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This week the FDA sent out a press release boasting that its Center for Tobacco Products has finally issued a few decisions on new tobacco products:
For the first time since the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products, the agency has authorized the marketing of two new tobacco products and denied the marketing of four others through the substantial equivalence (SE) pathway. […]
"Today's historic announcement marks an important step toward the FDA's goal of reducing preventable disease and death caused by tobacco," said FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. "The FDA has unprecedented responsibility to protect public health by not allowing new tobacco products under FDA's authority to come to market without FDA review."
To put this into context, when I wrote about the FDA in March the agency had received about 3,500 new product applications. The most reasonable interpretation of the law giving the agency authority over tobacco implies that these reviews should take only 90 days, and certainly no more than 180, yet some of these have languished in a bureaucratic quagmire for years. Issuing only six decisions since 2009, with more than 100 employees at work reviewing them, is hardly an accomplishment worthy of praise.
(If you're wondering, Hestia Tobacco, the brand I profiled for The Atlantic, remains tied up in the review process with no end in sight.)
It's also worth emphasizing what these approvals don't mean. They don't mean that these two new cigarettes are any safer than products already on the market, only that they don't raise any new questions of health. In other words, they're just as lethal — though no more so, we are told to believe — as other cigarettes. New cigarettes like Hestia, which by any sensible standard also raise no new questions of public health, continue to be blocked. It's difficult to see what good is accomplished by requiring them to go through this lengthy approval process.
And in the midst of this, the future of e-cigarettes remains unclear. As I explained at The Umlaut this week, this product that is indisputably safer than real cigarettes may soon fall under the same heavy-handed regulation that has brought the tobacco industry to a standstill. If that happens, the FDA will have even less to brag about that it does today.


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You could hire a car (but that would be silly).
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Book online or via one of our apps and pick up the car around the corner 24/7?
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Race back to the rental depot sweaty and panicked to return your car before 5:00PM
Extend your reservation using your mobile device, and then finish your meeting?
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Call Zipcar Member Services 24/7 and talk to a real person?
Take out a standard, entry level hatchback
Reserve one of our luxury Zipcars and adjust to being comfortable. And happy.

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Kristine Stiles
France Family Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley 1987
M.A., University of California at Berkeley 1976
B.A., San Jose State University 1970
Kristine Stiles (Ph.D. 1987, University of California at Berkeley) is an historian of contemporary art and artists' writings, and specializes in interdisciplinary experimental art, from performance and conceptual art to violence, destruction, and trauma in art. Her theoretical interests include Trauma Studies, Theater Studies, German Studies, Visual & Media Studies, Feminism, Race and Gender studies, and International Comparative Studies; she is increasingly interested in animal studies with a focus on horses. Among the courses that Professor Stiles has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level are Global Art and Its Ethics Since 1945; Performance and Performativity; Art & Text: Conceptual Art; Trauma in Art, Literature and Film; Introduction to Visual Culture; Theories of Visual & Media Studies; Documentary Photography of the Nuclear Age; and Curating World Art. In recognition of her distinguished contribution to undergraduate and graduate teaching, Professor Stiles received Duke University's Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring in 2011, and the Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1994.
Professor Stiles is the recipient of numerous awards, among them an Honorary Doctorate of Arts at Dartington College & University of Plymouth, England; a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant; National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant; a United States Department of Education, Global Course Development Grant for her course on Documentary Photography, Social Activism, and the Nuclear Age; a United States Information Agency Grant for development of "American Studies & the Romanian Transition to Democracy," a faculty exchange between Duke University and Bucharest University, a grant co-authored with Julie Tetel (Department of English); and the J. William Fulbright, Foreign Scholar, Teaching Grant to Romania (which she declined due to professional demands in the USA).
Her latest book is Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma (University of Chicago Press, 2016). With Peter Selz, she edited the first edition of Theories & Documents of Contemporary Art (University of California Press, 1996), she revised, expanded, and edited its second edition in 2012. She edited, annotated, and wrote the survey essay for Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle (Duke University Press 2010). Professor Stiles is also the author of Raphael Montañez Ortiz: Years of the Warrior, Years of the Psyche, 1968-1988 (El Museo del Barrio, 1988), a publication that includes her extensive annotated bibliography on the artist. Stiles was a practicing artist, some of whose work may be found her artist's book Questions, with essays by Lynn Hershman, Kathy O'Dell, and Richard Irwin. San Francisco: KronOscope Press, 1982.
For full list (and pdfs) of Stiles' articles, see Publications. Recent essays published by Professor Stiles include: "Ion Grigorescu's Gift" and "Acute Civility in Dan Perjovschi's Core Drawings," in Gabriela Gantenbein, ed. Textures of Thought: Geta Bratescu, Ion Grigorescu, Dan Perjovschi (Vienna, Austria: Passagen Verlag, 2015), 86-111, 151-178; "The Dangerous Mind of Kathryn Andrews, Hobo," in Kathryn Andrews: Run For President (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2015): 98-127; "Ron Rozzelle, Painting as a Trust," in Ron Rozzelle. Greenville, NC: Greenville County Museum, 2015; "Landscape of Tremors: Toward Lynn Hershman Leeson's Cultural and Intellectual History," in Peter Weibel, ed., CIVIC RADAR: Lynn Hershman Leeson Retrospective (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2016); "Necessity's Other: Charlotte Moorman and the Plasticity of Denial and Consent," Far Out! Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde (Evanston, IL: Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, 2016); "Destruction Art," "Anti-Art," and "Fluxus," and (with Kathy O'Dell) "Bodies in Action," in Gabrielle Cody and Meiling Cheng, eds., Reading Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres (New York: Routledge Press, 2016); "Destruction in Art," in Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Art History (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016); "Bruce Conner's Eyes," in Bruce Conner (New York and San Francisco: Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016); "DIAS, Wiener Aktionismus, ZOCK," in La révolte des anges sortis des limbes. The Revolt of the Angels from Limbo. La revuelta de los ángeles salidos del limbo (Mexico City, Mexico: Fundación Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, 2016). "Carolee Schneemann's Correspondence," in Ron Hanson and Kenneth White, eds., Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016); and "Peter d'Agostino Walking the World," in Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks: Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers (London: Intellect Books, 2016).
As a curator, Stiles' most recent exhibition was Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting (2014-15) at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2014, with an online catalog was published by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation: http://shuffle.rauschenbergfoundation.org/exhibitions/nasher/ Stiles also curated the mid-career retrospective of the Romanian artists Dan and Lia Perjovschi, and edited and wrote the survey essay for the catalog: States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi (Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2007). She curated and wrote the catalog for the exhibition Jean Toche: Impressions from The Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency (John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies at Duke University, 2009). Among other curatorial work, she served as a curator and judge for the IVth Nicaraguan Biennial, Managua, Nicaragua, with Virginia Perez-Ratton and Osvaldo Sanchez, 2003. Stiles has served as a curatorial consultant to the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, the Mead Art Museum, the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, among many other museums and galleries.
ExpertiseContemporary global experimental art and theory, destruction in art and trauma studies, artists' writings, and visual studies
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Stiles, K. Concerning Consequences Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma. University of Chicago Press, March 21, 2016.
Stiles, K, and Selz, P. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings. University of California Press, 2012.
Stiles, K. Correspondence Course, An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle. Duke University Press, 2010.
Stiles, K. States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi. Duke University, Durham: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2007. (Exhibition Catalog)
Stiles, K. Chris Burden. New York: Zwirner & Wirth Gallery, 2006. (Exhibition Catalog)
Stiles, K. AmaLia Perjovschi. Bucharest, Romania: Soros Foundation, 1996. (Exhibition Catalog)
Stiles, K. Dan Perjovschi's Postcards From America. New York: Pont La Vue Press, 1995. (Exhibition Catalog)
Stiles, K. Questions. KronOscope Press, 1982.
Collier, JH. "Introduction." January 1, 2016. 1-2. Full Text
Stiles, K. "'I'm Ready.' Thinking About Artists' Writings in a Global Context." Not a day without a line: Understanding artists' writings. Ed. HD Prester. Academia Press, 2013. 177-203.
Stiles, K. "Performance Art." Oxford Bibliographies in Art History. Ed. TD Kaufmann. Oxford University Press, 2013. (Essay)
Stiles, K. "Wangechi Mutu's Family Tree." Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey. Ed. T Schoonmaker. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2013.
Stiles, K. "Forward." The Reflexive Photographer. Ed. R Miller, J Carson, and T Wilkie. Manchester: School of Arts & Media at Salford University, 2013. (Foreword)
Stiles, K. "The Ideal Gifts of Istvan Kantor." PERMANENT REVOLUTION: The Art of Istvan Kantor. Ed. L Feesey. The Istvan Kantor Collective, 2013.
Stiles, K. "Conversation with William Pope.L." The Voice of Images. Palazzo Grassi, 2012. 181-193.
Stiles, K. "Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky." Peter d'Agostino: World-Wide-Walks [Paseos a Nivel Planetario] / between earth & sky [entre la tierra y el cielo] / 1973 – 2012. Bizkaia de la UPV/EHU, 2012. 22-34.
Stiles, K. "Comments on my first interview with Gustav Metzger." Gustav Metzger, Years without Art. 2012. 39-39.
Stiles, K. "Negative Affirmative: San Francisco Bay Area Art, 1974-1981." Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981. Ed. P Schimmel. Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011. 27-43.
Stiles, K. "Peggy Phelan and Kristine Stiles In Conversation." Millennium Film Journal 54 (2011): 30-34. (Academic Article)
Stiles, K. "INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Balancing Between a Dusthole and Eternity." Archive 1 (2008).
Stiles, K, and Grobstein, P. "The Art Historian and the Neurobiologist: A Conversation about Proprioception, the 'I-function,' Body Art, and Story Telling." Serendip (October 16, 2005).
Stiles, K. "Remembrance, Resistance, Reconstruction, The Social Value of Lia and Dan Perjovschi's Art." IDEA 19 (2005).
Stiles, K. "David Tudor-Alive , Free, and Without Need of Culture (in a special issue, 'Composers Inside Electronics: Music after David Tudor')." Leonardo Music Journal 14 (2002): 62-63.
Stiles, K. "Review of RoseLee Goldberg's Laurie Anderson." Make: The Magazine of Women's Art 90 (2001): 90-90. (Review)
Stiles, K. "Comisuri: Art Actiunile ca Objecte." Balkon: Revista de Arta Contemporana March.2 (2000): 3-4.
Stiles, K. "Review of Pamela M. Lee's Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta- Clark." CAA.Reviews, the online reviews publication of the College Art Association (2000). (Review)
Stiles, K. "Joshua Neustein." BOMB 57 (October 1997): 80-81.
Stiles, K. "Debate: Empty Slogan of Self-Representation." Siksi [Helsinki] Spring.12:1 (1997): 87-90.
Stiles, K. "Art will be…2009-2034." Duke Alumni Magazine (May 2009).
Stiles, K. "Notes on Rudolf Schwarzkogler's Images of Healing." White Walls: A Magazine of Writings by Artists 25 (March 1990): 13-26.
"Laudation for Dan and Lia Perjovschi, who received the European Cultural Foundation's Princess Margriet Award". January 1, 2013
"I'm Ready." Thinking About Artists' Writings in a Global Context". Royal Academy of Fine Arts/Ghent University. December 15, 2011
The State of Trauma Studies in Art History. Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. October 3, 2011
"Ever so Far at Close Shooting Range: Warhol's Polaroid Photographs". Department of Art History at the Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.. November 1, 2010
Center for International Studies, grant for research on Documentary Photographs and Films of the Nuclear Age. Unknown. February 2009
College Art Association grant from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund. Millard Meiss Publication Fund. 2008


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CEOP to retain ops control under National Crime Agency
UK.gov says 'vital work' will continue, despite criticism
The government, in an effort to allay criticism about its decision to fold the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) into a new National Crime Agency along with other bodies, confirmed today that the agency would retain operational control.
In October last year, the organisation's then-CEO Jim Gamble resigned from his post in a row with the Home Secretary over the future of his CEOP.
Gamble, who at the time was Britain's most senior anti-paedophile policeman, told MPs that he quit because he believed that a proposed new structure would put children at risk.
Today the government said CEOP would retain its name and "unique brand as the national centre for child protection".
In addition to overseeing operational control, the government said CEOP would maintain a separate budget, and continue to have a governance structure, allowing CEOP to work closely with the private sector and charities.
"Child protection is an absolute priority for this government. As a core part of the new National Crime Agency, CEOP will not only be in the best possible position to continue its vital work but will also benefit from being able to draw on the resources and support available across the whole agency," said Minister for Crime Prevention James Brokenshire.
"CEOP has been an amazing success and this government will always back its vital work," he said.
The previous Labour government had proposed that CEOP be granted independence under Gamble.
In October 2010, Gamble criticised the government's decision to roll CEOP into the National Crime Agency, describing the move as "arbitrary". He argued that CEOP's focus on child victims was bound to switch to offenders as part of a large crime-fighting organisation.
"It's about ensuring the appropriate governance so we're continually focused on what's best for children and not fighting for airtime amongst drugs, counter-terrorism, organised crime, guns and gangs," said Gamble.
"Pushing us into a National Crime Agency where the culture will invariably be different is not going to be best for children."
CEOP's current boss, Peter Davies, welcomed the announcement and said he had been given an appropriate "mandate" to build on the agency's success.
It's unclear how the budget will be carved up under the National Crime Agency. CEOP's annual budget had stood at £12.5m, two-thirds of which came from taxpayers, with the remainder from commercial partners such as Microsoft, on a philanthropic basis.
Gamble had claimed that Microsoft stated it was "extremely unlikely" to maintain its support under the new structure. ®


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Ever since leaving your fine city and your excellent Reading Together program events, my wife and I have been talking about you. To each other. To bookstores. To other writers. We hold you up as a model to other all-city read programs. No question Kalamazoo does it right.
It's a rare and wonderful thing for an author to share his work with such a cross-section of a community as I did with Kalamazoo. To be able to meet with readers is always grand, but to be welcomed as a friend by so many, across such different platforms was an incredible experience. I know you appreciate the amazing work of your librarians and the Reading Together committee that made it all possible because you were so warm and responsive. We never ran out of things to talk about! I was only disappointed to not be able to attend ALL the events.
I was especially touched by the artwork done by the high school students and showcased in your spectacular library. I will be posting pictures of some of that work. As an artist, to inspire other artists is a dream come true. It also meant so much to me to have the support of my friend (and your own literary heroine) Bonnie Jo Campbell. A special thanks to you for inviting her to be involved with your program. That shows a great literary commitment all the way through your community.
I was especially heartened by the fact that you forged a bond with Kankakee, IL. I think the the future is being written by towns like Kankakee and Kalamazoo and I am so honored that my novel could play a part.
On a personal note, I just have to say that your librarians and staff people were spectacular. I enjoyed every minute of your company. I deeply appreciated your generosity and I have to say doing an event in front of a few hundred kindergartners was probably the coolest tour experience of the last year!
Thank you to Karen Santamaria and everyone on the Reading Together committee. Thank you for selecting my novel Into the Beautiful North, thank you for reading, and most of all, thank you for your friendship and support. Hope to see you again soon!
Luis Alberto Urrea
P.S. Oh yeah, best donuts we ever had, too!
The film's simple storyline is captivating, but add to it Yul Brynner's unflinching gaze, stage presence and solid stature buttoned into his close-cut black denim-and-leather western wear, I understood Aunt Irma's infatuation with "Mexico's greatest film star." Steve McQueen held his own with his sapphire blue eyes, confident wily smile and social-justice motivations.
For me, viewing the film after reading Into the Beautiful North added to my enjoyment of both film and novel. I recommend this PG-rated film to anyone looking for an escapist classic Western adventure, but especially to those who have read Into the Beautiful North. Check your library's catalog for the DVD of The Magnificent Seven and invite a friend over to watch it.
~ Jim Ratliff, Librarian, Arcadia Commons Campus Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Whether or not you've read Into the Beautiful North, you are bound to enjoy Urrea's easy-going manner and his humorous yet poignant remarks. In fact, if you're like many people I've spoken to since, chances are you'll be inspired to check out several of his award-winning titles.
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Urrea will speak on Tuesday, March 6, at 7 pm in the Kalamazoo Central High School Auditorium. This is a free event, and all are invited to hear Urrea speak about Into the Beautiful North, writing, and being "dual culture." Come listen to the music of local Tex-Mex band Los Bandits de Michigan and even have a book signed by the author!
You will also have a chance to meet Urrea on Wednesday, March 7 at noon in Kalamazoo College's Light Fine Arts Building Recital Hall. Urrea will be working with a Kalamazoo College class, talking about the craft of writing, and exploring issues of crossing borders. He will also address the recent "Librotraficante" movement and the banning of his books from the Tucson, Arizona Unified School District. This event is free, open to the public, and snacks will be provided after the class.
Urrea's visit is timely. With the controversy over prohibiting ethnic studies in Arizona (HB 2281), Urrea can give us a "banned author's" perspective on the issue. Don't miss this rare opportunity to interact with the author, ask questions, and explore border crossings of your own.
~Dr. Stacy Nowicki, Library Director, Kalamazoo College Library
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There are many more, but these particularly struck me because of the universality of them all. The last two, in particular, I hope people can say more readily about Kalamazoo following our Reading Together experience this year.
Another thing I found in the "joining unlike groups of people together" is the mention that Arnold Davis, border patrol, wants to escape, as does Matt, the former missionary. We are all so much more alike than different! If you talk with someone not like you who has read the book, you'll probably discover the same thing—we're all so much alike and our differences are very interesting.
~ Sherry Ransford-Ramsdell, Reading Together Steering Committee
Here are some follow-up podcasts that should help provide a little additional context for his upcoming appearance(s) in Kalamazoo… Enjoy.
Kankakee Public Library (another KPL!) in Kankakee, Illinois, offers the audio portion of Luis Urrea's program when he first visited the library on January 26, 2006. Urrea discusses his early writings; The Devil's Highway and Hummingbird's Daughter, along with then (and still) timely issues of immigration and growing up in a Mexican family. Urrea was so moved by this visit to Kankakee and the story of its library that it prompted him to write an article for the New York Times, "Kankakee Gets Its Groove Back."
Urrea returned to Kankakee Public Library on May 20, 2009 for the launch of his (then) latest novel, Into the Beautiful North. During this discussion, Urrea speaks about Kankakee's place in Into the Beautiful North and reads excerpts from the book. The program includes an introduction by Julia Sandstrom, whose mother, Mary Jo Johnston, was the Kankakee librarian who so inspired Urrea. Urrea shares more about his first experiences in Kankakee, his resulting friendship with Mary Jo, and how Kankakee found its place in his writing.
During this half-hour podcast/radio show recorded for BlogTalkRadio in November 2011, Luis Urrea discusses his current book, Queen of America. Urrea tells listeners about his great aunt, who happens to be the main character of the book, and her experiences as a "back door" immigrant in New York City during the early 20th century. One caller during the program was Miriam Downey, a Kalamazoo-based blogger (The Cyberlibrarian Reads) who added a nice plug for Urrea's Kalamazoo visit. The program is an interesting and timely conversation about the immigrant experience, writing, getting his first book published, and even Mexican food!
Don't miss your chance to see and hear Luis Urrea in person, Tuesday, March 6th.
One standout was an interesting interview with Urrea from January 2011 that was posted by the National Endowment for the Arts on its blog called "Art Works." Interestingly, Urrea talks about getting to know the town of Kankakee, Illinois, (important in Into the Beautiful North) and his discovery of the public library there.
According to Urrea, the Kankakee Public Library had become the cultural centerpiece of a citywide revitalization project. "They made the library a highly computerized, safe open-late-at-night haven for kids go to, free of gang violence," says Urrea. "It was an amazing turnaround of a town who figured it out on their own." (The story, it seems, is not at all unlike the recent revitalization of downtown Kalamazoo, where our own world class library is a community centerpiece.) "This new public library has become the cultural hub of the city," Urrea later wrote in the New York Times, "crucial to its downtown revitalization."
It's an interesting story; give it a listen. You can download a copy for yourself and/or read a transcript on the Art Works blog.
Next time, I'll share more findings about Into the Beautiful North; including a recent podcast recorded last November that includes some discussion with Urrea about his upcoming visit to Kalamazoo on March 6th. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, you might be interested to read Urrea's own words about writing Into the Beautiful North (scroll down past the description of the book). I particularly enjoy his humility, his honesty and his sense of humor, and I so look forward to witnessing them in person in just a few short weeks.
Imagine my surprise, then, to learn that Kankakee is a primary destination for main character Nayeli, as she road trips Into the Beautiful North. She learns a lot on her long journey, even if some things she might rather not have discovered. Often when we travel, we learn so much from the people and places we encounter along the way. One could say the same about reading a well-written novel!
This April we have the chance to discover more about Kankakee directly from its residents, without ever leaving our dear town.
I didn't read them in order. Actually I'm still on the waiting list for Hummingbird's Daughter, but I certainly understood and appreciated Queen of America. It didn't feel as if I was starting in the middle of a story.
Queen of America continues the story of Teresita Urrea, the "Saint of Cabora" when she is forced to flee with her father from Mexico to Arizona. Even there she is claimed as the spiritual leader of the Mexican Revolution and pilgrims and assassins follow her to America. She then leaves the southwest for a journey across the country: New York, San Francisco, St Louis, among other cities. Along the way, she must decide if a saint can fall in love.
I knew these two books were based on Urrea's family history, his great aunt, I believe, but I didn't know the details. After reading it, I went to his website to understand the family history that is the basis for the story. In retrospect, I wish I had understood just how much of this account was true before reading the book.
I've now read several of Urrea's books. They are different from each other in many ways, but all are well-written and compelling. I'm looking forward to his visit in March.
The novel has elements of fairy tale, travelogue, western, magical realism, folklore, and explores issues of gender, class, faith, race, nationality, marriage, education, patriotism, and power This book will make you laugh and cry, and savor Urrea's lyrical, imaginative prose. When finished with this book, continue the adventure with Urrea's latest novel, a sequel titled Queen of America.
At the writing of this blog post, we only have one copy of The Hummingbird's Daughter in our catalog, but more are on the way! Place a hold to be on the list for when these additional copies arrive.
"Suddenly there was no work. All the shrimp were shipped north, tortillas became too expensive to eat, and people started to go hungry. We told you change was bad, the old-timers croaked.
Nobody had heard of the term immigration. Migration, to them, was when the tuna and the whales cruised up the coast, or when Guacamaya parrots flew up from the south. Traditionalists voted to revoke electricity, but it was far too late for that. No woman in town would give up her refrigerator, her electric fan, or her electric iron. So the men started to go to el norte. Nobody knew what to say. Nobody knew what to do. The modern era had somehow passed Tres Camarones by, but this new storm had found a way to siphon its men away. out of their beds and into the next century, into a land far away." —Into the Beautiful North
This passage from the opening pages of Luis Urrea's Into the Beautiful North paints a picture of a Mexican village not unlike one we might read about in today's news. And for the fictitious Tres Camarones, there is the added presence of drug bandits who are threatening to take over the village with corruption, violence and greed; also sadly true to life. This is the setting from which Nayeli, a 19-year old girl, born and raised in Tres Camarones, sets out in search of her father and other men who will come back home to repopulate and defend their village.
And for the next three months, this will become our story as well.
A dedicated group of volunteers has helped Kalamazoo Public Library plan an exciting and meaningful lineup of Reading Together events that center on three far-reaching themes: The Book as Literature, The Culture of Mexico, and Immigration. After reading the book, we believe participating in these programs will provide several ways to process and reflect.
Today we bring you the enhanced Reading Together website, complete with a full calendar of events, additional resources, and more information about those who have contributed to this planning process. We welcome your reactions and your feedback, and we invite you to come back often.
So regardless if your group is open to anyone or is a closed group, we'd like to hear from you. Please leave a comment here or send an email to email@example.com so your group can be counted.
We are confident that the programs being planned will educate, enlighten, and enhance our understanding of issues that are relevant to the Kalamazoo community at large. We look forward to meaningful conversations made possible by our common experience of reading Urrea's touching story, told with both humor and compassion.
While the reading period unofficially begins in December, the rush on available copies of the book has already begun. More copies will soon go into circulation and you can always place a hold if a copy is not readily available. We also have audiobook and Spanish versions. And if you prefer a digital version (ebook or digital audio), available copies can be found when you log in with your library card number to the Digital Catalog and Download Center from the Library's website then enter the title into the Digital Media Search box on the right side of the screen.
Happy reading and see you at the Reading Together events in March!
It's clear from even a quick glance at these titles that Urrea's work is strongly influenced by his own life experiences living and working near the U. S./Mexico border. I've recently enjoyed reading some of these earlier works. I urge you to explore as much of Urrea's body of work as you can. You'll find yourself with an even greater appreciation for the roots which inspired the writing of our Reading Together selection.
We are also excited to tell you that Urrea will be coming to Kalamazoo on March 6, 2012. We have found him to be wonderfully engaging and personable, and we believe his appearance will kick off Reading Together 2012 in a most memorable way. But don't take it from me. Let Luis speak for himself.


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Hannity falsely suggested Fed said unemployment benefit extension increased ranks of those without jobs
Research ››› ››› GREG LEWIS
Sean Hannity claimed that the economic recovery act "actually raised unemployment," citing minutes from a January Federal Reserve meeting to falsely suggest that the extension of unemployment benefits in the recovery act increased the number of people who don't have jobs. In fact, the Federal Reserve minutes Hannity cited actually stated that the provision had the effect of raising the measured unemployment rate because people who lost their jobs sought to remain in the workforce in order to receive benefits rather than leaving the workforce and being counted as "discouraged workers" instead of "unemployed."
Hannity misreads Federal Reserve minutes to misleadingly claim stimulus "actually raised unemployment"
From the February 22 broadcast of Fox News' Hannity:
HANNITY: And millions of unemployed Americans are still probably wondering what exactly President Obama's stimulus did to help the economy. Now, it's a tough question that even the Obama administration has a difficult time explaining. But an editorial in Investor's Business Daily sums up one of the stimulus's biggest achievements: It actually raised unemployment.
This is not a joke. Now, the article quotes minutes from the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee's January meeting that read, quote, "several extensions of emergency unemployment insurance benefits appear to have been raised and raised the measured unemployment rate." Now, all things considered, the editorial estimates that the stimulus added 2 percentage points to the unemployment rate. Hey, congratulations, Mr. President.
Hannity was referring to a February 19 IBD editorial in which Alan Reynolds, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, wrote:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 had extended federally funded unemployment benefits by 53 weeks, and another bill in November added 20 more -- bringing the total up to 99 weeks in states with high unemployment.
As the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee minutes for January noted: "The several extensions of emergency unemployment insurance benefits appeared to have raised the measured unemployment rate, relative to levels recorded in past downturns, by encouraging some who have lost their jobs to remain in the labor force. ... Some estimates suggested it could account for 1 percentage point or more of the increase in the unemployment rate during this recession."
My own estimate, in past articles available at cato.org, is that the stimulus act added about 2 percentage points to the unemployment rate.
Fed actually said provision increased "measured unemployment rate" by keeping people from leaving workforce
Federal Reserve: Extensions to unemployment insurance benefits are "encouraging some who have lost their jobs to remain in the labor force." From the minutes of the January 26-27 meeting of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee, during a discussion on inflation:
Though participants agreed there was considerable slack in resource utilization, their judgments about the degree of slack varied. The several extensions of emergency unemployment insurance benefits appeared to have raised the measured unemployment rate, relative to levels recorded in past downturns, by encouraging some who have lost their jobs to remain in the labor force. If that effect were large -- some estimates suggested it could account for 1 percentage point or more of the increase in the unemployment rate during this recession -- then the reported unemployment rate might be overstating the amount of slack in resource utilization relative to past periods of high unemployment.
Several participants observed that the necessity of reallocating labor across sectors as the recovery proceeds, as well as the loss of skills caused by high levels of long-term unemployment and permanent separations, could reduce the economy's potential output, at least temporarily; historical experience following large adverse financial shocks suggests such an effect. On the other hand, if recent productivity gains were to be sustained, as some business contacts indicated they would be, potential output currently could be higher than standard measures suggested, and the high level of the unemployment rate could be a more accurate indication of slack in resource utilization than usual measures of the output gap.
Reuters MacroScope Blog: "[U]nintended consequence" of extending jobless benefits is that it delays when people leave the labor force and are no longer classified as "unemployed." A February 18 post on Reuters' MacroScope blog, referring to the Federal Reserve meeting, explained that in order to qualify for unemployment benefits, "you have to be looking for a job. You also have to be looking for a job in order to be counted among the unemployed. If you give up the search, you move over to the 'discouraged workers' category, which has grown rapidly in the past year."
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If anyone has left his mark on Barcelona it was architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926). His absolute masterpiece is of course the world-famous Basílica de la Sagrada Família. Even though construction began in 1882, the basilica remains uncompleted to this very day. In fact, it will take approximately 30 years from now for the building to be completely finished.
The original plans for the basilica were not made by Gaudí, but by architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. He designed a neo-Gothic church and began construction in 1882. However, after just 1 year, Gaudí took over. He dedicated almost his entire life to building his Sagrada Família – with the emphasis on 'his', because Gaudí drastically changed the original design. The neo-Gothic style was discarded and replaced by the architect's distinctive modernist style. Unfortunately, when Gaudí died (in 1926), only 1 façade, 1 tower, the semi-circular niche and the crypt had been completed.
Because Gaudí was continuously improvising during the construction, there are few blue prints and scale models of the basilica. Despite this, current architects have a good idea of Gaudí's intentions. When completed, La Sagrada Família will boast 18 towers in total. Reaching a height of 90 to 120 metres, the 4 towers along each of the 3 façades represent the 12 apostles. Another 4 towers represent the 4 evangelists; these towers will surround the largest tower, 170 metres high, dedicated to Jesus Christ. The last tower, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, will be built over the semi-circular niche.
After Gaudí's death, construction was seriously delayed due to a lack of money and the Spanish Civil War. It wasn't until the mid-1950s that the pace picked up again. In 2000, the roof was finally placed on the central nave. Currently, builders are mainly working on the nave and the main façade. Even though La Sagrada Família is far from finished yet, the basilica, the crypt and the museum are open to the public. Those who do not suffer from fear of heights or claustrophobia can also visit the towers. Take a lift – or a long walk – to the top to enjoy a fantastic view over Barcelona. At night, La Sagrada Família is beautifully illuminated which makes its angular construction materials stand out even more, illustrating why it is said that the church is built from bones.


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Waypointing can be managed in-game, the following console commands should be used to create waypointed maps:
startWaypointing: Initialize all waypoints and display them inside the current level
loadWaypoints: Loads an existing waypoint map (always located inside the current level directory, named "waypoints.bin"
saveWaypoints: Saves the current waypoint map
stopWaypointing: Remove waypoint marker from the level geometry to be able to continue with normal gameplay.
Change camera movement to free camera mode for comfortable waypointing. The waypoint markers can be modified with the left and right mouse buttons. Left click turns the waypoint nearest to the camera into an open waypoint (white color). Right click closes the waypoint nearest to camera position (blue color).
Try to create a fully connected open waypoint mesh for a level. Try to create open paths to all the spawn positions available in the level (a spawning bot will try to reach the nearest open waypoint from his spawning position first). Do not put open waypoints to close to obstacles.
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Blame it on the Bossa Nova
Last night I was able to borrow a new CD that my Dad gifted to my Mom. By borrow I totally mean steal, because I'm completely obsessed with it. Music has always been a big deal in our household. Growing up my Dad was constantly playing music from all over the world trying to enrich us in culture. Little did he know that it would stick. To this day whenever me or my sisters hear, "The girl from Ipanema" we instantly think of him. See Dad we are actually paying attention.
The CD that I now have in my possesion is the latest by Diana Krall called Quiet Nights.
Let me tell you it's amazing. It's a mix of west coast jazz with strong Brazilian influences with 7 of the 10 songs being Bossa Nova's. What is a Bossa Nova you may ask. It's a song style that came about during the early 60's in Brazil. It's know to have hypnotic swaying beats and sultry melodies. Diana even mentions that this is the type of CD that you want to listen to in the privacy of your own home in a romantic setting. Wink, wink, nod, nod you get the jest of it.
I have been scouring the web for hours now trying to find either pictures of Diana Krall's home or a fabulous Brazilian home to relate this back to Interior Design, but I'm coming up with NOTHING!
Then when I was about to give up I remember a fellow friend/blogger that I know who lives in Brazil!
Enter Alison from My Little Happy Place.
She fills her blog with recent happenings in her life, her love of interior design and even helps out fellow readers on fridays with her design dilemia series where comes up with stylish solutions to your problems. My favorite part is when she shows bits of her home in Brazil like her entry way:
Or her latest post on her living room:
So if you are feeling the need for a virtual vacation either pop in this new CD or hop on over to visit Alison and get a feel for the land of Rio and those itty bitty bikinis!


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Bulldogs To Pay Tribute To Their Two Seniors Before Taking On Cornell
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Chris Gobrecht, the Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954, Head Coach of Women's Basketball at Yale University, has celebrated a host of Senior Night ceremonies throughout her career, but none will be as special as the one she will take part in tonight.
Tonight, prior to the game against Cornell, the Yale women's basketball program will honor two seniors who have given a great deal to the program and to Yale University throughout their four years.
Yoyo Greenfield, the 33rd captain in Yale Women's Basketball history, and Mady Gobrecht will make their final appearance in the John J. Lee Amphitheater this weekend. Both players have made outstanding contributions to the Yale Basketball program during their tenures with the team and saved their best, on and off the court, for their final seasons in a Yale uniform.
With a win tonight, combined with a Harvard loss at Princeton, Greenfield and Gobrecht could lead their teammates into the WNIT for the first time in the program's 38-year history. With the win and Harvard loss, Yale would clinch at least a tie for second place in the Ivy League. The second-place team earns an automatic bid into the WNIT. If there is a tie, Yale would win the tiebreaker based on its season sweep of Harvard.
"It is just now hitting us that we could be playing during Spring Break instead of going away," Mady Gobrecht said. "We're going to feel really great on Saturday night if we win and earn a trip to the tournament. That will be something we will never forget."
The two seniors proved to be the building blocks for the women's basketball team's rise to being a contender for the Ivy League championship. Both players have established themselves as mantles of leadership during their time at Yale University.
"What has distinguished Yoyo and Mady, and Lindsay Williams, who was originally in that class and was also an outstanding player, is they really represented the original prototype of what we would love to see Yale women's basketball become," Coach Gobrecht said. "They are serious students. They care about school and are very involved at Yale and in the community, but their basketball really, really matters. They devoted a lot of time to it. They have improved themselves a great deal as players. They know how to have fun with it but they are serious about the team's success and their contributions to the team's success. They have probably been as good of a model as we could have of what we want the program to be about."
While tonight's ceremony will celebrate the careers of Greenfield and Gobrecht as the program's only seniors, there will be thoughts of the other three players who came in as part of the freshman class of 2011. Lindsay Williams, Victoria Perez and Kathleen Clement were all originally part of the Class of 2011, but due to injuries and other factors, they are not a part of the team this year and will not be honored tonight, but they are still in the thoughts of the seniors will will be the recipients of tonight's tribute.
"There were five of us in the class at one point and now there is just the two of us," Mady Gobrecht said. "To think back, Lindsay was definitely a big part of this team our freshman year with the way she played in the post. I don't think at the time I would have ever thought that she wouldn't be here with us in our senior year. It is pretty cool that Yoyo and I have gotten this far together. We are best friends so I think sharing Senior Night together will be something special."
Greenfield will earn her degree in Political Science and has plans to attend law school after graduation. In her basketball career at Yale, she has appeared in 88 games in her four seasons, including 64 starts. In her career, she has made 96 3-point field goals, which ranks seventh all-time in the program's history. For her career, Greenfield's current 78.9 percentage rate at the free-throw line (195-for-247) is the fifth-best percentage in program history. In her junior season, she finished third among Ivy League players in free-throw percentage (80.5, 70-for-87) and seventh in 3-point field goals per game (1.4). She received a Bulldog Basketball Award in her junior season as the team's top free-throw shooter. Although she missed 13 games this season due to injury, she returned in time to spark the Bulldogs on their recent burst into the hunt for the Ivy League title and postseason tournament chase. During her freshman season, she was named an Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the week of Jan. 21, 2008, after leading the Bulldogs' second-half comeback in a 52-45 win at Brown that snapped a 15-game conference road losing streak, scoring 11 points and a career-high six rebounds in that game.
It has only been the last month that Greenfield has truly felt like the team's captain on and off the court. She suffered a concussion during practice in the last week of November when she and sophomore guard Megan Vasquez bumped heads during a drill. Vasquez also suffered a concussion, but she returned after missing only two games. Greenfield had to sit out 13 games because she could not rid herself of the symptoms from the concussion.
"It was obviously a huge letdown for me, especially since I didn't think it was that serious. I kept practicing after it happened that day," Greenfield said. "It just really sucked. I never got better. It's not like an ankle sprain or a hurt knee that I could play through. I was just not myself. That's probably the hardest part. I wasn't as helpful on the sidelines and cheering people on because I felt completely out of it. It's been rough but I am really glad that we had Mady because she stepped up big time with her leadership. I'm also happy that I got better in time to help this team over the last few weeks in the Ivy League games."
"It hurt on a real personal level to watch Yoyo go through this season because she is Mady's best friend so she is like a second daughter to me," Coach Gobrecht said. "It was just really hard to see her, knowing how much she wanted to be out there. I thought that she continued to do all she could to contribute in every way that she could. And I think that it is no coincidence that we have really started to catch our stride since she has come back from the concussion."
Gobrecht will graduate with a degree in Psychology. She hopes to work for Teach for America, a non-profit organization that strives to provide top-notch educational opportunities to low-income communities. If that doesn't work out, Gobrecht said she will look to join the coaching ranks.
She has played in every one of Yale's 111 games during her career, starting in 108 of those contests. During her four years in a Yale uniform, she has recorded a total of 929 points, 702 rebounds and 328 assists, finishing fifth all-time among Yale's career leaders in assists. She has saved her best basketball for her final season with the Bulldogs. In Ivy League competition this season, she is in the top five in the Ivy League in rebounding (first, 8.3 rpg.), defensive rebounds (first, 6.7 drpg.), assist-to-turnover ratio (fourth, 1.1)and blocks (fifth, 1.2 bpg.), and she is in the top 10 in the Ivy League in scoring (ninth, 12.4 ppg.), assists (fifth, 3.2 apg.), and field-goal percentage (seventh, .445). She has posted three double-doubles this season and eight double-doubles in her Yale career. She is currently averaging a career-best 12.0 points per game. In her junior season, she finished in the top 10 among Ivy League players in blocks (seventh, 1.2 bpg.), assists (ninth, 2.6 apg.), offensive rebounding (ninth, 2.2 orpg.), defensive rebounding (ninth, 3.9 drpg.), total rebounds rebounding (10th, 6.1 rpg.), and field-goal percentage (10th, 43.0, 92-for-214).
"Mady has been outstanding in her senior year," Coach Gobrecht said. "She is playing the best basketball of her career. Mady has had to learn how to channel her passion in a more productive way, which is why she has played so well in her senior year. That has been the key difference in why she has played so well."
She has looked forward to this final game because of the Senior Night ceremonies. She and her mom have seen plenty of these ceremonies, but tonight will be different for both of them.
"She will be more emotional than usual and I will be more emotional than most players, but it will be a special moment for both of us," Mady Gobrecht said.
They both will certainly relish the moment, but the experience of playing for your mother and coaching your daughter was not always a breeze for either of them, but neither would trade in the experience that the last four years has given them.
"I have to honestly say that I am probably going to grieve more that I've lost a 6-foot-2, passing, rebounding, scoring forward than I will that my daughter is not playing for me anymore," Coach Gobrecht said. "It was just the greatest experience in the world and I wouldn't trade it for anything, but it is OK. I think it will hit me more that night how special it was to have that opportunity. It will be with us for the rest of our lives."
It will be sad to see them both close out their careers at Yale, but they are leaving the program in a better place than where it was when they first arrived in campus four years ago.
"This is the best leadership across the board that I think we have ever had from a senior class," Coach Gobrecht said. "One of the key things has been that they have worked together to make this whole thing work. They actually have lifted each other up through their entire experience at Yale. They brought the heart and soul to the game during their time here at Yale and they are models for leadership for our future upperclassmen."
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Surveillance video captured three men, one who was armed, carjacking the driver of a van delivering pharmaceuticals and other products to a Miami Beach pharmacy.
The carjacking happened outside Midtown Pharmacy at 753 Arthur Godfrey Road on Friday afternoon.
Surveillance video showed the driver unloading the van when a man in a hoodie, crouching as he approached, put a gun in his face. Two more men quickly walked to the van, got inside, and seconds later, they drove away. When police arrived, the driver of the van was pacing outside the back door of the pharmacy.
"Yeah, he could have gotten hurt, and the other one that happened in Hollywood, they actually tied him up. It was more like a tie job -- a lot more violent," said Miami Beach Police Det. Bobby Hernandez. "This, he did the right thing. He didn't resist, he gave them the van, he called 911 immediately."
It's the first time a robbery has happened at the Midtown Pharmacy. Detectives believe the men were following the van.
"So it was totally planned event, and we're hoping to crack them, and we're sure there will be other cases we can help other agencies with," said Hernandez.
The most expensive drug in the van was Cialis.
The white Econoline Ford van that was stolen has a Florida tag of 058TPA.
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FREDERICK, MD – York College sophomore forward Brittany Hicks registered a 15-point, 15-rebound double-double to power the Spartans to a 65-50 Capital Athletic Conference win at Hood College on Wednesday night in the brand new BB&T Arena in Frederick, MD.
The Spartans improve to 11-3 overall and 5-1 in the CAC while the Blazers fall to 3-11 overall and 0-7 in the league.
The offenses were very challenged early in the game after York took an early 7-1 lead. The Blazers cut the York lead to one at 10-9 over ten minutes into the half. However, York ripped off a 6-0 run to take a 16-9 lead. York maintained the lead until Heather Boyce canned a three to tie the game at 21 with three minutes remaining in the half. The Spartans outscored the Blazers 9-4 over the final three minutes, keyed by a pair of Kelsey Murphy triples as they took a 30-25 lead to the break.
The second half began much like the first as neither team got in a very good offensive flow. The Blazers' Dyanna Prater hit a jumper at the 15:07 mark, cutting York's lead to just three at 37-34. The Spartans then hit their hosts with a 14-2 run to take a 51-36 lead with 8:54 left. The run was driven by senior April Sparkman as the Spartan guard, making her final appearance in her old stomping grounds, had seven points on the run.
The Blazers made one last gasp, cutting the York lead to 10 at the 7:27 mark but they would not get any closer the rest of the way. York eventually grew the lead to 20 before settling for the 15-point victory.
Hicks finished the game with the career-high 15 rebounds en route to her fifth career double-double. She was 5-for-10 from the floor and 5-for-6 from the free throw line. Sparkman paced the Spartans in the scoring column with 18 points as she was 6-for-13 from the floor including 2-for-4 from three and 4-for-6 from the charity stripe. Sparkman also had six rebounds and two steals. Sophomore Kristen Haley was the third Spartan in double figures as she added 11 points, all in the second half, while she also pulled down eight rebounds. Sophomore Aja Wallpher had a very solid floor game with five points, six assists, two rebounds, a steal and just one turnover in her 28 minutes of action.
Prater was a one-woman band for the Blazers as the guard tallied a game-high 29 points. She was 9-for-19 from the floor including 2-for-6 from three. Prater was also 9-for-15 from the stripe in addition to having four rebounds and three assists. Unfortunately for Prater, she scored 58% of her teams' points in the loss. Boyce added eight points for the Blazers as their second-leading scorer in the game.
The Spartans dominated the glass in the second half which led them to having a 53-41 advantage in the game. York outrebounded the Blazers 31-18 in the second half including 15-7 on the offensive glass. The Spartans finished the game with a 26-10 margin in points in the paint and a 22-8 advantage in second chance points.
York concluded the game shooting 32.9% from the floor including 5-for-18 (27.8%) from three. The Spartans were highly efficient from the stripe as they went 14-for-17 (82.4%) including a perfect 11-for-11 in the second half.
Hood finished the game converting 28.8% from the floor and 31.3% (5-for-16) from three. The Blazers went 11-for-19 from the stripe in the loss.
York returns home on Saturday afternoon when they host Salisbury in a big Capital Athletic Conference contest. Tip time at Wolf Gymnasium is set for 4:00 pm.


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Today we distributed a newspaper with the news we should be reading. These are good news stories that are sadly not based on reality. We have done this to highlight the stark situation of the administration of world football against the principles of SKINS Pure Sport. The newspaper is available and can be downloaded in the following languages here: English, Deutsch, Français and Español
We love Football and we love the World Cup; but not at any cost...
To deliver the 2022 Qatar games, migrant workers are suffering desperate conditions - thousands will die before the first ball has been kicked. The greatest show on earth is being built on the back of countless human rights abuses.
We need to hold those responsible to account. Ultimately that means FIFA and the Sponsors: Football's governing body and their paymasters. Sponsors and FIFA accept in principle their responsibility. They pledge to uphold basic Human Rights for all workers their business touches. But in reality, they turn a blind eye whilst the death toll rises and the beautiful game turns into something ugly.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday was declared to be in critical condition suffering from multiple organ failure. Sharon has been in a coma since January 2006.
Since slipping into a coma after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, Sharon has had his ups and downs. But despite several dire diagnoses, his system always seemed to recover. At one point a couple years ago, doctors even recorded significant brain activity when Sharon's family played familiar music or spoke to him, though they doubted he would ever regain consciousness.
With Sharon now at age 85 and with so many organs failing at once, doctors are predicting the worst, and are saying there is no point in even attempting emergency dialysis.
"The situation is currently critical, and his life is definitely at risk," Sheba Medical Center director Professor Zev Rothstein told reporters. "Over the past two days we've seen a steady decrease in the function of critical organs."
According to Israeli media reports, doctors told Sharon's two sons, Omri and Gilad, that their father had no more than a few days to live.
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GPI Target Duplication Policy
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In general, Gemini avoids making observations that duplicate the science goals and scientific utility of other observations, given the limited resource of observing time on sky. The Gemini Science Archive (GSA) eventually provides open access to all data. Policies against target duplication using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) follow from these principles and apply to all observations using GPI, including Campaign targets that will be reserved in advance of the semester during which they are likely to be observed.
Additional observations of the same target that use a significantly different instrument mode, such as polarization or a different mask, are allowed. Observations may demonstrate that they are significantly different by obtaining a meaningfully different measurement that supports the scientific goals of the proposed program, for example in planet mass sensitivity. Observations for the same purpose but only in a different filter will not be permitted.
The GPI Campaign has provided a list of targets and observing mode that will be protected against duplication until the data are released in the GSA at the standard time, 18 months after observation. The exceptions are sources with known planetary companions. Given the scientific interest and utility of concentrated study, principal investigators (PIs) may propose duplicate observations of these Campaign targets. Proposals must include evidence of a companion, which may be through citation of published work or presentation of unpublished data. Multiple duplicate PI observations will not be permitted. These PI duplication conflicts will be resolved in the standard way, within National Time Allocation Committees (NTACs) and by the International TAC.
Some examples that would be considered duplication and therefore not approved:
- Searching for planets or companions in a different filter. (The rationale is that the science is substantially the same, and the instrument setup is not significantly different.)
- Searching for planets or companions to a slightly different observational depth. (The rationale is that there is little scientific gain with much deeper observations, given that the number of detectable planets is an extremely weak function of exposure time. E.g., with detectability likely ~t0.1, to be twice as likely to detect a planet as a baseline 1-hour GPI observation would require 800 hours exposure. Much shallower observations obviously provide no new information.)
Some examples that would not be considered duplication and therefore be approved:
- Using a polarimetric mode. (Although the polarimetric mode also provides images, a scientifically-justified use of polarimetry would provide additional new information beyond non-polarimetric observations.)
- Using the non-redundant aperture mask (if commissioned) or no coronagraph, compared with planned observations using the standard coronagraphic masks.
- Observations of HR8799, although it is part of the Campaign target list. (Planetary companions are known.)
The Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) has reviewed and endorsed these policies. The STAC encourages the organizers and chairs of the NTAC processes to forward any questions regarding potentially duplicative targets to the Gemini Deputy Director for review ahead of national TAC meetings so that TACs can focus on science and avoid ambiguity about whether proposed targets fall under the duplication policy.


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Selecting A Web Browser
For many, the web browser is one of the most important applications they use. This is simply because of the high amount of time most people spend entertaining themselves or working from the web browser. Some web browsers are very fast, some have add-ons, and some file browsing features. Doesn't it make sense to use a web browser that meets your needs and works well with your hardware specifications? Linux distributions are compatible with plenty of good web browsers so don't just settle for the default. The article of the day today at Lxer.com was written by Steve Emms and titled 10 of the Best Free Linux Web Browsers. It has some great information about individual web browsers and what they're good for. Make sure to click on the browser links within the article to get the low-down. What's your favorite web browser and why? Please comment explaining why you voted the way you did.


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Reading a post from ECParamedic recently, or was it NFI ? reminded me of a job I did last week on nights.
Called to a house to back up a crew….no details given as to why. Could be a hand with a heavy patient, could be a difficult resus, or a multiple casualty situation, it could be anything!
As it turned out the crew had been called 999s to a house to a renal dialysis patient who had necked a full bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey. Patient had gone into a sudden hypo (massive blood sugar reduction). The patient was fitting and was also quite heavy. It was impossible to get a line in and he appeared to be extending mostly. (Rigid extension of arms and legs due to a central nervous system reaction).
In short, he needed to be in hospital asap. There was no way we could have safely carried him on our carry chair so we decided to use the scoop stretcher. (special metal or plastic stretcher which splits in two and enables us to "scoop" the patient in the postion found.)
With the patient strapped securely to the scoop we started to carry him out, negotiating the narrow door way into the even more narrow hallway. It was at this point that we had to tipp the scoop sideways to edge through the door. (Bearing in mind that the patient was 16 stone plus.)
Eventually we get the patient onto the vehicle stretcher placed outside the front door and then onto the vehicle. From there he was transported to the hospital.
All of this could have been made much easier if we had a simple piece of equipment called the "carry sheet". Basically a very strong sheet with grab handles at regular intervals. I,ve used this in the past on difficult extrications from houses, down stairs, from under vehicles and other situations where the space has been limited.
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Something smelled fishy and fetid when Jillian awoke. Right, the foggy, boggy lake below her. Stars were up, the moon was down, and dew was dripping from their gear. The Wonderful Royal Expeditionary Company of Doom (WRECD) had slept in the sky again, her cramping back told her immediately.
It was not her favorite way to bivouac. But where there were water hexes available, it was one of the safer bets for stealth. This local marshy terrain—with its sparse roads and lakes every few hexes—was probably a pretty annoying place to live. Your units would have a high move cost, and they'd rarely be able to travel in a straight line.
So, it might actually be the kind of place she could find a lost capital site.
Only she wasn't looking too hard. What would be the point? This area was closer to Haffaton territory than Faq was. It might even be Haffaton territory.
Behind them, above the scrubby foothills, the sky was showing signs of impending sunrise. As usual, it would be bad if dawn came before they started turn. Perched on their dozing gwiffons, Jillian and her three warlords ate their trail forage in silence (boiled bird eggs, and some of the figs they had taken from a Haffaton orchard three turns ago), while casting anxious glances eastward. In two nearby stacks, the stabbers and archers ate their hardtack glumly.
They were now fourteen turns out of home, and far, far to the northwest, but they still hadn't found the end of Haffaton's domain. They'd seen a small stack of Charlescomm's units once, exchanging grudging waves but no words with them. They'd also had some contact with local sides, and even entered a bounty contract on Haffaton units with one. But that was just a diplomatic move, and a hedge bet. If she could help it, Chief Jillian did not intend to encounter any Haffaton units (or allies, if they had any around here).
She just needed to know how far around it was. It was getting ludicrous. "We have to know where Haffaton is, so we can go looking for a site where it isn't." That was her flimsy explanation, and none of her warlords challenged it. But really, at this point Jillian viewed circumnavigating Haffaton as her personal quest.
With a sudden flare of orange, dawn broke. They all still had dirt on their faces. And zero move, disband it! She ordered defensive stacks formed. They waited.
Feedbags were tied on their gwiffons, and they relieved themselves into the lake from on high. Chip and Hedda broke out the cards and played "5-Stack Air War."[1] Jillian just sat upon her mount and scanned the reeds at the edges of the lake for approaching enemy units. Bart closed his eyes. Jillian thought he was napping in the saddle at first, but then noticed his lips were moving. Great, he'd picked up the meditation habit. Or worse, prayer.
Nothing happened all morning. Their turn began when the sun had climbed high and the fog had long vanished.
It meant that something would happen when they got moving. That couldn't be helped. They were in somebody's battlespace whose natural turn came before Faq's. Fate said they were bound to encounter units of whatever side that was.
Jillian was pretty sick of Fate. She had named the Company as a joke, but it really wasn't funny. The idea that Faq was doomed never quite left their minds. She was sorely tempted to just stay right where she was this turn, just to prove Fate was all a loose puddle of frog crap. How could it make her move? It couldn't, right? Surely, someone had put it to the test, somewhere.
But it would not be her, not this turn. She had her mission, however loosely she was choosing to interpret her orders right now. The treasury was dwindling; they weren't taking jobs. If upkeep reached a crisis, as it would in another dozen turns or so, then the Court would start disbanding units. The Company had to keep moving, keep exploring. Something would turn up. They'd map the edge of Haffaton, and be on their way.
And hey, maybe it wouldn't be Haffaton they ran into. If it was...well, she was far from home and she could talk her way out of it, she guessed.
They restacked to scout formations and they began the stutter-step scouting crawl by sending a lead out to the northwest. From hex A, first peek hex B, then cross B if clear, peek C, and return to B. Leaders and feeders, 'til they spotted something. That's how it went.
This turn, it didn't go that way for long. The third hex they peeked had a Haffaton Level 2 city just on the other side of it. Hedda had crossed the hex, keeping at the treeline, scouted the city, and returned, apparently without having been spotted.
"Titans' teabags, they are everywhere!" said Chip.
"You're sure they didn't see you?" Jillian asked.
Hedda shrugged, but she paired it with a sly, predatory grin. "You can never be sure, right? But if they cared about spotting enemy flyers, you'd think they'd deploy some actual units there."
Jillian's heart skipped. She could read her second-in-command's face better than anyone, and she hadn't seen this expression in far too long. It meant, "I smell easy meat." She cleared her throat. "You wanna put that in the form of a report, Warlord?"
"Absolutely, Chief," said Hedda, drawing herself to attention. "Two hexes to the northwest of here stands a Level 2 city, flying Haffaton colors, with no apparent defenders."
- ^ "Air War" is a card game. It is one of the few that can be played while mounted on separate gwiffons, as players do not share or exchange cards. In 5-Stack Air War, each of the two players shuffles his own deck. For each "engagement," players draw a stack of their top 5 cards and show them to the other player. Then each player arranges his stack into a secret battle order and places it face down. One at a time, the players turn over and reveal the top card in their stack. The higher card wins, and is placed at the bottom of the winning player's deck. The losing card is discarded and removed from play. In the case of a tie, the next card in the stack is turned over to join the fight and break the tie (or the next, etc.) If the stack has been fully depleted (all cards played), then players draw tie-breaker cards from the top of their deck (automatically losing the game if they have no more deck cards to turn over). Once a tie is broken, all the cards played by the losing player are discarded, and all the winner's cards go to the bottom of his deck. Players never shuffle their deck, but keep drawing a stack from the top of their deck. The engagements therefore get more fierce (and more prone to ties) as the game goes on and lower cards are eliminated. The game is over when one player cannot field a stack of 5, making the other player the winner.


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The first three months of the calendar year are generally a very quiet time for tornado outbreaks. So far, 2012 has been an exception.
According to Standard & Poor's, there have been 272 confirmed tornadoes so far in 2012. The severe weather has destroyed homes and businesses—and in some instances leveled entire towns—throughout the Midwest and South.
With April through July normally experiencing the highest tornado activity, 2012 may prove to be a destructive severe weather year, although S&P notes that basing such estimates on the activity to date may be premature.
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Residents comb through debris looking for personal belongings after a tornado ripped Trussville, Ala. on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.
Tornado activity started up early in 2012 when a January tornado in the South caused more than $150 million in damages. In Alabama alone, insured losses from a tornado outbreak caused an estimated $30 million in insured losses.
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Sherry Cousins and her brother Bruce Wallace of Hollister, Mo., sit in the wreckage of their secondhand store in the country music resort city of Branson, Mo.
Branson was amongst the hardest-hit areas when a total of 14 tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas on Feb. 29, 2012.
The tornadoes on the 28th and 29th killed 13 people and injured more than 200. Aon Benfield says the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center confirmed 36 tornadoes in addition to hail and high winds through 10 states.
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An employee of Henryville High School examines the remains of the building after it was destroyed by a tornado on March 2, 2012, in Henryville, Ind.
Among the storms that hit the Midwest on March 2, the National Weather Service reports a single tornado touched ground through 49 miles from southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. Henryville, one of the hard-hit towns on the tornado's path, was all but completely destroyed.
"It's hard to explain," says Daniel E. Stone, president and chief executive of Indiana Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. "The school they went to is gone. The church where they worshipped is gone."
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A home is destroyed in Athens, Ala. after a tornado from the same powerful storms that wrecked Henryville, Ind. passed through on March 2, 2012.
Catastrophe modeler EQECAT says the severe weather that formed two volatile weather systems during the period Feb. 28 to March 3 produced an estimated $1 to $2 billion in insured losses. Most of the more than 150 tornadoes occurred in the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Alabama, says EQECAT.
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Robert Elliott sits in his damaged kitchen after a tornado struck his home in Harrison, Tenn., March 3, 2012.
January through March is a relatively quiet period in terms of tornado outbreaks. Historically, the most active period is April through July.
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Ashley King and her son Dallas King look around a damaged house after a tornado struck in Marysville, Ind., March 4, 2012. Calm weather gave dazed residents of storm-wracked towns a respite as they dug out from a chain of tornadoes that cut a swath of destruction from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.
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A resident sits on her back porch watching workers use heavy equipment to pick up the remains of a neighbor's home that was destroyed by a tornado on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Moscow, Ohio.
Neena Saith, director of catastrophe response for catastrophe modeler RMS says in a statement, "This activity is linked to the combination of record warm temperatures in the region and a surge of moisture from the south."
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Katie Cramer looks over the front of her house in Dexter, Mich., March 16, 2012 after a tornado touched down the night before, damaging or demolishing many homes, downing trees and power lines.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Before we start rambling on obsessively about Michelle Obama's bangs, let's be clear: The president started it.
It was he, after all, who called the new hairdo, unveiled just a few days before the historic occasion of his second inauguration, "the most significant event of this weekend."
And he hasn't stopped there. On Tuesday night, he introduced his wife at the Staff Inaugural Ball: "And the First Lady of the United States, bangs and all…"
So given the president's evident interest in the subject, perhaps the rest of us shouldn't feel so bad about analyzing ad nauseum the first lady's new look, an activity that has certainly taken over social media for days (and, perhaps, ended discussion of an earlier obsession, Michelle Obama's arms.) Heck, the bangs even have their own (unauthorized) Twitter account, FirstLady'sBangs, which has taken to issuing dispatches like: "Just got a text from Hillary Clinton's side-part" or "BREAKING NEWS: Barack just named me director of Hairline Security."
And how about the headline in New York's Daily News, the day after Obama's private swearing-in? "In With A Bang."
Quips and clever headlines aside, everyone seems to have an opinion about the new style — not only how it looks, but what it means. And so, just because it's fun, we analyze some of them here:
THE YOUTH FACTOR: It's no secret, say fashion experts, that on the right person, bangs can make you look younger. It's also no secret that Mrs. Obama turned 49 the very day she unveiled the cut last week, in a photo tweeted from her new Twitter account, FLOTUS.
"None of this is accidental," says Linda Wells, Allure magazine's editor-in-chief. "She tried this on her 49th birthday. She wants to spice it up a bit. And it's definitely a more youthful style than what she had before. It just has a flirty, young quality to it."
THE FASHION PLATE: Clearly Mrs. Obama, well known and admired for her fashion sense, is aware that bangs are in these days. Sure, they've been around forever, and your 5-year-old may have them, but recently bangs have become a full-fledged fashion trend, with actress Zooey Deschanel one of the standard-bearers. (Fun fact: Deschanel, 33, and Mrs. Obama happen to share the same birthday — Jan. 17.)
"Bangs have always been there, but they are clearly having a moment right now," says celebrity hairstylist Harry Josh, who was in Washington to style singer Kelly Clarkson's hair for the inauguration (Clarkson sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee.") "Mrs. Obama is really being modern and fashion-forward. We haven't had a fashion-forward first lady like this since Jackie Kennedy."
New York hairstylist Robert Stuart agrees. "Bangs have been really, really big for about a year," he says. He thinks Mrs. Obama has picked the perfect cut for her looks. "It's much softer and younger, and it makes her look more approachable," Stuart says. "It also works well for her sense of fashion. And it brings out her eyes."
THE NAYSAYERS: Just in case one thinks everyone loves the hairdo — and the reaction does seem extremely positive — there are naysayers. Count among them Joan Rivers, comedienne and fashion commentator, who tweeted on Inauguration Day: "Today starts President Obama's next four years in the White House. Let's hope the same isn't true about the first lady's new hairdo." Explanation? She didn't provide one, but in her defense, she only had 140 characters.
SHE'S EXPRESSING HER INNER SELF: Here we get a little more philosophical. Some have speculated that, since Mrs. Obama is starting a second term and won't have to endure any more campaigns, she's finally free to express herself exactly as she wants — and feels. "Haircuts do express how people are feeling," says Wells. "You get that sense of her feeling liberated — more comfortable, and less worried about what everyone else is thinking. She's showing her own sense of style and own sense of energy."
Stuart, of the Robert Stuart Salon, has a similar thought. "I think now she's maybe feeling less threatened, and can express herself more. Really she just seems more comfortable."
IT'S SOMETHING TO EVERYONE: If you'd wandered around the National Mall on Inauguration Day, and spoke to women especially, you'd have found a lot of Michelle Obama fans. No surprise there. But many of these women were also fond of the bangs, and for various reasons.
Sheila Garrison, an educator from Maryland, called the hairstyle "different," but all the attention paid to it brought home to her and her friend, fellow teacher Patricia Cooper, that Mrs. Obama "represents women in a beautiful way," in Cooper's words. "You look at her and you are proud to be a woman. She commands respect." Garrison, 58, also appreciated how Mrs. Obama, a fellow tall woman, "carries herself really well."
Mattece Mason, 34, of Tulsa, Okla., adores the cut — when asked about, it she and her family members — well, the females — screamed, "Oh my God, we love it!" But the enthusiasm of her daughters was meaningful to Mason for a reason other than fashion. "My daughter Aubrianna, who's 14, said to me today: 'I want bangs now,'" Mason said. "That made me feel great because my girls have such a role model. A first lady they can emulate." (Mason also mentioned she thought Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looked great in those eyeglasses she's been sporting lately.)
And Roslyn Snow, of Newport Beach, Calif., had another reason for loving the new Obama look. "I think she looks like Jane Fonda back in the old days," said Snow, 76. "Remember?"
A SIGN OF SOMETHING BIGGER?: Many have wondered whether Mrs. Obama has plans to forge a new role in the second term, taking on different issues. Wells, the fashion editor, gets that feeling, though she makes clear it's all speculation. "You sense it with the strong statement she is making with her appearance," Wells says. "Before, her look was sort of retrograde: the hair, the A-line dresses. The emphasis was on 'lady.' Now, it seems, the emphasis is on 'first lady.'"
A POLITICAL STATEMENT?: Josh, Clarkson's stylist, likes to see a broader message in the haircut choice. "Think about President Obama's statement in his speech about gay people as equals. It was so forward-looking. Mrs. Obama was saying something similar, I'd like to think. She was putting America into the position of a forward-thinking country."
Or not. "Of course," adds Josh, "she could just have been bored with her hair the old way."
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Judy Gale
Race: Unknown, probably Earth human
Faction: Haffaton
Class: Ruler (Overlord)
Special: Arkenshoes
Proposed Canon
First Appearance: IPTSF Text 50
Judy Gale was Overlord of Haffaton and an attuned wielder of the Arkenshoes.
By the time Jillian meets her, Judy is described as a ghostly looking woman wearing a blue gingham dress and a long silk scarf, with her short white hair streaked with black and adorned with a dirt-covered diamond tiara. Her signamancy indicates personal decay: she is thin, skeletal to the point of weighing nothing at all; her teeth are rotten or missing; she seems to be missing her eyebrows, and has marks drawn on her skin to replace them.
She uses a walking stick that appears to be broom with the straw burnt mostly off; it is capable of flight. Around one ankle she wears some kind of Magic Item in the shape of an ankle bracelet. Her tiara is also implied to be magical.
Judy is confirmed to come from another world, possibly even Stupidworld. In IPTSF Text 51, Judy Gale uses the word 'kill' instead of 'croak'. In IPTSF Text 62, she uses the word 'year' to refer to a time period of 365 turns. In addition, she claims to be from a place called 'Kansas,' and uses the word boop twice, which indicates that she was attempting to swear.
A side named el-Efbaum had been long trapped in a deadlock with two tightly allied sides named Easteros and Westeregg. Upon forming an alliance with Haffaton, Charlie invented the Summon Perfect Warlord Spell, using Haffaton's Thinkamancer and Predictamancer as well as el-Efbaum's Findamancer and Lookamancer. The warlord they summoned was Judy Gale. Her summoning was directly responsible for the croaking of Bell, ruler of Easteros. After attuning to the Arkenshoes, which she had taken from Bell's body, she infiltrated Westeregg, destroyed Blair, seized the Arkendish and took it to Charlie as per Haffaton's agreement with el-Efbaum.
Maxwell, Haffaton's Thinkamancer, was able to imbue several golem units with life, and they became fast friends with Judy.
Eventually, Olive Branch, one of Charlie's own children, betrayed el-Efbaum to Haffaton. However, Judy chose to let Charlie go, much to Olive's displeasure.
Olive Branch betrayed her ruler, murdering Lex Doothis and attempting to murder his heir, Judy. She failed to croak Judy, but was able to keep Judy in a drugged stupor with the heroine buds at the Olive Garden, and use her as a puppet ruler. Olive also caused the death of most of Haffaton's casters, including Maxwell, which caused Judy's golem friends to revert to non-sapience.
Maya Calendar had predicted that a warlord named Jillian was Fated to croak the ruler of Haffaton. In an attempt to ensure that Judy Gale would be the one croaked, Olive took away the Arkenshoes to prevent Judy from simply escaping to her old world. But, Wanda Firebaugh was able to use Findamancy to recover them, allowing Judy to return home. As a result of Judy's departure, her Heir Designate, Olive Branch became the new ruler of Haffaton.
Real World References
She is named for the actress (Judy Garland) and main character (Dorothy Gale) from the Wizard of Oz.
Her gingham blue dress is a reference to the blue gingham dress worn by Judy Garland when portraying Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz movie.
Her drug addiction is reminiscent of Judy Garland's struggle with alcohol and drugs, which damaged Garland's career and eventually killed her at age 47.
The magic ankle bracelet may be a shackle, but from it artwork it appears far more to resemble an electronic curfew tag.
It is known for a fact that Judy comes from another world. She could be a native of Earth, and was brought to Erfworld for many of the same reasons Parson has been. This would be in keeping with the Wizard of Oz references that this character seems to be heavily involved in. However, she is much smaller than Parson, and her name is the sort of reference he would be capable of recognizing as one of Erworld's jokes, which implies that she might come from a different version of earth than the one Parson comes from. Indeed, Parson himself doesn't think she comes from exactly the same world for this same reason. Alternatively, she may have been summoned in part because of her familiarity with L. Frank Baum's fictional world of Oz, in the same way Parson Gotti was summoned because of his fondness for breakfasting on marbits, and acquired a second, Erfworldian name, similar to how Parson acquired the title Lord Hamster.
Special Note
Judy is one of the few characters to have been a subject of Retconjuration; originally named Dorothy, Rob decided she was a more complex character, and Retconned her name to reflect that. WoT-11/15/2012 "Judy" is probably a reference to the actress who played Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland.
|Preceded by:
Lex Doothis
|Ruler of Haffaton
|Succeeded by:
Olive Branch


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