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Chapter 1: Early
American Literature to 1700
Anne Hutchinson
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(Source: PBS - The American Experience)
Selected Bibliography 1980-Present
Bremer, Francis J. ed. Anne Hutchinson: Troubler of the Puritan Zion. Huntington, NY : Krieger, 1981. F67 .H92 A56
Heidish, Marcy. Witnesses: a novel. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980. PS3558.E4514 W5 (subject: Anne Hutchinson).
Herzogenrath, Bernd. An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 2010.
Kaufmann, Michael W. Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New England. Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 1998.
Lang, Amy S. Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England. Berkeley : U of California P, 1987.
LaPlante, Eve. American Jezebel : The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans. San Francisco: Harper, 2004
Pagnattaro, Marisa A. In Defiance of the Law: From Anne Hutchinson to Toni Morrison. NY: Peter Lang, 2001.
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Anne Hutchinson, was born Anne Marbury on July 20, 1591 and baptized in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. Anne's father, Reverend Francis Marbury, a deacon at Christ Church, Cambridge, had been imprisoned for preaching against the incompetence of English ministers (Crawford 11-15). Once he was imprisoned for a year for his outspoken criticism of certain Church of England ministers. His daughter was educated at home reading many of his religion and theology books. Anne grew up during the persecution of the Catholics and Separatists under Elizabeth and James I.
At the age of 21, Anne was courted by William Hucthinson, a London merchant. They were married shortly after on August 9, 1612 in London, and began to raise their eventual brood of 15 children.
She grew attached to the preaching and teachings of John Cotton, a Puritan minister who eventually left England for America (Crawford 26). Cotton's removal to New England had been "a great trouble to me...I could not be at rest but I must come hither." (Williams 16-22). In 1634, Anne and her family, like thousands of others, also left England to practice Puritanism freely in New England, following their inspiring role model, reverend John Cotton. They came to America with Reverend John Lothrop's group on the ship Griffin (Colket 27).
The religious climate in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was oppressive. In fact Boston was a "fairly severe place dominated by the Puritan Church" which saw the Bible as the source of all law. As the colony took hold, ministers emphasized everyone's pious duty to pray, fast and discipline oneself (Crawford 87).
In Massachusetts Bay Colony, Anne led the life of a trusted midwife, a housewife, and mother. Her charisma, her gentle nature and exceptional powers of mind drew others to her. She started a women's group that met in her home and she held weekly meetings in her home to discuss church sermons . At first the women discussed the previous Sunday's sermons given by Rev. Cotton or the Rev. John Wilson, but before long Anne began telling them of her own beliefs which differed from those of the Boston ministers. She spoke of her many and divergent theological opinions, stressing the individual's intuition over the observance of institutional beliefs and precepts as a means of reaching God. Brilliant, articulate and learned in the Bible and theology, she denied that conformity with the religious laws were a sign of godliness and insisted that true godliness came from inner experience of the Holy Spirit (Crawford 18). The nature of Anne's criticism of the church revolved around their idea of salvation by works or deeds. She believed in salvation by grace, and therefore that one could not prepare to be saved.
Initially, the majority of those who gathered in her house in Boston were women, though in later years as the groups got bigger and bigger, men came as well. Many men, including ministers and magistrates, among them was "Sir Henry Vane who became governor of the colony in 1636", became attracted to Hutchinson's gatherings (Williams 15-17). Though her meetings were merely intellectual conversations, women greatly enjoyed them because they were about topics women were never included in. Originally, Hutchinson held these meetings to pass time; she did not do it to compete with the men in any way, or to create problems. Soon though, Anne's weekly meetings took on a new importance as they transformed into heated discussions about the church and state. Mostly because Hutchinson believed they had begun to practice the Covenant of Works in the church (Faber 53). Anne further exacerbated the local elders by claiming that only two Boston ministers were "elect" or saved, John Cotton and her brother-in-law, John Wheelwright.
Anne's meetings soon became extremely controversial. She preached a doctrine of salvation realized through the intuition of God's in dwelling in grace. Appearing to eliminate the need for the externals of institutionalized belief and law, her teachings were considered an "attack on the rigid moral and legal codes of the Puritans" of New England, as well as the "authority of the Massachusetts clergy." (Faber 40). Because of this, she caused a great political controversy in the colony, and strong partisanship arose on both sides.
When Anne, with the aid of Governor Vane and John Cotton, attempted to have her brother-in-law, John Wheelwright installed as minister of the Boston church, most of the congregation supported her. But the pastor of the church, Reverend John Wilson, gave a speech on the "inevitable dangers of separation" caused by the religious dissensions, and joined with John Winthrop in opposing her (Henretta 145-146). Many of her supporters deserted her when the governor, Sir Henry Vane, who favored her cause, lost his office to her staunch opponent, the colonial leader John Winthrop . Governor John Winthrop was determined to have her stopped. But Wheelwright continued to preach and Anne now held her meetings twice a week.
What started as a religious point of difference grew into a schism that threatened the political stability of the colony. To her opponents, questioning the church meant questioning the State. Anne's ideas were branded as the heresy of "Antinomianism" (a belief that Christians are not bound by moral law), and her followers became known as "Antinomians." Intended to be derogatory, the term was erroneously applied to Anne's followers, who did not believe that the inner Holy Spirit released them from obligation to moral law.
In November, Winthop and his supporters filed charges against Anne and Wheelwright, who were then put on trial for heresy before a meeting of the General Court. Intending to prove that Anne's behavior was immoral, Winthrop described her meetings as "a thing not tolerable nor comely in the sight of God, nor fitting for your sex," and accused her of breaking the Fifth Commandment by not honoring her father and mother (in this case, the magistrates of the colony) (Crawford 137). Thus, she was tried by the General Court of Massachusetts, presided over by Winthrop, on the charge of "traducing the ministers" (such ministers as the brilliant preacher John Cotton). Anne Hutchinson was charged with several charges, on the basis that she committed acts allegedly "not fitting for her sex." (Faber 391) Winthrop stacked the deck by appointing a jury which, in his mind, would undoubtedly convict Anne. At this trial, she parried all questions so well that Edmund S. Morgan, a biographer of Gov. John Winthrop, was led to comment that Anne Hutchinson was the governor's "intellectual superior in everything except political judgment; in everything except the sense of what was possible in this world." (Bailyn 92)
Answering deftly, Anne came close to clearing herself of all charges. But suddenly, she mentioned that she had had several revelations. The Lord revealed himself to her, she said, "upon a Throne of Justice, and all the world appearing before him, and though I must come to New England, yet I must not fear nor be dismayed," she said. "Therefore, take heed. For I know that for this that you goe about to doe unto me," she threatened, "God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole State." Winthrop immediately replied, "I am persuaded that the revelation she brings forth is delusion." The court voted to banish her from the colony, "as being a woman not fit for our society." (Crawford 144-146)
Wheelwright was exiled and shortly left for New Hampshire while Anne was put under house arrest for the winter to await a church trial in the spring. On March 15, 1638, Anne was brought to trial before the elders of the church of Boston. When her sons and sons-in-law tried to speak on her behalf, John Cotton cautioned them against "hindering" the work of God in healing her soul (Crawford 98). To the women of the congregation he said to be careful in listening to her, "for you see she is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous Principles are held by her." (Crawford 133)
Once her friend, Cotton now turned full force against her, attacking her meetings as a "promiscuous and filthie coming together of men and women without Distinction of Relation of Marriage," and accused her of believing in free love. "Your opinions frett like a Gangrene and spread like a Leprosie, and will eate out the very Bowells of Religion." (Lemeul 266)
Then Reverend Wilson, whom she had once tried to evict from the Boston church, delivered her excommunication. "I doe cast you out and in the name of Christ I doe deliver you up to Satan, that you may learne no more to blaspheme, to seduce, and to lye."
"The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth," she retorted. "Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ." (Crawford 140-142)
The trial was a travesty of justice. After the heated trial in which she provided a great argument, Anne Hutchinson was found guilty, excommunicated, and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Church and exiled from the state of Massachusetts. Puritan authorities justified her banishment on theological grounds. "Proud Jezebel has at last been cast down," wrote the Puritan minister and Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop (Crawford 137).
Betrayed by her idol, reverend John Cotton and banished from Boston, Anne Hutchinson with her husband, 13 children and 60 followers settled in the land of Narragansetts, from whose chief, Miantonomah, they purchased the island of Aquidneck (Peaceable Island), now part of Rhode Island. In March, 1638 they founded the town of Pocasset, the Indian name for that locality; the name "Portsmouth" was given to the settlement in 1639 (Lemuel 345). Here they established that colony's first civil government. The group of banished Bostonians gathered on March 7, 1638, and agreed to the following Compact for their new colony:
"We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah he shall help, will submit our person, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby."(Henretta 277)
In 1640 William Hutchinson was elected assistant to Governor Coddington of the Rhode Island Colony. After William's death in 1642, Anne took her children, except for her eldest son and daughter, to the Dutch colony, New Amsterdam, in New York (in what is now Pelham Bay, the Bronx, New York) near Long Island. In August, 1643 the Dutch had antagonized nearby Indians that year, the Indians rose up an attacked settlements beyond the walled protection of New Amsterdam (New York City). Anne's family was attacked by a group of Indians during a battle between the Mohegans and the Narragansetts. The Mohegans raided the Hutchinson house and slaughtered Anne and thirteen members of her family, except for one young daughter who was taken captive. The unharmed child was adopted by the Indians for a while (Faber 268).
Anne Hutchinson challenged the role of women in Puritan society; she stood up for her beliefs and was not intimidated by men as other women in the colony had been. She was extremely bold and strong and she broke the mold of the average woman during her time.
Some twentieth century observers credit Anne Hutchinson with being the first American woman to lead the public fight for religious diversity and female quality. In his 1971 biography, Eleanor and Franklin, Joseph P. Lash reported that Eleanor Roosevelt began her list of America's greatest women with Anne Hutchinson (Williams 131). Anne did indeed use her considerable influence as a woman to test the Massachusetts Bay Colony's religious tolerance which, ironically, had been the reason for the settlement.
Today this advocate of freedom of religion, the right to free assembly and women's rights is honored by the naming of the Hutchinson River and a major road, the Hutchinson River Parkway, in her honor.
In April 27, 1996, Anne Hutchinson was honored by the dedication of a plaque which was placed at Founders Brook Park on Aquidneck Island (Portsmouth), Rhode Island. The plaque is the work of the Anne Hutchinson Memorial Committee, a group of Aquidneck Island volunteers led by Valerie DeBrule of Newport, who raised funds to pay for the plaque and surrounding medicinal herb garden. She is worthy of being honored and the plaque being dedicated to her in fact, it is a little more than three hundred years overdue.
Works Cited
Bailyn, Bernard. The Peopling of British North America. New York: Random House, 1986.
Crawford, Deborah. Four Women in a Violent Time. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970.
Faber, Doris. Anne Hutchinson. Champaign: Garrard Publishing,1970.
Henretta, James A., W. Elliot Brownlee, David Brody, and Susan Ware. America's History: Vol. 1. New York: Worth Publishers, 1993.
Williams, Selma R. Divine Rebel: The Life of Anne Marbury Hutchinson. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.
Williams, Selma R. Demeter's Daughters, Women Who Founded America,1587-1787. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1975.
Colket, Meredith B. The English Ancestry of Anne Marbury Hutchinson and Katherine Marbury Scott. Philadelphia: The Mager Press,1936
Lemuel, Joseph. The Hutchinson Family of England and New England, and its Connection with the Marburys and Drydens. NEHGR Vol. XX, Oct. 1866
MLA Style Citation of this Web Page
Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 1: Anne Hutchinson." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. WWW URL: http://www.paulreuben.website/pal/chap1/hutchinson.html (provide page date or date of your login).
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It's been two years since the university retired the nickname and committee members have stopped working to bring back the nickname. But Davidson said she wrote the book now to "get the truth out."
She said she fears that, without the nickname, UND would no longer have a special tie with Sioux people that provides them with a better educational opportunity.
Nickname opponents have long argued the nickname created a negative educational environment for American Indians because it's offensive and fosters offensive attitudes. Recently, when some UND students were seen wearing "Siouxper drunk" T-shirts, nickname opponents again blamed the nickname.
Davidson said the T-shirts were "disgusting" and "in bad taste" but did not cause an uproar at her reservation as it did on campus. "Obviously if there weren't a nickname that wouldn't have happened but there would be something else wouldn't there?" she said. "People got to stop being so sensitive about every little thing."
Sioux enough
"Aren't We Sioux Enough?" is a play on the words of U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson.
During a hearing in 2012, the judge questioned why Florida State University only needed the approval of one Seminole tribe and Central Michigan University only needed one Chippewa tribe when there are several other namesake tribes.
Erickson noted that the Spirit Lake tribe had already voted for the nickname — in fact, it was an overwhelming 67 percent "yes" vote.
"Aren't they Sioux enough?" he asked the NCAA attorney.
Davidson's group tried to get a vote at Standing Rock but tribal leaders refused to hear of it.
In the end, Erickson dismissed her group's lawsuit against the NCAA. And, as the war over the nickname heated up, more North Dakotans tired of the acrimony. More than 60 percent voted to retire the nickname in 2012.
Still Davidson said she hears from nickname supporters who want to bring it back. "I always say to myself, 'If they take it away you can bring it back.'"


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Roadwork: I-70 resurfacing Rifle-Silt; Highway 133 in Carbondale
May 26, 2014
An 11.5-mile improvement project on I-70 between Rifle and Silt is scheduled to begin today.
The $4.4 million project will consist of removing and replacing concrete pavement slabs, guardrail and striping, and repairing bridge decks. The Colorado Department of Transportation awarded the project to Multiple Concrete Enterprises of Ogden, Utah.
Lane closures will occur during the project and speeds will be reduced from 75 to 45 mph through the work zone. Vehicles wider than 14 feet will be restricted through the project.
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Also today, weather permitting, work is scheduled to begin on a 1.9 mile, $9.4 million project to improve Highway 133, which serves as one of Carbondale's main thoroughfares.
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Starting now, we're going to be tossing a series of blog posts at you, which will (hopefully) give you a more comprehensive understanding of various things you'll come across when learning about sound recording (whether you want to put together a home studio and record your own music, have a better idea of what goes into making the records you listen to, or just know enough to be able to mess around with your friends…).
Fundamentals of Sound Engineering: Dynamic Microphones
This week we'll start out simple by telling you about something nearly everyone has had some exposure to at one point or another: Dynamic Microphones.
These mics are, to the world of audio recording, what Nokia phones are to the cell phone scene. Sturdy, dependable – not particularly fancy or expensive in most cases, but extremely versatile…by definition, very dynamic microphones.
Dynamic mics have no internal amplifier, and don't require batteries or any external power source. They work by using a wire coil and magnet to create an audio signal. The diaphragm of the microphone is attached to the wire coil – when this vibrates in response to incoming sound waves, the coil moves back and forth in front of the magnet, creating an electrical current, which is then channeled through wires and into an amplifier or recording device, where it becomes audible sound waves again. Another useful thing to remember when thinking about this process: dynamic mics are basically speakers…in reverse.
A more comprehensive break-down of those concepts can be found at mediacollege.com.
Here's a good list of recommended dynamic mics based on what you could might use them for: ehomerecordingstudio.com
Hopefully that helped answer some questions you have starting out, or at least refreshed you on something you're already familiar with- stay tuned for our next blog post, which will break down the basics of condenser mics!
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Prologue: Breaking a Thought Into Pieces
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Suppose that you awake this morning to find, like Franz Kafka's fictional character Gregor Samsa, that you have been transformed into another creature - not, in this case, a giant insect but a very sophisticated digital computer. Or, to make the metamorphosis a shade less absurd, imagine that you have been granted, overnight, unusual powers of introspection, the ability to gaze into your mind and examine the processes inside. Armed with this newfound skill, you perform a thought experiment - A Day in the Life - in which you zoom in close with your epistemological microscope and examine the gears in the machinery of the mind.
You're halfway down the stairs of your apartment building when a thought occurs: you've forgotten your umbrella. Do you climb back up two flights and risk missing the subway or do you chance getting wet? After a split second of what seems like suspended animation, a decision emerges. Acting on a hunch (whatever that is), you dart upstairs, unaware that you've acted out of anything more analyzable than a gut feeling.
But pretend that you work like a computer and your hunch is a costbenefit analysis calculated so rapidly that you aren't aware of the myriad steps in the computation. During that second in which you don't even know you are thinking, your decision-making apparatus performs a memory-bank sweep, retrieving meteorological data gleaned from last night's television news or a glance at the morning paper's weather box, or out the window where the quality of light tells you there might be clouds. You obtain more data from your wired-in calendar clock, which knows that it's a late-September morning and what that might mean. Using the information you've gathered from being alive during a thousand September mornings, you make an educated guess, a hunch-an informal statistical prediction of how, based on your experience, the day is likely to be.
While these machinations are occurring, another process is taking place. You glance at your watch and recall the subway schedule. The neural circuits that are dealing with weather award 9 points to the possibility of rain. The likelihood of missing the subway is given an 8. Up the stairs or out the door? The answer is (subliminally) obvious.
But can it really be so simple? We are each individuals, after all. So introduce more factors. Perhaps there is a dial that controls fear of being late; turn it from to 7. Perhaps this new signal would swing the decision the other way, in favor of forgetting about the umbrella. Or lower the level on another dial that controls one's aversion to rain.
The point is that you can make your imaginary computer as complex as you like, adding dials to control any number of characteristics, making the gradations on the dials as fine as you please, programming the entire system to base its decisions on many times more data. Maybe that's not how the mind works. But it begins to look as though it could be modeled that way, if the simulation were fine enough.
With umbrella in hand, you rush out the door, nodding perfunctorily at a neighbor, whose name you still don't remember. You stop, as usual, at the newsstand to pick up the Times, but today, on an impulse, you buy the Post instead. There are two possible explanations for this seemingly irrational behavior. First, there was that party you attended last week, where someone you were trying to impress accused you of being an elitist when you made a snide remark about the public's fascination with trashy tabloid journalism. Who were you to say a periodical is bad because it has lots of pictures, big headlines, and is aimed at the common man? Actually, you were referring to those supermarket weeklies with stories headlined JKF ALIVE IN SECRET CAVERN, or WOMAN MADE PREGNANT BY UFO, but still the accusation stung. You, an elitist? The word lodged in your brain like a piece of glass. For the next few days, rubbed by other memories and experiences, it seemed to take on a charge, a mounting aura of static electricity that laymen call guilt or shame. Have you ever actually read the Post? Today, just as you habitually reached for the Times, the feeling exceeded a threshold, sparking across the gap of some neurological electrode and jerking your arm, froglike, one foot to the right, where the stack of Posts lay waiting. You may forgive yourself the crude, almost prehistoric, analogy. The spark gap and the accumulating voltage could be simulated by the counter on a digital computer, movingclick, click, click-incrementally higher.
The other explanation for your surprising choice of newspapers is simpler and more direct, though no less mechanical: the Post bears a headline about a disaster in Mexico City, a place you have been vaguely thinking about since yesterday when a song on the radio reminded you of a week spent there with an old friend. Whatever the reason for your purchase, the story about Mexico is what you read as you sit on the subway train and begin moving toward the office.
Somewhere, about the third or fourth paragraph, your attention begins to lag. You pause, fold the paper in half, and lean back, reflecting. A section in your memory called Mexico has been ignited. Like the madeleine in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, a garish newspaper article and an old Top Forty radio tune have evoked a chain of memories, one linked to another in a procession that recedes into the vistas of your mind. As the train leaves the tunnel momentarily and crosses the river, you gaze listlessly out the window. But in the world behind your eyes you wander the streets of another city, the network of thoughts and images stored somehow in your brain and indexed under Mexico: the hotel with the elevators like brass cages, the crowds of grotesque faces in the Diego Rivera mural in the Palace of Fine Arts. And there is a scene on Paseo de la Reforma, the treelined boulevard that angles from Chapultepec Park toward the Alameda: white-and-gold monuments rising from the center divider, vendors selling lottery tickets, side streets choked with quadruple-parked cars.
And then you remember the traffic circles. What is the word, in Spanish, for traffic circle? Now your internal wanderings become more deliberate as you try to retrieve this elusive piece of information. You can almost feel the word crystallizing into consciousness, almost sense its shape and sound. It has the feel of a woman's name, or, no, a flower. You can barely see its profile-the skyline of letters. It seems there's a t sticking out somewhere, a sharpness rising above smoother, rounder-sounding letters. But when you try to focus closer the word disappears, like those barely existing hazes of stellar light that can be seen only from the corner of an eye. You try to coax the word back, when suddenly, for no good reason, the image of a freeway looms into view. Not in Mexico, oddly, but in New Mexico. It's the interstate highway that runs along the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, from Santa Fe toward Denver. There is an exit that leads to the Pecos wilderness and that night long ago camping in a canyon with fireflies everywhere.
A roadway in your mind has led, unexpectedly, from the streets of Mexico City to another cluster of memories. A detour, it seems, but then you remember. The town at the exit is Glorieta, New Mexico, and the word, in Spanish, for traffic circle is glorieta, which sounds like Gloria, a woman's name. It is flowerlike and round (a traffic circle is round) - and flower in Spanish is flora, glora, glorieta. The word was stored in many different places and crossreferenced according to its shape, its sound, the places where it has been experienced, as well as by what it means.
Well, no one said that your data base had to be simple and clear-cut. It's more a tangle than an array. The mural by Diego Rivera has tentacles extending to the memory of another of his works, on a ceiling in the Museum of Science and Industry, which is filed in a section where you keep vague, fading remembrances of a childhood trip to Chicago.
You could wander all day, back to Mexico or to that canyon in the wilderness, but reality intrudes. You emerge from the network of tunnels (the ones in your mind as well as those the train has been traveling through) and find yourself outside the building where you work. You go inside, ready to spend the day utilizing a more orderly part of your mind. Most of us would agree that there are scores of jobs of such mind-numbing repetition that they easily could be mechanized. But to keep the experiment interesting, let's pretend that you're a doctor. Patient A is complaining of stomach troublea burning pain, strange rumblings in the night, food that seems to sit in the gut as indigestible as concrete. So are we talking ulcer, maybe cancer, or just a nervous stomach? How about cirrhosis of the liver? All have overlap
ping symptoms: nausea, abdominal cramps, a feeling of fullness. To find your way through the web of possibilities, you must gather more information, ask questions whose answers will lead to other questions, and more direct inquiries such as X rays and blood tests.
Does the patient drink, smoke, lead a stressful life, eat a lot of Szechuan food? These activities all have been linked to stomach irritation, which might lead to chronic gastritis and perhaps, in extreme cases, ulceration. Is the patient's skin jaundiced? That is a symptom of liver trouble. Is the spleen enlarged? That can mean cirrhosis, but it can also mean leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, malaria, or mononucleosis, which all have distinguishing and overlapping symptoms of their own.
You ask the patient to be more specific. Are the pains in the upper abdomen? Do they happen between meals and go away after eating? Is there a sour taste in the mouth that abates after taking antacids? Those might be ulcer signs. If the pain is lower and to the right it might be appendicitis, which is often accompanied by a high white-blood-cell count-and that, of course, can mean an infection in any part of the body. Weight loss can accompany cirrhosis or cancer.
In even the most routine case, there is an overwhelming amount of information to consider. Men might be more likely to get ulcers than women. Certain personality types are ulcer-prone. And once a diagnosis is made, there is a spectrum of possible treatments. In the case of an ulcer, they range from medication to surgery.
An experienced doctor doesn't consider every single factor, running through a vast mental checklist. Over the years certain symptoms recur so frequently that they are compiled into patterns which, when observed, can elicit a diagnosis almost immediately. They feel like hunches, but so did the decision to go back for the umbrella. After all, medicine is supposed to be logical, at least largely so. The most complex medical decision might be broken into thousands of microdecisions, which, if properly strung together by a computer, would produce the same diagnosis a human doctor would. Each decision need not be black or white. To allow for uncertainty, probability ratings could be included, translated as numbers between 1 and 10, or 1 and 100, depending on how much subtlety is required.
And what about the instincts that seem to contribute to the diagnostic process-the feeling you got that you were dealing with a nervous person, someone who internalized emotional troubles, converting them through the alchemy of neurosis into excess stomach acid? Couldn't that hunch also have resulted from the accumulation of clues: the way the patient fidgeted, asked too many questions, recounted every imaginable symptom in excruciating detail? Without consciously thinking, you weave the clues into a pattern, then compare it against the model of what you know from experience to be the classic ulcer personality.
And yet you wonder. Can it all be so explicable? Is there no such thing
as a creative diagnostician, one who startles colleagues with insights? Well, unless you believe in magic, don't those insights have to be based on information and experience? Isn't the brilliant internist likely to be one who has read more, retained more-whose brain is, perhaps, wired better so that it can recall data more rapidly, weaving it into more possible structures to consider, one against the other, so that when the most logical possibility emerges it seems like a bolt out of the blue?
And so the story goes. When the day is done, you walk outside and feel a raindrop. Unfortunately you've left your umbrella at the office and you don't feel like going back. You get wet, catch a cold, and stay home the next day. Nobody said this was a perfect computer.
Or did the possible pleasures of spending a day sick but not debilitated contribute to your forgetting the umbrella? This is starting to sound like a parody of Freud. All this hyperanalytic nonsense is depressing. You pick up a murder mystery you've been wanting to finish and go back to bed. But the thought experiment isn't over. For now you have enacted your bookreading routine.
Granted, the rules for parsing sentences and correlating words with definitions might be mechanized. But can the experience of reading a novel also be analyzed this way? Just what might be happening on the deeper levels of your mind as your eyes sense words moving by? A subject, a verb, and a predicate combine to form an image in the head, constructed according to the definitions of the words and your experience of what they mean. Using adjectives and adverbs, the writer fine-tunes the images, and arranges them one after another so a story unfolds. Characters are developed by piling image upon image, making complex clusters that interact with other clusters. To build narrative tension, key bits of information are withheld, then supplied in a rush at the climax, filling in holes in the data structure that has been induced in the reader's mind.
The writer's work, like the physician's, can be viewed mechanistically. One takes the X number of basic plots and themes that critics tell us exist and composes variations. And what about style? Within this reductionist paradigm, style can be described through textual analysis, statistically. Writer Z's books are unique because an average of 12 percent of the words are adjectives, 3 percent are adverbs, 21 percent are chosen from a dictionary with a difficulty level of 7. Sentence rhythms can be quantified. Perhaps such seemingly abstruse talents as the use of connotation and metaphor can be explained mechanistically.
"Okay, enough!" you might well interject. It's clear that you can take mental activities and describe them as an interaction of many smaller steps. And if, in this game, we are allowed to break a thought into as many pieces as we'd like, and break those pieces into pieces, and posit an overwhelmingly complex system that coordinates them all - then, yes, you can say that intelligence might be described mechanistically. But what does that mean?
It means, if you accept this argument, that you believe in the possibility of artificial intelligence. That, given good tools and enough ingenuity, we might cut through the veils that obscure our thoughts. Then we can see them not as mysterious, ghostlike essences but as complex structures made from the interaction of millions of pieces, theoretically duplicable on a machine.


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The Quadriceps Stretch is a great way to reduce the tension and improve the flexibility in the front of the thigh. With this exercise, you will notice an immediate decrease in your overall tension level.
Step 1: Stand next to a chair or a wall, and place your hand on it for balance.
Step 2: Raise one foot backwards by bending your knee and grasping the foot with your free hand. Don't lean forward.
Step 3: Gently pull your leg back and press your foot against your buttock until you feel a stretch in the front part of your thigh.
Step 4: Hold this position for 30-45 seconds.
Step 5: Slowly release your hand from your foot and allow your foot to drop back to the floor.
Step 6: Repeat this stretch on the opposite leg.
Reprinted from Deskercise! The Workplace Workout, by Dr. Todd M. Berntson
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Celebrate the end of the week, and the beginning of a new month with First Friday & Saturday on Historic River Street! Start your weekend off with a bang, as First Friday Fireworks presented by Wet Willie's begin at 9:00p.m.!
Weekend festivities will kick-off on Friday, April 5 from 4-10p.m. and continue on Saturday, April 6 from 9a.m.-10p.m. DJ's-to-Go will be playing music on the Arbor Stage and Rousakis Plaza will be full of artists, entertainment, and fun for the entire family! Make sure to stop by our beverage station offering a variety of beers, including our beer of the month: RJ Rockers "Son of a Peach."
Don't miss the official qualifier for the Nathan's Famous July Fourth International Hot Dog Eating Contest. The contest will occur on River Street on April 6 at 1pm. This is the first time the storied Nathan's Famous qualifying tour has visited the city of Savannah! The top-performing male and female hot dog eaters at the Savannah event will each earn a chance to compete on July 4, 2013 at the Nathan's Famous flagship in Coney Island, NY. This year's ESPN show will air on July 4th at 1pm Eastern. Registration occurs at http://www.majorleagueeating.com, and all competitors must be 18 years or older.
This year's Festival Series is hosted by the Savannah Riverfront and proudly sponsored by Verizon Wireless, Southern Eagle Distributing, Savannah Coca-Cola, Wet Willie's, Wells Fargo, and our friends at Adventure Radio. Enjoy Savannah Riverfront: The Way to Experience Savannah.


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Patricia Arquette and Thomas Jane will remain married.
Court records show the "Medium" star requested and was granted a dismissal of the couple's divorce case, which she filed in January.
The one-page dismissal didn't indicate a reason for the 41-year-old actress seeking a dismissal. Records show her request was filed on Tuesday and approved on Thursday.
The couple was married in May 2006 and have a daughter, Harlow Olivia Calliope Jane.
Arquette won an Emmy Award in 2005 for her portrayal of a paranormal expert on "Medium." The 40-year-old Jane appeared in the 2007 film "The Mist" and 2004's "The Punisher," and he stars in the new HBO series "Hung."


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According to multiple sources, Vince McMahon has not been pleased with Monday Night Raw's ratings and rightfully so. Monday Night Raw has battled against both the NBA and the NHL playoffs, and as a result people have seen their ratings decrease. When facing strong competition on TV, WWE loyalist will always use that big competition as an excuse to why the ratings were low. In truth, a TV show itself
After CM Punk "turned on the WWE Universe" by clotheslining the People's Champ out of his boots, he kept self-indulgently advertising himself as the "Best in the World" to aggravate the fans. Despite that Punk exceeded John Cena's merchandise sales while a babyface, and also was still being significantly cheered even as a heel, Vince McMahon, for whatever reason, still wanted him to be
Updated 03-29-2013 at 05:22 PM by Kyle Fitta
In all honesty, I don't know when exactly I will be writing or for how long. It depends on variety of things. I must say that it did feel good getting back into the swing of things. Last week was sort of a warm up column. So as times goes by, the columns will hopefully start heating up. First, I will tackle the Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View and then talk about Raw.
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On March 31st, 1985, the WWF took their biggest gamble ever: Wrestlemania 1. If it failed, chances are the company would have gone out of business. Despite what WWE wants their fans to presume, there was a "Grand Daddy Of Them All" before Wrestlemania called Starrcade. It was a Jim Crockett Promotions' pay-per-view to blow off the biggest feuds in the company. In contrast to Starrcade, the WWF
Whether it's the critical fans, exposure of the business, realizing that their favorite wrestlers aren't the men they portray on TV, or the dirt sheets that reveal spoilers, many fans believe the internet has ruined their love for the business. Personally, I've become a bigger fan because of the internet of professional wrestling, but I of course carry a lot of bias because I am able to voice
fitta-wrestling-backfire.jpgWhat is the feud of the year so far? Is the WWE back on track? How great was CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan? Does CM Punk and John Cena feud already major heat? Do the Money in the Bank matches lack something? Read this to uncover all the answers and more.
I planned on doing a column about why wrestling was better without Vince McMahon, but I am still in the
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting WWE creative is working on a major angle for the summer. Reportedly, they are working on coming up with a "knocks your socks off" storyline similar to how the Nexus angle captured attention in 2010 and CM Punk did in 2011. There is a lot of pressure to come up with something because of the low ratings and current product.
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ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.
Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
However she feels about the way her story has been told in the press, Palin told WMAL she is not discouraged.
"It's sort of perplexing to me, because I'm a practical person and plainspoken also, but just cutting to the chase and calling things like I see them, just like most Americans. But this has not left a bitter taste in my mouth, the bitter shots taken by the mainstream media and by some of the elitism there in Washington," Palin said.
"What this has left me with is a very energized and positive feeling about America, because there are enough Americans who are desiring the positive change that John McCain's gonna usher in."
Plante then suggested that in her next sit-down interview, Palin should tap the reporter on the knee and ask, "So who you votin' for?"
Palin laughed and said, "Yeah, maybe that just would say it all."
"I'm gonna try that," she said.


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Funeral services will be held today for Floyd Oleson, 80, of Elk River. He died April 3 in St. Cloud.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Derrillis (Dilly), children Eugene (Nancy) Olesen, Richard (Colleen) Olesen, Dennis (Cheryl) Olesen & Donald (Barbara) Olesen; grandchildren Brian (Tami) Olesen, Kari (Tim) Parmer, Jason (Kelly) Olesen, Arika (Derek) Trevino, Bradley Olesen, Kevin (Amanda) Olesen, Elizabeth (Jason) Wiese, Brett (Michele) Olesen, Brittany Olesen; 9 great grandchildren, many relatives and friends.
He is preceded in death by grandson Andrew Olesen.
Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., April 9, at Elk River United Methodist Church, 1304 Main Street, Elk River. Visitation will be at noon at the church. Interment was at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery on April 8.


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HUNDREDS of people have signed a petition to try to get street lights switched back on in Castle Point.
Around 70 per cent of lights were switched off last month, plunging the borough into darkness, as Essex County Council's scheme was brought into action.
The initiative, which aims to cut costs and carbon emissions by turning off the lights between midnight and 5am, has raised safety concerns from residents.
Almost 900 people have put their name to a campaign to get the lights switched back on after Benfleet resident Rick Llewellyn started the online petition.
Scores of people have flocked to the site to share their experiences since the switch-off.
Clare Curtis, from Canvey, wrote: "I have to leave for work at 3.30am and going out to my car at that time is scary enough with the lights on. Now they're off, its even worse. I have to get a family member to watch me go to my car, as anyone could be lurking in the shadows."
Key road junctions and areas where lighting is needed for safety reasons are not affected by the switch-off.
However, residents claim they do not feel safe walking around late a night.
Kay Fogg, from Benfleet, said: "My husband is a taxi driver and they are all having a nightmare when the lights go off.
"They can't see turnings, can't see house numbers, can't see if a person gets safely to their door, or falls down drunk in the road. It's the same for any of the emergency services too, doctors on call, paramedics, fire, ambulance, police.
"Why can't they take a leaf out of Southend's book and invest in low-energy bulbs? We all pay our council taxes and it should be our right to expect lit paths and roads in such a built-up area.
"There is no way on this earth I would be walking home from anywhere after midnight these days."
A 4,000-strong petition was presented to County Hall objecting to the plans before the lights were turned off, but the switch-off went ahead on January 12.
An Essex County Council spokesperson said: "Essex County Council welcomes residents' feedback on council issues and will consider any petition which is submitted on its own merits in line with the council's petitions policy. An extensive consultation was carried out regarding part-night lighting in the Castle Point area previously and residents were given the opportunity to share their comments on the proposals via their local councillors, and local Council, during this time prior to the decision being taken to proceed with part-night lighting. However, if a petition is received, any new concerns will be taken on board and considered."
The county council predicts the scheme, which is being rolled out across Essex, will save about £1million a year, including £64,000 in Castle Point alone.
To view the petition, visit change.org/en-GB/petitions/ essex-county-castle point-borough-council-turn-thestreet- lights-back-on-overnight


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Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2009/03/25 - Fresenius Kabi Oncology, formerly Dabur Pharma, selects MetricStream for Quality and Compliance.
MetricStream, Inc., the market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today announced Fresenius Kabi Oncology as a new customer for its quality and compliance management solutions.
Dabur Pharma, a leading company for cancer research and oncology drugs, was renamed Fresenius Kabi Oncology after its acquisition by Fresenius Kabi, the leader in infusion therapy and clinical nutrition in Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific as well as in the US, where it is a leading supplier of IV generic drugs. Fresenius Kabi has more than 20,000 employees worldwide achieved sales of 2,030 million in 2007.
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That is what readers of an article on the state of the French economy must have concluded. The piece paints a very dire picture of France's economy, comparing it unfavorable with Spain, which is praised for instituting severe austerity measures.
While Spain's austerity measures have succeeded in raising its unemployment rate to more than 25 percent, the highest in Europe, they have not brought about growth. Its economy shrank this year and is projected by the IMF to shrink by another 1.3 percent next year. France's economy is projected to grow by 0.4 percent. In fact, the IMF projects that France's growth will modestly outpace Spain's through the remainder of its forecast period (2014-2017) as well.
In short, given the evidence on their relative economic performances it is unlikely that anyone in France would envy Spain, unless of course they viewed unemployment as an end in itself.


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The Mission Hills Group are building another mega golfing mecca on Hainan Island. The 10 course resort will closely resemble its sister venue in Shenzhen with 5 star facilities and fabulous choice of courses. With 2 courses already up and running, it wont be long before the new facility is in full swing. LetsdoChina.com are ecstatic about the Mission Hills expansion and have begun planning tours to the new island resort. Stay tuned for further updates.
China Golf Tours have fast become a hot item for the golfer who enjoys travelling the world. LetsdoChina.com are offical agents for China's Top 2 Golfing Resorts - Spring City Golf & Lake Resort and Mission Hills Resort & Spa. Spring City Golf & Lake Resort and Mission Hills Resort & Spa are truly prestigious venues that regularly dominate Asias golfing awards with their challenging layouts and impressive facilities. LetsdoChina.com feature several stay & play packages and specialize in tailoring golfing holidays that encompass both resorts and tours of China & Hong Kong.
Mission Hills Resort is located in Shenzhen and is easily reached from Hong Kong or Shenzhen airports. This resort attracts much attention with 12 championship courses that have gained a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records. Each of the courses has been uniquely designed by some of golfs legendary icons - providing players with a variety of challenges and interesting sceneries. When youre not on the course, Mission Hills also boasts relaxing massage & day spa amenities, fine restaurants, gymnasiums, sporting and conferencing facilities.
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The handsome new cornice atop Hometown Savings Bank's downtown Kent building that faces North Water Street restores the building to its original 1889 look, the bank's president, Howard Boyle, a stickler for historical authenticity, says.
Designed by Architect David Summers, the cornice uses Fypon, a polyurethane material that looks like, but in terms of weight and durability, is superior to the wooden cornices of the 19th century. The cornice has a two-tone coloration of dark green and gray green. Besides being decorative, the cornice channels rain water to down spouting and helps keep the front of the building dry. This protects customers entering and exiting the building and extends the life of windows and window frames.
In the late 1930s, the Hometown Savings Bank building suffered a fire and the cornice was left off the building.
"I guess they thought that updated the building for those times," Howard said.
Besides the cornice atop the building, Hometown's signage has been changed and uses a golf leaf-like coloration for the lettering against a dark green. The colors were chosen after considerable research for the signage on Hometown's handsome offices in Ravenna's Riddle Block No. 1.
"We'd already done the research for Ravenna so we just decided to be consistent since the two buildings were constructed at about the same time," Howard said.
The cornice looks so appropriate that customers remark, "I know you did something to the building, but what?" Howard said.
Gallantry at NEOMED
Lee Hall at last Monday evening's annual meeting of The Garden Club of Kent said she was lugging a couple of arms full of materials into the convention and meeting center of NEOMED in Rootstown where the event was to be held.
As Lee struggled with her load, a handsome gentleman in a dark suit, heading out to the parking lot, reversed course, came back, and held the door for her.
"To whom do I have the pleasure of meeting and thanking," Lee asked.
"Gershen," he replied.
"And what do you do here?" she asked.
"I'm the president," Dr. Jay Gershen, head of NEOMED, responded.
"Oh my," Lee exclaimed, impressed with the gallantry.
When I encountered Gershen later in the week in the Pufferbelly, he expressed surprise the story was circulating.
"Presidents can open and hold doors for others, too," he said, smiling.
Ametek helps United Way
Matt French, vice president of Ametek, has done such a good job as honorary chairman of the Portage County United Way and he is on board to continue in that capacity for the coming year.
Friday, he hosted a luncheon of business leaders at the Bertram Inn and Conference Center in Aurora and asked those present to help raise awareness of the United Way and the needs of the people it serves. He said members of his family, having seen those needs, are volunteering at the Center of Hope in Ravenna.
Matt also announced that Paul Haynes, Kent State University's new head football coach, will be the speaker April 26 at the United Way's annual celebration dinner. Matt said Ametek will again sponsor the fireworks display August 29 at the Flashes home opener with the Liberty Flames. A portion of the ticket sale proceeds go to the United Way.
Ametek under Matt's leadership is showing a lot of good corporate citizen leadership. He is following the good example of one of his predecessors, Roger Derr, who's retired, but when at Ametek kept the company engaged in a positive way with the community.
Still a Rough Rider fan
Harold Snowberger sent Editor Roger Di Paolo a note announcing he is now a Stow Bull Dog since he and his wife of 70 years, Irene, bought a condo in the Villas in Stow. At 91, Harold said it was time to consolidate and cut back a little.
Does that mean he will no longer be seen at Roosevelt Rough Rider games?
"Are you kidding?" Harold said. "Wild horses couldn't keep me away."
The Roosevelt alumnus, Class of 1939, started at Gougler Machine and for a time trained women as machinists with America's entry into World War II. Drafted into the U.S. Army as a private, he served in combat in Europe. By the war's end, he had been promoted to chief warrant officer. He returned Gougler and started in with janitorial duties, but spent the next 44 years there and retired as superintendent of the Mold Division.
Furukawa Rock Drill USA, the Japanese company that several years ago bought Gougler, last year decided to demolish the old buildings of the company on Lake Street including the tall smokestack, an area landmark. A picnic ceremony was set up for retirees for the occasion. Jeff Crane, president and CEO of Furukawa's Kent operation, invited Harold to do the honor of pressing the button that set off the dynamite that brought the smokestack down.
The demolition occurred April 25 last year; sunny skies and warm temperatures prevailed.
"We planned on 100 retirees showing up, but the excitement and opportunity to get together drew 300," Harold said. Furakawa sent out for more food and a good time was had by all.
An expert photographer
The Friday evening showing at Hudson Fine Art and Framing of the photographic works of Lester Lefton drew a good crowd, curious to see the KSU president's formidable artistic skills and mingle with him in a festive setting. His subjects were people, street scenes and interiors of interesting buildings. Lefton is an expert at the intricacies of digital photography and coloration and like other artists, he has a strong visual sense of objects and their relationship. That talent may explain some of his interest in the rebuilding of Kent's downtown and KSU's main campus.
A similar showing will be held in April at McKay Bricker Gallery in Kent. The Hudson showing was of Lefton's international portfolio. The Kent event will feature subjects from within the United States.
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For those that use Mac OSX with Safari as your web browser, a long-standing bug has been fixed by Apple. This bug would cause 3D content to shift upward 20 pixels or so. This update is for OSX 10.4. More information can be found at the links below.
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Get in the spirit with these 28 gift ideas.
Total Croc
For its sixth annual Holiday Collector's Series, prep-chic brand Lacoste tapped king of quirk Jonathan Adler for a highly covetable limited-edition line. While some may prefer the more classic polo, we find ourselves hypnotized by this crocodile pillow, a groovy take on traditional needlepoint. $150 at Lacoste; 172 Geary St. (at Stockton), 415-677-9004, lacoste.com
These vintage glass wine bottles in an array of verdant shades look like they might have been purchased at some remote Mediterranean market. The fact that they weren't can be your little secret. $99-179 at greenhousedesignstudio.com
This isn't your grandmother's Snuggie. Woven of pure cotton, the Fisherman's Cable Cape blanket is a stylish warm-up for any loved one. The large size is perfect for couples to share. $195 at serenaandlily.com
For your friends in need of apartment therapy who are sans funds for a decorator, put them in the DIY spirit with a Design Kit from SF interior design firm Redmond Aldrich. Each room kit comes with swatches, inspiration pictures, floor plans, and a shopping list of all the recommended items for their space. And with contact info for a serious pro, first-timers truly cannot go wrong. $900-1,800 at redmondaldrich.com
Fire Work
In a sleek silver holder, Balenciaga's L'Essence candle gives off an air of sophistication as well as notes of leather and violet. It's perfect for a boss or colleague. $65 at Neiman Marcus; 150 Stockton St. (at O'Farrell), 415-362-3900, neimanmarcus.com
Sticking Point
Seasonal cocktails feel extra cool in these eight-ounce Roost Winter Thorn glasses frosted and etched with delicate branches.
$16 each at Aldea Home; 1017 Valencia St. (at 21st), 415-865-9807, aldeahome.com
Life Aquatic
Go fishing at cheeky Brit retailer Paul Smith, whose Union Square store offers a fresh take on seafood for dinner. This set of four Caskata Tableware plates are works of art with gilded illustrations of various schools of marine life.
$165 at Paul Smith; 50 Geary St. (at Grant), 415-352-3520, caskata.com
Alpha Male
In time for the holidays, Dockers has updated the traditional khaki with a slim fit and the vintage weathered finish of a favorite pair of jeans. Dubbed the Alpha khaki, these puppies are available in classic and limited-edition shades.
From $68 at Industrie Denim; 300 Grant St. (at Sutter), 415-397-3800, us.dockers.com
Jewel Tone
A stack of enviable green quartz and chrysoprase bangles in 22-karat gold vermeil say, "You're a gem." From Petaluma jewelry designer Robindira Unsworth, these festive baubles will send your message loud and crystal clear. $175 each at Spa Radiance; 3011 Fillmore St. (at Union), 415-606-1228, robindira.com
Got His
Backpacks aren't just for students. This modern wool-and-leather DH5 carryall, available at Dior Homme's new Union Square boutique, is way too cool for school. $3,300 at Dior Homme; 216 Stockton St. (at Maiden Ln.), diorhomme.com
Pucci Pop
San Franciscans are said to have a penchant for gloomy hues—blame it on the fog. Brighten things up with Emilio Pucci's Wild Winter triangle scarf. It's a trip to the Castro for her Pac Heights LBD. $380 at Neiman Marcus, 150 Stockton St. (at Geary), 415-362-3900, neimanmarcus.com
Massage Envy
We all need to unwind after a serious dose of family at the holidays. Give the gift of Zen with a decadent treatment at SenSpa in the form of a Giftly certificate. Just pick the dollar amount you want to spend, and then spread the cheer via email or Facebook. Your grateful loved ones can redeem their present using a mobile phone. giftly.com/7x7
Sight Specific
Since logoed shades went down with the economic crash, Alain Mikli's unadorned sunglasses feel just right for luxury shoppers seeking discretion. The brand's shapely, edgy styles, like the AL1069 glasses, are all the signature required. $545 at Alain Mikli; 73 Geary St. (at Grant), 415-989-0373, mikli.com
Sweet Smell
Girly girls in the market for a new scent are socking away their pennies for Candy, Prada's latest It perfume with notes of caramel, vanilla, and musk. Save her the money, and show her some sugar. Trust us—this is better than chocolates. $108 for 2.7 ounces at Bloomingdale's; 845 Market St. (at Fourth), 415-856-5300, bloomingdales.com


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As the same-sex marriage debate rages in the Supreme Court (and the court of public opinion), Shirley Manson and her band Garbage let it be known exactly where they stand on the controversial topic, allowing a gay man to propose to his boyfriend onstage during a recent concert in Detroit.
According to Spinner, Manson stopped Garbage's concert at Detroit's Majestic Theater on March 30 to invite a fan named Scott onstage.
"So as it happens I was on my Facebook page yesterday, I was on the tour bus and I was going through messages as we do and we can't obviously answer everyone," Manson reportedly told the audience. "But then I saw this message from your boyfriend Scott and he told me that you were really super amazing," adding, "then he told me a few other things about your private life that probably I shouldn't know."
A roadie brought out an extra microphone for the fan, who then proposed to his boyfriend Dominic from the stage, which he accepted amid encouraging cheers from the crowd. Watch below.
"I'm crying, this is so intense," Manson said after the proposal.
"OK, last word on the subject," Garbage posted on its official Facebook page, along with a photo of the band with the couple immediately after the proposal. "Thanks to all Garbage fans in Detroit for being good sports and joining in on all the love and fun. We love you SOooo much."
The current Garbage U.S. tour in support of last spring's Not Your Kind of People continues through the month of April, before heading down to Mexico for a pair of dates in Monterrey and Mexico City.


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Mrs. Kirsti Cohen Peffers of Menifee, Calif., formerly of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, announces the engagement of her son, Derek A. Cohen, to Kendra Hammond, both of Fort Collins, Colo.
Derek, son of the late Robert D. Cohen of Stroudsburg, Pa., and New Jersey, graduated from Colorado State University in Fort Collins with a degree in construction management. He is a project manager with the Dahota Construction Company of Fort Collins.
Kendra is the daughter of Mrs. Tracey Devlin of Fort Collins, and Mr. Gregory Hammond of Costa Rica. She is in the business of Web design/hosting, and is a partner in Brandesigns Web Solutions.
Derek is the grandson of Dolores and Maxwell Cohen of Laguna Woods, Calif., formerly of Stroudsburg; and Mr. and Mrs. Eero Mikola of Pori, Finland. Kendra is the granddaughter of the late Donna and Ernest Devlin of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and John Hammond and the late Dee Hammond of St. Louis.
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i've been using my norton product for almost a year now, and suddenly i can't open my norton 360 main window for some reason.. i can't see it on my vista sidebar, and everytime i try to open it through the start menu, it nothing appears.. if i click it again the norton one click support appears and asked about some kind of installation..
funny thing is, its only the main window that doesn't want to appear.. if i right click on an icon, or storage device, i could still see the norton 360 -> scan now path, and it still works..
but still i can't get to the main window.. like how am i gonna be able to do full scans and comprehensive scans without the main window..
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The solution for this would be to remove the program with the Norton Removal Tool, and then reinstall it.
Here are the steps:
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