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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
Reliability and Service: Printers
Printers in 2008 were slightly more reliable than desktops or laptops, according to our survey participants. About 3 in 10 respondents reported having one or more significant hardware or software problems with their printers during the preceding year. That figure correlates neatly with customer satisfaction: Two-thirds of users said that they were either very satisfied or extremely satisfied with their printers.
Canon is to printers what Apple is to desktops and laptops: Simply put, our readers love their products. Like last year, the vendor garnered high marks in eight of nine categories, missing only on the "Problem was never resolved" measure.
Meanwhile Hewlett-Packard, which earned five below-average scores, stays on the schneid. Indeed HP's printer grades in 2008 are worse than they were last year, when it collected subpar marks in just two areas ("Any significant problem" and "Average phone service"). One semibright spot: Our readers deemed HP printers average--up from below average--in usability this year. In any event, despite its poor showing, HP retains a commanding share of the market: Of the 16,000-plus readers who participated in the printer assessment, half use an HP inkjet or laser printer.
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For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.
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OVER FOUR DECADES EARNEST ALBERT HOOTON became known nationally and internationally for his contributions to the study of human evolution, for his comprehensive comparisons of nonhuman primates, and for his management of mass-scale anthropometric studies both of skeletal populations and on the living. He also became well known to a generation of newspaper readers for his pithy and often irreverent comments on the human condition and for his advocacy of a woman president. As an early exponent of applied physical anthropology and human engineering, Hooton was responsible for improvements in clothing sizing, work space, and air frame and seating design. For years Earnest Hooton was the principal source of graduate students in physical anthropology and, through his students, was responsible for much of the growth and direction of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Earnest Albert Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin, on November 20, 1887, the third child and only son of an English-born Methodist minister married to a Canadian-born woman of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Both parents emphasized learning and made sure that all three Hooton children went to college, despite the meager salary accorded a clergyman. Besides, Hooton's small size and myopia made him a scholar from the start--"with my nose always stuck in a book." Hooton also demonstrated an ability for cartooning at an early age, and he enlivened both his high school and college annuals with cartoons and more serious artwork, a skill he maintained for the rest of his sixty-six years.
Earnest Hooton graduated from Lawrence College at the age of nineteen and went on to the University of Wisconsin, where he attained his Ph.D. degree in the classics, having great proficiency in Latin and more skills in ancient Greek. His 1911 Ph.D. thesis was titled "The Evolution of Literary Art in Pre-hellenic Rome." With this educational background and his outstanding academic record, he applied for and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship, electing to study at Oxford. There he moved in succession from classical archeology to iron-age and Viking-period archeology, assisting in the excavation of Viking boat burials and description of the remains. At Oxford, under R. R. Marett, Hooton turned to anthropology, taking a diploma in general anthropology in 1912. He then worked with Arthur Keith, where he developed a lifelong interest in human paleontology, especially paleoanthropic fossils from England and the continent.
With Marett's strong support, Hooton was offered a teaching position at Harvard in 1913, and he remained there for four decades. Besides teaching introductory physical anthropology and iron-age archeology, he busied himself with descriptive analyses of skeletal remains, writing many addenda or technical notes to archeological reports and lecturing to alumni and professional groups on the relevance of physical anthropology to medicine and dentistry.
Though disqualified from military service because of his nearsightedness, requiring six diopters of correction, he volunteered for training at the Civilian Military Training Center at Plattsburgh, New York, becoming a passable rifleman at 100 yards but a wild shot at greater distances. Hooton also became involved in revising military recruitment standards, a necessity given the large number of smallish immigrants who could not qualify for service under the existing dimensional requirements standards.
During the 1920s, Hooton moved on from his earlier descriptions of individual skeletal remains found in the course of archeological digs and isolated fossil crania (like the La Quina skull) to metric and morphological analyses of large skeletal assemblages, including the remains of the ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands, originally collected in 1915. Studies on the remains from Pecos Pueblo, comprising over 500 individuals of all ages, marked a turning point in human skeletal biology, for the sample was large enough to allow attention to age changes in this prehistoric skeletal population, as well as a careful and detailed description of such pathological conditions as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, accomplished in conjunction with radiologists and pathologists.
Chapter X of the Pecos report (Pathology) included a detailed analysis of the age incidence and population prevalence of antemortem fractures (some 7 percent overall), with the highest age incidence in the elderly. The Pecos report also included appendixes on the dentition (by Habib J. Rihan) and a separate chapter on the pelvis (by Edward Reynolds). The entire study was facilitated by a sizeable group of devoted laboratory and statistical assistants, including Ruth O. Sawtell, who later wrote a series of popular detective stories featuring human bones and skeletal identification.
During the 1930s, Hooton turned his attention to anthropometric surveys and anthropometric studies of living human beings, including a very large series of criminals measured in ten different states, and years later, an anthropometric survey of the Irish. Such studies represented a major management task, keeping track of workers at distant locations, a major accomplishment in data handling (thousands of completed anthropometric and observational forms), and a major accomplishment in data analysis, made possible by the use of IBM punched cards and the Hollerith card sorter.
Though his criminal study (published as The American Criminal in 1939) was criticized as Lombroso-like in assuming the existence of criminal types, Hooton did demonstrate that different classes of felons differed substantially in body size and proportions, pickpockets being the smallest and forgers being the tallest and best educated. Self-selection and occupational selection clearly accounted for such dimensional and proportional differences, as we have since come to know also for different groups of Olympic athletes.
Hooton also operated an anthropometric booth at the New York World's Fair, gathering novel dimensional data on the visitors, and he was involved in annual anthropometric studies on Harvard freshmen, extending investigations originally initiated by Dudley Sargent at the turn of the century.
In the course of his anthropometric studies, Hooton developed a model for mass surveys and for data analysis using punched cards and card-sorting equipment located in his statistical laboratory atop the Peabody Museum. This model proved especially applicable to mass data surveys relating to equipment design, both civilian and military, which Hooton helped organize and provided direction. As a result, many of Hooton's students became involved in applied human engineering with the Air Force (previously the Army Air Corps), the Chemical Warfare Service (later the Army Chemical Corps), and the Quartermaster Corps, among others.
Gas masks, oxygen masks, aircraft seating, tank interiors, military uniforms, G-suits, and tank helmets all became more comfortable, better-fitting, and more user friendly because of Hooton's efforts and directions. It was his notion that equipment and garments should fit the user, rather than vice versa, and Hooton was a proponent of ergonomics long before the term was coined by Le Gros Clark. Many of the national and international nutrition surveys conducted well after the midcentury mark also reflect Hooton's designs and contributions, through the efforts of his students of an earlier period.
Hooton also conducted an anthropometric study of commuters in Boston's North Station in order to develop more comfortable train seats for the Heywood Wakefield Company, as described in A Survey of Seating (1945). (Hooton's principal assistant in that study later became the director of the Kinsey Institute.) From such endeavors Hooton was able to provide alternative employment for many of his students, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, for example, and at the Quartermaster Laboratories in Natick, so that academia was no longer the only source of jobs for physical anthropologists.
Besides technical monographs and book-length research reports (one over a thousand pages in length), Hooton also wrote several introductory texts that were widely used and lasted through multiple revisions. Up from the Ape (1931, 1946) was his best-known work, covering the scope and range of physical anthropology and providing detailed, illustrated instructions on anthropometry. Man's Poor Relations (1942) was the first comprehensive treatise on primates, primate taxonomy, and primate behavior. Their titles were sufficiently catchy to attract a wide and appreciative audience, and they were written in a friendly expository style so that students found them pleasant reading despite the wealth of technical material and the polysyllabic Greco-Latin names bestowed on individual fossils and primate genera and species.
Hooton also extended his writing to popularized accounts of his own contributions (such as Crime and the Man), and he was called upon to write a popular description of the Grant study at Harvard University. Since the study was dedicated to a biobehavioral understanding of normal college undergraduates, Hooton titled that popular work Young Man, You Are Normal.
Hooton also penned doggerel that has been likened to the work of Ogden Nash. Some of these verses were included in his scholarly texts, some found their way into his popular works, and others were used to enliven his classroom lectures and the lectures he was invited to give at conventions and conferences. His Ode to a Dental Hygienist was especially well received by dentists, who frequently invited Hooton to serve as a dinner speaker. Some of Hooton's more notable verses have been reprinted in volumes of poetry, and a representative selection (with illustrations also by Hooton) was reprinted posthumously under the title Subverse (1961). Like Ogden Nash, Hooton made use of unorthodox and surprising rhyme combinations.
Hooton became an accomplished cartoonist in his high school and college days and returned to this skill in the second half of his academic career. Some cartoons enlivened his popular works, and a selection can be found in Subverse, including his rather hilarious drawing of a Harvard faculty meeting showing Conant at the dais and a back view of Hooton himself lounging in the front row.
For three decades, 1920-50 approximately, Earnest Albert Hooton was the major source of Ph.D. recipients in physical anthropology in the United States and indeed the world. This preeminence in the supply side stemmed, in equal parts, from Hooton's location in the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, from the laboratory and statistical facilities he built, from his inspiring teaching, and from his personality. The Department of Anthropology, in the Peabody Museum, was rich in archeological and ethnological holdings and had access to a remarkably complete research library, with long runs of scientific journals in many languages. The bone lab grew under Hooton and came to include extensive primate collections as well as collections of human skeletons from many parts of the world. Hooton also expanded his statistics laboratory, beginning at the time he participated in the Civilian Military Corps during World War I, and with continuing cooperation of the International Business Machines Corporation thereafter, thus providing a facility for data reduction and data analyses without parallel in the field.
Hooton excelled as a teacher, teaching all of the courses in physical anthropology himself until the postwar expansion of physical anthropology demanded additional course offerings. With continuing programs of research, with expeditions to staff, and (later) with commercial and military projects, he was able to provide work-related training and financial support at a time when fellowships were scarce and uncommon.
Though a shy man in public, Hooton had a warm relationship with his graduate students, according each in turn the feeling of being most favored. While many professors doled out bits of research as thesis topics along their own lines of interest, Hooton encouraged his graduate students to look wide in search of investigative problems and then provided advice and counsel in the course of data acquisition and thesis writing. As a result, Hooton's students were diverse in their interests, some excelling in primate comparisons; some concentrating on prehistoric and protohistoric skeletal remains and skulls; other working in population biology, demography, and the secular (generational) changes of Americans or immigrant populations; and some in human genetics and histology.
Besides hour-long student conferences of the formal sort, Hooton had regular afternoon teas (especially on Saturdays), which provided social interaction, good conversation, and the opportunity to meet visitors from around the world. Thus, along with jasmine tea and shortbread, Hooton's graduate students (and other graduate students in anthropology) became acquainted with a wider academic world. As one of his former students calculated, getting a Ph.D. degree with Hooton included twenty-three gallons of jasmine tea, sixteen pounds of Scotch shortbread, and a surprising variety of people.
Most of the doctoral-level students produced by Hooton went on to professional positions in physical anthropology, thereby changing the composition of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, which had been largely made up of anatomists and clinicians at the time of its inception. As their numbers grew, and as they gained in academic status, Hooton's students came to dominate the AAPA for decades, eventually providing all of the elected officers for years and the majority of the executive committee. Given this start and a long-term near-monopoly of graduate students, it is not surprising that many of Hooton's products were elected to the National Academy of Sciences, including Baker, Garn, Howells, Hulse, Shapiro, and Washburn.
It is difficult to evaluate Hooton or to rank him among his peers for he held a unique position in physical anthropology and was without parallel. Only Franz Boas at Columbia and Ales Hrdlicka at the Smithsonian had comparable stature and recognition in the scientific community.
Hooton's honors included membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology (he was the second recipient), and an honorary degree from Lawrence College. He was one of the founding members of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, serving as president from 1936 to 1938 and associate editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology from 1928 to 1942, working closely with Hrdlicka. Hooton was also much esteemed as a guest lecturer and dinner speaker at various professional conventions, including the NAACP. Life magazine devoted a six-page spread to him under the title "Hooton of Harvard" (Aug. 7, 1939, pp. 60-66).
Hooton was often quoted in daily newspapers and news magazines, for his pithy comments were highly quotable. That and some of the titles of his popular books (Apes, Men and Morons, The Twilight of Man, etc.) did not sit well with more conservative colleagues and publicity-averse members of the Harvard faculty, including Harvard president James Bryant Conant. Hooton's comments were much appreciated by generations of Harvard undergraduates, however, and his popular "Anthropology A" course was long well attended by premedical students, liberal arts majors, and socialites alike. Lectures, according to Hooton, "need not be the same as a sleeping pill."
Though Hooton reached the official retirement age at Harvard after his sixty-fifth year, he was invited to return by a new and more favorable administration at Harvard and happily resumed teaching introductory courses that had decreased in enrollment. He was actively teaching "Anthropology 10" when he died unexpectedly of a vascular accident.
Shortly before his death, Earnest Hooton expressed a desire to visit England once again to renew his acquaintance with Sir Arthur Keith, his old mentor and friend and "hear his cheerful voice again." This was an unusual decision on Hooton's part, for he detested travel except to the annual meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and his yearly treks to Pinehurst, North Carolina, to play golf.
Hooton was survived by his wife Mary Camp Hooton, whom he married in 1913, by two sons (Newton and Jay), one daughter (Emma Hooton Robbins) and two grandchildren. Though he had agreed to accept a doctor of letters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the award was made posthumously at the 1954 spring commencement. Thereafter, an Earnest Albert Hooton professorship was established at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and its first incumbent was, fittingly enough, a pupil of a pupil of Hooton's.


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date=July 2010 Dickson or, as is common in England, "Dixon," is a patronymic surname, traditionally Scottish and thought to have originated upon the birth of the son of Richard Keith, son of Hervey de Keith, Earl Marischal of Scotland, and Margaret, daughter of the 3rd Lord of Douglas. "Nisbet in his Heraldry (Edinburgh 1722) says 'The Dicksons are descendants from Richard Keith, said to be a son of the family of Keith, Earls Marischals of Scotland' and in proof thereof carry the chief of Keith Marischal. This Richard was commonly called Dick and the 'son' was styled after him. The affix of son in the Lowlands answering the prefix Mac in the Highlands." As a result, Clan Dickson is considered a sept of Clan Keith. Richard Keith's son, Thomas, took the surname "Dickson," meaning "Dick's son" or "Richard's son." Thomas Dickson (1247–1307) himself has quite a history. He was associated in some way with William Wallace, and was killed by the English in 1307 in battle. Tradition states he was slashed across the abdomen but continued fight holding the abdominal wound closed with one hand until he finally dropped dead. He is buried in the churchyard of St Brides, Douglas, and his marker shows him with a sword in one hand holding his belly with the other. Robert the Bruce made him Castellan of Castle Douglas the year before he was killed. The Dicksons/Dixons (and 30 other derivates) family name was first found in Scotland whilst the Dixons in England who are of Scottish descent from Thomas Dickson living in 1268 are of the same origin as the Scottish Dicksons. Early records show Thomas Dicson, a follower of the Douglas clan, at the capture of Castle Douglas in 1307. The Dickson's coat of arms shew the Keith "pallets gules" and the Douglas "mullets argent", this is to shew their descent from these two ancient Scottish noble families. The family mottoes include "Fortes fortuna juvat", "Coelum versus", for Dickson: translated as "Fortune favours the brave", Heavenward"; whilst "Quod dixi dixi" Dixon, is translated as "What I have said I have said". Other Landed families included the Dicksons of Bughtrig, the Clan Chiefs for hundreds of years, now extinct. The Dicksons of Westerbinning, whose descendants include the Dicksons of Kelso, Peebles-shire, whose descendants include James Dickson (1784–1855) and his brother Robert Dickson (1782–1858) who both settled at Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1807 and 1802, after emigrating from Montrose, Forfarshire, where they were born and raised. Their parents were James Dickson (1748–1826) merchant and bailie of Montrose, who was born at Kelso, and descended from the Dicksons of Westerbinning, and Christina Murray who was born at Montrose, where they were married in 1780. James Dickson who arrived in Sweden in 1807 founded in 1816 the firm James Dickson & Co as a trading house based in Gothenburg in 1816 Robert Dickson joined his brother in the company. Their youngest brother Peter Dickson (1786–1867) managed the British side of the business from London, business was good and continued in expansion with sawmills, shipping and the trading of both imports and exports of a variety of goods. From these two brothers, James and Robert, descend the Swedish branch of Dicksons who became rich merchants, bankers, industrialists, philanthropists, politicians, and shipowners, the family were ennobled in 1880 and Oscar Dickson (1823–1897) was created Baron Dickson in 1885. Four members of the family were members of the Swedish parliament these were: Charles Dickson (1814–1902) M.D., M.P. for Gothenburg, in 1867 he was appointed a member of the government Committee, on the drafting of a new kind of poor relief. His son, Robert Dickson (1843–1924) was M.P. for Jonkoping County he also was governor of Stockholm between the years of 1902-1911. Axel Edwin Dickson (1850–1927) M.P. and landowner of the estate of Vikaryd, outside Alingsas, in Sweden. His son James Ivan Axel Dickson of Vikaryd (1899–1980) married his cousin Vanya Margaret Dickson (1903–2004) in 1923, and became an M.P. in 1941 standing as a Conservative. He was both a Knight of the Order of Vasa and Commander of the White Rose of Finland. The French branch of the family was founded by David Dickson of Clocksbriggs and Rescobie J.P., Officier Legion d'Honneur (1811–1869) who was born at Rescobie, by Forfar, Forfarshire, and married Elizabeth Lindsay of Almerieclose (1815–1855), by Arbroath, Forfarshire, she died at Tours, France, aged 40, in 1855. Their descendants include: David Dickson, Director of the Regional School of Agriculture, Arras, France, and later Professor of Agriculture, at Lille University, in northern France; Surgeon-Colonel Georges Dickson, Commandeur Legion d'Honneur, Croix du Guerre avec palmes, the father of the brothers; Surgeon-General Jean Marie Dickson Commandeur Legion d'Honneur (1912–2000) former Director of French Army Medical Services French-Indo China. Georges Marie Dickson (1915–2003) Controleur d'Etat, member of the French Conseill d'Etat, Chevalier Legiond'Honneur, Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Merite, and O.B.E. (honorary). Their great-grandparents were David and Elizabeth Dickson and it was David, who founded the Dickson Groupe, France, in 1834, (see www.dickson.fr) which celebrated it's 175th anniversary in 2009, of producing technical textiles at four French plants. Since 1998, it has been part of Glen Raven Inc. of North Carolina, America, and is now part of the largest manufacturing company of outside textiles e.g. awnings, upholstery fabrics, camping equipment, truck tarpaulins, marquees, and laminated materials for safety clothing, in the world. David was the eldest son of Captain Alexander Dickson of Weymss (1781–1864) and his spouse Isabella Duffus Cargill (1787–1870) who were married on 25 January 1811 at St Vigeans, Arbroath and the grandson of David Dickson of Clocksbriggs and Rescobie (1743–1803) Freeholder and Commissioner of Supply for Forfarshire who married Mary Cuthbert on 19 November, 1776, at Rescobie Church, by Forfar, Forfarshire, the daughter of Councillor John Cuthbert merchant-burgess of Dumfries. These Dicksons of Clocksbriggs and Rescobie were the descendants of Bailie David Dickson of Forfar, who in November 1660 was elected to the parliament of the Three Estates, Edinburgh, as M.P. for Forfar burghs. This parliament was the Restoration parliament of King Charles II and is commonly known as the 'drunken parliament' which sat from 1 January to 12 July 1661. The Dickson family were prominent in the East Marches as a Border, or Riding Clan, and were known as "The Famous Dicksons" and as such, their descendants were most numerous in the areas along the border of England and Scotland. On January 27, 2010, a tartan was registered the Dickson (Kirkudbrightshire) tartan, at The Scottish Register of Tartans for the name and family of Dickson. The tartan combines elements of the Clan association of the Scottish Dicksons with the Keith and Douglas tartans for the Dickson family name whom the Dicksons descend from. Of this family of Dicksons descended from the Earls Marischal of Scotland, are many notable families, including Thomas Dickson (1247–1307), Baron of Symington and Hazelside, and Governor of Douglas Castle, the patriarch of the House of Dickson and the Dickson name; the Dickson baronies of Bughtrig, Belchester, Leitholm, the Peel, Sornbegg, Hardingham Hall, Glentoran, or Ballymenock (Dixon), Warford (Dixon), and Astle (Dixon).
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Conservatives have reached the third in the five stages of grief. The first stage, denial, came Election Night (see Karl Rove on Fox News). The second stage, anger, can be seen in the reaction to most things President Obama does: How dare he nominate Chuck Hagel? How dare he give a liberal inaugural address? How dare he, in short, act like he won?
The third stage of grief is bargaining, and the ways it's exhibiting itself illuminate the looming schism in the GOP.
First, there are the pragmatists. They're lining up behind the immigration reform framework unveiled last week by a bipartisan group of senators, including Republicans John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona, Marco Rubio of Florida, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Critics pan the proposal as "amnesty," a term so radioactive on the right that its mere mention had for years cowed GOP pols. See, for example, McCain's 2010 run for re-election, which saw him morph from a Ted Kennedy-collaborating maverick into an immigration hard-liner. Or recall last year's Republican primaries, when Mitt Romney used the immigration issue to get to the right of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who had committed the sin of being soft on the children of illegal immigrants.
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What a difference a year makes. When asked by reporters this week why there is now hope for a deal, McCain, back in deal maker mode, replied: "Elections, elections." Obama won 71 percent of Hispanic voters last November and if the GOP doesn't figure out how to stem that tide, they're going to face a long, lonely exile from the White House. Hispanics typically rate other issues as more important than immigration, but it becomes a gateway issue Republicans can't get past as long as they toss around concepts like "anchor babies" and electrified fences and generally give the impression that they see Latinos as a ravening menace.
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So the pragmatists' bargain is: Amnesty, neutralizing the issue so Republicans can have a shot at wooing Hispanics.
But that's a problem for some conservatives, especially in the context of 2012. They spent four years decrying Obama as un-American and an accidental president who owed his election to the novelty of voting for a black man. But instead of taking their country back as they had expected to do, they were confronted with the reality that Obama's new Democratic coalition—minorities, women, young people, and well-educated whites—isn't a fluke, it's the future. Demographic trends dictate that those groups' political muscle is only going to grow in coming years.
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For aging, Tea Party whites, then, illegal immigration is another symptom of a country that is changing in frightening ways. Previous waves of immigrants, Rush Limbaugh said this week, came because they "wanted to become citizens of the greatest country on Earth." But current immigrants "come here because they believe that government is the source of prosperity." They are, he has said, an "underclass" looking for government handouts.
This branch of conservatism, the revanchists, has a rather more sinister bargain that they are pushing. Faced with a bad political map that only figures to get worse, they want to rig the game. Politicians in five swing states which Obama won but have GOP governors—Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—have floated proposals to change the way they distribute electoral votes. Instead of the current winner-take-all method, states would allot electoral votes according to who won each congressional district. This sounds fine until you consider how congressional districts are drawn up: It would gerrymander the Electoral College. So in Virginia, for example, while Obama won 51-47 percent, Romney would have walked away with nine of the state's 13 electors. "It's something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red ought to be looking at," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.


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How to Apply for Nursing
Admission to the Nursing AAS Degree Program at MVCC is a competitive and time-sensitive process. In order to be considered for admission to this program, prospective students must meet all of the following requirements prior to beginning their Nursing studies. Students should review the Nursing Essential Functions prior to applying.
Click here for a printable PDF document of "How to Apply for the MVCC Nursing Program."
Section 1
- Minimum high school average of 85 OR a current overall college grade point average (GPA) of 2.85.
- Math: An SAT math score of 500 or higher OR an ACT math score of 21 or higher OR an appropriate math placement test score OR a grade of "C" or better in an MVCC MA045, MA050, MA108, MA 115, or comparable mathematics course taken within five years.
- Chemistry: High School Chemistry with a lab with a final grade of 70 or higher taken within five years OR a grade of "C" or better in CH091 & CH092 or CH111 & CH112 or CH131 taken within five years.
Prerequisites can be taken at other colleges. Consult the Associate Dean of Nursing Office to find out if those classes meet the minimum criteria.
• Applicants may have no more than one repeat (F, D or W) F- failure, W- withdrawal or D grade in any of the above prerequisite college courses within five years of applying to the Nursing Program.
• Applicants may have no more than one repeat (F, D or W) F- failure, W- withdrawal or D grade Human Anatomy & Physiology 1, Hu¬man Anatomy & Physiology 2, and Microbiology courses at MVCC or any other college. Applicants or students with a second unsuccessful (F, W or D) F- failure, W- withdrawal or D grade are ineligible to apply to the Nursing Program.
• Applicants who have been unsuccessful in two nursing courses or the same nursing course twice at MVCC or another college/nursing program are ineligible to apply to the MVCC Nursing Program.
Steps to apply:
All prospective students must also complete the following steps to officially apply for admission to the Nursing Program.
Step 1a: New to MVCC students, submit: A completed MVCC college admission application to the college Admissions Office by March 1, including all official college or high school transcripts, and a separate Nursing Program application. OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES: Request a professional education credential evaluation report from an evaluation service [such as World Education Services (www.wes.org)]. Please request that an official copy of the report be sent to Mohawk Valley Community College.
Step 1b: New to MVCC students: Complete the MVCC placement test prior to March 1. In order to be considered for admission into the Nursing Program, candidates must complete the MVCC Placement Test and receive an eligible score on the math portion that will allow the student to enroll in MA108 or MA110. Students may be exempt from taking certain portions of the placement test based on the college's "Placement Testing Exemption Policy," which can be found at www.mvcc.edu/placement-testing-exemption-policy.
Step 2: The appropriate ATI TEAS V and/or STEP test scores are required by the application deadlines. Applicants must register and pay for the ATI TEAS V test, see the following link for information and dates offered. http://www.mvcc.edu/placement-testing1/teas-exam-information
LPN applicants are required to take the LPN ATI STEP exam before submitting their application, see the following link on the MVCC webpage for STEP test dates: www.atitesting.com/ati_next_gen/customecom/BrowseSessions.aspx?stf=10&ssf=34&stype=6&city=Utica
Applicants must take the indicated ATI TEAS V and/or STEP within two years of application date, 2 times only. We require a minimum adjusted individualized score on the TEAS V test of 58.7 to be considered for the program.
Step 3: After taking the TEAS V and/or STEP test, contact the Advisement Center (315) 731-5710 to schedule an appointment with the assigned Healthcare Careers Advisor to continue the Nursing Program application process.
Applicants must submit a completed Nursing Program application to the Advisement Office by appointment before the appropriate deadline. Include any additional significant information that you would like the Application Review Committee to consider.
Note to international candidates: See the webpage link http://www.mvcc.edu/international-admissions/admissions-requirements for information.
If you require disability accommodations during any part of the application process, please contact the disability office at 315-792-5644 or at firstname.lastname@example.com to discuss your needs.
Admissions Decision-making Process
The MVCC Application Review Committee reviews applicants.
Applicants who have met all application requirements, and taken the required ATI TEAS V and/or ATI STEP test within 2 years of application due date, will be considered for admission.
- Admission to MVCC will require a completed college application for admission to be submitted to the Admissions Office no later than March 1.
- Nursing Program Application deadline for new applicants is March 1. Applications must be submitted to the Advisement Office by appointment no later than March 1.
- Any applications received after March 1 will be considered on a space-available basis.
We require a minimum adjusted individualized total score on the TEAS V test of 58.7 to be considered for the program. TEAS scores will determine the applicant's ranking for admission. The MVCC Application Review Committee will meet after March 1. At that time, on a space-available basis, the committee may review and accept applicants with the required TEAS V score whose cumulative GPA is below 2.85 or high school average of 85, until the program is full.
Letters of acceptance or refusal for the Nursing Program will be mailed to candidates no later than April 15 (for Fall applicants). Those applicants who have been accepted into the program will be eligible to register for Nursing classes. Acceptance will be provisional pending successful completion of prerequisite coursework.
All decisions of the Application Review Committee are final. Students not accepted initially may reapply to the Nursing Program one time only.
Accepted applicants that do not successfully complete prerequisite course work by the end of the Spring semester of the year they are applying will forfeit their accepted status.
Length of Program
Federal and State regulations mandate maximum time frames with regard to the availability of financial aid grants and student loans. Please check with the Financial Aid Office if you are nearing the two-year time frame.
Section 2 LPN-RN Applicants
LPN-RN Applicant Options: Applicants MUST choose one of the options below in Section 2 of the Nursing Program Application.
Note: The Nursing Program Application deadline for LPN applicants is March 1.
- Option 1: LPN-RN candidates who are applying to the required LPN to RN NU050 transition course must submit an ATI STEP test score taken within 2 years of application due date.
- Option 2: LPN-RN candidates who choose to apply for NU101/Fundamentals of Nursing in lieu of NU050 must sumbit an ATI TEAS V test score taken within 2 years of application due date.
- Option 3: LPN-RN candidates who would like to apply to both programs may indicate it on their admission application and must submit an ATI-administered TEAS V and the ATI STEP test scores.
- Option 4: LPN-RN candidates may opt to take Excelsior College Course #559 Maternity Nursing for NU 102 transfer credit and Excelsior College Course #503 Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing for NU103 credit in lieu of the LPN-RN transition course NU 050. Excelsior grades must be a C or higher in order to receive transfer credit. Students choosing this option would then apply as transfer students. Completion of any Excelsior course(s) does not guarantee placement into MVCC nursing courses. Placement is pending availability. Applicants must submit an ATI STEP test score taken within 2 years of the application due date.
Section 3 Transfer Applicants for Nursing Course(s)
Transfer Applicants are applicants with transfer credit for Nursing Courses(s) from another college.
Note: The Nursing Program Application deadline(s) for transfer applicants are:
- October 1 for students applying for transfer into the Spring semester.
- March 1 for students applying for transfer into the Fall semester courses.
Requirements for transfer applicants:
- Admission testing, required developmental course work, and indicated skill testing, must be completed before applicants area eligible to apply to the Nursing Program. Applicants must have transfer credit for nursing courses and may not have been unsuccessful in a nursing course more than once with no more than a break in sequence of 2 years.
- Applicants must have transfer credit for nursing courses within five years.
- Science credits earned more than five years prior to the start of the applicant's first nursing semester will not satisfy program or prerequisite course requirements.
- Completion of any nursing course(s) does not guarantee placement into MVCC nursing courses. Placement is pending availability.
- Second-year Medical Surgical Nursing Courses NU201 (Nursing 3) and NU202 (Nursing 4) must be taken at MVCC. Any applicant who has been unsuccessful in two nursing courses or the same nursing course twice at MVCC or another college/nursing program will not be eligible for admission to the Nursing Program.
Section 4a & 4b Readmission Applicants to the Nursing Program
Readmission Application Deadlines: March 1st for fall term nursing courses and October 1st for spring term nursing courses.
Readmission applicants are applicants that have previously attended any MVCC nursing course(s). Readmission applicants must have successfully completed all prerequisite course work. Applicants may have no more than one repeat (F, W or D ) of only one nursing course one time. A second unsuccessful nursing course will result in academic dismissal from the program. Dismissed students are ineligible to return to the Nursing Program.
Readmission into the Nursing Program and/or Nursing Course(s) requires approval of the Associate Dean of Nursing and is on a space-available basis.
Section 4a Readmission Applicants Within One Year
Application requirements for those seeking readmission into a nursing course within one year of unsuccessful nursing course(s) (F, D or W) or a break in sequence:
- Notify Associate Dean of Nursing in writing requesting readmission, indicating course and semester for which readmission is sought. Send letters to Pamela Fess, MSN, RN, CCRN, Payne Hall 348, 1101 Sherman Drive, Utica, NY 13501.
- Nursing students who were unsuccessful (F, D or W, or a break in sequence) in any nursing course must reapply using the Nursing Program Application. An ATI TEAS V and/or STEP test score is required within 2 years.
Section 4b Readmission Applicants After More Than One Year
Application requirements for students seeking readmission after more than one year of unsuccessful nursing course(s) (F, D or W) or a break in sequence of nursing course. The break in sequence may not be more than 2 years.
- Notify Associate Dean in writing requesting readmission. Indicate course and semester for which readmission is sought. Send letters to Pamela Fess, MSN, RN, CCRN, Payne Hall 348, 1101 Sherman Drive, Utica, NY 13501.
- Satisfactorily complete the Skill Proficiency Exam if required by completed nursing course(s).
- Achieve a grade of 90% or greater on dosage calculation exam if required by completed nursing course(s).
- Nursing students who were unsuccessful (F, D or W) in any Nursing course(s) must reapply using the Nursing Program Application. An ATI TEAS V and/or ATI STEP test score is required within 2 years.
- Science credits earned more than five years prior to the start of the students first Nursing semester will not satisfy program or prerequisite course requirements.
Section 5 Essential Functions
MVCC Nursing Essential Functions
The essential skills and relevant activities are listed for your review so that potential students can decide whether or not they may be able to complete the requirements for the Nursing Program. Applicants will be asked to indicate their review in section 5 of the Nursing Program Admission Application.
MVCC complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The college will endeavor to make reasonable accommodations for an applicant with a disability, who is otherwise qualified. Applicants who are unsure if they can meet these essential skills or know they will need help in meeting them should contact the College's Disability Services Office (315) 792-5644 to discuss accommodations and/or auxiliary aids.
A student in the associate degree nursing program must have the abilities and skills necessary for use of the nursing process. The following is a representative list of the essential skills, with or without accommodation, expected of students enrolled in the nursing program.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform essential functions for a maximum of a 10-hour shift.
- Demonstrate the ability to protect a client when the client is standing and ambulating on all surfaces with or without the use of assistive devices, including canes, crutches and walkers.
- Demonstrate the ability to safely move a client over 100 pounds from one surface to another using the appropriate level of help.
- Demonstrate safe body mechanics in the process of all client treatments, including lifting and carrying small equipment (under 50 pounds) and moving large equipment (over 50 pounds).
- Demonstrate the ability to manipulate dials on equipment.
- Demonstrate the ability to coordinate simultaneous motions.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform occasional overhead extension.
- Demonstrate the ability to hear blood pressure, heart and lungs sounds with or without corrective devices.
- Demonstrate the ability to palpate soft tissue including pulse, muscle and bones.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform nursing interventions such as sterile procedures, dressing changes following infection control procedures.
- Demonstrate the ability to administer medications (IM, Sub Q, IV, suppositories etc. (including dosage calculations) when necessary.
- Display adaptability to change.
- Establish effective relationships with others.
- Communicate effectively, safely and efficiently in English (both written and spoken) by:
a. Explaining procedures
b. Receiving information from others
c. Receiving information from written documents
d. Exhibiting appropriate interpersonal skill (refer to ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses)
e. Analyzing and documenting assessment findings and interventions.
- Distinguish color changes.
- Detect an unsafe environment and carry out appropriate emergency procedures including:
a. Detecting subtle environment changes and odors including, but not limited to, the smell of burning electrical equipment, smoke, and spills.
b. Detect high and low frequency sounds, including but not limited to, alarms, bells, and emergency signals.
Revised 2/11/2013
Pamela Fess, RN, MSN, CCRN
Associate Dean
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Schubert Earns Win in Triple Jump as Crusaders Compete at Purdue Saturday
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Sophomore Steve Schubert (Lisle, Ill./Benet Academy) won the triple jump Saturday to lead the Valparaiso men's track and field squad as it competed at the Boilermaker Invitational in West Lafayette, Ind. in its final tuneup for the Horizon League Indoor Championships.
Schubert improved from his first leap all the way through his final leap on Saturday, culminating in a final jump of 41'9 ¾" for the event victory. The sophomore set a new career best in the event as well with his final leap, surpassing the mark he set last week.
Nick Babbitt (Milwaukee, Wis./Nicolet) moved into fifth place on Valpo's all-time list in the weight throw on Saturday as well, registering a toss of 49'5 ¾" for a sixth-place finish in the event. Babbitt was just two inches shy of the fourth-best mark in Crusader history in the event.
On the track, a pair of Crusaders recorded fourth-place finishes on Saturday. Freshman Vince Liuzzo (Jamestown, N.Y./Jamestown) placed fourth in the 60m dash with a time of 7.36 seconds, while senior Tom Heun (Brecksville, Ohio/Brecksville-Broadview Heights) finished fourth in both the 60m hurdles, crossing the line in 8.66 seconds, and the 200m dash, setting a season-best time of 23.85 seconds.
Elsewhere on the infield, senior Philip Lohrmann (Battle Ground, Wash./Battle Ground [Clark C.C.]) led the Crusaders in the pole vault, clearing 13'7 ¼" for a sixth-place finish. Junior Christopher Stohs (Shawnee, Kan./Shawnee Mission North) paced the Valpo throwers in the shot put, finishing eighth overall with a toss of 40'7 ½".
The Crusaders return to the track next weekend at the Horizon League Indoor Championships on Feb. 28 and March 1, being contested this year in Greencastle, Ind. Both days of competition begin at 8 a.m. CST.
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Gay literature
|It has been suggested that this article be merged with Lesbian fiction, Singapore gay literature and Gay male teen fiction. (Discuss) Proposed since January 2013.
Gay literature is a collective term for literature produced by or for the LGBT community, or which involves characters, plot lines or themes portraying male homosexual behavior.[2][3]
|In a historical sense, literature as we understand it is a fairly new innovation, and the current concept of homosexuality is even fresher from the cultural oven. It's no great surprise, then, that gay literature — or even gay characters in literature — are so relatively new as to still be shiny.
— Kilian Meloy, "Influential Gay Characters in Literature" from AfterElton.com
Overview and history[edit]
Because of the frequent persecution or opposition to homosexuality in many world cultures throughout history, LGBT individuals have often turned to literature as a source of validation, understanding, and beautification of same-sex attraction. LGBT literature may also document the psychological stresses and alienation suffered by the gay community as LGBT individuals confront such challenges as prejudice, AIDS, self-loathing, bullying, violence, religious condemnation, denial, suicide, persecution, and other such obstacles.
Themes of love between individuals of the same gender can be found in a variety of ancient texts throughout the world. The Ancient Greeks, in particular, explored the theme on a variety of different levels in such works as Plato's Symposium.
20th century[edit]
The 20th century British author E.M. Forster earned a prominent reputation as a novelist while concealing his own homosexuality from the broader British public. In 1913-1914, he privately penned Maurice, a bildungsroman that follows a young, upper-middle-class man through the self-discovery of his own attraction to other men, two relationships, and his interactions with an often uncomprehending or hostile society. The book is notable for its affirming tone and happy ending. "A happy ending was imperative," wrote Forster, "...I was determined that in fiction anyway, two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.... Happiness is its keynote."[4] The book was not published until 1971, after Forster's death.
By the twentieth century, discussion of homosexuality became more open and society's understanding of it evolved. A number of novels with explicitly gay themes and characters began to appear in the domain of mainstream or art literature. Notable authors include Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood, Edmund White, Yukio Mishima, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Henry James and nobel prize-winner André Gide.
The founding of the Lambda Literary Award in the late 1980s helped increase the visibility of LGBT literature.
21st century[edit]
In the twenty-first century, much of LGBT literature has achieved a high level of sophistication and many works have earned mainstream acclaim. Notable authors include Alan Hollinghurst, André Aciman, Michael Cunningham, Michael Chabon, and Jamie O'Neill.
LGBT themes have also become more visible in a growing body of high-quality young adult literature, with notable authors including Alex Sanchez, Stephen Chbosky, Shyam Selvadurai, Perry Moore, and David Levithan.
Gay pulp and gay science fiction are genres of gay fiction that represent some of the earliest incorporation of this "taboo" subject in contemporary literature.[citation needed]
Gay authors, characters and themes are present in all genres of literature, but the increasing amount of gay fiction emerging in recent years has established several (if unofficial) subgenres, including gay mystery, horror and romance, as well as gay teen.
Gay themes in mythology[edit]
Many mythologies and religious narratives have included stories of sex or romantic affection between men, or feature divine actions that result in changes in gender. These myths have been interpreted as early forms of gay literature.
The status of mythology varies by culture. Myths are generally believed to be literally true within the society that created them and deemed erroneous or fictitious elsewhere. Other cultures may regard myths as containing psychological or archetypal truths. Myths have been used to explain and validate the social institutions of a particular culture,[5] as well as to educate the members of that culture.
Gay pulp[edit]
Gay pulp fiction or gay pulps, refers to printed works, primarily fiction, that include references to male homosexuality, specifically male gay sex, and that are cheaply produced, typically in paperback books made of wood pulp paper; lesbian pulp fiction is similar work about women. Michael Bronski, the editor of an anthology of gay pulp writing, notes in his introduction, "Gay pulp is not an exact term, and it is used somewhat loosely to refer to a variety of books that had very different origins and markets"[6] People often use the term to refer to the "classic" gay pulps that were produced before about 1970, but it may also be used to refer to the gay erotica or pornography in paperback book or digest magazine form produced since that date.
Children's fiction[edit]
Compared to gay and lesbian teen fiction, sales of gay-themed books for younger children and availability of these books in public and school libraries remain "very dicey and very different."[7] [8]
One of the earliest books to address homosexuality was Jenny lives with Eric and Martin. Originally published in 1981 in Danish as Mette bor hos Morten og Erik, it tells the story of Jenny, her father and his partner and their daily life. Controversy and politicization followed its publication.
Some of the best known children's books with gay themes include Heather Has Two Mommies (1989) and Daddy's Roommate (1991), published by LGBT publisher Alyson Books. Both books discussed same-sex parenting and attracted criticism and controversy. The American Library Association ranked Heather Has Two Mommies as the 11th most frequently challenged book in the United States in the 1990s.
Recent controversies include King & King, originally written in Dutch and published in English in 2002. The book is about a prince uninterested in princesses, who eventually falls in love with another prince. In 2006, parents sued a Massachusetts school district after a teacher read the book to their son's second grade class.[9][10]
Australian titles include the books in the 'Learn to Include' series: The Rainbow Cubby House, My House, Going to Fair Day and Koalas on Parade.
The 2013 publication of House of Hades, Book 4 in the The Heroes of Olympus young adult series by Rick Riordan featured one of the supporting characters coming out as gay. Specifically, Nico di Angelo confesses that he has a crush on the titular Percy Jackson. While Nico is not the main protagonist of this series, this subplot is an important step for children's literature.
A more extensive list of gay children's literature includes:
- "A Name on the Quilt: A Story of Remembrance" By: Jeannine Atkins
- "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" By: Sarah S. Brannen
- "A B C: A Family Alphabet Book" By: Bobby Combs
- "1 2 3: A Family Counting Book" By: Bobby Combs
- "Oliver Button is a Sissy" By: Tomie dePaola
- "Asha's Mums" By: Rosamund Elwin and Michele Paulse
- "The Sissy Duckling" By: Harvey Fierstein
- "Molly's Family" By: Nancy Garden
- "Antonio's Card/La Targeta de Antonio" By: Rigoberto González
- "Best Best Colors: Los Mejores Colo res" By: Eric Hoffman
- "Mini Mia and Her Darling Uncle" By: Pija Linderbaum
- "Everywhere Babies" By: Susan Meyers
- "Felicia's Favorite Story" By: Leslea Newman
- "Saturday is Pattyday" By: Leslea Newman
- "Too Far Away to Touch" By: Leslea Newman
- "The White Swan Express" By: Jean Davies Okimoto and Elaine M. Aoki
- "It's Okay to Be Different" By: Todd Parr
- "Tiger Flowers" By: Patricia Quinlan
- "And Tango Makes Three" By: Justin Richardson
- "Seeds" By: George Shannon
- "My Two Uncles" By: Judith Vigna
- "William's Doll" By: Charlotte Zolotow
Science fiction[edit]
Homosexuality in speculative fiction refers to the incorporation of homosexual themes into science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction and related genres which together constitute speculative fiction (SF).[a] Such elements may include a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual (LGBT) character as the protagonist or a major character, or exploration of varieties of sexual experience that deviate from the conventional.
Science fiction and fantasy have traditionally been puritanical genres aimed at a male readership, and can be more restricted than non-genre literature by their conventions of characterisation and the effect that these conventions have on depictions of sexuality and gender. However, speculative fiction also gives authors and readers the freedom to imagine societies that are different from real-life cultures. This freedom makes speculative fiction a useful means of examining sexual bias, by forcing the reader to reconsider his or her heteronormative cultural assumptions. It has also been claimed that LGBT readers identify strongly with the mutants, aliens, and other outsider characters found in speculative fiction.[citation needed]
LGBT themes in comics is a relatively new concept, as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) themes and characters were historically omitted intentionally from the content of comic books and their comic strip predecessors, due to either censorship or the perception that comics were for children.[14] With any mention of homosexuality in mainstream United States comics forbidden by the Comics Code Authority (CCA) until 1989,[15] earlier attempts at exploring these issues in the US took the form of subtle hints or subtext regarding a character's sexual orientation.[16] LGBT themes were tackled earlier in underground comics from the early 1970s onward. Independently published one-off comic books and series, often produced by gay creators and featuring autobiographical storylines, tackled political issues of interest to LGBT readers.
Comic strips have also dealt in subtext and innuendo, their wide distribution in newspapers limiting their inclusion of controversial material. The first openly gay characters appeared in prominent strips in the late 1970s; representation of LGBT issues in these titles causes vociferous reaction, both praise and condemnation, to the present day. Comic strips aimed at LGBT audiences are also syndicated in gay- and lesbian-targeted magazines and comics have been created to educate people about LGBT-related issues and to influence real-world politics, with their format and distribution allowing them to transmit messages more subtle, complex, and positive than typical education material. Portrayal of LGBT themes in comics is recognized by several notable awards, including the Gaylactic Spectrum Award and GLAAD Media Awards for outstanding comic book and comic strip.
Since the 1990s LGBT themes have become more common in mainstream US comics, including in a number of titles in which a gay character is the star. European comics have been more inclusive from an earlier date. The lack of censorship, and greater acceptance of comics as a medium of adult entertainment led to less controversy about the representation of LGBT characters. The popular Japanese manga tradition has included genres of girls' comics that feature homosexual relationships since the 1970s, in the form of yaoi and yuri. These works are often extremely romantic and include archetypal characters that often are not identified as gay. Since the Japanese "gay boom" of the 1990s, a body of manga aimed at LGBT customers has been produced, which have more realistic and autobiographical themes. Pornographic manga also often includes sexualised depictions of lesbians and intersex people. Queer theorists[who?] have noted that LGBT characters in mainstream comic books are usually shown as assimilated into heterosexual society, whereas in alternative comics the diversity and uniqueness of LGBT culture is emphasized.
See also[edit]
- Lesbian fiction
- List of books portraying sexual relations between women
- List of poetry portraying sexual relations between women
- Singapore gay literature
- List of LGBT writers
- ^ Marchesani, pp.1–6; Joseph Marchesani, GLBTQ.com — Encyclopedia of GLBTQ culture, "Science fiction and fantasy literature"
- ^ Gregory Woods. A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition.
- ^ Byrne R. S. Fone. Anthology of gay literature. "This anthology offers a chronological survey of writing that represents, interprets, and constructs the experience of love, friendship, intimacy, and desire between men over time--that is, what most readers would call gay male literature."
- ^ Forster, Edward Morgan (1971). Maurice. 500 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10110: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-31032-9.
- ^ Pequigney, Joseph (2002). "GLBTQ Enylcopedia, "Classical Mythology"". New England Publishing Associates. p. 1. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
- ^ Bronski, Michael, ed. Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003, page 2.
- ^ Getlin, Josh (January 5, 2004). "Gay references touchy in children's literature". Seattle Times.
- ^ Spence, Alex."Controversial Books in the Public Library: A Comparative Survey of Holdings of Gay-Related Children's Picture Books." Library Quarterly 70(3) (July 2000): 335-379
- ^ Meade, Michael J. (April 27, 2006). "Parents File Federal Suit Over Gay Book". 365Gay.com. Retrieved 2007-03-04.[dead link]
- ^ Williams, Margo (April 20, 2006). "New Dispute Over Gay Books Erupts At Mass. School". 365Gay.com. Archived from the original on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
- ^ http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000154901
- ^ Collected in In a Glass Darkly
- ^ Eric Garber & Lyn Paleo Uranian Worlds: A Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (1983), G K Hall, ISBN 978-0-8161-1832-8, "Carmilla" p. 76
- ^ The Yellow Kid, first serialized in 1895, is considered the "first newspaper comic strip," though "the mechanics of comic strips were in use well before the Kid's debut in illustrated magazines." Wood, Mary (2004-02-02), Origins of the Kid, xroads.virginia.edu, retrieved 2009-03-18
- ^ Nyberg, Amy Kiste (1998), Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, pp. 143, 175–176, ISBN 0-87805-975-X
- ^ Applegate, David, Coming Out in the Comic Strips, MSNBC, retrieved 2009-03-29
Further reading[edit]
- Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 edited and with an introduction by Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt, Chatto & Windus 1998
- Homosexuality in Literature, 1890–1930 by Jeffrey Mayers, Athlone, 1977
- A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods, Yale University Press, 1999
- Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature edited by David Bergman, University of Wisconsin Press, 1991
- Beyond Sex and Romance?: The Politics of Contemporary Lesbian Fiction edited by Elaine Hutton, Women's Press, 1998.
- Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Essays edited by Mark Lilly, Macmillan, 1990
- Love Between Men in English Literature by Paul Hammond, Macmillan, 1996
- The Homosexual as Hero in Contemporary Fiction by Stephen Adams, Vision, 1980
- The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse edited by Stephen Coote, Penguin, 1983
- Essays on Gay Literature edited by Stuart Kellogg, Harrington Park Press, 1983
- [1] Spence, Alex."Controversial Books in the Public Library: A Comparative Survey of Holdings of Gay-Related Children's Picture Books." Library Quarterly 70(3) (July 2000): 335-379 (abstract)
External links[edit]
- Lambda Literary Foundation – Publishes the Lambda Book Report and the Lambda Literary Awards
- Blithe House Quarterly – online journal
- Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture on Gay Literature
- NuWine Press - Gay Christian Book Publisher featuring fresh perspectives on the Christian faith
- Lodestar Quarterly — an Online Journal of the Finest Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Literature
- Lesbian Mysteries features Lesbian Mystery Novels
- Gay Authors Online LGBT Fiction Stories
- Gay's the Word UK LGBTQ Specialist Bookshop
- [2] Annotated Bibliography of Children's Books With Gay and Lesbian Characters
- [3] Lists, summarizes, and offers reader reviews of Teen, Middle Grade, and Picture Books with Gay (GLBTQ) characters and themes.]
- [4] LGBTQ Reserve Collection


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Photo gallery: La Mirada-Capistrano Valley boys basketball
LA HABRA - La Mirada High School's comeback fell short in a 58-50 loss to Capistrano Valley in Wednesday's pool-play game of the North Orange County Championships at Sonora High.
Khalil Stevenson scored a game-high 16 points for the Matadores (6-2), who finished second in their pool and will play today at 6 p.m. in a consolation bracket game at Troy High.
The trio of Jake Virnig, Jacob Short and Ayman Farah led the victorious Cougars (2-6), who captured first place in the three-team pool.
After falling behind 51-41 in the fourth quarter, La Mirada made a late push by going on a 9-3 run that cut the Cougars' lead to 54-50.
Charlie Reid paced the Matadores' surge by scoring four points.
Stevenson also made a three-pointer during the Matadores' rally.
La Mirada, however, did not draw closer as the Cougars scored the game's last four points. They included a key lay-up from Sebastian Strickler and Virnig's two free throws.
Shaky free-throw shooting also hurt the Matadores, who converted just one of 10 chances from the free-throw line.
"We kept fighting," La Mirada coach Bryce Jones said. "We gave up a lot of offensive rebounds. We can't win if we make only one free throw."
The Matadores were without standout guard Taelin Webb, who suffered a broken tibia during La Mirada's 70-46 win over Lakewood in Monday's pool play game.
Webb will miss an extended amount of the season.
"It's going to be tough for us to replace Taelin Webb's scoring," Jones said.
Capistrano Valley gained momentum in the third quarter by outscoring the Matadores 22-9 during the quarter.
The Cougars, trailing 30-29, responded by scoring nine consecutive points, including five by Short.
The Cougars increased their advantage to 45-34 before taking a 47-37 lead into the final quarter.
La Mirada was most impressive in the second quarter, which ended with the Matadores grabbing a 28-25 halftime lead.
Stevenson, Vittorio Reynoso-Avila, Sean Porter each had six points to lead La Mirada in the first half.
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The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusader volleyball team advanced to the PIAA Class A Tournament by taking second place in Saturday's District 9-A Final Four held at the St. Marys Area High School.
Elk Catholic reached the finals of Saturday's tournament by defeating Oswayo Valley in the semifinals 3-0 (25-18, 25-1 and 25-13). In the finals Elk met top seeded Clarion. The Lady Bobcats defeated ECC in three 25-22, 25-16 and 25-20.
Ridgway football has had the motto of "One Team" since the start of this season with the new co-op between Ridgway and Johnsonburg.
Now that one team has clinched one of eight Class A playoff berths.
The Elkers defeated St. Joseph's Catholic Academy 13-0 Friday night at Memorial Field in Ridgway to seal Ridgway's first playoff berth since the 2006 season.
The Lady Elkers had the advantage in shots, scoring chances and kept the ball in DCC's end for much of Tuesday's playoff game against the Lady Cardinals.
DuBois Central Catholic had the advantage in the most important stat at the end of the night, most goals scored.
A Maddie Meyers goal with three minutes left in the second half gave DuBois Central Catholic the lead and ultimately the win as the Lady Cardinals advanced past Ridgway with a 2-1 victory Tuesday night at Frank Varischetti Field in Brockway in the District 9 Class A girls soccer semifinals.
An impressive run by members of the Elk County Catholic Lady Crusader cross country team gave the squad the edge over North Clarion on Saturday in Ridgway as ECC used a 1-point advantage to claim the girls' District 9 Class A team title.
Ridgway football still has a shot at the District 9 playoffs.
Ridgway kept their playoff hopes alive with an 8-0 win over Smethport Friday night to move to 4-5 on the season on Senior Night.
"We have another shot next week and again, we control our own destiny," Heindl said. "This week, the kids came to practice hard, focused. We fixed a lot of things. It wasn't pretty in the first half offensively but the second half, to take nine minutes off the clock on that first drive and seal the deal, what a great job by our team."
The Lady Elkers avenged an earlier loss and won in the seniors' final home game.
Not a bad way to end the 2013 volleyball season.
Ridgway volleyball won 3-0 (25-15, 26-24, 25-14) over Sheffield Thursday night at Ridgway Area High School on Senior Night.
BROCKWAY – The Elk County Catholic Crusader soccer team saw their season come to an end on Wednesday evening in a tough match against Brockway in the D9 quarterfinals played under the lights at Frank Varischetti Field.
ECC was the fifth seed in the playoffs while Brockway was seeded fourth. Both teams had to deal with the cold and occasional rain and snow on Wednesday night but the Rovers proved to be too much for Elk to overcome.
JOHNSONBURG – Eighty minutes of girls soccer didn't result in a single goal for either team.
Less than one minute of overtime produced Ridgway's game-winner.
Caitlin Viglione scored for the Lady Elkers in Brookville's penalty area to give Ridgway a 1-0 overtime victory over the Lady Raiders in the District 9 quarterfinals Tuesday night at Johnsonburg Area High School.
KANE – Kane football entered Friday's game undefeated and left the same way.
The Wolves also left with the AML South Division crown.
Kane clinched a spot in the AML championship game with a 27-18 win over Ridgway Friday night at Paul R. Miller Stadium to move to 8-0 on the season.
Ridgway boys soccer finished their season with a 3-3 tie against Curwensville Thursday afternoon.
Ridgway honored their seniors before the game, the seniors are Kyle Jacobs, Dustin Cowan, Brandon Wildnauer, Joe Horning, Ben Izbinski and Mason Stark.


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Chemotherapy (chemo) is the use of drugs to treat cancer. The drugs can be swallowed in pill form or they can be injected by needle into a vein or muscle. Chemotherapy is considered systemic therapy. This means that the drug enters the bloodstream and circulates throughout the body to reach and destroy cancer cells, making this treatment useful for cancer that has spread beyond the uterus. When chemotherapy is given to shrink the cancer before surgery, it is called neoadjuvant treatment. If it is given after the cancer has been completely removed with surgery it is called adjuvant therapy. Adjuvant treatments are meant to keep the cancer from coming back later. Chemo can also be used as the main therapy to treat the cancer.
Chemotherapy often means treatment with a combination of drugs. Some of the drugs used to treat uterine sarcomas include: doxorubicin (Adriamycin® or Doxil®), ifosfamide (Ifex®), cisplatin, paclitaxel (Taxol®), gemcitabine (Gemzar®) and docetaxel (Taxotere®). There are many new promising agents being studied in uterine sarcoma. Which drugs are used depends on the type of uterine sarcoma, any prior chemo given, and any prior health problems.
These drugs kill cancer cells but can also damage some normal cells. This is what causes many side effects. Side effects of chemotherapy depend on the specific drugs, the amount taken, and the length of time you are treated. Some common side effects include:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Loss of appetite
- Hair loss
- Low blood counts
Chemotherapy can damage the blood-producing cells of the bone marrow, leading to low blood cell counts. This can result in:
- An increased chance of serious infection (due to a shortage of white blood cells)
- Problems with bleeding or bruising (due to a shortage of blood platelets)
- Feeling tired or short of breath (due to low red blood cell counts)
It is important to let your cancer care team know about any problems you have while on chemo, because many side effects can be prevented or treated. For example, there are many good medicines to prevent or reduce nausea and vomiting. Most side effects of chemotherapy stop when the treatment is over.
However, some side effects from chemotherapy can last a long time. For example, the drug doxorubicin can damage the heart muscle over time. The chance of heart damage goes up as the total dose of the drug goes up, so doctors place a limit on how much doxorubicin is given. Cisplatin can cause kidney damage. Giving large amounts of fluid before and after chemotherapy can help protect the kidneys. Both cisplatin and paclitaxel can cause nerve damage (called neuropathy). This can lead to numbness, tingling, or even pain in the hands and feet.
For more information, see our document Understanding Chemotherapy: A Guide for Patients and Families.
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