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Don't Forget: Nice Suit, Clean Resume & Plenty of Internships!
Full Frontal PR Report
Kate Walsh
The importance of internships, particularly in Public Relations, has grown enormously for college students. While internships have always played a valuable role in preparing college students for their careers, they have become an absolute necessity over the past few years. Just a few years ago, a coworker of mine held only a single internship during his entire college career. He viewed it as a desirable—but not mandatory—addition to his resume. Since then, internships have gone from strongly recommended to absolutely vital.
I graduated from Fairfield University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications this past May along with hundreds of other Communications majors. With thousands of college graduates creating fierce competition for a few positions, it is absolutely vital that you distinguish yourself from the competition. Also, it's difficult to break into PR unless you have internships on your resume.
I held two internships during college and added another one immediately following graduation. My first was at News 12 New Jersey, where I helped to produce the show "Jersey's Talking," with host Lee Leonard. Researching biographies of guests to appear on the show was just the beginning of my relationship with them; I was also the one to greet them once they arrived at the station.
My second internship was a terrific experience! Building on the skills gained from my first internship, I worked at Special Olympics of Southern Connecticut during my senior year. I took part in the planning and execution of major fundraising events such as the Penguin Plunge during which 500 participants, clad only in bathing suits, jumped into the icy March waters of the Long Island Sound to raise money for Special Olympics. I got a true feel for a PR executive's real responsibilities, writing press releases and media alerts and being immersed in the whole process.
My last internship followed graduation, and was by far the most helpful. I interned at Peppercom PR, where I worked with Fortune 500 clients daily. My responsibilities included pitching, writing press releases, writing media alerts and conducting pertinent industry and trend research for clients—duties I touched on at Special Olympics. I got to know PR from an internal perspective and took on the responsibilities of an entry-level PR executive. Upon completion of the internship, I found myself well prepared to work at RLM!
Tips for Choosing a Public Relations Internship
The size and culture of the company are some basic considerations to keep in mind when looking for a Public Relations internship. Often, if you intern at a small Public Relations agency, you will be given more responsibility than if you intern at a larger one.
In considering the organization's culture, it isn't always easy to get a clear picture during an hour-long interview, but it is usually the only opportunity you will have. During the interview, take mental notes of key cultural aspects such as how people dress, the way people interact with one another, the layout of the office and how your boss-to-be treats you. Ask lots of pertinent and need-to-know questions. Be sure to learn how you can maximize your contribution so that you can build on past experience. And be sure to read the company's Web site!
The Devil's in the Details
College internships generally offer two forms of compensation: college credit or cold hard cash. There is the occasional internship that offers experience only, but if you accept one of these speak to your academic department head to see if you can at least negotiate a little credit.
Whatever the rewards, it is important to do your best when interning. Since you will be evaluated at different times by different people you will want to make a good impression on someone who might be a future employer—or future 'recommender'—and so you will want to leave a great impression for the foreseeable and long-term future!
It is equally necessary to take on more responsibility than just what you are told. For example, if you want to pitch more, let your supervisor know it—show how you can help out in additional ways. At Special Olympics, I wanted to talk to more groups about the importance of volunteering for this worthwhile organization. As a direct result of this discussion, I got a chance to speak to groups ranging from an all-boys prep junior high school to a grouping of restaurant owners. Asking for more responsibility shows that you are indeed motivated and eager to learn.
Lastly, make sure that you gain all the experience possible and build on previous experiences too. Your resume will look great, your first career position after college will come a lot faster, and you'll know more than the other entry-level folks.
The key to getting your first great job in PR is setting yourself apart from the masses. Internships achieve that. These can be interesting, fun, and given the real-time exposure you get to the PR world, invaluable. There are plenty of ways to find an internship. Talk to your professors, visit a career center, or go to your school's career center Web site. (Not in school? Call an agency you admire or e-mail them with the request to interview for intern positions.)
With all that under your proverbial belt, not only will you gain great experience and be ahead of the crowd, you will also be so much better prepared to embark on the career of your dreams!
Kate Walsh is an assistant account executive at RLM who goes above and beyond every day on behalf of her clients and her colleagues!


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Bootcamp: get ready for a great cardio and strength workout! The class will meet in the fitness wing, near the track, for the first 15 minutes, and then relocate to Court #10 for the remaining 45 minutes.
Cardio Kickboxing: jab, punch, and kick your way through a fun and intense workout. This class also incorporates a short strength-training segment at the end for a complete workout!
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Mat Pilates: back to the basics of Pilates for this low-impact, classic flow of sequences, which will engage your core for a taller and leaner feeling. The focus is on quality not quantity and muscles are worked evenly to create balance in the body.
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Total Body Circuits: resistance bands, dumbbells, body bars, Valslides, mats and more are used in this circuit-style head to toe strength training class with cardio bursts!
X-Fit: aerobic and anaerobic cardiovascular drills, strength training, and more! This class will benefit any committed individual. Our motto: No one has ever drowned in his or her own sweat.
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CorePower® Yoga: this vinyass-style class will introduce a sequence to build strength and increase flexibility. The class is moderately paced, but ideal for participants of many levels.
Hatha Yoga: focus on yoga poses, breathing techniques and meditation to achieve balance between the mind and body. Improve flexibility, strength, concentration and relaxation.
Iyengar Yoga: a type of Hatha Yoga which emphasizes precision and alignment. Postures are held for a longer duration to experience them fully. Build strength, circulation, relaxation, coordination and balance.
Power Yoga: this class will introduce a more vigorous, athletic approach to yoga. The format is characterized by flowing poses and sequences that are linked to the breath. Classes are diverse and will vary with instructor philosophy.
Sunrise Yoga: rise and shine and start your day off right! This class consists of a combination of flow and holding postures. Alignment, coordination and breath are emphasized. You will start your day with a new sense of vitality!
Vinyasa Flow Yoga: a vigorous type of Hatha Yoga consists of a continuous series of postures, which flow together. Postural alignment and coordination of breath and movement are emphasized.
Vinyasa Foundations Yoga: a type of Hatha Yoga, which incorporates flow, but also with mindful pauses to emphasize postural alignment and breath.


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This recording is a musical road trip from the creative world of Michael Daugherty, one of America's unique and most performed composers, and the visionary conductor Marin Alsop, who has championed his music for over 20 years. Our drive begins with Route 66, a high-octane nostalgic drive from Illinois to California through "Main Street America", as seen through Daugherty's rear view mirror. Along the way, we stop at Ghost Ranch, where Georgia O'Keeffe created her brilliant paintings inspired by the open skies of New Mexico. Arriving in Los Angeles, Daugherty takes us for a spin down Sunset Boulevard where anything can happen, and it usually does. Our journey concludes as we travel into the 4th dimension with Time Machine, a wild exploration of sound for three conductors and orchestra.
"Marin Alsop has established herself as a champion of Daugherty's music, and performs all of it with obvious commitment. The Bournemouth orchestra, particularly its brass section (horns and trumpets), makes the most of the numerous solo opportunities that Daugherty offers the players. Naxos' engineers do an excellent job capturing the music's wide range of colors and, in Time Machine, its spatial elements. No reservations whatever--this is just excellent."-Classicstoday.com
"Alsop has her players responding to the tearing energy of Route 66 - a journey along the famous interstate - and the roguishness of Sunset Strip with verve and precision...The BSO plays with a headlong flair and expertise that any American Orchestra would rightly be proud of." -Classic FM Magazine****
"There is much to admire about this lively and colourful recording...not least the manner in which the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop actively thrive on playing music that communicates in such an immediate and engaging way." -Gramophone Magazin
"In works such as Route 66 and Sunset Strip [Daugherty] paints the hopes and dreams embodied in Interstate highways, wide-open spaces and all-night bars where Frank Sinatra crooned. These are winning and affectionate" -The Telegraph***
"Michael Daugherty treads a very cleverly judge line - he manages to write music which sounds slick and polished but which somehow retains a fresh and natural quality, perhaps because it's so up-front and open in its freewheeling enthusiasm...Marin Alsop does this kind of repertoire well and, aided by her two (also female) colleagues in The Time Machine, produces readings with the kind of in-your-face vigour that the music needs."-International Record Review
Houston Chronicle
Michael Daugherty's Route 66 sets the pace for this CD, with its bright orchestral colors and boisterous, jazzy energy - something like Leonard Bernstein's music from West Side Story Conductor Marin Alsop leads the Bournemouth Symphony through this romp.
BBC Music Magazine
The vivid recording was made in the summer of 2008, at the end of Marin Alsop's six seasons as principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. These confident, loose-limbed performances demonstrate how she succeeded during that time in turning the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra into just about the best American orchestra in Europe.
Recording information: The Lighthouse, Poole, United Kingdom (06/30/2008-07/01/2008).
Submitted on 02/04/11 by Dan Coombs
Also Purchased
Works DetailsDaugherty, Michael : Route 66, for orchestra
- Conductor: Marin Alsop
- Notes: The Lighthouse, Poole, United Kingdom (06/30/2008-07/01/2008)
- Running Time: 7 min. sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1998
Daugherty, Michael : Ghost Ranch, for orchestra
- Conductor: Marin Alsop
- Notes: The Lighthouse, Poole, United Kingdom (06/30/2008-07/01/2008)
- Running Time: 24 min. 9 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2006
Daugherty, Michael : Sunset Strip, for orchestra
- Conductor: Marin Alsop
- Notes: The Lighthouse, Poole, United Kingdom (06/30/2008-07/01/2008)
- Running Time: 17 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1999
Daugherty, Michael : Time Machine, for 3 conductors & orchestra
- Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen
- Notes: The Lighthouse, Poole, United Kingdom (06/30/2008-07/01/2008)
- Running Time: 20 min. 23 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2003


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Thursday, 06 February 2014
Coming Out as Old
To be old in America is to be regularly demeaned with stereotypes and euphemisms. It goes on every day.
At the simplest level, the two words "young" and "old" work to marginalize elders. The first is a compliment - all things good, in our culture, flow from being young. "Old" is used as an insult.
There are many other ways we are trivialized daily. The word "feisty" is one of them. I'm sure you have noticed that no 20-year-old is ever feisty. That word is only for people older than 60 and it is most often used to neutralize an elder's anger so not to take him or her seriously.
Lots of old people are commonly said to be young at heart and when that happens, I silently repeat to myself, What's wrong with an old heart? It's had much more use and practice at loving and forgiving and kindness.
One of the worst ageist euphemisms operates where I live in Portland, Oregon. The local public transportation company, Tri-Met, labels people eligible for the senior discount program "honored citizens."
Phooey. The only people – at any age in life – who should be honored are those who have done something to deserve it. Getting old, by itself, is not one of them. When everyone in a group is honored, no one is.
Age discrimination in the workplace deprives old people – often as young as 45 and 50 - of using their lifetimes of experience and knowledge. No one else knows as much as we do – individually and collectively – but employers won't hire us.
Just when I was getting really good at what I do, it was assumed I had either forgotten it all or had become an idiot overnight.
The waste to both corporate profit and the growth of our country in age discrimination is monumental and it is widespread hatred of age that keeps all our enormous wherewithal from being used for the good of everyone.
In all these and many other ways, society constantly infantilizes old people. To the culture at large, aging is a disease and old people, by definition, are sick. It assumes all old people are at best stupid and at worse senile, and that we no longer connect to the culture.
But it is not just the culture at large that demeans elders and wastes our talents. Many old people themselves are guilty of contributing to the universal disrespect of elders.
Probably the face-lift, Botox, anti-aging (now THERE's an ageist term) potion crowd are beyond redemption. But others might be educable – those who have always accepted the negative cultural stereotypes of age that we all first heard in the cradle.
Some of these are the people who make the cringe-worthy statement that they are the same person they were 10, 20, 30 years ago.
Dear god, I hope I am not. There are buckets of beliefs and attitudes and behavior I never liked that I think maybe I've overcome. At least, I hope I have grown, learned and developed through the years and that it won't stop until I die.
Insisting one is the same person as decades ago is similar to those who think it's cool to say they will never grow up. If that's you, please keep your distance. I like hanging out with adults.
Others like to say that they don't feel as old as they are. Really? Since no one has ever before been the age they are now, by definition whatever they feel is how that age feels. To think the reverse is nonsensical.
The people who engage with these varieties of denial along with the ones who just plain lie, shaving years off their actual age, are delusional.
Among the personal consequences of denial of reality, I suspect, are mental paralysis, inability to move forward in life and general stagnation – becoming stuck in eras past. Not to mention looking foolish to the world.
There really does come a time when pretending – with yourself or anyone else - to be younger than you are is just undignified.
Ageist and discriminatory attitudes toward elders will not end until we demand them to stop. We need to be the agents of change for ourselves. That means we must accept our own aging, not sugarcoat it and accept the losses that come with years with whatever grace we can muster. Then move on.
No one else will respect us until we do.
One way to help effect that change is for each of us "come out" about our age at every opportunity. Take a leaf from the beginnings of the gay pride movement: "I'm old and I'm proud." "I'm 72. Does that bother you?"
Call out anyone who stereotypes or trivializes elders wherever you find it. Write letters to newspapers and websites when they do it. Don't let TV shows and YouTube videos get away with ugly, ageist jokes.
You don't have to write lengthy diatribes. A couple of sentences will do the job. It's particularly effective online in comments below articles, stories and videos. People do read them.
So come out to them. Confront them. And tell their behavior, bad jokes, language are not acceptable. Pay particular attention to elders who are in denial.
It does matter what people say about us. Prejudice against elders allows such things as Social Security and Medicare cuts to happen. It makes it easy for people, as all over the media this week, to blame all the ills of our country on an aging population. None of this is true.
So come out, come out wherever you are and take stand for elder equality. You could start below in the comments section.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Janet Thompson: Quarantine!
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Well said.
What we don't realize when we start our careers is that forcing turnover is a cost-cutting strategy. Corporations are numbers driven. Unless you are at the top of the pyramid, you're likely to get eased out in favor of lower cost, less experienced people. Age and higher costs tend to be highly correlated.
The husband of a friend of mine is going through this now. A teacher friend of mine felt her appearance limited her ability to get a job. An artist friend said the same as her teaching brings in a really good sum. Personally, I'm selfish and would like to have a chin again, but it doesn't matter. To them it did, and I believe fear was a major factor in getting their face lifts.
I really don't think anything can be done without a seismic shift. If you study popular culture from the 30s, 40s, and 50s right up to the youth movement, older people were accepted in society. In old movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood you will see older couples dancing in the nightclub scenes and all the party scenes. The writers, hairdressers, designers and backstage workers in Hollywood were often much older. Music was not directed only to younger people.
I found some old insurance company photos from the couple who used to own my house, the secretaries and many employees were well into their 50s and 60s back in the day.
The main problem isn't that facelifts are popular - they don't work by the way, you just look odd as well as older. The problem is that we have erased all older people from society starting about 1965 or so. We have no 50+ women in the media without facelifts, there aren't any. I can't see the pendulum swinging back anytime soon, it isn't happening for the boomers so don't see any hope for a change.
I also want to dispel this myth that single payer insurance will end job discrimination - it doesn't. I live in Canada and we have just as much work ageism as you do even though the employers don't have huge health care insurance bills to worry about. Ageism is TO THE BONE now.
Age is subjective. If you are a two year old, 10 is old. If you are 82, 60 is young. And then there is the phrase, "He thinks like an old man". How exactly does an old man think?, and finally, my most non-favorite word when describing an older person is "spry" as in "He's 75 but he's spry for his age". What the heck does "spry" mean?
People need to remember the old saying: Just because there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there isn't a fire in the furnace.
"Face your foe . . ." "preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies"
Yes, you could remind them of your agility and vast knowledge and years of skills - but doing so, however, simply fuels their envy. Try it - you'll see what I mean.
Leave any situation where this atmosphere exists - you'll live a little longer.
Once you've left your job and taken your k/s with you as you walk out the door - wait and see how long it takes before they call you back to "figure out how that program works". That in itself will remind you of the friends(?) you once had.
I've been calling myself 'elderly' for three-four years now and it's quite amusing to me how many people will admonish me not to do that. I didn't think of it as "coming out as old" but I guess that's exactly what I've been doing. LOL
I often rail against the word "elderly" and will continue to do so.
Elderly implies frail and cognitive decline. Even the traffic signs near places where old people cross the street labeled "elderly crossing" show an image of a bent over old person with a cane.
Here at TGB we advocate for "elder" in place of elderly and increasing numbers of media and organizations of and for old people are switching to elder. In additon, like TGB, these groups are starting to leave "senior" behind in the dust too in favor of elder or old person.
My dilemma is how to respond to those who call me sweetie or young lady in an effort to be kind and friendly. Suggestions?
Ronni...good to see your stand about elderly. I just told a friend that I am older, but don't see myself as elderly because I am not infirm in any way. But, I do like elder which implies wisdom. Thanks!
Meg, I have a suggestion for you. When a stranger calls me "sweetie" I tell them that I know they mean well, but I am not their sweetie. And when they call me "young lady" I don't hesitate to inform them that I am certainly not young and am proud of being old. After that they may think twice before using that term again.
If you laugh and are not belligerent when you correct them they usually take the rebuke with grace.
Sweetie, darling, young lady? I'll take them all--they are meant in kindness. As far as respect goes--is there any for anyone these days? Pity the celebrity that hopes to live a private life--while many deserve the back-handed insults freely given (and some deserved) most would like to get comments solely on their performances. The real respect that should be given these days and many times is not should go to our Servicemen and women both active and retired. It is shocking to me that their retirement pay should be reduced without the public rising up in arms! Why not
reduce Congress' or the President's ? All of these should go long before our volunteer troops! Yes, I'm
more than fed-up with it ALL!
So disappointed with everything to do with our government and what goes for public life!
I had just begun to catch up on past NY Times book reviews and there came something pertinent to this discussion. I am struck, but not surprised by, Fay Weldon's obvious ambivalence here, but I also like her conclusion. The old/young debate continues. Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/books/review/writer-of-a-certain-age.html
As to the label "feisty," I use that all the time regardless of age, and have never connected it exclusively to the old. For me, it is a great compliment.
Bruce Cooper's "spry," on the other hand, I would connect to age, usually because it is coupled with "old."
When a twenty-some male teacher in my school district referred to me as "young lady", I looked at him quizzically and deadpan asked him if he was having trouble with his eyesight.
"Just when I was getting really good at what I do, it was assumed I had either forgotten it all or had become an idiot overnight."
I think there is another dimension to this too. At least it seemed that way when I was cut loose back in 2009.
"Old" people are less unwilling to tolerate pretentious people just to humor them, which, let's face it, we meet a lot of in our work places. So get rid of the older, more critical person and bring in someone more naive who others can brow beat more easily.
And oh yeh! Pay them less for the privilege of treating them as such.
It seems extremely likely that in 2016, this country will elect a 70 year old woman as President. (I'm not thrilled about this, but I don't expect the alternative will be acceptable.) I wonder how this development will effect cultural agism. Opponents will want to go hog wild agist on her, but may be impeded by the advanced age of their base.
All this could lead a a shake up in how the culture deals with age. Is this a good thing? Very likely only if some of us work to make it so. Keep preaching, Ronni!
Amen and well said! It is a matter of coming out with elder pride. Your words always fortify my resolve to be who I am.
I do resent being called "young lady." No matter how sweet the smile that accompanies the words, it is patronizing. The same way such talk is when said to a baby who is helpless and stupid at that age.
Where to start? I hate the words "feisty," "spry," "senior citizen"--and worst of all--"honored citizen." What on earth does age have to do with citizenship? Where are the junior citizens?
I agree that we need to push back when we encounter ageist language. A few years ago when I was going through security at an airport, the TSA guy said,"How are you, young lady?" I said, "I'm fine, and I'm not young."
We need to do what we can to change attitudes and language about aging. Remember decades ago when jokes about women drivers were considered hilarious? When's the last time you heard one of those?
Revel in your own time. I meet people my own age or older who I don't have time for. Yet I meet people 40 years younger that remind me of me when I was that age (sometimes that's scary) If someone is a pain at 70 then there's a good chance they were that way at 20. Being a veteran (Vietnam era or what ever I'm called now a days)The first time someone thanked me for my service (about 5or6 years ago) I laughed and said gee no one was thankin me 40 years ago. So ageism is just one of life's indignities. And PS if a twenty something waitress wants to call me sweetie then Daddy is going leave a good tip:) And as far as older women lookin good HAVE YOU SEEN LAUREN HUTTON? WOW PERFECT!
Be All YOU Are, Be Yourself,
Everyone Else Is Taken!
Reality IS A Figment of Imagination!
You have perhaps already written about this, but what in your mind are the bands of old? I'm 57. I like to call myself old, but people always pooh pooh me, as though it is something bad I'm saying.
And I know that I'm in fact jumping the gun.
The one thing that I do hate is being called "Miss." "Ma'am" will do just fine. Do they think I don't know they see my gray hair?
Living in the South exposes me to lots of women who call me "Sweetie" or "Honey" or "Young lady." It sickens me.
Well said! Is there any way to get "Coming Out As Old" picked up by major media for nation-wide distribution?
I live in a city whose population skews young and find it hard to get the "old and proud" message across.
Be nice when this isn't a problem anymore, and I think this will happen. Attitudes are changing...about gender, lifestyle and lots of other things.
Not happening fast enough, though.
I agree that elders need to push back when we are disrespected and discounted. That said, one reason I'm reluctant to be labeled or categorized as "elderly" or "old" (I've never liked labels anyway!) is because those terms are widely associated with physical disability and cognitive decline which, in turn, are associated with being disrespected and discounted. And the circle is unbroken. . .
Of course, some level of disability and decline will occur to all of us as we age; however, there are wide variations and our "weaknesses" are NOT who we are. Most of the suggestions for fighting back I've read in TGB are sound and useful; I've used some of them in the past or will in the future. However, our society and culture are youth-obsessed, and I don't see that changing any time soon. Still, we have to do what we can. (I hate being called "sweetie", "honey", etc. by total strangers and I agree with artfox who would like to see this article picked up by the major media!)
Point well taken on the use of 'elder' vs. 'elderly' Ronni. I am now officially an elder woman, not an elderly woman.
I've taken to your word elder in a big way since the beginning and use it often. As a blogger, however, I have something of a split personality. On my Web Teacher blog (Hi to any of you who remember my Elder Geek posts here) I don't flaunt my age because it means discrimination in that techie area of the world.
Yet I just started a new blog about pop culture and am flaunting my age by calling it Old Ain't Dead. I want to identify that blog as belonging to an elder from the first word. I definitely came out as old for that one.
Ever since I began reading your TGB I've tried to use the word old referring to myself. I don't hesitate to proudly tell my age, (78 in 6 days). People often then say, "you don't look your age", which inspires me to tell them that this is indeed what 70whatever looks like. I come out as old or elder whenever possible and without apology.
Terms of endearment from strangers usually gets "please call me M'am" from me. I recently advised a restaurant manager that he should train his servers to avoid "honey, sweetie, etc." when addressing customers" when M'am and Sir would suffice.
I hope those who expect attitudes about old people to change are right. I, for one, will do my part.
I'm 80 years old - right! not 80 years young! However I do not think "you don't seem that old" is a put down. I keep finding the increasing age nos. going up disconcerting, but then I am glad they are still going. Also, I find it hard to believe my own age. I still think I'm 37. Much slower now but otherwise not that much different. (I do find myself more tolerant of people's foibles. And having moved to the south when in my forties, I too found "sweetie" and "hon" and"darlin'" making me grit my teeth. Now I understand it is a cultural tic and meant kindly. But when I am waiting in a Dr's office and I hear someone call for Judith, I ignore it. until she catches on to find me and ask if I am Mrs ....
Life's too short to get bent out of shape by the words we are speaking of.
Funny how so many of us become unemployable in our 50s and 60s while all those rich white elders in Washington keep their lucrative jobs well into their 70s, 80s, and even 90s.
And don't call me dear.
Unless you want your ass kicked from here to Mars.
Ronnie, good point about admitting our age. This evening I was volunteering in a group where the 15 year old was comparing to 17 year old, when the 26 year old weighed in with his wisdom. I kept quiet about my 67 years since I couldn't find a hook line but in the future I will make more of a point about my age to the group.
Great post.
I love to read comments on the internet. I shouldn't frequent such places, but one of the websites I read is Gawker (I know, I am sorry). Anyway, I am continually surprised (though I don't know why after all this time) at how young people are so very, very mean about older people. It is so disheartening. Recently the target was Jacqueline Bisset who won a Golden Globe. I hadn't seen her acceptance speech, but the people who had were merciless about how "crazy" she was and how horrible she looked. So, then I go and watch the video....and I think wow, she was lovely, provided a nice speech and looked wonderful! Somehow, young people have become so outrageously hateful toward older people. I hope they realize, that if they are lucky, they will be old one day too!
I hear you all! I cannot abide being referred to as "cute." I am petite, have long hair and an appropriate weight. I get "cute" pretty often, as if it's a compliment from a total stranger. Or "cutie" - even worse. This would be patronizing even to a 25 year old woman, let alone a woman who is, as I am, almost 70 years old. Dealing with this is a full-time job. Most of the time I choose to ignore it, consider the source, and then move on. The numbers and variety of ways to be demeaned because of my age (and gender) are endless. Do write those comments if you have the time and energy. But I can't promise I'll speak up and be vigilant to help the cause. It's a tsunami! Honey and Sweetie are just as bad - who calls a 30 year old or 40 year old by these terms. The word for all this is "patronizing." And who wants to be patronized?
Amen!! And I hate the people who tell me that I'm not old -- as if there's some wrong with being old! Bette Davis said, "Getting old ain't for sissies." and she was right. I celebrate each day (although some days it's easier than others) -- 35 years ago ago the doctors said that if I lived the next 24 hours, I'd be in a wheelchair for life. I'll be 67 soon and I'm & as well as can be expected & no wheelchair. My neurologist has been with me those 35 years and the last of that excellent team. I tell him that I can't go until he goes so I can tell new nurses that I met him when he had hair. We both laugh.
A book by Susan Jacoby --
Never Say Die-The Myth and marketing of the new old age ----
Is a good read on this subject--
I heard every word you wrote as I read it aloud. If I have your permission I will quote parts in presentations I give to schools, over 50 clubs, etc. on the multiple facets of aging.
One young man came up to me after one such presentation (I always tell my age at the start of each presentation) and said: but you don't look 70!
"Young man," I said, "This is what 70 looks, talks and moves like for this elder."
I am not alone.
Of course you may quote this. I am flattered. And I love hearing reactions.
LOVED this post! I never understood age discrimination - the older you are, it should assumed, the more knowledge and experience you have!
We baby boomers sort of did this to ourselves: Never trust anyone over 30! Remember that? Prior to that time, older people commanded respect just because they were older.
Today we see older people being targeted with online scams, street muggings, and a myriad of other ways.
Several years ago, I accompanied my adult son into a Best Buy to help him buy a computer. The young salesman came up to us and said, "I see you're here helping your mom choose a computer!" My son, bless him, said, "I think you just lost a sale." I looked at the young man and told him that I'd been building, repairing, troubleshooting and testing computers and software before he was born. And we left the store. Don't take it! We may have started it, but we don't have to perpetuate it.
One of the papers I read (I forget which one it was) from the UK refers to old people as OAP. Old Age Pensioners. "An OAP was robbed last night." I can't wait for the reaction from the public if a newspaper from the US does this.
Hiring and firing discrimination based on age is illegal. Unfortunately it's difficult to prove which is why companies get away with it. This is something that we older adults need to fight.
Other than that, I think this post and most of the comments simply give too much power of older people to their detractors.
Why do you care what they think? Screw them. That's my attitude. I know who I am and I know what I'm capable of. So do you.
I couldn't possibly care less about being patronized or how I'm referred to.
Agonizing over it, feeling hurt about it, getting angry when it happens . . . all of this empowers the detractors.
Let me say it again: screw them!
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A news analysis
By BRIAN HAWKINS
December 1941 — World War II raged in Europe as Germany and Italy aggressively moved to exert their influence. France and Poland had been under German control for several months, Russia had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany and Great Britain was the sole nation fighting against the Nazi threat.
In the Far East, Japan, which had allied itself with Germany and Italy, had invaded China and advanced toward the island colonies of Indochina and Indonesia.
The United States, meanwhile, had pledged to remain neutral in the war, though America was providing financial aid and supplies to the British in fighting Germany. Japan had sought to maintain positive relations with the U.S., but its invasion of Indochina in July 1941 prompted President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to declare an embargo on all exports to Japan and freeze all Japanese holdings in the U.S. and U.S.-controlled areas.
After the U.S. then began supplying aid to China, Japan responded with a similar embargo and asset freeze.
Over the next several months, Japanese leaders began negotiating with Roosevelt, then-Secretary of State Cordell Hall and other key U.S. officials, culminating in a "peace mission" beginning Nov. 20, 1941, in which Japanese ambassadors demanded an end to the embargo, an end to Chinese aid and a demand the U.S. supply Japan with as much gasoline as it needed.
The U.S. refused, but made several counterproposals. Little did they know that Japanese military leaders had been planning an attack for several months — an attack on the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that came Dec. 7, 1941 — 69 years ago Tuesday — just as Japanese officials abruptly announced that all negotiations had ceased.
Involving a total of 103 high-level bombers, 129 dive bombers, 40 torpedo bombers and 79 fighters, the Japanese strike force took off from ships 230 miles north of Oahu, the island where Pearl Harbor is located.
According to a military timetable of the attack, the first wave of 183 aircraft began bombing U.S. ships at 7:55 a.m., attacking Pearl Harbor from all sides after splitting from an initial approach from the northwest. The first strike also involved an attack on other military airports at Wheeler Field and the Kaneohe peninsula.
Initially hit in the first wave at 7:55 a.m. are the ships Raleigh, Helena, Utah and Oklahoma, one of the eight largest ships stationed in the center of the harbor along what was commonly known as "Battleship Row." Six minutes later, a bomb explodes on the battleship Nevada.
At 8:06 a.m., a 1,763-pound Japanese missile hits the battleship Arizona, killing 1,000 sailors aboard the ship many now recognize as synonymous with the Pearl Harbor attacks. Two minutes after the Arizona is hit, bombs strike the U.S.S. West Virginia; four minutes later, the ship Utah sinks.
Just 59 minutes after the first wave of the attack began, the second wave of 168 Japanese aircraft attacks Pearl Harbor from the northeast. Japanese planes in this wave also attack Hickam and Bellows airfields and continue strikes at Kaneohe.
At 9:06 a.m. bombs hit the ships Shaw, Downes and Pennsylvania in dry dock, followed by the Raleigh two minutes later. The battleship California is in flames. At 9:20 a.m. a bomb passes through the dock alongside the cruiser Honolulu, exploding underwater and damaging her oil tanks and hull.
Just after 9:30 a.m., it appears the attack is over, and 2,403 Americans have been killed and another 1,178 wounded. Seven battleships have been destroyed and 15 others have sustained moderate to heavy damage. Some 347 U.S. military aircraft have been destroyed or damaged.
On Dec. 8, Roosevelt, in a fiery six-minute speech to Congress, asked for and received a declaration of war on Japan and its allies, Germany and Italy.
America was now at war.
Local headlines reflect shift to nation at war
Locally, Starkville and Oktibbeha County rallied behind the nation's leaders and the war efforts. A banner headline across the front page of the Dec. 12, 1941, edition of The Starkville News (the weekly predecessor to today's Starkville Daily News) read: "County unites for war effort."
That particular edition of the newspaper contained various items about the local response to call for action to support U.S. fighting men and women, including:
• A mass meeting of every local citizen to unify the community behind the war effort was called to "keep the community self-sustaining and alert" by the local Civil Defense and Red Cross chapter.
The meeting would set courses in first aid, nurse training and bandage making and other areas to meet needs of the war effort, with a room in the Hotel Chester opened to serve as headquarters for such work.
"It is extremely important for every patriotic citizen Oktibbeha County to be present at the meeting...," read a statement from meeting organizers. "If you want to do your part in helping your country win this war, please be on hand to learn what you as an individual can do. The help of every single person will be needed... Show your love for your country by offering your services."
• A brief report about "Oktibbeha boys serving in the war zone" listed the following names of the following locals serving in Hawaii and the Philippines at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack: Capt. Waller Sudduth, Capt. and Mrs. William Stennis and two children, Lt. Yeates Lucas, Lt. T.R. Perry, Capt. Fritz Weddell, Charles Castles, Ben Douglas, Wilburn Saunders, James Oley Dorset and Luke Williams.
The newspaper also called for notification if any names of those serving in what had been dubbed "the war zone" had been omitted.
• An editorial column called "Light Whines and Cheers" by Grady Imes was anything but light as Imes, in a fiery piece, condemned the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the Axis powers.
"No name is too vile, nor any term too severe to apply to the world's No. 2 bandit government, Japan. No government with a single iota of honor would stab another in the back without warning. The yellow gangsters took their cue from their master, Hitler. We are at war. Japan started it and we will end it," Imes wrote.
A week later, in the Dec. 19, 1941, edition of The Starkville News, numerous news items reported about the continued drive locally to support the war effort, including:
• A campaign by the local Red Cross chapter to raise $3,000 for the national Red Cross organization's war relief fund.
"The fund is acutely needed to provide for relief for civilian populations bombed from their homes by the Japanese and for those who are under the threat of enemy action the Pacific war emergeny or upon the continent of the United States. Funds also are required for the humanitarian work of the Red Cross for men in the armed forces," said Jesse F. Ricks, who co-chaired the campaign with Ed Scott.
• A volunteer center for civilian defense was established, with Mrs. George B. Hightower serving as county chairman.
"Mrs. Hightower will be in her place of business at the county library in the courthouse to register persons who wish to volunteer their services for any activity connected with civilian defense work," the newspaper's story read.


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Insightful, brings a ton of experience to the table.
Jody is the undisputed truth. Real talk. I'm glad I got him on board as an advisor before he runs out of bandwidth for anyone else: he's the type of mentor that can transform your thinking to a higher level.
Jody has incredible energy and despite running a multi-million dollar (and growing) company finds time to guide and teach. He's a remarkable person to work with.
Jody just gets it. He became an advisor to us and he literally is a force of nature that cannot be stopped. He goes out of his way to introduce you to his network, help you with almost any question you have, and really just gives a shit about you...which is pretty refreshing. Not only am I lucky to have Jody with us, but I am thankful and so appreciative that he is willing to help us out. Hands down, a truly good guy.
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I'm extremely saddened by the sudden passing of Jody. He was first a friend, then an advisor to @ShopInterest - Jody was amazingly helpful, always had a keen insight and helped our startup become what it is now. He was an entrepreneur's best friend, resource and role model.
Jody, Thanks for everything you taught me, shared with me and for your support to @shopinterest. My thoughts go to your family.
Jody was a mentor to me personally and an advisor to TalkSession, my company. He showed me how to cut through the BS and get to what really mattered - solving problems; changing the world. He was the best.
Jody was a great advisor to Viatask, he introduced me to key people and helped me better understand the industry. He changed my life and I couldn't thank him enough. We're going to miss him. RIP Jody.
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X Factor 2012: Will Tate Stevens and Carly Rose Sonenclar Sing a Duet in the Finale?
Tate Stevens has been a super-solid, formidable opponent to Carly Rose Sonenclar this season on The X Factor. Every week, the two have been ranked at numbers 1 and 2 on the leaderboard, and even though the standings weren't revealed on the semi-finals live results show, both Tate and Carly made it through to the finals.
One thing that has made XF fun to watch this year is that things change every single week. And it's not just the song choices that keep us on our toes — showrunners mix things up by throwing in group numbers, double performances, and surprise musical guests. So, what will the finale bring? We're not sure yet.
After the semi-finals show on December 12, Tate caught up with reporters to talk about his plan for the finale. On everybody's mind? Which fellow contestant he would like to be the gravy to his mashed potatoes in a duet.
As far as Fifth Harmony, goes, Tate referenced their performance of Ellie Goulding's "Anything Could Happen," saying a duet with the girl group "would be cool but it would be different! They'd dress me up as one of the cupcakes."
So, what about singing with the 13-year-old who has kept him on his toes this whole time? He seemed into the idea, saying, "I think Carly really is the one that I could because you could do those big duet songs. Because she's got such a powerful voice I could do a duet and we could wail away at it together."
As for other possible partners, it seems like the finale is when the show will pull out all the stops. So, will the country crooner get to sing with one of his idols? "[W]e picked a couple people. I asked for Garth, I did, and they said unfortunately he was not one of the choices." Guess we'll have to wait and see who picks up the other mic when the finale goes down on December 19.
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Fifteen years ago, just before the Southern Baptist Convention held its annual meeting in Salt Lake City (with the avowed intention of bringing Christianity to pagan Utah), I reviewed the materials that they had produced for training their delegates on how to confront the Mormon menace in its home lair. My essay was rather lengthy, appearing in the late FARMS Review under the title of "'Shall They Not Both Fall into the Ditch?' What Certain Baptists Think They Know about the Restored Gospel."
Here's a passage from it (complete with footnotes), in honor of today's anniversary of the assassination of the first prophet of this modern dispensation:
In the view of Rev. Wright, who is an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention, not even the murder of Joseph Smith was undeserved. He goes further, in this regard, than did the experts at the SBC's Denominational Summit on Mormonism, which was held in North Carolina on the one hundred and fifty-third anniversary of the Prophet's death. "Smith was killed while escaping jail," they said, untruthfully.240 Responding to some remarks made by President Gordon B. Hinckley, Pastor Wright notes that
the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum on June 27, 1844, didn't occur until after Joseph had fired upon the so-called "mob" with a pistol that had been secreted to him while in jail and had killed one man and injured several others.241
"Rage and persecution" may have followed the Mormons to Illinois, but the Saints of that day brought most of it upon themselves!242
Rev. Wright is wrong about Hyrum's death, which occurred immediately prior to Joseph's drawing the pistol.243 But he is almost certainly correct in his claim that Joseph's firing of the pistol took place while Joseph was still alive. His description of the events at Carthage represents an important and novel historical reconstruction, and it is vital that we understand it with precision. Apparently, Rev. Wright feels that Joseph Smith was obliged—though he was unjustly imprisoned and had not yet been tried, let alone convicted of anything, much less convicted of a capital offense—to allow "the so-called 'mob'" to butcher not only himself and his brother Hyrum but his two friends, Willard Richards and John Taylor, whose only crime was that they had come to visit the prisoners. (John Taylor was, in fact, severely wounded by "the so-called 'mob.'")
Rev. Wright's revised version of the events in Carthage seems to run along the following lines: The wily criminal lunatic Joseph Smith, who had remained quiet throughout his captivity, deliberately chose the very time when the peace-loving Carthage Greys—fully armed and with traditional blackened faces—were innocently gathered about the jail for their annual June 27th Militia Picnic. Frolicking with their weapons and calling out the death threats that customarily accompanied that grand holiday in frontier Illinois—it was a simpler time, and June 27th had not yet been commercialized—the proto-Gandhian Greys had merely been playing the venerable party game known among these gentle rustics as "Eat Hot Lead, Mormon Scum!" Then, wholly without provocation, Joseph Smith opened fire on the revelers, using the "pepperbox" pistol that Cyrus Wheelock had smuggled into his cell. Naïve historians, both Latter-day Saints and others, have always assumed that Joseph's action had something to do with the fact that his brother Hyrum had just been shot to death. (Presumably, Hyrum was killed by a stray bullet from a local hunter, or perhaps from an evil Mormon assassin.) Rev. Wright, however, cannot be taken in by such sophistries. When Joseph continued to shoot at them as they mounted the jail's interior staircase bearing a peace offering of cookies and punch, they had no choice. They killed him and his (already dead) brother in self-defense. It is true that they also shot John Taylor at least four times. But then, he had been very naughty to them with his cane, and needed to be taught a lesson.
240. King, "Mormon Summit Preps for '98 SBC."
241. Unfortunately, it is not likely that Joseph Smith really managed to kill one of his murderers. B. H. Roberts, ed., History of the Church (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1978), 7:103, indicates that John Taylor had heard of two deaths; see also Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985), 390—91. But see also Brodie, No Man Knows My History; 393; Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975), 217—20; Donna Hill, Joseph Smith: The First Mormon (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977), 415—16. I put the question to several leading academic experts on the history of the church, and the unanimous answer was that there is simply no evidence and no credible contemporary claim that Joseph Smith killed anybody. Justice, alas, was not done that day at Carthage.
242. Wright, "The Mormons' Trail of Hope," 7. Did Jesus deserve crucifixion? Did the early Christians deserve martyrdom? According to the New Testament, it was Peter who began the violence that led to the death of the Redeemer and continued in the persecution of the ancient church. See Matthew 26:51; Mark 14:47; Luke 22:50; John 18:10.
243. According to eyewitnesses Willard Richards and John Taylor. See History of the Church, 6:619—20; 7:102.


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I can get along with anyone. We'd be fine.
Short visit probably get along......even best friends argue so over the long haul both.
I would like to think so.
Good arguments are part of getting along well.
I dont argue so... unless you argue with yourself then we'd get along or hate each other in silence. Lol
Maybe both. I worked with an Austrailian Immigrant for several years. We got along fine. Some times we argued just for fun. We had similer views about life. He surely did talk funny though. :-)
I have no doubt that we'd get along fine.
I think you know the answer to this one :)
Wait- there are people that don't argue with you?
I do not argue, and you're a sweetheart. It would be great. :)
NedKelly: We would get along like gangbusters! You know this...Silly! xoxo
probably argue then get along :D
I'd probaby ignore you.
Depends on your view of me. I can get along with anyone.
Arguing that is for sure, but I have no problem with arguing, I am good at it, I like it! I wonder why didn't I become a lawyer, arguing for a living, such a good job! lol!
not so great- trust me. Or shall we argue about it?
HAHAHAHAHAHA why not =P
We would get on but start arguing when your yellow van came up in the conversation :-)
If u dont mind im using a broken english and bringing dictionary with me,so it would be ok..lol
I think we'd get along Ned.
Really??? I think we'd just laugh our ***** off.....
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YOUR Italian Bike Thread
Hard to beleive that Advrider has lasted all this time without an Italian bike thread.
Now we all know that the internet is chock full of pictures of beautiful Italian bikes that any fool can find, cut, and paste or link to with a "I always liked these" or "I always wanted one of these" or "I'm gonna get one of these someday".
But let's leave that for other threads, and post here only pictures of the actual Italian bikes you actually own or have owned. And let us know something about it: such as why you bought it, what you really liked about it, etc..
And naturally I'll start off :D
I picked this up recently, my 4th Ducati. Always liked the looks, love the story behind it, and how it evolved. I liked that it competed against my favorite bike (RC30) during the earliest World Superbike days. This is a good unmolested runner- not too pristine to actually go out and ride around without worry; and old enough that there's no performance image to try to uphold. They're selling for stupid money and seem a better investment than a CD (more fun too :lol3 )
Here's my other Italian; which I've had for almost 7 years.. Just passed 30,000 pretty much uneventfull miles. I went to look at it with little expectation of buying. A 20 minute ride changed my mind. What I liked about it was that it had a very engaging ride and I loved all the human-bike intersection and interaction points- something Aprilia does very well.
So, what'ca got?
Bought it new in 74, rode it for about 5 years... let it rust for 30 years.
Total resto 5 years ago with some embellishments.
Now a daily ride
I've always wanted a Ducati, never had the time and money to devote to owning one until now.
This is next on the list, just need to convince a friend to sell it to me.
I'll Play
This is my one and only Italian two wheeled girlfriend. It is an '03 999s. It is the near one with my brother's 05 999 in the middle and The owner of Desmotimes '03 999s (check out the CF wheels!). It's safe to say we were the only trio of 999's running through Southern Alabama that weekend.
This is my Laverda Jota. Bought it in 1992, basically it was handed to me on a silver platter, I wasn't really looking for one. I had gotten burned by a terrible Ducati ownership, and had swore myself off of Italia until I rode this beast. The pride of Laverda ownership is deep, and they are an easy machine to live with.
Meeting Mr. Laverda in 2005 and then visiting his estate in 2008 made me realize how special any Laverda is. Their robust build means they last for decades, and their rarity is only put to rest by the numbers of Bimota.
They are big person bikes, with big clutch, throttle, sound presence, visual presence. There is nothing subtle about Laverda's 180 triple.
Many thanks to my good friend Robert Smith for this favourite picture of mine.
I'll try to dig out a picture of my other Italian bike.
Here's my other Italia. What can you say about Moto Guzzi? Well, This bike really should have continued in some sort of way IMO, as a retro bike that it is. Look at the success of the lovely Ducati classic series, the Triumph Bonnelville series, and you can see that this segment has 'legs'. Moto Guzzi decided instead to go with the Breva, perhaps a better bike, but a sales flop, why??, because it's ugly. This V11 Sport is one of the best selling Guzzi's ever made, Why?? Cause it looks good.
Here's what currently clutters my garage:
The Stormtrooper!
My '93, which is probably my favorite. It has huge FCR carbs, coils, an open airbox and Ferracci carbon pipes...It sounds like the apocalypse! It snapped a head stud a few weeks ago and it's all fixed and ready to be picked up. I can't wait for Saturday!
This will someday result in my loss of my license...
This has kind of turned into a garage queen. I really need to ride it more. I'm looking for a Bimota DB4, and if I find one I may have to let this go...unless of course it will fit through my kitchen door and I can get it in the house!
Here's mine. Got it a little over a year ago. Spent tons of time on it, much to my wife's displeasure, and then had to put it away when I went to Afghanistan. Now been giving it lots of love, and money, since I have been back.
My Monster 1100... I was going to wait till spring of 2010, but my girlfriend talked me into buying it this summer instead. I am extremely please with it so far :D
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The one bike I regret having sold:
It was as reliable as any Honda I've owned and survived killing a suicidal deer.
Mine up at Lake Erie NY
http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/w...uro/photo1.jpgthis is the one i never should have sold,to you it's just another monster but i know different,it must have been built on a monday because it was the sweetest running bike with more personality than all my bikes put togeather.but they are small bikes and i'm no 135 lb. kid anymore.
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Santa's endangered reindeer need you this holiday season
By Gary Bogue
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 at 6:56 am in Caribou, Endangered species, Reindeer.
Sad news this Christmas from the Dec. 24 issue of the weekly e-newsletter of the Center for Biological Diversity:
On Christmas Eve, as countless kids across the world dreamed of Santa and his flying reindeer clattering across their rooftops, the real wild reindeer of the world faced a more dismal reality: population decline.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2009 "Arctic Report Card," 18 of the Arctic's 23 largest migrating reindeer herds are dwindling, and another study found that global populations have shrunk by 57 percent in 20 years.
Caribou crossing. Photo by Flickr user Phillie Casablanca used under a Creative Commons License
Many point to global warming as the culprit — it's likely that, like polar bears, Arctic reindeer are negatively affected by warming temperatures melting their icy habitat. Sub-Arctic reindeer — like their cousins the woodland caribou, in Idaho and Washington — are also harmed by habitat fragmentation due to logging, road building, oil and gas development, and other human activities.
But instead of letting it get you down this holiday season, remember there are things we can all do to help the reindeer. We can start by fighting global warming to make sure they have white Christmases — and icy winters — for a long time to come.
Learn more about the reindeer's plight from Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=trying-to-keep-rudolph-and-his-fell-2009-12-17
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Thomson was adored by millions of fans across America for scoring the points that earned the New York Giants the 1951 US National League Pennant, but his earliest years were spent in Glasgow.
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The budding star came into the world in Townhead, where he remained until the age of two before his family emigrated to New York in search of a better life during the Depression.
He grew up on Staten Island, where his father worked as a cabinet-maker, and on leaving high school in 1942 he signed up with the Giants.
Thomson went on to enjoy notable success with the team, but it was nearly 10 years later that he secured his place in sporting history with one of the most dramatic finishes to any game in living memory.
The Giants had trailed local rivals the Brooklyn Dodgers by 13 games in the national league, prompting the Dodgers' manager Charlie Dressen to declare: "The Giants is dead". A 16-game winning streak sent them soaring to the top of the table, however, and set the stage for a three-game showdown with their rivals at the end of the season.
With one game apiece under their belts, around 50,000 fans packed Manhattan Polo Grounds stadium for the final face-off. Despite falling three points behind, a last-ditch fightback by the Giants put the young Scot up to bat; the rest is history.
Thomson hit an astounding home run that left commentators scrabbling for words and fans clambering over one another in the stands. US soldiers stationed in Korea heard the play on the radio, and either for this reason or because of a headline in the New York Times the play became known – as in the Waldo Emerson poem – as "the shot heard 'round the world".
During a rare visit to his homeland when he was inducted into the sporting hall of fame in 2006, Thomson said to The Herald: "I guess I'm barely known here in Scotland". He remains, however, a legend, in his adopted country of America. He died at home in Savannah, Georgia, where he is survived by his daughter Megan Thomson Armstrong.


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November 18, 2003
Whitworth Presents 2003 Christmas Festival Concert, "God's Grace Is Forever"
The 2003 Whitworth College Christmas Festival Concert, "God's Grace Is Forever," will feature the Whitworth Choir, Chamber Singers, and the college's women's chorus, Trouvères, with the assistance of wind, brass and percussion ensembles. The concert program will feature readings and music in celebration of Advent and Christmas, including works composed by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mathias, Brotons, Öhrwall, and Whitworth Director of Choral Activities Marc A. Hafso.
The Whitworth Christmas Festival Concert will take place in both Seattle and Spokane. Following is concert information for each location:
Tickets may also be available to purchase at the door prior to the scheduled concert in each city. The Christmas Festival Concert is recommended for children ages six and older.
Marc A. Hafso, professor of music and director of choral activities, Whitworth College, (509) 777-4589 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Joan Lack, music department program assistant, (509) 777-3280 or email@example.com.
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MONDAY - January 12, 2009
RALEIGH - United States Attorney George E.B. Holding announced that in federal court here today ZACH LEON SLAUGHTER, 55, of Stovall, North Carolina, pled guilty before United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, to receipt of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(2).
A Federal Grand Jury returned a Criminal Indictment on October 15, 2008. In May, 2007, SLAUGHTER took pictures of a child at a church function. He later gave five prints of the photographs to the child's family. On the reverse side of two of the pictures the family noticed sexually oriented pictures of children. The Granville County Sheriff's Office was alerted and a search warrant of SLAUGHTER's residence was obtained and executed. While the search was occurring, investigators noticed his computer was on and the screen was showing child pornography.
A forensic examination of the seized computer was conducted and approximately 745 images of child pornography were found, including at least 50 images of victims identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Mr. Holding commented, "Child predators wait for any opportunity to exploit children. Many times I have warned that every parent, every responsible person, must help to protect our children. The family in this case became aware of a situation and took the appropriate action by notifying law enforcement when they found the pictures." The maximum penalty for each of the receipt and possession charges is up to 20 years imprisonment followed by up to a lifetime term of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. The penalty increases to a 15-year minimum and 40-year maximum term of imprisonment if the defendant has a prior offense related to child pornography, child sex abuse, and certain other sex offenses.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Investigation of the case was conducted by the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Granville County Sheriff's Office. Assistant United States Attorney Jay Exum served as prosecutor for the government.
News releases are available on the U. S. Attorney's web page at www.usdoj.gov/usao/nce within 48 hours of release.


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Teacher Education Transfer Events
HCC offers numerous transfer activities for teacher education majors. These events include fairs featuring a variety of neighboring four-year college and university representatives who work in teacher education, or workshops with one-on-one advising sessions. Students have the opportunity to gather teacher education transfer information right here on the HCC campus.
This session provides an overview of this teacher licensure exam. All important information about Praxis I test administration, registration, and preparation is reviewed.
Students in a Teacher Education Transfer Program must submit scores from a required basic skills test to the Social Sciences Division prior to the completion of the 30th credit hour. Scores from the basic skills tests are used for admission to four-year Teacher Education programs and are required for teacher certification in Maryland and most other states. Basic skills test options and Maryland passing scores are:
Teacher Education Information Session (Fall and Spring)
This session provides detailed information of the teacher education programs offered at Howard Community College. Information about each program, advising, and the transfer process are the focus of this session.


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Info & Phones News Reviews › Forum
Replying to: Net10 by SteveHRocks
Re: Net10
Tracfone isn't 25 cents/minute. They get cheaper the more minutes you buy. To get 10 cents a minute, you have to get a "double your airtime every time you buy airtime for a whole year!" card and a 400 minute card...which comes out to something silly like $160. But you could always stay with the $20 cards that give you 40 minutes. That's probably the most cost effective for the greatest cell phone provider in the nation. Scratch that. In the world.
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A Gathering of Doorways by Michael Jasper. 2008. 288p. Prime, $24.95Congratulations, Mike!
"In his third novel, speculative-fiction rising star Jasper offers a finely nuanced blend of fantasy and horror centering on a salesman turned organic farmer who confronts an unusual terror in the woods surrounding his land. Gil and his wife, Melissa, are already facing some serious disillusionment about their quixotic move to the country when their son Noah disappears into the forest under Gil's watch. Still reeling from the stillbirth of the couple's second child, Gil faces the grim task of not only finding Noah but protecting his family from the diabolical denizens of the shadowy world around and below their property that he dubs "The Undercity." Jasper shifts the narrative between Gil's trek into the forest, Melissa's battle with self-inflicted guilt while conducting her own confusing search, and Noah's more innocent encounters with the mythical, dragon-like creatures that live beneath the forest's earthen floor. Jasper demonstrates a sure hand in balancing his imaginative rendering of middle-class angst with the familiar supernatural ingredients of a 1980s-era horror novel." —Carl Hays, Booklist
The extremely occasional blog of Colleen Lindsay, professional nerd, cat herder, publishing optimist, and sartorial tragedy.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wonderful Booklist review for Mike Jasper's forthcoming
A Gathering of Doorways
4 comments:
- Joya said...
Oooh, "rising star"! :O I definitely agree with that review.
I already read A Gathering of Doorways, and completely loved it! I like how the review also mentions how he shifts the narrative between the three main characters, as that was one of my favorite things. :)
Congrats, Mike!
- October 16, 2008 at 11:38 PM
- Sex Mahoney for President said...
Twenty five dollars for a book? Is that because the dollar has fallen so low that it's now worthless, or is that the going rate for books these days? I've been out of the country for too long.
Sex Mahoney for President
- October 17, 2008 at 3:51 AM
- Haste yee back ;-) said...
Why is everyone "locating" underground?
City of Ember, Under City... and my WIP partially set in Deep World!?!?
Jungian synchronicity?
Haste yee back ;-)
- October 17, 2008 at 9:44 AM
- michaeljasper said...
Thanks for the shout-out, Colleen! I was really pleased by the review.
Hope to chat with ya soon... :)
- October 17, 2008 at 4:10 PM


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During the fifteen years since the bestselling first edition of Folate in Health and Disease was published, there have been thousands of new research studies related to folate and its role in health and disease. The second edition of the book uniquely bridges the gap between basic science and...
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set to come under the direct influence of a niggled Pluto
and its 'moons' this month. Traffic lights, rail crossing
lights and road crossing lights are set to act in an erratic
fashion as Pluto attempts to prove it has the powers of a
real planet and not just a cluster of large rocks. If Pluto
is a real planet it could cause absolute chaos this month,
but not disco dancing in which you point at things during
the 'performance', are well starred especially in any
Michael Jackson tribute or celebration of his life.
including hearty hugs and slaps on the back are perfectly
starred in moderate measure, as are kisses on the cheek but
only in Europe.
month your destiny is just like the wired netting in cage
fighting that takes the weight of the man being punched in
the head and body until he is knocked unconscious.
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Benchmark U.S. natural-gas prices rose over the past week, reaching the highest levels in over a year as colder weather in parts of the country led to greater demand, the Energy Information Administration said.
Henry Hub gas as of November 28 was $3.70 per million British thermal units, up 11 cents from a week earlier. On November 27, the price hit $3.77, the highest since September 2011. In NYMEX futures trading November 29, gas for January delivery fell 15.3 cents to $3.648, down 9.6% from $4.304 at the end of last week.
Total U.S. gas demand rose 8.6% during the week ended November 28 compared to the previous week, driven by a gain of 22% in residential and commercial consumption. Temperatures in the lower 48 U.S. states averaged 46.7 degrees Fahrenheit, about 0.4 degree below the 30-year average for the period.
Working gas in underground storage decreased to 3.877 trillion cubic feet as of November 23, a net increase of 4 billion cubic feet from the previous week. Inventories hit a record high at the end of October. Last week's supplies were 0.7% above last year's levels and 5.2% higher than the five-year average for that date.