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By Freddy Berowski
In 1977, Reggie Jackson was named the World Series Most Valuable Player after he homered five times in the Fall Classic – including 3 times in the Yankees' clinching Game 6 – and in the process earned the nickname "Mr. October." The 1977 Series marked the seventh time in nine World Series that the Yankees beat the Dodgers, and they would do it again the following year when Jackson, on his way to the Hall of Fame, hit two more home runs.
The Philadelphia Phillies, a team that began as the Philadelphia Quakers in 1883, didn't earn their first World Series championship until 1980, when they beat future Hall of Famer and .390 hitter George Brett and the Kansas City Royals in six games. Another future Hall of Famer, Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt, took home World Series MVP honors, hitting .381 with two homers, seven RBI and six runs scored in the Series.
If the Phillies are able to complete a comeback and win the World Series this year, the MVP Award just might go to another power-hitting Phillies infielder with his sights set on Cooperstown.
Through the first five games of the Series, Phillies second baseman Chase Utley has already matched Jackson's mark of five home runs in a single Fall Classic, while knocking in eight runs and batting .333. Three of his home runs have come off Yankee ace CC Sabathia, who had never allowed a hit to Utley prior to this World Series. With one more World Series home run this year, Utley will take his place atop the record book by himself.
Aside from Jackson and Utley, only eight players have hit at least four home runs in a single World Series. Babe Ruth was the first to do so in 1926 followed by Lou Gehrig (1928), Duke Snider (who did it twice, 1952 and 1955), Hank Bauer (1958), Gene Tenace (1972), Willie Aikens (1980), Lenny Dykstra (1993) and Barry Bonds (2002).
Freddy Berowski is a library associate at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Making a name
By Trevor Hayes
A few names and numbers from the week that was in baseball:
Bobby's World: With two home runs against the Orioles last weekend, the Angels' Bobby Abreu became the fifth player with 11 10 home run/20 stolen base seasons, joining Barry and Bobby Bonds and Hall of Famers Rickey Henderson and Joe Morgan.
Last week, Abreu hit his 250th career homer, which placed him with Willie Mays as the only players in baseball history with 250-plus homers, 300-plus steals and a .300 or better career average. He also became one of only six players in major league history with 2,000 hits, 250 home runs, 1,000 runs scored, 1,000 RBI, 1,000 walks and 300 stolen bases. The other five are Henderson, Mays, Morgan, Barry Bonds and Craig Biggio.
Mauer power: On Tuesday night, Joe Mauer collected three hits – including two homers – finishing the night with 25 homers and a .383 batting average. Hall of Famers Ted Williams (1941 and 1957), Joe DiMaggio (1939), Lou Gehrig (1930 and 1936) and Babe Ruth (1931) were the last four AL players prior to Mauer with at least 25 home runs and a .380 batting average through 119 games.
.300 Angels: The Angels accomplished a feat on Tuesday at Cleveland which hadn't been seen since 1934. A quick scan of the box score Wednesday morning showed a .300 average or better for each player in the lineup. With Mike Napoli and Maicer Izturis, a super-substitute, each ending the night with a .300 average, the Angels matched the 1934 Tigers as the last team to sport that kind of arsenal in a lineup 100 games into the season.
The Tigers included Hall of Famers Mickey Cochrane, Charlie Gehringer, Goose Goslin and Hank Greenberg. Pitcher Schoolboy Rowe even joined the cause with a .302 average.
Celebration: The summer of '69 and '79 are remembered rather fondly in two National League cities. And this weekend, both the Pirates and the Mets will celebrate their good times.
The Pirates are remembering their last World Championship with "We Are Fam-A-Lee Weekend." Breakout the polyester because 1979 throwbacks will be worn by the Pirates and their opponents, the Reds, on Friday and Saturday and a ceremony will be held on Saturday honoring the 22 players and staff who are attending, including Margaret Stargell (wife of Hall of Famer Willie Stargell), Dave Parker, Phil Garner, Bert Blyleven and Dale Berra.
Also on Saturday The Miracle Mets will celebrate their amazing World Series victory. Hall of Famers Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan and Yogi Berra are scheduled to be on the field with several other key members of that magic season, including the widow of manager Gil Hodges.
Trevor Hayes is the editorial production manager at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.


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Movie: Toy StoryWhen: Friday, August 29thMovie: EnchantedWhen: Friday, July 25thWhere: Boyson Square in Hiawatha (on Boyson Road behind the New York Life building)
Time: Food and Games at 5:30 p.m. Movie begins at 6:30 p.m.Join us on these Friday's: July 25th and August 29th for a fun family event at Boyson Square!
Looking for something to do on a Friday night with the kids? Come on out to Boyson Square in Hiawatha for Movies on the Square, where we'll be projecting a movie on the side of the New York Life building. We'll have a bouncy house for the kids to enjoy as we wait for the sun to go down, so bring your lawn chairs, snacks and a cooler and come early to enjoy a FREE evening of entertainment and fun for the whole family!
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A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics
A brief bibliography of works relevant to the issues discussed in this article:
Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (Humanities Press, 1957). Chomsky's first book, now out of date, but still required reading as the classic statement of the attack on structuralism.
Noam Chomsky, Language and Mind (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968, 1972). A series of three lectures Chomsky gave in Berkeley in 1967. This is the clearest statement by Chomsky of the relations between his theory of language and his theory of human nature. Start reading Chomsky's work with this book. It is now available in an enlarged edition containing three extra articles.
Noam Chomsky, Cartesian Linguistics (Harper & Row, 1966). An attempt to trace the ancestry of Chomsky's theory of language from the rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth century.
Noam Chomsky, Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar (Humanities Press, 1966). I believe this to be the simplest and easiest to understand statement by Chomsky of his fundamental linguistic notions, though developments since it was published make some parts of it out of date.
Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (MIT Press, 1965). The classic statement of Chomsky's mature theory as described in Section II of this article. Most current controversies, over e.g., generative semantics, take this book as their starting point. It is hard to follow, unless you have read, say, numbers 2, 4, and 6 of this bibliography first.
John Lyons, Noam Chomsky (Viking Press, Modern Masters, 1970). The simplest and clearest introduction to Chomsky's work and to the basic notions of generative grammar. It is rather uncritical, especially about the alleged connection between Chomsky's linguistics and his politics, but it is the best book with which to begin the study of generative grammar. Read it first, then read Chomsky.
D. Steinberg and L. Jacobovitz, Semantics, An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 1971). An absurdly expensive ($16.50) but useful collection of essays. Several attack the adequacy of the account of language given in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.
J. R. Searle, ed., The Philosophy of Language (Oxford University Press, 1971). A paperback collection of essays covering both the speech act analysis of language and generative grammar.
J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (Harvard University Press, 1962). Austin's William James Lectures given at Harvard in 1955. It contains the classic exposition of the theory of speech acts.
J. R. Searle, Speech Acts, An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge University Press, 1969). Contains the theory of speech acts that underlies the remarks in Section V of this article.
D. A. Reibel and S. A. Schane, eds., Modern Studies in English, Readings in Transformational Grammar (Prentice-Hall, 1969). Generative grammar has spawned a sizable anthology industry. Of the collections devoted exclusively to syntax, this and the next seem to me the most useful, though both contain some fairly technical articles.
R. A. Jacobs and P. S. Rosenbaum, eds., Readings in English Transformational Grammar (Ginn & Company, 1970). All the articles in this volume are concerned with the notion of deep structure. The book is built around the theme of assessing, criticizing, and eventually revising the conception of syntax in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.
Throughout the history of the study of man there has been a fundamental opposition between those who believe that progress is to be made by a rigorous observation of man's actual behavior and those who believe that such observations are interesting only in so far as they reveal to us hidden and possibly fairly mysterious underlying laws that only partially and in distorted form reveal themselves to us in behavior. Freud, for example, is in the latter class, most of American social science in the former.
Noam Chomsky is unashamedly with the searchers after hidden laws. Actual speech behavior, speech performance, for him is only the top of a large iceberg of linguistic competence distorted in its shape by many factors irrelevant to linguistics. Indeed he once remarked that the very expression "behavioral sciences" suggests a fundamental confusion between evidence and subject matter. Psychology, for example, he claims is the science of mind; to call psychology a behavioral science is like calling physics a science of meter readings. One uses human behavior as evidence for the laws of the operation of the mind, but to suppose that the laws must be laws of behavior is to suppose that the evidence must be the subject matter.
In this opposition between the methodology of confining research to observable facts and that of using the observable facts as clues to hidden and underlying laws, Chomsky's revolution is doubly interesting: first, within the field of linguistics, it has precipitated a conflict which is an example of the wider conflict; and secondly, Chomsky has used his results about language to try to develop general anti-behaviorist and anti-empiricist conclusions about the nature of the human mind that go beyond the scope of linguistics.
His revolution followed fairly closely the general pattern described in Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: the accepted model or "paradigm" of linguistics was confronted, largely by Chomsky's work, with increasing numbers of nagging counterexamples and recalcitrant data which the paradigm could not deal with. Eventually the counter-examples led Chomsky to break the old model altogether and to create a completely new one. Prior to the publication of his Syntactic Structures in 1957, many, probably most, American linguists regarded the aim of their discipline as being the classification of the elements of human languages. Linguistics was to be a sort of verbal botany. As Hockett wrote in 1942, "Linguistics is a classificatory science."1
Suppose, for example, that such a linguist is giving a description of a language, whether an exotic language like Cherokee or a familiar one like English. He proceeds by first collecting his "data," he gathers a large number of utterances of the language, which he records on his tape recorder or in a phonetic script. This "corpus" of the language constitutes his subject matter. He then classifies the elements of the corpus at their different linguistic levels: first he classifies the smallest significant functioning units of sound, the phonemes, then at the next level the phonemes unite into the minimally significant bearers of meaning, the morphemes (in English, for example, the word "cat" is a single morpheme made up of three phonemes; the word "uninteresting" is made up of three morphemes: "un," "interest," and "ing"), at the next higher level the morphemes join together to form words and word classes such as noun phrases and verb phrases, and at the highest level of all come sequences of word classes, the possible sentences and sentence types.
The aim of linguistic theory was to provide the linguist with a set of rigorous methods, a set of discovery procedures which he would use to extract from the "corpus" the phonemes, the morphemes, and so on. The study of the meanings of sentences or of the uses to which speakers of the language put the sentences had little place in this enterprise. Meanings, scientifically construed, were thought to be patterns of behavior determined by stimulus and response; they were properly speaking the subject matter of psychologists. Alternatively they might be some mysterious mental entities altogether outside the scope of a sober science or, worse yet, they might involve the speaker's whole knowledge of the world around him and thus fall beyond the scope of a study restricted only to linguistic facts.
Structural linguistics, with its insistence on objective methods of verification and precisely specified techniques of discovery, with its refusal to allow any talk of meanings or mental entities or unobservable features, derives from the "behavioral sciences" approach to the study of man, and is also largely a consequence of the philosophical assumptions of logical positivism. Chomsky was brought up in this tradition at the University of Pennsylvania as a student of both Zellig Harris, the linguist, and Nelson Goodman, the philosopher.
Chomsky's work is interesting in large part because, while it is a major attack on the conception of man implicit in the behavioral sciences, the attack is made from within the very tradition of scientific rigor and precision that the behavioral sciences have been aspiring to. His attack on the view that human psychology can be described by correlating stimulus and response is not an a priori conceptual argument, much less is it the cry of an anguished humanist resentful at being treated as a machine or an animal. Rather it is a claim that a really rigorous analysis of language will show that such methods when applied to language produce nothing but false-hoods or trivialities, that their practitioners have simply imitated "the surface features of science" without having its "significant intellectual content."
As a graduate student at Pennsylvania, Chomsky attempted to apply the conventional methods of structural linguistics to the study of syntax, but found that the methods that had apparently worked so well with phonemes and morphemes did not work very well with sentences. Each language has a finite number of phonemes and a finite though quite large number of morphemes. It is possible to get a list of each; but the number of sentences in any natural language like French or English is, strictly speaking, infinite. There is no limit to the number of new sentences that can be produced; and for each sentence, no matter how long, it is always possible to produce a longer one. Within structuralist assumptions it is not easy to account for the fact that languages have an infinite number of sentences.
Furthermore the structuralist methods of classification do not seem able to account for all of the internal relations within sentences, or the relations that different sentences have to each other. For example, to take a famous case, the two sentences "John is easy to please" and "John is eager to please" look as if they had exactly the same grammatical structure. Each is a sequence of noun-copula-adjective-infinitive verb. But in spite of this surface similarity the grammar of the two is quite different. In the first sentence, though it is not apparent from the surface word order, "John" functions as the direct object of the verb to please; the sentence means: it is easy for someone to please John. Whereas in the second "John" functions as the subject of the verb to please; the sentence means: John is eager that he please someone. That this is a difference in the syntax of the sentences comes out clearly in the fact that English allows us to form the noun phrase "John's eagerness to please" out of the second, but not "John's easiness to please" out of the first. There is no easy or natural way to account for these facts within structuralist assumptions.
Another set of syntactical facts that structuralist assumptions are inadequate to handle is the existence of certain types of ambiguous sentences where the ambiguity derives not from the words in the sentence but from the syntactical structure. Consider the sentence "The shooting of the hunters is terrible." This can mean that it is terrible that the hunters are being shot or that the hunters are terrible at shooting or that the hunters are being shot in a terrible fashion. Another example is "I like her cooking." In spite of the fact that it contains no ambiguous words (or morphemes) and has a very simple superficial grammatical structure of noun-verb-possessive pronoun-noun, this sentence is in fact remarkably ambiguous. It can mean, among other things, I like what she cooks, I like the way she cooks, I like the fact that she cooks, even, I like the fact that she is being cooked.
Quoted in R. H. Robins, A Short History of Linguistics (Indiana University Press, 1967), p. 239.↩
Quoted in R. H. Robins, A Short History of Linguistics (Indiana University Press, 1967), p. 239.↩


text: John Huntington, MD, AnesthesiologistEver since news articles appeared last spring about an FDA federal panel meeting to evaluate concerns about cognitive problems or learning disabilities from general anesthesia in young children, I, like other anesthesiologists, have been fielding questions from concerned parents about the safety of anesthesia for their children. I'm sure you, as primary care physicians, are receiving similar questions. The concern about the possible effects of anesthesia on children's cognitive development began with animal studies published several years ago that demonstrated brain neuron death and long-term cognitive issues in 7-day-old rats given a combination of anesthesia drugs early in life. The FDA held a meeting in 2007 to discuss that research, concluding that anesthesia did not appear to cause similar issues in children but urging continued research. Much of the research since then has also been done in animals. However, several retrospective studies do suggest that children who receive repeated exposure to anesthesia before age 4 are more likely to have cognitive problems.1,2,3,4The study from Wilder et al, I think, is the one that has raised the current concerns. The authors looked at a cohort of 5,347children, approximately 600 of who had received general anesthesia before age 4 between 1976 and 1982. After 15 years, the authors found a correlation between two or more early anesthesia exposures and learning disabilities (hazard ratio [HR] =1.59, 95% CI 1.06-2.37 for two exposures; and HR 2.60, 95% CI 1.60-4.24, for three or more).4Keep in mind that this is a correlation; we do not know if the anesthesia itself caused the learning deficits. Also consider, as we all know, that children who require two or more surgeries with general anesthesia before age 4 likely have other medical problems that could have contributed to those cognitive deficits. Still, if you combine retrospective studies like the one from Wilder et al with the animal studies, you can see how the current firestorm began. Thus, it's not surprising that the FDA felt it had act. The bottom line is that, at present, there is no alternative to general anesthesia for young children who require invasive procedures and such treatment is a must; we know even neonates feel pain. However, we always err on the side of caution, such as reserving elective procedures until children are older and limiting the number of anesthetics we give. If a child needs several procedures, we try to combine them into a single surgical session if possible. Also, if a child under 4 needs surgery it is likely related to a serious medical condition. So while I'm seeing more questions from parents in the past few months, none have cancelled surgeries. My advice is to take the time to counsel parents about the reality of the studies and our knowledge, and help them, as we do in so many things related to pediatric medicine, weigh the potential risks and benefits of the procedure. What are your thoughts about general anesthesia for young children? What are you hearing from parents?John Huntington, MD, is an anesthesiologist at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital References1. DiMaggio C, Sun LS, Kakavouli A, Byrne MW, Li G. A retrospective cohort study of the association of anesthesia and hernia repair surgery with behavioral and developmental disorders in young children. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2009;21:286-91. 2. Kalkman CJ, Peelen L, Moons KG, et al. Behavior and development in children and age at the time of first anesthetic exposure. Anesthesiology. 2009;110:805-12. 3. Backman ME, Kopf AW. Iatrogenic effects of general anesthesia in children: considerations in treating large congenital nevocytic nevi. J Dermatol Surg Oncol. 1986;12:363-7. 4. Wilder RT, Flick RP, Sprung J, et al. Early exposure to anesthesia and learning disabilities in a population-based birth cohort. Anesthesiology. 2009;110:796-804.


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CHICAGO (AP) -- A Cook County grand jury has indicted a homeless woman on murder and aggravated arson charges for allegedly starting a fire that killed four people on Chicago's North Side.
Andrew Conklin of the Cook County state's attorney's office says today's indictment names 43-year-old Mary Smith on 12 counts of first-degree murder and nine counts of aggravated arson in the March Tenth fire.
Smith is being held without bond at the Cook County Jail and is scheduled for arraignment on April 19th.
Prosecutors say Smith gave a videotaped statement in which she admitted she started the fire by lighting a dollar bill someone had given her in attempt to keep her feet warm. She was wearing plastic bags on her feet when arrested and said she had lost her shoes.
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later, the prevalence of marijuana use and cocaine among people on active duty was substantially lower than it was among their classmates. Although it is possible that the self-reports by active-duty personnel are less trustworthy than those of other respondents, the data are suggestive of a deterrent effect and also tend to show, somewhat surprisingly, that there was no substantial self-selection (i.e., high school drug users were no less likely than their peers to enlist in the military), even though such a self-selection effect was evident for smokers after the military toughened its smoking policies in the late 1980s.
The second study, conducted by Mehay and Pacula (1999), used data from the National Household Survey of Drug Abuse and the Department of Defense's Worldwide Survey of Health Related Behaviors to compare military and civilian populations before and after adoption of the military's zero-tolerance policy in 1981. They concluded that, in 1995, military employees were about 16 percent less likely to report using drugs during the past year as their civilian counterparts, and that very little of this difference appears to be attributable to self-selection bias. Noting, however, that selection bias might more heavily influence younger age groups, they estimated that the deterrent effect might be as low as 4 percent.
Mehay and Pecula observed that a zero-tolerance, frequent testing protocol, similar to the military approach, probably would not be cost-effective in the civilian sector, but they suggest that a less frequent testing policy, with a more lenient second-chance sanction, might yield a 10 percent deterrent and "can be expected to reduce drug use in a cost-effective manner." In the committee's view, however, extrapolating in this way from the military experience to the civilian sector is questionable. Even if the prospect of being subjected to drug testing does not affect drug users' initial decisions to seek employment with a particular firm, employees have an opportunity for exit not available to people on active duty in the military when they find out about a firm's testing program. As a result, self-selection is likely to be a much more substantial factor in civilian employment than in the military setting, especially when employment opportunities without drug testing are plentiful.
Until recently, nationally representative data that could be used to examine the association between drug use and drug testing outside the military have not been collected (National Research Council, 1994). However, the 1994 National Household Survey of Drug Abuse included a special workplace module that contained a series of questions about workplace drug testing programs. It therefore became possible to ascertain the


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post8524500740916631105..comments2014-12-22T09:43:34.344-05:00Comments on The Kill Zone: Notes from Thrillerfest 2014: The FBI Seminar for WritersJoe Moorehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-73753146672603592062014-07-09T19:44:47.640-04:002014-07-09T19:44:47.640-04:00I wish I'd been at that one, Jordan!I wish I'd been at that one, Jordan!Kathryn Lilleyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-72628861895847054572014-07-09T13:13:49.392-04:002014-07-09T13:13:49.392-04:00Thanks for these great links, Kathryn. I've lo...Thanks for these great links, Kathryn. I've looked into my local FBI citizen's academy. I believe there is a referral process that is a bit of a hindrance, but maybe thatse changed.

At the RWA conference years ago in DC, the Kiss of Death mystery chapter hosted toura of the FBI, CIA, State Dept, and national Postal Service. An amazing event. Came away with tons of notes. We even fired all sorts of weapons at the FBI gun range and heard a lecture from the agent who was the sole interrogator of Saddam Hussein. Great day.Jordan Danehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-9118813474470312982014-07-09T09:32:06.530-04:002014-07-09T09:32:06.530-04:00I'm putting KN on my list, Terri! I've hea...I'm putting KN on my list, Terri! I've heard great things about it.Kathryn Lilleyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-66031251976296559192014-07-08T23:18:03.786-04:002014-07-08T23:18:03.786-04:00Pardon my typos, BTW. I should know better than to...Pardon my typos, BTW. I should know better than to type long missives on a smartphone. Especially when driving.

Kidding about that last part.Jim Thomsenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-2160725988911356882014-07-08T21:42:44.881-04:002014-07-08T21:42:44.881-04:00Yes, I have an FBI agent, but he is on an off-labe...Yes, I have an FBI agent, but he is on an off-label mission. Of course he is hot, this is a novel after all, but his woman-picker-switch is broken and he gets hit with a paternity suit every time he turns around and generally defies authority every chance he gets, even when it damages him. So, there is that. Terri Lynn Coophttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-68159720784216277842014-07-08T21:38:53.675-04:002014-07-08T21:38:53.675-04:00I met Doug last year. He is awesome. He is a membe...I met Doug last year. He is awesome. He is a member of the Killer Nashville FB group and posts there all the time. Come to think of it, you would enjoy KN a lot (hint hint)Terri Lynn Coophttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-49296044841033997522014-07-08T20:02:57.871-04:002014-07-08T20:02:57.871-04:00Thanks, AD!Thanks, AD!Kathryn Lilleyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-18272009534350940302014-07-08T19:09:58.238-04:002014-07-08T19:09:58.238-04:00My pleasure, adan! My pleasure, adan! Kathryn Lilleyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-82937150514051320582014-07-08T19:02:49.111-04:002014-07-08T19:02:49.111-04:00Thank you for sharing Kathryn! This is like gold d...Thank you for sharing Kathryn! This is like gold dust :DAD Starrlinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-80049890034572942052014-07-08T17:55:07.448-04:002014-07-08T17:55:07.448-04:00Jim--you've expressed my own opinion too well ...Jim--you've expressed my own opinion too well for me to add anything. But of course I always do. The Best FBI novel I know of is The Silence of the Lambs. No square-jawed "special agent" there. I don't even have to give details, because anyone reading TKZ will know them already. The key is Thomas Harris. I understand he has a good friend in the behavioral-science section of the Bureau, a huge advantage. But the writer must know what to do with the insider info, and Harris does know. Just as Elmore Leonard knew what to do with all the material provided to him by his full-time research assistant. Barry Knisterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-16342716783713984102014-07-08T17:24:34.631-04:002014-07-08T17:24:34.631-04:00I'm checking in now at 5 p.m., having wrapped ...I'm checking in now at 5 p.m., having wrapped up at MasterCraft. What an awesome addition to the ThrillerFest lineup! My class was hosted by the fabulous Doug Lyle. So much insight received in such a short period of time!Kathryn Lilleyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-26775627828294311412014-07-08T17:21:23.763-04:002014-07-08T17:21:23.763-04:00Lol, I have no idea, Jim! I have to admit that a c...Lol, I have no idea, Jim! I have to admit that a couple of the agents had pretty nice jawlines, can't comment as to the trembling virility, though! ;)Kathryn Lilleyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-58898605933648735982014-07-08T15:20:12.102-04:002014-07-08T15:20:12.102-04:00Sounds like a lot of fun Kathryn. I had intended t...Sounds like a lot of fun Kathryn. I had intended to be down there this year for ThrillerFest, planned and even put a few bucks aside, but alas stuff happens and it didn't happen.

Oh well, there's next year.Basil Sandshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-57875569478402812452014-07-08T15:17:46.785-04:002014-07-08T15:17:46.785-04:00How? Why, gummint mind control obviously. ;-)How? Why, gummint mind control obviously.

;-)Basil Sandshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-85044327162068652492014-07-08T15:15:10.067-04:002014-07-08T15:15:10.067-04:00Ha! That is hilarious on so many levels. And I hav...Ha! That is hilarious on so many levels. And I have seen more than one agent who said, "NO FBI!"

Sometimes it is the jurisdiction of the crime that requires the fibs. Locals get stuck at the city limit, sheriffs at the county line, and troopers (which hardly ever get used except as red shirts) have to cash it in at the state border, while a fed can go anywhere. And most of the good crimes are federal and they have better toys, so there is good stuff to work with.

After that it is TV and the development of the trope all the way back to Efram Zimbalist Jr. and the G-man.
Terri Lynn Coophttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-62807737037911228352014-07-08T15:05:42.737-04:002014-07-08T15:05:42.737-04:00I don't mean to insult those who hold the FBI ...I don't mean to insult those who hold the FBI in high esteem, but I have always wondered why FBI special agents are held up so often as examplars of righteousness and virtue and sex appeal in mystery, suspense and thriller novels — especially when their reality is often more bureaucratic and ineffectual.

There must be hundreds of novels that have the same basic trope: "Serial Killer X is on the loose, and FBI Special Agent Derek Handsome, the agency's top profiler, comes to town and teams with beautiful but vulnerable Caitlin Ingenue, a local newspaper reporter/cop/surviving victim, before another victim is claimed." In these books, the FBI special agent is always thrust-jawed and trembling with sophisticated virility, an alpha male who brusquely shuts down the local yokels while melting the hearts and thighs of every female in the ZIP code.

I understand that these novels exist because there is a market, and, contrary to the advice give by many writing gurus, it is smart to write to the market. But where did the trope come from in the first place? How did FBI special agents earned this exalted status in crime fiction?

Somebody write a mystery in which that mystery is solved. I'll buy the first copy.Jim Thomsenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-29267891184555773182014-07-08T14:42:23.233-04:002014-07-08T14:42:23.233-04:00Congrats on getting into the seminar, and thank yo...Congrats on getting into the seminar, and thank you so much for the two links :-)

As one of the sites says, "our Office of Public Affairs is a small staff that spends a portion of its time working with domestic and international screenwriters, producers, authors, and other industry personnel..." -

What great info (wish there was an office here in Austin)!adanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-29539379452070578492014-07-08T13:06:31.413-04:002014-07-08T13:06:31.413-04:00Hah! I knew I'd found the FBI building when I ...Hah! I knew I'd found the FBI building when I looked up and saw all the cameras. And guys with crew cuts, lol.Kathryn Lilleyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-89912938950227671682014-07-08T12:01:50.914-04:002014-07-08T12:01:50.914-04:00Love me some Criminal Minds. I have FBI in my book...Love me some Criminal Minds. I have FBI in my book, but it is more a rogue off-the-res operation. One thing I found as well is that on Google Earth, you can find just about any field office and go curbside with photos. I found myself "standing" in the parking lot of the San Antonio office, scoping out the guard shacks, gates, etc. It really helped with the writing. *waves to NSA*

TerriTerri Lynn Coophttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-17647292057293092832014-07-08T11:08:17.569-04:002014-07-08T11:08:17.569-04:00I'm glad I was able to find the handouts onlin...I'm glad I was able to find the handouts online, Diane! Good for a writer to know how to outreach to the FBI.Kathryn Lilleyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-44653783850492225602014-07-08T10:35:54.531-04:002014-07-08T10:35:54.531-04:00Thanks for the links!Thanks for the links!Diane Vallerehttp://email@example.com


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For the past few days, I know, this blog has been a little on the edgy and skittish side. Those of you reading me must have developed an image of me tap-tap-tapping away at my keyboard, hair askew, wild-eyed with a caffeine overdose, hyperventilating and unable to focus.
And yeah, that image would be just about right.
I apologize if I've seemed a bit out there. While I was under the pressure of a couple of deadlines, Christmas and family commitments, I let email correspondence and other concerns go rather to hell and then this week I looked up at it all and felt like I was the proverbial hapless clerk about to be flattened by a pile of files.
All of this was apparent in my writing which, for a few days, has been uneven and unfocused. My Li'l Bro Thom – a fellow who understands the concept of high stress and yet manages, through faith, to deal with it and still remain sane and reasonable – noticed.
"You're writing like you need ritalin," he joked.
Normally, I would have laughed, but when a criticism is really on-target, even if it is offered gently, it can really sting, and rather than laugh I emailed back an unhappy emoticon and a pathetic, "go ahead, make my day even worse."
"What's wrong," he responded.
There followed a rambling email that was the equivalent of a harried woman blubbering and waving her hands about like a demented emu. I spilled!
"My husband has a job opportunity that is very exciting but will mean more travel! I'm becoming a sentimental goose who keeps seeing her grown children as cute 6 year olds before her eyes – how did my life go by so quickly! And I don't think anyone is even reading me except my Elder Son's Sweet Girlfriend – and I think she only reads me because she's mystified by me, or something. Sometimes I feel like…all I'm doing is writing words and words and they don't matter. I know you were joking, and any other day I would have laughed…but I just feel so out of sorts. And I got my hair colored and I'm SO grey, all of a sudden! You men don't understand what it's like!"
"You need a retreat," he counciled.
"Yes, and chocolate," I concurred, wondering if Buster had any about for his Eagle Scout fund-raiser. "What about you," I asked, feeling immeasurably better for spilling, and knowing he is carrying a very heavy load in many ways. "How is it all going?"
"Well…we take every day as it comes, right?" He wrote back. After going into some details on a family matter that is causing him real grief he concluded:
Sometimes, I hate my life
But mostly, things are good.
I looked at those words for a long time and then wrote back, "David could not have written a better psalm."
One of the greatest things about becoming a Benedictine Oblate is that we are encouraged to pray at least some part of the Liturgy of the Hours (aka The Divine Office, aka The Opus Dei) every day. Immersing oneself in the psalms is a remarkable experience because within those 150 poems resides the entire human condition in all of its lunacy and sorrow, its agony and rapture and woe. To read the psalms daily is to be reminded that no human expression of feeling is unique to the rest of humanity, that our interpersonal kinship is not really narrow – rather it is as broad as we allow it to be.
We live in a very polarized age wherein we too often, too-willingly segregate ourselves with an "us good, them bad" mentality. That is not new, of course. Humans have always drawn their lines of demarcation between themselves and others – mostly either because of ethnicity or language or creed. Lately, as ethnicities blend and languages fade, the lines seem increasingly to be drawn mostly over ideologies disguised as creeds. Or creeds disguised as ideologies.
It's distressing to see. It is terribly distressing to watch what appears to be an inexorable move toward national self-destruction in the pursuit of "squashing the other side," when in fact both sides are America's, and an America without healthy discourse and respectable, honorable and loyal dissent will not need an outside enemy to render her impotent and eventually inconsequential.
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We take each day as it comes
Sometimes I hate my life
But mostly things are good
Mindful people try to be grateful for the good things in their lives, but it is easy to overlook what is positive and dwell on the negative – to lose sight of all one has, for the want of what one seems to lack. It is an ancient part of our human condition – it existed in Eden.
In a monastic house, psalms are chanted by the community in turn. They sit dexter and sinister, right and left, and each side takes turns, verse by verse, down the psalms.
Left and right, they sing. They weave psalms and canticles, readings and collects, prayers and praise into one marvelous whole, and in doing so dexter and sinister – united in purpose – become one.
We take each day as it comes. Sometimes we hate our lives. But mostly things are good.
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Saturday, 30 May 2009
Wonder Woman #32 review
I liked the no-fanfare cameo by DC debutante hero the Shield, aiding the rescue operation as Washington crumbles mid-battle.
The art, by Aaron Lopresti and Matt Ryan is superb, clearly showing the parry and thrust of battle, the emotions felt by Diana, Genocide, Nemesis and Prof Morrow.
What didn't I like? The rest.
The thought-narration by Diana was too melodramatic, with much self-flagellation about her use of what is obviously reasonable force to take down a major menace, and an unliving one to boot. And when at the end she declares the vanishing of Genocide 'impossible' Wonder Woman sounds like an idiot - even ignoring that Genocide is a teleporter, how many times has a defeated foe been secreted away by another villain? I'm all for dramatic statements, but not ones that make the hero seem dense.
The glacial pace of the Rise of the Olympian thread for which this arc is named (though the cover banner has vanished this issue - is someone at DC also just wishing it would end?) is frustrating. This month, part 7, less than two pages are devoted to the plot by Zeus to replace the Amazons.
Most of all, I didn't enjoy the 'revelation' that Diana never loved Nemesis. The moment of truth was well-executed, but unsurprising. The courtship of Tom Tresser by Diana has never convinced. Instead of the meaningful moments that mark out a developing relationship, it's been empty words and gestures. There was no spark, no chemistry between them, meaning Nemesis seemed as confused as the reader by Diana's declarations of intent (if anything, it appeared he had some deception of his own yet to be revealed).
The idea that Diana would lie to Nemesis in order to make him her stallion, father to a new brood of Amazons, is flawed on several levels. Firstly, Diana is about love, respect and truth - she simply would not lie to a man in order to repopulate Themyscira. Then there's the notion that Nemesis, master of deception, wouldn't know he was being lied to. It's as far-fetched as the veteran hero wimpering pathetically with self-pity at the news his best girl made a fool of him, which he does here. Maybe Genocide's psychic aura of misery is at work, but I don't really care at this point - I grew up with Nemesis the master planner, the super spy - not love's fool. I'm beyond ready for him to step up and be Diana's action partner, not pity object - and he was doing so well before the big downer from Diana, using the invisible craft to help her attack Genocide. Then . . . lovesick puppy who needs putting down.
And if Diana truly needed a sperm donor (has she forgotten that the Amazons were magically created?), there are likely thousands of fit, bright chaps who would love to help out.
But the notion that Diana would conspire with her mother Hippolyte - recent leader of a murderous Amazon attack on the United States - to deceive a friend and colleague and resupply her with Amazons is, at base, ridiculous. Given that, I expect Simone to reveal full details of the situation that will make Diana a heroine to admire again. Because there's no way the manipulative female we meet this issue is any kind of Wonder Woman.
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- AnonymousSaturday, 30 May, 2009
Hi Mart. When Genocide was falling into the ocean, Diana mentions that Genocide no longer has control of her arms and legs. If she cannot move an arm or a leg then I doubt she can teleportReplyDelete
Also, regarding using Tom for his sperm, Genocide said that, not Diana. Remember when Diana gave Tom the nectrine necklace, it was with the intention to see if there was something between them, perhaps she has realised that there is not
All the best
If she did, well, she should have knocked things on the head.ReplyDelete
As for the teleport, have we seen Genocide need to touch herself, or an object, to vanish?
I got a kick out of the folks over at Trinity trying so hard to backpedal (or at least it looked that way to me) to get themselves out of the "why is Nemesis here again?" conundrum. He was the one with the deep emotional ties to Dia-- oops. Nevermind.ReplyDelete
Trinity. Sigh. I have no idea why it was done, other than to grab my $$ for a year and convince me that I will NEVER do so AGAIN!
I see your points about thish and agree with many, Mart. The odd thing is, I think Gail S can pull this out. However, I also think we'll still have 59 loose threads dangling to be resolved (maybe) in future story arcs.
I live in fear of the proverbial truck that might suddenly take Gail from us. What happens to the plot then? Perhaps they'll go the way of that virus Dr. Poison let loose on the world back in issue mumble-mumble, that was never addressed again.
But wasn't the art terrific? Those granny panties have to go. There's got to be a better solution! Hello, Daisy Dukes! Hot pants! A modest dancer's cut! And who do we see about getting the up-point on the tiara back?
Oh, don't get me started on Trinity . . . I fell behind and sat down with about 22 issues last week. Got through about 12 - talk about stretching a story out. I may do a small review.ReplyDelete
I don't think we're so far apart re: expecting Gail to pull something out of the bag, but I'm finding the incidental pleasures are no longer enough to make up for the apparently scatteshot nature of this sprawling storyline.
And yes, the art is double plus good, even with the terrible tiara and apparently moulded panties.
Apparently a lot of folks completely missed the other big revelation in this issue. The Amazons poop just like the rest of us mere mortals(LOL)!! I'd rather read a good book while on the throne though instead of looking at a severed head on a pike. Thats so last century(LOL). Seriously though, I think your review is spot on. This storyline is all over the freaking place. I've enjoyed parts of it,but this is not Gail Simone's best work IMO.ReplyDelete


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I met my ex-boyfriend almost two years ago. It sounds so cliché to say this but there were sparks imbedded in our very first conversation. Love at first sight? Maybe not exactly, but especially close. As soon as I met him, I knew I wanted to spend forever with him. He was so different and his thoughts on everything were unlike anyone else's that I had ever spoken to. He was smart and kind and very quickly we were spending every moment of every day together. It was by far the best two years of my life. I believed, and still do believe, that we are soul mates. And that we are meant to be together. About a month ago, he started to seem a little different. He told me he was depressed, and he had slowly stopped eating. His mother wound up checking him into a rehab center, and I was so proud of him for getting help. But since he's gotten out, he isn't the same person anymore. In all honestly, he suddenly wanted nothing to do with me. I was telling him that I wanted to come see him and he had no interest. I don't know if I did something wrong, or if he met someone in the rehab center, or what has happened. I've been crying every single day for the past month since he's been gone. There's so much empty space without him here. I'm so in love with him but I feel like I'm suddenly nothing to him. All I want is his happiness but I'm not ready to accept that that's what being away from me brings. I'm not living anymore, I just exist. I wake up; go to work, come home, sleep, and repeat. Someone told me never to give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about. I don't want to give up, I always promised I would never give up. But I'm hurt and confused and depressed and I miss him so much that I could never properly explain it to anyone. I am young, yes, but I know my heart can't be wrong.. I don't even know how to begin letting go..
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If you truly do love him as much as you say, you'll stop trying to get him to talk to and spend time with you and step away. Let him get well and when he is, perhaps he'll be ready to be with you again someday. Or maybe he won't. But in the meantime, keep busy, do the things you need to do and be kind to yourself. If you believe you're nothing without him, you will be. Don't tell yourself that; tell yourself you'll be fine and eventually you will be.


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Fact–value distinction
The fact-value distinction is a distinction between what is (can be discovered by science, philosophy, or reason) and what ought to be (a judgment agreed to by consensus, or believed to be objectively morally binding). The terms positive and normative represent another way to express this, as do the terms descriptive and prescriptive, respectively. Positive statements make the implicit claim to facts (e.g., water molecules are made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom), whereas normative statements make a claim based on values or norms (e.g., water ought to be protected from pollution).
David Hume's skepticism[edit]
The fact-value distinction emerged in philosophy in the Enlightenment. In particular, David Hume (1711–1776) argued that human beings are unable to ground normative arguments in positive arguments, that is, to derive ought from is. Hume was a skeptic, and although he was a complex and dedicated philosopher, he shared a political viewpoint with previous Enlightenment philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and John Locke (1632–1704). Specifically, Hume, at least to some extent, argued that religious and national hostilities that divided European society were based on unfounded beliefs. In effect, he argued they are not found in nature, but are a creation of a particular time and place, and thus unworthy of mortal conflict. Thus Hume is often cited as the philosopher who finally debunked the idea of nature as a standard for political existence. For instance, without Hume, Jean Jacques Rousseau's (1712–1778) "return" to nature would have not been possible.
Naturalistic fallacy[edit]
The fact-value distinction is closely related to the naturalistic fallacy, a topic debated in ethical and moral philosophy. G.E. Moore believed it essential to all ethical thinking.[citation needed] However, more recent contemporary philosophers like Phillipa Foot have called into question the validity of such assumptions. Others, such as Ruth Anna Putnam, argue that even the most "scientific" of disciplines are affected by the "values" of those who research and practice the vocation.[1][2] Nevertheless, the difference between the naturalistic fallacy and the fact-value distinction is derived from the manner in which modern social science has used the fact-value distinction, and not the strict naturalistic fallacy to articulate new fields of study and create academic disciplines.
Moralistic fallacy[edit]
The fact-value distinction is also closely related to the moralistic fallacy, an invalid inference of factual conclusions from purely evaluative premises. For example, an invalid inference "Because everybody ought to be equal, there are no innate genetic differences between people" is an instance of the moralistic fallacy. Some cases of experimental errors, for instance, the "discovery" of N-rays, and the placebo effect, in which the experimenters reported that a non-existing effect is taking place simply because they believed it ought to take place, fall into the category of moralistic fallacy. The phenomenon of the placebo effect shows how deeply are humans' brains committed to some forms of the moralistic fallacy.
Nietzsche's table of values[edit]
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) in Thus Spoke Zarathustra said that a table of values hangs above every great people. Nietzsche points out that what is common among different peoples is the act of esteeming, of creating values, even if the values are different from one people to the next. Nietzsche asserts that what made people great was not the content of their beliefs, but the act of valuing. Thus the values a community strives to articulate are not as important as the collective will to act on those values.[3] The willing is more essential than the intrinsic worth of the goal itself, according to Nietzsche.[4] "A thousand goals have there been so far," says Zarathustra, "for there are a thousand peoples. Only the yoke for the thousand necks is still lacking: the one goal is lacking. Humanity still has no goal." Hence, the title of the aphorism, "On The Thousand And One Goals". The idea that one value-system is no more worthy than the next, although it may not be directly ascribed to Nietzsche, has become a common premise in modern social science. Max Weber and Martin Heidegger absorbed it and made it their own. It shaped their philosophical endeavor, as well as their political understanding.
Virtually all modern philosophers affirm some sort of fact-value distinction, insofar as they distinguish between science and "valued" disciplines such as ethics, aesthetics, or the fine arts. However, philosophers such as Hilary Putnam argue that the distinction between fact and value is not as absolute as Hume envisioned.[5] Philosophical pragmatists, for instance, believe that true propositions are those that are useful or effective in predicting future (empirical) states of affairs.[6] Far from being value-free, the pragmatists' conception of truth or facts directly relates to an end (namely, empirical predictability) that human beings regard as normatively desirable. Other thinkers reject an absolutist fact-value distinction by contending that our senses are impregnated with prior conceptualizations, making it impossible to have any observation that is totally value-free, which is how Hume and the later positivists conceived of facts.
See also[edit]
- ^ Putnam, Ruth Anna. "Perceiving Facts and Values," Philosophy 73, 1998. JSTOR 3752124 This article as well as her earlier article, "Creating Facts and Values," Philosophy 60, 1985 JSTOR 3750998, examines how scientists may base their choice of investigations on their unexamined subjectivity, which undermines the objectivity of their hypothesis and findings
- ^ Smart, J.C. "Ruth Anna Putnam and the Fact-Value Distinction," Philosophy 74, 1999. JSTOR 3751844
- ^ Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Book Two "On the Virtuous": "You who are virtuous still want to be paid! Do you want rewards for virtue, and heaven for earth, and the eternal for your today? And now you are angry with me because I teach that there is no reward and paymaster? And verily, I do not even teach that virtue is its own reward."
- ^ Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Book Four "On Old and New Tablets": "To redeem what is past in man and to recreate all 'it was' until the will says, 'Thus I willed it! Thus I shall will it!' - this I called redemption and this alone I taught them to call redemption."
- ^ Putnam, Hilary. "The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays, Cambrdige, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002". Reasonpapers.com. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- ^ "Pragmatism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Plato.stanford.edu. 2008-08-16. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
- Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. First published 1739-1740.
- Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Translated by R.J. Hollingdale. New York: Penguin, 1969.
- Putnam, Hilary. The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays. Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-674-01380-8
- Cushan, Anna-Marie. Investigation into Facts and Values: Groundwork for a theory of moral conflict resolution. [Thesis, Melbourne University], Ondwelle Publications (online): Melbourne, 1983/2014. [1]


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any of several knotty-stemmed plants belonging to the genus Polygonum, of the buckwheat family.
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Any of several plants of the genus Polygonum, with jointed stems and inconspicuous flowers
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Polygonum is a genus in the Polygonaceae family. Common names include knotweed, knotgrass, bistort, tearthumb, mile-a-minute, and several others. In the Middle English glossary of herbs "Alphita", it was known as ars-smerte. There have been various opinions about how broadly the genus should be defined. For example, Buckwheat has sometimes been included in the genus. The genus primarily grows in northern temperate regions. They vary widely from prostrate herbaceous annual plants under 5 cm high, others erect herbaceous perennial plants growing to 3–4 m tall, and yet others perennial woody vines growing to 20–30 m high in trees. Several are aquatic, growing as floating plants in ponds. The smooth-edged leaves range from 1–30 cm long, and vary in shape between species from narrow lanceolate to oval, broad triangular, heart-shaped, or arrowhead forms. The stems are often reddish or red-speckled. The small flowers are, pink, white, or greenish, forming in summer in dense clusters from the leaf joints or stem apices. The genus name is from the Greek poly, "many" and gonu, "knee" in reference to the swollen jointed stem. Polygonum species are occasionally eaten by humans, and are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species - see list. Most species are considered weedy, especially in moist soils in the USA.
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The doctors are real busy right now. There's a lot of wounded here today. No time for anything except trying to stay alive, so you got to try and stay alive, okay? You hear me? Try and stay alive. [pause] I've come to give you your last rites. Are you ready?Chaplain
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He's not available now. He's too busy.Nurse Washington
He's always too busy.Ron Kovic
What's eating you now, Kovic? You going off the deep end?Marvin
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Why? You can't feel it no how!Marvin
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Spanish and Chinese are the top two non-English languages spoken in California.
The PUC consulted with a variety of community groups before making their decision.The Greenlining Institute in Berkeley, a non-profit organization for consumer rights of minorities, is one of the groups that the PUC consulted.
Greenlining General Counsel Samuel King says "There are 200,000 people who live in PG&E's customer service area who speak Chinese, but speak English either not so well or not at all. So what this decision does today is to allow PG&E to communicate with Chinese speaking customers better and vice versa ."
PG&E spokesperson Fiona Chan says that PG&E will now start to design the new Chinese and Spanish language bills. The company will also conduct community outreach to let people know about the language choice in bills .
Chan adds that the new bills in Chinese and Spanish will be available to customers next year at the earliest .
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First Facebook ad I've seen for a reputable company: Then again, I suppose the banks aren't what they were.
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Right, listen up. I'm digging Hicks out of the cold earth and we're going to work on some advertisers. Why? Reason the first is that I've met a couple, and at least one of them is without merit as a human being. But the second reason – and the point of this rant – is […]
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