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Are there supplements or vitamins that can help me better tolerate radiation and chemo for lung cancer?
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|Transforming growth factor-beta-1 (TGF-beta-1) stimulated DNA synthesis (3-fold) in BALBc/3T3 fibroblasts following 24 hours of growth factor exposure. Since ribonucleotide reductase is important for the coordination of DNA synthesis and cell proliferation, we investigated the hypothesis that cells like BALB/c 3T3, which are TGF-beta-1 responsive, would exhibit modifications in expression of the gene for ribonucleotide reductase following growth factor treatment. We observed 2.6, 4.1, and 4.8-fold increases in ribonucleotide reductase activity following TGF-beta-1 exposure for 6, 12, and 24 hours, respectively. Increased ribonucleotide reductase R2 gene expression (3, 3.7, and 4.5-fold) and R1 gene expression (2, 2.5, and 2.6-fold) were observed following 6, 12, and 24 hours of TGF-beta-1 treatment, respectively. Western blots indicated 2.2, 3.1, and 4.1-fold increases in protein R2 levels at 6, 12, and 24 hours exposure to TGF-beta-1, whereas 2.6 and 3.3-fold elevations in R1 protein levels were observed at 12 and 24 hours postTGF-beta-1 exposure. These TGF-beta-1 mediated modifications in ribonucleotide reductase gene expression occurred, in part, prior to any detectable changes in the rate of DNA synthesis, demonstrating alterations in the normal regulation of ribonucleotide reductase. Furthermore, these alterations could be markedly reduced by prolonged pretreatment with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (R2 gene expression increased by only 1.3, 1.5 and 2.3-fold after 6, 12, and 24 hours of TGF-beta-1 treatment, respectively), suggesting a role for a protein kinase C pathway in the TGF-beta-1 regulated changes in ribonucleotide reductase gene expression. These results indicate for the first time that TGF-beta-1 can regulate the expression of the two genes for ribonucleotide reductase in BALB/c 3T3 fibroblasts, and suggest that regulation of these genes plays an important role in critical events involved in growth factor modulation of normal and transformed cell proliferation.
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UCLA-Michigan Post Game Media Conference
Coach Ben Howland, sophomore forward Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, junior guard Arron Afflalo, sophomore forward Josh Shipp and sophomore point guard Darren Collison address the media following the Bruins' 92-55 victory over Michigan Saturday afternoon at Pauley Pavilion. Click the link below to view this UCLA All-Acess post game video package.
Post Game Media Conference and recap
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Top-ranked UCLA's performance against highly regarded Michigan was so dominant, it left Bruins coach Ben Howland full of superlatives.
Fact is, he couldn't have found anything negative even if he tried.
Josh Shipp scored 18 points, Arron Afflalo added 17, and UCLA overpowered the previously once-beaten Wolverines 92-55 on Saturday.
"We just played our best game," Howland said. "Our guys were fired up for this game. Michigan played us extremely tough the last three years."
Michigan beat UCLA 70-66 in December 2003, but the Bruins topped the Wolverines 81-79 two years ago and 68-61 last season.
"The game was pretty close last year," Afflalo said. "Coming into this game, that was expected."
The Bruins made sure it wasn't.
"I think we were really good today. I think we could have beaten most teams in the country," Howland said. "I love the unselfishness of our team. Our quickness was really evident. These guys are just tremendous -- it's a lot of fun to be coaching them."
Darren Collison added 15 points and eight assists and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute had 13 points and a career-high seven steals for the Bruins (11-0), who were in command from the opening tip.
"We didn't play as capably as I thought we could," Michigan coach Tommy Amaker said. "I think we were a little nervous. Our older guys were trying to make things happen, and I felt we were pressing a little bit.
"The main thing is, you have to take care of the ball on the road."
The Wolverines didn't, committing 15 of their season-high 23 turnovers in the first half while falling behind 36-23.
Courtney Sims led Michigan with 13 points, but 11 came after the outcome was decided. Lester Abram added 11 points for Michigan, which lost by 37 despite shooting 46 percent (23-of-50).
"Our defense is really good," Afflalo said. "Each possession is very personal to us. There was a lot of energy in the building. That's tough to play through. We didn't let up, that was the key. I think in their environment, they might have bounced back."
The Bruins, who had struggled at times against several outmanned opponents, are off to their best start since the 1993-94 season, when they won their first 14 games.
Michigan (11-2) is off to its best start in 14 years, but the Wolverines were playing just their third road game. And they have beaten only two teams -- Davidson and Harvard -- with winning records.
The Bruins outscored the Wolverines 10-2 in the first three minutes of the second half for a 46-25 lead. Sims, averaging 15.6 points and 7.6 rebounds, had two points and two rebounds at that stage.
Shipp scored seven points and Mbah a Moute added five during a 17-4 run that made it 67-36, and the Bruins went on to lead by as many as 40 points.
UCLA shot 33-of-56, including 11-of-20 from 3-point range, and outrebounded the Wolverines 28-24.
The Bruins are much younger than Michigan, starting three sophomores and two juniors while the Wolverines go with one junior and four seniors.
But experience was no factor in this game.
Mbah a Moute stole the ball twice in the early going, setting the tone.
"We were doubling the post, and I just went for the ball," he said. "My teammates did a great job of pressuring the ball."
The Wolverines averaged 14.8 turnovers in their previous 12 games. They surpassed that in the opening 20 minutes.
Sims had no room to maneuver in the first half, attempting only two shots. The Bruins held the 6-foot-10, 245-pound senior to six points in last season's game in Michigan.
UCLA has gotten off to several slow starts recently, but not against the Wolverines, taking an 8-0 lead on two free throws by Collison and two 3-pointers by Afflalo. And that was just the beginning.
The Bruins are 10-3 in their series with Michigan including 6-1 at Pauley Pavilion. The Wolverines are 1-17 all-time in games against opponents ranked No. 1.
UCLA's Nikola Dragovic, a freshman from Serbia, played in his first game of the season, scoring three points in six minutes. He had been suspended for 10 games by the NCAA because a player on the club team he played for received compensation.
The Bruins open their Pac-10 schedule this week with home games against Washington State (11-1) and No. 17 Washington (10-1).
"There's no easy games coming up -- it's like murderers' row," Howland said. "We've got the best league in the country. There is not going to be an easy game."
Michigan plays two more nonconference games before opening its Big Ten schedule Jan. 3 against Illinois.


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India has the world's 12th-largest economy and the second-largest population, with an estimated 1.15 billion people.
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India is the third-largest economy in Asia, behind Japan and China. India is part of the emerging-economy BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, and China -- predicted to grow their economies dramatically in coming decades.
From the CIA World Factbook:
- Capital = New Delhi.
- India is one-third the size of the U.S.
- Gained independence in 1947 from the United Kingdom.
- The population is growing at more than 1.5%.
- About half the land is arable; about half the workforce is in agriculture.
- Services are the major source of economic growth, with less than-one third of its labor force accounting for more than half of India's output.
India began to reform its economy in 1991 after decades of stagnation and a heavy government hand. In the early '90s it began to open itself to the world economy and has been making great strides in ramping up its productivity.
Information technology is key to India's economy and its financial relationship with the rest of the world.
The U.S. State Department lists inadequate infrastructure, cumbersome bureaucracy, corruption, "rigidities" in the labor market, regulatory and foreign investment controls, the "reservation" of key products for small-scale industries, and high fiscal deficits among hurdles to economic growth in India.


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Vivek's Blog Blog for vivekpandey https://blogs.oracle.com/vivekpandey/feed/entries/atom 2011-05-19T23:48:03+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/vivekpandey/entry/update_on_dynamic_language_support Update on Dynamic Language support in GlassFish v3 Final vivekpandey 2009-12-10T22:49:58+00:00 2009-12-11T06:49:58+00:00
GlassFish v3 is out now. This release brings in expanded and mature suport for dynamic languages based frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails, Django, Grails and Lift.

 GlassFish v3 is out now. This release brings in expanded and mature suport for dynamic languages based frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails, Django, Grails and Lift.

 Here is a quick update:

Ruby on Rails

GlassFish v3 is Ruby aware. It ships with JRuby container to host Ruby Rack applications. We have made lots of improvements in our Ruby support and make GlassFish run it faster. See Eileen's blog on JRuby performance tuning on GlassFish v3.

Robust support for Rails, Merb, Sinatra work out of the box.

Full Rack compliance

Run any Rackup script to hook in any Rack based framework

Administration and Monitoring using asadmin CLI or Admin console
 See how would you go about monitoring and administration of Ruby on Rails or an Rack based application.
Many bug fixes

Python and Django
 Python and Django applications can be deployed just like Ruby applications. See a blog posting on running Django application on GlassFish.

More bug fixes to Jython container

Jython container can be obtained from GlassFish UpdateCenter

$ glassfishv3/bin/updatetool

Grails

Due to resource constraints and some technical issues some of the planned features could not be implemented. Here is a quick summary.

Grails production war works OOB

shared-war not supported in Grails 1.x
 For shared-war to work with Grails 1.x JIRA issues 5174 and 5175 need to be addressed in Grails. You can follow the development at GlassFish IT 6459.
run-app does not run with Embedded GlassFish. There have been some issues and at some point in time in the future it will be implemented.

We are definitely looking out to the community to help us improve GlassFish to be the best platform to support all Grails features.

Scala/Lift

Scala and Lift produced WAR file works well on GlassFish v3. We need to make more progress on working with Lift community to include embedded GlassFish maven plugin to include in the Lift archetype generated maven pom file.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/vivekpandey/entry/administration_and_monitoring_of_ruby Administration and Monitoring of Ruby applications on GlassFish v3 vivekpandey 2009-12-10T22:39:55+00:00 2009-12-11T06:39:55+00:00 GlassFish v3 final has monitoring and administration support for Ruby on Rails or any Ruby Rack based application. Here is how you would go about administering and monitoring your Ruby on Rails application on GlassFish v3 GlassFish v3 final has monitoring and administration support for Ruby on Rails or any Ruby Rack based application. Here is how you would go about administering and monitoring your Ruby on Rails application on GlassFish v3:
Setup

GlassFish v3
 First you need to install GlassFish v3. Get it from here. After the download simply unzip it to the directory of your choice.

JRuby

Install JRuby 1.4.0 using updatetool
 $ /tools/glassfishv3/bin/updatetool

 Select JRuby 1.4.0 and click install. JRuby along with Rails 2.3.5, Merb, MySQL JDBC adapters will be installed inside glasfishv3/glassfish/jruby. Now add it to your path.

$ export JRUBY_HOME=/tools/glasfishv3/glassfish/jruby
$ export PATH=$JRUBY_HOME:$PATH

Install JRuby 1.4.0 from jruby.org
 Alternatively you can install JRuby form jruby.org. You would also need to install any gem that your application will depend on, such as Rails, Merb, Sinatra or simply Rack incase you are writing your own Rack based framework. You would setup JRUBY_HOME and PATH accordingly.

Configuration
 Before you begin, first start GlassFish v3 server

$ glassfishv3/bin/asadmin start-domain

JRuby
 In case you are using your own JRuby installation then you need to tell GlassFish where to find it. There are 2 ways you can do it. Using asadmin CLI or using Admin console.

 asadmin CLI

$asadmin configure-jruby-container --jruby-home=/tools/jruby-1.4.0
 Admin console

 In your browser type: http://localhost:4848, then select Configure=>Ruby container and then enter JRuby instalation in JRuby Home field and click Ok.

JRuby Runtime Pool
 You can also setup JRuby runtime pool if you chose to run Rails or any other Ruby framework in non-threadsafe mode. This setting is recommended to be used only for production and for most optimal performance its advised to keep the initial, min and max values same. Basically freeze the pool so that it does not auto adjust between min and max values. Creation of JRuby runtime is a very expensive process, both in terms of time and resources, so you want to be careful with that specially in production uses. You can use the same screen where you setup JRuby Home to configure the runtime pool settings.

 Here is how you can configure JRuby runtime pool using asadmin CLI

$ asadmin configure-jruby-container --jruby-runtime=2 --jruby-runtime-min=2 --jruby-runtime-max=2

Monitoring
 GlassFish v3 monitoring infrasutructure lets each of the container define their own set of probes and expose these as dTrace or view the stats using container exposed statistics or you can write javscript code and use the monitoring REST based services to collect the stats of your choice. For details on GlassFish v3 monitoring see Prashant's excellent blog.

 asadmin CLI

 Here is how you can configuring monitoring for Ruby applications using asadmin CLI

$ asadmin configure-jruby-container --monitoring=true
 Setting --monitoring to false will simply disable it.

 Admin console

Develop a Ruby application
 Now that you have installed GlassFish v3 and JRuby and configured the JRuby container, runtime pool etc. Its time to develop a Ruby web application. To keep this blog simple, I would go for an extremely simple Rackup script config.ru.

 config.ru

class HelloWorld def call(env) [200, {"Content-Type" =>"text/plain"}, ["Hello world!"]] end end run HelloWorld.new
 In the above code HelloWorld class is a Rack application. A Rack application is the one that responds to call and returns array of HTTP status code, HTTP headers and the content. HelloWorld simply returns "HelloWorld!" as the content body.

 Now lets deploy it.

Deployment
 Assuming you are in the directory where config.ru file is located. Do the following to deploy on GlassFish:

$ asadmin deploy .

 If you want to deploy using some other version of JRuby, lets say you have JRuby 1.5.0.dev and want to deploy using this version of JRuby, this is what you would do:

$ asadmin deploy --property jruby.home=/tools/jruby-1.5.0.dev .
 If you don't like doing it using asadmin CLI, you can use admin console as well. Simply login to http://locahost:4848/ and chose Applications node and on deployment screen chose applicaton type as Ruby Application. See the image below

Now Run...
 Now access the application at http://localhost:8080/rack/

Monitoring stats
 In earlier step we have already enabled monitoring so now you can use JConsol or Admin console or use asadmin CLI to monitor the stats. You can also use dTrace as well. Let see how you would use Admin console to monitor your stats. Go to http://localhost:4848/ and select Enterprise Server and then Monitor tab. You should see different stats such as JRuby Runtme Pool, HTTP and JRuby container stats.

 Go get GlassFish v3 and start running, monitoring your Ruby on Rails or Merb or Sinatra or any Rack application. Send us your comments at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Sue Taylor volunteers her time with the St. Vincent DePaul Society, helping those in need.
Before retiring, the 72-year-old worked at First National Bank of Louisville, which now is part of PNC Bank. She didn't touch any money, she said, but instead worked one on one with customers.
The United Nations has declared 2015 the year of light internationally. It's a global initiative voted on by the U.N. to raise awareness of how optical technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to worldwide challenges in energy, education, agriculture, communications and health.
Supporting military families in need is important to Melissa Swift of Elizabethtown.
Swift, a military spouse of almost 16 years, took on the role in October of program manager for Operation Homefront Tennessee/Kentucky. The organization provides assistance to lower enlisted military and their families and wounded warriors.
Vine Grove resident Kimberly Mohammed is a U.S. Army veteran, La Leche leader, homeschool parent and author who, in 2010, faced the realization her 1½-year-old son, Kazi, was regressing developmentally.
I think I might finally be a grown up.
I mean, I know it took long enough. But now I'm 33½ and have two young children of my own, I think it is time to call myself an adult. It didn't happen when I turned 18, or 21 or when I got married. And it didn't even happen when I became a mother.
Cindy Vaughn's life is filled with volunteer work and her children, lots of children.
She has seven children total, six boys and one girl ages 11 to 25, and has homeschooled all of them.
Through her experience in homeschooling her children she helped form the local FAITH homeschool group. She became involved almost 20 years ago.
Every Christmas, a nativity scene sits on Barbara Mills' mantel to help her remember and honor her daughter Susan.
Susan, or Suzie as her mother affectionately calls her, died in October 1975 at age 13 of a malignant brain tumor.
I've been getting my mom settled for her annual escape from wintry Kentucky to sunny Florida.
And we've been working on her memoirs, reminiscing about her childhood in Hungary, her trip to the United States, my father who died when I was 8.
We started this project about five years ago and I kept meaning to get back to it, but.
When Towne Mall opened in 1985, Sherry McLane was there.
Thirty years later, McLane still is there.
The most wonderful time of the year is upon us.
As I think back to Christ-mases past, I recall the excitement and the anticipation of the guy coming down a chimney that we did not have. My Mom always told me that Daddy was going to get up and let Santa Claus in the front door by the tree.
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yellow disc wheel
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
a yellow disc wheel? That just sums it up for me:)
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What? You go do laps at Wash
Submitted by ben (not verified) on
What? You go do laps at Wash Park w/out your disc wheel? Weirdo. It wasn't me though. Mine's neon orange.
Points: 2
So not Euro for this Bikepathalete
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
There are some potential violations to "THE OFFICIAL EURO CYCLIST CODE OF CONDUCT" It's obvious that this guy was definitely not Eurocool enough to be on a disc in a park. There is no specific rule against yellow.
9. One's bike frame shall contain between two (2) and four (4) colours IN ADDITION TO WHITE. All colours are acceptable as long as they combine tastefully and elegantly. In addition, wheel selection must also match frame and fork.
I believe that it is implied that when something like this occurs, the Euro will take the advantage to introduce himself and invite the female victim out for some Pelligrino or an espresso. Whether or not she is married is moot. What Would Mario Do?
Pretty sad that she only reports a yellow disc but not "he was so ridiculously stylish and there was something sort of homoerotic about him, I would love to maybe meet him again in a different circumstance."
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The police should check all
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The police should check all hardware stores in the area for someone buying black spray paint. I don't think the yellow disc wheel will be seen again. Yellow? Really? Time to check out all the race images posted on here for the TT's and any Tri's.
Points: 11
I've seen fixed gear hipsters
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I've seen fixed gear hipsters with pastel colored disks doing some pretty rad skids at Wash park. Maybe you've seen these rider types too...they will be riding along and then suddenly for no reason, lock the back wheel and shimmy all over the place.
Some people do ride way too fast for the conditions at Wash park, but I've been going there for years and I've never seen somebody riding a disk wheel that wasn't on a BMX or brakeless fixed gear bike.
In my experience, there are far more irresponsible pedestrians and skaters than cyclists - e.g. going the wrong way, swerving all over the place, running into the road without looking, etc.
No excuse for leaving the scene of an accident, however.
Points: -2
Why does no one else have a
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Why does no one else have a bell. Its so easy and they make lite ones that can be easily removed. Works wonders at wash park.
Points: 0
Funny you say that.. the bell is powerful
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
See the power of the bell from a previous Friday Fun post
Points: 0
Keep in mind the speed limit
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Keep in mind the speed limit is 15 mph and this park is packed on weekends. http://www.strava.com/segments/wash-park-single-loop-669755
Points: 11
That is funny... totally busted!
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
Wow, this is a new way to use Strava data.
I think someone recently coined a term for this type of agro riding, "Stravasshole."
Points: 6
Speeding Tickets via Strava
Submitted by David on
Hmmm. I wonder if the police could use strava to give tickets to cyclists that are going faster than the 15MPH speed limit.
Points: 9


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Yesterday, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson announced charges against 27 members of the Sur Santos Pride, also known as SSP, a San Jose, California based criminal street gang that operated under the control of the Mexican Mafia.
Unsealed, yesterday, was a 41-count second superseding indictment that included a RICO conspiracy, violent crimes in aid of racketeering, including murder, several drug trafficking counts, and firearms related counts. According to the Second Superseding Indictment, SSP incorporated a racketeering enterprise and its members and associates agreed to conduct the affairs of the enterprise through, among other crimes, murder, extortion, attempted murder, assault, robbery, narcotics trafficking, obstruction of justice, and tampering with witnesses.
According to the second superseding indictment, a number of drug trafficking and firearms offenses committed between August 2010 and January 30, 2014, some overt acts that were committed include:
- On or about December 4, 2009, Oscar Martinez Delacruz possessed with the intent to distribute 17.5 grams gross weight of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, its salt, isomers, or salts of its isomers.
- On or about September 9, 2010, Gilberto Villela possessed with the intent to distribute and distributed about 108.1 grams of actual methamphetamine.
- On or about September 21, 2010 Marcos Salvador Lomeli possessed a .357 Magnum with a obliterated serial number.
- On or about July 18, 2011, Jesse Parra and a SSP associate possessed a firearm and two ammunition magazines loaded with seventeen rounds of ammunition.
- On or about October 23, 2011, a number of SSP members, including Roberto Martinez, attacked, stabbed, and killed person identified as victim 7.
- On or about January 30, 2014, Jesus Manuel Armendariz possessed a Springfield XD handgun, loaded with 13 rounds of ammunition. A Smith and Wesson MNP handgun, a Smith and Weston .45 caliber magazine, a .40 caliber Tarus PT24-7 handgun with no visible serial number, with a magazine inside, an AR-15 semi-automatic rife with no visible serial number and a Springfield Armory .45 ACP magazine.
Many of the defendants on the drug trafficking charges face a maximum of life imprisonment and a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison. The defendants charged in the RICO Conspiracy face up to life in prison.


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HARRISONBURG — A Staunton man whose gunshots eventually led to a five-mile pursuit on Interstate 81 in February pleaded guilty Friday in Rockingham County Circuit Court.
Sean Michael Patty, 24, pleaded guilty to felony shooting at an occupied vehicle, felony possession of a stolen firearm, felony receiving a stolen gun and misdemeanor shooting into a public place.
As part of a plea deal, Judge T.J. Wilson sentenced Patty to 21 years in prison with all but two years suspended.
On Feb. 16, police say, they received a call of shots fired in the 800 block of Port Republic Road about 2 a.m.
The caller described the suspect vehicle as a 2008 Oldsmobile. Harrisonburg officers then spotted it exiting onto southbound I-81 at the Port Republic offramp.
The car's driver, a woman whose name was not released, did not stop the vehicle until she reached the Bridgewater/Mount Crawford exit at mile marker 240.
While following the suspect, an officer's cruiser was hit by a handgun that police say was thrown by the passenger riding in the Oldsmobile.
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Feud of the Week: Ryan Newman vs. 'They'
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Last Modified: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 11:56 p.m.
Ryan Newman vs. "They": After Kurt Busch's car landed on his Chevy in a late-lap wreck, Newman ranted, "They can't get their heads out of their . . ."
Godwin Kelly gives his take: "I have a feeling 'They' are likely to have a long talk with Newman before he saddles up for the Darlington rodeo."
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- CycyLolo said...
That JT Leroy story reminds me a lot the novel "The Night Listener" by Amistead Maupin. He must have understood the whole story... It's an excellent book you should read.
- jack said...
Hey Dennis.
Happy belated, and thanks for considering me for phase 2. I'm both honored (and a bit scared) to submit to you.
The JT thing really makes me angry. Here's my take (as briefly as I can make it):
In 2000, I interviewed "JT" for Gay.com The fact that he was on the cover of "Period" was one of the things that impressed the the most, ironically.
I was sort of surprised (and, admittedly, tickled) at how grateful "he" was when the piece came out. I interviewed lots of people, but few would call to thank me (or "just to talk") -- or send me cute little packages in the mail, etc, like JT did.
In retrospect a lot of things didn't add up (he always sounded like a woman on the phone, emails didn't match his published writing style, etc) but what would that make me if I started doubting this amazing story of triumph over adversity?
I was happy for him, but as his career really took off, I never heard from him less some curt emails. The fame-obsessed shit is what really made me start to have my doubts and stop caring.
Last Friday (two days before the Times piece came out) I was taking the bus home from work and I'm fairly certain Laura Albert sat next to me. I recognized her from the NY Mag piece from October.
If it was Laura, (and I'm about 95% sure it was) then she's in a bad way: She was screaming at the driver, talking sort of manically to people about how sick she was and then asking me about my cell phone service. It was koo koo.
- benjamin russack said...
Do you think Luara's books would have made it to press had they not come with her elaborate story? And, would you have read her stuff and given it the same attention had she been Laura Albert instead of JT LeRoy? Yeah, that's a mean question, but I only ask it because I STILL don't know if I would have read his books had I known the truth. It makes me worry about the my own perceptions, like I can't see things for what they are.
- marc vallee said...
I'm still blown away by all of this as I (and many others) did a fair amount of things to promote "JT Leroy" here in the UK and I'm feeling let down big time. I feel for you Dennis on this as I and many others found "JT Leroy" via you and "JT" being linked to you.
Dennis you are such an open and great guy and it sucks that you have been used in this way.
- Jax said...
I'm gonna echo Benjamin's 'mean' but also rather brave question, cos I think there's maybe an element of complicity in this whole Leroy thing - and thus a matter of examining one's own motives...never a pleasant thing, I know, because we all like to think that deep down we are good, charitable, well-meaning people who wanna do what we can to help other people.
But no motive is ever single. Or selfless.
I've said this before, I know: never trust the teller, trust the tale. If you decide to make friends with / sponsor / adopt / fall in love with the teller, caveat emptor, eh?
Right now, my main irritation with the whole thing is the fact that those mediocre-at-best books / Laura whatever-her- name-is are a total and hideous insult to all the abused ex-rent boys out there who are quietly managing to make creative lives for themselves, post the horrors, and are keeping their past where it belongs.
- Dickon Edwards said...
For me, you, Susie Bright et al come out of this as generous and helpful to struggling new authors, not as gullible fools.
The 'scam' seems (seemed?) playful rather than deliberately exploitative - a bit of composite role-playing. It's just a shame the author backstory was presented as a selling point and essential contextual element to reading the books. I find the Lemony Snicket biogs tiresome, too, but at least the joke was clear. Reading a story is arguably an interaction of trust between author and reader.
Arguments about 'the work is the work' aren't applicable here, as it's not like the days of George Eliot writing with a man's name in order to be taken seriously. No one thinks that Annie Proulx's womanly status makes her less able to write convincingly about what's it like to be a gay cowboy. So what I want to know is - why the concealment? What's Ms Laura's answer to those who feel used?
I think it's best to wait for interviews with her and Ms Savannah about their full motives before pronouncing a definitive opinion on it all.
My response to all the new LeRoy-generated palaver was to convert this energy into switching off my computer, going into town and buying 'The Sluts'!
By the way, Gay's The Word Bookshop in London is arguably the best place to buy your books in the capital.
- Dickon Edwards said...
p.s. by which I mean they have the best range of Dennis Cooper books, and they're an independent business.
- np0804 said...
This recalls to me when evidence mounted that Joe Klein wrote Primary Colors, and he kept denying it, and the evidence became unimpeachable, and he still denied it until he was about the only one left who still didn't believe he wrote it. And at that point -- this point -- he finally held a press conference and admitted it. The game is over. . .
- christopher is lost said...
discovering that these works were the result of a zealous, fame-hungry, pathological lying, middle-aged woman has caused me to completely reevaluate the emotional impact the stories had on me. reading them from the stance that a formerly abused, brilliant, queer wunderkind had written them meant much much more to me than if I had known the truth. rereading them as laura albert fiction cheapens the intellectual experience, and I feel that my compassion has been coerced out of me under the most vile and reprehensible of ways.
and unfortunately, I agree that laura will use this publicity to twist and turn this story even further, now cashing in on the existentialist metaphor of identity. and likely there will be many people who continue to swallow the shit she's shoveling, propelling this mythos into perpetuity.
a few months ago I bought one of jt's wiffle balls. except I requested that mine be signed by laura. after a few email correspondences between myself and nancy murdock, jt's supposed assistant, one was sent to me. it's a strange piece of objet d'art to own - and a reminder of the complex and duplicitous imbroglio we've all been ensnared.
- corpodibacco said...
I wonder what Tom waits is thinking of all this...
Anyway. There's also this thing that just crossed my mind, maybe it's completely crazy but...
I've always had the impression that there was quite a difference in style between 'sarah' and 'the heart...' and 'harold'. 'Sarah' is this incredible and fantastic story, an escape into a not so real different reality. Not so with 'the heart', which is powerful, and a punch in the stomach because the reader is instructed to believe that everything is for real, but there's no real imagination, no escape into a different reality... just diaries. And 'harlod', is a medicore piece of fiction.
Now, Is it not possible that JT actually existed, and that that someone that got in touch with you at the time, Dennis, was actually JT, and then he somehow disappeared or died, and his friends managed to keep him alive to keep the money flowing in? (using his ID, his diaries, etc)
there was, in your experience with him, like a caesura where this thing may have happened?
And, BTW, what happened to 'terminator'?
Terminator disappeared from the internet, which is weird 'cause he had so many things to say and so many readers... And, after publishing the diaries of 'the heart...' it seems like JT had nothing to say anymore... pretty weird.
Anyway, I think that as a reader I made a typical mistake with JT Leroy, which was to give more importance to what I was reading, because the story was true. Like it was a 'document'.
Wrong. This is wrong and I guess it should never happen with fiction, or almost never. There's this dream I once read about in a Kundera's book, about a future where the name or the sex of the author of a novel is never known, the books have only their title on the cover, and all the stories are equally read and written with the idea of fiction in mind, nothing near biographies and stuff. Pretty strange, but still, shouldn't be the story and only the story we read to concern us? No Laura Albert could fool us anymore if we wouldn't mind about the personal story of the authors. I think.
p.s. and yes, I also thank you for considering me for phase 2, even though you never read anything from me. At the moment I am like totally paralized by a sudden sense of inadecuacy but I'll catch up. I'll try not to make a complete imbecile of myself, promise.
- tony said...
I simply refer to what I said here after the article in New York. I'm no longer as angry, only, like you all, bored.
Hey Dennis, any way I can make it onto the Phase 3? I don;t have a blog or anything, but...
- corpodibacco said...
I hope this thing I am going to add won't piss you even more Dennis, but I have to say that, in my personal case, I first met your books because of a trail... A trail that lead to your books from JT's books... Yes, I admit it, I first read JT than you, because in my small country his celebrity attracted the little attention needed to win my suspicion towards novelty (I rarely use to read new authors, I tend to be too competitive with my contempories...). Only later I learned to look in that direction and go get books by myself among certain 'gay' authors or 'underground' authors, instead of waiting them to be on the news.
I guess it always happens like this, you now... you read something, that leads you to other names and books...
The day I read JT, in my provincial, self-involved, presumptuous little country, an entire world opened up, of american authors I had never heard or read of. One of those was Dennis Cooper all right, and after reading him I realized JT was not coming out of the earth like a potato, but there were fine and finer examples, of possibly more aware and certanly equally sensitive literature...
That was to say that, if they used you or fooled you, I want to believe (and, in my case, I know) you also got something in exchange. Readers... that can look at you with more respect because you never betrayed them... that's something, or I hope it is.
- Mike McGonigal said...
happy birthday,dennis -- great to see you write on this totally fucked subject. so sorry you got roped in but you rule for having a big heart and i dunno what else to say.
- Killer Luka said...
wow. well said. maybe someday there will be an anthology of writers' reactions to this hoax.
I sent him this drawing, as a gift, a thank you for inspirations etc.:
i guess i was onto something when I drew his chest to resemble a giant, angry snatch. haha oh well.
This all makes me think of Jerzy Kosinski, who lied about being an auschwitz survivor. He ended up killing himself after his lie was revealed. It is somewhat different, because he actually existed, but whether or not out of guilt or for attention, he played himself as the ultimate modern victim. As we know, holocaust survivors have been practically sanctified, no matter what they actually did during the time. While I loved his book, The Painted Bird, his lie will perpetually take away from our ability as humans to understand our nature via experience because it undermines the validity of others' accounts. In my opinion, the recording and documenting of the holocaust experience by actual survivors is a necessary excavation into the pit of the modern human animal we've become. It needn't be spun as a myth. People don't want to know that genocide happens. I also think the same goes for the real survivors of sexual abuse, child-prostitution, human trafficing and so on. People don't want to know it goes on. If one powerful account turns out to be a lie, it is easier to dismiss.
JT was similarly cast as this survivor, a transcending saint of the latter, a symbolic figure, a fucking martyr. It is no wonder people will continue to see him as god-like. More god-like than before, given that he doesn't exist, right? I do find it rather implausible that he died of AIDS and it was kept a secret, since the best possible career move for an artist is to die, especially due to tragic circumstances.
Anyway, it pisses me off to no end that people will go out of their way to undermine the validity of the human experience, especially when they pass themselves off as a victim. They take advantage of modern society's weird obsession with victimhood (thank you, Jesus), exploit intellectual compassion all for personal, usually monetray gain and attention. It's a problem at the heart of a dysfunctional society perpetrated at every level, everyday. So I guess I'm not surprised, since most people are bastards.
His books were good, but easy...even easier now.
A good book is "The Anatomy of The Survivor", by Terence Des Pres. It deals mostly with psychological and anthropological implications of the survivors of genocide, but I still think it applies.
hmm...thank you,
- Mikel Motorcycle said...
I guess the first thing that strikes me about this is a feeling of sadness. Just reading about all of the time and energy you personally invested/wasted in JT, and how many people this person completely manipulated, is pretty sad. Further, there's really nothing about this situation that can be salvaged as a "clever prank", nothing was gained by this at the expense of a deserving monolithic corporation, no stale Movement was shaken up by this; it was soley to advance one persons career at the expense of many good, trusting people.
I remember reading "Sarah" and empathizing with JT, I even wrote him a fucking email. So yeah, this whole situation is pathetic for everyone.
- Nigel Symon said...
I think I just feel saddened by this whole mess. That this was someone I had believed in, and maybe at some point in time he did, or in an alternative world he does. That the times I had emailed him I know wonder who it was I emailed. There is no anger or bitterness, just sadness that such a thing has happened.
- SYpHA_69 said...
Oddly enough, I had never even heard of this JT Leroy thing until I started reading this journal.
- Eddie B said...
an interesting parallel to this discussion, i'm wondering what everyone thinks about james frey and "a million little pieces." i read his book and didn't believe for one second i was reading a memoir. it always seemed like fiction to me. actually, i didn't even know it was supposed to be a memoir until the story broke that he was a fraud and i learned that the book was ranked on the non-fiction list.
obviously it's a little different from the jt leroy case where this person preyed on peoples' personal time and their sympathy for a dying child. but why are people so angry with james frey? does their outrage come from the fact that they've been duped? or is it because their romance with the lives of drug-addicted desperados has been dampened?? either way, memoirs have always been embellished, haven't they? this guy might be schizophrenic and really believe all of what he wrote actually happened.
i'm rambling, but my point is to say that personally, the feelings and expectations of the reader are always more interesting to me in these stories than the authors themselves.
carry on :)
- Chilly Jay Chill said...
Great insights all around - and I think the Joe Klein comparison will probably prove prophetic as Laura rides out the JT scam as long as possible. Or at least until the new JT novel is released.
As for killer luka's comments about Kosinki, didn't it also turn out that he didn't write his novels by himself? I had read that his books were actually collaborations with other writers -different people for different books, in many cases. Does anyone know anything more about this? I'm not sure it discredits the work (still love "Steps"), but it does open yet more questions about artistic identity, atttribution, etc.
As for authenticity, I wonder what reception "Sarah" would've received if it had been promoted as the work of Laura Albert? Would it have ben dimissed as pure fancy? Would it maybe not even have been published because there was no backstory as a "hook"? Would it have been recognized as an impressive and occasionally clumsy work by a talented writer still finding her voice?
- garrison said...
Preach on, Dennis. It's got me all pissed off again, thinking of those manipulative puppet masters cashing in on their repulsive exploitation of concern for AIDS ans Child Abuse.
here, here...
- David Saä Viccenzo said...
"Anyway, it pisses me off to no end that people will go out of their way to undermine the validity of the human experience, especially when they pass themselves off as a victim. They take advantage of modern society's weird obsession with victimhood (thank you, Jesus), exploit intellectual compassion all for personal, usually monetray gain and attention. It's a problem at the heart of a dysfunctional society perpetrated at every level, everyday. So I guess I'm not surprised, since most people are bastards." -Killer Luka-
"As I've said before, there was a time when I knew this supposed JT very well, years when I talked to him on the phone every day, and was told by him (as he later told innumerable people) that I was the most important person in his life, his saviour, the person he loved the most in the world, etc, etc. That JT Leroy was dying of AIDS, covered with karposi sarcoma and so many scars from the abuse he'd received and the self-abuse he'd inflicted on himself that he couldn't go outside because people stared at him, had multiple personality disorder and would call me at all hours of the day and night talking for hours in his various personalities, was seriously addicted to heroin, claimed he had been so horribly abused that he had never developed sexuallly and had useless genitals that were the size of an infant's, sent me pictures of himself in which he bears no resemblance to the person who has subsequently been presented as him, claimed to have never attended school in his life or have had any education whatsoever, was constantly theatening to either commit suicide or find some s&m master who would kill him and expected me to spend hours talking him out of letting this happen, and so on and so on." -Dennis´s voice-
I´m crying...too much
- paidal said...
As people wonder whether Ms. Albert would've been able to sell her writing on her own, without the JT Leroy grandeur behind it, I wonder whether this was her goal all along...to emerge as the "voice" of JT and make a name for herself using that dubious infamy as a vehicle. After all, they say no publicity is bad publicity.
- Susan said...
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- SYpHA_69 said...
Did anyone else here see Frey on Larry King last night? Man, can that guy talk in circles. He must have used the word "subjective" about a million times.
I work full-time at a Barnes & Noble, but it's one of the smaller ones so our selection kind of sucks. Most people just buy the bestsellers, and we've been selling this "Million Little Pieces" book like hot cakes for months now. Really frustrating as there are much better books out there. Frey himself said that he originally tried to publish his book as fiction, but when so many publishers turned it down he decided to make it a memoir. H'mmm... Most Americans will probably look past the lies, however, choosing instead to soak in the "redemptive" aspects of the book, and, oh, but it's helped so many people! [sneer]
- KOSA_838 said...
Yes that is truly fucked up. It is quite amazing that Laura pulled that shit off though, kinda like a shitty Machiavelli or something like that. Surprising that after all of the homosexual/ crossdressing/ transgender (supposedly) autobiographical information, it just turned out to be a hetero female!! I'm sorry, but I really can't believe it!
Something else that this makes me wonder about: Is Gus Van Sant in on it? I mean, J.T. Leroy supposedly had something to do with the writing of Elephant. And that whole "Thistle" band rigamorol... This is such a huge literary conspiracy! Did J.T. Leroy have a part in 9/11? Just kidding! Seriously though I believe when all of the facts come out about this, there will be SO many people involved.
- Killer Luka said...
If anyone has seen this already or not, it's a brilliant insight from another great writer on all this...
She says "If one more person finds the real Dennis and George through Sarah, though... maybe, just maybe, it was worth it."
that happened to me. thank you.
- Susan said...
Earlier I was inclined to shrug about this -- I didn't care about JT Leroy's writing and had no particular stake in him being who he supposedly was, beyond my assumption that the writer of those books was not lying nonstop to the world about every single aspect of their identity so they could get famous and paid for writing and performing the experiences of AIDS, child abuse, heroin addiction, and severe mental illness, that is -- but I've gotten a bit upset since reading more stuff. I'm now really curious about what will come next, if anything.
Again, sorry for your mindfuck, Dennis. I've had similar but not on this scale. I don't imagine you'll let your basic stance towards people change as a result of it, though. What you said about "accepting that I was really gullible for what I believed was a good cause is really okay and kind of interesting, when I'm not angry" seems like a good attitude to have.
This all seems like it could also be read as an indictment of certain tendencies of wussy-assed fuzzy-minded cultural liberalism, but I'm too frazzled to parse it all out right now. I mean, people were fucking thrilled about JT's carefully constructed identity and position w/r/t the violence used in the writing and in the backstory, while people who should know better still freak out about stuff, like oh maybe the work of one Dennis Cooper, that is WAY more interesting, much better writing, etc., not to mention not being sold as something it isn't, partly because it hasn't got the kind of larger narrative to it that we seem to really, really want. Ecch.
Have people seen Todd Solondz' Happiness? I keep thinking of the scene with the dark-haired stylish sister, the successful author of poetry about her totally made-up experiences of sexual abuse, throwing herself across her bed in a fit of self-disgust: "If only I had been raped as a child! I'd know true authenticity!"
Re James Frey: Apparently Random House is offering refunds to people who bought his book and now want their money back, though it's not clear whether this is standard practice or just for Frey's book. Wonder if Leroy's publisher will do the same? I bet not. Anyway Frey's writing ... has to be read to be not believed, shall we say.
Happy belated birthday, Dennis.
- Paul America said...
One book was really important to me. I used to say it was my end-all all-time favorite (this makes me feel totally weird). You did yr top 50 a bunch of days ago... yr always consious of the pantheon, right??? It's gonna pop up everytime I'm subjected to something brilliant. (incidentally, it changed to GUIDE when I went to college and had axsess to better bookstores).
I really haven't thought about it since i read the first expose. put the books where i can't see 'em. I'm lucky, I rarely get too emotionally attached to anything that isn't pharmaceutical. I can't really say I've cried any tears or felt any real horrible anguish about this. To borrow a phrase from MOJO's dismissive (and totally unjustified) review of Courtney Love's AMERICA'S SWEETHEART which I've committed to memory - the whole thing is just "too ghastly to contemplate". I guess I just feel sorry for a buttload of kids.
But at one point in time, it kinda was pharmaceutical i guess. and if i ever saw the bitch on the street, I'd be somewhat feisty.
Do you think Courtney Love knew all along? I honestly don't think she did. Mabey, right??? She'll probably come out and say that the whole fuck-all is misogynistic and if a 50 year old man wrote the books there would be less outrage. she'd probably be right, on some level. right???
Did you make a list of people who probably knew and people who didn't??? "the grifters and the grifted"??? Van Sandt's probably on the payroll, right???
And how do we know, DC, that you weren't in on the whole scam from the beginning, and just gave hesitant quip to NY before it blew up so you wouldn't be implicated - lest you alienate the transgressive demographic - with a new novel on the horizon?
I know you weren't. and I probably shouldn't have written that (really). But this is the shit that went through my head when i heard about this. And it just shows you how COMPLETELY FUCKED UP anyone who's ever waxed superlatives on this cunt's work is if they entertain for ONE FUCKING MINUTE the thought that this shit is "brilliant' or "warholian".
I'm sorry for not being uniformly playfull in this post.
moving on, as we all should probably do...
do you read MOJO???
- jack said...
Am I the only person to notice how eerily prophetic the lyrics to GBV's "The Finest Joke Is Upon Us" is to this whole morass???? Creepy!!!
- barnpauls said...
Not such a big deal to me really. I liked the books but became increasingly disinterested in the JT character as he gained many celebrity friends and flogged his ware with such desperation. Go getters are not sexy and cool y'know. Effortless talent without ambition, well, now your talking.
- Paul Curran said...
Reminds me a bit of a case in Australia about ten years ago. This woman calling herself Helen Demidenko won the Vogel Award (for young writers) with a novel she claimed was based of real accounts of her Ukrainian relative's time as a concentration camp guard. The book was published by Allen & Unwin and went on to win the Miles Franklin Award (for any writers). She went on TV dressed in Ukrainian ethnic clothes. When the story came out that she was really Helen Darville (with English blood) there was similar debates about authenticity, identity, postmodernism etc. The award judges were embarrassed because they were meant to judge work purely on literary merit and a lot of people who supported her were also pissed off. After that it came out that some of the details in the novel had been lifted almost word-for-word from a history book. She eventually disappeared, like the JT thing will. The last I heard was that she was studying law or economics or something, said there was more money in it than writing. Enough said.
- jcschlim said...
The only big mystery now remaining:
From my perspective the whole thing came as a kind of relief, as I hated all these different JT's, I had to speak to. Beware of people saying too often "I love you so much..."
As for the "naïvité humaine", it should be respected, I would even say protected, it's a good thing to trust. Beeing fooled doesn't make us wiser, it just sucks out some more of the good human feelings most of us certainly have.
I don't have any sympathy for a hoax faking the AIDS victim and promoting heroin as the ultimate romantic reunion. I prefer having sex and/or making love. JT hated sex - cherchez la femme...
PS I have 150 pages of unpublished JT stuff, maybe I should release it?
- antonio said...
- paul america
i think of courtney often and i love her and hope she lives forever
- everything else
i'm just not sure what to think about this debacle. i mean. i know what it feels like to do something you regret so completely. especially something that involves creation. i know what it feels like to be called unethical and let a ton of people down just because of something i made. i wasn't doing anything for attention. i did things because i had to do them. just to see what could happen. just to tell myself that i made that and now it's gone. i'm sure alot of us know what it feels like to be hated. and alot of us know what it feels like to be told that we're exploiting things. i've exploited so much in my lifetime. the dean of my art school told me that i was an ethical void right before he kicked me out. i guess i'll devote the rest of my life to burning that institution to the ground. but not. because it's over. i did what i had to do nomatter what. and that's greedy and it may be unethical but i don't believe i should be restrained. i've chased dreams across this country and have been chased by them right back to where i started from. and i don't feel any regret. i would do it all over again because i had to do it. it was inside of me. and isn't all of that the reason why we discovered anything at all? i didn't know jt, but i mean i could understand how someone could be angry that he doesn't exist anymore. especially because dennis thought he did. but at the same time i can't because i've always distanced myself from anything that could cause the least bit of emotive pain, because i feel i've had my maximum quantity of that. i operate in an orb now. and i like it that way. so i guess that makes me inhuman. but aren't we all inhuman? especially us? oh fuck it, i don't know.
so, i cant really say anything about this stuff. i do feel bad that anyone's feelings or morals were damaged about this. i feel bad for dennis. and i feel bad for whoever jt is.
but i'm just not sure that anyone can be blamed for anything.
we're all people made from desire. that's all we are.
i wish there was something more hopeful or good we can say on this subject. but i know too much of what it feels like to be hated and feel those consequences. nothing has been there to protect me. i dont have the money and i dont have the fanbase.
so i yeah, like i said.. i don't know. it's still just a freak to me and i don't think anything can fix that.
- A.R.Yngve said...
Get over it.
- young/guns said...
in my world, the worst thing about the jtl situation is that someone i thought was close to me said he know jt and had met him/was asked to be in a threeway with him. described how he looked...
it shook my faith in someone i love/ed. whatever.
- blakefraina said...
i think laura albert was way beyond clever in that she appealed to (many) people's prurient interest in sexually abused children in order to acquire all those well connected supporters. no offense, but it strikes me that, whether you'd be willing to admit it at this point or not, hearing those lurid stories you speak of - the ones horrific abuse and its aftermath - must have turned you on, on some level, and kept you coming back for more. in this, she is truly a scheherazade for our times, no? but i'm not defending her, you understand. i suspected the moment i saw that photo of "jt leroy" in spin magazine last year that it was all some sort of hoax (despite heated arguments with a number of believers). albert is a skank. its too bad the books continue to sell so hotly.


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FRESNO, Calif. - Fresno State women's basketball announced the 2012 summer camp schedule on Tuesday afternoon. The Bulldog staff will host the Little Dribblers Day Camp and The Top Dogs Day Camp, both are slated for June.
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"We want to help the kids in the Valley fall in love with basketball," said head coach Raegan Pebley. "Our camps are a great blend of fun and learning. Our Little Dribbler day camp will be a blast and an opportunity to learn fundamentals. Our Top Dog camp will be a chance for high school level athletes to take their game to another level."
The Little Dribblers Day Camp (kindergarten - eighth grade) is June 20-22 from 9 a.m. - noon at the North Gym. The camp includes individual skill and position instruction and also a t-shirt. Campers should bring their own lunch and registration is $100 per camper. Early registration is $90 before June 6.
The Top Dogs Day Camp (ninth-12th grade) is June 24 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the North Gym. The camp includes individual skill and position instructions, along with a t-shirt and lunch is provided. Registration for the Top Dogs Camp is $50.
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The Cork Board Team set to expand…again
Several months after we started this blog back in 2007 we welcomed our first child into the world.
The past two-and-a-half years have simply flown by. We've all grown so much and so many things have changed. Today, we're happy to announce they'll be changing once again here in a few weeks…
You see, The Cork Board Team is set to expand by one more at some point in early March–at that point the team will be four strong. As was the case last time, we'll be posting significantly less frequently and at dramatically different times of the day (and night).
So, any of you local Napa Valley readers that might want to contribute a blog post or two in the early-to-mid March timeframe, feel free to hit us up in the comments and we can go from there.
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I got an e-mail from my friend Jonathan the other day. He lives in Chicago, and he really enjoys good wine, but isn't what you'd call a wine geek by any stretch of the imagination. His e-mail included a forwarded newsletter from an online wine retailer that shall remain anonymous. This was one of those retailers that seem to have sprung up by the dozen in the last year or two that offer special deals on hard-to-find wines.
What my friend Jonathan wanted to know, simply, was what I thought of special six pack of wines they were offering him at a limited-time 20% discount!.
This question, he pointed out to me, comes up for him and many other wine drinkers all the time. We live in an age of e-mail marketing, and those who choose to purchase online are often (unwittingly and unwillingly sometimes) signing up for a lifetime of marketing e-mails from online wine retailers touting their newest acquisitions.
Of course frequent buyers of wine use such communications to scoop up deals as they come along, because there really are many retailers who get a few bottles of something good in the door, offer it at a fair price to customers via e-mail and sell it within a few minutes of sending out their e-mail blast.
More experienced wine buyers know instantly whether the price is good, but most average Joes, like my friend Jonathan, have no idea whether these special offers are indeed special.
So here's what I did to answer his question, and here's what I suggest you do if you ever get a wine offer that you're tempted to buy into but are not 100% sure if it is a good deal.
Step 1. Google the winery, and see how much their suggested retail price is on the winery web site. Many wineries now sell direct, and even if they don't, they list the "release" prices of their wines on their sites. These prices usually reflect one of two realities: either they are usually the highest price that the wine sells for (if it is a current vintage) or they are the lowest price that the wine sells for (if it is a cult winery that sells all its wine to mailing list members, some of whom then turn around and sell it elsewhere or auction it off, etc.). For most wineries their listed price will be higher than most retailers. Why? I'm not exactly sure, but I don't think I've ever seen a non-cult wine that is sold at a lower price at the winery than in a retail store. Mostly I think it is the fact that wineries set a suggested retail price, and then most every retailer sells it at a discount (but still well above the price they paid for it).
Step 2. Use a wine retail search engine like Wine Searcher, Wine Zap, or Froogle to see what people are actually selling the wine for online. These services index thousands of retailers around the globe, and can give you a pretty good indication of what the wine is generally selling for, or if it is even available.
In Jonathan's case, the supposedly discounted price that the retailer was offering was exactly the same price he would pay if he ordered it directly from the winery. Some deal! There were no other online wine retailers offering the wine for sale, however, which meant that even though it wasn't a great price, if he wanted the wine, it looked like he either needed to get it from this offer, or he needed to order directly from the winery if he didn't want to spend his time poking through all his local wine shops in search of a bottle. Sometimes if people live in states or countries that have particularly restrictive liquor laws, these special deals, even if they don't represent much savings in price, are often the only way to get your hands on smaller quantity wines.
I also offered Jonathan one other piece of advice: if he had never tasted the wine before, why on Earth was he considering buying six bottles of it? To the uninitiated, perhaps, there's a certain glamour to buying wine by the case or by the half case, but it can be one of the costliest mistakes that wine lovers make, whether because they don't get around to drinking all the wine they buy, or because they don't like it.
I told Jonathan to call up the winery and get them to ship him a bottle each of a couple of different wines for him to try, and then if he liked them, to order more. That has the added benefit of getting him on the winery's mailing list so that in the future he might get a chance to buy wines that even that retailer wouldn't get a chance to sell.
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All pets like toys, but the rescue pets really need distractions and fun. They also come with more issues so need patience in even learning how to play. Most toys are destructible and won't last long, so while trying to teach them to be less destructive consider making your own toys.
This is this disclaimer as I have researched many ideas and they all could have some problems for some pets. Always think about the pet's safety, but no need to get crazy about these things unless you leave the pet playing with an untested toy alone. Playtime, till problems are known, should be with humans in attendance. You can then adjust the toy made and change it for better size or better durability, and address possible chewing or swallowing problems. This should probably even be done with toys bought at pet stores. After reading some comments on websites where suggestions were made, the thought occurs that hopefully they worry about their children as much. T
oys should obviously not be so small for the dog size that there is a danger of swallowing something not meant for consumption. The size of a toy can be a characteristic that determines if they like it or not. The wrong size may prevent them from playing with it.
If you can tie knots, a toy can be made. Braid and tie toys for tugging. Wrap and tie toys for different shapes that the pet will like. These can be thrown or just carried around by the pet. Anything that can be twisted into shapes and has some durability will make a good toy. Use old denim, old shirts, towels, rugs, even rope from which to make pet toys. Indoor Frisbees can be made out of braided cloth. You can braid cloth and use it in many shapes for pulling and tugging. You can make your own stuffed toys and for cats fill them with loose catnip.Don't forget boxes and yarn as simple cat toys. There are many ideas with socks tied with something inside such as an empty plastic water of pop bottle. Put something inside like that and tie the sock securely. There are pets that just loved the plain empty plastic bottle and enjoyed them for hours even without the sock. They will like the softness as well as the crunch of the bottle.
An empty milk jug can be great just as it is, best to remove the lid though. In the past destructive puppies played with bag balls, made up of stuffed and tied plastic bags. It should be very tightly tied so it cannot come apart. As with all toys watch their play carefully to be sure they cannot get it apart and swallow any plastic.
A tennis ball is still one of the most ideal of toys. Besides throwing it, you can make a small slit and stuff dog treats inside. It will then have a rattle and alluring smell.
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Table 1. Defect definitions for concrete deck/slab
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AASHTO's new inspection guide may help boost repair funding.
Chronic underfunding has deferred much-needed maintenance and repair of U.S. bridges for years. As a result, deterioration of concrete bridge decks is a major reason that a quarter of the nation's bridges are now considered either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
Regular inspection of decks and other bridge elements provides a way to monitor their condition, flag incipient problems, and initiate timely repairs. To guide repair plans most effectively, though, inspections need to be performed as objectively and consistently as possible. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' (AASHTO) new Bridge Element Inspection Manual is designed to help agencies achieve that goal.
The 172-page manual and CD-ROM, published in February, replaces the AASHTO Guide for Commonly Recognized Structural Elements and builds on the element-level condition assessment methods it espoused. The manual helps inspectors identify every piece or element of a bridge, specifically defines four standard condition states (good, fair, poor, and severe) for each element, and outlines clear reporting methods. It's intended to make it easier for inspectors to perform comprehensive inspections, and for managers to understand and compare the reported information.
It also provides specific guidance for assessing the condition of two element sets. Those identified as National Bridge Elements represent the bridge's primary structural components - they conform to the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Recording and Coding Guide for the Structure Inventory and Appraisal of the Nation's Bridges, and are meant to provide consistent information across the country. Those identified as Bridge Management Elements include components such as joints, wearing surfaces, and protective coating systems that are often tracked using bridge management systems (see sidebar). Agencies can modify the condition-assessment language for these elements to meet their particular needs, because the Bridge Management Elements are not used in policy-making at the national level. The new manual also allows agencies the flexibility to develop additional elements of their own, within the overall element framework.
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1. Determine the deck area in square feet or square meters, measured from edge to edge, including any median areas and accounting for any ramps or flares. Report the prevalence of each defined condition state as a percentage of the overall deck area.
2. Examine the deck for manual-defined defects- cracks; spalls, delaminations, and patched areas; efflorescence; and reduced load capacity. Refer to Table 1 to determine what level of severity the observed defects represent, then to Table 2 to find the corresponding condition state.
3. Note that the deck evaluation is meant to be three-dimensional; that is, the defects observed on the top and bottom surfaces of the slab should be captured using the defined condition states. You can use the condition of the available visible surface to assess the surfaces that aren't visible for inspection. If neither the top nor bottom surface is visible, though, you'll need to assess the condition using destructive methods, nondestructive testing, or indications provided by the material covering the surface.
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