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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, July 22
The bad news is that Wednesday was another tough day in Streakland, with Ichiro Suzuki, Omar Infante, Josh Hamilton and Vlad Guerrero eating donuts for dinner and destroying the hopes and dreams of about 15 percent of our nation-wide audience combined.
The medium news is that Carl Crawford put up an 0-for-0, pressing the pause button 7.5 percent of all streaks — that's a lot of pausing — an incredible amount of pausation.
The great news is that Derrek Lee went 2-for-5 to extend my streak to a season-high 10 games. Did someone say I'm gaining some street cred around here? Have I possibly started to figure this whole thing out? Am I contemplating quitting my job so that I'll be eligible for the $3,000,000 grand prize?
These are all good questions to ponder as we look at Thursday's picks.
Time for Thursday's picks
Oh, hello there …
? Mark Teixeira: .636 AVG (7-for-11) lifetime vs. Royals starter Bruce Chen
? Adrian Gonzalez: .500 AVG (7-for-14) lifetime vs. Braves starter Tim Hudson
? David Wright: .556 AVG (5-for-9) lifetime vs. Dodgers starter Hiroki Kuroda
? Orlando Hudson: .636 AVG (7-for-11) lifetime vs. Orioles starter Kevin Millwood
? Ichiro Suzuki: .346 AVG (18-for-52) since '05 vs. Red Sox starter John Lackey
Feeling kinda spicy?
? Nick Punto: .458 AVG (11-for-24) lifetime vs. Orioles starter Kevin Millwood.
You had me at Millwood until I did some recon and saw that Punto is hitting .192 over his last 10.
You'll thank me later …
? Nelson Cruz: .208 AVG (5-for-24) lifetime vs. Angels starter Jered Weaver
? Albert Pujols: .176 AVG (3-for-17) lifetime vs. Phillies starter Cole Hamels
? Ryan Howard: .182 AVG (2-for-11) lifetime vs. Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright
Leaderboard time!
"cwlarson" kept his gravy train flowing, riding Robinson Cano's coattails to reach a 33-game streak. And he better keep it up if he wants to avoid the fire breathing out of this hit dragon.
Yeah, I was referring to myself as a mythical creature there. This has to stop.
Side note: The thought of a dragon holding a baseball bat is funnier than I initially imagined.
Top MLB streakers
? Buster Posey: 15 games
? Ian Kinsler: 14 games
? Adam Lind: 14 games
? Nelson Cruz: 10 games
? Orlando Hudson: 10 games
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I'm definitely riding the Teixeira wagon today. Not only is he hitting .368 in July but he even hits better right handed than left handed in his career. He hits Chen well so it's obvious he is my choice. Yanks in Survivor and A Rod in HR BTS.
Teix still can't hit at night though. His July night #s are still awful. But he owns Chen so that is probably enough to get him through. Although this is new Chen. The guy who is determined to stay in the big leagues.
I went with Jeter. He can still hit lefties. It don't matter to me because I got resetted 2 days ago and got "resetted" again yesterday with all walks for Thome.
Good luck to everybody who chose Votto as he is out of the starting lineup for Thursday but you know he will pinch hit.
Another big PH wipe-out in the making with HRam out. Probably not going to PH unless Johnson blows the game early which is highly unlikely. I posted yesterday that he is gonna be rested soon by the mgr.
Votto too is unlikely to PH unless the Votron Volquez blows games early. Probably not gonna happen with down dominant the Voltron force was on his last start. And the mgr. really wanted to rest Votto for days already but couldn't because of Rolen being out.
I think today is the day to determine if anyone's gonna win this. There is a lot of trap set for huge wipeout today. If everyone passes today, there is still hope for someone getting the big salami.
MCab can't hit during the day this month.
JHamil is going against Weaver who threw 2 hitters against TX this month. Blanking both JHamil & Vlad that day.
Ichiro most likely in a huge slump.
LaV's List
Today's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 109 batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Mark Teixeira 226 9.13(1rst & 3rd)
Adrian Beltre 224 9.05(2nd & 4th)
Hanley Ramirez 202 8.16
Kevin Youkilis 201 8.12
Ichiro Suzuki 171 6.91
Miguel Cabrera 151 6.10(4th)
Orlando Hudson 148 5.98
Joe Mauer 125 5.05
Derek Jeter 107 4.32
Robinson Cano 72 2.91
Josh Hamilton 69 2.79
Adrian Gonzalez 65 2.63
No Selection 47 1.9
Delmon Young 45 1.82
Yesterday Top2500 reset was 24.56%, with biggest culprit being Ichiro
Highest "No Selection":2 on Pg#6 with streaks of 17 back to zero.
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Pick
RIP2TheCompetition, 18, pg 6, J. Hamilton
http://www.jew, 14, pg 27, A. Beltre
_Em_, 14, pg 28, A. Beltre
iheartstrazzy(AKA The hit Dragon), 10, pg 58, O. Hudson
forcook, 9, pg 92, I. Suzuki
dave55, 8, pg100+, K. Youkilis
baseballgirlie13, 15, reset by J. Hamilton
I like Jew's pick of Beltre. He seems to be back on his hot-bat wagon and he is in his best box (lefty-away-night).
@btsplayer Yah i liked all the numbers associated with beltres game today..like my chances of him getting a hit but still holding my breathe and hoping my streak can get to 15 today!! lol meanwhile my brother is at 10 and chose denard span today..says he has a feeling span is gna get a multi hit game..guess we will see bout that!!
Only 15 out of top 2500 have Votto ,7 ppl have B. Boesch who is not starting and as pointed out 202 have HanRam.
I didn't even notice that Weaver is pitching for the Angels. I don't like Hamilton's chances and maybe he's finally cooling off is Hamilton.
@btsplayer Never underestimate Dustbag's miserable management… He was giving Jay Bruce a "day off" on Sunday to "clear his mind" but still pinch hit him in the 7th.
Slumping during the day this month or not, Miguel Cabrera delivered with an RBI single in the fourth. In addition, I'm up to 5 and done for the day. Hah, 8.8% of the way!
While everyone is thinking Tex, I went with Jeter to hopefully bring me to tie my season high of 5.
Marlins game was hilarious at the end. A triple followed by 2 intent walks plus a single by a catcher who probably felt slightly snubbed.
My picks today;
Beat the Streak and Home run: Mark Teixeira
Survivor: Yankees
Highest no selection;
Beat the streak: 2 way Tie between "mean22" and "laaron26" (page 6) with streaks of 17
Survivor: "ianeb72199" (page 2) with a streak of 9
Home run: 2 way Tie between "cblueiis2" (page 1) "kmwoods20" (page 2) with streaks of 3
All of them are going back to 0 on their streaks in the respective game.
So here we go, 2-2 tie going to the bottom half of the ninth with the P spot due up first to bat, is HanRam gonna PH?
No HanRam today pushing the pause Button on 200 streaks.
miggy takes me back to 2 in bts And with Fla pulling it out I go to 2 in survivor as well. GL to all tonight.
"Am I contemplating quitting my job so that I'll be eligible for the $3,000,000 grand prize? "
I don't think that would matter, since you had your job during part of the streak though.
But I would love to know why that makes you ineligible to win?
I could see if you actually PLAYED or even were a coach or manager.
Like I'd love to work for MLB Network someday, but I don't think I could take having to quit BTS.
It is a HUUUGGGEEE part of my life.
Why the requirement?
"I'm definitely riding the Teixeira wagon today. Not only is he hitting .368 in July but he even hits better right handed than left handed in his career. He hits Chen well so it's obvious he is my choice. Yanks in Survivor and A Rod in HR BTS."
The only reason I did not go there is that Chen has actually pitched pretty well this year.
A tip of my Cub cap to ooliber for working on the top 2500 list each day. Always interesting to see who they took.
Well I'm back at the 0 again in survivor. Hot Hammels outduels hot Wainwright in steamy St. Louey today.
"Another big PH wipe-out in the making with HRam out. Probably not going to PH unless Johnson blows the game early which is highly unlikely. I posted yesterday that he is gonna be rested soon by the mgr."
I am confused.
Why would they be MORE likely to pinch-hit if the game is a blowout?
"@btsplayer Never underestimate Dustbag's miserable management… He was giving Jay Bruce a "day off" on Sunday to "clear his mind" but still pinch hit him in the 7th."
The Rangers did the same with Josh Hamilton the day before the ASB.
When I see a guy has the day off, if there is no physical injury mentioned, I always watch the game extremely nervously, particularly if it is a NL hitter.
"Hot Hammels outduels hot Wainwright in steamy St. Louey today."
Well, the bullpen beat St. Louis.
Not Hamels.
Jeter brings me to 5. Good Luck, Hit Dragon, I almost picked O-Dog as well.
@ champion how did Hamels not beat the Cards. He pitched 8 innings and gave up 1 hit. Just because he didn't get the win the credit goes to him as much as anyone.
Tex is going off. Going for the cycle Im calling it.
On the subject of strategies…….does anyone know the strategy of the all-time BTS leader – the guy who made it to 49?????
Blog author goes down. Better keep his day job now!
Strategies: Pick 1 of these 5 for every game – Cano, Ichiro, Cabrera, Hamilton, & Longoria. What are odds all 5 will fall in same day? Close to 0%. Trick is not picking the 1 or 2 that will. Oh & if 1 or more of those don't play, substitute with Prado, Polanco, Pujols, or another favorite.
Not my strategy, I rode the #5 horse of Twins to start a new streak. Gitty-up!
Josh Hammy got his, good job RIP.
Biting my nails for Beltre – 0 for 3 after 6. If I make it to 15, I'll get ahead of my statistician brother-in-law and that would feel good! It's not like the Hyphen to hold anyone back.
"On the subject of strategies…….does anyone know the strategy of the all-time BTS leader – the guy who made it to 49?????"
Mkaratzia: Timely and lucky and lemming picks. Hardly anything out of the ball park. The same startegies used by any other high streakers. That is bad pitching and strong hitting. I recall he rode Ichiro, Hanley, Magg and Braun hard. I could be wrong but I seem to recall those names.
"I'll get ahead of my statistician brother-in-law and that would feel good!"
I just talked to Beltre. He says he doesn't math geeks so he will bet a hit just for you. He said he was taking easy because the game is won already and was mostly thinking about picking put a dozen of Taco Bell Gorditas on the way back to hotel.
Yes! I told you. Good thing I made a call to Beltre. Just texted him and told him to have a blast with Gorditas.
@dodgerlu Thanks….hoping for a first at-bat hit tomorrow or else I'll be stuck @ work wondering if my guy got me a hit.
Beltre just texted me back during the pitching change. He said whoever is catching for Seattle tomorrow will be feeling some Gorditas his way when he takes big swings. Poor Bard.
Thanks, btsplayer!
It seems like every night there is a no hitter or 2 in the making. Sometimes more than 2 a night. Next thing, Suppan will be throwing a perfect game. I guess all the hormones from 2 yrs ago are wearing off. Time to speak to Manny or A-Roid's sources because this is not good for BTS.
Now curious to see if Lackey's no-hitter will hold. Will they leave him in? It's not a shutout.
Haha. Lackey's no hitter broken. So cool.
Yeah, thanks to Bard, no less! I think he took issue with that gordita remark.
@ponyforkeana: go back & read your "classy" comment. You should look @ your face in the mirror before opening your hole.
Hmmm. Name calling. Who did I name call? Calling a leader getting lucking day after day is not name calling. I called it like I see it.


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But the common strategy for connecting with the community is hardly warm and cuddly for a Vancouver legal advocacy group that issued a report concluding dogs are the leading cause of injury at the hands of police forces across British Columbia.
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The score was 1-1 in the third at a high school girls' playoff hockey game in Massachusetts.
You can only imagine the tension among the parents, coaches and players. Obviously both teams wanted to win—and one dad was so desperate for his daughter's team to move onto the finals that he allegedly pointed a laser beam into the eyes of the opposing goalie.
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Winthrop High School Assistant Superintendent Lisa Howard noticed the beam in the third and ordered 42-year-old Cordes to leave the rink.
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Feelings On Acne
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Sometimes I feel like I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.
After buying and trying all the over the counter creams, lotions and potions under the sun, to using topical and medicated creams to having every available anti-biotic, cutting out various food groups from my diet, self esteem plumetting to an all time low, two courses of gruelling courses of roaccutane (accutane), I feel my acne slowly returning.
I am now at an endocrinologist but i feel as though i have lost all hope.
I feel like, to an extent, I should try and keep a posotive outlook on things, which I can sometimes in an "it could always be worse" sort of way.
But its hard to feel like things can get worse when you feel so low. I feel selfish feeling like this but I hate what I see when i look in the mirror.
Do I try and accept myself the way I am, or keep returning to life-ruling, gruelling medications that take toll on the rest of my looks whilst givnig me the skin i desire?
This is taking over my life and I don't know where to turn


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Pink Talking Fish began as a lark: wouldn't it be a deliciously jammy experience for audiences if a crack ensemble of jamband veterans tackled the songs of Phish, Talking Heads and Pink Floyd in endlessly inventive combinations?
Nearly four years later, the band has a national following that's buoyed its appearances at major U.S. festivals and headlining dates, including an upcoming New Year's Eve blowout at Boston's Paradise Rock Club. It'll be a massive affair that'll find the band covering not only its three namesake bands but also Michael Jackson, along with special guests like singer Jen Durkin and a fully fleshed-out horn section.
"We always want to do something special for the hometown," said bassist Eric Gould, who hails from Northborough. "We've done Halloween here. We've done an awesome boat cruise … it's time to do something huge at the Paradise, where we had an off-the-hook show in April, and do it for New Year's. It's going to be big fun."
Three out of four Pink Talking Fish members are locals, including Gould, drummer Zack Burwick (Shrewsbury) and guitarist Dave Brunyak (also Shrewsbury). Along with keyboardist Richard James, they've scaled some high peaks for a band that's transcended the "tribute" label and drawn crowds, the magic not so much in the familiar songs they play from three iconic bands but in the way they improvise and dig in on the musical connections found among the catalogs.
A Pink Talking Fish show can pinball from a Talking Heads song like "Slippery People" into a Floyd classic like "Another Brick in the Wall," or it can take the long way through songs like "Money," "Free," "Fearless," "Memories Can't Wait" and "Stash," all of which were part of an extended first set sequence at a recent Pink Talking Fish show in Ohio.
"This started as a dream band project, and since a national audience came along for the ride, now we're focused on what material we can bring on board to keep it fresh, and what can we do with it," Gould said.
Gould, best known as the former longtime bassist for jamtronica headliners Particle, sees Pink Talking Fish continuing to expand the concept and bring in other catalogs where appropriate; it's done the Grateful Dead, David Bowie and others, in addition to the forthcoming Michael Jackson material. The band's even looking into studio recording. Most of the appeal of Pink Talking Fish lies in the jams, the surprises and the hairpin turns of their live shows, but as bands like Umphrey's McGee recently proved with concept cover mashup albums like "Zonkey," there's potential appeal in recording their more inventive combinations.
"We continue to surprise ourselves with fun ideas and the point of this adventure," Gould said. "It feels like fire and it's burning hot right now. And we're still in inning one of this band."


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Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. Diversion, amusement, recreation, entertainment. 2. Merriment, fun, a display of playfulness or frolic.
Notes: Today's Good Word can be used as a verb meaning "to entertain in a playful manner", as in "Squirrels are disporting themselves in the tree." The noun for this verb is disportment, which has about the same meaning as disport. If we were to omit the initial syllable, di-, we would be left with sport. That is exactly what our English-speaking ancestors did.
In Play: The first sense of today's word implies nothing beyond entertainment: "What sort of disport does this resort offer?" The second sense of today's Good Word, however, implies showing off: "The children disported themselves with silly games while they waited in the airport."
Word History: Today's Good Word descended from Anglo-French disporter "divert, amuse", literally "carry away" in the sense of English "get carried away". The word was inherited by French from the Latin dis-, a prefix indicating separation, + portare "to carry". The root of the verb porter turns up in many English words. A porter is someone who carries our bags and a port, from Latin portus "gate", is a way in to safety for ships carrying cargo and passengers. The original Proto-Indo-European word came down to English as fare "to get along", akin to German fahren "travel by vehicle". We find remnants of this word in farewell, warfare, and welfare, how well we are faring or getting along. (We hope that Ellen Adams's welfare is filled with happy disport, for 'twas she who submitted the suggestion today's Good Word.)
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In April 2009, the author Michael Lewis published "Wall Street on the Tundra", the first of his essays about the idiosyncratic ways certain European countries contributed to the global financial crisis.
The essay is about Iceland, and it touches on Iceland's rich fisheries and on the silly paradox that once you've gotten rich on fishing and the opportunity to do a spot of investment banking comes along, you don't really think twice.
As for why, you can sort of imagine the working environment of an investment banker, even if you've never worked as one. It's much harder to imagine the working environment of an Icelandic fisherman. The video above offers some guidance.


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Given the way the San Jose Earthquakes dug themselves a giant hole in the first half of 2013, getting off to a fast start this season will be an imperative for the rebranded club.
And for Quakes stars Clarence Goodson and Chris Wondolowski, there's more than just a potential playoff spot hinging on those results.
With just two friendlies left on the US national team's schedule before World Cup preparation kicks off in May, Goodson and Wondolowski will depend in part on their club form to serve as final arguments for their inclusion on USMNT head coach Jurgen Klinsmann's final 23-man roster.
"Absolutely, the time's dwindling down, so anytime you do get an opportunity, you have to try to make the most of it," said Wondolowski, who did just that with a brace against South Korea on Feb. 1. "Whether there were a lot of friendlies or not, the time here [with San Jose], it's going to be very important. I have to continue to try to get better and show well and have a good start to the season."
That would behoove both Wondolowski and the Quakes.
San Jose, possibly resting on the laurels of their 2012 Supporters' Shield, sleepwalked through a 3-6-6 start last year, a stretch that helped push then coach Frank Yallop out the door and cost the Earthquakes a shot at the playoffs.
"We were just kind of waiting for things to happen, and talking about it, but not acting on it," Wondolowski said. "And I think it finally took the second half of the year for us to realize we can't just talk about it – we have to start walking the walk. And I thought we did. We're not waiting for anything to happen this year."
Although the strenuous national-team camp meant less downtime for Goodson and Wondolowski this winter, it also put them ahead of the curve, fitness-wise, from most of their MLS counterparts.
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For Goodson, this month offers a chance to blend in with teammates in a way he didn't get last year, joining San Jose in midstream.
"It's great to be able to go through a preseason with the team, be able to start fresh and not just try to fit in quickly," Goodson said. "We were kind of trying to do it on the fly last year, and obviously we ended the season well, but … [it helps] having training matches that are a little less intense, things where you can try some things and work things out, where we didn't have that opportunity last year.
"It was just trying to win games and we were in a desperate situation almost from Day 1."
From Goodson's perspective, the notion of making a good final impression on Klinsmann isn't foremost among his motivations for 2014.
"I always try to keep a high level, no matter what, whether it's Gold Cup or World Cup [on the horizon]," Goodson said. "That's just part of being a professional, giving everything that you have. It shouldn't be because there's an added bonus, you do more. It should be the same [effort] all the time.
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Let me first note that what I'm about to write isn't advice against taking time off. If one has the ways and means and desire to do so, then I do really believe that a gap between undergrad and grad school can be a really positive thing. I certainly don't believe that it's a bad idea. All I'm trying to do over here is to explain why taking time off might not necessarily be what all students would choose, or something that all students would see a clear benefit with no drawbacks from doing. So, let me state this clearly and for the record: it can be a really good thing for a lot of good reasons to take time off between undergrad and grad school.
As I and a few other commenters noted, though, this "take a few years off to find out who you are and to decide if grad school is really what you want" advice has the potential to alienate students from working-class/minority backgrounds and it assumes a couple of things: a) a certain kind of homogeneous experience at the undergrad level for students who would be in the group that would pursue graduate school, and b) (and this is what I've been having such a hard time articulating which is why I haven't been able to get this post written) a certain kind of worldview in which education itself is understood as a good and in which individuals with the ambition and the talent are entitled to leave full-time work to pursue it.
I did not take time off between undergrad and grad school. I graduated from undergrad at 21, I earned my MA at 22, and I earned my PhD at 28. I got a tenure-track job in English in my first year on the market, while ABD, at 28, and I was 34 when I learned that I got a positive tenure decision. In other words, my feeling that it's not totally and unequivocally necessary to "take time away from school" in order to work at a "regular job" in order to have "greater likelihood of success" at getting into graduate school, doing well once admitted into graduate school, or getting a job after grad school, is heavily influenced by my own trajectory in my own career. And I'm fully and freely willing to admit that if things hadn't worked out so neatly for me that I might feel differently. And I also know that there was a good amount of luck involved in things working out as they did for me, so let me make it clear that I do NOT talk up my experience when I advise my own students about graduate school.
So why didn't I consider taking time off in between graduate school and undergrad? At the time, I had expressed reasons that looking back weren't terribly valid. I didn't want to go into repayment on my loans from undergrad (which were not extensive - less than 10K); I knew that grad school would be a huge commitment of time and emotional energy on my part, and I did not want for that to be my life into my 30s or beyond. Those were the major ones. And knowing now what I didn't know then, those were not terribly compelling reasons. But, what I also said a lot, at the time and after, was that I knew that if I took time in between that I'd never have gone to grad school, although I never really examined what I meant when I said that. I think in trying to formulate this post, though, that this was the biggest of all my reasons, and I think it was actually a good one.
If I'd taken time off, why am I so sure that I'd not have thought grad school was an option later on? Let me present some reasons in no particular order:
- I was very much raised to believe that once one is working full time that doing so is a life sentence and that if you are "lucky enough to have a job" that the only good reason to quit it is because you got another job that pays as much or more than the one you're quitting. Being "out of work" was a bad thing, and even not working full-time and being self-supporting was a bad thing, and being those things would mean that you were lazy, irresponsible, selfish, or a drain on other people (in your family, if not on society as a whole). I have aunts and uncles and cousins who've failed to hold down jobs, who've been on public assistance, who've been homeless. Their situations caused stress in my family, and there was very little compassion about the plight of these people. It was always very clear to me that once I started working full time that if I for whatever reason "stopped out" of full-time work that nobody would think this was positive. And if I did that after having earned a college degree it would actually be even worse - why go to college if you're going to be a deadbeat who doesn't work? (I should note that my mother has always worked, and both of my grandmothers worked. Not for "extras" but to make sure that the utilities didn't get turned off. So the idea of "staying home with kids" didn't even occur to me as something that a person would do and that counted as work. Work was what one did for money, and not working was a failing.)
- School was never presented to me as something that counted as work, although I was expected to work hard in order to do well at school. In other words, quitting a job to pursue school would have been akin to quitting a job to be a bum. School was something that would increase one's opportunities in the world of work, but it did not count as a replacement for work.
- I've worked pretty steadily from the summer that I was 15. I can tell you two times when I did not hold down a paying job: 1) in my final semester of college, 2) during the summer that I wrote the bulk of my dissertation. And aside from those jobs that worked in high school (working at an ice cream place and a frozen yogurt place) all of the jobs that I held down are ones that used my skill set from my undergraduate years, so if I'd gotten a job after I got my B.A., I would not have landed a job in an unfamiliar work environment. I knew what it was to work in an office, to do editing work, to write for publication (newspapers and newsletters), to run a continuing ed program for senior citizens and to develop the advertising materials for it and to write the program handbook for that program, and to tutor. I knew what it was to come home after work and to feel totally intellectually dead inside, and I knew what it was to earn a regular paycheck and to pay bills. I suppose all of this is to say, I could see very clearly that if I went into that world after my B.A., I understood how difficult it would be to leave it.
- The only real support I had in terms of continuing my education came from people with whom I came into contact at college (and at my crappy regional university, that was mostly professors: not very many of my peers had grad school (or professional programs) on their radar as a possibility). I remember when I decided to change my major to English as an undergrad, and confessing that I wanted to do that to my mom. It was a lengthy conversation that involved a lot of crying and yelling. On both sides. I think about what it would have been like to leave the place where I had any sort of support, guidance, and encouragement about the study of literature, to return to my hometown to get a real job (and an apartment: my mom would never have let me continue living with her rent-free so that I could pay off loans and do things like study for the GRE and write exemplary statements of purpose and writing samples), and I really don't think that I could have kept the idea of graduate school alive in my head for 3 years under the pressures of those conditions, and without the support of people who "got it." You might say that I could have kept in touch with former profs, but coming from the crap regional place I went to (and now teaching at a crap regional place) I can tell you that I don't think maintaining those sorts of relationships is something realistic to expect. (Although I do try to do this with my own students, most of them disappear after graduation for exactly the reasons I'm outlining.) When you teach at a place like that, and when a student leaves to go "live their lives" for a while, it's commonly assumed that the student is not serious, or that their "real life" will get in the way.
- I look at the women I grew up with, and at some students I've taught, and I think that the whole "real life will get in the way" concern is one that can't be ignored. You know what happens when girls from backgrounds like mine stop out? They get pregnant. Or, if not that, they get boyfriends/husbands who are place-bound and who don't support their ambitions to go on. Of course there are exceptions to this, but those exceptions are rare. If I had gone to live and work in my hometown for 2 or 3 years, I'm pretty certain that I would have ended up in a bad marriage with First Love, just because there would have been a whole lot more support for me to do that than to go to graduate school. And I think by the time we fell apart, I would have been place-bound. And you know what? Worse than not taking time off in terms of one's potential for success in this profession is becoming place-bound.
But you know, this is the thing: these students are clueless. I certainly was. And the only place I was ever going to get a clue that I didn't have to settle for a job that paid the bills was in an academic context. I certainly have never heard that from anyone in my family (my mom is the only one of her siblings - 10 of them total - who graduated from high school; my Awesome Aunt is the only one in my father's family (7 kids there) to graduate from college - the local university, and she went part-time while working full-time with no family support in order to do it) or even from any of my friends from growing up.
Here's the thing: if you come from a background where "education" means that you get a piece of paper to get a job, if you come from a background where thinking is set up as opposed to "real life" and "what really matters," if you come from a background where the "done thing" rarely involves a B.A. let alone an M.A. or a Ph.D. - sometimes those three years off can mean that you never pursue the thing that you want most and that you'd be best at and most happy doing. Now, you might say that those students don't "really want it" if they can't stand up to those pressures. But I think a person who said that would be willfully looking away from the real difference between a student like the one that I was or the ones that I teach and students who have a great many more resources (emotional, financial) and a great deal more privilege, in terms of their ability to negotiate academic conventions and culture.


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Fun with the Future
A few months back, Washington Post ran a contest called, "America's Next Great Pundit." I entered. But rather than do as prompted and write about the issues currently before us, I decided to have fun with the future. I got rejected.
Take some of the cast of characters with a grain of salt. But as to the other characters, turn over your hourglass and pay heed to how the grain of salt turns into a sturdy pile of sand.
July 2021
Justice Antonin Scalia, the 85-year-old senior member of the Supreme Court, held a press conference yesterday to announce his retirement. Stooped over and weakened by three heart-attacks, he symbolized the conservative Court's decline.
The iconic jurist had hoped to retire upon the election of Senator Eric Cantor (R-Va) to the Presidency. The votes, however, weren't there.
"Now I know how [former Justice] Bill Brennan felt," the Justice chuckled, alluding to the liberal lion Scalia often battled during his early years on the Court. Thirty years ago, the elderly Brennan suffered a stroke and promptly sent his letter of resignation to a President on the opposite end of the political spectrum.
Sources close to President Cory Booker report that he will make good on the campaign promise to nominate Barack Obama to the first vacancy on the Supreme Court. Booker's declaration relegated his Democratic Primary competitors to meek "me too's" and helped catapult the former New Jersey Governor over incumbent President Biden at the polls.
At a dinner in Tehran with former Iranian President Mousavi commemorating the tenth anniversary of the fall of Ayatollah Khamenei, Obama told reporters that after five years of democracy promotion abroad, he's ready to return to Washington for a new challenge should Booker nominate him.
"Iran is our ally and has helped make Iraq and Afghanistan the stable states they are today. Global nukes are approaching zero. Israel and Palestine are partners in peace. We've gotten a lot done. But look, the law is my first love. And I've got a legacy to protect back home."
But those hoping Obama will unite with Justice Diane Wood, his second Court appointment, to reconstitute the long-lost, full-throated liberal wing of the court will be disappointed.
"My health care legislation has been turned into a money pit. My Wall Street regulations have turned into financial straitjackets. After Justice Kennedy retired, my economic-based affirmative action reforms and abortion-control legislation have been in danger."
Cantor's quixotic campaign and its landslide defeat finally nailed the coffin on Scalia's brand of conservatism, but the contested Democratic nomination points to Booker and Obama as the new vanguard of restraint against the Biden administration's excesses.
If Obama can get his Tehran comments past the progressive members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Scalia can satisfy himself with the irony that the liberal messiah of 2008 will be resurrected as the figurehead of new conservatism.


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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology- College of Veterinary Medicine
Midwestern University
Midwestern University College of Veterinary Medicine invites applications for a full-time faculty position in Anesthesia and Analgesia. This appointment can be tenure-track or clinical-track, depending on the goals of the applicant. The successful candidate will join a team of anesthesiologists who provide clinical services for small and large animal patients in the Animal Health Institute and who participate in anesthesiology, clinical skills, and elective courses within the DVM curriculum. All faculty members are expected to serve as clinical mentors for house officers.
The following qualifications are required:
The following qualifications are desirable but not required
Midwestern University is a private, not-for-profit organization that provides graduate and professional education in the health sciences. The University has two campuses -- one in Downers Grove, Illinois and the other in Glendale, Arizona. More than 6,700 full-time students are enrolled in graduate programs in veterinary medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, physician assistant studies, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nurse anesthesia, cardiovascular perfusion, podiatry, optometry, clinical psychology, speech language pathology, and biomedical sciences. Over 500 full-time faculty members and 400 staff members are dedicated to the education and development of our students in an environment that encourages learning, respect for all members of the health care team, service, interdisciplinary scholarly activity, and personal growth. The addition of veterinary medicine on the Glendale campus provides an excellent opportunity to train students following the principles of One Health at Arizona's first veterinary college. The college received full accreditation by the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education in September of 2018.
The CVM is housed in Cactus Wren Hall and in the Animal Health Institute. Cactus Wren Hall is a new facility with ample classrooms, teaching laboratories, research laboratories, conference rooms, and offices. The Animal Health Institute is comprised of The Companion Animal Clinic, The Equine and Bovine Center, and The Diagnostic Pathology Center. The Companion Animal Clinic is a modern and innovative veterinary hospital for small animals. The 110,000 sq. ft. building contains state-of-the-art medical, surgical, dental, and intensive care facilities. A full range of endoscopic equipment is available. Additional patient services include medical oncology, neurology, physical therapy, cardiology, and therapeutic plasma exchange. The clinic also offers full-service clinical pathology and microbiology laboratories. In addition to outstanding clinical facilities and equipment, the Companion Animal Clinic houses a pharmacy, a large and well-equipped surgery teaching laboratory, simulated examination rooms for clinical communications training using standardized clients/patients, and ample conference and small-group meeting rooms. Full service clinical pathology and clinical microbiology laboratories are housed in the clinic building. Adjacent to the Companion Animal Clinic is the Equine and Bovine Center, which houses large animal teaching and treatment facilities, and small herds of cattle and horses. The Diagnostic Pathology Center offers a full range of anatomical pathology and forensic pathology services, and contains ample teaching spaces.
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A pair of bumbling vampire-hunters attempts to destroy an undead nobleman and his cronies and rescue a buxom maiden in actor/director Roman Polanski's playful update of the venerable vampire genre. Bat expert and vampire obsessive Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) barely survives his journey through the Alps into snowy Slovenia to continue his oft-maligned research into the undead. Thawed out by his hapless assistant, Alfred (Polanski), and the frisky local innkeeper, Shagal (Alfie Bass), Abronsius quickly notices the overabundance of raw garlic as a decorating motif in the inn and its environs. Too ineffectual to save Shagal from having his blood sucked, the professor and Alfred miss the boat again when the mysterious Count Von Krolock (Ferdinand Mayne) kidnaps Shagal's built, beautiful daughter, Sarah (Sharon Tate). The itinerant vampire hunters must travel through the icy wilderness to Von Krolock's abode and evade his manservant and his effete son Herbert (Iain Quarrier) before Sarah joins the ranks of the ghouls. They soon learn, however, that the luxury-starved lass actually enjoys her captors' lavish attentions. The action climaxes during a costume ball attended by a phalanx of blood-suckers, although the laughs and surprises continue until the very end. Sixteen minutes of unauthorized cuts have been restored in some video editions of The Fearless Vampire Hunters, although the animated credits sequence that replaced them is also retained. The film marks the feature debut of Tate, who replaced Polanski's original choice, Jill St. John, on the advice of producer Martin Ransohoff. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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Long Beach boardwalk comeback begins with groundbreaking ceremony
The City of Long Beach officially began the resurrection Saturday of its 2.2-mile oceanfront boardwalk, wrecked six months ago by superstorm Sandy.
About 1,000 people attended a groundbreaking ceremony on the replenished beach at Riverside Boulevard. The $44.2 million project is expected to be completed by early November, with some sections to be reopened sooner. The beach will be opened for Memorial Day weekend, city officials said.
"We came together months ago to mourn the loss of our boardwalk," City Council president Scott Mandel said. "Today we celebrate the rebirth of it. . . . Everything is going to be bigger, safer and stronger."
The crowd cheered as a crane raised a beam from the old boardwalk, draped with a Long Beach flag, and placed it on top of cement pilings.
"I'll be happy when the boardwalk is done," said Kathy Hogan, 43, from the West End of Long Beach, who enjoyed running, walking and biking on the old boardwalk. "I miss it."
The City Council earlier this month awarded the contract to Grace Industries of Plainview, which is required to finish the boardwalk within a 210-construction day schedule. There are penalties for any day they run over, City Manager Jack Schnirman said.
The middle four-fifths of a mile, from Laurelton to Long Beach boulevards, should be completed by late July. The outer segments, which stretch to Neptune Boulevard in the east and New York Avenue to the west, must be finished by mid-October.
"We should have this boardwalk ready by Thanksgiving," Assemb. Harvey Weisenberg (D-Long Beach) said after the ceremony. "Then we will have something to be thankful about."
Nearly 3,000 people came out in January to bid farewell to and collect souvenir pieces of the iconic city landmark, whose entire length had to be ripped out, leaving only concrete support beams. The new boardwalk will be made of sustainable tropical wood.
"This boardwalk is a symbol . . . of Long Beach and a symbol of New York," said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who biked from Brooklyn to the ceremony. "Nature can throw whatever it wants at us, and next time we're going to resist it."
The ceremony coincided with the reopening of Orient Beach State Park. The state hurried to repair superstorm Sandy damage to the popular North Fork beach before the summer rush, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday.


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Okay, so around 2005 or 2006, I hear this new wave-esq song on a radio station by a group that sounded similar to The Go-go's or Bananarama. It had a female singer and the chorus was something along the lines of "Find a way before it gets too late". I've tried Google with no luck so it must be one of those songs that's so obscure no lyrics website lists it. I've also asked on Tvtropes with no luck.
Songs that have been ruled out:
*Swing Out Sister - Breakout
*Madonna - Hung Up
*Dionne Ferris - Find A Way (Too slow tempo and r&bish)
*Edguy - Paradise (It's heavy metal and barely matches the description)
If it's any help, the radio station was a San Diego station called FM 94.9 which mostly plays alternative hard rock nowadays but used to dabble in new wave as well as alternative rock back then. I even emailed the station and got no reply back. The song sounds like it's from te 80s but considering the fact that new 80s style hair metal and AOR artists like Wild Rose, Work Of Art and Brother Firetribe are popping up, new New Wave artists wouldn't be too big a stretch. It could be from anywhere from the early 80s to 2005/2006 with that being said.


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We are pulling together loose ends and finishing projects at Bunny Vista. Erin has been a frequent worker and has painted, cleaned, and helped push us forward as we try to make practical decisions to get the house ready to pass the occupancy inspection. Nick worked to clean and prep the basement floor for acid etching. The radiant floor heating is operational and is finally using the geothermal system instead of the on-demand hot water heater. The electrical work is also nearing completion. Here are a few photos of recent work.
John Boody kindly gave Kelley some spalted sycamore for the loft floor, which adds another unusual element to the timber frame room. Spalted wood has been discolored by fungi or rot. The discoloration can form amazing patterns. Kelley says that the spalting of this sycamore looks like an oil painting. It is particularly wonderful looking up at the loft floor from the dining area, where it forms the ceiling.
Kelley, Nick, and Erin painstakingly acid etched the basement floor, using muriatic acid to change the color of the concrete floor to this leathery brown color. Kelley decided to acid etch the floor for several reasons. First, it is a permanent finish with little upkeep. The lime in the concrete reacts with the acid when it is applied, changing the color of the concrete, so it never chips or wears, although it will need to be waxed once or twice a year. More important to Kelley, finishing the concrete rather than applying another layer of flooring on top of the concrete allows the radiant floor heating to work most efficiently.
Acid etching the floor required many hours of research and consultation, followed by countless hours of hard work. Nick and Erin spent several days scrubbing the floor to remove every trace of paint, dry wall mud, and dirt. After Kelley, Erin, and Nick tested a couple of different acids and a couple of different application methods, they felt at least a little confident that they had achieved the best color they could. They began applying the acid to the floor. Kelley sprayed two applications of acid onto the surface and Nick brushed it with a long-handled brush. Erin removed all of the residue, another process that sounded easier than it actually was. Kelley and Erin sprayed on three coats of sealer and spread the sealer with paint rollers and a lambswool mop. Finally Kelley applied two coats of wax. There are apparently a number of YouTube videos showing the ease of this process. None of them are to be trusted. It was a labor-intensive chore, but the results are beautiful. Thanks, Nick and Erin. You are invited to watch TV in the TV room and spend the night in the guest room. But you may not store any items in the storage room. Sorry.
We ordered some tin lighting fixtures from Michael Walsh, who is the person behind Early American Tin Lighting. We have ceiling fixtures for the dining area and the hallway between the log rooms. We also have three pierced tin pendants for the kitchen, some sconces for the log rooms, and three exterior lights. Mike's work is beautiful, and I was really happy to find a local craftsman. Mike lives and has his workshop and gallery in a wonderful log home west of Dayton.
The master bedroom has two sconces and the office has one.
Kelley is working now to complete the loft railing. He is using Atlantic white cedar boards left from building the deck.
And, of course, we have had more snow. About a foot of snow fell this weekend. Kelley and Erin spent much of the afternoon today getting the truck unstuck and shoveling the driveway. I am trying to remember that the snow is beautiful. Here are some snowy views from the front porch.


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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Beauty Pageants!!!
The other day I received a letter in the mail from NAM - National American Miss. For those of you that don't know what that is, it's a Pageant system. My daughter has never participated in one before but when this letter came in she expressed an interest in participating. It's an open call to come and find out more about the National American Miss Michigan Pageant held here in Michigan. We will be going to the open call this Wednesday and if she decides that it sounds like fun, we will be participating! I'm not going to lie - I am super excited about it! I had wanted to put her in pagaents when she was little, but had no idea how to do that and I was leary of all the 'glitz' involved. Now that she is older I'm not so worried about it.
This letter and her interest sparked my curiosity about pageants. I did some searching and found a 'natural' pageant that is being held down in Grand Rapids MI on April 14th. It's called Rock the Stage and it's being put on by Michigan Royal Miss Pageants. It sounds like super fun and it will be small compared to the other one we are going to the meeting for so, I entered her in it!! I think it will be perfect for her first ever pageant!!
I have started doing some homework on how to best prepare her for it. I am totally obessed with watching Toddlers and Tiara's on Netflix - lol!!!
So far I have set up a Photographer - who does some awesome work!!! You can check it out here. I have found a 'coach' to help her with how to do the beauty section and to choreograph a piece for her rockstar piece and because it's not a glitz pageant, I will be doing her make-up and I have a friend doing her hair for me. We also have been looking at dresses and rockstar outfits! I will be doing her nails and we will go to a salon to get her eyebrows done and, I'm thinking we should do a facial too.....
Any of you Pageant Moms or Pageant Judges out there have any advice? I know it's late in the game to start pageants, she will be 13 in July, but I have no doubt she will do well! Everyone has told me since she was little I should enter her in pageants or some type of modeling work, so beauty is not an issue lol!
I would love to hear any tips or tricks on how to prepare for pageants that you might have! If she likes them I will enter her in more! It opens up so many new opportunities for her!
*Disclaimer* The crown in the picture above is NOT the one that Sam would receive if she places - I found it online and reposted it here to make the post 'shine'! lol
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Toddlers & Tiaras is a horrible show. I think those women should have their children removed - truly atrocious parenting practices that are setting their children up for a lifetime of difficulty. Such pathetic parents. :( Please don't model your pageantry after those women. :-/ReplyDelete
Having had my rant about T&T, I'm sure you won't be like those parents, FYI - you guys have much more sense! :-D I'm certain she'll do wonderful, I've always said she should be model. She is so beautiful!ReplyDelete
lol - of course my parenting style isn't going to change just because I am putting her in a pageant!! She is super excited to do it - we will see how she feels after this first one before moving on to any others.... As for the T&T show, not all the moms are crazy!!ReplyDelete
I actually sell fancy dresses, and occasionally I sell some of them for pageants. The one thing you want to avoid is doing it for you and doing it for money. You should only do it as long as your daughter wants to do it and as long as she is having fun. I had one lady scream at her child, who was acting like a kid acts, by saying "If you want to make a career out of this, you better start acting like it". If you become like that, at that point, maybe it is time to stop.ReplyDelete
I agree with the last comment. The pageant has to be about her having fun. You don't want to become one of "those mothers" like on the Tiaras show, not that you would. But some of these moms are clearly trying to live vicariously through their children and recapture their own youth. But if the kid loves doing it, let her.ReplyDelete


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