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Dictionary.com classifies a friend as "a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard."
In that case, I think I could call my husband my friend, my kids, my dog, and even many of my facebook friends.
But, I want to go way back to the early 90′s for this one. I was in the 5th grade I believe. Wild child and knew everything right? I was a more quiet kid, I liked school, and I had friends in every clique. But I had one friend that I don't think I will ever forget. She was someone I never separated with. If she was in a class, we found a way to end up in there together. Finally, teachers just got the hint and we were seated together everywhere. After school I would help her to her bus, and then we would spend the weekends getting into as much trouble as we could in her golf cart. She was something else. We talked boys, music (she was really into Jimmy Buffet, and I just discovered Amy Grant & Micheal Jackson) , and gossip.
I remember my mom thinking she was bad influence on me because she found out we watched scary movies. The scary movie- Stand By Me. Best movie ever, but I guess at that age and time, everything seemed scary.
We moved when I was going in the 9th grade and it killed me. I tried to look her up years later but to no real avail. Facebook proved to be a dead end also. I always knew she had a life threatening disease and was wheelchair bound, but she was just full of life then. I never seen her for that aspect, I always just remembered a smile and her telling people not to baby her. She lived every day like anyone else and I think that's what drove me to want to be her "beary" best friend. Plus she gave me rides on her chair, the teachers hated that haaa.
I have heard from others that she's still around, and just knowing that, is enough for me to smile. I'm hoping shes still in that golf cart "tearing up someones yard"doing 8.5 mph.
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The 49ers took a tumble in the Associated Press Pro32 NFL Power Rankings after their 16-13 overtime loss to the St. Louis Rams, a game in which the 49ers appeared to be outcoached when they had the ball.
After receiving three first-place votes a week earlier, the 49ers received none and fell three spots to fifth in the poll, released Tuesday.
The Houston Texans remained first, receiving eight first-place votes from the panel comprising 12 media members.
The New England Patriots received three first-place votes and moved up two spots into a second-place tie with the Atlanta Falcons, who got the other first-place vote.
The Denver Broncos were No. 4.
Some 49ers offensive players were quoted after the loss Sunday in St. Louis as saying the Rams defense seemed to know what was coming.
Late in the game, 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman and coach Jim Harbaugh also reverted to the cautious play-calling they employed last season. Struggling kicker David Akers hasn't been able to ride to the rescue quite the way he did in 2011.
Nowhere was the 49ers' conservative approach more questionable than after they took over at midfield with 7:29 remaining in overtime. They called runs on four of their first five plays, all coming on first and second down and gaining a total of 10 yards. The 49ers attempted two short passes, completing one for a first down and misfiring on the second before Akers missed a 51-yard field-goal attempt.
It seemed an odd approach given that a) Akers had missed three of four kicks from beyond 50 yards this season; b) he has been working through an injury; and c) the Rams had stifled the 49ers running game.
What's more, Harbaugh made the switch to quarterback Colin Kaepernick ostensibly to perk up a passing game that ranked 28th when Alex Smith made his last start Nov. 11. With the game in the balance Sunday, Harbaugh and Roman all but took the ball out of Kaepernick's hands.
Here are the voters' comments on the 49ers after Week 13, as provided by the AP (voter affiliation and ranking in parentheses):
Chris Berman (ESPN, 4) -- Kaepernick was bound to be human.
Clifton Brown (Sporting News, 2) -- The quarterback saga will make their stretch run interesting.
Cris Collinsworth (NBC Sports, 5) -- Comment unavailable
Rich Gannon (CBS Sports/SiriusXM NFL Radio, 6) -- Very curious to see if the QB situation becomes a problem for this team down the stretch.
Bob Glauber (Newsday, 5) -- Colin Kaepernick looked like a championship quarterback when he first filled in for Alex Smith. Now he's looking like an uncertain second-year quarterback going through the usual NFL growing pains. Jim Harbaugh gives him another week as the starter, though, hoping Kaepernick has better luck against the Dolphins at home.
Rick Gosselin (Dallas Morning News, 5) -- The 49ers are 0-1-1 against the lowly Rams and 8-2 against everyone else.
Clark Judge (CBSSports.com, 5) -- Jim Harbaugh just announced he'll start the next game at quarterback.
Ira Kaufman (Tampa Tribune, 5) -- Anytime Frank Gore is contained, this offense struggles.
Pat Kirwan (SiriusXM NFL Radio/CBSSports.com, 6) -- The Kaepernick experiment continues, and as I said last week there is risk involved. Flashing great skills is one thing, winning tough games is another story.
John Lynch (Fox Sports, 5) -- A bold move by Harbaugh to stick with Kaepernick at QB backfired against the Rams.
Alex Marvez (Foxsports.com, 5) -- What is it with the St. Louis Rams? The 49ers are 0-1-1 against that mediocre franchise and 8-2 versus the rest of the league.
Dan Pompei (Chicago Tribune, 6) -- Alex Smith is advised to keep his arm loose.

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Riots exploded in the town of Tottenham (North London) Saturday night after a young man was shot by police. The rioters torched two police vehicles among other things. This isnt the first time the town of Tottenham has been suspect of riots breaking out due to police misconduct. In the 1980′s riots broke out in Tottenham due to a woman suffering from a heart attack while police raided her home.
Captiv8 wrote: If only we did this more frequently in the States.
mancabbage wrote:
fuck them, if they come back towards wood green / tottenham they'll have to go via my area, i gona stay up with a baseball bat
english bob wrote: you can't shoot anyone for any reason


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T. Steelman says liberals who think they know what makes NSA leaker Edward Snowden tick should think again.
HERE are a few excerpts (but, I must warn you that there's a lot of vulgar language in the rest of Steelman's piece):
At this point, the Edward Snowden saga seems to be running out of steam. The latest is that Venezuela and Nicaragua (out of at least 27 countries he asked) have offered him asylum so the story is almost at an end for now. The U.S. government will probably keep trying to extradite him so that they can prosecute but ...
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Skeleton Argument of the Claimant (long): Electronic Edition, by Adrian DaviesTable of Contents
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The orthodox historical consensus
115.Somewhere something has plainly gone seriously wrong in the treatment of Auschwitz by orthodox historians. Irving showed the Court the official German newsreel Welt im Film issued on 8 January 1948 at the height of post-war denazification. It records the Polish Communist Court's final judgment on Hoess, the camp commandant of Auschwitz and his staff at Krakow in December 1947.
116.The Polish Court, in whose district the camp is situated, which tried the case shortly after the events in question took place, and had no cause to love Germans in general or Nazis in particular, stated that "nearly 300,000" people of all nations had "died" at the camp. This figure, it should be noted, does not differentiate between deaths (1) from wholly natural causes, (2) accidents, (3) disease, (4) malnutrition, (5) Allied air raids (6) the consequences of mistreatment of inmates by the SS, and (7) deliberate killing of inmates by the SS.
117.As Gray J observes at 8.25 "that figure gradually increased to four million, which was the number mentioned until 1990 on the monument erected by the Communists in memory of the dead. The figure then came down again."
118.At 8.22 Gray J states: Research carried out more recently, notably by Raul Hilberg and by Dr. [Franciszek] Piper of the Auschwitz Museum, has concluded that the true figure for the number of deaths at Auschwitz is in the region of 1.1 million, of which the vast majority perished in the gas chambers. This figure has, according to the evidence of Van Pelt and Longerich, been endorsed by the majority of serious, professional historians concerned in this field."
119.Dr. Piper was responsible for the figure of four million on the Auschwitz memorial, now reduced by a factor of 75% even by him, so his reliability is not beyond question.
120.Longerich was clear under cross examination that the one million figure was from all causes, and he confirmed this even when challenged by Gray J. Under cross-examination on 28 February, 2000 (Day 26, pages 56 et seq.) Longerich stated that he believed that one million had died from all causes. He added that in his opinion, anybody who was transported to Auschwitz and "died there because of exhaustion, hunger and of other causes was murdered."
121.Asked by Irving: "You include in that figure [1 million] the numbers who died from typhus and the other epidemics?" the witness confirmed this.
122.Gray J then asked:--
"Mr. Irving's question was; are you actually including in your 1 million figure those who died as a result of forced labour?"
"And," pressed Irving, "the starvation, pestilence, plague, epidemics, all the other ancillary causes?"
123.Gray J only partially recognises the effect of these exchanges at 8.23. In that paragraph he appears to accept Longerich's manifestly absurd claim that the Nazis deliberately encouraged epidemics and plague in their camps as part of their genocide, as though epidemics are respecters of persons, calling a halt according to uniform and race.
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Tue, 03/12/2013
5:00pm @ Trails West Branch [1]
Oh My Teen discusses Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. Oh My Teen book group is a program for teens that meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Trails West branch library. Copies are available for checkout at the branch library.
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Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered in suspiciously draconian fashion.


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Retro Car Coat Pattern from BurdaStyle
Originally published in the BurdaStyle July 1952 issue, this car coat pattern 10/2012 #134 is both elegant and comfortable! Retro detailing included gathered raglan seams, a gathered back yoke, and snappy angled slashed pockets. We love the sweet rounded collar. Make it in this casual yet chic Italian black and winter white wool tweed, and get ready for relaxed Sunday afternoons whale-watching while sipping hot spiced cider and cruising the bay. Reminder: all Britex Fabrics' online wool coatings are on sale through October 22nd!


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Cliff Deal Irks Hospitals
Now that health-care providers have sifted through the fiscal-cliff package, one group is emerging as the most upset with the deal: hospitals.
Several pieces of the bill, which is headed for President Barack Obama's desk, would reduce federal payments to hospitals in exchange for staving off cuts to doctor's pay. Hospitals are calling it a raid on their funding, which has already been subject to cuts in the health overhaul law.
The bill puts off for one year the cuts in reimbursements to doctors for treating elderly patients through the Medicare program — a patch that comes with a $25.2 billion price tag.
The amount is mostly covered by a series of cuts to hospitals that treat Medicare patients, including a $10.5 billion "coding adjustment" that will be in effect from 2014 through 2018 and is intended to recoup past over-billing by hospitals. All hospitals will be subject to the cut.
"This is yet another time when hospitals have borne the brunt" of putting off the doctors' cuts, said Shawn Gremminger, a lobbyist for the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems. "It's a fairly significant hit."
The American Hospital Association, the main industry group for all kinds of hospitals, has said it is "very disappointed" with the trade. Chip Kahn, head of the Federation of American Hospitals representing for-profit institutions, said ahead of the bill's passage that it was "not in the best interest of patients or those who care for them to rob hospital Peter to pay for fiscal cliff Paul."
The Congressional Budget Office also counts $4.2 billion in savings from reducing the amount that hospitals are compensated for treating uninsured patients in 2022. This is something of an accounting trick. These cuts were first written into the 2010 health law, on the reasoning that the law would permanently insure millions of low-income Americans. The law scheduled the cuts to run through 2020. Congress already extended them to 2021, to pay for a previous delay in cuts to doctors' reimbursements. Advocates said they had expected this to happen again, and said they wouldn't be surprised to see it repeated.
This is the fifteenth time that Congress has postponed cuts to doctors' Medicare reimbursements. A 1997 budget law means that physician payments are automatically cut if broad spending targets are exceeded. But since 2002, lawmakers have put them off, with a series of temporary patches, including five in 2010 alone.
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Belgium's Royal Christmas Fight
The Christmas break: a time of goodwill, peace and forgiveness – mostly. In Belgian politics, however, there's enough bitterness, point-scoring and resentment to fill 365 days a year. The latest flashpoint: The King's speech.
Albert II, King of the Belgians, is used to taking a bigger role in his country's politics than your average hereditary monarch. He made numerous interventions to break the stalemate after the 2010 elections, talking, in private to politicians of every stripe until they came up with the six-party coalition headed by French-speaking socialist Elio di Rupo, known as the 'butterfly coalition' after the prime minister's trademark bow-tie (called a noeud papillon in French).
His Christmas message – which is written at the palace, then reviewed by the prime minister, unlike some other countries where the government scripts the Christmas speech – went beyond the usual seasonal platitudes about togetherness and helping others. In fact – uh-oh – Albert mentioned the war.
"In the turbulent times in which we live, let us be vigilant and lucid in the face of populist discourse. They are always seeking a new scapegoat for the crisis, whether from abroad or the citizens of another part of their country," his Majesty said. "The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reaction of this era must not be forgotten. We saw the harm this did to our democracies."
Noting that such movements exist in many European countries as well as Belgium, it's hard not to read the King's remarks as a little dig at the N-VA, the Flemish separatist party which, like peers in Scotland and Catalonia, wants independence from Wallonia, the poorer Southern region. Consistently winning the most votes in the North of the country, the party's charismatic leader, Bart de Wever, was quick to rise to the bait.
"Albert II isn't fulfilling his role correctly, he has chosen to pursue a divisive Kingship," Mr. De Wever wrote in an opinion piece for newspaper De Standaard. "His Christmas message was the sad pinnacle of this."
In the lengthy piece, he adds that "politicized royalty is incompatible with democracy" and responds to the war reference by mentioning Leopold III, Albert's father, going for coffee with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1940. He also calls for forming a government to be the responsibility of parliament – not the monarch.
Enough political drama? Not for Belgium, where, like a Christmas Day argument about the overcooked turkey, everyone wants to have their say. The Prime Minister joined in as well, defending his Majesty over the metaphorical Brussels sprouts.
"He didn't cite any one political party," Mr. Di Rupo was cited in daily Le Soir as saying. "The King formulated a humanist, generous and accessible Christmas message." He added, for good measure, that "one can easily understand" that the head of state would want citizens to be alert to populist pressures.
The N-VA did well in this year's local elections, with Mr. De Wever named mayor of Antwerp, the perfect launchpad for the next general election, in 2014. So the Christmas kerfuffle is probably just a foretaste of the political mudslinging we can look forward to next year.
"A Prime Minister who issues a statement to defend a speech he approved himself," tweeted Martin Buxant, co-author of Belgique: Un Roi Sans Pays (Belgium: A King Without a Country), an excellent account of the royal involvement in the 2010 political crisis. "This must be Belgium."


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Council meeting pushed back
Published: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 10:47 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 10:47 a.m.
The Thibodaux City Council has rescheduled its first meeting of 2013 to Jan. 5.
Meetings are typically held the first and third Tuesdays of each month.
The meetings are held in the Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall in downtown Thibodaux.
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The mission of the Immunology Laboratory (IML) is to investigate novel aspects of the cellular immune response to pathogens in support of the rational development of a vaccine against HIV and other lethal human viral pathogens. It is the goal of the IML to rapidly advance the latest information on ways of manipulating the immune response to HIV into practical applications in clinical trials of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. In support of this effort, we emphasize a detailed analysis of the strength, breadth, plasticity, phenotype, and functional characteristics of the cellular immune response to HIV during natural infection and how it does or does not differ from the immune response during other viral infections or that is generated after vaccination.
The overall goals of the IML are accomplished through three projects. First and foremost, understanding how the immune response affects virus acquisition and virus replication—whether in HIV, influenza, or Ebola virus infections—will be crucial in determining appropriate vaccination strategies for these pathogens. In addition, recent successes in the development of efficacious vaccines for all three of these agents allow for an interrogation of possible immune correlates. We therefore have a project to evaluate immune correlates of protection from virus infection. Based upon clinical observations, we hypothesize that not all CD4 T cells are infected equally by HIV or SIV, and these differences can affect the differential depletion of CD4 T cells specific for different pathogens. We therefore have a project to investigate HIV/SIV replication in vivo in an effort to determine what cells are infected and depleted by HIV/SIV and what cells are actively expressing HIV/SIV. A beneficial outcome of this project is the ability to specifically target HIV-expressing cells for elimination as part of a cure agenda. The final and newest project derives from the observation that most broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV have undergone extensive somatic hypermutation. We therefore investigate T follicular helper cells in HIV/SIV pathogenesis and vaccination with the goal of coming up with better strategies to induce the generation of hypermutated neutralizing antibodies to HIV through vaccination. All of the projects help inform decisions on next-generation vaccines.
Dr. Koup received his B.S. in biophysics from the University of Connecticut in 1978 and his M.S. in biochemistry from the University of Connecticut in 1979. He attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he obtained his M.D. in 1982. Dr. Koup served an internship and residency in internal medicine with the Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, from 1982 to 1985. He served in a clinical fellowship (infectious diseases) at the Worcester Memorial Hospital and a research fellowship (viral immunology), at UMass Medical Center, Worcester. Dr. Koup is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases. Dr. Koup previously held several academic appointments at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center that include chief, division of infectious disease; professor, internal medicine; professor, microbiology; and the Jay P. Sanford Professor of Infectious Diseases.
Petrovas C, Yamamoto T, Gerner MY, Boswell KL, Wloka K, Smith EC, Ambrozak DR, Sandler NG, Timmer KJ, Sun X, Pan L, Poholek A, Rao SS, Brenchley JM, Alam SM, Tomaras GD, Roederer M, Douek DC, Seder RA, Germain RN, Haddad EK, Koup RA. CD4 T follicular helper cell dynamics during SIV infection. J Clin Invest. 2012 Sep 4;122(9):3281-94.
Geldmacher C, Ngwenyama N, Schuetz A, Petrovas C, Reither K, Heeregrave EJ, Casazza JP, Ambrozak DR, Louder M, Ampofo W, Pollakis G, Hill B, Sanga E, Saathoff E, Maboko L, Roederer M, Paxton WA, Hoelscher M, Koup RA. Preferential infection and depletion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4 T cells after HIV-1 infection. J Exp Med. 2010 Dec 20;207(13):2869-81.
Casazza JP, Brenchley JM, Hill BJ, Ayana R, Ambrozak D, Roederer M, Douek DC, Betts MR, Koup RA. Autocrine production of beta-chemokines protects CMV-specific CD4 T cells from HIV infection. PLoS Pathog. 2009 Oct;5(10):e1000646.
Petrovas C, Casazza JP, Brenchley JM, Price DA, Gostick E, Adams WC, Precopio ML, Schacker T, Roederer M, Douek DC, Koup RA. PD-1 is a regulator of virus-specific CD8+ T cell survival in HIV infection. J Exp Med. 2006 Oct 2;203(10):2281-92.
Betts MR, Nason MC, West SM, De Rosa SC, Migueles SA, Abraham J, Lederman MM, Benito JM, Goepfert PA, Connors M, Roederer M, Koup RA. HIV nonprogressors preferentially maintain highly functional HIV-specific CD8+ T cells. Blood. 2006 Jun 15;107(12):4781-9.
Douek DC, Brenchley JM, Betts MR, Ambrozak DR, Hill BJ, Okamoto Y, Casazza JP, Kuruppu J, Kunstman K, Wolinsky S, Grossman Z, Dybul M, Oxenius A, Price DA, Connors M, Koup RA. HIV preferentially infects HIV-specific CD4+ T cells. Nature. 2002 May 2;417(6884):95-8.
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quote: Michigan taxpayers are paying about 10 times the going rate for electricity to generate it via these solar panels.
quote: She asked me to advise her on some solar air conditioning units they were thinking of buying because the city was getting them for its municipal buildings. That struck me as a little odd because the energy density from solar is so low while the power demand from air conditioning is rather high. But they were in the desert so I supposed it might be possible. I agreed to review the numbers for her.
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The White House has decided whether Justin Bieber will be deported or not.
Since January -- when Bieber was arrested in Miami Beach for suspicion of DUI -- 273,968 people have signed a petition to kick Bieber back over the Canadian border. A mere 100,000 signatures is necessary to get an official response from the White House.
It has responded. And, sadly, its response was incorrect.
"Sorry to disappoint, but we won't be commenting on this one," the White House's statement read, according to E! News.
"The We the People terms of participation state that, 'to avoid the appearance of improper influence, the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition.' So we'll leave it to others to comment on Mr. Bieber's case, but we're glad you care about immigration issues. Because our current system is broken."
Obviously ... with all these irritating Canadians coming here and riling up our females.
E! reported that on Sunday, Bieber promised his Twitter followers that he has changed. "This is my time off but my mind is always running. Learned a lot this past year thru trial & error but that is life. Excited for what's next," he wrote. He later tweeted, "Always push yourself to be better than the day before."
Bieber's trial on charges of driving under the influence, resisting arrest and driving without a valid driver's license, is scheduled for May 5.
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GreenPeace: Have you heard Sun Microsystems is the first with response on climate leadership
By molini on Apr 15, 2009
In March 2009, the Greenpeace organization launched an IT Climate leadership Challenge to the CEOs of some of the largest IT companies in the world asking them to stand up and be counted in support of a strong Kyoto deal this year and lead the way in providing climate solutions across the economy.
Greenpeace asked that these corporations provide real solutions for the imminent threat of global warming while also tackling the current economic crisis by turning climate change into a business opportunity. They outlined four specific criteria for IT companies as part of the challenge.
The good news is Greenpeace has recognized Sun as the IT leader. And more good news come from New York City, where Sun is being recognized as part of the Uptime Institute's Global Green 100 List. Sun's VP and Distinguished Engineer for Energy Efficiency, Subodh Bapat, is in NY to accept the prestigious award that honors the achievements of global corporations with a commitment to increasing energy efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint of their enterprise IT and datacenter operations. More information here.
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Going to college can be unbearably expensive (private school especially), and most of the expense goes toward tuition. One way to offset the cost of school is to look for scholarships. I know what you¹re thinking: "Scholarships aren't for me! I'm not smart enough! Too much competition for the things!"
Wrong on all counts. You'd be surprised by the amount of scholarships that go un-awarded because of lack of applicants. You need not be a 4.0 student or chair of the Theoretical Physics club in order to get a scholarship. A regular maestro/maestress can easily find something they have a great shot at. And unlike college, scholarships don't cost anything to apply for.
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I often remind my students that, despite their belief that they have important knowledge to communicate to the world at large through their poetry, their status as poets already suggests that they have failed to make any momentous discovery that might have otherwise contributed to the history of knowledge; otherwise, the students might have exploited this insight in far more lucrative vocations, like the sciences or even business. I remind my students that they are probably taking my class in poetry because "math is hard"--and since they have no other worthy skills, they have chosen to accept their demotion to a lowly caste of literate nobodies. I get a few nervous giggles from the students after these waggish tirades--but then I underline my argument by saying that, if students really do believe that they are communicating, heretofore undiscovered, revelations to the public, then the proper genre for transmitting such a discovery is definitely not a poem, but a press conference....
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My first reaction to this is to say "Jeez, what a creep." I mean, it sounds like what he's saying is totally antithetical to my entire life philosophy, but surely I'm overreacting, right?ReplyDelete
Um, right?
- James9/20/2007 3:47 PM
I don't know if you're overreacting, but I think he's right. Don't write because you think the world has to hear you, but because you have to say it.ReplyDelete
Love that line about a press conference ... or Oprah?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/20/2007 5:28 PM
You mean some poets actually _know_ they are losers? Another progression from the old days when poets were geniuses and scientists were losers (or rich aristocrats).ReplyDelete
A certain fiction professor I know put it much more kindly by noting first that all his books were out of print, and remarking on how he saw himself contributing a little to the river of art that passed by him. Saying it like Bok does is just obnoxious.ReplyDelete
And speaking as someone WITH other worthy (or at least more lucrative) skills who chose writing anyway, this attitude just perpetuates the denigration of the humanities that's already a bit too rampant in our society.
I'm scared. Hold me.ReplyDelete
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Ask the CEO: The Right Way to Request Maternity Leave
Welcome to Ask the CEO, in which chief executives take time out from running companies to solve your career problems.
Katia Beauchamp, 31 years old, is the co-CEO of Birchbox Inc., an online subscription service for beauty products. She co-founded Birchbox while at Harvard Business School and recently gave birth to twins. Edited excerpts:
Q: How do I ask for maternity leave?
You can first come with an update, news that your family's about to grow. Then, follow up in a few weeks with a more robust plan that's going to make everybody feel really positive about the situation. It should show you have a clear understanding of what's happening when you're out: what are the key performance indicators that are being measured, who are the point people to make sure that we're on track to achieve those results, what is the plan for any sort of decision-making that has to be escalated beyond the person that you've delegated to.
Talk about cross-training — getting different members of your team to learn new skill sets. Every organization wants their company to be more cross-trained. No one wants the vulnerability of one person being so in control of a piece of the business.
Three months is fairly standard. That's what I plan on taking. I think one of the most important things is figuring out how to set yourself up to be self-sufficient. You want the ability to be disconnected, but there will be times when you'll have questions. It's probably going to be at awkward times of the night when you're up tending to your new children, so no one's going to be there to answer them. I created a Google doc for each of my direct reports to help keep me up to date.
Ramping up a little bit toward the end , so it isn't all hitting you on day one [back at the office], seems like the logical thing. For the last month of maternity leave, I want to start easing back into everything that's happening at Birchbox. It is reasonable to say, your first or second week back, that you don't know exactly what your hours are going to be as a new mother. You might just be figuring things out with your caretaker or husband and you need your employer to know that you need flexibility.
Feeling confident, feeling like you're going to be even better at ruthlessly prioritizing your days and ruthlessly prioritizing what's important for the company, has so much to do with how you're going to feel about stepping right back in and being valued immediately.
The most important thing will be what you do, not what you say. When people actually see in practice that you have a clear sense of how you're going to handle a new stage in your career and in your life, it dissolves the worries.
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Hi I'm a newbie I recently bought a soft modded Wii from a seller some months ago. Everything worked fine back up games, homebrew apps etc. My sister was playing with my wii one day I was out and now it does not load the screen stays Black but I do not think its brick because I can still hear the Wii audio and feel the wii mote vibrate.
Please what do I do to fix this. (I have a white wii I'm not sure which version it is seeing I bought it pre soft modded)
It could also be that you set the Wii to use component cables, but you have composite plugged in.
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Getting 'Clean'
War against drugs unnecessarily costly
May 14, 2013
No wonder we are not making any headway in the war against drug abuse. The pushers are more organized than efforts to wean addicts away from their deadly ware....
This is the best editorial I have ever read in this paper! Bravo for exposing the truth about all the millions of taxpayers dollars that are being flushed down the toilet to help addicts, the majority of whom don't get clean. It's a myth that alcoholics and addicts HAVE TO get treatment to get clean. Programs like AA and NA are free. I have always disagreed with getting them on SSI and welfare to help them. Giving people things never solves anything. No wonder our drug problem is out of control. Instead of helping, our current system rewards addicts with food, shelter and medical on a no strings basis with no consequences in place for their actions if they continue to use? No wonder so many people from other states and prisons want to come to Wood County to "get clean." If someone wants to kick the ******e habit and they need the taxpayers to give them 400 dollars a day so they can get to and from treatment-boo hoo! Why don't they move closer to the clinic? This is insane!
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While I agree that waste in this program is unconscionable these programs are vital. In addition to helping the individual addict these programs; reduce crime, increase tax revenue by creating taxpayers, and ultimately reduce social service costs . Some addicts/alcoholics may be able to clean with only AA/NA but many need additional help. Also, getting sober from many drugs and quitting drinking without medical supervision and often times medication is very dangerous. An addict/alcoholic can DIE from withdrawal.Giving people "things" may not solve anything, but helping addicts get clean improves their success rate exponentially. A lot of these people have burnt every bridge and destroyed most if not all of their relationships. They are often homeless.Food, shelter and medical care and not luxuries or rewards. They are necessities. Also, if you read the letter you would have read the money does not go to the addict, it goes towards transporting the medication.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi softball team dropped a pair of losses today on the second day of play in the Troy Cox Classic at NMSU Softball Complex. The Islanders fell short 2-1 to Texas Tech earlier today before falling 5-2 to Weber State.
For the second straight day Dani Tefft propelled the Islanders' offense. The sophomore went 3-for-5 and is now 7-for-11 in the classic, which is good for a .636 batting average.
The Islanders (2-6) will conclude play in New Mexico Sunday at 9 a.m. MST against Iowa State.
For the latest information, follow Islanders Softball on Twitter and Instagram (@IslandersSball) and Facebook (Islanders Softball).
A&M - Corpus Christi jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the third, but a costly error in the fourth and a bases loaded walk in the fifth lifted the Red Raiders to a 2-1 victory over the Islanders.
Tefft and Valerie Perez each went 2-for-3 to lead the Islanders' bats while Mickayla Cochran and Lindsey Lyles each collected one hit apiece. The Red Raiders outhit the Islanders 9-6.
The Islanders' bats got hot in the top of the second with two hits and into the third to take a 1-0 lead. Tefft led the inning with her fifth hit of the weekend with a single to right field. Mackinzee Griebel then stepped to the plate and registered the sacrifice bunt to move Tefft to second. Cochran followed with a hit by pitch before Brittney Morse's fielder's choice to shortstop sent Cochran to second. Perez then drilled an RBI single to center field to score Cochran and put the Islanders on the board.
The Red Raiders evened the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the fourth. Cassie McClure hit a leadoff double to right field before scoring on a stolen base to third and a throwing error by the Islanders.
Texas Tech added another run in the bottom of the fifth to push ahead 2-1. Samantha Camello started things off with a single to left field. She then advanced to second on a walk before landing on third on Kristi Belshi's single. With no outs and the bases loaded, Lea Hopson walked to score Camello and put the Red Raiders in front. The Islanders escaped the bases loaded jam as Carter tallied back-to-back strikeouts and Lyles recorded the third out of the inning at third.
Carter (2-2) recorded a career-high six strikeouts in the loss. The freshman allowed nine hits, two runs and walked three in six innings.
Brittany Talley (3-0) secured the victory for Texas Tech. She allowed five hits, one run while striking out three in five innings. Gretchen Aucoin earned the save in two innings. She limited the Islanders to one hit and one walk while recording three strikeouts.
The Islanders fell behind early 3-0 and Weber State's MaCauley Flint gave up just one earned run to lead her team to a 5-2 victory. Griebel and Tefft went 1-for-2 and Cochran, Jackson and Galloway notched one hit apiece to help the Islanders' offense.
Weber State posted the first run of the game in the bottom of the second on a pair of hits. After a fly out to Tefft in left field, Alyson Kulp reached on a bunt and advanced to second after Katelyn Robinson was hit by the pitch. After Mackenzi Corta poked an infield single, Kulp scored on a Malia Campos ground out. A fly out to Griebel in right field pulled the Islanders out of the frame leaving two stranded.
The Wildcats added two runs in the bottom of the fourth, and one in the fifth and sixth. Sara Hingsberger led things off in the fourth with a single through the left side and Kulp followed suit with a single to center field. With runners on first and second Katelyn Robinson hit an infield single to load the bases. With Kylee Hogue at the plate, the Islanders gave up a passed ball and Hingsberger scored for a 2-0 Weber State lead. The Wildcats added another run in the frame after Hogue walked, Campos reached on a fielder's choice and Rudi Barrios hit a sacrifice fly to Griebel in right field to score Robinson and extend the Wildcats' lead to 3-1.
Weber State tacked on another run in the bottom of the fifth after a walk and a hit by pitch put runners on first and second for the Wildcats. Davis hit into a ground double play but Jasmine Ioane, who reached on a hit by pitch landed on second on the play. Hingsberger then reached on an Islanders' throwing error and Ioane scored for the Wildcats' fourth run of the game.
The Islanders' bats caught fire in the top of the sixth to plate two runs to pull within two. Michelle Sorenson jumpstarted the offense by reaching on an infield error and Tefft moved her to second on a single to left field. After a passed ball advanced Sorenson to third and Tefft to second, Griebel ripped a sacrifice fly to left field to plate Sorenson and put the Islanders' on the board. Cochran kept things going with her first double of the year with a dropper to right center to score Tefft and trim the Wildcats lead to two. However, Flint retired the next two Islanders to escape the inning.
Weber State answered back with a run in the bottom of the sixth. Corta walked to start the inning and Campos followed with an infield double to place runners on second and third. After Constance Brandenburg struck out the next Wildcat, Brooke Silva hit a RBI ground out to score Corta and tack on another run for Weber State. Perez pulled the Islanders out of the frame with a ground out.
Katie Blanar (0-2) took the loss for the Islanders in three innings. The freshman allowed six hits and three runs, while walking two. Brandenburg came in for relief and limited the Wildcats to just one hit and one earned run, while walking three and striking out one in three innings.
Flint (2-1) sealed the victory for the Wildcats. She allowed five hits and one earned run, while recording eight strikeouts in seven innings.


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Hannibal-LaGrange University will be hosting two special events during the upcoming Christmas season.
Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 29-Dec. 1, the HLGU Theatre Department will present the comedic production "The Curious Savage," by John Patrick. Performances will be at 7 p.m. in the Parker Theatre of the Roland Fine Arts Center.
Cost for admission is $10 a ticket (at the door), $9 in advance, and $8 for senior adults or groups of 10 or more. To reserve group tickets, call the Theatre box office, at (573) 629-3182. Box office hours (for ticket pick up prior to show nights) are: Monday and Wednesday from 3-4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday from noon – 1 p.m.
HLGU's Music Department will host its annual Christmas Concert on at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Parker Theatre of the Roland Fine Arts Center. This festive concert will showcase the University Choir and Band. The concert is free and open to the public.
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February 14, 2006
The first call came in to 9-1-1 just before one o'clock Tuesday morning. Two men were shot at the Dogwood Terrace Apartments near 2nd and 3rd Avenues. With no one in jail and 28-year-old Ephelius Bryant dead, some there want to know what went wrong. News 12 reports from an area that many say is patrolled 24/7.
Hours after a deadly shooting, people that live in Dogwood Terrace Apartments walk where Ephelius Bryant died, but have little to say about what happened.
"I couldn't really tell you what happened," one resident said.
"I just heard a bunch of people crying and stuff and that's when I ran out to them," another said.
What drew blue lights and a crowd started here in this fire lane between 2nd and 3rd Avenue.
"I ain't friggin' to come out the door with no gunshots," a resident said.
Some neighbors say they heard up to nine gunshots in the night. The crime tape is still up on a nearby tree where a deputy says Bryant was shot, then dragged through this alley to 3rd Avenue by a family member trying to help him.
"He was everybody's friend, that was a peacemaker, he wasn't, that's one of the reasons he got shot in his back that was a sign of him walking away from trouble, not into trouble," another resident said.
This man, like everyone else we talked to on camera, didn't give his name but told us people around here know Bryant as "Fifi."
People who live in this neighborhood say deputies patrol the area 24/7 looking for drugs and trouble, but they say last night they took way too long to get here.
"They ride through to check on drugs. Why can't you just ride through here to check on an innocent bystander walking by? People don't care about anybody, they'll shoot anybody," a neighbor said.
News 12 has learned a deputy was on the scene within minutes of the shooting and investigators say there are more apartment complexes than patrols.
But questions still remain and for many a close friend is no longer around.
"That's why they call him the man of the neighborhood, he meant something to all of us, you know I lost a friend and it hurts," one friend said.
There are no arrests yet. Some neighbors tell News 12 Bryant was on his way to take a Valentine's Day to his daughter when he was killed.


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Inside Delhi's Red Light District
Mayank Austen Soofi spent three years documenting the lives of people living and working in Delhi's red light district. His book "Nobody Can Love You More," which has just been published by Penguin India, is a glimpse inside the world of the women, men and children who live in the brothels or kothas on Garstin Bastion Road in Old Delhi.
The author tells The Wall Street Journal's India Real Time how he ended up writing about this area and how the experience changed him. Edited excerpts:
The Wall Street Journal: Your first encounter with the people who live and work in the brothel of number 300 GB Road was as an English teacher for their children. What drew you to teach there?
Mayank Austen Soofi: I wanted to gain an entry into the homes of women who worked in the red light area. So I happily accepted an offer to teach English to children at the brothel in kotha No. 300. There was nothing strategic about it except an eagerness to see that marginalized world from inside. I had no plans to write a book. Being a blogger who writes about Delhi and its people, I merely wanted to make sense of GB Road which, to be sure, was not just another neighborhood in the city. Soon I started visiting No. 300 every evening. After a few more months, I stopped being a tutor and become a part of the kotha's extended family.
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SAN JOSE -- The founder of San Jose State University's quidditch team has no doubts that in another decade or so, her beloved broom-riding, ball-chucking game that was ripped from the pages of boy-wizard fiction will be an Olympic event.
"Look at curling," said 26-year-old Emily Knight, taking a friendly poke at the other broom-based sport. "If that can be in the Olympics, why can't quidditch?"
Knight formed the Original Wizarding League of Spartan -- or OWLS -- in February 2010, making it the Bay Area's oldest quidditch team. This weekend, she joins 11 of her teammates who might not ever be on the Olympic team, but are in South Carolina along with 79 other crews to play in the sport's seventh World Cup bracket -- a first for a CSU team. It's an international event, with teams making their way from Canada and Australia to throw the quaffle, hurl the bludgers and attempt to seize the elusive and wily golden snitch.
Do what with the who now?
For those not in the know, muggles quidditch is a game born in 2005 at Middlebury College in Vermont, where students decided to recreate the high-flying, fast-paced sport from the Harry Potter books and movies. Some liberties had to be taken in quidditch's transition from fantasy land, as science has not been able to develop a flying human-carrying broom or the tiny sentient winged orb -- the snitch -- that needs to be caught to end the game.
But nonmagical humans -- "muggles," in Potter-speak -- can be a crafty lot, so quidditch was reimagined as a ground-based running game. Somewhat deflated volleyballs and dodgeballs work as the quaffle and bludgers, while the snitch is a yellow-garbed player who has a tennis ball in a tube sock hanging from the waist. And the essential brooms? Well, the "brooms" are usually yardlong lengths of plastic pipe that are ridden like a hobby-horse and don't go airborne unless there's been a particularly spectacular check in the full-contact coed game.
"(Plastic pipe) is durable and safe," said OWLS captain Kyle Campbell, 23. "We've played with wooden brooms, and they've broke."
Since its inception, quidditch has rapidly grown in popularity and now has more than 300 teams organized in the United States, most at colleges including Stanford and UC Berkeley. Those universities will be represented at the World Cup, along with a Mountain View-based community team called the Silicon Valley Skrewts. According to Logan Anbinder, a spokesman for the International Quidditch Association, all told 1,600 players and up to 4,000 spectators are expected to take part in a "festival atmosphere where the competitive and whimsical sides come together," including a performance by wizard-rock band Harry and the Potters.
Professional brooms will be available for purchase, including the industry-standard Shadow Chaser model from a company whose specialty is "fine handcrafted magic wands." Competition brooms may sound like a niche market, but they're not the only ones in the business -- a startup company is making fiberglass models with "an ergonomic saddle design, creating a comfortable yet snug fit along the sit bones and point-of-contact in pelvises of all genders."
"There are the Joe Thorntons of quidditch, and there are quidditch fantasy leagues," Campbell said.
At an unusual rainy-day indoor practice this week, seven men and five women of the OWLS squad went through the motions, from the initial kneeling eyes-down stance through the cry of "brooms up" and into action, jostling each other for balls and goals.
"I describe it as rugby combined with dodgeball, flag-football and hide-and-go-seek," said Elizabeth Barcelos, 28.
"It's similar to lacrosse, rugby, flag-football, wrestling and capture the flag," said Campbell, 23.
There are players with bad reputations and there are injuries. Quidditch players like to tell tales about wounds suffered on the field -- bloodied lips and noses, concussions, torn cartilage. There's reverent talk of a broom-impalement incident in Mountain View when a wooden stick broke and its sharp end was driven into a player's armpit.
And there's controversy. Some involved in the game want to detach it from Harry Potter, drop the magic connection and take it to a realm where it might be taken more seriously.
"We do want people to know that we're more than a Harry Potter fan club," Campbell said. "It's really a sport that defines our generation. It's coed and inclusive of any gender, and it's not just an easy little game, it's a physically demanding sport. People have these thoughts -- they think it's a nerd club, or its all about the movies, but it's so much more."
Anbinder of the quidditch association said he's watched that tension on his own team in the four years he's played. He got into it as a Potter fan but saw it slowly pick up in terms of skill and athleticism.
"What happens is you'll have a varsity athlete walking across campus see people playing, and it looks really cool, and they'll bring more people into it," he said. "There's an increasing intensity and skill level that's frustrating to some players."
He said that while the quidditch association caters to all players, "first and foremost we recognize it as a sport that has developed so far beyond Harry Potter, even people like myself see it."
But OWLS founder Knight said there's something special about quidditch that does have to do with the geek factor.
"You'll see people get into it who are really socially awkward, fan-fiction writing nerds, and they'll be at practice along with lacrosse players," she said. "It's a really diverse group."
Knight added that it's a "fun, family feeling" where players bond in their "love for a fictional world."
"I get it, I see why people would want to distance the sport from that," she said. "But that would be abandoning our roots."
The San Jose State University Owls will be playing in the World Cup competition Saturday, with pool games followed by playoffs Sunday. Results and streaming video can be seen at www.iqaworldcup.com.


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Council suspends longevity pay
Vote split 6-3 during final reading of ordinance
May 15, 2013
PARKERSBURG — Following a lively debate, a divided Parkersburg City Council approved the final reading of an ordinance suspending longevity pay for employees on Tuesday....
why? the city puts that money they get from those working in the form as with-holding is put in an interest bearing account. it remains in such an account. the city is still drawing in such an account. if you are on SSI you receive c.o.l.a. increases. the person put in the money when the eccon. isn't as high as now. therefor - the benefits should track c.o.l.a.
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Longevity should mean something. Employees loyal to the city of Parkersburg should be rewarded for their experience and knowledge that they have acquired throughout the years of service. These employees know how to do their job more efficiently with higher quality in less time. The city council is being penny wise and pound foolish.
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Why give employees a raise on the back of citizens. If city needs user fee then they don't have money for raises.like I said before if employees don't like it let them get in the unemployment line with everyone else
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Police said a man entered the US Bank in the 2300 block of Bardstown Road, waited in line, approached the teller window, demanded cash and fled in an unknown direction.
Police described the robber as white, 35-40 years of age, between 6-feet 2-inches and 6-feet 3-inches tall and weighing between 185 and 190 pounds.
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Saturday afternoon's thunderstorm is being cited for a pair of power outages, according to the Board of Public Works.
The first outage, which darkened the downtown area and north of Mark Twain Avenue, was reported at 3:05 p.m. Service was restored in 90 minutes.
The other outage occurred at 4:25 p.m. It impacted the Westfall and Riverside areas. Power was back on in 75 minutes.
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Clue wrote:I've played Giant's Ridge. It's not all that great. Most of it is uphill, and depending on conditions there can be a lot of nasty tall grass. It's basically a lot taller version of Sleepy Hollow. The golf courses on the other hand... Heading up with a group to play those next weekend.
I looked at the course on DG Review and this is EXACTLY what I thought.


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Debabrata Ghosh
Apr 20, 2013
Best product with best priceDo not believe in those who says that norton slows your system. It is a great product and keeps your PC healthy. Only one request to norten, instead of people going for a norten 360 you can add one or two essential features of norten 360 in the antivirus itself.