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Minimum Requirement: Bachelor Degree from an accredited college
When a job is posted for substitute teaching, apply to the posting and complete an online application.
Submit any explanations needed about your background or employment with the application. References must be returned on the
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As our needs arise to hire additional substitute teachers, the Human Resources Office will review the applications to select candidates to hire.
The Human Resources Office will ONLY notify you if your application is selected to complete the process to be hired as a substitute teacher.
Due to the abundance of applicants, it is
impossible to select everyone to become a substitute. Many applicants have the same qualifications. Applications are reviewed throughout the school year. Orientations are held several times during the school year.
The Georgia Board of Education has established a priority order of qualifications for substitute teachers in Grades K-12.
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TSA site.
The firearm must be in a hard-sided container.
The container must be locked. A locked container is defined as one that completely secures the firearm from access by anyone other than you. Cases that can be pulled open with little effort do not meet this criterion.
So could they say may plastice case that came with the hand gun could be pulled apart even with two locks?

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The ancient Maya enigmas allure you to the heart of Mezoamerica.One of the most advanced and cultural civilizations left us the largest number of mysteries: from pyramids to the calendar, from strange beliefs to their mystical disappearance from the face of earth. A unique Maya wall paintings, come down to us through thousands of years, display notions of this wise and brutal civilization about the universe, nature, human race and its relationship with cosmos.
In this game as a researcher of an ancient Mexican culture you find yourself in front of the wall, which depicts three mysterious Mayan drawings. But some bits of them, alas, are crumbled and messed up...
Since the beginning of their civilization (approximately 3,000 years ago) the Maya have related stories, legends and fables about mythical beings and the laws of nature. Today these stories get us closer to the thoughts of what was one of the greatest people of Mezoamerica.
Your goal is to unravel some of these mysteries by collecting precious fragments of paintings on grain and to reconstruct three Maya legends on your own! Each story provides another level of complexity. Each level you need to complete 10 paintings, which gradually recreate key moments of the legend plot, and once again to outwit the mighty god Kizin.
Some innovations distinguish this puzzle from lots of previous. Blocks can be moved in any directions within boundaries of a playing field - right and left, up and down. To optimize the game process you're able to slide a few blocks at one time.
Picture by picture accomplished paintings take their places in the row on a wall. The game is based on a real mythology! A dumb presentation of three beautiful Yucatec Maya legends is unfolding before a player-researcher step by step:
The Wood Pigeon is the easiest level.
... And the witch thrust a thorn into his neck and with that the young man became a dove. He flew up and went to the lake and settled on a branch. After a little while he saw the woman and, unable to contain himself, he lay down by her feet and caressed her a thousand times. The woman took him in her hands and, petting him, took out the thorn from his neck. She should never have done it!
Maya's Sadness is the medium level of hardness.
... One day, all the animals drew near to a Maya man and said to him:
- We do not like to see you so sad. Ask us for whatever you wish and you shall have it.
The Man Who Sold His Soul is the hardest level.
Once upon a time, a good but unfortunate man decided to sell his soul to the devil to get himself out of his troubles. He invoked Kizin and when he had him there, face to face, he told him what he wanted. Kizin liked the idea of taking away the soul of a good man...
When creating the game, we have carefully studied culture of the Mezoamerica, and were inspired by Mayan folklore and art. Graphic of wall paintings are as close as possible to the actual drawings discovered by archaeologists.
Your personal portal to the Mayan lore in the new game by Avallon Alliance.
Train your skills in FREE bonus game Mezo15! Arrange numbered stone tiles in a correct order. Get Mezo15 from App Store now.


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When issuing
START SLAVE UNTIL on MySQL , I'm getting the following:
Warning: It is recommended to use --skip-slave-start when doing step-by-step replication with START SLAVE UNTIL; otherwise, you will get problems if you get an unexpected slave's mysqld restart.
Why exactly is it recommended to use
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Another Silly Season
There are many "silly seasons" in politics, when either the absence of real news or the devious interests of "sources" create "stories" that aren't quite legitimate. We're definitely in a silly season right now when it comes to the 2012 presidential race. It's still theoretically possible for late entries to get in, and widespread unhappiness with the Republican field has created a ripe environment for completely baseless speculation about this or that possibility.
Fortunately, Dave Weigel of Slate has done a quick rundown of what he calls the "Why the Hell Not?" candidates, including an indication of their possible motives in promoting talk of a run (often a book that needs publicity). His list includes the famous Rep. Paul Ryan, the not-so-famous Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), retread Rudy Giuliani, and Govs. Rick Perry of TX and Rick Scott of FL. Dave clearly doesn't think any of them are actually going to run, which may underestimate Giuliani's ego and the vast encouragement currently being given to Perry to jump in.
But maybe we'll get lucky and none of them will run. Then we won't have to re-explain why the Republican Party will not in a zillion years nominate a pro-choice pol like Rudy, no matter what else he allegedly brings to the table, and we won't have to learn to take seriously Rick Perry's arguments that just getting rid of inconvenient government programs and regulations has made Texas an economic paradise. As a native southerner, I also fear that a Perry candidacy--which would be predicated on the idea that someone from the South has a big natural advantage--would make me long for Haley Barbour as a representative of the region. Better Foghorn Leghorn than "Adios MoFo!"


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Rainbow Six: Siege was this year's surprise reveal at E3 2014 for Ubisoft. Awaited for years by fans, Rainbow Six: Siege will finally see the light of retailers sometime next year, but Ubisoft has strong expectations for the type of journey is should take players on.
With frame rate being such a concern for consumers, it's going to be essential for Rainbow Six: Siege to nail the 60 FPS and Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot agreed. Guillemot talked about what he believes Rainbow Six: Siege is going to be and how every life a player has in the game should matter.
"We needed Rainbow Six to really take off, and it's happening. I think this team has a good understanding of what the industry is today, and what the gamers want.
"They really understand that gamers who play shooters want speed, they want responsiveness, they want 60 frames per second, and they want to be able to have surprising moments and emotional connections.
"Rainbow Six answers those needs. Also, gamers will appreciate that you die quickly if you make mistakes. It gives the sensation to the player that I have to be careful. I count, each life counts," Guillemot said.
60 frames per second seems to be that benchmark players need, especially when it comes to a shooter. Rainbow Six: Siege will no doubt have high expectations, as does any AAA game that comes out. Information about the game is somewhat scare at this time, but expect Ubisoft to pull the veil back a bit more early next year.
Rainbow Six: Siege is scheduled for launch sometime during 2015, most likely toward the holiday time period. It will be available on PS4, Xbox One and PC only.
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Jeremy Lin was officially introduced by the Houston Rockets yesterday as their newest member and their starting point guard for at least the next three years. Lin has claimed dozens of times that his preference had been to remain a New York Knick, and based on the wins and money that Lin brought to their franchise during his short stint as their starting point guard, it seemed obvious enough that they wanted him to stay in New York too.
However after Lin agreed to Houston's three-year $25 million offer, a contract which Carmelo Anthony referred to as "ridiculous," the continuation of Linsanity in New York quickly wilted from guaranteed to doubtful during the three day period in which the Knicks could have match Houston's offer to retain him. The Knicks put the nail in the coffin by trading with the Trailblazers to re-acquire another former point guard Raymond Felton, and Lin now will become the face of the Houston Rockets, a team that has a lacked a definitive face since, well, Yao Ming. But by offering Lin such a generous contract purely on the basis of the less-than-two-month period during which Linsanity dominated sports headlines, have the Rockets made a great move for their franchise or is Jeremy Lin just another flash in the pan?
Whether or not Lin lives up to his "ridiculous" contract in Houston, the Knicks should have done more to keep him in New York. Not only was he incredibly exciting to watch, but the MSG stock has actually dropped $93 million since Lin signed with Houston. The truth is that Lin did not only bring wins and money to the Knicks, but hope. I am not a Knicks fan, but living in New York, I saw more people hyped up about last night's Knicks game more often this past season than ever before. By the time Lin had to be shut down for the season, I could not walk ten feet without seeing a Lin jersey. The struggling franchise needed a boost, and Lin seemed to be the answer. When Anthony and Amare Stoudemire were both injured, Lin took his newfound starting role in stride, put the Knicks on his back while making guys like JR Smith, Steve Novak, and Landry Fields look all-stars, and averaged just over 27 points in the first five games he started.
The 23 year old surprise sensation from Harvard has shown the ability to be a legitimate playmaker, facilitator, crunch-time scorer, but yes, a turnover machine. Lin's style of play is incredibly raw, which was the leading reason for the Knicks to go acquire veteran point guard Jason Kidd this offseason. The 39 year old Kidd is a ten time all-star and claims he is finally ready to take the backseat to a younger point guard while offering some mentoring. The mentor was also charged with DWI after crashing his Escalade into a telephone pole around 2 AM last Sunday morning.
Nevertheless he will not get the opportunity to help mold Lin's raw playmaking ability into the refined facilitative point guard role which Kidd represents. Lin is comparable to Derrick Rose in many ways, in the sense that he is flying all over the place while making erratic and sometimes spectacular plays, constantly risking his own health by barreling through defenders to attempt off-balance shots. Despite all of that, during the first eight games which Lin started the Knicks were 7-1 and Lin averaged 25 points. He also averaged 6.5 turnovers in those games.
Lin's turnover numbers slightly improved going forward, which is a good sign for Houston fans, but by no means did the turnovers go away. In Lin's final game before he was shut down for the season, he turned the ball over seven times in less than 24 minutes on the court. Despite being a point guard, he ranked 51st on last season's assist-to-turnover ratio leaders with a 1.71, which falls below guys at other positions such as Boris Diaw and Gordon Hayward.
That faulty defense is a cause for concern as well. Lin is certainly a playmaker, but can also make opposing point guards look like playmakers too. His defense is comparable to that of Steve Nash, as more athletic guards have no trouble blowing by him. When the Knicks faced the Wizards last season in Lin's second game as an NBA starter, John Wall had no trouble getting to the hoop and put up 29 points. Against the Nets in the second game Lin ever lost as a starter, Lin put up a respectable 21 points and 9 assists, but the story of the game was Deron Williams who found himself wide open for jump shots time after time en route to 38 points.
Lin will still have plenty of time to improve upon those weaknesses, and if Houston's head coach Kevin McHale can teach him anything, it will be about the importance of commitment, composure, and consistency. As of right now, it does not look like Lin will have much talent around him other than the sharp shooting Kevin Martin, and young guys like the freakish athlete Chandler Parsons and rookie guard Jeremy Lamb from UCONN. Still I suspect that the Lin signing is not the last we will see from Houston this offseason, especially since they recently released Luis Scola, arguably their best player from last year. Help is likely still coming for Linsanity.
Lin has shown a natural knack for playmaking and an ability to make lesser known teammates into household names, which are two very important traits for point guards. He will attempt to keep doing this effectively as Linsanity takes Houston by storm. As he gets older, he should improve and gain a greater sense of composure, therefore watching those turnovers as well as his own health a bit more. My prediction is that Lin will help the 2012-2013 Rockets finish with a better record than the Knicks, before being ousted from the early stages of the playoffs.


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Benjamin Winegard
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Lab: Geary Lab
Research Interests
I'm interested in human variation and rampage shootings.
Selected Publications
Winegard, B., Winegard B., & Geary, D.C. (in press). Eastwood's brawn and Einstein's brain: An Evolutionary Account of Dominance, Prestige, and Precarious Manhood. Review of General Psychology
Winegard, B., Arline, T., Baumeister, R.F., Winegard, B., & Maner, J.K. (2014). Grief functions as an honest indicator of commitment. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Geary, D. C., Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (2014). Reflections on the evolution of human sex differences: Social selection and the evolution of competition among women. In V. A. Weekes-Shackelford & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human sexual psychology and behavior. (393-412). New York: Springer.
Winegard, B., Winegard, B., & Geary, D.C. (2013). If you've got it, flaunt it: Humans flaunt attractive opposite-sex partner for status and desirability. PloS ONE, 8, e72000. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072000.
Deaner, R.O., & Winegard, B. (2013). Throwing out the mismatch baby with the paleo- bathwater: A review of Marlene Zuk, Paleofantasy: What evolution really tells us about sex, diet, and how we live. Evolutionary Psychology, 11, 263-269.
Winegard, B., & Geary, D. C. (2012). Oh! What a Tangled Web We Weave [Review of Robert Trivers, The folly of fools: The logic of deceit and self-deception in human life]. Teachers College Record. Date Published: June 21, 2012, http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 16802
Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (2012). Round up the usual suspects: A review of Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Crown Forum: New York, 2010, 407 pp., US$17.18, ISBN # 0307453421 (hardcover). Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 198-209.
Geary, D.C., Bailey, D.H., & Winegard, B.M. (2012). Strategic cooperation and the rise of the modern world [Review of the book The better angels of our nature, 2011, by Steven Pinker]. PsycCRITIQUES, 54(2).
Ferguson, C. J., Munoz M. E., Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (2012). The influence of heritability, neuroticism, maternal warmth and media use on disordered eating behaviors: A prospective analysis of twins. Psychiatric Quarterly.
Bailey, D.H., Winegard, B., Oxford, J., & Geary, D.C. (2012). Sex Differences in In-Group Cooperation Vary Dynamically with Competitive Conditions and Outcomes. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 102-119.
Ferguson, C.J., Winegard, B., & Winegard, B.M. (2011). Who is the fairest one of all? How evolution guides peer and media influences on female body dissatisfaction. Review of General Psychology, 15, 11-28.
Winegard, B., Bailey, D. H., Oxford, J. K., & Geary, D. C. (2010). Trade-offs and individual differences in evolved traits. American Psychologist, 65, 929-930.
Winegard, B., & Deaner, R.O. (2010). The evolutionary significance of Red Sox Nation: Sport fandom as a by-product of coalitionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 432-446.
Bailey, D.H., Winegard, B., & Geary, D.C. (2010). Not father's fatherhood book: A Review of Peter B. Gray and Kermyt G. Anderson, Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 2010, 320 pp., US$23.96, ISBN 978-0674048690 (hardcover). Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 336-339.
Winegard, B. (2008). What we have here is a failure to communicate: Using a model to explain textbook representations of human evolutionary theory. McNair Scholars Journal, 12, 119-143.


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I am creating a Schedule of Work template and am successfully using Developer Tab and Quick Parts to allow user to choose content on an "either/or" basis: either A; OR B; OR C; etc., essentially choose one option from many. One Building Block control, one paragraph, nice and clean.
Now what I need to do but cannot seem to figure out, is how to allow user to choose content on an "and/or" basis: either A AND B; A OR B AND C; B AND D AND E OR F; etc., essentially choose several options from many on a variable basis. One Building Block control, maybe one paragraph, maybe three or more paragraphs. Not so clean. I thought of building choice options for all possible paragraph combinations, but I can have as many as 7 or 8 different paragraphs, and that solution quickly becomes unworkable. Multiple controls--some of which will be left unused doesn't work either, since I cannot find an easy way to have a "Choose or Delete" control that actually deletes if "Delete" is chosen.
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The United States strongly condemns this terrorist attack and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and the people of Israel.
As I arrive in Cairo, I am closely monitoring reports from Tel Aviv, and we will stay in close contact with Prime Minister Netanyahu's team. The United States stands ready to provide any assistance that Israel requires.
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Our experienced Regional Directors are therapists who make frequent facility visits to assist Evergreen Rehab Directors and staff therapists with day-to-day clinical and fiscal operations. They are tuned-in to the needs of all of our customers – patients, families, caregivers, clients, and employees.
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The Jewish Violinist Tying Up Her Med-School Boyfriend
This week's sex diarist is teaching her new, inexperienced boyfriend some tricks.
Once a week, Daily Intel takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the Jewish Violinist Tying Up Her Med-School Boyfriend: musician, female, Harlem, straight, 22, in a relationship.
7:30 a.m.: Med Student wakes up to the sound of his iPhone quacking in my bed. I've been dating the well-hung MS for a few months. He's green to sex/relationships, but no wimp, and I like that he doesn't take any crap. Sometimes I worry that he's not effusive or sexually deviant enough for me, but I love how patient and rational and sane he is. He's sweet and funny — and did I mention well hung? I want to slowly pry him open and see where this goes. I'm so accustomed to relationships with insane but impassioned musicians; it's both comforting and slightly depressing seeing how people in the "real world" act.
7:35 a.m.: Jesus, he hates mornings more than anyone I know. I've never encountered someone who has absolutely no morning wood. This may be a blessing, though — who really wants pre-8 a.m. morning sex? I offer him coffee, but he's out the door.
1 p.m.: Bump into Sax-School Crush in the library. We have this cutely witty rapport. I'm fairly certain he knows I'm seeing Med Student. We make fun of the busty soprano by the Xerox machine who just asked me if I could help her make a "back and forth." What she meant to say was, "How do you make a double-sided copy?"
6 p.m.: My friend Harvard Bassoonist meets me after rehearsal; he's in town from Boston playing a concert. We dated briefly and disastrously but now adore each other platonically as if nothing ever happened. Rebound much?
6:25 p.m.: We're sitting on my bed reviewing Bassoonist's new OkCupid profile. I'm telling him that he needs to seem more interested in women and less interested in reeds.
9 p.m.: We head out to meet up with Bassoonist's Harvard friend. I've been told that if I have one fetish, it's for Ivy League graduates. I would say I'm drawn to the glaring red flag of narcissism that inevitably drives every twentysomething male with a modicum of intelligence. The Bassoonist set me up with said friend several months ago, and we went on one spectacular date; I was positive that it was love at first sight and then never heard from him again. He referred to himself as the "Hin-Jew" at the time — Hindu and Jewish. Woody Allen would have written a great movie about us.
9:30 p.m.: This is the first time I've seen the Hin-Jew since our fruitless date. Why does he have to be so spectacularly exotic and ambiguously flirtatious?
10 p.m.: Am subtly trying to convince Bassoonist to find out whether Hin-Jew is currently dating anyone, but they are more interested in Harvard gossip.
10:30 p.m.: After a glass and a half of wine, it's clear that the Bassoonist and I are friend-flirting too much to leave the Hin-Jew much room to clarify anything.
12 a.m.: Bassoonist and I arrive home and watch 30 Rock, both drooling over Alec Baldwin. We fall asleep.
3 a.m.: Missed call from Park Avenue Political Junkie. He loves calling me in the middle of the night and leaving me dirty messages, and I love not answering. We went to high school together and had a dangerously passionate affair toward the end of this past post-college summer. Thank goodness he lives in D.C., though — he would have broken my heart and/or driven me completely insane in a way I just can't handle right now. He's a half-Jew — effectively, my mother would have "half-liked" him.
8:30 a.m.: Maybe I do hate mornings just as much as Med Student. Hope he'll want to come over later tonight, already anticipating my horniness.
7 p.m.: Bump into Sax Player again in the library and we high-five. What is this, an episode of Clarissa Explains It All? He calls me Shuke Ellington and I call him Chad Baker. This is trouble.
12 a.m.: Med Student arrives just as HB is falling asleep on my couch. He insists on building a fort in my room out of sheets and blankets: How cute and Boy Scouty is that? We proceed to hump quietly in the fort as a Philip Glass quartet ideally drowns us out.
12:30 a.m.: Med Student is well over six feet tall and I am hardly above five foot one. Sometimes this makes me feel awkward, but mostly I love feeling so itty-bitty next to him. The boy can really work some wonders orally. Fall asleep in a great post-cunnilingus haze.
2:30 a.m.: Miss a barrage of dirty texts from Park Avenue. He's coming to New York this weekend.
7:40 a.m.: Sometimes I wish Med Student weren't so curt in his farewells, but I know if I ask him to dote, he will. He actually listens! How strange is that?
10 a.m.: Sexting Med Student during aural skills class (seriously), but he's probably sitting in a lecture about diarrhea right now.
2 p.m.: Sitting in the park eating lunch when Park Avenue calls. He wants to tell me all about what he accomplished in therapy today while simultaneously dropping some magnificently dirty thoughts. Innuendo and out the other. Maybe I'm sympathetic only because my dad is a shrink — rachmones, Freud might say: love out of pity
11 p.m.: I try to booty-call Med Student, but he has too much reading to do. Break out my ancient vibrator during a practice break. Thinking about Med Student's glorious cock when I'm interrupted by a text from my ex that says, "Big concert tomorrow. Miss you. " Fuck my life.
12 a.m.: Attempt masturbation again, but am interrupted by a text from Park Avenue requesting that I let him do a laundry list of things to my pussy. Seriously? Refuse to fuel this fire. Read the week's New Yorker fiction.
12:30 a.m.: Text Med Student and ask him what he'd do to me if he were in bed with me. He gives me plenty of ammunition. Orgasm accomplished! Thanks, Doctor.
10 a.m.: Rehearsal ad infinitum. Do I have a small infatuation with one of the girls in my quartet? Would I enjoy going down on a girl? Sometimes I think I deserve an opportunity to answer these questions.
11:30 p.m.: Head to Med Student's itty-bitty room. He fucks me dutifully but seems to have forgotten about me immediately after his own orgasm. He rolls over and proceeds to say something about leukemia as he drifts off to sleep.
1:40 a.m.: Lying awake, mildly furious, on his twin bed as he dreams about cirrhosis, most likely. I am (1) a female and (2) a neurotic musician. I need a little more direct attention.
8 a.m.: Med Student can tell I'm miffed but cannot intuit why. I remind him it's not a party if only one person comes. He tells me that he "owes me one," and I half expect him to call me "champ" as I head out the door. I can kind of be a bitch, no doubt.
10 a.m.: Improvising with another violinist as a warm-up for quartet. This girl is seriously sexy. She tells me I ought to take hip-hop dance classes because it really enabled her to hone her badass stage presence. I'd take a class with her if I got to see her in Spandex, absolutely.
2 p.m.: Spending the rest of the day with my visiting parents. A Jewish mother and a shrink will ask you a lot more questions about your sex life than you'd think appropriate. They ask me if Med Student is good in bed and/or circumcised.
9 p.m.: Village Vanguard. Even with my parents, I cannot help but find jazz maybe the best turn-on. Text Med Student and tell him I'll take him up on that owed orgasm later.
11 p.m.: Say hello to the bass player at the bar and tell him I really enjoyed his performance. He asks for my number and I give him my card. Maybe he'll want violin lessons one day
1 a.m.: Med Student arrives and promptly gives me a solid G-spot orgasm. I want to tell him all about the amazing show I saw, but he's already asleep. We've really got to work on this nonexistent pre-midnight sex regimen. We've gotten truly great at the "quick late-night fuck" but we need to get down to the serious sex sometime. I'm starting to think people in New York are just too busy to have sex the way I used to in my undergrad days.
12 p.m.: Awake, blissfully late. Even now, though, Med Student insists it's too early for intercourse. Is he a sexual vampire or something? Try to explain that a little "coitus never hoitus," but all he wants to do is make an omelet and drink all my orange juice.
4:45 p.m.: I'm sitting by the fountain at Lincoln Center waiting for a luthier to finish some work on my violin; I am always slightly on edge here because this location is really a vort-"ex" — a whirlpool where all my ex-boyfriends collide.
4:50 p.m.: Park Avenue calls me and says he's coming to see me. Sometimes I like it when a boy doesn't give me an option.
5:15 p.m.: He gets out of a cab looking comically strapping. He loves tweed and snug trousers. He gives me a kiss on the cheek and pants in my face like a puppy dog. No. I am attracted to all of his worst qualities — it's like I view every glaring red flag as a personal challenge. I need to grow up and stop talking to this preppy douche.
5:40 p.m.: He pulls me onto his lap on a park bench and asks if I remember the time he fingered me in the ass while we were fucking. I slap him in the face and immediately realize that was not the right thing to do if I wanted to get myself out of this situation. I'd walk around black and blue for days after we'd spend a night together — he's into a little violence, and somewhat to my chagrin, so am I. He loves to dirty-talk. I give him a disapproving glare, but he's got his arms around me and won't let me up. Maybe he likes the fact that I never say anything back. He gave me a lot of crap for putting out too soon, and I regret it to this day. Screw him and his double standards.
6 p.m.: He tells me he wants to be with me — that everything has changed — and I tell him I'll think about reassessing after my first divorce, should he decide to grow a modicum of decency and learn some respect. He can tell I'm serious about leaving at this point. He pays for my cab home (always) and shoves the merlot cashmere sweater he was wearing at me as I leave — "I want you to have this!" he asserts, desperately. Too little, too late.
11 p.m.: After waiting for the better part of an hour, Med Student and I are seated at Ippudo downtown. This ramen broth may be better than sex. Good sex. Seriously. He is particularly affectionate. I wonder if he can sense I've been a little bit naughty earlier and finds that somehow sexy. Doubtful.
1 a.m.: At Little Branch having cocktails. I am edging past tipsy into blurry territory. Med Student is waiting at the bar for an eternity and we're sexting. He wants me to tie him up. I know he's never tried this before, and I can't wait. Simultaneously begin receiving a bombardment of equally dirty messages from Park Avenue mixed with some intensely sentimental, and likely inebriated, declarations. He says he wants to come to Little Branch and schmooze with me. I tell him that if he shows up, I will pretend I don't know him.
2:35 a.m.: We're heading back uptown in a cab. Med Student requests a backseat blow job. I decline. I give him some shit because he simply does not like kissing enough — he always pulls away after just a few seconds. I tell him I consider it the most fundamental aspect of foreplay. He says he wants to give me a really long kiss. I'm excited, but three seconds in he stops and says he started thinking about Tetris and got distracted. Sometimes I hate his sense of humor, but most of the time I love that he's unabashedly goofy.
3 a.m.: In my apartment, I tie him up, as requested, but am still miffed about the whole kissing dialogue. I am naked and on top of Med Student when he sneezes with impeccably comical timing. I've just lost the urge completely.
3:05 a.m.: I untie him, and we attempt dirty talk, but I can't help but think about Bubba reciting shrimp recipes in Forrest Gump as he lists the things he wants to do to my pussy. We are both laughing, which is nice, though sometimes I miss having the kind of really serious sex during which you gaze meaningfully into each others' eyes because you love each other. We engage in our usual sleepy-sex routine and pass out.
10 a.m.: Again, no morning sex. Laundry! New York Times wedding announcements! Baking muffins! I am such a yenta.
4:30 p.m.: At Hungarian Pastry Shop with Sax Player. Friends can have coffee, right?
6:30 p.m.: Oh, shit, we've been talking for two hours — this is officially a de facto date. He invites me over to his house to listen to some records, but I tell him I have to go home to get ready for a date with my boyfriend. Yes, that's right — my boyfriend. He tries to pay for my coffee, and I absolutely do not let him. I am really smitten with the Med Student and would never cheat on him, but sometimes I wonder if I fell into this relationship too fast. I just moved to New York, after all.
11 p.m.: Med Student comes over pleasantly early! We pretend we are going to watch Pierrot le Fou but immediately get to some serious intercourse.
11:30 p.m.: Tying him up, take two — things are going so much better this time. I get an ice cube from the freezer and alternate it with some candle wax. Sometimes he's so doctorly it's hard to know if what I'm doing is working, but I think I'm on the right track.
12:15 a.m.: Untie him and he really kisses me for several minutes. He listens! I love it. He gets me off not once, but twice! Once sweetly by going down on me, and once rough, fucking me over the edge of the bed. He must have gotten the memo, because we've been having sex for a solid hour and a half now and he hasn't mentioned heart failure once! I give him a blow job and let him finish up on my face, which isn't my favorite thing on the menu, but at this point, I'd do anything to make him happy. Moreover, this is something I only permit when I feel really close to someone.
2:30 a.m.: I tell him I can't wait to go through my whole Monday with some of his cum in my hair, and he spoons me to sleep. I can tell this will be a good week.
TOTALS: Five acts of intercourse, zero backseat blow jobs, one failed attempt at bondage, one successful attempt at bondage, one bedroom blow job plus facial, one de facto date and several unkosher flirtations, one successful masturbatory orgasm, kvetching ad infinitum.


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Fancy Food Show Scales Down; Jug Wine Can Be Just Fine
Plus: liquid lunches for WTC workers, and a street-food ban in Bay Ridge, all in our morning news roundup.
• This year's Fancy Food Show reflects the tough economic times with smaller samples and more inexpensive products. [NYDN]
Meanwhile at the UnFancy Food Show, Van Leeuwen reveals it'll soon be serving Earl Grey–tea-flavored ice cream. [Blondie and Brownie]
• There's no reason that jug wines need to be terrible. [WSJ]
• World Trade Center construction workers spend their lunches drinking at spots like Biddy Early's. [NYP]
• CB10 in Bay Ridge wants to ban street-food vendors from two busy stretches because they're "really becoming an issue for small businesses." [Brooklyn Paper]
• The Nestlé plant at the center of the cookie-dough E. coli outbreak repeatedly denied inspectors' requests for information and records of the plant. [WSJ]
• Competition for helado vendors in the Bronx has reached a fever pitch. [NYT]
• Summer restaurant jobs are still plentiful, despite the economic situation. [Diner's Journal/NYT]
• Heather Mills is opening V-Bites, a vegan restaurant, in the United Kingdom. [NYDN]
• Crafts-services company TOMKATS is being sued by Kaufman Astoria Studios, who claim the catering company owes them at least $250,000. [NYP]
• Pret A Manger is expanding quickly in Manhattan, with four new stores in the past two months alone. [Crain's]
• Colorado's JBS Swift Beef is recalling 380,000 pounds of products because of possible E. coli contamination. [NYP]


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2014 (Jr.): Indoor: Did not compete... Outdoor: Finished 11th in the 5,000-meter run at the Texas Tech Open with a time of 19:53.61... Placed 20th in the 5,000-meter run at the Michael Johnson Invitational with a time of 19:45.11.
2013 (So.): Did not compete.
2012 (Fr.): Indoor: Competed in the mile (5:52.92) and 3000-meter (12:17.51) runs at the Texas Tech Invitational... Outdoor: Had a season-best 1,500-meter time of 5:09.79 at the North Texas Spring Classic...Recorded a top-20 finish in the 3,000-meter run (11:48.52) at the TCU Invitational.
Personal: Anticipated civil engineering major... Parents are David and Jill... Has four siblings.


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The Autistic Mind, Music, and the Brain, a symposium presented by the Purchase College School of Natural and Social Sciences & Conservatory of Music will focus on recent research on enhancing cognitive functioning through music, specifically as it applies to those on the autistic spectrum. Leading researchers on the effects of music on the brain will participate in this day-long symposium on March 22 , 9 AM - 5:15 PM, in the Recital Hall, Music Building.
Nina Kraus, Professor of Neurobiology at Northwestern University will be the Keynote Speaker. Her talk is entitled, Music for the Development of Auditory Skills-Implications for Autism.
Celine Saulnier, Clinical Director of the Autism Program at the Yale Child Study Center will discuss Evidenced-Based Practices for Treating Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Jacqueline Birnbaum, Administrative Coordinator, and Nina Guerrero, Research Coordinator, of New York University's Nordoff -Robbins Center for Music Therapy will present research data in their talk Music Therapy and Autism: Research and Clinical Illustrations.
Meagan Curtis, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Purchase College will discuss Communicating Emotion in Speech and Music.
Isaac Ohring a 16- year old violinist from New Fairfield, CT will perform.
He is first violinist with the Danbury Community Orchestra and a violinist with the Not Ready for Prime Time Klemzer band from Danbury. He is a high functioning autistic teen who composes music, plays the piano and sings in the New Fairfield High School Chorus.
The Music and the Brain series at Purchase College provides a forum for advanced thinking in the arts and sciences that aims to address issues that have a profound impact on peoples lives.
Admission including lunch is $100. To register call 914-251-6200 or www.artscenter.org. Purchase College is located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY.
Biographical information on each of the speakers:
Nina Kraus, Ph.D., Hugh Knowles Professor, (Communication Sciences; Neurobiology & Physiology; Otolaryngology) at Northwestern University, directs the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory. Dr. Kraus investigates biological bases of speech and music. She investigates learning-associated brain plasticity throughout the lifetime in normal, expert (musicians), clinical populations (dyslexia; autism; hearing loss) and animal models. In addition to being a pioneering thinker who bridges multiple disciplines (aging, development, literacy, music, and learning), Dr. Kraus is a technological innovator who roots her research in translational science. Kraus was raised in a musically rich and linguistically diverse household. She holds degrees in Biology and Neuroscience from Swarthmore College and Northwestern University.
Celine Saulnier, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child
Study Center and the Clinical Director for the Autism Program. She received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut and then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Yale funded by the National Alliance for Autism Research. Presently, Celine conducts and supervises diagnostic evaluations for autism spectrum and related conditions from infancy through young adulthood. Her current research focuses on adaptive behavior deficits in autism, specifically on the discrepancy between cognitive potential and functional independence in higher-functioning individuals.www.autism.fm
Jacqueline Birnbaum, a board certified music therapist and a licensed creative arts therapist, is the Administrative Coordinator and a Senior Therapist at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University, with over 25 years of experience in the field. She has a background in both early childhood education and music therapy, and has developed music therapy programs at a number of schools in the New York City area. In addition to her teaching, supervision, and clinical work at the Center, she has presented on the use of creative music therapy at numerous regional, national, and international conferences.
Nina Guerrero, a board-certified music therapist and licensed creative arts therapist, is Research Coordinator at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy. She oversees ongoing studies at the Center on communication and social interaction in young children with autism spectrum disorders, and is involved in developing a collaborative intervention program for stroke patients in partnership with the Rusk Rehabilitation Institute, NYU Medical Center. She is completing a doctorate in music education at New York University. Her previous research experience includes assisting in studies of speech perception and language development in children with hearing loss. Her clinical experience includes establishing music therapy programs at preschools providing special education and related therapy services.
Dr. Meagan Curtis is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Purchase College. She received her Ph.D. in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Dartmouth College. Her research addresses the processing of music and language within and across cultures.
Isaac Ohring is a 16-year old violinist from New Fairfield, CT. He is first violinist with the Danbury Community Orchestra and, for the past four years, a violinist with the five-member Not Yet Ready for Prime Time Klezmer band that's been based in Danbury since 2006. In addition to playing the violin, Isaac composes traditional music, plays the piano, and sings baritone in the New Fairfield High School chorus. Isaac, a high-functioning autistic teen, studies classical violin with Alison Corigliano, and traditional Klezmer violin with Alicia Svigals, regarded by many as the world's foremost Klezmer violinist.
Marcia Klebanow is a Danbury based pianist who accompanies instrumentalists and choral groups. She is the President of the Danbury Music Association.


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Seven Stills is becoming Seven Sails this Saturday.
The San Francisco distillery is throwing a massive party with cocktails, liquor, craft beer, food, and music. Oh, and it's on a boat.
You'll find and notice many craft beer events in San Francisco. You'll also find some artisan liquor events. But you never really find events that combine both beer and spirits. Seems like a smart idea, but it isn't that commonplace.
Sound familiar? As you may remember, Seven Stills creates their whiskey out of good beer - something that you'd expect to be pretty popular, but is actually fairly rare. It shouldn't be a surprise, then, that Seven Stills is combining those two components for their latest event.
"I'm on a Boat" promises to bring beer and liquor together, which contrary to the college saying, will not make you sicker.
The 150 foot yacht has plenty in store for attendees. The main deck will feature a DJ, and 10 breweries/distilleries/eateries. The second deck has an additional 10 breweries/distilleries/eateries, and the third deck features an open area to relax, tan, and enjoy the view.
Regarding beer, expect to see these breweries pouring on the yacht:
- Lagunitas
- Speakeasy
- Pacific Brewing Laboratory
- Drake's
- Trumer Pils
- EJ Phair
- Marin Brewing
- San Francisco Brewing
- Ale Industries
- Heretic Brewing
- Fort Point Beer
- Devoto Orchards Cider
- Golden State Cider
- Snake Bite
And these distilleries will also have their wares available:
- Seven Stills
- Anchor Distilling Company
- Falcon Spirits Distillery
- Bender's Whiskey Co
- Raff Distillerie
- HelloCello
- Workhorse Rye
- Sutherland Distilling
- Strip and Go Bare
- Osocalis
- Tequila Tapatio
The event will also have Flux Coffee, Fusion Jerky, and Three Twins ice cream for anyone who needs a break between drinks.
Buy tickets now for $100, or as a group of five for $75 each. The price is a tad high compared to other drinking events, but it does include beer, liquor, and free snacks. Oh, and lest you forget - you get to cruise the bay whilst imbibing. Finally, all the proceeds go to the San Francisco SPCA, a great resource that supports animals.
Remember, while the yacht is 150 feet, it only holds 370 people, so you'll want to act fast and get your tickets now.
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A man was shot to death early Thursday morning at an apartment complex in Marietta.
And so far, police have not arrested or identify a suspect in the shooting. They also have not released the victim's identity, but said he did live in Marietta.
The shooting happened about 12:15 a.m. at the Pointes of Marietta apartments on Cunningham Road, according to the Marietta police.
Officers responded to the scene after getting a call about a person shot at the complex, police spokesman Detective Christopher Lindsey said.
"Upon police arrival, a black male was found lying in the parking lot, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound," Det. Lindsey said.
Police said the man did not live at the complex and they aren't sure why he was there.
The man was transported to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital where he was pronounced dead, Det. Lindsey said.
As of late afternoon Thursday, police have not released any details on the circumstances of the shooting or a motive for the crime.
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With her Mona Lisa mosaic made of burnt toast, English artist Laura Hadland aroused the interest and curiosity of the inhabitants of Matera, an old town in southern Italy famous for its beautiful cave-houses. Ms. Hadland -best known for another similar work which she created as a birthday present for her mother in law- made this rather bizarre replica of Mona lisa, one of Leonardo's most famous paintings (it took him a bit over 10 years) last Easter; all the 1,o80 pieces of toast used here come from the Consorzio di Tutela del pane di Matera (IGP). By the way, if want to view the video showing the artist adding her final touches to her work click here.
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PCC Men's Basketball Star Givon Crump Signs With D-1 Cal State Fullerton
Pasadena City College men's basketball sophomore Givon Crump, who led the South Coast Conference in scoring this past season, signed a 4-year university scholarship offer to attend NCAA Division I Cal State Fullerton. Crump is expected to play at the small forward position.
Crump chose Fullerton after also weighing offers from Utah, New Mexico State, and Hawaii. It will be college No. 4 for Crump, who played at D1 Baylor University as a freshman in 2009-2010, transferred to Fresno State and redshirted, then made his way to PCC for a breakout sophomore season as a Lancer in 2011-2012.
In his one season for Pasadena, the 6-foot-7 Crump averaged 20.3 points a game and helped the Lancers to a 16-12 record, good enough for second place in the SCC North Division. Crump's production aided the Lancers to more victories than each of the previous two seasons combined (2009-2011, 14).
Named All-SCC First Team, Crump was seventh in the state in scoring and he added 7.4 rebounds per game. His 150 free throws made and .829 line accuracy was also in the state top 10. He made a team-high 69 baskets from 3-point range. He scored 30 or more points in five contests, including a 39-point game against Cerritos (fifth highest single-game scoring total in PCC history).
Crump explained why he chose Fullerton, and how much playing at PCC and under head coach Mike Swanegan pushed his playing progress.
"Fullerton's recruiting process sold me," Crump said. "They contacted me early in the season and they were very consistent in keeping up on how I was doing at PCC. Playing for Coach Swanegan at PCC was a great move for me to mature as a player and become more of a leader. He allowed me the room to make mistakes and improve my overall game. I felt I was able to help the freshmen and helped the team succeed."
Crump was a blue-chip prospect in high school at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He originally earned a scholarship to Baylor where he played limited minutes his freshman season.
Crump became the 67th player in PCC history to join the school's 500-point club (529 points in 26 games played).
As a member of the Titans, Crump will play in the Big West Conference under CSUF head coach Bob Burton.
[Photo--From left to right: PCC athletic director John Woods, Givon Crump, and Lancers head coach Mike Swanegan during a photo signing session held Wednesday at PCC, image by Richard Quinton.]
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UPDATED: Rock Band 4 on Xbox One price increased over instrument adapter
The Xbox One release of Rock Band 4 will cost $20 more than the PS4 release, due to Microsoft's console requiring an adapter to support older peripherals.
PS4 prices rise in Canada
Sony has increased the cost of its PlayStation 4 console by $50 at Canadian retailers.
EA backtracks on recent FIFA 14, Battleifled 4 price hikes
A couple of days after it announced price hikes for its upcoming games, EA has now gone back to previous pricing for FIFA 14 and Battlefield 4.
Another EA price hike; FIFA 14 now Rs 3,799 on consoles, Rs 2,799 on PC
EA game prices have received another updwards adjustment, but while the earlier hike that caused a bit of an uproar was a strategic decision by the publisher, this time it's ...
Hike in prices of locally manufactured PS3 games due to "impact of forex rate", says Sony
Last week, we reported that Sony had raised prices for upcoming first-party PS3 games. Sony India has now said that the impact of foreign exchange rates is to blame for ...
Update: Grand Theft Auto 5 price to remain Rs 2,999
Update: Grand Theft Auto 5 distributor E-xpress Interactive has told MCV that it has not announced a price hike for the standard edition of Grand Theft Auto 5, adding that ...
OPINION: Why it's hard to argue with EA's decision to raise PC game prices in India
A lot has been said about EA's increased PC game prices in India thanks to the #EAPCIndia campaign. While the intention behind it was to establish an open platform rather ...
New Xbox Live update drops points, hikes up prices - report
Xbox 360 owners that are currently beta testing the next dashboard update have reported that download games will be more expensive when the console abandons Microsoft Points.
#EAPCIndia campaign intensifies with local, international media coverage
After initially being restricted to Twitter, the #EAPCIndia campaign has now picked up on Facebook and received local and international media coverage over the weekend.
Indian gamers react to EA PC price hike with #EAPCIndia campaign
Indian PC gamers have taken to Facebook and Twitter to air their discontent at the rising prices of EA's PC games.
UPDATED: EA announces new prices for India; FIFA 14 now Rs 2,499 on PC, Rs 3,499 on PS3
Update: Flipkart has now updated the prices for all three games for Xbox 360 - Rs 3,499, same as PS3.
Flipkart increases PC game prices to Rs 1,499; distributors respond
Hot on the heels of our confirmation that EA is planning to increase PC game prices in India, the country's biggest games retailer, Flipkart, has raised prices of forthcoming non-EA ...
EA to increase PC game prices in India
We tweeted a rumour yesterday about a possible price hike in EA's PC games in India. We've now received word from the publisher confirming the same.


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Nov. 13, 2003
Walnut Creek, Calif. - UCLA senior women' soccer player Nandi Pryce was named Pac-10 Co-Player of the Year, while head coach Jillian Ellis was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year, Conference Commissioner Tom Hansen announced Thursday.
Pryce, a defender from Casselberry, Fla., has played in all 20 matches for No. 2 UCLA, starting 19. She is a leader on a Bruin defense that ranks 17th nationally in shutout percentage (0.61) and 25th in goals against average (0.76). She has helped UCLA rank No. 1 in the Pac-10 in shutouts (11), goals allowed (16), and goals against average (0.76). Pryce, who becomes the Bruins' third Pac-10 Player of the year following Traci Arkenberg (1997) and Tracey Milburn (2000), has tallied three points on the year.
It is the first Pac-10 Coach of the Year honor for Ellis, who helped guide the Bruins to a 16-1-3 regular-season record in 2003. She recently led the Bruins to their fourth Pac-10 title (second during her tenure), finishing 8-0-1 in conference play. Ellis was named NSCAA/adidas National Coach of the Year back in 2000 after leading UCLA to the NCAA Final.
In addition to Pryce, four other Bruins earned All-Pac-10 honors Thursday, including first-team selections Whitney Jones, Sarah-Gayle Swanson and Iris Mora. Jill Oakes was a second-team selection.
Co-Pac-10 Players of the Year: Nandi Pryce (UCLA), Tina Frimpong (WASH)
Coach of the Year: Jillian Ellis (UCLA)
Freshman/Newcomer of the Year: Rosa Anna Tantillo (USC)
2003 PAC-10 All-Conference Women's Soccer Teams
FIRST TEAM Name Pos. Yr. School Tina Frimpong F Jr. WASH Allyson Marquand** MF Sr. STAN Nandi Pryce** D Sr. UCLA Iris Mora* F So. UCLA Amy LePeilbet** D Sr. ASU Kim Yokers** MF Sr. CAL Candice Wilks F Jr. ARIZ Whitney Jones* MF Sr. UCLA Sarah-Gayle Swanson** F Sr. UCLA Megan Abbamonto** MF Sr. USC Nicole Barnhart* GK Jr. STAN*two-time All-Pac-10 honoree **three-time All-Pac-10 honoree
SECOND TEAM Name Pos. Yr. School Nicole Garbin MF So. ORE Manya Makoski* MF So. ASU Melissa Bennett* F Sr. UW Tessa Baker F So. OSU Natalie Spilger D Sr. STAN Jill Oakes* MF So. UCLA Stephanie Ebner D So. ASU Lindsey Peeples D Jr. ARIZ Brittany Cooper MF So. ASU Ashley Valenzuela MF Sr. CAL Julie Peterson GK Jr. USC
Rosa Anna Tantillo (USC, Fr., F); Mariette Boyce (WSU, Sr., D); Stacey Mescher (OSU, So., F); Hayley Hunt (STAN, So., D); Nadia Al-Lami (CAL, Fr., D); Mallory Miller (ARIZ, So., MF); Liz Bogus* (ASU, So., F); Alisan Pabon (STAN, Sr., D); Kim Taylor* (UW, So., F); Nikki Goza (USC, Jr., D); Katie Hultin (WSU, So., GK).


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The 13th album and Stax Records debut from internationally-renowned singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Teena Marie, Congo Square (out June 9th) marks a deeply personal milestone for the iconic soul music star and Rhythm & Blues Awards Lifetime Achievement recipient. In support of the album, she begins her US tour today in Washington D.C. at the Constitution Hall.
"Each song I was coming up with began to sound like the style of some favorite artist of mine from the past… Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, the old Chicago soul of The Emotions and the new Chicago vibe of Kanye West… Ice Cube's bumpin' in the trunk vibe and of course, Rick James. It's all in there." Along for the party are special guests Faith Evans (on the first single "Can't Last a Day"), Howard Hewett (on the steamy duet "Lovers Lane"), MC Lyte (on the sexy opener "The Pressure") and others.
Congo Square is a nod to all that came before and to the ones who will follow in her footsteps, firmly reiterating the obvious: there is only one Teena Marie.


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Marlins prez Samson: Disappointed in first half of season, lack of All-Star representative
ST. LOUIS Marlins President David Samson spoke before Sunday's game about the disappointment of not having a Marlin named to the All-Star team to replace injured Giancarlo Stanton as well as frustration with the inconsistency of the team throughout the first half of the season.
He addressed issues such as problems with the grass at Marlins Park, attendance and the upcoming reality TV series "The Franchise" featuring the Marlins that will debut Wednesday night on Showtime.
Samson had not yet received a report on surgery that Stanton underwent Sunday morning in Miami.
Subsequently, the team announced that Stanton did have loose bodies removed from his right knee and should retjurn to action in 4-6 weeks.
Here are highlights of the interview with Samson:
(On Washington's Bryce Harper replacing Stanton instead of a Marlin)
"I spoke to MLB. Cishek, Ruggiano, I think there were a lot of different ways that Tony [La Russa] and MLB could have gone. I think it's unfortunate. I think that every team should be represented on the line in an All-Star Game."
(Note: Harper was called up ot the majors earlier than Ruggiano, who is hitting .410 in 78 at-bats with six homers and 17 RBI. Harper is hitting .283 in 244 at-bats with eight homers and 25 RBI.)
"For me it would have would been natural to have Ruggiano in, who has absolutely played as well as anyone since he was called up. Obviously MLB or Tony or whoever makes the decision had their own view of it, and it's certainly disappointing.
"I think that all teams are supposed to be respresented, and if our guy had to have surgery, he had to have surgery.
"Obviously its been a disappointing first half, there's no question about it."
(On the effect of the Stanton injury)
"It hurt. He is such an imposing force in the lineup. Carlos Lee was brought in to combine him with Stanton in the lineup. Now it's sort of back to where you are.
"But Giancarlo will be back in time to help us. We're not nearly out of it –- the second wild card or even the division."
(On what held the Marlins back in the first half)
"The inconsistencey is what bothered us the most the first half.
"It's been an interesting first half. There's been a lot of attention with the team that we never had before. I think when you talk about all the excitement going into the season, that's what leads to this level of disappointment because you don't expect to be below .500 at the break.
"But the way things went I think we're pretty happy to be this close to 500. It could have been a lot worse.
"It took a record-brekaing May just to get us in this position. I'd like to see us just consistently win series. That's how we'll make the playoffs. This team is capable of it."
(On Hanley Ramirez's inconsistent first half)
"Hanley is the man on this team. But saying you're the man and being the man are two different things. He has it in him to do it, and I hope the switch goes on. He is sort of the catalyst."
(On the problem with the grass at Marlins Park)
"The grass sort of reflects our season. It's brown right now but getting greener.
"We've called agronomists, we've called voodoo people, we've called agriculturalists, we've called grounds crew people, we've called grass growers, we've called them all.
"They all say the same thing, it's not seasy. This Celebration grass should be the right grass. The shade's have been a little weird. The weather pattern was off. The rainy season started early this year and we had to close the roof. We had a lot of day games.
But it's getting better."
(On attendance at Marlins Park)
"It's hard not to be happy averaging over 28,000 people, but we'd rather be at 32,000 to 35,000 people.
"I think the team did not help in that regard.
"Fans, not just in Miami, but everywhere, they want to see a team that's winning and trying. This team never gives up. The fans are happy to see that and we expect attendance to build.
"It will respond based on perfomrance, and right now our performance is just to the left of mediocre. .500 is medicre. We're not a team that shoots for .500, we're shooting for the playoffs. Being around .500 is not anywhere near where we want to be.
(On feedback on the ballpark)
"The complaints are zero. People love it
The parking is easy, the air-conditioning works. Our biggest complaint is people are cold."
(On how the Miami Heat's championship run effected Marlins attendance.)
"I think that our no-show rate went up when the Heat were playing. I think our market can handle a good Heat team and a good Marlins team and a good Dolphins team.
" We rooted for the Heat. Do I wish they would have won in 16 straight? Maybe. But I wanted them to win either way."
(On the Showtime series)
"We promised to give them access to everything. We did that. They're everywhere. When we did the trade for Carlos Lee, they're there, when we sent players down, they're there. They're there when we trade players, when talk about players.
"The debut is Wednesday and it should be very interesting. I think fans around the world, while they're not going to see us at the All-Star Game, the'yre certianly going to see us everywhere else.
"Instead of sending a player to the All-Star Gamde, I guess we're going to send the Showtime crew and it's going be like Where's Waldo. We're going to have the Showtime crew just looking for the Marlin."
(On the benefits of doing the Showtime series)
Our merchadise sales are so good around the country.
"I think the bounce you get is just brand recognition, and that builds over time."
(Any regrets about doing the series?)
The Showtime people are really good, they're like flies on the wall, so it's not staged. I think that if we were staging scenes like a regular reality show, I think that might be an issue. But this is all live as it happens. So I don't think it's had any impact.
"Showtime, when they asked to do the Marlins, I don't thin thay had any clue what they'd be in for. I feel badly for next years team.
"I think it's a good experience for all of us. We commited to increase and improve our brand, and that's happened."
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Hi, Not sure what to say !! I'm a lady truck driver of 13 years.. i did my class two rigid and then my class 1 in a week... from the first time my ass (big!!) sat in the seat i just knew this is what i wanted to do...
I had been a cook and a housewife on a farm up till then.. I used to watch the artic bulk tippers draw sand from our local sand pit... from the largest lough in the whole of Ireland... Lough Neigh . and say, "i want to do that". The sand man in his big green truck used to wave at me in my wee jeep...
So i took the bull by the horns and did my test.. My husband i think thought i was silly and never really encouraged me in any way and when i got it he never said well done... so i left him !! lol no really that another story.. but i left and i eventually became a full time trucker.
I got my first job driving a rigid merc. 1617 .. oh it was woeful and my memory is the huge steering wheel .. but i thought I was great, driving all over the north of Ireland for 2 yrs... I found male drivers tried to spoil me. giving advice and buying me tea and of course flirting like mad.. but i always just smiled and if it nothing untoward i just bantered back..
I had only a few times where company's deliberately give me an awkward bay or made things a bit difficult and then literally lined up and watched to see if i could do it ! i usually did perfectly and then smirked at them. real proud i didn't let the side down.. and in 13 years i was only sexually harassed once.. he never touched me but used to say awful things and i eventually told another driver and he encouraged me to speak to my boss, who brought in the customer and rather politely put him back in his box... the man in question never looked sideways at me again.. he always sent staff out to help off load after that.. So I've been lucky in a lot of ways..
After two years i tried for the artic work and it proved a bit more difficult to get as the companies wanted experience and if no one gives you a chance you can't gain experience.. but a man i know, John Kane, give me a chance in a 45 foot curtainsider for the south of Ireland.. i near cried !! he just banged the side and said if you can drive a rigid you will be fine! away i went with my load of steel.. and back very chuffed cause i done it with no problems.. him giving me a chance give me the confidence to keep going. He gave me loads of work doing fridge's , flat bed, curtainsider and low loader work.. so i was in a position to go anywhere from there..
I also joined an agency and worked for Tesco's, and i was the only female in 53 drivers! i was one of only a few woman in what really was still a man's world.. to my knowledge there is only 8% female Hgv drivers in the whole of the UK.. so we really are out numbered.. I have loads of happy memories driving loads of tears too, it certainly is not an easy job, but i have always took a real pride in wot i do. Days can be long, i was out yesterday for 13 hours and cold and wet by the time i got home.. but happy.. ! mad but happy ..
I have also done a few more test since, i got my ADR to allow me to drive flammable liquids in tankers and i did my large coach licence last year.. took my first tour bus to Blackpool in the summer.. but i must add my heart is still with my truck, will never as long as I'm able, give up on trucking. also did my cpc.. so I'm a competent driver ! or so they tell me.. nothing beats experience and being out there..
I am now working for a company called Mulgrew Haulage and have been with them for 5 years, It is good clean work delivering coca cola in the north and south of Ireland. I also got involved in charity work with the truck too.. I do stuff for Marie Curie cancer care.. The lorry is done up with Tigger and Winne the Pooh ..the kids and grown ups alike love it... does my heart good when your doing something good, I lost my sister to cancer in December past... She came with me on last years truck convoy and loved it... so it will be in her memory when i do it July this year.
Its not an easy life being a trucker but when I'm driving and the CD player playing and i look out my window and a little kid gives the thumbs up and mummy looking to see wot he looking at and them giving me a big smile, you can see there mouths mouthing that's a girl in that big truck! and when i sit a traffic lights and my wagon bigger than the man next to me... boy does it do your heart good......
Just thinking i didn't know wot to say and I've near wrote a book !! they say the Irish have the gift of the gab.. :-) safe trucking every one... and to all the woman that have thought about it... as i say "just do it" :-) x
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I've personally had my justice points at a cap for roughly a week now, just waiting for 4.1 to drop so I can snag some maelstroms, but in the meantime I'm still earning more JP and I don't want them to go to waste so I looked around and thought of things I could buy with my JP that would be worthwhile.
I gave it some good thought before I came up with the idea of turning in some of my JP for primordial saronites. You read correct, that old crappy stuff that still goes for 100-200g at the AH still sells constantly. I've managed to snag 10 in the past week or so and I've sold them all for about 150g per.
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The Bhagavad Gita
According to Paramhansa Yogananda
by Paramhansa Yogananda, edited by Swami Kriyananda
Chapter 1
The Mahabharata, and the Bhagavad Gita of which it is a part, is not literal history. Rather it is a deep spiritual allegory, woven upon a framework of history. The main characters in the story did actually live, but they became essential reference points around which the story was developed. Most of the characters are inventions. They trace their names to Sanskrit roots, which supply their psychological meanings.
Arjuna was, in fact, a very high soul; Krishna, later in the Bhagavad Gita, calls him Prince of Devotees. Yet in this short, but very profound, scripture, and especially so in this first chapter, he plays the role of mere spiritual beginner starting out on his spiritual search. The device can prove confusing for readers, sometimes, especially for those who are already fully aware of Arjunas greatness.
The characters listed in this first chapter are not, as must at first seem, a mere catalogue of warriors arrayed against one another in preparation for the coming war. Instead, they symbolize psychological traits and states of consciousness, each of which plays an important role in the devotees struggle to rise above worldly delusion and to reclaim his true state of Sonship to the Infinite Lord.
Because some of these states of consciousness appear only as the devotee develops further, and even highly, on the spiritual path, it can seem confusing for them to be listed also in this first chapter. Yet the teaching here would be incomplete if they were omitted. I have therefore shown them as only latently present, rather, in the devotees consciousness. Samadhi, for example, is not something the beginner experiences; it appears, usually, after many years on the path, and therefore long after the initial doubts and discouragement of the beginner which Arjuna expresses in this chapter. Those higher states receive careful treatment in later chapters of this great scripture.
The Verses:
1. (King) Dhritarashtra [the blind, or undiscerning mind] posed this question to Sanjaya [introspection]:
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra [and of dharmic confrontation, Dharmakshetra], my sons [the Kurus (Kauravas), or adharmic (unspiritual) tendencies and qualities] and those of Pandu [the Pandavas, or spiritually elevating aspects of human nature] stood ranged against one another, eager for battle. What was the outcome (of their struggle)?
2. Sanjaya replied:
(Prince) Duryodhana [material desires], on beholding the Pandava army (opposing him) in full battle array, (anxiously) approached Dronacharya [habits, past samskaras or mental tendenciesDuryodhanas guru, since material desires are directed by past habits], and spoke as follows:
3. Behold, O Teacher, this great army of the sons of Pandu, arrayed for battle by your own gifted student [Dhristadyumna, or awakened intuition; the calm inner light, which appears also owing to the guidance of past spiritual tendencies], the son of Drupada [dispassion toward sense enjoyments].
4. Ah! See those mighty heroes, bowmen as great as Bhima [the power to uplift the bodys energy] and Arjuna [fiery self-control], Virata [ecstatic identity of the egoic self with the indwelling soul], and Drupada [dispassion toward sense enjoyments], mighty charioteers [controllers of the senses], all.
5. Behold, too, Dhrishtaketu [the inner power of resistance to temptation (the yamas of Patanjali)] Chekitana [buried spiritual memories], Kashiraja [northward, or upward, flowing discrimination], and also Purujit [inclination toward internalizing the mind (pratyahara)], Kuntibhoja [steady, upright bodily posture (asana)], Shaibya [inner power of adherence to virtue (the niyamas)], (all these) foremost among men.
6. Lo, too, mighty Udhamanyu [control over the inner life force (pranayama)], brave Uttamaujas [ojas; spiritual luster and power, developed through sexual self-control], the son of Subhadra [Abhimanyu, self-transcendence], and the sons of Draupadiall these also maharathis (formidable charioteers) [masters of the senses].
7. H ear also, in balance, O Flower of the twice-born, those leaders in my own army who are outstanding.
8. These number thyself (Drona); Bhishma [the consciousness of being a separate, ego-identity]; Karna [outward attachment]; and Kripa [not (in this case) mercy or divine grace, as it is usually understood, but personal as opposed to cosmic delusion]; Ashwatthama [attraction (likes)]; Vikarna [repulsion (dislikes)]; the son of Somadatta [Bhurishravas, the impulse toward outward, material activity]; and Jayadratha [bondage to continued separate existence; not included in every version of the Gita, but subtly distinct from outward attachment, or Karna].
9. And numerous othersheroes well trained forbattle, and armed with many weapons, (all of them) ready to lay dowtheir lives for my sake [in defense of egoic material desires].
10. Our forces, guarded by Bhishma, are numberless [for the pathways into delusion are multifarious], but their army, defended by Bhima [the power to uplift the bodys energy], is numerically constricted [because focused and powerful].
11. All of you, therefore, placed in your proper stations, do (everything you can to) protect Bhishma.
12. Grandsire Bhishma then, glorious and powerful among the Kurus, anxious to encourage [wavering] Duryodhana, blew his conch with a mighty blast.
13. There followed at once a great tumult, as conches, kettledrums, tabors (small drums), and horns sounded in a mighty uproar (of support).
14. And then (it was that) Madhava (Krishna) and Pandava (Arjuna), stationed in their magnificent chariot drawn by white horses [five in number, representing the five senses], blew mightily on their celestial conches.
15. Hrishikesha (Krishna) blew his Panchajanya [AUM and the united sound of all the chakras]; Dhananjaya (Arjuna) sounded his Devadatta [literally gift of the gods or, that which gives joy: the sound of a plucked string instrument in the manipura chakra]; and Vrikodara (Bhima) of mighty deeds [associated with powerful vayu; air, one of the five primary elements] (blew) his great conch Paundra [producing the sound of a deep gong].
16. Then Prince Yudhisthira [divine calmness] the son of Kunti [spiritual force; intense longing for God] blew his Anantavijaya [complete control over the inner prana]; Nakula [the sacral, or swadisthana] and Sahadeva [the coccyx, or muladhara] blew, respectively, their Saghosha [a flute sound, like that which Krishna as a boy played in Gokula] and Manipushpaka [a deep buzzing sound].
17. Then, the king of Kashi [northward, or upward-flowing discrimination], excellent archer; Sikhandi [the will and the understanding to perform only good, self-elevating actions, and, for this reason:] a mighty charioteer [controller of the five senses]; Drishtadyumna [the calm inner light, or the intuitive sense of its hidden presence]; Virata [literally, majestic; a sense of oneness with Spirit*], and invincible Satyaki [truthfulness];
18. D rupada [extreme dispassion]; the sons of Draupadi [see above] and the mighty-armed son of Subhadra [self-mastery]: all these, O Lord of the Earth, blew (loudly on) their conches.
19. That mighty tumult, reverberating through heaven and earth [penetrating the devotees astral and physical bodies] pierced the hearts of Dhritarashtras sons [shaking, thereby, the devotees faith in the attractiveness of material enjoyment].
20. Beholding the clan of Dhritarashtra (the Kauravas) arrayed (before him) for battle, Pandava (Arjuna), whose flag bore the monkey emblem [this symbol of restlessness, when raised by straightening the spine, indicates control over the ever-active mind*], took up his bow [symbol of correct meditative posture: the body erect, the bowstring indicative of a straight spine], and addressed Hrishikesha (Krishna):
2123. Arjuna said, O Changeless Krishna, I (respectfully) ask Thee to guide my chariot between the two armies, that I may see them opposed in full battle array, (there to) observe the (warriors) with whom I am to contend. Let me study (those warriors) who willingly support Dhritarashtras son (Duryodhana).
2425. Sanjaya then told Dhritarashtra: O Descendent of Bharata! On hearing these words of Gudakesha (Arjuna), Hrishikesha (Krishna) drove that best of chariots to a point between the two armies. There, before Bhishma, Drona, and that great horde of opposing chiefs, he declared: Behold, Partha (Arjuna), this mighty gathering of the Kurus!
26. Partha (Arjuna) then beheld before him [his own relatives:] grandfathers, fathers, fathers-in-law, maternal uncles, brothers and cousins, sons and grandsons, and comrades, past friends, teachers;
27. Observing that far-flung array of his own kith and kin before him, the son of Kunti (Arjuna) was filled with pity, and spoke sorrowfully:
2830. O Krishna, seeing these, my own relatives, gathered together ready to fight us, my strength fails me; my limbs quiver; my mouth becomes parched; my whole body trembles; my hair stands on end [all these being signs of inner conflict]! The sacred bow Gandhiva slips from my grasp [as, with bent spine, he slumps forward in discouragement], and my skin is on fire [a hint of reawakened, latent desires]. I cannot remain upright, and my mind loses all focus.
31. O Keshava (Krishna), I behold (in this upcoming war) only omens of evil! Indeed, no good results can come from slaying these, my own family members.
32. O Krishna! I crave no victory (against these, my kinsmen), nor kingdom, nor the rewards (of victory), nor even life itself. Of what use (indeed, to us) would be these (hollow gains)?
3334. Those ranged before us are our own [past] teachers [inclinations toward, and hopes for attaining, false, worldly desires and ambitions], fathers [begetters of past sense inclinations], sons [sense pleasures themselves], grandfathers [sense tendencies from past incarnations], uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law, and other kinsmen [more distant influences: global, national, social, environmental, and familial].
35. O Madhusudhana (Krishna)! How can I consent to kill these (relatives), even if their own desire is to kill me? I would rather relinquish sovereignty (self-mastery) itself over the three worlds [the causal, astral, and physical universes]what to speak, then, of conquest over this little earthly kingdom [my physical body]?
36. What happiness could we find, O Janardana (Krishna)! in destroying Dhritarashtras clan? Sinful though they be, would not we, too, incur sin (by slaying them)?
37. There can be no justification, surely, in killing our own cousins, Dhritarashtras sons!
3839. Even if they, blinded by greed for possession, see nothing wrong in killing us (their own relatives), and in betraying their own friends, ought not we, who (knowing right from wrong) see the evil involved in annihilating a whole dynastyought not we, for our part, to avoid this great crime?
40. With the disintegration of a family, its ancient traditions are lost. When such a great disaster occurs, the whole family is deprived of any purposeful direction, and cannot but succumb to sin.
41. O Krishna! With the loss of religion [individual and family traditions], the women of the family become corrupt [the devotees feeling quality may lose its coherence, and descend to a chaos of confusion]. From there, intermixture of the varnas (castes) cannot but be the outcome.
42. This admixture [confusion as to ones proper direction in life] plunges down to hell both the familys destroyers [those deeds and qualities which undermine, or disrupt, a persons carefully developed family of consciousness] and the family itself. The familys ancestors [the individuals inheritance, from former lives, of subconscious tendencies] will be forsaken owing to the withholding of traditional offerings of rice-balls and water [symbolic of the concern and energy with which people feed their latent tendencies].
43. By such wrong doings, those who disrupt the family [by removing a persons carefully gathered self-definitions], and create an admixture of the castes [by confusing ones established, and heretofore normal-seeming, self-identity], the age-old sense of personal reality will be destroyed.
44. O Janardana (Krishna)! Often have we heard that men who lack all sense of family religious rites [ones traditional sense of individual function and purpose] are forced to reside indefinitely in hell.
45. Alas! actuated by (mere) avarice to possess a kingdom, we (are gathered here) ready to kill our own kinsmen [those tendencies in ourselves which, though harmful to our very peace of mind and inner happiness, are, for all that, members of our own family of consciousness]. This act, surely, will involve us in great sin.
46. I would therefore prefer that Dhritarashtras sons, their [sense] weapons in hand, destroy me! Only (by such passivity), so it seems to me, can I (hope for) happiness.
47. Thus declared Sanjaya [introspection, to Dhritarasthra, (the blind or passively receiving) mind]:
Arjuna, having thus spoken on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, his mind in upheaval owing to his grief and mental turmoil, set down his bow [abandoned his firm meditative posture] and slumped back onto his chariot seat.
Thus ends the first chapter, called The Despondency of Arjuna on the Path of Yoga, of the Upanishad of the holy Bhagavad Gita, in the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna discussing yoga and the science of God-realization.


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The hi-low trend has been huge this summer, but is it worth all the hype?
Yes, yes it is. Hi-low dresses -- and skirts -- gives the maxi dress and skirt a run for its money. It's averaging about 85 degrees in Glendale these days and with August right around the corner, those degrees are only going to spike up. A maxi can be flowing and nice, but ladies, legs sweat, right?
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This article reviews the basic reasons of why online blackjack is gaining popularity with more number of people going for it over other forms of gambling.
Online blackjack or "21" as the game is more popular as is a card game involving multiple decks of cards wherein the players have to make a total of 21 with the cards they have. This is the only game of gambling where the player can beat the house and can depend on his own strategies and ease dealing with cards to win the game rather than on luck as in other forms of gambling like online roulette or online baccarat.
Internet blackjack came into being in 1990s and since then has been an instant hit among new players as they can practice the game and think over various strategies sitting at their home as the unnerving thrill of the casino might distract them. Online US casinos and other casinos worldwide do offer free trials alongwith a fair description of the game and tips to win the game which provides a real time experience for novices at the game.
Looking for progressive jackpot? Online US casinos also give blackjack bonus to gain the loyalty of players to their website. Online blackjack bonus of up to 100% or more signup bonus adds to the attracting feature of the game.
US online casinos and other casinos worldwide have their own customized house advantage which is generally lower in the online version of the game. The house edge is lowered the lower number of decks used per game and online casinos offer as low as 0.8% of house edge.
While playing blackjack online, one can maximize his chances of winning using techniques like card counting or blackjack basic strategy.


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