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"A Practical Guide to Monsters will appeal both to fantasy fans and to children (ages five to eleven) who love encyclopedic non-fiction. Give it to them with a clove of garlic and an iron stake, and watch their eyes light up." —Big A, Little A
How do you trick a troll? Do vampires sleep? Why worry about yuan-ti? Debuting at #3 on The New York Times list, this best-selling guide to the monster world showcases the spooky, unexpected, and always fascinating world of monsters.
NINA HESS is a senior editor of fantasy books for young readers, an instructor in writing for children at the University of Washington, and the author of several early readers including Whose Feet?


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A Trip to the Big Screen, and Other Fun Activities1
We took advantage of Mike being home this past weekend, in between his trips to Las Vegas and Chicago. We started the morning off with a visit to the Art Walk on Whyte Ave. There was lots of good stuff there and had I not been pulled away by the little hand in mine, I would have liked to look at at some more closely. But the boys did a great job and we got to talk a little bit about visual art. Some things they told us just were 'not art', but trying to explain subjectivity in art to a 3-year old, is, well, futile. If they don't like it it doesn't matter if anyone else does. So along we went. Afterwards I asked Brandon if he liked the pictures that were painted better, or the ones taken with a camera. My son came through for me with a resounding, "the camera ones!" Which makes me think that I have not yet jaded them with all the pictures I've taken of them.
After our long walk back to the car, the boys slept while we ran some errands. We made it back home with just enough time for me to run to the corner and get some groceries before hitting the LRT and heading downtown to see Wall-e. Anna met us at our place (and her new neighborhood beginning in August!) and we walked to the LRT, took it to City Centre Mall and the Cinema for the boys' first trip to a real movie theater. I was worried because we were running a little behind, but the theatre wasn't even half full. So that worked out well for us. We have been practicing for the past few months with movie nights every week or so. We pop some popcorn, curl up on the couch, turn down the lights, and play a movie off of the computer. Not exactly the big screen, but the boys have been working on being quiet when the movie is on and not getting up and down. So this was our big test. Would they make it the whole way through? Would we have to leave early? We found an empty row of seats about halfway down, I sat on the end in case someone needed to get out fast. While Anna, the boys and I were getting our popcorn I found seats that the kids could sit on to make them higher. I remember seeing these a long time ago, but forgot all about them. They seemed to work well for the boys and kept them from squishing up in the seat. They had a hard time sitting during the previews and kept asking "where's Wall-e?" But once it started they did a great job with minimal talking and fidgeting. The middle of the movie was a bit slow and the robot theme was not something they have much experience with ( I know, I know, we're working on it ), so about halfway through Bran ended up on Mike's lap and Drew was having trouble sitting still, alternating between wiggling and laying on my arm. But it picked up again and they were back to watching.
After the movie we walked a block or so to the Spaghetti Factory, where Joel met up with us and we had a great dinner. The boys were telling us all about Wall-e and Eve. Eve was Drew's favorite and Bran liked Wall-e best. We had trouble keeping them still for dinner and were reminded once again why we don't go out as a family by ourselves and how glad we are that our friends are willing to take on some responsibility in keeping the boys entertained. Thanks Anna and Joel!
All in all our first trip to the big screen was positive and I think we'll try again in the fall.
Now we're off for a weekend of camping in Jasper, which we haven't done since the boys were a year old. I'm nervous and excited at the same time. They're way more mobile and they like to run…

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CHARMS Candy Carnival Mix (2.75 LB)
CHARMS Candy Carnival is an assortment of your favorite classic candies like BLOW POPS, SUGAR BABIES, ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DA POPS, SUGAR DADDY, CHARMS SWEET POPS, SUGAR MAMA CARAMELS, TEAR JERKERS SOUR BUBBLE GUM and BLOW POP Bubble Gum. These candies are great for filling pinatas, Halloween treats or giving out in party treat bags or goodie bags. 100 pcs per 2 lb 12 oz unit.
- Pink feather boa.
- 6 ft. long
- 60g.
Champagne Poppers (144 pc)
Ring in the new year with these fun Champagne Poppers. Use them to bring about a bang on New Years or as a fun prank.
- 144 Poppers
- Confetti Inside
- Assorted Colors
Rocker Sunglasses (1 dz)Everyone at your party will feel like movie stars wearing these Rocker Sunglasses. These glasses are the perfect way to look cool at any event. Perfect for summer events such as luaus and other tropical parties. Learn More
Carnival Clown Sugar Cake Decorations (6 pc)Place these sweet sugar decorations on any clown themed cake or cupcake! Perfect for a carnival or circus theme. Six clown sugar decorations per set. Easy to apply. No Mess. Learn More
Synthetic Large Mustache Assortment (12 pc)Make your costume look even snazzier with a silly mustache from this Synthetic Large Mustache Assortment. These silly mustaches come in a variety of shapes and styles, making them perfect for children. Hand out next Halloween or as a fun carnival prize! One dozen per set. Assorted shapes and styles. Mustaches Measure about 4 Inches. Self Adhesive. Learn More
Make-A-Carnival Stickers (1 dz)
Prepare children for a fun day at the circus with this Make-A-Carnival Sticker Set. These stickers are a great activity for animal carnival or circus themed event.
- 1 Dozen
- Measures: 1 1/2" - 2 1/4"
- 12 Stickers per Sheet
- Assorted Stickers
Big Top Paper Baking Cups (100 pc)
Dress your favorite cupcakes for any fun event with these Big Top Paper Baking Cups. These colorful cupcake baking tops a great decoration for any birthday or bake sale to make your treats look extra sweet.
- 100 Pieces
- Diameter: 1 7/8 "
- Paper
- Assorted Designs
Plastic Big Top Character Cupcake Picks (1 dz)
Use these adorable cupcake picks to decorate cupcakes at your next circus or carnival themed event!
- 1 Dozen plastic picks per set
- Assorted characters
- 5 3/8" - 6 1/8"
Circus Animal Magnet Craft Kits (1 dz)
Carnival animal magnet craft kit lets kids create a dozen fantastic carnival animals. Assorted in carnival lions, bears and elephants that are ready to stick on the fridge or filing cabinet.
- Completed foam animal magnets measure 4" to 4 1/2"
- Pieces are pre-packaged into 12 kits for individual use
- Instructions and extra pieces included
- Foam glue sold separately
Carnival Cutouts Party Decorations (1 dz)
Make your party look ready for the big top with these Carnival Cutouts Party Decorations. These cardboard carnival themed cutouts are perfect decorations for walls or to place around your party as cool carnival decorations!
- 1 Dozen Carnival Cutouts Party Decorations.
- Cutouts Measure 7 1/2 Inches to 16 1/2 Inches.
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Derwent Island House
Lake District, England
This 1840s Italianate house is located on a wooded island (known in earlier times as Vicar's island) in Derwent Water. In 1778 Joseph Pocklington bought the island and built a house, boathouse, fort and battery, and a druid temple—he even held regattas at which he fired off his cannon. These days, the house is owned by the National Trust.
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It is said that in haskell, If it Compiles, It Works.
This is true, but what do you do when it won't compile?
I came across a real world scenario for this just now, when I was in the process of removing the HStringTemplateHelpers dependency from happs tutorial. The reason for this is that HStringTemplateHelpers uses the unix package (indirectly, via FileManip), which means that at the present time happs tut won't run on windows, which lately has me smacking myself like dobby the masochistic house elf in the harry potter movies.*
The dependency wasn't in one file, but scattered throughout the code. Some places, the dependency wasn't that important, I could just comment the function out, but in other cases the function was core to the app and commenting it out caused cascading compile failures. Doing the type/function arithmetic in my head for figuring out what depended on what was giving me a headache and tempting me to veg out on youtube rather than face the problem, always a warning sign for me that I'm doing something wrong.
I needed to make my program compile, just so I could think about it with my head screwed on straight.
So, instead of commenting out the HStringTemplateHelpers-dependent functions, I set them equal to undefined and commented out their type signatures (since the type sig might be using a type that was defined in the dependency.
-- paintProfile :: RenderGlobals -> String -> UserProfile -> String -> String
paintProfile rglobs user cp userimagepath = undefined {-.....-}
A few comment-outs later and cabal install compiles! Of course, if I actually try running the resulting binary, I will hit an undefined error right away, but the point is that I can think again, and start rewriting my offending functions in a methodical way until there are no more undefineds, which is easly checked with
grep -irn undefined src
For what it's worth, I could have also used
paintProfile rglobs user cp userimagepath = error "paintProfile uses HStringTemplateHelpers... bad dobby! bad dobby! Dobby will have to shut his ears in the oven door for this."
But whatever :)
* I suppose the righter thing to do would be to fix FileManip, but I am choosing the easy way out just to get it done. Eventually I woud like to move away from HStringTemplate with happs and use mostly Text.XHTML and/or HSP, which is type safe, which HSTringTemplate just thrown in for convenience and newb friendliness.


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Professor of theatre arts Sydell Weiner (Class of '96, M.S., marriage and family therapy); photo by GK
Alumna Myeshia Price (Class of '06, B.A., psychology)
had her research as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison cited in an
article in USA Today last fall. Price, who is in her second year of pursuing her doctorate
in developmental psychology, and Dr. Janet Hyde, an expert in the areas of women, human psychology
and gender-role development, recently completed a two-year study of 273 children in which they
looked for predictors of early sexual behavior. They reported their findings at the Society for
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Inventor Update
Jill Gilbert Welytok is the managing attorney for Absolute Technology Law Group LLC, which is a team of Registered Patent, Trademark and Transactional attorneys.
Ten Tips for Independent Inventors
Ten Tips for Independent Inventors
- A patent is just a piece of paper: View a patent as a tool to protect something that is marketable and therefore potentially valuable, not a piece of paper that's going to make you rich
- Protect what is valuable: If you know you are going to file for a patent protection, do so sooner rather than later to protect your rights.
- Use provisional patents in early stages of development: Use provisional patent applications before you have tested the markets and fully developed your invention.
- Make sure your patent application covers your product: If you begin marketing your invention and later make changes that will add value in the marketplace, amend your pending application or file additional patents to protect those innovations.
- Do your preliminary research: Use Google Patents to perform your own search, keeping in mind that you will need an attorney to search recent applications and foreign patent refrences.
- Know your resources: Visit the USPTO website at www.uspto.gov and become familiar with the free resources that are available for individual inventors.
- Read your patent application before your attorney files it: You, as the inventor, should fully understand every word in the claims and be able to assist your attorney in identifying possible additional embodiments of your invention that should be covered in your claims.
- Make sure all contributing inventors are named: If anyone has contributed to the development of your invention, he or she must be named as a coinventer. Ask your attorney about having any coinventors assign their rights to you before filing the patent application
- Stay involved in the patent prosecution: In the event of an "office action" with a USPTO examiner, you have the opportunity to talk in person with the examiner to help secure the allowable claims.
- Understand the ongoing obligations of patent ownership: Ask your lawyer for a checklist of things you need to do after your patent issues, such as paying maintenance fees to the USPTO at 3 and 1/2, 7 and 1/2, and 11 and 1/2 years. Abandoned patents open the door to hungry competitors.
Trademarking Your Product
Trademarking Your Product
Licensing an Invention: Negotiating Tips for Individual Inventors
The Northshore Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club which meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at the Frank L. Weyenburg Mequon Thiensville Library at 5:45 p.m. (Our club will meet next on Febuary 26th.) This month's discussion topic will be "Getting Into 'Big Box' Stores and Beyond". For more information, visit our Inventor's Club Homepage at www.milwaukeepatents.com


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Each week, Patch takes a peek at some of the more surprising, shocking, stunning and occasionally silly police-related incidents reported throughout New Jersey for "OMGs from NJ PDs." Some of the reports from this past week:
That's One Way to Avoid a Parking Ticket:Just not a very good way. Belleville police say they're looking for . They reportedly took the whole meter and placed it in a beige hatchback. Police weren't able to provide much of a specific description, but if you see a couple of guys lugging a parking meter around ... well, a call to 911 couldn't hurt.
They Came in Through the Drive-Thru Window: But they'd better not depend on a silver spoon for protection ... we're not even sure they have silver cutlery at Dunkin' Donuts. , and while the burglar (or burglars) threw several registers to the ground, they didn't get much cash, if any. Nor did they make off with any donuts. OMG Tip of the Week: If you're a criminal looking to keep a low profile, hitting the doughnut shop is a bad way to go*.
* Attention police: We're totally kidding about the doughnut crack. Really. Especially if you pull us over. Have we mentioned how handsome that uniform is?
You Don't Tug on Superman's Cape, Episode 95,839: Morristown police arrested a man who might want to get some perspective on his beer muscles. They say the man, seemingly highly intoxicated, walked up to an officer, and stared at him for several moments. When the officer asked the man if he was OK, , police said. The night ended with the man, facing a charge and in the care of hospital staff, police said—and hopefully with a little more perspective on how to party responsibly.
Something Really Stinks About This: Typically, when someone breaks into a car, he takes something. But NJ.com's got a report about a burglar who apparently left something behind. Something ... kinda gross. Police say that twice over the course of one night, a burglar broke into cars and defecated inside them. If this continues, we suggest the burglar's media-friendly nickname become Public Enemy No. 2.
See Ya Later: When police raided an Atlantic City home, they expected to find drugs. But NJ.comreports they also found something else—two alligators. Officials will try to bring the animals to their native habitat. They've likely got a less hospitable home lined up for the alleged drug dealer.
What's the strangest police-related news you've heard lately? Tell us in the comments, with a link to the original item (on Patch or otherwise).
About this column: "OMGs from NJ PDs" reviews the surprising, stunning and occasionally silly police-related incidents reported by New Jersey Patch sites over the last week.


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Welcome to Meta Financial Group, the holding company for MetaBank. In addition to our extensive array of traditional banking products and services, Meta Financial Group includes the dynamic Meta Payment Systems, our industry-leading electronic payment systems division of MetaBank.
We hope you will explore our website and gain an increased appreciation for the growth prospects we are supporting on behalf of our organization and our shareholder owners.
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Stroke Care
Act FAST
Is it a stroke? Act FAST
Learn the warning signs of a stroke. Act FAST and call 911 immediately if you see signs of a stroke.
F - FACE: Does one side of the face droop? Ask the person to smile.
A - ARMS: Does one arm drift downward? Ask the person to raise both arms.
S - SPEECH: Is their speech slurred or are the words not coming out right? Ask the person to repeat a simple phrase.
T - TIME: Time to act! Call 911 and get the person to a certified stroke center immediately.
Note the time when any symptoms first appear. Quick response is critical for recovery after a stroke. If given within three hours of the first symptoms, clot-buster medication may reduce long-term disability for the most common type of stroke. Learn as many stroke symptoms as possible so you can recognize a stroke right away.
Stroke Symptoms and Care
Stroke symptoms include:
- Sudden numbness or weakness of face, arm or leg - especially on one side of the body
- Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding.
- Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes.
- Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination.
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Here it is, STAR TREK fans, the new KLINGONS,
appearing for the very first time in STAR TREK:
COUNTDOWN TO DARKNESS #4 this April! It's ok,
we're freaking out, too...
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Weatherford Democrat
— Following are some of the offenses, investigations and calls for service reported by Weatherford police for the period 6 a.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday:
Missing money
A store in the 200 block of West Interstate 20 reported that $636.93 was missing over a period of Aug. 2 to Aug. 26.
Home burglary
A home in the 900 block of West Bridge Street was reportedly burglarized between 6-8 p.m. Wednesday. Reported stolen was a $120, 14-piece wrench set.
6:13 a.m., suspicious person/panhandling, 100 block of Santa Fe Drive.
7:20 a.m., animal call, 600 block of West Couts Street.
7:44 a.m., stolen vehicle, 200 block of College Park Drive.
8:30 a.m., suspicious person, 1400 block of West Ball Street.
9:24 a.m., minor wreck, 200 block of South Elm Street.
11:30 a.m., stolen vehicle, 1500 block of Fort Worth Highway.
1:02 p.m., minor wreck, 2200 block of Old Dennis Road.
3:12 p.m., threats made, 1500 block of Fort Worth Highway.
4:47 p.m., disturbance, 1000 block of South Main Street.
5:51 p.m., domestic disturbance, Tin Top Road.
7:01 p.m., suspicious vehicle, 1300 block of Fort Worth Highway.
8:07 p.m., loud music, 300 block of South Alamo Street.
22:27 p.m., disturbance, 800 block of Hilltop Drive.
4:12 a.m., suspicious person, 100 block of East Lee Avenue.


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[UPDATE] SOCOM: Confrontation Review
Review Score
SOCOM US Navy Seals: Confrontation
- PSU Review Score
- 8.5
- Avg. user review score:
- 7.3
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Slant Six has done a great job in bringing SOCOM to the current generation.
We like
- Realistic weapons
- Responsive controls
- Intricate map design
We dislike
- Player movement is sometimes awkward
- Lack of online communication the majority of the time
See PSU's review on Metacritic & GameRankings
[Editor's Note: Due to SOCOM: Confrontation receiving its much anticipated patch, we have decided to update our review. This isn't something we normally do, but we felt it was necessary to give a proper representation of what to expect with Confrontation.]
SOCOM: Confrontation has been anything but smooth sailing for fans of the series. The game launched with a laundry list of technical issues, but it has finally been patched, and therefore deserves a second look. In my original review, which can be found below, I initially gave SOCOM: Confrontation a 7.5. While some readers found this to be a ludicrous score for their beloved tactical shooter, it was something I still stand by as "fair" at the time. Since then, I've seen SOCOM take a great stride forward.
My biggest gripe with the launch edition was the atrocious scope glitch. Thankfully, this issue is fixed and scopes now correctly display what you're aiming towards. This makes sniping a joyous experience which all fans of the series should be happy about. Furthermore, all technical issues have been corrected. No longer does the main menu lock up the entire console forcing you to perform a hard reset.
As many fans experienced, server loads were often the cause of being unable to join games or connect properly. Combined with the fact some players seemed to warp from one spot to the next, this almost crippled the title. Fortunately, this was corrected with the patch and the game now plays properly.
Due to these major overhauls and fixes, SOCOM: Confrontation is now the quality experience that gamers were hoping for. In light of these drastic changes, I feel compelled to update our review score from a 7.5 to an excellent 8.5.
I find it hard to think back to the PlayStation 2 and its definitive online titles without subconsciously reminiscing about the SOCOM series. As such, you can imagine the excitement and anticipation that must have been going through me as I waited for the opportunity to get my hands on SOCOM: Confrontation. While the wait may have been painfully slow, it almost feels as though it was all for naught. As many of you know, Confrontation released with a slew of problems and lost promises. Not only are features missing within the game that happen to be clearly printed on the case and in the instruction manual, but also the servers have been unbelievably atrocious. According to Slant Six, you can expect a patch to resolve these issues, which is why my review score will not reflect these technical aspects of the title. Instead, I will cover the customization and gameplay aspects.
The first thing you need to do upon booting up SOCOM is customize your Commando and Mercenary characters. Each character has a different set of items to select from and it helps give each unit its own identity. You have the choice of selecting primary weapons that range from standard assault rifles to sniper rifles. On top of this, you have the option of placing specific add-ons for each weapon type. This can include scopes, laser sighting, bi-pods, and many other items that make your weapons all the more potent. What sets the two character units apart is that the Commandos have your standard government issued M16s while on the flip side the Mercenaries are going to work with AK47s.
Customization continues from this point by giving you the option to select a secondary handgun and of course your standard gear. Standard gear is going to include: rocket launchers, RPGs, grenades, smoke bombs, claymores and more. Considering all of the items you have to choose from, it's safe to say that there is a strong sense of ownership and uniqueness for each character created. It also allows you to play in a style that is most comfortable to you. One of the most important aspects to military combat though is camouflage. Not only is the color choice important, but also the ability to blend in with your surroundings. Thankfully, Confrontation has a plethora of options to choose from. Included in the game are three types of camouflage: Urban, Desert, and Night. Each suit of camouflage has five or so categories to select ... (continued on next page)
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i think at one time the french made the best porn.....they don't any more. they have too many too far away camera shots & too short sex scenes, to be real stroke films! if you were wondering, the chicks in this movie are not bad looking, but not as good as the eastern euro chicks.
this dvd was just so-so. the stand out in this dvd was "april", a hot non-siliconed young blonde. the rest of this dvd was just average.
this french dvd is not that bad. the star is super hot & does anal. the only real problem i have with this dvd is that the sex scenes are kinda short & the camera angles really don't show the close up action like the american porn dvds.
i am so glad that porn is starting to get away from the stripper look with the 44xx big fake sweater meats and going with a more real look. now the porn thing seems to be anal & assman is all about the ass!
i love the world sex tour series! they find the hottest chicks & make them have the hardestcore sex of their lives! how can you beat that for a series? this dvd has some very good talent!
eh, it could have been better. the girls are so-so...........gauge stands out as a real trooper even back in 2000, 4 years ago. a solid pick in a field of solid picks, but not a "must see" dvd.
I loved this whole series so far. Hot new chicks that we will never see again. All around troopers, that take it anyway they can get it. This is maybe not the best of this series, but worth checking out anyways.
A middle of the road DVD in a Awesome series. The problem I have with this DVD shot in Sweden, is there are tons of drop dead Swedish girls, but I guess those same girls just don't do porn like the Czech girls....where it seems like all the girls are willing to do porno's.
The best thing about this dvd is that it's first scene is of a decent Asian chick with a really nasty tattoo on her tit, taking it up the butt. Overall the chicks are not that bad, but it is a very short dvd, so I got to mark off stars for that.
i guess this means that i am a ass man? i love it when the chicks give up the kind of things that your girlfriend saves for "special" days only. this is the kind of movie i pop in when she says she has a headache.


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FUQUAY-VARINA — A wayward toddler who found her way onto the court late in the first quarter was about the only thing to stop the Fuquay-Varina girls basketball team Friday night.
And that was only temporpary.
The Bengals blitzed Lee County 58-20, hardly looking like a team that had lost its first four games of the season.
"I was concerned about Lee County. I really was," said Fuquay coach Monte Bullock. "I saw them scrimmage down at Southern Lee. They have a lot of players and they apply a lot of pressure."
Indeed, the Yellow Jackets had more players on their bench (nine), than Fuquay had dress (seven). Depleted by four players with various injuries, the Bengals showed little reserve and lots of resilience to overcome their lack of depth.
Fuquay, felled by slow first quarters all season, shot out to a 19-7 lead in the opening eight minutes, sparked largely by a spirited transition game and sustained by a Lee scoring drought of more than six minutes.
"This doesn't phase me at all, having just seven girls. Hoosiers is my favorite movie of all time, and I quote the movie all the time," Bullock said. "That's my team out there."
Camille Baker, the Benagls' leading scorer, led the charge with 18 points. Forward Tiana Hunter was a menace inside on both ends of the floor. The finished with 18 points and 11 rebounds. And it was her vision and Wes Unseld-like, full-court outlet passes led to a slew of baskets and helped the Bengals shoot 55 percent and led 33-15 by halftime.
By intermission, all seven players had scored for the Bengals. Freshman guard Kelly Suggs added eight points, seven steals and four rebounds.
Fuquay ratcheted up the defensive pressure in the second half and held Lee County to just five points, something that caught Bullock by surprise.
"They had five points in the second half? Wow! That's awesome," he said.
Earlier in the week, the Bengals lost a two-point nail-biter to Middle Creek. Though they came up short, Bullock said his team emerged from that game with the confidence that a win would soon be in their possession. Now that they have it, how do the Bengals build on it as they head into the teeth of the Tri-9 schedule?
"I don't even know who we play next. I'll look at that later tonight. I'm full of sports cliches, but we take it one game at time. It doesn't matter," he said.


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Are you shying away from bad foods that are actually good for you? With all the hoopla about healthful eating, it's hard to separate fact from fiction. As a nutrition consultant, I've come to realize there is no shortage of surprises and superstitions in the world of nutrition. Here are reasons to enjoy some of your favorites.
Gluten and wheat
They are "the most demonized ingredients beyond high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oil," said Melissa Abbott, culinary director at the Hartman Group, a company specializing in consumer research.
Yet decades of studies have found that gluten-containing foods, such as whole wheat, rye and barley, are vital for good health, and are associated with a reduced risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer and excess weight.
"Wheat is a good source of fiber, vitamins and minerals," said Joanne Slavin, nutrition professor at the University of Minnesota. She added that the confusion about gluten, a protein, has caused some people to avoid eating wheat and other grains.
Only about 1 percent of the population, or less, cannot tolerate gluten and must eradicate it from their diet to ease abdominal pain and other symptoms, including the ability to fully absorb vitamins.
One reason wheat-free or gluten-free diets are popular is that people who don't eat wheat often end up bypassing excess calories in sweets and snack foods. Then they start feeling better, lose weight, and mistakenly attribute their success to gluten or wheat avoidance.
Eggs also don't deserve their bad reputation. In recent decades, their high cholesterol content has been thought to play a role in increasing LDL ("bad") cholesterol and heart disease risk.
But cholesterol in food is a minor factor contributing to high blood cholesterol for most people, and studies have not confirmed a correlation between eggs and increased heart disease risk. The major determinant of LDL (bad) cholesterol is saturated fat, and while eggs are high in cholesterol — 184 milligrams in the yolk — they're relatively low in saturated fat — about 1.6 grams in the yolk.


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It is the first time in several years that the Anaheim Ducks don't have much depth in goal. As a Duck's fan, we've been spoiled with several spectacular goaltending tandems having Ilya Bryzgalov, Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Dan Ellis, and Ray Emery in between the pipes for the past decade. Now, we have to rely mainly on Jonas Hiller.
Don't get me wrong, besides his year of vertigo, Hiller has never steered the Ducks wrong. He has done a good job keeping the Ducks afloat and helped them stay in games. That kind of performance needs to continue this season if we want to see the team squeeze into the playoffs. The Duck's have made some good acquisitions in the offseason, adding Sheldon Souray and Bryan Allen and Teemu Selanne deciding to return is huge, but we all know the Duck's will need to be consistent in order to enter into a playoff berth.
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---- — After months of investigation into the Dec. 11 disappearance of his wife, Jennifer Renz Ramsaran, 36, Ganesh "Remy" Ramsaran was arrested today by the Chenango County Sheriff's Department and charged with second-degree murder.
A body found off Center Road in the town of Pharsalia on Feb. 26 was identified as being that of Jennifer Ramsaran, according to Chenango Sheriff Ernest Cutting Jr.
Cash bail of $150,000 and a real estate bail of $300,000 was set by County Judge Frank Revoir. A grand jury hearing is expected to be held next week.
Ganesh Ramsaran had told investigators that he last saw his wife when she left to go Christmas shopping at a Syracuse mall Dec. 11.
He has said that sheriff's department and State Police investigators spent four days combing his house for evidence that might shed light on his wife's disappearance. He said he was questioned extensively by investigators, and has cooperated with the investigation since its inception.
A project manager for IBM who works at home, Ganesh Ramsaran had said he also acknowledged in those interviews that he had a one-time tryst with a close friend of Jennifer Ramsaran who later became his running partner.


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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Obamacare will reduce the deficit, by coupling a multi-trillion-dollar expansion of federal health spending with cuts to Medicare and higher taxes. Now, a new study by a Medicare trustee suggests that the law will actually increase deficits, over the next ten years, by between $346 and $527 billion. Why do the trustee's numbers differ from those of the CBO, and who's right? Let's take a look.
Chuck Blahous, who was appointed by President Obama to be a public trustee of the Social Security and Medicare programs, published the study, under the aegis of the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. He makes two basic arguments: (1) the ACA's cuts to Medicare should be counted as contributing to Medicare's solvency, and can't be redirected towards reducing the deficit; and (2) it's likely that Congress will increase the law's spending, and fail to enforce its spending cuts and tax increases, thereby worsening the law's fiscal consequences. "Historical evidence suggests that the upholding of [the deficit-expanding and deficit-reducing] provisions may not be equally certain," says Blahous.
Medicare cuts can't be double-counted
In March of 2011, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted that the law double-counts its reductions in Medicare spending, by claiming that the law both reduces the deficit and extends Medicare's solvency.
Blahous estimates that at least "$470 billion of the Medicare savings under the ACA scored by CBO through 2021 substitutes for savings required under previous law." Whether or not you accept his approach depends on whether or not you think that Medicare funds should be segregated from the rest of the budget.
Blahous also takes out the (near-term) deficit-reducing features of the CLASS program, which Sebelius has suspended. CBO has already stated that, due to Sebelius' actions, they are now modeling the impact of CLASS as zero.
Will future Congress act in fiscally reckless ways?
"There is substantial risk," Blahous writes, "that the ACA's cost-saving provisions will not be enforced as currently specified." Blahous fears that "elected officials will choose to expand the growth of [Obamacare's exchange] subsidies in the future relative to projections under current law."
It's certainly possible that Congress could flinch on enforcing Obamacare's cost controls and tax increases. The difference between Blahous' "optimistic scenario" and his "pessimistic scenario" reflect different levels of Congressional discipline. In his optimistic case, in which Congress left the law intact, Blahous estimates that it will increase the deficit by $346 billion from 2012-2021; in the pessimistic case, he thinks it will increase the deficit by $527 billion: a spread of $181 billion.
The White House goes ballistic
The White House has already responded to Blahous' report, noting Blahous' prior ties to the Bush administration, and citing the official CBO numbers to argue that it's "new math" to claim that the ACA double-counts its Medicare savings. The White House cites a report from the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities that says that Republican Congresses engaged in Medicare double-counting with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.
This White House strategy of attacking Blahous' politics, and repeating "CBO, CBO, CBO" until it's blue in the face, isn't likely to persuade anyone. The CBO has, quite regularly, issued substantial caveats with its projections, highlighting many of the same issues that Blahous raises in his report. But CBO is constrained by Congress in how it can quantify those issues, in a way that Blahous is not.
"The improvement in Medicare's finances," wrote the CBO in December 2009, "would not be matched by a corresponding improvement in the federal government's overall finances…The key point is that savings to the [Medicare Hospital Insurance] trust fund under the PPACA would be received by the government only once, so they cannot be set aside to pay for future Medicare spending and, at the same time, pay for current spending on other parts of the legislation or on other programs."
CBO also regularly puts out an "alternative fiscal scenario," in which "some current or recent policies are assumed to continue in effect, even though, by law, they are scheduled to change. The decisions made by lawmakers as they confront those policy choices will have a significant impact on budget outcomes in the coming years." A big part of the CBO's alternative scenario is an assumption that scheduled cuts to Medicare's fee schedule are held off.
It's pretty much the standard left-wing playbook to attack Blahous' credibility, instead of critiquing his methodology. When one of Blahous' critics actually reads his report and contests his assumptions, I'll take notice.
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UPDATE 1: Mercatus has posted a video that helps explain Blahous' findings:
UPDATE 2: Jonathan Chait and Paul Krugman describe the Blahous analysis as "bogus." Chait's critique is that Blahous is a "Republican policy guy." (Are Republicans not allowed to assess the fiscal cost of legislation?) Chait then goes on to complain that Blahous' projections are "completely bizarre" because they assume that the Medicare trust fund would automatically cut benefits when the trust fund expires. "Nobody, and I mean nobody, tries to assess legislation" this way, claims Krugman.
But in fact, as a matter of law, the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust is only authorized to make benefit payments from the trust fund. As the Medicare Trustees put it in their 2011 Annual Report, "if assets [in the trust fund] were exhausted, payments to health plans and providers could be made only from ongoing tax revenues, which would be inadequate to cover total costs. Beneficiary access to health care services would rapidly be curtailed."
The CBO, in its 2012-2022 Budget and Economic Outlook, says, "In keeping with the rules in section 257 of the Deficit Control Act of 1985, CBO's baseline incorporates the assumption that payments will continue to be made after the trust fund has been exhausted, although there is no legal authority to make such payments. Because the manner by which those payments would continue would depend on future legislation, CBO does not show a cumulative negative balance in the trust fund after the exhaustion date." (Emphasis added.)
In other words, CBO assumes that Medicare will never go insolvent because Congress takes taxpayer money and uses it to fund Medicare's shortfall, driving up the deficit. But because general revenue is being used for the spending, Medicare trust fund spending goes to zero. Blahous explains it here:
Q: What does all this mean for the overall fiscal effects of the ACA?
A: It means the ACA increases spending and worsens deficits relative to previous law. For example, imagine a law that cuts Medicare HI payments by $1 while also spending $1 on a new health program. The $1 Medicare HI spending cut extends the solvency of the Medicare HI Trust Fund, thereby allowing Medicare HI to spend an additional $1 at a later date. The $1 of near-term Medicare savings thus results in an additional $1 of later Medicare spending. Thus, if the law also spends $1 on a new health program, then altogether the law would permit $2 in total new spending while enacting only $1 in savings. On the whole, such a law would increase spending and worsen federal deficits. The case is similar with the ACA.
"This isn't just a persnickety point about the intricacies of budget law," Blahous told the Washington Post in a front-page story today. "If Medicare were going insolvent in 2016, you'd better believe right now there would be more pressure on lawmakers to do something about it…It's essential that there be a full public understanding of the most economically significant federal law in years."
When it comes to Medicare and the budget deficit, pick your poison.
UPDATE 3: Blahous offers me a more specific response to the Chait/Krugman critique, via email, which he has permitted me to publish:
A couple of points:
1) It's not a conceptual trick. It's not an assumption. It's the law. Some may not like the fact that Medicare can only spend money to the extent that it has a positive balance in its trust funds, but that's the law. The scorekeeping convention that finds that ACA would reduce deficits, by contrast, is not the law. That surely ought to matter.
2) If these criticisms are correct, then the solvency of Medicare literally has no meaning. The finding that the ACA reduces the deficit depends on the critical assumption that Medicare will always pay out full benefits whether there is anything in its trust fund or not. Only in this context can we disregard the implications of the ACA reportedly extending Medicare Hospital Insurance solvency from 2016 to 2024. As soon as someone claims that the ACA extends Medicare HI solvency, then they must concede that my point is correct, because the score finding that the ACA would reduce deficits does not account for any such effect.
3) The total amount of resources required to extend Medicare solvency from 2016 to 2024, and to pay for the new entitlement in the legislation, far exceeds the cost savings in the ACA. Therefore, the law adds to the deficit. If it is not to add to the deficit, then one of the two major spending authority expansions in the law—the Medicare solvency extension or the new health coverage subsidies—won't happen. Which is it?
4) My point is correct both from the standpoint of technical law and from a political economy perspective. Congress is historically much less likely to enact Medicare or Social Security savings if the insolvency date is more distant. Pushing out Medicare's insolvency date thus not only commits additional federal resources in a legal sense, but also in the sense of pushing off the urgency of other cost containment measures. Both by statute and by political behavior, the ACA clearly worsens the fiscal outlook.
UPDATE 4: Chait gets this nugget via email from Blahous' Democratic counterpart on the Medicare Board of Trustees, Robert Reischauer of the Urban Institute:
Under accepted CBO and OMB scoring practices, legislated reductions in Medicare HI spending both reduce the deficit and strengthen the HI trust fund. That has been the case under both D and R Congresses and administrations. Chuck's "revelation" is not a new charge. Some argued this point when the ACA was enacted. It remains as misleading today as it did earlier.
UPDATE 5: For those who want to dig further into the issue of double-counting Medicare savings, Peter Suderman penned a nice primer in May 2011.
UPDATE 6: Blahous has posted a rebuttal to Chait and Krugman here.
UPDATE 7: My Forbes colleagues Howard Gleckman and Josh Barro have some useful thoughts. Here's Howard:
Chuck makes some important points in his analysis. One, which TaxVox has written about recently as well, is the potential double-counting of increased Medicare payroll taxes. The 2010 law raises the Medicare levy by 0.9 percent for high-income workers. But, due to CBO scoring conventions, the money it generates appears to both make the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund appear more solvent and reduce the general fund deficit.
It can't simultaneously do both, as Chuck correctly notes. In reality, if the extra tax goes to the general fund to "pay for" health reform, Medicare would be required to reduce its hospital benefits, absent some other new funding source. Chuck argues Medicare would cut benefits. CBO assumes it would not.
Btw, Chuck and TaxVox are hardly the only ones to have raised this issue. Medicare actuary Rick Foster, who is well-known in Washington for calling 'em as he sees 'em, has been making exactly the same point since even before the law passed. My Tax PolicyCenter colleague Donald Marron, a former CBO director, blogged about it all back in 2009. And CBO itself has been upfront about the oddities of this scoring issue.
UPDATE 8: Peter Suderman has some additional insights here.
The government takes in one dollar. It spends that dollar twice. Without further cuts or tax hikes, that means the budget deficit goes up.
Understanding this, I have developed a plan to use trust fund accounting conventions for all my freelance work going forward. First I'll record an increase for each new dollar in a Google spreadsheet titled: Freelance Work Trust Fund Account. Then I'll spend all the money on comic books. In no time at all I'll have a lot of comic books, and a huge trust fund account.
UPDATE 9: Michael Barone pipes in at National Review, noting that it's because of "a 1985 internal ruling (not a full-fledged law passed by Congress) [that] the CBO scores the costs of legislation against a hypothetical baseline rather than against current law."
UPDATE 10: Peter Orszag, the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget during the Obamacare debate, describes Blahous' study as "senseless bloviating." Ouch.
From update 2: "Chait then goes on to complain that Blahous' projections are "completely bizarre" because they assume that the Medicare trust fund would automatically cut benefits when the trust fund expires."
I think I see Chait's point. When the Medicare trust fund is empty, Medicare can just go on paying the benefits anyway. There is no need to cut benefits, nor is there need to recall any "savings" from Medicare funding cuts that are used to prop up ACA. Just keep spending. Who cares if the dollars are spent twice? That's the way the government works now. It is completely bizarre to think otherwise.
After all, isn't this the change we were looking for? It is the change we were promised.
a republican will set up there and draw taxpayer money.get rich and do nothing but whine and complain.and do nothing for the poor and middle class.and the rich get richer because of them.and a lot of the poor are too stupidity to see throught this and cut their throut be cause they can not see,and don;t want to believe what happening to them.its the same if you hired someone to help you and you do the work and have to pay them for being there.thats the republican way of doing things and the american public wont see it.because they are blind as a bat. its the blind leading the blind. and they refuse to see.and a lot of them is so close to retried them selfs and willing to cut themselfs short because of hard time now.for the poor.it always been hard times and it no differnces now.I have always wondered if they were going to make it.that nothing new.they will make it even when they don;t so.we always have,,the poor are a special breed.tought.never give up and will come throught all of it.they are just like a timex,take a licking and keep on ticking.but not if they believe a republican and vote for them because they make it harder on themselfs.I can believe they are that stupidity and republican when it comes down to it.don;t you can on it either.
Avik, it's ok to admit you don't understand the issues surrounding ACA, and its place in a larger budget context. They're complex, and you really don't have much background in it. So let me help you out.
The problem with Blahous's analysis is his unflinching refusal to consider his ACA forecasting method in the context of forecasting used for all other federal programs that intersect with trust funds. If you used his methods on the entire federal budget, guess what? Deficits are NO PROBLEM AT ALL!! How real is that?
But the important thing is, neither you, nor me, nor he, can have it both ways. Even though that's exactly what he, and his Koch brothers backers, wants to do with his forecasts.
I think Blahous has very cleverly thrown trust fund accounting back into the faces of people who normally cite such devices as a pool of assets within the consolidated budget of the US Government. This, and this alone, is the reason they end up double counting the savings for two disparate purposes
What is important to understanding this problem he cites is this- any savings from the Medicare cuts must be borrowed from the HI trust fund, and then paid back by either 2016, or 2024, or by whenever the fund shows zero "assets". Of course, all those borrowed funds were spent prior to this redemption, and the new cash must be raised to exactly the extent of all that new spending plus the accrued interest. In other words, the new spending wasn't financed by the cost savings since those saving must eventually return to Medicare to be spent there. Now, if Krugman, Chait, and Klein want to admit that the trust fund accounting is meaningless in all contexts, then they will have my undiluted support. Choose.
Sorry but yes it is bogus. Is that what they call bull droppings these days, bogus?
Stopping saying he was appointed by Obama, he is a Bush holdover.
" it's likely that Congress will increase the law's spending, and fail to enforce its spending cuts and tax increases, thereby worsening the law's fiscal consequences". So in essence it is the Republicans fault if it costs more, not the actual law itself. Don't you ever get tired of half truths and distortions?


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A shooting that wounded a Monrovia woman Saturday night was carried out by three gang members, two of whom the city has served notice of its gang injunction, Monrovia Police Chief Jim Hunt told the City Council Tuesday.
The three men were arrested shortly after the shooting after police in the area heard the gun shots and tracked down their vehicle using witness desctiptions. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office filed formal attempted murder charges against all three Tuesday morning, Hunt said.
"Hopefully all three of these individuals will get long felony sentences," Hunt said.
Hunt said the gang members fired in the area because it was "a rival gang location." The victim is expected to recover, he said.
Hunt was addressing the council to present a bi-annual report on the progress of the city's anti-gang injuntion, which the city first obtained in December 2009. Hunt said the city had seen a slight increase in gang crimes so far in 2012 compared to last year, an uptick he attributed to the state's realignment of prisons, which allowed for the release of about 10,000 inmates back into southern California to relieve prison overcrowding.
"There's been some increase in crime city-wide, I would say primarily due to realignment and the fact that we've had a number of criminals released in the last 10 months," Hunt said.
Monrovia Police officers have already served 40 gang members with the gang injunction this year after serving 31 in all of 2011. Hunt said the increase was attributable to the department's coordinated effort with the Sheriff's Department to serve members of the Duroc Crips, a local gang involved in the spike of gang violence in the area in late 2007 and early 2008, in unincorporated areas around the city.
Police have recorded 12 gang crimes so far this year committed by Monrovia's two primary gangs, Duroc and Monrovia Nuevo Varrio. The city had a total of 18 gang related crimes last year, according to Hunt's report.
Hunt noted that the total number of gang related crimes over the last two years fell dramatically compared to 2010 and 2009, when there were 78 and 40 gang crimes recorded, respectively.


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---- — As the sequestration cuts begin, it is crystal clear to the American people that our elected federal officials are more interested in playing politics than in sound government.
House Speaker John Boehner called off talks that could've stopped the sequestration cuts from going into effect the next day. This was after President Barack Obama offered numerous proposals of budget cuts that were all turned down by the House GOP, mostly because the president insisted on tax increases to accompany the cuts.
Obama also proposed a cut in the corporate tax and a steeper tax cut for manufacturers by closing loopholes in the tax code. But House Republicans said no.
In addition, Obama offered to reduce spending in health care programs such as Medicare by $400 billion over 10 years, change an inflation formula for government benefits that would result in lower cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security and other programs and reduce other spending, for total reductions of $900 billion over 10 years. House Republicans said no.
Those cuts, together with about $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction already achieved over the past two years through spending cuts and a year-end tax increase on taxpayers making more than $400,000, would achieve a $4 trillion deficit reduction target. But House Republicans were still dissatisfied, in large part because of the accompanying proposal to raise taxes.
Now, American citizens are left to wonder whether Obama's foes are going too far in their opposition to his proposals. They — House Republicans and Obama — chose to let sequestration begin, despite the indiscriminate funding cuts that come with it. This is simply bad government — and bad politics.
We elect our legislators to navigate the labyrinth of public finance carefully and expertly so that the country ends up in the best place. But instead we get indiscriminate hacking. And President Obama is not blameless in this farce. Choosing the path of political expediency, he agreed during his first term to the sequester.
Sequester backers trot out numbers that show that the new cuts won't really amount to much and are a start in the right direction. But those cuts will mean jobs lost, which means people's livelihoods will suffer. The job losses won't be massive, but they'll feel massive to anyone who loses a job because politicians couldn't find a compromise.
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Smith had hip surgery in the offseason and is entering his 14th NFL season.
Shanahan says a realistic assessment for Smith would have him back for the sixth, seventh or eighth game during the season.
Smith is the franchise's all-time receptions and touchdowns leader.
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Never in my life would I buy purple shoes on my own…but that's exactly what I just bought this weekend for the KidMin Conference this week!
Why? This purple shoe thing seems to have taken on a life of itself. People in our Inside Track Team are bringing purple clothes and shoes to the conference. And I want to catch up on the trend.
That's how cool this KidMin Conference is. It's not just our staff creating the culture, but it's conhference guests–and right now, especially our Inside Track Team (you'll learn more about this amazing team at our conference–and how to join it).
There's so much the Inside Track team has shaped and gotten involved in. They'll create the vibe and environment of the Prayer Room. They're getting plugged into panels in so many Ministry Conversations. They're blogging and spreading the word. And they'll be critical volunteers to make everything happen.
I can't wait to see what else they do and create at KidMin! I'm thrilled to get to serve with these folks–even if it means wearing purple, polka-dotted shoes!
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Mad Money host Jim Cramer outlines warring factions in the market and why they can't come to an agreement.» Read More
For the second time in 13 years, Argentina has fallen into default after debt talks failed, reports CNBC's Kate Kelly.
PIMCO founder and CIO Bill Gross reacts to the Federal Reserve's decision to taper by $10 billion. Gross says watch wages, and shares his yield curve outlook.
The Fed cut its bond-buying purchases by $10 billion, and said rates will stay in the current range for a considerable time after the bond purchases end. The "Street Signs" crew digs into the market's reaction, with Bob Doll, Nuveen Asset Management, and David Kelly, JPMorgan Funds.
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Off-Campus Dining:
The food exists, and it's not half-bad. Everybody loves Antonio's Pizza, for instance. Outside of that, however, you'll be hard-pressed to find anything better than a 3.5-star on Yelp.
Campus Housing:
Housing varies wildly from dorm to dorm. All of the first-year dorms are terrific, though of course, some are still noticeably better than others. Since Amherst is a pretty small college, pretty much every dorm is near your classes (the farthest you'll have to walk will never be more than 10-15 minutes).
Local Atmosphere:
The town of Amherst definitely has a very college-town feel, which is reasonable, considering there are like 50,000 college students living in the area. No matter what, however, you're still in the middle of a small town in western Massachusetts, so you'll have to temper your expectations accordingly. The food around here is good, but not great. There's a large mall nearby, so shopping is pretty good, and a free bus system runs through all of the colleges in the area.
It's extremely easy to major in anything at Amherst, especially thanks to the open curriculum. You don't have to declare a major for years, and even after that, you can still pretty much add or drop majors at any time. You can pretty much just double major on accident, and there are triple majors abound.
I haven't yet declared a major, so my experience in the field is rather limited.
It's one of the top liberal arts colleges in the U.S. What do you expect? The academics are terrific.
Guys & Girls:
There's definitely a hook-up culture at Amherst, as opposed to a dating culture, but it's certainly not worse than any other college in the U.S. You can still date if you really want to.
I come from a largely homogenous high school, so coming to Amherst was my first chance to ever meet so many people from different ethnicities and backgrounds. It is NOT just white and preppy. Well, it's pretty preppy. But definitely not predominantly white.
Overall Experience:
Amherst is a terrific school. It's small, which makes it incredibly easy to meet and know people. The classes are great, especially since the open curriculum and shopping period ensure that I only have to take classes that I truly want to take. Things are going great.
Since Amherst is a small school, a LOT of the students are an athlete in one sport or another. However, sports does not dominate campus life by any definition.
Drug Safety:
There's definitely a drinking culture at Amherst, but then again, there's a drinking culture at pretty much every school. I can't complain-- people probably drink here more than they do at your average high school, but it's not unmanageable (though your experience will vary greatly depending on which dorm you live in).
Word of advice: always use a wired ethernet connection to get internet whenever you can. The WiFi coverage on Amherst's campus is terrific, but compared to a good wired connection, the WiFi here is pretty darn slow. Life will be much easier if you own your own laptop, but there are plenty of computer labs spread throughout the campus, should you need them. Compared to the relatively small size of the college, the main computer lab in Frost Library is actually quite large-- there will always be a computer available if you need one.
I did not apply for financial aid; Amherst's aid is entirely need-based (and very good, from what I've been told), but I do not qualify.
Greek Life:
There aren't any official frats or sororities. There are a few "unofficial" frats, where a bunch of people just agree to live in the same suite, but they're actually not a very big presence on campus.
During the winter, Amherst is cold, and it snows a lot. But what can you really expect from New England? By those standards, the weather is just fine.
Local Atmosphere:
Amherst itself is a nice little town with many families and college professors/staff, as well as a lovely library and town green with many local activities each week and weekend. The greatest boon to attending Amherst, however, is the Five-College Consortium -- the ability to take classes at any of the other four colleges in the region (three liberal arts colleges and one state university, all with very different offerings), and to have such easy access and proximity to the other college campuses and towns. Northampton in particular, which houses Smith College, is a more bustling alternative to Amherst with better music venues and nightlife.
Greek Life:
No official (or permitted) Greek life at Amherst.
Campus Dining:
There is only one dining hall on campus. Pro: everyone has to get together in the same place for all meals, which fosters community. Con: everyone has to get together in the same place for all meals... It's easy to feel tired of going to the same place and seeing the same group of people, especially on a small campus with a student body of under 2000. The food offerings have become more varied (and edible) over the years, and I hear they have continued to improve since 2010.
Campus Strictness:
The college campus is adjacent to the town green and the main strip of Amherst, and also takes steps to integrate the local community into its own offerings. For example, local residents can use the Amherst College library and enter the campus center, etc. This also sometimes means that folks from the town make it into dormitories and parties as well, which has caused safety issues in the past.
It's okay. Not the best, but has its presence.
I do not have FA but I've heard that it's one of the best.
It's better than some others but could be better.
Campus Housing:
It's overall great. The dorms are nice and spacious. Room draw process is kind of random.
Campus Strictness:
Not sure. Seems to be changing.
I have no doubt it is one of America's best. Professors are very passionate and knowledgeable about what they are doing. Amherst does seem to have a little more workload than other comparable colleges - it feels like high school at times. Facilities are great. Internship opportunities with professors are available, and if you are one of the ones to get one, you'll spend time with the professor a lot. Open curriculum leaves a wide range of choices which I have come to appreciate a lot more than I imagined I would. In the end, it's the professors who are the greatest. The grading is reasonable.
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Students usually don't choose Amherst because of its academic reputation, although a sound reputation is a must when the competing schools are Harvard and Williams. Rather, students come here because of the promise of experiencing an eclectic array of stimulating peers, professors, classes, and activities. Some become disillusioned, not finding their niche within the abundance of opportunities and freedom. Some succeed in familiarizing themselves with the ways of this place, find that they're having the time of their life midway through college and become depressed that this whole thing is going to end soon. Chronologically speaking and with clear generalization, freshman year can go by in a rush, with everyone immersed in the whole college experience with their freshmen friends and classmates. Sophomore year can be the most challenging, since a lot of people go through "sophomore slump"—a state of mild or not-so-mild depression caused by the sad fact that all their freshman friends suddenly are not living in the same dorm but are now in far corners of campus. Also, many sophomore students are conflicted by the sudden need to decide on a major and to get serious about their lives. Junior and senior years are usually better and calmer, since most students have settled into a chosen major and formed a group of close friends across distant campus dorms. Upperclassmen, then, can be free to concentrate on studying and having fun.
The key to living here is perhaps keeping yourself open and receptive to new and unfamiliar experiences, opinions, and values. You'll gain a lot more if you communicate openly with that odd-looking and opinionated girl from Dallas or that too-cool-for-school-looking guy from Philly, rather than choosing to be repulsed by Amherst's oddities. A place like Amherst, with so many accomplished and bright people threading its grounds, is bound to have more oddities than the average university. Even though few people come to Amherst College for the sole purpose of meeting new people, learning from everyone, exploring themselves and so on, most students do admit, however reluctantly, that Amherst is both fun and a unique learning and growing experience that can be found nowhere else.
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A woman accused of calling in a bomb threat presumed to be directed at Temple Hill Elementary School appeared in Barren Circuit Court for her arraignment Monday.
Renee J. Farley, 39, of Glasgow was indicted by a Barren County grand jury May 21 on charges of terroristic threatening, first degree, and tampering with physical evidence.
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It's coming up on a year since Doug and I "wintered" in Buenos Aires (we spent three months there, from mid-January to mid-April), and if any of you freelancers are thinking of doing something like this, it's a good time to share what we learned from it.
To refresh your memory: because we're both self-employed, my husband and I decided we would finally take advantage of this, and spend the worst part of our cold, wet winter somewhere warm and sunny. Besides warmth and sunshine, we had two more criteria: 1) it should be a place we've never been before and present some fun challenges, and 2) be gay-friendly. (That last one is pretty damn big, when you consider being gay in many places means imprisonment or even death. Kinda cuts down on options.) Thus, we ended up choosing Buenos Aires.
If you're thinking of doing the same, here's a small list of things I learned which I'd like to pass on to you:
I've spent my entire career obsessively trying to "learn how to draw" when I should've just been drawing. Always thinking "I just need to get a little better… and then I'll start working on (insert any of a hundred personal projects)"
The fact is that i've been good enough since my teens- and would've improved so much more rapidly had my study been in the service of any of those projects- and not in the dozens of sketchbooks pilled in my closet.
Lesson: Don't use "learning" as an excuse to avoid "doing".
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We all need to take this advice; artists (and I include myself here) are notoriously terrible at business.
Mike Lynch Cartoons: The Business of Cartooning: Your Signature
This post is a couple of years old, but it's of colossal importance in this time of 9gag, reddit, imgur, and any number of image sharing sites that pass around comics and illustrations. A legible signature is often as important as the image you've created.
Attention, freelance creatives: read this article by Shaun Hensher on how to approach pricing for your work!
This is a great start, helping you wrap your head around why you would charge a certain amount for this or that kind of project. Though one thing I'd recommend is to boost his "Bare Minimum" from $100 to at least $250. If you consider that a single project—say, a standard editorial illustration—may take you on average of 8-10 hours to complete, charging $100 means you just worked for minimum wage. No, we don't usually "charge by the hour," but it's important to think of things this way when you add it all up each year come tax-time.
This has inspired me to post a follow-up (of sorts) where I'd like to apply some more long-term thinking and planning (because I don't have enough to do already!), and examine the cause-and-effect of lousy pricing in the illustration field.
This article is directed at client-types, but I think it's important for freelancers to read this too, and think about whether or not you're pricing your work in a way that benefits you and your business.
Probably the most important thing I learned while filling in as an art director:
Seeing how desperate you are as an art director, when you put your trust in an illustrator - has really changed my whole perspective. And also I realized that being on time and doing professional work is 98% of what [being an illustrator] is all about.
And every once in a while you do this one great piece where the stars align and maybe it gets into American Illustration or Society of Illustration or CAA but that's not what makes your career. I was always trying to shoot for these fantastic super-quirky weird concepts and I didn't realize that so much of it is being professional - about being somebody that an art director can put their trust in.
This morning I tweeted about a lack of inspiration and having to trudge through it. In response, @brainhofj tweeted about the following:
This handwritten letter is by Austin Madison, Pixar animator of Rex, the green dinosaur in the Toy Story series (among other characters he's designed). Madison's letter is a submission to the Animators Letters Project, and it so eloquently described what I was attempting to say in 140 characters.
Here's page one:
I, like many of you artists out there, constantly shift between two states. The first (and far more preferable of the two) is white-hot, "in the zone" seat-of-the-pants, firing on all cylinders creative mode. This is when you lay your pen down and the ideas pour out like wine from a royal chalice! This happens about 3% of the time.
The other 97% of the time I am in the frustrated, struggling, office-corner-full-of-crumpled-up-paper mode. The important thing is to slog diligently through this quagmire of discouragement and despair. Put on some audio commentary and listen to the stories of professionals who have been making films for decades going through the same slings and arrows of outrageous production problems.
In a word: PERSIST.
Page two continues with canny and inspirational advice for those of us — actually all of us — trudging through the creative blocks that fill most of our days. At the end of today's workday, I'm happy to report that I persisted, knocked out lots of mediocre stuff, and then cranked out a couple above-average ideas towards the end.
Thanks, Austin.
This is a tad meta, but I noticed one of us posted this on our Twitter stream and thought Tumblr's ability to let readers reply here would be even more helpful:
Canadians: what are the best options for buying art supplies and paper online in the Great White North?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Fine artists: How do you price your paintings? Most of us have absolutely no idea how to price our own work (or we have a disdain for this task because we feel it cheapens our craft). Chris Tyrell comes to the rescue once again with his typically sound advice, and some very simple math. Say thank you.
As in "SALES." Some wonderful advice from the folks at The 99 Percent about how to handle incoming business leads. This applies as much to freelancers, as it does to design firms, big and small.
Want to make some New Year's Resolutions? Do yourself a favour: Print Keri's fabulous advice and stick it on your fridge. Read some of it every day.


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