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Adam22 Says He Had To Pay Dame Dash For An Interview
Adam22 hosts the No Jumper podcast and is usually interviewing guests, but he is the one who can't stay out of the headlines.
Within the last 12 months, Adam has been accused of sexist and racist remarks, and then he even had a gunman run-up on him while he was hosting the podcast.
Now, he is back in the headlines, but it's for an interview he did with Dame Dash.
In the interview, which took place a few days ago, Dame dissed Jay-Z and had a lot to say about his former business partner, but it's now the aftermath that is gaining attention.
According to Adam, he had to pay Dame Dash $500 to do the interview.
Originally, Dame's team asked if they pay for interviews, and Adam's publicist told them no. Dame's team responded, and said they would need at least $500 for Dame's haircut and driver.
Adam thought it was pretty hilarious, as Dame doesn't have any hair.
Peep the clip below.
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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – No. 7 Robert C. Byrd defeated Big Ten foe Buckhannon-Upshur 57-46 Friday night.
The Eagles were led by Gavin Kennedy who scored a game high 21 points in the victory.
Early in the first quarter the Bucs were able build a slim lead thanks to a pair of buckets from Will McCauley.
McCauley finished the game with a team high 15 points for the Buccaneers.
Buckhannon’s last lead in the game was 7-5 as RCB responded with a 17-3 run to close out the first quarter.
B-U was able to battle back in the second quarter to trim the lead 30-25 at the half thanks in part to a slight size advantage inside.
However, the third quarter would be dominated by Kennedy, who scored 10 points to lead RCB.
Byrd led 50-35 at then end of the third quarter and was able to sustain the lead through the end of the game.
Aside from Kennedy, Khori Miles also had a big game for RCB as he finished with 16 points in the victory.

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Archive for August, 2004
The Banquet of the Physicians (Syria, 1273).
Balance of power?
The End by Syrian poet Nasib `Aridah (my translation): Shroud them! And bury them! Place them deep into the grave and leave, do not mourn them It is a people that are dead, and will not awake It was humiliated, It was killed, It was burdened, beyond its capacity, It endured humiliation for ages It […]
Iraq’s forgotten hostages.
Top U.S. general in Iraq sent memo authorizing use of dogs to scare prisoners.
The war on “terrorism” continues in Afghanistan: “Local police and aid workers said that between six and eight villagers were killed and nine wounded by U.S. bombing in Weradesh, in Konar province’s Manogi district. They said several houses were also destroyed.”
Army investigators have recommended bringing abuse-related charges against 26 soldiers stemming from a probe into the deaths of two detainees in Afghanistan in December 2002.
And this is supposed to be the “only democracy in the Middle East”? The decision on whether to screen a movie, A MOVIE, on Jenin in Israel, had to go to the Israeli Supreme Court. That only proves this: Cyprus is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Hostage crisis unites France behind headscarf ban. I sure am glad.
George W. Bush wants you to vote for him because he pledges to win the war on terrorism, although he thinks that it cannot be won. OK!
The Archbishop of Canterbury has allowed Muslims to go to “heaven.”
Today, 27 million people are enslaved, more than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.
Kidnappings backfire on Iraq militants: The kidnapping of French journalists has sparked anger across a broad spectrum of the Muslim world. (I can attest to that from watching Arabic media).
“Federal air marshals have slept on the job, tested positive for alcohol or drugs while on duty, lost their weapons and falsified information, the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general said Monday in a scathing report on the air marshals program.”
This is the show on PAX TV to which I was invited (I declined).
Abu Aardvark says this: “Want another reason to oppose Porter Goss’s nomination to head the CIA? Mark Huband’s new book “Brutal Truths, Fragile Myths” offers this doozy: “In a November 12, 2002, statement broadcast by al Jazeera, in which he highlighted the plight of Iraqis and Palestinians, bin Laden sought to drive a wedge between […]
“We were supposed to humiliate them”: Interview with US Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick on torture at Baghdad’s AbuGhraib prison. (thanks Sami)
This is Zionism: Jewish residents in Ramle are trying to block the opening of an Arab school in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood, fearing it will harm property values and increase crime. (thanks Haifa)
Solon and His Students.
“An FBI investigation into the handling of highly classified material by Pentagon civilians is broader than previously reported and goes well beyond allegations that a single analyst gave a top-secret Iran policy document to Israel.”


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Location, location, location. An interesting setting is a key constituent in a good crime novel, and since we started Crime Fiction Lover our reading has taken us to all kinds of places. We visited Ystad, Edinburgh and Miami a few weeks ago when we talked about our favourite story locations, and have been from London to Phoenix in our recent reviews. But the other day author Ron McMillan enticed us out to Seoul, South Korea.
McMillan’s Yin Yang Tattoo came out a year ago and it’s about how an ex-pat photojournalist becomes embroiled in the Seoul underworld. When he picks up a tasty assignment with a big company, perhaps it is too good to be true and indeed, he uncovers corporate corruption and for his troubles is framed for the murder of a prostitute.
On top of its unpicking of the seedier side of life in Seoul, there’s an interesting story about Yin Yang Tattoo. McMillan was invited to talk about the book by the Honk Kong International Literary Festival 2011 on account of it being one of the few English crime fiction novels set in Korea. However the author was un-invited again when the Chairman of the Festival described the book as being “Altogether too highly-coloured for our kind of festival…”
Nevertheless, a sequel is on the way, this time set in Thailand and Hong Kong. No doubt it will be another colourful visit to Asia for Ron McMillan who has spent many years living in the Far East. To promote Yin Yang Tattoo, he has had this graphic novel-style video trailer made which features his own Scots tones quoting from the story.
If you’ve read Yin Yang Tattoo, please let us know what you thought of it, and it’s Seoul setting, by posting a comment below.

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You know it’s week four of The Bachelor when Jesse Palmer enters the mansion with a smile and announces that the women have one hour before their flight to meet Zach in the Bahamas.
Fourteen women in one house getting ready to leave for a flight out of LAX is my literal nightmare.
I can’t even get my ish together that quickly for a trip to Target.
Zach Feels Fireworks with Kat
While Zach’s future ex-girlfriends explored their suite at the Baha Mar Resort in Nassau, Kat received the first one-on-one of the week.
Kat(formerly known as Katherine before that other Cat got sent home) is a 26-year-old registered nurse from Tampa and, according to Zach, she looks like a supermodel.
He’s not wrong.
When Zach wasn’t rubbing SPF all over her body, he was making ahooga ahooga horny cartoon eyes at Kat and saying things like, “I’m a Bahama papa looking for his Bahama mama.”
And,somehow, it worked.
It didn’t matter if they were dancing on a sailboat, snorkeling, or making out on the beach, Kat was feeling Zach.
At dinner that night she opened up about her insecurities surrounding her upbringing. She came from a troubled home and she worried that she is undeserving of the love of someone who came from a stable home, like Zach.
Zach assured her that she was deserving of love and told her, “You’re awesome.”
She got the date rose and they kissed with an unbelievable amount of tongue while fireworks exploded overhead.
Group Dates Suck
The next day Zach met up with Aly, Kaity, Ariel, Davia, Genevie, Anastasia, Kylee, Mercedes, Charity, Gabi, Jess, and Greer for a beach party.
He assured the women that they were just going to take it easy and have a fun day.
Has the man never seen this show?
Technically they danced, tossed shrimp at each other, and did the limbo, but the real story was in the undercurrent.
I’m not even talking about when Gabi was crying because she was allergic to shellfish and she couldn’t take her turn kissing Zach because he had eaten some.
The real story was when Kylee interrupted Zach’s talk with Anastasia. Anastasia asked for a few more minutes and Kylee was like, “I don’t want to fight you about this.” Which Anastasia somehow took as a physical threat.
It wasn’t addressed on the show, but Anastasia is white and Kylee is biracial, and accusing Black women of threatening physical violence when they did no such thing is offensive.
Doesn’t this show know it’s Black history month?
Anyway, at the after-party that night Kyle told Zach that Anastasia was only there for Instagram followers.
Revenge is swift and sweet.
Zach freaked the eff and confronted Anastasia about it, to her denial, but the damage had been done.
Because even though every single one of them is very obviously only there for the Instagram followers we all have to pretend that they aren’t.
The after-party ended with unproblematic Ariel getting the rose and Anastasia in tears.
Brooklyn Surprises Zach
The last one-on-one date in the Bahamas went to Brooklyn a 25-year-old rodeo racer from Oklahoma.
Brooklyn and Zach had major friend vibes on their ATV riding date. She even fist-bumped him after they kissed.
I fully expected her to be sent home on this date.
Then everything changed when she got vulnerable at the dinner portion of their date.
Brooklyn shared through tears that she was physically abused by her boyfriend of six years. Like, horrific, life-changing physical abuse.
Zach was immediately protective and made her feel safe, but I couldn’t help but be concerned that this show was exploiting her greatest trauma.
Not surprised, but concerned.
She got the date rose (obviously) and their relationship took a huge step forward.
Hopefully not at the expense of her privacy.
Not Enough Cocktails in the World for this Party
If Zach has proven anything this season it’s that he’s decisive AF. He walked into the cocktail party with a plan and it didn’t matter what Anastasia said, she was going home.
The man did not come to play.
He’s like a lifesize fly swatter but for potential villains. I can’t believe the show keeps letting him get away with this.
Anyway, he kicked Anastasia off the show and then he spent the rest of the cocktail party making out with Kat on a pool table while the other women cried and panicked.
I think I stan.
A Rose Ceremony to Wrap it Up
Kylee threatened to leave the show before the rose ceremony because she couldn’t stand the embarrassment of being sent home by Zach; but the producers were like, “Nice try, get up on the choir risers, woman.”
And she did.
Thanks to the dates, Kat, Ariel, and Brooklyn already had roses when the ceremony began.
They were soon joined by Charity, Kaity, Gabi, Jess, Mercedes, Aly, Greer, and…Kylee who was being dramatic for nothing.
In the end, Genevie and Davia were sent home with Anastasia.
Only eleven women remain in the
game totally realistic love story.
Next week Zach and his lovely ladies head to London where apparently everything goes wrong. I can’t wait.
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By Jon Chesto
The Patriot Ledger
For the first time in more than a year in Massachusetts, the foreclosure rate headed upward again when compared to the same month in the prior year.
The Warren Group reported that lenders and mortgage servicers filed 1,193 initial petitions to foreclose last month, a 5.9-percent increase from the number of petitions that were filed in October 2010. Meanwhile, 756 foreclosure deeds were recorded last month, a 35.7-percent increase from October 2010.
“We went through a time in the summer where it slowed down a bit, and we were hopeful (but) now it does seem to be picking back up again,” said Carolyn Sheppard, housing program director at Quincy Community Action Programs Inc.
Sheppard attributed the spike to the weak economy.
“We’re seeing more people who got into regular mortgages who now aren’t able to afford it because their unemployment benefits are running out,” Shepphard said. “Often their house is underwater, so even if they try to refinance, they owe more than the home is worth.”
Tim Warren, CEO of the Boston-based Warren Group, said this was the first time since September 2010 that the number of monthly foreclosures rose, year-over-year. He also said it was the first time since August 2010 that the number of monthly petitions rose from the same month in the prior year.
Warren said the increase was partly caused by the slowdown in foreclosures that happened at this time last year. Warren pointed to a state law that took effect in August 2010 that required lenders to give borrowers 150 days to address a mortgage default before moving ahead with a foreclosure. Before that law, the state required a 90-day waiting period.
Warren said it could take at least another two years before foreclosures return to normal levels in this state. But he said the problem is much worse in other states where there was a considerable amount of speculative residential construction.
Aaron Gornstein, executive director of the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association in Boston, said much of the legal uncertainty that caused banks to move cautiously with foreclosures has been resolved. He also said many lenders are deciding that the borrowers won’t be able to catch up with the requisite payments and are giving up on efforts to make permanent modifications to defaulted loans.
“It’s certainly not good news because we think it’s going to lead to (dumping) more properties on the market,” Gornstein said. “It’s important to get these properties reoccupied as quickly as possible and to make sure they don’t become an eyesore or a nuisance.”
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Shifting Shorelines: The Lesson of the Guianas
By Peter C. H. Pritchard
Nearly a decade ago, I made a trip through the Guianas— three small, tropical countries on the northern coast of South America. From Georgetown, Guyana, I traveled east into Suriname and on to Cayenne, French Guiana. I traveled outward by small aircraft and returned overland by a complex formula of taxis, minibuses, and river ferries. I passed villages galore, with crowds of people of seemingly every race on Earth waiting for ferries or bargaining for vegetables. I journeyed through agricultural areas and sugar estates. The languages changed at every border— English Guyana-style, then Dutch and Taki-taki, and then French and Creole.
But from the air, I was reminded how truly narrow that coastal band of human development really was. For hours as I flew, the impact of humans on the landscape was essentially invisible, the lumpy green carpet of the forest broken only by rivers. What a prize, I thought to myself, in a world where human overpopulation is overwhelming natural resources almost everywhere.
But sea turtles had first brought me to this coast in 1964. I was intrigued by an adult olive ridley on exhibit in the Georgetown museum. What on Earth was a Pacific ridley doing in the western Atlantic Ocean? This was a first. The rumor in the city was that sea turtles nested at Shell Beach, and so I went there. By the time I arrived, the turtle hunters had done their work for the season. Everywhere lay shells and skulls of slaughtered turtles—hawksbills, greens, and ridleys—and one or two old leatherback skulls. However, these carcasses represented the first vouchered nesting records for all four species for South America. I returned the next year during nesting season and tagged mostly hawksbills. The hawksbills were unusually large, but the green turtles were huge—twice the weight of greens from Tortuguero in the western Caribbean.
In later years, I worked the beaches of eastern Suriname, where I saw not only my first nesting leatherbacks, but also the olive ridley arribada at Eilanti, a small beach overlooking the broad Marowijne estuary. Later still, following a tip-off from fishers, my colleagues and I discovered the Holy Grail of nesting sites—the open-sea beach of Silébache in French Guiana, where approximately 300 turtles nested each night.
Forty-three years later, I still work with turtles of the Guianas. I have remained intimately involved with the Guyana effort, now an Arawak-run project—an excellent example of local stakeholder involvement. I have witnessed vast changes. Shell Beach washed away years ago, and the turtles have rotated through a series of other beaches. Each season, we set up conservation camps on two or more important beaches, as opportunity presents. The leatherback is now the most abundant turtle by far, while ridleys have mostly left the scene. We have seen a progressive, although unsteady, upsurge in nesting, and we are still trying to understand the 2000 season, when we had about 10 times more turtles than ever before—nearly all leatherbacks.
In Suriname, some beaches have disappeared, while others have shifted, grown, or stabilized. The Galibi River beaches are stable, with important leatherback colonies. The ridleys have mostly left Eilanti— now choked with silt behind a mud bank—and are relocating to Montjoly beach, east of Cayenne, and to Brazil. For several years in the 1990s, a new beach—Samsambo—in front of the Eilanti mud banks was colonized by leatherbacks.
Since the “discovery” of French Guiana’s leatherbacks in the late 1960s, the country has been known to be the home of one of the largest leatherback nesting colonies in the world. Leatherbacks lost their open-sea beach to erosion around 1973, forcing most of the nesting into the Mana River mouth. Today, however, leatherback nesting in French Guiana has rebounded along all the oceanfront beaches, with 60 percent of turtles nesting on the open coast and 40 percent on the more protected estuarine and river beaches.
The lesson of the Guianas is that we cannot know the parameters of a turtle population after a single visit, a single month, or even a single year. Turtles are here for the long haul, having endured rising sea levels and similar drastic changes many times throughout their ancient histories. They have survived by making adjustments. We, as conservationists, must prepare for changes. We must adapt, we must make adjustments, and—like the turtles themselves—we must be in it for the long haul.
Peter C. H. Pritchard is one of the world’s foremost experts on turtles and tortoise and founder of the Chelonian Research Institute.
This article originally appeared in SWOT Report, vol. 3 (2008). Click here to download the entire article as a PDF.


As city populations age there’s a need to consider the specific needs of older people in urban areas. This is a great opportunity: creating age-friendly cities means not just adapting places to deal with problems but encouraging all to take full advantage of city life and living. Bristol aims to be an age-friendly city, but what does this really mean? What can be learned from other cities? Writer and sociologist Anne Karpf (author of How to Age) joins Paul McGarry (Age-Friendly Manchester), Helen Manchester (University of Bristol) and Guy Robertson (Positive Ageing Associates and Adviser to the Bristol Ageing Better programme) to discuss how to make future cities more age friendly.
For a short video clip (6 mins) of Guy Robertson’s presentation click here.


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The preparations began days in advance. Jess, a college senior, had been asked out on a first date by a 24-year-old friend of a friend. Her tribe was buzzing with excitement. “Everyone was my number-one fan,” Jess says, tucking her long brown hair behind her ear. “It’s super unusual for someone to go out on a real first date, so everyone wanted a piece of the action. My girls were Facebook-stalking him and commenting on his looks. Everyone wanted to Uber to the city with me and hang out at the bar across the street from where I was supposed to meet him.”
As my former student shares the story of her first first date, I’m struck by how the whole concept of dating is brand new to Jess and her friends, though sexual experiences are not. On college campuses across the country, “hooking up” has all but replaced traditional, old-school dating rituals, and I can’t help feeling uneasy that for many young adults, getting naked with someone you barely know is less newsworthy than meeting up for a drink and a conversation. And while a part of Jess finds the communal attention intrusive, another part finds it quite natural. After all, this is exactly how she’s been living since she was in her early teens. “My generation is really public,” she explains. “We put it all on Facebook and Instagram. It’s how we live. I think that’s why there was some comfort in having it be a group thing.”
So despite Jess’s nagging sense that it ought to be her first date, not a collective one, when the big night rolled around, her tribe hung out at one bar while Jess and her date got to know each other over drinks at a bar nearby. As it happened, she wasn’t crazy about the guy. They texted a few times after that night, but things fizzled out and life quickly moved on.
Today, at 23, Jess is working at her first job and about to go on her second first date. “Amazingly, he called me!” she said. “You’ve got to understand, guys might text or post something on social media for you, but they don’t call. I realize how crazy it sounds that a 23-second voicemail about meeting up for dinner sends me over the moon. But a phone call is the real deal!”
Like most Gen X mental health professionals, my exposure to youth culture has waned over the years. The one direct experience that’s kept me in touch is that I teach an undergraduate course at Northwestern University called Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101. Originally launched in 2001 by William Pinsof and Arthur Nielsen, the course now fills within hours of registration opening and receives lots of media attention, probably because it offers some unusual experiential elements, including the chance for students to explore their own “love templates” and get academic credits for doing something as deeply personal as keeping a self-reflection journal. In turn, I get to hear firsthand my students’ confusion about what it takes to create a satisfying intimate relationship—which makes the rise of hookup culture all the more disconcerting to me.
Donna Freitas, in her book The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture Is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused about Intimacy, offers this definition of a hookup.
- A hookup includes some form of sexual intimacy, anything from kissing to oral, vaginal, or anal sex, and everything in between.
- A hookup is brief—it can last from a few minutes to as long as several hours over a single night. The hookup may be a drunken makeout on the dance floor or involve sleeping over and taking the so-called “walk of shame” in the morning.
- A hookup is intended to be purely physical in nature and involves both parties shutting down any communication or connection that might lead to emotional attachment.
At the start of each semester, I tell my students that, although I hate to burst their bubbles, they didn’t coin the term hookup in a sexual sense. We did—Gen X. Still, it’s clear to me that today’s generation has taken hooking up to a whole new level. In the ’90s, although some college students were part of the hookup scene, couples still abounded on campus. These days, committed couples seem to be the exception, at least at Northwestern, and my students are quite open about the emotional fallout they experience as a result. A landscape overrun with mindless and outwardly inconsequential hookups instead of relationships leaves them feeling like they’re in a passive and reactive stance, adrift and insecure about love. It’s a place of discomfort: hooking up doesn’t feel quite right, but committing to a relationship doesn’t either.
The longer I offer Marriage 101, the more aware I am that my students’ world is quite at odds with the values of self-awareness and self-responsibility that I emphasize in it. For most of them, much of the course material feels foreign and, at times, irrelevant to the here and now of their lives. Nonetheless, they seem grateful to have the space and time to think critically about what intimacy means and how to achieve it. My contact with them has given me an usually close-up view of what it means to be a college student today, as well as a keen awareness that any generalization I make about today’s hookup culture also seems to highlight the exceptions.
Of course, not every student participates in hookup culture. Some are indeed in committed relationships, while others remain single but take sexual relationships seriously. Many students are like Sasha, a bubbly and warm 20-year-old, who struggles with conflicting emotions around the hookup culture she’s immersed in. “This is what I always say about the hookup scene,” she tells me. “During the day I feel like a human being, and at night I feel like a sexual commodity. I’m focused on who might want to hook up with me, and not thinking about my personality or my aspirations.” With a placid smile on her face, she describes her typical hookup this way: “I’d rather have sex with a guy than give him head. I feel like I avoid oral because I honestly don’t know if I’m good at it or not. If I’m awful, he’ll tell his friends, and I’ll be embarrassed. I’ll be that girl.”
As she speaks, I’m struck by just how sad and scary her behavior seems to me. When strangers (or near-strangers) mix sexual activity with copious amounts of alcohol, giving and receiving sexual consent becomes a tricky business. A 2007 study in The Journal of Interpersonal Violence found that 90 percent of the unwanted sex reported by college women occurred during a hookup. This is made worse by what Freitas points out: “Hooking up is a practice where communication itself is eschewed as destructive to the success of the activity.” But beyond the physical danger is the emotional one. Rather than focusing on who and what she desires, Sasha moves through her social life wondering who’ll desire her, removing herself from the driver’s seat of her own love life. Her story speaks also to the risk of humiliation when sex precedes trust and how that kind of hookup can undermine self-esteem. “If you just see me as ‘a girl,’” she says, “and then you stop hooking up with me and start hooking up with someone else, all I can think is that it’s because of my looks. It can’t be about me as a person because you don’t even know me. So I think to myself, Fine, I’ll lose 20 pounds and try again!”
Kayla, another of my students, shares another all-too-common story: hooking up while simultaneously yearning for emotional connection. “Sean and I knew of each other through mutual friends,” she begins, tucking her long legs underneath her. “We were at a party one night. We got drunk and hooked up. I left in the morning before it got awkward. The next weekend, we texted about plans and ended up hooking up after a party again. That became a pattern for us, and after probably six times, we hung out sober during the day. Even though we didn’t discuss it, I figured that meant we were ‘exclusive.’”
Exclusive is a term frequently used by college students, capturing a connection that’s more than a random hookup but less than a committed relationship. It seems, for many, saying “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” at this stage of life is tantamount to saying “fiancé.” Exclusive seems to be an effort to ensure that you won’t go home alone at the end of a party, while avoiding the messiness of a serious romantic relationship.
What Kayla shares next feels typical as well. “We were getting to know each other a little, and then one day I asked him what he’d done the night before, since we were at different parties.” She leans toward me as she shares this next piece, but her voice stays steady and sure. “Turns out, he slept with some random. I was so upset and disappointed, but I wasn’t surprised. I told him that he needed to be either with just me, or not me at all. Then he turned the whole thing on me, calling me crazy and saying, ‘We were fine until you got all weird on me.’ But I could tell by the way he’d broken the news to me that he knew I’d be upset. I was embarrassed that he chose to have sex with someone else when I know he liked having sex with me. But the worst part was that I felt so brokenhearted about it—and so dumb about feeling so brokenhearted.”
Kayla’s internal battle—feeling hurt, but believing she shouldn’t be—reflects her internalization of the hookup culture’s message that relationships should be “no fuss, no muss.” If she can’t be “chill” about a guy’s sexual roaming, she’s failed. I tell her that I’m glad she doesn’t know how to shut down her feelings, as they’re a vital data source for her. She nods emphatically and concludes that the whole “Sean drama” actually turned out to be a wakeup call for her. “Since that experience, I handle myself differently,” she says. “I might make out with a guy, but I won’t have sex until we have an actual conversation about who we are to each other. That’s the problem with this whole hookup scene. We do it to try to avoid stress, but I think it actually creates a lot of stress.”
Of course, not all young adult sexual exploration is risky. My students and I have talked about a distinction between hooking up and casual sex. Casual sex is an intentionally created, sober (or mostly sober) erotic experience in a noncommitted relationship. A hookup is stumbled into, drunkenly, recklessly, and with a sense of resignation because one doesn’t believe that anything else is possible. While casual sex is cocreated between people who agree that this is just for fun, motives in a hookup are muddy: perhaps sex will yield love, perhaps not. It’s a “decide-versus-slide” distinction. When entered into intentionally, casual sex can lead to relational self-awareness for some young adults, helping them discover more about who they are, what they desire, and what they value.
Mitch, a recent college graduate, is an example. Despite having the support of his family and friends when he came out as gay in high school, he spent his college years on an emotional roller coaster. As he puts it, “I was really hard on myself, obsessed with this idea that I ought to be interested only in a serious intimate relationship. I thought that if I hooked up, I was fulfilling the stereotype of the promiscuous gay guy. But I struggled to find a guy to date, so I’d get drunk, make out with a guy, and then feel awful about it for weeks.”
Today, he feels clearer about the choices he makes. “It’s kind of ironic,” he says. “I’m more sexually promiscuous these days, but I feel way better about myself than I did in college. I can claim who I am sexually and create experiences that I desire. Like the other day, I went on Grindr looking for a hookup and matched with this guy. We talked on the phone a little and said to each other that all we were interested in was sex. I went to his house. We were both sober. We talked for like five minutes and then we had sex. It was fun, and the stakes were really low. If the sex was bad, or if I felt uncomfortable at any point, I could’ve stopped it and left. I’d never have to see him again if I didn’t want to. But actually, it was great! Afterward, I got in my car, called my best friend, and declared, ‘I’m in my sexual renaissance!’ This guy and I have actually seen each other again on a few occasions. We’re now ‘fuck buddies,’ which is fine by me.”
Mitch tells me that he’d like to be in a committed intimate relationship, but he feels clear that casual sex isn’t having a negative impact on him. On the contrary, he feels it’s increased his confidence and deepened his self-acceptance. Clearly, not everyone feels wounded or victimized by the hookup scene.
Are Millennials Really So Different?
Again and again, I talk with young adults whose actions don’t line up with their stated intentions, desires, and beliefs. They seem to have difficulty quieting the outer noise, tuning into their inner values, beliefs, and emotions, and using that awareness to guide their behavior in their intimate relationships. In other words, they’re loving out of alignment.
When I ask the students in my class how they’d like their relationships to unfold, their preferred narrative goes something like this: we hang out as friends, get close over a period of months, and then once there’s trust and closeness, we start having a sexual relationship. When I first heard this, it struck a tender chord within me. I’ve been married for 17 years to the guy who lived across the hall from me during our freshman year at college. We became close friends, but it wasn’t until our sophomore year that we began dating officially. I’m aware that I carry some shame about our story, somehow feeling that the absence of immediate, undeniable chemistry was a poor diagnostic indicator. How surprising it is—and heartening—to hear that this love story feels aspirational to emerging adults today! I suspect it indicates that young adults are craving some safety to balance their adventure.
In addition, Millennials are marrying later in life than any generation before. Census data from 2009 indicates that the median age at first marriage for Americans is 26 years old, about five years later than the generation before it. I don’t know which came first—the delay of entry into marriage, or changes in the world of dating—but marriage has shifted from the cornerstone of adulthood to its capstone, as sociologist Andrew Cherlin described in his 2010 book, Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today. Millennials have more time to fill between sexual maturity and “I do.” For better or worse, they’re improvising. Nevertheless, they still aspire to marry.
On the first day of class, I ask students how many of them plan to marry, and year after year, nearly every hand goes up. Unscientific? Yes. But it fits with 2010 Pew Research Center data suggesting that most college graduates do marry at some point. Further, though a few of my students want to talk about open relationships and alternative forms of coupling, almost all, regardless of sexual orientation, express a desire for a sexually faithful marriage. For my students, the question tends to be not whether they’ll marry, but when. In fact, timing turns out to be a sensitive issue for this generation. In The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now, Meg Jay outlines a sort of Millennial Goldilocks problem around the best age to get married. As she points out, young adults hear Baby Boomers saying they settled down too early and Generation Xers saying they got started too late. Millennials are looking to get it just right.
Calling All Rebels
Meanwhile, hookup culture continues to thrive, even though most therapists would love to see young adults create something more fulfilling than ambiguous, drunken, unsatisfying sex. Here’s the problem, though: today’s college students tend to be awfully compliant when it comes to hookup culture, and I find myself wondering why. Is it that as a culture we no longer encourage young people to question the status quo? I think about my own college days in the 1990s, when my first women’s studies class awakened a fire within me. Emboldened by the critical-thinking skills that were valued in that classroom, I railed against our “screwed up” society to anybody who’d listen. The faculty’s support of my anger at cultural norms was transformative for me, because what they were really supporting was my ability to hear and value what was within me.
Much has been written about how adolescents today, especially in high-achieving families, no longer envision revolution—within themselves or the world around them. Instead, their voices are being drowned out by loving but driven parents, who view their children as long-term projects, tabulae rasae from which they can create overly successful human beings. And that definition of success is focused primarily on doing, not being.
While love, at least the kind therapists usually talk about, has more to do with being than doing, hookup culture reflects the belief that love is secondary to the pursuit of external success. So as not to disrupt the main project—preparing for a “successful” life—intimate relationships must be no fuss, no muss. Over and over, my undergraduates tell me they try hard not to fall in love during college, imagining that would mess up their plans. This strikes me as a joyless road to nowhere, given that their happiness as adults will be shaped as much as, if not more, by the quality of their intimate relationship than by their career success.
With our cultural insistence on a narrow and meritocratic path to success, it feels awfully unfair to expect young adults to manifest romantic coherence when our culture seems to reflect back to them anything but. Pornography can be accessed for free, by anyone, anywhere, at any time. This isn’t necessarily problematic in and of itself, but what’s worrisome is that pornography has become increasingly disembodied and anti-relationship. When porn is consumed by young people whose love templates are in formation, how can relational maturity develop? And if pornographic sex is internalized as somehow normal, objectification becomes the default setting for young people’s experience of erotic satisfaction.
In a 2012 New York Times opinion piece, Indiana University professor Debby Herbenick stated that her students often tell her that she’s the first adult who’s spoken with them about sex. This is my experience as well. If we’re not willing to have an open dialogue about sex with young people from early adolescence onward, the Internet is more than willing to fill the vacuum. Young adults deserve wholehearted education about all aspects of sexuality, not just safety, STDs, and reproduction. Good sex education must address how young people can be conscious consumers of erotic material and how to create happy, fulfilling sexual experiences.
Of course, we can’t understand the erosion of young people’s capacity to love without considering the colossal impact of smart phones and the 24/7 immersion in digital culture. As our first generation of digital native grownups (in contrast to the rest of us who are digital immigrants), Millennials are flooded with external stimulation from the moment they wake up until the moment they go to sleep. Increasingly, they can’t tolerate the solitude that lays the foundation for intimacy. And if intimacy is hard to come by, they’re left with just an avatar of the real deal—a hookup. Engaging in ambiguous hookups appears to be an effort by young people to avoid what they don’t trust themselves to handle. When framed like this, hookup culture makes a strange kind of sense, reflecting the anxiety, ambivalence, and passivity of many college student who report dissatisfaction with hookup culture while participating in it because they don’t know how to create an alternative. As my student Andrew explained, “It’s a chicken-and-egg problem: we don’t know how to interact face to face, so we hook up, but the more we hook up, the more we don’t know how to interact face to face.”
Unless you’re working at a college counseling center—or happen to have learned more personal lessons about the struggles of Millennials in your own family—the world of hookup culture may seem a bit like a foreign country, filled with strange and sometimes off-putting customs. At this point, most Millennials don’t have the income or the inclination to frequent our offices or engage in the custom of regular psychotherapy appointments, which may seem strange and archaic to many of them. But one thing is certain: in the coming years, therapists will be getting an increasingly close-up look at the long-term consequences of what it meant to learn about the possibilities of love and commitment at a time when technology and changing cultural norms were transforming the way young people connected with each other. As Meg Jay has written in reviewing research about people coming of age in the early 1990s, “While important events took place from birth until death, those that determined the years ahead were most heavily concentrated during the twentysomething years.” Whatever changes lie ahead in our cultural rituals for coming-of-age relationally, we’ll be seeing in our therapy practices the emotional legacy of hookup culture, in all its rawness and frantic incoherence, for many years to come.
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Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD, is internationally recognized as one of today’s most trusted voices in the world of relationships, and her framework of Relational Self-Awareness has reached millions of people around the globe. A couples therapist, speaker, author, professor, podcast host, retreat leader, and media personality, Dr. Solomon is passionate about translating cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom into practical tools people can use to bring awareness, curiosity, and authenticity to their relationships. She is a clinician educator and a frequent contributor to academic journals and research, and she translates her academic and therapeutic experience to the public through her popular and vibrant Instagram page, which has garnered over 200K followers. She is on faculty in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and is a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. Her hit podcast, Reimagining Love, has reached listeners across the globe and features high-profile guests from the worlds of therapy, academia, and pop culture. Her latest bestselling book is Love Every Day. You can visit her online at DrAlexandraSolomon.com and on Instagram at @dr.alexandra.solomon.

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Barney Harrigan believes his life to be great. He has a well-paying job, a lovely young wife, Charlotte, and a five year old son, Kevin. He sees nothing wrong. But after his wife goes off to visit her sister, she soon decides she is not going to come back. She has discovered the Glories, a religious cult. She feels her life belongs with them and won’t return to her family.
Barney feels that they have captured and brainwashed her. He cannot accept that she willingly joined this cult. He contacts Naomi Forman, an old flame with connections in Washington, D.C., with hopes that she may be able to help get his wife back. He is not satisfied when he learns that the Glories are officially recognized as a religion and little can be done unless there is physical proof his wife is being held against her will.
Barney hopes he can get her away from the cult long enough to have her deprogrammed. He concocts a plan involving their child, thinking he can draw Charlotte out with a promise of handing over their son, then kidnap her and let the deprogramming begin. What he does not count on and does not expect, is Charlotte’s death. It’s labeled a drowning, she slipped into the river and died. Barney believes otherwise. He feels the cult killed her.
Kidnaping Charlotte’s sister and another member of the cult, Barney has a hired hand attempt to deprogram them and force a confession. While occupied with this act, Barney’s attention is taken away from his son, who is kidnapped by the Glories. They want to exchange the son for their two members. The prospect of losing his son along with his wife sends Barney over the edge and he returns to the cult’s base, not with its members, but with a loaded machine gun.
The other strong theme depicted is the notion that you do not need to be a part of a cult to do bad things. Barney is ready to kill for what he wants. He has no religious affiliation, but over the course of the novel, he is shown to be no different than the forces he claims are destroying his family. He chastises cults for their violent behavior, but when his world is threatened, he is quick to pick up a gun. The distinction between himself and the cult leaders is no longer as clear as it once was.
Inspired by Luke Rhinehart's cult novel, The Dice Man, The Six- Sided Man is a dark, quirky and seductive play about chance.
Sep 09, 2011; Inspired by Luke Rhinehart's cult novel, The Dice Man, The Six- Sided Man is a dark, quirky and seductive play about chance. Most...

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Monitor your baby at home with the Levana Sophia baby monitor
The Levana Sophia lets you see and hear your baby while they are asleep in the nursery and you are busy in another part of your home.
This baby monitor has lots of great functions from infrared night vision, an ambient temperature sensor, 2-way communication, a lovely little night light (which you turn on or off) and a really long battery life.
- 2-way communication.
- 48 hour battery life in standby mode.
- Can be used for 2 hours on just the battery.
- IR night time vision.
- Temperature sensor.
- Max 500ft range.
- Out of range warning alert.
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This light weight, handheld Levana baby monitor is easy to carry around with you and the images are crystal clear (it uses ClearVu technology).
You can even have the sound muted, because you can tell whether your baby is crying or not by the LED indicator bar – green is quiet, then it moves through yellow, orange and red – red means come here mum!
You can mount the Levana monitor on a wall or have it standing free on a shelf or dresser in the nursery and you can also add another 3 cameras to the system. This makes it easy to keep track of your baby as he or she finds their feet around your home (the Levana baby monitor auto scans between cameras for a complete monitoring experience).
There is also an out of range warning, so if you wander too far from the base unit, you can quickly turn around and head back within range.
The camera can be battery operated for 2 hours of constant use, which is a great feature if you have a power cut – many other baby monitors don’t have this option.
- Observe your baby in the nursery when you are busy in another part of your home.
- Monitor them in the nursery, during the night.
- Keep a protective eye on your elderly relative in the home.
Features of the Levana Sophia baby Monitor
- WIFI: No.
- RF frequency: 2.4 Ghz.
- Battery: 1 Lithium Ion battery with a 48 hour life in standby, voice activated PEEP mode; a 6 hour battery life if it is in continuous use (video and audio on).
- Power supply: The camera requires 110-220V and 50/60 Hz mains power or can be operated with 4 x AAA batteries (not included).
- Two-way communication: Yes.
- Infrared: The range for night vision is 15 ft and it has 4 IR LEDs.
- Zoom: No.
- Pan and Tilt: No, but you can manually move the camera up and down (73 degrees) to alter the viewing angle.
- Temperature sensor: You can monitor the ambient temperature in your baby’s room remotely.
- Live feeds: Yes.
- WIFI range: N/A.
- Data encryption: This Levana monitor uses a private, secure and interference free digital signal, so unlike analog signals, no one but you can view the transmissions.
- Antenna: Yes.
- VOX: No.
- Range: A maximum range of 500 ft and an optimum range of 150 ft.
- Lullabies: No.
- Warranty: The manufacturer supplies a 1 year warranty and lifetime customer support.
Specifications of the Levana Sophia
- Screen size: 3.5 inches.
- Monitor Resolution: 320 x 240.
- Optimal focal distance: 2-10ft.
- Color images: Yes, during daylight hours, black and grey at night.
- Motion detector: No.
- Sound detection: Yes.
Inclusions with the Sophia Baby Monitor
- SD card: No.
- Batteries: Yes, 1 Lithium Ion battery is included.
- Power cords: Yes, the Levana Sophia comes with 2 power adapter cords.
The Levana Baby Monitor Sophia compared to the Levana Lila
These Levana baby monitors are both in the same price range and both have very similar features.
The differences seem to be that the Lila has a longer battery life in standby mode (72 hrs vs 48 hrs for the Levana Sophia) and has greater movement in the viewing angle (240o horizontal and 65o vertical vs only 73o vertical for the Levana Sophia).
On the other hand, the Levana Sophia digital 2.4 inch video baby monitor has a longer IR night vision range (15ft vs 12ft for the Lila), a wider screen (3.4 inches vs 2.4 inches for the Lila), an ambient temperature sensor and the camera can be run on batteries for 2 hrs if you have a power outage.
75% of customer reviews gave the Sophia baby monitor a 4 or 5 star rating.
Most people liked the larger screen size and the clarity of the images, the range of the handheld monitor and the fact that there is no interference from WIFI or other devices using the same frequency range (this is a big problem with some baby monitors).
Only a few customer reviews gave this baby monitor a one star rating, mainly because the monitor stopped working or they had problems with the battery life. The vast majority of customers however, were more than happy with this monitor.
Download the Levana Baby Monitor (Sophia) Manual
You can purchase additional cameras for the Levana Sophia baby video monitor here.
My final thoughts on the Sophia Baby Monitor
The Levana Sophia is in a good price range and has lots of great features. The choice between the Lila and the Sophia comes down to preferences, but if you want a larger screen, greater night vision range and an emergency battery option for the camera, then the Sophia baby monitor fits the bill.
If you want greater movement in the viewing angle and a longer standby battery life, then the Levana Lila might be more suitable. In the end, both of these Levana baby monitors do a good job, it just comes down to the mix of features you find best for your situation.
Read the Levana Baby Monitor (Lila) Review here.


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MLB announced a new date of Aug. 12 for the Field of Dreams game at a custom-built ballpark outside Dyersville, IA, featuring the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees.
Before you start texting us for more information on tickets for the match, note that the Aug. 12 date is still tentative, and the feasibility of ticket availability will be evaluated in the months ahead.
If held, the game will mark the first Major League Baseball game ever held in the State of Iowa, to be played at the fan-favorite tourist destination. MLB built a temporary ballpark adjacent to the movie site, with a potential capacity of up to 8,000 fans.
Field of Dreams, the big-screen adaptation of the W.P. Kinsella novel Shoeless Joe, was released to acclaim in 1989 with a cast that included stars Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, and Amy Madigan. It has remained popular with baseball and movie fans alike, and a field has been left intact at the production site, allowing it to become a sought-out tourist destination. Since 1989, the Lansing Family Farm, which was used in the movie, has been a popular tourist attraction, now known as the “Field of Dreams Movie Site.” In 2011, the field was purchased by the late Denise Stillman and a group of investors with the goal of preserving the Field of Dreams and creating a special place for baseball fans, tournament players and families. Stillman began working with MLB in 2015, culminating in plans for this game.
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OXFORD – Alzheimer’s disease affects some 35 million people worldwide, including 5 million in the United States, said clinical psychologist and social work professor Jo Ann O’Quin.
“Dementia is a horrible disorder,” she said. “It’s a disease that we need to stop. It takes a toll physically, mentally, emotionally and economically.
She noted the costs of Alzheimer’s in caregiving and lost productivity is estimated at $640 billion per year.
“Money that we spend on this disease, if it were a country, would be the eighth leading country economically,” O’Quin said.
Her comments were part of a World Alzheimer’s Day observance at the University of Mississippi Museum on Tuesday in front of “Bardo of Rose,” an abstract sculpture on permanent exhibit and dedicated to Alzheimer’s patients and their families and caregivers.
“People have come to sit before it in reverence, to contemplate and, most importantly, to heal,” said museum director William Andrews. “In this symbolic and very powerful, emblematic way, it tells us something we need to know.”
The group formally announced the opening next month of Memory Makers, the city’s first respite program for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers, to be hosted at First Presbyterian Church and administered through RSVP.
The program will start Oct. 18 with a Monday-and-Thursday schedule to give patients four hours of music, exercise, social contact and other fun.
Volunteer Bill Arnold, who helped his wife, Dianne (now a social worker specializing in Alzheimer’s and other dementias), care for her father through Alzheimer’s, said, “This is something this community desperately needs.”
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Bergen Brunswig Corp., responding to rumors that it may be a takeover target, said it has rewritten its corporate bylaws to offer greater protection against a hostile suitor.
The directors of Bergen Brunswig, a drug distributor based in Orange, approved six changes to the bylaws Friday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
One of the changes bars any outside party from calling a special shareholders meeting, a possible avenue for proposing a hostile offer for the company.
Another measure requires outsiders to give the company notice before nominating directors or issuing proposals at the company's annual meeting.
"This was in response to takeover rumors," Lisa Riordan, director of investor relations at Bergen Brunswig, said Tuesday. "We felt it was a prudent thing to do in the shareholders' best interests."
Cardinal Health Inc. of Dublin, Ohio, has been cited as a possible bidder for Bergen Brunswig, which is the nation's largest distributor of drugs to hospitals and has about $7.5 billion in annual sales.
Cardinal Health, with $5.8 billion in annual sales, ranks as the nation's second-largest distributor to hospitals, said Daniel Lewis, a health-care industry analyst with the brokerage Fahnestock & Co. in New York.
Neither Bergen Brunswig nor Cardinal Health has confirmed rumors of a merger.
However, a combination of the two companies would benefit both, Lewis said, because they have similar customer mixes and operate warehouses in compatible geographic locations.
What's more, Bergen Brunswig's profit margins would benefit from Cardinal's ability to find and purchase discounted drugs, Lewis said.
"Manufacturers offer one-time availability discounts, and Cardinal has been very proficient at snatching up these discounts," he said.
At the same time, Cardinal Health has a history of making friendly acquisitions rather than hostile tender offers, Lewis said.
The bylaw changes would delay any investor who wanted to wage a proxy fight by giving the board a chance to respond, said Michael Goldman, a lawyer at Potter, Anderson & Corroon in Wilmington, Del.
"They don't want to wake up one day and find out they are involved in a proxy fight."
Bergen Brunswig in February, 1994, had already established a shareholder-rights plan that makes a hostile offer prohibitively expensive.
Through a subsidiary, Bergen Brunswig distributes drugs, cosmetics, toiletries and home health-care supplies from 33 locations in 22 states.
In addition to hospitals, its customers are health maintenance organizations, pharmacy chains and supermarkets.
Another subsidiary, Durr Medical Corp., distributes medical and surgical products.


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One of the biggest yet largely unseen updates, macOS High Sierra brings many new features to Mac users. iDownloadBlog takes a closer look at some of the biggest changes in High Sierra, with an accompanying hands-on video from Andrew and the non-exhaustive list of everything that’s new.
It’s been only three days since Microsoft’s advertising department unleashed a new ad salvo at Apple’s direction in the form of a commercial for its Surface Pro 4 tablet/laptop hybrid and now it’s posted yet another video to conveniently reiterate its message ahead of iPhone 7’s launch tomorrow. Titled “Power of Touch”, the 30-second commercial doubles down on the ”the Mac lacks a touchscreen” theme.
Not only does Microsoft poke fun of the fact that Macs are long overdue for a refresh (yours supposedly “ain’t fast enough” lately), but also disses the Mac for not shipping with a detachable keyboard or a stylus.


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Thursday, 9 September 2010
I am regularly impressed by the cartoon artwork of Iron Mitten and have with many false starts, tried to produce similar illustrations, most being consigned to the bin!
I know that if I am to improve I first have to practice and secondly have some impetus to continue. Therefore here is my first published cartoon illustration - a Flintloque Orc Officer. I have used an artist black drawing pen and coloured the illustration with watercolour paint.
Comments and critique are welcome in fact needed - as without them I might allow this part of my hobby to dwindle.

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There’s a great myth about the way work is organised today—that workers are powerless because employment is unstable. They say that if anyone dares to challenge the employers, the firms will disappear to another country where wages are lower and workers more flexible.
It’s important to challenge this myth. Otherwise the idea spreads that workers and their organisations can’t fight.
It quite easy to put forward facts that refute these claims.
The proportion of workers who have been with the same employer for ten years or more is growing faster than the rate of employment in the US, European Union (EU) and Canada. And temporary agency staff only account for approximately 1 percent of the workforce in the EU and the US (see ‘figure it out’ box on right).
So how did the ideas about instability and powerlessness become conventional wisdom?
In the 1980s and 1990s, the rise of neoliberalism led to a particular way of representing and understanding the world.
It stressed the importance of globalisation, technological change and corporate restructuring.
If neoliberalism meant anything, it was that markets were the only way to run the world, the irrelevance of the nation state and the globalisation of the economy.
We were told that industries moved overseas in search of cheap labour, and capital had become “footloose”.
A company could ship out with all the ease of a travelling circus and employers could outsource and offshore at will.
Capital was perceived to operate outside of territorial waters on the high seas of global markets, leaving the overwhelming feeling that globalisation was a phenomenon that happened “out there” imposing its logic on countries, companies and communities.
All this meant that the balance between workers and capital had shifted decisively in favour of capital.
Now it is true that there has been a decline in employment in some production industries in the developed economies.
And some US companies have established manufacturing bases in the maquiladoras—export assembly plants—in Mexico.
There is evidence of some manufacturing firms moving some operations to eastern Europe.
Call centre employment has grown in India, and China has become a base for the export of low-end goods.
However, the bigger picture of change in the international economy tells a different story.
When it comes to foreign direct investment (buying productive assets) the dominant trend is that capital does not go overseas in search of cheap labour, but moves into the developed countries to gain access to markets.
Honda, Toyota and Nissan set up manufacturing bases in England, not because it was the cheapest location in the world, but in order to produce for the single European market.
Nevertheless, the threat to relocate has become a powerful bargaining chip in negotiations with trade unions.
Research by academics in Cornell University in the US has shown that this threat to relocate is routinely raised by employers during contract negotiations with unions and recedes once the ink is dry on the contract.
Survey evidence from the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the US shows the national and international operations of US multinational corporations.
It reveals that 30 years of corporate globalisation has left the balance between the domestic and overseas operations little changed at roughly 70 percent domestic and 30 percent overseas.
Companies have increased sales and employment overseas, but this was to a very large extent matched by expansion in the domestic economy.
And the recession has sharpened this trend. Despite the odd headline here and there, overseas expansion does not increase during economic downturns.
A Financial Times analysis of job losses in the first nine months after the start of the recession showed 4,000 job losses at 17 locations due to work being moved abroad, but noted that this was a miniscule part of the 700,000 total redundancies in the same period.
Also, there are signs that the decline in overseas movement might not be temporary due to the recession. Recent evidence suggests a partial but significant reversal of trends.
Newsweek has reported a survey of European companies which showed that for every six operations moving overseas one returned in 2003—but five years later the trend had increased to one in three.
Following earlier examples from Powergen and Abbey National, BT is returning call centre activities from South Africa and India because it is more effective to operate from Britain.
There is also evidence of Indian companies, such as ICICI OneSource and Tech Mahindra, opening up in Britain.
When bosses threaten to go abroad it’s more often bluff than reality. But that’s not the impression you often get from trade union leaders.
At the beginning of the decade, not long after the telecoms crash which claimed some three million jobs in the US, the AFL-CIO union federation launched a campaign against “Exporting America” which pledged to challenge corporate myths about outsourcing.
In a curious appeal to economic nationalism they tried to shame the employers by offering the most frightening forecast of US jobs under threat as a consequence of outsourcing.
Tragically the bosses’ threat to relocate was then amplified by the union campaign against job losses.
More recently in Europe, Fiat has offered to “repatriate” the production of the Panda from Poland to Italy—but only after the unions had agreed to extraordinary concessions, restrictions on the right to strike and productivity guarantees.
Once again we are reminded of the disastrous consequences when trade union leaders get suckered into competition with workers from other countries.
The economic landscape has shifted radically and in ways that were initially difficult to predict.
Most surprisingly, given that we have witnessed the worst recession in 60 years, the rise in uneamployment has been less than in the recessions of the early 1980s and early 1990s. There are also different trends in relation to older workers.
In the 1980s and 1990s older workers left the labour market in droves. Today, the raising of retirement age and the restructuring of pension provision means that people are staying in work longer.
The irony of the claim that there are no jobs for life any more is that workers are being forced, in many instances, to remain in the same job with the prospect of deferred retirement and reduced pensions.
The second reason for what economists call the “lagged response” in employment is explained by the way in which the locus of the crisis has shifted from the private to the public sector.
In truth there is very little attention paid to the public sector labour market, and scant recognition given to its economic importance.
The Tories would have us believe that the welfare state lives like a parasite on the back of the private sector.
But far from being parasitical the welfare state is essential to the functioning of the system.
Education, health and social services are critical sources of employment.
In the US the health sector made the second largest contribution to job creation during the so-called new economy boom—the only sector to expand since the onset of the crisis.
In the EU, employment growth in health and social services was ten times the European average and accounted for two thirds on all additional jobs during the growth years.
And, education, health and social services are essential to the economy and to the reproduction of the workforce.
This means that an assault on the contemporary welfare state is of a different character to the restructuring of public and private industries under Margaret Thatcher.
It is very hard to fight large-scale closures of steel works and coal mines if the employers and government say there is no market for steel or coal.
The situation is different when it comes to public services.
There are more than 1,100 hospitals in Britain and more than a hundred universities.
It’s not true there is “no market” for what they produce—and it is not as if they face the same kind of closure programme that was forced on coal and steel.
There will be an assault on jobs and benefit levels, but importantly they are opening up another front on pay, pensions and user costs.
It is relatively easy to attack workers if you want to take their jobs—it is another thing to make the staff who provide essential services work for less pay.
The coalition government’s austerity measures are frightening to contemplate, with departmental cuts ranging between 25 and 40 percent.
Yet we must remember that the political calculus is very different compared to the 1980s.
We are dealing with essential public services and it is hard to swing the wrecking ball without doing long-term damage to the competitiveness of the economy.
They won’t be able to argue there is no need or demand for the services they want to cut. Certainly they won’t be able to threaten “We’ll relocate your hospital from Birmingham to Bangalore unless you agree to wage cuts.”
Austerity measures are driven by political decisions rather than market demand.
Among other things, the government will have to defend the allocation of public funds between welfare and warfare, in which the pursuit of the “national interest” will demand the maintenance of nuclear weapons while the benefits of the poor will be squeezed.
The nearest historical precedent for the austerity offensive in Europe is found in the mid-1990s among the countries preparing the financial conditions to set up the euro.
This meant reducing public deficits and government debt within a very concentrated time frame.
The effect was to generalise wider public sector trade union opposition across continental Europe in defence of welfare services and benefits.
The austerity offensive in Europe now is on a far greater scale and depth than the 1990s and will be more protracted.
This regime of austerity will be a long and an intensely political period in which the cabinet of millionaires will try to argue we are all in the same boat facing the difficult choices in the long term interest of the country.
The class nature of the offensive will be very difficult to conceal.
Kevin Doogan is Jean Monnet Professor of European Policy Studies at the University of Bristol and author of New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work, Polity Press £16.99
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In this debut novel, a lonely little boy travels through strange lands in an odyssey of self-discovery.
Two years after Jack was abandoned by his parents at age 7, he is in yet another children’s home. Sad, angry, and isolated, Jack is bullied at school; his only friend is a battered toy dog named Ivanhoe; and he is tormented by dreams of a terrifying monster, sparked by the spiky branches of a looming monkey puzzle tree outside his bedroom window. One night, a cotton-stuffed monkey mysteriously appears, brings Ivanhoe to life, and tells Jack that “Satya, the dreamer of all dreams,” has the answer to his recurring nightmares. Joined by loyal Ivanhoe, now able to speak, as a supportive friend, Jack finds himself moving through shifting dreamscapes on a quest to reach the “quiet place,” where Satya dwells. The boy’s experiences in peculiar lands include a ride on the “Mindless Express,” where he nearly loses himself playing video games. Before Jack makes his empowering discovery of just who or what Satya is, he will learn not to run away from his feelings, to tame his stress-inducing “monkey mind,” to change a negative perspective by exercising forgiveness and kindness, and to trust himself to be his “own best friend.” Edgington, a yoga teacher, describes her engaging novel as an “adult allegory” “styled as a children’s book.” There is a great deal of imaginative storytelling on display here, and kids will undoubtedly enjoy Jack’s eventful journey and happy ending. Among the numerous odd characters that the hero encounters are “mountain lyings”—furry creatures that collect and frolic with all the lies people tell themselves and others—a discarded Christmas ornament who is sick of the holiday, and an ogre who embodies Jack’s worst fears. But this is fundamentally and unapologetically a self-help book whose child-centric plot exists solely as the framework for heartfelt lessons about self-realization and self-acceptance that should resonate with older, stressed-out readers despite the juvenile setting.
An inventive children’s fantasy whose earnest messages about cultivating emotional health through mindfulness target adults.

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‘Average’ students getting left behind
There are over a dozen degree colleges in the capital, but all of them have closed their doors to the average student, denying them their fundamental right to education.
There are six model degree colleges and 10 FG degree colleges in Islamabad, all of which have denied admission to students who scored below 45pc in their intermediate examinations.
The passing mark for the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education’s (FBISE) intermediate examinations is 33pc, but for the last three years, government-run degree colleges have not entertained the applications of students who scored below 45pc. The model colleges director, Dr Tariq Masood, told Dawn: “According to our policy, students who scored 45pc are eligible to apply for admissions.”
He said all Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) colleges are affiliated with Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), which registered students who have scored 45pc.
Dr Masood admitted that while the passing percentage for intermediate examinations is 33pc, because all Islamabad colleges are affiliated with QAU “we cannot offer admission to students who got below 45pc [based] on the varsity’s requirement”.
Each year, hundreds of students score below 45pc, and have to leave college. Islamabad-based colleges were previously affiliated with Punjab University, and did not operate under a bar on admitting students who scored below 45pc.
“There are several private colleges affiliated with Punjab University. After being refused by our colleges, hundreds of students are forced to either enrol themselves in private institutions or give up on their education,” Federal Government College Teachers Association President Sagheer Mirani said.
“The government can’t deny students the right to education; the ministry of CADD should take up the matter,” Mr Mirani said.
“Either the passing percentage for intermediate should be 45pc, or some of our colleges should offer admissions to average students as well.”
Mr Mirani added that each year, a significant number of students who score between 45pc and 33pc are denied admission to government institutions, and private colleges in Rawalpindi and Islamabad are exploiting the situation.
Seminars on hereditary diseases
Experts at two seminar organised by QAU said that DNA testing, prenatal diagnosis and genetic counselling were vital to mitigate the impact of hereditary and genetic diseases in Pakistan.
Two seminars were organised by the university’s Department of Animal Sciences on Thursday, conducted by Turkish academic Prof Dr Asli Tolun from the Bogaziçi University in Istanbul.
According to a QAU spokesperson, Dr Tolun is a well-known human geneticist in the Mediterranean and European regions working on hereditary and rare genetic disorders.
“Hereditary and genetic diseases are common in Pakistan, as well as in Turkey, due to various common reasons, like consanguinity, early marriages, overlapping generations and large sibships. Hereditary diseases [have] a tremendous impact on the lives of the patients and their families and 3-6pc of the populations in developing countries are affected by such anomalies. Common hereditary disorders like beta-thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, mental retardation and deafness could be avoided by not having cousin marriages in families at risk,” Dr Tolun said.
At the inaugural sessions of the seminars, Dr Sajid Malik from the animal sciences department and Dr Amir Ali from the National Centre for Bioinformatics highlighted the importance of the seminar topic and its relevance the Pakistani health system and academics.
A number of faculty members and students attended the sessions. The visiting professor visited various research labs of the animal sciences department and the bioinformatics centre, and interacted with the faculty. She also had detailed meetings with Prof Dr Sarwat Jahan, the chairperson of the Department of Animal Sciences, Dr Wasim Ahmad, the dean of the Faculty of Biological Sciences and QAU Vice Chancellor Dr Javed Ashraf.
Published in Dawn, September 30th, 2016


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Turkey's attack provocation to split int’l anti-terrorist coalition — French politician
Russian envoy: NATO statement on downing of Russian warplane is ‘shadow play’
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MOSCOW, August 26. (Itar-Tass) – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is to hold a press-conference on Monday on the subject of the Syrian situation. As the Foreign Ministry announced, the event will be focused on use of chemical weapons in Syria and the situation surrounding the Syrian Arab Republic.
The press conference is scheduled for 4pm Moscow time; members of the Russian and international press were invited.
The situation has rapidly escalated after reports that on August 21the Damascus suburb of Ghouta was attacked by chemical weapons. The Syrian government insisted that lethal nerve gas was deployed by militants, whereas insurgents place the blame on governmental forces. Representatives of the United States and Great Britain announced that they do not rule out any kind of response, and that includes use of force.
This information came on the backdrop of the UN mission arriving to Syria last week to inspect three instances of alleged chemical weapon use. On Monday the expert team has begun investigation of the latest chemical attack which was allegedly carried out in Damascus suburbs.
The United States announced they would wait for official results of the investigation. However, the next day they’ve declared plans to reinforce the country’s Navy presence in the Mediterranean as a reaction to the deteriorating situation in Syria. According The Sunday Telegraph newspaper, London and Washington are pushing for a “game-changing” UN resolution on Syria. NATO countries have not yet reached an agreement regarding their actions regarding Syria.
Meanwhile, Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu stated in an interview to Milliyet newspaper on Monday that Turkey will join any international anti-Syrian coalition even if the UN Security Council doesn’t achieve a broader consensus upon further actions.
Previously, Lavrov talked to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. “It seems that certain circles, including those who call for a military intervention circumventing the UN, are trying to openly put an end to collaborative U.S.-Russia efforts which over the past few months were aimed at summoning a peace conference to find a solution to this crisis,” said Lavrov.


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A son, Hector Ignacio Esparza Perez, to Benteh Perez and Ignacio Esparza of Pullman.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. court documents state that Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, poses a "serious risk of flight" based on a history of deceptive conduct, his wealth, connections to "Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs," and "strong evidence of guilt."
Manafort was being held on November 1 under house arrest after being indicted along with associate Rick Gates for conspiring to defraud the United States in over a decade of dealings with political forces in Ukraine.
It was the first publicly announced indictment since former FBI chief Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to head the U.S. Justice Department probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and whether there were any links to the Trump campaign.
Both men surrendered to the authorities on October 30, pleading not guilty to the federal charges before being allowed to return home. Prosecutors said Manafort faces 12-15 years in prison if convicted, while Gates faces 10-12 years, although other charges could still be filed.
Prosecutors are seeking to have bail set at $10 million for Manafort and $5 million for Gates. A bail hearing is scheduled for November 2 at 2 p.m. local time.
The men have also been ordered hand over their passports.
Prosecutors said in their filing that Manafort had at least three U.S. passports with differing numbers and had filed 10 passport applications over the past decade.
In their filing, prosecutors said that "both Manafort and Gates have connections to Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs, who have provided millions of dollars" to the two.
"Foreign connections of this kind indicate that the defendants would have access to funds and an ability 'to live comfortably' abroad," they said in arguing that the men were at risk of fleeing.
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In attempting to set bail, prosecutors Andrew Weissmann, Greg D. Andres, and Kyle R. Freeny said the men's financial holdings were "difficult to quantify."
They pointed out that Manafort reported $42 million in assets in March 2016; $136 million in May 2016; and in August 2016, he put his assets at $28 million and $63 million in separate filings.
Gates, meanwhile, in loan-related applications set his and his wife's net worth as $30 million in a February 2016, but said it was $2.6 million in a March 2016 application, prosecutors said.
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Manafort's attorney, Kevin Downing, has denied all allegations against his client, calling the charges "ridiculous."
Gates did not immediately comment on the charges, but he has in the past denied any wrongdoing. Prosecutors said he was in the process of retaining counsel.
In the 12-count indictment against Manafort and Gates, charges included conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent, making false statements, and charges related to failing to report foreign bank and financial accounts.
The indictment said they "generated tens of millions of dollars in income" from work they did for Viktor Yanukovych, the Moscow-friendly politician who was president of Ukraine from 2010-2014, the Ukrainian government, Yanukovych's Party of Regions, and the Opposition Bloc, a successor party formed after Yanukovych was driven from power by pro-European protests and fled to Russia.
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Along with the Justice Department probe, at least two congressional committees are investigating possible Russian interference.
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Traveling anywhere would be the same... depends on the vaccine availability and restart of tourism and flights... your options could be: In India, you can go to Kerala, Rajasthan or North East India... all worth your time. outside India would be South East Asian countries, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Scotland, Norway... would depend on your budget.
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If you’re like me, the holiday shopping season gives me a pinch of anxiety. Maybe it’s the rush of Black Friday, the panic of procrastination or the stress of finding a parking spot at the mall — it’s a lot to prepare for.
But one thing that can help alleviate the holiday hassle is having extra spending cash. That may mean looking for a seasonal job to bring in additional income.
And you’re in luck, because long before the holidays pop up in our minds, retailers were thinking about, prepping for and stocking up for the busiest shopping time of the year. And that means seasonal hiring is happening now across Central Oregon.
The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that retailers will hire between 530,000 and 590,000 temporary workers over the 2019 winter holiday season. While December is already upon us, there will be a big crunch between the start of the month and Christmas, as last-minute, temporary positions crop up everywhere.
Unfortunately, there’s a few grinches out there looking to ruin the holiday spirit. Scammers hope to take advantage of those looking for temporary work.
In 2018, over 4,600 employment scams were reported to Better Business Bureau’s Scam Tracker tool. According to the 2018 BBB Risk Index Report, employment scams were ranked the number one riskiest scam for consumers. Number one!
If you are looking for employment, especially around the holidays, BBB warns to beware of scam job postings, fake recruiter emails and work-at-home schemes — particularly those claiming affiliation with Amazon. These cons often use real company names and can be very convincing, but you are really giving personal information or money to scammers – maybe both.
How to spot this scam:
Some positions are more likely to be scams. Always be wary of work-from-home or secret shopper positions, or any job with a generic title such as caregiver, administrative assistant or customer service rep. Positions that don’t require special training or licensing appeal to a wide range of applicants. Scammers know this and use these otherwise legitimate titles in their fake ads.
If the job posting is for a well-known brand, check the real company’s job page to see if the position is posted there. Look online — if the job comes up in other cities with the exact same post, it’s likely a scam. For example, that cushy work-from-home job from Amazon where you receive packages and mail them out to a third-party could very well be a reshipping scam.
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This is a common trick used by scammers. And be cautious sharing personal information or any kind of pre-payment. Be careful if a company promises you great opportunities or big income, but only if you pay for coaching, training, recruiting, certifications or directories.
If you’ve been targeted by one of these scams, report it to BBB Scam Tracker at bbb.org/scamtracker.
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The Cultural Association of Alonissos in cooperation with the Municipality OPAKDA Alonissos invite you to the 4th Festival of Traditional Dances Alonissos
which will take place on July 2018.
Festival of Traditional Dances Alonissos is a nationwide meeting of dance groups from every corner of the map in order to highlight the traditional culture and folklore at a time when our cultural identity torn apart constantly.
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