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1 Part Tequila
2 Part Margarita Mix
1 Part Triple Sec
7 oz Corona or Corona Light
1 Lime Wedge
In cocktail shaker, pour tequila, mix, and triple sec. Shake and strain into glass over ice. Top with Corona beer.
12 oz Bottle of Modelo Especial
Spicy & Sweet Coarse Salt
2 Tablespoons Chopped Fresh Mango
3 Raspberries – cut in quarters
1 Teaspoon Sugar
1 Lime- juiced
Dash of hot sauce (optional)
Garnish with fresh mango
Salt rim of glass with Spicy & Sweet salt. Muddle mango with sugar, add raspberries, muddle. Add ice, hot sauce and beer; stir and pour. Garnish and save extra beer on side for later.
Win people over with this mango pico de gallo. Serve with tortilla or pita chips. Chef Pati recommends this one to get a little sweet and spicy kick.
1/3 cup Slivered Red Onion
¼ Cup Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice
4 Cups Peeled and Diced Mango
1 Serrano Chile Halved, Seeded, and Chopped
2 Tablespoons Coarsely Chopped Cilantro Leaves and Top Part of Stems
1 Teaspoon Kosher Sea Salt
Start by putting onion and lime together in a bowl and let sit 5 minutes. Place rest of ingredients in bowl and finish by folding in onions.
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CFO Month marks the rise of techno-finance chief in 2014
Press release
January 2014 is the second ACCA and IMA CFO Month, which champions the role of finance chiefs
Greater reliance on technology could see the rise of the chief financial and technology officer (CFTO) in 2014, says ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and IMA (Institute of Management Accountants) at the start of CFO Month.
For what is the second ever CFO Month, ACCA and IMA are marking the annual campaign, which champions the work of the chief finance officer role, with a technology-focused theme.
CFO Month recognises the central role finance chiefs play in business strategy, as well as raising awareness of the challenges and opportunities they face now and in the future.
Helen Brand OBE, ACCA chief executive, said: "ACCA and IMA's futures research in 2013 has pointed to greater technological involvement for CFOs across the world. Their involvement in big data and technology trends is critical to business growth and profit. As CFOs take on a more strategic and globally-focused outlook within business, technology will loom larger in their remit.
"Cyber security, cloud technology, virtual and augmented reality, digital service delivery and even artificial intelligence and robotics are featuring more and more in business strategy. Chief finance officers are agents of change within today's businesses, which means they are at the forefront of technological. Who would have thought 10 years ago that these trends would become part of the CFO role? They are and will continue to do so. We could see the rise and rise of the CFTO as a regular seat on the board."
In 2013 two key reports from ACCA and IMA showed how technology was impacting upon the CFO's role. Digital Darwinism: thriving in the face of technology change pointed to the 10 technologies finance professionals identified as having an impact on their roles and the businesses they worked within. Mobile technology and cybercrime being just two such technology trends that were changing the role of the CFO.
A second report from ACCA and IMA Big data: its power and perils highlighted the potential for business of all sizes, governments and regulators in harnessing this wealth of unstructured information.
The report found that 62% of CFOs across the world cited big data as hugely important to the future of business, potentially giving savvy businesses an edge on their competitors. The volume and variety of data able to be collected by businesses and governments is increasing at intense rate, providing a potential treasure trove of information. The ability to organise, make sense and analyse it is at the core of the substantial investments that corporations are making.
Jeff Thomson, CMA, CAE, IMA president and CEO, said: "Big data has yet to reach its full potential, but CFOs will need to be at the forefront of using such data. Its value is vital to a business, but potential legal and ethical pitfalls remain. Finance professionals have a public duty to act within the parameters of the law and are responsible for using big data in an appropriate way."
View the CFO Month video here on You Tube.
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Valdosta, GA - In the final day of the NCAA South Regionals, Valdosta State earned a 5-0 victory over West Florida to move to 17-1 on the season. The win secures a spot in the NCAA Men's Tennis National Tournament for Valdosta State.
Valdosta State and West Florida put on an entertaining round of doubles. Luis Loeffler and Philip Pakebusch earned the most one-sided win with an 8-4 victory over Domenico Sano and Sean Gunnels. After that, it was neck and neck at first and third doubles.
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With three points in the bag, VSU only needed two points out of six in singles play. Loeffler was the first to comply with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Lue.
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College for Public Health and Social Justice > Academics > Public health degrees > BS in Emergency Management
Shawn Steadman, KC*HS, MArch, MEP, PCP,
discusses emergency management at SLU
Disasters such as Super Storm Sandy, the Boston Marathon, the Haiti earthquake and the Joplin, Mo., tornado require educated and competent emergency managers and homeland security experts.
The demand for these professionals continues to rise. A degree in emergency management gives undergraduate students the skills they need to help communities prepare, prevent, respond to, and recover from crisis situations. Emergency management focuses on improving community resilience to alleviate both the short- and long-term effects of emergency situations.
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hi there,
I an new here, hope that someone can share some insights with me on this. I felt pregnant a week after conception, and had very sore breast, bad lower abdominal pain and tight vaginal, very tired, and felt hungry very often. I can't take fish. I dunno whether this is normal, but i am feeling this and I am not crazy. . so i went to see gynae. and he told me may be I could be pregnant, even the nurse came to tell me that waiting for my good news. The gynae gave me folic acid as well... so well, i am quite positive and just waited. 4 days ago I started bleeding, two days after my expected period. It started with very light pink bleeding on Sat late night, my lower abdominal was quite painful, but there is no doctor on sunday, so i just stayed at home and try lying on bed as i was very tired, the bleed was not geavy, like my normal period. On Monday it started getting less in the afternoon. tuesday not much just not as heavy as my normal period. the pain was very minimal on tue. wed the bleeding very minimal, does not even filled one pad. no breast tenderness or pain since i bleed
yesterday, wednesday i started to get.the lower abdominal pain again, and my breast started to get itchy and tender.
i dunno wat i shall do.shall i still wait for 2 weeks to do pregnancy test i did on sunday, but is still -ve. if i am pregnant, on sun i am just 4 weeks exactly.
i talked to the doc, he said probably ur period and did not even asked more questions.
anyone experience this, am i pregnant or really nothing can be done i could only wait.
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You could take another test, but if the bleeding was around when your period was due then it probably was a period
You can get all sorts of symptoms in the second half of your cycle including everything you described and not be pregnant , just because the same hormone that rises and gives you pregnancy symptoms also rises after ovulation even if you aren't pregnant so it can be impossible to tell the difference in the signs for pregnancy or your period .
Another test will tell you for sure though x
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Dreamzzz, Did you get a answer. I have been having electric shocks from my car and my OH said it was probably my shoes which i doubt as i hvae had them for ages.
I am off to the doctor on the 13th may as that is the only time i can get to see him. I have my af coming a few days early or later but it is like watery then two day bleed then stops so want to check that im ok and if i am pregnant then to start taking folic acid.


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MENIFEE: Agricultural center opens at Heritage High
Heritage High students get hands dirty at new $6M agricultural center
When Rainey Reedy and Jordan Arechiga signed up for agriculture classes as freshmen at Heritage High, they took place in a small field on the Romoland campus.
Today, the two seniors and their classmates are working in a new Agricultural Research Center.
The 2.5-acre facility, which opened two weeks ago, includes a 6,561-square-foot Agriculture Science Building that houses two animal science laboratories and one research laboratory.
"Before, we only had a little dirt field on the side," said Jordan, 17. "To come to a facility (like this) made a big difference."
The facility has a greenhouse, shade house, rabbit barn and laying barn, along with outside laboratory facilities with pastures, orchards and livestock breeding and growing areas.
The center, which sits at the northwest corner of the campus along Highway 74, cost $6.1 million and was paid for with a $2.25 million state grant and facilities money from the Perris Union High School District.
Construction started in December 2010, and the center opened Sept. 22.
The only items missing are an irrigation system in the greenhouse and the vegetable garden.
The center allows Heritage to offer a complete agricultural curriculum.
"Food, fiber and flora," teacher Ross Macy said.
He said the facility allows students to learn much more than they would in the classroom.
"We're actually looking at real animals," Macy said. "The difference between a real one and a picture is huge. The engagement on the farm is key."
There is room for large animals, such as the two pregnant heifers in the cattle patch, which comes with a "cattle wash" station that is like a carwash for big animals.
"We weren't able to have large animals like this," teacher Jeremiah Perotti said. "With these new facilities, the sky's the limit with what we can do."
Besides the cows, the farm is home to pigs, sheep, goats, turkey and chickens, and rabbits are on the way.
But students learn more than how to tend to animals. There is an entire agricultural studies curriculum with credit that counts toward college.
"This is not your old agriculture elective classes. These are the new wave of agricultural courses," Perotti said. "What they learn in the classroom, they come out and apply it here."
Students learn everything from basic animal care to floriculture and horticulture to breeding, injections and artificial insemination.
And caring for animals is no longer just done during the school year.
"We can have projects year round," Perotti said. "That's something we were not able to do before."
A lot of students are using the center. There are 625 students taking agriculture classes on the 2,500-student campus.
While the project was under construction, animals were housed at a nearby ranch, which could be a burden, because students couldn't visit whenever they pleased and had to be accompanied by an adult.
Now, some have keys to the new facility.
"I like the fact we can just come out here any time we want," said Hannah Mayer, a 16-year-old junior.
Hannah said being involved with the agriculture program has changed her academic outlook.
"During freshman year, my dad had to pull me to school," she said. "Now I get threatened with 'We're not going to take you to school.'"
Cassidy Steenbock, a 16-year-old junior who is president of Heritage's FFA chapter, said the program helps her beyond the classroom.
"I wouldn't be as involved in school if not for the animals," she said.
The center has become a second home to the students.
"I like the fact we can just come out here any time we want," Hannah said, adding that instead of hanging out in hallways after school, classmates gather in the center.
"It's evident they have taken ownership of this place," Perotti said.
Even former students are coming back.
"They couldn't fully use it (when they were here), so they've come back so they can," Cassidy said.
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Indiana cat missing 5 years reunited with owner
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A cat that went missing five years ago has been reunited with its owner in Indiana thanks to an implanted microchip.
WOWO-AM and WANE-TV report the 10-year-old cat named Charlie showed up at Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control on Monday. Workers there scanned the cat and discovered Charlie had a microchip that identified Virginia Fryback of Fort Wayne as his owner.
Fryback says Charlie disappeared from her home five years ago and she thought she'd never see him again. She thanks the veterinarian who convinced her to get a microchip when Charlie was a kitten.
The microchip might have saved Charlie's life. Shelter spokeswoman Peggy Bender says most people adopt much younger cats.
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NAME: Linda Marie Bland
DATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 22, 1969
CHARGES: Aggravated battery, domestic abuse battery.
AGENCY: Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office
LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: 273 Monarch Drive, Houma
STILL AT LARGE: Tate Paul Allemand, Elroy O. Allridge, Carlos Andrew Alvis, Byron Gerard Brown, Joshua Leo Brown, Stephen Patrick Callahan, Jamie Howard Davis, Christopher Lawrence Diggs, Isaias Alvarran Escobar, Rosella Angela Foret, Resendiz Jose Francisco, Randy Joseph Gorley, Columbus Kennedy, C.J. Mart, Matthew Basin Mitchell, Dirk Ion Mousseau, Peter Long Nguyen, Tyron Anthony Rainey, Kristen Wallace Rios, Rontrell Pierre Robertson, Akeem Jermall Ross, James Earl Samuels, Byron Charles Shelby, Paul Kenneth Smith Jr., Anthony Chaddrick Taylor, Junius Vergin Jr. and Kedar Aska Wallis.
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Can you write a letter to a dog? Buddy and I would say, yes. Buddy was my dog, and he understood everything I told him to do. If I lost anything, he would look as long as I did. He loved people. I saw Buddy everywhere I looked. Even when I fell, which I sometimes did, he came and sat next to me to protect me. He never forgot anything he learned. He was with me all his life. I gave him away once for about a week but I could not get along without him. He was named Buddy by a man I was married to because they would always be buddies.
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Your Thanksgiving Recipes: Sweet Potato Casserole
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EDITOR'S NOTE: We asked readers to send us their favorite Thanksgiving recipes. Through today, we are printing one a day in the Life section. To see all the recipes we've printed this month, visit www.theledger.com/holidayrecipes.
Jennifer Audette of Lakeland contributed this recipe.
• 6 sweet potatoes
• 2 Granny Smith apples
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter
Peel and slice apples. Microwave potatoes (prick first) 15 minutes or more.
Melt butter. Peel and slice potatoes.
Layer half of the potatoes, apples and brown sugar in casserole. Repeat.
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Artist Workshops and Getaways in New Hampshire. Stay at the Bartlett Inn and enjoy Artist Workshops and Artist Getaway Weekends! ARTIST'S GETAWAY WEEKEND AT THE BARTLETT INN Oct. 17-20 2013This is not a workshop, just for painting. Please pass on to those that may be interested. For photos of a few of the many painting locations in the area, http:[email protected]/sets/72157612969741404/
The Bartlett Inn is the best location I have found to have a long weekend for artists to roam the countryside and paint on location. Nick and Miriam are great artist friendly hosts for the four days. It is centrally located to most of the White Mountains and their varied scenery. Expansive mountain views, rocks and waterfalls, ponds and streams, farms and fields, and the Conway Rail Station are a short drive away.
All skill levels are invited. Artists from around New England and even some from NY City have gathered here twice a year for 8 years. After Nick and Miriam prepare a great breakfast we are off to paint. There is no other schedule because dealing with artists is like herding CATS! Some paint in groups, some alone. I do a demonstration painting for those interested. Sat. evening we have pizza delivered and check out all our paintings.
Prices start from: $178.00 Restrictions: Subject to availability. Price includes 3 nights accommodation, yummy country breakfast daily and Friday/Saturday Art Sessions as per above.
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No Fear Waterfalls!
There are some of my watercolor falls at the end of the flicker photos link above.
This is great for those oil painters that would like to try watercolor without the expense of materials!
Watercolor workshop price $195.00
Jackson Art Studio and Gallery 603-387-3463 or [email protected]
September 20-22, 2013 In Jackson, NH
Fri take photos on your own of waterfalls.
4:00 meet and discuss photos.
Fri evening painting demo 6-8.
Sat./Sun. 9:00am-4:00pm, Paint!
Byron has given his watercolor workshops for twenty years. This is the first one with a main focus of his favorite subject, rocks and waterfalls. You may work on other subjects but at least one waterfall needs to be attempted. He will demonstrate his bold, slopping, splattering, scrubbing, fearless approach to getting the paint on. "I will help you create one or more paintings from your photos. First we design, then plan and paint. And, paint some more." His instruction style is as enthusiastic as his painting style. You will work on at least one full sheet size from your photos or his. I have the appropriate brushes, palettes and paint for rent (The Right Stuff Kit). Paper will be for sale at cost. Leave your fear at home and come paint. Drawing experience helpful.
A discount on lodging will be given to attendees by the Bartlett Inn where I will be staying. http://www.bartlettinn.com . Also those that stay at the Inn will get $10 off class price.
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A Jackson Township man was arrested on drug charges after a bomb threat at a local drugstore.
Marko Vranesevic, 40, of 3116 Inwood Dr. NW, was arrested at 10:10 p.m. Thursday at the Irish Pub & Grill, 8009 Hills & Dales Rd. NW, Stark County Jail records said.
Jail records said Vranesevic robbed a Walgreen's store in Massillon by telling store employees that he had put a bomb in a brown paper bag. After he received medication from the pharmacist, he ran away.
The jail records said police found him a short time later in the bar bathroom trying to flush needles and other evidence down a toilet.
Vranesevic was jailed on charges of aggravated robbery and felony evidence tampering.
He remained in the jail early Friday, held in lieu of $50,000 bond pending a hearing in Massillon Municipal Court.
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SAN JOSE -- As part of an attempt to mollify a fan base that was again left disappointed by an early-round playoff exit, the Sharks told season ticket holders Friday that prices will remain unchanged for the 2014-15 season.
In a letter to season ticket holders, Sharks' Chief Operating Officer John Tortora thanked them for their support and wrote, "Gaining a three-games-to-none advantage and failing to close out the series is unacceptable. Although this organization has made the Stanley Cup Playoffs for ten consecutive seasons (the second-longest streak in the NHL and third-longest streak in all of professional sports), none of us are satisfied with simply making the playoffs."
It's the first time since before the start of the 2009-10 season that the Sharks have not increased season ticket prices. There was a 6.5 percent increase before the lockout-shortened 2012-13 campaign, and a 2.4 percent increase last year.
Tortora later said in an interview with this newspaper the team had been discussing ways "well before the playoffs began" to not ask fans to pay more for season tickets. But Tortora did add the Sharks' playoff result, a seven-game opening-round loss to the Los Angeles Kings after blowing a 3-0 series lead, was a factor.
"The fans that I've spoken to are obviously frustrated with the way the season ended," said Tortora, who added this is usual time of year when season-ticket renewal forms are mailed out.
Sharks season tickets range from $9,064, or $206 per game, for a seat at ice level along the glass, to $1,144 -- $26 per game -- for a ticket in the upper-most reaches of SAP Center. There are 18 price levels available. The deadline to renew season tickets is June 13.


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Definition of sprite in English:
- In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck.
- At first, he thought he had finally lost his mind, and was seeing faeries and sprites.
- They were once the ancient guardians of the forests, along with dryads and sprites.
- It was a CD for kids, which used cartoon sprites to teach basic computing skills.
- The graphics are 2D sprites and tiled backgrounds instead of a 3D engine that most modern games use.
- The computer sprites can't yet convey enough emotion for you to care about them.
- Occurring in the middle of the atmosphere, red sprites look like the stems of carrots, while blue jets are small streaks of light with flared ends like the horn of trumpet.
- TGFs have been correlated with lightning strikes and may be related to visible phenomena that occur in the upper atmosphere over thunderstorms, such as red sprites and blue jets.
- Space controllers are aware of unusual atmospheric phenomena called sprites, a form of lightning that flashes into space above thunder clouds.
Middle English: alteration of sprit, a contraction of spirit.
spirit from Middle English:
Our word spirit is based on Latin spiritus 'breath or spirit', from spirare 'to breathe'—the ancient Romans believed that the human soul had been 'breathed' into the body—the image is the same as 'the breath of life'. The sense 'strong distilled alcoholic drink' comes from the use in alchemy of spirit to mean 'a liquid essence extracted from some substance'. People sometimes say the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak when they have good intentions but yield to temptation and fail to live up to them. The source is the New Testament, where Jesus uses the phrase after finding his disciples asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane despite telling them that they should stay awake. Spirare forms the basis of numerous English words including aspire (mid 16th century) from adspirare 'to breath upon, seek to reach'; conspire (Late Middle English) from conspirare 'to breath together, agree'; expire (late 16th century) 'to breath out'; inspire (Late Middle English) 'breath into' from the idea that a divine or outside power has inspired you; and perspire (mid 17th century) 'to breath through'; and transpire (Late Middle English) 'breath across. In English spirit was shortened to sprite (Middle English) which in turn developed sprightly (late 16th century).
Words that rhyme with spriteaffright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write
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High schools, Jackson Middle test cell phone pilot policy
January 12, 2013
PARKERSBURG — The county's three high schools and a middle school are in the process of testing a pilot cell phone polic....
These kids do not need to have a cell phone in their possession at any time for any reason during the day while classes are in session, even at lunch time. Any calls that are of an emergency nature can be made/received through the school office. Having been a former employer, I know it was a constant battle to keep the employees off of their cell phones when they were on the clock and supposed to be working. This policy will just give these kids the idea that they have some right or entitlement to use the phone any time/place they want to, and we all should know that this is just not the case. They need to learn that they cannot be using the phone just anywhere or anytime they please, and school is a good place to start learning that.
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This is absolutely ridiculous! Do you actually think these kids are going to just use phones for "educational" purposes? I'm sure Facebook, twitter, snap chat and whatever else is out there isn't an educational tool. All this will do is allow more fighting and drama in the schools. One of these days people are going to realize they screwed up by allowing this to go on! We are raising a society that can't function in the real world!
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"Basically, this is what used to be the original policy," said Jeff Mennillo
And "basically" it did not work before, what makes you think it will work now.
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Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Vitamin D functions as a powerful immune modulator, deficiency of vitamin D is highly prevalent among SLE patients, and preclinical studies have shown success using vitamin D to treat animal models of autoimmune disease. We have preliminary data demonstrating that Caucasian SLE patients have significantly lower vitamin D levels compared to controls, and there is a strong trend towards higher disease activity in patients with lower levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D). Evidence from prospective studies of RA and type 1 diabetes in humans suggest an important role for vitamin D as a modifiable environmental factor in autoimmune disease. This role has not been well studied in human SLE. The overall hypothesis of this proposal is that vitamin D deficiency is a reversible environmental trigger of SLE and increased disease activity, and that supplementation with doses of vitamin D sufficient to achieve immune modulatory effects will be safe and attenuate disease activity in SLE patients. The Research Development Plan consists of 3 Aims. In Specific Aim 1, 25(OH)D and iPTH will be performed on stored serum samples from participants from 3 longitudinal cohorts to determine whether vitamin D deficiency correlates with SLE compared to controls, and with disease activity and severity among cases. In Specific Aim 2, we will determine the factors that protect the minority of African American SLE patients from becoming vitamin D deficient, assessing diet, sun exposure, supplement use, and skin pigment. Specific Aim 3 involves administration of oral vitamin D to deficient African American SLE patients in a small Phase I clinical study to establish safety, tolerability, and an effective dose for replacement therapy. Disease activity, disease flare, immunologic measures, inflammatory markers, and quality of life will also be assessed. The information gathered from this study will be used to plan a scientifically sound larger scale Phase ll/lll placebo-controlled trial. The Career Development Plan will consist of 5 essential components: (1) Research projects preceptorship overseen by a research advisory and mentorship committee; (2) Meetings and conferences; (3) Training in the responsible conduct of research; (4) Formal mentorship training; and (5) Formal coursework to further develop a body of knowledge in relevant areas. These research and career development aims are designed to provide training in techniques for the cross-sectional analysis of large databases and for the design and implementation of clinical research studies in an outpatient setting. The pursuit of these projects, in conjunction with formal coursework in biostatistical and epidemiological methods, is intended to foster Dr. Kamen's career as an independent academic clinical investigator with a focus on SLE and patient-oriented research.
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OAKLAND -- It was a Saturday night, and the line for tickets to the crime drama "Killing Them Softly" was short at the New Parkway. The line for food was not.
Customers stood and stood and stood waiting to order Zero Beef Burgers, Sassy Sausages, Saucy Fries, Adventurous Pizzas and other upgraded staples the original Parkway had offered before shutting down in a cloud of frustration and disappointment in 2009.
The long line would be indicator No. 1 the cinema is, as the saying goes, working out the kinks less than two weeks after opening night.
But a 10-minute wait on food didn't seem like so long after waiting three years to see the revival, albeit in a new location, on 24th Street between Telegraph and Broadway (parking alert: There is none).
In November, the New Parkway was nothing but cement floors and plywood planks.
No way could they pull it off by the end of 2012, I predicted. But they -- New Parkway Entertainment and 56 investors -- did.
At the New Parkway, wine comes in three varieties: white, red and syrah. The former two cost $5, the third $6. I chose syrah and settled into a small black love seat dead center facing the screen in one of two cavernous screening rooms. It was dotted with strategically placed chairs, sofas and coffee tables in hues of blue, green and orange reminiscent of a grandmother's living room circa 1972 -- if grandma had kept around the old 1954 TV console.
Red vinyl and sofa covers punctuated the pastel landscape, evoking the image of Elvis performing in a room of Oldsmobile drivers sipping highballs.
A box of tissues in a pink frilly cover accentuated the pink dial telephone set just so on one of those coffee tables euphemistically called retro (or "midcentury" if merchants are trying to get more money for the furniture).
The New Parkway covers a total of 8,000 square feet, so I kept thinking owner J. Moses Ceaser must have emptied the inventory of every vintage shop, flea market and thrift store in the Bay Area to decorate.
Despite the eclectic decor, there is something more professional and corporate about the operation, which will drive some people crazy. Most won't really care, content with $6 tickets, plus eating, drinking and lounging during a movie.
The quirky Thrillville flicks will continue along with classics as well as second-run films, like the one I was watching. There is a LGBT movie night and a documentary theme night, currently featuring a locally minded urban issues series, "Brooklyn Reconstructed," organized by a trio including Oakland's Top Ten Social.
Also, now the under-21 set is welcome, and not just infants with their parents during the afternoon family-friendly Baby Brigade screenings.
A silver triangular contraption like a metronome sits next to each sofa or cluster of chairs. Need a beer refill or nachos? Just push the button on the base.
Instead of an on-screen introduction before the film (as was the old custom), a woman stepped in front of the audience still assembling themselves, some already digging into their orders and sipping beers.
Ceaser perched on a settee at the edge of the room, looking gaunter than usual but smiling like a father who looks out at the room and sees his family reunited at home for the first time in years.
He left as the room darkened, and the face of Scoot McNairy filled the screen. The actor plays one of three dupes dumb enough to think they can get away with holding up a mob-protected card game.
Waiters continued to circulate through the room, trying to deliver orders in the dark to the right customer by the time Brad Pitt appeared on screen more than a quarter into the movie as an "enforcer" hired to restore order after the stickup.
Once the Parkway gets the food ordering line tightened up, late arrivals should cease to be a problem, although the experience caused me to concede to my boyfriend's prediction that the call buttons might not turn out to be the best idea.
A woman in the crescent-shaped booth next to me had ordered a glass of House Sangria with her Pile O' Nachos and began chomping while hired thugs beat Ray Liotta's character to a pulp.
I put my boots up on the stand in front of me and tried to focus on the comfort of the sofa, the fact that there was no risk of someone tall sitting in front of me while I watched James Gandolfini as a debauched hit man.
Afterward we went to Kim's Backyard. But that's a story for the next Night Owl.


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Too-short life inspired short film about pain pill addiction
Published: Friday, April 11, 2014 at 11:27 p.m.
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SARASOTA - Before a short film was inspired by her struggle with prescription pain pills, before her name was painted on the back of car windows, and before she died in 2011, Brandi Meshad dreamed of becoming a broadcast journalist.
• The Brandi's Wish Foundation will be hosting a free screening of "No Real Than You Are" and another movie about prescription-pain-pill abuse in Sarasota County called "The Holding Cell" at 10 a.m. today at Burns Court Cinema.
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The 18-year-old Out-of-Door Academy graduate was set to start her freshman year at the University of Alabama and often expressed her excitement in her journal. But her journal was also filled with pages of despair as she described her short — and ultimately fatal — addiction to prescription pain pills such as Oxycontin and roxicodone.
"The first time we realized she was using until she died was an 18-month period," said Brandi's mother, Lisa. "For most of that time she was sober — and that's the scary part."
Vincent Dale, a Pine View student turned filmmaker, used parts of Brandi's struggle to create "No Real Than You Are," a 20-minute short film that made its debut at the Sarasota Film Festival this week.
Dale's film focuses on "Sasha," a high school senior who went from camping and telling ghost stories with friends to a young woman plagued by addiction.
Sasha's story is not exactly Brandi's story — the film, for example, depicts Sasha using intravenous needles to inject the pain pills while Brandi would snort them — but the film illuminates the very real and pervasive problem of prescription pill addiction in Sarasota County.
Lisa admits she was unsure if the film would reflect Brandi's struggle until she watched it several weeks ago. Now, she says she's thankful that Dale shed light on Brandi's story and on the larger problem of pain pill addiction.
"For decades addiction was something no one wated to talk about it, everyone has had someone in their family that struggles with addiction," Lisa said. "Well these types of secrets kill people."
Dale could not comment for the story because he is in France, but "No Real Than You Are" cinematographer Sebastian Baron, who attended Pine View with Dale, said both he and Dale saw the problem firsthand.
"I don't think anyone who grew up in Sarasota could avoid having friends or people they know who start to develop problems with opiates and other drugs," Baron said.
The kids weren't alright
Those younger than 30 who attended local schools were witnesses to the prescription-addiction epidemic.
Spotting afflicted teenagers was not difficult. Dark circles bordered their eyes. Their faces would droop, like someone had held a candle to a wax mask. They would often lie down during lunch and close their eyes during classes.
Young men would carry serrated files, used to grind up pain pills into a snortable powder. They would carry small, folded sections of straws to facilitate the powder's journey into their nostrils.
They looked dazed, like lifeless caricatures of their former selves.
When dark circles began to appear under Brandi's eyes, soon accompanied by extreme mood swings and unusual behavior, Lisa Meshad knew something was wrong.
"I knew it wasn't drinking, and I knew she wasn't stoned," Meshad said. "I noticed something different about her, and I drug tested her."
To Lisa's shock, the only type of drug in Brandi's system was opiates in the form of prescription pain pills.
"I knew very little about problem," Lisa's said. "I had some friends whose kids were struggling with Roxi, and I was like what is that? I had never heard about it before."
A friend had given Brandi OxyCotin pills to help her sleep months before her mother drug tested her, but that's when Brandi's nightmare began.
The film does not show how Sasha began using pills. Instead, it focuses on the emotions leading to her death.
It shows how Sasha began to solely focus on pills. Abstract camera angles and blurred focus highlights the "high" Sasha chased, while friends would hold back her hair as she snorted lines of pills.
Scenes depicted Sasha alone in a gigantic house, filling the emptiness with doses from intravenious needles.
It showed her guilt. It showed how Sasha felt she disappointed her parents and was a disgrace to the family name.
It showed how teenage innocence can crumble into drug addictions.
Those emotions depicted by "No Real Than You Are" and the fictional Sasha seem consistent with some of Brandi's diary entries.
"Addiction isn't any ordinary monster," Brandi wrote in a diary her mother kept. "It's like a giant octopus weaving its tentacles not just around you but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from feeling until you try to get away."
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Brandi's death in 2011 shocked many in Sarasota.
For Lisa, it was more than a shock. It was as if someone had run her heart through a wood-chipper. She couldn't sleep. She couldn't eat. She could only think of Brandi and countless "what if" scenarios.
Reporters had flooded Lisa with interview requests since daughter's death. All were welcomed — especially as Lisa began to advocate for tougher prescription pain pill laws throughout the state — but none seemed to grasp the nuances of Brandi's struggle.
Years later, when Lisa agreed to meet with Dale to talk about a potential movie about Brandi, she was unsure of what to think of the proposal.
But Dale was different than the others.
"I loved him," Lisa said. "He said he felt Brandi was his inspiration, like she would be his guardian angel and guide him throughout the movie."
When it was finished, Dale sent a copy to Lisa, who watched the film in her living room.
She broke down when it was over.
"I immediately wrote him and told him I was speechless," Lisa said. "I think in a beautiful way it really showed how quickly a beautiful life can end."
Lisa said she hopes others in Sarasota County and around Florida will watch the movie and take action to help reduce painkillers' pervasiveness in the state.
"I think in Sarasota we've done an incredible job of raising awareness and doing something about the pill mills," Lisa said. "But do I think it's changed the number of people of all ages who are addicted? No."
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Some Notes on Invitation to a Beheading
Inevitably, there were students who were convinced Nabokov was insane or a drug addict or both. This accusation comes up all the time when we read anyone who is not among the hardest of hardcore realists, because imagination is something that has come to be associated only with the stimulus of drugs or madness. That someone could think up a story like Invitation to a Beheading -- where a man is imprisoned for "gnostic turpitude" in a fortress of porous walls and fake windows and rules against improper dreams -- without being addicted to hallucinogens or lacking a couple of screws is at best inconceivable to many people, if not threatening. The people who issue these accusations would never think of such a story or such imagery themselves, and therefore they can't imagine how anyone else could, unless there was something wrong with their brains. I am sad to see this way of thinking in my students, because it means they are suspicious of one of the fundamental techniques of art, but at least in the classroom I am able to challenge and undermine those beliefs; the effect of such suspicion on the world at large is depressing to contemplate.
It is against just such thinking that Invitation to a Beheading stands, the story of an "opaque" man in a "transparent" world. For reasons that are (intentionally) never made clear, it's hard to figure out exactly how Cincinnatus C. is different from the people around him, except that he is apparently more "real" (at least to himself) than the "parodies" of people he encounters throughout his life, and throughout his life they have distrusted him, reported on him, interrogated him, threatened him. It is not the crime that matters, but rather the perception. Very little in the book gives us concrete evidence of Cincinnatus's difference from his, as he calls them, coevals -- they're all a bit strange, yes, but he's a pretty odd duck, himself. What the book shows, though, is a conflict of perceptions, of feelings, of imagination, because everything has always felt wrong to Cincinnatus, and imagination is his one tool of hope for escape. An incident in childhood was, he says, "when I first understood that things which to me had seemed natural were actually forbidden, impossible, that any thought of them was criminal."
Inevitably, people compare Invitation to 1984, and Nabokov speaks out against Orwell in his preface to the English-language edition of the novel, calling Orwell one of the "popular puveyors of illustrated ideas and publicistic fiction". He did not desire comparison to any writer at all, but Orwell particularly irked him. At first, it's difficult to see why, because it is difficult not to think of Invitation as, if not a political book, then at least a book with some political implications. 1984 may illustrate ideas, but no novel can avoid doing that -- the human mind likes patterns, and stories, being elaborate patterns, echo and suggest other patterns -- and so Invitation to a Beheading illustrates ideas as well, but one of the differences lies in what gets missed if the book is reduced only to its ideas. 1984 can be discussed as a political tract -- we can talk about the implications of Newspeak and the Memory Hole, of Big Brother and rewritten history and perpetual wars and all the other prophetic/satirical accoutrements to the book. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing -- different books yield different items of interest -- but trying to read Invitation to a Beheading in such a way becomes quickly frustrating, because while Invitation contains a portrait of a totalitarian world, it is equally about art, perception, and "reality". And, this being a Nabokov novel, every word serves the purpose not so much of illustrating those ideas, but of embodying them.
Invitation to a Beheading refuses to create a stable fictional reality for the characters or for the reader, and, as with much of Nabokov's best work, there are multiple plots at once: the surface plot of what's happening in the story, the subtextual plot of things "really" going on that the characters either aren't aware of or are hiding, and the plot between the text and the reader (or sometimes the narrator and the characters). It could be that, in the last sentence, Cincinnatus has broken through to a "real" reality, but we have no way to know, because it is all a matter of perception -- his wishful, imagined double achieves life in the second before (during?) Cincinnatus's death, and he walks toward what he thinks are "beings akin to him", but he is able to judge only by their distant voices. The characters who persecuted him have all metamorphosed into tiny, pathetic creatures. The funhouse mirrors have been turned. Body and spirit are inverted, but no-one can say which is which.
This is not a "it was only a dream!" ending, though, because the reality of the book is the reality of Cincinnatus's perceptions, and he has not perceived the world he has escaped to be a dream -- indeed, the hopefulness of the last sentence is predicated on everything before it having been, for Cincinnatus, utterly true and real. A shallow political interpretation of the book would have trouble with the ending, I expect, because such an interpretation would see the ending as suggesting that totalitarianism can be escaped through imagination, but what the book shows with nearly every sentence is, instead, that imagination is anathema to totalitarianism of every sort. Nabokov was no sentimentalist, however, and Invitation to a Beheading demonstrates as relentless a fight for purity and rigor of imagination as do his Lectures on Literature -- Cincinnatus does not, after all, walk down a path toward beings who might be akin to him until he has been within a second of having his head chopped off.
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This post was just beautiful. Now wanting to go on a Nabokov binge. Haven't spent time in his head for a while now.ReplyDelete
I audited a class on Nabokov in college sheerly as an excuse to read him: it was magnificent. You are making me want to re-read.ReplyDelete
Next semester you should teach "The Transformation of Martin Lake" and see what they think VanderMeer is on.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/15/2006 9:14 AM
I snort Nabokov.ReplyDelete
- Enlightenment11/17/2006 12:27 AM
Slightly off-topic and for that I apologize, however it is of paramount importance so please bear with me. Now that our side has a majority in both houses they should actually USE the subpoena power and launch a REAL independent investigation into 9/11.ReplyDelete
One thing that struck me as odd in the days after 9/11 was Bush saying "We will not tolerate conspiracy theories [regarding 9/11]". Sure enough there have been some wacky conspiracy theories surrounding the events of that day. The most far-fetched and patently ridiculous one that I've ever heard goes like this: Nineteen hijackers who claimed to be devout Muslims but yet were so un-Muslim as to be getting drunk all the time, doing cocaine and frequenting strip clubs decided to hijack four airliners and fly them into buildings in the northeastern U.S., the area of the country that is the most thick with fighter bases. After leaving a Koran on a barstool at a strip bar after getting shitfaced drunk on the night before, then writing a suicide note/inspirational letter that sounded like it was written by someone with next to no knowledge of Islam, they went to bed and got up the next morning hung over and carried out their devious plan. Nevermind the fact that of the four "pilots" among them there was not a one that could handle a Cessna or a Piper Cub let alone fly a jumbo jet, and the one assigned the most difficult task of all, Hani Hanjour, was so laughably incompetent that he was the worst fake "pilot" of the bunch, with someone who was there when he was attempting to fly a small airplane saying that Hanjour was so clumsy that he was unsure if he had driven a car before. Nevermind the fact that they received very rudimentary flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, making them more likely to have been C.I.A. assets than Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. So on to the airports after Mohammed Atta supposedly leaves two rental cars at two impossibly far-removed locations. So they hijack all four airliners and at this time passengers on United 93 start making a bunch of cell phone calls from 35,000 feet in the air to tell people what was going on. Nevermind the fact that cell phones wouldn't work very well above 4,000 feet, and wouldn't work at ALL above 8,000 feet. But the conspiracy theorists won't let that fact get in the way of a good fantasy. That is one of the little things you "aren't supposed to think about". Nevermind that one of the callers called his mom and said his first and last name ("Hi mom, this is Mark Bingham"), more like he was reading from a list than calling his own mom. Anyway, when these airliners each deviated from their flight plan and didn't respond to ground control, NORAD would any other time have followed standard operating procedure (and did NOT have to be told by F.A.A. that there were hijackings because they were watching the same events unfold on their own radar) which means fighter jets would be scrambled from the nearest base where they were available on standby within a few minutes, just like every other time when airliners stray off course. But of course on 9/11 this didn't happen, not even close. Somehow these "hijackers" must have used magical powers to cause NORAD to stand down, as ridiculous as this sounds because total inaction from the most high-tech and professional Air Force in the world would be necessary to carry out their tasks. So on the most important day in its history the Air Force was totally worthless. Then they had to make one of the airliners look like a smaller plane, because unknown to them the Naudet brothers had a videocamera to capture the only known footage of the North Tower crash, and this footage shows something that is not at all like a jumbo jet, but didn't have to bother with the South Tower jet disguising itself because that was the one we were "supposed to see". Anyway, as for the Pentagon they had to have Hani Hanjour fly his airliner like it was a fighter plane, making a high G-force corkscrew turn that no real airliner can do, in making its descent to strike the Pentagon. But these "hijackers" wanted to make sure Rumsfeld survived so they went out of their way to hit the farthest point in the building from where Rumsfeld and the top brass are located. And this worked out rather well for the military personnel in the Pentagon, since the side that was hit was the part that was under renovation at the time with few military personnel present compared to construction workers. Still more fortuitous for the Pentagon, the side that was hit had just before 9/11 been structurally reinforced to prevent a large fire there from spreading elsewhere in the building. Awful nice of them to pick that part to hit, huh? Then the airliner vaporized itself into nothing but tiny unidentifiable pieces most no bigger than a fist, unlike the crash of a real airliner when you will be able to see at least some identifiable parts, like crumpled wings, broken tail section etc. Why, Hani Hanjour the terrible pilot flew that airliner so good that even though he hit the Pentagon on the ground floor the engines didn't even drag the ground!! Imagine that!! Though the airliner vaporized itself on impact it only made a tiny 16 foot hole in the building. Amazing. Meanwhile, though the planes hitting the Twin Towers caused fires small enough for the firefighters to be heard on their radios saying "We just need 2 hoses and we can knock this fire down" attesting to the small size of it, somehow they must have used magical powers from beyond the grave to make this morph into a raging inferno capable of making the steel on all forty-seven main support columns (not to mention the over 100 smaller support columns) soften and buckle, then all fail at once. Hmmm. Then still more magic was used to make the building totally defy physics as well as common sense in having the uppermost floors pass through the remainder of the building as quickly, meaning as effortlessly, as falling through air, a feat that without magic could only be done with explosives. Then exactly 30 minutes later the North Tower collapses in precisely the same freefall physics-defying manner. Incredible. Not to mention the fact that both collapsed at a uniform rate too, not slowing down, which also defies physics because as the uppermost floors crash into and through each successive floor beneath them they would shed more and more energy each time, thus slowing itself down. Common sense tells you this is not possible without either the hijackers' magical powers or explosives. To emphasize their telekinetic prowess, later in the day they made a third building, WTC # 7, collapse also at freefall rate though no plane or any major debris hit it. Amazing guys these magical hijackers. But we know it had to be "Muslim hijackers" the conspiracy theorist will tell you because (now don't laugh) one of their passports was "found" a couple days later near Ground Zero, miraculously "surviving" the fire that we were told incinerated planes, passengers and black boxes, and also "survived" the collapse of the building it was in. When common sense tells you if that were true then they should start making buildings and airliners out of heavy paper and plastic so as to be "indestructable" like that magic passport. The hijackers even used their magical powers to bring at least seven of their number back to life, to appear at american embassies outraged at being blamed for 9/11!! BBC reported on that and it is still online. Nevertheless, they also used magical powers to make the american government look like it was covering something up in the aftermath of this, what with the hasty removal of the steel debris and having it driven to ports in trucks with GPS locators on them, to be shipped overseas to China and India to be melted down. When common sense again tells you that this is paradoxical in that if the steel was so unimportant that they didn't bother saving some for analysis but so important as to require GPS locators on the trucks with one driver losing his job because he stopped to get lunch. Hmmmm. Further making themselves look guilty, the Bush administration steadfastly refused for over a year to allow a commission to investigate 9/11 to even be formed, only agreeing to it on the conditions that they get to dictate its scope, meaning it was based on the false pretense of the "official story" being true with no other alternatives allowed to be considered, handpicked all its members making sure the ones picked had vested interests in the truth remaining buried, and with Bush and Cheney only "testifying" together, only for an hour, behind closed doors, with their attorneys present and with their "testimonies" not being recorded by tape or even written down in notes. Yes, this whole story smacks of the utmost idiocy and fantastic far-fetched lying, but it is amazingly enough what some people believe. Even now, five years later, the provably false fairy tale of the "nineteen hijackers" is heard repeated again and again, and is accepted without question by so many Americans. Which is itself a testament to the innate psychological cowardice of the American sheeple, i mean people, and their abject willingness to believe something, ANYTHING, no matter how ridiculous in order to avoid facing a scary uncomfortable truth. Time to wake up America.
Debunking Popular Mechanics lies:
someone else debunking Popular Mechanics crap:
still more debunking Poopular Mechanics:
and still more debunking of Popular Mechanics:
Poopular Mechanics staff replaced just before laughable "debunking" article written:
another neo-con 9/11 hit piece explodes, is retracted:
Professor Steven Jones debunks the N.I.S.T. "report" as well as the F.E.M.A. one and the 9/11 commission "report":
N.I.S.T. scientist interviewed:
F.B.I. says no hard evidence linking Osama bin Laden to 9/11 which is why his wanted poster says nothing about 9/11:
Fire Engineering magazine says important questions about the Twin Tower "collapses" still need to be addressed:http://fe.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=25&ARTICLE_ID
Twin Towers' construction certifiers say they should have easily withstood it:
USA Today interview with the last man out of the South Tower, pursued by a fireball:
Janitor who heard explosions and escaped has testimony ignored by 9/11 whitewash commission:
Janitor starts speaking out about it and his apartment is burglarized, laptop stolen:
Firefighters tell of multiple explosions:
Eyewitnesses tell of explosions:
Interview with another firefighter telling of explosions:
Firefighter saw "sparkles" (strobe lights on detonators?) before "collapse":
Other eyewitnesses talk of seeing/hearing explosions:
Surviving eyewitnesses talk of multiple explosions there:
Cutter charge explosions clearly visible:
The pyroclastic wave (that dust cloud that a second before was concrete) and how it wouldn't be possible without explosives:
Detailed description of the demolition of the Twin Towers:
Freefall rate of "collapses" math:
More about their freefall rate "collapses":
Video footage of the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers:
Video footage of the controlled demolition of WTC # 7 building:
More of WTC # 7 controlled demolition:
Naudet brothers' video footage of the North Tower crash:
Photos of the Pentagon's lawn (look at these and see if you can tell me with a straight face that a jumbo jet crashed there):
More photos of this amazing lawn at the Pentagon:
Very unconvincing fake "Osama" "confession" tape:
More about the fake "Osama" tape:
Fake "Mohammed Atta" "suicide" letter:
Commercial pilots disagree with "official" 9/11 myth:
More commercial jet pilots say "official" myth is impossible:
Impossibility of cell phone calls from United 93:
More about the impossible cell phone calls:
Experiment proves cell phone calls were NOT possible from anywhere near the altitude the "official" myth has them at:
Fake Barbara Olson phone call:
Where the hell was the Air Force?
More about the Air Force impotence question:
Sept. 10th 2001, Pentagon announces it is "missing" $2.3 trillion (now why do you think they picked THAT day to announce it? So it could be buried the next day by 9/11 news):
Unocal pipeline-through-Afghanistan plan:
Unocal pipeline-through-Afghanistan plan mentioned:
More on Unocal Afghan pipeline:
The attack on Afghanistan was planned in the summer of 2001, months before 9/11:
Pentagon deliberately misled 9/11 Commission:
Evidence destruction by authorities and cover-up:
9/11 whitewash Commission and NORAD day:
The incredible fish tales of the 9/11 Commission examined:
Jeb Bush declares state of emergency 4 days before 9/11 for Florida, saying it will help respond to terrorism:
Steel debris removal from Ground Zero, destruction of evidence:
Over two hundred incriminating bits of 9/11 evidence shown in the mainstream media:
Tracking the "hijackers":
"Hijacker" patsies:
"Hijackers" receiving flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station:
Several accused "hijackers" still alive and well, wondering why they are accused:
Yet the F.B.I. insists that the people it claims were the "hijackers" really were the "hijackers":
No Arabs on Flight 77:
Thirty experts say "official" 9/11 myth impossible:
"Al Qaeda" website tracks back to Maryland:
Al Qaeda videos uploaded from U.S. government website:
Operation: Northwoods, a plan for a false-flag "terror" attack to be blamed on Castro to use it as a pretext for America to invade Cuba, thankfully not approved by Kennedy back in 1962 but was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and sent to his desk:
I've never seen SPAM on the order of the cut and paste job in the comment ahead of mine.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the grand post. I will try to find this Nabokov novel.
I'll bet you envy V. N. as a prof in that he had auditors Pynchon and Farina in his class at Cornell. I wonder if the two of the nascent fiction writers spoke up in class?
The reason the kids think Nabokov was on drugs is because they were raised by people with no imagination. This lack of imagination gets into their brains and won't let go.ReplyDelete
I wish you'd been my AP Lit teacher when I was reading Nabokov for the first time.
aha! Fantastic insight. Not too long ago I dove headlong into Nikolai Gogol, and subsequently was looking at some of Nabokov's shorter works. Tremendously grateful as am extremely anxious to read Invitation!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2/03/2009 1:33 PM
Interesting that you chose this work to introduce your students to VN. I wish I'd had a teacher like yourself during my formative highschool years, I believe I would have discovered my keenness for literature much earlier than I ultimately did. As it is, without the aid of an enlightened literary docent,it took some years of desultory ambulating to uncover. Overall I found IB untypical of most VN novels, its more contrived universe (similar to another VN anti-utopian novel, Bend Sinister) differs from the rest as most his works tend to have a foot firmly planted in this realm--I'm sure Nabokov would disagree with this and consider all his novels to be meticulous imaginary constructs regardless of their implied setting.ReplyDelete
Overall, IB is more effective than Bend Sinister, in large part due to its vivid panoply of humorously obnoxious supporting characters (though the lolita precursor Emmie is a discordant note) and the juxtaposition of the genuinely sympathetic (and hopelessly misplaced) character Cincinnatus who endures persecution with an air of resignation that's stubborn, subversive and mild.
Compare him to Joseph K (a relative cut-out) who is easily irritated and you begin to appreciate VN's ability to breathe life into characters. The great literary cozen has feelings for his creations and it shows, even investing many with his own personal memories.
Perhaps that's why Joseph K could never exist outside his creator's milieu and seems inextricably part of its function, yet Cincinnatus has a life before, during and (his creators main message) after the novel. The real rebellion comes not from any outward action but from a inward personal cultivation.
Is it acceptance of the imagination that causes some people to like this book, while others will not, as you suggest, or is it something else?ReplyDelete
I think those who enjoy literature to an extreme degree have a philosophical grounding, a belief in art as the key to a reality outside of our own world and yet more real than it.
Others view art and literature as a transitory pleasure and no more (M'sieur Pierre in IB is a marvelous example).


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Hospital MRSA Testing Helps After All?
March 17, 2008 -- For the second time in a week, researchers are debating whether all hospital patients should be screened for MRSA.
MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is on the rise, including in hospitals.
Last week, researchers reported that preadmission MRSA tests for some 10,000 surgery patients didn't slow MRSA's spread in a Swiss hospital. That study appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association's March 12 edition.
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Definition of Senghor
Léopold Sédar 1906–2001 Senegalese poet & statesman; pres. of Senegal (1960–80)
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