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Mr. Bo CooperAugust 31, 2006
Statement of Bo Cooper Hearing before The Senate Committee on
Mr. Chairman, we are grateful for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Bo Cooper. I served as General Counsel of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1999 to 2003, and I now head the immigration practice in the Washington, D.C. office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP. I am appearing on behalf of the Global Personnel Alliance (GPA). GPA is a forum for internationally active companies and business organizations interested in global personnel mobility and related legal concerns. GPA's members span a wide range of industries, from technology to health care to manufacturing. Members range in size from Fortune 500 companies to smaller and even closely held businesses. These are companies for which national immigration policy is important because of the effect of such policies on their ability to compete internationally, to foster innovation, and to create employment in the United States. The United States has long blazed a trail for innovation. The constant quest for new and better ideas, and for a wider and higher knowledge base, has fueled our global economic leadership. Yet too many analysts to ignore are highlighting the signs that the foundations of American economic vitality are weakening as those in other countries grow stronger. The performance level of U.S. elementary school students in mathematics is sagging. Too few undergraduate students pursue science and engineering. Graduation rates for those fields in China and Japan, for example, approximately double those of this country. In 2004 the U.S. produced about 70,000 graduates in engineering. India produced nearly triple that number, and China produced over seven times that number of graduating engineers. For the United States to maintain its position of leadership, the pipeline of knowledge and skills that leads into our schools, laboratories, hospitals and businesses must not be blocked, whether the source of these skills is within the United States or abroad. Certainly the policy framework needed to strengthen our competitiveness will reach across disciplines. That framework will need to include educational reforms, an improved commitment to basic research, and advances in many other areas. Without a speck of doubt, though, that framework must include improved programs for high-skilled immigration. Positive immigration reform is indispensable if the United States is to be the most fertile possible environment for study, science, and commerce. This country has been able to create a world-leading work force because the United States historically has been open, indeed committed, to the goal of assembling the best minds, and the best possible talent, from wherever that talent could be found. This fits our nature as a competitive nation, one that opens doors to new ideas and one that strives to be the best. Other countries have been watching, and they are pouring massive expenditures, thought, and policy development into replicating that model. They are redesigning their immigration policies precisely to attract the best minds, and to compete for the international talent that might otherwise come into the United States. At the same time, our policies toward high-skilled immigration are having the opposite effect. Delays, denials, and outmoded presumptions are discouraging students from study in our universities at the levels we enjoyed not long ago. Perhaps even more dramatically, curbs on high-skilled immigration programs are inhibiting the ability of U.S. employers to bring those who do come for study into the workforce for the longer term once their skills have been honed through education. There is not a sufficient path from the university to the work force. There is a drastic shortage of visas for professionals. Permanent residence for the highly skilled takes many years to achieve, leaving workers and their employers in limbo. These same curbs also block the ability of U.S. employers to recruit and retain not only talented professionals who have been educated here, but also those with foreign credentials and experience. This is not the time for the country to turn its back on foreign talent. When avenues for international recruitment of the best and brightest close down, the effects on American competitiveness are devastating. With other countries only becoming stronger, the United States should be modernizing its programs for high-skilled immigration as an immediate priority. It should not be difficult to do so. Certainly no subject relating to immigration is without controversy and complexities. High-skilled immigration is no exception. Yet there appears to be strong bipartisan support for high-skilled immigration reform. An effective recipe has already been devised. Strong solutions appear in the comprehensive immigration reform bill passed by the Senate this year. Strong solutions likewise appear in the SKIL bill, which you introduced, Mr. Chairman. As you are of course aware, the SKIL bill was later introduced in the House, and its provisions are included in the Senate-passed comprehensive bill. Moreover, at this year's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the economic effects of immigration, there was a strong consensus on the issue. While there was disagreement over the economic consequences of immigration more generally, there was unanimity that high-skilled immigration is a net benefit to the United States economy. The High-Skilled Immigration Crisis One of the core goals of U.S. immigration policy has long been to attract and welcome highly skilled students, scientists, professors, and other professionals from around the world. Yet our law and policy toward high-skilled immigration has not been meaningfully updated in more than a decade and a half. It has fallen years out of alignment with the country's changed economic and educational needs. The misalignment occurs at each crucial stage of the high-skilled immigration continuum: study, temporary work categories, and permanent residence. Student Visa Problems Many of the world's best and brightest students choose to complete their college and graduate-level education in the United States. Foreign students most frequently come to the U.S. on an F-1 visa. The F-1 visa process has been revised since the 2001 terrorist attacks to include far more extensive enrollment and tracking processes, and far more extensive security check processes. An F-1 visa can be issued only if the visa applicant overcomes an automatic presumption of intent to immigrate permanently to the United States; the applicant must demonstrate an intent to return home after studies are competed. Following the completion of the degree program, most foreign students are eligible for one year of employment for practical training in the United States in a field related to their degree program. Following that one year of practical training, unless another visa option can be found, these highly skilled workers have no choice but to leave the United States. This problem is compounded by the fact that other countries, including Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and others are sometimes viewed as having immigration policies that are more straightforward, more welcoming, and less bureaucratic that those of the United States. When faced with a choice between a country with immigration policies that appear open and welcoming, and one with policies that sometimes appear difficult and closed, many of the world's best and brightest students ultimately decide that the difficulties of studying in the United States outweigh the benefits. This kind of result is a serious blow to the long-term competitiveness of the United States in the global marketplace. Furthermore, as noted above, current law offers only one year of practical training following the completion of a degree program. This limited period of time is frequently insufficient to allow a U.S. employer to fully evaluate a foreign national student's skills and growth potential, and because of the problems noted below with the unavailability of H-1B visas, there are often times when foreign students cannot continuously work for a U.S. company or maintain their status in the U.S., and thus have to leave the United States. H-1B Visa Problems When a U.S. company wishes to hire a foreign national to perform a highly skilled assignment in the U.S., the H-1B visa, for professionals in specialty occupations, is the most common - and very often only available - visa used to obtain work authorization. The primary problem relating to H-1B visas is that demand for those visas far outweighs the supply. The 65,000 H-1B cap, an arbitrarily chosen limit, is in no way related to or calibrated to meet legitimate business needs. Not five years ago, this cap was 195,000. In each year since the cap dropped back to 65,000 in Fiscal Year 2004, the supply has failed to met the need. Moreover, each year it has run out earlier than the year before. It has not lasted past the beginning of a fiscal year since 2004. A new low was set this spring, when H-1B cap for Fiscal Year 2007 was reached more than four months before that fiscal year even began. This has left U.S. employers unable to hire needed professionals for a staggering 16 months. A special exemption from the cap, for up to 20,000 workers who have earned advanced degrees in this country, was an important recent reform, but only a modest one. That additional supply of visas lasted barely through half the summer. The very low H-1B cap hurts American competitiveness and often forces U.S. employers to shift projects abroad where the highly skilled workers they need are available or can be brought using another country's immigration processes. Difficulty with the H-1B cap dampens the ability of U.S. companies to recruit the best and brightest workers; and it discourages the world's most talented scientists, researchers, doctors, and other skilled workers from considering a career in the United States. Employment-based "Green Card" Problems Almost all nonimmigrant visas providing work authorization are temporary in nature, meaning that there is a maximum stay in the particular visa category. Therefore, in order to employ a foreign national on a long-term basis, a U.S. employer normally must at some point sponsor the foreign national for permanent resident status, frequently referred to as a "green card." In most cases, this process involves first recruiting for U.S. workers to fill the position in question. Only after the Department of Labor has certified that the employer has tested the U.S. labor market and has not found a qualified, willing and able U.S. worker to fill the position can an immigrant petition be pursued. A statutory cap limits the number of employment-based green cards in each fiscal year. No more than 140,000 employment-based green cards can be issued in each fiscal year, and green cards are categorized issued to spouses and children of foreign nationals obtaining employment-based green cards are also counted against that cap. Current law limits the number of green cards that can be issued to nationals of any one country. As with the H-1B, demand for employment-based green cards far exceeds supply, and there is a significant backlog in many of the employment-based green card categories. This backlog, which stems from the congressionally-set supply of these green cards, is often called "retrogression." Wait times for employment-based green cards reach nearly half a decade, and are longer for nationals of India and China. This is ironic, because these countries are today key recruiting grounds for experts in key fields such as engineering, mathematics, and the sciences. These green card delays cause significant problems both for U.S. companies and for foreign nationals proceeding through the green card process. U.S. companies have difficulty recruiting and retaining top talent because of uncertainty about the permanent residence process, and companies are often unable to promote or relocate key foreign national employees until the green card process has been completed. In addition, companies are forced to invest tremendous resources on patching together a variety of visa options to ensure that foreign nationals can continue to remain in the United States and continue to work for the company while awaiting progress in the green card process. Moreover, the effect on the employees themselves, and therefore the ability to retain them, cannot be overstated. For this many-year period, highly skilled foreign workers can become mired in the position for which they were originally hired: an appropriate position then, but often not one allowing the professional growth and advancement that the intervening years of learning and experience would support. Even mere changes in work location can cause the process to have to begin anew. Also, during this period, international travel can become more difficult, or even a practical impossibility, for purposes as routine as a business trip abroad or as urgent a death in the family. Spouses often cannot work during this period, causing both professional stagnation and economic hardship for families that need, as many American families do, a second income. While caught in the green card backlog, highly skilled foreign workers face obstacles to home and other loans, obstacles to financial assistance for college, and a host of other practical problems that can quickly jeopardize their retention within the U.S. workforce. The Consequences of Outdated High-Skilled Immigration Policies: Examples Problems for Technology In the public debate, the damage to American competitiveness from our outdated high-skilled immigration policies tends most often to be seen from the perspective of the technology sector. This is fitting, because the high-tech sector, as much or more than any other, has exemplified the way that creativity and innovation feed the American economy and create American jobs. It has also exemplified the way in which the search for the best and brightest, and the resulting mixture of American and foreign intellectual talent, can lift or even create an industry. High-tech employers are among those most seriously affected by the outdated and outmoded limits on our high-skilled immigration programs, because of the primary role that innovation plays in their success. Microsoft, for example, has made a cogent and compelling case for the urgent need to open our doors to the best minds worldwide. You will also hear very compelling arguments from other witnesses today on the harm felt within the technology industry. But the problems caused by today's limits on high-skilled immigration are by no means confined to the technology sector. They reach to hospitals and schools, to small and large manufacturing companies, to small start-up businesses, and indeed to businesses of all sizes and across the range of industries. Problems for Manufacturing Let me offer an example from the manufacturing sector. A large manufacturer of business jets, with thousands of U.S. employees, is in urgent need of aerospace engineers with a particular specialty and experience. This company is a major U.S. exporter, has just committed to a massive expansion of its operations in the United States, and recruits assiduously for U.S. engineers. Of its thousands of employees, fewer than two percent are foreign nationals working in the United States on visas. This spring, after hiring the U.S. engineers it could find, the company had still fallen far short of its hiring needs. In late May it identified a complement of over 30 engineers working for a competitor company overseas. The company was racing the clock, since the publicly available information as of the Friday before Memorial Day was that only about 12,000 H-1B visas remained for the coming fiscal year. The company immediately set about preparing the petitions for the necessary visas, working throughout the Memorial Day weekend in order to petition the following week. Instead, however, the announcement came that the H-1B cap had been hit before the weekend began, and that no new petitions would be accepted. Here, no alternative hiring strategy was possible; the company had already exhausted the available pool of qualified domestic candidates. Instead, the company - a major U.S. employer that is seeking to expand its operations here, and to employ more U.S. workers - was simply left with fewer engineers than it needs, and with its competition abroad having greater access to the necessary talent. There could not be a more stark example of the H-1B program actually failing its policy goal. When companies are blocked from recruiting the talent they need, the cap impedes U.S. production, its diminishes U.S. competitive, and it stunts U.S. job growth. Problems for Small Business These problems affect U.S. employers of all sizes, including small businesses. A case in point is a small but highly specialized company that creates and provides software to enhance and protect network security, improving the safety and security of communications among government agencies in the post-911 era. This company employs some sixty persons in this country - all U.S. workers - but badly needed a very specific combination of services and leadership. It found this in a senior British software development manager, but the H-1B cap had just hit and this person was and still is stuck in the U.K. As a result the company has had to beef up its operation abroad to employ and support this person's work, and to take advantage of his leadership. Again and again, in this way, the cap is a serious impediment to innovation and competitiveness, and to job creation and retention in the United States. As in this example, the workers needed are but a tiny percentage of the total workforce. Yet if the research and development or other key expertise cannot be brought here, the jobs will have to move abroad. The impact on all business, large and small, can be disastrous. Problems in Education One glaring and up-to-the-minute example of how high-skilled immigration limits can cause dramatic harm to U.S. education goals involves language education. Last weekend, an article in the Washington Post featured urgent, policy-level efforts to strengthen the capacity of Americans to speak certain key foreign languages. In January, the President announced a $114 million program, called the National Security Language Initiative, aimed to boost the teaching of critical languages, such as Chinese, in U.S. schools. The State Department heralded the strategy to broaden American's language skills as the kind of broad thinking needed to rise up to challenges "not only to our national security, but to America's standing in the world and the degree to which American can compete in the world ... compete in the world of ideas, compete in the world of commerce." This is certainly the kind of thinking that is needed in order to strengthen American intellectual and economic competitiveness. Yet we are failing as a country to think so broadly about the immigration policies that are needed in order to achieve these goals. At the very same time educators in this country are being urged to expand Chinese language programs, there are not enough qualified teachers and there is no mechanism in place to solve this problem. Our immigration policies, rather than helping to solve the problem, worsen it. Just yesterday I spoke with a woman from China who this spring earned a Master's Degree from George Washington University, concentrating in bilingual special education. For at least three reasons, she is precisely the sort of highly educated professional that the United States should be taking into its workforce as quickly as possible. First, she holds an advanced degree from the U.S. university system, and the United States should benefit whenever possible from the abilities of those in whom we have invested educational resources. Second, her specialty is critical to our security and competitiveness. Finally, what she offers lies at the very the heart of the country's long-term needs: the education of the next generation of American innovators. Yet the elementary school system that wishes to employ her is faced with the unavailability of H-1B visas until October 2007, weeks after the start of next school year. The period of employment that is permitted for practical training after graduation will not extend to that time. Thus, both the H-1B cap and the limits of post-educational "optional practical training" are obstructing, rather than promoting, the employment of a badly needed professional after her advanced study in this country. Nor is this problem confined to specialized educational subjects. It is well-known that schools across the country are struggling desperately to find the best, or even sometimes appropriately qualified teachers, particularly in science and mathematics. This is particularly true in inner cities, where the needs are often greatest. Because not enough people are studying in these fields in the United States, there are not enough people to teach in these fields in the United States. A key resource to help fill the gap is the ability to recruit highly-skilled, highly trained educators from other countries. This spring, the human resources team for the public school system of a major U.S. city was in the midst of doing just that. The team had identified a well-qualified group of math and science teachers overseas, with degrees equivalent to a U.S. masters degree, and in some cases even with special training in urban educational systems. But access to the H-1B visas needed to hire such professionals has become a game of chance whose odds drop with each passing week after the filing season opens on April 1 of each year. This school system had the misfortune to be recruiting in late April and May, and the hiring effort had to be abandoned when the cap for the year was hit in record time, even before the Memorial Day weekend. In this situation, faced with severe shortages, these schools typically do not have ready alternative hiring pools. Instead, the result is often one less teacher in a U.S. classroom. High-Skilled Immigration Solutions Effective solutions to the kinds of problems described above have already been designed. One excellent set of solutions was contained in the bill that you introduced, Mr. Chairman, in May of this year as S. 2691, the Securing Knowledge, Innovation, and Leadership, or 'SKIL' bill. While it includes a broad range of both policy and processing reforms, the SKIL bill is based largely on the premise that (1) it should be easier to enter the country as a student; (2) there should be greater flexibility in finding an appropriate opportunity to contribute to the U.S. workforce, and (3) when that opportunity is found, it should be easier for the worker to move directly to permanent residence under appropriate circumstances rather than being forced into unnecessarily time- and numerically-limited circumstances. The SKIL bill was also introduced in the House of Representatives in June, by Rep. Shadegg and a host of cosponsors. Moreover, the Senate had already included a thorough and far-reaching set of high-skilled immigration reforms in the comprehensive immigration reform bill that it considered in the spring, S. 2611, and the provisions of the SKIL bill - along with other valuable reforms - were added into the bill before its final passage by the Senate in May. Thus, while the immigration bill passed by the House in December 2005, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (H.R. 4437), would do nothing to address the tremendous crisis faced by American businesses seeking the ability to employ the world's best and brightest, the Senate bill includes robust reforms. Among its highlights, S. 2611 features the following: A broader path to lawful permanent residence for foreign students. ? Two new student visa categories for students pursuing advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM): "F-4" and "J-STEM." Relief from H-1B visa shortages. This would be accomplished by: ? Raising the base annual H-1B cap to 115,000 beginning in fiscal year 2007; Relief from retrogression of immigrant visa numbers. ? The annual worldwide level of employment-based immigrants would be increased, unused numbers may "rollover" to later years, and previously unused numbers may be "recaptured." In addition, the proposal would exempt the following groups of foreign nationals from the numerical limits on employment-based immigration (for a total cap of 650,000 per year): ? Holders of advanced STEM degrees who have worked in the U.S. in a related field for three years with a temporary visa; The bill would also make many other useful changes involving green cards for STEM degree holders, labor certification processing, and other processing. Boosting the U.S. Workforce Finally, employers are not seeking only to expand their ability to hire needed workers from outside the United States. They also understand deeply the need to help expand opportunities for development and excellence within the U.S. Many of these employers expend tremendous resources in outreach to students at all levels to encourage pursuit of the most badly needed fields of expertise. Likewise, many such employers have devised creative formal programs to help meet these goals. Microsoft, for example, has put in place several major initiatives to expand educational opportunities through technology access and training. Three examples include Microsoft's Partners in Learning, Unlimited Potential, and School of the Future initiatives. The Microsoft Partners in Learning National Program delivers curricula, tools, and resources to schools, educators, and administrators across the United States. The programs emphasize information and communication technology (ICT) proficiency and workforce development. In June 2004, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and Microsoft launched the first U.S. Partners in Learning National Programs online tool at http://www.iste.org. This tool is designed to help teachers monitor student progress and meet No Child Left Behind Act requirements by assessing the technology literacy of middle school students. Microsoft Unlimited Potential is a global initiative to improve lifelong learning for disadvantaged young people and adults by providing technology skills through community technology learning centers (CTLC's). By providing technical skills training to disadvantaged individuals, the program is designed to expand social and economic opportunities that can change lives and transform communities. Unlimited Potential partners with CTLCs to provide technology, curriculum, and training that can transform a community center that currently provides only basic access to technology into a technology-enabled center for learning and collaboration. For the School of the Future initiative, Microsoft and the School District of Philadelphia have joined forces to create a 750-student high school that embodies innovation and technology. The goal of the partnership is to create a technology-based educational model that can be replicated in communities around the country and around the globe. The school is scheduled to open in West Philadelphia in September 2006. Also, there are important measures that are already part of the H-1B program structure to help boost skills and opportunities within the U.S. workforce. Most H-1B employers are required to pay a $1500 fee when they file petitions, and this sum goes toward U.S. worker scholarships and training. This means that new filings in the H-1B program today generate as much as $127.5 million each year. This huge annual sum contributes greatly toward educating and training U.S. workers. If the H-1B program is adjusted to meet demand, this contribution will only increase. Conclusion High-skilled immigration reform is in reach. Yet the longer it is delayed, the more severe the consequences for U.S. schools and employers, and the more the United States stands to slide in the global competition. GPA appreciates your leadership on this critical issue, Mr. Chairman, and we appreciate the opportunity to try to assist in its resolution. |


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Of course we would, but that's not what happened. Why on earth would anyone give equal sympathy to a mass-murderer and a suicidal person who, regardless of the specific reasons, felt the walls closing in on her and saw no path along which to move forward?And for those that correctly point out the lack of proof that these DJs actually caused her suicide, I give due credit. It's the sidebar opinions about suicide in general that make me shake my head. Like many subjects, I gather that the majority of the disagreement here has to do with tone and attitude towards depression and suicide, not the plight of these DJs and this lady. You are right in that there are two separate issues here: mental illness and the ethics of humiliating people for entertainment. However, the disagreement is about both. It is interesting that those who have little sympathy for people who have mental health issues and commit suicide have displayed a lot of sympathy for the djs who were responsible for this stupid prank. An interesting hierarchy of values, but not mine.As I have said before, a joke happens when everybody laughs.Incidentally, I understand that the djs have given an interview on Australian television talking about heartbroken they feel (but not apologizing). It seems that their program has been cancelled, they have been fired, and no more such pranks will be allowed on any station owned by their employer.
FYI: By releasing confidential patient information and forwarding the call, the Royal Nurse violated HIPPA. HIPPA requires hospitals and health care providers to maintain absolute confidentiality of their patients' protected health information; it is Health care 101. Her mistake could have had severe penalties including fines, criminal sentencing, and disciplinary action by licensing boards and employers. This was a high profile situation and her young career as a nurse (4 years) could have very well been over. In my humble opinion, that mistake mirrored with world-wide public humiliation could have easily taken her over the edge. Thank you. That was precisely my point and is the same worldwide. Patient confidentiality is sacrosanct and reason to lose a professional licence if breached. However, there is no point trying explain this any more to those who think it was fun. They are the target audience for this.
I would.
With respect, please reread what DD, Elit, WMM and I wrote. Not knowing what is going on in someone's life is precisely why this was so bad. Their intentions were not to make the hospital staff look good. On the contrary, they wanted to humiliate, embarass, and ridicule, showing whoever answered their call to be a gullible fool. What is funny about that? There are people who enjoy constant attention and imagine that everything that happens to them is of interest to others. Most people are not like that. Their problems and heartache are their own. They go to work every day and do their best, holding on by a thread to normalcy. The djs cut that thread for this woman.Even if this had not happened, what the djs did would have jeopardized the jobs of the people they pranked. Never mind the breach of privacy they attempted. Of course they had no idea it would end like this, but they did not think about the consequences, even taking the suicide out of the equation. I just hope that their suspension is without pay.
This wasn't a bully/victim scenario, as prinicpessa seems to think. It was a joke that went sour. A joke happens when everyone is laughing. Not this time, even before the suicide. It was clearly public embarassment for the entertainment of others.And btw your driving analogy is not an analogy at all.I would like to see the reactions of people who think this is okay if they were the object of some prank that went viral making them look stupid or ridiculous. I suspect that although some of you might like the attention, you would not like this kind of attention very much. Perhaps you can only imagine yourselves as the perpetrators laughing and saying it was all in fun and telling your victims to lighten up. Some empathy and emotional intelligence is required to be a decent human being.
I heard it. All the poor woman did was answer the phone and pass the call to the nurses' station where Kate was being cared for. If anyone really made a mistake, it was the nurse who then answered and revealed information about Kate to the djs.
I think that humiliating people publicly is not entertainment. I do not like pranks because someone is always hurt. This applies to the idiots who did this. This nurse may well have had other issues, but that does not vitiate their part in what happened to her if, as it seems, they brought it to a critical mass and caused her to do this. It is not the easy way out. It is indicative of deep problems and desperation. How is it moral to push someone over the edge? Of course, you don't know that a stranger is in that state, which is precisely the reason you should not do it.The only people who may be fair game are public figures, as when Sarah Palin was contacted by djs in the 2008 election, exposing her ignorance and stupidity in believing that the President of France (if I remember correctly) was calling to talk to her. Ignorance, hypocrisy, and pomposity in public figures may be an appropriate target. Making an ordinary person look foolish or gullible is not. The fact that so many people would find this amusing (before the suicide) shows a dumbing down and lack of empathy in society in general.What might have been an error in judgement which might have been understood by her employer was blown up into a public humiliation worldwide. That is why it matters that the djs did this. That is why it is unforgivable. Whether she was predisposed to do this is not the issue.Pranks like filling someone's office from floor to ceiling with balloons while they are out to celebrate a milestone birthday are not hurtful. Anything that embarasses, hurts, or humiliates is not a prank. It is bullying. That should not have entertainment value.
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I agree that European brands like La Perla, Chantelle, and Aubade are lovely. As lingerie really needs to fit well, I also agree with the suggestion that you accompany her to the shop and have her try it on. You can let her know what you like and she can decide what fits comfortably. The lunch or brunch out is a great idea, too. But be prepared to see prices that are multiples of Victoria's Secret.
You do have the capability to give your story a last read and edit before submitting it. If there are issues in transferring it from your word processing program to Lush, you can catch them there until this issue is resolved, if indeed it is a problem here. It is probably not a bad idea to look at your story one last time in a different font in the editing function here as mistakes (other than this issue) may be more evident - mistakes that you might have missed reading in a familiar format. I found that apostrophes mysteriously disappeared on the last story I submitted. I guess technology does not always marry these things seamlessly. (btw I am using Word 2010.)
Like most things in life: if you want to succeed (or should that read "suck seed"?) you have to put in some effort. I've had a few stories rejected, but invariably because I haven't taken the time to read and re-readmy story several times. Having a sticky space bar doesn't helpeither (there it goes again)but I won't dwell onhow (fuck again!) it got like that.... The mods (especially you PP) are great also, helping make a silk purse out of my sows ear! I have an idea about how that might have happened but I won't embarass both of us by posting it publicly.Thank you for the thank you. All of the mods (especially me) appreciate it. Seeing your stories posted in good shape and the thank you makes all of the work, yours and ours, worthwhile.
It's nice when the mods DO work with the authors though, if they've put in the effort that is...Sometimes a few kind words, some gentle encouragement and pointers to resources where they can find the help they need from the story verifiers can be the difference between a writer working to get his piece up to scratch or giving up completely. I know that there are a few mods who do this and some great writers have come out of it. It's good for Lush and a good way of encouraging people who might not really have the confidence to write, to actually give it a go.They do say that we all have a book in us, don't they (eeew not IN us, you perverts)Great thread PP! Thanks, Mazza.I think all of the mods will spend the time working with someone who clearly wants to make an effort and learn. There have been some interesting and gratifying transitions in the quality of the work. It does get frustrating when we receive things like the first draft that I mentioned above. If someone demonstrates that they do not want to spend any time on their writing, why should we rewrite it entirely for them? Sometimes they just need to understand the process and the standards that are applied.I think the expression is sweat equity. If you put some in, we will spend lots of time helping you. It is satisfying for both the mod and the writer when this happens and we do get the occasional thank you.
On the proofreading note, a question: Does anyone have advice on how to effectively proofread for typos? When I reread something I've written my brain can pick out things like verb tense, overuse of a particular word, or phasing that sounds clumsy. But for whatever reason if I make a simple typo - say, "lake" instead of "make" - when I go back and reread it, my head puts the sound "make" in my head and I don't catch it no matter how many times I reread.Does anyone else have this issue? If so, how do you deal with it? My suggestion is that you walk away from it for a few hours, or as long as a day. When you keep rereading your story, you see what should be there because you know what you have written. Time and distance will give you the perspective to see your mistakes. It usually works for me. Unfortunately, I have picked up small errors after something is posted too, but as I said before, you can always go back and edit even then.I hope that helps a little.
What I am about to say is contradictory. Sex is important when it is not working. When it is, you don't have think about it - it happens organically because of the chemistry between you. The rest of your relationship is important as well. You should be friends and companions, share enough interests and values to be compatible and have enough differences to make your relationship interesting. You should remain curious about each other. You should want the best for each other. You should be kind to each other. As to long distance relationships, they can work if you can manage time together regularly, even if that is measured in weeks rather than days. The key is to remain in contact in the interim - talk, email, text, Skype, whatever is your preference. For me the sound of a lover's voice always provides intimacy. It is not easy to sustain this, and I understand that a lot of people fail, but it can be done if both of you are committed to it.
Yeah but even the mods don't pick up all your typos etc. You can always edit again after your story is submitted. If it is only a few small corrections, it will be verified quickly. :-"
i thought it was ok to just send it in however, and the mods would fix it up for me - i mean, sometimes i can't be bothered with typos and grammar and shit - i'm an artist, you know! I had a story yesterday that began with a note saying that the writer knew it had grammar and spelling mistakes but it was a first draft. The story had no formatting, all one paragraph, and not one capital letter but for the characters' names. It indeed was full of spelling and grammatical errors and more. I sent it back to her with a list of the problems and a suggestion that she read the resources and take the time to edit it before resubmitting.Wonderful writers like sprite actually do several drafts and spend hours polishing their stories before submitting them.
If you want to see your story published on its first submission, here are some tips:Please read our site guidelines to make sure your story is compliant. This is very important. Certain scenarios and sexual practices are not allowed. Cardinal sins are rape, sex with an underage person (under 16 years of age), violence and bestiality. Submitting a story containing any of those could see your whole account terminated.Please do not depend on spell check to edit your story. Read it carefully to check your spelling because spell check will allow misspellings that are words, often with hilarious results, e.g. I put my arms around her waste. (That was in a story. I did not make it up.)Please format your story into paragraphs of about four sentences or where the narrative should logically break. All dialogue should be formatted into separate paragraphs each time someone speaks. A mass of prose with few or no paragraph breaks will be returned to you.Please read your story paying attention to where you pause. There should be a comma there if it is a phrase or a full stop if it is a complete thought. Read the Writer's Resources about the use of apostrophes if you are not sure. They are not for plurals. They are used either for contractions or to signify possession. Read it for other punctuation marks to know that you are using them correctly.Please do not overuse exclamation marks. They lose their power if used in every other sentence. Please check your verb tense throughout your story to be sure it is consistent. Many submissions have tense shifts from past to present and back again.Please take a look at the proper form for punctuation, formatting, and capital/lower case letters for dialogue in published stories and follow that example in your story.Please do not use text speak/emoticons in your story or short forms like &, or ok, or lbs. Use the entire words. Please express all numbers in your story as words unless they refer to measurements or the time of day. Remember the hyphens for age, e.g. 18-year-old. Numbers may never start a sentence or paragraph, whatever they describe. In these cases they should always be expressed as words. Your title should not be formatted in all caps and should not include text speak or emoticons. Do not repeat the title in the body of your story. Notes to the reader should be at the end of your story.Please do not expect that you can spend an hour putting your thoughts in writing and that it will be published. The writers whose work is most admired here on Lush spend time editing and improving their stories before they are submitted and published. If you put in the time and effort, you will have the satisfaction of only minor edits being done by the mods and your story will be posted on its first submission.Please do not resubmit your story as new with no changes after it has been returned to you for editing. This is a waste of the volunteer time of the mods as well as your time and risks a suspension from publishing if you continue to do this. Please do your edits within Lush so that the moderators can see previous editorial notes to you on your resubmitted story. Lush maintains a high quality of erotica by insisting that stories be literate before they are published. We are certain that you would not want that to change. Walk away from your story for a few hours, or as long as a day. When you keep rereading your story, you see what should be there because you know what you have written. Time and distance will give you the perspective to see your mistakes.Please take the time to read the resources available on all aspects of writing in the writers' forum. They will help you polish your work and allow it to be published more quickly.Please read some of the Editors' Picks stories to get an idea of the standard of stories we'd like to see submitted.Finally, a thank you when you have been helped by us would be appreciated. As I said, we volunteer our time and spend hours working on your stories. We really do want to post them for you.
Let me add to Sprite's post to address all writers who want their work published quickly. Please do not depend on spell check to edit your story. Read it carefully to check your spelling because spell check will allow misspellings that are words, often with hilarious results, e.g. I put my arms around her waste. (That was in a story. I did not make it up.)Please read your story paying attention to where you pause. There should be a comma there if it is a phrase or a full stop if it is a complete thought. Please format your story into paragraphs of about four sentences or where the narrative should logically break. All dialogue should be formatted into separate paragraphs each time someone speaks. A mass of prose with few or no paragraph breaks will be returned to you.Read about the use of apostrophes if you are not sure. They are not for plurals. They are used either for contractions or to signify possession.Please do not overuse exclamation marks. They lose their power if used in every other sentence.Please check your verb tense throughout your story to be sure it is consistent. Many submissions have tense shifts from past to present and back again.Please take a look at the proper form for punctuation, formatting, and capital/lower case letters for dialogue in published stories and follow that example in your story.Please do not use text speak in your story or short forms like & or ok or lbs. Use the entire words. Please do not expect that you can spend less than an hour putting your thoughts in writing and that it will be published. The writers whose work is most admired here on Lush put time in editing and improving their stories before they are submitted and published. If you put in the time and effort, you will have the satisfaction of only minor edits being done by the mods and your story will be posted on its first submission.Please do not resubmit your story as new with no changes after it has been returned to you for editing. This is a waste of the volunteer time of the mods as well as your time. Lush maintains a high quality of erotica by insisting that stories be literate before they are published. We are certain that you would not want that to change. Please take the time to read the resources available on all aspects of writing in the writers' forum. They will help you polish your work and allow it to be published more quickly. Finally, a thank you when you have been helped by us would be appreciated. As I said, we volunteer our time and spend hours working on your stories. We really do want to post them for you.
I am not a sports fan and don't like football at all, but I do have an opinion. Of course the game should be postponed by any standard of ethics, decent behaviour and compassion. However, football is a very big business in the United States and has an almost religious status, even at high school and college level, never mind the NFL. It is not going to happen unless the fans themselves put an enormous amount of pressure on the league and shame them into doing the right thing. It was this kind of public outrage that caused the New York Marathon to be cancelled after Sandy.
Imagine for a moment that Cuba was lobbing rockets to Miami indiscriminately. How long would the US stand for it? Or a similar situation with any other country. Why should Israel be the only country in the world expected to live under such conditions by the apologists for Palestinian terrorism?Imagine for a moment that instead of allowing the Palestinians to sit in refugee camps for fifty years the oil-rich nations of the Middle East had done their best to absorb and/or support them. What would their situation be now?The Israelis have a right to live in peace as do the Palestinians. I believe in the two-state solution, but the Palestinians seem to have a talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. How many times have they been millimeters from a peace settlement and walked away? (Camp David, with President Clinton, etc.) It is almost as if without their hatred of Israel they could not exist. Who would they then blame for their plight? They would have to look at their corrupt leaders. I do not agree with the ultra-Orthadox Israelis who continue to insist on settlements outside of Israel. Other Israelis should not have to defend them and this is blocks any agreement. The problem is similar to that in American politics. The extremes on both sides have too much power relative to their numbers.While Hamas was elected in purported democratic elections, they do not recognize Israel`s right to exist. Until they do this and stop terrorist tactics, there can be no peace. They deliberately hide themselves and their armaments among the civilian population and then complain that there are civilian casualties. Contrary to the Israelis who warn civilians away, they target them, even school children.I am also appalled by the intellectuals in Europe and elsewhere who want to boycott anything that is related to Israel and compare them to Nazis. There could not be a more disgusting comparison considering the country was populated by survivors of the Holocaust. The hatred of Israel in these circles is a thinly veiled anti-Semitism and is abhorrent.The truth is that neither side can come to the table with clean hands, but I remain convinced that there is more blame on the Palestinian side. I hope that this UN victory is one for Abbas and strengthens him in rivalry with Hamas. There is a glimmer that if this is the case, peace might be possible.We can ask about history so far, how is that working for you? It is time for some brave statesmanship on both sides.
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Mouth, neck, shoulders. Love, love, love kisses.
This was the subject of a classic "Seinfeld" show - a contest for which character would last longest with hilarious results.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAvANRCgCDM
Given the new total number, my new guess is January 22nd.
There are roles and professions in society where you have a trust with your client/patient/student that cannot be broken. Many professions have rules against sexual relationships with clients/patients. Teachers are in such a position of trust and clearly there is a power imbalance between teachers and their students. A student might be coerced into sex or threatened with failure in the course. A teacher might be blackmailed by a student and risk the loss of their licence.Even at 18, and a certain level of maturity, you do not have the wisdom that you would as an equal to a teacher twenty or more years your senior. It is not really an informed consent because of that and the power imbalance. It is also a really messy situation.People who join professions know and understand the rules of professional conduct. They are there for a reason. The same applies to clergy, coaches, scoutmasters, or anyone else who deals with young or vulnerable people in a position of trust and authority.This woman should lose her teaching licence. A long jail term is probably not appropriate.
I thought we might let Maureen Dowd have a word about the election results.Romney Is PresidentBy MAUREEN DOWDIT makes sense that Mitt Romney and his advisers are still gobsmacked by the fact that they're not commandeering the West Wing.(Though, as "The Daily Show" correspondent John Oliver jested, the White House might have been one of the smaller houses Romney ever lived in.)Team Romney has every reason to be shellshocked. Its candidate, after all, resoundingly won the election of the country he was wooing.Mitt Romney is the president of white male America.Maybe the group can retreat to a man cave in a Whiter House, with mahogany paneling, brown leather Chesterfields, a moose head over the fireplace, an elevator for the presidential limo, and one of those men's club signs on the phone that reads: "Telephone Tips: 'Just Left,' 25 cents; 'On His Way,' 50 cents; 'Not here,' $1; 'Who?' $5."In its delusional death spiral, the white male patriarchy was so hard core, so redolent of country clubs and Cadillacs, it made little effort not to alienate women. The election had the largest gender gap in the history of the Gallup poll, with Obama winning the vote of single women by 36 percentage points.As W.'s former aide Karen Hughes put it in Politico on Friday, "If another Republican man says anything about rape other than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his tongue."Some Republicans conceded they were "a 'Mad Men' party in a 'Modern Family' world" (although "Mad Men" seems too louche for a candidate who doesn't drink or smoke and who apparently dated only one woman). They also acknowledged that Romney's strategists ran a 20th-century campaign against David Plouffe's 21st-century one.But the truth is, Romney was an unpalatable candidate. And shocking as it may seem, his strategists weren't blowing smoke when they said they were going to win; they were just clueless.Until now, Republicans and Fox News have excelled at conjuring alternate realities. But this time, they made the mistake of believing their fake world actually existed. As Fox's Megyn Kelly said to Karl Rove on election night, when he argued against calling Ohio for Obama: "Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?"Romney and Tea Party loonies dismissed half the country as chattel and moochers who did not belong in their "traditional" America. But the more they insulted the president with birther cracks, the more they tried to force chastity belts on women, and the more they made Hispanics, blacks and gays feel like the help, the more these groups burned to prove that, knitted together, they could give the dead-enders of white male domination the boot.The election about the economy also sounded the death knell for the Republican culture wars.Romney was still running in an illusory country where husbands told wives how to vote, and the wives who worked had better get home in time to cook dinner. But in the real country, many wives were urging husbands not to vote for a Brylcreemed boss out of a '50s boardroom whose party was helping to revive a 50-year-old debate over contraception.Just like the Bushes before him, Romney tried to portray himself as more American than his Democratic opponent. But America's gallimaufry wasn't knuckling under to the gentry this time.If 2008 was about exalting the One, 2012 was about the disenchanted Democratic base deciding: "We are the Ones we've been waiting for."Last time, Obama lifted up the base with his message of hope and change; this time the base lifted up Obama, with the hope he will change. He has not led the Obama army to leverage power, so now the army is leading Obama.When the first African-American president was elected, his supporters expected dramatic changes. But Obama feared that he was such a huge change for the country to digest, it was better if other things remained status quo. Michelle played Laura Petrie, and the president was dawdling on promises. Having Joe Biden blurt out his support for gay marriage forced Obama's hand.The president's record-high rate of deporting illegal immigrants infuriated Latinos. Now, on issues from loosening immigration laws to taxing the rich to gay rights to climate change to legalizing pot, the country has leapt ahead, pulling the sometimes listless and ruminating president by the hand, urging him to hurry up.More women voted than men. Five women were newly elected to the Senate, and the number of women in the House will increase by at least three. New Hampshire will be the first state to send an all-female delegation to Congress. Live Pink or Dye.Meanwhile, as Bill Maher said, "all the Republican men who talked about lady parts during the campaign, they all lost."The voters anointed a lesbian senator, and three new gay congressmen will make a total of five in January. Plus, three states voted to legalize same-sex marriage. Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, told The Washington Post's Ned Martel that gays, whose donations helped offset the Republican "super PACs," wanted to see an openly gay cabinet secretary and an openly gay ambassador to a G-20 nation.Bill O'Reilly said Obama's voters wanted "stuff." He was right. They want Barry to stop bogarting the change.
This is a comment posted by someone called rewiredgdog on Obama's victory in The New Yorker. I thought it was worth sharing."Hopefully Obama's victory and more importantly Warren's in Massachusetts represent the beginning of the end for the angry white men's vote in American politics. The GOP right now is in ICU with a severe case of the Stockholm Syndrome. And Lee Atwater, the sinister political operative behind the infamous Willie Horton campaign ads, must be spinning like a lathe in his grave. Being a crusty and cynical old fart, that is, a retired baby boomer and disabled Vietnam vet who has just seen too much how the real world works, I felt like a young man last night. I had such a profound attack of schadenfreude, I almost looked for my little brown bottle of nitro tablets thinking it was an angina attack. The I realized I was experiencing such joy and hope for the future. Maybe, just maybe America is finally making a historical course correction toward normalcy. I thought I was watching a corny ending to an old Frank Capra movie. But I just hope Obama stops his tired "nice guy routine," takes off the gloves and get medieval on the GOP's ass in the next four years. Jimmy Morrison of The Doors was wrong. You can petition the Lord with prayers. Power to the people. "The little power," as Melanie Griffith said to Harrison Ford in Working Girl."One of the lessons of the election is that the demography of the US is changing and the formula used by the GOP for years will no longer work. Let's hope they are not obstructionist in Obama's second term and put country before party. These are the people who vowed that they would do everything they could to see him fail and not win re-election. The question of the day is, "How did that work for you?"
From The New Yorker: (I thought we could all use a laugh.)ROMNEY SAYS HE FAVORS ABORTION IN CASES WHERE IT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE FOR HIMPosted by Andy BorowitzKETTERING, Ohio (The Borowitz Report)—Hitting the campaign trail one day after the arrival of Superstorm Sandy, Republican nominee Mitt Romney tweaked his position on abortion today, saying he now supports it in cases where it makes people vote for him."I would make an exception for abortion in cases where the life of my campaign is at stake," he told a crowd in Kettering, Ohio.Sandy, which slammed into the East Coast last night, was such a powerful weather system that it prevented Mr. Romney from changing his position on abortion for twenty-four hours."It was important for Mitt to come up with a new position on abortion today," said his campaign manager, Matt Rhoades. "It sends a message to the American people that in the aftermath of Sandy, things are getting back to normal."Mr. Romney made no reference to his comments about eliminating FEMA, which have been declared a disaster area.ROMNEY: "SEEING HIM WITH CHRIS CHRISTIE IS TEARING ME APART"Posted by Andy BorowitzDES MOINES (The Borowitz Report)—A new Mitt Romney is emerging in the closing days of the campaign, aides say: a man who is increasingly "being eaten alive with jealousy" by President Obama's budding relationship with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.While Mr. Romney has told reporters that he is "totally fine" with Gov. Christie flying around in a helicopter with President Obama, privately he has told aides, "Seeing him with Chris Christie is tearing me apart."The trouble began earlier this week, a Romney aide said, when Mr. Romney saw Mr. Christie on CNN mention that President Obama "had given him his number at the White House.""Mitt was like, 'Fine, whatever, do we have to watch this?' and then basically ran out of the room," the aide said. "It was completely awkward."Making matters worse, the aide said, "Chris Christie isn't returning his calls.""Mitt was trying to explain his position on FEMA to reporters yesterday and he got all excited because his phone started vibrating," the aide said. "It turned out it was just Ann."Mr. Romney, who has been seen doodling Chris Christie's name in the margins of his briefing books in recent days, has apparently decided on a new course of action: to make the New Jersey governor jealous."He's been calling Cuomo," the aide said. "But Cuomo won't call him back either. It's all so sad."


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A woman and her child were uninjured after the car they were in became engulfed in flames on northbound Interstate 5 in the Castaic area Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
Registration applications for the Wiley Canyon and Oak Hills elementary school sites for the 2010-11 school year are available at the Newhall Preschool office, located at Newhall Avenue and 13th Street.
California lawmakers are pushing legislation that would act as a welcome mat to the burgeoning green technology industry by not charging sales tax to businesses that buy eco-friendly equipment.
On three occasions that I visited Walmart, I asked the employees where I could find something and they couldn't answer, as they spoke no English. They just smiled and put their heads down, the same reaction I had twice in the produce section. How could they pass the interview to get a job?
Los Angeles County officials released a report detailing the effects that the first phase of the massive Newhall Ranch development would have on the environment, which has drawn concern from at least one prominent local activist.
Welcome to The-Signal.com's Daybreak, your point of entry for the day, and a quick journey through the past, present and future. Let the adventure begin:
Jonathan Randles and Brandon Lowrey ("Kellar's war with words," Jan. 24), I want to commend you both for writing a balanced and fair approach to City Councilman Bob Kellar's remarks at the Save our State, Santa Clarita Valley/Antelope Valley Independent Minuteman Rally, Jan. 16 in Valencia.
I moved into my home in the Santa Clarita Valley in 1964. I was the first one in my tract and watched it being built.
As a condominium dweller concerned with the planting restrictions that come with that I have been reading a lot about community gardens lately.
Santa Clarita City Councilman Bob Kellar's comments made at a local Minutemen rally have been so egregiously taken out of context.
The Redevelopment Agency of the city of Santa Clarita (Agency) awarded $5,000 grants to 20 Newhall Redevelopment Project Area small businesses at its Jan. 12 Meeting. Made possible through funding from the Agency's Small Business Grant program, the effort is part of the city's 21 Point Business Plan for Progress.
Dog licensing in the city of Santa Clarita declined over the last several years, prompting the city to embark upon an education and outreach campaign this spring, aimed at ensuring local dog owners are obtaining required county pet licensing.
Deputies found a stolen truck in an oil field in Canyon Country on Tuesday afternoon after being alerted by a LoJack vehicle recovery system, officials said.
A Canyon Country man is due in court later this month after he allegedly used a baseball bat to help a second suspect steal two iPods, officials said.
With everything from nationally ranked academic programs to effective career education opportunities and college placement services, Hart district students are afforded every opportunity to excel in an increasingly competitive academic environment.
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I've been trying to find an audio editor for iPad but no luck so far. I just want to be able to cut sections of audio recordings that are an hour, hour and a half long and either save the short sections within the app or even better transfer them to iTunes or at least send them by email, Dropbox, etc. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. |
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I understand your feelings. I have one suggestion about Audio editor. I think You need transcription service. This service in very useful and beneficial because this changes audio into text.
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Well it is music & speech I want to be able to cut into sections. When I take lessons I like to cut each section by topic for easy reference. There's literally dozens of PC apps for that but I'm trying to do as much as possible on my iPad.
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AWESOME show. The show us true hard core TPHB fans have been waiting for. I love the hits as much as anyone else, but the hit-heavy set lists of the 2006, 2008, and 2010 tours were getting repetive. THIS was the one. THIS time Tom and the boys pulled out some gems. The sound in the Beacon was amazing. The performance was amazing. Wish I could see a few more nights!


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Just over 30 years ago, serial killer John Wayne Gacy made headlines in one of the grizzliest news stories of the century. He was a family man—he had a wife and two children—and a respected member of his community, but one day Gacy invited a 15-year-old boy to his home and molested him. In 1968, he was convicted of sodomy and received a 10-year sentence at the state penitentiary. His wife divorced him and took their children.
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Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955, in Annapolis, Maryland. She began writing for science journals in graduate school. Her first novel, The Bean Trees, was published in 1988. In 1998, Kingsolver published The Poisonwood Bible, which was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She established and funds the Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded to unpublished writers whose works support social change.
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Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland. Kingsolver spent most of her youth on an alfalfa farm in eastern Kentucky. When she was 7 years old, her father, a physician, took the family to what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he worked in public health.
In 1973, Kingsolver enrolled in college at DePauw University in Indiana and was involved in activism on campus, protesting against the Vietnam War. After earning a bachelor's degree, she moved to Soissons, France, for a year. In 1980, she enrolled in graduate school at the University of Arizona, earning master's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology. She wrote for the university's science journal, which led to full-time freelance feature work.
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In 1988, Kingsolver's first novel, The Bean Trees, was published. She wrote the book at night while pregnant with her first daughter and struggling with insomnia. She then wrote the short-story collection Homeland and Other Stories and the novels Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven. The best-selling High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now and Never was published in 1995 and earned Kingsolver an honorary doctorate of letters from her alma mater.
Kingsolver's articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Nation, The New York Times and Smithsonian. She has also published a collection of poetry, Another America/Otra America, and a nonfiction book, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. In 1998, Kingsolver published The Poisonwood Bible, a story about an Evangelical Christian family on a mission in Africa. The novel became a best-seller and is Kingsolver's best-known work. It was short-listed for both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was an Oprah's Book Club selection.
In 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Kingsolver the National Humanities Medal. Her next novel, Prodigal Summer, set an southern Appalachia, was published in 2000. In 2004, Kingsolver and her family moved to Washington County in rural Virginia. From April 2005 to April 2006, the family recorded their experience in farming and local eating, which was published in the nonfiction book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Another novel, The Lacuna, was published in 2009 and won the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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In 1985, while freelance writing in Arizona, Kingsolver married Joseph Hoffman. Two years later, their daughter Camille was born.
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SRAM now delivers 22 gears with its new Force groupset. It's called 'True 22,' as the 11-speed drivetrain allows you to utilize every one of these gears, in any combination, without adding any weight to the already outstanding Force drivetrain system. The Force 22 Rear Derailleur stands in as an integral component of the new groupset, calibrated for 11 speeds using the same innovative technologies that have made its Red group an industry leader when it comes to exact, predictable shifting under the world's most demanding riding conditions.
When SRAM first introduced its groundbreaking 10-speed Red component group, the heart of the design was 1:1 Exact Actuation technology. This means that with each shift the derailleur pulls the same exact length of cable, regardless of what gear you're in. 1:1 is simple to set up, it stays in adjustment longer, and it provides laser-accurate shifting. This advancement sent competitors scrambling to one-up SRAM. Its engineers didn't buy the hype, and instead they put massive efforts into improving their 10-speed drivetrain. The result is that the new Force 22 Rear Derailleur benefits more directly from the lessons learned over the life of Red than if SRAM were to start from scratch. Today, they've built from that 10-speed foundation, bumping the number of gears to 11. For us, in addition to the added gearing, we receive even tighter shifts than before as we now have smaller gaps between cogs.
SRAM's new Force 22 Rear Derailleur now incorporates a longer upper knuckle than the previous version, which easily clears 28-tooth cogs without issue. It's made of incredibly stiff forged aluminum to resist flex, which helps to maintain perfect gear alignment. The inner carbon/aluminum pulley cage was also revamped to resist flex, increasing rigidity for precise gear changes.
The pulleys of the Force 22 Rear Derailleur were the main focus for SRAM engineers during the development of the new group, which now adopt the once-Red-exclusive AeroGlide Pulley System. SRAM optimized the jockey wheel's profile so that the chain will glide more efficiently over the tooth profile as it threads through the cage. This helped silence a notably noisy drivetrain and enhanced chain movement across the cassette. Adding to this, SRAM's R&D team developed an elastomer coating to further quell pulley noise. The SRAM Force 22 Rear Derailleur also received a new spring-fixed barrel adjuster for incremental cable adjustment and durability against impact.
Given the mechanics of DoubleTap shifting paired to the new 11-speed calibration, please note that SRAM recommends that you use a complete SRAM Force 22 groupset, including shifters, both derailleurs, cassette, chain, and crankset.
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Does this come with a rear hanger or do I need to purchase one?
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Rear derailleur hangers are specific to bikes so you would need to purchase one that is specific to your bike. If you need assistance finding a hanger, don't hesitate to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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This is a review for the 2013 version of the SRAM Force derailleur. So, you're asking yourself what happens when the chain jumps off the large chainring into the wheel. Well, look at the photo. "Where's that other sprocket of the derailleur?" you ask yourself. It's not in the photo, it's lying on the floor next to the bike. "How did this happen?" Well, I'm riding into the neighborhood after a nice long ride, and downshift and BAM!, the rear wheel stops moving, and I'm grateful that I was on cool down pace so I didn't hit the pavement. I figured that it was one of those "just a bit out of adjustment" things, but after getting another professional adjustment, it happened again. I still don't know what's led to this, but I'm really careful with that largest chainring. Oh, and then I traded up - you can read my review of the Wilier Cento Uno frame which I built up with Campy Chorus
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That due to an improper limit screw adjustment. Not the derailleur's fault. Blame your mechanic.