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Oct 14 2008
Her New Hobby
When my girls and I drove to Austin to see my punk-arse sister, Wetsy, and her new baby, the three of us (my girls and I) did something together during our visit that I never in thirteen million, trillion, hundred years would have predicted we'd do. Without scrolling through to the rest of the story, see if you can guess what it is. I'll give you a few hints:
1. It's something that can only be done in a city.
2. It's something that requires getting up early in the morning.
3. If you don't stop and get coffee on your way, you'll be seriously bummed out.
4. It's something that gives you the chance to see lots of geeks.
Any clue yet? Anyone? Anyone?
5. It requires waiting in line.
6. It requires making a choice between black and white.
7. It requires committing to a contract.
8. I always thought people who do it have serious emotional issues.
9. Then I did it, and I became convinced that people who do it have serious emotional issues.
Have you figured it out yet?
Do you give up?
Are you sure?
What my girls and I did together was this: we got up early one Austin morning, stumbled out of our hotel, and drove to Barton Creek Mall, where we positioned ourselves in line outside the mall entrance and…waited in line for an iPhone.
There. I said it. I feel so ashamed.
Here's why I did it: the day before, at Wetsy's house, her tech nerd husband, Matt, told me the new iPhones had just been released.
"Are you gonna get one?" I asked. I didn't even care what his answer was. I was just making small talk. I didn't care about iPhones. I didn't have one, never would have one, and wished he'd change the subject.
"Nah—you can't get one right now," he replied.
Then I decided to get playful. "I'll bet I could get one," I said. I just wanted to see what he'd say.
Then Matt said, "I seriously doubt it."
Then I got mad. "Why do you seriously doubt it? Because I'm not a quote-unquote tech nerd like you, and I can't find my way around your smart, geeky, techie Austin crowd of tech-nerd elites and get myself an iPhone?" Then I said "tech nerd" a couple more times.
"Uh, no," Matt replied. "I just meant that I seriously doubt you can get one right now because they're in short supply."
I leaned back, stretched out my arms, and said, "Oh, I'll get one."
Mind you, I didn't want or need an iPhone.
I began doing my research because no one puts Baby in a corner and no one tells me I can't get an iPhone. I determined that in order to obtain one of these small, alluring devices, one needs to check the local Apple Store website the night before. Then, if one determines the Apple Store will have these small, alluring devices in stock, one must arrive at the store early the next morning because they disappear almost instantly.
"Arrive at the store early…" It sounded easy enough. Early, on the ranch, is our daily life, after all. I could do early. Still, I imagined those tech geeks would have turned in early the night before—no social life and all—and would surely be there before daylight. So I arranged for a wake-up call at 4:45 the next morning.
The call came, and after bouncing out of bed and putting on my best iPhone outfit, I gingerly woke the girls.
"Hey girls," I said. "Time to saddle the horses."
They moaned and kept sleeping, hungover from the previous five days of pure city bliss.
I gently shook their shoulders. "Hey girls!" I said. "Seriously–we've got to go work cattle."
They opened their puffy, squinty eyes.
"But…but…" they said. "But our cattle are back at home."
"Yeah, I know, but…but just work with me here," I said.
After ten minutes of negotiations, the girls were dressed and the three of us were out the door to Barton Creek Mall. I was energized, excited, a woman with a mission. My girls were confused. On the way there, I confessed my sins before them:
"Girls, I'm sorry, but Uncle Matt dared me to get an iPhone and I have to see if I can get one," I explained.
A long pause ensued.
Then my older daughter spoke up. "Actually, he didn't dare you. He just said they're hard to get. I heard."
"Yeah, well…" I said. "YOU SHOULDN'T EAVESDROP!!!"
We arrived at Barton Creek at 5:27 a.m. and found the entrance we needed. Not a soul was there, not even a car. Could we actually be the first to arrive? Was it possible that I beat every tech nerd in the Greater Austin area to the Apple Store that dark Sunday morning?
Afraid to leave the mall to get coffee or breakfast lest we return to a mile-long line, we stayed in the car. The girls went back to sleep. I drummed my fingers on the steering wheel and thought about Marlboro Man. I wondered what he'd say when I told him of our adventure. I wondered whether he'd laugh or shake his head or have me committed. I decided to blame my daughters. "They really wanted me to get an iPhone," I'd say. I love blaming my daughters.
An hour and a half later, a car pulled into the parking lot. "GET OUT!!!!!!" I shouted at the girls, awakening them from their slumber. I couldn't stand the thought of being second in line. Not after all we'd gone through. "RUN LIKE THE WIND!" I ordered…and the three of us took our rightful place at the front of the line.
The mall doors opened at 8:00. The Apple Store opened at 8:30. I left the store at 9:15 with an iPhone, a full bladder, and an empty, growling stomach. My girls left the store with full bladders, empty, growling stomachs, and a greatly diminished respect for their mother. I have to live with that pain every day.
Two and a half months later, I can report that I love my iPhone. As someone who'd never spent one second fondling, selecting, or caring one iota about cell phone features, I'm convinced there's no going back for me. Most importantly, I've become a text message sender person type, which I never was before. Mostly, I text back and forth with Wetsy, who reports via text message on the condition of her baby, the status of her milk ducts, and the state of her sleep deprivation.
My girls also love my iPhone, and since they know they'll never get one of their own because I live in the dark ages and don't think eleven and nine year olds need cell phones in order to breathe, they've had fun playing with mine. But my oldest daughter, I just discovered last night, likes the iPhone a little more than I ever could have guessed.
For the past month, unbeknownst to me, she's been responding to Wetsy's text messages any time I've been away from my phone—and when she responds, here's the kicker: she poses as me. I finally figured out how to look back at text message threads last night, and I spent an hour reading exchanges like the following:
Wetsy: "Elliot is nursing right now."
My Girl, Posing as Me: "Are you gonna eat your tots?"
Wetsy: "Huh?"
My Girl, Posing as Me: "Sorry. I get confused sometimes."
Wetsy: "Huh?"
Wetsy: "Elliot weighs 14 pounds! We just got back from the doctor."
My Girl, Posing as Me: "Your mama weighs 14 pounds."
Wetsy: "Whatevs."
My Girl, Posing as Me: "Are you gonna eat your tots?"
Wetsy: "How often did you feed your babies when they were 6 wks old?"
My Girl, Posing as Me: "I don't have any babies."
Wetsy: "Shut up! Seriously."
My Girl, Posing as Me: "I like Twinkies."
Wetsy: "Thanks for the help."
My Girl, Posing as Me: "No problem, Muffinhead."
Wetsy: "Oh my gosh—Elliot's head smells sooooo good."
My Girl, Posing as Me: "So do my feet."
Wetsy: "Ewwwww!"
My Girl, Posing as Me: "Sorry. I get confused sometimes."
Wetsy: "You're weird these days."
My Girl, Posing as Me: "There was one?"
Wetsy: "One what?"
My Girl, Posing as Me: "Are you gonna eat your tots?"
Apparently, she's been harboring this secret hobby for quite some time.
I think deep down, it was her own passive-aggressive way of getting back at me for the whole Apple Store incident.
1099 Comments
Chick's wife On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:39 pm
:rofl Oh my, you have trained her well! We reap what we sow.
Amy On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:39 pm
I LOVE MY IPHONE!! Did you do any applications on it? I wondered what I did without one. It's seriously attached to me. Oh here's a tip, don't drop it. Learned that the hard way! The pictures aren't bad either!!
KTBee On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:39 pm
Hahahaahaha – What is "are you gonna eat your tots??" I can only imagine…sounds like she has a sense of humor just like her momma!
So cute!
shelley On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:40 pm
I carried a watermelon.
Kari On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:40 pm
That's really funny! Good for her! lol
Kori On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:40 pm
That is totally adorable and hilarious. I like the repeated line of "I get confused sometimes." I kinda want one too… but won't because I have emotional issues about never buying any new technology.
Chick's wife On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:41 pm
Weird. Are we trying something new here?? Our comments appear to be starting at minus 399 instead of 1. Call me confused.
Amanda On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:41 pm
that is so funny. it's totally something i would do. hahaha
Chick's wife On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:41 pm
Okay. Uber weird. It changed with that last post of mine. I am blonde…but not blind, lol!
Erin N. On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:41 pm
I want an iPhone. Sooooo bad.
Melanie P On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:42 pm
That's freakin' hillarious! Tots! LMAO!
Jen On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:42 pm
Oh the fun of a preteen girl and their toys. good luck with that one, I have 3 and admit defeat….
Tracie On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:42 pm
That is a great story…and yea for you to get one I couldn't…I also have mastered texting after yelling at my kids for months..why can't they just call their friends if they want to talk…I love texting
OldNufftoKnowBtr On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:43 pm
What a lovely girl you have, and it seems she has
inherited your sense of humor too. (I sure wish this had spell check.)
Barb 1230 On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:43 pm
That totally cracked me up. Your daughter obviously has your silly sense of humor!
shelley On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:43 pm
Seriously, awesome story I NEVER could have pulled something like that on someone at that age (or even this age) because I have a problem: I would have not been able to resist the person somehow finding out. I would have left big hints like,
"So, have you figured out how to check your sent messages on that iphone yet? snigger snigger…."
You would have been like, "What? No – who cares."
Me: "You should really figure it out……giggle giggle."
You: "Why? I know what I sent."
Me: "Oh really, are you sure? tee hee…"
Etc. etc., till I finally would go, "Oh, all right! See, see! This is how you look at your sent messages! oh, look what you sent to Wetsy just last night!"
mohawkins On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:43 pm
You are too funny!
Sharon in WA On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:44 pm
What a hoot! Your daughter didn't fall far from the tree did she?
the planet of janet On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:44 pm
welcome to the dark side. we have cookies … and iphones.
yeah, i loooooooooooooooooooove my iphone. with a passion heretofor unknown in my world.
amy On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:44 pm
Oddly enough, those text conversations read very similarly to a couple I've had with my own siblings from time to time and most of us are over thirty…
Jenn On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:44 pm
Oh my….. she sounds just like you! I'm scared!
Tara On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:45 pm
It sounds like she is working towards having your sense of humor. Thank you for the laugh.
De On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:45 pm
That was really funny! I do, however, want to know the Tots story….
Brandi On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:46 pm
That is seriously funny! I've laughed hard and now need to pee…and go find me some tots. Still laughing…
Dana On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:46 pm
Those iPhones are hot business right now!
My husband and I got lost on our way to dinner one night and we just popped that suckah out and looked up the address.
Pretty nifty!
jadine On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:47 pm
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha! That's pretty funny.
I must say, though, that it's weird to read about you being here. I live here (Austin). I go to that mall. Weird. But good-weird.
dallas On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:47 pm
Thanks for that great story. I too own an iPhone and LOVE it…so do my boys!!
I love your girls…if I had girls, I would want them to be like yours!! Should you ever tire of them..I'll take 'em!! :0)
Mary M On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:47 pm
Oh my goodness. That was so funny…I was almost in tears from laughing at your daughter's messages. Hilarious!
MaryG On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:49 pm
I love my iPhone, too…I never could figure out my other cell phones but this ones a keeper!!
MaryB in Richmond On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:49 pm
I'm laughing so hard I'm crying! That's HILARIOUS!!! And … Wetsy never noticed? Never really wondered?
THAT's even funnier.
Julie On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:51 pm
Laughing right out loud, here!!!
Kay On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:51 pm
"Are you going to eat your tots" is a line from Napoleon Dynamite.
MNStacey On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:51 pm
The tots reference is from the movie Napoleon Dynamite.
Christina On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:52 pm
what is the deal with the tots?
Bush Babe On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:52 pm
Duh…. can I ask what an i-phone is?? Never mind. I'll google it to see what else I have missed out on living in the sticks!! We don't get mobile phone coverage so I guess it;s all moot.
Eating tots?? Does she mean something other than toddlers?? Please tell me she means something other than eating offspring!!
annie On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:52 pm
Gotta love Napoleon!
Sheila On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:52 pm
Someone inherited Mama's sick sense of humour…Lol…That is funny. Love the pics of your punk..She is a beauty.
Thunja On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:53 pm
that pic of her looking over her right shoulder is stunning
Cam On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:53 pm
I seriously have tears streaming down my cheeks. That is hysterical!
Sigga On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:53 pm
Hilarious! It's always the quiet ones….. :o) And it doesn't worry you that your sister didn't catch on?
Kelly "javagirl" On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:53 pm
*wiping tears*
Thank you for that much-needed laugh. That was awesome!!
Mairead On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:53 pm
Oh my goodness she is too funny!
The tots question is actually a line from Napoleon Dynamite – "Hey Napoleon – are you gonna eat your tots?"
Sheri On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:53 pm
That post made my day. I'm still laughing.
Tania On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:54 pm
That is too funny! Your daughter has a great sense of humor like her mother.
When is the iphone giveaway? I don't want to miss it!
Bush Babe On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:54 pm
What the hey is an i-phone? No. Really. Never mind. THat's what google is for. Another thing I have missed since moving to 'the sticks'.
And what is "eating tots"?? Tell me it's not to do with consuming small humans?? please.
AZ Princess On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:55 pm
It scares me that I had guessed you were waiting in line for an iPhone when I got to clue #5.
How lame am I??
As for your punk – she has skills!!
Kingsmom On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:55 pm
Thank you for the very much needed belly laugh.
Lexie On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:56 pm
oh, that's hilarious. hopefully your daughter will navigate her teen years with that humor rather than an "I-hate-my-parents" attitude that is so common.
I don't own an iphone because I'm not that tech smart, but I hear they're pretty darn handy!
Nadia in Louisiana On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:56 pm
ROFL! Your daughter is hilarious! I needed that laugh so much right now. I had a crappy day but now I am giggling, LOL. Thanks for the smile mini P-Dub.
Patty On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:58 pm
The funny thing is that Wetsy didn't even notice. I almost peed from laughing inwardly.
I see that it definitely runs in the family.
Lorrie On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:59 pm
So what did Matt think about you getting an iphone?
Cheryl in WI On Tuesday, October 14 at 6:59 pm
ROFLOL! When does PG get her own website? This little development could ensure your entire future is spent working together and she never goes away to college! PG will be a web designer! I bet OMSH would take her under the wing as a long-distance home school student!
MichelleSG On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:00 pm
That totally rocks. And nice buy with the iPhone. I got mine when the G3 came out. My friend bought it and gave me this first gen iPhone for free. No lines!
Cheryl in WI On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:00 pm
p.s. love the Napolean reference!
naomig On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:01 pm
Ya gotta be slightly proud of her smart-arse-ishness. Hilarious!
Melissa H. On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:01 pm
lmao! That is just too funny, I can see my kids doing that when they get older –
and I am completely with you about kids and cell phones, nope, nada do not think so.
Denise On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:01 pm
This had me rolling! hahahhaha! I love her. Your daughter, I mean. And Napoleon Dynamite. And I can't believe you were at Barton Creek mall which is only ten minutes from my house.
Jen On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:02 pm
What a fun kid. I also thought it was funny that your sister didn't notice.
Just Me On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:02 pm
That is sooooo funny. I hope your cellular plan includes unlimited text messages, because that bill is going to be horrible with a per-message charge.
Sara On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:02 pm
She's a riot! Poor Betsy, does she know what she's up against?
Deb On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:02 pm
Fun story. I'll tell you a little secret. I would love an IPhone as well. But I am waiting to win the lottery and then I will splurge and buy one for every member of my family.
I hope you enjoy the days and nights with your little IPhone…and no doubt that Betsy is glad that she can stay in constant contact with her big sister.
Wendi On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:02 pm
I don't know how I functioned before my iPhone- it is amazing, and keeps me in line in more ways than one. I have foster kids, and I have 29 episodes of Dora, Fraggle Rock, etc that I loaded on it for those 'just in case' moments. Love it! Have you loaded applications yet? Fun! My 15 year old saved her allowance, baby sitting money, etc to buy hers. She saved along time, and loves it. She rarely talks on the phone though- she uses the iPod and Apps the most. Fun again!
Crystal On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:02 pm
I have an iPhone, and I love it. If I don't have it with me, I feel naked. I even bring the charger to work. If you want someone else to text, just say the word. I bet we'd crack each other up. Do you have any apps? You should get twinkle if you don't have it already. And Hangman is great, esp if the girls like to play with it. I also love how your emails get pushed to it. I wish the camera was better… and that I was better at typing on the touch screen…Did you get black one or a white one???
Oh, and your Punk? She must like Napoleon Dynamite… I think that's where that is from.
Sara On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:03 pm
Do I feel an iPhone give-away on the verge?
Ivy On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:03 pm
Oh my gosh, that was HILARIOUS! My stepdaughter gave me the weirdest look, because I burst out with such loud laughter. I'm practically tearing up!
Are you going to eat your tots?
Tracey On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:03 pm
Nobody puts Baby in a corner! LMAO!
So, was Matt shocked or what?
Julie On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:03 pm
Huh-friggin-larious! Your punk is the greatest! I love how much she sounds like you. You've raised a great Napoleon-lovin' punk! I love Napoleon too!
Cece On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:04 pm
I can't stand a dare or semi-dare…I would have done the same thing. Loved the story. And your daughter is a stunner, I love her hair.
charlotte On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:06 pm
I love that movie! You should tell your gorgeous little punk that "The school nurse has like 5 sticks in her drawer"!!
Mary Connealy On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:07 pm
I'm going to go ahead and believe, because I NEED to believe, that your daughter is talking about Tater Tots and not small children.
Also, if your sister did not catch on that she was being punk'd she is very gullible. Which is a sweet thing, a trait of the innocent.
Limar On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:09 pm
OMG! The whole story is too funny!!
Your daughter is taking charge, just like the oldest should.
Have you told Wetsy it wasn't you texting her back? More importantly did you find out about the tots??
DJ On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:10 pm
Those IM's are hilarious! I have no idea what "eat your tots" means but too funny.
becks On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:11 pm
OMG! That is funny…it sounds like something I would have done to my mom. Congrats on getting the phone. Did you get a second one for a give-away?
The 6-S Ranch On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:11 pm
That's DAMN funny! I like her.
Kimberly On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:11 pm
This one might have made me laugh until I had tears streaming down my face. That girl is her mother's daughter.
Lisa in TX On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:12 pm
My 12 yr old just did the same thing recently….except she posed as her grandma! Grandma just got her first computer and everyone is emailing her, but Grandma has no idea how to even turn the computer on. She made the mistake of telling my 12 yr old her passwords, so from our house little miss has been replying to the emails on her Grandmother's behalf.
Uncle to Grandma: " Hi! How do you like your new computer?"
12 yr old as Grandma: " I like it a lot."
Uncle to Grandma: "I'm glad to see you on the computer!"
12 yr old as Grandma: "It's so cool. I feel hip and young! This thing rocks."
We caught on pretty quick but Grandma almost had a coronary thinking it would only happen to her that someone hacked into her email account. Kids!
Scarlett On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:12 pm
That is AWESOME! Your girl has learned from the Master. Ah the young grasshoppa!!!! P.S. iphones ROCK!
gingela5 On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:12 pm
Ohh I wish I could have an Iphone! Lucky you! At least you proved him wrong–that's the important thing.
margie On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:13 pm
and that's how it should be!! my 17 year old won an i phone, here in canada, before they were even available. his feet didn't touch the ground for weeks.
Stephanie in Nova Scotia On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:13 pm
This cracked both me and my very nerdy husband up! He had to go out and buy an iphone the day that they were released here in Canada. He is trying to convince me that I need one, but I think one iphone is enough for a whole family!!
FringeGirl On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:13 pm
Sooooo funny! She's got your sense of humor.
Kathleen On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:13 pm
LOL! So what's the story with the Tots?
Theresa in Alberta On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:15 pm
Number one daughter has inherited more than just your color of hair! she has your crazy/fun/wonderful sense of humor also. congratulations on learning how to use your iphone, i am still learning how to use my ipod
Niki from CA On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:16 pm
Oh my gosh I laughed my self silly. Thanks so much for that!!
Kim from Florida On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:17 pm
Too funny!! I love this post. She, btw, is beautiful.
Theresa in Alberta On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:17 pm
congratulations on learning how to use your iphone, i am still learning how to use my ipod
Melissa On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:17 pm
Oh she is dang funny!! ;o)
corrie On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:17 pm
I don't even want to know what 'tots' are!
and …. your texing must have some pretty unusual abbreviations if your getting reports the status of her milk ducts!
P.S. Ok ~ I must know …. what are tots?
Sadie On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:19 pm
This post needed a warning. I was drinking water. All was well until the Twinkies. And the muffinhead. And then I choked. And sputtered. Now my eyes are watering, my throat is hurting, and my children are concerned that they just apparently watched their mother attempt to drown herself while sitting at the computer.
Laura On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:19 pm
That is hilarious! I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard!
Nicole in Kentucky On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:19 pm
ha! that is hysterical! I love it, poor Wetsy…all lost and alone in motherhood needing her big sister…and I bet now craving some tots.
Kim On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:20 pm
Ok, I was laughing hysterically out loud during that one. You need to tell us what TOTS are!
Umm, she has your number!
christine On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:20 pm
I LOVE my iphone, use it for everything! My 9 year old son loves to watch utube movies on it. I think your eldest is a hoot and you are in for a fun ride in the next few years!
Cindy On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:20 pm
How funny.
Lee Anne On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:21 pm
That's hilarious!
grannymom On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:21 pm
Okay – I'm sitting her trying not to wet myself…birthing five kids and your stories don't help that!
Glass Dragonfly On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:21 pm
Oldest daughter just made my day!
Lindsay On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:21 pm
So funny!
Rosemary On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:22 pm
tots. as in tater tots?
My family thinks I've gone bonkers sitting at the computer laughing and snickering out loud while reading your stories……like mother, like daughter I'm thinking! Oh yeah. It's payback time!
OH-Ang On Tuesday, October 14 at 7:23 pm
That is too funny. I for one want to know what Matt said when you showed him..


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Judith Butler Comes To Brooklyn College
What Butler's polemic left out was even more blatant than what it included. It omitted history altogether, torturing a text and omitting context. Did it never occur to Butler that the divestment effort is the latest installment of the decades-old Arab economic boycott of Israel?
Equally egregious was the omission of context that is compulsory for those who have made the "Palestinian cause" the cornerstone of campus liberalism. The "occupation" they bemoan did not precede and cause Arab hatred and violence; it was Arab hatred and violence that led to "occupation."
But the crucial omission from this essay by somebody who had built a career by insisting on the political implications of language was precisely the political implications of the language of advocates of divestment. The Harvard/MIT divestment petition that Butler championed was promoted at MIT by Noam Chomsky, a person who would be rendered almost speechless on the subject of Israel if deprived of the epithet "Nazi"; it was promoted at Harvard by professors calling Israel a "pariah" state.
Butler was herself among the "First Signatories" of a July 28, 2003 "Stop the Wall" petition that uses the Israeli-Nazi equation beloved of nearly all denigrators of the Zionist enterprise (going back to British official circles in Cairo in 1941) in asserting that "concrete, barbed wire and electronic fortifications whose precedents…belong to the totalitarian tradition" were transforming the Israel "'defense forces'" and indeed "Israeli citizens themselves into a people of camp wardens."
So it would seem that, to quote Butler herself, "Language plays an important role in shaping and attuning our…understanding of social and political realities" – except when it happens to be the anti-Semitic language that demonizes Israel as the devil's experiment station, black as gehenom and the pit of hell.
About the Author: Edward Alexander is professor emeritus in the English department at the University of Washington and the author of a number of books including "The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal" (Transaction, 2012).
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One of Butler's more astonishing pronouncements:
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is.
understood to structure social relations in relatively.
homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations.
are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation.
brought the question of temporality into the thinking of.
structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian.
theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical.
objects to one in which the insights into the contingent.
possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of.
hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies.
of the rearticulation of power.
Prof. Rosenthal neglects to mention that it was for this piece of stupefying opacity that Judith Butler won her first prize in the Bad Writing Contest conducted annually by the Literature/Philosophy journal.
I must vomit my guts out even just by looking at that photo attached to the article. Otherwise, Well done Edwin Rosenberg!
I must vomit my guts out even just by looking at that photo attached to the article. Otherwise, Well done Edwin Rosenberg!

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On a limited basis, members of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program will help faculty design classroom-based investigations of writing and/or speaking assignments, activities, and interventions. Following the principles of the scholarship of teaching and classroom-based assessment methods, this new service is designed to provide entirely formative feedback and useful information to teachers who want to know more about the nature, effectiveness, and reception of writing and speaking in their undergraduate courses. Examples include explorations of students' processes, experiences, and attitudes concerning writing and/or speaking; the validity of certain grading methods; the effectiveness of different interventions such as peer response or certain kinds of teacher feedback; and the processes students use to complete a new or innovative assignment.
Applicants should be teaching an undergraduate course at NC State. Project ideas will be reviewed by members of the CWSP, and interested instructors will be contacted for an initial meeting or for further suggestions and refinements of their plans. All projects will culminate in a report to be published at the CWSP Web site; CWSP members will also assist in locating appropriate journals for publication of an expanded version of the report.
TO APPLY : Please fully explain your idea for an assisted inquiry, including the site (course), nature of the problem or question you want help investigating, and sufficient background information to help the CWSP determine the scope of the project and resources available to pursue it. Send your explanation to Chris M. Anson, Director, at firstname.lastname@example.com. This is an open call: projects are established on a case-by-case basis and scheduled according to resources, timing of the course, and other factors.
Current Assisted Inquiry Projects
The Influence of Informal Reflection on Formal Writing, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism
Archived Assisted Inquiry Projects
Anson, C.M., Dannels, D.P., & St. Clair, K. (2005). Teaching and learning a multimodal genre in a psychology course. In A. Herrington & C. Bazerman (Eds.) Genre Across the Curriculum. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.


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Stumbling through parenthood with Nicki Britton and Andrew Dansby
Monthly Archive for August, 2006
Cute pics and other truths
I caught a lot of guff for posting such an unattractive photo of the 'Nut, but hey, I just captured her in one of her natural stages. The books describe phases like "quiet alertness" and "active wakefulness," but here's how her days really go: 1. Awake and Hungry. 2. Awake and Full. 3. Awake and […] [Read More]
Sweet and other ironies
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Wildlife refuges and other dangerous places
Already a seasoned traveler, having visited New York at age 3 (weeks) and Austin at 2 (months), Hazel recently returned from her third trip, this time to New Orleans. Despite the blistering and humid climate, she was quite a trooper through tours, al fresco dining and a schedule that proved 1) That she's the most […] [Read More]
Lullabys and other disputes
Well, as promised, I served up a sampler of Rockabye Baby! for the kid. The CD I received included a few cuts each from Radiohead, Metallica, Coldplay and Tool. They're instrumental recordings in a kid-friendly lullaby style, which explains how the series gets away with including Nirvana's Polly on a CD. She seemed to react […] [Read More]
Idols and other firsts
Here's a list of Very Important Things experienced this week for the first time by Hazel Jane: 1. First out-loud laugh. Cute for now. But it has a hint of deviousness. We bet it'll be less adorable when it's directed AT us, rather than inspired by us. 2. First daytime thunder storm. Too young to […] [Read More]
Sleep patterns part deux and other mysteries
As soon as it started, it stopped. Sort of. The little monster went from all-night raging to peacefully sleeping six hours straight. Except when she doesn't, which is about every fourth day. Including last night. A tribute to our good parenting? Uh, yeah, that's it. The urge to have some control over the sleepless situation […] [Read More]


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Rep. Michael McCaul wins House passage of new incentives for pediatric drug development
The Creating Hope Act of 2011 was passed as a part of H.R. 5651, a measure that "reauthorizes various Food and Drug Administration user fee programs for prescription drugs and medical devices," according to McCaul's office. [Read More]


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August 5, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) The proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways Group Inc. faces another court review.
A bankruptcy judge in New York on Tuesday is scheduled to consider whether to approve the process by which American's creditors would begin voting on parent company AMR's Chapter 11 restructuring plan- including the merger.
The judge is also expected to rule on a Justice Department objection to a proposed $20 million cash-and-stock severance payment to AMR CEO Tom Horton.
Meanwhile, US Airways has scheduled a shareholder vote on its proposed merger with Fort Worth-based American Airlines.
The meeting is planned July 12 at the New York law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP.
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Teams: Holy Cross (7-3-1, 6-2-1 Atlantic Hockey) vs. Robert Morris (4-4-0, 3-3-0 Atlantic Hockey)
Dates: November 30 & December 1, 2012
Times: Nov. 30: 7:00 p.m.; Dec. 1: 3:00 p.m.
Place: Hart Center (1,600), Worcester, Mass.
Holy Cross Radio: WCHC 88.1 FM, Worcester, Mass.; Dominic Dipersia and Brian Gorsowski
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Live Video Streaming: America One Networks
Series Records (Holy Cross varsity games since 1966-1967):
With Robert Morris: Tied 2-2-0
Last Meeting: Holy Cross 1, Robert Morris 0 (1/14/12; Pittsburgh. Pa.)
First Meeting: Robert Morris 4, Holy Cross 2 (11/5/10; Worcester, Mass.)
At Hart Center: Tied 1-1-0
Current Series Win Streak: Holy Cross, one game
2011-2012 Series: Tied 1-1-0
HC TO HOST ROBERT MORRIS: The Holy Cross men's hockey team (7-3-1 overall, 6-2-1 Atlantic Hockey) returns to action when it hosts Robert Morris (4-4-0 overall, 3-3-0 Atlantic Hockey) at the Hart Center on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30-Dec. 1. Friday's game is at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday's contest is at 3:00 p.m. The Crusaders are in second place in the Atlantic Hockey standings with 13 points, while the Colonials are tied for sixth with six points. Last week, Holy Cross lost at Brown, while Robert Morris had a bye week as it lost to Niagara in its most recent game on Nov. 17. HC is 3-1-1 over its last five games and Robert Morris is 2-3-0. The Crusaders are ranked second in Atlantic Hockey and ninth nationally with 3.45 goals scored per game, while the Colonials are tied for third in the league with a 3.00 average. HC is tied for sixth in the conference by allowing 3.18 goals per game, while Robert Morris is tied for fourth with 2.75. The Crusaders are ranked eighth in the AHA with a .170 power play percentage and tied for sixth with a .800 penalty kill percentage, while the Colonials are 10th with a .086 power play percentage and eighth with a .771 penalty kill percentage.
HC OFF TO STRONG START: The 7-3-1 record is the best start the Crusaders have had since the 2005-2006 season when they were also 7-3-1 after their first 11 games. The Crusaders' 38 goals scored are their most after the first 11 games since they netted 42 in the 2006-2007 season. The Crusaders opened the season by scoring six goals versus AIC on Oct. 16. The six goals were the most by HC in a season-opener since the 7-6 win at RIT on Nov. 5, 1982.
HC SCORING 3.45 GOALS PER GAME: The Crusaders are averaging 3.45 goals scored per game so far this season, which are second in Atlantic Hockey and ninth nationally. HC is 6-0-1 so far this season when scoring three or more goals.
THE SERIES WITH ROBERT MORRIS: These will be only the fifth and sixth meetings ever between the two programs as the series is tied, 2-2-0. Last year, both games were played in Pittsburgh as the series was tied at 1-1-0. The Colonials won the first game by a 4-3 score in overtime on Jan. 13, while the Crusaders took the second game, 1-0, on Jan. 14. Two years ago in Worcester, Robert Morris won on Nov. 5, by a 4-2 score, and then the Crusaders won a 3-2 overtime contest on Nov. 6.
USCHO POLL: The Crusaders have received 15 points in the most recent USCHO.com Division I National Poll, which are the fifth most points of other teams receiving votes.
HC AT HOME: HC is 3-1-1 so far at home this season. The Crusaders went 12-3-2 (.765) last season at home. The Crusaders' home record was their best since going 10-1-2 (.846) in the 2003-2004 season. The 12 wins were the most at home since the Crusaders won 13 in 1998-1999 going 13-3-2 (.778). HC is 326-199-37 (.613) all-time at the Hart Center.
HOLDING ONTO A LEAD: HC is 5-0-0 when leading after the second period this season. The Crusaders are also 3-1-1 so far when leading after the first period. The Crusaders are 4-1-1 when scoring the first goal of the contest.
HC ON THE ROAD: The Crusaders are 4-2-0 on the road so far this season with wins versus AIC, Clarkson, Air Force and Sacred Heart, while they also lost to Air Force and Brown. HC went 8-11-2 (.429) on the road last season. Two seasons ago, Holy Cross went 6-6-4 (.500) in road games, which was its best away record since going 13-5-1 (.711) in 2005-2006. The 13 road wins is the school record.
WINNING CLOSE GAMES: The Crusaders are 3-1-0 this season in games decided by one goal. Senior Kyle Fletcher (Kanata, Ontario) broke a 1-1 tie in the third period with the game-winner in the 2-1 victory versus UConn on Oct. 26. Junior Adam Schmidt (Warrington, Pa.) broke a 2-2 tie in the second period in the 3-2 win at Air Force on Nov. 2. With the game tied at 3-3, senior captain Erik Vos (Carlisle, Ontario) scored the game-winner in the third period in the 4-3 win versus Bentley on Nov. 9.
HC WITH DEPTH: The Crusaders have had 19 players already tally at least one point so far. The Crusaders have had 12 players score at least one goal. Seventeen players have at least one assist so far this season.
HC ON ONE NETWORKS: All of Holy Cross' home games and Atlantic Hockey away games can be seen via live video streaming. The games can been viewed through One Networks.
GINN WITH A 7-2-1 RECORD THIS SEASON: Sophomore goalie Matt Ginn (Lindsay, Ontario) is 7-2-1 so far this season as his .750 winning percentage is second in Atlantic Hockey and tied for ninth nationally. He tallied a career-best 51 saves versus Brown on Nov. 25. On Oct. 22, he was named the Team Travel USA Atlantic Hockey Goalie of the Week. He made 75 saves on 78 shots on the week as he posted a .962 save percentage, a 1.50 goals against average and a 2-0-0 record. He made 39 saves and allowed two goals as the Crusaders defeated AIC by a 6-2 score on the road in the season-opener on Oct. 16. Ginn then tallied 36 saves and allowed only one goal for a .973 save percentage in the 3-1 victory at Clarkson on Oct. 20. For his career, he has a 24-10-2 record with a .907 save percentage and a 2.52 goals against average. His 24 wins are already third all-time in the program's Division I history. Ginn, who was named the HCA's National Rookie of the Month for February last year, was named the Atlantic Hockey Rookie of the Week three times, Rookie of the Month twice and Goalie of the Week once. He went 17-8-2 as his 17 wins were tied for second on the school's Division I single-season list. His 629 saves were sixth all-time for a Division I season, while his 2.42 goals against average was fourth.
ZYCH LEADS TEAM IN ASSISTS: Senior Evan Zych (Kilbride, Ontario) leads the team with eight assists. He is tied for sixth in Atlantic Hockey in assists. He is sixth in the league in points by defensemen and his 0.73 points per game are tied for 28th nationally by defensemen. For his career, he has 17 assists and has played in 66 career games.
FLETCHER LEADS TEAM WITH 12 POINTS: Senior Kyle Fletcher leads the team this season with 12 points, while he is tied for first with six goals and tied for second with six assists. His 12 points are tied for eighth in Atlantic Hockey and his six goals are tied for fourth. He was named the Team Travel USA Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week on Nov. 12 for his performance in wins versus Bentley and Sacred Heart. This was the third time he has earned Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week as he received this honor twice during his sophomore season. Fletcher led the Crusaders with two goals and four points on the week, while he was tied for first with two assists. On Friday, Nov. 9, in the 4-3 win versus Bentley, Fletcher scored a power play goal in the first period to tie the game at 1-1, while he assisted on the Crusaders' third goal. Then on Sunday, Nov. 13, in the 6-3 victory versus Sacred Heart, he gave the Crusaders a 3-1 lead in the second period and assisted on the Crusaders' fifth goal of the contest. For his career he has 29 goals and 39 assists for 68 points.
NUNN WITH NINE POINTS: Senior Brandon Nunn (Fairport, N.Y.) is tied for second on the team with nine points. His five goals are third on the team and 10th in Atlantic Hockey. He scored the game-winner in the season-opening victory versus AIC and netted a penalty shot goal in the win versus Clarkson. He has 28 goals and 23 assists for 51 career points.
SCHMIDT TIED FOR THE TEAM-LEAD IN GOALS: Junior Adam Schmidt is tied for first on the team in goals with six, while he is tied for second with nine points. He is tied for second in Atlantic Hockey and tied for ninth nationally with two game-winning goals. His six goals are tied for fourth in Atlantic Hockey. Schmidt was named the Team Travel USA Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week on Nov. 19 as he tallied three goals and two assists for five points as the Crusaders went 1-0-1 versus RIT. This was the second time he has earned Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week as he received this honor once during his sophomore season, while this is his third career weekly award as he was named the Rookie of the Week in the 2010-2011 season. On Nov. 17, he scored three goals for his second career hat-trick in the 7-3 win, while on Nov. 18, he posted two assists as the Crusaders tied the Tigers, 3-3. He netted the game-winner in the 3-1 win at Clarkson on Oct. 20 and in the 3-2 win at Air Force on Nov. 2. Last season, he posted a career-best 18 goals and a career-best 37 points to lead the Crusaders. He was second on the team with a career-best 19 assists. Schmidt earned second team All-Atlantic Hockey honors as he was the first Crusader to earn All-League accolades since 2008. Schmidt was also named the Hockey Commissioners' Association (HCA) National Division I Player of the Month for February. For his career, Schmidt has 30 goals and 37 assists for 67 points.
SOMMER OFF TO GREAT START: Freshman Castan Sommer (Shrewsbury, Mass.) has three goals and five assists for eight points. He is tied for fourth on the team in assists, while he is tied for fifth in points and tied for fourth in goals. Sommer is tied for third in Atlantic Hockey in points by rookies, while his 0.73 points per game are tied for 19th nationally by rookies.
STOCKTON ON FOUR-GAME POINT STREAK: Junior Shayne Stockton (Rochester, N.Y.) has at least one point in the last four games as he has tallied two goals and three assists for five points. For his career he has 18 goals and 31 assists for 49 points.
VOS & LINSMAYER LEAD TEAM AS CAPTAINS: Senior captain Erik Vos has three goals and five assists for eight points this season. He is tied for fourth on the team in assists, while he is tied for fifth in points and tied for fourth in goals. Vos scored the game-winner in the 4-3 win versus Bentley. He has 28 goals and 33 assists for 61 career points. Senior assistant captain Rob Linsmayer (Winnetka, Ill.), who has been a mainstay on the ice as he has played in all 125 games during his career, has 27 goals and 55 assists for 82 career points. He has the most assists and points of any current Crusader. This season he has three goals and six assists for nine points. He is tied for second on the team in assists, while he is tied for second in points and tied for fourth in goals. Last season, Linsmayer tied for first in Atlantic Hockey with five game-winning goals.
POWER PLAY POINTS FOR PINK: For the second straight season, every time the Holy Cross men's hockey team scores a power play goal in the Hart Center, money pledged will benefit PINK Revolution. PINK Revolution is an alliance of dedicated individuals with a unified commitment to those touched by breast cancer. Its mission is to support early detection and prevention strategies, fund clinical research advancements and promote survivorship programs in Central Mass. through its affiliation with the UMass Memorial Comprehensive Breast Center. For more information and to donate go here: http://www.powerplaypointsforpink.com/.
E-MAIL ALERTS: Get all the latest news and results on the Holy Cross men's hockey team sent directly to your e-mail. To sign up for e-mail alerts go here: http://www.goholycross.com/list-signup.
HC PICKED SIXTH IN PRESEASON POLL: Holy Cross was picked sixth in the Atlantic Hockey Association Preseason Coaches' Poll. The Crusaders received 74 total points. Air Force was first with a total of 112 points and eight first place votes, followed by Niagara with a total of 101 points and three first place votes. Mercyhurst was selected third with a total of 89 points. Bentley and RIT were tied for fourth in the poll with 87 points. The Crusaders were picked sixth, followed by Connecticut (65 points), Robert Morris eighth (61 points) as well as receiving one first place vote, Canisius (38 points), Army (30 points), American International (20 points) and Sacred Heart (19 points).
HOLY CROSS HEAD COACH PAUL PEARL: Paul Pearl is in his 18th year at the helm of the Holy Cross ice hockey program, and is just the fifth head coach in the history of ice hockey at Holy Cross. On January 21, 2006, with a 3-2 victory at Dartmouth, Pearl became the school's all-time winningest coach with the 168th victory of his career. Pearl has forged a 270-260-64 (.508) record at Holy Cross over 17 years and has been the man behind the bench in eight of the 10 most successful seasons in Holy Cross history, while he has had four teams post 20-plus win seasons. Pearl led the Crusaders to their first two NCAA Tournament appearances in 2003-04 and 2005-06, while he coached the Crusaders to their first ever NCAA Tournament win with the 4-3 overtime victory over Minnesota in Grand Forks, N.D., on March 24, 2006. He has been named the Atlantic Hockey Coach of the Year twice (2004 and 2011). In 2005-2006, Pearl led the Crusaders to a school single season record 27 victories, as the team posted an overall record of 27-10-2. Holy Cross also claimed the Atlantic Hockey regular season and tournament titles. During the 2003-2004 campaign, the Crusaders tallied a 22-10-4 overall record. Holy Cross swept the Atlantic Hockey tournament, and captured two shutout victories en route to the title. Last season, the Crusaders went 20-15-4 overall for the sixth 20-win season in program history. The Crusaders' 15-8-4 Atlantic Hockey record was their best since going 19-7-2 in 2005-2006.
NUNN NAMED A SENIOR CLASS AWARD CANDIDATE: Senior Brandon Nunn has been named one of 20 candidates for the 2012-2013 Senior CLASS Award as college hockey's outstanding NCAA Division I senior student-athlete for the men's hockey division. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition. The 20 candidates will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, Division I men's coaches and fans who will select one finalist who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition. Nunn has played in 87 career games with 28 goals and 23 assists for 51 points. Nunn has also been strong in the classroom as he has a 3.67 total grade point average as an Economics major and has earned Atlantic Hockey All-Academic team honors every season. Nunn started Power Play Points For Pink. All home power play goals raise money through pledges from the community. The money pledged benefits PINK Revolution. PINK Revolution is an alliance of dedicated individuals with a unified commitment to those touched by breast cancer. Last year he raised over $4,000 for breast cancer research. Nunn has also took part in Crusaders for Kids, a big brother type of program set up by the players to bring inner city kids to other sporting events on campus as well as in the community.


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CHICAGO - - Federal officials say the second of two bank robbers who escaped a federal jail in downtown Chicago has been arrested.
U.S. Marshals Service spokeswoman Belkis Cantor says Kenneth Conley was captured Friday in the suburb of Palos Hills.
Conley fled the Metropolitan Correctional Center last month with Joseph "Jose" Banks, apparently by smashing a hole in a wall at the bottom of a narrow cell window and scaling down about 20 stories using knotted bed sheets.
Banks was arrested without incident two days later at a Chicago home.
Surveillance video from a street near the jail showed the two hopping a cab shortly before 3 a.m. the day they escaped. They'd changed out of their orange jail-issued jumpsuits.
Jail officials didn't discover they were gone until about 7 a.m.
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The University of Miami on Thursday broke ground on a $47 million complex at its marine school on Virginia Key that will feature a giant tank capable of simulating Category 5 hurricane storm surges.
The project, expected to be completed by late 2013, will include two connected buildings, one devoted to hurricane and climate research and the other to the study of marine life.
It will be the first new facility added to the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in 30 years. Federal stimulus funding, in the form of a $15 million grant awarded in 2009 by the National Institute for Standards and Technology, is helping pay for the project.


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BARBOURSVILLE — Barboursville City Park will be filled with the smells of apple butter making and the sweet sounds of country music on Saturday, as the Saturday Night Jamboree puts on the sixth annual Apple Butter Fest iva l .
Scott King, of the Jamboree, said they feel like they have found a home for the Apple Butter Festival, which is in its second year at the Barboursville City Park Amphitheater.
In years past, the Apple Butter Festival had taken place at Ritter Park as well as Harris Riverfront Park in Hu nt i ng ton .
This year's fest starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 at Barboursville City Park Amphitheater with the Proctorville Mason Lodge F&AM making the apple butter.
Live entertainment begins at noon with karaoke. The Apple Butter Princess will be crowned at 1 p.m.
Karaoke will continue at 2:30 p.m., followed by the Harry O Trio performing until 3:30 p.m. when there will be a salute to Elvis.
At 5 p.m., The Jamboree will take the stage starring award-winning indie country artist Donna Cunningham, from Scioto County, Ohio.
King said they want to thank the Cabell County Commission as well as the city of Barboursville for working with the Jamboree to make the festival a success.
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Pete Collinge, an historian living in Ashbourne, talks about Barbara Ford, who ran a business in the town.
IT may come as a surprise to modern readers that women in Georgian England ran businesses.
But, in 1800, about 10% of Ashbourne's enterprises were owned or managed by women.
One owner was Barbara Ford (1755–1840), a 33-year-old widow.
In the summer of 1788, she took over her husband's malthouse in Back Lane – now Union Street.
With seven malthouses, Ashbourne was a renowned centre for the production of malt, which was used in the brewing and baking industries.
Malt was made from barley and involved a complex series of processes.
Producing quality malt relied on detailed knowledge of how barley was grown, when to harvest it, how long to soak it in water for and, most importantly, how to control the temperature needed to germinate the grain.
Barley had to be bought at market, customers supplied and the tax man kept happy.
So, how did Barbara gain enough knowledge to run a malthouse? The answer lies in her family background.
She was the daughter of wealthy farmers John and Margaret Wheeldon, of Cronkston Grange, near Hartington.
Her aunt and uncle, Ann and Joseph Goodwin, farmed the estate at Biggin Hall and her husband's family were tenant farmers at Little Park, on the Okeover estate.
Grain was produced on all these farms, so Barbara would have been fully aware of what good barley looked like.
She may even have produced ale at Cronkston, as this was a task often performed by women on farms.
The Back Lane malthouse employed about five people. It was larger than most malthouses and was able to process 400 pounds in weight of barley a week.
The cost of barley to the business could be enormous, however. In the mid-1790s, Barbara was spending about £750 a year on barley – but disastrous harvests in 1800 sent the price of grain soaring.
By 1801, the cost of barley to Barbara's business had risen to about £2,400.
Beyond her business, Barbara used her position and wealth to support the interests of the town.
With grain prices rising, it was widely suspected the price paid for it at Ashbourne market was being fixed and, worse, the market was being brought into disrepute by unscrupulous people selling adulterated grain and short weights.
In September 1800, Barbara – along with 41 other residents – formed a society to prosecute people found to be cheating customers in the market.
They acted quickly and, in the same month, a man was fined £5 for selling half-a-stone of adulterated flour.
Barbara was also a founder and patron of the Ashbourne Female Friendly Society in 1806, even though she was too old to be admitted as a member – the upper age limit was 40. Working women paid weekly into this fund and, in times of need – such as childbirth, illness and death – it helped them out.
So, as well as running a business, employing people and protecting the town's business interests, Barbara helped other women in the community.
Of all Barbara's skills, perhaps she was best at financial management.
In 1809, she negotiated a marriage settlement – like a pre-nuptial agreement – for her daughter, Mary.
Barbara arranged for Mary to have £1,000 for her own use. This meant Mary's husband could not have access to the money.
In return, Mary gave her mother all the property she had inherited when her father died, including the malthouse.
When Barbara died in 1840, all the property was returned to Mary.
Mary also inherited £9,000 in cash – about £400,000 in today's money.
In Barbara, we can see that a woman's place in Georgian Ashbourne was far from just being in the home.
She played an important part in creating the society in which she lived.


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"T" ruth. The way human beings and language work, 'truth,' is a matter of abduction as much as it is a matter of deduction or induction.
We can get caught on the sticky paper of language. For example;
"The following statement is true.
The statement above is false."
The brilliant English anthropologist Alfred Gell, who sadly died too soon, but who wrote "The Technology of Enchantment, The Enchantment of Technology," used principles of abduction (as developed by American polymath Charles Pierce), to explain the illogical, yet real (truthful) relationships human beings develop in their cultural and social webs. Kamikaze pilots, anorexics, and business decisions I think may be explained better through abduction than other processes of logic.
Living together so illogically as we do, argues that empathy doesn't work. Locked into our own consciousness, we all share values, attitudes, and beliefs which keep us together. Technology development and use is intimately connected to the values of the individual, society, or cuture. The chinese made fire crackers with gun powder and although a moveable type printing press was developed in Asia 500 years before Guttenburg, the impact was not nearly as significant. [Comment] [Permalink]


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National Weather Service meteorologist Charles Aldrich in Lubbock said Wednesday that the dust was lifted into the air ahead of a fast-moving cold front that reached the city, already more than 1.5 inches behind on precipitation this year as drought lingers. Aldrich says wind gusts reached 50 miles per hour.
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Headed back to class: Adult education in demand in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH — Trisha Papa, a 23-year-old mother of two, has dreams of becoming a preschool teacher.
Last week, with the help of the Scarborough Adult Education program, she took a big step closer to realizing her dream: Papa passed the math portion of the General Educational Development test.
"I'm terrible at math, but they made it pretty easy for me," she said.
Papa worked one on one with an adult education tutor to brush up her skills before taking the test. She also took other classes in the GED program, including history, reading, and writing. The entire process took her six months.
"The support was overwhelming. I would recommend it to everybody. My experience was great," Papa said.
Papa is one of many Scarborough residents who take advantage of the variety of programs available through the Adult Education Department. Jo Anne Sizemore, the assistant superintendent of schools and director of the adult education program, estimated that 650 people take advantage of the diverse program offerings each year.
"We've been trying to expand our offerings," Sizemore said. "We've had a lot more interest lately."
The department is different than some in the surrounding area, because Scarborough's programs are run and funded through the schools, rather than the town. This means the correlation between high school students and the Adult Education Department is nearly seamless.
Sizemore said between 55 and 85 high school students take advantage of the diploma classes, which can help struggling students earn enough credits to graduate with their class.
As the economy continues to stutter, many people are looking to further their education and make themselves more marketable. As a result of increased interest, the budget for the adult education program has steadily increased, from nearly $82,000 in 2008 to a proposed budget of more than $110,000 for fiscal 2011. The increase is almost entirely to cover teacher salaries and expanded programming.
"Next year we're offering Chinese and we're hoping to have a pro-engineering class. High school students interested in going to school for engineering might be interested in that," Sizemore said.
She said the school is also hoping to be able to offer a certified nursing assistant course, something she said many people have expressed interest in.
Scarborough's adult ed program is not just about academic classes. This semester, residents could take classes in encaustic painting, guitar lessons, sewing and landscape design. There are classes in more serious topics as well, including a variety of computer and software classes, boating safety, an introduction to Medicare, and even classes for parents about keeping children safe online.
Most of the classes cost a small fee, generally between $10 and $90, however, the GED testing and tutoring are free for Scarborough residents. Classes sponsored by the Southern Maine Agency on Aging are also free.
Sizemore said the department works with instructors to determine a fee that will cover the school's facilities and equipment costs as well as the instructor's salary. Classes with fewer than five students do not run.
Nicole Marceau, who leaves her teaching job at Scarborough Middle School at the end of the school day to teach a math lab for adult education students, said she loves the opportunity to work with a diverse group of students.
"Math lab is different than traditional classes," Marceau said. "It's really a self-directed class."
Marceau, who has taught for the program for six years, has students in her class who are struggling in their traditional high school classrooms and need more one on one attention or additional credits to graduate. She also has students who are studying to pass the community college entrance exams or going for GEDs. She said the biggest challenges for the students are not in the classroom, but at home.
"It's really the economic piece. I had one student who was 45 minutes late because he had to walk two hours to get to class. I had another student whose parents work out of state, so she has to watch her three young siblings all night. They come in with a lot of baggage," she said.
However, for Marceau, that's what makes the classes so important. Teaching students basic math skills that they can apply to real world experiences, such as how to calculate a tip, is something she has come to enjoy.
"A lot of them have hated math all their lives," she said. "This makes math not something awful for them. This is definitely something I'll continue doing."
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Have you hugged your agricultural scientist today? Considering that national and multinational corporations are leaving the St. Louis area like popcorn from a fire, it's time to appreciate the much-maligned Monsanto, one of the few multinational corporations to still call St. Louis home. Monsanto, which is controlled by Peapack, N.J.-based Pharmacia Corp., not only funded the new research center near the Missouri Botanical Garden on Vandeventer Avenue, it also sponsors global programs designed to help Third World nations feed themselves, programs such as the Cassava Project. In Africa, nearly half the cassava crop is lost to disease. Monsanto scientists in St. Louis and Nairobi, Kenya, are studying ways to protect it.


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SOCHI, Russia (AP) - NBC's Bob Costas plans to make his return to NBC on Monday after being off the air for a week with an eye infection.
NBC said Sunday that "Today" host Matt Lauer will sub for Costas one last time on NBC's Sunday night telecast, and that Costas is preparing for his return in prime-time Monday.
The long-time Olympics host started duty in Sochi with one eye reddened from an infection that he hoped would clear up quickly. Instead, it spread to his other eye. It made his vision sight blurry and it was difficult for him to work, and his red eyes were a popular topic on social media.
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If you're having a nice night with mates and there's good wine and some conversation happening then I think this is a lovely thing to bring out a few hours after dinner. It's like a sorbet, but without the work. Fiery chilled grappa, good-quality chocolate and delicious frozen grapes are a great little combo that show you care and you've made a bit of effort. You could either use dark chocolate or a mixture of different flavours, depending on what you fancy.
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MethodPut your bottle of grappa and the grapes in the freezer about 2 to 3 hours before you want to serve them. Right before serving; give your bars of chocolate a good whack against the counter to break them up into large chunks.
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Waynflete girls' lacrosse thinking title again; Portland also qualifies for postseason
Seemingly since the beginning of time (OK, since the beginning of girls' lacrosse in the state of Maine), the month of June has belonged to the Waynflete Flyers.
There's a very good chance that trend will continue in 2009 as this year's Waynflete team was as dominant as any in the school's storied history.
It took the Flyers 12 games to get a test and they held off host Yarmouth, 8-6, to cap a 12-0 regular season last Monday. Waynflete long ago wrapped up the top seed in the Western Class B Heal Points and is an overwhelming favorite to win the region and advance to the state final for the 10th time in the 12 years that the Maine Principals' Association has overseen the sport.
The Flyers open postseason play Saturday when they host either No. 4 Greely (4-8) or No. 5 Falmouth (4-8) in the semifinals.
Portland was the only other local team to make it to the playoffs. The Bulldogs went 6-6 this year and finished eighth in Western A. Portland hosted No. 9 South Portland (4-8) in the preliminary round Tuesday (too late for print).
Cheverus (4-8), Deering (2-10) and McAuley (2-10) all failed to qualify for the postseason.
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The Waynflete juggernaut won the Class B state title a year ago and was simply transcendent this spring. The Flyers won their first 11 games by a composite 155-42 score, then answered Yarmouth's challenge to wind up 12-0 for the fourth time in program history (Waynflete went on to win state titles in perfect fashion in 1998 and 2005 and lost to Yarmouth in the state game in 2006).
"I had no idea we would do this," Waynflete coach Cathie Connors said. "It was awesome to have a close game against Yarmouth."
The Flyers had no trouble with their potential semifinal foes, handling visiting Falmouth 16-7 on May 1 and downing visiting Greely 14-2 10 days later. Waynflete will have had 11 days off before it takes the field Saturday, but a scrimmage with longtime rival and defending Western A champion Kennebunk figures to help the cause.
"We're treating every game like it's the state championship," Connors said. "Being undefeated makes it a little more challenging."
The Flyers have no playoff history with the Yachtsmen, but have a ton with the Rangers, meeting them on eight prior occasions and winning seven times, including a 16-5 triumph in last year's regional final.
Portland went 6-6 this season, the same mark it had in 2008. The Bulldogs earned the No. 9 seed and hosted a South Portland team they beat 7-6 at home May 19. The teams had no prior playoff history.
If victorious, Portland would visit top-ranked Gorham (12-0) in the quarterfinals Thursday. On May 15, the Bulldogs lost 12-6 at home to the Rams, a team they've never met in the postseason.
The semifinals are Saturday and the regional final round is Wednesday, June 17, with games played on the field of the highest remaining seed. The Class A Final is Saturday, June 20 at 12:30 p.m. The Class B championship game is also June 20, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Both games are at Fitzpatrick Stadium.
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For all the month of January 2013, one of Paris's most charming parks, the Jardin d'Acclimatation is offering free entry every Monday. While guests staying at the Hôtel de la Tour Maubourg during this time are lucky to be able to take advantage of this offer, guests staying in Paris during the month of February will have their chance to visit for free as well.
This is because on Wednesday, February 13, 2013, the Jardin d'Acclimatation is also opening its doors to visitors free of charge. That day, the park is organizing a large parade to celebrate the Carnaval. While the huge Carnaval de Paris is taking place on the previous Sunday, February 10, the Jardin's parade will allow families to have their very own event. Free entry is offered only to those in costume, so parents and children should make sure to be appropriately dressed up.
The parade will march through the park until participants reach the small farm in the Jardin. There, participants will be able to enjoy hot choclate and candy, a delicious reward for their efforts.
For those who cannot get enough of parades, the main event — the Carnaval de Paris — begins at 2 p.m. at place Gambetta, which is located in the 20th arrondissement. This parade, which is organized around the theme "The World of Toys," will go through several arrondissements of Paris, including the 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th.
As for those who want to experience more of the Jardin d'Acclimatation, they can explore the park's train ride, enchanted river, butterflies and poney rides whenever they want. In the springtime, the park will open a new wooded area intended for walks, outdoor games and picnics.
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FOLLOWING a roaring success with stand up comedy events, a Swadlincote-based events company are branching out into live music.
The Comedy Lodge opened its doors at Swadlincote Ski Centre over three years ago and with its friendly and lively audience it is now a favourite spot for comedians to appear.
The Comedy Lodge continues to host monthly comedy nights at the ski centre on the first Friday of each month and hopes to launch The Comedy Lodge XL in the near future.
Craig and Melanie Bennett met while studying performing arts at Burton College alongside students Paddy Considine and Shane Meadows.
They have worked both front of house and backstage in the West End and are using that experience as part of the team at the Comedy Lodge and now the Live Lodge.
Craig said: "I have always enjoyed being a part of hosting events – whether it's a large scale West End musical or a one man acoustic set in the back of a pub.
"I get a huge adrenalin rush and sense of achievement from setting the event up and watching people enjoy themselves."
The Bennett's are joined on the team by John Richardson and South Derbyshire District Council employee Gareth Evans, who admitted to a passion to live music.
He said: "I've always loved listening to music and seeing bands play live.
"Now to be on the other side of the stage, liaising with the artists, being involved in the whole planning of these live music events is giving me an enormous amount of pleasure."
The Live Lodge kicks off with its first night of live music at the Ski centre on Monday, June 24 with The Spitfires live, before on Friday, June 28 when the Lodge heads to the Melbourne Assembly Rooms to stage Noasis.
The events company, which includes the Live Lodge and the Comedy Lodge, is currently nameless and people are being asked to suggest names by emailing email@example.com with the winner getting a year's free membership.


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Overhead Mics?
So I'm just starting to build up my mic collection to mic my kit. I've got an SM57 on the snare, a D6 on the kick, and an Apex 540 as kind of a close to the kit room mic. I'm looking to pick up a pair of overheads, but need some advice as to which ones to buy. My budget is around $700, give or take. Also, some tips on placement would be helpful. X/Y? 2 feet apart? Let ne know me know what's better/what you prefer.
I play metal if that helps at all.
Thanks in advance
Re: Overhead Mics?
Well i will go for the akg 414`s maybe you can find them on ebay ,i have them for about 400 $ pr one ,it maybe over your buget but they keep value .
And they are for super for studio,live,vocals,overhead,.
So when you dont need them anymore you get still a good price for them.
good luck
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