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Chris Williams quizzes an Athlon editor regarding the publications Iowa State/Big 12 picks.By Chris Williams, Publisher in Football.
- CFTV/Podcast: Mid-summer CCL report
- JUN 30 WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Jared Homan
- JUN 30 CCL Recap: Morris using learning experience of CP3 camp
- JUN 29 Q&A: Steve Prohm on the Big 12 summer teleconference
- JUN 29 Bill Fennelly reflects on the life of Pat Summitt
- JUN 28 Niang makes his first appearance as member of the Pacers
- JUN 28 What's next for Niang and Nader? Will they make NBA rosters?
- ON THE TRAIL: Getting you ready for the dead period
- JUL 1 RECRUITING: Hafiz gives ISU commit No. 17
- Off the Record (podcast) w/ CW: Matt Campbell
- JUL 1 RECRUITING: Where do the Cyclones stand heading into the dead period?
- FAWcast: Episode 84
- JUN 29 RECRUITING: Cyclones add JUCO DE in class of 2016
- JUN 29 RECRUITING: Texas DE Deven Lamp is commit No. 16
- JUN 29 Iowa State alum will compete in the Open Championship
- JUN 23 Nolan named ISU female athlete of the year
- JUN 8 Iowa State hires new softball coach
- MAY 21 Wrestling gets good news on Earl Hall
- MAY 10 Iowa State doesn't renew contract of softball coach
- MAR 17 UPDATE: ISU 11th at NCAA Wrestling Championships
- MAR 17 ISU currently 12th at NCAA Wrestling Championships
- WILLIAMS: Five thoughts on the future of the Big 12
- A championship game will return to Big 12 football in 2017
- VIDEO: Steve Prohm interviewed by fake Gary Dolphin
- RECRUITING: 6-4 JUCO wide out pledges to Cyclones
- CFTV: Best of luck to Brody's Cause in the Kentucky Derby
- Frontline grad transfer sets visit to Iowa State
- RECRUITING: State's best LB commits to the Cyclones
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- Off the Record (podcast) w/ CW: Matt Campbell
- CFTV/Podcast: Mid-summer CCL report
- FAWcast: Episode 84
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Love knows no limits
Patrick Abboud gets a glimpse of true love and commitment through the relationship of a serodiscordant couple.
Serodiscordance, also known as magnetic or mixed status couples, is when one partner is living with HIV and the other is not. It's a term I've seen used in our community but I've not ever really looked into what it means purely because I've had no reason to – until now. One simple conversation with one extraordinary woman has shifted the way I see relationships forever.
There's been a steady stream of media and projects that shed light on serodiscordant relationships amongst gay men but what happens when a straight 'pos' woman falls for a hetero 'neg' man?
Women comprise almost 10 per cent of the estimated 25,000 people living with HIV in Australia (2671 cases). From 2003 to 2012, women were diagnosed at a median of 30 years of age.
Today, HIV positive women are in many ways the invisible community within an already marginalised group. We don't hear their stories or see their faces. Most women don't disclose their HIV status because of the stigma and discrimination that comes with it.
And one beautiful soul that knows that better than anyone is 'Sally' – the woman who not only gave me reason to write this but has also shown me what unconditional love truly means.
Sally has just turned 50. Married to 'Brian' for 10 years, the two had three kids together. Everyone who knew them described their relationship as perfect – a model couple at the helm of a happy family that spoke goodness in volumes. That was all true until Brian got 'sick'. He'd been sleeping with other men and using drugs intravenously throughout their marriage and somewhere in the 80s contracted HIV. Sally had no idea the whole time.
Admitted to hospital for pneumonia, Brian's secret was unleashed and so too was the virus in Sally's bloodstream. Not only had Brian been lying to Sally, he had put her and their children's lives at risk. Treatment was nowhere near as advanced as it is today and HIV was still seen as a 'death sentence' then. Sally's saving grace was the kids all testing negative. Here's where my lesson in commitment and that old 'in sickness and in health, till death do us part' adage really hits home.
Brian died from AIDS-related illnesses 11 months after he was admitted to hospital that day. Instead of running from the pain and trauma, Sally stood by Brian. She nursed him at home in their bed until his final hour.
Left feeling betrayed, broken and lost, Sally says the only reason she found a way forward was for her children. I got the chance to meet a couple of them and the adoration and respect they have for their mother is incredible – an impenetrable bond.
Sally gave up on love temporarily but never on life. She's remained positive in every sense of the word – her joy infectious, her illness a minor anomaly. And there's one man she says she owes much of that to: 'Ian'.
Ian (who's HIV negative) came into Sally's life about three years after Brian's death. They met through mutual friends and despite Sally's resistance, Ian persisted to win her heart and trust. They've been married for more than a decade now. Ian is a loving father to Sally's kids and they've since had twins of their own – both born negative (yes, it's totally possible now with the level of advancement in HIV prevention and treatment). Sadly, Sally faced yet another heart-breaking battle. One of her twins was born with a disability (completely unrelated to Sally's HIV status) and died aged eight.
Sally and Ian powered through the tragic loss together and are now fostering several other disabled children. A beautiful family and a remarkable couple to say the least – they've inspired me to rethink what 'relationship' is.
Now, at the risk of leaving you with a cliché, I gotta say it – serodiscordant or not, love is a force to be reckoned with. If you've got it, hang onto it tight. If you're scarred by it – let your guard down. And if you didn't believe in it before reading this, I can only hope you do now.
* Names have been changed to protect the identity of subjects.
Patrick spent the past couple of weeks filming a short doco with Sally and her family. They bravely share their story on The Feed on SBS2. Tune in Monday, June 9, 7.30pm. Go to sbs.com.au/thefeed.
- TOPICS: Patrick Abboud, SBS2, Serodiscordant, The Feed

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A very clever Girl Scout selling cookies by a pot club took advantage of people's munchies and hit it big outside of the medical marijuana dispensary this week. In fact, says 13-year-old Girl Scout Danielle Lei, she completely sold all of her cookies in a massive sale in less than 45 minutes. SF Gate News shares this Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, that there is some controversy surrounding these young girls selling products so close to a "weed store," but the Girl Scouts of North California sees no issue with this smart marketing tactic.
The Girl Scout pot club maneuver began when Danielle Lei, only 13 years old, thought it would be a smart idea to set up her cookie selling table outside of a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco called the Green Cross. Apparently knowing her customers quite well and the case of the munchies that weed can sometimes bring, the clever Girl Scout hit it big in returns after selling every single box of cookies in under an hour.
"They get very hungry after!" she told a local news station outside the Green Cross.
According to the press release on this savvy marketing move and certainly picking a successful Girl Scout pot club site:
"When the Girl Scouts set-up shop outside The Green Crossstorefront yesterday, little did they know they'd need to call for back-up Girl Scout Cookies after 45 minutes! It's all about location and it's safe to say this one was a great success. We're excited to have them back again soon and will keep our members posted!"
While the Girl Scouts of Northern California have alleged that their state's organization has no issue whatsoever with their young girls taking advantage of people's hunger outside of medical marijuana dispensaries like the Green Cross, not everyone else agrees. The Girl Scouts of Colorado, for instance — in a state where the limited use of recreational marijuana is now fully legal — do not encourage nor allow their members to sell outside these "weed stores" or marijuana dispensaries.
Reads an official tweet from the Colorado Girl Scouts on Twitter this week after rumors began to circulate:
"If you are wondering, we don't allow our Girl Scouts to sell cookies in front of marijuana shops or liquor stores/bars."


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how can I unlock a bitloker-locked disk via batch (or cmd line)? What I need is to replicate the effect of the default action you see in the context menu of the unit (i.e. unlocking temporarly the unit providing the secret password). Thx
When you say "unlock" it's not clear if you mean "disable Bitlocker" or "decrypt the drive". Disabling the encryption puts a plain-text key on the volume but otherwise leaves the volume encrypted. This is much faster than decrypting the entire volume, but doesn't result in the volume being a plain NTFS volume.
The manage-bde utility is what you're looking for.
Assuming you're running this on the computer with Bitlocker enabled, while booted, you can use the following parameters to perform the following actions:
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College Hockey:Warrior Rally Deflates Purple Eagles
Late Four-Goal Flurry Wins Game for Wayne State
DETROIT, Mich. — Niagara was winning after 20 minutes. Niagara was winning after 40 minutes. And then the floodgates opened — for Wayne State.
Down 3-2 heading into the third period, Wayne State (18-11-4, 14-2-3 CHA) scored four goals in just over four minutes to take the 6-3 College Hockey America win at the Great Lakes Sports City. Steve Nichols netted his first two goals of the year and goalie Brett Leone stopped 29 shots to record his second win of the season.
Wayne State is now unbeaten in nine straight games (8-0-1) and 8-0 all-time against Niagara.
"There wasn't any panic going into the third," WSU head coach Bill Wilkinson said. "[Leone] kept us in it for the first two and I told the boys to go out and have a period for him. We battled hard along the boards and capitalized on all our chances."
Niagara's Dave Hominuk opened the scoring at the 4:16 mark of the first period. Hominuk walked in from the left-wing side after intercepting a WSU clearing attempt and snapped a shot through Leone's pads for the early advantage. It was Hominuk's third goal of the season.
Warriors' co-captain Jason Durbin evened the score at 5:50 on a WSU power play. Camped to the right of NU netminder Rob Bonk, Durbin took a slick cross-crease feed from Nathan Rosychuk for the easy tap-in and his 15th goal of the year.
But Niagara went ahead again on a power play of its own at 13:20. Mikko Miettinen let loose a shot from the left point that fellow Finn Hannu Karru redirected past Leone top shelf. For Karru, the goal was lucky number seven.
The Purple Eagles outshot WSU 13-5 in the first.
Nichols tied the game 5:12 into the second frame on his first goal of the year. Left unmarked in the right faceoff circle, Nichols wristed a floater in on Bonk that Bonk seemingly never saw. Bonk was then replaced by Mike Pataran.
Chris Sebastian gave the visitors their second lead of the game when he jumped on a loose puck and beat Leone on a clear-cut breakaway at 18:36 for his 10th goal of the season.
"Going into the third period, only down by one goal, hey, no problem," Leone said. "Especially playing at home we knew we could tie it up and then once we did the goals kept coming."
Tyler Kindle made it 3-3 at 4:43 with his ninth goal of the year. From his own blue line, Kindle skated into the NU zone and beat Pataran five-hole with a slapper from the top of the left circle.
Rosychuk put WSU ahead for good at 6:18. Kindle threaded a pass to Rosychuk, who was cutting to the net, and Rosychuk put it past Pataran for his 10th goal of the year.
Then Maxim Starchenko converted a two-on-one break with Chris Vail at 8:25 for his sixth snipe of the campaign. Bonk was then inserted back in for Pataran, but that wouldn't last long — 29 seconds to be exact.
Nichols grabbed a loose puck in the slot and put a backhand shot on net that fluttered past a screened Bonk. Enter Pataran, again.
"I haven't had any breaks all year," Nichols said. "It's never really been my role to score, but tonight I was glad to help out the team goal-wise."
"Steve Nichols is a guy who we don't expect to score a lot," Wilkinson said. "He doesn't have burning speed, so we tell him if you can't go around their D, just get it to the net and that's what he did tonight."
With the loss, Niagara can officially finish no better than third in the CHA standings. Wayne State, the regular-season CHA champs, and Bemidji State have earned byes in the semifinals of the CHA tournament to be held in two weeks at Niagara.
But pride will be on the line for Niagara tomorrow night. And a win wouldn't hurt, either.
"All the guys have to come to compete tomorrow night," Purple Eagles head coach Dave Burkholder said. "Tonight we had four guys who weren't mentally ready to compete.
"We missed something like four breakaways tonight and [Wayne State] capitalized on not some of their opportunities, but all of their opportunities. They weathered the storm with great defense and great goaltending."
Both teams wrap up the regular season tomorrow night at 7:05 at the Great Lakes Sports City. David Guerrera will be in goal for the Warriors while NU's goalie will be a game-time decision.
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After a week of clouds and snow showers, our weather pattern takes a brighter turn this weekend, but temperatures will stay cold with highs in the 30s and lows in the 20s.
A new storm system will spread snow across Central Indiana late Monday night through the day on Tuesday. Some accumulation is likely.


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If you run a web site, it's easy to sit back and shut your eyes as we start the long downward roller coaster ride. But there are some things you can do to recession-proof your internet marketing:
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It reminds me of a wonderful story about a man and his hamburger shop and his reaction to recession, here is the edited version;
The economy hits hard times he works harder to make his hamburgers the best; buying the freshest lettuce, juiciest tomaoes and softest bread.
He survives whiles others close shop and he becomes very rich and sends his son to do an economics degree.
Years later another recession looming, his son who is an expert tells dad to "cut back" and prepare for the recession ....of course his hamburgers are no longer the best and sadly he goes out of business.
I think one of my economic lecturers taught me that at UNI - I thank him for this sound advice.
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To get the best stuff in the game, save up a lot of money. eventually, after a race you will be approached by a man from the black market when you go to open one of the menus (laser menu, missile mine etc.) He will offer you cool stuff like a missile reflector or stealth cloak. Also, if you save up enough you can get a laser missile or mine that's better than the best you can normally buy. finally, if you save up a ton of money he sometimes will even offer you a new car. The dragon, the best car he will sell you, has almost maxed out performance in everything. If you save a lot and he doesn't appear, just save your game, reset and try again. sometimes he will appear then even if he didn't appear before.


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The Cultural Side of Admissions Consulting
By Candy Lee LaBalle, mbaSpain
Six Tips from the Trenches
MBA admissions consultants help applicants in everything from choosing schools to essay brainstorming to resume editing. But, when dealing with non-US applicants, we also have to do a little cultural translating. At mbaSpain, I face this reality every day, and, after comparing notes with several AIGAC colleagues, I've identified six application areas where cultural awareness is essential.
1. Sell Yourself
Call it branding, positioning, or tooting your own horn, what is second nature to US applicants is often taboo to non-Americans.
"With Middle Easterners, particularly women, I spend a lot of time encouraging them to talk openly about themselves, their accomplishments and initiatives, and their dreams," notes Tanis Kmetyk, who handles EMEA applicants for Accepted.com. With Asian applicants, she says, "Standing out is not considered a 'plus'… so helping them to, well, stand out, is important."
In addition, many foreign applicants believe an MBA application means all business. Rocio didn't think the fact that she co-founded one of Spain's most important youth sporting events to be relevant. "But I was in university, wouldn't the schools rather hear about my banking experience?"
2. Embrace your Failures
"Even physical hurdles that people face (like handicaps) are seen as a weakness in many countries," says Tanis. We have to push them to realize that the value of that failure, what they learned can actually be a strength for their application.
Some non-US applicants try to avoid sharing failures by thinly veiling achievements. Jaime was determined to tell LBS that his failure to graduate number one in his class (instead of number two) was due to his demanding role as captain of the rugby team! It took a bit of coaxing to help him realize that his initial struggle with leadership was actually a more powerful story.
3. Answer the Question
Getting non-US applicants to clearly tell a story is another struggle. Vince Ricci who runs VincePrep.com in Japan notes, "Japanese storytelling emphasizes context – a long wind-up before the final punchline." With this approach, they'll run out of words before they get to the point.
Spanish applicants love to share mucho ruido, pocas nueces (a lot of noise, few nuts). Though it is good advice for all MBA hopefuls to stay focused and answer the question, non-US applicants benefit immensely from the application of STAR: Situation, Task, Action, Result.
4. Commit to the Tests
Standardized tests provide their own cultural challenges. Victoria Pralitch of MBA Consult in Russia says "My applicants see GMAT as just a math test, and our schools in Russia give a great math training, so no need to overstrain. As a result, the percentage of those who pass successfully the first time is not that high."
"German applicants are typically exasperated about the GMAT requirement," notes Dr. Marlena Corcoran of Athena Mentor. "They are convinced they are superior candidates, and their less-than-stellar scores on a standardized exam must mean the exam is unfair."
Other applicants choose to ignore their English test until it is too late. "I have a 720 on GMAT and use English everyday," Pedro, a very promising candidate told me last November. "I don't have to prepare TOEFL." He got a 104 and had to put off his Harvard application for a year.
5. Recognize Extracurriculars
"Most Western Europe governments take care of their people from 'cradle to grave,' so community activity here is not at all the same as it is in North America," notes Tanis.
Maybe our non-US applicants haven't done typical extracurricular activity, but most likely they've played team sports, served on an events committee at work, helped a family member open a business, or participated in some activity that allowed them to take initiative, have impact and show leadership.
Ricardo was convinced he had no extracurricular activity to share. Then I found out that when he was in university, his family went bankrupt. He used his computer skills to make 20,000 euros in an online venture which helped his father get his business back. Talk about impact!
6. Go Beyond Rankings
"I have to educate my non-US applicants about the diversity of schools – many are just focused on the top 10 and it's frustrating, whether it's not realistic for them or just there's a better fit," says Yael Redelman-Sidi of Admit1MBA.com based in New York.
While a top-ten obsession is typical among most MBA applicants, non-US applicants also face the cultural pressure of attending a brand-name school. Everyone in Spain, China and Brazil knows Harvard, not so many know Babson or Kelley or Tulane. It is our job to mediate their expectations (not all of them can go to Harvard) and open their eyes to other schools that could be a better fit.
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Admissions Consulting: It's a New World
By Linda Abraham, AIGAC's vice-president, Accepted.com's founder and president.
The Wall St Journal had a great special section this week on graduate business education. As an admissions consultant for the last fifteen years, I read the articles with memories of similar sections and articles from the past floating through my head. And I see major changes reflected here.
First the article, "Looking for an Edge," shines a spotlight on the increasing role of admission consultants in the application process. According to the article, 20% of applicants in a GMAC survey said they used admissions consultants. Clearly the applicant interviewed for the WSJ article found beneficial her experience with AIGAC member, Clear Admit. Her comments on her experience closely mirrored the arguments I made in an earlier post, "Why use an admissions consultant?"
The article also reveals increasing acceptance of admissions consultants by admissions directors. According to "Looking for an Edge," "Deirdre Leopold, managing director of M.B.A. admissions and financial aid at Harvard Business School, says meeting with admissions consultants is useful to 'get some field intelligence' about how prospective students view the school and its admissions process."
"Ticket to an M.B.A." shows that Derrick Bolton, assistant dean and director of M.B.A. admissions at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, has moved from definite opposition to cautious neutrality:
"Applicants approach the process saying, 'What are the areas over which I have control?' They see part of that as getting coaching or guidance from someone who may have seen more candidates.
"Does it help? Does it hurt? It's candidate by candidate. What I would always ask is, 'How can someone who doesn't know you help you be a more authentic version of yourself?' Some people probably can, if they're asking the right questions."
While these admissions directors haven't become evangelists or advocates for consultants, their comments reveal a marked change in their public posture.They have moved to acceptance, perhaps even grudging respect.
These trends reflect a lot of AIGAC's hard work over the last five years. AIGAC has set industry standards for professionalism and ethical consulting. It has increased and improved communications with the schools especially at our annual conferences, where members have visited Chicago, Kellogg, Columbia, NYU, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Haas.
Finally, the article also has enormous implications for AIGAC, its members, and non-member consultants. The Wall St. Journal overwhelmingly turned to AIGAC members when it wanted information on MBA admissions consulting. Almost every consultant mentioned or interviewed in the WSJ article, "Looking for an Edge," is a member of AIGAC. In fact the only link in the article is to AIGAC: "To find a consultant, one place to start is AIGAC.org, the website of the admissions consultants' trade group."
If The Wall St. Journal is saying that one place to find an admissions consultant is AIGAC.org and you are an admissions consultant, don't you want to be found here?
If you are a member, you know your AIGAC investment is paying dividends — big time. If you are not yet a member, but you share AIGAC's values, believe in its vision, and meet its membership requirements, now is a great time to join.
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TOEFL Speaking Scores for MBA Applicants
By Jon Hodge of Strictly English TOEFL Tutors
Within the international community of MBA applicants, there is a series of commonly held beliefs about the role TOEFL scores play in an admissions office's decision-making process. One is that a high GMAT score can compensate for a low TOEFL score. Another is, just the opposite: that a high TOEFL score can make up for a low Verbal score on the GMAT. Another is that if you study for the GMAT first, then odds are, you'll unproblematically breeze through the TOEFL because TOEFL is believed to be exponentially more simple than GMAT. Finally, many applicants also believe that a higher TOEFL score will knock out any competition from their country, as if admissions offices would reduce the application process down to gathering together all the dossiers from, say, China, and picking the candidate with the highest TOEFL score.
These myths gain credence as applicants tell each other stories of a friend of a friend who got into HBS with only a 99 on the TOEFL because that friend of a friend scored perfectly on the GMAT. (Interesting, rarely do any of these urban legends claim that it was a well-written, earnest essay or a truly professional job history that balanced out a weak TOEFL score!)
The truth is, though, instead of investing all this energy into gossiping and fantasizing, it's much more productive to just work hard to get the score that the school lists on their website. No more; no less.
Yet, there is one reason why it might be worth working a bit harder on one section of the TOEFL: the Speaking section. Arguably, oral communication is one of the most important skills that any business person needs to get ahead. So learning how to speak clearly, concisely, and persuasively is something that anyone can benefit from. If you're called in for an interview, you'll want to deliver answers in a manner similar to how someone who scored a 27 or a 28 on the TOEFL delivered their responses.
To be clear, though, I'm not claiming that a higher Speaking score on paper will in itself do anything for you. The application committee won't scramble to the phone to call you merely because you have that high Speaking score. No. But a TOEFL Speaking score of 27 or above does mean that you will most likely speak with eloquence and professionalism (with only a slight accent) during an Interview.
And remember, ETS now lets admissions offices listen to some of your six answers, which means you might get the ax simply because your TOEFL Speaking responses were sloppy, unclear, or off topic. Let's say you nailed that 104 for the school of your dreams, but you did it with a perfect 30 in both the Reading and Listening and a 25 on the Writing. This means that your Speaking was only a 19. Regardless of whether the admissions office invites you to an Interview or merely listens on ETS's website to the audio file of your speaking, you have to own up to the possibility that odds are low that you'll impress them with your ability to communicate orally.
Therefore, make Speaking a top priority in your TOEFL study. Mastering public speaking will ensure that you are as empowered as possible, not only for the short-term goal of the TOEFL exam, but also for the long-term goal of being a persuasive and articulate businessperson.
You can learn many valuable Speaking tips by reading our blog articles on Speaking, by following us on Twitter or by visiting our Facebook page.
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Why use an admissions consultant?
By Linda Abraham, AIGAC's vice-president, Accepted.com's founder and president.
There are endless and frequent discussions on forums and message boards questioning the value of admissions consulting. One of the more common arguments against using a consultant runs something like this:
"Everyone I know that's been accepted and is attending top schools did so without …an admissions consultant…. Is [using a consultant] crucial to top-school acceptance? Absolutely not."
I'm sure if you took a poll of AIGAC members, the overwhelming majority would have attended grad school without the aid of a consultant. Many, including me, would not have taken a test prep course before applying to graduate school. However, over the last thirty years test preparation went from being an act of desperation, to a competitive edge, to a mainstay of the application process. Today, to maximize chances of a top score and acceptance at the best possible school, virtually all applicants take a test prep course.
The same phenomenon is occurring to admissions consulting, but educational advising is currently at the "competitive edge" stage. At this point, using a consultant is not crucial for some. It is extremely helpful for all.
The question is not whether one can get accepted to business, law, or medical school without a consultant. Many are accepted without professional advising. The question is: Are the advantages of using a consultant worth the cost?
First let's discuss the ways in which a consultant can help you. We bring:
- Experience that you lack.
- Objectivity to a subject that is difficult to be objective about: You
- Editing skills. Professional writers have editors because their writing benefits from a knowledgeable, critical eye. The same is true for the writing of non-professionals.
How do these benefits justify the cost and provide a critical competitive edge?
Using an admissions consultant can:
- Enable your acceptance to a "better" school. "Better" implies more professional opportunity, increased earnings, and an educational experience more to your liking. Just looking at dollars and cents, "better" represents potentially tens of thousands of dollars in your pocket during your career.
- Help you snag a fellowship or scholarship. Savings: tens of thousands of dollars.
- Save you the cost of reapplication. Applying to medical, law, business school or any other graduate program including application fees and travel expenses can cost several thousand dollars. When you apply one time, you save.
- Reduce the time, stress, and frustration you (and those close to you) experience during the admissions process. We can guide you so you don't go down tangents and useless paths or flounder for weeks as you struggle to learn what we know.
So can you gain acceptance to a graduate school without using an admissions consultant? Certainly. Should you try? Only if you don't value the experience, objectivity, and skill that can provide you with returns many times the cost.
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CALGARY, Alberta -- The Anaheim Ducks took a giant step toward securing a playoff spot and dealt the fading Calgary Flames a crushing blow.
Ray Emery made 23 saves to remain perfect with Anaheim, Corey Perry scored twice and added an assist, and the Ducks moved into sixth place in the Western Conference, beating the Flames 4-2 on Wednesday night.
Emery, signed in early February after recovering from a hip injury that required surgery last April, improved to 6-0-0 for the surging Ducks, winners of seven of their past eight games.
"I'm fortunate. I know that a lot of things had to go right for me to even get a chance to play," Emery said. "I'm grateful of every opportunity I get and I just take it as it comes, one step, one game at a time."
Anaheim jumped from seventh to sixth place, six points ahead of ninth-place Calgary and Dallas. Calgary remained three points behind Chicago for the final playoff spot.
"Obviously a disappointing loss," Flames coach Brent Sutter said. "We're not quitting; we have four games to go here, and you never know what can happen. But obviously losing tonight, our odds diminish."
Perry scored his 45th and 46th goals to break a tie with Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos for the NHL lead.
"That was huge. They've only got a handful games left, and it puts us up," Perry said. "We're putting teams behind us now and we're pushing forward and that's what we're trying to do."
Bobby Ryan and Lubomir Visnovsky also scored for Anaheim.
Jarome Iginla and Mark Giordano scored for Calgary. The Flames have lost seven of their past nine.
Iginla opened the scoring at 2:58 of the first period with his 37th of the season, but Ryan tied it on a power play at 8:05 and Perry put the Ducks ahead with 4:20 left on another power play.
Calgary's Matt Stajan had an apparent goal disallowed late in the second after Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf managed to pull the puck out of the net without detection by the referees or replay officials.
"I am telling you it was in; that's all I can say," Stajan said. "It's too bad they got it wrong but I guess video didn't show it conclusively and the referee didn't see it that way. It's definitely a big turning point in that game because it's an 8-minute wait and momentum changed and they got one at the end of the period."
Sutter said he thought he saw the puck go in, but it was hard to say for sure.
"I'm looking at the screen just like you guys are -- does the puck look like it's in, does it or does it not," Sutter said. "The unfortunate part with that whole sequence was the call on the ice was no goal so Toronto [where the goals are reviewed] has to change the ref's minds for what they can see on video, and obviously they couldn't see anything different."
Visnovsky then made it 3-1 with 1:09 left in the period.
"That was a big goal at the end of the period for sure, no question about that," Perry said. "Going up two goals going into the third was huge."
Giordano countered for Calgary with a slap shot with a two-man advantage 32 seconds into the third, but the Ducks held off the Flames and Perry completed the scoring with an empty-net goal.
Game notes
Miikka Kiprusoff made 18 saves for the Flames. He has given up 10 first-period goals in his past five starts. ... The Ducks used four goalies -- Curtis McElhinney, Jonas Hiller, Dan Ellis and Emery -- in sweeping the four-game season series for the first time. ... The Flames signed Finnish goalie Joni Ortio. A sixth-round pick, he has been playing with TPS in the Finnish elite league. He will join Abbotsford in the AHL.


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I have a service which insists on keeping it's log files in terrible locations. After all efforts to change where it keeps them failed, my next idea was to create hardlinks to those files somewhere cleaner. This led me to a concern:
If I configure logrotate to manage these log files, will it work as intended (rotate logs, keep my links working)? Or will logrotate accidentally break the links, and leave the logs accumulating in their native locations but not in my central one?
I believe I can configure logrotate to re-create the hard links after a rotation if necessary. But, is it necessary?


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Former Tech Athletes Shine at USA Championships
Tori Polk won silver and Omo Osaghae advanced to the finals in the mens' 110-meter hurdles at the USA Championships.
June 23, 2013
DES MOINES, Iowa -
A pair of former Texas Tech track and field athletes shined this week at the USA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.
Former Lady Raider Tori Polk finished second overall in the senior section of the women's long jump while former Red Raider hurdler Omo Osaghae advanced to the finals of the men's 110-meter hurdles and finished sixth in the competition.
Polk now qualifies for Team USA, which will compete at the IAAF World Championships this August in Moscow, Russia.
Also competing in Sunday's final day of competition at Drake Stadium, sophomore thrower Kole Weldon finished 16th in the men's shot put with a best throw of 18.68-meters (61-feet 3.50 inches). Weldon finished runner-up at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships and third at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
On Saturday, Polk went a career-best 6.80-meters (22'-3.75") on her second attempt of the afternoon to secure a spot in the finals. The mark held on for the final three attempts after she went over 20-feet on two more tries before securing silver.
Her mark of 6.80m ranks among the Top-15 in the world for the 2013 outdoor season.
Osaghae grabbed the final qualifying spot Saturday in the 110-meter hurdles crossing the finish line in 13.51 seconds (+ 3.6 wind). He then went on to finish fourth in Sunday's semifinals in 13.31 seconds (+ 2.6 wind), and sixth in the finals later in the afternoon with a 13.47 seconds (+ 1.4 wind).
Freshman Nick Rivera also qualified for Team USA in the junior section of the 800-meter run where he won gold on Friday. Rivera will now compete for Team USA in August at the Pan Am Junior Championships in Medellin, Columbia.


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Home > LEAGUE SERVICES > Illinois CU Hall of Fame > Marion Gregory
Illinois Credit Union League Hall of Fame
Marion Gregory
Inducted 4/96
Marion Gregory and the credit union movement were synonymous for 53 years. During those years, Gregory made many contributions at local, state and national levels.
In February of 1971 it was only natural that President Richard M. Nixon named Gregory to serve a six-year term on the NCUA board where he was vice chair. Gregory summed up his philosophy and belief about the movement with this statement: "The primary job of CUNA and the leagues is to build the credit union movement and to spread credit union services to those who want and need them. Legislation is their second job."
Gregory was the first league director from outside the Chicago area representing the East St. Louis Chapter. He was the treasurer and manager of Arrow S Credit Union and the employee manager of Swift and Company National Stockyards Plant. Gregory was an organizer and first president of the Southern Illinois Chapter from 1937 to 1938. In 1944 he became chair of the Illinois Credit Union League, serving a three-year term.
From 1939 to 1953 Gregory served as a CUNA national director and was the chair during the last two years. While he was chair, he met with Hough and Cooper, the state auditors, to discuss the possibility of FDIC insurance for credit unions. Credit unions would use their own capital. Gregory reported at the September executive committee meeting in 1952 that he thought it was possible to accomplish. He felt it would be better to have credit unions control the fund, not the federal government.
The following year, Gregory was hired by Thomas W. Doig as the CUNA public relations director. He was named the director of policy owner relations for CUNA Mutual in 1955.
Gregory retired in December of 1971 as senior vice president of CUNA Mutual Insurance Society. At the age of 79, he died of cancer, a great loss to the credit union movement. We honor his memory in the Illinois Credit Union Hall of Fame.
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Police arrest 60 teens, 3 adults at massive party in old American Countryside Farmer's Market
The Elkhart County STAR team arrested 60 people for underage drinking and 3 adults for contributing to the delinquency of a minor at a party early Sunday morning.
Police arrested 63 people early Sunday morning at a large graduation party held in an empty farmer's market.
Officers from the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department S.T.A.R. (Sheriff's Teenage Alcohol Reduction) team were called to the old American Countryside Farmer's Market building at 27919 C.R. 26 around 12:45 a.m. Sunday, June 15, for a large party, according to a sheriff's department news release.
The officers arrested 60 people under the age of 21 for illegal consumption of an alcoholic beverage. Of those arrested, 36 were 16 or 17 years old and were released to their parents. The other 24, between the ages of 18 and 20, were cited and released.
The subjects who were cited and released include: Holly Angel,18, Elkhart; Keenen Burnett, 19, Elkhart; Colin Crouse, 19, Elkhart; Joseph Datena, 18, Elkhart; Aaron Fillio, 19, Elkhart; Abbigail Franco, 19, Elkhart; Cody Holyfield, 19, Middlebury; Jacob Kelly, 20, Middlebury; Nathen Kelly, 20, Middebury; Taylor Kendall, 18, Elkhart; Carly Lochmandy, 18, Elkhart; Kennadie Lopez, 19, Elkhart; Michael McMann, 20, Elkhart; Alexander Martinez, 19, Middlebury; Pamela Murillo, 19, Elkhart; Kaley Owens, 19, Goshen; Tyler Pires, 20, Goshen; Layla Raven, 18, Elkhart; Joshua Reed, 20, Elkhart; Samuel Sheets, 18, Bristol; Katherine Smith, 19, Goshen; Noah Snyder, 19, Elkhart; Bryce Wills, 18, Elkhart; and Dora Wisolek, 19, Elkhart.
Three adults were also arrested at the party.
Charles Himes, 50, of Elkhart, was arrested on preliminary charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and maintaining a common nuisance.
Himes, who is a part owner of the Waste Away Group, owns the American Countryside building.
LouAnn Reynolds, 49, of Elkhart was arrested on a preliminary charge of contributing the the delinquency of a minor.
Himes and Reynolds were both incarcerated at the Elkhart County Jail.
John Dixon, 45, of Elkhart was cited and released for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.


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Stonyfield's Sustainability Film Series: Carbon Nation
Carbon Nation, the fourth film in Stonyfield's Sustainability Series explores climate change solutions. Even if viewers doubt the severity of the impact of climate change, or don't buy it at all, "Carbon Nation" illustrates how solutions to climate change also address social, economic and national security issues. Director/producer Peter Byck will discuss the film and answer questions following the screening. The Ecology Center is the community co-presenter for this program.
Tickets are only $6 ($5 for members of the Michigan Theater and Ann Arbor Film Festival, students, and senior citizens) with all proceeds benefiting Food Gatherers. Tickets are on sale online at The Michigan Theater starting August 16th. The Stonyfield Sustainability Film Series is supported by the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Zingerman's, People's Food Co-op and UM Graham Sustainability Institute.


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May 14, 2013 10:00 AM
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Johnny Dodds: Blue Clarinet Stomp
Blue Clarinet Stomp
Johnny Dodds (clarinet)
Blue Clarinet Stomp (Frog UK 3)
Johnny Dodds (clarinet),
Charlie Alexander, piano; Bill Johnson, bass.
Rating: 86/100 (learn more)
Those of you who think early New Orleans jazzmen were ignorant hacks, please behold Charlie Alexander playing 'Vesti La Giubba' to usher in the legendary Johnny Dodds. This unusual drumless trio sums up all the jaunty spirit of Storyville, with rhythmic firmness provided by bassist Bill Johnson (nicely audible) and Alexander's left hand. In hindsight, there were few early clarinetists greater than Dodds, whose brilliant tone, wide vibrato and awe-inspiring versatility are adequately captured on this 1928 gem.
Reviewer: Todd S. Jenkins
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// Jun 25, 2008 at 10:45 PM
I played this and the other tracks on the old 10" LP to a guy whose first love was modern jazz and be-bop. I can't remember his exact comments but he was totally amazed and enthralled. Dodds was the most versatile clarinet player of his generation.Compare his different approaches with the Oliver Band, Louis Armstrong and all those different small groups. CC Pill blues is totally surreal-Check it out


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TC TO JOHN A. CARLYLE ; 23 July 1852; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18520723-TC-JAC-01; CL 27: 175-176
Linlathen, Dundee
Friday 12½ p.m. [23 July 1852]
My dear Brother,
Here I am, just arrived, after a very favourable voyage, which was not unpleasant during the transaction of it, and has done no ill, but rather, if anything, good.— As they are about sending off to the post, I think it better to write this, for my good Mother's sake, without any delay, tho' properly I have nothing else to write.
They are not "solitary" here, as I had half fancied; on the contrary there is a goodly assemblage of ladies and gentlemen (unbedeutenden [insignificant]) young and old: but the weather is delightful, the Summer still in all its glory here; the Sea too is within reach (where I mean to go bathing this very day): and daily, by bargain, I am to have six hours for my own private reading:—so, to all appearance, I shall do very well for my term of "ten days."
Jane came with me down the River, to the Steamer itself, and did not quit till we were just going to sail: she and Nero returned in the boat again (from below the St Katharine Docks),—and were soon lost to me amid the shipping of the Pool.
Tell my Mother all these things to keep her good heart easy. And write to me here,—as minutely as your convenience will allow, about everything that is going on round you.— Tell Jamie I see showers here, and a great appearance of crop: the fields were white for the sickle1 about the mouth of the Thames, but I did not notice anything cut.
With blessings to my dear mother, and love to you all
Yours ever /
T. Carlyle


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OSCON Java: Already Great
By Tori Wieldt-Oracle on Jul 24, 2011
OSCON Java hasn't even officially started, but I can tell you it's already great.
The Community Leadership Summit was on Saturday and Sunday. Community leaders from several different types of communities (software, hardware, medical, library science, personal training, to name a few) discussed issues around building and maintaining communities. Topics included getting a community started, dealing with international communities (more than just time zone challenges), open source licensing, what is it that community managers actually do, dealing with difficult community members, how to justify your existence to upper management (KPIs, anyone?), and sexual harrassment at technical conferences and in online communities (Tim O'Rielly just posted Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big No-No). The first day ended with some wonderful stand up comedy by Sumana Harihareswara, specifically for a techie audience ("Was anyone else disappointed to learn that the movie Source Code had nothing to do with source code?"). A big tip of the Duke's cowboy hat to the team who made CLS11 happen.
On Sunday was the OSCON JVM Language Symposium. There were lively dicussions about different languages on the Java Virtual Machine. Jeff Genender said main takeaway from the day was "It's the JVM, stupid!" Sunday evening was the speakers dinner, a time for the speakers to stop tweaking their slides and mingle. It was a great mix of old friends and new acquaintances.
Overheard at the OSCON Java Speakers Dinner
"I've noticed an uptick in demand for Java developers in the last few months."
"I've been up 40 hours straight."
"My session got accepted for JavaOne!"
"Let's get a picture of the Google, Apache and Oracle guys together!"
Van Riper(Google), Jeff Genender (Apache), Steve Harris (Oracle),
and Sharat Chander (Oracle) Show Their Community Spirit
and best quote of all:
"You probably don't want to start your talk with "Java sucks" at a Java Conference."
It's already started as a great conference. If you can't be here, the keynotes more will streamed live on the OSCON site. Here's Monday's schedule:
9:00am - 9:10am Welcome Laurel Ruma (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Stephen Chin (GXS)
9:10am - 9:30am Open Source, Java, and Oracle – Cracking the Code Steve Harris (Oracle)
9:30am - 9:45am Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM Raffi Krikorian (Twitter)
9:45am - 10:00am Working Hard to Keep It Simple Martin Odersky (Typesafe)
10:00am - 10:10am JDK 7 in a Nutshell Joe Darcy (Oracle)
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|Dickey says his knuckleball is a 'living thing' that has taught him about himself. (US Presswire)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- What Robert Allen Dickey throws is what you would get if you crossed a knuckleball with a bee sting. Mama, get the ice. Stock up on the antihistamine. It is a hybrid pitch, poisonous and beautiful, special for so many reasons beyond the crazy and ethereal box score lines blowing like pollen through the summer's air.
It is dreamy and earthy, as if something concocted from the imagination of Huck Finn. Fact is, best place to digest Dickey's tall tale isn't even at the ballpark or in front of a flat-screen. It is from a tree house, or a river bed. On a porch swing late at night with wide eyes and full flashlight. Any place the imagination has miles to roam.
His is a wholly unique pitch.
His is a story like few that have ever landed in an All-Star Game.
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"It's a living thing," Dickey, the New York Mets' surprising ace, was saying during an extended conversation in a Dodger Stadium dugout the other afternoon. "It's not a static pitch. It's a very organic thing for me. I say that because of my relationship with it."
It floats. It flutters. It stings and aches. It cross-pollinates the beautiful and ugly truths of life with the vagaries of a baseball existence. Then it blows away in the wind and comes back again.
"It's taught me things," Dickey, 37, said. "It's helped me find out things, discover things about myself. The mere flight of the pitch is representative of my own life.
"There are so many metaphors you can draw. It seems like it's a pitch that was destined for me. Because of that, I'm still passionate about it."
It is an "angry knuckleball" -- his term -- that spits and hisses at speeds up to 80 mph. Nobody has ever thrown a knuckler that hard, not with success, let alone come as close to mastering its nuances as Dickey has in this season's first half. Not Charlie Hough, not Phil Niekro, not Tim Wakefield -- each of whom has a knuckle in this story. Dickey also can downshift it to 69, 70.
Sometimes, it's as if he's successfully walking a butterfly on a leash.
Even on those occasions, he will refuse to admit he has mastered the pitch.
"I would fight that," Dickey said. "I don't think the verb 'mastered' is the word because I don't think it can be mastered. I can control it, I can't command it. I haven't mastered it. I haven't perfected it.
"I'm glad for that, because that means there's a lot of room to grow. I'm still passionate about growth. I do feel there is a modicum of control I can exhibit with the pitch. That's probably a better descriptor. I have hopes I can get to a place where I can make it do what I want. But she will fight me on that until the end, I'm sure."
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His words are coated in a soft, Tennessee drawl that belies the hardened look of an outdoorsman, the overgrowth of a full beard and a jagged life.
Condensed version: Boy's parents divorce early, and his mother spends much of his childhood saturated in alcohol. He is sexually molested several times by a 13-year-old female babysitter when he's only 8. Shortly afterward, it happens again when a teenage boy takes advantage of him.
He meets, at 12, the girl whom he will marry. He becomes a Christian while searching for meaning to chase away the doubt and self-loathing. So often is he on his own and feeling unloved during high school that he takes to breaking into vacant or unoccupied homes simply to upgrade his sleeping quarters for a night.
He endures emptiness, contemplates suicide, has his faith shaken so many times it should have come with a limited warranty and is unfaithful to his wife. He comes through the other side and today he and Anne -- happy ending, they made it -- have four children: Two girls, Mary (10) and Lila (9), and two boys, Elijah (5) and Van (1).
All of this is in his staggeringly honest, searing and inspirational book, Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball.
Ingredients in the Perfect Knuckleball? Start with all of that. Because his is a pitch that emerges only from the depths, the residue of dusty battles and too many scars. Nobody starts out throwing it. It is the last stand of self-preservation.
Dickey's traces back to one of the most infamous magazine shots in baseball history, the 1996 Baseball America cover picturing five ace pitchers who would lead Team USA in the Olympics. Published right around the time the Rangers made Dickey their first-round pick.
That cover caught the attention of a Rangers doctor who did not like the way Dickey's right arm bent at an odd angle, compared with the other four. He ordered tests. Turned out, Dickey had no ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. Because of that, the Rangers retracted their $810,000 offer. Then they signed him for $75,000. The first-round (18th overall) pick out of the University of Tennessee -- English major -- had no leverage left.
"He was throwing 92 all summer," veteran outfielder Mark Kotsay, a teammate of Dickey's on the '96 Olympic team, said. "Then, in one of his last starts before the Olympics, the gun read 86."
One photo. Cost him $735,000 and, maybe worse, his life spun from promise-filled optimism into the recycle bin practically before it had even started.
Turns out, Dickey's All-Star invite would take 16 seasons to arrive. During which he pitched in 12 different cities for four different organizations. Talk about Kansas City's barbecue joints, and slow cooking. ...
What Dickey didn't have in his elbow, he had in guts.
"He's a fighter, in a good sense," said Mets teammate Chris Young, who was in the Rangers organization with Dickey in 2004 and 2005. "He persevered. He's determined. He's got the intestinal fortitude and the willpower. It's awesome what he's been able to accomplish."
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It was manager Buck Showalter and pitching gurus Orel Hershiser and Mark Connor in Texas who, with Dickey's career seemingly at the end of the line, suggested he take up the knuckleball full time in 2005. It was the usual: Son, you might want to try another approach ... or maybe go sell some insurance.
His initial response was to fight it. Isn't that most everyone's reaction when first told you do something? Well, I'll show you. Then came the transition period, followed by peaceful acceptance.
Well, some folks back home in Nashville might not agree with the "peaceful" part. Dickey threw so many knucklers against the cinder block gymnasium wall at his uncle's high school in the offseason he became part of the scenery. Determined, he threw the knuckler everywhere he could.
"When I first started the process, I would get there at spring training at 6:45, 7 a.m., and I'd go into the batting cage and take bucket of balls myself and throw from the mound to a target," Dickey said. "I'd do it every day just to try to get a feel in 2005, 2006. I threw so many I couldn't even begin to tell you how many. I wouldn't know how to quantify it.
"I threw so many that I almost feel like I've never done anything else."
This after a decade of life as a conventional pitcher.
Single-minded now, the quest for the Perfect Knuckleball continued. From Hough, he learned the best grip. From Wakefield, he learned to throw toward home plate as if throwing through the frame of a door. From Niekro, he learned to fire his hips toward the plate as a way of finishing the pitch.
The knuckleball went on tour. Dickey signed with the Mariners, then the Twins. It was the Mets' good fortune -- then-GM Omar Minaya signed him as a free agent before the 2010 season -- to be in the right place at the right time. Dickey now was inside the pitch as if, while at his uncle's high school, he had stopped by the biology laboratory to dissect it.
Now, Mets catcher Josh Thole says, when he wants to throw a high knuckleball, Dickey can do so "six out of 10 times, and maybe even more than that." Which, with this pitch, is borderline miraculous. Last week at Dodger Stadium, a scout was incredulous while watching Dickey's 116 pitches plus before-inning warmup tosses, noting that Thole only had to chase one ball -- one of those warmup pitches -- back to the screen all evening.
So many folks have congratulated him this year. Showalter, now managing the Orioles. Hershiser, now in ESPN's booth. Rangers GM Jon Daniels. Mark Connor, a special assistant with the Rangers. Dozens and dozens of teammates, and ex-teammates, and would-be teammates.
"But you know what?" said Dickey, in the second season of a two-year, $7.8 million deal with a $5 million club option for next season. "I think I've gotten more response from the book, which I'm so thankful for. Teammates, coaches, particular teammates that have stories similar to my own in similar ways.
"I'll never forget being at my first book signing and having three or four people reach across the table and whisper in my ear that they've been sexually abused and that I was the first person they ever told.
"And I'll tell you what, man. That means more to me than the other. Because you're talking about changing lives in some capacity by sharing your own story."
Sometimes, it feels as if he started this journey in a different lifetime. But as he's settled in and the knuckleball takes him to places he never dreamed he would go, an even more unexpected thing has happened.
The rugs underneath his feet, the ones baseball kept yanking out, have disappeared.
Finally, he has reached a point where he feels as if the ground beneath him is firm.
"I think the projection is that it is surreal and dream-like and do you ever pinch yourself," Dickey said. "The truth of the matter is: I feel very much on firm ground because I feel like I've grown into it.
"People use the words like 'overnight sensation.' I take a little bit of offense at that because it has not been overnight. It's been the furthest thing from overnight that you can get. It's been a real grind and it's taken a long time for me to understand the intricacies of the pitch and how to do it well. I've taken my lumps along the way.
"To say I've been an overnight success is to discredit all of the work I've put into it."
He is a late-bloomer even by late-bloomer standards. After being muted for so long, he now lives as best he can at full volume. After nearly drowning while swimming across the Missouri River in one life-defining moment in 2007, he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro last winter in part "to illuminate a charity that rescues young women from sex slavery and trafficking."
Next up, he would like to travel with his daughters to Mumbai -- home of that charity, Bombay Teen Challenge -- "not necessarily to expose them to the red-light district, but to serve, and to try to give them a heart for humanity."
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Sometimes, there is no forward until you reach a point of understanding as to why the dots in a life connected the way they did. It is only then that you understand where you're supposed to go.
"I had always hoped, even in my darkest places, that there was a reason for the agony," Dickey said. "But there's a fine line between trusting that there is a reason, and not trusting that there is a reason. I think that's what most of humanity grapples with.
"In my own life and personal experiences, which is all I can speak of, I've been able to see certain things where even though they may be perceptively bad things, they gave me some equipment to handle what's going on now. There's reason in that. There's logic in that. But you've got to look for it.
"I think that's the biggest key. You've got to be looking for the reasons for the turmoil. Did you want it to happen? You certainly didn't. But what's come out of it? You've got to be observant. If not, you'll get real bitter real quick."
There was a time for bitterness. And there was a time to let it go. The perceptively bad things are what Dickey says brought him to the end of himself, that low point where only his faith and his family could help him regain his direction.
"People say, 'How can you say being sexually abused is a good thing?' " Dickey said. "Well, perceptively, it's not. It is horrible. I've developed a lot of things that were bad, behaviors that were bad, ways to escape pain, ways to compartmentalize in a very unhealthy way. I didn't want to be in the moment with anything. I didn't trust anyone. Those are all negatives that came out of that experience.
"One good thing is, it's made the story so much more powerful. The fact that I've been able to, with a lot of people who love me and with a lot of hard work, get to the other side of that. So you're able to communicate a very powerful narrative that otherwise wouldn't be there. And in communicating that, you're able to give people hope.
"There's a reason, for me, for why horrible things in my past have happened and also given me things that I can use in pitching. Part of my escape was to really dive into the sanctuary of sports and athletics -- maybe in an unhealthy way. But it also gave me the gift of being good at something. I retreated into baseball, basketball and football and for a long time in my life it was my identity. It's no longer that. But it certainly gave me the foundation to be a good baseball player."
At so many turns, it would have been so easy for Dickey to chuck the whole thing. Instead, this very thankful man who throws a very angry knuckleball Tuesday night will shine as brightly as the most brilliant star in the Kansas City sky.
A life that once fluttered now has traction thanks to the most unpredictable pitch of all. A teenager who once slept in vacant houses now even could live in Taylor Swift's neighborhood back home in Nashville.
The places a knuckleball can take you.
"I always try to live below my means," Dickey said, chuckling. "That's good to practice. It's provided me with security I had no right to expect. I'm thankful every day.
"I think Mark Twain said find out what you love and you'll never work a day in your life. Thankfully, God has allowed me to see what I love to do, whether it's writing or being a father or playing baseball. Or, being a knuckleballer."


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While significant progress has been made, in recent decades, in raising awareness about the devastating effects of domestic violence, and many lives have been protected and saved, domestic violence continues at epidemic proportions. It continues to tear families apart regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, or economic background, leaving in its path physically, emotionally, and spiritually injured women, men, and children.
According to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control in February 2008 (Adverse Health Conditions and Health Risk Behaviors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) one in four women is abused by a current or former spouse, partner or boyfriend at some point in her life. Another study by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (Intimate Partner Violence in the United States) says that on average more than three women a day, in the United States, are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends.
Domestic violence is just as serious and damaging a problem in Latino communities as it is in other ethnic and racial groups. However, Latinas/os face particular obstacles and challenges to addressing domestic violence and require culturally and linguistically specific services and resources in order to adequately address the problem.
The shortage of bilingual and bicultural personnel, in shelters, in police departments, in the courts, and throughout the continuum of services, prevents access and adequate services for Latina survivors and their families. This can pose a further threat to their safety and often results in alienating survivors from the very services they so desperately need.Fear of deportation, jeopardizing their legal status, or having their children removed are also primary concerns for immigrant women, which prevent them from seeking assistance from service providers.
From its very beginnings, Alianza has affirmed the need to develop systems of support for victims/survivors within our communities; the need to create solutions that take into consideration the challenges and obstacles facing Latinas/os, our belief systems, our values and norms, the positive and negative aspects of our culture.
Culturally based approaches need to look at elements of our culture that have been used to defend violence, to reinforce secrecy, and to allow abuse. They also need to acknowledge the many aspects of our culture, our traditions, and our beliefs can serve as protective factors; can provide guidance and positive influence.
This calls for identifying and critiquing traditions and values that make women more vulnerable to abuse and that support men's oppressive relationships with women, on the one hand, and for acknowledging and supporting practices and values that are protective and that model and support healthy and functional relationships between men and women.
Culturally appropriate programming should also take into account the diversity-within-diversity of "the Latino community." Failure to respectfully embrace both our differences and commonalities places us at risk of division. We have many nationalities; we have race and class differences, internal racism, and privilege; we have mixed nationalities; we have gay and lesbian families; we have recent immigrants as well as those whose ancestors lived in North America prior to the founding of the United States; we have monolingual Spanish speakers, monolingual English speakers, bilingual Spanish/English speakers; as well as individuals and families whose mother tongue is one of the dozens of indigenous languages of this continent. We have different religious/spiritual beliefs and practices; we have people with disabilities; and we have young and old. Embracing our internal diversity challenges us to confront our own racism, homophobia, classism and other forms of internalized oppression and privilege.
Because of the magnitude of the problem and its far-reaching effects on our families and communities, we need the involvement of multiple sectors of our population. Families and members of our communities have crucial roles to play in preventing and ending domestic violence. Women and men, boys and girls need to work together to prevent and end domestic violence and to jointly promote healing in our families and communities.
Programming for both Latinas and Latinos should involve a systematic and culturally based effort to address issues such as poverty, unemployment, low educational attainment, housing, child care as well as risk factors such as alcohol and drug abuse.
Latina survivors need to be recognized as experts in meeting these challenges; they must be involved in program design and service delivery at all levels. Programs need to include services that will give survivors better options and opportunities for becoming independent and more able to create relationships and homes free from violence.
Many times individuals are not sure if they are victims of domestic violence and don't know what to do. There are various forms of violence and abuse, including the following:
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