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Here is the path we cribbed (layed logs across, to prevent erosion) some weeks ago. The one the Brooklyn Paper dubbed The Pathway to Pleasure. As unimpressed as we were with the lousy article, the name has stuck. Last Tuesday - our 24th Litter Mob, and almost one year since we started - David, a member of the Prospect Park Alliance's Natural Resources Crew, and known on this blog as Our Learned Leader, suggested we mulch it. Mulch makes for nice woodland. It encourages plants to grow in from the sides, too, narrowing this wide, ad hoc path. And, it looks purdy.
Course, some wheelbarrows would have been nice. It is a hill, and mulch is heavy. But apparently they were sequestered elsewhere. I had been asked the previous week if the Mob might assist this Tuesday instead with other plantings attached to the multi-million dollar (74, 000,000 and counting) ice rink that is being built, and I had demurred. It's important to me that we focus on the woods. Prospect Park seems to be fraying at the seams and at its core and staying on target in this woodland is one way to keep track of progress, or the lack thereof. Spreading thinly just keeps the wound bleeding. I'd rather staunch the place we have chosen. And really. No matter what the justification - all those millions and you still need us to plant the damn thing?
The disarray is getting to me. The Parks Department, City of New York, that is, is letting go of more and more responsibility for the green spaces that make it proud, and which provide a tonic for its citizens. The Prospect Park Alliance (private, not for profit) has too little money to run a park of this size, but is expected to. And, very importantly, I think morale is shot. From my imperfectly clairvoyant and informed point of view mismanagement is a big factor, too. I believe in old fashioned elbow grease. A work ethic. Actual work. Not pushing paper around. I can hear paper rustling.
Take the employed bodies in that park on any given day and actually get the whole body to work? Then you'd see something. Marvelous.
In my neighbourhood, which still has some Italians left in it, I was taught the saying that the fish stinks from the head down. How true is it? Don't know. I think fish can begin stinking anywhere. But the stink is catchy. I am beginning to sniff myself suspiciously. I am tired of working for and worrying about a park where I don't see anything reciprocal to reward the voluntary labour. I don't want certificates from the president of the Borough of Brooklyn, or Tshirts or baseball caps or brunches. Save your money. Show me something else. Real. A willingness to chip in and match our effort and change the fact that unless we have people working for free in a crucial natural habitat of the park and the city, it will turn into a cesspit.
How much will it really cost to erect the wildflower signs, the biodiversity signs...to plant more perennials, to address the littering men in the woods? To fetch their freakin' litter?
We are not actually achieving anything. We are simply treading muddy water.
So, no wheelbarrows, I felt punished. Strong French Franck toted most of the mulch up that hill (below), boosted every now and then by Inge or me, or David, and at one point falling under the wheels of the blasted little cart we did have to play with. All we needed was little red beach spades.
The woods need more than I can give at this point. They need a material investment of faith by their bona fide custodians.
They need elbow grease.
I am speaking for myself alone. The members of the small band of regular volunteers who made our every-other-Tuesdays possible each have their own reason for showing up. And they will probably show up to other volunteer efforts if the Litter Mob, whose domain is Prospect Park's Midwood, folds. Or perhaps they will carry on.
But I am not sure that I can, or want to.
I love seeing the woods twice a month. I know them well, now. I like them more than ever. I know where what blooms when. I expect the high drill of the woodpecker, the sudden squeak of the spring chipmunks. The hateful patches of soiled condoms and shitty tissue and trash trash trash. The lace of pale leaves in April, sunshine streaming through the high branches, the empty fretwork of winter. I'd like to keep going back. I enjoy the camaraderie, the feeling that I've made a difference.
But it is not sustainable. Effort should be met, halfway. Unless you are a saint, and that I am not.

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LANCASTER, Pa. – Franklin & Marshall's defense caused four turnovers, and its offense had five different players hit paydirt, en route to a 40-14 Homecoming win over Juniata Saturday afternoon in Centennial Conference (CC) football action. The defense held the Eagles to just 141 yards while keeping Juniata out of the end zone. The Eagles' two scores came on a punt and a kick off return.
F&M (1-3, 1-2 CC) struck first with 46 seconds remaining in the first quarter. Jordan Zackery returned a punt 26 yards to set up a John Harrison 16-yard touchdown pass to Lamont Jackson to give the Diplomats a 7-0 lead.
Jonathan Struss intercepted a Ward Udinski pass and raced 70 yards down the home sideline for the score to put F&M up 14-0 with 11:11 remaining in the first half.
The Eagles finally lit the scoreboard late in the second quarter. Nicholas Stubbs returned a punt 64 yards to make it 14-7 with 5:34 remaining before halftime.
The Diplomats got one more across the goal line before the break. John Kaschakcapped of a five-play, 50-yard drive, on a one-yard plunge with 30 seconds remaining in the half. E.J. Schneider went 3 for 4 with 45 yards in the 1:59 scoring drive.
Tim Muller got the scoring started in the second half on his first touchdown of season with 5:33 remaining in the third quarter. Zackery put the Diplomats in great field position, again, with a 44-yard punt return, setting the Diplomats up on the Juniata 31. Eight plays later, Muller hauled in a one-yard pass from John Harrison (19 for 26, 143 yards). F&M failed on the PAT, with the score standing a 27-7.
Juniata responded when Nicholas Stubbs took the ensuing kickoff 94 yards to the house to cut F&M's lead at 27-14.
F&M countered with two scores over a two-minute span to put the game out of reach. Scott LaValva scored on a six-yard jaunt at 14:33 and Joe Goggin hauled in a 34-yard pass from Schnieder (9 for 15, 153 yards) for the final score of the contest.
Brendan Wengerter paced the defense with seven tackles. Nick Barbieri finished with five tackles and a fumble recovery while C.T. Marsh collect four, including one sack, the 20th of his career.
Ty Savastio led the secondary with two breakups and an interception to go along with three tackles. Ryan Young and Struss both finished with one interception apiece.
Dominch Hezekiah finished with a game-high 40 yards rushing. John Kaschak tallied 31 and LaValva finished 26 yards on the ground. Mueller caught seven balls for 93 yards while Jackson finished with 30 reception yards.
F&M returns to the gridiron next Saturday when the Diplomats host Dickinson for the Battle of Wagon. Kickoff is set for 1:00 p.m.


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The 10 P's to Parenting with Passion
Mom. Was there ever a job that encompassed so much, prompted so many questions, and created so many doubts in the minds of women? What exactly is the job description for a mom? How can the job look so different from house to house, from culture to culture? Who is doing it right? Is there one right way, or many, depending on your child's personality, age, or environment?
What if you have multiple children with diverse personalities? Should you parent them each differently under the same roof? Why isn't there a Google map for moms, or a handy iPhone app? Wouldn't it be amazing if you could input all the variables and characteristics of your children, press a button, and print the perfect parenting plan for you to follow?
Cultivating these ten Ps and learning how they fit together will help you accomplish your goal of being the best mom you can be.
Susan Merrill, author of "The Passionate Mom," is a wife, mother of five, director of iMOM.com, want-to-be blogger, and the "very imperfect" Merrill family manager. Susan lives in Tampa, Fla., with her husband, author and President of Family First, Mark Merrill, and two or, depending on the day, up to five of her children ages 16 to 22. On those days she happily forsakes all other responsibilities to run a bed and breakfast /laundromat for her college-aged children.


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Wedding and Party Favors: Making a Donation In Lieu of Wedding Favors
A bride feels selfish replacing her party favors with a donation made on behalf of her guests
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When it comes to party favors, the choice is up to you. Be as creative and as clever as you wish, or do nothing at all.
Dear The Wedding Guru: "I really like the idea of donations instead of giving out wedding favors, but I have a couple of questions. Are there tax consequences that I need to know about? Do we make a donation for each, or do we make one larger donation in our name and take the tax deduction? I'm feeling selfish about getting a monetary advantage instead of our guests getting something in hand."
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REACH stands for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation of Chemicals. This new EU Regulation centralises and simplifies chemicals legislation throughout Europe and entered into force on 1st of June 2007. The declared objective is to improve the level of knowledge about dangers and risks that chemicals may pose. Companies are expected to assume even more responsibility for the safe use of their products. The Federal Authorities offer a wide range of information on REACH so that particulary small and medium-sized companies can also quickly become familiar with the new provisions.
The new EU Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures, the CLP-Regulation, entered into force on 20th January 2009. The CLP-Regulation introduces the Globally Harmonised System of the United Nations for the classification and labelling of chemicals (GHS) into the EU and is direct acting in all EU Member States. The objective of CLP is to ensure a high level of protection of human health and the environment as well as the free movement of substances, mixtures and certain specific articles within the European Union. The global harmonisation of regulations for classification and labelling of substances and mixtures (UN-GHS) for marketing and use on the one hand and for transport on the other aims at protecting human life and the environment as well as simplifying world trade.
The Biocidal Product Regulation (BPR, Regulation (EU) 528/2012) concerns the making available on the market, of biocidal products, which are used to protect humans, animals, materials or articles against harmful organisms, like pests or bacteria, by the action of the active substances contained in the biocidal product. It regulates their use and authorisation. It is applied since 1st September 2013 and repeals the Biocidal Products Directive 98/8/EC.
The REACH-CLP-Biozid helpdesk is the national information centre for producers, importers and users of chemical substances. It provides information and guidance in connection with the implementation of REACH and CLP (GHS) and support with the registration, evaluation and authorisation as well as the classification and labelling of chemicals.
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The University of Illinois and Texas A&M University are among nine institutions that have been awarded a total of nearly $9 million in funding from the DOE and the USDA to accelerate research in biomass genomics research.
The various projects and the joint DOE-USDA Plant Feedstocks Genomics for Bioenergy research program are described at http://genomicscience.energy.gov/research/DOEUSDA/index.shtml.
At the University of Illinois, Matthew Hudson, Dept. of Crop Science, and colleagues will study the role of RNA molecules in regulating the expression of genes which control the size, shape and composition of biofuel crops, such as Miscanthus, switchgrass and Prairie Cordgrass.
At Texas A&M University, John Mullet at the Functional Genomics of Plants Laboratory, will head research on using genomics and genetics to increase the yield and improve the composition of high biomass cellulosic energy sorghum and other C4 bioenergy grasses.
"Since these crops tend to require less intensive production practices and can grow on somewhat poorer quality land than food crops, they will be a critical element in a strategy of sustainable biofuels production that avoids competition with crops grown for food," reports the DOE.
DOE's Office of Science will provide $6.9 million in funding for seven projects while USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture will award $2 million to fund the two projects described above. Initial funding will support these research projects for up to three years.


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11:00 am
Sid The Science Kid "Getting A Shot: You Can Do It!" Sid is super excited because his Grandma is coming to school! Grandma is a nurse, so she'll be giving everyone the new flu vaccination. Sid and his friends are a little hesitant to get the shot, and they have lots of questions about the vaccination and what it does inside their bodies. Grandma and Susie team up to explain the science of how a vaccination works, and then Grandma kicks in with a special song that makes getting a vaccination super easy!. D
11:30 am
WordWorld "Bear's Bed Sled/Sh-Sh-Shark!" Bear's Bed Sled - Bear is excited about sledding on the first day of snow, but her plans change when she hurts her toe and is unable to ride her sled. It's up to her friends to come up with a solution that will let Bear stay in bed and go sledding at the same time. Sh-Sh-Shark! - Shark is misunderstood. D
12:00 pm
Caillou "Caillou The Bookworm" Caillou the Librarian - Caillou is excited about showing Rosie the ropes when they visit the library. During storytime Caillou imagines he's in the story, riding on a dolphin. Later he and Rosie argue over a book and accidentally tear it. D
12:30 pm
Barney & Friends "Home, Sweet Home: The Rainforest" It's Earth Day, a great time for everyone to learn how to help take car of our world, but Ben is wasting paper while BJ isn't too concerned about cutting down a tree to make room for a new playground. After a trip to the rainforest and a meeting with Mother Nature, everyone learns the importance of taking care of our world. As Earth Day comes to an end, Barney reminds us all that taking good care of our Earth is the natural thing to do. D
1:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Help with Kelp/Treetop Tom" Help With Kelp - It's Fish's birthday and Nick and Sally want to get him a special present, but who can they ask for ideas? Cat's friend Gary the Garibaldi fish might have an idea! Off to the Briny Blue Sea where they meet a variety of creatures in a kelp forest who use the kelp for both food and protection. Back at home they make a picture of the kelp forest for Fish. It's the best present he could ever hope for! Treetop Tom - Nick and Sally are playing when their ball gets caught up high in the branches of a tree. D
1:30 pm
Zoboomafoo "Snowy Day" The show uses a clay animation fantasy world of Zabooland and the live-action outpost Animal Junction, where the Kratt Brothers and Zoboomafoo come together to explore world of animals and teach children how to make friends with them.G
2:00 pm
Curious George "School of Dance/Curious George Sounds Off" School of Dance - Little monkeys love to dance, which is why George can't wait for Allie's dance party. When Bill announces he's leaving town because he doesn't know how to dance the box step, George creates a footsteps dance step map to help. But you can't take a dance map to a party! How will Bill keep from stepping on toes without one? Curious George Sounds Off - Chef Pisghetti is distraught: his chickens won't lay any eggs! After spending a night in the chicken coop, George discovers that the chickens aren't sleeping and are too tired to lay eggs. D
2:30 pm
Martha Speaks "Martha's Slumber Party of the Weird/Return to Martha's Slumber Party of the Weird" Martha's Slumber Party of the Weird - The gang is camping out. The tent is pitched, they've played a hundred hands of Go Fish, and they've even eaten all the s'mores - but they still aren't tired. When TD suggests they tell science fiction stories, no one expects this story to end as it does: to be continued! Vocabulary: (E) science fiction, data, unpredictable, forsee(able), unforeseen, feline(s) (I) gather(ing), mysterious, peculiar, vine. D
3:00 pm
The Electric Company "The Limerick Slam" Jessica and Manny compete in the annual Limerick Slam. D
3:30 pm
WordGirl "The Wrong Side of the Law: Part 1/The Wrong Side Of the Law: Part 2" The Birthday Girl steals a priceless collection of Pretty Princess figurines from the jewelry store. In an unexpected turn of events Eileen (aka the Birthday Girl) charms the Police Commissioner and convinces him that WordGirl is the culprit. The Wrong Side Of the Law: Part 2 - WordGirl is stuck in jail, accused of stealing the priceless collection of Pretty Princess figurines while the villains of the city are running amok.G
4:00 pm
Wild Kratts "Octopus Wildkratticus" When Martin accidentally knocks Aviva's creature power suits into a deep Arctic trench, the Martin and Chris dive down in search of them in Aviva's newly invented Octopod submarine. Science Concepts: An Octopus can use ink, jet propulsion, tentacle regeneration, and camouflage in order to escape or hide when in danger. Each feature has an important function for survival. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Ecohaven Ooze" When Hacker discovers that the liquid ooze that feeds the animals of EcoHaven also gives him a super energy boost, he decides to drain the pond and take the ooze home. He builds a fort around the pond, so the CyberSquad must figure out a way to get in without being noticed. They take inspiration from the Greek myth of the Trojan Horse and build a giant "Trojan Ducky. D
5:00 pm
Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Blossom Bawls While Ruff Has A Ball with Balls" Ruff is trying to market "Ruffball," a brand new game that's supposed to sweep the nation! Unfortunately, Ruffball is interesting for only about six seconds. Ruff sends Talia and Liza to meet with a physics teacher to learn how to make Ruffball a little more exciting; and he sends Sterling to a stadium to learn how to broadcast a baseball game on the radio. D
5:30 pm
Nightly Business Report Apple shareholders are clamoring for a dividend, but the tech giant is holding out. An Apple analyst explains why he thinks the stock will jump more than 10% this year. Oil's rally shows little sign of stopping, how the surge could impact the economic recovery. D
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Doc Martin "The Wrong Goodbye" On his last day in the office treating patients, Martin sees a taxi driver who complains of severe headaches. Going through town on the way to London, another incident helps Martin connect the medical dots and he realizes Louisa is in danger in the man's taxi on the way to her own medical appointment.G
8:00 pm
Outdoor Idaho "Boat Builders" Idaho's boat builders draw on old craft techniques as well as new technology to rebuild wooden boats or design new ones. Whether working on a 1939 speedster or creating new drift boats, they turn out stylish products for Idaho's waters.G
8:30 pm
Dialogue "Reporters' Roundup 2/23/12" Host Marcia Franklin is joined by reporters and editors from around the state for a roundup of the month's news in Idaho.G
9:00 pm
MI-5 The fallout from Russia's attack on London finds the team in a race against time to rescue Harry, who has been kidnapped by rogue Russian agents. But as they dig deeper into his disappearance, they find a trail that leads to Iraq, and a conspiracy that involves the CIA, MI6 and some missing weapons-grade uranium.G
10:00 pm
POV "Racing Dreams" This program follows three young racers as they compete in the World Karting Association's National Pavement Series. Clocking speeds of up to 70 mph, these kids chase the National Championship title and take one step closer toward their dream of someday racing in NASCAR.G
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) The Chicago Bears have signed five-time Pro Bowl selection Adrian Wilson and veteran tight end Jeron Mastrud.
The Bears signed Wilson on Monday to compete for the team's strong safety position. The 34-year-old Wilson, who was with the New England Patriots, missed all of last season after a preseason Achilles tendon injury. However, team officials said they were impressed with Wilson's health, athleticism and ball skills during a workout Monday.
The 6-foot-3, 230-pound Wilson is one of 13 players to have 20 or more interceptions and 20 or more sacks in their career since sacks became an official statistic in 1982.
Mastrud started 12 of 16 games for the Oakland Raiders last season. The 26-year-old caught six passes last year for 88 yards.
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It's been a long time since we've featured here some cool Linux desktop wallpapers. In case you've just tuned in, we have shared several Linux-related wallpapers already:
* 15 Awesome Mandriva Linux Wallpapers
* 15 Minimalist Linux Wallpapers for a Distraction-free Desktop
* 25 Awesome Slackware Wallpapers
* 20 "Really Cool" Netbook-optimized Linux Wallpapers
* 15 Cool iPhone-optimized Linux Wallpapers
Hence I feel that it's about time to have another list of fresh and cool Linux wallpapers to customize your desktop. Most of the wallpapers that I'm about to show to you are new and may have never been seen before by most of you, so enjoy and feel free to download some of those that you like:
Linux Style
Throw Out that Crap
Sudo Do it A$$hole
Ubuntu Stripes
Linux Muse
Dark Root
Linux 2010 Calendar
Sudo Suck it Up
Tux Minimalist
Ubuntu Robot
Powered by Linux
Open your Source
CrunchBang Debian
Mint Landscape
Ubuntu Clear Minded
Linux Power and Freedom
It's a Trap
Linux Hi-Tech
Linux Means Freedom
Ubuntu Light
Fedora Dark Minimalist
Debian Chicken
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Chinese farmer She Ping gets covered with honey bees at his farm, producing honey to supplement their income in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. China's subsidies to farmers grew six-fold to reach 147 billion USD in 2010, with an increasing amount going to propping up farmers' pay.
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Qwasian : The Hardest working man in the Photoshop biz
Here's one gallery we did not have space for in our "Black History Month" edition, but surely deserves it's own premier :: Qwasian Phillips from Team Brinkz is one of the more prolific artists I've seen. He has uploaded over 200 pieces to the DTG Forums Gallery, and we're thrilled to share just a sampling here! March 17, 2014


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One of UGG Australia's most beloved silhouettes, the Classic Short Fur features plush Twinface sheepskin in a palette of fashionable shades.Temperature-maintaining insole and fashional Toscana fur outsole fit for icy city streets. An icon of casual style, this boot showcases all the characteristics of the Special Classic Collection.
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CHINO HILLS – New Chino Hills Councilman Ray Marquez will be sworn in before closed session on Tuesday.
Marquez, 56, was elected to the council last week during a Special Election to fill a vacancy.
At 6 p.m. City Clerk Mary McDuffee will administer swearing in before the City Council's closed session. Another swearing in will be conducted during the open session of the meeting at City Hall, 14020 City Center Drive., Chino Hills.
Marquez along with Debra Kay Hernandez, Rossana Mitchell and Jesse Singh competed to succeed Bill Kruger, who resigned from the council in September.
Marquez is a retired firefighter who now serves as a board member for the Chino Valley Independent Fire District.
He will have to step down from his position at the Fire District in order to be City Council member.
Fire District officials are expected to discuss how to fill Marquez's vacancy at their meeting on Wednesday.


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Not only at this moment, carpets are a huge trend, they are of all time. Brink & Campman has been producing them since 1897 for 120 years! Especially for this anniversary, they have developed three new colors in their iconic woolen Rocks and Stone qualities. Wol is on a march where Brink & Campman likes to contribute with her knowledge and creativity. For the new collection, in addition to trendy innovations in material application, design and color use, the design studio has retrieved and applied a number of ancient textile techniques, for example in the new qualities of Prado and Atelier.
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In March 1977, almost three years after Richard M. Nixon became the only U.S. president forced to resign from office, the British television personality David Frost spent nearly two weeks interviewing him for American television. In 2006, the British playwright Peter Morgan dramatized the preparation, the deal-making and the taping of the now famous interviews. His play, "Frost/Nixon," a critical and popular success in London and on Broadway, has come to the screen under the direction of the veteran filmmaker Ron Howard.
Almost halfway into the film, as Nixon (Frank Langella) arrives for the first interview session, one of Frost's researchers, James Reston Jr. (Sam Rockwell), watches the ex-president through a window. "I've written four books about him, but this is the first time I've actually seen him in the flesh," says Reston. "He's taller than I imagined." A minute later, standing face-to-face with the man, a mesmerized Reston stares silently at Nixon. Having declared that he will not shake the hand of a man he despises, Reston does just that when the president greets him.
The film's audience can understand Reston's dilemma. Despite all that we have come to know of Tricky Dick— his abuse of presidential power, his wiretapping of his enemies and his attempts to cover up the high crimes for which he was impeached—Nixon still comes across in the film as "taller than we imagined." His intellect, his political savvy, his ability to intimidate lesser mortals and his easy manipulation of any conversation demand our respect, however reluctantly given. In Frank Langella's hands, Nixon comes across as a lion of a man, brutal when in power, fiercely defensive when cornered. Can this lion be tamed?
The interviews resemble boxing matches between Nixon the political heavyweight and Frost, his unimpressive opponent. At one point, Nixon gets pugilistic advice from his post-resignation chief of staff, Jack Brennan (Kevin Bacon), who coaches him to "control the space. Don't let him in." Likewise, Frost's coaches tell him: "Keep your distance till the taping begins. Don't engage. You're in there with a major operator." Up to the final interview, the two remain locked in verbal combat. Frost tells Nixon, "Only one of us can win." Nixon: "I shall come at you with everything I've got. I'm going to be focused and ready for the battle."
The first three interview sessions are seen as disastrous for Frost because Nixon manages to intimidate him even before the taping begins. To Frost's embarrassing questions, Nixon offers rambling reminiscences and other diversionary tactics. The sessions prove particularly frustrating to Reston, the journalist who had agreed to participate in the production only if it would "give Nixon the trial he never had," making him admit his guilt and apologize to the American people for betraying their trust. Reston's hopes appear to be dashed until the night before the last interview and a fateful telephone conversation between the two combatants.
In the last half-hour of the film, the suspense of the contest builds to a powerful climax. In the final interview, armed with previously unknown information that Reston has unearthed among the tapes of Nixon's conversations with one of his Watergate co-conspirators, Charles Colson, Frost moves in for the kill. The cameras also close in on Nixon's face; he is betrayed by what one person later calls "the reductive power of the close-up."
Ron Howard makes exciting use of close-ups and quick-cut editing throughout the film, keeping the mental battlefield constantly energized. Not only during the interviews but also in the heated arguments between Frost and his production staff and researchers, the camera is in constant motion, moving from face to face and angle to angle, frequently changing points of view. Except for the scenes at Nixon's San Clemente estate, the palette throughout most of the film employs dark browns and black, keeping the mood of the story heavy and even menacing in spots.
Howard and his fellow producers imported much of the play's talent. Frank Langella, who won the 2007 Tony award as Best Actor for his Broadway performance, and Michael Sheen repeat their roles as Nixon and Frost; Peter Morgan has reworked his script for the screenplay. Langella's performance avoids anything like the standard stand-up impersonations of Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon. But with his hunched shoulders, his swinging arms, his heavy gait, his nervous mouth and, most of all, his growling bass voice, Langella conjures a frighteningly recognizable figure from one of our country's darker moments.
Michael Sheen does not succeed as well in his representation of David Frost. While Sheen might have managed to impersonate him onstage, in the closer view of the camera, he does not resemble Frost, either in appearance or in personality. Even as others in the film describe Frost as a slick, shallow entertainer more suited to be a game show host than one who interviews ex-presidents, Sheen comes across as refined, polished and emotionally intelligent. The inclusion of the character of Caroline Cushing, a lovely young woman whom Frost meets on the flight from London to America and takes with him to California, serves no recognizable purpose in the narrative other than to document Frost's reputation as a womanizer, meanwhile wasting the considerable talents of newcomer Rebecca Hall.
The film is also diminished by the fact that outside the interviews themselves, much of the dialogue and many of the scenarios—including Nixon's late-night telephone call—did not actually occur, turning parts of the film into political fiction rather than historical drama. For a more factual, detailed account of the proceedings (and a good read), see James Reston's The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews (Harmony, 2007).
"Frost/Nixon" closes with the relatively accurate observation that after the interviews, Richard Nixon "remained largely absent from official state functions until his death, of a stroke, in 1994." Yet Nixon lives on in the political mythology of our nation as a man who, despite the many accomplishments of his administration, "let the American people down," as he confesses in that final interview. By all measures, he lost the boxing match. Frost, whose professional reputation soared as a result, may be considered the winner. But the real victory belongs in another realm, wherever truth and justice reside and continue to offer us hope that every now and then, the arrogance and dishonesty of the powerful will not prevail.
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Not necessarily-it depends how the grammar is taught. There are rights and wrongs, and students should know this- they cannot just do what they want. Prescriptivism does not have to be synonymous with pedantry, though it often is. Also, I have never come across a trued descriptivist- they always display prescriptivist tendencies. Many teachers are prescriptivists because exams are, so how would being taught the skills to pass an exam impact negatively?Originally Posted by sonik
I teach 'If I were' & 'If I was' as valid forms, which is descriptivist, though I encourage the use of 'were' in formal writing, which is prescriptivist. At the chalkface, I think the issues are blurred and most teachers I know mix the two.


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The Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), designed by architect Zaha Hadid, is the newest and most iconic landmark of Seoul. The Coats! exhibition takes place at the DDP's Art Hall 1, and it opens with the site-specific digital installation by the Korean artist Yiyun Kang. Her work explores the cultivation of relational environments, generating an augmented environment and engendering perceptual ambiguity. For the Coats! exhibition, Kang will explore the space of the dome, turning features of the production process and images from the Max Mara's historical archive - including the iconic camel fabric - into patterns: a bright, living material that will give a distinctive visual slant to the exhibition's piazza.
Over ninety coats are on show in the exhibition, starting from the first ones from the 50s to the more recent ones that walked the Milan runway, and of course the iconic 101801 style. Beginning from the early days of dressmaking and its evolution into fashion, the coats show the changes in taste, society and lifestyles that have marked each decade.
The 1950s: the Founder, Achille Maramotti, and his dream of a coat.
In the 1950s Achille Maramotti had a dream: to take a made-to-measure garment, put it into production and to transform a men's coat into an iconic piece of clothing for women. His dream was a very modern one for the times and was based on his intuitions as an entrepreneur and businessman; intuitions that drove him to manufacture outerwear and tailleurs for women, "ready and easy" to be worn, and led him to found, in 1951, his company Maramotti Confezioni in Reggio Emilia, Italy. To delve into the life of the Founder by peering through the door of his Studio, is to immerse oneself in his life and, for a moment, to dream his dream.
The 1960s: the creative studio, the coat "for everyone", the designers and Pop
In the 1960s Max Mara found itself absorbing the visual signals that were emanating from the new fashion capitals in Europe (Paris, London): the company realized that the tastes of the consumers were changing and that they had to acknowledge the growing role of young people as definers of the newest fashion trends. The Creative Studio, strategically placed in the center of the company's Reggio Emilia headquarters, transformed the sketches and drawings of the most talented designers of the time into products. The Studio is filled with the kaleidoscope of pop images, the explosion of young culture, the atmosphere and the trends in the new fashion capitals.
2010: the fashion show. The runway show from the backstage to the latest trends.
"Lights, strobes, photographs, music, rhythm, the wait and desire, curiosity, the looks emerging on the runway and the excitement of being in the first row. Through eight individual pieces, selected from the latest runway looks, Max Mara produced the ideal fashion show which captured the atmosphere, taste and trends of the first decade of the new millennium. The alluring and glamorous fashions of the decade can also be attributed to the growing role of celebrities who drive the international style of the Max Mara woman. The precious coats from the Collezione Atelier and the Whitney Bag, designed in collaboration with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, further underscore the continued research and evolution of Max Mara."
The 1970s: Colorama, the colorful coat and the art of experimentation.
New shapes, new materials, new colors, new manufacturing processes and new creative input: the pervasive climate of protest of the 1970s generated a completely novel look that coincided with the birth of the Sportmax label in 1969 and with its first experimental fashion show directed by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac in 1976. There was a special environment of experimentation: the creative, and primarily French, designers created a dialogue with the Style office of the company, meeting the needs and guidelines of the production team.
The 2000s: the Max Mara women. The coat goes on the road and the female universe.
Max Mara has been a cultivator of change and female empowerment, supporting creativity and contemporary art that, along with the support of women, are all part of Max Mara's DNA today. Since 2005, the company has advanced the cause of women through the creation of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery; a prize promoted by the Collezione Maramotti which celebrates emerging female artists from the U.K. Since 2006 Max Mara has supported and nurtured the Women In Film association through a dedicated prize, the Max Mara Face of the Future Award®, awarded as a personal recognition to a rising female talent in cinema.
The 1990s: the photographic set, the story of the coat and the perfect image.
The encounter between fashion and the great photographers created images that became the history of Max Mara and were destined to remain forever. Images that showed the quality of the products, the distinctiveness of each coat and the unique interpretation of each woman that wore it. The search for the perfect image became crucial in the Nineties; images that were able to tell the story and unveil the beauty of the minimalist surroundings and the pared down luxury of the Max Mara coats worn by international top models. The focus of Max Mara's "storytelling" became recounting the story of the product as well as the describing the process used to create the pieces of the collections: thus special catalogues, runway videos, photographs from the backstage as well as Max Mara's MM magazine, all became the new devices with which the fashion narrative was forever changed.
The 1980s: the icon. The magic of the coat and Italian know-how.
In the decade that fashion across the globe spoke Italian and that Italian designers captured international attention, the French designer, Anne Marie Beretta, sketched a timeless piece: the 101801 Icon Coat, which created the heart and essence of the Max Mara identity. The San Maurizio factory, inaugurated in 1988, revealed the magic and energy of the manufacturing process and the steps required to create the company's statement coats. In the Eighties, the distinctive camel coat became the feminine, cultured and sophisticated uniform of the working woman.
To celebrate the new edition of Max Mara Coats! Seoul, a special look has been designed: all of the look's details draw inspiration from - and pay homage to - the Korean tradition.
Coats! A journey into Max Mara Heritage
Starting November 28th a new edition of Coats! the exhibition dedicated to over 60 years of history of Max
Mara, will open in Seoul, Korea, in the futuristic and multi-functional DDP (Dongadaemun Design Plaza)
designed by Zaha Hadid. After Moscow (2011), Beijing (2009), Tokyo (2007) and Berlin (2006), Coats! is designed once again by Studio MIGLIORE+SERVETTO ARCHITECTS. The exhibition will be shown inside a monumental dome inspired by theutopian architecture of Étienne-Louis Boullée. It will present a completely new overview of the Max Mara Heritage.
This journey plunges visitors right into the heart of the history of the coat and of the brand, winding its
way through seven themed rooms: a series of modern-day wunderkammer, packed with garments, sounds,
memorabilia and interactive features representing the vision that moved Max Mara's founder, Achille
Maramotti: "to make the ordinary extraordinary". The intuition that inspired him to turn the masculine coat into
an icon of the womenswear wardrobe is one of the most visionary adventures of the Italian clothing industry.
The exhibition starts from the dream of the perfect coat.
Coats! opens with the site-specific digital installation by the Korean artist Yiyun Kang, curated by renowned
Daehyung Lee. It will explore the space of the dome, turning features of the production process and images
from the Max Mara's historical archive into patterns; a bright, living material that will give a distinctive visual
slant to the exhibition's piazza, a route through seven rooms of the Max Mara world. The rooms can be visited
either in chronological order or according to theme, following the emotions, music, shifts in atmospheres,
scenarios and colours that mark the move from one decade to the next.
Each room opens with a set, a sort of theatrical representation, suspended between imagination and reality,
which metaphorically places the focus on a specific theme of Max Mara's history:
• The founder. Achille Maramotti and the dream of the coat ('50s)
• Creative study. The democratic coat, designers and pop ('60s)
• Colorama. The coat in technicolor and the art of experimentation ('70s)
• The icon. The magic of the coat and Italian know how ('80s)
• The set. The representation of the coat and the perfect image ('90s)
• The Max Mara women. The journey of the coat and the female universe (2000)
• The fashion show. Runway glamour and new projects (last decade of 2000)
Over ninety coats are on show in the exhibition, starting from the first ones from the 50s to the more recent
ones that walked the Milan runway, and of course the iconic 101801 style. Beginning from the early days of
dressmaking and its evolution into fashion, the coats show the changes in taste, society and lifestyles that have marked each decade, together with sketches by the designers who have worked with Max Mara (Anne Marie Beretta, Emmanuelle Khanh, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Charles de CastelBajac, Narciso Rodriguez, Giambattista Valli and Proenza Schouler). The exhibition features historical magazines, raw materials, advertising campaigns shot by legendary fashion photographers (Richard Avedon, Arthur Elgort, Steven Meisel, Sarah Moon, Max Vadukul, Mario Sorrenti, David Sims and Craig McDean); celebrities portraits and everyday objects (sewing machines, measuring tapes, scissors etc) and artworks that are the fruit of the dialogue between contemporary artists and the founder, avid art collector. This continues today with the Collezione Maramotti.
Featuring fascinating items belonging to the historical archive of the Group the exhibition offers a
reconstruction of the varieties of stories and inventions behind the know how of Max Mara illustrating the
evolution of the product and the design culture underlying each garment. Coats! reveals how the family
business, by engaging with the local area, Reggio Emilia, and with the world, has been able to interpret the
desires of women since 1951 right up to today.
Read the press release
1. Have you ever worked on a fashion project before? / Is this your first work with the fashion world? No I haven't. / Yes. This is the first time I have worked in the world of fashion.
2. When was your first meeting with the Max Mara Company and how did you react? My first visit to Reggio Emilia was in May, 2017. Before the visit to the Max Mara HQ, Factory, Archive, and Maramotti Collezione, my understanding of the operations of the company was superficial. The visit helped me to not only understand but also genuinely 'feel' the philosophy of the company. At the heart of its philosophy, there are people who really appreciate it and try hard to adhere to its values. I found it to be a particularly inspirational experience.
3. Did you know about Max Mara previously? Yes, of course.
4. How did you feel during the visit to the Max Mara archives in Reggio Emilia? I truly admire Max Mara's respect for their heritage and values and the effort that has been put in to support them. While I was working at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) as a resident artist, something I will never forget was my visit to their archive and storage facilities. I realized that the overall quality of the museum is reflected by the perfect maintenance of its archive collections and a profound respect of its history. I felt the same way when I visited Reggio Emilia.I was deeply impressed by the focus on its essence, and I believe that it is rooted in the company's archive.
5. What do you think about fashion? How do you deal with it? By definition, fashion is a trend. It is a style in dress, ornament, or manners of behavior. To me, fashion is not just a fast-changing trend, but a means of expressing one's character and feelings that can also reflect the specificities of an occasion. I also believe that the choice of fashion relates to a fundamental understanding of my own physical body.
6. It is clear that art influences fashion. Do you think that fashion influences art too? As I have just pointed out, fashion is a trend; it is a movement, a tendency, and an inclination that is closely related to desire. I consider such trends that originate from desire to be also very important in art. Nowadays, I feel that fashion is not only about garments but also about creativity and lifestyle as a whole. For example, Max Mara manifests its identity not only through their fashion items, but also through their archive, Maramotti Collezione, and the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. In this way, fashion and art can cohabit by sharing influences and supporting each other.
7. Where do you think that fashion and art meet? I certainly believe that they coincide in this exhibition! To continue from the previous question, I feel that this exhibition is one kind of Max Mara's holistic manifestations. It is not only about the history of Max Mara's clothes but also about its heritage and a deep respect for art. I believe that this exhibition will generate a dynamic experience that can connect the company with its audience through the contemporary artwork.
8. How do you think it is possible to combine your language with the language of fashion? First of all, I don't think that I completely comprehend the language of fashion. However, it seems to me that, at least in the case of Max Mara, the fundamental language of my work and that of fashion have a great deal in common. In Max Mara's consistent philosophy and respect for its heritage, I find a craftsmanship that is not volatile. Moreover, Max Mara's minimal and modernistic aesthetic style coincides with my own visual language. I appreciate that my work and Max Mara's designs avoid superfluousness and redundancy; both are faithful to the essence, in such a way that people often feel that they are more poetic than decorative.
9. What is the difference between an art production and a fashion one? Both are actually quite similar. To produce works of art and fashion requires effort, perfection, and collaboration on many levels. However, as art is not always produced with a sale in mind, the art-making is sometimes very spontaneous and intuitive. I suppose that the objective of making a sale draws an essential distinction between art and fashion. I think that art has relatively more freedom than fashion in terms of developing its concepts, visualization, and approaching its audience.
10. What are the starting points and inspiration behind your artworks? Surface and depth are vitally important, as is desire. Fabric wraps and constructs the volume of the human body. When aesthetics intervenes, it becomes a fashion. Fashion is closely related to desire. Max Mara's fashion is not superficial but deep. Dome is not just a surface, it is simultaneously an environment. This is a deep, volumetric dimension. These are my starting points and they form the key concepts of this work.
11. What relationship is there between your art and Korean culture? Has Korean culture influenced your artwork? I don't think that Korean heritage has significantly influenced my work on a surface level. Rather, the influences of Korean culture exist on a subconscious level. My installations are mostly sitespecific, so I'm quite adaptable to given conditions and flexible when it comes to mixing my language into the existing structure in order to create a new experience. Similarly, contemporary Korean culture also has a high degree of adaptability and remixability. For example, let's take a look at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) which is the venue of the COAT exhibition. Within 5 minutes of the site, you can see Dongdaemoon (a.k.a Heunginjimun), a prominent Korean historical landmark built in the 14th century, Dongdaemoon market, a large commercial district comprising of traditional markets and shopping centers, and the DDP itself, a futuristic complex designed by Zaha Hadid. As such, all of these conflicting values have somehow harmoniously converged into contemporary Korean culture. We're good at blending diverse qualities in order to create a new environment, and I think this distinctive feature of Korean culture intuitively affects my work.
12. Space is very important for your work. How has the element of the dome conditioned your project? The dome has been a very challenging canvas for me. Moreover, the dome at the COAT exhibition is 20 meters in diameter. It is not an object, but rather an environment that is completely immersive, absorptive even. Our perception of and engagement in this environment is considerably different to that of other types of screens. Therefore, I firstly needed to investigate how the dome structure is conceptually and practically different so I could produce a video that is interconnected with the dome structure. In this way, the narrative of my projection could be developed with careful consideration of its environment; it is an immersive dome.
13. What kind of audience engagement are you looking for with your artworks? The architect Ico and I have critically focused on the pathway of this exhibition, which is openstructured. Members of the audience can navigate and create their own itinerary within this environment. Thus, my projections on the dome also coincide with the concept of the pathway. My projection neither takes a cinematic linear narrative nor does it have a definite start and end point. Rather, it flows between the surface of the dome and the volume of the environment in a constant loop. As a result, the audience can stay as long as they want, either hovering or immersing themselves. I have attempted to invite viewers to take their own journey between the Wunderkammer rooms and the dome space, between object and environment, and between surface and depth.
by Daehyung Lee (Curator, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale - Art Director, Hyundai Motor Company)
The work of art, created by the London based Korean artist Yiyun Kang in collaboration with MaxMara, one of the world's premier fashion brands, creates a sublime landscape showcasing the trajectories of moving images at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul. Kang is a master of illusions (but not of deceptions, as I will soon explain). She uses the technology of spatial projection mapping to transform space and existing architectural structures in a manner that collapses the opposition between concepts - materiality/immateriality, reality/virtuality, presence/absence, analog/digital, body/machine, fact/fiction, history/myth - which are central to our perceptual orientation, epistemic ordering of the world, and anchoring of subjectivity.
For her work Deep Surface (an oxymoron that undoes another key dichotomy), Kang uses the same technology to project images onto the internal surface of a dome. The projection consists of dancers moving and pressing their bodies against a white screen, which stretches and puckers with their movements. As a result, the mixture of the dome structure and Kang's digital moving images has conceived new modes of spectatorship that erodes both the boundaries between illusion and reality, and the disparities between individual voyeuristic experiences and interpersonal modes of observation. As the work's title emphasizes, the dancers only become visible through an illusory surface but simultaneously seem to exist in a depth or space beyond our vision—in a liminal place between the image and the dome that cannot possibly exist. The outlines of the dancers' faces and body parts appear fleetingly but with a force that begs for connection. The effect is of a sculpture in motion reminiscent of Michelangelo's unfinished marble sculptures in which deceivingly life-like figures seem to emerge, as if out of their own volition, from inanimate blocks of rock.
There is a clear correspondence between Kang's dome and Plato's cave as enclosed spaces. In
addition, Kang's dancers immediately echo Plato's dancing shadows. Yet Deep Surface also
distinguishes itself from Plato's allegory in an important way.
Indeed, while Plato's cave underscored people's trust in their perceptions and unquestioning adherence to a body of knowledge constructed on the aforementioned perceptions, Kang's work has the opposite effect.
Because Kang's projections completely dissolve the solidity of the dome and disrupt our sense of space and order and, by extension, our cognitive centering, Deep Surface injects us with an intense sense of bodily experience triggered by highly immersive environments. We are mesmerized and even absorbed by the work's trompe l'oeil effects and yet critically aware of their unattainable illusory nature. Trapped behind the cloth, the dancers—who cannot see us or our world beyond the white screen—become clear metaphors of our own confinement within our always finite and imperfect worldview. In this manner, Deep Surface places its dancers in the same position as Plato's prisoners, which in turn allows us, the audience, to experience a revelatory Brechtian distancing or estrangement effect.
Deep Surface also creates an analogy between the white screen and its projected footage of camel cloth, the signature material of the luxury fashion brand Max Mara. Of course, fashion has an intimate relationship to the human body and can act as a radical form of self-expression. The work, for instance, creates a parallel between the expressive movements of the dancers and the flowing folds of the projected camel cloth. However, the white screen in Deep Surface is the medium through which we obtain an oxymoronic context that highlights the impossibility of understanding the notion of 'depth' in isolation from that of 'surface' and vice versa. The work thus suggests that fashion, rather than being a mere trend or a form of spectacle as if often assumed, can be a medium through which we discover new realities and new subject positions. Indeed, the rest of the chambers in the installations - the wonder cabinets - offer us an encyclopedic understanding of Max Mara, while narrating history through its creation. Through these rooms, we can thus shift our view of history, fashion, and MaxMara in a manner that is analogous to the discoveries triggered by the rest of Kang's installation.


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- Anonymous2:57 PM, October 19, 2009
Where does malingering get you? As all American physicians know, it often gets you a lifelong income stolen from some working productive citizen, labeled as "disability payments" or some such crap. As H.L. Mencken said, "Americans used to work for a living. Now they vote for a living."ReplyDelete
Doesn't it make ya BOIL??!!??
I'm still active duty, but I can only answer from a Navy perspective...the ranges are:ReplyDelete
1. Informal counseling
2. Formal Counseling
3. Extra Military Instruction (EMI)
4. Captain's Mast
5. Administrative Separation
AWOL (or as we call it; Unautorized Absence)
1. Captain's Mast
2. Restriction; loss of rank; loss of pay
3. Correctional Custody (Brig time)
4. Separation under other than honerable conditions.
5. If greater than 30 days, the Sailor is classified as a deserter and a federal arrest warrant is issued. All pay and privileges stop. If picked up on the warrant(we don't actively pursue deserters anymore. Eventually they screw up and get picked up by local authorities, usually on a traffic stop) the Sailor is usually cour-martialed and may receive a Dishonerable Dischare or Bad Conduct Discharge (Both are considered felony convictions)
- Anonymous5:13 PM, October 19, 2009
Malingering??? You mean Article 115 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice? Its a Court Martial Offense, punishable by up to a Dishonorable Discharge, Forfeiture of all Pay and Allowances, and up to 1 yr Confinement...ReplyDelete
thank you gents, and next question, can one receive disability benefits through the VA for the diagnosis of 'malingering'? if so, at what percentage?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:01 PM, October 19, 2009
The VA is pretty good at sorting out who gets and does not get benefits. It gets a little squishy when it comes to post traumatic stress disorder. My boss, who knows nothing about the military, frequently needs to be jolted with facts to get him back to reality. He always falls for the sad story about being injured in Iraq, and now having severe back pain. There are ZERO people getting injured in Iraq and being denied VA benefits.ReplyDelete
i am not sure i agree with you. but i want my evidence to come from someone inside the system.
can one get a disability rating for 'malingering' in the VA system?
"Malingering" is a legal term as Frank pointed out and is a specific violation of the UCMJ. Separation for such an offense under other than honorable conditions precludes receiving any VA benefits. However, a psychiatric diagnosis of, and a medical discharge for a personality or adjustment disorder that can be classified under the DSM is a whole 'nother ballgame.
- Anonymous8:53 PM, October 19, 2009
I've worked for the Spa for nearly 20 years. I've never seen a SC rating specifically for "malingering". If someone truly is malingering and is ID'd as such I don't see how they could get a SC rating.ReplyDelete
If they are never dx'd w/ malingering, then yes, I have seen pts get SC rating for sx that are not substantiated by testing/exams.
As is my wont, I have a useless observation.ReplyDelete
My first play, ever, in high school football was a punt return for a touchdown. My second, ever, play was a punt return for a trip to Womack Army Medical Hospital, on Ft. Bragg. Apparently, my first play had somewhat irritated the opposition and I got hit by two guys, at approximately the same time, from opposite directions.
Anyway, the medic on duty at Womack (my parents had to drive me there, there being no high school on post), said, "Damn". However, there was no doctor on duty. He was apparently malingering. When the lady doc finally got there, she was most unkind and yanked my body parts with passion, while cussing about the malingering doctor. As a result, I played no more football, casts being discouraged on the field, and I supported the election of Carter. These are serious consequences.
So, that is my professional opinion; the punishment for malingering hurts like crap, for the malingered patient, and can lead to four years of malaise.
I hope that helps.
HIPAA prevents me from giving you the answer about malingering and disability ratings and the VA.ReplyDelete
My friends who are currently active duty USA tell me that AWOL folks are now routinely given OTH D/Cs and sent on their merry way. It's cheaper, evidently, than prosecuting.
- Anonymous8:18 AM, October 24, 2009
I work for the VA system. It depends how one defines "malingering" because it usually ends up with a lovely handle like "somatization disorder" and the vet gets a psych disability. I would cheerfully state--pauses to put on flak and Nomex--that over 50% of the vets I treat aren't actually disabled due to anything other than sorriness. Most psych disabilities are a crock.....PTSD? Ok, it exists. But most of these guys were antisocial violent idiots before they went to VN, where they sat in the rear and hauled cases of soda---they just now have an excuse.ReplyDelete
The men I know who really have PTSD are functioning in their daily lives.
Anon - Funny you should say that. I had a neighbor who I knew had served in combat in Vietnam, had lost friends there, and was injured in the line of duty. I had no idea how much he had endured until I talked to him after one Fourth of July.ReplyDelete
I noticed that he wasn't home while the rest of the neighborhood had shot off fireworks. I presumed he had gone elsewhere for the holiday, and I asked him how his 4th was. He said it was good because the sedatives had put him to sleep, so he didn't hear the fireworks. He said he was ok as long as he could see them being lighted off, but being indoors and hearing them sounded too much like gunfire and mortars.
This guy was a great neighbor. I was bummed when he moved. Like you said, he was productive and friendly and functioning in his daily life. But it was very depressing to learn that a person who fought for this country is unable to really enjoy the celebration of its independence!
- Anonymous1:28 PM, October 24, 2009
The Last Psychiatrist wrote something similar.ReplyDelete
"If you have a 25 year old unemployed actor for a son who lives rent-free in your house and spends your money on chest waxing and self-tanning cream, and he can get a doctor to believe this depresses him, he can get Medicaid"
- Anonymous8:39 AM, December 12, 2009
"But most of these guys were antisocial violent idiots before..." I LOVE the fact that you state that you work for the VA. You are a moron and should have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the well being of our soldiers. But then again, we all know about the VA's reputation for treatment of our vets dont we?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:51 AM, January 05, 2011
There are alot of POGS who sit in the rear on deployments and dont do shit. When these guys claim PTSD to me its amusing, when they are asked what its from they always say "mortars hit the base all the time I thought I was gonna die!!!" But really the chances of getting hit by a mortar, in most cases of mortar attacks. Is about the same as randomly getting hit by a -car. I was in the infantry in Iraq from 07-09 for 15 months it wasnt the worst time to be there but we took contact of some sort about twice a month and I fired my weapon only three times. But I can tell you since I came back almost every night I have extremely violent dreams, I jump at noises that sound like gunshots and run for a weapon from time to time, yeah I think PTSD is real.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:32 PM, March 16, 2012
In case no one answered, no a formal diagnosis of malingering is not a SC condition. It basically means there was no or not enough useful information obtained in evaluation as person provided false or exagerated information. One can reapply or sometimes a new exam is ordered.ReplyDelete


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KennyTheKangaroo wrote:does anyone think this jagoff did a good job as mayor?
penny lane wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if Dan Onorato decides to run. I like Jack Wagner, he too may run.
KennyTheKangaroo wrote:does anyone think this jagoff did a good job as mayor?
roland wrote:thepittman wrote:If I work two network admin jobs I'm not getting payed OT for the second one. I don't like this "renting" of law enforcement officers unless the business that is renting them is paying all of their extra pay.
The businesses are paying all of the extra pay. That is not the issue at hand. The problem is that when the businesses repaid the Pgh Police, the money wasn't deposited back into the fund that it was taken from. the money went to a 3rd account under the supervision of Nate Harper rather than the finance dept. This special account had debit cards that higher ups used and allegedly Ravenstahls body guards had cards as well which were used for travel expenses.
why WTAE put this list out is beyond me since the amount of OT worked isn't the issue at hand. It's all about shady accounting practices with the money that was reimbursed back into the police department.
pittsoccer33 wrote:His time in office was a mixed bag:
-improving financial situation
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-consol energy center and rivers casino
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-public works
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-lack of much city/county service consolidation
-public works
-lack of improvements to the "south side situation"
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Before scheduling that next meeting in your office or conference room, consider trading your shoes for sneakers and sitting for walking. Walking meetings allow for fresh air and perspective, exercise during the workday, and even cognitive advantages. Did you know that innovators like Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs advocated walking meetings at their organizations? Research has also shown that the simple act of rising from your chair helps workers to think better.
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6:50pm PT by Sophie Schillaci
'X Factor' Recap: Diamond White, CeCe Frey Fall Short of Semifinals
Thursday's X Factor started off on a cheery note, delaying the inevitable first elimination with a performance from last year's winner, Melanie Amaro.
The 20-year-old took her sweet time releasing originals after her 2011 victory, with her debut album Truly not due out until early next year. While her debut single, "Don't Let Me Down," was previewed in Pepsi advertisements earlier this season, Amaro performed her latest offering, "Long Distance," on the stage Thursday.
PHOTOS: 'X Factor' Season 2: Meet the Contestants
Amaro looked comfortable in a slimming black dress with her long, sleek, straight hair -- a far cry from her June 2011 audition in which she sang Beyonce's "Listen." The performance elicited big smiles from judge L.A. Reid, who later tweeted "Great seeing @ItsMelanieAmaro back on@TheXFactorUSA stage - strong performance."
Amaro seemed pleased to be back on the stage that made her a star, telling hosts Khloe Kardashian and Mario Lopez that "I have tons of wonderful people that just love me and take me in," referring to the show's audience. "Thank you," she told the crowd.
Next up was an ultra cheesy (and probably even more pricey) promotional video for Sony X headphones. Because it's not enough that the contestants have been wearing them everywhere all season, now they're shilling them by recalling their earliest memories of discovering that they wanted to be an artist. For CeCe Frey, it was being bullied as a child that made her love music. Apparently not much has changed.
Then came the bad news. One artist was to be unceremoniously booted from the competition without an opportunity to sing for survival. And while Frey always says she hopes to avoid singing on Thursday night, we doubt this was the alternative she was thinking of. Frey was the first to be sent home, leopard-face and all.
VIDEO: 'X Factor' Top 12 Sound Off on Their Mentors
"I hope I taught everyone at home to love who you are," she said. "The more you love who you are, the less you need everyone else to."
Demi Lovato broke down in tears while bidding her farewell, forcing Frey to console her with a hug and an "It's OK." Lovato, too, was sporting the leopard-face.
"Thursday was not looking good for the ladies, though, with Fifth Harmony and Diamond White forced to sing for survival as the bottom two. More on that in a minute.
First was a performance from Ke$ha, who, in retrospect, maybe was not the best choice to perform alongside a slew of competitive singers. While Frey was often compared to Ke$ha during her tenure, this performance of "Come On," her new single, made it abundantly clear that she -- and the rest of the competitors -- are infinitely more talented than the pop party girl. We think "Die Young" might have been a better song choice for this stage.
Cowell was not pleased to introduce his act first, challenging Lopez with "Do I have to go first? Really? I want to go second." But producers won out, with Cowell conceding and Fifth Harmony moving forward. The girl group did their best Mariah Carey with "Anytime You Need a Friend," making a point to allow each girl an individual moment to shine, but falling a tad short on the harmonizing once again.
PHOTOS: An 'American Idol' to 'X Factor' Timeline
Next up was the "girl next door who sings like an angel," as Britney Spears introduced her. Diamond White performed "I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack, but fell just short with the judges. While Cowell and Spears sided with their own mentees, it was Lovato who cast the deciding vote to send White packing.
She did note that both acts "have careers that have been made on this show that are going to last. Regardless of what I decide, I think you're both set." Spears echoed that sentiment, telling White that "you're so young, and the future is ahead of you. The world is yours." As for White, she looked to X Factor UK alum Cher Lloyd for inspiration, noting that since Lloyd finished fifth in her season, White is not worried about her own future.
"I'm thinking of Cher Lloyd right now, She came in fifth, and look where she is," said Diamond, 13. "I'll be sure to come back with one of my hit songs, and I'll perform for you guys."
So who came out on top with America? See the rankings below. Next stop for these four: the semifinals.
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HOUSTON, July 19 (UPI) -- The first U.S. land-based ballistic missile defense base in Europe is to be constructed in Romania by KBR.
The construction contract to build the facility at Romania's Deveselu Air Base was issued to the Texas-headquartered company by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District, and is worth $134 million.
"This award demonstrates KBR's strong technical and project management capabilities, as well as our proven history of performing large, technically challenging projects around the world," said Andy Summers, group president of KBR Infrastructure, Government and Power. "KBR is honored to have been selected to provide support of vital services to the U.S. Department of Defense and we look forward to the successful and safe completion of this project."
KBR said that under the contract it will re-locate a four-story radar deckhouse structure from the East Coast of the United States to Romania and build various facilities and infrastructure to support the Aegis Ashore weapons system.
The contract includes roads, support buildings, communications, security and utilities.
The Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System is a land-based variant of the Navy's shipboard Aegis Air and Ballistic Missile Defense System.


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Inspired by Myra's wonderful Simple Caveman layout from a while back. I loved the big photo so thought I'd give it a go with some more of Ali's great word art. I caught this shot of my mom on our yearly hiking trip; it seemed perfect for a quote that remarks on the vastness of the desert landscape.
Text reads: I walk out onto a point from which I can look down at the river, nearly straight below. From up here the sound of the river, until now a permanent part of my auditory background, is no longer perceptible, and the desert silence takes on a deeper dimension. The sound of nothingness? In the desert, wrote Balzac, somewhere, there is all and there is nothing. God is there and man is not. Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
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Ali Edwards
Hello Beautiful Brushes and Stamps
Lynn Grieveson
Hint at it No. 03 Brushes
Maplebrook Studios
Frostproof Solids Paper Pack
Katie Pertiet
Tabbed Dates Brushes and Stamps
Mapmakers Paper Pack (overlaid)
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A step-by-step approach, using Aristotle's view on Greek tragedy as it's core, that will help designers design solid interactive projects that engage customers in the right way.
[thanks to @storytellin for tweeting about this] and thank you fellow curator Gimli Goose for sharing it.
Here is a slide deck on SlideShare (55 slides) that explains web design through Aristotle's story structure/elements. Some of the points are a bit obscure and hard to understand without really studying the slides. But overall, it does make the important link between storytelling and websites.
View this file and start thinking about ways you can shift your website to be more story driven. I think you will like the results!
Via Kim Zinke (aka Gimli Goose), Dr. Karen Dietz


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Frozen experimental background track with a cinematic touch, perfect for underscoring and for every creative project like artists and photographers video portraits.
This track features a soft piano, some emotional strings and some drones which create an intimate, elegant and rarefied ambience.
Due to its contemplative sound, Floating in Creation could also be used in yoga and meditation classes.
Into the zip file you will find three versions:
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The Pleasanton Mothers Club provides a social, supportive and educational outlet for moms and their families in the local community. They meet at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday monthly. Call 927-2444 or visit www.pleasantonmothersclub.org.
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Pleasanton Mothers Club
a resident of San Ramon
on Apr 21, 2009 at 8:45 am
Unless you enjoy MEAN women, you don't belong here. This is a very tight knit group of WOMEN GONE BAD. NOT A RECOMMENDED COMMUNITY ANY WOMAN SHOULD JOIN.
a resident of Livermore
on Apr 21, 2009 at 8:45 am
They were only good for outings.
a resident of Walnut Grove Elementary School
on Apr 21, 2009 at 8:46 am
A friend of mine stated that they are not the group they use to be and they are meeting new challenges with the newer group of mothers that exist.
a resident of Birdland
on Apr 21, 2009 at 10:06 am
I personally really enjoy my involvement with TVAM (Tri-Valley Active Moms.) Lots of really nice, fun, supportive women and families. The organizers of the group are awesome and there are at least 20 different events or "meetups" each month.
Google "TVAM" and "Pleasanton" and you should find it.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Apr 21, 2009 at 10:30 am
Well, groups are what you make of them. The PMC offers up dozens of activities every month. Laura, this group has over 500 members, so unless you've met them all, your statement about 'mean women' is way, way off, and honestly, pretty offensive. There are not-so-nice people in every crowd, but the judge the entire group based on personal experience with a few bad apples is so short-sighted.
There's a general meeting tonight at Mohr Elem. Rather than judge based on hearsay, why not come by and meet some of the women in the club?
a resident of San Ramon
on Apr 22, 2009 at 8:26 am
I'm also a "Laura from San Ramon", and my experience has been quite the opposite. I've met amazing women and their families, and my son has made many friends. The events are fun, the online chat can be very supportive and informational, and there are a lot of different ways to meet other moms and find things to do with your child or children. No organization is without flaws or members who can be disagreeable, but my experiences with the PMC have been positive and the women I've met are friendly and welcoming.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Gauchos finished up their three-day tournament at home Sunday in the UCSB Classic claiming the top spots in Flight B doubles and singles and a second place finish in Flight A singles.
UCSB started the day in doubles play, where the partnership of Axel Bouillin and Sasha Gryaznov took on the duo Victor Ouvrad and Fernando Sunago of Nevada. The Gauchos were able to post a routine 8-3 win to take first place in Flight B doubles.
Senior Benjamin Recknagel had a solid day at the courts where he beat Cal's Wyatt Houghton 6-2, 6-1 to win the top spot in Flight B singles. Recknagel was also partnered with SBCC transfer Miles Seemann in Flight B doubles where the pair won 8-2 over Beasley and Klein of Cal Poly to take third place.
Sophomore Axel Bouillin, who had a stellar day Saturday posting two straight set wins to reach the finals in the top singles flight, lost in a close match to Cal's Gregory Bayane 7-5, 7-5. Bouillin finished in second place in singles for the second year in a row at the UCSB Classic after losing last year to teammate Mbonisi Ndimande.
The Gauchos sent out two other players in the Flight A singles, both of whom claimed a victory. Ndimande won in his matchup against Toki Sherbakov from UC Davis 6-2, 6-0 to take fifth place and Ziad Sultan won his match 6-4, 6-2 to claim the number nine spot.
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Officials from Sussex Technical School District will meet with the state's Preliminary Land Use Service today in Dover to review potential sites for construction of a new high school in Georgetown.
Officials from Sussex Technical School District will meet with the state's Preliminary Land Use Service today in Dover to review potential sites for construction of a new high school in Georgetown.
"Sussex Technical School District has identified the need to expand current career technical education offerings to meet the demand within the county and state for students to graduate career and college ready," said AJ Lathbury, district superintendent.
Lathbury said the district has been working towards a master plan expansion since the 2004-2005 school year. The district's current facility measures over 260,000 square feet. The new facility is expected to be roughly 420,000 square feet.
"Technical program areas require space and space goes beyond a traditional classroom," Lathbury said. "It includes shop/lab space to emulate business and industry standards."
The superintendent added the expansion will allow for inclusion of new technical areas in the district's curriculum.
"This would allow additional opportunities to Sussex Technical High School students to graduate with an industry standard or certification in their respective area and be prepared to immediately enter the workforce while also preparing them for the opportunity to advance to additional education, whether it is apprenticeships, technical training, associate degrees or other post-secondary opportunities," Lathbury said.
There are three sites under consideration. The first site is about 140 acres and lies on the northwest corner of the intersection of U.S. Route 113 and Del. Route 9. The second site is about 240 acres and lies on the southwest side of U.S. Route 113 at its intersection with E. Trap Pond Road. The third option is also about 240 acres and lies between Savannah and Sand Hill roads near the intersection with Del. Route 9.
"It is inevitably up to the reviewers of the PLUS process to identify the best site after evaluating all factors that impact a project," Lathbury said, adding the district has not yet received a certification of necessity for new high school construction from the state. "We do have a verbal confirmation that the district is being advanced by the Department of Education to the Office of Management & Budget for land acquisition for a potential site."
Lathbury said the "best case scenario in a perfect world" would have a new high school constructed and ready for use by 2019. He said the district may not be authorized by the state to maintain ownership of the current facility, located between Georgetown and Laurel on the southeast side of Del. Route 9. If they can stay there, Lathbury said the district will expand its adult education/extended learning offerings and partnerships.
Because all three potential sites lie within town limits, the district reached out to the Georgetown Town Council for feedback on the proposal. At a recent regular meeting, the council voted to send a letter to the state Office of State Planning Coordination in support of the school's location in Georgetown. However, the decision was not reached without vocal reservations regarding removal of a large parcel from Georgetown's tax rolls, as the district is a non-profit entity.
"I know we can't afford to have that much property taken off the tax rolls; but on the other hand it will certainly improve our sewer and water income," said Councilwoman Sue Barlow. "I would welcome them to our town."
The PLUS meeting with Sussex Tech will be held at 9:30 a.m. today in Room 133 of the Haslet Armory, 122 Martin Luther King Boulevard, South Dover. For more information, call (302) 739-4206.


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30 Min Fitness in Vancouver - If you can't get your workout done in 30 minutes, you are simply not working hard enough. If you can't make time for a 30 minute workout, you are making excuses. Short intense workouts have been shown to be as effective and sometimes even more effective than longer workouts.
H.I.I.T, or High Intensity Interval Training, is one of the most effective and efficient ways to fit your workout into your daily routine, increase cardiac health, and lose weight. This type of training gets and keeps your heart rate up and burns more fat in less time. This regimen calls for 20 seconds of intense exercise followed by 10 seconds of rest repeated for eight rounds. That is less than 4 minutes of work, sounds easy enough right?
10 regular members and many visitors come to our regular workouts. Bring training clothes, and be ready to sweat.