have spells of quality play last year.

He's in a big year for his career though, and while the Bengals are said to be working on a possible extension with the cornerback, he might be a valuable commodity on the trade market if negotiations totally break down. Aside from the big-play ability he flashed as a backup in his first three seasons in the NFL, Kirkpatrick has great length at the position.

At 6'2", he is currently the tallest corner on the Bengals' roster, and while he didn't grab any interceptions last year, he used his long arms to break up a career-high 16 passes. The height and length are what the team loved in his potential when they drafted him in the first round five years ago, and it'sa selling point if teams come calling for cornerback help.

In order for Kirkpatrick to be dealt though, Dennard and Jackson would have to show a lot to the coaches in a short amount of time. Dennard began to flash last year, but he was injured again and Lewis has a spotty track record in trusting rookies like Jackson for big roles early in their career.

As deep as the secondary is, I just don't see a trade happening. Aside from the injuries that could occur, the AFC North has a lot of offensive weapons, in likely what has been prompting the Bengals to continue to load up in the back end of the defense.


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Published April 19, 2011

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As health officials in Japan scramble to provide care for those affected by the recent nuclear power plant accident, some Americans are wondering how their own individual and group health insurance plans would handle claims resulting from a similar incident here.

Rochelle Becker, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, says there is no danger of hospitals and other caregivers failing to honor health insurance coverage for illnesses related to a nuclear accident. "You can always get treatment," she says.

Michael S. Gossman, president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine for the Ohio River Valley region, says the federal government would make sure that insurance companies cover health care costs for radiation victims. Later on, those samea discharge of radiation in a heavily populated part of the United States.

Besides the current crisis in Japan, the best example of such an occurrence is the 1986 accident the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in the former Soviet Union. Ira Helfand, a medical doctor in Massachusetts who is past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, says the officials there downplayed the seriousness of the accident and did not mount a serious effort to tally the true medical costs. In 2006, a Greenpeace study found that the accident had the potential to cause more than a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers.

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By Monish Gulati

Given the unrelenting Indian support to the Salma Dam Hydro Power Project, it was appropriately rechristened as the Afghan-India Friendship Dam (Salma Dosti Dam).

By Monish Gulati and Chayanika Saxena*

As a marker of sustained assistance to the reconstruction of Afghanistan which has been ravaged by decades of externally-aided wars and internal strife, the rebuilding and re-operationalization of the Salma Dam in the Herat province with the Indian support is being hailed for all the right reasons, especially since it is one of those few energy-generating projects which have seen the light of the day.

Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will be in Afghanistan on his second state-visit to Afghanistan in less than six months to inaugurate this facility on June 4, 2016. Coming close on the heels ofthe inauguration of Afghanistan’s National Assembly, which too was an Indian contribution to Afghanistan, the forthcoming visit by the Indian PM is meant to demonstrate the depth of Indo-Afghan ties. Having been relegated to a secondary position in Afghan President’s ‘five-circle policy’, the increasing Indian prominence on Afghanistan’s geo-political landscape can be seen as both, the changing stance of the present Afghan government vis-à-vis India as also an emerging sense of clarity in the Indian foreign policy towards Afghanistan, which at best has been described as ambiguous, if not listless.

Salma Dam

The 20km long dam that has been built on the Harirud River is expected to provide 42MW (3×14 MW) of electricity besides irrigating 75,000 hectares of land. The efforts to revive the project began under the Vajpayee government


and started taking concrete shape beginning 2006 when USD 275 million was allocated to the project. Although beset with significant attempts of sabotage, and which included a foiled action by the Afghan Taliban to destroy the dam using 1,300 kgs of explosive.

Given the unrelenting Indian support to the Salma Dam Hydro Power Project, it was appropriately rechristened as the Afghan-India Friendship Dam (Salma Dosti Dam). The Indian association with this dam has been rather old, with the Indian Public Sector Enterprise (PSU), WAPCOS having offered to reconstruct the dam back in 1988 itself. However, due to the destructive civil war that ensued, the project had to be left in the middle.

Salma Dam involved the construction of a 107.5 meter high earth and rock – fill dam and a42 MW power House with three units of 14 MW each. In Dec 2015 the Union Cabinet, approved the reconstruction and completion of Salma Dam Project in Afghanistan at the Revised Cost Estimates (RCE) of INR. 17757 million.

The completion of the Salma Dam in Herat is a step forward in the direction of local power production to reduce reliance on imported electricity.The reconstruction of the Salma Dam will have significant domestic resonance given that the province lies at the heart of many initiatives for enhanced connectivity, besides establishing an example of success in the rather lethargic yet challenging domain of power generation in Afghanistan.

Current Power Situation

Afghanistan has got the potential to generate around 314,500 MW of electricity from different sources. However, despite the massive potential that it holds,


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Jim Gallagher never played for the Eagles. But he worked for the team. For 46 years.

The long-time team executive, who served the franchise from 1949 through 1995, has died at the age of 88.

“Jim was one of the kindest and most remarkable men you could ever meet,” Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie said in a statement. “His dedication to this organization went far beyond the 46 years he spent here, and his impact was far reaching. Everyone who was fortunate enough to meet Jim knows how much he loved the Eagles, but also how much he truly cared for and invested in the lives of others.”

Over the years, Gallagher’s roles included personnel director, director of public relations, director of sales and marketing, director of alumni relations, and travelingOutlook: The Black Bears get their final nonconference tune-up with a visit to the home of the Portland Sea Dogs, the Class AA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. UMaine took two of three at Hartford last weekend and is gearing up for a four-game America East set against league-leading Stony Brook that begins Friday in Orono. The Bears have locked up a spot in next week’s America East tournament. The Eagles of the Atlantic Coast Conference also are wrapping up their nonleague slate before a weekend series against Duke. Boston College, which has struggled in ACC play (9-18), beat Fordham 15-3 Sunday but had lost its previous four games. The Eagles have two Portland natives on their roster in junior catcher Matt Pare (.246, 3 HR, 21


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Ripped out of retirement through an assassination try, the world's most dangerous spy-Black Kaiser-is on aThe statement by chief of Russia's military General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, appeared to signal the Kremlin's reluctance to negotiate a new nuclear arms deal with Washington.

President Barack Obama, who signed the landmark New Start arms treaty with Russia, has pledged to work with Moscow to seek further reductions in nuclear arsenals. But Russia, which has increasingly relied on its nuclear deterrent due to a relative weakness of its conventional forces, is worried about the U.S. edge in precision weapons.

"We can't take the path of cutting only strategic nuclear arsenals and leaving outside the framework of talks other weapons, in which some of our partners have an indisputable quantitative and qualitative advantage," Gerasimov said, adding that such approach would hurt Russia's security.

Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the


Russian military's General Staff, listens, during a security conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The top Russian military officer has warned the West that Moscow reserves the right to take steps in response to the U.S.-led NATO missile defense plans for Europe if it sees it as a threat. (Mikhail Metzel, Associated Press)

While he did not mention the United States, Gerasimov appeared to refer to U.S. plans to fit conventional warheads to some of its long-range nuclear missiles. He said that such weapons should be part of arms control talks.

The United States has considered the development of so-called "prompt global strike" weapons that would allow the Pentagon to strike targets anywhere on the globe in as little as an hour. Such plans included modifying some ofthe existing nuclear-armed missiles to carry conventional warheads as well as designing new hypersonic vehicles capable of traveling at speeds at least five times the speed of sound.

Russia, which has lagged behind in designing such weapons, has strongly opposed the U.S. plans, saying it could tilt the balance of power.

"Such precision weapons, which don't fall under any qualitative, quantitative or territorial restrictions, can be used to target strategic facilities," Gerasimov said at Moscow's international security conference that was sponsored by the Defense Ministry.

Attending a security conference, with from left, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, and the Kremlin's chief of staff Sergei Ivanov smile as they attend a security conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Russian officials, who spoke at the conference organized by the Russian Defense


Ministry, warned the West that the U.S.-led NATO's missile defense plans for Europe undermine Moscow's security. (Mikhail Metzel, Associated Press)

Gerasimov's statement came as a clear indication that Russia would likely reject any attempts by Obama's administration to negotiate only on deeper nuclear arms cuts.

Russian officials said Obama offered Russia's President Vladimir Putin new ways to cooperate in a letter delivered last month by Tom Donilon, Obama's national security adviser.

The Kremlin wouldn't divulge the letter's content, but the business daily Kommersant reported last week that it included a proposal to negotiate deeper nuclear arms cuts and offered to sign a deal on information exchange to assuage Moscow's concerns about the U.S.-led NATO missile defense plans for Europe.

Gerasimov and other Russian officials, who spoke at Thursday's conference, reaffirmed Moscow's strongin Russia, Paikidze’s father, a mechanical engineer, taught her how to play chess when she was four years old. They moved to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, where she attended elementary school. Chess was part of the curriculum, which soon became her favorite class. Her chess teacher believed she had exceptional talent, and recommended she consider a professional chess career.

At age nine, she won her first international tournament, taking the title of European youth chess champion (in the category for girls under ten). Russian grandmaster Vladimir Belov began coaching her when she was 14, and she achieved the title of woman grandmaster in 2010, and finally, international master (which includes males, as well) in 2012.

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"There are some things in there that are absolutely no-brainers, like upgrading our IT systems," she said. "I will imagine that that would probably be something that he would retain, but that is his choice."

Tillerson spent much of his first year in office in the planning phases of the redesign. His ouster came as the department entered the implementation phase of the overhaul — dubbed by agency officials as the "Impact Initiative."

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It's unclear whether Pompeo will ultimately carry on Tillerson's plans.Feminist theory is the extension of feminism
into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical
discourse.
It aims to understand the nature of gender
inequality.
It examines women's and men's social roles,
experiences, interests, chores, and feminist
politics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology
and sociology, communication, media studies,
psychoanalysis, home economics, literature,
education, and philosophy.Feminist theory
focuses on analyzing gender inequality.
Themes explored in feminism include discrimination,
objectification (especially sexual objectification),
oppression, patriarchy, stereotyping, art
history and contemporary art, and aesthetics.
== History ==
Feminist theories first emerged as early as
1794 in publications such as A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft,
"The Changing Woman", "Ain't I a Woman", "Speech
after Arrest for Illegal Voting", and so on.
"The Changing Woman" is a Navajo Myth that
gave credit to a woman who, in the end, populated
the world.
In 1851, Sojourner Truth addressed women's
rights issues through her publication, "Ain't
I


do
not specify women.
Nancy Cott makes a distinction between modern
feminism and its antecedents, particularly
the struggle for suffrage.
In the United States she places the turning
point in the decades before and after women
obtained the vote in 1920 (1910–1930).
She argues that the prior woman movement was
primarily about woman as a universal entity,
whereas over this 20-year period it transformed
itself into one primarily concerned with social
differentiation, attentive to individuality
and diversity.
New issues dealt more with woman's condition
as a social construct, gender identity, and
relationships within and between genders.
Politically this represented a shift from
an ideological alignment comfortable with
the right, to one more radically associated
with the left.Susan Kingsley Kent says that
Freudian patriarchy was responsible for the
diminished profile of feminism in the inter-war
years, others such as Juliet Mitchell consider
this to be
overly simplistic since Freudian theory is
not wholly incompatible withfeminism.
Some feminist scholarship shifted away from
the need to establish the origins of family,
and towards analyzing the process of patriarchy.
In the immediate postwar period, Simone de
Beauvoir stood in opposition to an image of
"the woman in the home".
De Beauvoir provided an existentialist dimension
to feminism with the publication of Le Deuxième
Sexe (The Second Sex) in 1949.
As the title implies, the starting point is
the implicit inferiority of women, and the
first question de Beauvoir asks is "what is
a woman"?.
Woman she realizes is always perceived of
as the "other", "she is defined and differentiated
with reference to man and not he with reference
to her".
In this book and her essay, "Woman: Myth & Reality",
de Beauvoir anticipates Betty Friedan in seeking
to demythologise the male concept of woman.
"A myth invented by men to confine women to
their oppressed state.
For women


it is not a question of asserting
themselves as women, but of becoming full-scale
human beings."
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman",
or as Toril Moi puts it "a woman defines herself
through the way she lives her embodied situation
in the world, or in other words, through the
way in which she makes something of what the
world makes of her".
Therefore, woman must regain subject, to escape
her defined role as "other", as a Cartesian
point of departure.
In her examination of myth, she appears as
one who does not accept any special privileges
for women.
Ironically, feminist philosophers have had
to extract de Beauvoir herself from out of
the shadow of Jean-Paul Sartre to fully appreciate
her.
While more philosopher and novelist than activist,
she did sign one of the Mouvement de Libération
des Femmes manifestos.
The resurgence of feminist activism in the
late 1960swas accompanied by an emerging
literature of concerns for the earth and spirituality,
and environmentalism.
This in turn created an atmosphere conducive
to reigniting the study of and debate on matricentricity,
as a rejection of determinism, such as Adrienne
Rich
and Marilyn French
while for socialist feminists like Evelyn
Reed,
patriarchy held the properties of capitalism.
Feminist psychologists, such as Jean Baker
Miller, sought to bring a feminist analysis
to previous psychological theories, proving
that "there was nothing wrong with women,
but rather with the way modern culture viewed
them".Elaine Showalter describes the development
of feminist theory as having a number of phases.
The first she calls "feminist critique" – where
the feminist reader examines the ideologies
behind literary phenomena.
The second Showalter calls "Gynocritics" – where
the "woman is producer of textual meaning"
including "the psychodynamics of female creativity;
linguistics and the problem of a female language;
the trajectory of the individual


which is not limited to either male
or female.
The Intersex Society of North America which
explains that, "nature doesn't decide where
the category of 'male' ends and the category
of 'intersex' begins, or where the category
of 'intersex' ends and the category of 'female'
begins.
Humans decide.
Humans (today, typically doctors) decide how
small a penis has to be, or how unusual a
combination of parts has to be, before it
counts as intersex".
Therefore, sex is not a biological/natural
construct but a social one instead since,
society and doctors decide on what it means
to be male, female, or intersex in terms of
sex chromosomes and genitals, in addition
to their personal judgment on who or how one
passes as a specific sex.
The ideology of gender remains a social construct
but is not as strict and fixed.
Instead, gender is easily malleable, and is
forever changing.
One example ofwhere the standard definition
of gender alters with time happens to be depicted
in Sally Shuttleworth's Female Circulation
in which the, "abasement of the woman, reducing
her from an active participant in the labor
market to the passive bodily existence to
be controlled by male expertise is indicative
of the ways in which the ideological deployment
of gender roles operated to facilitate and
sustain the changing structure of familial
and market relations in Victorian England".
In other words, this quote shows what it meant
growing up into the roles of a female (gender/roles)
changed from being a homemaker to being a
working woman and then back to being passive
and inferior to males.
In conclusion, the contemporary sex gender
model is accurate because both sex and gender
are rightly seen as social constructs inclusive
of the wide spectrum of sexes and genders
and in which nature and nurture


classism, ageism, heterosexism,
ableism etc.
=== Language ===
In this debate, women writers have addressed
the issues of masculinized writing through
male gendered language that may not serve
to accommodate the literary understanding
of women's lives.
Such masculinized language that feminist theorists
address is the use of, for example, "God the
Father" which is looked upon as a way of designating
the sacred as solely men (or, in other words,
biblical language glorifies men through all
of the masculine pronouns like "he" and "him"
and addressing God as a "He").
Feminist theorists attempt to reclaim and
redefine women through re-structuring language.
For example, feminist theorists have used
the term "womyn" instead of "women".
Some feminist theorists find solace in changing
titles of unisex jobs (for example, police
officer versus policeman or mail carrier versus
mailman).
Some feminist theorists have reclaimed and
redefined such words as "dyke" and "bitch"
and others have invested redefiningknowledge
into feminist dictionaries.
=== Psychology ===
Feminist psychology is a form of psychology
centered on societal structures and gender.
Feminist psychology critiques the fact that
historically psychological research has been
done from a male perspective with the view
that males are the norm.
Feminist psychology is oriented on the values
and principles of feminism.
It incorporates gender and the ways women
are affected by issues resulting from it.
Ethel Dench Puffer Howes was one of the first
women to enter the field of psychology.
She was the Executive Secretary of the National
College Equal Suffrage League in 1914.
One major psychological theory, relational-cultural
theory, is based on the work of Jean Baker
Miller, whose book Toward a New Psychology
of Women proposes that "growth-fostering relationships
are a central human necessity and that disconnections
are the source of psychological problems".
Inspired by Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique,
and other feminist classics from the


maintained that gender leads
to a social system that is dominated by males,
which in turn influences the individual psycho-sexual
development.
As a solution it was suggested by some to
avoid the gender-specific structuring of the
society coeducation.
From the last 30 years of the 20th century,
the contemporary French psychoanalytical theories
concerning the feminine, that refer to sexual
difference rather than to gender, with psychoanalysts
like Julia Kristeva, Maud Mannoni, Luce Irigaray,
and Bracha Ettinger, have largely influenced
not only feminist theory but also the understanding
of the subject in philosophy and the general
field of psychoanalysis itself.
These French psychoanalysts are mainly post-Lacanian.
Other feminist psychoanalysts and feminist
theorists whose contributions have enriched
the field through an engagement with psychoanalysis
are Jessica Benjamin, Jacqueline Rose, Ranjana
Khanna, and Shoshana Felman.
=== Literary theory ===
Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism
informed by feminist theories or politics.
Its history has been varied,from classic
works of female authors such as George Eliot,
Virginia Woolf, and Margaret Fuller to recent
theoretical work in women's studies and gender
studies by "third-wave" authors.In the most
general, feminist literary criticism before
the 1970s was concerned with the politics
of women's authorship and the representation
of women's condition within literature.
Since the arrival of more complex conceptions
of gender and subjectivity, feminist literary
criticism has taken a variety of new routes.
It has considered gender in the terms of Freudian
and Lacanian psychoanalysis, as part of the
deconstruction of existing power relations.
=== Film theory ===
Many feminist film critics, such as Laura
Mulvey, have pointed to the "male gaze" that
predominates in classical Hollywood film making.
Through the use of various film techniques,
such as shot reverse shot, the viewers are
led to align themselves with the point of
view of a male protagonist.
Notably, women function


as objects of this
gaze far more often than as proxies for the
spectator.
Feminist film theory of the last twenty years
is heavily influenced by the general transformation
in the field of aesthetics, including the
new options of articulating the gaze, offered
by psychoanalytical French feminism, like
the matrixial gaze.
=== Art history ===
Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock are prominent
art historians writing on contemporary and
modern artists and articulating Art history
from a feminist perspective since the 1970s.
Pollock works with French psychoanalysis,
and in particular with Kristeva's and Ettinger's
theories, to offer new insights into art history
and contemporary art with special regard to
questions of trauma and trans-generation memory
in the works of women artists.
Other prominent feminist art historians include:
Norma Broude and Mary Garrard; Amelia Jones;
Mieke Bal; Carol Duncan; Lynda Nead; Lisa
Tickner; Tamar Garb; Hilary Robinson; Katy
Deepwell.
=== History ===
Feminist history refers tothe re-reading
and re-interpretation of history from a feminist
perspective.
It is not the same as the history of feminism,
which outlines the origins and evolution of
the feminist movement.
It also differs from women's history, which
focuses on the role of women in historical
events.
The goal of feminist history is to explore
and illuminate the female viewpoint of history
through rediscovery of female writers, artists,
philosophers, etc., in order to recover and
demonstrate the significance of women's voices
and choices in the past.
=== Geography ===
Feminist geography is often considered part
of a broader postmodern approach to the subject
which is not primarily concerned with the
development of conceptual theory in itself
but rather focuses on the real experiences
of individuals and groups in their own localities,
upon the geographies that they live in within
their own communities.
In addition to its analysis of the real world,
it also critiques


and sexuality.
Men have dominant power and control over women
in the relationship, and women are expected
to hide their true feeling about sexual behaviors.
Women of color face even more sexual violence
in the society.
Some countries in Africa and Asia even practice
female genital cutting, controlling women's
sexual desire and limiting their sexual behavior.
Moreover, Bunch, the women's and human rights
activist, states that the society used to
see lesbianism as a threat to male supremacy
and to the political relationships between
men and women.
Therefore, in the past, people viewed being
a lesbian as a sin and made it death penalty.
Even today, many people still discriminate
homosexuals.
Many lesbians hide their sexuality and face
even more sexual oppression.
=== Monosexual paradigm ===
Monosexual Paradigm is a term coined by Blasingame,
a self-identified African American, bisexual
female.
Blasingame used this term to address the lesbian
and gay communities who turnedor white, again nothing in between.
The issue of racism comes into fruition in
regards to the bisexuals coming out process,
where risks of coming out vary on a basis
of anticipated community reaction and also
in regards to the norms among bisexual leadership,
where class status and race factor predominately
over sexual orientation.
=== Politics ===
Feminist political theory is a recently emerging
field in political science focusing on gender
and feminist themes within the state, institutions
and policies.
It questions the "modern political theory,
dominated by universalistic liberalist thought,
which claims indifference to gender or other
identity differences and has therefore taken
its time to open up to such concerns".Feminist
perspectives entered international relations
in late 1980s, at about the same time as the
end of the Cold War.
This time was not a coincidence because the
last forty years the conflict between US and
USSR had been the


dominant agenda of international
politics.
After the Cold War, there was continuing relative
peace between the main powers.
Soon, many new issues appeared on international
relation's agenda.
More attention was also paid to social movements.
Indeed, in those times feminist approaches
also used to depict the world politics.
Feminists started to emphasize that while
women have always been players in international
system, their participation has frequently
been associated with in non-governmental settings
such as social movements.
However, they could also participate in inter-state
decision making process as men did.
In fact, today, women also participate in
iternational politics as the wives of diplomats,
nannies who go abroad to find work and support
their family, or sex workers trafficked across
international boundaries.
Women's contributions has not been seen in
the areas where hard power plays significant
role such as military.
In contrast, women are profoundly impacted
by decisions the statepersons make.
=== Economics ===
Feminist economicsbroadly refers to a developing
branch of economics that applies feminist
insights and critiques to economics.
Research under this heading is often interdisciplinary,
critical, or heterodox.
It encompasses debates about the relationship
between feminism and economics on many levels:
from applying mainstream economic methods
to under-researched "women's" areas, to questioning
how mainstream economics values the reproductive
sector, to deeply philosophical critiques
of economic epistemology and methodology.One
prominent issue that feminist economists investigate
is how the gross domestic product (GDP) does
not adequately measure unpaid labor predominantly
performed by women, such as housework, childcare,
and eldercare.
Feminist economists have also challenged and
exposed the rhetorical approach of mainstream
economics.
They have made critiques of many basic assumptions
of mainstream economics, including the Homo
economicus model.
In the Houseworker's Handbook Betsy Warrior
presents a cogent argument that the reproduction
and domestic labor of women form the foundation
of economic survival; although, unremunerated
and not included in the


GDP.
According to Warrior: "Economics, as it's
presented today, lacks any basis in reality
as it leaves out the very foundation of economic
life.
That foundation is built on women's labor;
first her reproductive labor which produces
every new laborer (and the first commodity,
which is mother's milk and which nurtures
every new "consumer/laborer"); secondly, women's
labor composed of cleaning, cooking, negotiating
social stability and nurturing, which prepares
for market and maintains each laborer.
This constitutes women's continuing industry
enabling laborers to occupy every position
in the work force.
Without this fundamental labor and commodity
there would be no economic activity."
Warrior also notes that the unacknowledged
income of men from illegal activities like
arms, drugs and human trafficking, political
graft, religious emoluments and various other
undisclosed activities provide a rich revenue
stream to men, which further invalidates GDP
figures.
Even in underground economies where women
predominate numerically, like trafficking
in humans, prostitution and domesticbroken down into five categories.
=== Legal theory ===
Feminist legal theory is based on the feminist
view that law's treatment of women in relation
to men has not been equal or fair.
The goals of feminist legal theory, as defined
by leading theorist Claire Dalton, consist
of understanding and exploring the female
experience, figuring out if law and institutions
oppose females, and figuring out what changes
can be committed to.
This is to be accomplished through studying
the connections between the law and gender
as well as applying feminist analysis to concrete
areas of law.Feminist legal theory stems from
the inadequacy of the current structure to
account for discrimination women face, especially
discrimination based on multiple, intersecting
identities.
Kimberlé Crenshaw's work is central to feminist
legal theory, particularly her article Demarginalizing
the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black
Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine,
Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics.
DeGraffenreid v


limited the evidence only to that of Black
women, which is a ruling in direct contradiction
to DeGraffenreid.
Further, because the plaintiff originally
claimed discrimination as a Black female rather
than, more generally, as a female the court
stated it had concerns whether the plaintiff
could "adequately represent white female employees".
Payne v Travenol serves as yet another example
of the courts inconsistency when dealing with
issues revolving around intersections of race
and sex.
The plaintiffs in Payne, two Black females,
filed suit against Travenol on behalf of both
Black men and women on the grounds the pharmaceutical
plant practiced racial discrimination.
The court ruled the plaintiffs could not adequately
represent Black males, however, they did allow
the admittance of statistical evidence, which
was inclusive of all Black employees.
Despite the more favorable outcome after it
was found there was extensive racial discrimination,
the courts decided the benefits of theruling
– back pay and constructive seniority – would
not be extended to Black males employed by
the company.
Moore contends Black women cannot adequately
represent white women on issues of sex discrimination,
Payne suggests Black women cannot adequately
represent Black men on issues of race discrimination,
and DeGraffenreid argues Black women are not
a special class to be protected.
The rulings, when connected, display a deep-rooted
problem in regards to addressing discrimination
within the legal system.
While the cases of DeGraffenreid (1976), Moore
(1983), and Payne (1976) are not recent accounts;
they provide proof of the courts inconsistency
in procedures and rulings on the basis of
sex and race, which serves to reinforce the
need for Feminist legal theory to not only
be further developed, but also applied.
=== Communication theory ===
Feminist communication theory has evolved
over time and branches out in many directions.
Early theories focused on the


way that gender
influenced communication and many argued that
language was "man made".
This view of communication promoted a "deficiency
model" asserting that characteristics of speech
associated with women were negative and that
men "set the standard for competent interpersonal
communication", which influences the type
of language used by men and women.
These early theories also suggested that ethnicity,
cultural and economic backgrounds also needed
to be addressed.
They looked at how gender intersects with
other identity constructs, such as class,
race, and sexuality.
Feminist theorists, especially those considered
to be liberal feminists, began looking at
issues of equality in education and employment.
Other theorists addressed political oratory
and public discourse.
The recovery project brought to light many
women orators who had been "erased or ignored
as significant contributors".
Feminist communication theorists also addressed
how women were represented in the media and
how the media "communicated ideology about
women, gender, and feminism".Feminist communication
theory alsoencompasses access to the public
sphere, whose voices are heard in that sphere,
and the ways in which the field of communication
studies has limited what is regarded as essential
to public discourse.
The recognition of a full history of women
orators overlooked and disregarded by the
field has effectively become an undertaking
of recovery, as it establishes and honors
the existence of women in history and lauds
the communication by these historically significant
contributors.
This recovery effort, begun by Andrea Lunsford,
Professor of English and Director of the Program
in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University
and followed by other feminist communication
theorists also names women such as Aspasia,
Diotima, and Christine de Pisan, who were
likely influential in rhetorical and communication
traditions in classical and medieval times,
but who have been negated as serious contributors
to the traditions.Feminist communication theorists
are also concerned with a recovery effort
in attempting


to explain the methods used
by those with power to prohibit women like
Maria W. Stewart, Sarah Moore Grimké, and
Angelina Grimké, and more recently, Ella
Baker and Anita Hill, from achieving a voice
in political discourse and consequently being
driven from the public sphere.
Theorists in this vein are also interested
in the unique and significant techniques of
communication employed by these women and
others like them to surmount some of the oppression
they experienced.Feminist theorist also evaluate
communication expectations for students and
women in the work place, in particular how
the performance of feminine versus masculine
styles of communicating are constructed.
Judith Butler, who coined the term "gender
performativity" further suggests that, "theories
of communication must explain the ways individuals
negotiate, resist, and transcend their identities
in a highly gendered society".
This focus also includes the ways women are
constrained or "disciplined" in the discipline
of communication in itself,in terms of biases
in research styles and the "silencing" of
feminist scholarship and theory.Who is responsible
for deciding what is considered important
public discourse is also put into question
by feminist theorists in communication scholarship.
This lens of feminist communication theory
is labeled as revalorist theory which honors
the historical perspective of women in communication
in an attempt to recover voices that have
been historically neglected.
There have been many attempts to explain the
lack of representative voices in the public
sphere for women including, the notion that,
"the public sphere is built on essentialist
principles that prevent women from being seen
as legitimate communicators in that sphere",
and theories of subalternity", which, "under
extreme conditions of oppression...prevent
those in positions of power from even hearing
their communicative attempts".
=== Design ===
Technical writers have concluded that visual
language can convey facts and ideas clearer
than almost any other means of


design" and connects it to technical
communicators.
In the results of the study, males used more
angular illustrations, such as squares, rectangles
and arrows, which are interpreted as a "direction"
moving away from or a moving toward, thus
suggesting more aggressive positions than
rounded shapes, showing masculinity.
Females, on the other hand, used more curved
visuals, such as circles, rounded containers
and bending pipes.
Bosley takes into account that feminist theory
offers insight into the relationship between
females and circles or rounded objects.
According to Bosley, studies of women and
leadership indicate a preference for nonhierarchical
work patterns (preferring a communication
"web" rather than a communication "ladder").
Bosley explains that circles and other rounded
shapes, which women chose to draw, are nonhierarchical
and often used to represent inclusive, communal
relationships, confirming her results that
women's visual designs do have an effect on
their means of communications.Based on these
conclusions, this "feminist theoryof design"
can go on to say that gender does play a role
in how humans represent reality.
=== Black feminist criminology ===
Black feminist criminology theory is a concept
created by Hillary Potter in the 1990s and
a bridge that integrates Feminist theory with
criminology.
It is based on the integration of Black feminist
theory and critical race theory.
For years, Black women were historically overlooked
and disregarded in the study of crime and
criminology; however, with a new focus on
Black feminism that sparked in the 1980s,
Black feminists began to contextualize their
unique experiences and examine why the general
status of Black women in the criminal justice
system was lacking in female specific approaches.
Potter explains that because Black women usually
have "limited access to adequate education
and employment as consequences of racism,
sexism, and classism", they are often disadvantaged.
This disadvantage materializes into "poor
responses by social


distinguish Black
women from Black males into an accurate branch
of learning in the criminal justice system.
==== Criticisms ====
It has been said that Black feminist criminology
is still in its "infancy stage"; therefore,
there is little discussion or studies that
disprove it as an effective feminist perspective.
In addition to its age, Black feminist criminology
has not actively accounted for the role of
religion and spirituality in Black women's
"experience with abuse".
=== Feminist science and technology studies
===
Feminist science and technology studies (STS)
refers to the transdisciplinary field of research
on the ways gender and other markers of identity
intersect with technology, science, and culture.
The practice emerged from feminist critique
on the masculine-coded uses of technology
in the fields of natural, medical, and technical
sciences, and its entanglement in gender and
identity.
A large part of feminist technoscience theory
explains science and technologies to be linked
and shouldbe held accountable for the social
and cultural developments resulting from both
fields.Some key issues feminist technoscience
studies address include:
The use of feminist analysis when applied
to scientific ideas and practices.
Intersections between race, class, gender,
science, and technology.
The implications of situated knowledges.
Politics of gender on how to understand agency,
body, rationality, and the boundaries between
nature and culture.
== See also ==
== References ==
== Books ==
"Lexicon of Debates".
Feminist Theory: A Reader.
2nd Ed.
Edited by Kolmar, Wendy and Bartowski, Frances.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
42-60.
== External links ==
Evolutionary Feminism
Feminist theory website (Center for Digital
Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech)
Feminist Theories and Anthropology by Heidi
Armbruster
[2] The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist
Feminist Theory, Program and Organizational
Structure (Seattle: Red Letter Press, 2001)
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research
on Women, Brown University
Feminist Theory Papers, Brown University
The Feminist eZine - An Archive of Historical
Feminist Articles
[3] Women, Poverty, and


Ted Olson led Republicans to victory in Bush v. Gore, now he's helping CNN go after Trump

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Show Caption Hide Caption News association backs CNN's Jim Acosta on press pass flap The Radio Television Digital News Association is demanding the White House restore media credentials to CNN correspondent Jim Acosta after suspending his pass following a heated confrontation with President Donald Trump at a news conference. (Nov. 8)

WASHINGTON – Attorney Theodore B. Olson, the legal heavyweight best known for taking the Republicans' winning case before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, is one of the attorneys representing CNN in its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the revocation of correspondent Jim Acosta's White House press credentials.

"The Supreme Court has held in no uncertain termsthat the First Amendment protects 'robust political debate,' including speech that it is critical of those who hold public office," Olson said in a statement on Tuesday. "Mr. Acosta’s press credentials must be restored so that all members of the press know they will remain free to ask tough questions, challenge government officials, and report the business of the nation to the American people."

Acosta's credentials were taken after a wild press conference last week in which President Donald Trump called the reporter a "rude, terrible person" as Acosta refused to relinquish the microphone. It was the latest in a number of tense exchanges between Acosta and the president.

CNN announced Tuesday that it filed a lawsuit against Trump and other administration officials to get Acosta's credentials restored. USA TODAY


and its parent company Gannett joined other news media organizations Wednesday in a filing friend-of-the-court briefs on CNN's behalf in the case.

In addition to his work on behalf of President George W. Bush in the Florida recount for the 2000 presidential election, Olson is also known for helping draft the legal arguments that led to the overturning of Proposition 8 in California, which banned same-sex marriage. Olson teamed up with attorney David Boies – the man who represented Vice President Al Gore's in 2000 – for that 2014 case.

Olson won another landmark case before the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC, in the which the court ruled that political contributions are a form of free speech and protected by the First Amendment.

In March, Olson, 77, turned downan offer to join President Donald Trump's legal team to help defend the president in the face of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a report from The Washington Post.

Last month, Olson resigned as a member of the American Bar Association after the organization called for the FBI to investigate the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the National Law Journal reported. He also testified as a character witness on Kavanaugh's behalf.

Olson is a partner in the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm, which is based in Los Angeles.


on the dollar is always an astute move for rebuilding teams.

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Friday, August 29, 2008

Juliana Hatfield

I've been meaning to write about this forever but for whatever reason it's escaped me until now. So... earlier this month Boston indie darling Juliana Hatfield published her latest album, How To Walk Away. There, I finally got it out.

It's Hatfield's tenth solo album, with her last new material coming out over two years ago. For her fans, the ten tracks on this tenth album will feel comfortably familiar, and therefor enjoyable. She sticks with what she's always done best: staying away from the happy lyrics and singing about more melancholy subjects. That being said, she doesn't necessarily stretch her boundaries much this time around, although after after over twenty years perhaps she deserves to enjoy the style that she's developed that's been enjoyedby her fans. And by all means, this album is enjoyable.

The album will be followed up by the release of her memoirs, titled When I Grow Up, out on September 29th, a book about her long (over twenty years) and storied career as a solo artist as well as a member of Blake Babies, her initial foray into the music world. I haven't had a chance to crack open the cover but I'm sure there will be some interesting stories and perhaps some juicy tidbits about Evan Dando.

Here's a few tracks from the album for your enjoyment, and you can pre-order her memoir over at Amazon.com if you need some reading material while you're listening to the album!


President Donald Trump is facing more internal defections, as seven members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council are resigning in protest against his administration.

The seven members of the 27-member panel are predominantly Democratic, according to a report by Roll Call. The panel was created by President George W. Bush in 2001 to provide advice to the Secretary of Homeland Security on how to protect America's information and infrastructure systems.

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So far, four of the council members who were reported to have resigned have confirmed their resignations to Roll Call:

The council members providing that confirmation were [ex Obama administration staffer Cristin] Dorgelo; Christy Goldfuss, a vice president at the Center for American Progress who chaired Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality; DJ Patil, a political independent who was formerly U.S. chiefa disused vineyard, defined by a line of crumbling cement posts linked by sagging wires.

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'OK,' said Blume, holstering his pistol. He pointed to his backpack. 'Let me throw this in the back, then I'll need to explain . . .' He took the car keys from the young man's hand, then turned to the larger one. 'I don't think it'll be a problem. The person you're looking for is unarmed. Do you think you'll be able to handle it, or shall I call in backup?'

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'No. He's never even worked in the field. Old guy. OlderSega is widely-known for their all-ages appealing Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The title of their latest addition to the iOS market has a title that definitely grabs you by the throat, "Samurai Bloodshow - the white waves, the red clouds" (English translation of the title). The game combines two disparate genres and seamlessly melds them into an entertaining game unlike most, if not all, games found on the AppStore.

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Most players will be familiar with the attack-lane game mechanic popularized by games such as "Plants vs. Zombies". In Samurai Bloodshow, you are a king wielding an army of fighters of varied skills and weaponry either defending your territory or sent on an attack suicide mission rampaging towards enemy territory. What happens to my soldiers when I send them charging


Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Barack Obama tried unsuccessfully to tighten gun controls in the US

Former US President Barack Obama has called on Americans to reject language from any of their leaders that feeds hatred or normalises racism.

Mr Obama did not name anyone but his rare comments came after President Donald Trump sought to deflect criticism that his anti-immigrant rhetoric had fuelled violence.

In a speech on Monday, Mr Trump condemned hatred and white supremacy.

He was speaking after 31 people died in mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.

While in office, Mr Obama fought unsuccessfully to restrict gun ownership. He told the BBC in 2015 that his failure to pass "common sense gun safety laws" had been the greatest frustration of his presidency.

He has refrained from commenting on Mrto say as much - clearly and unequivocally."

During his presidential campaign Mr Trump said Mexican immigrants included drug dealers, criminals and rapists.

More recently, he caused widespread anger by suggesting that four US congresswomen of colour "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came". He denied his comments were racist.

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What did President Trump say?

In a statement from the White House on Monday, Mr Trump called for mental health gun control reforms; the death penalty for those who commit mass murder and more bi-partisan co-operation over gun laws.

"Mental illness and hate pull the trigger, not the gun," Mr Trump said.

He did not express support for


gun control measures proposed in Congress.

"In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy," Mr Trump said. "These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America."

The president also outlined a number of policies, including more co-operation between government agencies and social media companies, changes to mental health laws as well as ending the "glorification of violence" in American culture.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption "Mental illness pulls the trigger, not guns" - Trump's five solutions to combat mass shootings.

He called for red flag laws that would allow law enforcement authorities to take away weapons from individuals believed to be a threat to themselves or others.

Mr Trump said government agencies must work together and identify individuals who may commit violentacts, prevent their access to firearms and also suggested involuntary confinement as a way to stop potential attackers.

He also said he directed the justice department to propose legislation to ensure those who commit hate crimes and mass murders face the death penalty.

The president criticised the internet and "gruesome" video games for promoting violence in society.

"It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence," he said. "We must stop or substantially reduce this and it has to begin immediately."

But he did not address the criticisms of his own harsh rhetoric against illegal immigration, which opponents say has contributed to a rise in racially-motivated attacks.

Mr Trump drew criticism after he incorrectly referred to the Ohio city of Dayton - where nine people


were killed in one of two mass shootings that occurred just 13 hours apart - as Toledo.

"May God bless the memory of those who perished in Toledo, may God protect them. May God protect all of those from Texas to Ohio," he said before walking off stage.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption A vigil for the victims was held in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday

President Trump will visit El Paso on Wednesday.

What happened in Texas and Ohio?

Saturday's shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, left 22 people dead and 24 wounded.

The suspect was arrested and has been named as Patrick Crusius, a resident of the city of Allen, near Dallas. He is believed to be the author of a document posted online before the shooting which saidZiz (, ), meaning "Flower". It was the most important of the three colonies forming the “Phoenician Triangle” cited by Thucydides, the others being Motya and Soluntum. Because the Phoenician colony was small and located beneath central Palermo, only some parts of its necropolis have been excavated.

Greeks
Between the 8th and the 7th centuries BC, the Greeks colonized Sicily. They called the city Panormos ("All port") and traded with the Carthaginians, Phoenician descendants who were creating an empire from the coast of what is today’s Tunisia. The two civilizations lived together in Sicily until the Roman conquest. Carthaginian coins from Palermo used the Greek name Panormos from the 5th century BC. The Greek colony at Panormos had two cores: the "Old Town" (Palepolis) between the two rivers Kemonia and


pay this construction program. The era of Charles V and his son Philip II were difficult for Palermo, as the barons felt free to dominate the city through their unruly bands of bravoes.

Bourbon House

After the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Sicily was handed over to the Savoia, but in 1734 it was again a Bourbon possession. Charles III chose Palermo for his coronation as King of the Two Sicilies. Charles had new houses built for the increased population, while trade and industry grew as well. However, Palermo was now just another provincial city as the royal court resided in Naples. Charles' son Ferdinand, though disliked by the population, took refuge in Palermo after the event following the French Revolution in 1789.

From 1820 to 1848 all Sicily was shaken byenvironment in the Gulf Arab state.

The decision sparked angry protests in Bahrain and drew sharp condemnation from regional Shi’ite power Iran and statements of concern from the United States and Britain.

In May, five people were killed when security forces raided Qassim’s homevillage to disperse followers who had camped out outside his house, and arrested 286 people, according to the interior ministry.

Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet that helps secure the Gulf’s oil-shipping lanes is based, crushed Arab Spring protests in 2011 led by Shi’ites demanding a bigger share in running the country. But unrest has lingered on with occasional outbursts that are put down by force by the authorities.


For more than a year, she was a mystery to Matt Szczur.

In fact, he didn't even know her name.

But now and forever, the Cubs' jack of all trades will remain part of Anastasia Olkhovsky thanks to the bone marrow he donated that saved her life.

Sports fans first met Anastasia and her family via an ESPN "E:60" feature in 2013. Anastasia was the leukemia-stricken child of Ivan and Marina, a couple from Ukraine that was afraid to close their eyes at night for fear their first born might not open hers again.

In late 2009, Anastasia was 15 months old. Szczur was 20, a two-sport athlete at Villanova opening the eyes of Major League Baseball and NFL scouts alike. He was a wide receiver on his way to leading thefootball team to the FCS championship and being named the title game's MVP after a 270-yard, two-touchdown performance when the national bone marrow registry called. Szczur had joined the registry at the urging of Villanova football coach Andy Talley, who since 1991 has urged his players to be tested as possible bone-marrow matches.

Szczur was a match. A 1-in-80,000 long shot.

The end of football season and the beginning of baseball season had come and gone by the time Szczur received another call, informing him that the condition of the potential recipient had worsened. That they needed his bone marrow ASAP.

John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune / ESPN photo Chicago Cubs outfielder Matt Szczur and Anastasia. Chicago Cubs outfielder Matt Szczur and Anastasia. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune /


ESPN photo) (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune / ESPN photo)

That the exhausting, three-hour procedure was performed a month before the Cubs picked him in the fifth round of the 2010 June draft mattered not to Szczur. That he wasn't sure about the side effects of neupogen, a drug he took to increase blood-stem cells, wasn't a deterrent. That his spleen could have ruptured wasn't a problem.

"Did it put his baseball career in jeopardy? Who knows?" said Talley. "The guy is a hero. Matt was very adamant about doing it. He knew he could miss the rest of the (baseball) season, which tells you what kind of person he is."

Even though the little girl was a stranger and it would be a year before he talked to herand her family because of confidentially rules, her story hit close to Szczur's heart. One of his best friends had leukemia.

In May of 2011, Szczur learned that the transplant had been successful. The national registry provided him with the name of the recipient and both sides agreed to meet via Skype. With the help of a translator — the Olkhovskys speak only Russian — Szczur and his parents, Marc and Kathy, were able to see and hear the answers to their questions reveal themselves. The virtual meeting was captured on video by ESPN.

Anastasia, with blond hair and glasses, told Szczur she loved him. She blew him a kiss. Ivan and Marina called him family and expressed their gratitude over and again.

"It was emotional for me," Szczur said. "I


saw that she was 100 percent and she was healthy and she was a normal kid living her life."

"I had seen the emotion from her parents, thanking me for helping them. I can't put it into words. I knew that I was going to help her out and I knew she was going to survive. Just something inside me knew it."

Szczur's dad said the families last connected on Sept. 22. ESPN plans to air an update of its "E:60" story soon.

A rock rests on a shelf in Szczur's locker, a symbolic memento from his family's old restaurant that reminds him of "The Stonecutter," the folk tale of a humble tradesman who becomes envious of others' wealth, but ultimately learns to appreciate his place in the world.

He touches itbefore every game. It allows him to appreciate the grind of baseball.

And grind, Szczur has done. He spent most of last season on a two-way ticket between the big leagues and the minor leagues.

All the while, he kept pounding away, day by day, until becoming a permanent, as-needed fixture this season for a franchise trying to win its first World Series since 1908.

For a guy who was used to playing every day in two sports, who was used to being the star, adjusting to life as a role player hasn't been without internal conflict.

"It's frustrating, but I've embraced my role," he said. "I've embraced my target. All I have to do when I'm called upon is deliver."

Like he did for Anastasia.

Like he did in college when he hit


a home run in his last at-bat before missing 10 games while recovering from his bone-marrow donation. Like when he hit another in his first at-bat after returning from the procedure.

Like he did when he took Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw deep for his first home run last season, in his first game back after he was recalled from the minor leagues.

Grit has helped Szczur become great at multiple sports. He began taking karate lessons when he was 3 years old. By 5, he began wrestling.

Two months after he started that sport, in his first tournament, the determination was born.

During one match, Szczur was in bottom position and he froze. His opponent couldn't budge him.

"So he gets up and I said, 'Matt, what's going on? Why didn't you doanything?'" Marc Szczur said. "He opens his hand and his tooth is in it. It fell out and he grabbed it off that mat and he says, 'I didn't want to lose this.'"

Szczur has started 28 games but has appeared in 103 entering Wednesday. He has played all three outfield positions, batted in every position and pinch-hit 48 times.

After entering a late-April game as a defensive replacement against the Braves, Szczur hit his first career grand slam.

"I root for the bench players even more because I am one," Cubs catcher David Ross said. "It's not easy to come off the bench and do what he did."

But he makes it look easy to be what he has been.

"He's kind of like a manager's dream player," Cubs boss Joe Maddon


said. "He knows his role; he stays ready. He's very versatile. The last step for him was to really realize he belongs in the major leagues.

"When you talk to him, he talks differently. It's more confident. It's a different conversation. That tells me he's ready to be here."

The role player with the rock has rolled to a .260 average with five home runs, 22 RBIs and eight doubles this year. He has a .715 OPS. He fits right in with on a team that ran away with the National League Central title en route to what it hopes are much bigger things.the Glee set filming a Brittana scene, putting to rest the fear that Santana has bounced out of Lima forever for season four.

ROUND TWO — Rivera comes out swinging, letting fans know that Santana is not only sharing the screen with Brittany; she’s sweetly serenading Brittany. Shaw ducks the ditty and unleashes a battle cry to rally the troops for an episode of Pretty Little Liars. The “hoo” of her “woo” is powered by FOUR extra Os. She follows with a fan interaction in which she, too, sings a song in her heart.

Early morning back at McKinley for some sweet serenade time with Brittany.

ROUND THREE — Shaw tag-teams her shipmate, Shay Mitchell, in a behind-the-scenes Instagram moment meant to strike adorable terror into the hearts of every dissenter.


the finds were 124 species and eight subspecies believed to be new to science, like the spiny rat, whiptail lizard and orchid below.
They documented 13 new species of butterfly. The Corinna Daggerwing was known before.
Of course, the conclusion of the survey raises a question: Why does it matter which park is most diverse?
Bolivia is not headed for a World Cup-style confrontation with other protected areas, like Manu National Park in Peru, which has been considered the most diverse up to now, or Yasuni National Park in Ecuador, which is still ahead of Madidi in amphibians and reptiles like the Bolivian coral snake, which is highly venomous.
Fish, including the completely harmless pupfish below, are still being counted.
In fact, the conservation society provides support to both those parks and manyThis message was preached March 24, 2009, at the Unity Baptist Church in Killeen, Texas. The text from which the message was exposited from has been a blessing in my life. I encourage you to read the book of Romans for yourself. Somewhere towards the end of the message, the Holy Spirit just took over and just touched all of us, including the preacher, in a supernatural way. My prayer is that it will challenge you, the believer, to live according to your God-ordained position and to yield to the power of the Spirit that is within you, resulting in the abundant life.

The great poets, Tupac and Biggie believed that we ought to live free because eventually we are going to die. The great prophet, Paul believed that,


therapy in the 1930s and 1940s encouraged hopes that mental disorders could be cured with somatic therapies".

The psychopharmacological revolution began in earnest in the 1950s. This was the decade, writes Deacon, which "witnessed the serendipitous discovery of compounds which reduced the symptoms of psychosis, depression, mania, anxiety, and hyperactivity". Theories of chemical imbalance to explain mental disorder emerged over the same period, "providing the scientific basis for psychiatric medications as possessing magic bullet qualities".

I wanted to investigate how exactly are westerners’ experiences of schizophrenia different? And why? I started by acquiring an understanding of how the symptoms or experiences of schizophrenia differ across the world.

The ‘voices’ of schizophrenia sound different across the world

People living with schizophrenia in the west often describe their experience as "nightmarish". Some are plaguedand rebuffing the negative ones

For the US American schizophrenic activist Cecilia McGough, one of her most persistent hallucinations is of Pennywise, the horrifying clown from the movie It. An approximate contemporary in Tanzania, Hemed, whose father lived through Zanzibar’s pre-independence revolution in the 1960s, reported auditory hallucinations of the voices of local politicians.

Overall, voices tend more often to be considered a positive presence in Asia and Africa. Padmavati Ramachandran of the Schizophrenia Research Foundation in Chennai, India, has reviewed existing studies which found these voices are more benign for people with schizophrenia in India than for many patients in the United States: "Those in India are more likely to experience their voices as people they know or as gods."

In the course of Padmavati’s research with Luhrmann, they interviewed


when she was a child. That night, she was hospitalised, and subsequently diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia called schizoaffective disorder. In the following decades, Fundakowski was hospitalised periodically – in and out of group homes, and seen by various psychiatrists who prescribed Clozaril at high dosage. The medication failed to provide much relief, left her "foggy, dizzy, and tired", and made her muscles twitch so that it became almost impossible for her to play the piano.

When she reported hearing voices to psychiatrists, they often seemed "disgusted" and closed down any discussion by saying it was more productive not to talk about voices. That only made her symptoms worse, she told me when we spoke by phone. She described her experience as "hell".

That all changed four years ago,Here are four insights that explain why schizophrenia outcomes vary so widely, and how treatments could be enhanced accordingly.

Family and community are antidotes to individual suffering in western society

In highly industrialised cultures, adults are expected to be self-sufficient, both financially and emotionally. Western society tends to shame people who depend for support on their community or family, often conflating economic disadvantage with personal failure. This toxic form of individualism causes anxiety and isolation, compounded by inadequate support for people with mental illness.

“The most obvious difference in the care of persons with serious psychotic disorder in India, compared to the United States, is that in India people stay with their family and their family remains involved with their care,” says anthropologist Jocelyn Marrow. Family and community support are essential


agreement, chaired by Kuwait and Russia, involving three oil-producing Opec countries and that the two did not part, a gesture to the attention of skeptics who predict offences against the quotas.

The essentials of the agreement of November 30, is carried by the larger producers in the cartel : Saudi Arabia, Iraq, united arab Emirates, Kuwait, while Iran, Nigeria and Libya have been exempted. On Saturday, Opec has such a brilliant collaboration of Kazakhstan (-20.000 according to Bloomberg) so that this country comes to boost its capabilities with the commissioning of its new deposit giant Kashagan. According to Bloomberg, Mexico will reduce its production of 100,000 bpd, Oman 40,000 and Azerbaijan 35,000.

This new round of talks in Vienna was also the occasion for Moscow to reassure on its commitmentA northern white rhino at the Dvur Kralove zoo in the Czech Republic. (Image: Mistvan/Wikimedia Commons)

A Czech zoo has decided to remove the horns of 18 white rhinos after a deadly attack last week at a French zoo where poachers shot a rhino and used a chainsaw to cut off its horns. Welcome to the new normal, where even zoo animals have to be mutilated to protect them from poaching.

To quickly recap, poachers broke into the Thoiry Zoo near Paris on the night of March 7th, shot a four-year old white rhino named Vince twice in the head, and then used a chainsaw to cut off his horns. Brutal, right? It was the first attack of its kind in European zoo, and it’s clearly rattled zoo officials around


Earthquake that killed 3,000 people and last year's disaster in Christchurch, New Zealand, which killed 185 people and destroyed many buildings. As well as earthquakes, he has also created maps to show the path of each tornado in America over the last six decades using the Fujita Scale, or F-Scale, measures tornadoes based mainly on the amount of damage they cause to buildings and vegetation. Rescuers search for survivors in a collapsed building in Manchester Street in Christchurch, New Zealand, in February last year A cobblestone street, which was split down the middle after the Great Earthquake in San Francisco, California, in 1906 Three thousand people died in the earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906

61 years of tornado tracks: The map, by John Nelson of IDV Solutions,Search form

How Barack Obama is Shaking Up Campaign 2008

Cornel West was on fire. Bobbing in his chair, his hands sweeping across the stage, the brilliant and bombastic scholar was lambasting Barack Obama's campaign. Before a black audience, at an event outside Atlanta called the State of the Black Union, West was questioning why Obama was 600 miles away, announcing his bid for the White House in Springfield, Ill. Did he really care about black voters? What did that say about his willingness to stand up for what he believes?

"He's got large numbers of white brothers and sisters who have fears and anxieties and concerns, and he's got to speak to them in such a way that he holds us at arm's length," West said, pushing his hand out


affordable health care. West asked Obama how he understood the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and interrogated him about a single phrase in Obama's 2004 Democratic-convention speech: that America was "a magical place" for his Kenyan father. "That's a Christopher Columbus experience," West said. "It's hard for someone who came out of slavery and Jim Crow to call it a magical place. You have to be true to yourself, but I have to be true to myself as well." A few weeks later, the two men met in a downtown Washington, D.C., hotel to chat about Obama's campaign staff. Just a month after ripping into him onstage, West endorsed Obama and signed up as an unpaid adviser.

West may have come around, but he raised one of themost potent—and controversial—questions facing the candidate: is he black enough? It's one that has long dogged Barack Obama's career, though he says he settled his own struggle with racial identity (as the son of an African father and white, Kansan mother) in his late teens. Questions about black "authenticity" are hardly unique to him; many successful African-Americans face them, too. Obama just happens to be grappling with the issue in full public view as he runs for the highest office in the land.

To the candidate, the debate says more about America's state of mind than it does about him. "I think America is still caught in a little bit of a time warp: the narrative of black politics is still shaped by the '60s and black power," he


voters, especially African-Americans who are the backbone of the state party; recent polls have shown the lead changing hands each month. Nationwide, the latest NEWSWEEK Poll suggests that race is no longer the barrier it once was to electing a president. A clear majority—59 percent—says the country is ready to elect an African-American president. That's up from 37 percent at the start of the decade, but it still indicates that a significant percentage of the country is either skeptical or prejudiced.

Obama faces many challenges in what he calls his "improbable candidacy," but few are as complex or emotional as the politics of race. Racial politics are a key source of his campaign's energy, but they could also be his undoing. Obama wants to be the nation's first blackpresident, and he needs to win a clear majority of African-American votes to win his party's nomination. Yet he isn't running purely as a representative of African-Americans, nor can he afford to. He also needs to win the backing of a wide swath of white America. Can he appeal to both black and white, while still being true to himself?

For Obama and his wife, Michelle, navigating the racial riptides can be uncomfortably personal. Michelle likes to tell supporters that her 6-year-old daughter calls the family's new security detail "the secret people." Officially, Obama became the earliest presidential candidate to get Secret Service protection because he's attracting such huge crowds. But NEWSWEEK has learned that a key factor in that decision was a string of racist e-mails sent to


his Senate office, something his staff is unwilling to discuss publicly for security reasons.

That kind of overt hatred is not visible on the campaign trail. Many of Obama's supporters are enthralled by the content of his character—by his earnest desire to heal the nation's political divisions and to restore America's reputation in the world. Many also are excited by the color of his skin and the chance to turn the page on more than two centuries of painful racial history. But even that phrase—"turn the page"—is fraught. Black voters are wary of whites who think Obama represents a kind of deliverance—proof that blacks are doing well and that the playing field is leveled.

Obama himself dismisses the idea. At the end of a NEWSWEEK interview in his Senate office,among the mostly white voters at Harvard Law School. At the time, in the early 1990s, the school was torn over racial issues such as affirmative action. On the left, there was anger at the failure to appoint African-American professors; on the right, there was dismay at the influence of liberal scholars who condemned the criminal-justice system as skewed against minorities and the poor. Amid this turmoil, Obama won election to the presidency of the influential law review by seeking consensus—with the support of a bloc of conservative students.

The conservatives knew he wasn't one of them, says former classmate Bradford Berenson (who later served in George W. Bush's White House). "What really set him apart from the people who had roughly the same views he did is that


he did not demonize the people on the other side of the dispute," says Berenson. "He was not the sort to accuse people of being racist for having different views of affirmative action." Obama rewarded the conservatives by appointing several to the masthead of the law review, which angered some of his more-liberal supporters.

One summer during law school, Obama worked in a Chicago firm where he found a soulmate who would help him navigate his difficult course. Michelle Obama's family comes from the South Side of Chicago, where her father was a city worker and her mother still lives in the humble house where Michelle was born. Like her husband, Michelle is an Ivy Leaguer (in her case, Princeton and Harvard), but she proudly calls herself a productof Chicago's public schools. Some people assume that Obama needed her entree into African-American society to break into Illinois politics. But that's not correct: by the time he met Michelle, Obama had already worked as a community organizer with black churches on the South Side for several years.

When the two first met at the law firm, Michelle was his reluctant mentor for the summer. She remembers rave reports that circulated around the office before she joined him for lunch the first time. "Yeah, he's probably a black guy who can talk straight," she recalls saying to herself. "This is a black guy who's biracial who grew up in Hawaii? He's got to be weird." Afterward, she realized she may have misjudged Obama. But it was only later that


summer, when he took her to a church basement on the South Side, that she fell for him. He gave an inspiring speech about "the world as it is, and the world as it should be." Three years later, they married.

Michelle had to work through her early misperceptions about him; now, she says, the nation needs to do the same. "Barack poses this interesting dilemma because we are still a country that puts people in boxes," she tells NEWSWEEK. "Barack kind of shakes up those notions because his life has crossed so many different paths. He grew up in Hawaii but he was indeed a community organizer. He became very entrenched and rooted in the black community on the South Side. He is very much a black man,but he's very much the son of his mother, who was very much a white woman, and he grew up with white grandparents."

Obama's years in Chicago didn't help much in his first run for Congress. After four years in the Illinois state Senate, Obama challenged Rep. Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther who had once called on black men to arm themselves for self-defense. Another of his rivals in the 2000 race was Illinois state Sen. Donne Trotter, who hails from one of Chicago's oldest and largest black families. Both Rush and Trotter questioned Obama's racial bona fides, and his ability to represent poor black voters. But for Obama, the Rush race was more of a lesson in overconfidence than in racial identity. "Were there moments during the


capacity to move in and out of privilege and power."

Back in the Illinois Senate, Obama made a name for himself as someone who could work both sides of the aisle. He befriended an eclectic group of lawmakers, including Kirk Dillard, a conservative Republican. Dillard specifically recalls Obama's work to reach a compromise on the death penalty. Gov. George Ryan had commuted every death sentence in the state after a series of flawed cases had come to light; the legislature was deeply split. Conservative law-and-order types were incensed, while black legislators, in particular, thought it was about time that the state stopped executing prisoners who had been wrongly convicted. Obama was handed the herculean task of reaching a compromise. He did so by getting conservatives to embrace the ideaof videotaping police interrogations and suspects' confessions. Among Obama's toughest opponents: Illinois state Sen. Ed Petka, a former prosecutor who had put so many men on death row that his friends called him Electric Ed. "Ed Petka was the hardest person for Obama to convince that he was the real deal, but even Petka became an Obama convert with respect to these criminal-law issues," says Dillard. (Petka, now a Will County judge, declined to comment.)

Yet Obama's drive to find consensus also raised the suspicions of some black colleagues. At the same time as the death-penalty debate, Obama worked to pass legislation on racial profiling; it required police to record information on the race of people pulled over during traffic stops. Obama's seat on the Senate floor was close


to the bathroom, a lowly place he'd taken as a freshman. But he learned how to use it to his advantage: he would watch legislators going into the restroom and buttonhole them on their way out. In the heat of the racial-profiling debate, however, the argument spilled into the facilities. Dillard recalls watching as an African-American legislator from Chicago, who wanted even stricter requirements on racial reporting, confronted Obama. "He was questioning Senator Obama's toughness and, frankly, his blackness, as to whether Barack really understood what it was like to be a teenage African-American standing on a street corner in Chicago and being harassed by police officers," recalls Dillard. Obama stood his ground, evoking his childhood in tough neighborhoods of Honolulu and his work as a community organizerin Chicago. But Dillard was struck by Obama's discomfort. "I remember thinking, 'I feel sorry for this guy because he's got to justify himself to blacks and whites alike'."

On the campaign trail, Obama doesn't seek sympathy; he evokes hope. He's especially fond of a story from his 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate. Obama is riding on a bus in southern Illinois with Sen. Dick Durbin, his mentor in Congress, when they approach the hardscrabble town of Cairo. Durbin tells him that his first visit to Cairo was in the 1970s, when it was still one of the most segregated towns in Illinois, with a history of lynchings, cross burnings and riots. Durbin, then a young state lawyer on a mission to promote racial harmony, was worried when


his driver warned him not to use the telephone because the operator was a member of the White Citizens Council; when he checked in to his motel, a visitor knocked on his door demanding to know what the hell he was doing in town. After the story, Obama and Durbin are apprehensive as their bus pulls into Cairo. But as they turn the corner, they see a crowd of 300 supporters wearing blue buttons saying OBAMA FOR U.S. SENATE. Some in the crowd are black; most are white. To Obama, the story of Cairo confirms Martin Luther King Jr.'s observation that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice.

In the real world, the arc of Cairo has not led so clearly toward racial harmony. Until recently, citypolitics were deadlocked for several years by a mean-spirited dispute between its white, Republican mayor and the majority black Democrats over patronage and the firing of city workers. Paul Farris (whose term as mayor ended in May) blames his opponents for exploiting racial divisions for their own political ends. The story of Cairo is an example, perhaps, of Obama's portraying the glass as half full—oversimplifying a complicated racial and economic divide to score rhetorical and political points. Still, Farris says he's supporting Obama in the presidential race because he tried to bring biodiesel and liquid-coal plants to the economically depressed town. "Say he gets elected president of the United States, he'll have a lot of support from this region," says Farris. "Hopefully he won't forget his trip into


he urged the community to aim high for its kids. "Sometimes," he said, "I go to an eighth-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. It's just eighth grade, people. Just give them a handshake. Congratulations. Now get your butt in the library."

There wasn't much pre-planning for that talk, which got a lot of attention. His speechwriter had forgotten about the event, so Obama jotted down some notes on the back of a few sheets of paper, based on family conversations around the kitchen table. In his own mind, Obama was trying to walk the middle ground between the need for personal duty and the imperative of social action. "I talk about these things not out of shock value," he tells NEWSWEEK. "Ialso am not at all interested in what some conservative commentators are interested in, which is to use the issue of personal responsibility as an excuse for governmental inaction. It is very much a both-and [approach] as opposed to an either-or approach. When you talk about it in those terms, then the African-American community is responsive." (When Bill Cosby made stronger comments about black responsibility a year earlier, he left out mention of society's duty, and got seared by the reaction of fellow African-Americans.)

Sometimes, the middle ground doesn't hold between black and white, and Obama's innate sense of caution and compromise can look like weakness. Just before his big announcement outside the old state capitol in Springfield—where Lincoln delivered his "house divided" speech—Obama abruptly changed plans and asked


his pastor not to deliver the invocation prayer. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the man who gave Obama not just spiritual direction, but also his signature phrase, which became the title of one of his books, "The Audacity of Hope." But in the days before Obama officially launched his campaign, Wright was also caricatured as a "radical" for his Afrocentrism and his focus on black issues—a strange criticism, perhaps, of a preacher on the South Side. (The Reverend Wright is considered mainstream among African-American church leaders; Ebony magazine once named him one of the top 15 black preachers in America.) "Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack," a clearly perturbed Reverend Wright told The New York Times. "One of his members had talked him intohe was actually born four years earlier, in 1961. A few blocks away, Obama's main Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, was making her own pitch for the African-American vote, drafting her husband's public help for the first time in the campaign. Obama tells NEWSWEEK that his error was simply the result of "testing lines" without forethought; he denied with a wry smile it had anything to do with pressure from the Clintons and a heated competition for black voters.

Four months later, Selma has become the rousing end to Obama's stump speech. Now he makes it clear that he was a young boy at the time of Bloody Sunday, but he says the marchers fought for the rights of children just like him. "They did that for me and now


From from Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Bhasa to Brecht, the library at the Indian Institute of World Culture is a treasure-trove

Basavanagudi was originally planned as a temporary area for rehabilitation during an epidemic. The layout was planned and built in the late 19th century after a plague hit Bengaluru. Basavanagudi has come a long way from being a rehabilitation area to becoming the cultural hub of the city. It is home to some of the oldest trees, houses, parks and institutions. One of the well-known institutions in Basavanagudi is the Indian Institute of World Culture.

The institute, founded in August, 1945 by B.P.Wadia states its objective “To foster the growth of a truly cosmopolitan spirit among citizens of all nations”.

The website says, “It was conceived not as an academy forThe Italian government has hailed a fall of more than 50% in the number of migrants from Libya reaching its coastline in July as a potential turning point made possible by tougher actions against smugglers operating in the Mediterranean.

The number of migrants reaching Italy fell to 11,459 in July from 23,524 in June and 23,522 in July last year. Over the past few years the summer months have been the peak period for traffickers in the Mediterranean.

The fall in numbers making the crossing is likely to be the result of a more aggressive turnaround policy by the Libyan navy and coastguard, backed by improved boats and equipment – funded by the European Union – and Italian-led training. In the past few days, the Libyan coastguard has fired warning


both domestically and in Libya.

At home, the Italian government is pressing NGOs that are operating rescue ships to sign up to a 13-point code of conduct or else finds their ships barred from landing in Italian ports. So far four NGOs have agreed, with four refusing on the grounds it requires them to allow the Italian military to accompany their rescue missions, something they say is in breach of humanitarian principles.

A vociferous political campaign has claimed the NGOs are not humanitarians, but working in tandem with the smugglers to act as a taxi service for African economic migrants that want to start a more prosperous life in Europe. The allegations have not been proven, and each of the NGOs has rescued tens of thousands of migrants from drowning.

TheItalian government was seeking to criminalise the NGOs. He said the vast majority of its rescues took place 30 miles or so off the Libyan coast and follow requests from the Italian coastguard.

In Libya, the UN-backed government of Fayez al-Sarraj is under attack for agreeing to allow Italian military ships help the Libyan coastguard combat smugglers inside Libyan coastal waters. The rival Libyan administration based in Tobruk claims the agreement violates Libya’s sovereignty and the Italian flag has been burned in Benghazi in protest. The scale of the protests has forced Rome to reduce the number of ships it sends. As the former colonial power, any perceived Italian interference in Libya is highly sensitive.

The commander of the eastern forces in Libya, Khalifa Haftar, has ordered his air force


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The hot air has a temperature that rapidly heats the food product to a toasting temperature in less than 60 seconds. The hot air provides a temperature environment that facilitates the infrared heat to produce a crunchiness effect of the bottom and side surfaces of the food product by the end of the rapid toasting time.
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