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I've recently gotten back into horseback riding. English riding, to be specific. Dressage, to be even more specific. I've had 9 lessons over the course of this semester and have loved (almost) every minute of it. I probably mentioned before how I'm always making new goals and new dreams for myself. My new one is to be an event rider - for those of you who don't know, it's dressage, cross-country jumping, and show jumping each, either on one day, or over the course of 3 days. And I also think it would be really awesome to write for an equestrian publication, since I'm a print journalism major now.
But fitness is important for riding. Not only to avoid injury and post-riding soreness, but to improve my riding as well. I need cardio and muscle endurance, as well as muscle strength. I really want to build up my qualifications as a rider, so I need to be in the best shape I can be. Here are some goals to accomplish by the end of the summer, to get me ready for the fall 2011 showing season:
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Word for Word/Pearl Harbor Diary; 'The Grace of God and the Mailed Fist': A Calm Sunday Abruptly Shattered
By IRVIN MOLOTSKY
Published: December 6, 1998
AS the years pass, the number of survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor dwindles. The strike, on the quiet Sunday morning of Dec. 7, 1941, killed 2,403 of the 65,000 people stationed at the base.
One survivor, Henry A. Lachenmayer, of Oxon Hill, Md., recorded his thoughts and observations, including rumors that turned out to be false, in his diary the next day. Mr. Lachenmayer says he wrote his account on a Royal portable typewriter, long since gone, which he kept in his berth aboard the battleship Pennsylvania. He says he made the entry on pages that he stored in a typing book that zipped closed.
Mr. Lachenmayer, who moved to the Bronx from Germany as a child, was a 22-year-old musician second class at the time of Pearl Harbor. He doubled as a medic when bombs raked the Pennsylvania, but not before having the presence of mind to stow his trombone. Mr. Lachenmayer, now 79, retired from the Navy in 1960 after having risen to the rank of band master aboard the battleship Wisconsin.
Following are excerpts from his diary, adapted from a longer version that appeared in 1991 in his local newspaper, The Enquirer-Gazette in Upper Marlboro, Md. IRVIN MOLOTSKY
The account begins on a typical Sunday aboard the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, which was in dry dock:
The events about to be related here are still somewhat vague. Perhaps due to the fact that one could and would not imagine them in one's most horrid and imaginative nightmares.
They bespeak a calamity that will long be remembered by an unsuspecting people, half-asleep but now by the grace of God and the mailed fist, awakened.
They speak of the Blitz on Pearl Harbor on the bright, happy and peaceful morning of Dec. 7, 1941.
It was Sunday again, you might say just another Sunday, but to us in the fleet it meant more than that, it meant the one day of the week that granted us true relaxation, the one day apart from drills maneuvered and work of all sorts. A day for church, and a day for play.
We, the band on the Pennsylvania, had a strenuous day on Saturday. A landing force inspection in the morning and a dance band contest in the evening which, incidentally, we won. We were still speaking of this same contest the next morning as we heard band call go at 10 minutes of 8 and we proceeded to the quarter deck in preparation for morning colors. . . .
At exactly three minutes of eight, looking over toward the Naval Air Station on Ford Island, we could see a group of planes proceeding gently from a high altitude and then leveling off about 150 feet from the ground.
To our unsuspecting eyes it was just another drill, though it was somewhat peculiar that they would pick Sunday morning for maneuvering. Not until we saw the flames shoot out of the large hangar at the head of the small island did we realize the significance of the situation.
Mr. Lachenmayer scrambled to reach his battle station, where he helped put out a fire ignited by an explosion in the main deck and in the case mate, the enclosure where anti-aircraft shells were stored:
The bandmaster marched us back on the double and the officer of the deck screamed for all hands to man their air defense stations. . . .
A plane that looked half like a Stuka and half like one of our own dive bombers was just leveling off and I could see the bombs dropping out of its bottom. It was a silver-gray plane with a reddish gold ball or sun painted on its side. I still don't know how I got my instrument in my case and back to the shelf in the band room but I must have made Superman's speed look amateurish. By this time all hands were manning their battle stations and I proceeded towards mine stopping on the way to get my gas mask.
Arriving at my station, which incidentally is the second deck patrol and repair station where I am a stretcher bearer, I commenced the process of . . . closing all ports and hatches which would be highly detrimental if left open. . . .
Down below once more, I was asked by an ensign to assist him in reaching some of the officers on shore leave by telephone and this was my job for the next half hour. I succeeded in reaching Commander Holden, who almost refused to believe the inevitable but once convinced, arrived on board ship with the greatest of speed.
For the next part I returned to my station and found work enough; a fire had broken out on the second deck and had to be attended to with haste. . . .
The fire was precipitated by the bursting of a 500-pound bomb in the case mate and the main deck. The havoc created by this one bomb hit can never be exaggerated.
All our fire extinguishers were used up in no time. . . . Due to the cooperation of all hands concerned, the fire was eventually put out. . . .
He was also witness to the tremendous damage inflicted on other vessels, and to the Navy's efforts to fight back:
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My step-son has really started talking back to my husband and I any time we correct him or assign consequences for his actions. I was just wondering if any one else is starting to experience this and if you have any advice for us. We are trying to nip it in the bud because we don't want it to be an issue when he's a teenager, and we feel that his mom, who only sees him every other weekend is not helping matters. Advice would be much appreciated!
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He can deal with different rules in different places. Do not even try to compete with his mom. Just make it clear, if he argues about your rules being different from hers, that she has her rules, and you have yours. And someday, when he pays for his own home, he can make the rules there.
Make sure you stay cool and calm. And go for what gets to him the most. I am talking about grounding from reading even, if reading is what he loves the most. Don't yell back, just do what you need to do. Good luck!
I think the backtalk is this age. My son is doing the same thing, and he isn't even bouncing from home to home. I keep reminding him that we will be happy to listen when he presents a differing opinion in a respectful manner instead of the rudeness which just gets him in trouble.
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In the same boat here. Even if it isn't backtalk my daughter feels the need to comment about everything, she always has to say something. It is aggravating and I too have tried everything.
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(By Groovey) HollywoodŌĆÖs glam rock gods Black Veil Brides are releasing their third album on January 8th 2013 a full scale monster of a concept album entitled: Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones. Winners of such coveted awards such as "Best New Artist" at Revolver's Golden Gods and "Best Newcomers" at the Kerrang! Awards itŌĆÖs easy to say that the Black Veil Brides have one of the most anticipated album releases and tours of 2013.┬Ā ┬ĀHereŌĆÖs what Black Veil BridesŌĆÖ vocalist and founding member Andy Biersack had to say about what the new album is all about.
Why did you go the concept album route on the new album?
Andy Biersack:┬Ā Around April of last year we started working on a follow up to our second record.┬Ā We got about six songs in as far as the writing process and it never really felt as exciting as I wanted it to be.┬Ā It felt it was a little too much of a logical follow up to our last record and I guess I became a little disillusioned to the idea of making just another rock record.┬Ā We┬Āweren't┬Āreally being as tenacious as we should be as in terms of what we were doing. ┬ĀAround that time we had done a round of festivals in Europe and in Germany I remember just sitting there and thinking that I┬Āwasn't┬Āparticularly excited about anything that was happening on the record and I really wished that there was more that we could do.┬Ā ThatŌĆÖs when I sat down and started writing down the concept of this story, just a couple paragraphs, outlining the story of this ŌĆ£Wild OnesŌĆØ.┬Ā ItŌĆÖs a Viva- Vendetta-esque story where this bad guy organization called F.E.A.R.┬Ā takes away science and creativity from man and I suppose is a parallel to the religious and political upbringing of all of us in small towns in America.┬Ā And that was something that really excited me.┬Ā When we got back to LA I really got excited about making it into a record and around that time I met John Feldmann our producer.┬Ā It was a combination of meeting him and having this story that I was so excited about that two days later I shut down production with the other producer and moved everything over to John FeldmannŌĆÖs studio and really started working on and fleshing out what would become this sort of concept record.
How did you challenge yourself sound wise to fit this concept?
Andy Biersack:┬Ā┬Ā ┬ĀWhen youŌĆÖre writing something that plays out over the course of an entire album you tend to bog yourself down and how you think more about how you want to write around that story and I think it becomes an albatross to write to a story.┬Ā We did the first week and half saying, ŌĆ£Alright lets write for the concept.ŌĆØ┬Ā And after that we kind of just erased the concept from our mind and try to write songs that were just great songs that we really loved and even though we had the concept in the back of our head we didnŌĆÖt want to focus too much on it.┬Ā I think in terms of building a record that is a story it is important that you are always writing genuine songs and youŌĆÖre not writing a script for a play.┬Ā Sonically I think thatŌĆÖs where it really came in.┬Ā How do we tell this story when it will just be the sounds of this record?┬Ā How can you feel an emotion, how can this be the soundtrack to something – just sonically and that came from just playing with music a lot more.┬Ā We kind of reinvented the way we write songs we started writing from scratch as opposed to the way we would write in the past with say a lead guitar part in mind.┬Ā On this record we wanted to write on piano or acoustic guitar first and make sure it was a solid song all the way through and then come in and write the guitars around it and violins and everything else around it.┬Ā In doing that we were able to build the record and also just playing with music.┬Ā The idea of involving instrumentation┬Ā that we had never used before stuff like violins and big band instruments like horns just to make it a little more grand and help tell the story.
Did you get the album you wanted? Is everything on there or were there some things that were just impossible to pull off?
Andy Biersack:┬Ā┬Ā ┬ĀYou know what?┬Ā Honestly I am very happy to say that everything I envisioned when we started this record is now on the record.┬Ā So much so that we actually have four or five songs , that are solid songs that would have been the best songs on Set the World on Fire , but they didnŌĆÖt end up making the cut because we had too much stuff that we were really excited about.┬Ā ThereŌĆÖs 19 tracks on the album and in my opinion the best thing we have ever done.┬Ā IŌĆÖm very excited about it because you set out with this concept and you have this idea to do this big scale thing and it can go one of two ways: It can go great or end in disaster and IŌĆÖm very happy to report that it went very well.
Is the concept of the album going to develop into any other mediums like film or graphic novels?
Andy Biersack:┬Ā┬Ā We have made a full length film based on the record and it is going to be screening in theatres in Los Angeles on the 21st through the 23rd of December.┬Ā It will also be available through Pay Per View on our Facebook page thereafter.┬Ā Also we intend on spinning it off into everything possible.┬Ā For us we are very visual people obviously the theatrical quality of the band lends itself to do a lot of things like graphic novels. ┬Ā┬ĀWe all grew up loving comic books and pop culture in general.
ThatŌĆÖs one thing about you guys is that you have the look but you also write decent tunes. ┬Ā ThereŌĆÖs some musicianship behind what you do.┬Ā
Andy Biersack:┬Ā┬Ā I think you will get bands, particularly bands since our success, that they are a little bit like a fashion show and their music is sort of the soundtrack to the fashion show.┬Ā They come out and wear their make-up and look cool but they donŌĆÖt necessarily care about the musical value.┬Ā We have always been a rock band first and foremost and when we go onstage we are entertainers and we want to make sure that the show is something that is worth the audience paying for and that they enjoy.┬Ā Honestly, first and foremost we are a rock ŌĆśnŌĆÖ roll band and our songs are what is most important.
WhatŌĆÖs coming up for tours?
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This is just a silly little .gif I made when photographing Aiko's suit I forgot to upload it haha... enjoy XD
Cool fursuit
awwww, cutie!!! <3 <3 <3
Cute <3
He is so cute
I remember this!
xD that's adorable!
Haha yeah he is XD
Can't wait till im older :3
why, how old are you? and for what?
What are you talking about? '_'
you said you can't wait till you are older, so, for do what? and how old are you?
it's on my page '-' i cant wait until im older to become a fursuiter, duh
ooooohhh, that explains all...but...nah, nevermind
You gotta enjoy your young years though, they're way better!!


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Monday, February 8, 2016
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From All Movie Guide: Albert Linville starred in many major Broadway musicals. He also made a few films including the film version of Damn Yankees and Hot Rock. Linville also appeared in a number of television commercials. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi


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Dear Margo: A Teacher's Tears
Teacher's Tears
Dear Margo: I've taught for 20 years and can retire in 12 years. I don't know if I can go the distance. I don't know whether to quit and try to find a less stressful job, or keep hoping.
Instead of doing what is best for students, we are doing what is best for administrators: focusing on the tests. I used to have one classroom, and everyone did the same assignments, but I tweaked them for ability levels. Now I am planning for four different groups of students, and it takes a lot longer because I have to use all of the products purchased that promise glorious state test results.
It is near impossible to read the practice test to my ELL students, have a meaningful assignment for my gifted students who will finish the test 20 minutes early, make sure the students with the modified test are able to follow all of the notes and circle the right bubbles, and keep my ED student calm because frustration is his trigger. Oh, and then there are the other students, and they all deserve a teacher, too.
There are endless training days (for which I have to prepare notes for a substitute) and extra duties, but there isn't any money for lunch monitors. I go home in tears sometimes because I am overwhelmed. My husband has a decent job, and he says if I can hang in for four years it will really help with our two kids' college funds and our retirement fund. Sometimes I wonder if I can make it four more days, much less four years. — Beleaguered
Dear Be: You really are between a rock and a hard place. Of course, you are not alone, as many pubic schools are a mess. One does worry about the caliber of education our kids are getting. According to Marian Wilde, 16 other industrialized countries scored above the United States in science, and 23 scored above us in math.
As for your mental state, only you know your limit. You actually sound like you care, so on that basis it would be beneficial for your students if you stayed. And the four years your husband suggests is not 12. Perhaps you should explore whether there's a job available that's tied to what you've been doing, such as administration or an educational consulting firm — or whether there's a job available of any kind, because your second income is required. I'm not sure I've even come close to solving your problem, but I hope I've given you some ideas. — Margo, sympathetically
Whatever Works
Dear Margo: Maybe it's just where I live, but it seems like everybody and his dog is now glucose intolerant, on a gluten-free diet or allergic to peanuts. When I was younger, I didn't know anyone who had those restrictions. I don't want to believe that my friends are faddists, but I really don't know what to think. Why is this happening? — Glenda
Dear Glen: Lust, avarice, sloth, Happy and Doc? Truly, I have wondered myself why these food situations are so prevalent today; they weren't 10 or 15 years ago. It could very well be the food supply or some element in the environment. There's a fight right now about Monsanto, whose genetically modified feed is harmful, according to some scientists — not to mention that we have cows and chickens taking antibiotics and growth hormones.
While I take these people at their word that they feel better and healthier eliminating certain things from their diets, I will say that some months ago, because of feeling bloated, I declared myself to be lactose intolerant (because that was a friend's symptom) and stayed away from dairy. Then I forgot about my self-diagnosis and tried Greek yogurt, which I now eat every day. Just give your friends the benefit of the doubt. — Margo, individually
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68 Responses so far.
I understand and sympathize with the writer.
I have been working in the teacher 403b market place. There are nice matching funds in place to help with the very low salaries. I will spell how the categories are pronounced. She should check her "Stirs" report and see what is there, and what she can do and how much longer she must do it to reap the full benefit. Teachers work very hard, but they do have some advantages to go along with the downside. Before she switches categories from "Stirs" to "Purrs" (administrative or campus staff side of the union) or just says to the heck with it, she should contact someone who can give her some options with her current benefits.
Then she can make an educated decision about what to do.
I have serious allergies. Very few of them are food related. But, I'm mildly allergic to shrimp. I will occasionally, and quite safely, enjoy shrimp. (With an Epi-pen lying in waiting. That's the problem with food allergies- you can switch from mildly allergic to deadly without noticing.)
I can't deal at all with smoke. Despite really great asthma drugs, I've spent a horrid summer, because a lot of Northern CA was on fire. 400,000 acres at one time close enough to make my summer sky gray.
I do my best to keep as healthy as possible, and as best as I can to keep my allergies from impacting my friends' lives. But, I have certain requirements in order to not be hideously sick: You may enjoy your scented candle- I may have to take a lot of drugs to deal with 5 minutes of your candle.
So, you can blame a lot of things, Monsanto among them, for dietary allergies, but if your friends are telling you what they need, trust me, they need them. My daughters' got over the "I'm so interesting because I can't do X" stuff in 5th grade. I really doubt your friends are telling you they can't do gluten, etc. for the sheer drama of it.
How about you cut them some slack, or else cut them off because you can't be bothered!
Constance in the Sierra Foothills of CA who gets really irate when people think that other people are doing allergies to be fashionable. Or whatever! 87
Thank you, Constance! Well put re: allergies. I think one of the reasons so many people are dismissive of other people's allergies has to do with the abysmal quality of science education in this country. Many of my relatives work in the fields of science and engineering, so there's no struggle involved in making them understand the concept of an allergy. People with little or no scientific education (and who think that science in general is just a bunch of abstract concepts that have nothing to do with everyday life and can be ignored or dismissed when it's convenient) are another story altogether. They're ignorant, and they enjoy being ignorant, since it makes it so much easier to sneer and roll their eyes at someone else's misery. And of course, it could never happen to *them* (cough).
Very much agreed, Constance. I get so frustrated when people dismiss my allergies. I had a roommate who told me my peanut allergy was all in my head. I don't think my near death at age 2 from anaphylaxis was "in my head." I would much rather NOT have any allergies and be able to eat whatever I want without having to look at the ingredients! I can't point to what has caused the spike in incidents of allergies, but I know my allergy is very real and has been retested over the course of my life and has never gone away.
Letter #2– This letter writer made me smile. I agree with both the letter writer and Margo, I too have thought what is up with EVERYONE supposedly allergic to this and that!
It reminds me of the spike not to long ago in a mass diagnosis of kids and adults with ADD and ADHD and prescriptions swirling for Retilin. (I'm not sure I spelled that correctly)
But then again when I was younger (back in the 60's and 70's) I don't think we didn't have all of the same issues we have today, I think we simply had not put a name to many of them. There were hyper kids and those that were unable to stay focused. There were people who reacted oddly when they ate certain foods but ignored it. My take on all the allergies people think they have today may have everything to do with our environment.
As Margo pointed out, our very food is tainted in some ways by the additives given to livestock, which in turn we ingest and digest. The fruit and vegetables we eat are sprayed with chemicals. The water we drink and the fish that swim in those waters (dependent upon your region) can be very unhealthy to consume. So is it any wonder our bodies fight off certain things?
Letter #1 – While I am usually the one preaching to "Live for today for you don't know if you will have tomorrow!" In this instance this letter writer sounds like such a wonderful, intelligent and thoughtful person, I would selfishly suggest she take her husband's advice and stick it out for 4 more years. Teachers can be mentors without even knowing it. There is always someone affected by that one particular teacher that inspired them in ways no other person could. I think we all have one in our lives when we sit idle in thought and think back. I know I have mine. He inspired me to write and understand that words have power.
If I were to give this letter writer advice it would be this (to use an old line – If you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem) the big reason the public schools are in the shape they are in today is because everyone accepts the decline as a given. No one believes their voice or actions will have any affect. The system is too big to make any real change. Wrong!
I truly believe if she starts taking some of her control back in terms of how SHE wants to run her classes and curriculum she will feel better about her job. If she is feeling overwhelmed, say so. Find others within the school that share her frustrations and galvanize for change. Deal with the teachers union to verify what your rights are? Are you being asked to do what is beyond the school's authority to ask of you?
We all need purpose in life, a reason to get up in the morning. I have been there in life when I LOVED going to work, couldn't wait to get there each day. These days not so much….:-) So I feel her pain. But the answer is simple, instead of coasting, take control of the reigns. Don't just sit in the backseat and allow others to drive your life and control where you go.
I think you make a great point about the conditions we suffer today always having been around, we just didn't have names for them. My mother is an oncology nurse and comments on the increase in cancer, but I don't think that's necessarily the case-While doing a history research paper in college, I was discovering that a lot of people died of strange and mysterious illnesses, but the symptoms described look an awful like cancer and other diseases we know of today. We also now can detect things so early due to advances in medicine that more people are being treated because we catch it sooner.
That said, I do think a lot of things are either self-diagnosed or misdiagnosed. However, I think you have to give people the benefit of the doubt-I'm severely allergic to cigarette smoke (my throat swells and closes off), but I've had some idiot smokers tell me it's all in my head and blow their smoke in my face to be 'funny,' and wind up giving me an attack. It's better to be safe than sorry.
You have my sympathies, Brooke. I've had asthma since I was a child, and cigarette smoke is one of the worst triggers (I can't imagine why, since it contains traces of lovely chemicals like arsenic and hydrogen cyanide). If some moronic smoker deliberately blew smoke in my face after I told them I was allergic, I'd be acquainting them with the concept of assault, with the assistance of a police officer. It's hard to reason with any type of junkie.
"Junkie"? Wow, I'm guessing you won't have to worry about anyone blowing smoke in your face because I can't imagine anyone would ever want to stand next to you. I smoke and I'm very considerate of all my non-smoking friends, not just the ones with allergies. It's terrible when people have to act like jerks who blow smoke in people's faces on purpose but not all people that smoke are that rude. You can find asinine, rude people in all groups, including non-smokers, as your comment so perfectly illustrates.
I am glad that your are 'very considerate' of your non-smoking friends but I could not be in an elevator with you without out significant discomfort. The smell from your smoke saturated clothes would cause my lungs to tighten up immediately. I am asmatic and I have sympathy for you, not anger. I know several people who simply can not quit smoking. It is a terrible monkey on their backs. I have no sympathy for those who wear perfume however. They are an imminent threat to folks like me and they are simply acting out of vanity. Think I am harsh? In reaction to strong perfume, I have had a coughing fit (in a public place) so hard that I lost all control of my bladder and had to ride to the hospital in a fire department vehicle and back to my home in a taxi, soaking wet, stinking of urine. But at least, thanks to the fire department folks, I didn't die, that time.
So, where does it stop? I know there are people who have allergies to certain chemicals found in perfumes…should all people stop wearing every kind of scent? I am allergic to the colognes and perfumes that contains specific man-made elements (these are absurdly common in celebrity fragrances, Avon, and the less expensive scents) that are actually dangerously toxic. I can't breathe, become nauseated, and break out, everywhere. However, if a person chooses a well-crafted fragrance, and wears it correctly, are you going to tell them it's forbidden?
Here's the thing: our school district had a group of parents who wanted to ban all products with peanuts, soy, shellfish, nuts (peanuts are different), eggs and a few other food items completely from the schools, including personal lunches sent from non-allergic children's homes. This effort failed, just as it should have. Dictating what others do because your child, or you, are allergic, is the same as saying, "No one will skip because my child has CP and can't". "No one will make loud noises, such as clapping or exuberant laughter, because my autistic child can't handle this" (the last one is highly relevant, my older son is autistic). It is up to parents to teach their children not to ask for things from other children (this can be done), nor accept food that isn't their own…even at a very young age.
We can ban smoking in the work place, but not smoking in the home, and if a co-worker chain smokes and comes to work reeking of 12-hours and three packs worth, we can't, at most jobs, do a thing about it. The exception seems to be restaurants, many of which have gone to a policy of no perfume, no scented soap or hair products, and no smoking immediately before, or during, one's shift.
Some people want to ban wool clothing from workplaces because it makes them break out in hives. Others, ANY scented product. For some people, just being outside is hazardous. In the spring, I have asthma-like symptoms, because my entire yard is virtually toxic (I am allergic to grass, of all things, most common plants found in trim, and their beautiful, blooming flowers.). To others, a single sting from a bee or wasp will kill them. I fully understand the lethality of allergies, never mind the discomfort.
I don't know if it's environmental toxins (in the case of many scented products, including perfumes, medical research HAS shown that the increase in man-made ingredients…read toxic chemicals…for scent has a dramatic effect of allergens and reactions) that have lessened tolerance for so many people. I know I've always had my allergies, and I'm 53, and I know people my age and older who always had severe allergies to peanuts, nuts, shellfish, eggs and dairy (not lactose intolerance). They never expected the world to stop for them.
BB, totally agree. Kids with food allergies absolutely should be taught to refuse all food other than their own from the earliest age.
For anyone who thinks you can't expect a 3-, 4-, 5-year-old to understand this – bull! Our German Shepherd was trained to refuse all food that didn't come from us (his "pack"), for security reasons. Anyone want to claim our dog was smarter than their child? I thought not.
Carrie A: Respectfully, if you are a smoker who is considerate of your non-smoking friends, and who even goes out of your way to be so, then you are NOT a "moronic smoker" who would deliberately set out to cause discomfort or even harm to someone who was allergic, and sfmoonfire was NOT referring to your sort. And "junkie" is not really an adequate term, as nicotine is more addictive, and harder to both detox from, and break the habit of, than heroin.
I don't think she was being asinine or rude. I quit smoking 23 years ago. Like you, I was an extremely considerate smoker…and I was also fully aware that I smelled of cigarettes, that my breath and hair stunk, and of what I got when I blew my nose….not any prettier than the gunk on the bottom of an ashtray. I know how terrible quitting is, and how many times I tried because I hated smoking. I quit more because of accident than intent…a bite from a feral cat, subsequent combined rabies/tetanus/antibiotic shots and infection made me deathly allergic to all tobacco products…so much so that I begin to wheeze when exposed, and break out all over my exposed skin.
Cigarette smoking is a plague, from second hand smoke, third hand smoke, smoking related illness and disability, time lost at the workplace both from illness and break time (statistically true, unfortunately), jacked up insurance rates, and chronically ill children whose mothers insisted on smoking during pregnancy. You just can't make it pretty.
For every considerate smoker out there, it seems there are dozens who are not, who will smoke in places clearly marked as smoke-free…even in hospitals (including various kinds of medical professionals), while pregnant or in closed areas with children, or anywhere, all the while denying just how much what they do affects others. If you smoke, everyone knows. There is no hiding it.
Thank you, Briana! You got what I was saying and translated it for Carrie better than I could. The cold, hard fact is that cigarette smoke is toxic, plain and simple, and I don't care what Carrie, or any other smoker, does to herself — she has the right to risk her own health, or life, if that's what she chooses to do. However, no smoker has the right to force those same risks on anyone else, any more than an alcoholic has the right to get behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated and risk the lives of innocent people because of his/her addiction. Let me say it in the clearest terms possible: What you do to yourself is your business. What you do to me is MY business. Stay out of my face, and I'll stay out of yours. Force your toxic chemicals literally down my throat, and "junkie" will be the mildest word I use to describe your behavior.
Would it be possible for the teacher to change schools? I say this realizing that most if not all schools are going to be following the same regime. But some schools do make adjustments within the structure to make it a little more workable. Plus if you're vested in a state pension fund, you won't jeopardize your retirement. Perhaps a change of scenery would give her a fresh start. For what it's worth my partner is a teacher and I'm about to start my first year of teaching, so I can appreciate how frustrating it can be. Of course it doesn't help that the public at large refuses to recognize how difficult teaching really is.
L #1: My hat's off to you. You obviously care deeply about your students; meanwhile you're being forced to prioritize towards admin. Why is it that institutions always screw up? It's not about scholars, it's about jocks. It's not about pupils, it's about admin bragging rights. There is a limit to frustration and exhaustion; you want to do the right thing (totally commendable)…but can this continue for another 12 years? I doubt I'd have that sustainability; you sound very close to burnout already. If you're like me, you don't want to relax your standards. Perhaps your only true option, if you stay in, is to acknowledge admin's attitudes/expectations while continuing to do the best for your pupils as possible; face that reality head-on and keep on. It is so sad you (and how many other good and caring schoolteachers?) are being put through this; on top of the everyday (unimaginable to me) stresses of simply dealing with pupils of varying temperaments, learning abilities, etc. If you do decide to take a different career course, don't beat yourself up about it. You've done the best you could.
L #2: I totally agree, and have wondered that too. My husband's church offers gluten-free communion wafers. What, a *tiny* (dime-sized) regular wafer is going to mess up someone's system? Seriously?? I remember peanut butter being available in the school cafeteria in HUGE bowls with big spoons (and a stack of bread nearby). Kids at PBJ after PBJ…no one ever swelled up or keeled over. Have to wonder if some of it's faddish, and also attention seeking.
Uh…yes, seriously. I have a friend with Celiac. Educate yourself a little by searching for some Celiac forums and read all about their experiences with cross contamination. My friend has severe intestinal distress for days if there's any gluten in her food. She lived in severe pain and discomfort for most of her life until she finally got a diagnosis. I'm really happy for you that no one "swelled up or keeled over" because learning through example how Epi-Pens work is not a super fun experience for either the victim or the audience. I had a coworker have to go home early and take a Benedryl because she claimed she was allergic to apples and no one believed her because of all of these "fad allergies", and another coworker jokingly rubbed a sliced apple on her arm. It immediately started swelling into a red, puffy rash.
My reasoning is that it doesn't affect you, so why put people who suffer from allergies on the defensive? Why perpetuate this "omg, seriously? Come on, you fakers" type of attitude if it's not hurting you in any way? It's not like we don't have enough to worry about. Hooray, if I eat the wrong chocolate I'll die. Let's add people trying to sneak me chocolate to "prove" that I'm faking on top of that. Yeah, people with allergies definitely must be attention seekers – getting carried out of a department store on a stretcher isn't for the shy.
FWIW, Celiac isn't an allergy, and intolerances are different from allergies. Auto-immune diseases of all kinds are on the rise, especially in women over thirty.
Cindy –
Yes – a *tiny* dime-sized regular gluten wafer will make me seriously ill. I have biopsy confirmed Celiac disease. I too was incredulous at my doctor's recommendation – what is this gluten free diet?!? How can it be?!? She explained that for years doctors didn't look for Celiac so they didn't find it… know they look and find. She asked that I give the diet a month and promised that I would actually want to adhere to the diet. The good news is that she was right and I felt much better physically.
Unfortunately, this condition has changed the very fabric of my social life. Think of Thanksgiving dinner, family reunions, co-worker's birthday cake, etc…. It has severely curtailed my career as frequently I am unable to eat at the restaurants chosen by my company… eat with others when they call out for sandwiches… and I do suppose that I'm seen as "attention seeking".
This condition is absolutely no fun and I have been amazed at the ridicule and social problems it has caused (my own mother was not supportive as first). Believe me if I could just eat without analyzing every single ingredient (standard US soy sauce contains wheat / gluten)… I would. I often feel that I am causing problem for my co-workers, family and friends when asking about ingredients. The condition has ostracized me and while I'd never wish this on another human being, I do so wish people would have a little more compassion… rather than the judgement.
Sincerely – Marie
Okay, I'm just going to say my piece about consumer ignorance regarding their food supply and be done…it amazes me the amount of misinformation there is out there….
You are consuming 105x more hormone by consuming soy than you are consuming beef from a steer with a hormone implant or milk from a dairy cow. Steers receive a small implant subcutaneously (under the skin) in their ear when they are steered (neutered). This implant is usually dissolved by the time they are a year old and all it does is replace the hormone their testicles would naturally be producing. rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) is used a LOT more sparingly than the media wishes you to believe – it's expensive and not very effective. In our cows, we use it ONLY for cows who have aborted/lost their pregnancy so we can keep them in milk long enough to get them pregnant again and then give birth. Besides, remember your biology – hormones only affect the body if the body has a receptor ("docking station") for the hormone – humans do not have receptors for bovine hormones (and adult bovines have few – that's why it's not very effective and it works better on younger cows than older cows). Your body just passes it right through. It is illegal to give chickens hormones.
All antibiotics must be completely flushed out of the system before milk can be consumed by humans (antibiotics have a mandatory withdrawal period during which all milk from that cow is dumped down the drain – many dairy farmers actually keep their cows off the line longer than the minimum recommended period to avoid accidentally having their milk test positive – the milk truck is tested for antibiotics after each dump from a farm, a positive test means the milk from whole truck is discarded and the last farm to dump into the truck has to pay for the WHOLE truck; hence why they're so careful about it) and before a steer can be slaughtered. You are not consuming antibiotics in your beef and milk.
Science!! 😀
"105x more hormone by consuming soy"? Can you link to a study (a scientific one) documenting that?
The only results I got when I tried to substantiate your claim was that it affected hormones in mice. There is a hormone-LIKE substance in tofu that mimics estrogen – but it's not estrogen.
I buy organic tofu, by the by.
Now, if you're talking about soy PRODUCTS, that's different than claiming all soy is worse for you than meat.
I work at a non-profit organization whose job it is to educate the surrounding community regarding health care and health careers. The guy who is the director of our Continuing Medical Education department (who organizes educational activites for physicians) was a teacher. We have another former teacher who travels from school to school teaching kids about the various health careers outside of the well known "doctor" and "nurse." She also does summer camps for kids of all ages. We have a third former teacher who teaches medical practices how to improve their patient care, and a fourth education major (I'm not sure she ever taught K-12) who runs the Graduate Medical Education program (teaching residents to become independent physicians).
Sometimes, not all teaching jobs are in schools. Those might make you happier!!
LW1 sounds close to her breaking point. I would take this very seriously. It's more than just "suck it up and keep going." If hubby has a "decent job," why is it THAT necessary for her to remain in a job that has turned into torture? So her kids and husband can maintain some "standard of living" while she can barely stand to get up in the morning? Why isn't hubby more empathetic? Today's frustration and burnout could soon be tomorrow's full-blown depression. I don't know how school systems work, but is counseling available for teachers in these situations? LW1, do whatever it takes to take care of yourself.
Twice I forced myself to stay in well-paying jobs when I was becoming very burned out because I didn't know what else to go to. Both times I became so mentally exhausted from forcing myself to stay in the job that I lost the ability to help myself and finally quit with nothing else to go to because I was so miserable that I was having death fantasies. (These stopped the day that I quit). I then spend the next two years not working and recuperating from what must have been some sort of post traumatic stress syndrome from forcing myself do something I didn't like. The teacher in the first letter would be wise to find a different job now, before she gets too burned out to help herself. She sounds very bright and conscientious and could probably easily find something better.
I truly sympathize with the teacher. I, too, taught 20 years and got out. I am lucky to have a supportive husband with a great job who helped to make leaving feasible. I feel sorry for the young teachers just getting started. They will never know the joy of walking into their classroom and being able to simply teach. There is so much governmental red tape and so much administrative BS, plus you are expected to teach all the special needs children in with the rest of the class (usually without any training to teach those with special needs), and the testing never ends. Principals jump on every new bandwagon that comes along, often just for the 'feather in their cap' that they get by saying "my school is doing….whatever…". Teaching is a tough profession. So many children are not taught values at home. So many parents are sure that everything and everyone is at fault except their own angelic child. And, many administrators have "it's all about me" syndrome. I commend those who can make the commitment to it, but I would not…could not recommend education as a major to any college student today. To LW#1…good luck to you. Four more years sounds like forever, especially on a bad day. But think about how quickly the school year passes. Even though there are some excruciatingly long days……Friday comes around quickly….and all of a sudden it's the start of a new month…and before you know it, the year is over. Do your best…..but


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love the expression on her face.. really creative
Cute x3
Wow! This is great! I love your style.
Glad you say so. In fact I still don't know what my style is.
rose的头发没那么长的吧 啊呀我也去下这brush!
我本来要把这画起名sexy rose的......汗
我本来要把这画起名sexy rose的......汗
BTW I hate the design of the key to 'tardis'. So un-futuristic look... The Doctor should use his sonic screwdriver as key.
I like it! especially her hair!


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MIDDLETOWN — Northwestern junior Peter Kamianowski couldn't be happier with his performance Tuesday night.
Kamianowski captured first place in the CIAC Class State championship in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:00.22 at the Freeman Athletic Center.
Kamianowski topped second-place finisher Ryan Fryer of Holy Cross, (5:03.41), third-place finisher Tadas Racevicius, also of Holy Cross (5:07.76) and fourth-place finisher Tyler Overton of Oxford (5:10.89).
"It was a real nice race," said Kamianowski. "I went as hard as I could. I saw the Holy Cross swimmer (Fryer) catching up to me and I just put all of my effort into it to try to stay ahead. Last year, I didn't do too well. I needed to improve a lot. I focused on not being tired regardless of how much pain I was going through."
In the team competition, Sacred Heart came in second in for the second straight season after capturing back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012.
"The team has exceeded all of my expectations for sure," said Sacred Heart coach Ray Snyder III. "We have a lot of first and second-year swimmers. I'm very happy with the way they have performed."
Kamianowski helped the Highlanders to a third-place finish (463 points) behind team champion Weston (695) and second-place Sacred Heart (603).
Shepaug was fourth (432.50) followed by Holy Cross (410).
Shepaug sophomore Colin Decker was second in the 50 freestyle (22.48 seconds) and third in the 100 butterfly (53.97).
"I was hoping to break 54 seconds," said Decker, who beat the school record of 54.4. It all comes down to training day in and day out. I wanted to leave it all in the pool and come out of it with no regrets."
Shepaug coach Todd Dyer was thrilled with Decker's performance.
"Colin has all of the pieces," said Dyer. "He had a fast start off the blocks, got through the turns (strong) and brought it home quickly. He put it all together."
The Holy Cross 200 freestyle relay, consisting of Matt Corona, Brendan Flaherty, Tadas Racevicius and Nick Warner came in first place with a time of 1:31.97.
"We thought we could win it; We wanted it really bad," said Racecivius.
Warner was third in the 50 freestyle (22.62) and third in the 100 freestyle (49.20).
"In the 50, I started off a little slow and that's all it takes," said Warner. "It was a real close finish."
In the 100 freestyle, Corona was fourth (49.90) and Michael Saunders of Sacred Heart took fifth (50.03).
In the 100 backstroke, Sacred Heart's Connor Newton won the 100 backstroke (53.46).
"I beat my previous best time by four seconds," said Newton. "I was really hyped up for this meet. I knew that I needed to get my arm speed down and attack the turns and that helped me achieve my time."
Sacred Heart's Liam Coleman was second in the 200 individual medley (2:02.83).
"I felt great," said Coleman. "I did the best that I could. Stefan Garbee (Weston's winner, 1:58.53) is a freshman and has a great future ahead of him. He pushed me all of the way. He caught me in the backstroke and I knew that he was better than me in the breaststroke."
In the 100 breaststroke, Woodland's Aidan Music was third with a time of 1:04.12 and was fourth in the 200 individual medley (2:06.79).
"Aidan's time in the IM was close to his best," said Woodland coach Tom Currier. "He did very well."
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The way mothers and fathers spend their time has changed dramatically in the past half century.
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Last night, I sat down and took a stab at my research schedule for the next few months. I'm on a foggy highway. I mostly know what questions I have to answer. I say 'mostly' here because I expect that some of my questions won't be the ones that really need answering (but I'll figure that out soon enough), and because I expect that additional questions will come to light as I answer the existing ones. But I really don't have an inkling of what the answers to those questions will look like yet.
We're in the early stages of defining the next version of Office, so the road ahead is almost entirely shrouded in fog. I'll be spending a lot of time in the next few months on the road and in my usability lab talking with users, answering my questions and learning where the road leads. The fog will lift, although perhaps by nothing more than sheer force of will.
This is my favourite part of the process. It's also the bit where I get the most nervous. If I deliver research that is flawed or incomplete ... ugh. The risk is huge. The better I do, the better Office will be in the next version (and the one after that, and the one after that, and ... ).
Consider this to be my usual plug that if you want to help define the next version of Office, you should sign up to participate in usability studies. If you're an Entourage user (especially in an Exchange environment) and in the Bay Area, you should sign up as fast as your little fingers can type. When you fill out the form, make sure that you fill in the apps you use (such as Entourage), because that's hugely helpful to me.
Last week at SxSW (which I have got to get to sometime!), Michael Lopp, one of the senior engineering managers at Apple, was part of a panel about design. During the panel, he was asked about the design process at Apple. The Tech Beat blog at Business week has the best description of his complete answer.
One of the points that he brought up was the need to plan to throw out good designs. He put it as "10 to 3 to 1". Start off with ten entirely different good designs. Good is the key word there -- they can't just be a couple of good designs and then a bunch of other junk to make the good ones look even better. You have to make ten really good designs, which is to say that you have to come up with ten different ways to reach the same goal. In doing so, you stretch yourself in thinking about the problem and your design. Then you whittle from ten designs down to three, iterate on those three designs, and finally end up with a single strong design.
Lopp isn't the only one singing this tune. Bill Buxton (whose latest book is currently top of my to-read pile) and Alan Cooper (his latest is also in my to-read pile, but a bit further down the queue) have both been talking about this in their own way. Buxton talked to Channel 9 about design and user experience last year, and gave a keynote at Interaction 08 earlier this year about the design ecosystem. Both are fantastic talks, I can't recommend them highly enough.
This is how you get design right. You have to really invest in it. Investing in it isn't about money, it's about time. Your designers need time to think about solving the problem, and they need to tinker with lots of ideas that get towards solving the problem. They need to invest time in coming up with ten good designs. This means that you have to be okay with throwing out good designs. You're throwing out good designs because good isn't good enough — you're looking for greatness. Greatness rarely springs fully-formed from your forehead (no matter how much you might wish it would). Greatness comes from a lot of work, and a commitment to the work that is necessary to achieve that greatness.
It's a huge commitment, but the payoff is also huge. In last month's interview with Fortune, Steve Jobs talked about 'push[ing] the reset button' on the design for the iPhone because he couldn't 'convince myself to fall in love with this'. Everyone talks about setting the bar. Setting the bar to something that you need to fall in love with? What a design goal! But look how many iPhones Apple has sold. Would they have sold so many if the design weren't something you fell in love with?
My mom called me earlier this week to wish me a happy birthday and to complain about spam. Mom, you see, has joined the digital age. She's got herself a laptop, she's got herself an email address. She doesn't have a blog and she's not on Twitter yet, but it could just be a matter of time. If you see the "Confessions of a Judge Judy Addict" blog in the future, you can take comfort in knowing that my mom has started blogging.
Mom is going through all of the stages of new email user that I've come to expect over the years. The first stage is the email forward. They're all new to her, so she religiously forwards them along as well. I haven't had the heart to tell her that all of those jokes have been around since the dawn of time, and no, they really aren't from George Carlin or Jeff Foxworthy.
The second stage is replying to spam. Spam is an easy thing to understand, since it's just the same as the junk mail that ends up in her physical mailbox at home. If you call the company sending the junk mail to say "please stop", they will. So, she reasoned, if she hit the "unsubscribe" link in the spam, she'd stop getting so much junk mail. Sigh. She's learned the hard way that doesn't work.
Now that she's mostly understood the concept of spam, we're now working on the concept of phishing. She told me that she nearly got caught by a phishing scam. My parents have been talking about joining the AARP. So when she got an email last week that purported to be from the AARP, she followed the link in the email and began happily filling out the information. She only stopped when the site didn't give her an option for sending in a cheque instead of providing her credit card details.
Like spam, she's got the basic concept of phishing down, in that she understands that there are scammers out there who want her credit card details or her Social Security number. But she doesn't quite know how to identify phishing on sight, so it falls to me to explain it to her. It turns out that it's hard to do it in non-geek-speak.
So I spent most of the time on the phone explaining various ways to identify phishing websites, and trying to put it into Mom terms. Here's what I came up with:
This isn't a perfect list of how to identify phish, but it's a reasonable start for my mom. Here's hoping that I don't have to get deeper into phishing identification with her ...
As my boss mentioned on Mac Mojo in his Office 2008 update post, we've been working on the 12.0.1 update. It hit our servers this morning, and you can download it now.
What's in it? The complete list is here. My favourite fixes are:
You can either download it directly from the link above, update when Microsoft AutoUpdater does its job, or open the Help menu in any Office application and select Check for Updates.
Go forth and update!
One of our goals here in MacBU is to be a good Mac citizen, which means supporting OS technologies. We've long had a fantastic AppleScript dictionary. In Office 2008, we extended our AppleScript support, and added in support for Automator. All four apps got the Automator treatment. Earlier this morning, I noticed that that the folks over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog have started a series of posts dealing with automation in Office 2008. They're starting off with automating Word, and promise the rest of the apps in the future (although they don't say when).
Go forth and automate! And let me know what actions you've come up with -- I'd love to see some real-world examples of how you guys are using it.
(As a reminder, Automator actions are part of the Standard and Special Media editions of Office 2008. They're not included in the Home and Student edition.)
A long-standing Microsoft tradition is to decorate the offices of people who go on vacation. Last week, the developer lead for PowerPoint took a well-earned week to go skiing. Now, of course, I have absolutely no idea whatsoever who might have been involved with such a thing. The rest of the team here in California was snug in their offices, working away hard at the upcoming 12.0.1 and file format converter updates. It must have been elves.
It's probably the same elves who decorated our development manager's office when he was in Hawaii a couple of weeks ago. While he was gone, we had a pile of really big empty boxes in our hallway. The boxes are big enough that the PowerPoint dev lead could, after cutting out eye holes and drawing on a face, fit into one of them:
Now, if one were mathematically inclined (as one could imagine that a group of software engineers are), one could determine that, given the volume of the development manager's office and the size of each of the boxes, how many of those boxes would fit into the office if it were packed perfectly. Of course, you can't get a perfect pack, since the office has minor things like furniture in there. So the real answer to how many boxes can fit in is also an exercise in mathematics, albeit more difficult to calculate. It's so difficult to calculate that it might simply be easier to count the number of boxes that end up in the room. The answer, in case you're curious, is 33. (I have a maths degree, so I figured it out.) Photographic evidence is lacking, however, because the boxes were so well-packed that all pictures simply came out brown. Or so the elves tell me, anyway.
The elves were kind enough to take pictures of their latest handiwork, though.
Here's the back wall (note that the window is covered, as is the light above -- I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader, and the PowerPoint dev lead, to figure out what everything else in there is):
Everything on his bookcase, and even his posters, were covered too:
The back of his desk got the full treatment as well. The cables have now formed a weird spiderweb sort of thing that looks pretty cool. Why the elves left a bookend on the floor is a mystery to me.
The dev lead got back from vacation this morning, and has found two of his monitors (he has a total of four), and one each of his keyboards and mice. When the lights are on, the office is about three times as bright as it usually is -- I'm surprised that he's not wearing sunglasses. He's not sure if he's actually holding up a coffee mug or not here ...
(More pictures might come later, if more pictures captured by the elves came out okay ... )


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A 36-year-old man has died after his car went down an embankment in the Highlands.
Police were called to the crash scene on the A82 Inverness to Fort William road a mile south of Spean Bridge.
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I've installed OpenERP 7 on Ubuntu server 12.04.1 on a virtualbox 4.2.6. I followed this useful tutorial. But almost at the end, when I start the openerp server I get several lines of information on the log, including this one:
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At the end of step 6 of the tutorial the author points out that he had same warning. He then executed:
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And the warning was gone. Not in my case. So after this action I manually downloaded the last version package and succesfully re-installed, but with same result, I'm still getting the warning message.
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Tuesday the BYU Cougars announced they were taking their football program independent and moving all other sports to the West Coast Conference.
Wednesday the Michael Lev of the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER asked USC athletic director Pat Haden if he would consider the idea of USC becoming an independent in football like BYU.
Despite a new, lucrative television deal looming for the Pac-10 following the conference expanding to 12 teams with Utah and Colorado, Haden did not rule out the possibility at all. Far from it.
"I think you always have to look at every opportunity.
"We're a happy member of the Pac-10. I don't have any ulterior motives or plans to advance the ball on this. I think the Pac-10 with a new commissioner and new opportunities has some growth built in already.
"But would we every consider it? I think you have to. As an athletic director in today's environment, you have to consider every alternative."
Haden's stark reaction has to have the folks running the Bowl Championship Series on edge, as if USC were to leave the Pac-10 at some point, you can bet other major football factories like Texas would consider doing the same.
If that were to happen, the machinery of the BCS would become obsolete almost overnight.


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This is my favorite city
Amazing! Not everyone can use fisheye lenses and create such beautiful photos! Marvelous work!
I've gone by Big Ben countless times and its never looked so ominous O.O
Wicked photo!
The name "Big Ben" actually belongs, not to the tower or the clock, but to its big bell.
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I used enameled copper wire in gunmetal and gold colour
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This is so fantastically beautiful!
I really like THIS pendant.
But it's already sold out
But it's already sold out
This is beautiful. I would be very interested in buying this...
This is already sold, but this is available! -->
Thank you!!!
Really lovely work, the wrapping compliments the heart shape well.
Have any more details like size, price and type of metals used? thanks
so pretty
WOAH! I love the simplicity and the colours!


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THE INQUIRER managed to get a demo of Microsoft's first homegrown tablet, the Microsoft Surface with Windows RT.
Shown off at Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 launch event in London last night, the Surface RT looks to tackle the Apple Ipad and the newly announced Google Nexus 10 with its 10.6in 1366 x 768 touchscreen, quad-core processor and quirky Windows RT operating system.
The tablet, which apparantly failed to impress UK consumers on launch day, also features 2GB of RAM, dual cameras, HD 720p video support, either 32GB or 64GB of internal storage and the option of adding on Microsoft's colourful Touch keyboard.
Check back soon for our full Microsoft Surface RT review. µ
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