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---- — Jaycie Triandafilou is averaging two goals per game for the Newburyport girls soccer team through the first week of the season.
The Clippers striker capped off a jaw-dropping opening week with three goals and an assist yesterday against Saugus, giving her six goals and an assist in Newburyport's first three games. Perhaps uncoincidentally, the Clippers are off to a 3-0 start.
Newburyport coach Robb Gonnam credits Triandafilou's commitment to the weight room over the summer for her recent scoring outburst.
"She's the smallest kid on the team, but she plays as if she's 6-foot-6," Gonnam said. "She has the best elevation on the team. She was in the weight room all summer, and you can really see the difference. Nobody can knock her off the ball, and that's what it takes to play in college."
This week's Daily News Player of the Week answered a few questions following yesterday's game.
Are you surprised by your start to the season?
"Yes, I am very surpised. I was hoping for a great season since it's my senior year. I didn't think I would come out this strong, though."
What has been the key to all of the goals?
"I don't know. I think I've just been motivating myself. I know it's the last year before college, and I might play at that level. I figured I had to step up more."
Do you have any plans for college yet?
"Not yet. I'm thinking about playing, but I'm not quite sure. If not for a team, I'd definitely like to play intramural."
Are you doing anything different on the field this year?
"Not really. I've played soccer my whole life. I have a passion for it."What's your career highlight?
"Last year, I was All-League and All-Eastern Mass. That was a big step for me; it showed how much potential I really had. Being a captain junior and senior year has also been a highlight."
Who is your favorite athlete?
"Alex Morgan from the United States National Team."
What is your favorite sports team?
"I don't really have one. I guess I'd say the Bruins, Patriots and Red Sox."
What is your ideal pregame meal?
"Something light. I usually chew on an apple on the bus. Then something salty like Wheat Thins so I don't get dehydrated."
What is your favorite pregame song?
"'Til I Collapse," by Eminem."
What type of cleats do you wear?"Nike 4.0."

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I've been doing arenas quite a lot lately, so I thought I'd post some of the basics to healing arenas that will help you succeed as you first start out. Keep in mind that I normally do 2v2 and 3v3 arenas with melee dps (Arms Warriors, Ret Pallies, Rogues, and Death Knights) and a 49/2/20 spec, but a lot of these tips should apply to a variety of group compositions and talent specs. Check out my post on PvP talents for other good PvP specs. Feel free to add your own tips in the comments below.
What you can expect in Arenas
As a healer, you are a prime target for the opposing team. Unharrased, you can pour heals down non-stop on your teammates, making your team very difficult to kill. For that reason, you will almost never be unharrased by a good team. You'll be subjected to quick bursts of damage, stuns, cyclones, polymorphs, silences, mana burns and more. Hunter, warlock and death knight pets will almost always be stuck to you. You'll find that you'll be spending a large portion of your time just keeping yourself alive, rather than actively helping your teammates to win. This is a good thing. While you're running around like a madman, you're buying time for your teammates to do what they do best, which is to kill the opposition. Give them enough time, and eventually you'll have the win.
Tip #1: Keep Sacred Shield up on someone 100% of the time.
Sacred Shield is a powerful spell. If you're not sure who your opponent is going for first, cast Sacred Shield on yourself to start the fight off. Its very likely that at least one of your opponents will go straight for you. When the fight starts, watch for who on your team is going to take the first hits. If that person isn't you, hit them with a quick Holy Shock if necessary, switch your Sacred Shield onto that person, then start spamming your heals. Sacred Shield is an instant cast that can mitigate a huge amount of damage for low mana and only requires one global cooldown to use. Be ready to repeat this process whenever the opponent switches targets and keep SS up on someone 100% of the time.
Tip #2: Use Hand of Sacrifice on your teammates often
Hand of Sacrifice is another powerful spell. The name of the game in arenas is focused burst damage, and Hand of Sacrifice can eliminate a lot of that burst. Splitting the damage between two people is exactly what your opponent is trying to avoid. Using this in combination with Sacred Shield and/or Divine Sacrifice will almost gaurantee that your teammate won't die from focused fire. Just be sure that you aren't low on health yourself and that there's no one on who can quickly switch to burst you down instead. Casting Beacon of Light on yourself beforehand will make this much easier.
Tip #3: Stay away from Melee DPS
Although you are responsible for keeping your entire team alive, your primary responsibility is to yourself. While in a 1v1 situation you can sometimes live quite some time while being beat on, the same isn't true in an arena. What this means is that if a member of the other team has focused their dps on you, you need to do whatever you can to eliminate this damage from continuing, especially if the damage is coming from a melee dps. Its very hard to heal effectively while a rogue, warrior, or ret pally is beating on you, stunning you, and interrupting your heals. Avoiding this damage is much more effective than trying to heal through it. A Holy Paladin actually has seven or eight different tools at his disposal to get away from melee dps:
- Move - A Holy Paladin that stands in one place will die very quickly. All melee dps can unload a ton of damage very quickly on a stationary target. The simple act of running away will help you avoid a lot of that damage. This is especially true if you have Pursuit of Justice.
- Cleanse - If you find you can't move, casting cleanse on yourself can sometimes help you regain that freedom. Chains of Ice, Entangling Roots, and Frost Nova are all abilities that you can cleanse out of. This is even more useful because the enemy is often not expecting it, which means you can get quite a few steps ahead, buying yourself a lot of time. Cleanse has no cooldown, so use it liberally.
- Hand of Freedom - Hand of Freedom is another powerful tool to get away from melee dps and functions the same way as cleanse, except it works on any ability that limits movement. Lasting 10 seconds (6 seconds with the new patch) with only a 25 second cooldown, you can be pretty secure knowing it will be off cooldown when you need it. If you have the Divine Purpose talent, it will also remove a stun. If you have Guardian's Favor your Hand of Freedom will last an extra 4 seconds.
- PvP Trinket – You can use your PvP trinket to remove a stun, allowing you to run away from a stunlocking rogue, for example.
- Hammer of Justice – Hammer of Justice doesn't have to be used offensively on a healer. It can also be a great tool to buy yourself a ton of time to get away from your pursuer. Its especially useful because it can also be used when you're facing away from your opponent.
- Divine Shield - the ability of last resort, because of its long cooldown. If you're about to die, don't hesitate to bubble. Its always better to bubble than to die. Its usually best to throw a Holy Light on yourself as soon as you bubble. It will take time for the opponent to switch targets anyway and its likely they'll be ready with a bubble dispell as soon as you cast it, since bubble is one of the most common paladin responses to damage. Don't assume that you're safe just because you've bubbled. Priests and warrior can both dispel bubbles now.
- Holy Wrath - Holy Wrath only works on some pets, but it can buy you a few seconds away from that felhound or ghoul chewing your butt. Turn Evil also works on these pets, although make sure your teammate doesn't die while you're fearing a pet.
- Repentance - depending on your spec, you might also be able to stun with Repentance.
Notice that all of these spells (except Turn Evil) are instant cast. Instant cast spells are infinitely easier to use in Arenas than spells with a cast time (Flash of Light, Holy Light), since you can cast them while moving and they can't be interrupted. You should be using Holy shock and instant Flash of Lights at every cooldown. Work on getting your Spell Power and Crit as high as you can to increase their power and get librams, glyphs and set bonuses that improve Holy Shock and Flash of Light. To expand on that:
Tip #4 – Be very careful with Holy Light
Holy Light is a dangerous spell to use in arenas for two reasons: (1) Your teammate can die before it goes off and (2) It can be interrupted. Its awesome when you can get one off, but you don't want to try that very often. Its very tempting when you see your teammate getting low to try to throw a Holy Light on them, but that could be exactly what kills them. That long cast timer under your nameplate is like honey to a bee for interrupts and its never a good idea to stand in one place for too long, allowing the melee dps to catch up to you. If the other team is truly ignoring you, then you can spam a couple Holy Lights with no problem, but don't expect to be able to do that for very long.
Tip #5 – Only contribute to burst damage if its absolutely safe to do so.
Holy Paladins can actually put out some relatively decent burst damage, especially if you can get the enemy below 20% health. A well placed judgement, followed by a quick Holy Shock and a Hammer of Wrath could be exactly what your team needs to take someone down. But remember that you're not there for dps. 5 – 6 seconds can be an eternity when you're in need of a heal only to find Holy Shock is on cooldown. Leave the dps to the professionals unless its absolutely safe to do so. You'll get an opportunity for burst again later, but if you die, its game over.
On a related note, a good way to coordinate burst damage is using the judgement macro on my macros page. If you target your teammate, it will judge and target your teammate's target. Just make sure not to use it right after your teammate uses their CC ability or you'll break the CC. Its also nice because it ensures your judgement is on the target that your teammate is attacking.
Tip #6 – Use Blessing of Wisdom on yourself
Its tempting to use Blessing of Kings on yourself and Kings is sometimes appropriate, especially in the 5v5 setting where games can be very short because of the high burst. However, 2v2 and even 3v3 matches can sometimes last very long and at that point the winner is the one who outlasts his opponent's mana bar. Running out of mana means game over and Blessing of Wisdom will help you last a little longer and squeeze a few heals in while you wait for Divine Plea to come up. This is especially important against mana drain teams (including priests and warlocks). You'll want to avoid mana drains by staying out of line of sight as much as possible. Staying out of line of sight is one of the best defenses against any ranged dps.
Tip #7 – Stack Resilience and Stamina
The point of an arena match is to kill the other team. Therefore, the harder you are to kill, the harder it is for the other team to win. This isn't PvE where you can expect to not take very much damage. You need to sacrifice some Spell Power and other healing stats to stack resilience and stamina. Fill all your gem slots with resilience. If you want to match socket colors, go ahead and use resilience/stamina and resilience/spell power gems. This will lower burst damage, giving you time to heal and time for your cooldowns to come back up. It will also lower the effectiveness of dots and mana burns on you. Read my previous post for a list of Holy Paladin PvP gear and how to get it.
Fighting in an arena is very different than fighting a boss in PvE. There is a much greater reliance on your utility abilities and talents. You'll need a good understanding of all the capabilities of your class and, to a lesser extent, every other class as well. You'll need a great setup for your UI and especially your hotkeys and mouse clicks. However, it can be a ton of fun.
This season is the best time to get into arenas. Blizzard has mostly fixed the system so that you get more points for your wins and lose less points for your losses. There's still an issue fighting new teams with a high matchmaking rating but a low team rating, meaning you sometimes don't get many points from a win, even against a good team. But it seems that happens less and less as your matchmaking rating increases. The only real obstacle is the time you want to put into it. There's no reason to stop at 10 matches per week, especially at the lower levels. If you haven't tried arenas yet, I encourage you to do so. It's a lot of fun.
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In the past couple of days, while procrastinating writing papers for college, I have visited this website many times, and seen many a mock draft. I've seen a bunch of different positions being taken with our first pick: We've seen arguments for Tight Ends and Wide recievers. Less ridiculously, we've seen advocates of offensive linemen, tackles, guards, centers. Some advocate a defensive end to replace Cliff Avril/make him expendable. Some have advocated a linebacker to strengthen an already pretty good linebacking corps. Others have stressed the cornerback position. I think anything other than the last sentence is a mistake.
Why a cornerback? Because not only is it our most pressing need, it is the only thing holding us back from being a championship caliber football team. Right now, our starting cornerbacks are Chris Houston (a fine #2) and Aaron Berry/Jacob Lacey, both undrafted free agents who should not be expected to be shutdown corners, though both have shown potential. And unless you think Alphonso Smith is as good as he thinks he is, I don't see anyone who has a shot at matching up with our new rival Brandon Marshall, not to mention Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, or even Percy Harvin. If we have no one to match up with those guys, we have no shot in this division. Marshall especially worries me, because when he gets going he can be almost impossible to stop.
Every other area of our team is pretty much good enough. Yes, another wide reciever would make our offense unbelievable, but an improvement from #5 rated offense to #1 rated offense doesn't matter much. Ditto tight end. I would even go so far as to say that of the offensive line. Yes, Backus is old, and Cherilus isn't very good. But apparently that combination was good enough, as not every defense has a Jared Allen. Our offense is good enough that we don't need to pay attention to it in the early rounds. A Day 2 pick to add to the wide reciever depth would be a good call (personally, Im partial to Junior Hemingway), as would a developmental tackle to add to Hilliard and Fox, but it is not a pressing need.
As for defense, yes, we have learned from the Giants that you can never have enough guys who can rush the passer. But with Lawrence Jackson, Willie Young, and now Everette Brown, we have good depth, and again, a day 2 pick on a raw pass rusher who could compete with those guys to succeed Vanden Bosch isn't out of the question, but we do not need a starting claiber defensive end. Even if we do trade Avril for draft picks (I'll get to that), I think one of those 3 could step up.
Linebacker is tempting. Tulloch is one of the best LB's in the game if you ask me, and our scheme depends mostly on LB play, especially in coverage and run support. I see Zach Brown as perfectly fitting our scheme and supplanting the departing Justin Durant (who, while good in run support, suffers in coverage, where Brown excels), and improving Levy's play as well. However, how much did our defense suffer because of LB play? Did we lose games because of Justin Durant, or did we lose games because of our CB's? Anyone who was forced to watch Matt Flynn carve up our secondary should know the answer. The hope is that we can snag Brown in the second round, or someone like Donta Hightower, but even if we can't, it'd be nice, it isn't a pressing need.
That brings us to CB. Our secondary lost us games last year, for sure. Unlike last year, when the draft came before free agency, we know for sure that no Nnamandi Asoumagha is coming to us. There are no solutions in the free agent pool. The current secondary will not be able to stand up to good wide reciever corps, and there is a limit to how much we can outscore other teams. The cornerback class in this draft, fortunately, is deep. Looking at this article, while there is no way we're going to land Morris Clairbone, it is a realistic possibility we can trade up to get Kirkpatrick or Jenkins, and a small possibility they land to us anyway. I think the Lions have to look into doing anything they can to get either of those two guys, perhaps trading Avril to do so. (Not going to get into my thoughts on Avril, but basically, he's very good, and it appears clear he is that good not necessarily because he's part of a system, see this link, but the risk entailed by betting on similar production from Lawrence Jackson is outweighed by the gains of improving the secondary). This is not to say that either of those guys won't bust, hell, Jenkins is practically draped in red flags, but we need to take such a risk in order to compete.
If that's not an option, then yeah, we go with whoever the best player available is, and don't reach for a position of need. But that means you have to take a second tier corner in round 2, be it Gilmore, Boykin, Norman, or Dennard. And unless the Lions think they've found a highly underrated player in one of those four (entirely possible, Schwartz has done it in the past, and Mayhew is a former CB who hopefully has an eye for talent at that position), the drop off in talent from Kirkpatrick to those guys, and the effect it has on the secondary, is big enough to cause concern. I think if we get Kirkpatrick, and he is the real deal, we have a shot at winning at least a wild card, maybe even the division. Without an additional good corner, its a fight with the Bears for a wildcard spot.
So, if you put together a mock draft, and it does not feature a CB in the top 2 rounds, I don't think you've really done a good job. Not that mock drafts really matter, of course, and for all I know Mayhew is going to completely ignore this as well. But just be aware....


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Luckily Nemesio turned up and managed to distract me from my wild imaginings. He had already acquired the nickname Nemo from the LASFS crowd, and it would become his name from then on.
"It's a good one," I told him. "Like Verne's submariner in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."
"It also means 'no one,'" he replied with a shrug.
He then went on to recount his theory of how Verne had based his Captain Nemo on the 19th century submarine inventor from Barcelona, Narcís Monturiol.
"Narcís?" I retorted. "Hubbard's right, you know. What is it with these Spanish names?"
"Well, he was Catalan, actually. But you know, Monturiol was a visionary, a true exponent of liberational technology. He had written many pamphlets on socialism, pacifism, feminism even. He supported the setting up of utopian communes in the New World. When that failed he became interested in science and technology. His was the first fully functional submarine."
"Well, a lot of guys on the Atlantic convoys won't thank him for that."
"Yes, but his was a craft for exploration." Nemesio began to sketch the design of an underwater craft on a napkin. "A pilot ship for mankind's journey into the unknown. And his ideas then were still in advance of what the Nazis have now. He developed an independent underwater propulsion system, with a chemical fuel that could generate enough energy to power the vessel and produce oxygen as a side product. It was truly remarkable."
Nemo showed me his drawing. It was of a fish-shaped craft with a row of portholes along its side.
"It looks like a spaceship," I remarked.
"Yes," Nemo agreed. "Maybe that's what it was. Maybe that is the answer. If you can't change the world, build a spaceship."
When I walked out of Clifton's that night, Mary-Lou was waiting for me. She was wearing slacks and a windbreaker with the collar turned up. She looked like a fugitive.
"Hi, Larry," she said. "Can we talk?"
We found a bar on South Broadway. We ordered beer and I went to the pay phone to call Mother.
"She gets worried if I'm late home," I explained.
"You're such a good boy, Larry," she said.
I know now that this was meant tenderly, but at the time it was like a jab in the gut. I made my call and then we found a quiet booth. Mary-Lou looked different, her face pale and ethereal, her eyes intense. All at once she began telling me of the strange new things she had learned, about the Ordo Templi Orientis and its peculiar English hierophant, Aleister Crowley. She spoke of the power of the will and the gaining of universal knowledge through symbolic ritual.
"Remember that night when I said that I wanted to know everything?" she said, her eyes burning beneath the neon light. "Well, now I think I can."
"But that's crazy, Mary-Lou."
"You see, every man and every woman is a star. Everyone has to find their own destiny. The law of the strong is our law and the joy of the world."
"The law?"
"Love is the law."
"Love? Is that how you feel about Jack Parsons?"
She sighed.
"Oh, Larry——"
"But he's married, Mary-Lou."
"That's just a superficial institution, Larry. We're living in a new age. Monogamy is redundant. If we get rid of jealousy we can really set ourselves free. I mean, look at you."
"Yes, you. You're so goddamn buttoned-up and neurotic. You should come to the Lodge, you know. It would be so good for you."
"Er, I don't think so, Mary-Lou."
"Well," she said with a curious smile, "think about it."
And then the conversation turned to more or less small talk. We asked each other about our writing, of course. She told me that she had outlined the whole of her space opera Zodiac Empire for Superlative Stories. She was working through the planets toward a final installment that would center on the sun. Nemo had told her about a Renaissance heretic and revolutionary called Tommaso Campanella who had written a utopian book titled The City of the Sun, and she planned to base it on that. We finished our drinks, and I dropped her off on my way home.
I hadn't exactly been looking forward to my next appointment with my psychoanalyst, Dr. Furedi, but even I could not have foreseen such a difficult session. I tried to explain what had happened in the previous week, but such was my agitated state, I must have appeared manic and obsessive. And the details, well, I suppose that they did seem a little too much like the demented fantasy of someone who read too many pulp magazines. It soon became clear that my analyst was treating it all as the delusional ravings of some paranoid condition. The good-looking, diabolical scientist was, of course, merely a symptom of my hysteria. Dr. Furedi became particularly interested in my reference to "rockets," obviously interpreting them as the phallic objects of my repressed imagination. I left his consulting room a gibbering wreck.
And the worst thing was that there was an element of truth in his distorted perception of my problem. I was irrationally obsessed with Parsons. And though I was jealous of him for having taken away the presumed object of my affections, I was also jealous of Mary-Lou, in that she had become the focus of his attentions. I was pretty sure this was not sexual jealousy, but with scant practical experience in these matters, I felt in serious danger of having some kind of breakdown. It was with a sense of desperation that I decided to face my anxieties head-on.
The Agape Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis was in a large wooden house on Winona Boulevard. I persuaded Nemo to come along to an open meeting with me. I was a little scared, to tell you the truth, but I wanted to find out what all this was about. The first part of the meeting was very informal. We were shown into an upstairs lounge buzzing with a bohemian crowd, a mix of young and old, some flamboyantly dressed, others theatrically solemn. I spotted an ancient silent-movie actress chatting with a man whose catlike face was dusted with powder and rouge. We were offered punch. I'd already decided that if this stuff was drugged, well, it would all be part of the experiment. I took a tentative sip. It tasted dark and sweet with a licorice aftertaste. Suddenly Mary-Lou was next to me.
"Glad you could come, Larry. Go easy with that stuff," she said, nodding at the cup in my hand. "It's got a kick to it."
I stared at her for a second and then drained the rest of the punch in one gulp.
"I'm feeling adventurous." She laughed.
"That's good. Because if you come up to the mass, you've got to take communion. That's the rule."
A gong sounded and the party began to make its way up a wooden staircase through a trapdoor. As Mary-Lou went on ahead she turned back to me.
"See you later, Larry. Stick around. We're going to Pasadena later. There's going to be a special party."
The attic temple was small and gloomy. Wooden benches faced a raised dais where two obelisks flanked a tiered altar lined with candles. There was a hushing of voices as the congregation settled. A trill of soft laughter ran along the pews and a sharp scent of incense filled the air. There came a low drone of a harmonium playing the slow chords of a prelude, though I'm sure I heard in counterpoint the melody of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor." At the time I thought this was my febrile imagination, but I later found out that the organist liked to improvise around a jaunty tune slowed to a funereal pace.
The priest and the priestess entered and the ceremony began. It was not what I had expected. I had imagined some brooding satanic ritual, but this seemed almost lighthearted. There was certainly nothing demonic about it. The ceremony had much medieval symbolism: swords parting veils, lances and chalices—Freud knows what Dr. Furedi would have made of it all. My mind began to spin very slowly. The drug was taking hold. It was not an unpleasant feeling. The mass became a long, monotonous chant punctuated by sudden moments of exuberant gesture or astonishing verse. Images of burning incense beneath the night stars of the desert, of the serpent flames of rocket launches. Alien dialogue in some far-flung adventure. And I was somehow part of it. I felt relief flood through my usually anxious self. I figure now that it was probably mescaline that had spiced up the punch.
At times I found myself enthralled by the drama in the temple and at others almost oblivious to the proceedings. The priest and the priestess appeared to show real passion for each other as they enacted a strange, sensual fertility rite. The woman spoke urgently of pleasure, pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, of a song of rapture to arouse the coiled splendor within, and for a moment I was utterly enchanted. Then the priest began to chant an unintelligible dirge and my thoughts diffused. I drifted into a trancelike state, and before I knew it the mass was at an end and we were all summoned to a communion of wine and rust-colored wafers. As we filed out the organ played a recessional of ominous chords with a slow ditty over it that sounded a lot like "Yes! We Have No Bananas."
Back in the lounge I was talking with Nemo. The conversation seemed urgently heightened and languidly casual at the same time. There were moments when we seemed to be having the same thoughts simultaneously. We felt sophisticated, wildly intellectual.
Our eyes locked and I noticed that his pupils were as sharp as pencil leads. We both agreed that this mass would not seem out of place in a pulp fantasy, that so many of the stories we had been exposed to appeared to hark back to a warped idea of the Middle Ages, with knights, maidens, quests and supernatural revelation. Nemo spoke of how so much space opera seemed to be a rendition of some interstellar Holy Roman Empire. We had begun to speculate on what kind of religion a science-fiction writer would come up with when Mary-Lou came over to join us.
"You took the host then," she said to me. "You know they're prepared with animal blood."
I shrugged, not knowing what to say but determined not to be as shocked as she thought I would be. I noticed Parsons at the far end of the room, holding court amid a small circle of people. The priest and priestess stood near him, touching each other with a casual intimacy.
"The priestess seems to be in love with the priest," I said to Mary-Lou.
"Oh, that's Helen Parsons," she retorted. "Jack's wife."
"You mean…?"
"I told you, Larry. We have to reject hypocritical social standards."
I felt my face flush at the thought of it. I let out a peculiar giggle.
"Larry?" said Mary-Lou.
"Mary-Lou," I replied.
I wanted to say that I loved her. Love! To call it out just as the celebrants had done in the gnostic mass.
"Are you coming to Pasadena with us?" she asked.
I nodded and my teeth clenched in a manic grin. My head raced with curiosity and delirious expectation.
The May evening was warm when we reached the Arroyo Seco, the dry ravine that cuts through the San Gabriel Mountains. The scrubland at the edge of Pasadena was then a suburban wilderness, a homely arcadia thick with chaparral, sycamore and tangled thickets of wild grape. The Caltech rocket group had the lease on three acres that had been cleared as a launch site. There was a group of corrugated sheet-metal huts, a sandbag bunker and an arcane assembly of test apparatus. These were the beginnings of the famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Some kind of party had already begun. There was wine and beer and a sense of pagan revelry. I was passed a thin, hand-rolled cigarette. Marijuana, I thought with an exuberant sense of sinfulness. I took a puff and broke into a spluttering spasm. Nemo took it from me and inhaled the drug with casual expertise. He had tried it in Mexico, he confided to me. Mary-Lou explained to us that tonight was a ritual to influence the space-time continuum. This was the special mass that Jack Parsons had spoken of that night at the Heinleins', the one ordered by the hierophant to change the course of the war.
Parsons arrived in white robes, clutching a spray of mistletoe in one hand, a sickle in the other. The party started to form itself into a circle around him. It was then that I saw the rocket on its stand. Taller than he was, it seemed to tower above us, a totem, a faceless idol. On the ground around it were scorch marks and what looked like runic markings. Parsons began an ululating invocation to the god Pan. Drunk and drugged, my mind reeled but my body assumed its tranquilized equilibrium. I felt a wonderful balance: my weight on the earth, my head in the sky. I turned to Nemo and he nodded to me, wide-eyed and smiling.
"Yeah," he said. "We're going to make contact, man."
I nodded back. I had no idea what he meant, but at that moment it all seemed to make sense. The sky darkened and Parsons motioned for the circle to widen. At nightfall the rocket was launched. There was an explosion of thrust, an exultant rush of energy into the heavens. The crowd gasped as one.
"Yes," Nemo hissed as the vehicle reached its zenith.
The rocket released its payload, a parachute flare that floated like an angel of grace over the Arroyo Seco. As it descended, Nemesio pointed to something beyond it high up in the firmament.
"See?" he implored. "They're here, man!"
I couldn't tell what he was gesturing at. All I could see were some dim stars that were just making themselves visible.
"Come on," he said and began to make his way toward the San Gabriel Mountains. "They're coming in to land!"
I went after him for a while, but he moved like a man possessed, following a track up into the canyon. I called after him as he began to climb the hillside. Then he was gone.
I went back to the party. A bonfire had been lit and shadow figures danced in the convulsive firelight. My once-benign mood of narcosis began to fade and the evening's saturnalia now seemed harsh and sinister. My anxiety returned, unwelcome but familiar. I wandered about, trying to find Mary-Lou. I thought I caught a glimpse of a wild goat gamboling in a darkened glade. I followed and found myself in a clearing. There was a trickle of laughter and by the flickering light I could make out bodies cavorting in this sacramental grove. Yellow flames licked at the pitched gloom, and here and there naked flesh glowed amber or albescent. A bright flare from the pyre lit up a face, which turned and caught my gaze. It was Mary-Lou. She smiled as she saw me, her eyes brimstone, her mouth a lewd grimace.
"Come on, Larry," she implored in a harsh whisper. "Join us!"
I froze. My whole body clenched into an apoplectic spasm but for a heart that hammered away in a wild palpitation. I felt a terrible sadness. The image of the twisted bodies was already seared on my memory, my timid desire overwhelmed by a dreadful sense of loss. This was the death of love, I suddenly thought.
Perhaps Mary-Lou caught my look of dismay. I don't know. Her face went blank for a second and then she turned away from me, into the embrace of Jack Parsons and two or three others.
I stumbled away unsteadily and out of joint, coldly sober but reeling about like a drunken fool. I lay down in the dust and felt the world spin against my back. Looking down at the starry depths, I felt the lonely vertigo of the universe. My own sorry little space opera stretched out into infinity. Eventually I regained enough balance to pick myself up and walk to my car. I clambered onto the backseat and fell into a troubled sleep.
I woke to Nemo gently shaking my shoulder. I got out of the car and adjusted my eyes to the powdery haze of morning.
"What happened to you?" I asked him.
He shrugged and stared back at me with dead eyes. He looked as if he had been dragged through a forest.
"It's hard to explain, Larry," he said. "I saw something."
I never got the whole story of what he witnessed that night. Over the years he would refer to the time when he had seen "something from another world," but he always seemed reluctant to elaborate further. For a while I thought he worried that I might think he was crazy. But maybe he just wanted to keep it to himself. To save it for his fiction. And the influence of this experience can certainly be found in his work, in stories such as "Interstellar Epiphany" and "The Uninvited Guest." At the time neither of us really wanted to talk about the previous night, so we drove back to L.A. mostly in silence.
Mother was predictably upset when I turned up at the house looking wild-eyed and disheveled, and I was unnecessarily blunt with her when she asked after my whereabouts, loudly declaring that I had been at an orgy.
"Larry!" she chided me.
"Oh, don't worry, Mother," I called out as I went up to my room, "your precious son is still a virgin."
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Pair bailed on child porn charges (From Darlington and Stockton Times)
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5:20pm Tuesday 6th November 2012 in News By Hannah Bryan, Reporter (Darlington)
TWO men have appeared at court charged with making indecent images of children.
Simon Cater, 42, of Damson Court, Darlington, and David Elliott, 44, of The Sycamores, in Park Road, Newcastle, are each charged with 16 counts of making indecent images and one charge of possessing indecent images.
Between January 1 2004 and January 26 this year, Mr Cater is accused of amassing 4, 719 indecent images of children, while Mr Elliott is said to have had 208 images during the same time frame.
The pair, who have not yet entered a plea, appeared at Darlington Magistrates' Court today (Tuesday, November 6) and spoke only to confirm their names and addresses.
They have been committed to Teesside Crown Court on a date yet to be fixed. Both were given unconditional bail.
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JOLENE Edge spent nine years working in nurseries and loved spending time with children.
However, she has struggled to have a child of her own since being diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).
The disorder - which affects around five to 10 per cent of women - saw Jolene try IVF treatment in order to fulfil her dream.
The 28-year-old and her husband, from Belmont, Hereford, first tried free treatment on the NHS two years ago, but were unsuccessful.
Therefore, they have to raise £1,300 in order to try again.
To try and boost funds, the couple will be holding a fund-raising event at the Starlite Rooms at Hereford United at 7pm on May 3.
Jolene said that she hopes that the party will also raise awareness of her condition.
"There should be more awareness - I was just given a few leaflets," said Jolene, who was diagnosed with PCOS six years ago and only has one fallopian tube.
"I have spoken to a few people on internet forums, but I don't know anyone else in Hereford that has got it.
"It's not really talked about and we were pretty much left to our own devices."
Susan Seenan, chief executive of Infertility Network UK, said the group offers free support and advice to couples going through IVF treatment.
"One in six couples in the UK today are struggling to conceive and fertility issues are the second most common reason why a woman of child bearing visits her GP, after pregnancy itself," she said.
"For these people, the journey to possible parenthood can be a very long one with no guarantee of a happy ending and they need our help, support and understanding because infertility is a very real problem which can be devastating for couples of any age."
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As of November first, federal stimulus money that was being used to support SNAP or the food stamp program ended.
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I am a new commenter here at sbnation so hello to all those reading this. I like the Rangers especially since I moved to Texas a few years ago. I root for them most of the time and I hope they win the AL West and go back to the playoffs again and was happy to see them make the World Series this year. I will root for them 152 times this year but as a Boston Red Sox fan first I have been disappointed by the Rangers 3 times already but the Rangers deserved it and if the Red Sox dont win Go Rangers. I have been to the Ballpark four times and will come out again in May when they play the New York Yankees. I'll be all for the Rangers that night lol. Well take care and I'll check back soon even if the Red Sox lose to the Rangers again. Best wishes and take care, steelspurredsoxleafs


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If you missed the minefield that was the Sports Illustrated article on UCLA basketball released this week, you missed a doozy. In short, it alleged numerous misdeeds on and off the court by UCLA players (not limited to dropping ecstasy, smoking marijuana and peeing on teammates' clothes) and coaches during coach Ben Howland's tenure and how Howland reportedly looked the other way mostly on such behavior.
UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero on Wednesday swung by Fox Sports Radio's Petros and Money Show to respond to the SI's expose and commented on whether this report could hurt Howland's future with the school:
"You can't really throw it all into one bag. Over the course of nine years Ben has run the program and by in large the greater number of the student athletes that have been in his program have been fantastic young men, some of them have gone on and obviously they're doing well in the professional ranks, some are overseas doing great and some are just great young men in society today. We've had a few situations with a few young men that have not represented the program the way we would like in a general sense but the most important thing is we take this article, we take where we are as a program, and at the end of the season Ben and I will talk things through. Obviously you need to have an alignment of vision, correct what's wrong, and we just need to make certain that we are there. That process doesn't take place till the end of the year like we always do it. We always meet at the end of the year and go through the season."
In the past few seasons UCLA hasn't played up to its reputation as being the crown jewel of college hoops. This season the Bruins remain in the middle of the pack in the standings of a currently unremarkable Pac-12. So a recent lack of success coupled with this scandal would make you think there's little promise for Howland's future. To Howland's credit he's brought this program to the Final Four three straight times and has a great track record of producing NBA talent. Bottom line: Somebody has to be held responsible and face the consequences. And perhaps Guerrero himself shouldn't be immune from that.
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Now that school is back in session (or soon will be), this casserole is perfect for busy moms who just never have enough time for meal preparation. You can double the recipe and divide it into two 8x8 or 9x9 baking dishes. Use one and freeze one.
4-6 Smart Chicken boneless, skinless breasts, cooked and cubed
Extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 medium onion, diced
2 cans cream of chicken soup
2 (4 ounce) cans chopped green chilies
1 (3.8 ounce) can sliced black olives, drained
1 teaspoon cumin or Tony Chachere's Original Creole seasoning, optional
1/4 cup chopped jalapenos, (From a jar or can), optional
1 pint (16 ounces) sour cream
Approximately 8 ounces chicken broth
Approximately 8 ounces picante sauce
1/2 - 3/4 bag (about 6 1/2 to 10 ounces) Tostitos, crunched, use the lesser amount if you want a creamier casserole ( I purchase the 13 ounce Tostito bag)
16 ounces Colby or Monterey Jack Cheese
Picante sauce, for topping (optional)
Serves 10 to 12.
Note: After freezing this recipe when you are ready to have it for dinner, simply remove from the freezer, defrost to room temperature and bake. Be sure to shorten the baking time since the pan size is smaller. Remove when the casserole is hot and bubbly and let stand about 15 minutes.
Note: Do NOT use both the chicken broth and the picante sauce. Use one or the other.
Note: I like to add chopped jalapenos, the ones found in the jar or a can, to this casserole when I want a zestier, spicier casserole.


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All Sports To Cease So Skip Bayless Has Nothing To Talk About
'"Will we miss football? Of course we will," said NFL Players Association president Kevin Mawae, who confirmed that professional football players would join all other pro athletes in turning in their uniforms and shredding their playbooks by May 1. "It's all most of us know. But for a long time now, there's been a feeling that football wasn't worth playing as long as Skip Bayless was able to take these ridiculously adversarial devil's-advocate stances purely to rile up viewers and get attention. It's better this way."'


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From London to Philadelphia, Charleston to Kingston, Quebec to Lima, popular culture in early America embraced a host of activities and purposes, communities, practices, and sites. It expressed the vitality of the diverse worlds that met and collided in early America and enacted their tensions and conflicts as well. Plebeian and respectable, folk and commercial, popular and elite: "popular culture" goes by many names in early American scholarship and takes in a broad and perhaps incompatible set of activities. The Draper Graduate Student Conference in Early American Studies seeks to explore this wide arena and assay the subjects, issues, contributions, and theoretical debates in recent work on popular culture in early America and the broader Atlantic world from the sixteenth century down to the middle decades of the nineteenth century
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"Through Purchase or Plunder: Collecting Mexico, 1846-1848"
2) Jane Tippett (University of Delaware)
"Imagining Empire: Peale's Philadelphia Museum"
3) Katelyn Delgallo Crawford (University of Virginia)
"Philip Wickstead's Multivalent Conversation Pieces and their Jamaican Context"
10:00am, Break
Dodd Center Public Lounge, University of Connecticut
10:30am, Panel Two: "A Playwright, a Princess, and a Prostitute Walk into a Theater…"
1) Benjamin E. Park (University of Cambridge)
"Native Muses and Exotic Others: Playwrights, Popular Novelists, and Depicting the Foreign in Early America "
2) Sara Lampert (University of Michigan)
"Where Women 'Exhibit Their Shamelessness': Gender and Class Politics in the Early-Nineteenth-Century Cultural Marketplace
3) Christiana Molldrem (University of Pittsburgh)
"Policy and Pocahontas: 'Indian' Plays and Public Policy, 1808-1830"
12:00pm Lunch
Dodd Center Public Lounge, University of Connecticut
1:30pm, Panel Three: "Dimensions of Class in Early American Pop Culture"
1) Sean Trainor (The Pennsylvania State University)
"The Celebrated Razor-Strop Man of New York on Manliness, Respectability, and the Countless Virtues of a Close Shave"
2) Leah R. Giles (Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware)
"Sounds of a New Republic: Music, Parlors and Popular Culture in Washington, DC, 1800-1825"
3) Sarah Crider Arndt (Trinity College Dublin)
"Bringing Reading to the People: Popular Cultural and Reading in Urban Baltimore, 1790-1825"
3:00pm Break
Dodd Center Public Lounge, University of Connecticut
3:30pm, Panel Four: "Performing Discord: The Subcultural Politics of Identity Formation"
1) Xi Chen (University of Washington)
"The Apostasy of the Apostle: The Cultural Politics of Temperance and Self-Making in John B. Gough's New York Scandal"
2) John L. Dwiggins (University of Pennsylvania)
"'The pleasure they would derive by being a soldier': Military Service as a Popular Subculture in Antebellum America"
3) Devon Van Dyne (University of California at Los Angeles)
"Ladies of Llangollen: 'The L Word' in Early America"
5:00pm, Sessions Conclude
Saturday, March 26
8:30am, Depart for the American Antiquarian Society
Nathan Hale Inn, University of Connecticut
10:00am, American Antiquarian Society Presentation
12:00pm, Lunch
American Antiquarian Society
12:30pm, Closing Remarks
Patricia Cline Cohen
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Eric Buckner had what can only be described as a perfect first half for the Panthers. He scored 14 points, pulled down eight rebounds, shot 4-4 from the field, 6-6 from the foul line with two blocks and no turnovers. The Pride have had no answers for the 6-foot-7 senior forward. Guard Devonta White has chipped in 11 as well for Georgia State.
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Carlton Cole was in a buoyant mood after scoring the winner in the Hammers' Carling Cup first leg victory over Birmingham.
Cole scuffed a shot straight at Ben Foster, who inexplicably let it go through his legs, before turning away to celebrate in embarrassment.
Speaking to the official site Cole said, "I'm chuffed to have scored the winning goal. I hope we can go over to their place and capitalise on this win because it would be good for the fans and good for us mentally to help us get out of the trouble we're in in the league.
"Winning in the cup is a habit that we need to take to the Premier League now to help us get up the table and out of the position that we're in.
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Open Letter To Lisa Dixon – Scarborough Borough Council From Tom Brodrick Regarding Threat Of Legal Action against Real Whitby And Its Authors
Think about it Lisa, do you not consider it unusual that you have to read my response to you from the informative site Real Whitby, because your boss Mr Dillon and Ms Jones will not allow you to receive an email from me?
Dear Lisa
SBC's Executives Hiliary Jones and Chief Executive Jim Dillon prevent elected councillors and council officers from receiving my correspondence.
They have being doing this for two going on three years without any reasonable explanation. SBC never gave any reasonable dates or times when I could resume corresponding with it's council officers or elected members.
It makes no sense, due to the actions of your boss Chief Exec Jim Dillon and Hiliary Jones, council officers and elected councillors are unable to receive open letters from myself.
Open letters being correspondence that is publically available for all to see, transparent, legal, polite and informative.
This could easily be proved to any court in the land, backed up by photographs, emails and situations that have been handled by the appalling leadership of Jim Dillon and Hiliary Jones, perfectly reasonable situations.
The adverse publicity that SBC bring upon itself under the leadership of Ms Jones and Mr Dillon, not forgetting the leadership of elected member Councillor Tom Fox is, from what I understand, all of their own making.
It is Cllr Tom Fox who should be challenging the positions of SBC's top executives, Mr Dillon and Ms Jones, but unfortunately, if handled properly, it will then come upon the elected councillors to also look at Cllr Tom Foxe's close relationship with Chief Exec Jim Dillon and also call his leadership into question.
But instead they all seek an alternative remedy, that is to abscond from their own positions of responsibility, that is to serve the public to the best of their ability, to instead BLAME THE PUBLIC.
Were they not taught a lesson from the Pete Budd affair?
I asked SBC what offending letters or emails had I sent and to whom. I asked them repeatedly and they refused to answer, not even one piece of evidence.
Do I threaten SBC officers with legal action? Am I of any threat at all?
So, Lisa Dixon, Mr Dillon, Ms Jones and Council Leader Tom Fox I will assist Real Whitby in any way I can, with well documented evidence that will prove that it is indeed SBC who are vindictive, malicious, unfair and perhaps even illegally preventing members of the public from engaging with SBC officers and elected Councillors permanently, no end date, like Guantanamo prisoners, no minutes, no agendas, without any democratic decision making by it's elected councillors.
Who sanctioned such decisions Mr Dillon?
Lisa, you ought to just get on with the legal action, there won't be a penny available from any members of the public.
It will probably cost SBC in the region of say £800,000 to £1, 200,000 the outcome being that SBC may have, at best, one or two articles removed and eventually someone will see common sense and change the management.
It's odd that in all these years North Yorkshire County Council handle people reasonably, politely and reply to each and every email from each and every one of its constituents.
Mr Dillon, Ms Jones and council leader Tom Fox should make an apology, resign (taking with them as little public money as possible), as they really have no creditability left and bring in a whole new management team.
A team that will correspond reasonably, enter into discussions reasonably and unlike the current Chief Executive Jim Dillon make themselves a more public approachable figure.
It is bizarre for any LEGAL TEAM, whatever that means, to try and terrify an open and accessible public website?
Just pick out the bits you think are unreasonable and ask for them to be removed, altered or post SBC's own take on the subject and issue a statement.
Just get on with it.
- 1) Lisa, how on earth could you get a penny from people who do not have it? The first rule of litigation?
- 2) Why have you not done this as articles appear? I'm sure a judge will ask you the same question.
Is it because it's election time?
I'm sure, as time will tell, you will find that Real Whitby's editor and those who comment and submit stories will be more than reasonable with you, far more than you (SBC) have been towards them.
Just write to Real Whitby and explain what you disagree with.
Unless you let people know what it is you do not like then how on earth can they enter into reasonable discussions with you.
I can't see a court being pleased that you have only let them know what it is that you don't like on the day of the hearing.
Build your case, present your case as is legally required and if you do not get the response you are looking for then present your case to a judge who will decide if Real Whitby, its editors, commentators, individual publishers have a case to answer.
Think about it, do you not consider it unusual that you have to read my response to you from the informative site Real Whitby, because your boss Mr Dillon and Ms Jones will not allow you to receive an email from me?
As I've no doubt my response will also be read by Mr Dillon, Ms Jones and Ms Fox from the very website they wish to shut down.
It's the internet, it's out there, it cannot possibly be wound back in.
It's time for change, SBC has been engulfed in adverse publicity since the appearance of Mr Dillon, Ms Jones and Cllr Tom Fox. Its leadership cannot possibly survive and any legal action can only serve to keep its leadership in employment.
Lisa if you think that there is anything at all I've personally contributed to Real Whitby, even this response, that SBC's Legal Team do not agree with then please let me know asap and I will consider removing the offending article-comment and make an apology where necessary.
Yours – Tom Brodrick
Scarborough Borough Councils Threat Of Legal Action Against Real Whitby. Read More Here
To read further comments by Tom and others, please head over to the corruption busters page on Facebook – here . Real Whitby would like to point out that it does not own facebook and does not own the corruption busters page, and we can not be held responsible for what is said there by other interested members of our community. We simply give you the links so you can read what is being said around the internet. Happy reading.
7 Responses to "Tom Brodrick To Lisa Dixon, Re Legal Action"
Well said Tom hit the nail right on the head.This is bullying at its lowest form.Good on Glen,Nigel,yourself and others who have the balls and integrity to challenge this corrupt (my own opinion please dont sue me lol)council.
Outstanding, very well stated Tom, they are running scared and this is the only option they have to try and recoup some credibility before the election. A hopeless task at best for a group of elected and paid people who do not have a shred of honour and integrity between them.
Well said Tom, since when did OUR Council become so disengaged with the electorate? I believe you have answered this already. Which begs the questions do we have a democracy here or are we held under a Stasi authority?
Quite right Tom, this is posturing windbaggery at its finest. I hope that SBC carry out their threat of legal action, the publicity thus generated will surely prompt Pickles to send in the heavies. Just what are they thinking of? I was present at the 'show trial' of Pete Budd, the last case tried at Whitby Magistrate's Court, SBC were represented by a Barrister who didn't know, when asked by the Judge, whether she was being paid £400.00 or £900.00 per hour, she was backed up by various SBC flunkies about five all told. Pete Budd had plenty of support from many local people, but none of us was allowed to speak on his behalf, although the Judge was willing to hear us. This case cost the Council Tax payer £15,000, (the Judge said that normally the local authority, SBC would cover the costs of such a prosecution, SBC presented Pete Budd with the bill) to prosecute a prominent citizen and valued member of the community, for putting a few flags up – incidentally, these flags were thought to be so much an incitement o public disorder that they were photographed in situ, and used to illustrate the cover of some tourism brochures. Pete has continued to be harassed by SBC – he got a parking ticket for being parked on Upper Church Street, for FOUR MINUTES, whilst other citizens can leave their vehicles in the same position for hours at a time, without any risk of penalty.
How can you people keep up the attack on people who have tried to work for our wonderful town. You call this bulling, what do you call what you are doing?
I have been born and live in this town all my life,
Things have not been great but we have had elected councillors town,county and borough,who were elected by the people to represent us, who elected you lot?
When I was in the army we call what you are doing as a kangaroo court,
They say a little knowledge is a dangerouse thing,
And In the hands of fools who are not from Whitby?
We used to look after ourselfs, that why this wonderful town has not been changed into
a seafront like Scarborough, arcades and candy floss,all over,I was told as a child,
If you don't like something change it,
I like you have access to a computer,and like you I would ask look at your members.
I was always told judge others as you would judge yourself!
Would you like others to accuse you of wronge doings as you have judged others?
Is you life perfect? And have you never made a mistake? If you answer yes to all this
Then you must be Jesus, the book according to Nigel ward
The Labour party councillors at SBC have suggested that we should go to a single unitary authority and simply dispense with SBC altogether. Presumably Scarborough would then just have its own town council with one paid town council clerk just like Whitby. It would clearly save money and duplication of effort. In the light of the apparent long-standing animosity between the towns of Scarborough and Whitby, it sounds as though it couldn't come a day too soon. But then I'm an incomer – what would I have a right to know?
Private Eye, Rotten Boroughs, "Lisa Majesty" article published to-day.


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Florence Business owners say they look forward to this time
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businesses say the months leading up to March are slow for them, and they are just as
excited to sell products as people are to buy them.
"People start getting refunds, and they need a place to
spend it, and we're all
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Around tax season, businesses say more people buy items like T.V.'s, furniture and
This year,
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Richardson said cars brands like Nissans and Dodge sell well
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Last weekend I went to the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario with my husband, my sister, and her boyfriend. I meant to put up at least one blog post while I was gone, send some tweets and maybe update my Facebook status a few times.
Instead, a confluence of events conspired to keep my hands free and my weekend disconnected from the outside world. And I have to say, once I got past the anxiety of being out of touch, I loved it. It was really good for me to be forced to focus fully on the people I was with, and to stop worrying about what other people might be wanting to get in touch with me, or why.
Yes, even my kids. Over at my Babble blog, I've made a case for forgetting the phones when you go out or go away…even if you've left the kids at home, too. Whether you disconnect for a few hours or a few days, it's seriously therapeutic to get some time away from the constant flashing needs of digital life, and I think my mental "reboot" has been great for my family.
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By Friday afternoon, when we needed to know the time, we realized that apparently nobody wears wristwatches anymore, and also, no one in our group had brought along a digital communication device.
At first, that realization made me anxious. What if my mother-in-law needed to get in touch with us about the kids?
But then I recalled that when I was younger, parents left their kids places all the time without being immediately reachable. School, for example. If you got sick and your mom was at the grocery store or on another call at work, then…you waited. If your parents went out to dinner, they left the name of the restaurant for the sitter and went on their merry way.
And though, for the first day or so I kept finding my fingers reaching unconsciously for my purse, by Friday evening I had gotten used to it and by Saturday I had reached a state of extreme relaxation. There is something so nice about just being with the people you are with, instead of always feeling that pull toward the outer world or being tempted to surreptitiously check your phone under the table. (What, me?)
I'd love for you to read the rest of the post and tell me what you think. Do you always take your phone with you when you go out without the kids? I'm going to make a point of leaving mine in the hotel room more often when I'm on non-work-related trips, and leaving it at home entirely when I'm out for just a few hours.
That means that I'll be a little scarcer than usual over the next few weeks, as I have several trips planned. I turn 35 this Friday (woohoo!) and have a birthday evening planned with Jon and some good friends of ours up in Grand Rapids, and then the kids and I will be spending the following weekend with a big group of online mom friends, many of whom I've known since 1998. (wow!)
So you won't see as many tweets, FB posts or blog posts as usual from me over the next few weeks, but I'll be back with a vengeance August with stories to tell (hopefully many that involve the kind of hysterical laughter you see captured in the photo above), thoughts a-brewing, and I'm guessing, a serious sense of renewed energy. I'm still mulling over the "having it all" series and will be launching a few fun things around autumn, when I know I'll be ready for life to get back to school-year-normal.
But for now, I'm taking a tip from my forced technology break last weekend and extending it a bit longer. Feel free to join in! Baby steps…do you think you can leave the mobile behind next time you go to the grocery store?


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By Emma Bowen Meyer
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---- — ANDERSON — Bringing an unparalleled sense of style and elegance to an older house that afforded the perfect space and view, Bill and Cindy Byer have created a dream home they can enjoy for years to come.
"The view out of the living room window is the reason we bought the house," said Cindy, who works from home for Nurse Finders. "It's like living in the trees. And the screened-in porch. We live out there."
Since the home has a walk-out basement, the ground-level floor is like a second story in the back, which overlooks the woods. Both the living room and the screened-in porch provide a beautiful, lofty vista, perfect for enjoying nature – without the pesky bugs.
"We had lived in this neighborhood before and knew we liked it," said Bill, an attorney. "I like all the surrounding houses and everyone has been here a long time."
While previous owners had completed some major renovations, such as opening up the staircase in the entryway, the Byers have remodeled almost every room. Carpet that spread throughout the home has been replaced by tile and hardwood floors – all with Cindy's own two hands.
"She's done this kind of work in the lake house and our last house and a condo," said Bill. "She likes to work alone. I'm the hump mule. I run errands and pick up supplies when she's messy."
Her stepfather is a general contractor, but, for the most part, she is self-taught.
"I read books and look up how to do things on the internet," she said. "I enjoy doing it and that's the key. When I started on our other house, he was worried because he didn't know I could do it."
"Now I'm glad she does it," he said. "I always like the outcome. We have very similar tastes."
While her skills reach beyond installing tile and hardwood floors, a time (and energy) factor caused her to ask Monty Foust, owner of House to Home Craftsmen, to complete jobs that didn't pique her interests. Plumbing, wiring, erecting drywall and installing fixtures became his department.
"He did almost everything in the basement except for the tile," said Cindy. "In the kitchen I just ran out of time and told him to finish it. I was tired of the mess. Monty is really nice to work with because he lets me do some of the work myself without complaining about it."
The plan to renovate the basement led to a full kitchen remodel. When the false ceiling came down, the couple realized that the time was ripe to rewire and replumb the kitchen before finishing the lower level.
Gleaming with a new tile backsplash, pot filler, striking cabinets and granite countertops, the kitchen is a chef's dream. The island sports a second sink and eating area illuminated by industrial-style light fixtures. An outstanding stove from France is so attractive that it almost seems to be an accent instead of an appliance.
Competing with the kitchen for the title of "Most Breathtaking Room of the House" is the bathroom. Taking down the pink and mauve tile and fixtures, Cindy has completely retiled the space with a custom design that would rival the luxury bathrooms featured on television. She also designed the area so no shower curtain or door is needed.
Now that the house is complete – except for one more bathroom downstairs – the couple is ready to sit back, relax and enjoy their handiwork.
"We are here for good," said Cindy with a smile.
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Eclectic décor is littered about the house -- including a boat in the living room. The couple found this 1938 Century sitting along the highway in Alexandria. Although it was in horrid condition, they knew Cindy could strip and varnish it to fashion the perfect accent. "We had been looking for one and knew what we wanted to do with it," added Cindy.


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Late April doesn't just bring flocks of tourists Washington. It's when hundreds of members of the National Restaurant Association — a.k.a. the "other NRA" — swarm Capitol Hill for two intensive days of lobbying. With a $65 million budget and over 52,000 members, the other NRA ranks among the nation's most powerful corporate lobbies. …
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Apr 05 2013
A plateful of justice: The people who wash your dishes and the folks who cook and serve your food deserve better.
When my father immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the mid-1980s, his first job was washing dishes at a Furr's Fresh Buffet restaurant in New Mexico. It paid the state mandated minimum wage of $2.90 per hour. My father sent a portion of his scant earnings back to his parents and younger siblings …
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