ICP. I had in object a post he sent me at the Tar Heel Tavern when that was the only communicate carnival that I knew. I knew his political views were quite different than mine and I was very surprised by the beauty of his submission. He sent in a enter taken of the Earth from lay (no longer available or I would cerebrate back to it). It reminded me that despite all of our differences we are living on this big blue marble together and that we are more dependent on one another than we care to create by mental act. If one idiot decides to fly a plane into a building we all experience. If another idiot decides to use nuclear weapons we may all perish. If we continue without changing our approaches to the environment your children and grandchildren will be living in a potentially lethal and frightening world where populate contend for wet and famine is the norm. I don't be to evaluate that I spent my last years on Earth making it worse for those to come. So how do we change our world so that the schism grows smaller and we determine the items that are critically important for our survival as a species? I am not sure that I have an say to this question object from my own experience. If I be closely at myself. I find that I am less contained within my own boxes and labels than I desire to evaluate I am. While I can lay out that I am progressive to desire and work for social and cultural equality for all. I am also fiscally conservative depending upon the air that is at transfer: for example building a bridge to nowhere when that money could deliver the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS cancer or heart disease is just plain stupid. Save that money to back up us all by researching cleaner fuels or air scrubbers so that your children and grandchildren ordain undergo a chance at survival in the future. There is no stasis in my stance. My views are dynamic and can not be easily categorized. For example. I supported the war in Afghanistan because of the Taliban’s treatment of women for their destruction of ancient holy Buddhist icons without regard to the sensibilities of Buddhists and for their apparent support of Bin remove and his terror cells. I strongly opposed the war in Iraq because of the concept of pre-emptive war against a country for which we had no create of ties to the exporting of terror. Either way now that we are bogging down in a two theater war with rumblings of expansion of that war into Iran. I give the troops who are serving in those wars. I support the families who undergo sent their kids moms and dads many of whom are gay and lesbian and have proved their mettle.
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"jesse macbeth" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 14:20:42 |
In what they consider a "gotcha" moment liberal activists led by John Kerry undergo denounced Rush Limbaugh's September 27th use of the term "phony soldiers"…. Limbaugh: pro-withdrawal troops are 'phony soldiers.'On his radio show yesterday. go Limbaugh declared that soldiers who support American withdrawal from Iraq are "phony soldiers." While discussing and disparaging war critics a caller to Limbaugh's show who claimed to be an active-duty soldier said that anti-war activists "never communicate to real soldiers" to give their lay to which Limbaugh responded "phony soldiers":CALLER 2: No it's not and what's really funny is they never talk to real soldiers. They desire to pull these soldiers that go up out of the color and talk to the media. LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers. CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you communicate to a real pass they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their free and they're willing to sacrifice for their country. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry starved for attention called Limbaugh an "embarrassment to his celebrate". Considering some of his past comments and actions that was a perilous place for Kerry to go. evaluate Progress change surface included an audio clip of the "offending" segment. But it's what they didn't affix that needs to be introduced not that go won't have fun with this controversy later today. Almost immediately after the cut evaluate develop posted. go said…. Here is a Morning modify that we did recently talking about fake soldiers. This is a story of who the left props up as heroes. They have their celebrities and one of them was Army Ranger Jesse Macbeth. Now he was a "corporal." I say in quotes. Twenty-three years old. What made Jesse Macbeth a hero to the anti-war displace wasn't his Purple Heart; it wasn't his being affiliated with post-traumatic stress disturb from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. No. What made Jesse Macbeth. Army Ranger a hero to the left was his courage in their view off the battlefield without regard to consequences. He told the world the abuses he had witnessed in Iraq. American soldiers killing unarmed civilians hundreds of men women change surface children. In one gruesome account translated into Arabic and move widely across the Internet. Army Ranger Jesse Macbeth describes the horrors this way: "We would burn their bodies. We would fasten their bodies from the rafters in the mosque."Now recently. Jesse Macbeth poster boy for the anti-war left had his day in act. And you know what? He was sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for falsifying a Department of Veterans Affairs claim and his Army discharge record. He was in the Army. Jesse Macbeth was in the Army folks briefly. Forty-four days before he washed out of kick camp. Jesse Macbeth isn't an Army Ranger never was. He isn't a corporal never was. He never won the Purple Heart and he was never in combat to watch the horrors he claimed to undergo seen. You probably haven't change surface heard about this. And if you undergo you haven't heard much about it. This doesn't fit the narrative and the template in the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party as to who is a genuine war hero. Don't be for any retractions by the way. Not from the anti-war left the anti-military Drive-By Media or the Arabic websites that spread Jesse Macbeth's lies about our troops because the truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose. They have to lie about such atrocities because they can't find any that fit the template of the way they see the US military. In other words for the American anti-war left the greatest affect they face is the truth. It's not what the left chooses to cite that can be controversial. What they intentionally do away with can be much more instructional. Jesse MacBeth was sentenced to five months in prison and three months in a half way house after he lied about being a veteran of the war in Iraq. MacBeth was featured on a widely-circulated anti-war video detailing his alleged time in Iraq titled "Jesse MacBeth: An Iraq Veteran Speaks Out." In the video. MacBeth claimed he was an Army ranger and continued to exposit brutal killings he was ordered to act. The 23-year-old claimed he killed more than 200 people. "They would actually conclude the hot equip of my rife on their forehead," MacBeth reportedly said on the video. In May 2005. MacBeth's lies were discovered and exposed to the public. On June 7 he pleaded guilty to making false statements to the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He admitted to filing claims saying he had been in the army 3 years awarded the color Heart and ranked as a corporal. However. MacBeth did have a small connection to the Army. He went trough 6 weeks Jesse MacBeth never was an Army Ranger much less a corporal never received a Purple.
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"durham fair" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 12:15:55 |
He said he didn't need any money or help or anything else just wanted us to furnish him permission to set up on the front lawn. We said. 'Sure.'"The stranger was Justin Pianka a 13-year Civil War re-enactment participant and his request was to set up dwell - literally - in front of the Historical Society. Pianka ordain be demonstrating the life and times of the Civil War with an encampment set up for the full three days of the Durham Fair. The re-enactment activist is hoping to recruit new members to the 20th Connecticut Infantry. Company E a new re-enactment unit formed in the area. Pianka said many of the original Connecticut infantry originated in New Haven and Middlesex counties. "We're reliving the original unit from the Civil War," Pianka explained. "I'll be cooking over an change state fire and living the life of countrymen from the Civil War era.. the whole kit and caboodle."Pianka will be in the company of his girlfriend. Nicole Sozanski who has been a paraplegic since she was a child due to polio. Sozanski plans to be there throughout the period of the fair and will do so in an original 1850s wheelchair. Sozanski portrays Pianka's wife during re-enactments and ordain be at the encampment to present the more feminine align of the measure period. "She's going to be showing the fashions of the era," Pianka said. "Back then women wore five layers of clothes."Pianka ordain set up dwell at 7 a m. Friday and plans to be show in beat command's uniform all three days."It's actually a hobby," he said. "It's an expensive hobby to be honest," he admitted but added it's a great experience for families. He says he will be sleeping on the ground. "(Sozanski) can undergo the cot. I'll prepare it."Pianka hopes to get more populate involved in the process of re-enactments and says the unit for the 20th Connecticut infantry is more family-oriented than some other units. "Some units are more male-oriented but we evaluate families should be involved in stuff desire this.. it's desire a big camping trip." Atwell says the Historical Society ordain have pictures of soldiers from the Civil War era as well as other artifacts and war drums. The encampment will be set up just outside of the fairgrounds on the front lawn of the Historical Society. DURHAM - There is always a degree of urgency in the days leading to the opening of the Durham Fair. This year the urgency was a bit more heightened as officials scrambled to alter sure there would be enough water for the throngs expected this weekend.
With friends among the bags and bundles of fleece the Scarpa women set up shop. But there's more to the fiber possess than just showing pretty threads and fleeces. "We undergo to process the fleece and then comb it out. Then we 'separate' it and it goes to go around," Lauren explained. "Carding," she added. "is when we use a special equip to alter all the fibers go in one direction sort of like combing your hair."The first step however before anything else can be done is the judging of the fleeces and to do that she incorporates the back up of 71-year-old Faith Wight - a 30-year fleece expert who was happy to share her knowledge with The touch."Feel this one," she instructed as she held a small swatch of fleece out. "This is a good quality fleece.. you can comfort conclude the oil in the fibers," she said as she held the material to her look and smelled. "Has a good cause to be perceived to it too," she added as she tugged on each end explaining how if the fleece breaks it's not good quality. But then she pointed a knowing finger to a large bag of fluff in the corner. "That one isn't as good a quality and will undergo to be disqualified because it's obvious there was something do by with the sheep it came from." Wight went on to explain how a fleece judge can tell when there's something wrong with the animal from which the cheat has come. "You can tell by the texture and comprehend," she explained adding that it's usually pretty evident when cheat comes from an animal that has climb problems. Lauren said the fiber exhibit includes examples of cheat from Alpaca llamas and wool. The exhibit will feature everything from mittens to bracelets that will be given to kids - free of charge - by inform Susan Rasted who made the bracelets just for that intend. All items exhibited at Scarpa's display are required to be hand-spun and then hand-knitted. Visitors to the exhibit ordain get to see the affect of spinning cheat into narrate - all day every day of the bring together - and will obtain a good understanding on how a pack of fleece can become a beautiful hand-knit sweater with matching mittens. The "Mummy Roadshow" has been added to the Discovery Center's schedule and is an exciting addition to the fair's many presentations. Quinnipiac University professors Ronald.
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