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- The political ad war for the general election is beginning, says Julian Zelizer
- We can expect to see ads that attempt to attack the character of the candidates, he says
- Zelizer: Other ads may use guilt by association to tie candidates to unpopular figures
- He says candidates need to emphasize positive as well as negative messages
The wars over campaign spots have begun.
Last week, American Crossroads, Karl Rove's nonprofit operation that was highly effective in 2010, launched a blistering ad charging that President Barack Obama has failed to help American families.
A woman described as the mother of two grown children without jobs says to the camera, "I supported President Obama because he spoke so beautifully. He promised change. But things changed for the worse."
Obama also found himself in the middle of a controversy when Cory Booker, the popular Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, criticized a spot that had attacked Mitt Romney's work at Bain Capital. It had been paid for by the Obama campaign.
Television spots are the medium through which the modern campaign is fought. The success or failure of the candidates at producing effective advertisements could have a huge influence on the outcome in November.
Each side of the campaign will spend inordinate amounts of money to pay for 30-second advertisements -- which will also be spread through the Internet -- that seek to define the message of the campaign of 2012 and the terms of the fight.
"Television is no gimmick," said Roger Ailes, Richard Nixon's campaign consultant, in 1968, "and nobody will ever be elected to major office again without presenting themselves well on it."
Ailes was right. Since 1952, when television had become a regular part of many American homes, the campaign spot has become a defining feature of modern politics.
According to The Living Room Candidate, an outstanding site that allows viewers to see many of these commercials, military hero Dwight Eisenhower launched a presidential campaign spot based on the advice of advertising executive Rosser Reeves who thought this was the best way to reach the electorate.
Democrat Adlai Stevenson was disgusted by the use of commercials. "The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal," he famously quipped, "is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process." Eisenhower won.
Like it or not, spots have dominated campaigns. Although there have been tremendous variations in the kinds of spots Americans have seen, there have been several consistent types that politicians have used that we are likely to see in the coming months.
The first is the character assassination spot. These are the ads in which candidates exploit a perceived weakness of their opponent, highlight this weakness and use it through the spot to shape how voters perceive them. The most infamous of all was the Daisy ad in 1964: Lyndon Johnson's campaign broadcast a spot featuring a little girl picking petals off a flower until viewers saw a mushroom cloud in her eye.
The point was to take fears that Barry Goldwater was a reckless hawk on military matters and craft them into a shocking image that could scare people into believing he would launch a nuclear war.
Another famous example came in 2004, when George Bush's campaign broadcast an ad featuring Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry windsailing, moving in different directions. After going over a series of issues on which Kerry had switched his position, the narrator says, "John Kerry: whichever way the wind blows."
The ad played off perceptions that Kerry lacked core principles and sold this as the essence of his character. A more vicious ad in that campaign came from an independent group that featured veterans questioning Kerry's war record during Vietnam. The ad gave rise to the term "swift-boating" in modern campaigns.
Another type is the issue-based spot, which highlights a particular area of controversy that does not play well for the opposition or which triggers a debate about a subject that will raise problems for opponents.
One of the first ads by Eisenhower, called "High Prices," featured him answering questions to average citizens (who were filmed separately though it looked like they were addressing him), many of which revolved around the cost of living and inflation.
President Richard Nixon broadcast a powerful ad in 1972 that featured plastic soldiers being wiped off the table as a way to raise fears about defense budget cuts taking place under the Democratic Congress and which would accelerate if Sen. George McGovern was in the White House.
In 1988, campaign guru Lee Atwater filmed the "Willie Horton" ad, which revolved around a felon furlough program in Massachusetts when Michael Dukakis was governor, to talk about law and order.
There are also the guilt by association spots through which candidates try to tie an opponent to an unpopular figure or events through the power of image. In 2008, Barack Obama ran an ad that showed Republican John McCain embracing the unpopular George W. Bush repeatedly. In one of Richard Nixon's ads in 1968, the camera showed images of Vice President Hubert Humphrey juxtaposed with the chaotic Democratic Convention in 1968 where anti-war protesters clashed with the city police in Chicago's Grant Park. No words were needed.
The final spot is a very different kind, the candidate-boast spot. It is usually simple and direct, literally an advertisement for the person who is running. Jimmy Carter broadcast a very effective example in 1976, when he talked about his personal story in Georgia and used his own upbringing as the most important characteristic of the campaign. "1976. Across our land," the narrator says, "a new beginning is under way, led by a man whose roots are founded in the American tradition."
Ronald Reagan's campaign featured "Morning in America" in 1984 which highlighted the revival of the economy, and emphasized that the nation would be strong. "Under the leadership of President Reagan, our country is prouder and stronger and better." In 1996, Bill Clinton's campaign spoke about his being a bridge to the future.
This year both campaigns will likely draw on all of these kinds of spots to sell their message. They will be the subject of debate and play an important role in shaping the perceptions that voters have of each candidate.
Obama and Romney will need to be careful that the spots they broadcast, or which independent groups broadcast for them, don't backfire on them rather than their opponents, and they will need to make sure to convey enough positive messages along with the negative. But the candidate that pulls off the best ad campaign will vastly improve his odds of winning the White House in November.
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A while back we used SourceBoost (C compiler) to write some pretty heavy-duty code (reading SD card data). Since then we've done a few other projects, and each time have leaned pretty heavily on previous examples to set up the fuses on the PIC, just to get a "hello world" blinking LED example.
So here's how to get started coding with Sourceboost C and how to use the datasheets from Microchip to get a simple "hello world" example running...
(we're assuming that SourceBoost is correctly installed, and can compile correct code into a burnable .hex file: there isn't room here to discuss setting up the IDE!)
Firstly, create a new project with source code file
Double click the .c source code file to start editing.
Note that the main system.h file is already included.
At this point, we need to tell the IDE which PIC/microcontroller we're targetting. For this example, we're going to use the 16F722 chip (because some arrived in the post about an hour ago, so why not?)
Behind the scenes, this tells the IDE to include the appropriate header file for the target chip. A quick rummage through the Program Files\SourceBoost\Include folder reveals the .h header file for our 16F722 microcontroller:
Open the header file up in a text editor and you should see a whole load of registers and values that the compiler will recognise as being related to this chip. Often (though be careful of a few gotchas) these match the values given to registers (and bit values) in the datasheet. Quite often. But not always. So it always pays to have the header file as a reference!
Now take a look at the datasheet for the PIC and check out the configuration bits.
Reading microcontroller datasheets is an art in itself. Starting to code from a datasheet is infinitely more difficult than, say, hacking a few lines of Arduino code together, but also gives you complete control of the lower-level workings on the chip. No nice, abstracted libraries here - you're gettingn your hands dirty!
To keep our hardware set-up nice and simple, we're going to run this PIC off it's own internal oscillator, at 16Mhz (so no need for an external crystal or resonator then - just give it some juice and let it run!)
Starting with configuration word number one, we're going to set each bit of the special register CONFIG1 to get the PIC running exactly how we want it. We do this in SourceBoost by using the #prama DATA command. From the header .h file, we can see that SourceBoost has called this register _CONFIG1
We set the _CONFIG1 values by using the bitwise AND operator to join them together.
From the datasheet, we want _DEBUG off, PLL on (to set the clock speed to 16Mhz) brown out reset BOREN disabled, code protection _CP disabled, MCLR tied high (use RE3 as input), power up timer _PWRTE disabled, watch dog timer WDTE disabled, and the fosc (clock source) to be the internal oscillator with no clock out.
This is where the header file comes in really handy.
The SourceBoost C variables and the datasheet names don't always exactly match up. But from our header file, we can see that the combination of config bits we want should read:
(note that some variable names translate back to the same value/register. So it doesn't really matter whether we use _MCLR_DIS or _MCLR_OFF, both have the same value. Likewise for the oscillator selection, _INTRC_OSC_NOCLKOUT and _INTOSCIO both have the same value 0x3FFC)
Configuration word 2 is much similar for this chip.
We simply want to disable all Vcap activity on all pins
Now the PIC should be running under it's own steam when powered up. That's to say, it's using it's own internal oscillator as a clock source, so when it's given power, any code inside the "main" function will get called. So let's write some simple code to get our "hello world" program working:
There we have it - a simple LED blinking program. But we're not quite done just yet.
There are still a few more registers to set up. That's why we have the "initialise" routine. Here at Nerd Towers we just got into the habit of creating an init routine, rather than putting everything inside the main loop. It's just personal preference - that's just how we roll....
Now PICs are awesome devices. They're multi-function and one chip can have hundreds of possible configurations; many have A2D (analogue-to-digital) converters on the input pins, a lot now have capacitive sensing on a lot of the input pins, and almost all can configure their pins as either inputs or outputs (and in some quirky, charlie-plexing programs, sometimes change between the two, or set to high-impedence: neither input nor output!)
So we need to tell the PIC what function we want the pins to take on.
We'll start by setting the input/output direction of the pins, using the TRIS registers:
Back to the datasheet - we've got loads of different ports to configure. Our chip has PORTA, PORTB, PORTC (and even a PORTE) defined on the pins. So we need to set the appropriate registers to define theses.
We're going to make the whole of PORTA (i.e.any pin that is labelled RA.. such as RA0, RA1 etc) an input.
We're going to make the whole of PORTB outputs (it's perfectly acceptable to use a combination of inputs/outputs on a single port - for example, make RB0 an input, RB1 and RB2 an output, RB3 an input and so on)
We're not really bothered about PORTC but for completeness, we'll make it an output too.
A quick check of the header file and we can see the TRIS register variable names:
If we want to make all the pins of PORTA inputs, we need to set the value b11111111 (in the tris register a one represents "input" and a zero represents "output"). To make PORTB outputs, we set the tris register to b00000000. If we wanted to make, say, RB2 an input, and all others outputs, we would use the value b11111011 (or 251 decimal, 0xFB in hex).
Now, it's not really critical for this example, since we're only concerned with outputs, but debugging input pins that don't work properly can be a real nightmare if you've forgotten to turn off the A2D converter module on each bank of input pins.
We just got into the habit of actively disabling analogue on our pins - some chips default to "off" but most chips have the A2D converters "on" at boot-up. To change the analogue settings on a PIC, we need to set the ANSEL registers. Our particular PIC has two sets of A2D, on both PORTA and PORTB.
Back to the header file, and we can see the variable names we need:
So the last thing to do is make our i/o lines all digital and make sure all output pins are turned off:
Build the file, then go digging about in the debug folder (our SourceBoost is set up to create debug versions of the .hex file during testing) and burn the .hex file to your PIC.


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Part 1 of HBO '24/7' focuses on teams' adversityby Dan Rosen
An American city trying to punch back and using its legendary hockey team as a symbol of hope compared and contrasted to a sprawling Canadian city with passionate fans who have withstood the test of time -- time that has not been so kind to its historic hockey team.
This was the theme in the chilling opening montage of Part 1 of "24/7 Red Wings-Maple Leafs: Road to the NHL Winter Classic" that debuted on HBO in the United States on Saturday night.
With "The Star-Spangled Banner" playing quietly on one side and "O Canada" on the other, Liev Schreiber's narration is heard over images that eloquently show the stark differences and striking similarities between Detroit and Toronto as well as between the Red Wings and the Maple Leafs, the teams that will meet in the 2014 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on New Year's Day at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Head coaches Mike Babcock of the Red Wings and Randy Carlyle of the Maple Leafs, along with a host of key players, are in the spotlight as the two clubs battle through busy December schedules.
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|Dec. 14 (4:30 a.m.), 15 (8:30 a.m.), 16 (5:30 p.m., 2:25 a.m.), 17 (2:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m.), 18 (5:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m.), 19 (midnight), 20 (11:45 p.m.) and 21 (11:00 a.m.)
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"In a proud but struggling American city, they hear a lot about what they don't have anymore; they prefer to focus on what's still going strong, a team that's been a model of success for decades in a sport that's entrenched here not just in name, but in culture," Schreiber says, reading writer Aaron Cohen's words. "They love hockey in Detroit, though across the border there's an entire country that treasures the game as its national pastime. And in that country's largest city for generations the home team has been at once adored and agonized over."
However, just like the adversity that has tested the will of Detroiters in recent years and the championship-starved Maple Leafs' fan base for nearly a half-century, their respective teams have been trying to battle through their own struggles of late. Those trials and tribulations were featured in Part 1 of HBO's four-part series, which can be seen on Sportsnet in Canada on Sunday.
For the first time since HBO started featuring NHL teams in its "24/7" series, an episode did not include a win for either of the Winter Classic teams. HBO cameras captured the Red Wings losing twice to the Florida Panthers, and the Maple Leafs losing to the Boston Bruins and Los Angeles Kings.
Adversity was the theme.
Fortuitously placed microphones caught Maple Leafs forward David Clarkson pleading to the officials that he was jumped by two guys, Bruins defensemen Dougie Hamilton and Zdeno Chara. That same microphone picked up Chara saying, "I didn't jump you; just protecting my guy."
Late in that same game, Toronto captain Dion Phaneuf illegally boarded Bruins defenseman Kevan Miller, forcing Carlyle to cringe on the bench.
"Dion, come on, buddy," Carlyle says.
The next day, HBO captured a conversation typically reserved only for team personnel, showing Maple Leafs senior vice president and general manager Dave Nonis and vice president of hockey operations Dave Poulin preparing for the phone hearing Phaneuf was to have with the NHL's Department of Player Safety later that morning.
"It is a fair process," Poulin said.
Cameras were not permitted in the room for the phone hearing, but Phaneuf received a two-game suspension. HBO filmed Carlyle delivering the news to Phaneuf when the two were on the ice prior to the start of practice.
"I got two games, so how do you think I feel?" a clearly agitated Phaneuf said in the dressing room. "Not very good, but that's the way it is."
In Toronto's next game against the Kings, the cameras captured enraged Maple Leafs forward Joffrey Lupul taking a whack at the back of Slava Voynov's legs, leading to the Kings defenseman turning around and dropping his gloves to fight Lupul, who was playing his first game in more than two weeks.
Lupul, though, wasn't done once the officials jumped on top of him and Voynov, ending the fight with the players prone on the ice. He yelled at Voynov, using choice language to tell him how displeased he was with the defenseman.
"You [expletive], keep your stick down," Lupul screamed at Voynov.
Babcock had words for an official who waved off what could have been a goal for Daniel Cleary against Florida because of contact with the goalie.
"I just know in this league we're trying to get more goals, not less," Babcock pleaded, his voice booming from the bench as it typically does.
The next day in Tampa, HBO caught Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard being helped off the ice due to a left-knee injury that will keep him out of the lineup for 2-4 weeks.
Howard was shown limping out of the Tampa Bay Times Forum and later with his leg propped up on top of pillows while he lay in his hotel bed watching television; the image of a struggling goalie without the physical ability to get his game going for the next little while.
But the vulnerabilities of the teams weren't all that drove the dramatic first episode.
Viewers had a chance to see rookie Tomas Tatar read the Red Wings' starting lineup before the game against Florida at Joe Louis Arena. He was encouraged to insert his own brand of comedy and snark, a new Red Wings tradition created by Babcock.
On an off day for the Red Wings, Daniel Alfredsson, his wife, Bibi, and their four children were featured in their suburban home putting up holiday decorations. Alfredsson took his three older boys to Joe Louis Arena that day so they could skate.
It's quite a contrast from what the Alfredsson family was used to during the 14 years in which Daniel was the captain of the Ottawa Senators.
"I think we were all so super-excited when we first got here and then we realized this is it, we're staying here, and this is what we're doing," Bibi says. "Then they started missing their friends and the regular life that they had. So, it's been a little bit challenging, but overall I think it's been good."
There were several "did you know …" moments in Part 1.
* Did you know that Phaneuf has a sprawling walk-in closet that features dozens of suits, shoes and even select bow ties that the Maple Leafs captain wears to games?
You do now.
"If you have to wear a suit to work, why not have fun with it?" Phaneuf's wife, actress Elisha Cuthbert, said as her husband kissed their dog. "And he definitely has fun with it."
* Did you know that Carlyle, who is known as a stern but fair coach, has a lighter side? You found that out when he laughed and called for maintenance after his bread got stuck in the toaster in the Maple Leafs' cafeteria at Mastercard Centre.
* Did you know that Babcock goes for a 30-minute run through Joe Louis Arena after every Red Wings practice? How about the fact that Red Wings players sometimes get to eat cookies with their names and numbers on them during their flights to road games?
* Did you know that Detroit's dinner crew of Danny DeKeyser, Darren Helm, Justin Abdelkader, Kyle Quincey and Brendan Smith talks about Pavel Datsyuk when they're dining?
* And did you know how Toronto center Nazem Kadri truly feels about Carlyle?
"He brought some hope and faith into this organization that not only could we win, but we could be one of the best teams in the League," Kadri says.
So far, the Maple Leafs and Red Wings are middle-of-the-pack teams in the Atlantic Division. They've had their share of warts popping up since HBO's cameras started rolling, warts that were on display in Part 1 of the four-part series but could soon help these proud teams give their fans something good to scream about.
"In a season that lasts so many months and is composed of so many games, there are facts of life that can be hard to appreciate, none perhaps more counterintuitive than the reality that losing is one of the most important things a team can do," Schreiber says. "Painful as defeat can be, there's no more powerful way to reinforce togetherness. Frustrating as it may seem, there's no more valuable method for recalibrating tactics.
"On the road to their outdoor clash and well beyond, adversity will continue to shadow them. Simply playing through it might well be the most important thing these teams can do."


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In truth I have no idea what a "traditional" Japanese
or Okinawan Dojo looks like as I have never had
the chance to see one, although I have been to both
places. Go figger.
Anyway, The one I AM going to build with my own hands
is going to be constructed of rough cut Cedar from
trees that grow on my place here in Oklahoma.
It will have polished cedar wood floors, sliding walls,
and natural lighting. No mirrors, no electricity but will have
a modern bathroom with a shower . Ok, maybe
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That's it so far. It will not be very large but it doesn't need to be. 20 X 30 will be fine. Maybe smaller.
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When they give even the slightest bit of approval, that's when the youth think the door has been opened and that it is OK. They think it is only kind of bad instead of really, really bad. —Susannah Burt
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah has the lowest number of underage drinkers in the country, according to a federal alcohol use report released Monday.
It's no surprise, as Utah also has the lowest number of adult drinkers, but public health officials said knowing that 14.3 percent of teens ages 12 to 20 are able to access alcohol gives them something to work on.
"Yes it is a low number; however, alcohol is still the No. 1 abused substance in the state of Utah," said Susannah Burt, program manager with Parents Empowered of Utah, a statewide campaign that works to end underage drinking. She said that as more parents get involved in their children's lives, fewer teens end up consuming alcohol.
"Parents are the No. 1 influence in a youth's life. They are the No. 1 reason that children choose not to use alcohol or any other substance," Burt said, adding that parents should stress boundaries and consistently monitor the behavior of their children.
Nationally, an average of 26.6 percent of youths reported using alcohol in a month's time, according to Monday's report.
The highest usage was reported in Vermont, where more than 37 percent of teens said they have used alcohol within 30 days of responding to the survey. Other Northeastern states, including Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, also had some of the highest rates, while the lowest use was reported in the South, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, via the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, regularly surveys teens and releases nationwide percentages of America's underage drinkers. Its latest report details underage alcohol use across the nation between 2008 and 2010. Respondents were asked whether they used alcohol in the past 30 days and whether they purchased it themselves.
In Utah, 3.23 percent of teen respondents reported purchasing alcohol on their own. The low number suggests that kids are "getting it from home, sometimes with their parents' or another adult's permission," Burt said.
"When they give even the slightest bit of approval, that's when the youth think the door has been opened and that it is OK," she said. "They think it is only kind of bad instead of really, really bad."
Dr. Scott Whittle, a psychiatrist at Primary Children's Medical Center, said parental supervision often wanes at age 12 — the same time kids tend to get more free time.
"For most people, access and free time happen right about that time," he said, adding that parents don't always associate alcohol with its possible negative effects because it is used recreationally among adults.
"As adults, we don't have a very healthy, balanced view of alcohol," Whittle said. "We tend to want to ignore the negative aspects, the damaged relationships, jobs and education. If we looked at alcohol more honestly, the negative side can be huge."
Much like adults, he said, alcohol use among children can impair their ability to function in society. The substance produces long-term effects on a teen's developing brain, including memory impairment, learning disabilities, poor decision-making and lack of impulse control, according to the American Medical Association, which was quoted in an October 12-page local newspaper insert, sponsored by the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and Utah Prevention.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration report states that alcohol use is "one of the most serious public health issues for young people in the United States, creating negative health, social and economic consequences for adolescents, their families, communities and the nation as a whole."
Reducing access to alcohol remains an important step in preventing underage consumption, according to the report. All states have had the authority for alcohol control since 1933, and each prohibits possession of alcoholic beverages by anyone under age 21, but no state is immune from underage drinking problems, the report said.
"Highlighting the prevalence of these problems in each state can help federal, state and local policymakers plan for and allocate resources to combat underage drinking, including efforts to reduce the availability of alcohol to young people, raise awareness about underage drinking and its consequences, and develop effective approaches to prevent underage drinking," the report states.
Whittle said such policies are helping to keep consumption rates down among teens, but more can be done.
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Restaurateur Aoibheann Mac Namara has teamed up with food writer Aoife Carrigy to capture the essence of Ard Bia of Nimmos. Ard Bia is one of Galway's most enduring restaurant operations, now housed in one of the city's most iconic restaurant spaces and has always placed as much emphasis on community experiences and aesthetic stimulation as on serving great food in a fun environment. We believe in having roots in a place whilst having an identity that transcends location and takes inspiration from around the world— Ard Bia Cookbook (ISBN 978-1-85594-221-9, Hardback, 260 x 198mm, 328pp, €39, £35).
The Ard Bia Cookbook is a unique family-friendly cookbook, a source of inspiration for modern healthy cooking, a keepsake for our regular customers, a memento for visitors to Galway and a celebration of the enduring energy of Ard Bia and all involved in it. We believe that the book will be treated in different ways by different readers, or by the same readers at different times. For some, it will be a reference book for basic cooking skills on which they can begin to build a repertoire: how to poach an egg or make your own granola; how to whisk up a mayonnaise, and then turn the whites into meringues for an Ard Bia Mess; how to cook a perfect steak and lovely extras to serve with a full fry. For others, it may offer up some fresh ideas and flavour combinations, or a new take on an old technique: a crimson risotto that uses red wine instead of white; a burger beefed up with anchovies and chorizo; how to preserve your own lemons or ling, or make a rose salt for sprinkling with sumac and pomegranate seeds over slow-cooked torn lamb.
The book represents a day in the life of Ard Bia and the recipes are taken from menus over the last few years, taking the reader through the day, from morning through lunchtime in the cafe to afternoon tea and evening supper or dinner in the restaurant. It also includes a pantry section, where you will find extra explanations: basic techniques like how to cook perfect fluffy rice, alongside more elaborate methods for making your own membrillo, cooking times and temperatures for meat, lists of spices and herbs and how to use them. There is also a seasonal guide to wild food and foraging, an introduction to some of Ireland's more plentiful fish and recipes for chutneys, preserves and pickles for your pantry.


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Late Sunday Afternoon...
I drove down to Tom's new shop on Cherry Street yesterday. He had a Velocity 700c rim drilled for 40 spokes that he'd ordered for me two weeks ago. This is a moderately deep-V rim and with 40 spokes laced to an old Sturmey-Archer AW hub, it should be nearly bulletproof in my commuter bike, fully capable of standing up to Ed's Vertical Crush Test. I have a few bundles of spokes out in the garage (somewhere). I'll have to find them and run the numbers through a spoke length calculator.
Going home, I went east on 11th Street. A lone cyclist was going west, grinding up hill in the tire track of the right-hand lane. "He obviously knows what he's doing," I thought. "I might know this guy." It was Brian Potter, one of our local LCIs! I passed him, then turned around in a parking lot. I caught up to him and slowed. He turned to look, prepared to shout something scathing at another idiot motorist, and then realized it wasn't just another everyday idiot. "Hey! Pull over!" I yelled.
We stopped in a side street and had a long chat about some of the issues facing the advocacy group, including the upcoming streets meeting planned for tomorrow. Brian is planning to attend. We shared some of our frustrations and Brian pointed out that I may have an anger management problem when I said that so-and-so "really needed to be bitch-slapped in a very public way". I don't regret doing it, either. Maybe that has something to do with having kids. Not that I'd be intentionally mean or abusive, mind you, but that I don't hesitate to discipline them when it's warranted.
While Brian and I were talking, Mary called. We didn't go to Tulsa Friday evening, and I thought that worked out well since we tried that new Chinese restaurant and liked it. But here it was Saturday morning and I was in Tulsa without her. I could feel the frost coming through the phone. I thought I was being nice by allowing her to sleep in a quiet house since the kids were at work and I was away, but I was wrong. I tried to explain this to Number One Son by saying, "When we argue with women, we're wrong most of the time, even when we're not." He has a hard time understanding that basic concept. Grasshopper has much to learn.
Tonight, Mary and Lyndsay are out shopping, doing some mom-and-daughter time together. It's important for them. But they'll probably go for dinner too, so Jordan and I have to fend for ourselves. We're having shells with marinara sauce, Parmesan/garlic bread, and some cheesecake for dessert. I'm chief cook and bottle washer because there was some difference of opinion as to whether he'd have to eat my cooking or I'd have to eat his. I'm still bigger than him so I won – this time. The joy of this is that there will be plenty of leftovers, perfect for my lunch tomorrow.


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Jama Software's collaborative requirements management portfolio has this week been upped with a new version release. The company's Contour 3.0 web-based requirements management software is designed to provide a centralized communications hub to initiate, discuss, change, and track requirements throughout the entire application development process.
With this new product, Jama is attempting to differentiate itself from other requirements management solutions with an equally collaborative approach and a much larger installed base of users. The company has therefore highlighted new product features such as the option to include system hierarchy capabilities to manage highly complex software and hardware projects, and a new "Review Center" module that helps connect and socialize team members for improved idea sharing and decision making around project and system requirements.
"Building great software and hardware is inherently a very social process that leads teams to make new realizations, develop new ideas and, hopefully, achieve continuous innovation as projects progress and mature," explained Eric Winquist, CEO of Jama Software. "With Contour 3.0, we continue to remove the complexity of managing literally thousands of requirements and, through Review Center, bring the best in social communications to both the team and enterprise level."
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Natural gas (also called fossil gas) is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.
In petroleum production gas is sometimes burnt as gas flare. Before natural gas can be used as a fuel, most, but not all, must be natural gas processing to remove impurities, including water, to meet the specifications of marketable natural gas. The by-products of this processing include: ethane, propane, butanes, pentanes, and higher molecular weight hydrocarbons, hydrogen sulfide (which may be converted into pure sulfur), carbon dioxide, water vapor, and sometimes helium and nitrogen.
Natural gas is often informally referred to simply as "gas", especially when compared to other energy sources such as oil or coal. However, it is not to be confused with gasoline, especially in North America, where the term gasoline is often shortened in colloquial usage to ''gas''.
In the 19th century and early 20th century, unwanted gas was usually Gas flare. Today, unwanted gas (or stranded gas reserve without a market) associated with oil extraction often is returned to the reservoir with 'injection' wells while awaiting a possible future market or to repressurize the formation, which can enhance extraction rates from other wells. In regions with a high natural gas demand (such as the US), Pipeline transport are constructed when it is economically feasible to transport gas from a wellsite to an end consumer.
In addition to transporting gas via pipelines for use in power generation, other end uses for natural gas include export as LNG (LNG) or conversion of natural gas into other liquid products via gas to liquids (GTL) technologies. GTL technologies can convert natural gas into liquids products such as gasoline, diesel or jet fuel. A variety of GTL technologies have been developed, including Fischer–Tropsch (F–T), methanol to gasoline (MTG) and syngas to gasoline plus (STG+). F–T produces a synthetic crude that can be further refined into finished products, while MTG can produce synthetic gasoline from natural gas. STG+ can produce drop-in gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and aromatic chemicals directly from natural gas via a single-loop process.
Natural gas can be "associated" (found in oil fields), or "non-associated" (isolated in natural gas fields), and is also found in coal beds (as coalbed methane). It sometimes contains a significant amount of ethane, propane, butane, and pentane—heavier hydrocarbons removed for commercial use prior to the methane being sold as a consumer fuel or chemical plant feedstock. Non-hydrocarbons such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium (rarely), and hydrogen sulfide must also be removed before the natural gas can be transported.
Natural gas extracted from oil wells is called casinghead gas (whether or not truly produced up the annulus and through a casinghead outlet) or associated gas. The natural gas industry is extracting an increasing quantity of gas from challenging History of the petroleum industry in Canada (natural gas)#Unconventional gas: sour gas, tight gas, shale gas, and coalbed methane.
There is some disagreement on which country has the largest proven gas reserves. Sources that consider that Russia has by far the largest proven reserves include the US CIA (47 600 km³), the US Energy Information Administration (47 800 km³),US Energy Information Administration, International statistics, accessed 1 Dec. 2013. and OPEC (48 700 km³). which would place it in second place, slightly behind Iran (33 100 to 33 800 km³, depending on the source). With Gazprom, Russia is frequently the world's largest natural gas extractor. Major proven resources (in cubic kilometers) are world 187 300 (2013), Iran 33 600 (2013), Russia 32 900 (2013), Qatar 25 100 (2013), Turkmenistan 17 500 (2013) and the United States 8500 (2013).
It is estimated that there are about 900 000 km³ of "unconventional" gas such as shale gas, of which 180 000 km³ may be recoverable. of Natural-gas condensate.
Because natural gas is not a pure product, as the reservoir pressure drops when non-associated gas is extracted from a field under Supercritical fluid (pressure/temperature) conditions, the higher molecular weight components may partially condense upon isothermic depressurizing—an effect called retrograde condensation. The liquid thus formed may get trapped as the pores of the gas reservoir get depleted. One method to deal with this problem is to re-inject dried gas free of condensate to maintain the underground pressure and to allow re-evaporation and extraction of condensates. More frequently, the liquid condenses at the surface, and one of the tasks of the Natural gas processing is to collect this condensate. The resulting liquid is called natural gas liquid (NGL) and has commercial value.
Most town "gashouses" located in the eastern US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were simple by-product coke (fuel) ovens that heated bituminous coal in air-tight chambers. The gas driven off from the coal was collected and distributed through networks of pipes to residences and other buildings where it was used for cooking and lighting. (Gas heating did not come into widespread use until the last half of the 20th century.) The coal tar (or asphalt) that collected in the bottoms of the gashouse ovens was often used for roofing and other waterproofing purposes, and when mixed with sand and gravel was used for paving streets.
In 2010, the cost of extracting natural gas from crystallized natural gas was estimated to be as much as twice the cost of extracting natural gas from conventional sources, and even higher from offshore deposits.
In 2013, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) announced that they had recovered commercially relevant quantities of natural gas from methane hydrate.
The image below is a schematic Process flow diagram of a typical natural gas processing plant. It shows the various unit processes used to convert raw natural gas into sales gas pipelined to the end user markets.
The block flow diagram also shows how processing of the raw natural gas yields byproduct sulfur, byproduct ethane, and natural gas liquids (NGL) propane, butanes and natural gasoline (denoted as pentanes +).
Because of its low density, it is not easy to store natural gas or to transport it by vehicle. Natural gas pipeline transport are impractical across oceans, since the gas needs to be cooled down and compressed, as the friction in the pipeline causes the gas to heat up. Many List of natural gas pipelines#North America are close to reaching their capacity, prompting some politicians representing northern states to speak of potential shortages. The large trade cost implies that natural gas markets are globally much less integrated, causing significant price differences across countries. In Western Europe, the gas pipeline network is already dense.. Usually sales quality gas that has been Natural-gas processing is traded on a "dry gas" basis and is required to be commercially free from objectionable odours, materials, and dust or other solid or liquid matter, waxes, gums and gum forming constituents, which might damage or adversely affect operation of equipment downstream of the custody transfer point.
LNG carriers transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) across oceans, while tank trucks can carry liquefied or compressed natural gas (CNG) over shorter distances.. Compressors and decompression equipment are less capital intensive and may be economical in smaller unit sizes than liquefaction/regasification plants. Natural gas trucks and carriers may transport natural gas directly to end-users, or to distribution points such as pipelines.
In the past, the natural gas which was recovered in the course of recovering petroleum could not be profitably sold, and was simply burned at the oil field in a process known as gas flare. Flaring is now illegal in many countries. Additionally, higher demand in the last 20–30 years has made production of gas associated with oil economically viable. As a further option, the gas is now sometimes re-wikt:inject into the formation for enhanced oil recovery by pressure maintenance as well as miscible or immiscible flooding. Conservation, re-injection, or flaring of natural gas associated with oil is primarily dependent on proximity to markets (pipelines), and regulatory restrictions.
Natural gas can be indirectly exported through the absorption in other physical output. A recent study suggests that the expansion of shale gas production in the US has caused prices to drop relative to other countries. This has caused a boom in energy intensive manufacturing sector exports, whereby the average dollar unit of US manufacturing exports has almost tripled its energy content between 1996 and 2012. [https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)]
Many gas and oil companies are considering the economic and environmental benefits of floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG). There are currently projects underway to construct five FLNG facilities. Petronas is close to completion on their FLNG-1 The Browse LNG project will commence Front-end loading in 2019.
Natural gas is primarily used in the northern hemisphere. North America and Europe are major consumers.
Combined cycle power generation using natural gas is currently the cleanest available source of power using hydrocarbon fuels, and this technology is widely and increasingly used as natural gas can be obtained at increasingly reasonable costs. Fuel cell technology may eventually provide cleaner options for converting natural gas into electricity, but as yet it is not Natural gas prices. Locally produced electricity and heat using natural gas powered Combined Heat and Power plant (CHP or Cogeneration plant) is considered energy efficient and a rapid way to cut carbon emissions. making it a powerful domestic cooking and heating fuel. In much of the developed world it is supplied through pipes to homes, where it is used for many purposes including ranges and ovens, gas-heated clothes dryers, HVAC/air conditioning, and central heating. Heaters in homes and other buildings may include boilers, furnaces, and water heaters. Both North America and Europe are major consumers of natural gas.
Domestic appliances, furnaces, and boilers use low pressure, usually 6 to 7 inch of water (6" to 7" WC), which is about 0.25 psig. The pressures in the supply lines vary, either utilization pressure (UP, the aforementioned 6" to 7" WC) or elevated pressure (EP), which may be anywhere from 1 psig to 120 psig. Systems using EP have a pressure regulator at the service entrance to step down the pressure to UP.
In the US compressed natural gas (CNG) is available in some rural areas as an alternative to less expensive and more abundant LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), the dominant source of rural gas. It is used in homes lacking direct connections to public utility provided gas, or to fuel portable Grill (cooking). Natural gas is also supplied by independent natural gas suppliers through Natural Gas Choice programs throughout the United States.
The advantages of liquid methane as a jet engine fuel are that it has more specific energy than the standard kerosene mixes do and that its low temperature can help cool the air which the engine compresses for greater volumetric efficiency, in effect replacing an intercooler. Alternatively, it can be used to lower the temperature of the exhaust.
Other pollutants
Natural gas produces far lower amounts of sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxides than other fossil fuels. The pollutants due to natural gas combustion are listed below:
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Extraction of natural gas (or oil) leads to decrease in pressure in the oil reservoir. Such decrease in pressure in turn may result in subsidence, sinking of the ground above. Subsidence may affect ecosystems, waterways, sewer and water supply systems, foundations, and so on.
In hydraulic fracturing, well operators force water mixed with a variety of chemicals through the wellbore casing into the rock. The high pressure water breaks up or "fracks" the rock, which releases gas from the rock formation. Sand and other particles are added to the water as a proppant to keep the fractures in the rock open, thus enabling the gas to flow into the casing and then to the surface. Chemicals are added to the fluid to perform such functions as reducing friction and inhibiting corrosion. After the "frack," oil or gas is extracted and 30–70% of the frack fluid, i.e. the mixture of water, chemicals, sand, etc., flows back to the surface. Many gas-bearing formations also contain water, which will flow up the wellbore to the surface along with the gas, in both hydraulically fractured and non-hydraulically fractured wells. This produced water often has a high content of salt and other dissolved minerals that occur in the formation. The decades in development of drilling technology for conventional and unconventional oil and gas production has not only improved access to natural gas in low-permeability reservoir rocks, but also posed significant adverse impacts on environmental and public health.
The US EPA has acknowledged that toxic, carcinogenic chemicals, i.e. benzene and ethylbenzene, have been used as gelling agents in water and chemical mixtures for high volume horizontal fracturing (HVHF).
Quantities of natural gas are measured in normal cubic meters (cubic meter of gas at "normal" temperature ) or Standard cubic foot (cubic foot of gas at "standard" temperature ),an approximate value).
In the United States, retail sales are often in units of therms (th); 1 therm = 100,000 BTU. Gas sales to domestic consumers are often in units of 100 standard cubic feet (scf). Gas meters measure the volume of gas used, and this is converted to therms by multiplying the volume by the energy content of the gas used during that period, which varies slightly over time. The typical annual consumption of a single family residence is 1,000 therms or one Residential Customer Equivalent (RCE). Wholesale transactions are generally done in decatherms (Dth), thousand decatherms (MDth), or million decatherms (MMDth). A million decatherms is a trillion BTU, roughly a billion cubic feet of natural gas.
The price of natural gas varies greatly depending on location and type of consumer. In 2007, a price of $7 per 1000 cubic feet () was typical in the United States. The typical caloric value of natural gas is roughly 1,000 BTU per cubic foot, depending on gas composition. This corresponds to around $7 per million BTU or around $7 per gigajoule (GJ). In April 2008, the wholesale price was $10 per 1000 cubic feet ($10/MMBTU).).. Thus, if the price of gas is $10/MMBTU on the NYMEX, the contract is worth $100,000.
A gigajoule (GJ) is a measure approximately equal to half a barrel (250 lbs) of oil, or 1 million BTUs, or depending on gas supply and processing between the wellhead and the customer.
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"Advance of Federal troops on Corinth- the Carnival of Mud- scene at Lick Creek Bottom, between Pittsburg Landing and Monterey, four miles from Corinth, May 5th, 1862- General Hurlbut's division forcing their way through the mud. Our illustration cannot fail to fasten the grand fact of mud firmly on the reader's mind. Our special artist, Mr. Lovie, carefully made the sketch on the spot at Lick Creek Bottom, when General Hurbut's division of Halleck's grand army was advancing from Pittsburg Landing to Monterey. In his letter he said: "Lick Creek Bottom is part of the road between Pittsburg Landing and Monterey. The hills on both sides are clayey ground, and the creek rises rapidly after every rain. On Monday, May 5th, an attempt was made to pull through the cannon and wagon train, but the mud was too deep, and the result was that in a few hours the bottom was filled with wagons and mules, hopelessly mired, and waiting for dry weather to be dug out. A moment's reflection will enable you to get a faint idea of the enormous task before us. The bottom land is very deep and rich, and only those who have tested the adherent and adhering qualities of this soil can appreciate its glorious consistency and persistency thoroughly. I have had considerable experiences of mud, but, in all my rides, or, rather, wallowings, I have seldom experienced such difficulty in getting my horse along, and I only succeeded by driving my spurs so vehemently into his poor sides, that he made those desperate plunges which carried us through." —Leslie, 1896
Civil War, horses, Lick Creek Bottom, Monterrey, mud, mules stuck in mud, Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, soldiers, soldiers stuck in mud, wagons stuck in mud, War, woods
Frank Leslie Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War (New York, NY: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1896)


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For the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, July was the hottest month of the year so far, and the busiest July since 2009, the board says.
Sales cleared through the Multiple Listing Service reached 2,946 in July, the board reports. That's a 40.4 per cent increase compared to the 2,098 sales recorded in July 2012, and an 11.5 per cent increase compared to the 2,642 sales in June 2013.
In the Fraser Valley, realtors cleared 1,456 sales through the MLS, a five-per-cent increase from the same month a year ago and beating June's sales results.
"Buoyancy during the summer is rare at the best of times," Ray Werger, president-elect of the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, "and yet I've just experienced the busiest July in my 20-plus years as a realtor."
In Vancouver, REBGV president Sandra Wyant said in a news release this morning: "Demand has strengthened in our market in the last few months, which can, in part, be attributed to pent-up demand from the slowdown in sales activity we saw at the end of last year."
The boost in sales, however, doesn't appear to have put much pressure on pricing.
In Metro Vancouver, the benchmark price for all homes in the board's region was $601,900 in July, which is still 2.3 per cent below the benchmark price of this time last year, but an increase of 2.3 per cent over the last six months.
"Home prices continue to experience considerable stability with minimal fluctuation throughout much of this year," Wyant said. "This stability in price brings greater certainty to the home buying and selling process."
In the Fraser Valley, the benchmark price on a detached home was $551,000 in July, a fraction below the $551,400 benchmark of July 2012.
"Year-over-year, prices are stable or down slightly, however the six-month trend is showing one to two per cent increases for all property types again underlying the return to an average or typical housing market," Werger said.


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Roseanne Barr is a force of nature. Whether taking the sitcom world by storm, challenging accepted social norms, or battling the wild pigs inhabiting her nut farm in Hawaii, she is not to be trifled with. In this return to the printed page, Roseanne unleashes her razor-sharp observations on hypocrisy, hubris, and self-perpetuating institutions of questionable value—as well as menopause, pharmaceuticals, and her grandkids. And she's as controversial, original, and funny as ever.
Raised half-Jewish, half-Mormon, and 100 percent misfit, Roseanne made a deal with Satan early on as the price she paid for stardom. But now she's looking to refinance the loan of her soul—this book represents her final exorcism of fame.
Displaying her brilliance and sharp wit, Roseanne discusses the humor of everyday life with musings on more serious topics, such as class warfare, feminism, the cult of celebrity, and Kabbalah. Bold, brash, and insightful, Roseannearchy shows that she can still skewer any subject under the sun and why The New York Times describes her appeal as "the power of a whole planet, pulling everything around it inexorably into its orbit."
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Emmy Award-winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Roseanne Barr started her career in stand-up comedy before landing her own long-running hit TV series, Roseanne. She has returned to stand-up comedy over the last few years and blogs regularly at RoseanneWorld.com. She is a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher and lives in Los Angeles and on her nut farm in Hawaii.Excerpt. � Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
Chapter 1
Chosen and Humbled
I knew at a young age that I loved being the center of attention, singing and dancing and making my family laugh and lifting their spirits—that way I could avoid having to talk to them almost completely. They were hairy and smelled like herring, garlic, and onions, and shrieked at one another in loud, shrill tones.
But they were a great audience, and to me that pretty much made up for the fact that I had to be around them all the time. I never really bonded with them, or with anyone on earth, really, until I had children of my own, who now wish I would just shut up and leave them alone. But I can't, not now, not after all I have been through.
Almost everyone in my family was musical and played an instrument and sang and loved to show off, so I was no stranger to it. During my brilliant and audacious performances, my family constantly remarked that they thought I sang like Shirley Temple, only way better and a lot more adorably, and that my dancing made hers look contrived and boring. I humbly accepted their assessments and believed them to be true.
After all, my own grandmother, Mary Bitnam, had left her town of Aborniki, Lithuania, to move to the United States after being accepted at the Salt Lake City Conservatory of Music, so she knew something about the arts! She played the mandolin and other stringed instruments and sang soprano. She performed at weddings and bar mitzvahs until she married her husband, Ben Davis, whose father was Utah's only kosher butcher.
She encouraged me to sing and dance and tell jokes every Friday night, Shabbat, in the windowsill of her living room after everyone had gorged on her brisket. She also talked about God all the time, and the importance of being honest and obedient to Him, so I figured that she was honest with me about my singing and dancing talents.
My family would laugh and clap, adoring everything that came out of my mouth and every move I made—every twirl, every note, every word I said. I was the first grandchild, niece, and daughter in my extended family, and therefore I was spoiled rotten until I became dissociative and narcissistic enough to imagine myself to be "special" as well as "chosen."
It did not occur to me at a young age that empty flattery is actually quite toxic and would one day be my complete downfall.
Each Friday night, I persisted in writing, producing, as well as directing my all-time favorite performer (myself) in one show-stopping number after another. During my more than one-hour-long act, I did not consider it a proper performance unless I had laughed, danced, sung, and cried. "Sarah Bernhardt" was what my audience of family members proudly called me.
As the first granddaughter in a Jewish-American, first-generation, post-Holocaust Utah family typically does, I looked to show business as a way to move up the socioeconomic ladder and climb all the way out of Salt Lake City. Utah was a pretty weird place, and nowhere was weirder than my own family's apartment building, which housed survivors from Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen who moved to the States after being sponsored by my grandparents and who were also part of my audience every Friday evening.
I once asked Mrs. Rose, one of my grandmother's tenants, what the numbers tattooed on her arm were for, and she told me that it was her phone number. My grandmother and Mrs. Rose would watch the Eichmann trial on television, and while they watched, I was told to stay out of the living room. I kept asking why I couldn't join them until one day, being a nosy and headstrong little girl, I barged in and saw the most graphic and disturbing images of bodies starved and heaped upon others, and from that point on I greatly feared human beings.
My grandmother tried to explain that I should always be "proud" of being hated for being a Jew. And I became so "proud" of being Jewish that I made it my mission to straighten God out by detailing what I felt were Her shortcomings in the many one-on-one conversations I had with Her in the mirror. If I hadn't had the refuge of my showbiz fantasies and my conversations with God to occupy me, who knows what more damage I could have done to myself and to others.
When I was between the ages of three and six, I always got the message from my family that I was the most talented star ever. Fueled by their praise that I was better and more talented than Ms. Shirley Temple herself, whom I watched on TV and idolized, I copied her every move, pressing my fingers into my cheeks in an attempt to create dimples and constantly begging my mom to curl my hair into ringlets. But after I lost all the adorable baby part of my baby fat and only had the fat part left, they all gleefully and fickly moved on to encouraging the show business aspirations of my younger, lighter, and perkier cousin, Debbie Aaron.
I became a has-been at age six. My family started to tell me then that if I really wanted to be a singer and dancer on old "Broad Way" someday, I needed to lose some weight. That really depressed me and made me eat more. Instead of just losing twenty pounds and solving my problems forever, I got fatter and fatter, and retreated deeper and deeper into my fantasies of stardom. The more I did so, the worse my neurosis grew. I knew that I was the most important person on earth, and yet it seemed that I was now alone in that knowledge. Was it possible that everyone around me failed to see the superhuman being who walked in their midst? Of course, they were all God's chosen, too, but I was not just chosen, I was also special! I couldn't be the only one to recognize the fact that I held the keys to the universe and had total control of all things in it, could I? Didn't that make me crazy?
I asked God, "Doesn't this just mean I am crazy, if no one believes that I am Your One True Messenger here on earth?"
And God spoke to me, like She always did, and She thus spaketh: "Fuck them, my child, if they cannot take a joke!"
I said, "But it's not a joke to me, Lord. I have vowed to do Your bidding and be Your servant in order to glorify myself so that I can then give You the credit at the awards shows! When all I want to do is to glorify Thy name and do Thy bidding, why hast Thou made that so damn hard for me? Shouldn't being the Messiah of mankind mean anything to people?"
"Fuck them, Roseanne, if they can't take a joke. Thus I have spoken and thus I am that I am. See ya!" Bored, God vanished, and left me there talking to myself again, trying to figure out how to fix the entire world alone.
I fantasized that I would one day graciously accept the deafening applause of my peers and the various awards they would practically force on me. From the stage and before all the cameras, I would humbly admonish the adoring crowd to quiet down just enough to hear me clearly gasp out my gratitude to God for allowing really dumb people like them the rare good taste to recognize a genius such as me. Eventually, all the accolades would become tedious, I reckoned, but ever the giver, I would bear up and go along with the program in order to inspire others to know that God might someday love them, too, if they would only love me enough.
Soon after I turned six, my mother and father moved us away from Bubbe Mary and closer to Mormon culture. I loved Mormon culture because there is a lot of singing and dancing in it. Happy songs not in minor keys! It was great at first. I still longed to sing and dance, despite the fact that my audience had moved on, so I signed up for lessons at Dorleen's Dance Studio. After I had taken only four classes, my parents told me they could not afford to pay the dollar a week for those lessons that I really wanted and prayed for every night.
During one dancing lesson, my friend's big brothers stood on the sidewalk outside, looking through the huge glass window, as they laughed and screamed, "Look at Tubby Roseanne dancing!" Humiliated, I told my parents, and my mom asked Dorleen to please put up a curtain to keep the boys from doing that to me, and she did.
But soon after, having thought things through clearly in her Mormon woman way, Dorleen told my parents she didn't want me to continue taking lessons from her, as I caused a "ruckus." My mom told me this when I was in my fifties, long after I had wasted all that time blaming my parents for being so cheap.
After Dorleen decided I was too much of a distraction, I would stand outside her studio at four o'clock each Wednesday with the boys, and peer through the curtainless window at my very tiny and slim neighborhood friends, as they shuffle-ball-changed their thin asses back and forth over the boards. My friend's brother told me that it was no fun to watch the girls if I wasn't in there anymore. He said he liked to laugh at the fat jiggling on my legs. So the boys stopped coming around, and when it was just me watching through the window, Dorleen put the curtain back up.
I vowed that they would one day envy me after I became a huge star, which I would do no matter what it took to get there—no matter what asshole I had to marry, and despite the fact that I could not scare up one dollar a week with all the talent I had. The talent of two Shirley Temples! I knew it was up to me to blaze a new trail for females like myself, the fat wallflowers who were emotionally bruised by the indifference of others. I pitied those who could not see how great I was. I would show them.
Because my mother wanted to assimilate more than anything else, she began to take me to church with our Mormon neighbors around this same time. My mother spoke in the Mormon church about how, at age two, I had fallen on my face and contracted Bell's palsy. Mom would talk about how she summoned the Mormon priests to pray for me, and how they "healed" my face by laying their hands on me. She would finish her talks by saying she wanted to become a Mormon and planned to do so one day soon. Then she would play the piano.
The Mormons loved her talks and they loved me. I sensed my imminent reinvention. I began to sing and dance and talk about being healed in front of another appreciative audience of people whom I couldn't stand to be around when I was not performing. But what the hell, it was stage time, and I have to admit that I loved the fact that they all seemed to talk to God all the time, too.
The main thing we young Utah Mormon girls cared about back then was the Lord, and the Lord's policies. Near the top of the Lord's policies was that the state of Utah was to be kept stone-cold sober, and therefore all decent Mormons were to vote NO on Proposition 3: to allow alcoholic beverages to be bought in bars. The news on television told us repeatedly that the prophet of our church wanted us all to vote against that proposition. He said that if the gentiles (the Jews) had their way, our neighborhoods would become overrun with prostitutes and criminals.
In addition to obeying the Lord's wishes, we young girls busied our minds with the homemaking arts so that we one day could trap a man and get him to do exactly as we wanted. The intense programming about finding a husband and having babies grossed me out terribly, but I knew I had to act like it was the greatest thing going because if I didn't I would have even less to talk about with these girls I was stuck being around. They all loved to sing and dance, too, and once a year, each little Mormon church would put on its own "road show," a wonderfully fun little hour and a half of performing all over the city in other Mormon churches.
My mother tried like hell to fit in with the dominant culture, like Jewish people have done for years and have still never done right! She played the piano for the road shows and tried to insist that I be a part of them, too. I tried to fit in with the Mormon girls but always failed in the end. I think they felt sorry for me, not being able to cut it in the boy-meets-girl love story that they were all living, what with the being fat, dark, and having no ass thing, and mostly thinking of myself as too "special" to be subservient to men. I remember how excited everyone was when we finally got Barbie dolls, which everyone really wanted because then they could start dating in their minds, which led to planning weddings, which led to having babies, the most fun of all dolls.
Had I not started talking to God at a really young age I would have been incredibly lonely. And because God was my best and only friend, I felt protective of Her. I was able to clearly see for myself that people did not really mind their godly p's and q's. They said God could see everything we thought and did, but then they would do a whole bunch of things they knew God didn't want them to do and then lie about doing them, as if God couldn't see through that bullshit!
They thought they could hide from God and from people who saw them hiding from God, as if they were invisible—like ghouls, I thought—as if God couldn't see for Herself what hypocritical assholes they were. For me, who actually knew God and talked to Her personally every single day of my life, this was just further proof that I was different as well as special and chosen.
I always asked other kids if they talked to God, too, so that I could figure out just how different, special, and chosen I indeed was. They always said that they talked to God to ask Him to give them stuff or to forgive them for things they were caught doing. Nobody conversed with God to figure out how to save the world with Her (His) help like I did.
When I asked if God answered when they talked to Her (Him) no two answers were ever the same. This is where it started getting weird. Some of them said, "Well, He will in the fullness of time," and some said, "He's tellin' me not to worry about getting even with my grandpa, 'cause the Lord punishes sinners and they go straight to hell for all eternity." Or "What are you talkin' about? You mean, like tellin' me to vote against liquor by the drink or somethin'?"
"Oh, just forget it," I would finally say, confirming that I was different and chosen and special, just as I had suspected.
My mother would have joined the church in a second if not for her mother and my father. Although my father was basically a socialist and an atheist, he still insisted that we remain Jewish. My dad would always say he didn't believe in God, that God was just a concept that weak people needed. When asked if the Jews were weak people, he would always say the same thing: "The Jews survived Hitler, so no, they are not weak."
He refused to let us have Christmas, either. He told me the reason we didn't celebrate was because "Santa is an anti-Semite." I prayed to God that Santa would bring me a Barbie doll even though I was a Jew. One Christmas, the entire community of our Mormon neighbors brought us bags and bags of toys and food, and a Christmas wreath, so that we could be "embraced" and "included" at that special time of the year. I loved it because I got a Barbie doll! I immediately made her into a spy who parachutes behind enemy lines to save the Jews in Germany. I did this by dropping her out of the windows with a piece of cloth tied around her neck.
When playing Barbie dolls with the other Mormon girls, I would get so bored with the inevitable dating and wedding-planning story lines that were the subject of every playdate that I would say, "Why don't we play a game where Barbie parachutes behind enemy lines to save the Jews?" The Mormon girls would try to be nice while ignoring me and say, "You have to be Ken." I hated being Ken, because all Ken could ever say was, "When will we be having our wonderful wedding, Barbie dea...
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Wondering how Selena Gomez's buzzed-about turn in "Spring Breakers" -- in which the former Disney Channel starlet disrupts her good-girl image to the squelchy strains of a soundtrack by dubstep prince Skrillex -- might affect her music?
Wonder no more: Gomez's new single "Come & Get It," originally due to premiere Monday morning on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM (102.7) show, leaked online early Saturday. In response Gomez posted a cellphone video on her Twitter feed in which she directed her 14 million followers to listen to the song at Seacrest's website, which promptly crashed.
But it's the Internet, folks -- the interested among you won't have to search long to hear it.
Co-written by Ester Dean and produced by Stargate, "Come & Get It" -- the lead track from a studio album reportedly due out this summer -- is indeed a harder-edged proposition than Gomez's earlier songs, with fuzzed-out synth licks laid over a vaguely Indian-accented groove.
"This love will be the death of me, but I know I'll die happily," she sings, tapping into the dramatic end-of-days vibe we've heard lately from Britney Spears in "Till the World Ends" and Kesha in "Die Young." In the chorus Gomez even does the stuttered-vocal thing so associated with pop's libertine-in-chief, Rihanna.
So far Pop & Hiss can't say the tune lives up to "Love You Like a Love Song," Gomez's slyly excellent 2011 hit. But get back to us in a couple of months, after Top 40 radio has drilled "Come & Get It" deep into our brains. By then we might have come around.


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Lloydminster is a city split north to south by -110, which makes up the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The graticules are at latitude 53, longitude -110 and latitude 53, longitude -109. See Category:Meetup in 53 -110 and Category:Meetup in 53 -109 for automatic expedition lists.
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April 18, 2011
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Three members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's outdoor track and field team have earned weekly Little East Conference honors.
Freshman Jessica Masse (Somerville, MA/Somerville HS) was named LEC Women's Rookie Field Athlete of the Week. Freshman Joe Texeira (Seekonk, MA/Seekonk HS) was named LEC Men's Rookie Field Athlete of the Week, and sophomore Kyle Costa (Somerset, MA/Somerset HS/Vermont) was named LEC Men's Rookie Track Athlete of the Week.
At last Saturday's Solomon Husky Invitational, hosted by Northeastern, Masse was second in the shot put at 38 feet, one half inch, and was fourth in the discus with a throw of 110 feet, one inch. Texeira finished first in the javelin with a throw of 177 feet, one inch. Costa was second in the 400 meter hurdles in 59.5 seconds, and was also a member of the 4 x 400 meter relay team that finished third in 3:30.11.
"Jessica continues to be a multiple threat in the shot and the discus," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "She's won this award every week so far this season, and, in a short period of time, we've come to rely on her, week in and week out. Joe threw very well, considering the wind conditions that everyone dealt with in meets across New England. Looking at the other meets, Joe's throw was even more impressive, and he continues to be a dominant force at the Division III level in New England. After a one year hiatus, it's good to see Kyle come back and run as well as he has both during the indoor and the outdoor seasons. He ran a strong race in pretty poor conditions for the middle of April last week, and we expect him to continue to improve as the year progresses."
The Corsairs will return to action when they travel to Connecticut College this Saturday.