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Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought
1 Cf. Le Laboureur, Mémoires de Michel de Castelnau (2nd ed., Brussels, 1731), III, 109. Le Laboureur prints a charming letter sent by Mary of Scots with a gift to her god-daughter. Queen Elizabeth was godmother to one of the children of Mauvissièe who died in childhood.
2 "My son, you may judge from hence, and all People that shall read these Memoirs, in case they should at any Time come to light, to whom the Breach of the Treaties is to be imputed on both Sides; and likewise see by the Events, that the Spiritual Sword, that is, the good Example of the Pastors of the Church, their Charity, Preaching, and other pious Works, are better means to extirpate Heresies, and restore those who have erred, to the right way, than the Temporal one, which destroys and sheds our Neighbours Blood; especially when Matters are come to that Extremity, that the more People endeavour to remove the Evil by violent Means, the more they increase it." Les memoires de Monsieur de Castelnau seigneur de Mauvissière were first edited by his son J. de Castelnau, Paris, 1621, from whose volume our portrait is reproduced. The Mémoires were republished with copious additions by J. le Laboureur in three vols., Brussels, 1731. An English translation, from which we have copied these closing words, appeared in London in 1724.
3 R. E. G. Kirk and E. F. Kirk, Returns of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London from the Reign of Henry VIII to that of James I, Publication of Huguenot Society of London (Aberdeen, 1900), Vol. X, Parts i-iv, p. xv.
4 Samuel Haynes, Collection of State Papers ... from the Year 1542 to 1570,...left by William Cecil Lord Burghley at Hatfield House (London, 1740), p. 461. It may be noted that 36 of the strangers were "Scottes."
5 Kirk, op. cit., p. xvi, quoting John Strype, Annals.
6 For fuller details concerning John Florio, see Frances Yates, John Florio (Cambridge, 1934).
7 Cf. pp. 35-6.
8 Queen Anna's New World of Words or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues (London, 1611).
9 First suggested by Croce (in the Nuove curiosità storiche, pp. 121-22). The temptation to find association with Shakespeare is almost irresistible to writers on characters in Elizabethan England. Such suggestions concerning Bruno are made by W. König, "Shakespeare und Bruno," in Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare Gesellschaft, XI (Weimar, 1876), 97-139. Florio has even been suggested as the original of Falstaff! (See Arthur Acheson, Shakespeare's Last Years in London (Quaritch, 1920).
Reminiscences in Shakespeare of the works of Bruno have been sought by Spampanato, Soglia del secento (Milan, 1926), pp. 57 seqq. He finds echoes of the Candelaio in the etymology of mulier in Cymbeline, V, 5; the necessity of a ring in As You Like It, III, 3 and IV, 2; the attribution of ills through pride to Fate or stars in King Lear, I, 2; the distinction between sharp and gentle madmen in King Lear, I, 4; the view of sorcery in Macbeth, IV, 1; the discourse of the Queen with two gentlemen in the Duke of York's garden, in Richard II, III, 4; the pun against Hotofernes in Love's Labour's Lost. Croce first threw out the suggestion that Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost may have been intended for Bruno. The relation of the Italians in London with the characters in this play has been elucidated by Frances Yates, who discusses also the relation of the play to Raleigh's "School of Night" (A Study of "Love's Labour's Lost" [Cambridge University Press, 1936]).
10 Cf. especially the Essays of Montaigne done into English by John Florio, ed. G. Saintsbury (London, 1878), Book II, Chap. XII, pp. 131, 133, 135. Cf. also Book I, Chap. XXV, p. 167.
11 Ibid., Book I, Chap. XXV, p. 165.
12 In this opinion he was supported by John Hotmann. John's father Francis had been his teacher in Switzerland and perhaps John was now teaching the son of Gentilis. Writing from Oxford to Gentilis, then in London, John Hotmann exclaims in February 1581, "I greatly honour your singular doctrine and piety of which I hear much spoken" ("Magni facio tuam singularem et doctrinam et pietatem, de qua multa audivi praedicari"), Francisci et Joanni Hotomanorcum epistolae (Amsterdam, 1700), Epist. II, p. 261, and Epist. 85, p. 333. For Albericus and Bruno, see also pp. 43 and 140. It should, however, be mentioned that a character Albericus, an attractive recipient of the Lullian method, appears in the Cantus circaeus of 1582 (cf. p. 20). Cf. also Chapter 4, e. A Gentilis Albericus is mentioned by Ambrosio Leo as having pronounced most eloquent funeral orations in Nola in 1512. This figure we are not now considering.
13 Cf. William Camden, History of Annals of England, Book III, 1583, Ann. 26. "Out of Polonia a country bordering upon Russia, came this Summer into England to see the Queen, Albert Alesco palatine of Siradia [i.e., Voivode of Sieradz], a learned man, well shaped, with a long beard, and very comely and decent apparel: who being graciously welcomed by her, and entertained by the Nobility with. great Respect and Feasting, as also by the University at Oxford with learned Divertisements and several Comedies, after four months stay here, withdrew himself privately, being run far in Debt."
Strype gives an interesting passage which may provide a sidelight on the visit of a Laski: "These strangers who consisted chiefly of Low-Dutch and Germans had once the West Part of the Church of the Augustine Friars in Broad Street granted to them by King Edward VI ... whereof Joannes a Lasco a noble Polonian was their Minister with the title of Superintendent. But under Queen Mary they were dissolved and glad to flee into foreign parts...."The Church was restored to them by Elizabeth (Annals of the Reformation [London, 1709], p. 119, under Chap. VIII, Anno 1559). This Johannes a Lasco (d. 1560) was an important leader of the Polish Protestants. He was perhaps an uncle of Albert a Laski.
14 Etiamdio. A speaker immediately interrupts to point out that this word is obsolete!
15 La cena de le ceneri, Dial. I, pp. 1-2 (Gentile, Op. ital., I, 15-17; Lagarde, Op. ital., I, 120-21). 16 Ibid., Dial. IV, pp. 92-93 (Gentile, Op. ital., I, 101-2; Lagarde, Op. ital., I, 176).
17 The record leading to this identification we owe to Gabriel Harvey, who was in the habit of making marginal scribbles in his books. In one of them occurs the following: "Jordanus Neapolitanus (Oxonij disputans cum Doctore Vnderhil) tam in Theologia, quam in philosophia, omnia reuocabat ad locos Topicos, et axiomata Aristotelis; atque inde de quauis materia promptissime arguebat. Hopperi principia multo efficaciora in quouis argumento forensi." See G. C. Moore Smith, Marginalia of Gabriel Harvey (Stratford, 1913). For Gabriel Harvey, see p. 41.
18 Miss Frances Yates suggests that Bruno's quarrel with Oxford was based on the repudiation by Oxford of scholastic Aristotelian studies and on his own devotion to mediaeval philosophy. She intimates that "Bruno prefers the metaphysics of mediaeval Oxford to the grammar of Renaissance Oxford." ("Giordano Bruno's Conflict with Oxford" in Journal of the Warburg Institute [London, January, 1939]; our quotation is from p. 233.) This view is further developed by Miss Yates in "The Religious Policy of Giordano Bruno," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes [April-July, 1939-40], III, 181-207. Certainly Bruno expresses his contempt for the fashionable preoccupation with grammar and style. He also declares his admiration for St. Thomas Aquinas. On the other hand, he can assuredly be claimed by no single group or creed, least of all by the Schoolmen. Nor was it too great a zeal on his part for mediaeval metaphysics that impelled his judges to condemn him to be burnt alive.
19 Epistola ad excellentissimum Oxoniensis academiae Proeancellarium, clarrissimos doctores atque celeberrimos magistros (Op. lat., II, ii, 76). The Epistle is incorporated in some, though not all, copies of a volume on mnemonics, Recens et completa ars memorandi ... explicatio triginta sigillorum ... sigillus sigillorum (Recent and Complete Art of Memory ... with Explanation of the Thirty Signs ... to Which Is Added the Sign of Signs) (without place or date of printing). It is dedicated to Mauvissière, in whose house it was composed and to whom as always the author expresses passionate gratitude. Cf. App. I, 5 (a) to (e).
20 Cf. p. 21, n. 27; p. 39, n. 39.
21 Cf. p. 29.
22 Cf. p. 29.
23 But Miss Yates draws my attention to the suggestion both in the Cena and in Florio's Second Fruites that Nundinio is connected with Scotland. Chapman was born at Hitchin in Hertfordshire.
24 W. Munk, Roll of the Royal College o! Physicians of London (London, 1878), I, 89-90.
25 Cf. pp. 117-18.
26 Public Record Office, S.P. 78, 14, No. 119, f. 245. Cf. Cal. S.P. Foreign, p. 260. Messages to Raleigh are also in a letter from Mauvissière from Paris to Florio, S.P. 78, 14, No. 118, f. 225. Cf. Cal. S.P. Foreign, p. 175.
27 Cf. p. 43, n. 54.
28 See Yates, A Study of "Love's Labour's Lost" and M. Brabrook, The School of Night (Cambridge, 1936) for discussion of Bruno's relationship with members of the School.
29 Cf. Doc. Ven. XIII (Spampanato, Documenti della vita di Giordano Bruno, p. 121). When interrogated before the Venice Inquisition, Bruno stated that the supper took place under the roof of Mauvissière. Probably in his work he was following historical fact regarding one such gathering in Sir Fulke Greville's palace, while we may well believe that they took place many times in the French Embassy. Since Mauvissière was a Catholic, Bruno would expect the Inquisition to look with less suspicion on assemblies held under his auspices. 30 Cf. p. 67.
31 Cf. p. Sir T. Smith was both undergraduate at Christ Church and subsequently student there. For other Christ Church connections with the Oxford incident, see p. 97, n. 13.
32 First noted by F. A. Yates, John Florio, p. 102. Miss Yates points out in the speeches of Eliotropio other indications of Florio's coat of arms as well as of his motto, "Chi si contenta gode."
33 "The enterprise which thou hast undertaken," using the word impresa, which means both enterprise and personal emblem. Miss Yates (ibid., p. 102) thinks this phrase may be intended to remind the reader of the heliotrope in Florio's coat of arms.
34 Now Hertford College.
35 Cf. p. 39, n. 39. In Dial. II of On Cause, Prime Origin and the One, Dicson is given the first name of "Arelio."
36 De umbra rationis et iudicii sive de artificiosa memoriae quam publice profititur vanitate (T. Vautrollier, London).
37 A figure mentioned by Cicero and Pliny as famous for memory.
38 Cosmas Rossellus, Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae, concionatoribus, philosophis, medicis, juristis, oratoribus, caeterisque bonarum litterarum amatoribus (Venice [apud Paduanium florentinum] 1579).
39 Cf. p. 40.
40 Cf. p. 97, n. 13. We suggest that Armesso, a sceptic character in the Dialogue, De la causa, principio et uno, may be the Mercurius of Dicson's work, but we have not identified a prototype.
41 La cena de la ceneri, Dial. I, p. 7 (Gentile, Op. ital., I, 23; Lagarde, Op. ital., I, 125). Cf. p. 93, n. 2.
42 The scholarship of Hill is attested by his numerous translations of surgical, medical and chemical works from Italian as well as from Latin, and from the German of Paracelsus. It is possible that the works on gardening are from a different writer. Gentile (Op. ital., I, 287) notes that a character in Tasso's Aminta (first published in 1580) bears the name Elpino, but we find no resemblance between the Elpino of Aminta and Bruno's speaker.
43 Vautrollier? London? 1585? Watson's volume is dedicated to Henry Noel (d. 1597).
44 Richard Carew, best known for his Survey of Cornwall (1602), published in 1594 two volumes translated from the Italian in which he "clad in a Cornish gabardine" the Italian translation by Camillo Camilli of John Huarte's Examen de ingenios. Carew also made a translation in verse of Tasso's Godfrey Bulloigne or the Recouerie of Jerusalem. Only the first five cantos appeared in 1594, but the whole work, edited by A. B. Crosart, was published in 1881.
45 London, 1585.
46 Cf. pp. 64-6.
47 An interesting discussion of the repercussions of Harvey's controversy with Nashe and Greene will be found in Yates' Study of "Love's Labour's Lost."
48 Cf. pp. 182-3.
49 Cf. p. 23.
50 Cf. pp. 184-5.
51 Cf. App. II, c.
52 Cf. pp. 31 and 140. Neither Spampanato (Vita di Giordano Bruno, pp. 416-17) nor Gentile (Op. ital., I, 387) accepts this view, though of course aware that Gentilis was at Oxford in 1583 and that he subsequently befriended Bruno in Wittenberg. They indicate somewhat unconvincingly that perhaps Bruno intended to honour a certain Geronimo Albertino of Nola who was the father of a fellow soldier of his own father Giovanni Bruno.
53 Cf. p. 31, n. 12.
54 Within a few months of the defeat of the Armada by Lord Howard of Effingham, an account of the victory was written in Italian by Petruccio Ubaldini. The original work (British Museum Royal MS 14. A X) was not published, but an English translation appeared in 1590 with plates engraved by Augustine Ryther from drawings by Robert Adams, "surveyor of the Queen's buildings." Lord Howard employed Cornelius Vroom of Haarlem to make ten designs based on these plates for tapestry panels, which were woven by Francis Spiring of Haarlem and hung in Arundel House Strand until in 1616 Lord Howard, now Earl of Nottingham, sold them to James I who hung them in the House of Lords, where they remained until destroyed in the great fire of 1834. Cf. H. Yates Thompson, Lord Howard of Effingham and the Armada (Roxburgh Club, 1919). Ubaldini had come to England from Florence in 1545 but he did not finally settle there until 1562. He enjoyed the favour of the Court and was given a pension by Elizabeth. He was a skilled illuminator and a number of beautiful manuscripts from his hand have survived. His writings are all in Italian.
55 Cf. Chapter 3, c.
56 See App. I, 18. 57 See App. II.


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If it is summer, it must be time for superheroes. Yesterday, this column reviewed "Batman," which was released in 1989 and was directed by Tim Burton. This was the first "Batman," film directed by Burton. The second was "Batman Returns," which came out in 1992
"Batman Returns" is set at Christmas time. In it, a dangerous new villain, the Penguin (played by Danny DeVito), is living in the sewers of Gotham City. As a baby, he was abandoned by his parents, who were unsettled by his unattractive appearance. After being raised by penguins rather than the affluent parents who rejected him, he is consumed by bitterness and vents his anger by blackmailing crooked businessman Max Shreck (played by Christopher Walken) into helping him get revenge. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne (played by Michael Keaton) falls for Max's secretary, Selina Kyle (played by Michelle Pfeiffer). After she discovers evidence of his sinister side, Selina is nearly killed by Max, but she is brought back to life by cats and becomes Catwoman, who teams up with the Penguin. Batman must stop the Penguin, Catwoman, and Max.
Like the other "Batman" films, the movie looks great. Gotham City looks almost fantasy-like. Although it is made by many of the same people who did the first film, the look is a lot different as it is more industrial.
The cast is very good. Michael Keaton, as always, is impressive as both Bruce Wayne and Batman. Michelle Pfeiffer does a great job showing the different sides of Selina Kyle and Catwoman. Selina is quite timid, yet Catwoman is very aggressive. Danny DeVito is strong as the Penguin. The movie shows why he wants revenge, and he is almost sympathetic. Christopher Walken is also great as Max. We see that he is very corrupt.
"Batman Returns" is well-worth watching as it is offbeat and visually stunning.

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A Master Army Aviator, he has logged over 4000 flight hours in 37 different aircraft.
Selected by NASA in January 1990, McArthur became an astronaut in July 1991. Since then, McArthur has held various assignments within the Astronaut Office including: working issues relating to the solid rocket booster, redesigned solid rocket motor, and the advanced solid rocket motor. A veteran of two space flights, McArthur has logged 354 orbits of the Earth, traveled 9.2 million miles in 22 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes and 45 seconds.
McArthur served as a mission specialist on STS-58 on the seven-person life science research mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, launching from the Kennedy Space Center on October 18, 1993, and landing at Edwards Air Force Base on November 1, 1993. The crew performed neurovestibular, cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary, metabolic, and musculoskeletal medical experiments on themselves and 48 rats, expanding our knowledge of human and animal physiology both on earth and in space flight. In addition, the crew performed 16 engineering tests aboard the Orbiter Columbia and 20 Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project experiments. Additionally, the crew made extensive contacts with school children and amateur radio operators around the world through the Shuttle Amateur Radio experiment. The mission was accomplished in 225 orbits of the Earth in 336 hours, 13 minutes, 01 second.
Most recently, McArthur served as a mission specialist on STS-74, NASA's second Space Shuttle mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir. STS-74 launched on November 12, 1995, and landed at Kennedy Space Center on November 20, 1995. During the 8-day flight the crew aboard Atlantis successfully attached a permanent docking module to Mir, conducted experiments on a number of secondary payloads, and transferred one and a half tons of supplies between Atlantis and Mir. The STS-74 mission was accomplished in 129 orbits of the Earth, traveling 3.4 million miles in 196 hours, 30 minutes, 44 seconds.Currently, McArthur is assigned as the Chief of the Astronaut Office Flight Support Branch, supervising astronaut support of the Mission Control Center, prelaunch Space Shuttle processing, and launch and landing operations.
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Total payload bay cargo: ca. 14,800 kg
The Z1 first segment of the space station truss was built by Boeing/Canoga Park and was 3.5 x 4.5 meters in size. It was attached to the +Z port on Unity. Z1 carried the control moment gyros, the S-band antenna, and the Ku-band antenna.
PMA-3, built by Boeing/Huntington Beach, was docked to the -Z port opposite Z1. PMA-3 was installed on a Spacelab pallet for launch.
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The second spacewalk was on October 16, with Jeff Wisoff and Mike Lopez-Alegria. The suits went to battery power at 14:15 GMT and Wisoff left the airlock at 14:21 GMT. Repressurisation began at 21:22 GMT for a duration of 7 hours 07minutes.
Leroy Chiao and Bill McArthur began the third STS-92 EVA at 15:30 GMT on October 17, completing their work at 22:18 GMT for a total time of 6 hours 48 minutes.
After the spacewalk, Discovery completed the second of the three station reboosts scheduled for STS-92. They fired reaction control system jets in a series of pulses of 1.4 seconds each, over a 30-minute period, gently raising the station's orbit by about 3.1 km.
The last of four successful spacewalks began on 18 October at 16:00 GMT and ended at 22:56 GMT, lasting 6 hours and 56 minutes. Jeff Wisoff and Mike Lopez-Alegria each jetted slowly through space above Discovery's cargo bay.
After the space walk, Discovery completed the third and final reboost of the space station.
On 19 October the astronauts worked within the ISS. They completed connections for the newly installed Z1 external framework structure and transferred equipment and supplies for the Expedition One first resident crew of the Station. The crew also tested the four 290-kg gyroscopes in the truss, called Control Moment Gyros, which will be used to orient the ISS as it orbits the Earth. They will ultimately assume attitude control of the ISS following the arrival of the U.S. Laboratory Destiny. The tests and the transfer of supplies into the Russian Zarya Module took longer than expected. As a result, the crew's final departure from the Station's Unity module was delayed. Melroy and Wisoff took samples from surfaces in Zarya to study the module's environment. They then unclogged the solid waste disposal system in the Shuttle's toilet, which was restored to full operation after a brief interruption in service.
Discovery undocked from the ISS at 16:08 GMT on 20 October. The final separation burn was executed about 45 minutes after undocking. The crew had added 9 tonnes to the station's mass, bringing it to about 72 tonnes. The return to earth, planned for 22 October, was delayed repeatedly due to high winds at the Kennedy landing site. The landing was finally made at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on October 24, at 22:00 GMT.


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April 11, 2013
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This is a discussion on Robbery going down with your kid inside within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by 2AMomma sorry - just to clarify - our local Walgreens is posted, evidently it is not a corporate policy to post, just ...
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.may get chastised for this, but I'm drawing my gun, covering it by taking off my jacket so no one can see, and I'm going in right then. I'll look like just another customer to the BG's.
If I have time for phone calls to warn her and notify the police, that's good. But I'm going in, period, and I'm not waiting. I'll pretend to be an unassuming customer right up until I do what needs to be done, whether that is finding her and taking her out the back, or removing the threat altogether.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I leave my daughter inside a store alone with armed BG's, regardless of whether it costs me my life or not. I'll have the element of surprise, and the element of determination. Protection of my family is my primary reason for being on this earth, and I'm not going to shy away from it because I might get hurt. Escalate the situation? If needed to save her life, you betcha.
I couldn't live with myself if I stayed outside calling the police, and my child was killed. I'm going in now, without hesitation.
Easy call
I have to agree with "grady" no way will i leave my baby boy & wife inside by themselves. I just could not live w/myself..........
Of course the gun-haters will say "you should polity ask the BG if his gun was loaded or not before you shoot to kill"
Call my daughter and calmly tell her drop what she is doing and quietly leave the store immediately. Call 911 give info and discription of car and license plate#. Wait another 30 seconds. If daughter wasn't out I'm going in. If daughter came out we're leaving.
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Wow. Unnerving scenario. I know what the smar thing to do is here, and that is what you guys are saying: call 911.
Not me, though, friends.
If either of my daughters is in there, I am, too. I'm not drawing just because I'm going in. But I AM going in there.
Beyond that, I really don't know what I'd do. It would just depend on how the situation develops.
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I would first call 911 and would not enter the store due to the fact that I could start a gun fight in doing so. With my kid inside I would not want to do anything that would cause the BG to to start shooting.
I'm not waiting to use the phone...I'm going 'calmly' in after my family...I would try to get them out the back, but whatever happens, happens...
I've seen robbery vid's where the BG's turn their back on customers...big mistake in MY favor! This is either my chance gather family and escape out the back, or start putting out 'lights'...tricky call...damn, certainly not a situation I want to be involved in...
I don't want 'arriving police' to assume I'm part of the 'party'...I may call 911 if I can leave out the back with family in tow.
Tough scenario...
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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I heard this on the radio this morning after reading through this thread last night.
I'm going in as the unassuming customer... with my cellphone out calling my daughter. Having a conversation like where are you in the store, did you find the OTC meds you were looking for, etc. is not going to alert the BGs. Besides, they have to be aware with all the people that someone should be waltzing in at any given time. Once I cleared the BGs I can get down to the details with my daughter and have her exit the emergency door and wait by the car. Next call is 911 with the general description of the vehicle and its location.
At that point I would be making my way to the same exit as my daughter did to make sure she got out and leave the same way. The BGs will probably not be thinking straight and think the fire door alarm is a robbery alarm anyway and will probably leave right then and there.
On a side note I frequently have my little sisters in my car that are 15 and 12, respectively. I'm a volunteer firefighter and can be paged out at any time and I've already got them to the point of them asking me questions on what they should do if I'm paged-out for a fire call. Sometimes I'm taking them to the store, sometimes somewhere else and it's a good starting point for getting them to think of the what-ifs.
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This goes against the "grain" of this thread but I would not go in.
Why would I want to escalate a "no shots fired" robbery in to a "shots fired" robbery? Chances are the robbery will go down with no shots fired. If that changes I will respond appropriately.
I would assess the situation and call 911. I would also be praying and making a plan for if the situation changed, (Actually I already have a plan). Something else to think about, in conversation with convicted robbers, they expect the first person to come in the door after them to be a Police Officer. Do you want to try to get to your Daughter now?
I would seriously contemplate going in. I would be reluctant to call my daughter, since one can assume a high pucker factor inside, if a robbery has just been announced, and the phone of a kid obviously under driving age starts to ring....where exactly are mom/dad, hmmm, oh, the parking lot. Maybe better, maybe worse.
Could panic the driver into leaving his buddies. You could get shot walking in. Walking in and breaking laterally would offer the BGs the front door as a ready bail-out, vs being driven into a corner of the stores trading shots with an unknown (you.)
Call 911. Good. But sirens can generate unintended consequeces as well. Is your child a better hostage than the old lady behind the counter?
Three BGs indicates at least some basic experience and planning. Most current robbery teams are violent, so....
One could of course, "approach as a regular customer", shoot the driver with a quick volley to the head & chest, and get under cover, and let the folks inside ponder what was going on...all the shooting and no sirens or squealing tires? More of an option in Colombia than Columbus, but the guys I knew would have gotten outside pretty fast, and scattered when they saw homie dead and no one around; wondering *** was going on.
No really good answers. Call 911 or go in.


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So far, one very bleeped catchphrase has emerged from this American Idol season: "Shit fire and save matches, fuck a duck and see what hatches," which Steven Tyler has now unleashed twice during the week-plus that he's officially been on Idol duty. But what on earth could it mean? Google turned up one useful result—a page from the 1988 thriller The Samurai Strategy—and a bunch of people who were wondering the same thing we were.
So we decided to hit up an expert. We asked Ben Zimmer, the "On Language" columnist for The New York Times Magazine and executive producer of The Visual Thesaurus, for a brief history of the couplet that's probably already making the Fox censors dread Idol's switchover to live broadcasts.
"Fuck a duck" has various slang senses—often used as an interjection to express anger or astonishment, or as a handy alternative to "go to hell." It's quite versatile, appearing in such phrases as "he'd fuck a duck" (he'd fuck anything), "before you could fuck a duck," and "he was mad enough to fuck a duck." (These are mentioned in Jonathan Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang, as well as a book spun off from it, The F-Word, by Jesse Sheidlower.)
"Fuck a duck and see what hatches" might be idiosyncratic to Steven Tyler. The full couplet used by Tyler (and Aerosmith fans who repeat his bons mots—here's an example from Usenet from 1994) begins "Shit fire and save matches," which is an "I'll be damned" type of exclamation that's been around for a while. Here it is in the 1971 novel Joiner by James Whithead (set in segregation-era Mississippi).
So what I'm guessing happened here is that Tyler heard "Shit fire and save matches" and then created the rhyming couplet using "fuck a duck." (The whole couplet has the flavor of "Let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes" and similar expressions.) If Tyler's been using it in concerts for many years, then that might explain how it ended up in The Samurai Strategy, assuming the author was a fan—I doubt the transmission went the other way.
So the next time he drops that phrase—which, judging by the Idol producers' devotion to originality this season, should be sometime around 8:03 p.m.—you'll know about its origin.


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The Marsha Sharp Center
July 1, 2011
By Alexandra Ellis
Texas Tech Athletics Communications
The life of a college student-athlete can seem glamorous to outsiders. You are a role-model to kids, you have a God-given talent, and you get to perform in front of thousands of fans that want you to succeed.
But that's just the "athlete" part of the equation. There's a reason "student" comes first in the term "student-athlete".
"Being a student-athlete is like having a full-time job," said senior Robert Lewandowski, a senior forward on the Red Raider basketball team. "We just have to manage our time really well, which is one of the best things you learn here."
Being one of the few upperclassmen on the team, the 6-10 Lewandowski makes the point that he needs to lead by example.
"As an upperclassman, the biggest thing that you can do is just to go through and do everything you're asked to do, not just go through the motions," declared Lewandowski, or "Big Lew" "What kind of leader would I be, as a senior, by not going to class?"
"Big Lew has been helping all of the incoming freshman a lot," said freshman small forward Terran Petteway.
While the competitive lessons of being on the basketball team come from team workouts and practices, the helpful time-management skills come from the Marsha Sharp Center, the institution-within-an institution aimed at making the hectic life of the Texas Tech student-athlete not so hectic.
Rodney Lackey, in his third year as Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Academic Services at the Marsha Sharp Center, is just one of the many people there to help.
"The student-athletes have their primary advisor on campus that works strictly with them on their classes," Lackey stated. "We work as the student-athletes' secondary advisor. We work with the student-athletes and their primary advisors to make sure they're taking the classes they need to take for their major, as well as making sure their class load will not be overwhelming while they are in their sport's season."
"A lot of times, they will come over and see us after they've met with their advisors for the first time," says Lackey said. "We'll work with them if their advisor sets up a schedule that we think may be a little rough for them on their first year, and base it on our past experiences on how previous student-athletes have done in those different classes."
Lackey echo's the goals of the Marsha Sharp Center, which center around the intent for the student-athletes to be as successful as possible in that crucial first semester that they are on campus. This is an important step in order for their careers at Texas Tech to start on the right foot.
While the transition from high school to college can be stressful at times, Petteway is grateful for the assistance provided by support at the MSC.
"If it wasn't for the Marsha Sharp Center, I don't think I'd be up to date with a lot of my work," said Petteway. "They definitely have the tools to help you with everything you're supposed to do. Each athlete has their own tutor, and they are ready for you when you get there."
Men's basketball head coach Billy Gillispie is pulling out all the stops when it comes to making sure his players take advantage of their educational opportunities at Texas Tech University. He is setting the bar high in his first year in Lubbock by telling the team that he wants to see only A's on their report cards - no exceptions.
"We don't want people that want to settle for an average grade," said Gillispie. "All we talk about is graduation, not eligibility. If you're on track to graduate, then you don't have to worry about being eligible."
If a player ends up not going to the next level in the NBA or elsewhere, Gillispie wants to make sure they are able to have a backup plan.
"We hope that we can bring in good enough players that they have the opportunity to be a professional basketball player," continued Gillispie. "But I can guarantee you that with a degree, they have a chance to be a professional in some field, so it's better to be prepared, no matter what the future may hold for these guys."
The coaches do not just pay attention to how the team is doing on the court during practice; they are also on top of the players' school work.
"It usually depends on the coaching staff, but we send the [basketball] coaches a daily report at the end of the day just updating them on how their players' days went, any new grades they've reported, and how their study sessions went, along with any information that could help the coaches," stated Lackey.
"Our coaches have an academic meeting with every single one of our players, every single day," Gillispie confirmed. "We know what's going on in class. We know every single paper they have to turn in, and every single test they have to take. If they were to miss a class, I would know five minutes later."
Gillispie is also grateful and impressed with the staff and the facilities provided by the Marsha Sharp Center, adding that it is nothing like any of the other institutions where he has previously coached.
"I've never seen a better facility than the Marsha Sharp Center," Gillispie added. "Based on everything I've been told, everything you need to be successful is provided here and, most important, it's all about the students. And we have the best people here that are more than willing to help. The willingness of the people to help means a lot."
It might be difficult to keep up a 4.0 GPA while competing in games around the country, but the team, coaches, and support staff know how to deal with missing classes.
"We leave after we are finished with classes and practice on Mondays, and miss all classes on Tuesdays, as that's when most road games are," says Lewandowski. "That's why building relationships with your teachers is so important. But you have to always stay on top of things before you leave so you won't be thinking about homework that's due the next day while you're in a game."
With the plentiful assistance from the Marsha Sharp Center, in addition to the support and goals set by the basketball coaching staff, the opportunities are endless for players like Lewandowski and Petteway both on and off the court.


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Objection: Obesity is a significant health risk, and we need a healthy force.
Response: Smoking is also a significant health risk, but not only do we not separate smokers out of the Navy, we often bend over backwards to make sure they have ample opportunity to light up. Both smoking cessation and weight reduction are valuable force/health multipliers, but they should be attacked the same way—through education and medical assistance, not by administrative separation.
Objection: Overweight Sailors look sloppy in uniform and give the public a negative image of the Navy.
Response: We don't otherwise punish Sailors for being unattractive, but in the rare cases where an overweight Sailor (who can still pass the PRT) cannot present an acceptable military bearing in a properly tailored uniform, leaders can use the "Military Bearing" block on their evaluation or fitness report to document the deficiency.
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Harder to quantify, but more troubling, is the potential health risk taken by our Sailors trying to meet BCA standards. Take a drive around the Norfolk area (or any other area with a heavy Navy presence) in the spring or fall and slow down when you see a sign for a weight-loss clinic. Scan the parking lot and you will see windshield after windshield with Department of Defense base decals. Most of these clinics are legitimate medical establishments providing a valuable service to our Sailors, but why are Sailors spending their own money in town when the Navy has free medical care? Moreover, what controls are in place to ensure that a clinic doesn't provide assistance in more rapid weight loss at a much higher risk to the Sailor's health, or that a Sailor doesn't take the good medical advice from a clinic and decide that twice as much will produce results twice as fast?
Maybe there are issues that I have not considered, but the answer seems clear. We all want a force of fit and healthy Sailors. We measure fitness very accurately through the semi-annual PRT and can adjust the standards to ensure whatever level of fitness is needed. The BCA adds little value while distracting Sailors from a focus on actual fitness and potentially increasing their health risk. Eliminate the BCA.


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The Oregon men's basketball team's Academic Progress Rate rose for the fourth straight year in 2012-13, according to data released by the NCAA on Wednesday.
For the academic year ending in 2013, the UO men's basketball team APR – a measure of eligibility and retention, with 1,000 being the top score – was 974. That brought the team's four-year average up to 945, comfortably above the NCAA's threshold for postseason participation.
The NCAA released new annual data for all member teams Wednesday. The UO women's soccer program had the highest multiyear average, 993, and was one of six programs in the department to earn a perfect 1,000 for the 2012-13 year. The others were women's basketball, lacrosse, volleyball, men's tennis and men's indoor track and field.
The soccer, women's basketball and men's tennis teams posted their second straight single-year scores of 1,000.
The Oregon football team posted a one-year score of 974, improving its multiyear average seven points to 958.
The most eagerly anticipated numbers were those of the men's basketball team, after a report in March that questioned the Ducks' future postseason eligibility. The program recorded scores of 870 in 2008-09 and 912 in 2009-10, the two seasons prior to Dana Altman's arrival.
But that 870 was dropped from the Ducks' four-year average as of this year, and replaced by the 974 from 2012-2013. Next year's scores will no longer include the 912, and while they will reflect the departure of Damyean Dotson and Dominic Artis, UO officials expect the team's APR to remain on its current trajectory.
Oregon has posted scores of 950, 952 and 974 in the first three years of Altman's tenure for which data are available.
The minimum standards for postseason participation in 2014-15 rise to 930 over four years, or 940 over two years.


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Joy Melnikow, M.D., M.P.H. is the Director of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, Davis. She serves on the executive committee for the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, and was recently appointed to the US Preventive Services Task Force. She received her M.D. from UC San Francisco and her MPH in epidemiology from UC Berkeley. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Massachusetts, worked for the Indian Health Service, and was on the faculty of MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western University before coming to UC Davis in 1992.
Her research focuses on cancer prevention, women's health, particularly in regard to decision making and patient preferences, comparative effectiveness, and cost effectiveness. With funding by private foundations, the American Cancer Society, the California Breast Cancer Research Program, and the National Cancer Institute, she has pursued research on effectiveness, preferences, decision making, and cost-effectiveness of preventive interventions related primarily to breast and cervical cancer.
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Dr. Rahman Azari joined the Department of Statistics at UC Davis in 1985, and he has been a core faculty member of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research since its inception. He has actively been involved in more than thirty research projects with the UC Davis Medical School funded by NIH, NIMH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, California Department of Health Services and other federal and state agencies. He has published in many reputed scientific journals including Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Epidemiology, Medical Care, Journal of Family Practice, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Journal of American Geriatric Society. He has contributed to research in different areas of health care including physician patient interaction and health outcomes, patient expectations, medical decision analysis, cost-effectiveness of health services, palliative care, and health services for minority populations.
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Department of Family and Community Medicine
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Dr. Bertakis was born and raised in Northern California and received her B.S. degree from UC Davis and M.P.H. from UC Berkeley. She attended medical school and completed her family practice residency at the University of Utah. She joined the UC Davis faculty in 1980 and in 1994 founded the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, then known as the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care. She became Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine in 1995 and was elected Chair of the Council of Chairs in 2000. In 2007, she once again became Director of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, a post that she held for another two years.
Dr. Bertakis' research focuses on doctor-patient interaction and the effects of physician practice style on patient outcomes and health care delivery. She was the youngest recipient of the Curtis G. Hames Research Award in Family Medicine, which is a lifetime achievement award for contributions to family medicine research. She has sat on numerous editorial boards and is currently a member of the British Medical Journal USA. Dr. Bertakis has also served on the National Board of Medical Examiners and Medical Board of California.
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Department of Family and Community Medicine
(916) 734-3630
Dr. Fenton graduated from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and completed his residency at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Fenton subsequently served as a family physician in a rural practice on the Navajo Indian Reservation at Crownpoint, NM. Before joining the Department in 2005, he served as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Washington. Dr. Fenton conducts research on the accuracy, utilization, and clinical impact of cancer screening. Current research focuses on the dissemination and clinical impact of mammography innovations and colorectal cancer screening tests. Dr. Fenton is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine and is Associate Editor of the Evidence-Based Medicine. Dr. Fenton grew up in Modesto, CA and he is committed to Department's mission of increasing access to quality primary care in California's Central Valley.
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James F. Holmes Jr. has presented grand rounds in trauma and pregnancy, pediatric abdominal trauma and spinal trauma. He has studied various approaches to improving both cost effectiveness and quality of care in the emergency department, including clarifying the indications for computer tomography of head injuries, and prospectively evaluating the role of laboratory tests in detecting unsuspected intra-abdominal injury in pediatric blunt-trauma patients.
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Dr. Jerant is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine. He received his medical degree from Saint Louis University and completed residency training at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar from 2000-2004. Dr. Jerant is a health services researcher with broad interests, commensurate with his family medicine training, encompassing aspects of clinical primary care, behavioral psychology, health policy, and medical education. A particularly strong current interest is developing and evaluating effective and resource-efficient interventions to increase patients' participation in their own care and thereby improve health outcomes. Recent studies in that realm have focused on methods of enhancing patient self-efficacy (confidence in ones ability to accomplish health-related tasks) and other psychological mediators of health behavior.
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Professor and Co-vice Chair, Research
Department of Internal Medicine
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Richard L. Kravitz directed the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research between 1996 and 2006. He has research interests centering on patient activation and on the causes and consequences of physician behavior. The two-time recipient of AcademyHealth's Article of the Year Award, Dr. Kravitz has examined the participation of physicians and nurses in strikes and work actions, the effect of managed care on health services utilization and quality, how clinical opinion leaders can be identified, how physicians respond to patients' requests for services, and how direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs influences physician decision making. More recently, he has studied various ways to engage "patients as agents for quality" by supporting them to obtain high quality care for depression and chronic pain. A Fellow of the Association for Health services Research, Dr. Kravitz currently serves as Co-vice Chair for research in the Department of Internal Medicine and as interim Director of the UC Center Sacramento (uccs.ucdavis.edu).
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J. Paul Leigh received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His fields of expertise are health and labor economics as well as econometrics. In recent years he has written papers on tobit regression, instrumental variables, and attrition bias that attempt to popularize econometric techniques for research physicians and epidemiologists. He has also written papers that estimate the costs of occupational injuries and illnesses as well as costs of hepatitis C. Additional research interests include workers compensation, arthritis, and effects of gasoline prices on highway fatalities.
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Dr. Miller is interested in examining how knowledge and motivation support cognition in later life, particularly within the areas of language comprehension and memory, information processing, and decision making. She is also interested in health and nutrition literacy and investigates ways to increase effective health information processing and decision making across adulthood.
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Departments of Internal Medicine and Sociology
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Debora Paterniti is the Center's Authority on qualitative health services research. Her expertise in qualitative research methods has allowed her to scrutinize aspects of health services otherwise considered inaccessible. Her command of sociological research methodology has informed and broadened a great deal of the health services research undertaken at the Center. Until recently, she also served as Associate Director, and then Deputy Director, of the CHPR.
Professor of General Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine
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Dr. Robbins is board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. His interests are in clinical predictors and interventions and their effects on health and morbidity plus their related primary and secondary costs including clinical diseases, interventions, and societal costs.
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Department of Pediatrics
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As a professor at the School of Nursing, de Leon Siantz teaches, conducts research and mentors students in leadership policy and population health. Her research most recently focused on the impact of migration on the health and development of Hispanic migrant/immigrant children and families. Her current research, funded through the Office of Minority Health Department of Health and Human Service, focuses on the development of educational strengths of Hispanic immigrant adolescents and the promotion of their reproductive awareness.
De Leon Siantz is the associate director of the Community Engagement and Research Program of the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center. This program connects health researchers with communities of all kinds to ensure discoveries are translated into real-world interventions. She is also an affiliated faculty member with the Migration and Health Research Center, a collaboration between the UC Davis and UC Berkeley campuses that is dedicated to conducting research to improve the health of migrant populations in California and around the globe.
Prior to her arrival at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, de Leon Siantz was the assistant dean of Diversity and Cultural Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, where she collaborated with other faculty to develop an interprofessional development program as well as a multicultural and global health minor that included a focus on national and international migration.
She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development from the University of Maryland College Park with a minor in bioethics. She earned a Master of Nursing in Child Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing/Community Mental Health from UCLA and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles.
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Department of Pediatrics
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Why There Was No 'Occupy Wall Street' 200 Years Ago
A fascinating study from financial historians Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson shows that the top 1% of Americans didn't always have the biggest chunk of the wealth.
While the top 1% of American households earn 20% of all the income today, say Lindert and Williamson, in 1774 the top 1% earned less than 4% of total income in New England and under 9% of total income in the 13 colonies as a whole.
The researchers also report that in 1751, Gov. James Glen of South Carolina estimated that 5,000 people, or 20% of his colony's residents, had "plenty of the good things in Life, and spend at the rate of two Shillings a day" – or about 13.4 British pounds (roughly $21) in today's money, according to this handy-dandy historical calculator.
Meanwhile, 5,000 people – the bottom 20% of society – "have a bare subsistence and spend about a Groat per day." (A groat was four pennies, or the equivalent of approximately $3.50 in today's money.) But the remaining 60%, according to the governor, were solidly middle class, earning between one-fourth and one-half the average income of the rich.
Even by 1805, roughly a dozen years after stocks began trading on Wall Street, the distribution of income was nowhere near as unequal as it is today, report Lindert and Williamson. And in the decades that led up to the revolution, "within any American colonial region, free citizens had more equal incomes than do today's Americans."
The extreme gap between rich and poor has widened sharply in recent decades, but it is remarkable to discover that the gap was far narrower even in the era that inspired the revolution.
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A University of Colorado graduate (BA cum laude, 1957), Paul Hannon is a London-based international Lawyer and Arbitrator. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American University in Cairo. After graduation from Yale Law School and a year in Venezuela on a U.S. government scholarship, he spent four years in the Los Angeles office of OMelveny & Myers, before moving to the firm's Paris office, where he spent eight years practicing international and commercial law. He returned to Los Angeles for another eight years, representing foreign clients and spending many months on an Iranian project during the last days of the Shah. In 1981 he joined the General Atlantic Group, an international investment company headed by Charles Feeney, an entrepreneur and philanthropist. General Atlantics extensive portfolio of investments included Duty Free Shoppers Group, the worlds largest retailer to the traveling public, on whose Board Mr. Hannon served for many years. In addition to his work as an arbitrator in international commercial disputes and his involvement with the American University in Cairo, Hannon serves on the Boards of the American University in Paris and of the international Council for Global Health Progress, a Paris-based health policy think-tank.


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A well-informed, reliable Oak Cliff-dwelling person informed me that chef Kelly Hightower walked into the restaurant and punched one of his partners ("the dude who usually works the door") around 7:30 pm on Friday night. "The guy's face was all bloody," says my secret source. "And the dining room was packed." Talk of the incident is the buzz of conversation all over the OC. I contacted Hightower and he replied, "Nova has no comment at this time."
Chef Kelly Hightower Punches Partner in Nova Dining Room
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Ah man! JD seems like such a nice dude! My instincts tell me this is girl-related.
Hightower has also been seen making out with lady friends whilst diners dine.
Weird – I was there at that time in the booth right by the door and didn't see a thing! How did I miss it??
Nothing to see here folks…let's just mind our own business.
Les Hall
Yeah agreed. People get mad, things happen. I'm not condoning anything but this is really not news.
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John Wiley Price and now this? Who needs One Life to Live when you live in Dallas!
Les it may not be news but it's fun to read. Everybody is too serious. I wish I'd been there!
It's seems to fit the renegade style of the restaurant. Chefs are artist and can be a bit crazy. They will probably get more buzz for the place.
That's how the OC rolls. Next time a server is rude to me at Eno's, I'm gonna backhand her and remind her that Bishop Arts is *still* in the OC, thankyouverymuch.
Well he could be stealing surrogate eggs and then bribing them into pre-K.
In response to yeah…um—I was there and the facts are incorrect!! Do you go to Nova to enjoy the awesome cuisine that Chef Hightower executes from his kitchen or are you there to judge the ISOLATED unfortunate incident that occurred????
Les Hall
God- talk about making a mountain out of a mole-hill. 'downtowner' you jest surely. Joints in OC are just as susceptible as anywhere.
If anything, the service in OC is just as good if not better than anywhere else in Dallas. That includes Nova etc.
@Patricia. So you are telling us the fight occurred but we shouldn't pay attention because the facts are incorrect? Tell us what happened please. I love Nova and will continue to go but let's hear what happened fro the chef to say no comment means sumpin happened.
Jenny from the block
It was unfortunate for sure. I was there and saw it happen. The chef was uncool for his actions and that is that. Leave it there and get over it. The food is great at Nova and the atmosphere is even better. Even if they get rid of the chef (who was obviously not right for assaulting the other man) we will go there. It's not only that chef who makes Nova amazing. In fact, it seems like the chef is walking around drinking way more than he is cooking when we are dining there.
hahaha! @Jenny those are my observations exactly! He is always walking around, seemingly all wound up about something but shooting the shit with friends and stuff.
I freaking love Nova! Kelly is part of what gives it character. I just hope it doesn't implode on itself…
Man, DO NOT send your burger back at that place.
I say we should have a charity rematch! give JD a chance to fight back for god sakes. All proceeds will go to Etiquette School for Eno's waitresses.
chef andrew
The whole idea that chefs are heavy drinkers and womanizers is crazy taik 😉
OG from OC
Now this is a Dinner Theatre that I wouldn't mind attending.
sausage on a stick
I tried to call to make a reservation and the phone just rang and rang. Now I know why.


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Necessity is the mother of invention. The father is unknown.
The following patent was issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office on August 16, 2005.
Neck Wrap/Brace for Holding Items and Belt Article Holder for Same
patent#: US 6929164
filed under Belts, Cell Phones
We live in an age where organization is valued over intelligence. Organizational accesories define the man. And if you are overwhelmed by your organizational accessories, then there are other accessories designed to help you organize those organizational accessories. Ad infinitum.
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China tour | Dec 1, 2007 10:02 PM
More and more tricky devices can only make human being lost more and more ability to survive the environment.
Tricia | Dec 9, 2004 6:01 AM
Are you guys kidding! You are busy carping about design and totally overlooking the fashion factor! What woman wouldn't fall for a guy with his wallet velcroed to his neck? This design combines the mysterious allure of a whiplash injury with the raw sex appeal of a fanny pack. You know where that organizaional neck brace would look good? Crumpled up at the foot of my bed! Yummmmmmmm!
Mike Garrett | Dec 9, 2004 6:01 AM
Clumsy. Neckbelt items cannot be seen well,limiting access. Neckbelt restricts movement, and vision, making both walking and driving problematic and more dangerous. Waistbelt,i.e. bellybag is nothing new. Perhaps some limited help for the wheelchair bound, but existing systems work better. Poor design is self-defining. " You'll put your eye out Kid.".
tiny | Dec 9, 2004 6:01 AM
Use with the above urban yoke to carry even more poop. Didn't Batman have a belt like this??
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When it comes to IT management tools, organizations rarely upgrade them, and the tendency is to deploy them on the slowest server in the enterprise. The reason for this is that it's often hard for internal IT organizations to scrounge up the budget for IT management upgrades.
Companies may be fond of upgrading applications that materially benefit the business, but anything that makes the life of the IT staff easier usually isn't as high a priority.
For that reason, there's a shift underway towards SaaS applications for IT management. Rather than having to find dedicated infrastructure to run these applications, organizations such as the University of San Francisco are now making use of SaaS applications to better manage IT.
Besides gaining access to the latest IT management applications, the shift to IT management delivered via a SaaS platform has the additional benefit of quickly bringing the IT organization into compliance with any number of compliance requirements; not the least of which is the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework that is widely considered the gold standard for best IT management practices.
According to Jim Uomini, service level manager for information technology services at USF, the university opted to deploy the IT management platform delivered by ServiceNow as a service because first, it was easy to deploy, and second, it was simpler to customize.
As a SaaS application, ServiceNow also provides the ability for customers to extend the platform to build additional applications for areas that go beyond traditional IT applications. In effect, the ServiceNow platform is both a SaaS application and a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for building custom applications.
Uomini says that PaaS capability was a critical factor in the decision to go with ServiceNow.
"I'm a generalist that gets asked to do a lot of things. That makes me the administrator and developer." says Uomini. "With ServiceNow it's relatively easy for us to build additional applications for the human resources or facilities departments, or some other project management application for another department."
IT organizations have a long history of extending the platform they use to manage IT into other areas. The ServiceNow platform is designed to allow organizations to continue to do that without having to invest in an application that requires dedicated hardware. In the case of USF, the ServiceNow application is replacing a Remedy Service Desk application developed by BMC Software.
"Like any application there's a learning curve," says Uomini. "But it's not all that steep. To automate processes, it used to be a pretty intimidating, complicated kind of thing."
Uomini says ServiceNow also provides greater visibility into how various IT projects are progressing, which is a key part of being ITIL-compliant. The ITIL framework defines best-practices for delivering IT services, the most important of which is being able to document and define the workflow through which IT services are being delivered.
"We now have a lot more visibility into what the technicians are doing," says Uomini.
That visibility, adds Uomini, will only increase once USF begins to make use of the Apple iPad support that ServiceNow has included in the SaaS applications that effectively allows technicians to troubleshoot many problems faster from wherever they happen to be located.
Of course, the irony in all this is that many IT organizations resist moving to cloud for fear of loss of control over their IT operations. And yet, given the lack of funding available to invest in IT management systems, it often turns out that one of the best ways to attain control over the IT environment is to invest in an application in the cloud that is regularly updated.
Not only does that approach make it easier to stay current with the latest technologies, it can be scaled up and down based on the number of IT administrators that actually need to use the system. For most organizations it's going to be hard to imagine having any better IT command and control than that.


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Deputy Republican Leader and State Representative Tim Schmitz (R-Batavia) reacted to the vote to increase the income tax, citing a lack of spending reductions and other key reforms as glaring shortcomings in the tax package's shortsighted approach to solving the state's chronic budget shortfall.
Legislative Democrats approved an eleventh-hour income tax increase by the slimmest of margins on the final day of the lame duck session last Tuesday evening, giving their stamp of approval to a 66% increase in the individual income tax rate and a nearly 50% hike in the corporate tax rate. The package was approved by a vote of 60-57, narrowly reaching the bare minimum of 60 votes needed for passage.
"Instead of placing state government on a diet, the majority opted instead to raise taxes and place the burdens of more than a decade of over-spending on already hard-pressed families and small businesses," Schmitz said. "This tax increase is a jobs-killer in a struggling economy and asks taxpayers to bail government out of their own bad spending habits."
"Instead, we should have embraced spending caps to force government to live within its means, a show of good faith to the taxpayers and job-creating small businesses who will now be forced to carry the burden of this income tax increase," Schmitz added. "I am saddened by this outcome. Frankly, the people who sent us here to represent them expected and deserved better."


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Banksy street art appears on American auction site
12:19 18 February 2013
A piece of street art by Banksy which disappeared from the side of a shop in Wood Green has now appeared for sale on an American auction website.
The work, thought to be that of the famous street artist, appeared on the side of the Poundland store in May. Known as Slave Labour (Bunting Boy), the piece shows a young boy hunched over s sewing machine sewing Union Jack bunting.
It has been interpreted as a reaction to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the riots of 2011 and the London Olympics.
It has now been listed on Fine Art Auctions Miami site as one of the 118 pieces in a Modern, Contemporary and Street Art sale happening on Saturday. It has an estimate of $500,000-700,000 (£322,000-£450,000), and is the second Banksy piece in the sale, alongside 2007 work Wet Dog, which appeared in Bethlehem.
Fine Art Auctions Miami owner Frederic Thut said the work had been listed by a "well-known collector" had followed normal procedure, and had signed a contract to say "everything was above board." The collector, who Thut refused to name, is not British and Slave Labour is in storage in Europe.
In 2011 a piece known as Sperm Alarm was taken from outside a hotel in central London ands appeared on eBay for £17,000. A gang of thieves, disguised as workmen, were caught trying to steal a piece from a derelict building in Liverpool in 2006.


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New Doubts on XMRV as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Cause
June 1, 2011 -- A retrovirus found in the blood samples of some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome likely appeared there as the result of contamination, rather than infection, two new studies show. Since 2009, when a group of scientists reported finding the retrovirus called XMRV in 67% of patieRead Full Article
Therapy, Exercise Help Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Feb. 17, 2011 -- Cognitive behavioral therapy and exercise, in conjunction with medical care, are safe and effective ways to treat some of the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), finds a new study published online in The Lancet. CFS is characterized by severe, debilitating fatigue, pain, difRead Full Article
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Not Caused by XMRV Virus, Study Finds
Dec. 20, 2010 -- Chronic fatigue syndrome is not caused by the virus XMRV, according to new research. A team from University College London, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and University of Oxford, all in England, says previous research linking the virus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was fRead Full Article
Researchers Study Virus' Link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Sept. 9, 2010 -- An international group of scientists met this week at the National Institutes of Health to discuss a retrovirus that has been linked to chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer. XMRV (xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus) was first identified in humans in 2006. "We areRead Full Article
Virus Linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Aug. 23, 2010 -- Murine leukemia viruses (MLV), a family of retroviruses known to cause cancer in mice, may be linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a study shows. The full name of the virus is xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus. It is part of a family of viruses known as murine leukRead Full Article
Retrovirus Linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Oct. 8, 2009 - Some 10 million Americans may carry a recently discovered retrovirus now linked to chronic fatigue syndrome. The virus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus or XMRV, was detected in 67% of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome by Vincent C. Lombardi, PhD, of the WhittemRead Full Article
CFS Linked to Childhood Trauma
Jan. 5, 2009 -- Experiencing serious trauma during childhood may increase a person's risk for developing chronic fatigue syndrome later in life, a new study suggests. In the study from the CDC and Atlanta's Emory University, patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) reported much higher levels ofRead Full Article
Steroid for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Linked to Hormone
Jan. 18, 2008 -- Chronic fatigue syndrome may be linked to the stress hormone cortisol, at least in women, according to a new study. The study shows that women with chronic fatigue syndrome had lower cortisol levels in the morning, compared with healthy women. The study included 185 Georgia adults,Read Full Article
Stomach Virus Could Trigger CFS
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I reluctantly pick up a Rolling Stone magazine next to the Cosmos and US Weekly's plastered across the Walmart checkout aisles. Jack White's pale, solemn face immediately stands out against the bubblegum pinks of the other mass consumption magazines. I'm reluctant because, since the recent Rolling Stone covers toting the musical "genius" of Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, it's no wonder to me that Rolling Stone is now given the privilege of being stocked next to the rest of the hottest tabloids and celebrity gossip. But this is Jack White—when did Rolling Stone start caring about music again? I decide to add it to my cart full of fruits, veggies, and other healthy foods (these are complete lies) in order to find out.
I get home and begin flipping through the pages; I find a few reviews over up-and-coming artists, and maybe they're good, maybe they're bad. Who knows. They're tossed into the magazine with about as much enthusiasm as Republicans have when they go to work every day. The snuff ads with the giant GUM DISEASE warnings have more pizzazz.
The first featured article I come to is a picture of pop princess Ariana Grande with the words "Rock & Roll" set largely behind her, and I immediately notice something's awry. Okay, she's a fantastic singer, there's no doubt. Arguably and agreeably the Mariah Carey of the millenials. But she's about as rock n' roll as my ex-best-friend's stupid sweater-wearing Chihuahua.
Anyway, I read it, and move on. The next article is something I've already seen online about how VIPs are ruining music festivals. Interesting for a magazine who continues to sacrifice content in order to attract more teeny boppers. But there's truth to this article, and as it points out, with music sales declining, venues need a way to recoup their losses. Because, let's be honest, we all know that real rock music is about making as much money as you can.
I turn a few pages and stumble across an article about an old music obsession of mine: Conor Oberst. A bleeding heart for emotional teenagers, Bright Eyes basically got an entire generation of heartbroken emo kids through high school. As we delve into the tale of this Emo Heartthrob's descent into his thirties, we learn of his abdication of his emo throne, his complete and utter disconnect from the music we know and love him for, and his disdain for the Internet and society's addiction to smartphones, as he, somewhat ironically, pulls out his iPhone.
Fast forward through pictures of Lady Gaga wearing weird things and Miley Cyrus straddling a giant dildo, and we get to the Jack White article. I'm on the page for barely half a second when I notice the first giant pull quote "People can't clap anymore because they've got a texting thing in one hand" (the "texting thing" Mr. White is referring to is a cell phone). And thus sparked my epiphany: Rolling Stone doesn't cover rock n' roll anymore because rock n' roll is dead. Officially. Call the press. People have been saying it for years, and now it's finally true. I can't even think of all the recent shows I've been to where the artist literally has to ask the crowd to put down their phones and share this moment with them. Music used to be about connecting, about feeling, about getting lost in the moment—now you can never get lost in the moment, because you can always remember it with a Facebook album, Twitter post, or snap video. And I'm guilty of this too. I used to try to get one really good picture of the artist to remember the night, but now it's a constant stream of "hey social media followers, look what I'm doing every second that I'm away from you! Instead of putting my phone down for one fucking second to truly be in the moment, I'm going to take you on a journey of my morbid dependence on technology and oversharing!"
That said, the suspect in custody for the murder of rock n' roll is none other than you and I. The weapon of choice? Technology. When music sales are declining because people get their instant music fix from iTunes or Pandora, when artists have to ask you to put your phone down at concerts and listen, and when the Rolling Stone can't put together one fucking decent issue, then we know. It's happened. Here lies rock n' roll—the question is, can you stop please stop fucking Instagramming long enough to bring it back to life?


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Caramel-Pecan Cheesecake Pie RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
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In fall or any time of year, this nutty, rich and delicious pie is one I am proud to serve. While it seems very special, it's a snap to make. —Becky Ruff, Monona, Iowa
- 1 sheet refrigerated pie pastry
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-1/4 cups chopped pecans
- 1 jar (12-1/4 ounces) fat-free caramel ice cream topping
- Additional fat-free caramel ice cream topping, optional
- Preheat oven to 375°. Line a 9-in. deep-dish pie plate with pastry. Trim and flute edges. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar, 1 egg and vanilla until smooth. Spread into pastry shell; sprinkle with pecans.
- In a small bowl, whisk remaining eggs; gradually whisk in caramel topping until blended. Pour slowly over pecans.
- Bake 35-40 minutes or until lightly browned (loosely cover edges with foil after 20 minutes if pie browns too quickly). Cool on a wire rack 1 hour. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight before slicing. If desired, garnish with additional caramel ice cream topping. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Editor's Note: This recipe was tested with Smucker's ice cream topping.
Originally published as Caramel-Pecan Cheesecake Pie in Taste of Home October/November 2007, p33
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"Very delicious and was a huge hit with the family."
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"This is absolutely delicious! I made it last year for Thanksgiving, then again for Christmas! Looks like a new tradition is born! I make it with graham cracker crust."
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"Made this awhile back, but forgot to rate. Easy dessert to make and came out looking just like the picture. It's very good but super rich!"
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"Haven't made it yet but it looks so delicious!! And I just have to give it give stars because my husband loves pecan pie and I love cheese cake, so this just may be out new favorite! Thanks for the recipe."


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HAMPSHIRE yachtswoman Dee Caffari has sailed into the record books as the first woman to sail solo and non-stop both ways around the world.
The inspirational sailor from Titchfield crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe race at 1.13pm after 99 days at sea to secure sixth position - and her place in the history books.
The former PE teacher becoms only the fifth person ever to sail with and against the prevailing currents and winds around the world. The other four have been men.
In the Vendee, Caffari has travelled more than 27,000 miles on the ''easier'' circumnavigation with the wind and tides in 99 days.
In 2005/2006 she achieved the task of sailing against them east to west - taking 178 days and clocking up more than 29,000 miles.
Caffari, who is originally from Watford, Hertfordshire, has suffered a damaged mainsail and light winds in the closing stages of the Vendee - frustrating attempts to finish and claim the record.
Thousands lined the harbour walls at the race's home, Les Sables d'Olonne in France, to watch the 36-year-old finish the epic race.
After crossing the line, Caffari said:"This is just incredible!
"To see all these people here to watch me cross the line and make history is just awesome.
"The support and recognition has been unbelievable.
"I'm quite exhausted but I'll be buzzing for the next few days.
"My goal was to set the double world first and Aviva and I have done it.
"It's an amazing feeling to become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop both ways around the world. You just can't buy an experience like this, it's awesome."
Hamble sailor Sam Davies finished the race in third on Saturday morning while the Isle of Wight's Brian Thompson finished this morning in fifth place.


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