Mitch Ditkoff: Flowers First, Business Second

The other day, in a sudden fit of gratitude, I bought a dozen roses and brought them home to my wife.

Usually, when I think of buying roses, I go through a predictable sequence of events. First, I surrender to a feeling of expansiveness that takes me over. Then I get curious and smell the flowers. Then I ask the shopkeeper how long she thinks the roses will last.

This is following by calculating the per stem price, doing the math and reaching the pitifully male conclusion that $46.95 is way too much too spend on something that won't last the week and is probably much less expensive somewhere else and it's obviously indulgent of me to be buying so many roses when I've got two kids to put through college and besides, beauty is within.

All of this, of course, is my inner Woody Allen taking the low road in response to what is obviously a Johnny Depp moment.

So I dig deep and bring the roses home -- my entire living room taking shape around them. I become immediately aware of a trend even Republican pollsters could not deny -- there are definitely not enough flowers in the living room. Somehow, the recent appearance of roses has made the rest of the room painfully barren. Tabletops and shelves that only minutes ago were doing just fine, are now utterly flowerless.

So I do the only thing a man can do when faced with such a situation -- I return to the flower shop.

But the shop is closed. Closed? Impossible! I need flowers! So I get back into my car and speed my way to the other flower shop in town. It, too, is closed -- or, should I say, closing. The owner is shutting the door and giving me the "too-bad-you-didn't-get-here a few-minutes-ago" look.

But I will not be denied. And he knows it.

"What do you want?" he asks.

"Flowers," I reply.

He signals me to enter and I buy way more flowers than makes sense. A ridiculous amount.

Let's put it this way: if I was in the federal witness protection program, my sudden flower buying behavior would have made my government handlers very nervous.

Fast forward ten minutes to my wife in our kitchen.

She is looking at me as if I am totally insane -- me, the guy who, only yesterday was making an airtight case for a more modest household budget.

Yes, I am insane, but in a good way. Here's my philosophy: Flowers first. Business second. If money is tight, buy more flowers. The more flowers you buy, the more money will appear. And if not in this lifetime, then the next (or maybe the one after that).

OK. There you go -- my not very financially sound, flower-centric view of the universe. Not quite as newsworthy as credit default swaps, but a whole lot more dependable.

Mitch Ditkoff is the President of Idea Champions, an innovation consultancy based in Woodstock, NY -- yes, THAT Woodstock. NO he wasn't at the concert in 1969. He speaks to organizations everywhere about the art and science of creating a culture of innovation in the workplace. Bats left, throws left.

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Interracial marriage may affect views on money

11 hrs.

Chris Taylor

NEW YORK - Walk into any American conversation, and there are two volatile issues that could make it explode at any moment: race and money.

Combine the two, and spontaneous combustion is guaranteed.

Which is why no one ever talks about it. But given the rapidly rising number of interracial marriages in this country, perhaps it is time to discuss how coming from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds can sometimes lead to disparate attitudes toward money and security.

After all, one in 10 American marriages is now interracial, an all-time high. That is up 28 percent since 2000, according to Census figures, and translates to 5.4 million couples nationwide. That number looks primed to spike even higher, given that 18 percent of unmarried, opposite-sex couples identify as interracial.

So how do our unique backgrounds shape our understanding of money? On the subject, there is perhaps no better person to talk to than Carmen Wong Ulrich. The personal finance expert was famously satirized on the television comedy series "30 Rock" as Carmen Chao, a TV personality of indeterminate ethnicity who skipped effortlessly between multiple languages.

In real life, Ulrich is the author of books including "Generation Debt" and "The Real Cost of Living." She had her own personal finance show on CNBC, and was raised by a Latina mom and a Chinese stepfather. She also married a white guy from Michigan;?they have since split.

While many old stereotypes are wrongheaded, cultural backgrounds do tend to shape our attitudes toward money and security -- and it would serve most marriages well to understand where our partners are coming from, Ulrich said.

"People have very strong cultural and ethnic beliefs that we all carry with us, and a lot of those can have to do with money," she said. "For instance, I was raised as a Latina, where family is everything, and there's no thinking twice about it. I once gave my sister an apartment full of furniture, but my ex was appalled. He couldn't believe that I wanted to give away all that stuff for nothing."

Communities of color talk about money a lot, added Ulrich. "Within the majority culture, you have the option not to talk about it until it becomes an issue. Now, with so many interracial marriages, it's become an issue."

Every individual is different, of course. Suggesting that all members of a particular group have similar attitudes toward money is patently silly. But look broadly at the retirement saving numbers, as some major studies have, and trends begin to emerge. Understanding those trends can help us chart a course forward -- especially within a marriage, where compromises already need to be struck every single day.

For instance, the ING Retirement Research Institute recently looked at the average retirement savings of different minority groups. What it discovered: Cultural attitudes sometimes feed in to those numbers. For instance, while the savings of Hispanics were relatively low (an average of $54,000 in retirement plans), that was partially explained by underlying cultural attributes.

"Hispanics feel less prepared for retirement than other groups," said Fabian Gonzalez, vice president of multicultural sales for ING U.S. "To some extent that reflects the priorities of the Hispanic community, such as living with an extended family and taking care of elderly relatives, or sacrificing one's own wealth in order to give greater opportunities to one's children."

The Great Recession may have also exacerbated our different experiences of money, since it seems to have affected some pockets of American society more than others. A study by Ariel Investments and Aon Hewitt, "401(k) Plans In Living Color," surveyed the retirement savings of 2.4 million employees at 60 large organizations. It found that 8.8 percent of African-Americans had to take hardship withdrawals from their 401(k)s as the recession hit full-force in 2010, compared with 1.7 percent of whites and 1.2 percent of Asians.

Experts say that one's background is only one part of a much larger picture. Even if spouses enter into a marriage carrying their own cultural attitudes toward money, they are often trumped by other factors that are even more deeply entrenched.

"I've come across many marriages with spouses from different cultural backgrounds, and I've noticed that isn't the biggest factor in differing attitudes towards money," said Ann Minnium, an adviser with Concierge Financial Planning in Scotch Plains, N.J. "More often it's upbringing. People who come from a family that had to watch every penny are often that way themselves."

To understand how cultural background can shape one's money views, I need look no farther than my own marriage. My wife is of Haitian heritage, I am a white Canadian, and we are making it work in the multiethnic stew that is Brooklyn, N.Y.

Early in our relationship, ?we had divvied up the bill paying;?she would take care of some, I would tend to others, and I never thought twice about it. But in a premarital counseling session, I discovered this was a major source of stress for her. Since she had grown up in rural Haiti, one of the poorest nations on Earth, she had absorbed the notion that wealth and long-term security were never guaranteed. It could all go away at any moment.

The juggling of bills brought up those fears that we might not have enough, every single month. Understanding where she was coming from, I simply took over the monthly bill-paying and paperwork,?and she tries to put those deeply?harbored financial fears out of her mind.

"It shouldn't be about Me versus You," Ulrich said. "It's about how much respect you have for each other's culture, and about where you can find common ground. Respect the culture enough to talk it through."

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/marriage-money-bridging-interracial-divide-1C7280228

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NYPD Tracks Stolen Phone Records Forever - Business Insider

When a phone is reported stolen to the New York Police Department, detectives routinely request phone records from the day of the theft onwards, in case the suspect uses the phone to make calls.

The requests, generally made as subpoenas without the victim's consent or knowledge, last anywhere from four days to two weeks, according to an NYPD officer who spoke with the New York Times.

Sprint requires the police to have the victim fill out a form first. Other carriers don't.

The subpoena adds your phone number and numbers called from that phone to?a database called the Enterprise Case Management System. The system allows detectives to cross-reference that number against phone numbers from other cases.

In the process, "the?Police Department?has quietly amassed a trove of telephone logs, all obtained without a court order, that could conceivably be used for any investigative purpose," reports the New York Times.

Sometimes the NYPD could even monitor calls made from a new phone you use to replace the stolen one.?The same subpoena can also include calls made to and from your new phone if the number has been transferred, detectives told the Times.

Detectives tell victims to hold off on transferring their number so they have a better chance of tracking calls made by thieves.

?If large amounts of victim phone records are being collected and added to a searchable database, it?s very troubling,? said Michael Sussmann, a lawyer who represents wireless carriers, interviewed by phone interview via the New York Times.

The NYPD wouldn't comment on whether information obtained from call records had been used for other cases.

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The Philosophy of Race - Mixed Race Studies

The Philosophy of Race

Routledge
2011-12-14
1,584 pages
Hardback: 978-0-415-49602-5

Edited by:

Paul Taylor, Professor of Philosophy; African American Studies
Pennsylvania State University

Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the need for a comprehensive collection to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important foundational and cutting-edge scholarship.

Volume I (?Philosophy and the History of Race, Race in the History of Philosophy?) brings together the key texts to have shaped the most widely recognized forms of ?race thinking?. The second and third volumes in the collection, meanwhile, explore the questions that race raises in philosophy?s traditional subfields. Volume II (?Racial Being and Knowing?) gathers the best and most influential work to unravel the implications of racial practices for metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology. And Volume III (?Race-ing Beauty, Goodness, and Right?) collects the key scholarship to deal with the consequences of racial practices for aesthetics, ethics, and politics.

The final volume in the collection (?Intersections and Positions?) assembles the most important work to grapple with the methodological and geographical complications that accompany a commitment to racialism. (Race is an inherently contextual phenomenon and some of the material gathered in this volume?in particular, that exploring racialization in Japan, Brazil, and Norway?provides a refreshing counterweight to the philosophical zeal for abstraction.)

The Philosophy of Race is edited by Paul C. Taylor, a leading scholar in the field. The collection is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its intellectual and historic context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.

CONTENTS

• Volume I: HISTORY
  • Part 1: Philosophical Historiography
    • 1. Cornel West, ?A Genealogy of Modern Racism?, Prophesy Deliverance! Towards an Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (Westminster Press, 1982), pp. 47?68.
    • 2. Robert Bernasconi, ?Race, Culture, History? (plenary lecture at Sodertorn University, 28 May 2009), pp. 11?46.
    • 3. David Theo Goldberg, ?The End(s) of Race?, Postcolonial Studies, 2004, 7, 2, 211?30.
  • Part 2: Early Figures and Moments
    • 4. Harry Bracken, ?Philosophy and Racism?, Philosophia, 1978, 8, 2?3, 241?60.
    • 5. Richard Popkin, ?Hume?s Racism Reconsidered?, The Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Brill, 1992), pp. 64?75.
    • 6. Meg Armstrong, ??The Effects of Blackness?: Gender, Race, and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant?, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1996, 54, 3, 213?36.
    • 7. Bernard Boxill and Thomas E. Hill, ?Kant and Race?, in Bernard Boxill (ed.), Race and Racism (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 448?71.
    • 8. Patricia Purtschert, ?On the Limit of Spirit: Hegel?s Racism Revisited?, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2010, 36, 9, 1039?51.
    • 9. Tom Jeannot, ?Marx, Capitalism, and Race?, in Harry Van der Linden (ed.), Democracy, Racism, and Prisons (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2007), pp. 69?92.
  • Part 3: Late Modern Race Theory in/and the Canon
    • 10. Berel Lang, ?Heidegger and the Jewish Question: Metaphysical Racism in Silence and Word?, in Julie K. Ward and Tommy L. Lott (eds.), Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 205?21.
    • 11. Kathryn Gines, ?Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendt?s The Origins of Totalitarianism?, in Dan Stone and Richard King (eds.), Imperialism, Slavery, Race, and Genocide: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt (Berghahn, 2007), pp. 38?53.
    • 12. Jonathan Judaken, ?Sartre on Racism: From Existential Phenomenology to Globalization and ?the New Racism??, in Jonathan Judaken (ed.), Race After Sartre (SUNY Press, 2008), pp. 23?54.
  • Part 4: Critical Race Theory and the New Canon
    • 13. Diego von Vacano, ?Race and Political Theory: Lessons from Latin America?, in Jorge Gracia (ed.), Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity (Cornell University Press, 2007), pp. 248?66.
    • 14. Howard McGary, ?Douglass on Racial Assimilation and Racial Institutions?, in Bill E. Lawson and Frank Kirkland (eds.), Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Publishing, 1999), pp. 50?63.
    • 15. Nancy Fraser, ?Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical ?Race? Theory, and the Politics of Culture?, in Morris Dickstein (ed.), The Revival of Pragmatism (Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 157?75.
    • 16. Vivian M. May, ?Thinking from the Margins, Acting at the Intersections: Anna Julia Cooper?s A Voice from the South?, Hypatia, 2004, 19, 2, 74?91.
    • 17. K. A. Appiah, ?The Uncompleted Argument: DuBois and the Illusion of Race?, Critical Inquiry, 1985, 12, 1, 21?37.
    • 18. W. E. B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept [1940] (Transaction Publishers, 1992), pp. 97?103, 114?17, 129?33, 137?40.
    • 19. Frantz Fanon, ?The Lived Experience of the Black?, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. R. Philcox [1952] (Grove Press, 1967), pp. 78?99.
    • 20. Lewis R. Gordon, ?Racism, Colonialism, and Anonymity: Social Theory and Embodied Agency?, Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: A Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Routledge, 1995), pp. 37?67.
• Volume II: Racial Being and Knowing
  • Part 5: What Races Are, What ?Race? Means
    • 21. Charles W. Mills, ??But What Are You Really?? The Metaphysics of Race?, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Cornell University Press, 1998), pp. 41?66.
    • 22. Lucius Outlaw, ?Conserve Races? In Defense of W. E. B. Du Bois?, Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folks (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), pp. 139?62.
    • 23. Ron Mallon, ?Passing, Traveling, and Reality: Social Construction and the Metaphysics of Race?, Nous, 2004, 38, 644?73.
    • 24. Robin O. Andreasen, ?A New Perspective on the Race Debate?, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1998, XLIX, 2, 199?225.
    • 25. Philip Kitcher, ?Does ?Race? have a Future??, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 2007, 35, 4, 293?317.
    • 26. David Theo Goldberg, Racist Culture (Blackwell, 1993), pp. 80?9.
    • 27. S. Haslanger, ?Language, Politics and ?the Folk?: Looking for ?the Meaning? of ?Race??, The Monist, 2010, 93, 2, 169?87.
    • 28. Joshua Glasgow, Julie L. Shulman, and Enrique G. Covarrubias, ?The Ordinary Conception of Race in the United States and its Relation to Racial Attitudes: A New Approach?, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2009, 9, 1?2, 15?38.
  • Part 6: What Racial Identities Are
    • 29. Linda Mart?n-Alcoff, ?Philosophy and Racial Identity?, Philosophy Today, 1997, 41, 1, 67?76.
    • 30. K. Anthony Appiah, ?Synthesis: For Racial Identities?, Color Conscious (Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 75?105.
    • 31. Judith Butler, ?Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen?s Psychoanalytic Challenge?, Bodies That Matter (Routledge, 1993), pp. 167?86.
    • 32. Paul C. Taylor, Race: A Philosophical Introduction (Polity, 2004), pp. 84?7, 112?15.
  • Part 7: Power, Knowledge, Self-Knowledge, and Experience
    • 33. Charles Mills, ?White Ignorance?, in Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana (eds.), Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (SUNY Press, 2007), pp. 11?38.
    • 34. Anika Maaza Mann, ?Race and Feminist Standpoint Theory?, in Kathryn Gines, Donna Dale-Marcano, and Maria del Guadelupe Davidson, Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2010), pp. 105?20.
    • 35. Shannon Sullivan, ?Ignorance and Habit?, Revealing Whiteness (University of Indiana Press, 2006), pp. 17?44.
    • 36. Ned Block, ?How Heritability Misleads About Race?, Boston Review, 1996, 20, 6, 30?35.
    • 37. Michael Root, ?The Problem of Race in Medicine?, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2001, 31, 1, 20?39.
    • 38. Ronald Sundstrom, ?Race and Place: Social Space in the Production of Human Kinds?, Philosophy and Geography, 2003, 6, 1, 83?95.
• Volume III: Race-ing Beauty, Goodness, and Right
  • Part 8: Racism
    • 39. Kwame Anthony Appiah, ?Racisms?, in D. T. Goldberg (ed.), Anatomy of Racism (University of Minnesota Press, 1990), pp. 3?17.
    • 40. Lewis R. Gordon, ?Racialism, Racism, Racialists, Racists?, Bad Faith and Anti-Black Racism (Humanity Books, 1999), pp. 67?77.
    • 41. J. L. A. Garcia, ?The Heart of Racism?, Journal of Social Philosophy, 1996, 2, 5?45.
    • 42. Tommie Shelby, ?Is Racism in the Heart??, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2002, 33, 411?20.
    • 43. L. Faucher and E. Machery, ?Racism: Against Jorge Garcia?s Moral and Psychological Monism?, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2009, 39, 1, 41?62.
    • 44. Robert Bernasconi, ?The Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racisms?, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2010, 7, 2, 205?16.
  • Part 9: Race, the Right, and the Good
    • 45. Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (Cornell University Press, 1997), pp. 1?19.
    • 46. Anna Stubblefield, ?Races as Families?, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2001, 32, 1, 99?112.
    • 47. L. Blum, ?Three Kinds of Race-Related Solidarity?, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2007, 38, 53?72.
    • 48. Linda Mart?n Alcoff, ?Latino/as, Asian Americans, and the Black-White Binary?, Journal of Ethics, 2003, 7, 1, 5?27.
    • 49. Howard McGary, ?Psychological Violence, Physical Violence, and Racial Oppression?, in Lewis R. Gordon (ed.), Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy (Routledge, 1996), pp. 263?72.
    • 50. Samantha Vice, ?How Do I Live in This Strange Place??, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2010, 41, 3, 323?42.
  • Part 10: Selected Issues in Racial Politics
    • 51. Richard Wasserstrom, ?Preferential Treatment, Color-Blindness, and the Evils of Racism and Racial Discrimination?, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 1987, 61, 1, 27?42.
    • 52. Howard McGary, ?Achieving Democratic Equality: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Reparations?, Journal of Ethics, 2003, 7, 1, 93?113.
    • 53. Angela Y. Davis, ?Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition?, in Tommy L. Lott (ed.), A Companion to African-American Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 360?9.
    • 54. Glen Coulthard, ?Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the ?Politics of Recognition??, Contemporary Political Theory, 2007, 6, 4, 437?60.
  • Part 11: Aesthetics
    • 55. Monique Roelofs, ?Racialization as an Aesthetic Production: What Does the Aesthetic Do for Whiteness and Blackness and Vice Versa??, in George Yancy (ed.), White on White/Black on Black (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), pp. 83?124.
    • 56. Dan Flory, ?Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist?, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2006, 64, 1, 67?79.
    • 57. Mariana Ortega, ?Othering the Other: The Spectacle of Katrina for our Racial Entertainment Pleasure?, Contemporary Aesthetics, 2009, 2.
    • 58. Robert Gooding-Williams, ?Aesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, Astaire?, Look, a Negro! Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture and Politics (Routledge, 2006), pp. 43?68.
    • 59. Falguni A. Sheth, ?The Hijab and the Sari: The Strange and the Sexy Between Colonialism and Global Capitalism?, Contemporary Aesthetics, 2009, 2.
• Volume IV: Intersections and Positions
  • Part 12: Intersectionality
    • 60. Nira Yuval-Davis, ?Intersectionality, Citizenship and Contemporary Politics of Belonging?, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2007, 10, 4, 561?74.
    • 61. Patricia Hill Collins, ?It?s All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation?, Hypatia, 1998, 13, 3, 62?82.
    • 62. Jorge J. E. Gracia, ?The Nature of Ethnicity with Special Reference to Hispanic/Latino Identity?, Public Affairs Quarterly, 1999, 13, 1, 25?42.
    • 63. Ladelle McWhorter, ?Sex, Race, and Biopower: A Foucauldian Genealogy?, Hypatia, 2004, 19, 3, 38?62.
    • 64. Stuart Hall, ?Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance?, Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism (UNESCO, 1980), pp. 305?45.
    • 65. ?tienne Balibar, ?Uprisings in the Banlieues?, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 2007, 14, 1, 47?71.
  • Part 13: Mapping Racial Imaginaries: Inventing the Other
    • 66. Edward Said, ?Introduction to Orientalism?, in Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin (eds.), The Edward Said Reader (Vintage, 2000), pp. 67?74, 78?81, 90?3.
    • 67. David Haekwon Kim, ?Orientalism and America Enlarged?, Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, 2003, 2, 2, 30?4.
    • 68. V. Y. Mudimbe, ?Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness?, The Invention of Africa (Indiana University Press, 1988), pp. 1?23.
    • 69. Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers (Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 41, 56?9, 73?5, 80?90, 98?102.
    • 70. David Theo. Goldberg, ?Racial Europeanization?, Ethnic & Racial Studies, 2006, 29, 2, 331?64.
    • 71. Nadia Abu El-Haj, ?Racial Palestinianization and the Janus-Faced Nature of the Israeli State?, Patterns of Prejudice, 2010, 44, 1, 27?41.
  • Part 14: Positioning Critical Identities: Inventing Self and Community
    • 72. Sonia Sikka, ?In What Sense are Dalits Black?? (presentation to ?Beyond the White?Black Binary?, conference held at Pennsylvania State University, 12 November 2010).
    • 73. Linda Mart?n Alcoff, ?Mestizo Identity?, in Naomi Zack (ed.), American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995), pp. 257?78.

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"Two and a Half Men" star finds religion, calls TV show "filth"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Angus T. Jones, star of CBS's raunchy television comedy "Two and a Half Men", has urged viewers to change the channel, saying his new-found religious beliefs are at odds with his job playing a fun-loving teen on the popular show.

Jones, 19, who has played Jake Harper - the son of Jon Cryer's character Alan - for nine years, appealed to fans to stop watching the show "and filling your head with filth."

In a YouTube video made for the California-based Forerunner Christian Church, Jones said his recent Bible studies made him uncomfortable with the risque humor that marks one of the most-watched comedies on U.S. television.

"If you watch 'Two and a Half Men', please stop watching 'Two and a Half Men," Jones says in the video. "I'm on 'Two and a Half Men' and I don't want to be on it."

"If I am doing any harm, I don't want to be here. I don't want to be contributing to the enemy's plan... You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like that.

"I'm not okay with what I'm learning, what the Bible says and being on that television show," Jones added.

The CBS network and Warner Bros Television, which makes the comedy, both declined to comment on Monday on Jones's remarks.

Jones's character recently had a brief fling with actress Miley Cyrus, who made a guest appearance as a young temptress in an October episode.

His remarks could pose new problems for the comedy, which was revamped in 2011 following the firing of star Charlie Sheen for erratic behavior off screen and his vicious public dispute with the show's producers.

Sheen's womanizing bachelor character and alter-ego, Charlie Harper, was killed off and replaced by Ashton Kutcher, playing an Internet billionaire.

The comedy, now in its 10th season, is watched by about 14 million Americans, and is seen in more than 20 countries around the world.

(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Alden Bentley)

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Smelling a white odor

ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2012) ? You can see the color white; you can hear white noise. Now, Weizmann Institute researchers show that you can also smell a white odor. Their research findings appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The white we see is actually a mixture of light waves of different wavelengths. In a similar manner, the hum we call white noise is made of a combination of assorted sound frequencies. In either case, to be perceived as white, a stimulus must meet two conditions: The mix that produces them must span the range of our perception; and each component must be present at the exact same intensity. Could both of these conditions be met with odors, so as to produce a white smell? That question has remained unanswered, until now, in part due to such technical difficulties as getting the intensities of all the scents to be identical.

A research team in the Neurobiology Department, led by research student Tali Weiss and Dr. Kobi Snitz, both in the group of Prof. Noam Sobel, decided to take up the challenge. They began with 86 different pure scents (each made of a single type of odor molecule) spanning the entire "smell map," diluted them to obtain similar intensities and then created blends. Each blend contained a different mixture of odors from various parts of the smell map. These blends were then presented in pairs to volunteers, who were asked to compare the two scent-blends.

The team discovered that the more odors that were blended together in the paired mixtures, the more the subjects tended to rate them as similar -- even though the two shared no common components. Blends that each contained 30 different odors or more were thought to be almost identical.

The researchers then created a number of such odor blends, giving them a nonsense name: Laurax. Once the subjects were exposed to one of the Laurax mixes and became accustomed to the smell, they were exposed to new blends -- mixtures they had not previously smelled. They also called some of these new blends "Laurax," but only if those contained 30 or more odors and these encompassed the range of possible smells. In contrast, mixtures made of 20 scents or fewer were not referred to as Laurax. In other words, Laurax was a white smell. In a follow-up experiment, volunteers described it as being neutral -- not pleasant, but not unpleasant.

"On the one hand," says Sobel, "The findings expand the concept of 'white' beyond the familiar sight and sound. On the other, they touch on the most basic principles underlying our sense of smell, and these raise some issues with the conventional wisdom on the subject." The most widely accepted view, for instance, describes the sense of smell as a sort of machine that detects odor molecules. But the Weizmann study implies that our smell systems perceive whole scents, rather than the individual odors they comprise.

Also participating in the research were Adi Yablonka in the group of Prof. Noam Sobel and Dr. Elad Schneidman, also of the Neurobiology Department.

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1. T. Weiss, K. Snitz, A. Yablonka, R. M. Khan, D. Gafsou, E. Schneidman, N. Sobel. Perceptual convergence of multi-component mixtures in olfaction implies an olfactory white. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208110109

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GlaxoSmithKline has no plans to delist Indian arm - executive

MUMBAI (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc has no plans to delist its Indian consumer products arm GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd, David Redfern, chief strategy officer at Britain's biggest drugmaker, said on Monday.

GSK said earlier it planned to buy up to an additional 31.8 percent stake in the Indian unit for 52.2 billion rupees ($939 million).

The company has been expanding into both emerging markets and non-prescription consumer health - and in some cases a combination of the two.

The company, which plans to launch new variants of the flagship Horlicks brand in India, is looking to increase penetration of the product in the north and western regions of the country, Redfern said.

(Reporting by Kaustubh Kulkarni; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/glaxosmithkline-no-plans-delist-indian-arm-executive-054741457--finance.html

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