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In this week's PEOPLE magazine, McCain, 54, reveals her painful condition in the hope of raising awareness and encouraging more research. She says one of her first challenges was finding the words to describe how painful the headaches can be. When she first told her husband, a former POW during the Vietnam War, she used a word she knew he would understand.
"Torture," she says. "Being tied to a chair for four days. I can't imagine how unbearable that pain must have been, but yeah, I can, because a migraine may come close."
Downplaying the PainMcCain says that for years she tried to downplay the pain, not wanting to burden her family – and because her husband had suffered so much during the more than five years he was a prisoner in Hanoi. "There were times when I felt a little bit inadequate with my pain problem," she admits. "But I had to get over that because I didn't live in John's shoes and he didn't live in mine. He doesn't always understand [migraines] but he knows they are real."
The year she spent on the campaign trail during her husband's quest for the White House was particularly trying. Bright lights, for instance, can be a trigger for headaches. "Whenever I had those huge dark glasses on, that was always a sign," she says. "Sunglasses are a migraine sufferer's best friend."
McCain lost weight during the non-stop days of public appearances, dropping to below 100 lbs. on her 5'7" frame. "Some people gain weight during times of stress but I lose weight," she says. "I was way too thin." She has since regained some of the weight.
Empty NestLooking back on the trials of the campaign trail today, she seems to feel relief. "It was a good race, but I'm glad it's over," she says. Asked about current First Lady Michelle Obama, McCain says, "She is doing a great job. She's raising her children and being a good wife. Good for her."
Today, McCain says her own focus is on her kids: Meghan, 24, is blogging and writing a book ("She's a bright girl," says Mom, "and I think that's what she's made for"); Jack, 23, is in pilot training in Pensacola, Fla.; Jimmy 21, is a lance corporal in the Marine Corps; and Bridget, 18, is about to start her senior year of high school. "I'm having a little empty nest syndrome," McCain admits.
Next up: raising awareness about migraines. McCain will address the International Headache Congress on Sept. 10 in Philadelphia. "I'm one of the millions who suffer," she says. "It's time for us to shake things up a bit."
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NEW DELHI—She called him "a perfect man." He still keeps her number stored in his cellphone, under the name Jewi, derived from a Sanskrit word meaning life.
"She was the closest person to my heart," says the young man. Soon he is expected to tell a judge about the night she was raped aboard a private bus here, an attack that left his friend dead and the world horrified.
"I find myself surrounded by the pictures in my mind of the incident of that night in the bus," says the 28-year-old information-technology specialist, who was himself badly injured in the Dec. 16 attack. Broad-chested and plain-spoken, he now walks with a cane.
Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, he gave new details of the assault and described his close and complex relationship with his friend, a petite recent college graduate who was 23 at the time of her death. Both her name and his are being withheld due to Indian law governing the identification of the woman as a rape victim.
The case has stirred widespread protest and calls for justice. Five men face charges including rape, kidnapping and murder. Lawyers for the five say they are innocent. A sixth person accused, a juvenile, faces proceedings in juvenile court. A lawyer representing him couldn't be reached.
In many ways, the young man and his friend were a modern dating couple, yet still bound by caste and tradition. Living away from home, the two were making their way in India's widening professional class—she was a physiotherapist looking for her first job, he leads a team specializing in Internet voice technology for corporations.
They shared their problems, took vacations together and consulted each other even over the purchase of a pair of shoes. She once talked him out of investing in a company that turned out to be a fraud. He gave her the login details to his Facebook account.
Their families were aware of their closeness and didn't interfere, the young man and her family said. But the two friends felt their relationship would always be a friendship and not a marriage, he says. He came from a high-caste Brahmin background. His father is a prominent lawyer. His family lives in a three-story home with servants' quarters.
By contrast, his friend hailed from a Kurmi agrarian caste that is lower on the Hindu hierarchy. Her family lives in a small concrete-and-brick house near the Delhi airport, where her father works as a laborer.
Differences like these worked against a union. And the young man says he was loath to go against his family's strong wishes that he find a traditional match from within his Brahmin community.
"We just didn't talk about it because it would sour our relationship," he says of his friend. "We were of equal status as friends."
In an interview, the young woman's mother said to the question of marriage: "You can't really say what could have happened in the future."
The young man's father says the subject of marriage never came up, but had their son made a fervent case, the family "might have given it a thought."
The two first made contact in December 2010. It wasn't exactly a success. A mutual friend had suggested that the young man might help her with her studies, and gave her his number.
"Hi, how are you?" she texted him. "What's going on?"
He thought it was the mutual friend, playing a prank.
"I know who you are, man," he replied. "Is this your new number?"
"I am not a boy, I am a girl," she responded.
The mutual friend intervened to end the confusion. Two months later, when the young woman was visiting New Delhi from her college in Dehradun, about five hours' drive away, he went to meet her for the first time at the bus station.
He approached the person he guessed was her. She was wearing a red top, a blue skirt and high heels, he says.
By way of breaking the ice, he walked up and asked: "Where do I get a bus to Dehradun?"
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On Dec. 16, a group of men allegedly beat a young woman and her friend and raped the young woman as they rode around south Delhi in a bus.
Without even looking up, she pointed away. So he had to introduce himself.
Over lunch at McDonald's and an afternoon tour of Delhi's ancient Red Fort, they started getting to know each other. "I told her that I am from Gorakhpur," a city in northern India, he says, recalling that day. "That I am from a Brahmin family. I have two brothers and three sisters. I am very close to my mother. That my father is a lawyer. That I worship God daily. That I am a foodie and like to go for movies. I drink milk daily. I am fond of wristwatches and have a good collection of them."
It would grow into a welcome friendship as he found his way in New Delhi, where he moved in 2006 after graduating in engineering from a technical college. Back home in Gorakhpur, he had founded a group that he intended to focus on women's empowerment and child development. But his family advised him to "first prove yourself, then work for others," he says.
He joined HCL Infosystems, his current employer, in 2008. "He is a professionally very efficient person, a quiet worker, very responsible and hardworking," says his boss there.
As the friendship grew, he and the young woman spoke frequently on the phone. "She was that friend for me with whom I can talk about my financial status and family problems openly," he says. At times, he says, she called him "a perfect man."
They started taking trips together to see holy sites. On May 10, 2011, her birthday, they met in Haridwar, a Hindu pilgrimage center on the Ganga river, about an hour's drive from where she studied.
They traveled on cable cars to hillside temples before watching devotees take evening dips and worship the river.
By then, her family knew and liked him. He was the friend she spoke to most, her mother says. "We thought of him as a gentleman," she says. "He was safe."
Five months later, the couple visited Vaishno Devi, another popular pilgrimage spot in the Himalayas. "It was very cold. We took the Shalimar Express train from Dehradun," he says.
They climbed about seven miles to the sanctuary, worshiped there that evening, and hiked back to the hotel the following morning. "We bought some medicines for our legs that were aching severely," he says, smiling sheepishly at the memory. "She also provided some physiotherapy treatment to my legs," he said, pantomiming a rub on his leg.
In March, they went together to a shrine devoted to the Indian spiritual guru Sai Baba in the state of Maharashtra. A few months later, he gave her some inspirational books when they traveled to Rishikesh, another Hindu holy site famously visited by the Beatles in 1968.
Her last gift to him was a gray tie. It remains in an envelope in his New Delhi apartment. "I tried to do things that made her happy," he says. "It's because that's how I could be happy, too."
On their trips, they would share a hotel room. They held hands and hugged, he says, but didn't go further. "Regarding the man-woman relationship, I have conservative views," he says. They sang, joked and played cards and chess. He thought about her often when they were apart.
When they met on Dec. 16, the day of the attack, the two hadn't seen each other for several weeks. "It was a strange and boring day," he says.
That evening, after watching the movie "Life of Pi" at a mall, they strolled by a fountain and snapped some pictures. He wanted to linger, but she was eager to get home, he says.
They hailed a motorized rickshaw to a bus stop where she could catch a ride home. A bus was there waiting, and someone on board called out to them, he says: "Didi, where do you have to go?" Didi means elder sister. The person calling out was the juvenile defendant later accused in the crime, the young man says.
The young man says the two boarded the bus and sat in the second row. The row in front was occupied by two men who appeared to be passengers, as did two other men seated across the aisle, he says.
Things were normal for about five minutes, he says, and he began to relax. "It's OK for today, but don't board these kinds of buses in the future," he says he told his friend.
Then, three of the men asked the couple what they were doing with each other out at night, he says. That is when he knew they were in trouble.
He and his friend started shouting. She tried to call the police, but one of the men snatched her phone away, he says. He got into a struggle with one of the men. He says he heard shouts of "Bring the rod, bring the rod!"
He was struck repeatedly on the back of the head, and pounded on his legs, he says. Dizzy and bleeding, he fell to the floor. Police have accused the assailants of using a metal rod from the bus's luggage rack in the assault.
She was dragged to the back of the bus, he says. The lights were off. He heard her crying for help, but he was pinned to the floor by one or more men, he says. Police allege she was gang-raped and sexually assaulted with a metal rod.
"I go to that moment again and again," he says. "Just an hour before, everything was fine, and all of a sudden, everything had gone horribly wrong."
Finally, he says, he heard the words, "She's dead, she's dead."
The couple was thrown off the bus at the side of a highway, according to the young man and the police. The two had been stripped naked. His friend was still alive. Eventually, they were brought to a hospital.
A lawyer for the driver of the bus has said his client acknowledged that a rape happened on his bus, but is innocent of all the charges. A lawyer for two of the accused has said his clients weren't on the bus at the time of the incident. A lawyer for another of the accused has said his client was tortured into making a false confession; police have declined to comment on that allegation. That lawyer has requested that the trial be moved outside New Delhi, arguing that his client won't get an impartial hearing locally. The Indian Supreme Court dismissed that request Tuesday. A lawyer for the fifth accused has said his client is innocent, too.
The father of the dead young woman, speaking of her friend's efforts on the night of the attack, says: "We are eternally thankful to him." If he hadn't been there, he says, his daughter might have disappeared without a trace.
Five days later, the young man visited his friend in the intensive-care unit of Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital. She had been so violently raped and beaten that much of her intestines had been surgically removed.
He says he apologized to her for letting her down. She replied, if only we had stayed longer by the fountain at the mall, as you had wished, perhaps we would have missed the bus.
She reminded him that it was exactly two years since they had first texted, he says. She tried to hug him, but she couldn't get up because of the medical equipment attached to her body. "She made a gesture of a hug," he says.
Later, she was transferred to Singapore for treatment. The young man says he learned of her death from a television report.
Today, he says, he weighs what might have been between the two of them. "I would have been with her all my life," he said in one interview recently. "Even if that meant taking the extreme step of going against the wishes of my family."
—Saurabh Chaturvedi contributed to this article.
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That helicopter that may have woken some people as it hovered over Buffalo's West Side this morning had nothing to do with police work.
The helicopter was part of a film production crew's work shooting background scenes for a promotional video about Buffalo.
"We were notified that they would be shooting background scenes today, but we had no idea they would be out this early," a police official said.
"My understanding is they are getting aerial shots of city parks, grain mills and the downtown area that is expected to last through a good part of the morning and into the afternoon hours," said Mike DeGeorge, spokesman for the city.
Additional shooting will occur this afternoon and tonight when more video is taken of other parts of the city, Coca-Cola Field, and the waterfront, where a concert is scheduled for tonight, DeGeorge said.
The promotional video is being sponsored by several local organizations, including the Buffalo and Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau.
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A controlled drug buy led to the arrest of five individuals and the discovery of three bricks of heroin and multiple illegal firearms, police said.
Angeline Marie Gority, 28, 2919 W. Chestnut Ave., and Gregory Michael Robertson II, 26, 120 Crawford Ave., were taken into custody at 7:21 p.m. Friday in a controlled heroin buy, according to Altoona police.
Gority and Robertson were each charged with possession of illegal drugs, conspiracy and criminal use of a communication facility.
Police said the pair purchased the heroin from Steven Douglas Hamilton, 32, of Shand Avenue. Police obtained search warrants for Hamilton and another alleged supplier, Steven Weyant, no age or address given, and tracked both individuals down Friday night.
"These are people who have been distributing major amounts of heroin daily in our city," after bringing in the drugs from outside of Altoona, Detective Sgt. Troy Johannides said.
The four individuals were identified as dealers who helped to move anywhere from three to 10 bricks of heroin through the city daily, Johannides said. The investigation is ongoing and more arrests connected to the distribution rings are expected, he said.
A search of Hamilton's car uncovered three bricks of heroin, which each contain 50 individual doses, Johannides said.
Police arrested a fifth individual, Alex Rodriguez Sr., no age or address given, while serving an arrest warrant at Weyant's residence. Rodriguez was charged with possession of a prohibited firearm after four firearms were recovered at the residence, police said.
"We don't believe [Rodriguez] to be involved in the drug distribution," Johannides said.
Rodriguez is Weyant's stepfather, Johannides said. No drugs were uncovered in the search of their shared residence.
The individuals were arraigned by on call Magisterial District Judge Todd F. Kelly Saturday morning.
Gority and Hamilton were jailed on $40,000 bail, Blair County Prison officials said. Robertson and Weyant were jailed on $50,000 bail, officials said.
All four individuals remained incarcerated as of Saturday night. Rodriguez was released on unsecured bail, police said.
Preliminary hearings for all five individuals are scheduled for 9 a.m. Dec. 19 in district court.
Mirror Staff Writer Zach Geiger is at 946-7535.


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meskwaki indian word for poop,do-do,cow-pies,shit.
I have too take a wiked mease!!!
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Man, that girl that girl, Abby is a mease.
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1. A horrible, horrible person who can do nothing positive for anyone, has the uglyiest breasts, and smells like weed constantly. 2. A fuck-up 3. Someone whose basement totally rules.
Man, that Mease sure sucks ass, let's never hang out with him ever. Unless it's in his basement.
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Illumina said today it will acquire NextBio, in a deal that marries the sequencing giant to a big-data platform company that specializes in analyzing and aggregating the torrent of phenotypic and genomic data generated for research and clinical applications. The price was not disclosed.
Illumina said its NextBio acquisition will broaden its offerings by adding the acquired company's enterprise-level bioinformatics solutions, allowing the company to facilitate adoption of next-generation sequencing in new as well as current markets.
The deal, which Illumina said is expected to close by the end of October, reflects the growing desire of sequencing equipment providers to expand their customer bases into clinical settings. Qiagen acquired Ingenuity Systems, which specializes in genomic data analysis, back in April for $105 million, and in recent days was reported to be acquiring CLC bio, though the companies have yet to confirm such a deal.
"This agreement with NextBio demonstrates Illumina's unwavering commitment to drive the adoption of sequencing in new markets and vastly improve the genomic information workflow," Illumina president and CEO Jay Flatley said in a statement. "The combination of Illumina's BaseSpace cloud computing environment for next-generation sequencing with NextBio's platform for integrating patient data will allow us to deliver solutions that seamlessly integrate the entire workflow from sample to result."
NextBio's database platforms, part of the trend toward big data, are currently used by researchers and clinicians in more than 50 commercial and academic institutions. NextBio Clinical allows customers to analyze petabytes of data by comparing their experimental results against thousands of published and private data sets.
The platform, backed by Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise technology, uses a correlation engine designed to help discover new associations by precomputing billions of significant connections between disparate data elements. NextBio Clinical, which passed an independent HIPAA audit last year, is designed for seamless integration with existing clinical and research systems.
Illumina said it will integrate NextBio into its new enterprise informatics business, led by Nick Naclerio, svp of corporate and venture development and general manager of enterprise informatics.
NextBio co-founder Ilya Kupershmidt and CTO Satnam Alag "will continue to provide scientific and technical leadership as part of the new business unit," Illumina said.
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More than a decade after Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes died in a car crash in Honduras, the surviving members of TLC are planning a new album and a reunion tour in which Lopes could play a long-rumored starring role as a hologram.
"The hologram is something we talked about and thought about years ago. Obviously timing is everything, but we're definitely talking about it," Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas tells the U.K.'s Metro newspaper.
The idea to resurrect Lopes, who was 30 when she died, for stage shows was rumored last spring, after a hologram of Tupac Shakur wowed audiences at Coachella. But this is the first time the band members admit they are considering it.
"It will be hard on us, but I certainly think our fans would love to see it," says Thomas, 41. "I think we would probably pass out, and all of our fans would break down, but it's amazing how real the hologram looks. It's almost like you can touch the person."
As for the new album, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins says it will be classic TLC, with some fine tuning. "We're going to still sound like TLC, evolving to whatever level we need to be at this time," she tells the BBC.
"We have to get into the studio and start feeling how we feel," adds Watkins, 42. "You have to find yourself first, and then you find the path, and then you have an album before you know it."
There is no time line yet for the new album or tour. Thomas and Watkins are also working on a TLC biopic for VH1.
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The Buffalo News next Saturday plans to launch a new "Gusto-style" publication focused on health and fitness, nutrition and family matters.
It will be called WNY Refresh.
The new Saturday morning news section will include a calendar that features ongoing and special events and gatherings related to its content, including exercise classes, health and nutrition lectures, road and bicycle races and support groups.
Submit an item for the calendar – or a story tip – by email to email@example.com, by fax to 856-5150 or by mail to WNY Refresh, The Buffalo News, One News Plaza, P.O. Box 100, Buffalo, NY 14240.


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William III
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The subject of this article is a real-life person, group, company, product, or creative work that has been mentioned "in-universe" in a canon source. The Harry Potter Wiki is written from the perspective that all information presented in canon is true (e.g., Hogwarts really exists), and, as such, details contained in this article may differ from real world facts.
King William III of England (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702) was King of England from 1689, ruling jointly with his wife Queen Mary II until her death in 1694. He reigned alone until his own death in 1702.
When the British Ministry of Magic was begging for recognition and protection under Muggle law, the couple failed to send a delegation to them, which contributed to the introduction of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy in 1692.[1]
The name "William" is from the Germanic name Willahelm, which was composed of the elements wil "will, desire" and helm "helmet, protection".
- J.K. Rowling's Official Site (Mentioned only)
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Hoard 2-year-olds up nearly one point
Hoard 2-year-olds up nearly one point
Late last month, the entire Hoard Guernsey herd was appraised as part of June's scheduled rotation in Wisconsin. The youngest cow to receive a score was Dairyman Ben Neater, #1167. She calved on May 31 and will not reach her second birthday until September 19. She is a well-grown heifer that scored VG-82, with an 80-point udder, and an 87-point foot and leg. The next logical question is, "When do we breed heifers?" Jason Yurs, the Hoard Farm manager notes that heifers showing heat are bred when they are 42 inches tall.
Dairyman Ben Neater is just one of 114 classified 2-year-olds. As a group, they average 79.4 points which is up nearly one point from last year's 78.8 average. During the day, a Brown Swiss evaluator looked at 268 milk cows (Brown Swiss, Guernsey, and Milking Shorthorn partner on their classification program). In addition to those individuals, there were 63 cows that were dry, bringing the total Guernseys with classification scores to 331. Shown above Dairyman Amen Jolene, a cow that went Excellent 91 as an 8-year-old with an EX-93 feet and legs.
After reviewing the data, the Hoard Farm ended up with:
• 23 Excellent (90 points and higher)
• 198 Very Good (80 to 89 points)
• 103 Desirable (70 to 79 points)
• 7 Acceptable (60 go 69 points)
The entire 331-cow Guernsey herd averages 81.52 points, compared to 81.33 a year earlier. The cows average 2.55 lactations, up slightly from last year's 2.53. Classification scores by age group are:
• 114 first-lactation cows: 79.45 final score, 80.07 udder, 80.5 feet and legs
• 88 second-lactation cows: 80.77 final score, 79.84 udder, 81.75 feet and legs
• 55 third-lactation cows: 82.55 final score, 80.98 udder, 84.09 feet and legs
• 74 fourth-lactation and greater cows: 84.84 final score, 84.27 udder, 83.17 feet and legs
When it comes to milk production, the Hoard Guernseys are averaging 18,462 M, 4.95 % 914 F, 3.4% 623P for a cheese yield of 2,128 pounds. To see a complete list of Hoard Farm Guernseys and their classification scores, download the file below.


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Your living room is a mess, and youve spent half the morning chasing a tiny tornado through the house. How do you teach your two-year-old to tidy up after himself already? Before you trample on another block tower, try these tips for helping your tot tidy up.
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Have realistic expectations.
Your toddler is capable of following rules and understanding basic order and he has gross motor skills, but hes still little! If youre hoping hell sort all of the game pieces and put them back in the correct boxes, youre in for a big disappointment. Try something simple like, Lets get all the trains off the floor and into this bin.
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Be prepared for setbacks.
Tantrums happen. Its just part of learning how to do something you dont want to do. Youll probably do the bulk of the work the first few times. Also, know that you will find a Lego in your rain boot — the hard way.
Cleaning with Kids 4 of 13
Dont ask, tell (politely).
If you ask your child if shes ready to clean up, you can be pretty sure the answer will be no. Use a normal, happy but firm tone of voice and say, Now its time to put the play-dough away, so we can read a story! Highlighting a positive result of cleaning will make your child less reluctant to help.
Cleaning with Kids 5 of 13
Corral the mess before it spreads.
Keep play areas contained to a small(ish) locale, like a particular rug or corner of the room. If you are consistent in this, your child will eventually learn to keep the mess there, too, and it wont be so overwhelming to clean it up.
Cleaning with Kids 6 of 13
Make it easy for her.
Use baskets, tubs or other large, open containers to wrangle her stuff. If she can get to it easily, shell be more inclined to do it! If you have the space, keep these containers on the floor so she can access them without too much trouble. Low shelves and drawers are okay, too.
Cleaning with Kids 7 of 13
Dont worry too much about getting it right at this age.
Your child will be able to understand general sorting (books go in the green bucket, cars go in the yellow one), but more complicated categories can be confusing. If youre missing a puzzle piece, look in the doll bucket, and dont think about it too much. And just know that things will get broken, mislaid and sticky.
Cleaning with Kids 8 of 13
Set a goal.
Nothing will get a toddler to clean up more readily than knowing something even more exciting looms on the horizon! Let him know that he cant move onto the next activity until this one is all cleaned up.
Cleaning with Kids 9 of 13
Make it a game.
See how creative you both can get with putting things away. Can your son sneeze the ball into the basket? Can the dolls dance back into the dollhouse? Who can get the crayons back in the tub first? Your kid wont even realize what hes doing!
Cleaning with Kids 10 of 13
Learn a clean-up song.
Every daycare teacher has one! Make it short, repetitive and easy to remember (like the alphabet song). Youll be amazed at the Pavlovian response.
Cleaning with Kids 11 of 13
Give a short countdown.
And think about starting at 3 minutes before clean-up time. If you sing the countdown, its even more effective (3 more minutes for us to play, before we start to clean up, to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush).
Cleaning with Kids 12 of 13
Lead by example.
Show your child how to clean up, expect her help, but dont just do it for her! It can be frustrating to get a toddler to understand the concept, but if you give up and do it for her every time, why would she bother to do it herself?
Cleaning with Kids 13 of 13
Repeat, repeat, repeat!
As with anything your toddler learns, repetition is key. Be consistent, be patient, and be aware of your childs limits. If you make cleaning up a part of daily activity, shell just incorporate the idea (eventually).


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ROCHESTER — With each win, they kept gaining confidence. And with each step of confidence, they kept winning.
The Canisius hockey team continued its improbable run Saturday night. The seventh-seeded Golden Griffins left Rochester with the Atlantic Hockey championship trophy and the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
They earned that with a 7-2 win over Mercyhurst in front of 887 at Blue Cross Arena.
The Griffs (19-18-5) will find out their NCAA fate at 9 p.m. today during the selection show on ESPNU. It's been quite a turnaround for Canisius, which looked like a team limping to the end of the season in February when it lost five straight.
But even on the losing streak, few things changed for the Griffs. There were tweaks with lines and combinations. There were small adjustments made to practices. But the work and the focus remained consistent. Finally in the last regular-season series against RIT, it started to show.
The Griffs have rolled from there, having won eight straight games and earning their first NCAA hockey bid ever.
"Nothing has really changed for us," Canisius coach Dave Smith said. "The pieces of the puzzle shifted a little bit, but I think it was the body of work. I guess if I had to identify one thing that took us to a different level it was looking the end of the season in the face and saying … we don't want our season to end. Since that point, we've played our best hockey of the season."
While Canisius gets the automatic bid, rival Niagara will receive an at-large invitation to the NCAA field of 16. The Purple Eagles' PairWise ranking Saturday night was high enough to qualify them for the tournament. It's the first time Atlantic Hockey has placed two teams in the field.
Canisius defeated Niagara, 5-3, Friday afternoon in a semifinal game at Blue Cross Arena.
Junior forward Kyle Gibbons again was the catalyst for the Griffs on Saturday. Earning Most Valuable Player honors, he scored two goals, the first two of the game, in fact, which gave the Griffs a 2-0 lead. He also assisted on two others.
Gibbons scored his first with just 52 seconds left in the first period then tallied 4:36 into the second on the power play.
Then came the game-changing play. With 9:48 left in the second, a Mercyhurst player shot the puck from the red line. It bounced and got past Canisius goaltender Tony Capobianco. But the officials used video to review the play, and it clearly showed that one of the Lakers' players was offside. The goal was disallowed.
About two minutes after that Ralph Cuddemi scored to extend the Griffs' lead to 3-0.
"I thought the disallowed goal was momentum for us," Smith said. "The TV timeouts really helped us settle down with the lead and the guys just showed a great passion and maturity. On the bench it felt like it was a little on again, off again but it was more on again."
Mercyhurst got on the board a minute later when Matthew Zay scored to make it 3-1. But Cuddemi tallied on the power play with 57 seconds left in the second to bring the Griffs back to a two-goal lead. It was the fourth time this weekend that the Griffs scored in the final minute of a period.
But the Griffs took a penalty right after that goal and Mercyhurst tallied on the power play 58 seconds into the third. With the Lakers being aggressive, Canisius was able to catch them pinching at the blue line.
That's when Gibbons and Cody Freeman created a two-on-one break and Freeman scored for a 5-2 lead.
The goals flowed easily for the Griffs after that as Torrey Lindsay and Ben Parker added tallies.
Gibbons' four points were a career high and equaled the title game record.
"The individual accomplishments are special but you can't achieve them without a team," he said. "I don't know what else to say."
Well, he didn't know what else to say about himself. But he had plenty to say about his teammates and the way Canisius made its magical surge to the title.
"You could tell that we had all right pieces, it was just a matter of time for us," Gibbons said. " We had to come together as team and as a group and we've done that lately. Obviously it's given us good results.
"It just seems like our guys are in the right places," said Capobianco, who made 34 saves. "It's great from my perspective that I'm getting goal support. At the beginning of the year it was little frustrating with low-scoring games. We couldn't find the back of the net.
"The big thing that coach says is that it's part of the process. Over the course of the year guys were slowly finding their touch. In practice guys are working on their skills and it's just great for them to be rewarded."
The Griffs' scoring has been the story of their eight-game winning streak. Before the streak they averaged 2.18 goals. They've averaged 4.12 in their last seven.
Saturday their power play went 3 for 6. Mercyhurst was 1 for 5 with the man advantage.
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Seventeen children and three dogs, Brenda Lee, Emmit and Molly, gathered recently at the Philippi Public Library for the first session of "Dog Tales."
This unique literacy program for school-aged children pairs the children with the Mountaineer Therapy Dogs.
"A therapy-dog reading program provides a positive and fun educational experience for children and parents," said Barbara Higgins of Mountaineer Therapy Dogs. Higgins also is the owner of Brenda Lee.
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Emmit the dog listens to children read at the Philippi Public Library, as part of 'Dog Tales.'
"They offer a calm, supportive, nonjudgmental reading friend to a child. Reading to a therapy dog can improve a child's reading skills, boost their self-confidence and build their social skills.
"As an added benefit, children can learn how to interact with a dog," Higgins said. "Mountaineer Therapy Dogs are registered and insured therapy dogs who love to listen to a good book."
"We are happy to offer this new children's literacy program at the Philippi Public Library and to partner with Mountaineer Therapy Dogs," said Library Director Judy Buckner Larry. "We hope the companionship of these dogs will build and encourage the children's love of books and animals even more."
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In 1977, Hayes Noel and Charles Gaines of New Hampshire got together over drinks, and came up with a 'cool' concept on how to start a type of stalking game, posed as a challenge to their friends. Excitement arose as questions came up, "could a successful business man and author be able to survive out in the woods against a soldier or hunter?" And "is survival in the woods something that comes with instinct or does the environment take care of said outdoorsman?" So with that, the two friends approached a ski shop owner, Bob Guernsey, and had him write up the first set of rules for their paintball game.
In May of 1981, the three gentlemen decided to forego their paintball game and bought the Nel-spot 007 marker to test it on a human – Charles' son, who claimed, "it did not hurt!" The men then decided to advertise the game and it came with a response of 12 players.
June 27, 1981 was game-day; the 12 players geared up and each was armed with a Nel-spot 007 marker. Half of the players were hunters and the other half was business-men (stock brokers, writers, venture capitalists and surgeons!). The form of play was "capture the flag" on an 80-acre cross-country ski area filled with over growth-wooded land. There were 4 flag stations, each with 12 flags of the same color, one for each player. The stations each had a referee who blew the whistle every 15 minutes. After battle, Ritchie White was the winner who gathered all of his flags first, and won the first paintball game ever played!
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5 Things to Remember When Dealing With Unreliable People
We all have that friend. Or maybe we are that friend. The one who always shows up an hour after he says he will. The one who makes promises and then breaks them without so much as a "Go fuck yourself until you die of dick." And as many times as he's screwed us over, we still blindly give him our faith, thinking that this time will be different because this time the plans are important. There's no way he'll mess this one up because nobody on Earth is that irresponsible. And then he does it again.
Over years of dealing with these assholes (as well as having been one), I've learned to remind myself of a few things that help me put down the knife and soothe the Murder Beast that forever beckons me into its seductive embrace. The next time someone jams your own plans into your colon, try to keep in mind ...
#5. The Smallest Favor May Be a Huge Pain in Their Ass
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Asking for favors is hard enough because it feels like you're admitting a certain degree of failure. Your car breaks down, and you have no cash until payday, so you grit your teeth and call a friend to ask if they can put on their Iron Man suit and fly you to work for the next three days. A "normal" friend won't mind because that's what friends do. But it's still hard to not feel like you should have done something more to ensure that you had an emergency fund or a personal mechanic to ride along with you everywhere you went.
While you may think that what you're asking for is simple and reasonable, it may actually be destroying their day. For instance, your friend lives only five minutes away. At 400 miles per hour, work is only a 10-minute flight -- what's the big deal? Fifteen minutes isn't too much to ask of a friend.
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Oh, never mind. It's a cheap knockoff version. We'll call it 300 miles per hour.
Except now they have to wake up on your schedule. And even though they were probably going to put on their Iron Man suit anyway and fly around the city, screaming, "WHEEEEEE!" they hadn't really planned on starting before noon because of their crippling hangover. Once they drop you off, it's another 15 minutes back because that's the way traveling works. Add in the time it takes to put on the suit and arm the lasers and your "quick 10-minute favor" has bonered into an hour-long, half-awake clusterfuck that they don't normally have to deal with.
The problem from their end is that when a person is in those situations that they hate (menial tasts at work, chores, corpse removal), it's pretty easy to put that shit off until the last second. And, hey, what right do you have to get angry at them, even if you're late? They're doing you a favor. They could have told you to go slide ass-first down Dick Mountain, but they didn't.
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Under that snow lies inevitable sodomy.
From your end, of course you have the right to be pissed. If they couldn't make it on time, they should have just told you they couldn't do it. At least then, you could have had made time to walk to work.
Yes, I know that's a fairly specific situation, but it's important to keep in mind because the core idea is the same no matter what the scenario. There's always more action required from their favor than what you're picturing in your head. And if they're not prepared for it (who ever is?) then, yes, there's a good chance they're not going to be in sync with your plans.
#4. They May Just Suck at Saying 'No'
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I've had this problem my entire life. I think a lot of people do. If someone is asking me for help, no matter what I have going on in my life, I usually make an attempt to supply it. We're talking about legitimate, reasonable requests, here. Obviously, if someone asks to borrow $10,000 in order to Bejewel the roof of their show dog's house, it's probably not in the cards.
A year or two ago, I had to draw a line concerning requests from people, asking me to read and critique their writing. And even though the combination of work and family left me with little time to do much else, it still sucked to set that boundary because what they're asking isn't a huge deal. Not if it's just a person or two every now and again. It's an entirely different story when it's 20 people a week.
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My reply was always just a picture of the word "NOPE" written across my dick.
Before that decision, however, I would agree to the requests. Then their work would sit for a week while I took care of my other priorities, until finally I'd get an angry email, telling me that if I wasn't going to give them feedback, just tell them so they can finish up the article and submit it to whatever website was in the market for Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! erotica. In their eyes I was ignoring them -- a holier-than-thou asshole who couldn't be relied upon to read a simple five minutes worth of cartoon anal.
From my perspective, I had overloaded myself with favors that would never take priority over my normal paying work. Even emailing back to tell them that I didn't have time would sometimes be met with, "In the time it took you to write this email, you could have read the piece."
This was happening with total strangers. Imagine what it's like when close friends or family members are involved. "What? I'm not good enough to merit your time? You need to remember where you came from! Family always comes first, chief!" In all their eyes, I'm unreliable because I've agreed to do whatever they're asking ... then when other priorities bump down the promises I've made, it makes me look extremely irresponsible.
This is how every member of my family sees me, now.
A simple, polite "no" could fix all of that, but it's extremely hard to say when what they're asking of you seems so ... well, doable. The truth is that my unfulfillable promises are irresponsible. I am, in fact, to blame, even if my failure is justified by circumstance. And I think that's true for many people reading this article.
#3. Make a "Plan B." And Also a "Plan A." And Probably a "Plan C" -- Your Friend is None of These
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One piece of advice I see popping up a lot is "Create a Plan B." You know ... in case their irresponsibility kicks in and they ditch you without notice. When you're dealing with someone who's occasionally unreliable, that's not bad advice. Accidents happen. People forget things. Flash orgies pop up. It's annoying but forgivable.
But the truth is, dealing with that type of person is relatively easy. Having a friend who is a coin toss is a whole lot less frustrating than dealing with someone stealing the pants you were wearing that had all of your tossing coins in them. The people we're talking about here are those who could fuck up a cannonball. You wouldn't make them a Plan C, let alone the next-in-line safety net plan. Let me give you an example that happened a few days ago.
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It all started with a woman who was confused by her bracelet.
My mother-in-law moved in with us recently and got a job fairly close to home. It's walkable, but she just got on some medication that requires her to stay out of the heat and sun. Since my wife has the car at her own job, we resorted to asking a friend to pick her up. A friend we'll call "Cluster Fucko," for privacy's sake, who is notorious for being the least reliable person we know. Cluster was our last resort, but we figured it would be OK because we repeatedly stressed upon him how important this was and why.
Obviously, Fucko never showed up, and my mother-in-law had to walk to work, making her 20 minutes late and drenched in sweat. Not the sexy kind you see in commercials, but the disgusting kind that makes people cry.
This was our fault.
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Yes, you read that right. Our fault. Not Cluster Fucko's. See, there's a line from the movie Jackie Brown that fits perfectly here: "Well, you can't trust Melanie ... but you can always trust Melanie to be Melanie."
It means that when you know that someone is consistently untrustworthy and unreliable, you have to plan around it. Their inevitable fuckup has to become a part of your plans. "Cluster said he'd pick you up? Awesome. That's Plan Z. Now we need to have a Plan A because him not showing up is absolutely going to happen."


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MEN'S COLLEGE SOCCER: Tiffin University shut out Findlay Sunday, 2-0. Jon O'Brien and Josh Link each scored goals for the Dragons, who improved to 5-5-2, 4-5-1 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Jeremy Ashley made three saves for TU.
WOMEN'S COLLEGE SOCCER: Tiffin University goalkeeper Hayley Coppola had a school-record 17 saves, but the Dragons lost to Grand Valley State, 2-0 Sunday. The Lakers are the No. 4 team in Division II. TU slipped to 5-6-2, 3-4-2 in the GLIAC.
GOLF: Jeff Wise, Gregg Bishop and Dutch Edeburn shot three under par to win Monday's Retirees League at Seneca Hills. Wise had the long putt on No. 12, Gary Hohman was closest to the pin on No. 16 and Dave Hershey and Wise shared the low at 35.
n Denny Krupp defeated Jared Kuhlman for the club championship at Clinton Heights Golf Course.
VARSITY VOLLEYBALL: Tiffin Calvert defeated Ridgemont, 25-10, 25-9, 25-12 Saturday. Jordan Gase had eight kills and eight aces for the Senecas, while Amber Perry had eight kills and five blocks. Haley Felter had seven kills, while Alanna Widman had four aces, Kaleigh Hendrix had 22 assist, 3 aces and 3 kills. Calvert finished the regular season 15-7.
JV FOOTBALL: Columbian beat Willard, 56-20. Jake Adams threw two touchdowns to Jeffrey Crawford. Scoring rushing touchdowns for TC were Cliff Miller, Jake Adams, Spencer Franklin, and Jacob Dickman. Scoring two rushing touchdowns for the Tornadoes was Brandon Rhoades. Defensively, Chase Keller and Matthew Zirger recovered fumbles. Tyler Gillig also added an interception.
n Calvert defeated St. Joe, 23-8. Marcus King led the Senecas with a blocked punt and three tackles for a loss. Adam Recker ran for 125 yards, while Donovan Stith and Michael Smith each scored touchdowns for Calvert. Adam Recker had a pair of fumble recoveries.
JUNIOR HIGH CROSS COUNTRY: The Hopewell-Loudon boys placed second at the MAL Championships. Drew Kurtz was individual champion in 11:37, Tyler Reinhart-Anez was fifth (12:20), Marcus White ran 16th (12:57), Garrett White was 17th (13:00), Conner White was 24th (13:11), Justin Coleman ran 27th (13:18) and Ryan Alvarado finished 30th (13:32). Andrew Scaife was 32nd (13:50), Austin Rainey was 36th (13:53), Kyle Huth ran 37th (13:57), Ben Kleinfelter was 44th (14:21), David Irving finished 45th (14:32), Mateo Muniz ran 50th (14:55), Nikos Portentoso was 51st (14:58), and Parker Grine was 52nd (15:00).
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6 Microscopic Images That Will Blow Your Mind
#3. The Secret of Life, Part 2
But what's that? You want to look closer? You want to see the secret of all life, including invisible viruses? Sure, we worked that out ages ago.
That's a DNA replication fork, the actual point at which the genetic instructions for building everything alive are split and copied to do exactly that. DNA replication is the most important process in life on Earth. It's the point of every organism there is, from maintaining your own DNA to improving it by mixing it with someone else's to spawn those that shall dominate the future. (Or whatever your child-rearing strategy is.) And that's not a new image. It's so easily observed that researchers (in this case, the University of Zurich) show it as the normal case to compare against things they're investigating (in this case, making chemotherapy more effective. You know, little things like that).
"Man, while we're wasting our time fighting cancer, Donald Trump has a reality show!"
These images are viewed by electron microscope, because electrons are what we use when light is too big. Electrons have a wavelength 100,000 times smaller than visible light -- oh, and electrons have a wavelength. We strip them off their atoms, accelerate them through hundreds of thousands of volts, fire them at a target and, despite simultaneously sounding like three different kinds of science-fiction blaster, we end up with a picture instead of a sparking crater. The first working electron microscope was built in 1933. That's two years before the first working parking meter.
#2. The Single-Atom Shadow
"Millikelvin Spatial Thermometry of Trapped Ions, BG Norton et al, New Journal of Physics, November 2011
"Absorption Imaging of a Single Atom," Erik Streed et al, Nature Communications, July 2012
The shadow cast by a single atom sounds like an emo Facebook status, but it's the exact opposite: useful and intelligent. Earlier we told you that optical techniques have limits, but scientists react to fundamental physical limits the same way bewhiskered gentlemen react to a slap to the face. The Australian Center for Quantum Dynamics promptly earned their awesome, awesome name by isolating and imaging a single atom.
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It looked like your ship exploding in an '80s arcade game.
Then they doubled down by going for the single atom's shadow. Which is like trying to find your cat's national deficit: It's too small to apply such concepts, and the idea sounds stupid. But scientists don't care about sounding stupid, which is what makes them not stupid, and they did it anyway. The shadow apparatus holds the atom in a radio frequency trap, subjects it to laser cooling, hits it with a laser beam a thousand times larger than the target and, yes, every single part of this system sounds like it's trying to kill Flash Gordon.
The world's smartest lava lamp.
This is where the lines between madness and genius are just the marks on a physicist's blackboard. The image is focused by a phase Fresnel lens (also known as a zone plate, that set of circles in the middle of the image above). This is a fairly standard laser physics component, and also mind-bendingly insane. Regular lenses work by refraction -- physical material bending light -- but can only focus down to a fundamental limit. Which is why zone plates judo reality's own crazier effects against it. Laser light can interfere with itself, meaning bits of laser light can add up to get brighter (of course) or cancel out to create a dark spot (which is crazy). The plate instead blocks all the light that would have added up anywhere but at the target. The result is a bright spot as all the remaining laser light focuses. No bending, no redirection, the light that passed through hasn't been touched by anything: Zone plates are just so badass that they don't even need a knife to cut that punk-ass laser beam until it does what it's told.
The result? The smallest drop of darkness ever seen.
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Enough genuine darkness for one atom or 40 teenage goths.
#1. Single-Molecule Motor
"Experimental Demonstration of a Single-Molecule Electric Motor," H L Tierney et al, Nature Nanotechnology, September 2011
Prepare to see the most impressive unimpressive picture ever made.
An egg hatching into a Fukishiman starfish?
And we mean made. That's a single-molecule nanomotor, an electrical engine built at the very limits of materials even existing. On the left it's holding still, on the right it's spinning so fast that it looks like the petals of a flower, and those white scale bars are one billionth of a meter. Why does it look hexagonal instead of circular? Because the copper atoms underneath it have a hexagonal layout. The motor is skipping over the grooves between atoms, and doing it so fast that it looks like a blur.
It also looks like a transparent-skulled alien missing an arm.
This picture was taken with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), the most brilliantly insane measuring device ever constructed by man. "Tunneling" is one of many quantum mechanical ideas so ludicrous, we'd laugh if they didn't actually work. In classical physics, if something doesn't have enough energy to do something (like jump over a barrier), it doesn't happen. In quantum mechanics, there's a non-zero chance to "tunnel" through the energy barrier and appear on the other side.
Come on, quantum, get me out of here.
The more often it bounces against the barrier, the faster it'll escape. This is clearly nonsensical, and exactly how all radioactive materials work. Particles tunnel through the barrier holding them in the nucleus like it was a prison camp. So we took this impossibility of existence and turned it into a ruler. An STM works by holding a tip over a sample, far enough away that it's impossible for electrons to hop across and generate a current, then measures the current.
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Yes, STMs do always look like doomsday devices.
It's already the most amazing device we have, and Dr. Sykes' team at Tufts University used it to drive the smallest manmade motor in existence: a single atom. The reality-taunting current now drives a butyl methyl sulphide molecule, whipping the butyl and methyl rotors around the central sulphur axle. A one-atom axle. Different tips and distances can influence the direction of motion, generating a net rotation in the desired direction.
The picture was taken by the same machine that drives the motor. It's like we're taking the piss out of quantum mechanics. "Oh, you made reality so that things change when we look at them? Then we'll BUILD MOTORS THAT WORK LIKE THAT!"
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#2. Who Has the Power?
In the past year, I've spent a lot of time in comedy clubs, making friends with a bunch of comics, and I can tell you, by and large, comics are not the power elite directing the zeitgeist of the public's perceptions. Comics might be one of the few groups of people who get less respect than bloggers, and I feel confident (and depressed) saying that advertisers and reality television stars hold more sway over popular culture than the overwhelming lion's share of comics. In our world it seems, only the treasured few comics are exalted and when they are, only for doing something that isn't just stand up: a TV show, movies, books. For reasons that make no sense to me, the public is more inspired by pretty actors than the combined writer-performers that comics are, but there it is.
Something else about comics: They want to be liked. Desperately. It's their job to make you happy. Go into a comedy club. See how hungry the majority of comics are for approval. Watch the comics before they go on. Do you know what they're doing? They're watching the audience. Feeling the vibe, seeing what's getting laughs,and who's in the crowd. They're doing that so they can tell the kinds of jokes that audience wants to hear. They're thinking about adjusting their sets, changing their jokes, changing their demeanors, even. The audience is the boss. If they go up there and no one laughs, they lose. Nine times out of 10, if a comic tells some "joke" where the punchline is "Ha, someone got raped," that comic will lose that crowd. The 10th time? Well, apparently, the comic is telling shitty, awful jokes, to a shitty, awful audience that apparently likes shitty, awful things. But most audiences will rightfully hate you. I got boos onstage once for an anti-Canadian rant where I said I would never compare Canadians to Nazis because Nazis are efficient and good at something. Personally, I find nothing unPC about saying Nazis were efficient and good at genocide, but that's the point. Most audiences are sensitive even to the proximity of an edgy joke when none is being made.
Me, reacting to an audience member apparently finding me anti-Semitic.
In support of the power of words, Lindy West explained to Jim Norton that 50 years ago there were more wildly racist jokes towards blacks, and now that we don't tell those jokes anymore, society has become less racist. In science, they call that a temporal association. Two things happening at similar times with no proof of actual causation. Like you might be reading this on the toilet, but there is no proof that my prose causes defecation. (Anecdotal evidence doesn't count). The credit for our society becoming less racist should probably go first to men like Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and --if you need to throw white, funny guys into the mix-- men like Norman Lear and his socially relevant shows like All in the Family and The Jeffersons. Respectfully, Ms. West has it backwards. Comics cleaned up their acts because audiences would not tolerate mere racial hatred masquerading as humor. These hack comedians who Ms. West rightfully finds so offensive are not capable agents of social change. They're half-talents in bad haircuts grinding out livings, at best, in basements.
#1. So Now What?
The thing that's so frustrating about this debate is its lack of a clear goal. What is being sought? In her original Tosh piece, Ms. West's goals were clear: She wanted the right to criticize Tosh for his unfortunate remarks. She did not feel his status as a comic safeguarded him from the consequences of his words, and I absolutely agree with that. (Remembering that we say all sorts of unspeakable things and only some of us have the misfortune of saying them spontaneously on stage.) At the start of the Norton-West discussion, she reiterated this point, recognizing the constitutional right to free speech for both rape-joke tellers (never defined) and the people calling rape-joke tellers dicks. Again, I agree, and I'll go even further and say I disagree with Norton, when he says people shouldn't threaten sponsors to pull ads from things they find offensive. Norton says the market should decide instead what is good or bad, but people threatening sponsors is exactly what the free market is. Do I find most protest groups who seek to limit speech attractive? No, I usually don't, but that is society. That is a right we all have.
But something is getting lost in this discussion: Just as any good comic should be mindful of the ramifications of words while mining dark territory for jokes, good protestors also have responsibilities. By the end of that Norton-West discussion, it did not seem West was content merely to call hack comics "dicks." Instead, she was putting forth an undefined rhetoric that "rape jokes" are just bad for society generally and shouldn't be told, which takes us back to the first point: What jokes are we talking about exactly? It's not possible to speak about this in the abstract.
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Or on the 'net, but here we are.
Not surprisingly, attempts to have this "debate" without specifics has gotten incredibly ugly because emotions have filled the void. Unfortunately, the two biggest catalysts for joining causes are hatred and pain. Look at the monsters saying unspeakably ugly things to West. They are haters, and not in the 21st century bullshit vernacular, but in the truest sense of the word. Their hatred of this woman reveals an obvious hatred of women generally and a clear hostility towards the undeniably right cause of a safer world. And look at some of the activists referring to Norton as if he were some sort of mentally-impaired barbarian. They are protesting from a place of a pain, reacting to a world that has been hostile to them.
At the end of the day, I'm not comfortable having people make decisions about the validity of art when they're coming from places of pain or hatred. When you do that, it's really easy to go off the rails. Remember the PMRC in the '80s? No? Ask your mom. That was that group started by Tipper Gore who, despite perceptions, was hardly a square. Anyway, Tipper was surprised to learn that her children's music had lyrics supporting cocaine use and fucking like a beast. Things she didn't know until after she had purchased the music. She sought to start an organization to put warning labels on records to advise parents about this content. Of course, from that noble or innocuous intention, came more and more followers placing increasing pressures on artists to keep the children safe. By the end, the PMRC was a mockery. I remember taking special delight in their press release that Eurythmics were a bad influence for children because Annie Lennox occasionally dressed like a man, but Michael Jackson was a wonderful role model for kids.
And this isn't even the worst thing to show.
It's absolutely true: There are words and jokes so indefensible they should be rejected. They should have consequences. Still, it's just as important that we be highly specific with our criticisms. It's no secret that everyone from geniuses like Jonathan Swift and Stephen Colbert to average unnamed comics have been accused of supporting things they were opposed to by people who simply didn't get the joke. And if we're going to have consequences for humor, then we better have specific indictments. Because only in response to specific charges can comics defend their work and let the public judge. If the court of public opinion is going to deem what's offensive without hearing the details of that offense, it will hand down sentences based not on bad acts, but subjective beliefs about unspeakable words and untouchable topics. I want to live in a world where convictions are based not just on good intentions and passion, but evidence and reasoned discourse.
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Dorchester County Council adopted a resolution in honor of three local emergency responders, (from left to right) Liz Rowell, Chris Sarine and Kevin Varnadoe, who saved the life of a drowning child on July 9. The three were awarded a framed copy of the resolution, which will also appear in the county's permanent files. The child's mother, Kelly Smoak-Wilson (also pictured), also played an instrumental role in saving her daughter's life. The council thanked all of them for their service to the community.
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The back of a woman's neck that when rubbed or fingered like a vagina causes pleasure. The neck vagina is often massaged during kissing or as a precursor to sexual activities.
Paul played with Kim's neck vagina in an effort to get farther into Kim's pants. Kim's neck vagina felt good when Paul rubbed it.
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neck vagina: a large, deep hairy or hairless horizontal crease on the back of a man's neck.
At the meeting, we were all so distracted by Gord's neck vagina that we took up a collection to buy him some panties to cover it up.
от Ollie Doll 14 декември 2011
a large, hairy crease on the back of a man's neck.
Man, the supervisor's neck vagina was so distracting at the meeting that we all got together and bought him a pair of panties for his head.
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Tom Higgins has been coaching too long to allow members of his Porter-Gaud team to think for a minute that they have a cakewalk to a second straight SCISA Class AAA boys state tennis championship.
With six state titles in his 10 years as the Cyclones' head coach, Higgins has quite a bit of experience on his side, not to mention the nearly three decades he spent as the head men's tennis coach at Eastern Kentucky University.
Porter-Gaud is 12-0 and the top seed in the state playoffs that start this afternoon at the Cyclones' courts against Columbia's Heathwood Hall.
The Cyclones finished the regular season last week by returning to Hilton Head Island to complete a rain-interrupted 9-0 romp past a dangerous, top-heavy Hilton Head Christian team that was the 2012 state runner-up.
Porter-Gaud swept two matches each from perennial power Hilton Head Prep and Hilton Head Christian, the Nos. 2 and 5 seeds in the eight-team playoffs. But the Hilton Head teams can't be overlooked due to the presence of talented Andrew Schafer and Jared Woodson at Prep and the Drake brothers, Hampton and Charlie, at Christian.
Although the Cyclones are not likely to be seriously tested by No. 8 Heathwood Hall, Higgins knows it's a new season when the playoffs open. There will be tougher battles ahead this week.
Nevertheless, anything less than a 15-0 final record and another state championship would be a major disappointment for a program that has won 13 of the last 18 state titles.
A win in the quarterfinals would advance the Cyclones to a Wednesday state semifinal match at Porter-Gaud against the winner of today's Hilton Head Christian bout with No. 4 seed Hammond School.
Hilton Head Prep, the winner of three of the last five state titles, heads the lower half of the draw, and should be one of the two teams playing for the state title on Friday at a site to be announced.
In SCISA Class AA, Palmetto Christian will serve as host to St. Andrew's in a Tuesday state semifinal. Spartanburg Day and Marlboro will battle in the other semifinal. The final is scheduled for Friday.
The High School League Class AAAA playoffs will begin Tuesday. Summerville will travel to Stratford, Cane Bay will visit Beaufort and Fort Dorchester will be at Wando in the 32-team two-week race that will end May 11 with the state final at the Cayce Fitness and Tennis Center.
Bishop England will open play in the Class AA playoffs on Thursday. The Class AAA playoffs also will begin Thursday.
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When something is more boring. Instead of using more boring use boringer
My family are boringer than they used to be.
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It can get more boring
Brooke: Uni work is so much boringer than being bored.
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a word stating a worse case of boredom
i was talkin to theresa and i said that sleep is boring, she said "go to bed" and i said no, sleep is boringer than this
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to be more bored at the moment then humanly possible.
This test is more boringer than the last.
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more than boring.. made by a blonde
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I snuck upstairs, curled up on my new huge soft bed with my knitting, and watched Miss Potter- which I loved! Hubby kept the boys downstairs the whole time- he told them I went on vacation to Mexico. When I finally came down they said, "We missed you! How was your vacation!?"
I didn't have a tan to show for it, but I did feel quite refreshed. And it was good to be back.


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poor man's porn.
Oh man that victoria's secret magazine is nice as hell!
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Something Victoria doesn't want to tell you.
No, I certaintly won't tell you. It's Victoria's Secret!
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Victoria's Secret is that she really buys her underwear from Walmart.
"Let's go buy some extremely overpriced g-strings at Victoria's Secret."
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Victoria's Secret: Lace in your ass-crack is uncomfortable.
Victoria's Secret must stay secret, or else she'll be poor.
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A store where straight men often pretend to be gay so they can work there, folding panties. Only to find that later on, it prevents them from getting laid, and they never get to size women for bras.
lalala victoria's secret
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the secret is victoria is a man
(barfing after reading0
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1. Women's clothing store famous for it's catalog with hot models in lingerie.
2. I don't know...she won't tell me...
2. I don't know...she won't tell me...
1. I bought my wife some pajamas from Victoria's Secret at the mall.
2. Joe: What the hell is Victoria smiling about?
Ed: I don't know...she won't tell me...
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A Bosnian person who has deep deep psychological problems and believes that they're black. Typically they are males between the ages of 9-35 that wear do-rags and Michael Jordan jerseys. They act hardcore but are afraid of their mothers and their oklagijas.
OMFG Look a 30 year old white guy wearing a Bulls jersey and matching Jordans....Stupid Bosnigger!!
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A nice thing about this organization is that the coach will not be scapegoated.
Another nice thing is that our prospects are overripe in the minors, while crappier players take up their roster spots in the main lineup.
Don't know if that's on Babcock or Holland, but some accountability has to go somewhere.