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why can't i sleep through the night?
i used to be able to sleep through the night like a rock. but now the slightest sound or movement that i make myself wakes me up. i randomly get tired throughout the day and can't fall asleep. is that normal?
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A lot of people have trouble sleeping during pregnancy, and unfortunately it doesn't get any better once the baby is here! This has happened to me and to a number of my friends who are also moms. Talk to your doctor and see if you can take a Tylenol PM once in a while to help you sleep a little better. If you are suffering from anxiety and true insomnia, he or she might also be able to talk to you about what you can do, including counseling, self-hypnosis, relaxing exercises to help. I also recommend having a fan or a white noise machine in your room to help blend out the sounds that are waking you up. Also, go to bed as soon as you feel tired if you can - sometimes staying up later actually backfires and makes it harder to get to sleep. But honestly, it may be something you have to get used to, at least to a lesser degree than what you have now, while you're pregnant and while you have a small baby. Hope you get some relief soon!posted 05/31/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
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Harry could hear moaning and groaning outside his bedroom window. It was difficult to sleep. As he pulled the bedclothes over his head, he heard the clock strike midnight-ding-dong-ding-dong. "Rip my socks!' cried out Harry, annoyed. "It's time for Daffy the ghost to come and be installed in his new corpse. If these ghosts did not make me rich, I wouldn't bother with them."
"But we do make you rich," moaned Daffy as he flew in through the wall. "Now where is my new body which you promised me for haunting your house. You know you make a lot of money out of your haunted house, Harry. Aren't you grateful? And do not forget the succession of other spirits even more hideous then I who will follow my incorporation, bringing you opportunities to underprice the owners of other haunted houses that will be brought to your notice."
"I suppose so," answered Harry sulkily. "The corpse I have for you is in the kitchen. I just dug it up at the cemetery two hours ago. He is also called Daffy – Dead Daffy. That was the name on his headstone. So you should fit in quite comfortably, if you'll pardon my little joke."
"I might, and I mightn't", answered Daffy mysteriously. "Anyway, let's get on with it. Who's doing the installation? I hope it's not that avaricious Mammon, or that slothful Belpthegor; those demons are either too greedy or simply useless. So who's doing the desecration, Harry?"
"Asmodeus. Will he fit in with your criteria of a fitting desecration, Daffy? I suppose he's a little frenzied, but desire spurs him on, don't you think?" asked Harry.
"Well, yes, he would be my first choice, as it happens," said Daffy, licking his lips in a way that had hidden meaning for Harry.
He made an incantation to call up the demon, Lord Asmodeus, by your grace, grant me, I pray thee the enthuse the ghost of Daffy, my creditor into the corpse, hitherto know as Daffy, but quite a different Daffy, though I am sure one is just as daffy as the other, so I am sure it will be as proper as any other fusing of corpse and ghost to fuse these two. I believe this fusing that will result in resurrection of a most unholy kind, can only be achieved through your intercession, O Mighty Asmodeus , and will ultimately be eternally condemned through the vice that is executed under your tutelage, that of carnal lust.
"I am sure there was no need to remind him of the eternal condemnation," protested Daffy mildly just as a foul cloud of fiery smoke and brimstone erupted by way of a fanfare announcing the arrival of Asmodeus.
A very ugly creature, much like a deformed faun, but obviously robust and agile appeared before Harry and Daffy. He wasted no time, as he expected to be busy throughout eternity. He began: "I am rather miffed you you did not describe me as king of demons. I feel very diminished."
"It's very hard to keep on the right side of a demon," said Harry, in a bid to excuse himself.
"Where devils are concerned, there is no right side," boomed Asmodeus impressively.
"Do you mean to say you are all left?" asked Daffy.
"All wrong!" exclaimed the peeved fiend.
"Is that right?" wondered Harry.
"Yes," replied the demon. "I mean, no. Enough of this foolishness. But I have special stipulations if I am to bring about a union between this ghost and the corpse you have for it. Else they will remain severed utterly."
"What would you have me do?" entreated the as yet incorporeal Daffy. "I understand you are keen on calamities whereby the beauty of virgins is wasted away and they become estrange their husbands' hearts"
"Yes, I am keen on that type of thing. I would be much beholden to you if you could manage, in the form of an incubus, to transport men into fits of madness, when they witness their wives engaged with incorporeal lovers, reaching ecstasies as if with the air. In this way, you would greatly help me by instilling a zelophiliac insanity in them, stirring wicked embers of desire which they then transfer to the wives of others."
"Good Lord!" cried Harry. "That's absolutely diabolical. I feel partly to blame for this fiendish plot."
"You are entirely to blame," Daffy told him. "If you hadn't provided the cadavers this type of contract could never have occurred." Harry hung his head in shame, but he perked up almost immediately when he recalled the treasure Daffy had promised him for successful completion of his incorporation.
"Daffy, there are no innocents," Asmodeus pronounced importantly. "But I would have you compound your guilt so that the husbands who are ephemerally cuckolded go by night and day to other women who belong to other men, engaged in illicit pleasures and provoke the betrayed spouses to murder."
"I have never let guilt make me feel guilty; I am cheerfully amoral," confessed Daffy. "But in this day and age, can we regard women as the property of wine."
"As far as Hell is concerned, and any other righteous authority, they certainly are," Asmodeus told him with absolute certainty so that both Daffy and Harry were convinced wives were the property of men.
But Harry was something of a casuist so he was compelled to ask, "Then why, wondrous Fiend, is it a crime for a cuckolded husband to slay an intruder into his marital couch or a woman who betrays him."
"There's no need to go into that sort of thing just now," said Asmodeus who scratched at the space between his horns and wore a puzzled expression.
"But why don't you cuckold ephemerally yourself?" asked Daffy. "Of course, I am more than happy to do it for you, but why do you pass up such curious delights."
"It's the fault of that interfering archangel, Raphael. He put it about that I could be rendered innocuous, and put to flight by smoke from the liver and gall of an angelfish. So you see, Daffy, I don't need you to stand in for me everywhere; just in those boudoirs where some canny woman is determined on not surrendering to me as an incubus and thus driving her husband insane."
"A very inhospitable way to behave, deliberately sending such fishy fumes into the environment. There should be some sort of tax levied on such emissions," suggested Harry with feeling.
"The odour is so vile it can cause me to pass out," confessed Asmodeus. "I remember one time I was so overwhelmed by the horrid miasma of the liver and gall smoke that I was captured by King Solomon. He shackled me and forced me to help build a Temple."
"That sort of employment seems out of place in the construction of a consecrated building," reflected Daffy.
"More likely to result in its desecration," offered Harry.
"That's the argument I used to regain my liberty," boasted Asmodeus. "But before it occurred to me I spent a good many days working clay with my feet, and drawing water."
"So I take it you would like me to cuckold this Solomon," gathered Daffy.
"No, of course not. He's dead and buried, never to be incorporated. I only want you to cuckold anyone called Solomon whose wife burns off smoke fuelled from the galls and livers of angelfish."
So Daffy undertook to cuckold all the Solomons he could find; some of them had very ugly wives or old wives, or wives who Daffy thought smelt worse than the galls of livers of angelfish possibly called. Though his seed was ephemeral, it was always able to take root, even in the most aged of the Mrs. Solomons with whom he engaged in congress. Some of the Mr. Solomons thought these embryonic conditions miraculous, at least initially. But after a short time, wicked manifestations caused them to disown the new life, and to behave badly, just as Asmodeus had hoped they would, either going on an adulterous rampage, murdering an adulterous wife, or both. Harry, Daffy and Asmodeus were immensely entertained watching the aftermath of Daffy's intrusions in the Mirror of Indiscretions that Asmodeus brought out in the small hours of the morning.
Daffy was obliged to cuckold 101 Solomons and then he would be able to live a carefree, sin-filled life for 101 years. He was managing quite well, cuckolding at a rate seven Solomons per day, which even Asmodeus thought was fair going. As a fiend, Asmodeus was far more competent, but as he pointed out to Daffy when he met him at Harry's at the end of a day's fornication, "You are only human, and of course this is not a competition. So of course I win." To Harry this observation seemed like a non sequitur, but he knew that pointed such a thing out to Asmodeus would only confuse him, and a befuddled fiend was not very good company.
However, he did ask, "Do you think I should put the corpse I dug up for Harry in the freezer? The warm weather is fast approaching."
"But then you would have to thaw it before I could possess it," returned Daffy. "I'm sure a thawed corpse would lose its muscle tone. And I don't like the idea of enthusing a frozen stiff." Harry didn't press his point and things went on much as they had for some days, with Harry increasingly reluctant to enter his kitchen.
But it wasn't long before Daffy found himself quite taken with a rather fetching Mrs. Solomon. Her first name was Rachel, and Daffy enjoyed susurrating it as he enjoyed her shapely young body. But her husband, Mr. Benaiah Solomon, who had become wealthy from waste disposal, including the carcasses of cats, dogs, possums and other cadavers, was aware that there was an unusual degree of hanky-panky going on among many members of his extended family. He plumbed there was some fiendish plot ahoof, and took certain traditional measures. He looked forward to witnessing such evil and making an idoneous response.
Mr. Solomon had left a chain beside Rachel's bed, looped with a ring that was inscribed with the Tetragrammaton was engraved, a bundle of wool, and a number of bottles of fine, seder kiddush wine, and others as mellow from the Vinifera grape. He told Rachel, "If you find yourself in the throes of delight, under the affectionate ministrations of some ethereal being, stop on occasion to say you are parched, and sip from this stock. The wine will revive you, and the spirit who comes to you will be better able to continue."
Rachel was in the habit of hearing strange requests from Mr. Benaiah Solomon; he appeared quite pleased when she flirted, and didn't seem to mind wifely betrayal; though these references to lewd spirits encouraged by seder kiddush wine were peculiar even for him. But being a good wife in her way, and knowing whose property she was, she agreed to do as he asked without complaint or womanly objurgation.
As it happened, that very night Daffy in the form of a vibrant incubus visited Rachel and performed in the way that he was wont to do; but as Rachel was so comely and sweetly responsive he forgot his obligation to corrupt the other six wives as required for his daily quota. In time, Rachel cried out, "O, how I thirst. I must disengaged from this throbbing spirit that stirs me so, and imbibe a sup of seder kiddush." Rachel screwed herself away from Daffy and poured herself a goblet of wine; the bouquet was most appealing, as was that of the wine from the Vinifera grape that Rachel next sampled. She was moved to think fondly of Mr. Benaiah Solomon who had been so thoughtful as to leave her such pleasant liquors. She wondered if he was sitting behind the curtain where he usually watched her during her indiscretions and decided to signal him her thanks with a coy smile in case he were there. Mr. Benaiah Solomon, who did happen to be there, waved back unobtrusively, but did not break his cover.
In the meantime, the happy fumes of both the seder kiddush and the Vinifera wine wafted temptingly into Daffy's nostrils, so that he was moved to inhale the pleasant vapours until the two bottles were empty. Noticing that the bottles were empty, Rachel wondered at her ability to drink so heartily and yet remain sober. She thought she must have imbibed more than enough for the moment and so returned to the position she was in before unscrewing herself. This was signal enough for Daffy who then returned exuberantly to his labours with prurient assiduity.
However, despite his willingness for amorous industry, the wine had already weakened his stamina so it wasn't long before Rachel, somewhat peeved, unscrewed herself and took a goblet from each of another two bottles, one of the Vinifera grape and another of the seder kiddush. Once again the vapours lured Daffy and he inhaled the last drop of each beverage. After each such intake, his stamina was of shorter duration, until at last he became fatigued, so that he limply unscrewed himself and fell into a slumber, a condition that peeved Rachel a great deal, causing her to turn on her side in a huff, and fall into a resentful doze.
From his knowledge of Rachel, Mr. Benaiah Solomon saw the moment was come to shackle Daffy, though the name of the incubus was not yet known to him, though he was fairly certain as to the type of creature with which he had to deal. Stealing out from the curtain where he was ensconced, he took the wool he had secreted among the bottles of wine, and ran it along the apparently vacant space beside Rachel, wool being a sure detector of the presence of an incubus, Daffy being far from the first of these beings to delight Rachel. Deftly, Mr. Benaiah Solomon found he had a hold of Daffy and duly shackled him, the chain secured with the ring inscribed with the Tetragrammaton. This ring in turn Mr. Benaiah secured to a heavier ring he had firmly embedded into the wall beside his nuptial couch beneath a print of Lovis Corinth's work depicting Ares and Aphrodite netted in Hephaestus' web. Rachel thought this work in very poor taste, but its presence was a small price to pay for the numerous, happy indiscretions allowed her by Mr. Benaiah Solomon.
By this time, Harry and Asmodeus were concerned that Daffy had not returned to report on the day's conquests, so they inquired into the Mirror of Indiscretions where much to their chagrin, they saw their confederate being manacled and even worse, he was becoming visible due to the power of the Tetragrammaton. "Good Lord, can't you do something, Asmodeus? I can't have Daffy imprisoned there; he must come and take possession of the corpse in my kitchen before its stench becomes so high it reeks to high heaven."
"We don't want those angels interfering in our business; and I still need Daffy to cuckold another twenty-seven husbands before Satan will let me rest from my labours in the second circle of hell." He looked down into another part of his mirror, pointed, and said, "That's where I want to be, just watching and punishing fornicators and lechers, to punish those an Italian of great moral superiority described as the lustful in hell, whose actions often led them and their lovers to death, are "carnal sinners who subordinate reason to desire."
"Rather like the pot calling the kettle black, or the pot punishing the kettle," noted Harry, unable to help himself commenting on such obvious ambiguity in Asmodeus' application of moral standards.
"Goodness, Harry, I'm a fiend. Part of being wicked is being behaviourally inconsistent. I can't see why an intelligent person such as yourself has trouble grasping that truth, one of the few I have ever felt the need to utter."
Harry was quite by the fiend's compliment, which he was sure was sincere. "But fine fiend, how can we free Daffy?"
"Look, Mr. Benaiah Solomon is putting out the fuming angelfish gall and liver. I can release him now if you will paint over the Tetragrammaton and distort the letters into the name of Satan."
"O, damn! Won't I get into trouble for doing that?" asked Harry timidly.
"You are hardly likely to be rewarded in Paradise for a virtuous life here on earth, Harry; you're going to be damned no matter what happens. But in me, you will have a friend; all you have to do to put the r in fiend is desecrate the Tetragrammaton while I subdue the Solomon cuckold, and then I will rip the chain from the wall." Harry eyed the horrid demon, admiring the splendid muscles that rippled over his hideous form, so that a frisson of shameful desire spasmed through him.
Harry closed his eyes as a sensation of climax thrilled through him, and when they opened again, he saw he was in the bedroom of Rachel and Mr. Benaiah Solomon. The husband had grown huge antlers that he shook violently trembling beneath Asmodeus' grip. Inspired with an hitherto unrealised knowledge, Harry uncovered the ring inscribed with the Tetragrammaton and painted over it the Hebrew name הַשָׂטָן, that even as he set it down became ineffable for him. In the meantime, Mr. Benaiah Solomon had fainted into deep stillness. Rachel slept deeply, lost in the slumber of the sexually sated, Daffy having done quite well by her, despite the long draughts of seder kiddush he had imbibed. Asmodeus was now free to unchain Daffy which he did in a moment, no longer thwarted by the fumes of the gall and liver of angelfish.
It was slightly more difficult to rouse Daffy who, like Rachel, slept the sleep of the sexually sated combined with that of the inebriate. Nevertheless he was able to enter the oblivious Daffy's mind and wake him with a diabolical bellow. Without giving him a moment to rest, Asmodeus hurried Daffy back to his duty, urging him, "Take no extraordinary delight in your office, Daffy. If you continue to enjoy fornication, you may regret it." Asmodeus' stern glare more than his words motivated Daffy to reapply himself with unstinting assiduity to his remaining duties. Still, Asmodeus kept only as far away from Daffy as the dreaded fumes required, monitoring his performance, ensuring he performed them modestly.
Harry left his fellows to return to his house, and do his best to keep the kitchen cool so that the still vacant corpse did not become too putrid. But he was not very successful. For soon, Mr. Benaiah Solomon came out of his sleep, and dressed his newly formed antlers in a very tall stove-pipe hat. He then went back to his duties which included inspecting particularly pungent odours. It wasn't long before strong fumes drew him to Harry's kitchen, where he said, "You have a vile, stinking corpse, I find. You are clearly a murderer." A crowd had come with Mr. Benaiah Solomon to find the source of the stench and the look into the extent of any foul play. When the inspector described Harry as a murderer, the mob was roused. It was roused further when Daffy' mourners, some of whom were present, recognised him. Their tears and cries of outrage further incensed the mob who then lynched Harry. No sooner was he dead than he was despatched to the seventh circle of Hell where he found, much to his dismay that, just as the Italian of high moral standing had warned, he was left naked on burning sand with fire raining down from unnatural clouds. He was sure there was some mistake, and protested to the demon in charge of punishment at this level, one Capaneus, that a mistake was made; that he should not be surrounded by sodomites and usurers and other such egregious beings. "Asmodeus assured me I would be no lower than the second circle, with lechers and other gay fellows."
"The gay fellows are here; there are sodomites all about," chuckled Capaneus. "But whatever made you think you could trust Asmodeus. He is one of the best demons in Hell."
Otherwise, Daffy found the corpse he thought would be his had been removed by Mr. Benaiah Solomon. As he could not be embodied, he was soon dispatched to the second circle of hell where he entertained Asmodeus who observed his penance as he rested from his labours on earth.


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Recent grant acquisitions demonstrate confidence in the scholarship of Earlham's faculty and the value of an Earlham degree. Both in terms of dollar amounts awarded and in disciplines involved, this short list indicates a diversity in types of requests made and awards received.
Earlham's Joseph Moore Museum received a $14,000 grant from the Stamm Koechlein Family Foundation in July 2015 to expand educational outreach and programming.
In June 2015 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Earlham a four-year, $500,000 grant to support Chinese Studies. The grant will fund the continuation of Chinese language instruction, extensive faculty development both on campus and in China, targeted curricular development, creation of a study-abroad program, and special events and visiting scholars.
The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation awarded Earlham a $4,550 grant in July 2015 through its Southern Exposure: Performing Arts of Latin America program, which is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant will fund a performance and community activities by the Cumbia All Stars in the fall semester.
In June 2015 Earlham was selected to receive a $9,000 NetVUE Professional Development Award from the Council of Independent Colleges. Funding will support a summer seminar in vocational discernment that will enhance Earlham faculty's ability to work closely with students as they consider their career and post-graduate educational possibilities.
Robert Rosenberg, professor of biology, received a $12,000 Collaborative Research Travel Grant in June 2015 from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. With this support Rosenberg will spend a portion of his upcoming sabbatical in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Health in Rockville, Maryland, expanding his expertise into molecular dynamics. As a result he will be able to provide increased opportunities for undergraduate research in both computational and experimental biology.
In June 2015 US Bank Foundation provided Earlham with a $1,000 grant to be used as a scholarship for a student who participated in this year's GeoCache for College Cash, a scavenger-hunt type activity about personal finance topics sponsored by Money Smart Week.
Also in June 2015, Earlham received a $45,750 grant from the Austin Memorial Foundation toward the installation of a cretaceous garden adjacent to the College's new Center for Science and Technology.
Kat Bartow, assistant professor of biology, was awarded a $1,600 Senior Research Grant from the Indiana Academy of Science in April 2015. The grant supports her summer research, which focuses on the neuroanatomy of trematode cercariae, and gives student researchers the opportunity to learn advanced cell and molecular biology techniques, develop behavioral assays, and use some basic bioinformatics techniques.
Earlham received a $57,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation's East Asia Internship Program in December 2014. The grant will support 10 student internship opportunities in the summer of 2015 in companies and non-profit organizations in Japan, Thailand, South Korean, Malaysia and Singapore.
Also in December 2014 Earlham's Center for Integrated Learning received a $10,000 grant from the C. Charles Jackson Foundation. The grant funds the Richmond Integrated Service Experience (RISE) model, which provides Earlham students with tiered opportunities for involvement in community-based learning including community engagement activities, service, capacity-building work and community-based research.
In September 2014 the Joseph Moore Museum (JMM), under the leadership of Heather Lerner and Ann-Eliza Lewis, received a $149,793 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to catalog, inventory, database and make accessible on the Internet the focal collections of the museum. Over the three years of the grant, the JMM will have completed an inventory of the focal collections and entered the nearly 12,000 specimens into a customized database. The collection will be made available for international research through a Web portal and be prepared to connect to international biodiversity data portals.
The Association of American Colleges & Universities awarded Earlham $70,000 in August 2014 to participate with other Great Lakes Colleges Association campuses in the Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) project. This two-year initiative focuses on direct assessment of student learning and documentation of expected learning outcomes such as information literacy, intercultural knowledge, ethical reasoning and problem solving.
Beginning in October 2014 a two-year $347,228 grant from the National Science Foundation will fund upgrades in Earlham's cyber-infrastructure backbone connections for its entire Science Complex. Tom Steffes (ITS), Charlie Peck (Computer Science), Lori Watson (Chemistry), Heather Lerner (Biology/Joseph Moore Museum), and Michael Lerner (Physics) collaborated on the successful application for the project, which will expose a greater number of undergraduate students to scientific discovery through hands-on research projects with faculty and through access to scientific resources and applications available through the research and education networks.
In August 2014 the Council for International Exchange of Scholars awarded the College a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence grant to bring Heri Purwanto, a professional gamelan musician from Indonesia, to campus for the 2014-15 academic year. Mr. Purwanto is instructing both new and returning Earlham students in the Javanese gamelan ensemble and giving private and small-group lessons on the instrumental and vocal parts that require more intensive instruction than what is possible in the full ensemble rehearsals.
Mary Garman and Michael Birkel in the Religion Department received a $2,500 grant from Interfaith Youth Core that is supporting the development of an interfaith course sequence, expanded religious literacy, and more advanced religious discourse throughout the 2014-2015 academic year.
In January 2014 the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Earlham a two-year $5,165 grant for the project "Preservation Assessment of the Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives." The assessment is evaluating the general storage conditions of the collection, including environment, security, fire protection, and collection storage and handling. The assessment will result in a written report providing immediate, medium, and long-term preservation priorities to ensure the safety and longevity of Earlham's archival holdings.
In December 2013 the Lilly Endowment, Inc. awarded Earlham $1,000,000 over four years to fund its new "Indiana Pathways: Building the Bridge to Employment Through High Impact Learning" program. Designed specifically to keep graduates in Indiana, the grant program brings together experiential learning and the liberal arts to build bridges from college to career. The program includes over 20 opportunities for student internships with highly regarded Indiana organizations including Riley Children's Hospital, the Indianapolis Children's Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Conner Prairie, the Indiana University School of Medicine Neuroscience Research Institute, and the Richard M. Fairbanks Indiana University School of Public Health.
Marc Benamou (Music) received a three-year Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant of $290,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his project "Javanese Sung Poetry in Translation." With collaborators in Indonesia and the U.S. Benamou is developing a searchable database, website, and print publication of Javanese gamelan song texts, translated into both Indonesian and English, for use by gamelan ensembles throughout the world.
Earlham was awarded $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education beginning October 2013 to further develop the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program over a five-year period. The McNair program began at Earlham in 2009 and prepares low-income, first generation and underrepresented students for graduate study by providing programming and research opportunities.
In the spring of 2013 John Iverson (Biology) received National Science Foundation funding through a sub-award from Iowa State University. The award of $94,044 – "Climate change and environmental sex determination in a geographically widespread species" – is part of a long-term collaborative project that supports Iverson's research with Earlham students in the Sand Hills of Nebraska for three summers. Students monitor several species of nesting turtles, and capture, measure, mark, and release each female, while also recording microhabitat data at each nest site.
Through its Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) the Henry Luce Foundation awarded the College a $50,000 exploration grant in March 2013. Gary DeCoker (Japanese Studies), Andy Moore (Geology) and Eric Cunningham (Japanese Studies) have collaborated with Iwate University faculty in Morioka to expand student research opportunities in Japan. Moore and Cunningham are further enhancing relationships with governmental leaders, local emergency managers, and ordinary citizens, and developing coursework focusing on scientific and cultural background along with policy creation and implementation.
Lori Watson (Chemistry) and collaborators at other institutions including Hope and Reed Colleges received a four-year, $437,962 grant from the National Science Foundation in August 2012 to further the work of the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC). The current grant expands the network's website and social networking hub and funds four week-long summer workshops and ancillary activities that introduce faculty to cutting-edge topics in several subfields of inorganic chemistry, develop at least 100 high quality teaching resources in conjunction with research experts, and disseminate these materials to the global inorganic teaching community.
In June 2012 Earlham College received a $525,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue development of its Middle East Studies Program and broaden internationalization on campus and in the curriculum. The grant strengthens instruction in Middle East history and the Arabic language and supports joint faculty-student research activity.
In March 2012 the National Science Foundation awarded Christopher Smith (Biology), Peter Blair (Biology), Charlie Peck (Computer Science) and colleagues at Indiana University-East a $168,739 grant for their project, "Using metagenomics to realize an education partnership and stimulate curriculum development." The project has engaged students at both institutions in collecting soil samples from farm fields around Richmond, Indiana and from the soil under the receding edges of glaciers in Iceland. Students have been helping to extract DNA from the samples that is then processed, sequenced, and analyzed. In addition, curriculum modules in metagenomics based on these data sets are being built and tested at Earlham.


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There's a New Windows Phone!
Why you should be overjoyed about Microsoft's latest entry in the smartphone derby.
Are you having trouble containing your anticipation for the new Windows Phone? Have you been pestering your friends with your incessant, giddy chatter about all the wonderful features in the latest version of Microsoft's mobile operating system—its elegant maps app, its terrific new local search system, and its fresh, intuitive user interface? Maybe you've been worrying about when to start camping out at Best Buy to make sure you get your hands on this revolutionary new mobile platform. After all, with its Windows Phone, Microsoft has created the most novel take on the smartphone since the first iPhone—it looks and feels completely different from everything else on the market, and it's easier and more fun to use than just about any other phone you can get. Surely people are lining up around the block for this thing, right?
Nope. You're not excited about Windows Phone. Nobody's excited about Windows Phone. When Microsoft abandoned its clunky Windows Mobile software last year and unveiled Windows Phone 7 OS as its successor, many observers were optimistic. Finally, the software giant looked to be offering something worthy of competition with the iPhone and Google's Android OS. And when the first Windows Phone devices went on sale last fall, the critics swooned. I wrote that "the new OS shows that Microsoft is finally fighting to be a contender in the mobile market."
But Windows Phone hit with a thud. While the iPhone and Android keep gobbling up more and more of the smartphone market, Microsoft's market share has actually declined since it launched its new platform. With Apple set to unveil a new iPhone next week—this time on AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint, guaranteeing even bigger sales than previous iPhone launches—and Android continuing to make its way into lots and lots of cheap phones, Windows risks getting squeezed out of the mobile business entirely.
And that's too bad. This week, Microsoft is releasing a fantastic update to the Windows Phone OS. I've been using Windows Phone 7.5—also known as Mango—for about a week, and I've loved every minute of it. Microsoft has fixed many of the flaws in the first version of the OS—Windows Phone now has copy and paste, and it has adopted Apple's half-loaf version of multitasking, allowing some apps to stay active while you're not actively using them. Microsoft has also beefed up its Apps Marketplace: There are now 30,000 apps, far fewer than on Android and the iPhone but still plenty for most people.
Best of all, Microsoft has added several neat user-interface tricks that let you do common tasks more quickly than on other phones. There's a Shazam-like song-identifying feature built right into the search panel. Also, you can see listings and reviews of restaurants, shops, and movies with a single click. Managing your contacts is also incredibly easy. Because Windows Phone connects to all of your online accounts (e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, IM, etc.), it's able to create a comprehensive picture of everyone in your address book. Click on a name and you see not just a phone and email address but that person's Twitter handle, Facebook profile picture, birthday (also from Facebook), and a history of all the conversations you've had with him.
You'll find similar features built into the iPhone and into various versions of Android, or through various iPhone and Android apps. But Microsoft's design puts a premium on speed and ease of use; where it takes you three steps to do something on the iPhone or Android, it takes just one on Windows Phone. Want to see what your mom just posted on Facebook? On other phones, you'll have to click the Facebook app or launch the Web browser. Windows Phone alerts you to the post by flashing your mom's profile picture on your People icon on the main menu. Click on it, and you'll see her post (as well as all the recent Facebook activity from all your contacts) in the "What's New" section.


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May 6, 2016
Associated Press Release
By BRETT ZONGKER
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The long wait is finally over for visitors who have been yearning for a whiff of a giant flower that smells oddly like rotting flesh.
The giant rainforest plant known as a "corpse flower" for its terrible smell began blooming Sunday afternoon at the U.S. Botanic Garden next to the Capitol. Experts had been anticipating its bloom for more than a week and have extended the garden's hours for visitors.
Garden officials expect the flower to hit "peak smell" early Monday, and remain open for one or two days.
The flower is officially known as the titan arum. It is native to the tropical rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, and was discovered in 1878.
Scientists say the flower's odor attracts insects that are normally drawn to rotting flesh.
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3x Magic Sword Dual Wielder
3x Brave Soldier
3x Combat monk
3x Revolver Knight
3x Salamander
3x Archer Scout
2x Dryad
1x Fire Storm Wyvern
1x Berzerker
1x Panther Soul
1x Fire Tornado
1x Fire Arrow
Its important to get as many 3-copies of things in as you can, even though Kurina is ridiculously good in 3s, she's pretty mediocre in 2s so until you can get a third I'd avoid her (part of what makes her so amazing is her free revive which you can't fully utlize if you can only revive her once). Dryad is fine at 2 (you usually don't want to revive her anyway) and you'll be using Wyvern and Berzerker for their one time use effects if you use them at all so running single copies doesn't hurt that bad.
As for soul cards:
1x Ruby Carbuncle
1x Moonlight Knight
1x Efreet
1x Moonlight Knight
1x Lapierre
Overal I think this deck would be able to compete with alot of decks, but it will definitely have ALOT of match ups it flat out can't win. Unfortantely the state of the game right now is a meta that includes a number of decks that are nearly impossible for gowen to beat even if they have access to every gowen card in the game, let alone such a small card pool, so you've gotta be willing to take your knocks. But if you keep at it you do have a decent base of cards to steal the occasional win from some of the less gowen-hating card files out there and hopefully you're persistence will reward you with some extra gran or treasure battle rewards to fill in some of those gaps (or just give you better options).


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This app is made without many animations so it's be very, very easy to use. with this app you can either flip a coin or roll a dice. It's quite useful if you for example want to play a board game but you don't have a dice, or having a bet with your friend, and end the whole thing flipping a coin...


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Faithful America Members Speak Out Against Racism in Kentucky Church
A news story of a Kentucky church that banned interracial couples from joining their congregation has earned deserved national attention for exposing the kind of shockingly blatant racism that is rarely made public in modern society.
According to press accounts, Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church passed policy was by a vote of 9 to 6 when the church's former pastor proposed it after his daughter (white) returned home from college with her black fiancé.
The good news is that outrage over this church's racism is making headlines, and the church's parent denomination has already issued a statement disavowing the policy.
In anticipation of the local church's re-vote on the policy next week, Faithful America has launched a petition condemning the policy and calling on the church to repeal it.
Read their petition and sign on to the campaign here.
Whenever ugliness likes this appears in communities of faith, it's first and foremost the responsibility of other people of faith to stand up and speak out. It's imperative that they hear immediately from people of faith from across the country who are appalled by this blatant display of racism.
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Will Aidan Return in Sex and the City 2?Lulu and Moxleys Mom
Ahhh, Aidan! What wasn't there to like? He, in my humble opinion, made Mr. Big look small. Rumor has it John Corbett was spotted in Morocco while SATC 2 was filming there. Was he lurking about like a deranged, rejected lunatic or was he perhaps filming scenes with the ladies?
Sarah Jessica Parker, who has some conflicted feelings about her busy work schedule as a mom, will neither confirm nor deny. So let's hope Aidan makes an appearance… If so, does that mean Mr. Big gets cold feet (again) post-marriage? Or, hey, maybe he takes up with Samantha.
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I have, at long last, come to the conclusion that I really need to do more about doing a proper recovery regimen after rides. I often have headaches (similar to a hang-over headache) after standing up and general exhaustion after longer rides (35+ mi) that continue for most of the day.
I try to prepare well, and stay fairly well hydrated on the ride. I typically go through close to if not over 2 bottles in a 30-40mi ride. Usually go out with 1 bottle cytomax, 1 bottle water, or both cytomax. As well as additional gels for longer rides.
Post ride right now, I usually just have a half bottle of cytomax to make sure I have some sugars and electrolytes going in after the ride is over. The headaches make me think I'm still low on hydration and/or electrolytes, but as much liquids as I'm taking in I'm surprised my body is requiring even more.


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Live the goat life you always dreamed ofxenn88 | April 10, 2014 | Review of Goat Simulator - PC
The second I heard of this game, I just had to have it. Following Coffee Stain since Sanctum, I was excited to see what they could pull off branching out to something as whackey as this. Boy did they deliver, It starts out as a simple, casual fun sort of game. Allowing you to get in to all sorts of trouble with your goatiness. The game is fully explorable from the start. - Despite the assumed instability of the game, it's actually surprisingly stable, or at least has been for me. However, though simple at first, the game also offers ample challenge for those who're more adept to the gaming universe, certain achievements require you to bring your A-Game and nothing less; Goat Simulator I feel is a great title for both casual and experienced gamers, even more-so for gamers who merely want some good laughs. Just about everything I did in this game made me at the very 'least' smile, and was a great pick-me-up from the normal "I'm so srs" games. They really break out from the norm with their Tony Hawk's style 'secret gaps/events' so to speak. Headbutting a gas station, or shooting a basketball in to a goal-field are some examples; they really put some genuine thought in to what players could get in to, and that makes this game just so much more epic.


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Wednesday I was up wandering the property visiting with the wolves. I began to help with the sorting of food when I heard Bill call my name. He points across the facility and up by the driveway is a yearling moose. Being the photographer I am, I of course went to see if I could catch a photo of it. As soon as I stepped off the property the wolves began to howl louder than they have all day. Once I came back they quieted down. I told Nancy of this and she tells me how they knew the moose was of danger to me and they were calling me back to safety. I thought that was pretty neat until yesterday (Saturday). I was once again up visiting waiting for Nancy to get off of work so we could visit and maybe go hang out and chat. One of our usual volunteers was up on the facility and he had invited me to go for a walk down in the lower 40. As we began the journey the wolves began to howl wildly once again. It's the same as I heard with the moose earlier this week. I was tempted to continue on but I heard one voice stand out over all the rest. It was Okemo. A wolf that is very shy around me. He was singing louder than all the rest. I chose to head back knowing that they must know something that I didn't. Once they realized I was coming back and got through the gate, not a sound could be heard. As I walked back towards Nancy's house, I see Okemo is watching me from his enclosure. I stopped and got this photo before he huffed off and hid in the brush. All I can think now is "Awww... He does care..." I have to say It's truly an honor to know that the pack (even the shyest of them) has my back and that they are willing to care for my safety by warning me back.
*****'The Tear' BY: Nancy J. Taylor*****
Cochise and Cherish have lived together for about 7 years. They started out with different mates. Cochise lived with Hoonakwa and Cherish with King Cyrus. Both were happy and loving relationships however, Hoonakwa died from an intrauterine infection and King Cyrus died from complications from ear infections. Cochise and Cherish took it hard and mourned their losses, along with the rest of the pack. Wolves love like humans, and saying good-bye to a mate is never easy for them. Several months had gone by since their deaths, and we noticed how sad and lonesome Cherish and Cochise were. So, we decided to see if they could live together. It was a rather biblical-type of arrangement as King Cyrus was a brother to Cochise. We put them side by side at first, and they seemed okay with each other. The big day came when we let them be together, and we crossed our fingers! They stood face-to-face at first as if to say, Im the boss while the other said no, Im the boss! They both held their ground and Cherish checked out Cochises enclosureher new home! Days and weeks went by; and little-by-little, they began to soften towards one another. We would see them laying together, or howling together, playing catch me if you can, or eating together. They were happier, and their beautiful faces showed it. It was a plutonic relationship all the way, but they did grow to love one another in that respect and were great companions. After about 6 years, we noticed a large tumor on one of Cherishs legs. The vet removed it and told us it was a very aggressive type of cancer, but he had gotten it all. Nine months later, it was back and throughout her entire abdomen. We could tell that she was suffering so, we had no choice other than to put her to sleep. Afterwards, we brought her home and buried her in our cemetery for our wolves. As we were doing this, we looked up the hill to see Cochise watching us from his enclosure. Afterwards, I went up to be with Cochise. As I sat on the ground, he came and stood next to me. I noticed a tear in his eye that rolled down his long nose. As I held my hands out to him, it fell into the palm of my right hand. I was crying too, and I stayed with him for quite awhile. I have always felt so honored that he allowed me to share his sorrow at the time of his, and my, loss!
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The 37th Seattle International Film Festival has announced its lineup of galas, tribute events and special presentations. The festival will open with a gala and screening of Justin Chadwick's "The First Grader," feature a centerpiece gala and viewing of Philippe Le Guay's "Service Entrance," and close with a gala and screening of Kevin Macdonald's "Life in a Day." It will also include tributes to Ewan McGregor and Warren Miller and a discussion with Al Pacino.
The festival takes place May 19-June 12 at venues throughout Seattle, Renton, Everett and Kirkland.
Below find information on the films and credits, courtesy of the festival.
Feature Premieres
World Premieres: "A Lot Like You" (USA), "August" (USA), "Do You See Colors When You Close Your Eyes?" (USA), "Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians" (USA), "Lys" (Germany), "Sushi: The Global Catch" (USA), "The Darkest Matter" (USA)
North America Premieres: "Above Us Only Sky" (Germany), "Absent" (Argentina), "Almanya" (Germany), "Angel of Evil" (Italy), "Backyard" (Iceland), "Bicycle", "Spoon", "Apple" (Spain), "Blinding" (Canada), "Bruce Lee, My Brother" (Hong Kong), "Every Song is About Me" (Spain), "Flying Fish" (Sri Lanka), "Heading West" (Netherlands), "Johan Primero" (Netherlands), "Killing Bono" (UK), "King of Devil's Island" (Norway), "The Mountain" (Norway), "Nobody" (Greece), "Our Home" (Brazil), "Qarantina" (Iraq), "Red Eagle" (Thailand), "Revenge: A Love Story" (Hong Kong), "Rosario" (Philippines), "Sevdah for Karim" (Bosnia-Herzegovina), "Spud" (South Africa), "Third Star" (UK), "A Thousand Fools" (Spain), "Yellow Sea" (South Korea)
U.S. Premieres: "The Cashier Who Liked Gambling" (Italy), "Ex" (Hong Kong), "Fathers & Sons" (Canada), "Finisterrae" (Spain), "Funkytown" (Canada, Quebec), "The Intruder" (Thailand), "Late Autumn" (South Korea), "Norwegian Wood" (Japan), "Oliver Sherman" (Canada), "Por El Camino" (Brazil), "Princess" (Finland), "Rene Goes To Hollywood" (Georgia), "Red Eyes" (Chile), "Silent Sonata" (Slovenia), "Snow White" (France), "A Thousand Times Stronger" (Sweden), "Trigger" (Canada), "The Whisperer in Darkness" (USA), "We Are the Night" (Germany)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Presents Asian Crossroads
New this year to SIFF, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents Asian Crossroads, which will spotlight 13 films highlighting a dazzling variety of exciting, hilarious and profound films emerging from Southeast Asia. The new program kicks-off with "Saigon Electric" (Dir. Stephane Gauger, Vietnam) on Saturday, May 28 at the Neptune Theatre followed by a celebratory party. Additional films include: "The Bengali Detective" (Dir. Phil Cox, India); "Bi, Don't Be Afraid!" (Dir. Phan Dang Di, Vietnam); "Donor" (Dir. Mark Afable Meily, Philippines); "The Empire of Mid-South" (Dir. Jacques Perrin, Eric Deroo, France); "Eternity" (Dir. Sivaroj Kongsakul, Thailand); "Flying Fish" (Dir. Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, Sri Lanka); "Gandu" (Dir. Q [Kaushik Mukherjee], India); "Pinoy Sunday" (Dir. Wi Ding Ho, Taiwan); "Red Eagle" (Dir. Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand); "Rosario" (Dir. Alberto Martinez, Philippines); "Sandcastle" (Dir. Boo Junfeng, Singapore); and "Touch" (Dir. Minh Duc Nguyen, USA).
Special Presentations & Parties
This year's Festival will feature 5 special presentation screenings: "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Dir. Brian Bedford, United Kingdom); "Mysteries of Lisbon" (Dir. Raul Ruiz, Portugal); "Norwegian Wood" (Dir. Tran Anh Hung, Japan); "Tornado Alley" (Dir. Sean Casey, USA); and "The White Meadows" (Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran). Two additional films will be presented with after-parties. The New American Cinema Party will feature a screening of "The Future" (Dir. Miranda July, USA) on May 21 at the Pacific Place Cinemas. The Gay-la party will feature a screening of "August" (Dir. Eldar Rapaport, USA) on Thursday, June 9 at the Egyptian Theatre. "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (Dir. Jay Roach, USA), which had its US debut as the closing night film of SIFF in 1999 will be shown as a free outdoor evening screening at Juanita Beach Park on Saturday, May 28.
Competitions & Awards
New Directors Competition: Festival programmers select 10 films remarkable for their original concept, striking style and overall excellence. To be eligible films must be a director's first or second feature and without U.S. distribution at the time of their selection.
2011 Entrees: "Absent" (Dir. Marco Berger, Argentina); "Almanya" (Dir. Yasemin Samdereli, Germany); "Artificial Paradises" (Dir. Yulene Olaizola, Mexico); "Belle Epine" (Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski, France); "Cairo 678" (Dir. Mohamed Diab, Egypt); "Every Song is About Me" (Dir. Jonas Trueba, Spain); "Flying Fish" (Dir. Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, Sri Lanka); "Gandu" (Dir. Q [Kaushik Mukherjee], India); "The Most Important Thing in Life is Not Being Dead" (Dirs. Olivier Pictel, Pablo Martin Torrado, Mark Recuenco, Switzerland); "Por El Camino" (Dir. Charly Braun, Brazil)
Documentary Competition: Unscripted and uncut, the world is a resource of unexpected, informative, and altogether exciting storytelling. Documentary filmmakers have, for years, brought these untold stories to life and introduced us to a vast number of fascinating topics we may have never known existed—let alone known were so fascinating. Ten films will compete for the Grand Jury Prize.
2011 Entrees: "An African Election" (Dir. Jarreth Merz, Ghana); "Bicycle," "Spoon," "Apple" (Dir. Carles Bosch, Spain); "The Green Wave" (Dir. Ali Samadi Ahadi, Germany); "Hot Coffee" (Dir. Susan Saladoff, USA); "Marathon Boy" (Dir. Gemma Atwal, India); "PressPausePlay" (Dir. David Dworsky, Victor Köhler, Sweden); "Red Eyes" (Dir. Juan Pablo Sallato, Ismael Larrain, Juan Ignacio Sabatini, Chile); "Rothstein's First Assignment" (Dir. Richard Knox Robinson, USA); "Sushi: The Global Catch" (Dir. Mark Hall, USA); "To Be Heard" (Dir. Amy Sultan, Roland Legiardi-Laura, Deborah Shaffer, Edwin Martinez, USA)
FIPRESCI Jury Award: Selected by the International Federation of Film Critics from 10 films from the New American Cinema section.
2011 Entrees: "August" (Dir. Eldar Rapaport, USA), "Black, White and Blues" (Dir. Mario Van Peebles, USA), "Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same" (Dir. Madeleine Olnek, USA), "Gun Hill Road" (Dir. Rashaad Ernesto Green, USA), "Jess + Moss" (Dir. Clay Jeter, USA), "Letters From the Big Man" (Dir. Christopher Munch, USA), "Love" (Dir. William Eubank, USA), "Natural Selection" (Dir. Robbie Pickering, USA), "On the Ice" (Dir. Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, USA), "Roadie" (Dir. Michael Cuesta, USA)
Golden Space Needle Awards: Given in five categories (Best Film, Best Documentary, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Short Film) as voted by festival audiences. Awards are presented on Sunday, June 12 at the Space Needle.
SIFF Shorts Competition: All short films shown (including 44 premieres) at the Festival are eligible for both the Golden Space Needle Audience Award and Jury Awards. Shorts Competition jurors will choose winners in the Narrative, Animation, and Documentary categories. Jury award winners will be qualified to enter their respective short film category to the Academy AwardsÒ.
WaveMaker Award for Excellence in Youth Filmmaking: Sponsored in part by Adobe Youth Voices and presented to one filmmaker, 18 years old or younger, from the FutureWave program, whose talents celebrate the creative possibilities of film. All FutureWave films shown at the Festival are eligible for the award.
New to this years' Festival, SIFF has developed ten Pathways to help moviegoers find the film and experience that suites their moods. Instead of using traditional categories, SIFF Pathways easily connect the audience with films by organizing them into areas that help answer the question "what sort of film do I feel like seeing tonight?"
2011 Festival Pathways:
"Love Me, Do!" - Romance and love in all its forms, pleasures, and idiosyncrasies.
"Make Me Laugh" - Films that make you chuckle and tickle your funny bone.
"Thrill Me" - Suspense, thrills, and action. Films with a faster pace that might also surprise you when you least expect it.
"Creative Streak" - The exploration of artistic endeavors from all disciplines: literature, film, art, dance, and performance.
"Open My Eyes" - Revealing films and documentaries revolving around history, politics, and contemporary events from around the world.
"Sci-Fi and Beyond" - Science, technology, environment, the future—and beyond.
"Take Me Away" - Be prepared to be taken to another place – from exotic far-off lands to vibrant experiences outside of everyday life.
"Spellbinding Stories" - Mesmerizing dramas and documentaries that explore thought-provoking questions, realities, and topics.
"To the Extreme" - Explore the outer limits with films that go beyond the edge.
"Face the Music" - Films that intersect the world of music on all fronts: from biopics and concert films, to musicals and live events.


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RESEARCH: 10 Things You Need to Know About the BRCA Genes
This May movie star Angelina Jolie announced to the world that she is a BRCA 1 carrier, and that she had decided to have a prophylactic mastectomy to reduce her risk for breast cancer. This announcement in the
New York Times
brought global attention to the topic of hereditary breast
cancer and BRCA 1 and 2 mutations.
Since breast cancer is so common, many women are now asking themselves: what are the BRCA genes, do I need to be tested, and why is this information important?
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PROGRAMS: Recently Diagnosed Six Week Support Circle
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CLIENT: Mary Pickett on the Recently Diagnosed Support Circle
BCRC Client, Mary Pickett, was diagnosed with Stage 2A
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I've remarked here many times that Ron Rivera really didn't do the assistant head coach title here in Carolina, and he admitted today that he should've had an experienced head coach on staff. An assistant head coach, experienced or not, would've helped in that regard; both OC Rob Chudzinski and DBs coach (and "Passing game coordinator") Steve Wilks were assistant head coaches in the past.
Rivera has made numerous moves that, at first glance, don't cost Carolina, but in the long run have helped rob some wins from a team that could've been a contender. He covered that at his press conference, suggesting that the schemes and Xs and Os were top notch (agreed) but that game management lacked (agreed on that as well).
Rivera had the ability to hire an assistant head coach, reportedly having some association with his former head coach, Dave Wannstedt - who was AHC/LBs with Buffalo in 2011, before becoming coordinator there. He also would've been able to get Mike Singletary if interested, but the draw on that one would've been more unsettled (since Singletary acts somewhat insane). Finding a position coach with head coach experience isn't that easy (Tom Cable would've been another option, I guess), and in my opinion, there's not much room for a coordinator with that additional role.
Notably, Darin Gantt chimed in on twitter, specifically pushing the idea that Chudzinski was Rivera's choice and that the team had other choices at OC; that's all well and good, but coordinators don't have to be the guys to advise a head coach; John Fox used his RBs coach, Jim Skipper. You want someone detached from the minutae of instructing half the team at all times, in my opinion.
The hire of Chudzinski was ideal; the coaches being pushed by the media as Hurney's supposed choices (Tom Clements, unlikely to leave as GB's QBs coach and now their OC; Jay Gruden, who's doing a great job as Bengals OC but who had minimal experience in any high enough league as a head coach; Marc Trestman, a head coach in the CFL) weren't necessarily guys who had success in college or NFL as a head coach. None of them push the system that Rivera's familiar with; he doesn't know them. Again, in this case, an association with a coach who has some background with the new HC is a good thing.
I do applaud Rivera's candid statements, as always. I wish those situations were improved; I wish Rivera was a better game manager. I see a team that, in a way, is held back by just that issue.
Would a stipulation of Rivera's continued employment next year be found in an Assistant Head Coach who's been around the block? If so, who?
*Wannstedt might come available again (Chan Gailey and Wannstedt have the Bills at 5-9 in year 3). LBs coach Warren Belin is doing a good job, but could easily slide back to college;
*Pat Shurmur (current coach of the Browns) coached TEs, then QBs with the Eagles, though he's probably as likely to slide back in with Andy Reid;
*Mike Munchak in Tennessee probably doesn't have much time left; he'd be a solid line coach/assistant head coach
*Norv Turner's probably not going to get another head coaching job; the unlikeliness of him coming here is evident in that he wouldn't be less than a coordinator and hasn't worked on the East Coast in years.
There's also a chance that Rivera promotes someone from within to the title. Or that he's not here to have it happen.


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Residents of the Garden Park Villa retirement community in Canon City are still out of their homes, after a fire on the first floor of the complex ignited Wednesday afternoon.
The complex is for low income seniors. About 50 seniors live in the apartments. According to the manager of the complex, most of the residents will be able to get back into their homes Friday or Saturday.
"The damage was contained to one unit, a one bedroom apartment," said Manager Phil Heil, "There's smoke damage in that immediate area."
The residents who live in that immediate area will probably be out for another week according to Heil.
Most people who were evacuated are staying with family, while the Red Cross is paying for 19 seniors to stay in a hotel, according to Heil.
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The August issue of the American School Board Journal is now live and as always includes a number of spectacular features including a cover package on the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits educational discrimination on the basis of gender.
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The Koch Brothers are unhappy that they've been depicted as less-than-awesome in the new Will Ferrell / Zach Galifianakis movie 'The Campaign'.
| This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post / by Jason Linkins.
One would sort of imagine that seeing yourself lampooned in a big feature-film satire about contemporary politics would be something of an honor, or at the very least an indication of your real-world political clout, but apparently the industrialist/political fixer Koch Brothers are unhappy that they've been depicted as less-than-utterly awesome in the new Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis movie "The Campaign." So, now this movie is now something that's forcing "spokespersons" to issue "statements."
In the movie, Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow play a pair of wealthy political donors named "The Motch Brothers." As Galifianakis explained in an interview with the New York Daily News, the filmmakers hoped to skewer the overwhelming influence that money has in politics. "Whether you are on the right or the left," said Galifianakis, "everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money." He went on to describe the Koch Brothers as "creepy" and confessed, "I disagree with everything they do."
This is a fairly non-controversial opinion that's shared by lots of people, and I'd always sort of assumed that the way the Koch Brothers deal with it is to just be content in the knowledge that they can buy and sell their critics a million times over. But somehow, Galifianakis' comment could not be allowed to stand, and so we have Koch spokesman Phillip Ellender doing that thing where he pretends to laugh off the criticism and then turns and gets deeply aggrieved:
"Last we checked, the movie is a comedy. Maybe more to the point is that it's laughable to take political guidance or moral instruction from a guy who makes obscene gestures with a monkey on a bus in Bangkok," said Philip Ellender, referring to a scene from the movie "The Hangover Part II."Ellender continued: "We disagree with his uninformed characterization of Koch and our beliefs. His comments, which appear to be based on false attacks made by our political opponents, demonstrate a lack of understanding of our longstanding support of individual freedom, freedom of expression, and constitutional rights."
This movie is actually a thing the Koch Brothers are bothered about? Sheesh.
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New Art at Rooster: Sunday Brunch by Pontus Hook
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Pontus Hook is an accomplished Swedish photographer that spent one afternoon capturing the vivid characters that frequent Sunday brunch at Red Rooster. A downtown New York resident, Pontus knew he wanted to capture our restaurant's patrons after his first visit uptown. Not knowing what he wanted to capture, the photographer brought his camera and a screen one Sunday afternoon. Read More


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I decided to spend the night in the newsroom, waiting for Humberto. Not because I expect catastrophe, but because the predicted rainfall makes flooding likely between my home and our newspaper ... and flooding would make it hard to do the serious work of covering this storm.
The last advisory from the National Hurricane Center said Humberto was getting angry, gathering steam less than 50 miles off our coast. His winds had swollen to 65 mph and would get stronger, they predicted. In fact, when he makes landfall only a few miles from where Rita hit in 2005, Humberto would be roaring at near hurricane strength. Had Humberto enjoyed a running headstart at us, he might have been a real bruiser.
The last news deadline passed and we unfurled blue tarps -- God, it looks like FEMA exploded in the newsroom -- to protect computers from any roof leaks that might spring under 5 to 15 inches of rain and near-hurricane force winds. We don't think the roof will fail ... but we watched it cave in two years ago and those images are hard to shake. Yeah, paradox runs thick right now. We remain confident that Humberto will not scrape across us like Rita, but he might bring some of his own wickedness to town and we are reluctant to be too sanguine about a mere "tropical storm."
A few minutes ago, I walked out onto the parking garage's roof under light rain and a gentle breeze. The night sky was the color of bruised salmon as refinery lights reflected off low clouds that scuttled eastward like slow-freight trains passing a bum. The next few hours should swell to a frenzy of water and wind. Tomorrow might be a difficult commute for everyone, but we'll know more by dawn. And if we're lucky, Humberto will rush off to die an unceremonious death in Mississippi.
More as the night unfolds .....
UPDATE 12:15 A.M. -- Humberto is now officially a hurricane. A buoy in the Gulf recorded sustained winds at 74 mph -- just one mile-per-hour above the minimum speed for a hurricane. So suddenly, Southeast Texas will absorb its second hurricane in two years, a rather ignominious distinction. Oh well, I hope we act like we've been here before, and not as if this is our first trip to the freak show.
Humberto will hit within the next 1-2 hours. A Weather Channel reporter on Crystal Beach remarked a few minutes ago that an unusual number of frogs were scattered all over the sand there. My first thought was, "Brave amphibians." But then it occurred to me that if you're an amphibian, maybe you needn't be brave in the face of a hurricane. Go figure.
I'm going to sleep in my car in the newspaper's parking garage tonight. Maybe in a few hours I'll wander down to the street for a ringside seat on another thriller. Might as well look it square in the eye.
See you in a few hours ....
UPDATE 2:50 AM -- About 40 miles from where I sit right now, Hurricane Humberto has made landfall in a Category-One churn of 80 mph winds and presumably some unlucky frogs. The thrum of driving rain and modest winds here make sleeping in the echo-y parking garage almost as difficult as sleeping below the flight deck on the USS Enterprise during the round-the-clock bombing of Afghanistan ... a bunk where I never got a good night's sleep. But more than the echoes, the occasional, ever-so-slight jarring of my Subaru made it even more restless.
And this is just Humberto's overture. The serious wind and rain is still a few hours away, even though the storm has likely begun to dissipate as it crosses the energy-draining land. Most people are sleeping through this part of the storm. Let's hope Humberto rolls into town on wobbly legs, more spent than energized.
UPDATE 5:30 AM -- Our power has been out for a couple hours. I hooked up my laptop on battery power to a secure landline. We have had reporters and photographers in the field all night and I know they're OK because they're posting to our website. A fresh, new wave of reporters will start arriving soon. The sun will rise and Humberto will keep running east until he's out of steam.
Tonight, I stood in the doorway of our Main Street parking garage and watched Humberto rage ... just as I watched Rita two years ago. Humberto lacks her guttural growl, her raw fury, her intensity, her sadism. He's a rookie hurricane, without the seasoning that a week in the Gulf offers. For the moment, it seems that all he had in him was a power outage and some flooded streets ... but we'll know much, much more when the sunlight can pierce Humberto's thick, gray poncho. And a lot of people will awaken to the remnants of this storm and later, they'll tell all their friends that they slept through a hurricane.


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Intuition: There's An App For ThatSierra Black
Ever wish you had the superpowers your mom seemed to have? The ones that let her never forget an appointment or a birthday? The ones that helped her bring home your favorite treat from the grocery store and remember the exact book your sister wanted for her birthday? There's an app for that.
A new organizational app for the iPhone called Intuition promises to help you manage the tasks of motherhood.
There are, of course, dozens of apps to help you keep track of appointments and manage your to-do lists. Why bother with one more? In addition to being adorably flower-themed, this one is just good.
OK, actually, if you know me at all, you know the flower thing annoyed me. The app lets you view your tasks by category or by calendar, add new tasks, use the iPhone's built-in GPS to highlight tasks that are nearby and connect with other Intuition users for tips on how to do your to-do items better.
This is great functionality for an app, but did those options have to be arrayed on the pastel petals of a cartoon flower? I feel like a girl touching this thing, and not in a good way.
Getting past my own aesthetic hang-ups though, the app is great. It does the basics of several apps I'm using now, all in one place. I can easily update tasks in a set of useful categories. I can maintain a grocery list right here in this app. I can check my calendar for appointments. I can share party plans via Facebook or e-mail my "errands" list to my husband. All without leaving the app.
Sweet. I love having so many of the basic household management functions in one place. It also turns out that even a productivity junky like me can use one more organizational app. My other to-do app has been taken over by work. This is one I can switch to when I'm just wearing my Mom hat.
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