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As a minority group, LGBT as a label is quite different than many other labels. There are some dynamics unique to this community that I think warrant some inspection. Sometimes we want to talk about lgbt labels or homophobia and I've been hearing some great perspectives, but other times I hear some very misguided stuff. Let's just go through a list of few of the dynamics of lgbt issues so we can better understand them.
LGBT is a group of groups
Lgbt is a group of groups. Those groups have varying degrees of privilege and varying degrees of acceptance within the straight majority. Although other minorities battle with this too, the degrees of privilege within the lgbt community vary to a much greater degree. The experience of a 'straight acting' (it's a thing) white male gay person and a very butch lesbian are too different to compare, yet both are gay. The 'straight acting' white male gay has been accepted as 'one of the good ones'. We can see from financial demographics and mass media (as well as our own understanding of patriarchy) how they have been assimilated to a much greater degree than others. That is not to say that they have been accepted as 'straight' in the same way that the Irish are now considered white. Just that the degree of privilege is very different.
Other lgbt sub-cultures are mined for interesting entertainment for straight people which others are not. Drag queens and transgender people are crushed together in a meat grinder to produce RuPaul's drag race. Feminine, stereotypical gay men are tasked with whipping straight women's boyfriends in shape on Queer Eye and being the witty side kick on every design show ever. Pretty, feminine lesbians are pretty much not good for anything except pornography for straight men, but they are apparently great at that. You will never see anyone like me on TV, although we are apparently so gay-positive as a society. We often use these shows as examples of equality in programming and say things like "Isn't it great that they are so okay with showing gay culture on TV?" when these shows are nothing but minstrelsy and do nothing except further the heteronormative status quo.
So now we have a situation where the lgbt people who have been given enough by the straights to calm down (the 'straight acting' white men and some of the richer pretty white women) are actively driving the conversation for all of us. Straight people point to them as proof of the progressiveness of todays society.
Yes, some of us are doing fine. Some of us have enough money and no one ever utters a slur around us or even notices us and life is good. Others are still in fear for their lives in North America in 2014, though. Let's remember that. Homophobia is not over. Not even close.
Citing your 'lgbt friends opinion' is even less helpful to a discussion of minority issues than pointing to your 'black friend's opinion'. Not only do we all have different opinions by virtue of being people, but our personal experiences are sometimes so different that they cannot be compared easily.
This brings up questions, though. Does this mean we have to talk about each specific group separately? What does that mean for interesctionality? Well, no we can go on as usual, that's why the lgbt umbrella term exists, but it's important to realize and understand that there are vast degrees of oppression experience in this community when we talk about it.
Aren't there like, infinite possible groups to be aware of, though? What about the gay spectrum and where do people fit on it? Where is the line where a person is queer or gay?
Being Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual Is About Who You Love, Not Who You Fuck
Listen, I'm gonna level with you, I've heard some messed up stuff recently about this. It seems you can't talk about being oppressed as a gay person anymore because inevitably some straight person will chime in talking about how sexuality is a spectrum and how they like kissing girls sometimes and so they might actually be queer and therefore your experience or thoughts or whatever about your own oppression mean nothing because they personally haven't experienced them and they are queer by the very loose definition of the term that they have decided to use.
Here's the thing though. Being gay is about who you fall in love with and who you see yourself beside when you think about your wedding day (if you do). It is not about who you would feel comfortable having sex with.
Straight people who would have sex with partners of the same sex are straight people who are truly not homophobic. That is all. The only thing, for instance, that separates a blow-job given by a woman from a blow-job given by a man is the idea that one makes you think you're gay and the other doesn't. Remove that homophobia and concern and you are left with a simple blow-job. That isn't what gay means. It isn't even what queer means.
Equating sex with sexuality causes all manner of problems from the over-sexualisation of gay media representation to the sexual deviancy argument to sexual tourism and an increase in straight people coopting queer and gay labels for themselves. So many problems, you guys!
Being gay means having to tell your family. It means knowing you will probably never get to hold your partners hand innocently on the bus. It means feeling like a partner of the same sex is natural and normal for you in a world that is constant and consistent in reminding you that it is not natural or normal. I could never imagine myself with a man for instance, although I have had sex with several of them, love them as friends and have a child. That is what makes me a gay woman. It has nothing to do with who I sleep with.
Being gay is not something you can choose to do sometimes and not others.
Being Gay Is Seen As a Lifestyle Choice
Lgbtpeople have this lovely added problem of being accused of 'choosing' our lives. It is exacerbated by this misguided idea that who you have sex with is the factor which determines your sexuality that I discussed above. I think it's pretty self-explanatory but since gay people are not a race born to each other, being gay seems random, to some it seems like something we can 'choose' not to be. Religious people condescendingly 'love us' while they try to have our civil rights legally removed at the same time. Others (sometimes the same people) instead revile us and seek to eradicate us through ex-gay camps at best and violence at worst.
This makes our struggle very difficult. How do you convince someone you deserve civil rights when they believe you chose to give them up? How can you argue with a person's religion?
Hopefully I have explained a few things that make some sense here. I hope it comes in handy the next times you are discussing lgbt issues or the next time an lgbt person gets angry on an online forum and you don't understand why.
Edit: To clear up any confusion, I am not saying that people who are heterosexual or do not choose to have same sex sexual partners are homophobic. I can understand how it sounds like I might be implying that, but I am not.
I also would like to call attention to the first section of this post where I mention how little one single lgbt person's opinion matters overall. These are topics and personal politics which have many valid schools of thought associated with them, some contradictory, and mine is but one of many. Well, mine is a mix and match of many, more accurately.


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-Snapped pictures of the babies being silly. Stinky fell asleep with a milk bone in his mouth. He woke up when he heard my camera beep! Maggie and Lily chose to sleep on an itty bitty carpet even though they had the couch and two beds to choose from.
-Stayed home while Lily went on her first hike! (Thanks to my brother-in-law for taking good care of her!)
-Watched as Lily went crazy with the hose. She LOVES the water.
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The tiger makes no secret of its danger, prowling around in a yellow and black stripy catsuit, a trend it shares with other perilous beasts from wasps to snakes. And it occurs to me, while I am stealthily stalking one on foot, that this is not the cleverest thing to be doing.
The wooden stick my local Nepali guide, Siteram, is carrying does little to reassure me as we follow the enormous prints through the dry forest of Bardia National Park in the far-western lowlands of Nepal, home to the country's largest remaining population of Bengal tigers. Nobody knows how many tigers there are in the park because years of insurgency in Nepal have made it difficult to carry out surveys. However, with tiger parts attracting a high price on the Asian health potions market, poaching remains a highly profitable prospect in this impoverished region.
As wild tigers (Panthera tigris) become scarcer, the price on their heads goes up: tiger bones are sold for hundreds of dollars in Taiwan, Korea and China, according to WWF figures. A bowl of tiger penis soup (to boost virility) goes for $320, a pair of eyes (to fight epilepsy) for $170, and powdered tiger humerus (for treating ulcers and typhoid) for $3,200 per kilo in Seoul, according to the conservation charity.
Dropping numbers
I was in Nepal to see one of the country's estimated breeding population of 120 - one of perhaps 3,000 tigers left in the world, down from 100,000 in 1900. They are the largest of the four "big cats", and used to be found anywhere from Siberia to Bali to Turkey. But hunting and habitat encroachment by humans have over the past century reduced their range by more than 90% and caused the extinction of three subspecies (including the Balinese tiger).
There are now six subspecies left, all of which are classed as endangered or critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, including the Siberian tiger, which, weighing up to 660 pounds (300 kilogrammes), is the largest; and the Bengal tiger, which, with almost 2,000 individuals is the most numerous.
More worrying, their numbers have fallen by at least 40% in the past decade alone. Conservationists say that the animals may go extinct within two decades.
But here is the big question: Does it matter if we "run out" of tigers?
Useful, or not?
After all, most people never get to see them in the wild anyway, and for those who want to, we have ample footage and photographs of them in their natural habitat. Moreover, all the alarming figures above relate only to tigers in the wild – they are far from endangered in captivity. More than five times as many tigers live in captivity as in the wild, perhaps 20,000.
As we bring about what Anthony Barnosky, of University of California Berkeley, and other biologists fear may be the sixth mass extinction in the Earth's 4.5 billion-year history, we are inevitably losing different species. Saving biodiversity would cost $300 billion a year, according to the chief of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
If we are not willing to spend that level of money in the Anthropocene, the new "human age", we are going to have to prioritise conservation efforts towards the species we do want to save. And are wild tigers worth the $350 million global fund set up to rescue them?
There is no evidence whatsoever that potions made from tiger parts have a medicinal effect that cannot be attained using other ingredients. We do not depend on tigers for meat or skins. They do not provide transport or help plough our fields. Unlike their far smaller cousins, you can't keep one at home to stroke and pet – well, not unless you want your face ripped off.
In short, they are useless to us. And as harsh as this sounds, that has been humanity's conservation decider to date: if it is useful, we will keep it; if not, well, I do not fancy its chances. So, while dairy cows are far from endangered, the last auroch, their wild ancestor went extinct in Poland in 1627. Likewise, there are plenty of dogs in Britain, whereas the wolf was eliminated from the island state by the 18th century.
In fact, more than 90% of the weight of all the land vertebrates is now made up of humans and the animals we have domesticated. Megafaunal biomass (that's anything weighing more than 97lbs, or 44kg) is greater now than at any time since humans evolved 200,000 years ago, Barnosky says, despite our voracious impact on everything from giant sloths to North American bison. And that is because of the recent huge population expansion by us and our chosen creatures.
Conservation benefits
But many people would argue that tigers are an iconic animal; culturally important in several nations. That has not been enough to protect other iconic animals, such as the Asiatic lion, which once ranged from northern Europe down to South Asia and now persists in tiny numbers (reportedly derived from just 13 individuals) in one small reserve in India. Or the Barbary lion, the biggest and heaviest lion that was used by the Romans to fight gladiators, and which went extinct in 1922 when a hunter shot the last one.
The WWF justifies protecting tigers by pointing out the co-benefits for other wildlife. Individual tigers have such a big range that by protecting each tiger, around 38 square miles (100 square kilometres) of forest is conserved, including other endangered animals such as rhinos, as well as the vital ecosystem services humans rely on from food to water management. Because tigers are a top predator, they help regulate and conserve local biodiversity by, for example, helping keep the herbivore numbers down, which allows tree saplings to mature. Conservationists also argue that tigers are good for the local economy because they attract wildlife/eco tourists to deprived areas in the developing world.
So, if we are going to keep wild tigers, how will we do it? Most conservation strategies rely on guarding the cats against poachers and protective farmers. Successful efforts on India have relied on bureaucratic form-filling with identification requirements for everyone who wishes to visit tiger reserves, armed guards and compensation for villagers whose cattle are eaten by tigers.
Habitat conservation is key to preventing the animals' extinction in the wild. Consumers are urged not to buy timber products made from tiger-inhabited forests, such as Asia Pulp & Paper brands accused by the WWF and Greenpeace of rainforest destruction in Sumatra. But consumer pressure is unlikely to be enough. One option might be to improve tigers' commercial value in the wild through tourism. A plan being mooted to save the orangutan, an endangered ape that shares territory with tigers, is to charge tourists a hefty "conservation fee" to see them. Permits to view mountain gorillas in Rwanda cost at least $500.
Moral imperative
Perhaps the biggest problem with conserving the tigers' habitats, though, is that the cats typically inhabit the crowded regions of the world most heavily populated by humans, including India and China. The answer in the Anthropocene, may be assisted migration - to create a new habitat for them in foreign parts.
That's what Li Quan, a former fashion executive is trying to do. Li took two South China tigers, which are extinct in the wild and number less than 60 in captivity – from zoos in China to a reserve she has created in South Africa. There, she hopes to successfully breed them, allow them to learn the skills of a wild tiger, and eventually introduce them into reserves back in China. It is an ambitious plan and one that may be helped by findings that captive tigers in China actually retain broad genetic diversity now lost in their fewer wild relatives, meaning that there is a the possibility of "rewilding" tigers. And this genetic wealth also allows for the option of cloning tigers, should we be reduced to the last few.
Ultimately, the reason for conserving tigers may be less to do with their ecosystem or tourist economy benefits, but simply because they are magnificent creatures. "We have a moral and ethical imperative to save them in the wild," Barnosky contends. "I don't want to be part of generation that destroyed the last wild tiger."
I too like knowing that there are still tigers living in the wild. Back in Nepal, I hear the unmistakable sound of bones being crunched by a hefty jaw. Siteram motions for me to remain still, while he tiptoes forward. I can smell the tiger now – an incredibly strong musky odour, mixed with the scent of meat – and I start to sweat and my knees tremble a little. As I round the bush, a dry twig snaps loudly beneath my foot and I catch sight of a blur of powerful movement. With a massive bound, the enormous flame-coloured beast leaps away, disappearing deep inside the forest.
It is still warm where he had been lying, with fresh blood and chewed up deer bones. It takes a while for my heart to return to its usual pace, but it takes longer for the grin to fade. That heart-thudding glimpse of copper fur "burning bright" will stain my memory forever; it will be truly devastating if mine is the last generation to have this experience.
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One of around 3,000 tigers left in the world, down from 100,000 in 1900. Conservationists fear that tigers may go extinct within two decades. (Copyright: Science Photo Library)
One of around 3,000 tigers left in the world, down from 100,000 in 1900. Conservationists fear that tigers may go extinct within two decades. (Copyright: Science Photo Library)
A spate of recent awareness-raising efforts in India provide a constant reminder about the dwindling tiger population. (Copyright: Getty Images)
A spate of recent awareness-raising efforts in India provide a constant reminder about the dwindling tiger population. (Copyright: Getty Images)
The Indonesian government is trying to save endangered tigers from extinction by allowing people to adopt captive-born animals for $100,000 a pair. (Copyright: Getty Images)
The Indonesian government is trying to save endangered tigers from extinction by allowing people to adopt captive-born animals for $100,000 a pair. (Copyright: Getty Images)
Officials monitoring the illegal trade in tigers discover all manner of items valued in traditional Asian medicine, such as tiger bone plasters. (Copyright: Getty images)
Officials monitoring the illegal trade in tigers discover all manner of weird and wonderful items, from stuffed tigers to tiger bone plasters. (Copyright: Getty images)
Tigers are being hunted to extinction for their skins, bones and claws. Indian customs officials hold a Bengal tiger skin seized in January this year. (Copyright: Getty Images)
Despite their endangered status, the tiger-skin market is still rife. Indian customs officials hold a Bengal tiger skin they seized in January this year. (Copyright: Getty Images)
In a desperate effort to save the tiger from extinction, world leaders met in 2010 to raise the millions of dollars they hope will double numbers by 2022. (Copyright: Getty Images)
In a desperate effort to save the tiger from extinction, world leaders met in 2010 to raise the millions of dollars they hope will double numbers by 2022. (Copyright: Getty Images)


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A coalition of gun rights advocates and others are forming a new political movement, to get what they say are disaffected and disenfranchised New Yorkers to vote.
The leaders of the new group include the state's Rifle and Pistol Association, but the group's President Tom King, says it goes beyond the state's recently enacted stiff new gun control legislation .
"It's the whole spectrum of constitutional rights that are being infringed in New York State," King said. "This is for the everyday person who feels disenfranchised"
The coalition includes a land owners group that wants permission to lease their land to gas drilling companies for hydro fracking, an advocate for urban schools and several conservative elected state lawmakers, including Rochester area Assemblyman Bill Nojay.
Nojay, a former talk radio host, says he's disturbed by the swift passage of the gun laws, known as the SAFE Act, which he says illustrates a bigger problem in Albany. He says the "top down leadership" forced through the complex bill for a vote in just 45 minutes.
"Nobody had read it," Nojay said. "That's not a functioning legislature."
Ayesha Kruetz, a Christian minister, is head of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York, a conservative African American group. She says her concerns include the deterioration of upstate's inner cities, and a failed education system. And she says school board votes routinely attract just one quarter to one third of eligible voters.
"We have a 9% graduation rate for black males," Kreutz said. "That's a crime."
The groups are modeling their efforts on the successful Democratic Party initiative of the 1990's, known as Rock the Vote, which resulted in the registration of hundreds of thousands of young people.
They also plan a fundraiser, featuring country musicians, at the Altamont Fairgrounds near Albany at the end of the summer. They say they chose the location because all of upstate's major highways intersect just a few miles from the site.
But Assemblyman Nojay says for now, they aren't going to promote any specific candidates, though they hope primary challengers will emerge to run against incumbents in the state legislature all the way down to offices for local county sheriff and county clerk.
He says a primary may be needed to "send a message," to Democrats that the coalition disagrees with, or Republicans who voted for the new gun laws.
While most Republicans in the Assembly voted against the gun control laws back in January, many of GOP members of the Senate voted for it. A spokesman for Republicans in the Senate expressed concern that the new group would divide the Republican Party, and help the "circus" he says the Democrats have created.
"We wonder if Bill Nojay understands that by working against Republicans he will only serve to help the Democratic Party and its candidates, including sex trafficker Eliot Spitzer, serial molester Vito Lopez and disgraced former exhibitionist Congressman Anthony Weiner," said spokesman Scott Reif, in a statement.
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Dear sister Madaline:
After playing a sociable game of cards I thought I would write you now instead of waiting until evening as I expect to go to confession tonight and communion tomorrow. Our american boys attend church as often as possible. Up to now we boys have been issued everything except a few little things. I received my gas mask, new rifle, and helmit. If ever we must carry everything that been issued to me why I think I will look more like a decorated tree than a soldier. As yet we boys did not receive any mail or pay but it is rumored that both pay and mail will be given out shortly. During my off time I generally read, write letters or take walks as this country surely is beautiful. The people here are not exactly poor but both husband and wife do farm work.
Now about the women – A La Carte. You know the average American fellow doesn't like anything except style and if we were to live here for years we would never find it here. Theirfore you can see that I am interested in only one girl and that's Priscilla. Outside of my folks she's the sweetest girl on earth.
Must close now dear sister with love to you all. Will write you again tomorrow.
I am.
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The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.
The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user's browser history. It does not include, the lawyers hasten to point out, the "content" of e-mail or other Internet communication.
But what officials portray as a technical clarification designed to remedy a legal ambiguity strikes industry lawyers and privacy advocates as an expansion of the power the government wields through so-called national security letters. These missives, which can be issued by an FBI field office on its own authority, require the recipient to provide the requested information and to keep the request secret. They are the mechanism the government would use to obtain the electronic records.
Stewart A. Baker, a former senior Bush administration Homeland Security official, said the proposed change would broaden the bureau's authority. "It'll be faster and easier to get the data," said Baker, who practices national security and surveillance law. "And for some Internet providers, it'll mean giving a lot more information to the FBI in response to an NSL."
Many Internet service providers have resisted the government's demands to turn over electronic records, arguing that surveillance law as written does not allow them to do so, industry lawyers say. One senior administration government official, who would discuss the proposed change only on condition of anonymity, countered that "most" Internet or e-mail providers do turn over such data.
To critics, the move is another example of an administration retreating from campaign pledges to enhance civil liberties in relation to national security. The proposal is "incredibly bold, given the amount of electronic data the government is already getting," said Michelle Richardson, American Civil Liberties Union legislative counsel.
The critics say its effect would be to greatly expand the amount and type of personal data the government can obtain without a court order. "You're bringing a big category of data -- records reflecting who someone is communicating with in the digital world, Web browsing history and potentially location information -- outside of judicial review," said Michael Sussmann, a Justice Department lawyer under President Bill Clinton who now represents Internet and other firms.
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The use of the national security letters to obtain personal data on Americans has prompted concern. The Justice Department issued 192,500 national security letters from 2003 to 2006, according to a 2008 inspector general report, which did not indicate how many were demands for Internet records. A 2007 IG report found numerous possible violations of FBI regulations, including the issuance of NSLs without having an approved investigation to justify the request. In two cases, the report found, agents used NSLs to request content information "not permitted by the [surveillance] statute."
One issue with both the proposal and the current law is that the phrase "electronic communication transactional records" is not defined anywhere in statute. "Our biggest concern is that an expanded NSL power might be used to obtain Internet search queries and Web histories detailing every Web site visited and every file downloaded," said Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has sued AT&T for assisting the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program.
He said he does not object to the government obtaining access to electronic records, provided it has a judge's approval.
Senior administration officials said the proposal was prompted by a desire to overcome concerns and resistance from Internet and other companies that the existing statute did not allow them to provide such data without a court-approved order. "The statute as written causes confusion and the potential for unnecessary litigation," Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said. "This clarification will not allow the government to obtain or collect new categories of information, but it seeks to clarify what Congress intended when the statute was amended in 1993."
The administration has asked Congress to amend the statute, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, in the fiscal year that begins in October.
Administration officials noted that the act specifies in one clause that Internet and other companies have a duty to provide electronic communication transactional records to the FBI in response to a national security letter.
But the next clause specifies only four categories of basic subscriber data that the FBI may seek: name, address, length of service and toll billing records. There is no reference to electronic communication transactional records.
Same as phone records?
The officials said the transactional information at issue, which does not include Internet search queries, is the functional equivalent of telephone toll billing records, which the FBI can obtain without court authorization. Learning the e-mail addresses to which an Internet user sends messages, they said, is no different than obtaining a list of numbers called by a telephone user.
Obtaining such records with an NSL, as opposed to a court order, "allows us to intercede in plots earlier than we would if our hands were tied and we were unable to get this data in a way that was quick and efficient," the senior administration official said.
But the value of such data is the reason a court should approve its disclosure, said Greg Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. "It's much more sensitive than the other information, like name, address and telephone number, that the FBI gets with national security letters," he said. "It shows associational information protected by the First Amendment and is much less public than things like where you live."
A Nov. 5, 2008, opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, whose opinions are binding on the executive branch, made clear that the four categories of basic subscriber information the FBI may obtain with an NSL were "exhaustive."
This opinion, said Sussmann, the former Clinton administration lawyer, caused many companies to reevaluate the scope of what could be provided in response to an NSL. "The OLC opinion removed the ambiguity," he said. "Providers now are limited to the four corners of what the opinion says they can give out. Those who give more do so at their own risk."
Marc Zwillinger, an attorney for Internet companies, said some providers are not giving the FBI more than the four categories specified. He added that with the rise of social networking, the government's move could open a significant amount of Internet activity to government surveillance without judicial authorization. "A Facebook friend request -- is that like a phone call or an e-mail? Is that something they would sweep in under an NSL? They certainly aren't getting that now."


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Sacramento Teen Says She's Popular
A Sacramento County teenager is bragging about a big accomplishment.
She logged more than 300,000 text messages in one month.
"My friends said, 'Text your little thumbs off'," Crystal Wiski said.
"Thank God for free texting," added her mother, Jacki Wiski.
Jacki Wiski said she just bought the iPhone for her daughter a month ago.
"I get cramps," Crystal Wiski said of her habit.
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"Oh my God, that's unbelievable," Jacki Wiski said. "She must text while she's sleeping."
"I am popular. I can't help it," Crystal Wiski added.
To put 303,000 text messages into perspective: that's more than 10,000 text messages a day, 421 messages an hour and seven texts a minute.
KCRA 3 even timed her.
"I don't talk on the phone that much," Crystal Wiski said.
Jacki Wiski said despite her daughter's addiction, it doesn't stop her from holding down a full-time job. It also has not affected her grades.
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Beat the Streak Report: April 12
With more than 15 percent of your collective vote, Ichiro took home prom-king honors at Streakland High last night. No. 51 didn't disappoint, either, slow dancin' and romancin' his way to two hits in four at-bats against Jesse Litsch and the Blue Jays.
Runner-up Todd Helton arrived stag and didn't stay long, however, flying out in a lone pinch-hit appearance to end seven percent of all streaks.
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Oh, hello there …
• Robinson Cano: .857 AVG (6-for-7) since '06 vs. Orioles starter Chris Tillman
• Chris Young: .500 AVG (6-for-12) since '06 vs. Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter
• Coco Crisp: .409 AVG (9-for-22) since '06 vs. White Sox starter Edwin Jackson
• Ian Desmond: .429 AVG (6-for-14) since '06 vs. Phillies starter Joe Blanton
• Ichiro Suzuki: .444 AVG (4-for-9) since '06 vs. Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero
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• Nate Schierholtz: .429 AVG (6-for-14) since '06 vs. Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley
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• Stephen Drew: .077 AVG (1-for-13) since '06 vs. Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter
• Chris Coghlan: .083 AVG (1-for-12) since '06 vs. Braves starter Tommy Hanson
• Matt Kemp: .143 AVG (3-for-21) since '06 vs. Giants starter Tim Lincecum
• Brian McCann: .133 AVG (2-for-15) since '06 vs. Marlins starter Chris Volstad
• Torii Hunter: .179 AVG (5-for-28) since '06 vs. Indians starter Fausto Carmona
Yer doin' it wrong …
• Matt Wieters: .000 AVG (0-for-17) since '06 vs. Yankees starter A.J. Burnett
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Leaderboard time!
Fifty-four perfect brackets remain. Quit picking Duke, people. Twelves over fives — let's goooo!
Top MLB streakers
Jose Tabata: 10 games
Paul Konerko: 10 games
Michael Brantley: 9 games
Jose Reyes: 9 games
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Top o the morning all. What the heck happened out in Sea last night? I went to bed it was 7-0 Tor. Wakeup and look and Sea won 8-7???
Anyways I'm going with another one of my Rangers today. Probably Kins as hes hitting righties good this year so far. And Brad Penny has looked pretty rough so far. Here's hoping my Rangers are the first team to 10 wins.
GL all.
Doh. Line-ups are up and Kinsler is not starting so I'm switching to Josh again today.
That's one definite advantage of picking from an early game. Knowing who is sitting & possibly pinch hitting.
For example. I'm looking at Mauer tomorrow, but its a day game after night game & he may not be in the order or may be as a DH. But tomorrow's game is early enough to see the lineup before picks lock, allowing me to change if needed.
So do we want to guess how many of the 54 perfects pick from the early game today? There were only 6 yesterday.
I'll raise my 1st estimate to 60% — more than half
Better yet, let's guess how many pick either Ichiro or Cano? My guess is 40% or about half.
Cano is going to be heavy tonight. Does Tillman pitch around him knowing the success of the matchup?
Not sure how heavy Ichiro will be. 4 of 9 is a pretty decent hit rate but Ricky could throw a gem not wanting to rely on the bullpen after last night's debacle.
I'd bet Cano will be most picked tonite. Pitch-arounds are really situational. If Cano doesn't come up with men on & 1st base open, he'll probably be pitched to depending on out-count and late innings. NYY may only play 8 innings today.
Ichiro will be 2nd most picked I think — matter of faith for the faithful.
Cano will be most picked or at worst second most. He is a Pick Of The Day along with Ichiro so they will be 1-2 for most picked.
And if either or both go 0-fer tonite, we'll see a massive number of streaks reset BTS-wide.
I just scrambled to change my pick. Relying on TWC, it appears 70% chance of rain in NY area. I don't like picking games with high chance of rain — too many bad things can happen. Now, looking for Abreu to get me to crazy eights. GL all bloggers.
The Yankees are normally safe to pick in for rain situations.
They rainout/call rain delays over drizzle, so you rarely have a 5 innings game there, especially against a divisional team, where makeup dates will be plentiful.
Not only can unforeseen things happen if it rains, I look at it as an opportunity to move above people ahead of me if the game does get rained out. I rather play than sit idle.
Woo hoo. Josh triples in first AB.
TOP2500 up shortly. Just running it now.
LaV's List
Tuesday's Top Picks of the current Top2500,
196 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Pick Times Picked Percentage
Robinson Cano, 352, 14.22
Josh Hamilton, 145, 5.86, GOOD(MY PICK)
Ichiro Suzuki, 144, 5.82
Shane Victorno, 96, 3.88
Ryan Braun, 68, 2.75
Albert Pujols, 66, 2.67
Plac Polanco, 60, 2.42
No Selection, 56, 2.26
Joey Votto, 52, 2.1
Ian Kinsler, 41, 1.66, PH??
Alex Rodriguez, 41, 1.66
Joe Mauer, 41, 1.66
J.J. Hardy, 40, 1.62
Ryan Zimmerman, 39, 1.58
Miguel Cabrera, 39, 1.58
Of 54 Perfect streaks there are 8 playing the early game. 4 move on with Josh, 2 have Kinsler, 1 Miggy, 1 Andrus.
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset rate was 22.28% with a Todd Helton pinch hit 0-fer reseting the most.
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 4 with streak of 11 back to zero.
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
LaVolpe, 7, pg , 881, B. Abreu (PICKED 34X)
Nyy4life42, 7, pg , 881, R. Cano (352)
Gurpsing, 7, pg , 881, P. Polanco (60)
Blanco21, 6, pg , 1709, P. Polanco (60)
Bloggers Reset Yesterday
Gpearson17, 11, M. Montero
GL to all
oops just noticed that i missed the pg each blogger is on.
LaVolpe, 7, pg 37, 881, B. Abreu (PICKED 34X)
Nyy4life42, 7, pg 37, 881, R. Cano (352)
Gurpsing, 7, pg 49, 881, P. Polanco (60)
Blanco21, 6, pg 82, 1709, P. Polanco (60)
Well Cano was the most picked now we just have to wait and see if he continues his hot hitting against Tillman and see if that game even gets played. By the way, was I the only one who watched the youtube video that Dave posted because it was….um….weird, haha. Not sure how he finds that stuff. Anyway, keep it up Dave!!
Dang, I didn't think to look at weather today before picking the obvious Cano. I guess you lose focus when you drop from 11 to zero. Looks like the Phils/Nats, Brewers/Pirates, and Rocks/Mets games will also be plagued by rain tonight.
Wow!! Josh Hamilton left the game in the first inning after sliding into home plate. All those who picked him are super lucky he got a hit in his first plate appearance. The baseball God's were looking over all of you guys today!
What the BTS gods giveth, they eventually take away-ith.
Hamilton (dh) pulled in favor of Kinsler(0-1). Dont know if there an injury from that triple or not.
Per rotoworld: "Josh Hamilton was pulled from Tuesday's game with a right shoulder strain". May want to remove him from your picks until more info comes out.
He slid hard into 3rd and Inge fell on him, and then slid hard into home trying to score.
He was already supposed to have tomorrow off.
Looks like he'll get a week off now or longer
But then again, best to wait for more info instead of jumping to conclusions. Shame on me, I should know better. Ignore.
Wonder who this slick1014 is? A bloggers group member playing 3 accounts. It may prove to not be slick at all.
Let him learn the hard way.
@LaVolpe: Maybe I missed something, but couldn't the slick people just be friends or brothers?
Even so, you have to get to 30+ games to win any sort of prizes, so it will likely not even matter.
But if it is the same person, be a Little more inconspicuous.
For a while, on the leader board I saw several accounts named jvairo_xx, with "xx" being various two-digit numbers. There's currently a jvairo_76 with a 12-streak.
Could be and really none of my business either, other than simple curiosity. Though all 3 accounts picking the same players for 2+ days in a row now? I'd say probably not 3 individual accounts.
Untill I actually sat down and read the rules I was playing with 2 different accts (3 yrs ago). Thats probably all it is, is that ppl don't read the rules so they don't know any better. Then again maybe I'm just giving ppl the benefit of the doubt.
Previous post meant for Champion_88.
If we remember awhile back, the guy that got to 45 games played with 2 of his brothers, although he claimed that either of the other picking a player meant he would most likely avoid him.
They could also have had similar screenames too.
Again, for me, it's only curiosity. Whether multi-accounts are family members or 1 person using software to generate them and pick for them is neither here nor there. If someone is cheating and actually is fortunate to get the year's top streak, MLB's cheating system will already have been targeted. It isn't too hard to see multiple accounts picking players based from the same IP address — red flag for sure I would think. When multiple accounts consistently pick same players — another red flag I would think. MLB will investigate anomalies before it pays out; that I'm sure of.
Besides, this game is hard enough to concentrate on 1 account; doing multiple accounts will surely result in less success.
Totally agree.
So like most of you are saying, it really doesn't matter if someone plays with two accounts they will eventually get caught. I have a question on what Lav said though. I started playing this game when a friend of mine told me about it five years ago. He was playing it with his brother and they lived at home with their parents. If one of them won would it not count because two accounts were being played with the same IP address? I didn't know MLB could track that. That sucks for people who are playing honestly but share a computer if that's the case.
@baseballgirlie. I would believe MLB has some "test questions" that would be asked in such cases. It is not against rules to have multiple accounts from the same IP (i.e., from the same house). But it is against the rules for 1 real person to play multiple accounts.
ha, after giving it a couple moments of thought, I think I figured it out.
when MLB does the all-star vote every year, they give everyone 25 votes apiece.
they are probably just translating that logic over.
On a different note though, does anyone know what happened to BTS HR.
The banner has been removed from the Fantasy home page.
I figured they gave each email account 25 votes. I remember last year you had to log in to vote. I mean I guess there would be a way to track IP addresses, especially with technology now days.
@00Liber: Aren't you glad things worked out where you ended up choose Hamilton over Kinsler?
Yes sir. But if Kins started things might've been different. Who knows I'll take it.
@Champ88. I didn't even notice it disappeared. I didn't plan on playing it anyway, which is why it escaped me. I was curious about that Odyssey game was all about
Brewers/Pirates already rained out.
Wow. Well there goes four "perfect" streakers' picks. At least they're not reset. But there will be no more than 48 streaks of 13 after today.
Has it been announced if they double up tomorrow?
@LaV per your guess as to how many of "perfect streakers" took Cano or Ichiro. 37.7%
That was pretty close, huh? Regarding Pit/Mil. No makeup date set yet. Note that pitching matchups may have changed for the next 2 days for these 2 teams. I didn't pre-pick from them, so I don't know the original pitchers that were scheduled for those days.
BOS pickers may be a bit shocked when the lineups are posted. Out: Ortiz, Drew, Ellsbury, Saltalamacchia. In: McDonald, Cameron, Lowrie, Varitek.
SEA. Figgins out. Wouldn't think it effects how Ichiro is pitched to
Did I just read that right? BAL/NYY postponed.
I see that too on the Yahoo page.
For all ye bloggers. I posted this before & here it is again. For game-related weather reports…
COL/NYM game just PPD also. Mark, you'll need a new category tomorrow: Nr that remained idle due to rain 😉
I've already adjusted the template.
As long as you are adjusting it, you have this line repeated twice both today & yesterday: "Pick Times Picked Percentage"
Ya I noticed that. From when I copy n paste from template to blog.
I had Cano picked today, with the Yankee game postponed, I'm staying at 1 with my 2nd straight pause.
Well, for right now I'm glad I saw the forecast and changed my NYY pick in time. If I'm fortunate enough to move to 8, I will have also moved up on ~130 8-gamers that will remain idle today due to the 3 games rained out.
Sweet! Marlon Byrd singled in the first inning for me so I am back to 3! Now if I can just get over that hump.
So did anyone else see that Hamilton is going to be out 6-8 weeks! There goes a very popular pick out for an extended period of time. The Rangers are going to miss him for sure. I guess people can forget about him for a while now.
That's 23-30% of the season without Josh Hamilton, one of the top 5 most commonly picked players.
No more than 27 streakers will be tied for first with a 13-streak after today. Suzuki (nine picks) and Kemp (one pick) are still in play.
Kemp is good. (0-3) batting right now.
And ichiro just doubled.
Felt like my guy pinched hit today. Team received 3 walks the entire game and my guy got all 3 resulting in an 0-1 day. Back to square zero, lick my wounds, and try to regroup with some new lessons learned.
@gpearson: Ichiro & Kemp both have hits today
@all: GL and I expect to be at the top of our group again shortly!


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人一倍 looks like it would mean "one's own share of the work". I assumed 人 to mean one person, and 一倍 means "one share, one amount". I was a little confused to find out that
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Does anyone have any insight or explanation for this, or have I completely misunderstood the whole thing?


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- Create their own simple machine during online game play and using classroom materials.
- Internet access for BrainPOP resources
- Materials for simple machines centers/stations
Preparation:Preview the simple machines game from The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago and familiarize yourself with game play. In this game, students help a character named twitch collect spare robot parts that are scattered all over the Museum. Students assist Twitch in using the found objects to create simple machines that will help him solve challenges with a minimum of force. You can visit The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago's Simple Machines Exhibit Resources page for more information and ideas related to the game.
You'll also want to preview the BrainPOP Jr. and BrainPOP resources used in the lesson plan and determine how to adapt them for your students' needs. Plan out centers or stations that students can complete in groups so that they have the opportunity to explore each type of simple machine in a hands-on way. Some simple ideas can be found in The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago'sSimple Machines Activities PDF and in BrainPOP Jr.'s Simple Machines Lesson Ideas.
Lesson Procedure:
- Show students the Word Wall vocabulary and talk about the meaning of the words displayed. You may want to have students suggest definitions in their own words, then click on a word to see the definition provided by BrainPOP Jr.
- Play the BrainPOP Jr. movie Simple Machines to give students an overview of the different types of simple machines. Ask students to recall all the simple machines they saw in the movie and talk about the functions of each one.
- Challenge students to find the simple machines hidden in the BrainPOP Jr. Search Game so that they can see how the machines appear in real-world scenarios. Extend student understanding by talking about places they've seen simple machines in their own homes, school, and community.
- Tell students they will have the opportunity to explore simple machines in an online game. Pair students up and give them 10-20 minutes to explore the Simple Machines game. Encourage students to apply information they learned from the BrainPOP Jr. resources as they play.
- Divide students into groups and have them rotate through stations to explore various types of simple machines. The stations could incorporate investigations from The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago's Simple Machines Activities. Other station activities could include watching the related BrainPOP movies (Levers, Inclined Plane, Wheel and Axle, and Pulley) and taking the accompanying quizzes or completing the corresponding activity pages.
- Allow students to revisit the Simple Machines game, either in pairs or independently. Afterward, talk to the class about the simple machines they created in the game for Twitch and in their stations. How are simple machines used in everyday life? How do simple machines make our lives easier?
- Assess student learning by having students take the BrainPOP Jr. Hard Quiz or the quizzes from the BrainPOP movies on individual simple machines.


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This Girl Saved Up P42,000 Thanks to This P50 Money Challenge
Money challenges are usually aplenty during the first few weeks of January when most people resolve to start anew and save money. So when we saw the 50-Peso Money Challenge on Facebook posted by Yona Abella, we couldn't help but pay attention to it. With a picture that has a ridiculous number of P50 bills on it, who wouldn't?
Yona started her post with a PSA of sorts, in which she discussed the importance of saving money. "Need natin mag-save habang bata pa tayo para in the near future hindi tayo sobrang ma-mo-moblema when it comes sa money kasi alam mong nakapag-save ka." She went on to add that it took her five months to save the 846 pieces of 50 peso bills in the picture. If our Math serves us right, it's a total of P42,300!
Yona's rule for the challenge is pretty simple: treat every P50 bill as invisible!
"Lahat ng 50 pesos na mahahawakan ko ay invisible muna sa akin. It means di ko siya gagastusin."
So if she pays in P500 and gets a change with some P50 bills in it, she will spare all the 50s and make sure she only spends whatever's left of her money.
It's no easy feat—even Yona admits that she had to discipline herself to achieve her goals. "Naniniwala ako na kapag gusto, madaming paraan. Kapag ayaw, madaming dahilan."
Read her full post below.
Think P50 is a little too big to be "invisible?" Here are other ways you can tweak the P50 Money Challenge and save money from your allowance.
- Spare P10 for every amount you spend.
You can save a total of P50 if you eat five times a day—and that's just on food!
- Make P20 your "invisible" amount.
It's up to you to decide if it's strictly bills or if coins are included.
Do you think you can do the P50 Money Challenge? Let us know how it works for you!
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What're you up to today? Submit your OOTD, fanfic, essay, school project, org event, a pic of your latest hobby, or anything you want to be posted on the Candy Bulletin page!
If you know me, and know me well, I am not the biggest fan of idyllic lifestyles. With a Type A personality, I act immediately upon whatever challenge that needs to be addressed. I actually enjoy keeping my mind preoccupied: doing university work in my favourite cafe then running errands around town, grocery shopping here, updating my accounts there, photocopying documents on the way down the street - all just in time before having a glass of champagne at the bar with my friends come evening.
And so, you could imagine my bewilderment when the next challenge to be faced was an extensive self-quarantine protocol. I didn't know what to do when my greatest responsibility in this situation was to do nothing at all. My first few attempts to combat my consternation were very much rooted in distraction and imagination. My distractions involved conducting research, writing songs, calling family and friends, filming videos, and eating chocolate! My imaginations and fantasies were centred on travelling, shopping, even clubbing (which I rarely do) for when they find a cure to COVID-19. I did anything and everything that could be considered constructive in order to pass the time, mainly hoping I could just undertake the basic human necessities to survive - that is, eat and sleep the day through - until the next day comes, until the world is closer to becoming a better place, until quarantine ends, until my flight follows through, until I see my family and friends again.
Days in self-isolation and suspended flights turned to weeks and turned to months. By the third extension here in Spain where I study Fashion Business, I had to tell myself this shall be my new normal now, that I was blessed to be healthy, that I was tired of merely existing and missed what it was like to actually live - even if just within four walls. Little by little, I began to find significance in the simple occurrences of the day: the soft glare of the rising sun beaming golden streaks through my bedroom window upon waking up, the fragrance of freshly washed bed sheets that I had painstakingly hung to fit a relatively small clothes rack without crumpling them, the crunch and tanginess of warm toasted bread topped with raspberry marmalade, the buzzing sound of a phone call from home just waiting to be answered, to the caress of a fuzzy sweater to keep warm at night. I realised, "What pleasures to be enjoyed in the pause of slow living!" Through this continued pause, which I loathed at first, I began to appreciate each moment of the day rather than wish it would pass more swiftly, moments I had overlooked so often before the lockdown. I started to find that the challenge of self-isolation was never to pause both the regular routines of life as well as the positive emotions that came with these - as initially, I thought it meant to pause all happiness, so as to withstand a time of endurance in hopes for a better tomorrow, much like a form of delaying gratification. Life is just too fragile these days to delay gratification any further.
Life has paused, but it has not stopped. Believe that like any punctuation mark in a sentence, the pause will provide the right timing of things to take place. Till then, let us not waste our time waiting. Instead, we could be in the moment, seek substance in simplicity (that is, in what we already have), And enjoy the pleasure in pause. "Practice the Pause. When in doubt, pause. When angry, pause. When tired, pause. When stressed, pause. And when you pause, pray."
Here's my two cents on the letter, call for help of our medical frontliners. Let's hear what our healthcare workers have to say and try to understand it from their point of view, they have every right to criticize how this medical crisis is being handled by the government... after all, they're the experts on the topic. Though we see the frontliners as heroes in our eyes, the lack of concrete plans from the government to combat COVID-19 makes them feel otherwise. Healthcare workers are already starting to voice out how they feel as though they are being sacrificed as they follow through their sworn oath. We wouldn't send our soldiers to war unarmed and without a concrete plan; the same should be expected for our frontliners. How can we send them to battle without proper gear? Why is there still a debate on whether mass testing is needed or not when the experts on that field continuously insist its importance in flattening the curve? Why is this still not the priority when it's literally our lives on the line? It's not like the medical experts demanding for mass testing are just stating their opinion about this mindlessly, they studied this laboriously. Make them feel heard so that all the sacrifices that they're doing and all the deaths of their colleagues are not in vain. More than the words of praises, what our medical professionals truly need right now is TANGIBLE support. Here is to hoping they get that soon. @errren.22
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Here is a photograph taken yesterday from the photo shoot I did in our house. ? I really love dressing up and being dolled up, it makes me feel great and confident of who I am ?
I was actually hesitant to post these pictures of mine. My sister eveb asked me to change my Facebook Profile Picture and it took me hours to decide if I should. But, I realized that this is me, the real me. I should be confident of my body and of who I really am.
At the end of the day, I dress up not for other people but for myself ? To all the ladies out there and even gentlemen who are taking a second to think if they should post their pictures, worried about what will others say their body, remember that we just need to be just ourselves. Be confident and let us support each other ? Let us be friends! IG: @romynaaaaaaa_
They say time heals all wounds, but it has been ages - is heartbreak exempted?
I have forgotten when was the last time we shared a smile - the last time when I saw the glow in your eyes and the last time when you whispered an I love you to me. I have forgotten when, but here I am - writing to you again.
I do not know if you will read this or you will just add this one to my proses and poems that you left unread, but you see, I am still hoping. I am mailing the pain of us to the gods out there - hoping they can take the pain away. I should have gotten over you, but instead of forgetting and accepting our ending, I am writing about us in tissue sheets, carving about us on trees, telling about us on the back of my journals, hoping that a thousand or a million write ups about us, can make me forget about what happened.
I am writing, waiting for the point where I can no longer write anymore, for I have none to tell - but when? I have nothing in me anymore, but the memories of us - and no matter how hard I try put those to its own grave, the memories grow back like lilies in the swamp - painful and beautiful at the same time.
No matter how hard I try to silence those and put it at the back of my mind, those ring back, playing like the favorite song we used to listen. They say heartbreaks turn into poetry and that is what happening to us - but poetry should be dulcet and dreamy, why does ours sound like pain and agony? They say time heals all wounds, but it has been ages - is heartbreak exempted? Darling, I guess not.


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DAVIE, Fla. (AP) It might be easier for the Miami Dolphins to make the playoffs than to explain how it could happen.
Both tasks are daunting.
With two games left in the regular season, seven teams have a better record than Miami (6-8) in the AFC race for six playoff spots. The Dolphins have a 2.3 percent chance of earning a postseason berth, according to the web site MakeNFLPlayoffs.com.
Hey, it beats being mathematically eliminated. And it gives the Dolphins something to play for Sunday against Buffalo (5-9).
``I heard we're still in the hunt and still have a chance,'' safety Reshad Jones said Wednesday. ``It does kind of surprise me.''
The Dolphins have been above .500 for only one week all season. They recently lost five times in a six-game stretch, and they're ranked in the lower half of the league in both offense and defense.
Even so, they remain eligible. Barely.
``It's a crazy league,'' said rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who last week erroneously declared the Dolphins out of the playoffs. ``You see a strange situation every year. Anything can happen. We've just got to keep plugging away.''
Don't ask them to explain the sequence of results that would get them into the playoffs.
``I really have no idea,'' tight end Anthony Fasano said. ``I don't know what it takes. You control what you can control; no need to exert energy on other things.''
To have any chance at the postseason, the Dolphins must beat Buffalo and win their regular-season finale at New England.
Four other games in the final two weeks must also go the Dolphins' way. They need for the Bengals to lose their final two games, the Steelers to lose to Cleveland, and the Jets to lose once.
If all of those things happen, the Dolphins would finish tied with the Bengals and Steelers at 8-8 and would win the tiebreaker.
Running back Reggie Bush was among those fuzzy on the details. When they were outlined to him, he shook his head.
``That's too much remembering,'' he said. ``I'm just worried about what we can control.''
He offered a slight twist on football's favorite cliche.
``We're just trying to take these next two games one game at a time,'' Bush said.
First-year coach Joe Philbin hasn't talked about the playoffs all season, and he said it's not a point of emphasis this week.
``The emphasis is a division opponent coming into our home stadium - a team that we haven't beaten yet,'' Philbin said. ``If you want to be a consistently good football team in the National Football League, you've got to win your home games and you've got to win your division games. So that's the real emphasis this week.''
Playoffs haven't been talked about much at the Dolphins' complex for the past decade. They've reached the postseason only once during that span.
A week ago, when the Dolphins had won just one game since Halloween, it was understandable for Tannehill to declare his team a non-contender.
``We realize we're out of the playoff race,'' he said.
Tannehill was quickly corrected by the coaching staff. Then the Dolphins beat Jacksonville, while two other teams contending for the final wild-card berth lost.
Tannehill made certain his assessment of the Dolphins' playoffs chances this week was more mathematically precise.
``We still have something to play for at this point, even if it may be realistically small,'' he said. ``We just have to go out and take care of what we can, and that's winning Sunday.''
Online:http://pro32.ap.org/poll andhttp://twitter.com/AP-NFL


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MATCHA trial comparing management of atherothrombosis with clopidogrel (Plavix™) with or without aspirin in high-risk patients with recent transient ischaemic attack or stroke.
Adding aspirin to clopidogrel increased bleeding without reducing recurrent ischaemic vascular events in high-risk patients.
matchThe fitting together of one or more things. See HLA match, Language mismatch, Logic mismatch, Mismatch. Cf Crossmatch.
How similar the HLA typing, out of a possible six antigens, is between the donor and the recipient.
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Q. Hi members, after I notice that our symptoms match those of fibromyalgia. Hi members, after I notice that our symptoms match those of fibromyalgia, do we have to live with it and simply manage it for the rest of our life or try some luck with food and meds? Thanks.
A. If you could have given a particular age details then it could have been easy to analyze. This condition is relatively new, yet it's appearing in epidemic numbers. Dr. Whiting (an orthomolecular nutritionist), finds in his work with people suffering with this that they are all very toxic. When their systems have been properly detoxified their symptoms will disappear. His personal feeling is that this is a condition of hyper-toxicity and manifests itself in people who are unable to physically cope with the overload of toxins in their system.More discussions about match


text: Careers / Employers print Recruitment Options We pride ourselves on our accomplished and motivated student body and we offer many opportunities throughout the year for employers to meet with potential candidates for hire. Recruitment Options Student Body profile On-Campus Interviewing We invite employers to participate in interviews on-campus through our Fall On-Campus Interviewing (Fall OCI) Program, or throughout the school year. The Fall OCI Program is sponsored in two interviewing sessions—an early interview week in mid-August, and the regular season from late August through September. We do not use a lottery system, so the choice of interviewing candidates is all yours. The registration fee is $250 regardless of how many schedules you take. The fees we collect are contributed to our scholarship fund. If you are unable to come to campus, we offer interviews via video conferencing technology through Law School Connect, or we can collect resumes for you from interested students and send them to you in one package. You may register and request your interview date through Symplicity at https://law-brooklaw-csm.symplicity.com/employers/index.php (instructions), or by using our online registration form. You will receive a confirmation by email. If you are having issues with Symplicity, please contact the OCPD at firstname.lastname@example.com. Outside of our regular On-Campus Interviewing Program We invite interested employers to come on-campus to interview students during the school year. We do not use a lottery system, so the choice of interviewing candidates is all yours. You may do so, by contacting office to request your interview date. List a Position If you do not wish to interview on campus, we welcome listings of your open positions. You may request that we collect and send resumes to you, or that we instruct the students and/or graduates to send their materials to you directly. We also accept confidential listings. The choice of listing method is yours. You may complete our online job listing form and email it to us, or email or fax us your own job listing description. In addition, the Career Development Center uses the Symplicity password protected database, through which you may register with us and list your positions directly into our password-protected database. When you list a job with us, your listing will appear in our database within 24 hours. Programs, Workshops and Receptions The career information programs that we host throughout the academic year offer employers numerous opportunities to introduce themselves to Brooklyn Law School students. These include participation in one of more of our many informational or practice area programs, or our highly successful 'Getting to Know You' lunches or receptions that we host at the Law School for individual employers. Policy of Non-Discrimination Brooklyn Law School is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in the education and employment of all qualified persons, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, race, religions, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, marital status or parental status in its admission or employment policies or in access to any of its educational, financial aid or other programs. The facilities and resources of the OCPD are available only to employers whose practices are consistent with this policy. Business Boot Camp Related Links: Alumni Engagement Stay Connected Attend an Alumni Event Faculty Directory Recent News Have questions? We have answers. Career Development Center 111 Livingston Street, 20th Floor Telephone: (718) 780-7963 Fax: (718) 532-2415 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Mailing Address: Brooklyn Law School Career Development Center 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn NY 11201 Office Hours Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Counseling by appointments Why BLS? A core philosophy supporting public service and the highest ethical standards.


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Sitcom showdown: Michael J. Fox vs. Robin Williams
Michael J. Fox and Robin Williams will return to television starring in different shows on the same night (Sept. 26) on a medium that has evolved remarkably from the one they left years before. If nothing at all had changed technologically and culturally since the days of Mork from Ork and Alex P. Keaton, the debuts of their competing new comedies - "The Crazy Ones" and "The Michael J. Fox Show" - would be billed as a spectacular showdown between '80s heavies, a modern-day Battle of the Network Stars. Viewers would have to choose which one to watch. There'd be a cartoon of them arm-wrestling on the cover of TV Guide.
Now they'll both be lucky if anyone sends out a few halfhearted tweets during the broadcast or clicks on clips of either show online the next day. Buzz is the only expression of TV adoration anymore.
So what exactly are Williams and Fox each looking for, besides a hit? They're looking for comfort - a mix of job security and creative satisfaction, perhaps. And what are we looking for when we tune in to shows starring actors whose long orbits have returned them to TV? We seek anything remotely funny or assured of itself; anything that lets us know that TV still works the way it used to when put in the hands of old pros. Familiarity is a powerful lure. What neither man could fully prepare for is the insecure nature of network comedy now - how meta is too meta? How much sarcasm kills a joke?
CBS's "The Crazy Ones," created by David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal," "Boston Legal"), is far more successful at a number of these goals, with a slicker launch and a better premise. It stars the 62-year-old Williams as successful adman Simon Roberts, who has turned over the business operation of his big Chicago-based agency to his daughter, Sydney (Sarah Michelle Gellar).
Williams of course brings the manic, free-associative ramble upon which he built his career. In Simon's ongoing monologue about himself, we catch light-speed references to divorces and rehab stints. His attention-deficit problem and personal demons don't help the trains run on time, but, as the agency stands to lose its big account with McDonald's, Simon is still the one who can pop in with a brilliant, off-the-cuff idea, buying the agency another couple of days with the impossible promise of luring pop star Kelly Clarkson (who is featured in an energetic guest cameo in the pilot episode) to sing an updated version of the "You Deserve a Break Today" jingle.
Not lovin' it? It's interesting to note that both "The Crazy Ones" and "The Michael J. Fox Show" lean far too heavily on promotional tie-ins to get their stories started. The creators of "The Crazy Ones" swear up and down that their show does not have a deal with McDonald's (or any other brand to be seen in future episodes). Their sole aim in choosing McDonald's was verisimilitude; the energy spent conjuring a McDonald's-like analogue to play the role of Simon's top client should instead be spent writing scenes and characters, Kelley and his writers explained to critics earlier this summer.
Viewers are therefore supposed to believe that the McDonald's logo and its old jingles are as free as the air we breathe - be sure to pop them into your next creative endeavor, gratis. The rationale is fine, but the net effect in the first episode of "The Crazy Ones" is that it feels like a protracted McDonald's ad. ("Sponsored content," in today's parlance, even if it isn't.)
Clarkson declines when Simon and his team beg her to sing the McDonald's ad, but she's intrigued by an ad-libbed idea offered by Simon and his charming associate, Zach, played by James Wolk; the two wind up improvising a sexier ad pitch that turns ketchup packets into syncopated pornography.
Wolk, as you may have noticed, is making a slow but worthy ascent to Jimmy Stewart-ville, where his twinkly eyes and an insouciant grin mask an unpredictable edge. You know him as the mysterious Bob Benson from the recent "Mad Men" season; or you know him as various boyfriends on canceled sitcoms or the number-one son on USA's "Political Animals"; or you know him from "Lone Star," the 2010 Fox drama that turned out to be the ratings equivalent of a snuff film.
Here, Wolk provides just the sort of casting ingenuity "The Crazy Ones" needs, especially as a counterbalance to Williams, who, it goes without saying, will motormouth his way through any scene he can. ("Don't encourage him," Gellar's character says at one point.)
As for Gellar, I completely get that she's permanently beloved for her work in the niche hit "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and is therefore entitled to flail about in other shows until the end of time. But watching her play Williams's dutiful and comedy-challenged daughter is a dreary primer in the pitfalls of big-name casting. Even in the tender scenes, she and Williams seem to be communicating through a glass wall that separates two different shows. She's politely tapping on it, but can't get in.
Overall, "The Crazy Ones" shows sure signs of achieving what it's attempting to be - a playful, upscale, single-camera departure from the usual sitcom. You can tell that it wants to be funny, which sounds like a strange compliment, until you watch enough new comedies in which detachment is the goal.
Give "The Michael J. Fox Show" props for a similar aim: It wants to be funny, it wants to be urbane, it wants to be human and it wants to nail every line.
Where it fails miserably is in premise and character. The 52-year-old Fox has been lucky to star in two series that landed upon the sitcom equivalent of undiscovered territory: In "Family Ties," he played the ambitious Republican teenager in a left-leaning, sort of proto-Whole Foods family. That part opened up a world of topical humor that straddled the remnants of the 1970s living-room sitcom and the newer, sassier '80s. "Family Ties" was simple as could be and yet entirely suited to contrasting the Reagan revolution against MTV. And later, in "Spin City," Fox played the deputy mayor of New York, adept at the obfuscating arts of politics and message, just as Bill Clinton's White House was attempting to elude its biggest scandal. (Fox left the show in 2000 to cope with his Parkinson's disease.)
"The Michael J. Fox Show," naturally, is a riff on the actor's ability to return to work, but that's all it is. It's a giant mirror that serves to reflect the triumph of his will, as well as the healing effects of gallows humor and family support. It's about a former TV and movie star who comes back to a network comedy series by playing a New York news anchor, Mike Henry, who comes back to work after learning to manage his illness. Here, Parkinson's co-stars as the sidekick (literally, as Fox's character might jest, with a well-timed leg tremor). The disease is the bad guy and the butt of all the jokes; its symptoms are presented as an entertaining set of quirks.
But by making Mike an NBC guy, "The Michael J. Fox Show" burns off all its goodwill in the pilot episode with a shameful new low in cross-promotion, featuring cameos from the "Today" show's Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker. It already seems like a million years since Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin were making cruel fun of NBCUniversal on "30 Rock." What's happening to Fox here feels like payback.
It's hard to cut through the junk of all that and notice that Fox is as sharp a TV actor as he ever was, something viewers of "The Good Wife" already knew based on his recurring role there. The guy does not miss a beat, even when his body won't obey. Betsy Brandt, shifting gears wildly from her final season on "Breaking Bad," plays Mike's wife, urging him to consider the station's offer to rehire him, even if it comes at the price of a treacly, soft-focus "comeback" campaign cooked up by his boss ("Treme's" Wendell Pierce).
The couple's children (a son who dropped out of Cornell; a conceited teenage daughter; and a tyke who keeps breaking major appliances) are all eager to get Mike out of the house based on a series of stale "doofus dad" routines. (What a chump! He's trying to get us to eat at the dining-room table! He makes us get up in time for school!)
"The Michael J. Fox Show" cracks the same jokes over and over and over, first about Parkinson's and its symptoms (one of which is the unwanted attention of strangers), then about domestic shenanigans as they are experienced by upper-class residents of Manhattan. I have no doubt that the show sincerely believes its message is "You can overcome anything," but the real message is: Watch NBC, we beg of you.
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The Crazy Ones (30 minutes) premieres Thursday, Sept. 26 at 9 p.m on CBS.
The Michael J. Fox Show (one hour; two episodes) premieres Thursday, Sept. 26 at 9 p.m. on NBC.


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One iPad, one car, three passengers: big problem. Don't worry, though, because Philips has just launched an extension kit which let's you share your media around the car easily.
Philips provides two LCD displays which can be mounted to the back of the front headrests and plugged into any iOS device: an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The screens are powered by an integrated cup holder dock that charges while the car is in motion.
Hey presto: media for all! Well, apart from the driver. Hopefully.
It comes in two versions: the PV7002i offers two 7-inch wide-screen LCD displays, while the PV9002i offers two 9-inch screens. Both will available in April 2012. The PV7002i (7") is priced at around £120 and the PV9002i (9") at around £140. [Ubergizmo]