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2013 Music Festival Guide
Everything you need to know about this years hottest shows!
By Emily Laurence
Firefly Festival
When: June 21-23
Where: Dover, Delaware
The Low-Down: Firefly has the perfect mix of top 40 headlinerslike Red Hot Chili Peppers and Calvin Harrisand indie faves such as Haim, Blondfire, and Atlas Genius. There's also a "hammock hangout" where you can relax in the shade!
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Rum Raisin Apple Pie Reviews
Gourmet | November 2006
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I cut this into thirds using two apples to just make it for me and hubby. Yum. The only changes I made were to replace the flour with cornstarch and leave out the raisins...but I left in the rum!
Excellent and easy recipe. I used 3 granny smith and 3 large galas which made a nice high pie. I followed the recipe to a T except for the crust. I also made the filling the night before to save time. It was perfection!
I used Black Strap Rum to soak the raisins and this pie won BEST PIE in a contest! I never got to taste it but I'm making it again for Thanksgiving.
I've made this for years and have evolved it a bit. Here's what I currently do: - Use the "Flaky Pie Crust" recipe in Epicurious - Make it in a gratin dish and increase the filling by 50%, the crust is sufficient - Borrowed a Gordon Ramsay method and precook the filling with some butter to caramelize and cook down the apples a bit (filling can also be made the day before) - Don't use Mcintosh anymore. Currently trying Golden Delicious or Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith, and Honeycrisp or Pink Lady (if its available). I'm still trying to figure out the ultimate combination. - cube and then re-freeze the shortening and butter for about 30 minutes to help make a really crumbly mixture in the food processor - roll the crust onto floured wax paper for easier transfer - grind fresh nutmeg in a coffee grinder - only change to the crust is 3 tbsp vodka + 3 tbsp water. Was told about the vodka trick a couple years ago and seems to help increase the flakiness.
I've made this recipe for years and my family, friends, and co-workers all look forward to it. I use the "Flaky Pie Crust" recipe in Epicurious. I make it in a gratin dish and increase the filling recipe by 50% - the crust is sufficient. I also pre-cook the fie filling (method borrowed from a Gordon Ramsay recipe) with some butter to caramelize the apples and to cook them down a bit to avoid the air gap between the apples and crust - the crust recipe is really flakey and holds its original shape. By pre-cooking the filling it can be made the day before. I also freshly grind the nutmeg in a coffee grinder. I roll out the crust on floured wax paper for easier handling. I also cube and freeze the butter and shortening for about 30 minutes and make sure it doesn't start to melt when pulsing in the food processor so its really crumbly. My only change to the crust is I use 3 tbsp of vodka + 3 tbsp of water in the crust - was told a couple years ago it helps with the flakiness and seems to help! I also don't use Mcintosh anymore as they get too mushy. Right now I'm trying fresh organic Golden Delicious and Gala, Fuji, and Honeycrisp (9 apples in total).
Delicious apple pie, the rum and raisins really added something special. And, it was not soupy at all, nice and firm. Definitely a keeper.
This pie was a HUGE hit when I served it to friends and family at a dinner party. I did make a few significant alterations based on my resources. Rather than purchasing dark rum, I used Wild Turkey American Honey whiskey since I already had it. I also used all Granny Smith apples (rather than 3 different, two-of-a-kind) and added about 2 Tablespoons of regular sugar to balance the tartness. I never brush my crust prior to baking, but wait until it is fresh from the oven and brush with melted butter, then sprinkle with sugar.Whenever I do have rum and a variety of apples, I'll be interested to see how it compares as we all LOVED the variation!

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Town's eBay sale of Palin mayoral SUV causes stir
The city of Wasilla, north of Anchorage, auctioned off a 1999 Ford Expedition with 74,188 miles used by Palin before she became a household name.
WikiLeaks server up for sale
A Swedish company is selling the server they rented to WikiLeaks on eBay.
Tech boosts spending on lobbying
Facebook, Apple, eBay, Amazon - they all put up more cash.
Amazon vs. eBay on online sales tax
eBay tries to drum up the kind of online support that squashed SOPA to bring down online sales tax.
Opposition to online sales tax wanes
As Internet retailers have grown and changed, so has thinking on the subject.
Tech luminaries blast piracy bills
An all-star lineup of Internet bigwigs charge that the measures would hinder innovation.
Shootout at the digital corral
The film, music and TV industries have spent more than $91 million on lobbying so far this year.
Norquist obstacle to sales tax bill?
The anti-tax-crusader's group has yet to take a stand on federal legislation targeting online retailers.
Web sales tax fight heats up
Wal-Mart and eBay hire lobbyists to pressure Congress on both sides of online sales taxes issue.
Online sales tax bill splits community
A House bill would give states more flexibility, but critics argue it would still hurt small businesses.
Whitman returns to tech, not politics
The former eBay chief and gubernatorial candidate is appointed the CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
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One-fourth of the highest-paid CEOs made more money last year than their companies paid in taxes.
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The two Web shopping giants disagree about a pending bill by Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin.
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Read the full court briefing.
Many interesting and poignant news articles have been published regarding leadership, fundraising efforts and the subsequent selling off of real estate by the Corcoran. Here, we have compiled those stories.
Read the full court briefing.
Washington Post, Style
"The Corcoran Should Remain Intact. Here's why."
by Philip Kennicott
LA Times, Arts & Entertainment
"Claims of retaliation for faculty dissent at Corcoran Gallery of Art"
by Christopher Knight
The Wall Street Journal, Life & Culture
"Isn't There a Better Way? A Hearing to decide the fate of the Corcoran Gallery of Art"
by Lee Rosenbaum
Via The Chronicle of Higher Education
by Scott Smallwood
March 23, 2001
Mount Vernon faculty members sue over a takeover by George Washington U.
This story has a hint of fairy tale to it. There's a handsome knight, George Washington University. There's a fair maiden, Mount Vernon College, a little college for women in the nation's capital. And once upon a time, back in 1996, the knight galloped to the rescue of the maiden, who was drowning in a sea of red ink.
Here, Mount Vernon faculty members thought, is our savior. Their benefactor talked of creating a world-class women's college. In their daydreams, they saw new programs, new money, maybe even new carpeting. But the fine print of the deal didn't cover such niceties. Instead, it called for the maiden to surrender her independence if she wished to be saved. The agreement gave George Washington control of Mount Vernon — control of the board, control of the finances, and, ultimately, control over whether the faculty members had anyplace left to work.
Fairy tales aren't supposed to end up in a District of Columbia courtroom, but that's where this story is headed. On April 2, a breach-of-contract lawsuit brought by 13 faculty members against George Washington and the soon-to-be-history Mount Vernon is slated to go to trial. The professors argue that Mount Vernon violated their tenure contracts, and that G.W. didn't give the college a fair shot at survival. They describe the deal as more of a corporate takeover.
On the other hand, what good is tenure at a college that was likely to shut down anyway?
Since they were let go, the professors say, their lives have changed drastically. James Burford, a professor of art at Mount Vernon for 20 years, now travels the Beltway each week, teaching part-time at three local colleges. He's hoping to crack the $30,000 barrier this year, still considerably less than the $41,000 he made in his last year at Mount Vernon. James Hull, who after 20 years as an English professor at Mount Vernon still made less than $40,000 a year, now wakes up at 5 a.m. to drive to a high-school teaching job more than an hour away. "My lifestyle is certainly very different," he says. "I didn't know how good I had it as a college professor."
Whether the deal is called a merger, an affiliation, or a takeover, professors at any small college swallowed up by a larger institution fear losing their jobs. In this case, George Washington says, it never merged with Mount Vernon. Instead, the two — as G.W. puts it — "affiliated," whereupon arrangements for the closing of Mount Vernon began taking shape, while the college's Board of Trustees was led by a G.W. administrator. "Mount Vernon as it was known is gone," says Grae Baxter, G.W.'s executive dean of the college's campus. "It's not anybody's fault. It's just evolution, institutional evolution."
The agreement led to a strange year on the Mount Vernon campus in 1999, as professors stuck around teaching the last seniors in what one faculty member called a "funeral-like" setting. The college, where 400 students once studied, was down to 100 or so by the end.
G.W. professors, meanwhile, were setting up shop. Rosemary Bolig, a human-development professor, says Mount Vernon faculty members were subjected to daily indignities. While they sweltered in steamy offices, air conditioners were installed nearby. As paint peeled from their walls, they say, offices being used by the G.W. professors were freshened up. And as they were teaching Mount Vernon's last students, construction workers shuffled in to measure for that new carpeting.
Today, a women's-leadership center remains on the campus, but most everything else about the formerly all-women's college has changed. Most classes there already include men, and next fall, the final gender barrier will be shattered: The Mount Vernon campus will simply be an extension of G.W., a few miles away, and both men and women will live in the dormitories. What happened to the white knight from 1996?
"What have they saved?" says Patricia Ortman, one of the professors in the lawsuit. "Nothing. Just the land."
Yes, the land. For while Mount Vernon never had that many students, wasn't terribly competitive, and didn't make the jump from junior college to four-year institution until the 1970′s, it did have 23 acres of choice real estate in a prime Washington neighborhood. George Washington, on the other hand, occupies an urban campus in Foggy Bottom, an area near the White House that offers the university no room for growth, and is known better for diplomats and K Street lawyers than green quadrangles. The Mount Vernon professors, as they watch George Washington invest millions of dollars in their old campus, say the deal looks less like an academic endeavor than a real-estate scam.
In 1875, Elizabeth J. Somers founded the Mount Vernon Seminary — a "family and day school for young ladies" — in her Washington home. The school provided six years of study, including two beyond high school. The junior college was established as a separate unit 50 years later, and the school moved to its current campus just after World War II. Most of the buildings surrounding a small quadrangle and fountain at the center of the campus were built in the late 1940′s.
Then, after nearly a century of existence, the college made two decisions that would define its final 25 years. First, Mount Vernon closed the high school, alienating many of the wealthiest alumnae from a college that would desperately need an endowment to finance its next big shift: becoming a four-year institution. That second decision could hardly have been more ill-timed.
In 1960, there were about 300 women's colleges around the country. By 1998, the number had dropped to 80. In the mid-1970′s, as women's colleges struggled to find students and money, Mount Vernon attempted the jump to a more competitive level.
For a while, the college seemed to be on solid ground. But administrators kept faculty members in the dark on the financial health of the institution, says Milton Eisner, a former mathematics professor.
Problems with the balance sheets became clear in 1993, when Lucyann Geiselman, then president of the college, started shopping around for help. Georgetown University, located just down the road, lent Mount Vernon $6.5-million; the college put up its 26-acre campus as security. The deal forestalled bankruptcy, but would lead eventually to the closing of the college.
Before long, realizing that the college couldn't continue making the payments on the loan, Ms. Geiselman sought a partnership arrangement. But Georgetown wasn't interested, and by the summer of 1996, the situation had become dire. A group of deans met at an administrator's apartment that August, asking whether the college would even open that fall. Professors had been bringing in their own chalk. Whispers of nearly missed payrolls circulated among staff members.
Then, in October 1996, Mount Vernon and George Washington struck their "affiliation" deal. G.W. would pay off the $6.5-million loan and extend Mount Vernon a line of credit. The college's trustees agreed to resign, allowing the university to appoint new ones. The new board, led by a G.W. vice president, stripped the Mount Vernon president of the power to spend more than $5,000 without prior approval. Most important, the agreement gave George Washington an option to shut Mount Vernon if the college failed to meet financial benchmarks in the next two years.
Just over a year later, in December 1997, the bleeding had stopped — bills were getting paid, and worries about missing paychecks were gone, says Monica Heppel, a former anthropology professor who is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. But it was clear that the college would fall far short of the financial goals set forth in the agreement. Mount Vernon announced that it would close in the spring of 1999, and that all faculty members — about 50 full-time professors, almost half of them with tenure — would be terminated. The tenured professors were given 17 months' notice and $1,000 each to help with their job searches. Mount Vernon declared a financial exigency to justify the layoffs, but the faculty members don't buy that explanation.
"I would assert that Mount Vernon was in financial exigency only if George Washington was in financial exigency," says Mr. Eisner, the former math professor. "It's as if I have an account A, and a million dollars in account B, and then declare financial exigency because I run out of money in account A. It's just another accounting line."
In December 1998, a group of professors — 11 with tenure and two who would have come up for tenure were it not for the affiliation agreement — sued Mount Vernon and George Washington, arguing, among other things, that the institutions had broken their contracts by not following the faculty handbook in establishing a bona fide financial exigency. They also argued that the college had failed to act in good faith by not seriously trying to stay afloat economically. They pointed out that the college had ended its student-recruiting efforts and had failed to consider cost-cutting moves. Mr. Burford, one of the professors, remembers seeing George Washington logos, not Mount Vernon ones, in the admissions office that year. He asked one of the staff members there if she had any Mount Vernon stationery. "I'm not sure," she said. "I think we may have a box in the back room."
In responding to the suit, G.W.'s lawyers painted the situation as a simple contract case, not a complicated tenure battle. "Plaintiffs lost their jobs because their employer, Mount Vernon College, was insolvent and went out of the teaching business," the lawyers wrote in a brief.
George Washington also argued that the affiliation agreement meant that Mount Vernon, not George Washington, would continue to employ the professors under the terms of their contracts. "If personnel actions impacted Mount Vernon College faculty, those actions were not taken by George Washington University," Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, the university's president, said in a deposition. "They didn't work for me."
Last May, Judge Rhonda Reid Winston agreed, awarding George Washington summary judgment on several parts of the case and effectively leaving the hollow shell of Mount Vernon College as the sole defendant in the lawsuit. While it no longer exists as an educational institution, Mount Vernon College as a corporate entity, devoid of any real assets, remains. And although G.W. is no longer officially part of the suit, the university's lawyers are still working on the case.
Shortly before the judge's order, the professors had written to Mount Vernon's alumnae, explaining what had happened and asking for money to pay legal bills. That prompted a rebuttal from the Mount Vernon alumnae association.
The professors argue that G.W. wants it both ways — pronouncing Mount Vernon dead and closed in order to terminate professors, but calling the Mount Vernon "legacy" alive and well to encourage donations. "The only place where Mount Vernon seems to exist is in letters to the alumnae," says Ms. Heppel, the former anthropology professor.
She points to a recent fund-raising letter in which Ms. Baxter, G.W.'s executive dean, wrote: "Only with your support … can we ensure that the Mount Vernon of the future is the same Mount Vernon that changed and shaped our alumnae."
Ms. Baxter says George Washington never meant to deceive Mount Vernon's alumnae and simply wanted to preserve a place to which they could feel connected. "We didn't want them to be orphaned," she says.
For their part, the alumnae are realistic about Mount Vernon, says Barbara Jean Martin Long, the association's president. "Mount Vernon was going to close. We consider ourselves lucky that G.W. had a vision and wants to keep it alive."
Younger, more mobile Mount Vernon faculty members found other jobs, but those who sued — most of them in their late 40′s or early 50′s — had established lives and families in Washington, and balked at the idea of starting over elsewhere. Of the 13 who filed the lawsuit, few have found full-time teaching jobs, and none has another tenured position.
"I knew in my gut that my academic career was over," says Ms. Ortman, a former human-development professor. She's now splitting time between research and painting murals in children's bedrooms. Ms. Bolig has a one-year visiting professorship at the University of the District Columbia. Mr. Eisner, who started at Mount Vernon in 1980, is now a statistician for the National Institutes of Health.
The Mount Vernon story points out a peculiarity of higher education. When a phone company or a hardware store buys out a bankrupt business, lots of people may lose their jobs. But those phone operators didn't have tenure. The professors suing G.W. say colleges shouldn't be run like companies. "For G.W., it's all business," says Sharon Ahern Fechter, a former professor of Spanish and English as a second language. "Why did they do it? Because they thought they could. But sometimes you stand up to the bully." Then she admits, "The bully may bulldoze us."
George Washington certainly has the heavy machinery. Mount Vernon's campus is now filled with construction workers, trucks, and cranes, fulfilling a $30-million construction project.
In 1996, when Ms. Baxter arrived at Mount Vernon as a consultant, she found science labs no better than those in 1950′s high schools, and below-standard athletics fields, she says. According to an affidavit filed as part of the court case, she saw "an old and neglected facility" that was home to a "a sparse, unhappy, and demoralized student body."
Now she's excited each morning to come to the campus and watch a phoenix rise from the ashes. From her office window, she can see the muddy lacrosse field take shape and the rising concrete platforms that will form the parking garage. She can point to the location of the 12 new tennis courts (six of them covered). Architectural plans rest on the wall below the window, foretelling a day when the building she's sitting in won't exist, when new dormitories will replace the old.
As she walks around the campus, Ms. Baxter greets many of the students by name. Mount Vernon is a small, collegial place, now nestled inside a giant research university. The atmosphere, she says, has attracted G.W. professors who enjoy teaching and love the small classes — few of the classrooms are large enough to have more than 20 students. "It's closer to sitting under the tree and discussing the great works," she says.
The faculty members who lost their jobs want to paint G.W. as the villain, but if so, it's a villain that has poured money into a campus nearing collapse. Try telling Ms. Baxter — as she looks out on the new softball field or points to a dorm addition — that she's the villain. "We as an institution exist for students," she says. "We don't exist to keep people employed."
The former professors don't believe that covered tennis courts and a new swimming pool absolve George Washington of its sins.
"Anytime someone plants a daffodil, does the place look better physically? Yes," says Ms. Fechter. "Is education about physical looks? I don't think so. To be a higher-education institution and lie yourself into the property, or, at best, mislead your way into that property, it doesn't matter what it looks like. It's morally bankrupt."
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After two weeks of court hearings, Judge Okun will make a ruling on the case on or before August 20th. We will keep the public informed on any and all developments.
(Updated on Monday, August 4, 2014)
Please join us for the continuation of the evidentiary hearing. It is open to the public.
Courtroom 317, Moultrie Courthouse, 500 Indiana Ave. NW, Washington D.C. 20001
Monday, August 4, 2014 at 2:00pm to 4:45pm
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 9:30am to 1:00pm
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at 10:00am until closing arguments conclude.
At this time we do not know when to expect the judge's ruling.
Should Judge Okun rule in our favor early next week, Save The Corcoran will immediately issue an outline for a short-term bridge plan to preserve jobs, start the school year, and reconstitute the Board of Trustees.
Please join us for the evidentiary hearing. It is open to the public.
Courtroom 317, Moultrie Courthouse, 500 Indiana Ave. NW, Washington D.C. 20001
Monday, July 28, 2014 at 2pm to 4:45pm
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at 10am to 4:45pm
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 10am to 4:45pm
Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 10am to 3:00pm
July 21, 2014
Opponents of the deal to reorganize the Corcoran Gallery of Art won a major procedural victory in D.C. Superior Court on Monday afternoon, setting up a four-day hearing next week where clashing visions of what should become of Washington's oldest art museum will be tested through witness testimony and documentary evidence.
Reading his opinion from the bench to a packed courtroom for 20 minutes, Judge Robert Okun ruled that nine members of the advocacy group Save the Corcoran must be admitted as intervening parties in a proceeding launched by the Corcoran last month to revise its 1869 charter.
The nine include seven current students of the Corcoran College of Art and Design, one anonymous faculty member, and one anonymous member of the staff of the gallery. The two "John Doe" parties do not want to be identified for fear of "retaliation," according to their written declarations submitted by the opponents' attorney, Drew Tulumello, a partner with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
Okun accepted Tulumello's argument that the nine have a "special interest" in the proceeding and could be affected by the outcome. The Corcoran is seeking court approval to turn over the college to George Washington University and to give most of the gallery's art to the National Gallery of Art.
The ruling means that after two years of advocating their cause through demonstrations, speeches and media interviews, strong skeptics of the Corcoran's leadership will have a chance to prove their case in a courtroom.
After court adjourned, smiling members of Save the Corcoran embraced one another.
"It means everything," said Miguel Perez, 24, a fine arts photography major entering his junior year and one of the students admitted into the case. "An active voice in this is what the students have wanted all along."
"It's the right thing to happen, before you can dissolve an institution like the Corcoran — all of these questions should be answered," said Jayme McLellan, an organizer of Save the Corcoran.
The opponents insist that the Corcoran can continue as an independent gallery and college and claim that Corcoran leaders have not demonstrated that dissolving the institution is the only way forward.
Corcoran executives counter that intractable financial problems leave no alternative and that pairing with the National Gallery and GWU is best way to carry on the Corcoran's legacy of art education and art exhibition.
Corcoran attorney Charles Patrizia, a partner with Paul Hastings, warned the court that if the deal with the National Gallery and GWU is derailed, the gallery may have to close and the college's future would be uncertain.
The arrangement between the Corcoran, the National Gallery and GWU is not set to close before Aug. 12. It is contingent on the court's approval of the new arrangement.
Okun scheduled an evidentiary hearing to begin next Monday afternoon and continue through Thursday if necessary.
There's been a lot of talk and worry, sharing of speculation, half-truths, untruths, some facts, and a lot fear about what will come next for the Corcoran.
Only two things are known for sure: First, that on July 18th, 2014, there will be a court hearing about breaking the historic Corcoran Deed and Charter with a judge, where the Save the Corcoran coalition (STC) will get time at the podium. This court hearing was asked for by the current Corcoran trustees. Save the Corcoran has asked to be a part of it. Anyone can attend this hearing on July 18th.
Please attend:
When: July 18, 2014 2:30 pm
Where: Courtroom 317, Moultrie Courthouse, 500 Indiana Ave. NW, Washington D.C. 20001
Second, that July 18th will determine if a judge rules to allow STC to articulate its case in court. If a judge rules that STC cannot be part of the suit, the trustees plan to dissolve the Corcoran into GWU, and the NGA moves forward. Until then, Save the Corcoran continues to add more plaintiffs to the suit and encourages anyone to contact the Office of the Attorney General.
A critically important note: Save the Corcoran's work, for the past two years, has ONLY been done to work toward a vibrant future for the college, the museum, and all of the people affected by such, including its students, alumni and staff. This work is not done to cause more damage. It is done in the hopes of creating a secure, thriving future for the Corcoran—as a whole—led by capable leaders with proven track records; and guided by its founding documents, as established so long ago to encourage the American Genius. We do not envision a lop-sided Corcoran with the museum or the college having greater importance. Both are needed – they are interdependent – and they can be led to thrive.
Save the Corcoran cannot negotiate a partnership or move in any other direction except toward the court date on July 18th. This date decides everything. As one faculty member pointed out, if STC loses, at least we took a stand and told the public some of what the board has done to undermine the Corcoran, including damaging the health and futures of real people – staff, faculty, and students.
There is no way to predict if Save the Corcoran will get standing in court on July 18th. While we are optimistic about our chances, the Trustees will strongly oppose our efforts. If Save the Corcoran does not get standing, the trustees plan goes forward. None of the work we have done thus far slows down the process of the trustees' current plan. It does not delay their work with GW, or use extra funds that the Corcoran doesn't have. They are already paying their lawyers to do this deal.
Clearly, we have a "Which came first: The chicken or the egg?" deal here. Staff, faculty, curators, members, donors, past trustees, alumni – so many people—want the board held accountable for squandering the Corcoran's assets, hiring unqualified leaders, and so much more. But staff, faculty, and curators also need their jobs; even if they are just one-year contracts, with no guarantee that they will get anything more from GW or NGA.
And those who have already lost their jobs are counting on severance packages to carry them through until they find work. Joining a lawsuit, at this time for any of the above, is risky. Yet some have joined, and they will be protected.
Finally, if STC gets standing, faculty and staff want and deserve a sound plan to keep the Corcoran running while the court decides what is to come next. However, a solid plan cannot truly unfold in great detail until the current board leaves the Corcoran. This will happen only if they are forced out by their own past wrongdoing, as decided by the courts.
Despite firing everyone else, the trustees aren't going to fire themselves. They are not going to leave, nor are they going to ask us to join them in partnership. We've tried for over two years to have a meaningful dialogue with the board. They have brushed aside our repeated offers to help, and have done as they wished, while not being truthful to the people fighting so hard every day to make the Corcoran work. And we know this has not been in the best interest of the Corcoran.
In the words of one faculty member, "Everyone is totally tapped out, overworked, disrespected, and aware of their insecure future at GW or NGA. Not to mention the worries about what the students will face once that GW takes over."
Save the Corcoran knows, intimately, that the faculty's position has been extremely difficult in all of this. If they do not get renewed contracts after their one-year GW contracts, what is left of the college as an internal mechanism of GW from 2015 onward? Further, some of the members of this lawsuit are faculty hoping to work in September. Save the Corcoran is not the opposition to the Corcoran – we are also the Corcoran. We are its students, faculty, alumni, donors, staff, former staff, members, and people in the art community. Not all names are public, in order to protect those who want to speak out about what has happened over the past two years but fear for their jobs or severance.
There is a great concern that if the institution is split –through the Trustee-initiated GW/NGA deal—and the collection is distributed across the nation, it will be easy to challenge the original Corcoran intent since the institution won't exist anymore. We very much feel that this lawsuit is the last chance to save the Corcoran.
All of this said, it would be irresponsible for any intervening party—STC included—to not be concerned about 550 currently enrolled students who plan to work toward their degrees this September, as well as the faculty and staff who will make this happen. Students have not only paid for their education and are entitled to one; they are the future of any new Corcoran, and faculty is its life-blood. This goes for the museum staff as well.
No one left inside of the Corcoran thinks the Board has the capacity to put a contingency plan together. In short, trustees tried to "bake the cake," making any option other than the dissolution of the institution impossible.
We've learned that well before STC announced our complaint, faculty were already dreading the next school year under any circumstances; there will be only a few, extremely dedicated staff members left, and twenty-two ranked faculty to educate students through what promises to be an extremely disorganized and rough year, after which faculty might get fired anyway.
This was the feeling BEFORE Save the Corcoran launched the suit last week. We did not create this terrible reality – the Corcoran trustees did. They are calling all of the shots; 13 people who have little experience running museums or schools are making all of this happen.
If Save the Corcoran gets standing on July 18th, new leadership will need to work with the Attorney General, the faculty, and the staff to get through this school year while a new plan or leadership group works on a powerful plan for the future. Save the Corcoran will not support any deal that shuts down the school. Since Trustees have not planned a museum season, this will need to be addressed. An emergency plan will need to be created.
Wayne Reynolds, who was courted by the Corcoran – by Harry Hopper himself— in November 2012 to become the Board Chair, still wants to be the Board Chair. Wayne didn't become Board Chair then because he did not approve of the Board's course of action, and he told them so. But his last stint was in reviving and invigorating Ford's Theater, growing the endowment from $0 to $50 million. He renovated the theater and the museum. He can do this here; he can save the Corcoran with our help. But we've got to give him the chance, and then we all have to help him.
As always, if you have questions or if you would like to talk to anyone at Save the Corcoran, email email@example.com
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WASHINGTON, D.C.– The legal team representing the Save the Corcoran Coalition, a D.C. non-profit corporation, has filed a complaint and petition in D.C. Superior Court to intervene in the Corcoran Gallery of Art Board of Trustees' cy près proceedings. The complaint, filed today by Andrew Tulumello of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP, charges the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art with financial mismanagement, corporate waste, and negligence in their duties. The suit is filed in response to the Trustees' petition to the court for cy près to break the historic deed which established the Corcoran in 1869. Plaintiffs are students, alumni, faculty, staff, donors, and members of the Corcoran who believe that the Corcoran can be rebuilt, invigorated, and restored to new life.
"There are so many hard questions that need to be answered. We need to start there. If the Trustees want to dissolve a national, historic gem, we need to understand every wrong turn. We will never be able to get back our third oldest museum in the nation, and years of mismanagement is not a substantial explanation," said Caroline Lacey, a Masters degree student currently enrolled at the Corcoran College of Art & Design, and a plaintiff on the suit. "We as the students have made very serious time and monetary commitments to the Corcoran, and we deserve full accountability."
Representatives for Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLP, added that the Trustees have not adequately explained why the Corcoran must be dissolved and that the request for cy près represents a long overdue opportunity for the Trustees to fully account for the failed stewardship over Washington, D.C.'s oldest private art museum.
"The Trustees have proposed the radical step of destroying the very institution they are charged with protecting. This is not necessary, and it is wrong," said Andrew Tulumello, lawyer for Save the Corcoran and Managing Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. "The public interest demands a more thoughtful approach."
The suit states that the current deal to dissolve the Corcoran represents an expropriation of founder William Wilson Corcoran's legacy, a dismantling of its key assets and features, and an abdication of the Trustees' role as stewards of the Trust. "The Corcoran name, and the District of Columbia, deserve better," said Jayme McLellan, a member of Save the Corcoran and adjunct faculty at the Corcoran. "At a minimum, we request that the Court not grant cy près relief until the Board provides a full financial accounting; and the complaint requests that the Court not reward the Trustees with such relief if their own unlawful actions have precipitated the Corcoran's demise."
Plaintiffs include students, faculty, staff, and donors at every level of the Corcoran. Together, they intend to intervene in the current cy près proceedings to ensure that they are transparent and reach an outcome that not only is in the best interests of the beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries of the Trust, but also is consistent with its original terms and purposes. Plaintiffs ask the Court to:
• remove members of the current Board of Trustees,
• ensure that the entire Corcoran collection remain together,
• require that the Board submit to a full financial accounting, and
• deny cy près relief if the Board's own maladministration has caused the Corcoran trust to become impracticable.
The recently announced deal with George Washington University (GWU) and the National Gallery of Art is the latest step in the Trustees' mismanagement of an historic institution. Under the terms of that deal, the famed Corcoran collection will be dismantled, and the College will be absorbed by GWU completely. Proceeds of the recent sales of artworks from the Corcoran collection, as well as prior deaccession income, will be handed over to underwrite GWU's operations. The current deal will destroy the Corcoran forever.


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Describe the first reported human intrathecal (IT) botulinum toxin injection.Case report.We report here the sequelae to an unintended IT injection of botulinum toxin type B (BTB) in a 60-year-old woman with chronic back pain.Following the IT administration of BTB, the patient experienced the onset of symmetric ascending stocking distribution painful dysesthesias, which persisted for approximately 6 months before receding. Objective neurologic deficits were not appreciated, and analgesic effects were prominently absent.Analgesic actions of botulinum toxins in animals and in humans have led to speculation that IT botulinum toxin might exert significant analgesic effects. The unusual and unexpected subsequent clinical course, neurologic sequelae, dysesthesias, and absence of analgesia suggest that botulinum toxin will not be a therapeutic modality to treat pain as proposed by those studying botulinum toxin in animal models.
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It's Imbolc! Not only is this a sabbat worth celebrating, it's an opportunity to make good use of some remarkable power that's offered right now!
If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, it's Imbolc and you can tell it by looking out the window. And that can be especially true of you have some snow on the ground, but the snow isn't necessary for this observation - it just makes it more obvious. What do you see? The first shoots of the heartiest plants are poking their heads through the snow to greet the world!
And what is the Divine Child doing - the one born at Yule? With that, we can see what it's time for us to do. And it's also a good tiem to catch-up if need be!
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I don't really know at what point I can say "I'm Done" I think that I have done a pretty good job since I made this goal last year, yet I definitely still have those passive aggressive habits. I think I will wait until I see what happens with my next issue with my roommates and how I react. If it is positive and confrontational without being bitchy I will check this off the list!
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I totally called out my friend the other day when she was being ridiculous. and by called out i mean i went to her room, asked to speak to her and told her how i felt about how she was acting and even though she totally closed down and wouldn't talk about it i felt better because she knew how it affected me. :)
My new friends have recently pointed out to me that whenever I am drunk I become much more confrontational. I will bring up something from earlier that day or days past that I didn't like and say very nonchalantly, "yeah you were kinda a bitch when…"
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- 0Jan 30, '13 by soon2benurse85Hello I'm relatively new to this forum and I recently received my acceptance letter and will be starting the LVN program in August. I would like to be able to prepare now till then. I have purchased a NCLEX PN book and have been glimpsing through it. If you can suggest other material that I should study or brush up on, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!
- 1Jan 31, '13 by student foreverMedical terminology is invaluable, because there will be many times where you can figure out the word by knowing the roots, etc. During tests, it might help you make the right choice!
Also as has been said: a & P! Also intro to pharmacology, maybe some youtube videos to get familiar with the jargon if you've never had any of that before.
Can you get any of your books early? That has helped me a lot.
- 0Jan 31, '13 by soon2benurse85Thanks everybody I appreciate the advice! I will definitely start studying up all those subjects and good idea @ student forever...I will definitely look into purchasing my books in advance!
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(a) Loser and scum.
(b) Bum and bigot.
(c) Rude and unseemly.
(d) Ridiculous.
2. What is the name of the neighbor Dorine accuses of slandering the family's house in the play?
(a) Daphne.
(b) Lilly.
(c) Ava.
(d) Doris.
3. Who does Dorine describe as "nuts" in Act 1?
(a) Tartuffe.
(b) Madame Pernelle.
(c) Damis.
(d) Orgon.
4. What does Elmire refer to as a "dreadful chore" to Cleante in Act 1?
(a) Talking to Orgon.
(b) Standing up.
(c) Madame Pernelle's lecture.
(d) Listening to Tartuffe.
5. What does Orgon look in just before starting his conversation with Mariane?
(a) The hallway.
(b) A desk drawer.
(c) His coat pocket.
(d) The closet.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Orgon claim Tartuffe has a "powerful love" for that makes him renounce wealth?
2. Finish Orgon's description of Tartuffe in Act 2: "He is a holy man and ______ poor."
3. Whom does Madame Pernelle call "a fool of the worst kind"?
4. What is the name of Tartuffe's servant?
5. What is the name of Madame Pernelle's servant in the play?
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1. What solution does Elmire suggest to Orgon to prove Tartuffe is disloyal in Act 4?
2. What response does Cleante give Tartuffe when he refuses to help mend Orgon and Damis' relationship?
3. Describe the interaction between Valere and Mariane regarding Orgon's wish for her to marry Tartuffe.
4. Describe how Madame Pernelle takes defense of Tartuffe at the beginning of Act 1.
5. How does Orgon react when Damis reveals that Tartuffe made advances towards Elmire?
6. How does Elmire react when she realizes Tartuffe is making advances towards her in Act 3?
7. Why does Damis ask Cleante to discuss the upcoming marriage of Mariane with Orgon in Act 1?
8. Why does Dorine claim the family's neighbor is slandering them?
9. How does Orgon describe Tartuffe during his exchange with Cleante in Act 1?
10. Describe the nature of the discussion between Dorine and Mariane after Mariane asks her for help getting out of the marriage to Tartuffe in Act 2.
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As part of SmartDataCenter 6.5, we've introduced something I'm pretty excited about sharing, which is an open signing protocol for HTTP. We're using it in what we call CloudAPI, which is the REST API that powers our customer portal, and is exposed to you to create your own applications. In this post I'll go over what the signing protocol is and why you should care, how SmartDataCenter is using it, and some ideas we have in mind for the future.
If you're not an RFC nerd, HTTP defines a "pluggable" framework for authentication so that any number of authentication mechanisms can be used, and goes on to define Basic Authentication. Basic Authentication is nothing more than sending your username and password across the wire, so it's not ideal from a security perspective. Following Basic Authentication, HTTP also goes on to define Digest Authentication, which involves sending a hashed form of your password across the wire, but it's hard to use and doesn't see much use these days.
However, for the best security properties, you really want to be leveraging public key cryptography to authenticate. HTTPS (well, really SSL) has a mode of allowing this called "client-auth"; basically your client has a certificate and private key, and in addition to validating the server's certificate, the server asks you (the client) to present your certificate. Sounds great, and does do what we want from a security perspective. However, it's plagued by poor usability in browsers, is more or less a programming nightmare (especially with "custom" CAs), and can incur significant server-side cost, since it's usually a load balancer (i.e., HTTPS termination point) that is handling the cryptography validation. All of this means that we want the benefits of public key crypto without the burden of client-auth SSL.
To solve this problem with SmartDataCenter, we're introducing the HTTP Signature authentication scheme, which is already released as open source. The HTTP Signature scheme allows for digital signatures to be leveraged as your credentials, and does not imply any particular key management scheme. It should be suitable for just about any REST API out there, so we're certainly hoping if you're an API vendor you take a look at it, but rather than jump into the technical details of the spec itself, I thought it would be interesting to show you some CLI candy, so lets walk through some examples.
First, assuming you're a node.js user (and if you're not, you should be!), use npm to install the smartdc toolkit:
$ npm install smartdc -g
The smartdc module installs the CloudAPI SDK for node.js, which includes a full command line interface (CLI), and we're going to show off some of its features here.
To "configure" your CLI, just run the setup command:
$ sdc-setup https://us-west-1.api.joyentcloud.com
Username (login): (james) james
The following keys exist in SmartDataCenter:
[1] id_rsa
Would you like to use an existing key? (yes) yes
If you set these environment variables, your life will be easier:
export SDC_CLI_URL=https://us-west-1.api.joyentcloud.com
export SDC_CLI_ACCOUNT=james
export SDC_CLI_KEY_ID=id_rsa
You'll additionally want to set SDC_CLI_IDENTITY to the full path location of the ssh
key on your system (try export SDC_CLI_IDENTITY=/Users/james/.ssh/id_rsa).
In my case, sdc-setup found an existing ssh key in SmartDataCenter, and I simply selected that; if I didn't already have one "on record" sdc-setup would have asked me to upload a new one. At any rate, sdc-setup gave me some environment variables to set, so I just put them in my ~/.bashrc file (sorry Windows users, smartdc's CLI isn't there yet).
Note that there's no more use of your password, and assuming you did set up those environment variables then you can simply run:
$ sdc-listmachines
"id": "30e8d834-7210-44f7-be58-7179396bfe20",
"name": "foo",
"type": "smartmachine",
"state": "running",
"dataset": "sdc:sdc:smartos:1.3.18",
"ips": [
"memory": 128,
"disk": 5120,
"metadata": {},
"created": "2011-09-15T04:12:53+00:00",
"updated": "2011-09-15T04:14:35+00:00"
The CLI just authenticated to SmartDataCenter using my SSH key. That means for interacting with SmartDataCenter you don't need to maintain any "extra" keys; in my case I can then go ahead and do this:
$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa email@example.com
Last login: Thu Sep 15 04:17:52 2011 from 10.88.88.1
[admin@foo ~]$ exit
While not technically part of the CLI, check this out:
$ sdc-createkey ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
"name": "id_dsa.pub",
"key": "ssh-dss AAAAB3Nza... firstname.lastname@example.com",
"created": "2011-09-15T04:19:10+00:00",
"updated": "2011-09-15T04:19:10+00:00"
$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa email@example.com
Last login: Thu Sep 15 04:18:05 2011 from 10.88.88.1
[admin@foo ~]$ exit
Oh yeah, SmartDataCenter has "live" key rotation of your SSH keys in running SmartMachines. Finally for the "candy" section, here's "one more thing":
$ ssh-add
Identity added: /Users/james/.ssh/id_rsa (/Users/james/.ssh/id_rsa)
Identity added: /Users/james/.ssh/id_dsa (/Users/james/.ssh/id_dsa)
$ ssh email@example.com
Last login: Thu Sep 15 04:19:13 2011 from 10.88.88.1
[admin@foo ~]$ export SDC_CLI_URL=https://us-west-1.api.joyentcloud.com
[admin@foo ~]$ export SDC_CLI_ACCOUNT=mcavage
[admin@foo ~]$ export SDC_CLI_KEY_ID=id_rsa
[admin@foo ~]$ sdc-listmachines
"id": "30e8d834-7210-44f7-be58-7179396bfe20",
"name": "foo",
"type": "smartmachine",
"state": "running",
"dataset": "sdc:sdc:smartos:1.3.18",
"ips": [
"memory": 128,
"disk": 5120,
"metadata": {},
"created": "2011-09-15T04:12:53+00:00",
"updated": "2011-09-15T04:14:35+00:00"
Wow! So what we just did is use the OpenSSH ssh-agent program to stash our keys on your local host and the smartdc CLI is slick enough to interact with that (if it's available) instead of looking for a private key on the filesystem. Using that mechanism, you can actually SSH from box to box, without worrying about copying your keys around. Now you've actually got single sign on (SSO) happening between your hosts and SSO to the CloudAPI.
HTTP Signature is actually really straightforward, and if you've ever looked at OAuth, or WRAP, et al, this should be both familiar and much simpler. It's as simple as pointing out that you just have to sign the HTTP Date header, which accomplishes a few things:
As an example, suppose you had an HTTP request that looked like this:
GET /my/machines HTTP/1.1
Host: us-west-1.api.joyentcloud.com
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:05:42 GMT
Accept: application/json
X-Api-Version: ~6.5
That's the "ListMachines" call availalble in CloudAPI. To add HTTP Signature authentication to that call, we'd add an Authorization header that looks like this:
Authorization: Signature keyId="/james/keys/id_rsa",algorithm="rsa-sha256" <signature>
<signature> is:
Signature is the HTTP authentication scheme.
is telling the server what key identifier to validate the signature with. HTTP
Signature does not imply any sort of key management scheme so it can work in
the broadest possible scenarios, but SmartDataCenter uses the resource path to
an SSH key under your account (more on this soon).
algorithm tells the server
how the client signed the request, and here we're using
rsa-sha256. Finally
<signature> would be the base64-encoded value of an RSA digital signature.
That's pretty much all there is to it at a high level for how this works.
Clearly, we'd like to see this authentication mechanism get picked up; it should be simple and flexible enough to be used in a lot of places. While we've released an SDK for this in node.js, other languages like ruby and python would benefit from an implementation. Hopefully this quick primer got you excited about some of the innovation happening in SmartDataCenter, and we'd love to hear what you think.


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Answers by HH Romapada Swami
Q: During one of our recent discussions in our study group there was a discussion on siddha svarup.
One of the devotees said that the spiritual master would reveal one's svarup at some point of time when such a disciple has reached such a stage. My humble opinion is that such a practice is not there in ISKCON and as and when a devotee reaches such a stage of advancement it will be known to him naturally.
Can I humbly request you to kindly clarify this?
Answer: Every living entity has an eternal constitutional relationship with Krishna, and when one attains the liberated platform he automatically understands this relationship. It is not the system supported by Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur that one's spiritual identity be artificially declared before the stage when Krishna reveals this, especially when one is still affected by the modes of nature. Srila Prabhupada clearly taught that just as we cannot force the sun to rise at our convenience or by our pronouncements, but it rises of its own accord at the right time, similarly our constitutional position becomes manifest at the right time.
Sometimes less mature devotees are misled by a false sense of enthusiasm to prematurely understand their relationship with Krishna. They may consider this justifiable as a means that would enable them to practice and cultivate the eagerness for such a relationship. Unfortunately, however, this is not the recommended process given by our founder-acharya, and almost always proves dangerous for the tender devotional creeper of less qualified sadhakas. Without cultivating the fundamental spiritual qualities of submission to one's spiritual master, a selfless service mood, sense-control and completely uprooting one's materialistic conceptions, one is certain to impose some material conceptions upon one's so-called svarupa or eternal nature. The Nectar of Devotion confirms that this type of longing or prayer for some spiritual perfectional stage, technically called the 'lalasamayi' stage of submission, actually comes in the stage of perfect liberation and spiritual advancement, and is not to be artificially induced. (Cf. NOD Ch 9, Submission)
You are correct when you indicate that the procedure of HOW the revealing of one's svarupa takes place is not spelled out in great detail. However, the other BV member is also correct: the fundamental faith of a sincere devotee is that their spiritual master connects them with Krishna via the disciplic succession, and by the collective descending mercy of the guru parampara all truths become naturally revealed. This is our natural process, without having before us the micro-technology of this mystical process.


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Review of chapter "Chapter 4: Him Revealed" from
I am so glad to see that Hotch won. I think he and Buffy will balance each other out. The reaction from the rest of the BAU people should be fun. I can't wait for the next chapter.
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Hotch has to be a better choice for her than Spike! Of course, I pretty much would choose anyone on the list over Spike...or Angel...or almost anyone from BtVS/AtS (with the exception of maybe Wes). Normally Giles would be a possibility, but not when he's running away from his duties and somebody he claims to care about.
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I NEVER would have thought it would be Aaron from Criminal Minds. NEVER! But this should be a interesting little tale, considering the age difference between him and Buffy.
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I think I might have to put something in about the age issue. There's no way that everyone would be so accepting of a relationship between them.
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Great update! Dawn as a baby will likely be less annoying than Teen!Dawn, so points for that one. Bad Giles for still planning to leave! & nice cliffie...I'd write more but baby calls. lol
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Doesn't it just make you want to spank Giles. Ooo, that's going off in a direction that would up the rating. *wink*
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sweet torture. I wanna know who he is. Please don't keep us waiting for very long.
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Nope, just about to post the next chapter today.
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A BABY Dawn but with a teenagers brain? OH MY! Now, next chapter we have the MAIN EVENT: We find out who the gentleman is. And you had some great candidates to choose from. Now, lets see who it is. And Xander: BE very careful, if it turns out you caused this. You WILL be in the Doghouse for a considerable amount of time!
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Well, in the respect that he summoned Sweet, Xander's to blame. However, the problems aren't finished piling up for the de-aged girl.
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Giles is very easy to defend Xander now is he. Why can Xander and Willow always get away with their actions even when their actions bring other people in danger or killed people. The only thing Buffy ever did was sleeping with Angel and she didn't know that it would make Angel lose his soul. Oh and her departing Sunnydale after killing Angel. She went away because she was kicked out by her mom, on the wanted list for murder, felt guilty and emotional broken because of Angelus stalking and killing Angel. One "mistake" and she can't be trusted of make her own decisions. She never did what Willow and Xander did and she always trusted them. I never get that.
So to me, Go Buffy. It's a good thing calling Xander on his actions about time.
Oh I love that Dawn is a baby again and with the mind of a teenager. Dawn will hate it but a plus Buffy smiled again so it can be a good thing to get Buffy quicker back on her feet again. And really she is so cute a baby-face glaring/snapping like a teenager.
Giles is really a jerk isn't he leaving while knowing Buffy didn't spend her time in hell. She needs him even more now than before, stupid man.
Can't wait for the next chapter I'm so curious who it is.
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Surprised at how many people like the younger Dawn. There's a lot of times when I want to redeem Giles for the choice of leaving, but in this story, I think I want to explore the feelings of hating him for it and having it ruin his relationship with Buffy for good.
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Very wacky. And the reason I didn't pick Daniel Jackson is because his friends *would* believe that something like this could happen to him, and you had the mystery man thinking it would be so unlikely as to be embarrassing.
Looking forward to seeing how you go!
EDIT: If it does turn out to be Daniel or someone like him who gets into wacky trouble, it could still be in character if *he* believes it. It's just his friends or family that might point out that it totally sounds like something that would happen to him.
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LOL, that's so true of Daniel! I will say that the winner is so not the kind of guy to do this that it made it a little hard to write him with Buffy. I had to make him OOC.
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Well, THIS will certainly put a different spin on the conclusions Buffy will be forced to jump to when she wakes up with no memory, but in close proximity to a good-looking guy AND a baby girl! :)
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Yummy conclusions, in my mind.
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WHAT THE FRONT DOOR!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ENDED THERE!!!!!! OMG! You have always been so mean, as Taylor swift would say, why you gotta be so mean. Uhm is it she that sings that song. hmmmm I can't remember. oh back to the subject urrgggh, update soon. lol. Baby Dawn love it, had me laughing my ass off.
What I will do next is entirely your fault mmooch. lol
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No clue on the Taylor Swift thing, but glad you liked the chapter.
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A suit, huh? Guess that rules out a few of the suggestions/votes. And a teaser at the end... nicely played.
Not Giles-friendly? Aw...sad. But I'll deal with it. Nice confrontations between Buffy and co.
Can't wait for the next chapter! I'm guessing Buffy might think she's Dawn's mother now that Willow's spell has struck. And the 'surprise' as the dad, possibly?
Keep up the good work!
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Had to give a tiny hint, didn't I?
A few somebodies pointed out that I always forgive Giles, despite him being worse than Willow/Xander at times, so this is a chance to fully vent my anger at him.
You'll see...*wink*
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ahh so when do we find out who the guy is? I hope he had a wallet in his pocket. LOL
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Next chapter and he probably goes to the shower with his wallet. Okay, not that bad, but still...
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Fortunately, Xander still has a lot less blood on his hands than Necrophiliac-Buffy.
Edit: If all you're ever going to do is bash Scoobies, maybe you shouldn't write them. I don't bash Buffy, but I will defend the others even if they aren't saints. Buffy is a Hero but not perfect. She summoned Angelus by engaging in necrophilia, and started Willow on the road to Darkness by encouraging her to cast a soul Curse. So, unintentionally, Buffy has a lot of blood on her hands. Still a hero, not perfect. So are the others. So how about a little more respect for the others in your stories and a little less bash.
Have a nice Day!
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We actually don't know that, and if all you're going to do is bash Buffy, I'd prefer you don't review my stories.
EDIT: Hey, I try to leave the others out of my stories, but then all I hear is 'Where's Willow and Xander?' Even when I have them die, it's not enough. But I warn people when a story is bashing, so it's on their heads if they decide to read it anyway.
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Appreciate the vote, but I already have the winner.
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methos, hotch, Bruce (from batman begins)
don't forget this one.
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Cool votes. I have the winner in chapter 4...coming in the next week or so.
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1. Steve Rogers (Captain America/Avengers)
2. Tony Stark (Iron Man/Avengers)
3. Methos (Highlander)
As to my reasoning, Steve's first question probably *would* be "Was she the cause or another victim?" Tony would definitely think "...he had the tape and other 'resources' he could use to track her down if he decided to take a risk on her." and Methos would fit either, though not as well. If I can't nominate Bruce Banner, who was my first thought, then *definitely* Steve or Tony.
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Thanks for the votes. I'm hoping that life will slow down enough so I can get back to writing on a regular basis and update all my open fics...like this one. Between the two sites, there's almost 100 votes stacked up.
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What is the key to success?
Originally posted on amaeguerrero:
I got a simple solution: Doing what is more than required. No one can pay off hard work and effort. Even bunch of money cannot tantamount to it. So the only way to smell the sweet aroma of success is the willingness to do what is more than required. It is the willingness of doing the best. It is the willingness of excelling in your field. It is the willingness of bringing out your best on a very simple task. And of course, It's creating an extraordinary thing over an ordinary task. It all start to your willingness. When you finally combined your urge and willingness, then the action will soon come out. Then you will suddenly be excited of reaching the peak. You will suddenly visualize the dreams that you've seized for so long. Then you become the hungriest person…
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