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Throughout the Arizona Wildcat women's golf season, senior Alejandra Llaneza will keep a weekly blog about life and golf in the Pac-10. Check back for more updates from Ale!
Hello Wildcat Fans!
We finished second at Pac-10s. It was a very eventful week. The tournament organized a dinner at an ASU donor's house where all the teams had putting contests and we had a great dinner. After that relaxing night, it was time to take care of business. We played okay the first round. We were still eight shots back so we knew that round two would be crucial. We posted a two-over par round as a team and that put us seven shots back from USC. We were very excited to have the chance to defend our title from last year and we were confident that we could do it. We all played with a lot of heart the last round and gave it our all. Unfortunately, we came up five strokes short. USC played very solid the last round and we were unable to catch them.
We felt somewhat disappointed but we reminded ourselves that we still finished at a respectable second place and Coach Laura (Ianello) reminded us of something with a Michael Jordan quote: "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." That quote was very encouraging and put things more in perspective, making us realize that failure is something you need in order to succeed.
We also had some highlights this week, including Kyndall Ardoin's hole-in-one on the 16th hole which usually is one of the hardest holes on the course. Pac-10s is a pretty good time for her to make her first one. Isabelle Boineau had an eagle on hole five and I had an eagle on 17, which was a lot of fun!
At the Pac-10 awards ceremony, Kyndall Ardoin and I got Pac-10 honorable mention, Margarita Ramos got second team honors and Isabelle Boineau first team. It was a successful afternoon for us.
We have regionals in two weeks and then nationals. We will work very hard to be mentally and physically prepared. I am very proud of all my teammates because their hard work and dedication really showed this week and I am looking forward to running `the final stretch' with them. We are very motivated for what's coming and I could not ask for a better team!
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For Beginners: How to Train for a Bike Tour
When you're preparing for your first bike tour, it's important to start slow. Ease yourself into training so you'll stick with the routine and build your fitness levels steadily.
Before You Begin:
Week One:
As you build up, make sure you do recovery ride after big rides. These help clear waste products from your legs. For a recovery ride, we recommend 30-45 minutes with low resistance, 90 to 100 RPMs, and staying about 50 – 70% of your threshold.
Following Weeks:
Another suggestion is to work hard doing some indoor cycling, which really helps to build your interval capacity and strengthen out your legs. It's a bit different from riding outside, but similar enough so that you will see significant benefits from a steady spin schedule. Indoor cycling coaches are also an excellent source of advice.
Muscle Strength:
Core strength is especially important for cycling but often overlooked. The core consists of your entire abdominal region. A strong, muscular core takes the work load off the back and makes it much easier to walk long distances without tiring. Strengthening your core will yield rich dividends not just on a walking tour, but in virtually every other physical activity in your life.
For strengthening your core, follow this routine:
Abdominal Crunch: 3 sets of 10-15 repetitions each.
Planks: Hold for 20-30 seconds for three sets.
Side Planks: 3 sets of 20-30 seconds each.
Abdominal Bridge: 3 sets of 30 seconds each.
Staying on Task:
You'll need plenty of support while you're training, and online bike tour groups such as crazyguyonabike.com provide opportunities for you to connect with other enthusiasts. General cycling forums like bikeforums.net often have sub-threads for touring, too.
Keeping a journal is another great way to stay motivated and track your training. Having a concrete record of your progress will help you focus on your goals, and improving stats will keep your enthusiasm high.
What to Expect:
The idea of training for your first bike tour may seem daunting, but all it really takes is a little planning and hard work. Remember to hydrate and stretch before each ride, and always treat your health and safety as your number one priority. Stay dedicated to your training and you'll be rewarded not only with a great touring experience, but better health, fitness, and strength!
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Two interesting items of U.S. nuclear weapons policy worth discussing today. The first is a CAP report from our own Andrew Grotto and Ploughshares' Joe Cirincione on "Orienting the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review". The Nuclear Review process has been done twice since the end of the Cold War, and never well. It was done poorly during the George W. Bush administration because, basically, Bush is a shitty president who puts forward dumb policy. And it was done poorly during the Clinton administration because the president's relationship with the defense establishment was in a downward spiral of gays in the military and Somalia, which wound up producing a review that avoided bold thinking. Grotto and Cirincione offer recommendations to make sure we do a better job this time around, including bullet points:
* Do not politicize nuclear weapons doctrine.
* Conduct the review as a strategy-driven exercise guided by a vision for nuclear weapons policy elaborated by the president.
* Consult and engage the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
* Consult and engage Congress.
* Appoint experienced professionals to carry out the vision.
* Ensure that the review is interagency.
* Consult and engage key allies and partners.
* Develop a communications plan.
The backdrop and strategic context for thinking about this is the emergence of something of a bipartisan consensus that the United States ought to recommit itself to our Non-Proliferation Treaty obligation to work in good-faith toward global nuclear disarmament. This is an objective Barack Obama has specifically embraced, and that has substantial elite support from Democrats and Republicans alike. Obviously, though, it's not well-liked by elements of the nuke-industrial complex that stand to lose money and/or bureaucratic authority if it happens. A well-run Nuclear Posture Review could be integral to smoothing these issues out and accomplishing what needs to be accomplished.
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In rapid-fire fashion, then, here's what I think would be the best policy approach for the Obama administration and beyond, taking the need to work with Iran and North Korea and abandon plans for new warheads as givens. The first major step toward the disarmament required of us under the NPT — and the most convincing way to earn back our international credibility — is an agreement with Russia for deeper bilateral reductions to 1,000 warheads. The only way to make such an agreement truly impressive is to have such a numerical ceiling for total warheads, not just deployed warheads. It would make nuclear disarmament easier if we clarify that the United States would only use nuclear weapons in retaliation for a nuclear attack on us or our allies. The next agreement, with a ceiling in the low hundreds, would also include China, France, and the UK. And the subsequent treaty, going down to the dozens (a truly minimal deterrent) would apply to all nuclear powers. There are indeed many complexities associated with reducing to zero (Daalder and Lodal delve more deeply into them), but I'm confident at least that those issues would look differently and clearer once we have reached minimum deterrent levels.
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This is the excellent foppery of the world
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
I ii 58
King Lear
Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law
Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
More composition and fierce quality
Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
Go to th' creating a whole tribe of fops
Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land.
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
As to th' legitimate. Fine word- 'legitimate'!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top th' legitimate. I grow; I prosper.
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
I ii 1
King Lear
I heard myself proclaim'd
I heard myself proclaim'd,
And by the happy hollow of a tree
Escap'd the hunt. No port is free, no place
That guard and most unusual vigilance
Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may scape,
I will preserve myself; and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape
That ever penury, in contempt of man,
Brought near to beast. My face I'll grime with filth,
Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots,
And with presented nakedness outface
The winds and persecutions of the sky.
The country gives me proof and precedent
Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,
Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;
And with this horrible object, from low farms,
Poor pelting villages, sheepcotes, and mills,
Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
Enforce their charity. 'Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!'
That's something yet! Edgar I nothing am.
II iii 1
Verse & Prose
King Lear
We'll set thee to school to an ant
We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' th' winter. All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men, and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee after. When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. I would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack when it begins to rain
And leave thee in the storm.
But I will tarry; the fool will stay,
And let the wise man fly.
The knave turns fool that runs away;
The fool no knave, perdy.
II iv 68
King Lear
O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady:
If only to go warm were gorgeous,
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need-
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women's weapons, water drops,
Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags!
I will have such revenges on you both
That all the world shall- I will do such things-
What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be
The terrors of the earth! You think I'll weep.
No, I'll not weep.
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
II iv 274
King Lear
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world,
Crack Nature's moulds, all germains spill at once,
That makes ingrateful man!
O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better than this
rain water out o' door. Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters
blessing! Here's a night pities nether wise men nor fools.
Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters.
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
You owe me no subscription. Then let fall
Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
But yet I call you servile ministers,
That will with two pernicious daughters join
Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head
So old and white as this! O! O! 'tis foul!
III ii 1
King Lear
A servingman, proud in heart and mind
vingman, proud in heart and mind; that curl'd my hair, wore gloves in my cap; serv'd the lust of my mistress' heart and did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that slept in the contriving of lust, and wak'd to do it. Wine lov'd I deeply, dice dearly; and in woman out-paramour'd the Turk. False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman. Keep thy foot out of brothel, thy hand out of placket, thy pen from lender's book, and defy the foul fiend. Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind; says suum, mun, hey, no, nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let him trot by.
III iv 73
King Lear
By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale
By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;
And when 'tis told, O that my heart would burst!
The bloody proclamation to escape
That follow'd me so near (O, our lives' sweetness!
That with the pain of death would hourly die
Rather than die at once!) taught me to shift
Into a madman's rags, t' assume a semblance
That very dogs disdain'd; and in this habit
Met I my father with his bleeding rings,
Their precious stones new lost; became his guide,
Led him, begg'd for him, sav'd him from despair;
Never (O fault!) reveal'd myself unto him
Until some half hour past, when I was arm'd,
Not sure, though hoping of this good success,
I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last
Told him my pilgrimage. But his flaw'd heart
(Alack, too weak the conflict to support!)
'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
Burst smilingly.
V iii 210
King Lear
Not only, sir, this your all-licens'd fool
Not only, sir, this your all-licens'd fool,
But other of your insolent retinue
Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth
In rank and not-to-be-endured riots. Sir,
I had thought, by making this well known unto you,
To have found a safe redress, but now grow fearful,
By what yourself, too, late have spoke and done,
That you protect this course, and put it on
By your allowance; which if you should, the fault
Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,
Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,
Might in their working do you that offence
Which else were shame, that then necessity
Must call discreet proceeding.
I iv 114
King Lear
This admiration, sir, is much o' th' favour
This admiration, sir, is much o' th' savour
Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you
To understand my purposes aright.
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd, and bold
That this our court, infected with their manners,
Shows like a riotous inn. Epicurism and lust
Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
Than a grac'd palace. The shame itself doth speak
For instant remedy. Be then desir'd
By her that else will take the thing she begs
A little to disquantity your train,
And the remainder that shall still depend
To be such men as may besort your age,
Which know themselves, and you.
I iv 147
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King Lear
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my mouth
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty
According to my bond; no more nor less.
How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little,
Lest it may mar your fortunes.
Good my lord,
You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me; I
Return those duties back as are right fit,
Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
Why have my sisters husbands, if they say
They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty.
Sure I shall never marry like my sisters,
To love my father all.
I i 76
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King Lear
By day and night he wrongs me, every hour
By day and night, he wrongs me! Every hour
He flashes into one gross crime or other
That sets us all at odds. I'll not endure it.
His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us
On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,
I will not speak with him. Say I am sick.
If you come slack of former services,
You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.
[Horns within.]
He's coming, madam; I hear him.
Put on what weary negligence you please,
You and your fellows. I'd have it come to question.
If he distaste it, let him to our sister,
Whose mind and mine I know in that are one,
Not to be overrul'd. Idle old man,
That still would manage those authorities
That he hath given away! Now, by my life,
Old fools are babes again, and must be us'd
With checks as flatteries, when they are seen abus'd.
Remember what I have said.
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Many parents hesitate to use audio books with their children who are learning to read. Listening to a book on tape seems like it would defeat the purpose. Some might even see it as a form of cheating, but the truth is that these "talking" books are a valuable tool when it comes to helping your child develop his or her literacy skills.
An audio book can be compared to a parent reading aloud to their child, which we all know is a very important part of the literacy process for young children. The act of listening to a story has a major impact on a child's reading skills. It refines his listening skills and helps to build reading comprehension. For struggling readers, using audio books in conjunction with their reading practice can actually improve their ability to remember what the story is about and help them internalize the meaning. One of the best ways to help a beginning reader is to read them the story first and then have them read it back to you at a later time.
Don't worry that your child is simply memorizing the story line. Memorization can help her to remember word sounds and decode what is written on the page the next time you ask her to read the story. Her eyes are seeing the word and her brain is remembering the sounds and the meaning. Next time she runs across that word, it will be easier to read.
Listening to stories also helps children learn the rhythm of a well-written story. They can begin to understand inflection and intonation. And it trains them to look ahead as they read so that they can read aloud in a similar manner.
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STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford Football and The Cardinal Channel, the creative video production team of Stanford Athletics, today released the ninth episode of "How We Do It," the 15-week original video series that takes viewers inside all angles of the Cardinal Football program.
Episode 9, "Big Game Week," is built in five chapters:
Chapter 1 talks with a trio of seniors - Stepfan Taylor, Sam Schwartzstein, and Terrence Brown - about the importance and emotions for Big Game and The Axe.
Profiling the event that annually kicks off Big Game Week on campus, Chapter 2 explores the Stanford Band's performance at White Plaza and "funeral" for Oski the Bear.
Chapter 3 goes behind the scenes of the Big Game Blood Drive that competes with Cal for a much broader prize and set of winners.
Chapter 4 heads backstage with Gaieties, the annual student-written musical comedy aimed at uniting and entertaining the Stanford campus the days leading up to Big Game.
Covering one of the best editions of the Big Game Pep Rally on campus in 20 years, Chapter 5 showcases the Stanford players on the stage and the Axe Committee organizers who supplied literal and figurative fireworks to a throng of spirited Stanford students.
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Returned Spies Look to Change Identities
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- Jul. 14 2010 00:00
Several of the 10 Russian agents detained in the United States in June and handed over to Russia last week will change their identities under a witness protection program, a Russian intelligence official said Tuesday.
The unidentified official told Interfax that the agents, who were swapped with the United States for four Russians convicted on espionage charges, are now in Moscow, where "competent agencies" are debriefing them.
The 10 deep cover agents are being questioned by officials with the Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, to establish what caused their cover to be blown in the United States, Moskovsky Komsomolets reported Tuesday, citing an unidentified SVR official.
All but three of the agents were using false names when they were arrested by the FBI on June 27.
One of them, Donald Heathfield, whose real name is Andrei Bezrukov, triggered the FBI arrests by planning a trip abroad with a college-age son in late June, a U.S. law enforcement official said Monday.
The FBI feared that Heathfield, who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with two sons and his wife, who was another Russian agent, might not return, prompting them to decide to take down a spy network that they had been watching for more than a decade, said the official, who spoke about the matter on condition of anonymity because the government had not given authorization to discuss it.
Meanwhile, Strategic Forecasting Inc., a security think tank, said Tuesday that Heathfield had tried to get the risk advisory group to install software that he said his company had developed.
Heathfield held five meetings with an employee of Texas-based Stratfor in an effort to get the firm to use his program, chief executive officer George Friedman said in a report.
"We suspect that had this been done, our servers would be outputting to Moscow," Friedman said in an e-mailed report. "We did not know at the time who he was. We have since reported the incident to the FBI."
An 11th spy suspect, who adopted the name of a dead Canadian boy, vanished after jumping bail in Cyprus.
A previously undisclosed 12th suspect has been detained in the United States and faces deportation, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an unidentified U.S. official familiar with the matter.
The 23-year-old suspect was monitored by the FBI shortly after he entered the country in October 2009, but investigators were not able to collect enough evidence against him to bring charges. The U.S. official said the man, whose identity and latest location were not disclosed, remained in federal custody and was in the process of being deported.
Separately, Igor Sutyagin, the arms researcher convicted of espionage in 2004 and one of the four prisoners deported from Russia in the spy swap, should receive the documents he needs to remain in Britain by Wednesday, human rights activist Ernst Chyorny said.
"Things are starting to look up for him," Chyorny said. "Though he still has no plans, he'll probably remain in the U.K. for the foreseeable future."
Sutyagin is staying in a hotel near London provided by the British government, said Chyorny, head of the Public Committee to Protect Scientists.
Sutyagin's brother, Dmitry, said the researcher is in good health "for someone who has spent nearly 11 years in prison" and will remain in Britain at least in the short term, Interfax reported.
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So Dad started cooking for selfish reasons; he was tired of charred Frito Pie. Dad was a pharmacist by trade, and his chemistry know-how came in handy. His sauces were emulsified, his sautéed onions caramelized, his salmon perfectly seared. Mom, the first to recognize her shortcomings, was happy to turn over the reins.
Now when we cook together, Dad can relive his childhood, and I can remake mine. My father knows that producing beautiful meals is one of my ways of ensuring that despite divorce, my children have a warm and loving home. As I watch him now, digging into his pasta with gusto, I know that in the kitchen, I earn his respect.
"I need to leave room for dessert," Dad says, pushing his salad away while reaching for more garlic bread. He has stage 4 prostate cancer but is convinced he is going to beat it. He survived a childhood in Depression-era Alabama, where his family was so poor, he swears his grandmother sifted the dirt on the floor for salt. Cancer? "No problem," he says. "I'm going to whip the fool out of this thing." I believe him, too. As he devours his food, he doesn't look like a dying man to me.
"He must be wasting away," a friend says when I recount the litany of illnesses he is suffering from. In addition to cancer, my father has congestive heart failure, congenital lung disease and only one functioning kidney.
"Nope, not Dad," I reply. "The man loves to eat." When one of his children isn't there to monitor meals, his caregiver feeds him a steady diet of red meat, processed foods and ice cream, all, he insists, doctor approved.
Six months later, I am back in Wyoming looking at a man I grew up thinking was a cross between John Wayne and James Bond. But this time, he isn't wearing his cowboy boots or shooting clay targets or telling tall tales with his buddies. Instead, he is wadded up in his recliner with an oxygen tube in his nose, his skin as gray as the ashes from the cigars he used to smoke. The table beside him is cluttered with pill bottles, crumpled paper towels, empty water glasses and the Wall Street Journal.
"What have you been eating, Dad?" I ask. "A little Jell-O," he mumbles. "Chocolate Ensure." Jell-O and Ensure? This I can't digest. Dad has been telling all of us that he is fine, that the chemo is working. This is a man who used to blow snakes' heads off with a shotgun when they slithered into our backyard in Texas, then chop the bodies with a hoe for good measure. Now he can't stand up on his own.
He perks up a bit, though, happy for my company, and we spend the rest of the afternoon remembering old times. I regale his caregiver with stories about growing up in small-town Texas and working in our family pharmacy—the time old man Stephens got locked in the store overnight, the asphidity we sold to people to keep away the "evil spirits," Miss Louise and the way she used to run her tongue around that strawberry ice cream cone.
"We had a lot of fun, Jannie," Dad says, laughing. "But we didn't know it at the time."
"Well, we know it now, Dad," I tell him, "and that's all that matters."
Then, because it's what we've always done, I cook a feast for him—chicken stuffed with goat cheese and dried cherries, oven-roasted asparagus and his mother's chocolate Coca-Cola cake, a recipe so delicious that when I make it for my children, they eat it straight out of the pan with a spoon.
But Dad eats almost nothing. He is exhausted. I sit across from him, choking down my food, hoping against hope that the love I have poured into our dinner will magically cure him, even if I am the only one eating. Fat tears fall onto my plate as I watch him doze in and out of consciousness. For the first time, food can't heal either one of us.
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In Search of My Father... Walkin' Talkin' Bill Hawkins
College of Marin Artistic Director W. Allen Taylor is bringing his 90-minute award-winning solo show back to the stage for a special fundraising event honoring the 50th anniversary of the College Drama Department.
Winner of the Best Solo Performance of 2006 by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, the show explores the intimate story of Taylor's life-long search for his father, Bill Hawkins, the first black disc jockey in Cleveland, Ohio. Taylor portrays several characters in a bittersweet journey of self-discovery. He celebrates the rich cultural legacy of black radio with rhythm and blues, gospel, and jazz music serving as a rich backdrop. Click here to read the press release.
For more information: www.walkintalkin.com or call the Drama Department at (415) 485-9555.
Thursday, February 6, 8 p.m.
Studio Theatre, Kentfield Campus
Advance reservations may be made by calling the Drama Department at (415) 485-9555. Any unclaimed reservations will be released 15 minutes prior to the performance. On the day of the show, unreserved seats will be available at the door 45 minutes prior to the performance. Donations may be made by cash, check, or charge.
Proceeds benefit the Drama Department.
The Taming of The Shrew
By William Shakespeare
Yee Haw! We're back in the saddle again with James Dunn's iconic Wild West take on courtship gone wrong. Remounted to celebrate the Drama Department's 50th year (1964–2014), the Western, Shrew, won the "Best of the Fringe" at the Edinburgh Festival in 1971 and was presented in a command performance to Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret and her family. This show is great fun for the whole family and is a terrific way to introduce youngsters to Shakespeare.
February 27, 8 p.m. (First dress preview $10)
James Dunn Theatre, Kentfield Campus
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*There will be a talkback with the director and members of the production following this performance.
Five Women Wearing The Same Dress
By Alan Ball
Five Women Wearing The Same Dress is an irreverent, funny and "a wonderfully entertaining play." Written by Alan Ball
April 24, 8 p.m. (First dress preview $10)
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Thursday Brown Bag Theatre
FREE student-directed scenes presented in the drama classroom, PA 134/136. Improv shows featuring Actors Without Lines (A.W.O.L.) students from both beginning and advanced improv classes.
Selected Thursdays from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.
A Word About Stage Crew
Stage Crew is the fund-raising organization that supports the COM Drama Department. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to Stage Crew, make out a check in any amount, payable to College of Marin: Stage Crew and include it with your subscription check. For additional information, call the College of Marin Advancement Office at 415.485.9528.
We also welcome our most generous donors to support all of the high quality Performing Arts programs at College of Marin. There are a limited number of special naming opportunities that are available, including classrooms, lobby, and the music library among others. Please call 415.485.9528 for more information.
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The Box Office will open September 24, 2013. All subscription orders will be filled after this date. Box Office hours are Tuesday through Friday, 2 pm to 6 pm and one hour before performances Saturday and Sunday.
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The Ban the Box law makes it illegal for most employers to ask about your convictions on a job application in the first stage of hiring.
At a later stage, when you get interviewed for the job, the employer can ask your permission to get a copy of your CORI.
The employer can only check your criminal record history if you sign an acknowledgement form that says you know the employer is requesting your CORI or a criminal background check. This form will ask for personal information, such as your full name, your date and place of birth, your mother's maiden name and father's name, and your Social Security number to make sure it is your CORI the employer will receive.
It is against the law for employers to ask you to get a copy of your CORI for them. A CORI that you get on your own also will list ALL of your cases, including cases that ended in your favor such dismissed cases or cases where you were found not guilty. This is more information than most employers can get under the law. Most employers only get CORI about cases that ended in a conviction and open cases.
Who can see my CORI and what do they see?
Most employers, landlords and housing authorities can get a CORI that shows only convictions and cases that are open.
As of May 4, 2012, most misdemeanor cases can be sealed after a 5 year waiting period and most felony cases after a 10 year waiting period. If you have any convictions or other cases that are old enough to seal but you have not sealed them, the cases will be held back from CORI given to landlords, housing authorities and most employers.
If you have any cases that you could have sealed by mail, they will not show up on your CORI.
Most of the time, you still need to seal your criminal cases.
- If you do not get the cases sealed, many employers can still see old convictions and cases that were dismissed, or ended in a nolle prosequi - when the prosecutor dropped the case, or a not guilty finding. These are employers like schools, camps, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities.
- If you have a recent conviction or you get convicted in the future, an employer or landlord can see all your past and present convictions that are not sealed.
- If you do not get murder or manslaughter convictions and some sex offense convictions sealed, they will still show up. It does not matter how old the convictions are.
If your cases are sealed, most employers will not see your cases on the CORI. But the Department of Early Education and Care, which screens people for daycare jobs, gets to see all CORI including sealed cases. If you apply to be a foster parent or try to adopt, the Department of Children & Families or the Department of Youth Services can see all CORI including sealed cases.
See Sealing My CORI.
Who can see my Juvenile records?
Landlords, housing authorities and most employers can only see your juvenile record if you were prosecuted as an adult. If that happened, the case appears on your CORI.
But summer camp employers can see your juvenile records unless the records are sealed.
Important CORI Alert
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If your Juvenile Court Youthful Offender case ended so that you went to state prison or the House of Corrections, or you were on probation after age 21 for this case, this juvenile case will be listed on your CORI.
Youth offender cases have a "YO" in the docket number.
Greater Boston Legal Services is trying to do something about this problem.
If you do not want these juvenile cases listed on your CORI, call Greater Boston Legal Services 617-371-1234 or LARC 617-603-1700.
Once your cases are sealed, most employers, including summer camps, will not see your juvenile cases on the CORI. For information about how to seal juvenile records, see Sealing my juvenile record.
The Department of Early Education and Care screens people for daycare jobs. This department can see all CORI, including sealed juvenile cases.
If you apply to be a foster parent or try to adopt, the Department of Children & Families or the Department of Youth Services can see all CORI including sealed juvenile and adult criminal cases.
For information about sealing your juvenile record, see Sealing my juvenile record.
What can an employer ask me at my job interviews?
Employers may not ask
At any stage in job hiring, employers may not ask you about a first time conviction for the following misdemeanors:
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- simple assault,
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At any stage of hiring, most employers may not ask you about your juvenile court record, except for cases where you were tried as an adult in another court and convicted.
At any stage of hiring, most employers cannot ask you about sealed criminal cases and they will not see your sealed cases on the CORI.
Any stage of hiring, employers cannot ask you about any arrests or detention at a police station or other location unless the case ended in a conviction that is not sealed.
Employers may ask
In later stages of hiring such as the final job interview, the employer can ask you if you ever had a felony conviction. The employer also can ask about any misdemeanor conviction where the date of the conviction or your jail time for it were within the last 5 years, but the employer cannot ask about the first time convictions described above ------drunkenness, simple assault, speeding, minor traffic violations, affray, or disturbing the peace.
If all the convictions are sealed, you can answer "I have no record." If not all your convictions are sealed, you do not have to reveal anything about the convictions that were sealed.


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Tomorrow, August 25, from 8:30 - 10 AM, the Sustainable Business Leader Program (SBLP) and the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA) are holding a Business Transportation Workshop at the Cambridge City Hall Annex. The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are requested via this form.
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Yesterday, I checked in with the team that joined SP the same time I did, the Class of April 15-21, 2012. Responding to question, "How is everyone doing?" I had the epiphany that my biggest change has been on the inside. Yes, I have lost 16 pounds so far (almost half way), I have done this before...unfortunately, many, many, times before. Something is different this time. Something good.
Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers helped me lose a lot of weight in my 30's and 40's. But I ended up back in the same place...overweight, stressed out, and out of shape. I turned 50 in December. I was starting to feel the effects of age and weight creeping in and I did not like it. I can't do anything about getting older except enjoy the time I have left, however long that is. I CAN do something about the weight. In November, I recommitted to lose the weight, the same way that I had done before....lose it and then you can do what you want. I was setting myself up for another struggle with weight in my 60's. NO NO NO!!!!! I won't do this AGAIN! It has to be different this time because it isn't getting any easier!
By reading the articles on SP and involving myself with the community of AWESOME, supportive people, something clicked. This is my life, not a diet. It's that simple. It is not easy, but it is simple. Making healthy choices, making the choices that will get me the results I want doesn't stop once the scale hits that magic number.
Looking back at my patterns, I now know that stress and lack of activity are my two most formidable foes. Stress leads to emotional eating and to hormonal changes that make it very difficult for me to keep the weight off. I now make a habit of asking myself, in the face of a terrible craving, which I want more...the junk food or a body that I can be proud of and feel good in? Most of the time, I choose health over a splurge item. I also know that it's not all about making the "perfect" choices. In fact, I don't see having a splurge now and then as unhealthy. It only becomes unhealthy when it occurs too often and keeps me from achieving/maintaining my ultimate goal of being healthy, fit, and meeting my nutritional goals.
Thanks to the 10 minute daily fitness challenge, I have established a healthy habit and very much look forward to my walks. It relieves stress, gives me alone time I cherish as an introvert, and burns calories! Win-win-win!
So, thank you to all of you who have supported me in this journey. Without your WooHoos, your supportive and thoughtful feedback, and your empathy, I don't think I would have changed on the inside, where I really needed the change.
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Oh Jane, WELL DONE! That epiphany is exactly what you need, and people can tell you until you're blue, it's getting that little, dare I say SPARK? to ignite inside you that makes all the difference.
Like I said, maintenance has its own tricks, but remembering your life is more like a marathon than a sprint can help!
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You are so right that this is a lifestyle, and we are in it for the long haul. Great realizations!
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It's amazing when you first realize that this is NOT a football game and once you cross the goal line and do the touchdown dance that you're "done", isn't it? I had that revelation and once it finally REALLY sank in I realized that the rest of my life is what I am looking at here. There is no good and bad, no win or fail. It's just a lifetime of being AWARE. No matter what your choices are in any given day, you will always remember what you are doing is for the rest of your life. You can't "unlearn" that now! Goooood for you!!!
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In loving memory of our dear mom, Shirley REX, who went to be with God 11 years ago today, February 4, 1995
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How much we miss you everyday.
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Surrounded by her family Fern Bernice REX- CHISHOLM (active and faithful member of Community of Christ serving for 60 years as an organists and music director) passed away peacefully at University Hospital on Thursday, April 27, 2006 in her 87th year. Beloved wife of the late Charles Martin REX (1995.) Loving mother of Beth (Leon) CHAPMAN, John (Anne) REX, Helen (Jim) IRWIN, Paul (Debra) REX, Peter (Elizabeth) GAZDZINSKI. Cherished grandmother of Lee Anne, Erin, Anne Marie (Jim) BOWDEN, Heather, Amber, Meredith, Teresa (Nigel) BAIN, Darrell (Iryna,) Kerry and Carl and great-grand_son Joshua CHAPMAN- BOWDEN. Dear sister of the late Ruth EVANS and Mary DIAMOND. The family will receive Friends and relatives at Forest Lawn Memorial Chapel, 1997 Dundas Street East (at Wavell), London, for visitation on Sunday, April, 30, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Cremation to follow. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday May 7, 2006 at Community of Christ, 615 Colborne Street, London. In remembrance, donations to the charity of your choice or World Accord, 1C-185 Frosbisher Drive, Waterloo, Ontario, N2V 2E6 would be gratefully appreciated.
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Peacefully with her daughter at her side on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at K-W Health Centre of Grand River Hospital at the age of 84. Beloved wife of the late John MINGAY (1988.) Loving mother of Jane MINGAY and her partner John KRAMER of Toronto and the late Ian MINGAY (1996.) Dear sister of Betty TAILOR/TAYLOR of Waterloo. Aunt Jean will be missed by her nieces, nephews and cousins: Alexandra BULMER, Matthew, SIOBHAN and Iain BULMER, April BULMER, Joan FUSSELL, Ann REX, Larry TAILOR/TAYLOR, Paul, Robin, David and Richard MARRITT. Everyone who knew Jean will miss her open door, her stylish hat collection, her morning glories, her tap dancing and her fierce Friendship. Jean's family will receive relatives and Friends from 10 until 10: 45 a.m. on Friday, April 21, 2006 at the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick Street, Kitchener, (519) 749-8467. A celebration of Jean's life will take place in the chapel of the funeral home at 11 a.m. followed by a reception in the funeral home. Cremation has taken place. There will be a private interment at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Kidney Foundation would be appreciated by the family (cards available at the funeral home). Visit www.obit411.com/2017 for Jean's memorial.
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What is the Pennsic Exhibition?
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Pennsic Independent Article
Welcome to the Pennsic Exhibition web page!
We hope you enjoy the ideas and pictures presented here. At present these include pictures from the first two years. We hope to expand this to include the 2007 exhibition before too long.
So, just what is this Pennsic Exhibition anyway?
In short, its a chance to work on period arts and sciences, in a period fashion, out where people can see it.
For the last two years, weve picked an area in the merchant area at Pennsic and set up a sort of road show. We invited a number of artisans to join us and to bring their tools and projects out with them. In this way, people can see the craft in progress and can ask questions of the artisans.
The first year (2005) we set up for one long afternoon, and in both 2006 & 2007 we came out for two slightly shorter afternoons
What is the purpose of this?
Of course weve joked about Inflicting Art upon the masses and weve even been accused of A&S Terrorism, but the real reason for this is that we each of our company of artisans think our crafts are cool, and we each want others to have a chance to share in them.
Over the years weve often discussed the cool arts that people do in the solitude of their studios, basements, and garages. Unfortunately in too many cases all the rest of us get to see are the finished products. We thought that allowing people to see the process involved in some of these crafts was a great way to educate and to encourage others to say Hey! Maybe I can actually do that!
Why set up in the Merchant Area?
Essentially we wanted a place where lots of people go naturally. By setting up in a busy area, we knew that lots of people would simply be passing by. We suspected (and have now had it proven) that many of these individuals would be attracted by one or another of the cool arts in progress once they saw themeven if they might not have been likely to make a dedicated trip to the A&S area.
Had we been in the A&S area, it seems likely that the only people who would have seen us would have been those who, a) knew it was happening, b) were actively interested in seeing the Exhibition, and c) actually planned and remembered to stop by. We think we would have seen far less visitors, and that very few of the people who do not typically consider themselves A&S types would have made it over.
Weve been delighted by the responses from the hundreds of folks who stopped to watch or talk with us.
Whos responsible for this?
The Pennsic Exhibition is basically the idea of Master Kirk Fitzdavid (OL, OP, KSCA) and Conde Fernando Rodriguez de Falcon (KSCA, OP, OL). But, while we may be the primary organizers, this could not take place without the work of several dozen artisans who have helped make it happen. Youll see them all on the assorted pages of this site, but here is a list of participants.
At Pennsic 35, the Pennsic Independent carried an article about the Pennsic exhibition written by Master Liam St. Liam.
You can find it here: Article: Arts & Sciences Road Show
More Questions?
If you have any questions about the exhibitions, please feel free to contact us here:
If you have questions (or comments) about any of the work you see here, well be happy to pass your questions on to the artisan in question.
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For information about this page or reprinting articles and artwork from this publication, please contact Conde Fernando or Master Kirk. All rights for materials posted here remain with the original authors. Please respect their legal rights. © 2006. Disclaimer: These pages are not corporate publications of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. and do not delineate SCA policies. In case of conflict with printed versions of material presented in these pages, the conflict will be decided in favor of the printed version.


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Carnival of souls
* Jason Leivian of Floating World Comics interviews Benjamin Marra of Night Business and Gangsta Rap Posse infamy for The Comics Journal. Why is it that Ben's broad-strokes dismissal of literary comics comes across as charming and sincere while every other "blah blah boring autobio artcomics blah blah blah" person comes across like a giant tool? (Via Traditional Comics.)
* I wish there were a way to subscribe to all of Vice's comics-related content in a separate RSS feed, rather than wade through god knows how many pictures of beheaded goats, blood- and feces-stained restrooms, and slatternly drunk people to get to it. As it stands I'll just click over once and a while and power through to get to the comicsy stuff. For example:
* Here's one of Nick Gazin's review rampages, this one featuring photos of topless women for some reason. Featured books include Hot Potatoe, Night Business, City-Hunter, The High Soft Lisp, Almost Silent, The Unwritten, Young Liars and more. As usual it's written in the voice of your friend's older brother who wore a lot of denim and listened to Motorhead.
* Here are some jam comics by Gazin and Johnny Ryan. Sample quote: "Ha ha, your shit died of AIDS!"
* Best for last: A new Boy's Club comic by Matt Furie! Nobody does it better.
* Still at Vice but not comics-related, Chris O'Neill talks to Internet/virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier about his Web 2.0 skepticism, as expressed in his book You Are Not a Gadget, which I keep going on about but still haven't read. Here are a couple of passages that struck me:
As an example, right now there are a lot of software designs that have a tendency to put people in a situation where they happen to get mean. Because people act in an anonymous way, they are without consequences and so aggregate into mob-like tendencies very easily. One example of poor design which brings out the worst in people is the anonymous postings beneath YouTube videos. We're seeing these specific designs -- not the web as a whole -- tending to create a profound split where people only talk to their kind, becoming ever more confrontational and ever more dysfunctional. I don't think such designs are good, they promote meanness and they cause damage on a very significant scale.I don't know why I never thought of the Internet's anonymity-based structure as a conscious choice with the negative repercussions I see every day in Robot 6 comment threads, but there you have it. Lanier also talks about how David Bowie would be impossible today, which is worth noting.
* Jeeeeeesus, has everyone been reading the serialization of What Am I Doing Here? by Abner Dean at What Things Do? Look at this! Please, someone put this back in print.
* Zak Smith's journey through the Monster Manual has taken him up to G. Sample quote:
Frost giants are extraordinarily metal, and being metal is always good.
Interestingly, slaying frost giants is also metal--even more metal than being a frost giant. And therein lies a great insight into the nature of metal.
* I'll be discussing Todd VanDerWerff's Lost review/recap at greater length in my own Lost thoughts comment thread, I think, but here it is for now.
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I'm reading You Are Not a Gadget at the mo'. It's a bit scattershot, and quite a few of the arguments need fleshing out, but as a direction of travel its interesting stuff.
Lanier doesn't come out entirely against internet anonymity, and spends some time considering how it could be made to work better and with less detrimental effects (assuming of course that you believe that it has detrimental effects).
Personally that section brought up all sorts of conflicting feelings. I've been semi-anonymous* on the Internet for years now and while I can see definite benefits I can see the cons too. But the complexity of the arguments aside it's just bloody hard to decloak on a comics blog when you know that your real identity could easily be traced back to things you might not want people tracing it back to. I revealed things on Barbelith that I don't want associated with my name in the public sphere because they were the sort of thing I don't want just anyone to know about me. My friends? Fine, a number of them were 'lithers anyway - my employers, my acquaintances, internet weirdos, some members of my family? Not so fine.
My very own personal example of lock-in.
*I say semi because my screen name remained consistent on Barbelith for many years, which meant that I had a history against which I could be understood and judged and I wanted it that way
I totally agree with Zom above. In addition, I'm about to finish my degree soon enough and I discovered recently that employers regularly Google their applicants to see whether there's anything unsavoury (for lack of a better word) about them. I think internet anonymity is really important that way.
Also, my family has googled me many times.


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"Sanctuary" pertains to the employees and patrons of Boyz II Men barbershop in Savannah, Ga. The work was done in an effort to get acquainted with the local community and what it had to offer. Over a period of approximately three months in the fall of '07, the theme of the work began to unfold, and based on the background of the shop's owner, who happens to be a pastor of a local church and conversations with many patrons/employees, "Sanctuary" emerged. This body of work seeks to show the dual role of the shop, not only as an excellent provider of a service but a pillar of the community involved in the detrimental development of the area's youth and disenfranchised.
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According to TSN, Canadian Olympic gold medalists Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry each registered two points on Saturday as the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Los Angeles Kings 2-0. With the victory, the Ducks and Kings are now tied at two games apiece in the Pacific Division final.
Getzlaf had a goal and an assist, while Perry had two assists. Devante Smith-Pelly opened the scoring at 16:02 of the first period from Getzlaf and Perry by capitalizing on a lucky bounce and Getzlaf scored just over two minutes later at 18:45 of the first period on the power play from Perry and Finnish Olympic bronze medalist Sami Vatanen.
Getzlaf of Regina, Saskatchewan and Perry of Peterborough, Ontario each won a gold medal for Canada at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Vatanen was part of the Finland team that won a bronze medal at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.
However the biggest story of the game was the outstanding play of Ducks rookie goaltender John Gibson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Gibson, the Ducks' second round pick in 2011, had 28 saves for the shutout in his very first National Hockey League playoff start of his career, and only the fourth start of his National Hockey League career.
Do not be surprised if Gibson will be Bruce Boudreau's choice for Ducks goaltender the rest of the Stanley Cup playoffs. With Danish netminder Frederik Andersen out with a lower body injury and Jonas Hiller showing inconsistency as of late, Gibson becomes not the goalie of the future for the Ducks, but the goalie of the present. Anaheim is looking for its first Stanley Cup since 2007 and is only ten victories away from achieving that goal. Game five of the series is Monday night in Anaheim.
The emergence of Gibson is not a shock. The Ducks goalie was the primary reason the United States won the 2013 World Junior Hockey Championship in Ufa, Russia.
Meanwhile in the Atlantic Divison final on Saturday, Canadian Olympic gold medalist Jarome Iginla (gold medal winner from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver) scored the game winning goal as Boston beat Montreal 4-2. With the win, the Bruins take a 3-2 series lead.


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Is Google targeting conservative blogs? Some conservatives now say that yes, it is. On Friday, the popular conservative news aggregator Weasel Zippers told Examiner.com it believes it was targeted by Google after losing its primary source of income. Earlier in the week, the blog said it lost its Adsense account for allegedly violating rules that call for original content.
The award-winning blog says it "scours the bowels of the Internet" to find news appealing to conservatives. It then posts snippets of articles with brief commentary and links to the original article. Weasel Zippers says it has done this for years without problems but Google now says that isn't sufficient.
The blog said Thursday "the only problem is according to their vague guidelines this would make almost every news website on the Internet that uses Adsense (and the vast majority do) out of compliance." As a result, the blog said it lost about 90 percent of its income.
"Hard not to see that I am being unfairly singled out, almost certainly because of my political views," the blog said.
But it turns out Weasel Zippers is not alone. On Friday, Townhall said Google was subjected to criticism and ridicule several years ago when it decided to "take a stand" against guns. Michael Schaus wrote that Google changed its Adsense agreement and algorithms to exclude tools of self-defense.
"In their 'prohibited' content section any website that sells or advertises 'weapons or ammunition (e.g., firearms, firearm components, fighting knives, or stun guns)'… Right," Schaus wrote. "Because selling a tool that is enumerated as a 'right' under America's founding document is clearly antithetical to good business practices."
RedState's Ulysses Arn said Friday he was subjected to similar treatment by Google in April. Arn said Google's email "referenced a short piece I wrote about a story involving a possible Trayvon Martin revenge murder in Memphis." The appeal is in the works, but Arn said he has "extreme doubts" it will even be considered.
On Thursday, the conservative blog Poor Richard's News said the same thing happened to it about a year and a half ago. The blog said a number of conservative sites have received similar treatment as a result of what it called Google's political bias.
Google, to be fair, told Weasel Zippers it was not being singled out for its conservative political views, according to a transcript of a customer service call posted by the blog. The blog's owner, however, made it clear that practically every news site with the exception of the Associated Press and Reuters, could easily run afoul of Adsense policies.
The blog encouraged readers to politely ask Google to reverse its decision and warned that other sites could easily be targeted.
"If they are coming after me then it's only a matter of time before other sites are taken down," the blog said.
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