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"My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It's not contagious — I mean, it's contagious, but don't worry: Grown-ups don't catch it. It's called mouth-foot-and-butt disease or something."
Julie Delpy materializes on the patio of Hollywood's Chateau Marmont on a wave of nervous energy. Hair pinned up away from her makeup-free face, she looks like what she is: a worn-out working mom. She continues without stopping to take a breath: "They get everything from preschool, wherever he meets other kids. They're dirty little things. So cute, though. When he's sick, he's all curled up, and he wants Mommy all the time. It's, like, my favorite thing. It's horrible." She pauses. "I shouldn't say that; it's, like, the most dysfunctional thing I could say."
This is how Delpy talks: in full paragraphs, spat out at run-on speed, her mouth like a scampering toddler that's always one step ahead of the exhausted caretaker of her rational mind. Which is not to say that the way she presents herself is unconscious. Her paragraphs almost always conclude with a punch line — comic, provocative, insightful or a combination of the three; it just sometimes takes a while to get there.
The daughter of French theater radicals, Delpy, now 42, began acting as a teenager, and by her mid-20s had worked with a roster of European masters (Jean-Luc Godard, Leos Carax, Krzysztof Kieslowski) that could fill a full and admirable career. She says she threatened her status as an all-purpose muse by daring to speak out about casting-couch culture. "In France, when I started talking about the fact that at 13, people would hit on me — which I think is pedophilia — people were like, 'Who do you think you are?' " Delpy says. "It destroyed my career. It destroyed it. The press was against me, saying I was a bitch, basically, a horrible person to dare to accuse these directors of being bad for wanting to have sex with a 12-year-old. That was the time, you know: '80s France."
She moved to the States in 1990 and started appearing in American movies: as a lady-in-waiting in the Charlie Sheen–starring Three Musketeers, as a hooker in Roger Avary's Killing Zoe and, finally, as the introspective, ethereal French student Celine opposite Ethan Hawke in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise.
Sunrise cemented her in '90s pop culture as a kind of hot foreign exchange student imparting Euro cred to the American indie scene — every photograph of her from this time is a study in sex as a dialogue between death and eternal youth, all gap-toothed pout and cigarettes. Its 2004 sequel, Before Sunset, earned her a shared Oscar nomination for co-writing the screenplay and kick-started her own filmmaking career.
Delpy skewers her reputation for speaking the truth to the point of self-sabotage in 2 Days in New York. Opening Aug. 17 in L.A., it's her third effort as writer-director-star, a sequel to her 2007 indie hit directorial debut, 2 Days in Paris, and the reason she has left her sick kid to have lunch with me.
Delpy's character, Marion, a former Village Voice photographer whose art career is riding on a major gallery show, is introduced at the opening to an important critic. Over the course of about two minutes, what begins and should end as an exchange of bullshit pleasantries is pushed by Marion into a self-defeating outburst. The artist tries to goad the critic to go beyond passive-aggressive quasi-praise into stating his honest, unvarnished opinion, only to go way too far with her own "honesty," which increasingly manifests itself as childish hostility. "You can just say it — you hate my show," Marion says. Before he can take her up on the offer, she spits, "And it's good because I want to tell you something: Everyone hates you!"
Though Delpy's stridency has sometimes seemed to be her kryptonite, her tendency to insistently, sometimes foolishly, push any given dialogue just past the point of politesse also has been her secret weapon. Few people in the film industry get to play by their own rules; most of them are men, and pretty much all of them have proven themselves capable of making money for someone else. None of them are beautiful French actresses who have never starred in a mainstream hit film. Yet Delpy has learned, with savvy, how to do exactly what she wants to, under the guise of doing what's expected of her.
The next step is breaking free of those expectations.
In 1994, when she was 24, Delpy told GQ that she was writing a film to direct and star in, featuring a heroine who was "not evil, not slave, not bitch, not mistress. I can do better than be naked on top of somebody."
This quote appeared in a spread whose raison d'être was to dress actresses in menswear.
Years would pass before she'd direct a feature. "No one wanted to finance my films," she says simply. At one point, "before I was an actual director," she sent a producer a script with a man's name on it, just to see what would happen. "That's what Colette did," she shrugs. "But that was, like, 120 years ago!"
She hates being lumped in with "women filmmakers," she says. "By making it obvious that it's rare, you also minimize my work."
But she also talks at length about gender discrimination in the film industry. "Sometimes I go to meetings, and people will ask me if I know what a dolly is," she says.
In a roundabout way, Hollywood's ingrained assumptions pushed Delpy into the director's chair. Before Sunset began as a series of conversations among Linklater, Delpy and Hawke, which Delpy then worked into a 40-page first draft. While she was writing it, she remembers: "My agent called, and he was like, 'What are you doing?' And I'm like, 'Well, I'm writing a screenplay with Ethan and Richard for a sequel.'
"And he was like, 'Why are you doing that?'
"And then he called me back an hour later, and he's like, 'Well, we had a meeting, and you know, we think you're not focusing enough on your acting career.' I mean, he asked me to play a sexy Latina in Rush Hour 3, or whatever."
The agent, she says, would send her to read for parts that were already cast, just to keep her busy.
"And I'm like, 'You guys have sent me on one audition in six months, and you're saying that because I'm writing, I'm not a dedicated actress?'"
The agent responded, "I think the film will never be made, and even if it's made, no one's gonna go see it."
Delpy says, "A year later, I was an Oscar nominee for writing the screenplay."
The nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, which she shared with Hawke, Linklater and Sunrise co-writer Kim Krizan (they lost to Sideways), made "people take me seriously," Delpy says. "Which is crazy."
She knew she had to take advantage of that craziness, and fast, so she quickly wrote the screenplay for 2 Days in Paris. Her pitch? A man, a woman, Paris. "I went to European financiers, kind of selling it as Before Sunset, but then I wrote something very different in tone. So I kind of tricked them."
Starring Delpy and her real-life ex-boyfriend Adam Goldberg as a New York–based couple on a bad European vacation, 2 Days in Paris uses the classic romantic travelogue form (Delpy's opening voice-over implicitly references Roberto Rossellini's Voyage to Italy) as a container for an equal-opportunity inspection of the fault lines in a long-term adult relationship. Delpy's actor parents, Marie Pillet and Albert Delpy, co-star as Marion's parents, their long-term happiness contrasted with their daughter's self-admitted difficulty with "deciding to be with one man for good."
Goldberg's character initially seems like a toxic jerk, but over its running time, the film's point of view flips, and boyfriend and girlfriend switch roles. Ultimately, Paris plays like a referendum on the idealized version of a captivating Frenchwoman put forth in the Before films.
"I hate that men's fantasy of how women — especially French women — should be cute, sweet," Delpy says, noting that she created the character of Celine "with two guys, so I had to be a little more in the male point of view. Obviously, with Marion, that fantasy is out of the way. She's not an unbearable person, but she's real."
In a 2004 Sunday New York Times profile, writer Christopher Goodwin expressed his exasperation with how Delpy's character in Before Sunset had changed from an angelic, unformed girl in the earlier film into a "just too good to be true" woman and sniped, "Celine seems to have become the kind of person who would insist on telling you how great she is at sex while you're doing it."
2 Days in New York owns that kind of criticism by almost literalizing it. Before they're even dating, when they're just co-workers gossiping in a cubicle, Marion tells Mingus (played by Chris Rock) how good she is at fellatio: "My specialty!"
Like Paris', New York's setup is heavy with voice-over; Delpy puts us deep inside the psyche of her character before she shows the character behaving badly. The sequel is at once less emotionally resonant than the first film and more radical a bait-and-switch. In the movie, the equilibrium of the blended household she has built with boyfriend Mingus is disrupted by the arrival of Marion's father, sister and ex-boyfriend, visiting from Paris for the art show. Paris used romantic-movie tropes to call bullshit on certain types of romanticism, but New York puts more into the Trojan horse, smuggling into a cheerfully vulgar domestic farce a utopian model of post-racial relationships, a rumination on selfhood as a commodity and a study of a 40-something working mother's emotional life within a culture obsessed with flattening work-life balance into binary "can we have it all" reductions.
Rock's Mingus is a public intellectual whose conversations with the cardboard cutout of Barack Obama he keeps in his home office constitute New York's only real nods to race as an issue in contemporary American life. It's a movie in which a white woman and a black man are raising a family together, without ever suggesting that racial difference is an issue in their home or in their relationship. Its very nonchalance could be considered a step forward.
"One of the reasons Chris said yes was that the screenplay was not about, like, this dramatic issue about black and white," Delpy says.
Delpy insists the only aspect of the film that's autobiographical is that Marion, like Julie, has since the first film had to live through the death of her mom. "I included it because she was in the first film, and I didn't know how to exclude her without telling the truth," she says. But Marion also struggles with asserting an identity as an artist, as a domestic partner and as a mom, and this is a conflict that's a part of Delpy's own life since she gave birth in 2009 to a son with her boyfriend of five years, film composer Marc Streitenfeld (Prometheus).
"It's very complicated to be a mother and a creative woman at the same time," Delpy says. "But the minute I started writing again, three months after my son was born, it was like breathing again. It was like being a fish out of water put back in."
Delpy, who edited New York from her L.A. home "with my son coming in and out," says part of her conception of being a good mom is making sure motherhood doesn't completely subsume her identity.
"It's not the kid's fault, but the position of being a mother can destroy you creatively," she says. "If you go and write, you feel guilty. So you have to get over that."
Delpy is startlingly straightforward in admitting that she has very recently stood in her own way, even internalizing the external prejudices that she suggests have held her back. She was initially on board to direct The Right Profile, a micro-biopic about Joe Strummer's calculated disappearance to France in 1982 before the release of the final original-lineup Clash album, Combat Rock. But she tells me she's no longer involved, for fear that the company wouldn't want a French woman directing male-driven, British subject matter.
"To fight a company to prove I'm the right person — I've done that too many times, and too many times it turns out negative," she says, "and then they're not behind me, and they kind of contradict everything I want to do during the film."
This is what happened on The Countess, which Delpy wrote, directed and starred in between Paris and New York. The movie, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival but had no significant theatrical exposure in the States, is based on the story of Elizabeth Báthory, a 17th-century noblewoman who allegedly believed the secret to eternal youth lay in bathing in virgin's blood. It's definitely a mixed bag but worth Netflixing for its often darkly funny counterpoint to Delpy's '90s image of near-vampiric sexuality. Delpy admits the film was compromised by behind-the-scenes drama — the financiers, she says, didn't believe in her.
"It's very hard because you make a film that's OK, but it's not exactly what you wanted to do because you've been fighting every day. It's much easier when everyone's on the same side."
Getting everyone on the same side — or at least the same page — remains a hurdle holding up another announced Delpy project, the long-rumored follow-up to Before Sunset. Hawke claimed in June that the third film in the series would shoot this summer, but at our lunch a couple of weeks later, Delpy suggests the production is not a done deal.
"We're in the process of talking about it, but we're not sure 100 percent. It depends on — um, I don't know what it depends on. On everything, on the weather ... " She trails off. "The problem is getting the three of us in a room to work, to write and then shoot it."
Delpy sighs. "My life is really stressful, actually, because I don't know anything, and it's stressing me out like crazy."
We're interrupted by a male executive from a distributor, a competitor of Magnolia Pictures, which is releasing New York in theaters and has already made it available on cable video-on-demand.
Delpy and the executive kiss hello. "What's going on, darling?" he asks.
"I'm OK. My film's coming out in August," Delpy says.
"Who bought your movie?"
"Magnolia. You guys didn't buy it." She smiles. "You'll regret it!"
"I want to see it! Why didn't we buy it? It's not me. I would have been all for it."
Delpy says, deadpan, "Because there's a black man with a white woman."
She's joking — sort of — but maybe there's a kernel of truth to the accusation, because instead of quipping back, the exec gets slightly defensive. "No, we did, we did, um ... ." He names a Chris Rock film his company distributed, in which there is no interracial relationship.
"Why, then, didn't you do me?" Delpy asks.
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I realize she's doing something kind of incredible, in playfully nudging this mundane kiss-kiss Hollywood run-in into the realm of interrogation. The exec is smiling tightly, trying to keep the encounter light, clearly frustrated that she's pressing the issue. It's almost turning into an echo of Marion's conflict with the critic in Delpy's movie: Confronted with an opportunity to help herself via schmoozing, Delpy can't resist a potentially damaging confrontation.
"I don't know, I didn't see, because you didn't ... when did you show it? In Sundance? I wasn't there," the executive says.
"In Sundance," Delpy confirms. "It was the day Bingham Ray died, so basically no one showed up. And Magnolia was so happy, they bought the film right away. But I'm happy it's Magnolia, actually. I'm very happy. We'll see. Inshallah, like they say in Algeria."
The exec repairs to his table, and Delpy turns back to her vegetarian couscous. "Inshallah, like they say in all those countries that hate Jews."


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Outliving My Father
The descriptions of his decline, in whispered calls from back home, had a dreadfully familiar feel to them. Weight loss at a frightful pace. Losing interest in the world. Suddenly looking very old indeed. Most gay men of a certain age have heard those words, have seen the patient, have buried the friend. This case was different, though. It wasn't AIDS, it was cancer. And the patient was Dad.
The disease had swept rapidly through my father since his initial diagnosis. The inevitable was approaching, but the territory was completely unfamiliar to my family, who hadn't seen a death in more than 30 years. They were about to get a tour through hell. I have traveled it many times.
"Well, he's lost a lot of weight," Mom said on the phone, "and sometimes, he will say the same thing more than once. That does scare me a bit." You think you're scared now, I thought.
"Have you checked into hospice care?" I asked. It's exhausting for a man in his 30s to care for a dying lover. Mom was 75.
"Well no, honey, I thought we could wait on that . . ." Her voice drifted.
Something inside me went on AIDS auto pilot.
"Call the doctor and ask about hospice care," I practically ordered. "They can help avoid another hospital stay, Mom." The family would do anything to prevent that scene again.
I flew home within days. Still no hospice care. My family was stunned into inaction, it seemed. Had anyone spoken to dad about getting nursing help, about his illness, about how everyone was dazed into speechlessness? Heads shook slowly, eyes looked downward.
After 15 years living with my own HIV infection, my medical choices -- powers of attorney, "no resuscitation" instructions -- had long been settled. Mom was uncomfortable with the decisions, much less the reality.
On my second day home, I found myself alone with Dad. He was bundled on the sofa, and whatever his thoughts, they seldom found words. His condition looked hauntingly familiar, leading me to a nonsensical conclusion. "Dad has AIDS," my mind insisted.
"Can I talk to you about what's going on?" I asked him.
"Yeah . . .?" he said weakly.
"This is really horrible Dad, and everyone . . . is freaked out and doesn't know how to act." His eyes never left me. "Mom is afraid to ask for help. You need a nurse . . . do you think that's okay?"
"Well . . . yes. I do." He meant it. "Your mother . . . your mother works very hard." I took his hand. "This is hard for your mother, I think . . ." he continued. "Your mother and I . . . we are one mind, together. One mind."
I had never heard anything so romantic from my father. He saw it in my face, and he found the sadness, too.
"Don't worry," he said, and his hand tightened around mine. "It's okay. I'm all right. This is all right . . ."
I wanted to say everything at once. Every declaration of love I had for my father, the retired Colonel who loved his family fiercely, laughed heartily, and equated only happiness with success.
"I will talk about you my whole life," I said. "All the stories, all the things you've done for us . . . but how do I explain you to anyone?" My voice choked, and my attempt to properly organize my father's last days was awash in unexpected tears.
I looked up and was stunned to see damp eyes staring back at my own. A tear escaped and rolled tentatively down and across his cheek, as if unsure of the path, so alien was the terrain.
We began words and abandoned them, floating silently in a moment I hoped could delay the inevitable. I thanked God for a gift that, in the distorted world of AIDS, I had wanted so badly over the years. I would outlive my father.
Only after having collected the courage before to say goodbye, to realize the fear and talk about it anyway, did I have the strength to address it with my dad.
This is not a story about AIDS. But it is a story because of it.
Mark S. King's writing has appeared in The Washington Blade and on The Body. This article first appeared in The Advocate_. You can reach Mark at email@example.com._
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Ballet Ball was a sparkling dream
"I don't have to dream tonight. I'm already dreaming," Lynn Wyatt cooed early during the 2013 Houston Ballet Ball, "The Rite of Spring."
She wasn't referring to the Events Company's twinkling décor of lighted, weeping trees in green and pink atop the tables or the presence of her friend, designer Carolina Herrera During dinner Houston Ballet artistic director Stanton Welch and 17 gorgeous ballet guys in tails swept Wyatt onto the dance floor - shimmying around her to, of all things, Beyoncé's "Halo" before leading her to the stage, where she declared in that throaty voice, "I am over the moon."
You can call her "Leen" now, like Herrera, whose presence had fashionistas aflutter in the Wortham Theater Center's grand foyer. Wearing a long strand of pearls over her midnight blue jacket and black ball skirt, the designer praised Wyatt for her laughter, love, loyalty and friendship. Wyatt showed her loyalty in a white satin Herrera top and black ball skirt accessorized with emeralds and diamonds.
Former ambassador Edward Djerejian, founding director of the Baker Institute for Foreign Policy at Rice University, also paid tribute. Joking about once hauling Wyatt's luggage through an airport for her, he complimented her savvy with organizing dinners "where the cuisine is matched by intelligent conversation."
Gracious chairs Martin and Kelli Cohen Fein (stunning in a floral strapless gown from Herrera's yet-to-be-released pre-fall 2013 collection) also honored Vinson & Elkins for its support of the ballet. Sharin and Larry Norman chaired the auction, and Jerry Gauthier chaired the wine auction. Tony's served the spring-fresh dinner, and the Richard Brown Orchestra hit all the right notes. With a crowd of 500, the night raised $760,000.
Gowns in reds and yellows popped against the stage's large floral backdrop. Diane Lokey Farb, Dancie Perugini Ware and Pat Breen were among those wearing Oscar de la Renta. "No one else still does gowns like him," said Lokey Farb, who'd just made rounds at New York Fashion Week.
Alicia Smith was elegant in a black gown by Herrera. Margaret Alkek Williams glittered in a custom, beaded teal gown. Phoebe Tudor was bright in Andrew Gn. Isabel David was a goddess in red satin Lanvin. Beth Meucke went floral in Theia while Karen Payne was elegant in a midnight-blue gown by Angel Sanchez. Anna Holiday looked regal in a full-skirted couture gown from Australia.
Jo Furr rocked a red strapless gown by young Houston designer Jonathan Blake, while Joanne Crassas wore a Victor Costa gown that she'd embellished to reflect her sparkly personality. And those designers were at their table. You'll see Costa in Houston more often now since his November wedding to Jerry Anne Woodfin, who wore a gorgeous red embroidered gown.
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Step aside Justin Bieber, Elvis is still King.
Taylor Rodriguez enjoys performing. And he's gathering a following around this area.
The 13-year-old Forest Middle School student brings the songs of Elvis to the stage and he welcomes the chance to portray the King.
He'll be doing just that this Saturday, Sept. 17, at El Cazador Restaurant in Bedford, from 6-9 p.m.
Teresa Lynn Widener eats rocks.
She's done this for 20 years, and Widener doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon.
And she's not afraid to talk about her unusual habit.
"I don't think it makes me a lot different from anybody else," Widener said this week. "It's just gritty. I think it's earthy."
The first time that Olivia Yap, of Queens in New York City, spent time with Andy and Lea Larsen of Huddleston, she saw stars.
It was like nothing she ever saw before because the big city lights washed out the night sky back home.
"It was real, real dark and the stars were pretty and big," she recalled. "They looked like glitter."
A song written by a local man is being used to help out the folks in Joplin, Mo., affected by the devastating tornado that ripped through that city last month.
Last year after Mark Laperle's pastor lost his son in a car accident, he was moved to write "Sing Again" for that family. When the tornado ripped through Joplin, Laperle thought it also might provide comfort to the residents there.
So he sent it to them.
Odesssa Payne Martin and Ora Payne Rossman have been together a long time. The identical twins were born on Nov. 24, 1918.
They grew up on a farm in Huddleston where their father, John Ward Payne, raised wheat and corn. He farmed part-time.
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Walter Reinhardt was a university student when Japanese naval aircraft bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Like a number of other young American men in the weeks afterwards, Reinhardt decided to enlist in the armed forces.
"It was the thing to do," he said, when asked why.
He was originally planning on enlisting in the Navy, but the Navy recruiter's office was closed the day he showed up. The Army recruiter was open for business that day, so he enlisted there.
Throughout February, Montvale Elementary School and the Montvale Public Library participated in Read to Them's One School One Book Program.
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Smith Mountain Lake saw artists, live music performances, silent auctions and a feast Feb. 12 as the Water's Edge Country Club played host to the Grand Winter Gala.
The Grand Winter Gala put "Love In Action" as proceeds from the event went to three local organizations: Smith Mountain Lake Christian Academy, Financial Peace University at Trinity Ecumenical and the Agape Center.
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Winter returned to Tahoe and left behind an enormous amount of new snow at the higher elevations. We expect resorts to continue to roll out more lifts and terrain as they dig out this week.
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We appreciate the ongoing support and interest in our trips. However, Tahoe Snow And Sun will not be hosting bus trips for the remainder of this season. The conditions are great in Tahoe and we hope everyone has the opportunity to enjoy the snow. We will be back for the '14/'15 season and hope to see everyone next winter.
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Campus Heroes Get Student Appreciation Awards
SOCORRO, N.M. April 24, 2012 – Four New Mexico Tech students and two student organizations are the 2012 winners of the Student Appreciation Awards.
These outstanding contributors to campus life are Alyssa Rose, Allen Erickson, Brittney LeMay and Alan Benalil. The group winners are the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers and the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Nominated by faculty and staff members, the winners represent the most dedicated and involved students on campus. Not an academic award, these annual awards identify those students who contribute through volunteerism, community service, leadership and mentoring.
The four individual winners all share a common trait of being involved in many different organizations, clubs, teams and jobs. They all excel academically and were noted in their nominations for their positive attitudes.
The winners were officially recognized at a special dinner Sunday, April 22, at the Fidel Center ballroom.
Alan Benalil
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|Allan Erickson with professor Dr. Michael Heagy
In his nomination letter, electrical engineering professor Dr. Kevin Wedeward, said Benalil "exemplifies the mix of attributes one would hope to find in a student, which include quality of and balance between academics and extracurricular activities."
A native of Socorro, Benalil is the president of the Miners Soccer Club, volunteers as Peer Facilitator with the Center for Student Success and serves as Student Senator. He served as team leader in both junior design and senior design projects and is involved with the IEEE student club.
"I find Mr. Benalil a friendly, reliable and conscientious individual with whom myself and others enjoy interacting," Wedeward said. "His accomplishments and service have brought credit to himself and to New Mexico Tech."
Allen Erickson
Chemistry professor Dr. Michael Heagy nominated Erickson based on his participation in the New Mexico Science Olympiad and the student chapter of the American Chemical Society (which won the group award in 2011).
Erickson designed a fun and interesting competition for the chemistry event known as Food Science. On short notice, Erickson devised a cup-cake baking event with various ingredients to challenge high school students to create a fluffy, well-prepared cupcake.
Heagy and Erickson made the event unique by adding fluorescent colored food dyes to the events' ingredients. Erickson generated the quizzes and other tests required by the event.
"I only learned later that Allan was involved in two other Science Olympiad events that same day. Incredible!" Heagy wrote.
In the fall of 2011, Erickson helped the Chemistry Club plan special presentations for second-graders in the campus chemistry labs. Erickson provided a generous helping of TATP (triacetone triperoxide), which produces a small but dramatic fireball when touched with a match.
"Allen took none of the credit and, due to classes, was unable to see the effect it had on the kids," Heagy wrote. "Yet every morning we did the show, there was another 5 grams of the precious powder used to compliment our multi-demo show."
In closing, Heagy wrote that, "His contribution to the campus and surrounding community goes well above and beyond the call of duty. He's been an outstanding role model in my view."
Brittney LaMay
|Brittney LaMay (right) with Career Services Coordinator Christina Anthony.
|Alyssa Rose (right) with Chemical Engineering associate professor Dr. Michaelann Tartis ... and little James Tartis. Dr. Tartis, who earned her bachelor's at Tech in 2002, won the same award when she was a student at Tech.
A senior majoring in chemistry, LaMay has made her mark in the Student Affairs office and with the Tech Tonics volleyball team. She started working as a student assistant three years ago and is now the International Programs Assistant.
In her nomination letter, Career Services Coordinator Christina Anthony said, "Brittney is an incredibly hard worker whose generosity knows no limits. … The staff in Student Affairs does not think of Brittney as a student worker; she is remarkably capable and can handle just about any issue that arises."
LaMay is the president of the volleyball club and has spent countless hours on budgeting, planning tournaments, arranging travel and baking goodies for fundraisers.
"She always thinks of others before herself. Brittnney is always willing to help anyone in need," Anthony said. "It is what she does on top of her coursework that makes her a standout Techie."
Alyssa Rose
A Chemical Engineering standout, Alyssa Rose is also a 2011-2012 Macey Scholar, which is Tech's highest academic award. Nominated by professor Dr. Corey Leclerc on behalf of the entire department, Rose has made her mark by tutoring fellow students, serving as an instructor, writing laboratories and volunteering for campus events.
Rose helped Dr. Michaelann Tartis redesign the First Year Experience program, a program that she was involved with in 2008. She has served as a Teaching Assistant for Engineering Science 111 and taken on duties normally reserved for graduate students, Leclerc said. She also wrote a new chapter related to MATLAB, which she introduced via lecture.
"She has performed at a level that would rival most full-time graduate assistants who have helped in the past," Leclerc said. "She leads by example and is a fantastic role model, bringing humor, confidence and accountability to the classroom. Many freshmen will benefit greatly in their academic tenure from this experience with Alyssa."
Also this year, Rose helped Dr. Michael Riley formalize a trouble-shooting element that was incorporated into the Chemical Engineering 445 class. Her efforts contributed to a poster at an ASEE conference that Riley is presenting this summer.
As the current president of Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, Rose has planned and organized review sessions for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam. She has also volunteered as a judge for Science Olympiad and Science Fair.
"Her contributions will last well beyond her years here at Tech," said Leclerc, further noting that she has a perfect 4.0 GPA. "She has done so much for the department and New Mexico Tech and kept her level of performance in the classroom at the top of her graduating class."
Kappa Sigma
Kappa Sigma representatives (from left) Hal Wagner, Eric Peterson, Xavier Quintana and Nick "Dallas" Chavez.
Society of Women Engineers representatives (from left) Samantha Pfeiffer, Victoria Ramirez and Kathleen Huynh.
The fraternity on campus, Kappa Sigma, earned the Student Appreciation Award for their tireless and continuous support of Tech activities and the greater Socorro community.
Dr. Dan Walsh, Associate Vice President of Research, nominated the fraternity largely due to the group's efforts in food drives and fund drives to help the homeless of Socorro. The group donated $1,000 to the homeless shelter last fall and collected six truckloads of food during the holiday season in 2011.
Walsh enumerated the fraternity's volunteer efforts, which include serving as dealers and pit bosses for Casino Night and helping organize the Paint the 'M' event, both during 49ers. Members volunteered to help the Office of Advancement stage black light parties for visiting high school students during the Science Fair and Science Olympiad.
For the past year, the group has also served as the Special Events Committee for the Student Activities Board, despite not receiving support or funding from the Student Association.
Society of Women Engineers
The Society of Women Engineers student chapter (yes, men are allowed to join) is another highly active and visible club on campus. Earlier this semester, the club – behind president Victoria Ramirez – rallied more than 50 students to help with a maintenance project at the historic San Miguel Catholic Church.
Club members volunteered to help facilitate the Career Fair this spring, which was the main basis for their nomination. Club members provided an unloading service to the visiting recruiters, helped them find parking and, in general, made sure the visitors would see friendly faces immediately upon their arrival at Tech.
Career Services Director Lillian Armijo said, "We in Career Services believe that this was a very important service, as many of the recruiters were attending Tech's Career Fair for the first time."
The club has also been involved in outreach efforts at Sarracino Middle School in Socorro and Manzano High School in Albuquerque.
"New Mexico Tech will benefit greatly as these young students are encouraged to pursue a degree and eventually a career in technology."
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


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'How I Met Your Mother's Season 9 Decision
With last night's two-part episode "The Final Page," 'How I Met Your Mother' closed out its 2012 run, leaving the series at an important crossroads. We've been hearing for months now that rumors of a ninth season were possible if CBS managed to sign the cast and crew for an additional year, but with a decision imminent in the next month, what's standing in the way of locking things down? Are the actors unwilling to return?
Whether you love 'How I Met Your Mother' enough to give it a fitting end this May, or love it so much you can't bear to let it go before a ninth season, an announcement from series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas is imminent. Following last night's heart-warming finale, both creators have done a great deal of press answering questions about a potential ninth season, and how they've crafted a story for either case.
In particular, TVLine elicited some rather specific details about the cast and crew negotiations for a ninth season, Carter Bays explaining how more than the actors' decisions (including Jason Segel's purported reluctance) are influencing the decision:
It's something that we're all kind of deciding together. Some of it has to do with money, but a lot of it also has to do with the schedule. We want to make sure that our actors continue to be able to do all the fun,extracurricular stuff that they do. They all have really big careers outside of our show, and we respect that and want to make sure that we're able to make a good product and that they're still able to do all the things they want to do. More than anything, it's that. It's just figuring out if and how we can do another year. That's the question.
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Browse Reviews :: Friendship for Grown-Ups
Friendship for Grown-Ups What I Missed and Learned Along the Way
By Lisa Whelchel
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On 1/14 Tracy Maliva wrote: Wonderfully written..very heartfelt. When I was youger I always had close girlfirends but as I got older and we all went our seperate ways it became clear that women can be pretty mean towards one another. I can't imagine not having close friends like Lisa didn't but I do understand why it is hard to ... Friendship for grown-ups
On 1/11 Becky Dempsey wrote: I was excited to be able to read this book as I've always struggled with finding friends. I hoped that it would help me learn how to make friends. It didn't give me any step by step guides to how to make a friend, however. Lisa shares her story of growing up as a child star and how ... Book Review: Friendship for Grown-Ups
On 3/9 Flame wrote: I was happy to read this book from former Facts Of Life child star Lisa Whelchel.This was a fun read.Friendship for Grown~Ups is a kind of self~help book on maintaining friendships.Women today are busy .It's not that easy to make and maintain friendships.I liked this book and would love to see more books ...
On 3/5 Stephanie Ann wrote: I chose Friendship for Grown-Ups: What I Missed and Learned Along the Way by Lisa Whelchel because I loved 70s and 80s sitcoms and she happened to be in one of the great ones, The Facts of Life. The title and description was also appealing. It spoke of the fact that she didn't have an average childhood ... Booksneeze Review #1 Friendship for Grown-ups.
On 9/30 baylorfan wrote: I have to admit that I chose this book mainly because I grew up watching the show "The Facts of Life". I loved the character Blair and I was quite intrigued with her book. The title of this book says it all. While being on a popular televison program, it was hard to make friends. Since then, Ms. Whelchel ... Lisa Whelchel: Friendship for Grownups
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On 3/5 Marti Helms wrote: Most people my age are familiar with Lisa Whelchel from the '80's sitcom, The Facts of Life, where she portrayed the confident Blair. In Friendship for Grown-Ups, Lisa shares her personal story of trying to develop friendships with other women. Because Lisa is an independent person, it took some dramatic ... Review: Friendship for Grown-Ups
On 2/20 Jennifer Thorne wrote: Okay, so I'll admit right off the bat that the reason I chose this book was because I've been a HUGE Facts of Life fan for many, many years. I didn't know that Lisa Whelchel was a part of the Women of Faith program because I've never been. I did know that she's been a Christian for a very ... Review for Friendship for Grownups: What I Missed and Learned Along the Way
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The best way to improve the customer experience is to improve the employee experience. While this book has many great ideas that focus on the customer, Hyken also emphasizes the importance of the internal culture of a company. He perfectly makes this point in the tenth "tool" of the book, which states that to be the best place to buy, you have to be the best place to work.
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Fox's news programs echo its "opinion" shows: Smears, doctored videos, GOP talking points
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Fox News has responded to White House criticisms of its network by claiming that while its "editorial" programs are filled with "vibrant opinion," its news hours are straight and objective. However, Fox News' purportedly straight news programs echo its "editorial" programs: Media Matters for America has compiled a non-exhaustive list -- from this year alone -- documenting how Fox's news programming features smears, falsehoods, doctored and deceptive editing, and GOP talking points.
Fox News: Our news hours are objective
In response to criticism, Fox News claims its news hours are objective. The New York Times reported on October 11 that in response to White House criticism, Fox News claimed that its news hours -- which it reportedly defined as "9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on weekdays" are objective:
In an interview, Mr. [senior vice president for news Michael] Clemente suggested that there was an element of "shoot the messenger" in the back and forth. "Sometimes it's actually helpful to have an organization or a person that you can go up against for whatever reason," he said.
Fox argues that its news hours -- 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on weekdays -- are objective. The channel has taken pains recently to highlight its news programs, including the two hours led by Shepard Smith, its chief news anchor. And its daytime newscasts draw more viewers than CNN or MSNBC's prime-time programs.
"The average consumer certainly knows the difference between the A section of the newspaper and the editorial page," Mr. Clemente said.
In a written statement provided to media outlets, Clemente compared Fox News' purportedly separate "news" and "opinion" programming to "the A-section of the newspaper and the editorial page":
An increasing number of viewers are relying on FOX News for both news and opinion. And the average news consumer can certainly distinguish between the A-section of the newspaper and the editorial page, which is what our programming represents. So, with all due respect to anyone who might still be confused about the difference between news reporting and vibrant opinion, my suggestion would be to talk about the stories and the facts, rather than attack the messenger...which over time, has never worked.
America's Newsroom (9-11 a.m. ET): Obama official never reported "statutory rape"; Dems "protect pedophiles"; tea parties recruitment
Hemmer advances smear that Jennings knew of "statutory rape" and "never reported it." During the October 1 edition of America's Newsroom, co-host Bill Hemmer joined his network's smears against Department of Education official Kevin Jennings by claiming that Jennings knew of a "statutory rape" case involving a student but "never reported it." In fact, as Media Matters has confirmed, the student in question was of legal age of consent at the time he was counseled by Jennings.
Kelly on Sotomayor comment: "sounds to a lot of people like reverse racism." On May 26, co-host Megyn Kelly joined conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh by stating that then-Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's "wise Latina" remark "sounds to a lot of people like reverse racism, basically. Like she's saying that Latina judges are obviously better than white male judges, and that that's her assumption, and people get worried about putting a person like that on the U.S. Supreme Court." Kelly later added, "I've looked at the entire speech that she was offering to see if that was taken out of context, and I have to tell you ... it wasn't." In fact, Sotomayor was specifically discussing the importance of diversity in adjudicating race and sex discrimination cases; several conservative legal figures have made similar comments.
America's Newsroom falsehood: "House Dems vote to protect pedophiles, but not veterans." On May 6, America's Newsroom pushed the falsehood that Democrats attempted to "protect" pedophiles in voting in favor of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Hemmer teased a segment by stating that Democrats had reportedly "voted to give special protection to pedophiles." During the segment, America's Newsroom ran on-screen text that read, "House Dems vote to protect pedophiles, but not veterans":
Henneberg repeats right-wing myth that hate crimes bill could gag ministers. During the April 29 edition of America's Newsroom, correspondent Molly Henneberg repeated the right-wing myth that under the proposed Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, religious groups "may be prosecuted for their religious beliefs if they believe that homosexuality is a sin," and the disputed claim that the legislation "could gag ministers who preach that [homosexuality is a sin], or even if a church may not want to marry a gay couple."
Fox News' Hemmer "keeping track of the stimulus money" -- by lifting research from GOP website. On April 23, Hemmer repeatedly suggested information about four "interesting" projects reportedly funded by the recovery act was obtained through Fox News' own research, even though nearly all of the information Hemmer mentioned, as well as that included in on-screen text and graphics, first appeared on Rep. Eric Cantor's Republican Whip website.
America's Newsroom promotes tea party organizing info on-air and online. America's Newsroom encouraged viewers to get involved with April 15 "tea party" protests across the country, which Fox News had described as primarily a response to President Obama's fiscal policies. The program frequently hosted tea party organizers, and posted on-screen organizing information, such as protest dates and locations. America's Newsroom also repeatedly directed viewers to its website, which featured a list of tea party protests.
America's Newsroom directs viewers to "virtual tea party." America's Newsroom repeatedly directed viewers to participate in a "virtual tea party" at Fox News' purportedly non-biased website, Fox Nation. Hemmer told viewers, "Can't get to a tea party? Fox Nation hosts a virtual tea party," while Kelly said, "You can join the tea party action from your home if you go to the FoxNation.com ... a virtual tax day tea party."
America's Newsroom pushes discredited GOP calculation of Obama's cap-and-trade proposal. On April 2, guest host Alisyn Camerota asserted that the cost of Obama's cap-and-trade proposal "would be $3,100 per U.S. household." The claim was advanced by the House Republican Conference in a March 23 "Talking Points" press release, and the Republicans reportedly purported to back up the claim by pointing to a 2007 study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). But MIT professor John Reilly, one of the authors of the study, has disputed the GOP's calculation, stating that his study "has been misrepresented" and that the Republicans' claim of an average household cost of $3,128 is "nearly 10 times the correct estimate" based on his study's cap-and-trade model. PolitiFact.com rated the $3,100 figure a "pants on fire" falsehood.
America's Newsroom falsely claimed Obama budget "4x bigger than Bush's costliest plan." On the April 3 edition of America's Newsroom, on-screen text falsely claimed that Obama's $3.6 trillion FY 2010 budget is "4x bigger than Bush's costliest plan." In fact, President Bush submitted a $3.1 trillion budget for FY 2009 and a $2.9 trillion budget for FY 2008.
America's Newsroom promotes McCaughey falsehood that stimulus would "hav[e] the government essentially dictate treatments." On February 10, Hemmer and Kelly promoted the falsehood -- which first appeared in a Bloomberg "commentary" by serial misinformer Betsy McCaughey and was subsequently promoted by Limbaugh and Matt Drudge -- that the economic recovery bill included a provision that would, in the words of guest Stephen Moore, a Wall Street Journal economics writer, "hav[e] the government essentially dictate treatments."
Happening Now (11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET): Home of repeated attempts to pass off GOP research as its own
Happening Now passes off GOP press release as its own research -- typo and all. During the February 10 edition of Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott purported to "take a look back" at how the economic recovery plan "grew, and grew, and grew." In doing so, Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods -- all of which came directly from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release. A Fox News on-screen graphic even reproduced a typo contained in the Republican press release. The following day, Scott apologized -- for running the typo. Scott's apology was criticized by Washington Post media critic and CNN host Howard Kurtz, who said: "We sometimes jab at the pundits for using talking points, but in the case of Fox News anchor Jon Scott, it was literally true this week. ... You should be apologizing for using partisan propaganda from the GOP without telling your viewers where it came from. Talk about missing the point."
Happening Now posts "FOXfact[s]" about GOP budget nearly identical to GOP Rep. Ryan's op-ed. During two segments on the April 1, Happening Now aired "FOXfact[s]" purporting to describe facts about the House Republican budget. However, all of the seven "FOXfact[s]" displayed onscreen were nearly identical to portions of an op-ed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) published in that day's Wall Street Journal.
Happening Now crops clips of Obama to promote "another apology tour." On June 2, Scott asked if "the president's upcoming trip [to Europe and the Middle East will] be what conservatives might call another apology tour," and both Scott and co-host Jane Skinner aired cropped clips of Obama's remarks from an April 3 speech in France to falsely suggest that Obama only criticized the United States. In doing so, Happening Now joined conservative commentators and Fox News hosts who have cropped or misrepresented Obama's overseas remarks to falsely suggest, in the words of host Sean Hannity, that Obama was "blam[ing] America first" and, more broadly, that Obama's earlier overseas trip constituted an "apology tour."
Live Desk (1-3 p.m. ET): Falsehoods, deceptive editing
Fox News presents deceptively cropped six-month-old Biden clip as new. On March 16, Live Desk co-host Martha MacCallum claimed that "after weeks of economic doom and gloom, the Obama administration is now singing a slightly different tune. Take a look at what was said in recent interviews this weekend." Live Desk then aired clips of administration officials purportedly giving an optimistic view of the economy, which included video of Vice President Joe Biden stating, "The fundamentals of the economy are strong." However, Biden did not make those remarks during an "interview" that weekend; he made them at a September 2008 campaign event in which he criticized statements by Sen. John McCain. MacCallum apologized the next day.
Fox's Camerota pushes bogus stat that cap-and-trade would cost "every American family $1,761 annually." On September 30, guest co-host Alisyn Camerota pushed the bogus stat that cap-and-trade would cost "every American family $1,761 annually." PolitiFact.com has labeled the statistic false and noted that the talking point has been pushed by Republicans.
Jarrett suggests DOJ "thinks it's OK to intimidate white people, not OK to intimidate black people at the polls." On July 30, guest co-host Gregg Jarrett suggested that the Obama Department of Justice "thinks it's OK to intimidate white people, not OK to intimidate black people at the polls."
Live Desk: "Dems and Unions Push to Kill Workers' Right to Secret Ballot." During a report on the Employee Free Choice Act on the March 11 edition of The Live Desk, Fox aired a chyron stating, "Dems and Unions Push to Kill Workers' Right to Secret Ballot." In fact, the legislation would not eliminate employees' right to a secret ballot; as The New York Times reported, "Business groups have attacked the legislation because it would take away employers' right to insist on holding a secret-ballot election to determine whether workers favored unionization" [emphasis added]. Indeed, as The Christian Science Monitor has noted, "[t]he proposed law gives workers a choice of forming a union through majority sign-up ('card check') or an election by secret ballot."
MacCallum agrees with Bachmann's claim that Obama's proposals are a "lurch toward socialism." On March 24, MacCallum responded to Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) claim that Obama proposals are a "lurch toward socialism" by stating: "I think you're absolutely right about that."
"Democrat" Mark Sanford. While airing live footage of a press conference by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Live Desk incorrectly identified the Republican as a Democrat. Gallagher later apologized for the error.
Special Report (6-7 p.m. ET): Video doctoring, cropped quotes, smears of Obama officials, falsehoods
Baier smears Jennings as failing to report "sexual abuse." On October 1, host Bret Baier joined Fox News' witch hunt against Jennings, claiming that "Education Secretary Arne Duncan is standing behind his so-called safe schools czar after revelations that Kevin Jennings did not report a case of sexual abuse he encountered as a schoolteacher."
Wilson: Jennings "admitted" that "he failed to alert authorities when a 15-year-old boy told him he was involved in a sexual relationship with an older man." On October 6, correspondent Brian Wilson stated: "School safety czar Kevin Jennings is currently under fire because he admitted that in 1988, when he was a high school teacher, he failed to alert authorities when a 15-year-old boy told him he was involved in a sexual relationship with an older man. One member of the House believes Jennings would not have his current job if czars were required to face Senate confirmation hearings." Wilson repeated the 15-year old age claim even though FoxNews.com previously acknowledged that the student was of legal age -- 16 years old -- at the time.
Video doctoring: Goler reverses meaning of Obama quote to falsely suggest he supports European-style health care. On April 24, White House correspondent Wendell Goler cropped a comment by Obama and took it out of context -- effectively reversing the statement's meaning -- to falsely suggest that Obama supports creating a health care system "like the European countries." Goler claimed that Obama "doesn't want to do it halfway" on health care, and then aired a clip from a March 26 online town hall event of Obama saying, "If you're going to fix it, why not do a universal health-care system like the European countries?" Following the clip, Goler reported: "His critics worry universal health care would mean government-run health care." In fact, Obama actually said, "Now, the question is, if you're going to fix it, why not do a universal health-care system like the European countries?" [emphasis added] In doing so, Obama was paraphrasing the town hall question he had been asked -- "Why can we not have a universal health-care system, like many European countries, where people are treated based on needs rather than financial resources?" -- before explaining why he opposed such a system.
Fox's Garrett deceptively cropped Obama remark on judicial role. On May 1, saying it was a "description of how the president hopes his nominee will interpret the law," congressional correspondent Major Garrett aired a clip in which Obama stated: "I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes." Garrett then said: "That aggravates those who believe justices should follow the Constitution and legislative intent." But Garrett omitted Obama's very next sentence, in which he stated: "I will seek somebody who is dedicated to the rule of law, who honors our constitutional traditions, who respects the integrity of the judicial process and the appropriate limits of the judicial role."
Rosen: "Rats could attack us in the sewers and court systems if all of Cass Sunstein's writings became law." On September 9, reporter James Rosen joined Glenn Beck's "czars" witch hunt by distorting Obama administration official Cass Sunstein's writings about organ donation and animal rights.
Special Report packs in health care falsehoods. In an August 24 report on how, in the words of Baier, "Republicans are trying to position themselves as the party looking out for seniors' well-being," Rosen advanced the conservative talking point that Democrats plan to cut Medicare benefits for seniors and presented the widely debunked "death panel" falsehood as a he said/she said. Rosen also advanced the smear that Veterans Health Administration officials are referring veterans to a booklet that encourages them to end their lives prematurely.
Baier falsely suggests Obama has cited Canada as possible health reform model. On June 29, Baier falsely suggested that Obama has cited Canada's medical system as a "possible model" for his health care reform plan. In fact, Obama has explicitly rejected a Canadian-style health care system.
Special Report falsely suggests activism question deleted from questionnaire for Sotomayor. A June 4 report by legal correspondent Shannon Bream falsely suggested that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) eliminated a question on judicial activism from the questionnaire for Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination. In fact, Leahy reportedly removed the question in 2007 pursuant to a bipartisan agreement. The following day, Baier corrected Bream's report by acknowledging that the question was deleted "long before Sotomayor was picked for the high court."
Fox News Sunday: "Death book," health care misinformation
"Death book" distortions abound on Fox News Sunday. On the August 23 edition of Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace hosted former Bush administration aide Jim Towey to discuss his Wall Street Journal op-ed, "The Death Book for Veterans," and in doing so promoted numerous distortions about an end-of-life educational booklet used by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). In addition to forwarding the smear that the booklet is a "death book," Wallace promoted Towey's distortion that the booklet encourages veterans to "pull the plug" -- it doesn't; Wallace and Towey both suggested that the Bush administration suspended use of the booklet -- it didn't; and Wallace claimed that a VHA document requires doctors to direct veterans to the booklet -- it doesn't.
Wallace revives rationing bogeyman. On August 16, Wallace repeatedly advanced the conservative talking point that Democrats' health care reform proposals would create a system of rationing care, omitting the fact that rationing already happens under the current system. Indeed, Wallace did not acknowledge that rationing already occurs, even after his guest, American Medical Association president J. James Rohack, said, "[T]here's a myth that rationing doesn't occur right now. ... That's why this bill's important. It gets rid of some of the rationing that's occurring right now."
Wallace claimed Holder, confirmed 75-21, "got into office by the skin of his teeth." On February 22, Wallace claimed that Attorney General Eric Holder "got into office by the skin of his teeth." However, Holder was confirmed by the Senate in a 75-21 vote, and the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 17-2 in favor of reporting his nomination to the full Senate.
Wallace on Obama: "pettiness," "childishness"; Obama admin. "biggest bunch of crybabies." Wallace has claimed Obama did not appear on his show because of "pettiness" and "childishness," and has called the Obama administration the "biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington."
Fox News opinion programs don't just have "vibrant opinion" -- they frequently smear Obama administration
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What is best way to monitor for bad sectors?
We are developing an appliance based on FreeBSD 7.0. We will be running a custom FS on top of both UFS and raw partitions and will need to have a way to deal with bad sectors. Ideally we'd like to be able to subscribe to a system event and have FreeBSD alert us when a bad sector is detected. I don't think there is a mechanism to do this though. We've noted that the system does seem to log a message in /var/log/dmesg when a bad sector is encountered, for example, these messages are occurring on one of ours systems right now:
ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=343237347
g_vfs_done():ad8s1d[READ(offset=143525234688, length=2048)]error = 5
ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=343237347
g_vfs_done():ad8s1d[READ(offset=143525234688, length=2048)]error = 5
ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=343237347
g_vfs_done():ad8s1d[READ(offset=143525234688, length=2048)]error = 5
I assume these are due to bad sectors. So we thought one alternative could simply be to have a process that polls and scans /var/log/dmesg periodically and reports back to our management system when one of these errors are detected.
Is this a reliable/reasonable approach? Is there a better way to monitor a system for bad sectors?
I should add that we do have SMART installed and operational, but our experience so far with SMART is that it will not alert us to a sector that goes bad without warning. If we're mistaken about this, we'd appreciate some feedback. Thanks.
Last edited by PeterSteele; 9th August 2008 at 10:57 PM.
I should also point out that these are SATA drives. A preferred option of course would be to query the SATA driver directly to pull this kind of information. Is there an ioctl for this kind of query. I don't know for sure but I assume we are using the generic FreeBSD SATA driver.
You could have a look at the source code of http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?p...ools/pkg-descr . And/or the source of the OpenBSD atactl(8) utility.
If this doesn't bring you any further you could consider to post on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists, where the developers hang out.
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Yeah! In theory bad sectors are managed through S.M.A.R.T., but frankly, if bad sectors are a concern and have to be monitored, junk that bloody hard drive.
Once S.M.A.R.T. signals unrecoverrable errors the drive already is dead and begs for a sysutils/testdisk of last resort..
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I will have to investigate S.M.A.R.T further. We do have some monitoring currently in place but a recent case of bad sectors did not get detected by our SMART subsystem. There may be more that we can do here; I've just taken over this area of our code and I have some learning to do...
IDE drives have dedicated cylinder(s) on which sectors are mapped to the bad sectors. When these cylinders are full, bad sectors can't be mapped anyore and just get flagged.
In theory, S.M.A.R.T. should issue warnings, if well implemented by both you and the manufacturer.
What I would do is to run the manufacturer's utility disk. A warranty test or RMA test would compare manufacturr's specs to the real status of the drive, eventually generate a report (or just a code number) of found defects.
Sometimes, "zeroing" the drive (long process, writes patterns on the whole surface) can help revive the drive.
For a while. As long as new bad sectors aren't found.
You could still use the drive for testing purposes or non-critical backups, but not anymore for intensive read-writes.
In any case, bad sectors means the drive isn't fit for production anylonger.
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The issue is that these systems will be running at customer sites and we need our software to be able to detect failing drives and take corrective action. It's an HA system so when a drive is deemed usable another drive will have to take over. We can detect a completely failed drive, it's just these bad sectors we need to find a way to deal with. We ultimately want to treat a drive that we detect bad sectors on the same way as a drive that fails completely. Essentially, we want to be alerted as soon as a sector goes bad, or at least within a very short period of time...
Sounds like you are trying to recreate RAID in software. Wouldn't it make more sense to invest in good quality hardware RAID controllers, that already have this kind of monitoring built-in, along with e-mail and/or SMS alerts?
We've been using AMCC/3Ware 9000-, 9500-, and 9600-series RAID controllers for just this reason, and the onboard e-mail alerts have allowed us to replace 4 drives so far, before they died completely (and still within the manufacturer's warranty period). These do SMART monitoring along with a bunch of other stuff. If you don't need the RAID features, you can create "Single Disk" arrays that allow you to see/use each drive individually, but with all the onboard cache and monitoring features of the controller (we do this in our ZFS storage servers).
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Yes, it does seem like RAID would be the obvious solution but the nature of our product precludes this option...
Even a low-profile, 4-port version?
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Gallery: FDA and Sheriff's serve search warrant to auto parts dealer for illegally selling nitrous oxide
MONTEREY PARK – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration served search warrants Friday on 17 businesses in three counties that are suspected of illegally selling nitrous oxide for recreational drug use.
The massive enforcement operation, which was aided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, resulted in three federal arrests with another suspect still being sought Friday and the seizure of more than $20 million dollars in street value of nitrous oxide in Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties, U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. of the Central District of Los Angeles said.
Nitrous oxide can be inhaled from balloons or directly from a tank resulting in a quick and inexpensive high. While the compound is legal when sold for certain medical, automotive or food production uses, it is illegal to knowingly sell the compound for recreational drug use.
"Nitrous oxide is a dangerous inhalant and it should not be used for recreational purposes," Birotte said at a press conference Friday at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau in Monterey Park. "Abuse of this drug can send users to the emergency room, or worse yet to the morgue, and indeed and it's dangers are only increased when you combine alcohol, which is often unfortunately the case."
Officials warn that the compound, which is commonly referred to as laughing gas, Nos or Nozz, has resulted in violent assaults, sexual assaults, overdoses and traffic accidents that often involve youth. Its sale is openly advertised on social media sites – mainly Facebook and Twitter – via raves or illegal drug parties, officials said.
After a 15-month investigation, more than 365 tanks and two industrial sized containers – one containing 8,400 pounds of gas and the other containing 2,400 pounds – were confiscated during Friday's raids, officials said.
The businesses, many allegedly posing as automotive part shops, were targeted with simultaneous raids in cities including Norwalk, Garden Grove, Cerritos, Riverside, Huntington Park, Huntington Beach and Los Angeles. The first phase of "Operation No Laughing Matter," as it was dubbed, involved some 300 federal and local law enforcement personnel.
Two criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court allege that the four defendants, along with the 17 businesses that were targeted, engaged in "misbranding" of nitrous oxide since they are distributing it for personal use with a prescription and in containers that do not include proper warning labels. The federal charge of misbranding a drug is a misdemeanor violation that carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.
"It's a story about money, it's a story about social media, dangerous human intoxication, violence, monetary gains of millions of dollars," L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca said. "It has a debilitating health effect on youth and adults. It has significant environmental impacts and is a violation of the federal drug administration laws not to mention to California laws."
LA Rush Inc. in Norwalk was one of the 17 businesses that was targeted. After officials stormed their office in an industrial building, four employees were detained for questioning as part of the FDA's investigation while a search for evidence was conducted.
During the raid, a delivery truck driver from California Tool and Welding Supply, who was about to deliver cylinders of nitrous oxide to LA Rush, was stopped by federal agents, asked to get out of the truck and questioned. A total of nine search warrants were also executed on delivery trucks that day, officials said.
The driver, Mike Salazar of California Tool and Welding Supply, said he was surprised by all of the commotion involving his truck and the Norwalk business.
"I just assumed that they were some kind of a speed shop where they sell car parts and things like that," Salazar said. "This is only the second time I've ever been here so I really don't know what they do."
Edward Valencia, 51, of Lynwood and Federico Valencia, 58, of South Los Angeles, both affiliated with Victor Welding Supply in South Los Angeles, were among those arrested by federal officials. William Victor, 65, of Northridge was still being sought late Friday.
The third defendant arrested Friday was Rose Marie Cuellar, 20, of Florence-Graham, who is an employee of LA Rush, which also operates a store in Huntington Park.
The three suspects who are in custody are expected to appear in the United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles on Monday.
Federal officials say the illegal sale and use of nitrous oxide is a growing trend that must be stopped.
"We have multiple traffic collisions that have resulted in deaths of young people, including minors," FDA Special Agent Lisa Hartsell said before the operation. "We have armed robberies being conducted by gangs stealing the gas from each other because, of course, the gas can be taken home and huffed or it could be taken to a large underground party where balloons are sold for $3, $5, or $10 a pop."