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Cover Your Eyes—Pubes! and Other News
July 15, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Ninety-eight years ago this month, Edith Wharton published Summer, a steamy novella "with a plotline that includes sex outside of wedlock, an unplanned pregnancy, and a truly disturbing relationship between a teenage girl and her guardian." It was not well reviewed.
- Nor, apparently, was When Harry Met Sally, which, though it eventually ascended into the rom-com pantheon, was widely dismissed when it came out twenty-five years ago. Terrence Rafferty wrote, "The debate, of course, is too shallow to engage us, but they might have tried providing a little plot … When Harry Met Sally positions itself comfortably in the middle of nowhere and casts knowing directions in all directions."
- On Virginia Woolf's conception of privacy: "Many people accept the idea that each of us has a certain resolute innerness … What interested Woolf was the way that we become aware of that innerness. We come to know it best, she thought, when we're forced, at moments of exposure, to shield it against the outside world."
- Today in prudery: in London, the Society of Women Artists' annual exhibition featured a portrait by Leena McCall, which depicted—trigger warning!—a bit of pubic hair. But don't worry! Calm down! The painting was summarily removed because it was "pornographic" and "disgusting."
- In the nineties, Prodigy was one of the most successful Internet companies around, an "interactive personal service" that finally went belly-up in 1999, taking with it "the written record of a massive, unique online culture, including millions of messages and tens of thousands of hand-drawn pieces of digital art." Now one man has recovered some of that early Web culture.
The Origins of Barbecue, and Other News
May 5, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- The secret libraries of New York. (None of them are technically secrets, but "the comparatively less well-known libraries of New York" doesn't have the same ring to it.)
- "A surveillance society … threatens our interiority, our right to a private self that ensures we can never be fully transparent, to others or to ourselves. In a culture driven to render us ever more transparent to one another, literature and art may be among the few spaces in which to keep hold of this understanding of the private self."
- On the disappearance of spectacular cinema: "As the bulk of filmmaking has shifted away from studio productions and virtually all movies except for franchises have become, in effect, independent films, movies have fallen into conflicting extremes of artifice and of reality, and the idea of reality has become a sort of critical cult."
- "The first indigenous tribes Christopher Columbus encountered on the island he named Hispaniola had developed a unique method for cooking meat over an indirect flame, created using green wood to keep the food (and wood) from burning. Reports indicate that the Spanish referred to this new style of cooking as barbacoa: the original barbecue."
- These statues are very, very, arrestingly large.
April 24, 2014 | by Sadie Stein
Is there a song about city life more evocative than "Up on the Roof," the Drifters' 1963 hit? In 1980, The Illustrated History of Rock and Roll said, "From the internal rhyme of 'stairs' and 'cares' to the image of ascending from the street to the stars by way of an apartment staircase, it's first-rate, sophisticated writing." All true, but the appeal is emotional, visceral, too.
Many years ago, I used to occasionally babysit for a little boy who sported a diaper until an advanced age. When he had to go to the bathroom, he would scream, "PRIVACY!" and everyone would have to vacate whatever room he was in.
That was weird, in retrospect. But I sort of envy him it—not the diaper, but the ability to magically invoke solitude. Maybe I am extra aware of it because I am currently visiting with my parents, and they have a tendency to shout to each other between floors, and I have a tendency to regress, and suddenly, just as when I was a teenager, all I want is to have some space of my own, where I can read, and think, in private. Read More »
Bad Call: Meditations on the Pocket Dial
September 25, 2013 | by Abigail Deutsch
My acquaintances rarely call me, but their pockets and purses ring me up faithfully. So it is for the Abigails and Aarons, the Abdullahs and Aaliyahs, A. A. and AAA—and one mustn't forget the Yaschas and Yankels, the Xenas and Zinos. We alphabetical extremists, we who crown and conclude your contact lists: we aren't a call away so much as a few unintended nudges. Perhaps your finger, seeking lipstick, flicks the "Contacts" key, and your phone highlights the earliest entry—dear old Abelard!—and your knuckle strikes "Call." Perhaps, in the thick of all that accidental action, your pinky pokes the "Up" button, taking you to the list's final entry: then it's cousin Zabrina you've piped into your life.
Not to alarm you; not to suggest that, at this very minute, an army of Abners and Zilpahs are listening to their cell phones with unseemly interest, picking up on secrets you had never meant to share. No, it's far more likely we're hearing whish-whoosh, whish-whoosh: the song of your stride.
Is there anything quite like the pocket dial? Does any other form of social intercourse invite us—actually, mandate us—to spy on our acquaintances?
Mandate? you ask. Yes, mandate, at least for a few moments. "Hello?" we say, and listen. "Hello?" we say again. And hear the background music of our friends' lives: the slamming doors, the roaring traffic, the whish and the whoosh. Where is he walking? we wonder. Why is she shouting? And we never find out. Unless, of course, we keep listening.
Which I don't. Hardly ever. Only under duress. When, for instance, years ago, the enigmatic and taciturn youth I had recently started dating called me while he was catching up with his mom. This isn't invasion, I told myself guiltily, as I noted his thoughtful inquiries and nodded with approval. This is research. This is good for the team. Read More »


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Phillips Phunny: "Humbug – The Christmas Carol Supercut"
December 5, 2012 4:59 AM
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Someone put together a supercut of every time someone says "Humbug," in all 32 adaptations of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
This piece might make you feel little like "Scrooge" this holiday, but it's still pretty funny.
It's every "Humbug," in all 32 adaptations of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
They even include Scrooge McDuck!


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Question and answer details
|Nasir Danzaria
|As-salamu `alaykum. I am one of the Daa`is in my area and I want to know more about the rules of doing Da`wah and how to achieve a successful Da`wah. Jazaka Allah khayran.
|Hatem al-Haj
Wa `alaykum as-salamu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Indeed, a good daa`i (caller to Islam) should, first, comply with the rulings of Shari`ah to which he is calling people, as calling by conduct and behavior is much more effective than calling by voice.
Shedding light on the rules a good daa`i should follow, Dr. Hatem Al-Hajj, Dean of Shari`ah Academy of America, stated,
All praise be to Allah,
1- The first advice is to observe Allah in all you say and do.
2- You should lower the wing of humbleness to your brothers and never disregard their counsel and advice... Consult them frequently!
3- Don't answer any question unless you are very confident of the answer, and make it clear to your audience that they should not always expect spontaneous answers. Al-Mirwazi said that he heard Imam Ahmad several times saying, "I don't know", even though he knew all of the opinions pertaining to the matter... (He probably was not sure which one is strongest.)
4- Don't ever rule out the possibility that your opinion may be wrong except in yaqiniyat (matters of certainty).
5- Break your ego and feel your weakness, and beg Allah to show you the right path hundreds of times every day... You must observe your humility for you to deserve His mercy and guidance. Do not get too busy helping the people and have no time for your own purification...the time you spend alone in worship is essential for your relationship with Allah and it is like oxygen for your spirit.
6- Build solid credit before you start spending from it. The people will listen more to a daa`i whom they trusted and loved...and that takes time.
7- Social services to the community are essential for its cohesion and attachment to the masjid and Islam. Don't underestimate that angle of da`wah.
8- One of the greatest fitnas for men is women... Be courteous but distant and make sure your reputation in this regard is spotless.
9- The people will love you if you take good care of their kids, and better yet, Allah will love you. If you can relate to the youth, investing in them has a much higher yield.
May Allah guide us to devotion and use us to better the conditions of this Ummah of the greatest daa`i Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Adhere always to his Sunnah.
Allah Almighty knows best.


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The Oregon Trail, classic computer game of yesteryear, started in 1971 as three student teachers struggled to get their students engaged. Hello, pedagogy. The game started on a teletype machine available in a janitor's closet in a junior high school. Interestingly enough, the cold war inspired the US to create grants to out-pace Russian technological innovation. As such there was a boon in PC manufacturing, leading Minnesota public schools to be one of Apple's first large-scale commercial customers, putting 500 Apple II's in classrooms across the state. And since the game came on a diskette it was shared easily.
The game came to be the cult classic it is now when programmers who'd played the game as kids added graphics and retooled the plot a bit, coining the phrase, "You have died of dysentery." The educational innovation of The Oregon Trail is that it gave students instant feedback, which served to keep students engaged and more importantly learning.
While The Oregon Trail started in a history classroom, it's effect on getting millions of students using computers is the genius. In fact, you can now relive the magic with an app. In 2009 an iOS version of the game was launched, with already over 3 million downloads. Mental Floss does a lovely job recounting the legend of The Oregon Trail. Hop over to their post for the rest of the story.


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Recipe for a Quality Link
Every good cook knows that now and then you need to take stock of what's in your pantry. Otherwise, items can go bad and when used could ruin a dish and possibly make someone sick. Or, you keep buying ingredients when you already have them, which is a waste of space and money. The same thing holds true with...Read more
The Weekly Measure: The Best of Internet Marketing News – October 4, 2013
The Internet marketing world is constantly churning out new ideas and innovative strategies for promoting clients and reaching customers. Each week, Vertical Measures will be collecting the best of the best from around the web, compiling all of the finest into The Weekly Measure. We'll be on the lookout for great new articles, covering content marketing, paid search, social...Read more
The Ultimate 50 Link Building Resources and Tools
You as a link builder, webmaster or search engine optimizer want the best links possible for your website and I want you to find them. That's why I put together this list of some of the best link building resources and tools that are out there, to get you the best results you can possibly muster. Now, technically speaking,...Read more
Why Visual Content Is So Important! [VIDEO]
Have you ever come across a blog post that was only text and no images, but could have been better with added visuals like an image or a video? It's time to put boring content aside and embrace the more visually stimulating side of content! Can your blog post be repurposed into a video or something else? Can these...Read more


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[Nac Tracks] September 2015 New Music Playlist
Posted on October 1, 2015 at 6:28 pm | No Comments
Another month starts, another streaming Soundcloud playlist wraps up. Many of these 49 tracks were part of my first New Music Night DJ set at the ONCE Lounge a couple weeks back, and I'll be sharing that list up shortly. Keep an eye/ear on the just-started October playlist for a preview of the next NMN, happening near the end of the month. But more on that later. Stream away…
[Announcing!] Monthly NEW MUSIC NIGHT at the ONCE Lounge in Somerville starts Thursday, 9/17
Posted on September 10, 2015 at 8:38 am | No Comments
REBORN! After several years co-hosting DJ nights in Cambridge (under the Tourfilter & NMN banners), NEW MUSIC NIGHT is officially re-launching on Thursday evening, September 17th at my new favorite hang, the magical ONCE Lounge at Cuisine en Locale on Highland Street in Somerville. I'm genuinely honored that JJ & co. are allowing me to commandeer their stereo system for a couple hours each month while they serve up truly tasty, locally-sourced grub for discriminating diners.
For the uninitiated, New Music Night is pretty much what it says: An evening playlist of nothing but brand new songs, including preview tracks, rare cuts, and some exclusive premieres when I can get 'em. In fact, this inaugural edition will include a first-ever listen to a track from Ghost Box Orchestra's upcoming record, along with my favorite cut from Eldridge Rodriguez's next LP, "The Castrati Menace". So psyched they're letting me make those debuts.
I'll also be doing ticket giveaway for upcoming local shows – not only ones happening at Cuisine en Locale (like the stacked, all ages Pile / Krill / Warehouse / Palm show on Friday, 9/18), but at other Boston-area venues. On Thursday I'll have pairs of tickets to hand out to the following shows…
(update/added on 9/13) Courtesy of the Wilbur Theatre: YO LA TENGO at the Wilbur on 10/3.
Courtesy of Bowery Boston: DESTROYER at the Royale on 10/2, MERCURY REV at the Sinclair on 10/12, and long-time faves CASPIAN at the Sinclair on 10/23.
Courtesy of Merge Records: MIKE KROL at the Out of the Blue Too Gallery in Central Square on 10/1, along with some merch (a copy of his new LP and a special Krol-designed Merge slipmat!).
Courtesy of Live Nation: A pair of tickets to see the one n' only LOW at Brighton Music Hall on 9/23, and (added on 9/16) two tickets to see TELEKINESIS with SAY HI at BMN on 10/23.
Hear new music, get free stuff, eat great food. Not enough? How about Pretty Things Meadowlark IPA on tap, an arcade cabinet, pinball machine, and (the eventual return of) pool tables? So many pluses! Alright, enough with the hard sell. See you Thursday…
Bradley's Almanac & Cuisine en Local present…
with DJ Bad Squirrel
Thursday, September 17th, 2015
from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
at the ONCE Lounge
156 Highland Ave.
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[Nac Tracks] August 2015 New Music Playlist
Posted on September 3, 2015 at 9:02 am | No Comments
August ends with a new record: 47 tracks for nearly 3 hours of listening in my monthly new music playlist.
September may crush it, though – just 3 days in and 9 new songs so far, including tracks from Stove, Threading, Ex-Breathers, and more.
Here's August. Stream away…
[Live MP3] Kristin Hersh does Vic Chesnutt
Posted on August 11, 2015 at 9:36 am | No Comments
Kristin Hersh, from the stage of Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday night, July 27th, 2015…
"I was never very good at therapy, because… I can talk, I just can't talk out loud.
But I was made to go this year, and it was… it was entertaining.
The therapist said "I can see your work is very important to you, but I feel that it's rather isolating. So tell me, what is it like at a 'Kristin Hersh show'?"
"I don't know, I've never been to one."
"Well, who do reviewers compare you to?"
I said "Everybody who makes anybody sad. Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Mark Linkous, Kurt Cobain, Vic Chesnutt…"
She said "Well, what I want you to do is reach out to all these people and re-form your peer group."
"I can't do that…"
"Yes, you can."
"No, I can't. They're dead."
She said "All of them?"
"Yeah, we're a fragile group."
Kristin has a new book about Vic Chesnutt, titled "Don't Suck, Don't Die – Giving Up Vic Chesnutt" arriving in October. The discounted hardcover is available for pre-order from University of Texas Press.
Keep up with all things Kristin through her website and on Twitter, and consider becoming one of her Strange Angels, who help directly fan-fund her music-making career.
[Nac Tracks] July 2015 New Music Playlist
Posted on August 3, 2015 at 10:20 am | 1 Comment
Another month down, another shared Soundcloud playlist of new songs for your ears. 45 tracks in this one, nearly 3 hours of music, the longest one yet. Who says things get slow in the summer? Enjoy…
(and the August edition starts off with a new one from LOW)


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Poem: 'September, with Travellers'
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Lean in Government Starter Kit Resources
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These downloadable resources are organized according to the section of the Starter Kit in which they are referenced, along with a set of resources that are only available on-line. The resources can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your agency.
Web-Only Resources
The following resources are not included in the Appendix to the Starter Kit, but are available for download here.
- Lean Overview Presentation (Microsoft Powerpoint, 67 pp, 2.4MB). This presentation introduces senior agency management to Lean principles, methods, and key success criteria, and offers example results from past agency improvement efforts.
- ECOS State Lean Inventory (Microsoft Word, 27 pp, 209K). This inventory summarizes Lean implementation efforts at state environmental agencies. It can be used with managers and staff to provide context for your agency's Lean initiative.
- Lean Leadership Guide (PDF) (2 pp, 374K). This guide describes eight critical steps that Lean leaders should take in order to ensure the success of process improvement efforts.
- Lean Metrics Guide (PDF) (14 pp, 406K). This guide provides definitions and examples of metrics often used in Lean government efforts.
- Lean Government Event Scoping Guide (PDF) (20 pp, 508K). This guide is designed to help government agencies select, scope, and charter successful Lean events. It includes specific examples from environmental agency Lean events.
- Event Report-Out Presentation (Microsoft Powerpoint, 14 pp, 2.7MB). This presentation provides an example of the type of information shared in a Lean event report-out presentation.
- Lean Deployment Presentation (Microsoft Powerpoint, 27 pp, 333K). This presentation outlines several options as well as key considerations for broader agency Lean deployment.
Chapter 2: Tools and Resources for Understanding Lean and the Continual Improvement System
- Frequently Asked Questions about Lean (Microsoft Word, 2 pp, 53K). This sample Question and Answer document answers many of the key questions that get raised about Lean events. The document can be distributed to agency staff prior to an event.
Chapter 3: Tools and Resources for Selecting a Lean Project
- Pre-Screening Application for Lean Events (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 49K). Once an agency has conducted its first Lean event, it is helpful to have a standard form for evaluating and prioritizing potential future events. This application outlines questions for agency managers and staff to answer about potential value stream mapping projects.
- Lean Facilitator Request for Proposal (Microsoft Word, 2 pp, 53K). This sample request for proposal describes potential qualifications to look for in a Lean facilitator and how to rank candidates.
Chapter 4: Tools and Resources for Lean Event Scoping and Preparation
- Lean Event Sponsor Contract (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 50K). This contract is signed by the team sponsor and team leader to ensure that the sponsor understands the event's focus and the critical role that the sponsor plays.
- Lean Event Supplies List (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 61K). This supplies list includes materials frequently used at Lean events. To help ensure smooth event functioning, come prepared with the right supplies on hand.
- Lean Event Logistics Checklist (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 50K). This checklist provides a chronological guide for making food and logistical arrangements for a Lean event. While food and logistics preparation may seem like minor issues, they ensure that an event functions smoothly and allow participants to focus on the process.
- Pre-event Meeting Agenda (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 49K). This agenda includes a set of objectives and guiding questions to discuss with the event team during the pre-event meeting.
- Team Charter (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 49K). This team charter allows an agency to articulate the scope, goals, and objectives of the event, along with follow-up dates to ensure that the process will move forward after the event.
- Example Team Charter (Microsoft Word, 2 pp, 55K). This is an example of a completed team charter.
- Event Preparation Checklist (Microsoft Word, 2 pp, 51K). This event preparation checklist provides a summary of key actions needed across the phases of Lean event planning and implementation.
- Pre-event Data Collection Guide (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 52K). This guide outlines critical steps and questions associated with gathering baseline or "current state" data before a Lean event.
- Kaizen Event Agenda (Microsoft Word,1 pg, 50K). This kaizen event agenda provides an example of time allocation over a five-day kaizen event. The agenda is a high-level guide and can be easily modified to be more event-specific.
Chapter 5: Tools and Resources for Conducting a Lean Event
- Team Leader Daily Agenda (Microsoft Word, 4 pp, 56K). This detailed agenda outlines specific roles and responsibilities of a team leader over a five-day Lean event.
- Lean Event Homework (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 53K). This homework sheet is a useful way to track action items and assignments identified during a Lean event.
- Report-Out Summary (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 53K). The event report-out summary is a one-page "snapshot" of the event results. The summary includes the event scope, objectives, goals, a tabular representation of improvements, and a list of actions implemented.
- Event Evaluation Form (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 56K). This form is used to evaluate and solicit feedback from event participants. It is important to listen to participants' perspectives since their responses can inform the success of future events.
- Lean Event Certificate Template (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 1.1MB). Print out this certificate of participation and fill in each Lean team member's name, the process improved, and the date, and award to everyone involved. The certificates help to spread awareness of Lean when displayed in team members' offices.
Chapter 6: Tools and Resources for Lean Event Follow-Up
- Lean Event Follow-up Action Tracking Form (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 56K). This tracking sheet is a useful way to track action items assigned during the event report-out. The sheet identifies who is responsible for completing an action item and when the item is due.
Chapter 7: Tools and Resources for Diffusing Lean Activity and Becoming a Lean Enterprise
- Agency Lean Coordinator Job Description (Microsoft Word, 1 pg, 51K). This job description outlines the roles and responsibilities of an agency Lean coordinator; it can be used by agencies interested in expanding their Lean efforts.
- Agency-Wide Lean Tracking Sheet (Microsoft Excel, 1 pg, 13K). This spreadsheet can be used to track the process improvement efforts throughout an organization, including next steps and the status of implementation and follow-up.
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Thomasson: New FBI chief a key appointment
As if President Barack Obama didn't have enough on his plate, he has to look for a new FBI director who fits the national security profile that has become the bureau's standard since 9/11.
It may not be easy, considering that the often highly controversial position is more than just a job: It's almost a jail sentence that spans 10 years of constant stress for anyone who expects to stay its full term.
Since J. Edgar Hoover, the director since the bureau's founding in 1935 until his death in 1972 at age 77, only one man has completed the assignment: current director Robert Mueller III, who is about to retire after a two-year extension ends in September.
If the normal selection process holds to form, the nominee will not come from within the agency that Americans either despise, hold in awe or both. None of those mentioned as leading candidates for the job are from the upper echelons of the bureau, following a pattern that has been in effect since Hoover's death.
It is a precedent established by President Richard Nixon, who feared Hoover's lieutenants as much as he did their boss.
For the first time, there is speculation that a woman might be considered: Lisa Monaco, Obama's chief adviser on counterterrorism. That would be in line with the shift in emphasis — from chasing criminals to counterterrorism — that Mueller managed to bring about.
Skeptics argue that Monaco would be a difficult sell, despite significant experience in the Justice Department before taking the White House job.
They also wonder whether she could handle the bureau's two main power centers outside headquarters: the corps of special agents in charge of the bureau's field offices and the retired and former agents' association, both heavily male and both resistant to Mueller's reform efforts.
Another name being whispered is that of former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago.
But that would be unlikely to fly with Republicans, who consider Fitzgerald politically tone deaf and can't forget that he prosecuted Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former Vice President Richard Cheney's chief of staff, for obstructing justice in an investigation into who leaked CIA employee Valerie Plame's name to the press.
They had a legitimate beef because Fitzgerald had concluded the leak didn't constitute a crime before investigating Libby. It would be a difficult confirmation process.
Others reportedly on Obama's list include: Merrick Garland, chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals; James Comey, former deputy U.S. Attorney General; and Neil MacBride, a U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, who has prosecuted a number of national security cases.
Resentment in the agent ranks against outsiders has diminished some in the years since Nixon shook up the bureau with the appointment of an ex-submarine commander, L. Patrick Gray, to replace Hoover.
However, there is lingering unhappiness over presidential failure to name — or, for that matter, give serious consideration to — a senior member of the bureau for the top post.
Nixon's appointment of Gray so infuriated Hoover's lieutenants, as well those in bureau middle management, that the FBI became a major source of information for the press in the Watergate investigation that forced the president to resign.
The closest a president has come to naming an insider to the director's job was Louis Freeh, a short-term former agent who was serving as a federal judge when he was appointed. His tenure was controversial, caused in part by his decision to bring to the bureau's top tier a group of assistants whose law enforcement experience was limited.
His swift discipline of New York special agent in charge William Fox on the eve of his retirement for violating a gag order, his mishandling of the Olympic bombing incident in Atlanta, and his relentless efforts to expand the bureau's turf earned him a number of enemies among fellow federal and state law enforcement agencies.
He did succeed in building a strong FBI presence overseas, but ultimately ran afoul of the Clinton White House.
Mueller, a former U.S. attorney in San Francisco, has won admiration for his success in shifting the bureau's direction and preventing further assaults. He will be hard to replace. The appointment will be among the most important of Obama's tenure.
Dan Thomasson is former editor of Scripps Howard News Service. Email him at email@example.com.
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I totally got dressed yesterday. And while I knew it was a cop-out outfit (ooooh... I paired brown and pink shoes with a brown and pink shirt... daring!!!), I was still going to blog about it.
But then a bottle of wine was opened. And cuddling on the couch, Youtubing our favourite music seemed so much more important than blogging.
I totally stand by my decision.
But today is the last day of classes for the term, and for many of my friends, for their degree program. While I'm still going to school through the summer, I fully intend on helping them celebrate. I'm not sure at this point whether it will be in the form of buying them or myself drinks (I have things to be done this weekend, but my love of fun often overrides my acknowledgment of responsibility). In any event, clothes were necessary.You'll see them tomorrow if I can get out of bed.
As for what trends I'm looking forward to for spring, as per Katy's FBFF request this week:
1. Sewing a maxi dress for EBEW this next week (and possibly cutting down to a midi - we'll see)
2. Pixie cuts. Trust me, I'm going to be rocking one by August
3. Lace. That just might be this morning's preference... we'll see if I stick to that.
4. Wide leg pants because my closet is full of them
5. The return of kitten heels, because I loathe the hidden platform neck-breaking height of shoes that have been around this last year.
I don't plan on purchasing any on-trend pieces this year. I know I'm moving so I know that means going through my closet, and I know it means facing the ridicule of my father-in-law who still talks about the sheer amount of clothing I had the last time he helped us move.


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Mobile cooling for the big guys
Subject: Mobile | October 23, 2007 - 12:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Keeping a smaller laptop cool is important, but it is the big 17" or 19"ers that someone has managed to shoehorn an SLI setup into that really need serious cooling. Dragon Steel Mods has posted a review of the Vizo Ninja II (Sumo Size) Laptop Cooler, for larger size notebooks. It is the better part of 3 pounds of aluminium, so the portability isn't wonderful, but your 17" notebook isn't made of feathers either. It was certainly capable of cooling o
Gigabyte leaps into the UMPC biz
Subject: Mobile | October 16, 2007 - 05:40 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Gigabyte has certainly been diversifying their product lines recently. The newest is the U60 UMPC, a 1GHz VIA C7-M, 704 MB of DDR2 667MHz PC2-5300 and runs WinXP SP2. TweakTown immediately ran 3DMark2001 SE and managed a score of 901 ... this little 740g UMPC ran all the tests, try that on another manufacturers UMPC! The final verdict was "The GIGABYTE U60 is the equivalent of your desktop PC five years ago."
The new Centrino on the block
Subject: Mobile | October 11, 2007 - 03:22 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The next generation of Centrino, Santa Rosa in other words, is showing off the strengths of Intel's mature mobile platform. The MSI MegaBook PR200X is the newest notebook from MSI and sports a C2D T7300 at 2 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, a 12.1 display and some thing kind ogf new. They call it Intel Turbo Memory, and is essentially Vista's ReadyBoost for Centrino platforms. Read on over at InsideHW.
The Newton Lives!
Subject: Mobile | October 4, 2007 - 06:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
boingboing has noticed that an ambitious hacker has finally found a use for Apples failed PDA, the Newton. Since he lives in Britain, the hack works much better than it does in North America, but the chances are good going on great that this is only a temporary problem. If you are wondering what exactly this hacker has done, he has turned the Newton into an iPhone ... more or less.
The Zonbu is breaking all the rules
Subject: Mobile | September 28, 2007 - 01:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
For $99 you can get a Zonbu with a 2 year subscription to their online storage service, or $249 without. As it only has 4GBs of flash memory onboard, the online storage can come in very handy, but that same fact keeps the power drain below 13W! It comes pre-loaded with Gentoo Linux and FireFox, the Evolution mail client, OpenOffice.org, the Gimp and more.
Is your notebook full rugged, or only semi?
Subject: Mobile | September 26, 2007 - 02:31 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The Panasonic Toughbook series is designed to take the abuse that most notebooks receive at some point in their lives, often just before they fail. XYZ Computers reviews the W5 model, which has a Core Duo U2400, and 1.5GB of DDR-533 and weighs in at about 2.9lbs. They have trimmed down on a few extras, like a wide screen backlit LCD, but the overall design feels nice and spacious and sturdy. Too bad that XYZ didn't try testing it to destructino though.
Blackberry or lemon?
Subject: Mobile | September 21, 2007 - 03:37 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The brand new Blackberry Curve 8300 has been trimmed down in size and weight, as well as missing some features that many might consider necessary. Neither Wi-Fi nor 3G are supported, your only wireless connection is via EDGE, which is good enough for many people, but has caused some head scratching. There are some other nice features that may make 8800 users jealous, check them out at Hardware Zone.
Back to school tools
Subject: Mobile | September 19, 2007 - 03:28 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
... or in some cases maybe a bribe. Ars Technica examines the Lenovo ThinkPad T61, the HP Pavilion dv6500t , Sony's VAIO VGN-FZ180 and the Toshiba Satellite A205-S4617, all priced between $1,200 to $1,400, if you don't count the Blu-Ray player on the Sony. They rate the laptops on a number of different areas, focusing more on portability and productivity than gaming, which is a good thing in the case of the Toshiba.
HD ThinkPad
Subject: Mobile | September 12, 2007 - 02:59 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Lenovo's new ThinkPad T61p sports a 15.4" display, which is nothing interesting, but the display goes to 1920x1200, which is. Driving that is a QuadroFX 570M with 256MB, so you won;t be gaming, but your multimedia will look great. You should see what other features Digital Trends uncovered in this Santa Rosa based notebook.
"The T61p is a very capable and powerful notebook that should be on any cubicle jockey or road warrior's wish list."
Here are some more Mobile articles from around the web:
OQO First to Ship 1.6GHz VIA C7-M ULV Processor
Subject: Mobile | September 11, 2007 - 11:18 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Taipei, Taiwan, 10 September 2007 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced that OQO Inc. is the first manufacturer to ship the 1.6GHz VIA C7-M ULV processor in the latest configurations of its award-winning model 02 product line.
The higher-speed processor in this update of the OQO model 02 - the world's smallest full-featured Windows Vista PC – further increases the device's performance and thus enables mobile professionals to enhance their anytime/anywhere productivity.
Ultraportable Santa Rosa power
Subject: Mobile | September 6, 2007 - 02:00 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The ultraportable Dell XPS M1330 is up for review at the Hardware Zone. It sports a widescreen 13.3" WXGA TrueLife LED monitor, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS, and a T7700, all in a 2kg package, including the battery. As you would expect, the notebook is customizable depending on whether you need a more powerful version, or just a portable workstation. Along with the new chipset comes a new shell design,
Packard Bell Makes It Easier To Stay Connected with its New 950-gram Notebook
Subject: Mobile | September 4, 2007 - 11:25 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Packard Bell, one of the leading consumer electronics brands in Europe, today announced the launch of its new EasyNote XS, a 7-inch notebook which combines advanced portability with a full featured PC running Windows XP Home Edition. Designed to be your everyday mobile companion, it's the perfect choice for mobile users that find full-sized notebooks too big and PDAs too limited.
Externalizing your power
Subject: Mobile | August 31, 2007 - 01:41 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
AC Ryan has released a universal notebook external battery, called MobiliT. It weighs about 1.5lbs, and provides 6600 mAH (105WH), and lives up to it's universal claim by coming with 8 output tips and input connectors. DV Hardware found adding 2 hours or more of power on the go was well worth the price.
It's the extras that make it special
Subject: Mobile | August 27, 2007 - 05:16 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
If you are going to spend the money to get an Alienware laptop, what is the point in going with the basic model? AnandTech asked themselves that when they decided to review the Area-51 m9750, and then busied themselves adding the extras that make Alienware the envy of laptop gamers everywhere. Read on to see what they ended up adding to the machine, and how much it set them back to get blazing hot graphics on a laptop.
AGEIA Enhances Mobile Gaming With The Launch Of World's First AGEIA PhysX Mobile Processor For High
Subject: Mobile | August 22, 2007 - 12:41 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - August 22, 2007 - Mobile gaming just got better: AGEIA Technologies, Inc. the pioneer in hardware-accelerated physics for PC and a leader in console games, today announced the world's first PhysX Mobile processor, the AGEIA PhysX 100M, for high performance gaming notebook PCs.
New mobile workstation from Lenovo
Subject: Mobile | August 21, 2007 - 01:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The new ThinkPad T61p is quite powerful for a notebook, even a ThinkPad. With a C2D T7700, 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300
and Nvidia Quadro FX 570M (256MB) with a 15.4" 1920x1200 display. Vista's built in experience benchmark places it at 4.8, the lowest score being the RAM. Give this notebook a good look over at XYZ Computing.
Empowered by PC Club?
Subject: Mobile | August 15, 2007 - 05:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The PC Club Enpower ENP660 is essentially an HP dv6500t, with different options available. What does make it stand out is the full-size keyboard that includes a numpad. On a 15.4" notebook, that is a rarity, but it also the only thing that really stands out on this notebook. AnandTech spent a bit of time with this system, and you can see what they learned about it in their review.
Luddites, or the enlightened?
Subject: Mobile | August 9, 2007 - 01:32 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
This may seem a little blasphemous, but Tech ARP has questioned the usefulness of PDAs! They tested a dedicated PDA against the old analog style personal organizer. Paper versus digital meet in a battle for supremacy. Before anyone points out that the paper organizer can't make phone calls it needs to be pointed out that the test is against a true PDA, not the multi-function PDA smart phones that have become available fairly recently.
Sony's snazzy new notebooks
Subject: Mobile | August 3, 2007 - 04:32 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The VAIO lineup has been updated with 2 new models, the CZ and TZ, and Hardware Zone was there to get some pictures and specs. The CZ is full sized, with a 14.1" screen and an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.80GHz on a PM965 Express based motherboard. It comes with some nice features, including a built in 1.3 megapixal camera in a 2.5kg package. The smaller TZ is only 1.5kg, but it still manages a 11.1" screen as well as Centrino C2D support on a Source: Hardware Zone
Semi-portable heavyweight
Subject: Mobile | July 30, 2007 - 02:51 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
At 8lbs, and enough high powered components to drain the battery in no time the Alienwaire Aurora m9700 notebook isn't terribly portable. As a desktop replacement however, this notebook has more than enough power for any gamer in it's most expensive configuration. The Tech Lounge couldn't resist picking one up to review, and you just know they didn't get the basic model.


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Portal 2 on PS3 get PC/Mac version for free!
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Portal 2 on PS3 get PC/Mac version for free!
Valve has announced that the PlayStation 3 version of Portal 2 will feature Steam functionality. This is the first time Steam has ever appeared on a console, and this will also be the first time that PlayStation 3 gamers will be able to play with PC or Mac gamers. Along with cross-platform multiplayer, we can expect persistent cloud-based storage for PS3 save games and cross-platform chat. (To clarify, "cross-platform" in this context means PS3-PC/Mac, not PS3-360.)
On top of that, anyone who buys Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 will be able to unlock a Steam Play copy of Portal 2 for the PC and Mac for free by linking their PSN and Steam accounts. Portal 2 project lead Josh Weier explains that Valve has designed the cross-platform experience to be hassle-free: "PS3 gamers will be able to simply drop the Blu-ray disc in the PS3, link to their Steam account from inside the game, and all their Steam friends (on PC and Mac) will be visible and accessible for chat and game invites."
Back at E3 2010, Gabe Newell promised that the PlayStation 3 version would be the best console version, and now we know what exactly he meant. Newell went on to say, along with today's announcement, that Valve hopes "to expand upon the foundation being laid in Portal 2 with more Steam features and functionality in DLC and future content releases."
Portal 2, one of our most anticipated PS3 games of 2011, will be out for PS3, 360, PC, and Mac in April.
this is awesome news! i was just gonna get it on PC as its cheaper but then i saw PS3 version comes with it and Amazon will give you a $20 credit if you pre-order with them. so i did!
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A couple of weeks ago, we broke the news that Singapore's JobsCentral got acquired by U.S ' CareerBuilder. The sum, though undisclosed, was rumored to be the highest ever in Singapore's tech start-up scene.
Their success was derived from hard-work and smart decisions over the years. We wanted to understand how JobsCentral was founded and learn a little more about the team, the culture, and about life after the team's exit. A special thanks to the JobsCentral partners Lim Der Shing, Huang Shao-Ning, Michelle Lim and Eric Koh who took time out of their busy schedule to share their answers with us.
The Founding
The JobsCentral idea was sparked during the dot com boom from 1996 to 1999. After studying some business models, the team decided that the job portal business has good potential in the region.
"We also liked the fact that a job portal business helps people better their lives. So by April 2000, our initial team was formed and we started working on the business," said Der Shing.
Initially, it was only Der Shing and Shao-Ning operating as a two-man show under the JobsFactory name. Like most dot com start-ups during that period, the team operated out of Der Shing's home to keep costs low. They were paid just $500 per month which was just barely enough for survival.
When asked why was the name changed from JobsFactory to JobsCentral, the team explained:
"We needed a separate brand as JobsFactory back then was closely associated with campus recruitment, which was our niche market when we first started. So in late 2005, we created the JobsCentral brand which we use for all our experienced professional products.
Both JobsFactory and JobsCentral were used concurrently for a couple of years before we merge everything under the JobsCentral brand as it has gained considerable mindshare in Singapore. So now, we only use the JobsCentral brand and have BrightSparks as a separate brand due to its unique audience."
Subsequently as the business grew, Eric and Michelle joined JobsCentral full time in 2002 and 2003, respectively. As CTO and COO, Eric and Michelle brought on board their valuable operational and strategic skills. Today, JobsCentral has a management team that have complementary skill-sets. They work well together as friends and as partners.
"We have been fortunate to have grown the company over the past 10 years and currently we have about 3 million career seekers and 20,000 employers/organizations using our various media channels each year."
Strategy, Culture and Philosophy
Working smarter and running faster than competitors have always been the way of JobsCentral. Der Shing explained that JobsCentral would never do a 'me too' product. Whatever JobsCentral does, the team always tries to innovate and differentiate from the crowd. "We believe in seeking out and creating our own 'blue oceans'" he said.
A good example is the way JobsCentral based their job postings on a "freemium" concept five years ago. By offering free postings to most employers and charging for premium services, JobsCentral is able to grow rapidly to catch up with their competitors. Besides moving fast and taking this 'blue ocean' approach, JobsCentral also places emphasis on building a fun work environment.
"We are a service business. It is important that our staff enjoy their work and have friends in the office. Work life balance and harmony are encouraged and we respect people's leisure time," said Der Shing.
"If you visit our office, you will notice that most people get off work before seven. In fact, our official working hours is from 9am to 5pm. We also do not like red-tape and bureaucracy and try to empower our staff as much as possible," he added.
Life After Exit
Der Shing: I am very focused on wanting to achieve our corporate vision of becoming the number one career media in the region. I am excited at the thought of leveraging off more resources to get to the goal faster.
Shao-Ning: Life has not really changed for me after the acquisition. I think among the team, I have the most immediate demands to integrate my finance work flow and reporting needs. Other than that, I am quite excited about the regional potential, now that we have CareerBuilder as our new partner.
Michelle: Work wise, I am focused on growing the JobsCentral brand and the usual day-to-day issues of running my teams. Personally, it is very gratifying that something I have helped build is affirmed by this deal and I am excited to be part of the CareerBuilder family. Overall, life is pretty much the same for me and I still have to make my own coffee.
Eric: As the CTO, joining CareerBuilder presents a great opportunity for me to gain insight on their IT infrastructure, software architecture and development processes which supports a business that operates on a much bigger scale than JobsCentral. Money wise, I am planning to invest in stocks and bonds, and also set aside a portion for angel investing in local tech startups.
More about the JobsCentral Management Team
Lim Der Shing, CEO (Age – 35)
- Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic), Summa cum Laude, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- Hwa Chong Junior College
Der Shing is in charge of the JobsCentral Group and is responsible for P&L, strategic planning and product development.
Previously an overseas scholar with Sembcorp, Der Shing graduated summa cum laude with an Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Der Shing gives back to the community by sharing his experiences with other budding entrepreneurs on online forums/websites and is a member of Entrepreneur Organisation (EO) and a Council Member of Southwest CDC. In 2007, he won the Spirit of Enterprise award. He is married to Shao-Ning and they have 3 young sons.
Huang Shao-Ning, Deputy CEO (Age – 35)
- Bachelor of Business Administration, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- Raffles Junior College
Shao-Ning focuses on product management, finance, and HR for the company. She has grown the annual large scale JobsCentral Career and Learning Fair from a small event to the largest job-centric event in Singapore.
Previously she was with Business Controls at IBM. Shao-Ning has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Michelle Lim, Chief Operating Officer (Age – 40)
- MBA, Kelly Business School, University of Indiana, Bloomington, USA
- Bachelor of Science (Hons), Building, NUS
- Hwa Chong Junior College
Michelle is in charge of all marketing, creatives, and content in the JobsCentral Group. Her responsibilities include marketing and media strategy/campaigns, PR, branding, creative work, editorial, and research.
Michelle obtained her MBA from Indiana University, Bloomington and also has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Building, from the National University of Singapore. Prior to JobsCentral, she was a Marketing Manager with IBM in San Jose in California and also a Ministry of Foreign Affairs officer.
Eric Koh, Chief Technology Officer (Age – 36)
- Master of Science, Computing, NUS
- Bachelor of Science, Computing (Hons), NUS
- Hwa Chong Junior College
Eric is the master architect of all JobsCentral systems. He works tirelessly to improve and enhance the IT infrastructure and products with state-of-the-art features and superb user experience.
Recently, Eric was a winner of Digital Life's Top Developer award. Eric was previously a scholar with PSA and has both a Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computing from the National University of Singapore. An avid anime fan, Eric is married with 2 young sons and enjoys spending time with his family.


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HOWARD, WI- The catastrophe causing concern for a Howard family that has several relatives in the area hit hard by the storm.
Romeo Santiago has a sister in Mindoro and a niece in Cebu, two places in the Philippines hit hard by the typhoon. Right now they are waiting for any reports of how bad the damage is.
"It's hurt me and its almost, i want to help them, but I'm too far," says Santiago.
More than 70 percent of the population lives in poverty. Marie Santiago, a former foreign missionary, knows what a storm like this can do to the country.
"There's so many people and so many children. There's thousands and thousands," says Santiago.
Both are asking for people to make donations. Anything helps.
"Meals for the day for a family, for medical supplies, water," says Santiago.
The Santiago family is working on getting some supplies to ship to the Philippines, hoping to get them there within the next few weeks.
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- Thursday, July 05, 2012
Sarah Cowan on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map
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Each Thursday in July and August hear from the behind-the-scenes voices of the museum as SFMOMA staff members share perspectives on a single artwork. Talks last 20 minutes.
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Hereditary thrombophilia
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Thrombosis Journal 2006, 4:15 doi:10.1186/1477-9560-4-15Published: 12 September 2006
Thrombophilia can be defined as a predisposition to form clots inappropriately. Thrombotic events during infancy and childhood are increasingly recognized as a significant source of mortality and morbidity. The predisposition to form clots can arise from genetic factors, acquired changes in the clotting mechanism, or, more commonly, an interaction between genetic and acquired factors. Since the turn of the last century, there has been extensive research focusing on both the genetic and acquired causes of thrombophilia, with particular focus on clotting events in the venous circulation. This review describes clinically relevant aspects of genetic venous thrombophilia, which include well-established, lesser known, and suggested causes of inherited thrombophilias.


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Kragthorpe: No BYU-Utah game, but somebody must win
The long, hot summer will lead into the most frustrating college football season in the state's history.
As if it is not enough to have the Utah-BYU rivalry interrupted for two years, the schools lack any common opponent in 2014 for the first time ever. That's a problem, in a culture that demands a winner between these two programs never mind that Utah State may have produced the state's two best seasons lately.
Based on the theory that many Utah and BYU fans are happy only when they can claim superiority over the other side, I'm here to help.
My method uses Athlon's rankings of all 128 Football Bowl Subdivision teams (including BYU at No. 35 and Utah at No. 54). I've assigned point values for each win and loss, judging by the level of competition, providing a way to determine the Utah-BYU champion in a year when the Utes can't add to their four-game winning streak in the rivalry and the Cougars can't do anything about that trend.
Utah's schedule is so much more difficult than BYU's that merely comparing records is inadequate. If BYU goes to the Miami Beach Bowl with an 8-4 record and Utah stays home at 5-7, will the Cougars have won? No. If Utah qualifies for a bowl vacancy outside of the Pac-12 structure at 6-6 and BYU is 10-2, will the Utes have won? Not necessarily.
Some observers may wonder why such competition is necessary, when the Utes and Cougars compete in their own domains and have their own standards of success. These are people unfamiliar with the state. If the rivalry divides households and permeates life in Utah, the constant comparisons are not going to stop just because the teams are not playing one another this season.
I applaud fans of each team who ignore the other school and pour all of their efforts into supporting their own programs, but there are not enough of you. So some numerical, objective comparison is required. The opponents can rise above or fall below preseason expectations, but I'm sticking with these rankings.
The Utes can earn extra credit for knocking off a top-10 team in the Pac-12, with multiple opportunities. If BYU can win at Texas, that also would be a landmark achievement.
Each team will be fun to watch this season. So will Utah State, which visits BYU in the only in-state meeting of FBS schools. The Utes and Cougars have more offensive playmakers than any time in the past five seasons, they have adequate defenses and they have intriguing quarterback situations BYU, because of Taysom Hill's potentially improved passing and Utah, because of Travis Wilson's competition with Oklahoma transfer Kendal Thompson.
If Wilson performs well enough to keep his job, that will be a good sign. If Thompson overtakes him, that might be an even better indication of where the Utes are headed in offensive coordinator Dave Christensen's first season.
Utah and BYU could have very good seasons. They also could be very average, if they fail to hang onto the football and finish more drives in 2014.
Either way, one of them will be judged better than the other, beyond their records. Save this accompanying chart and track the competition throughout the season. You can thank me later, or not. Measuring up
Utah and BYU won't meet in 2014 and have no common opponent. This formula is designed to determine which team has the better season, factoring in the degree of difficulty. Each win or loss is assigned a point value, based on Athlon's preseason FBS rankings, with bonuses for road wins:
Opponent Ranking Win value Loss value
Idaho State FCS 1 -12
Fresno State 62 3 -5
@Michigan 32 8 -1
Washington State 56 4 -4
@Oregon State 53 6 -2
@Arizona State 16 10 0
Oregon 6 10 0
@Stanford 12 10 0
Arizona 45 4 -4
@Colorado 71 4 -3
Opponent Ranking Win value Loss value
@UConn 88 2 -5
@Texas 17 10 0
Houston 69 3 -5
Virginia 72 3 -5
Utah State 49 4 -4
@Central Florida 55 6 -2
Nevada 82 2 -7
@Boise State 46 6 -2
@Middle Tennessee 90 2 -5
Savannah State FCS 1 -12
@California 76 3 -3
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Recently, in a twist worthy of a soap opera, one of my brothers needed a transplant and surprise, surprise, I was the only compatible donor.
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Since her first year as a medical interpreter at NYU Langone Medical Center
in 2009, Hei Ngan has seen the number of Chinese-speaking patients increase
significantly. Ngan credits the rise to Jody Gill, director of Language, Cultural, and
Disability Services, and her staff of five interpreters, a program manager, and a
program coordinator. Gill's department is augmented by several freelance and agency
interpreters who provide face-to-face interpreting, as well as a company used for
telephonic interpreting for emergencies, after hours, when a face-to-face interpreter
is not immediately available, or for languages that are less common. "In any given
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in Americaby Jonathan Kozol
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In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.
For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and countless other honors, he has persistently crossed the lines of class and race, first as a teacher, then as the author of tender and heart-breaking books about the children he has called "the outcasts of our nation's ingenuity." But Jonathan is not a distant and detached reporter. His own life has been radically transformed by the children who have trusted and befriended him.
Never has this intimate acquaintance with his subjects been more apparent, or more stirring, than in Fire in the Ashes, as Jonathan tells the stories of young men and women who have come of age in one of the most destitute communities of the United States. Some of them never do recover from the battering they undergo in their early years, but many more battle back with fierce and, often, jubilant determination to overcome the formidable obstacles they face. As we watch these glorious children grow into the fullness of a healthy and contributive maturity, they ignite a flame of hope, not only for themselves, but for our society.
The urgent issues that confront our urban schools – a devastating race-gap, a pathological regime of obsessive testing and drilling students for exams instead of giving them the rich curriculum that excites a love of learning – are interwoven through these stories. Why certain children rise above it all, graduate from high school and do well in college, while others are defeated by the time they enter adolescence, lies at the essence of this work.
Jonathan Kozol is the author of Death at an Early Age, Savage Inequalities, and other books on children and their education. He has been called "today's most eloquent spokesman for America's disenfranchised." But he believes young people speak most eloquently for themselves; and in this book, so full of the vitality and spontaneity of youth, we hear their testimony.
"National Book Award — winner Kozol (The Shame of the Nation) again traces the workings of 'savage inequalities' — this time on a generational timescale — in this engrossing chronicle of lives blighted and redeemed. He follows the fortunes of people he met decades ago in a squalid Manhattan welfare hotel and in the South Bronx's Mott Haven ghetto, whose stories range from heartbreaking to hopeful: traumatized boys grow into lost and vicious men; teens go to college and beyond with the help of mentors; many drift through years of addiction, violent relationships, and prison before achieving a semblance of stability and focus. These lives are full of choices, good and spectacularly bad, but Kozol highlights the institutional forces that shape them: social service bureaucracies that warehouse the homeless in hellholes; immigration regulations that break up families; the academic 'killing fields' of the Bronx's terrible middle schools; the neighborhood church whose ministries rescue many kids. Eschewing social science jargon and deploying extraordinary powers of observation and empathy, Kozol crafts dense, novelistic character studies that reveal the interplay between individual personality and the chaos of impoverished circumstances. Like a latter-day Dickens (but without the melodrama), he gives us another powerful indictment of America's treatment of the poor. Agent: Lynn Nesbit, Janklow & Nesbit Associates." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
About the Author
Jonathan Kozol is the National Book Award-winning author of Savage Inequalities, Death at an Early Age, The Shame of the Nation, and Amazing Grace. He has been working with children in inner-city schools for nearly fifty years.
Table of Contents
Part One: The Shadow of the Past
1. The Journey Begins
2. Eric and His Sister
3. Pietro and His Children
4. Silvio: Invincible
5. Alice Washington: The Details of Life
Part Two: A Bright Shining Light
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7. The Boy Who Ate a Giant Bag of Cookies While He Walked Me All Around the Neighborhood, and His Very Interesting Mom
8. Pineapple Comes of Age (Part One)
9. Pineapple in All Her Glory (And Still Bossing Me Around)
10. A Life of the Mind (Jeremy, Part One)
11. No Easy Victories (Jeremy, Part Two)
12. The Killing Fields
13. Number Our Days
Epilogue: Pineapple Has a Few More Things to Say
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1 tablespoon cornstarch
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Galilee Diary #495, June 16, 2010 Marc Rosenstein
The country that we traversed and scouted is one that devours its inhabitants. All the people that we saw in it are men of great size...; we looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them. -Numbers 13:32-33 (the report of the spies)
The country that we traversed and scouted is one that devours its inhabitants. All the people that we saw in it are men of great size...; we looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them. -Numbers 13:32-33 (the report of the spies)
For twenty years, the "flagship" project of our educational center has been setting up encounters between Diaspora Jews and Israeli Arabs. While the visiting groups include adult synagogue and community tours, the vast majority of the guests are teenagers or birthright participants. There have been years when we have hosted over 3,000 people in July alone; in recent years the numbers have been in the range of 1,500-2,000. The standard program consists of a 45-60 minute background presentation surveying the history of Jewish-Arab relations in the land of Israel, and trying to explain the current reality and the dilemmas we face here - both the Jewish majority and the Arab minority - as we try to live together in the democratic Jewish state. Then, either the group reboards their bus for a 15-minute drive to a nearby village, where they meet Arab teens in the school; or, if the group's tour operator forbids entry into Arab villages (there are still some who do), we send a bus to bring the Arab kids to Shorashim.
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The season has begun and I myself have already facilitated a few groups this week. Are we making peace? We have no illusions of that. But we figure that sending the Americans home with a slightly more nuanced understanding of the reality here may be useful in the long run; and if we contribute our small part to nurturing a self-aware, self-critical, self-confident, worldly young leadership in the Israeli Arab community - dayeinu!
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