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04 September 2008
Delany's Jewel-Hinged Jaw: June 2009
Aside from my excitement at having these essays back in print (including "To Read The Dispossessed", which alone is more than worth the price of the book), I'm particularly excited for this edition because I got the opportunity to write the introduction. I owe Justine Larbalestier more than I could ever offer her, because she put Chip in touch with me, and one day I returned home from work to a message on my answering machine: "Hello, Matthew Cheney, this is Samuel Delany..." I almost fell over. Then he asked if I'd do him the tremendous favor of writing the introduction to a book of his. And I think I did fall over.
Since then, I not only wrote the intro to Jewel-Hinged Jaw, but also to the reissue of Starboard Wine that will be coming out from Wesleyan in (fingers crossed) the fall of '09. Much as I admire Jewel-Hinged Jaw, it's the Starboard Wine reissue that will, I hope, set the world on fire. When it was first published, not many copies of SW got released, and getting your hands on one can be a challenge. Jewel-Hinged Jaw shows Delany's growth as a critic, and it shows him discovering all sorts of new influences, which is great fun to watch. But Starboard Wine is more coherent and more consistent, and it is, I think, a book that could have had a tremendous effect on science fiction criticism, because though many of the ideas within it get echoed or reiterated in Delany's more easily accessible (in every sense of the word) books, essays such as "Dichtung und Science Fiction" bring various ideas together that he has seldom brought together anywhere else. I hope the reissue brings it the attention it deserves, and that the ideas are discussed and debated for a long time to come.
In any case, I'll have more to say as the publication date of Jewel-Hinged Jaw approaches, along with some excerpts and out-takes from the intro (it went through an intense and fruitful drafting process).
Meanwhile, if you're in the mood to pre-order something from Wesleyan that will be released this year (and I know you are!), they're bringing out My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, which should be one of the great publishing events of the year. More on Spicer's connections to Philip K. Dick -- and Samuel Delany -- at another time...
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- Anonymous9/04/2008 7:43 PM
Congratulations. Can't wait to read your intros. So fabulous that both those books are finally going to be back in print.ReplyDelete
I've been in awe of Mr Delany since I was a kid. It's good to hear of his texts being reissued. One day I hope to meet him. Is he still teaching?ReplyDelete
Oh yes, Chip's still teaching -- he's at Temple University these days. A good way to keep up with events where he'll be present is via the Delany-list Yahoo group. (That's where I first found out that JHJ had made it to Amazon.)ReplyDelete
Exciting news indeed. I've had both of these titles on my list of books to seek out for a while -- now all I have to do is wait a year and I can get them new and shiny, with your Intros :-) It's a mumpsimusal world we live in.ReplyDelete
Looks like I've found another blog to read!!! Lord, will I ever leave this computer again? Could I maybe go outside at some point today, and enjoy the already fall weather of Wyoming?
I was looking for the origin of the phrase "alright, already" and found a discussion on your blog about "all right" versus "alright," back in April.
Do you, or any of your readers, know the origins of that phrase?
Jan (Who will keep on eye on your blog from now on.)
Holy crap! Do they know who you aren't??ReplyDelete
Yet famous!ReplyDelete
I was just reading about Starboard Wine and I really want to read it, but the NYPL doesn't have it, nor do the Brooklyn or Queens libraries. The only copy I could find was a used one on Amazon for $175! So yeah, get this thing back into print post-haste. Here's one guaranteed sale for you.
- Anonymous5/14/2009 8:51 PM
Will we ever see The American Shore in print again? Did Disch and Delany patch up before he (TMD) passed on?ReplyDelete
Alas, I don't think American Shore will be reprinted any time soon. I'm not really comfortable revealing much in public beyond what people can learn of Disch's feelings via the LiveJournal he kept before his death (though I would caution against taking his words as, to use a term he might enjoy, gospel), but it's clear from that that he did not wish for The American Shore to be reprinted, and the last I knew, Chip intended to honor those wishes. It's an unfortunate situation, because the book is a tour de force, but most of the ideas within it about SF, etc., are conveyed in Starboard Wine, and copies of The American Shore are much easier to find via used booksellers and inter-library loan than Starboard Wine, so the need for a reprint is a little bit less urgent.ReplyDelete


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STOCKTON - Gunfire from a park across Center Street struck the west side of City Hall just as council members were settling in for the closed-session portion of their meeting late Tuesday afternoon.
No one was struck inside or outside City Hall during the 3:35 p.m. shooting, said Officer Joe Silva, spokesman for the Stockton Police Department, and no suspect has been identified.
The council members didn't hear the shots, Councilman Elbert Holman said, and there was no mention of the incident during the public session at Tuesday night's meeting, which began about two hours after the shots were fired.
"The first I heard of any of this is now," Holman said Wednesday morning.
As many as four shots were fired from the northern portion of Weber Point Park, Silva said. Witnesses told police the 14- to 18-year-old male shooter was wearing a dark-hooded sweatshirt and dark jeans.
Bullet fragments hit a lower wall of City Hall, as well as a window and window sill, Silva said. The shooter and possible intended victims fled the scene before officers arrived. Silva did not say what type of firearm was used.
"Obviously this shooting is concerning to the Police Department because it's another daytime shooting where there is a lot of pedestrian and vehicle traffic," Silva said. "We're very lucky that there were no injuries because of this brazen shooting."
Police have asked that anyone with information call (209) 937-8377, Crime Stoppers at (209) 946-0600, or submit a tip on the Stockton Police Department Facebook page. Tipsters can remain anonymous. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards up to $10,000.
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I just bought a Remington 870 Super Mag in Max 4 camp so I could get into duck hunting finally. Any thoughts on whats the best ammo to cycle through it for ducks? Ive heard of alot of fancy ammo's such as "Blindside" "Black Cloud", are there any differences or is it like man jewlery.
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If you are shoot decoying ducks with it then 1) go get some low cost traditional round steel loads like Rem Sportsman, Fed Speed-shok or even Win Xpert (not quite round) loads, 2) use #2, #3 or #4 size pellets, 3) get your factory IC and Mod chokes and 4) go shoot some patterns at the distance you shoot your ducks. Chances are a 1 1/8 or 1 1/4 oz load will take care of any duck killin business you have.
Patterning results form a 12-gauge 3" Remington 870 Special Purpose with a 28" barrel and factory flush Rem-chokes (patterns average of five, 30" post-shot scribed circle, yardage taped muzzle to target, and in-shell pellet count average of five).
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As you can see from the pattern numbers, those are dead ducks if I do my part and put the pattern on the duck!
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Like Joe said, pattern cheap stuff. If you buy expensive shells and they pattern good..... use them if you don't mind spending the money. Its all about what you like and what works well for you. As for me, cheap shells kill plenty of ducks and it is more economical for me.
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Another thing I was wondering about is if anyone knows if the 870 jamming problem has been fixed? I havent been able to cycle any rounds through mine yet
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i just picked up a new 870 also.havnt gotten out with it yet but i plan to pattern it with the cheap stuff.my dad use to always buy the cheap stuff for his wing master and my old 20ga 870 and we killed lots of ducks and geese.
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I bought a new 870 express before last season and have been pleased with it. I killed a lot of ducks with it and never jammed once. I tried a lot of different ammo brands, Hevy Metal worked real well for me and patterned the best. I used mostly modified and some imp. Thinking about a light modified for next season.
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Thats good to hear, I've been nervous to shoot it after reading the hundreds upon hundreds of negative posts about the 870 jamming and made me regret my purchase. I'm going to cycle alot of rounds through it this weekend. Thanks for the input
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thats why i got mine early so i can shoot it and if it needs to go back to remington i wont miss hunting season.
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NC Youth of the Year
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The Boys & Girls Club statewide organization named Hendersonville High senior Aleigha Edwards its North Carolina Youth of the Year on Saturday in Greensboro.
Taking the highest honor a member of the local Boys & Girls Club can receive in January, Edwards was named Youth of the Year for Henderson County and moved onto state competition. Her victory at the state level was announced in an item posted on the club's Facebook page.
State winners each receive $1,000 scholarships and will go on to participate in regional competitions. The National Youth of the Year is eligible for a $50,000 scholarship and is installed by the president of the United States.
After she won her local title, Edwards described how the Boys and Girls Club helped her overcome negative peer pressure and feelings of insecurity and emerged from it, "focused, compassionate, empowered and inspired."
She hopes to study elementary education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Rocky Face, GA - The 19th-ranked Georgia men's golf team finished second in the season-opening Carpet Capital Collegiate Championship on Sunday at The Farm Golf Club.
The Bulldogs posted a final-round 6-over 294 to wind up at 8-under 856. Texas, the defending national champion, came in first at 13-under 851 and Alabama, the 2012 NCAA runner-up, was third at 1-over 865.
"This was a big tournament for us," Georgia coach Chris Haack said. "We had a lot of good things happen for us, and we can build on those moving forward. We're also a little hungry because we didn't win the tournament, which was our main goal. So we'll get back to work and keep getting better as the fall goes on. I am really proud of all the guys for the way they played."
Senior T.J. Mitchell, freshman Lee McCoy and junior Joey Garber all shot 1-over 73s on Sunday. Junior Keith Mitchell added a 3-over 75 and sophomore Nicholas Reach had the non-counting score of 4-over 76.
T.J. Mitchell placed second in the individual race at 8-under 206, two shots behind Texas' Brandon Stone. McCoy placed eighth at 4-under 212 in his collegiate debut and Garber had a top-20 finish as he came in 19th at 3-over 219. Keith Mitchell was 26th at 5-over 221 and Reach was 56th at 10-over 226.
The Bulldogs will return to action Sept. 23-25 at the PING/Golfweek Preview in Alpharetta, Ga.


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Here's a lower-in-fat-and-salt take on my mother's original recipe. I substituted fresh ingredients like garlic, mushrooms and onions for dried onion soup mix and garlic powder, etc. It's still dense, hearty and tastes like home. —Brenda Moehringer, Gansevoort, New York
- 1 egg white
- 1 tablespoon steak sauce
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 5 medium fresh mushrooms, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
- 1/3 cup finely chopped sweet onion
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried sage leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 pound lean ground beef (90% lean)
- Barbecue sauce, optional
- In a large bowl, combine the first 11 ingredients. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into a loaf; place in an 11-in. x 7-in. baking dish coated with cooking spray.
- Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until no pink remains and a meat thermometer reads 160°. Let stand for 10 minutes before slicing. Drizzle with barbecue sauce if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as My Take on Mom's Meat Loaf in Healthy Cooking August/September 2009, p55
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"Husband and I thought it tasted funny. I don't think the sage or the mushrooms work very well in this recipe. Also, steak sauce and Worcestershire both?? Won't make again."
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"Very nice meatloaf. Did not have the mushrooms, but it was great. Served it w/ TOH Veggie Tossed Salad and yukon gold potatoes. Low carb was the reason I tried the meatloaf."


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In my last post, I was overflowing with praise for the value of Ubuntu for the non-profit world and said I'd discuss "how Ubuntu works" in this entry. Well "how" is beyond my technical expertise and is undoubtedly a complex dance of 0s and 1s and static electricity. What I meant was a little less technical and more practical... just the joy of using it. After working for years in social services, the concept that software should be free, that people the world over should be able to have access to a base level of technology that will level the playing field for communications and potentially e-commerce is a value I share. I once set up a voice mail system for homeless people to maintain communication with their families and physicians based around this philosophy. This is great stuff!
Non-profits need to maximize resources—free software is an opportunity; but just because it's free doesn't necessarily mean it's useful. Recently, you'd have to be an experienced geek to make Linux a functional part of your organization and to be using GNU/Linux as your desktop environment would have been crazy...difficult for the average non-profit user to wrap their heads around after spending the day counseling people with AIDS, helping abused children, training mentally ill people or sheltering the homeless. But Ubuntu has changed that.
A search for Ubuntu through Free Sofware Magazine will give you plenty of information including a good article by Mark Rais in setting up Ubuntu users. One of the things to check out first prior to running this system is whether or not your printers have Linux drivers...check this, I didn't and one of my printers is sidelined at this point.
After using Unix, Wang, Mac OS, DOS and Windows for twenty years, I was an addict nervously installing Ubuntu on my Dell. I had sweaty palms, stomach butterflies, visions of blue screens of death and the fear of complete confusion. But after the splash music my trepidation gave way to joy and I've never looked back. Why? The first thing is the ability to run multiple desktops. With the installation of the Beryl manager I have four desktops arranged on a cube that I can flip around with my mouse wheel enabling many applications to be open at the same time and organized into separate working environments.
The Beryl manager also comes with some eye candy. My application windows have transparency ability, they wobble when moved, have lots of closing and hiding features that make the interface fun to use and are kinda MAC-ish.
Another great feature is the package managers that organize 100s of tested applications for download. Should I wish to install the free equivalent of Adobe's Photo Shop—GIMP—I select the program under the system/administration directory through the Synaptic Package Manager and the system goes out into the software universe, downloads GIMP and installs it...all without necessitating a reboot or even slowing down. I don't have to check my budget, requisition the software from Purchasing, plead with my manager or build a use case for purchase. I just click and work.
I can download applications for finding music, books and video through peer to peer systems; there are accounting systems like GNUCash which is like Quicken and other consumer level financial management systems and may be appropriate for smaller non-profits and charities. There are website development tools, databases systems and technical tools for developers.
The most popular from an agency perspective will be the Office Suite. Ubuntu comes with Open Office which provides word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database development, and drawing. If you publish newsletters, you have access to Scribus a free desktop page layout program for producing commercial grade output.
One of the best features is the security around Linux. I do not worry about hackers, trojan horses and viruses because of the built in security and Linux's inherent imperviousness to security hacks.
So not only do I not look back, but I am so excited about the future my eyes are getting strained... but I can probably find some free software to fix that too.
Access to free software
While a lot of free (as in freedom) software is available at no cost, this is a bonus, and not to be taken for granted - free software developers would be homeless too if they were not allowed to earn money on their free (as in freedom) software. Your article could be improved by making clear this issue. As it stands now, you seem only to praise getting something for nothing, and I can't tell from the article if that was your intention or not.
True, but...
In the context of non-profits, this approach makes sense. Non-profits almost always rely on free pro-bono consulting, so they're liable to get both software and consulting for free.
Of course, there are some non-profits that would have the funding to contract free software development programs.
It may not be the aspect of greatest importance to you, but for people with limited funds (and usually an abundance of volunteer labor), the fact that free software is as a practical matter also zero-cost is a definite advantage.
Free as in gratis OR a big headache approaching
Although most of the software can come for free you must -- even for non-profit -- count on migration, training and, most important, porting of some pieces of code that can be even made in Visual Basic 3, Clipper (I saw it), or Microsoft Excel or Access and adapt many Microsoft Word templates to other FOSS Office packages.
Also many have very old machines so plain Ubuntu may not serve but Xubuntu may work and many times it is needed to redefine the hardware distribution by the tasks required.
And not even to mention Dual Boots and misc networking models with Mac, Mac OSX, Netware over DOS, Microsoft Windows and even legacy Unix.
And you must count with supporting over time. It can cost money, even if just to cover some beers, food and transports.
This article can be misleading and pro-bono consulting companies could even do it for free (as in gratis) or just for a small fee or other financing tricks like sponsoring deductible in yearly taxes, but non-profit SHOULD never start with the idea that there will be some crazy geeks to hold their hand always and forever.
Just my €0,02
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True...one must consider many things beyond price and philosophy is one of them, but not all of them :)
Open source is for profits
In my experience non-profits want to have MS software (so they have what the big companies have) and companies would like to have open source software (so they can cut down licenses-costs and get out of vendor lock-in).
The strategy for open source advocacy should focus on the profit sector.
open source is for non-profits with a community conscience
anonymous coward is not speaking for all non-profits. Non-profits are not trying to have what the big companies have. That's absurd and without evidence. Non-profits like the one I work for are trying to get as much work done as possible for as little money as possible, while operating within legal and moral boundaries. For a non-profit like my employer, free software (free as in "free speech" not "free beer") promotes community which is wholly compatible with our non-profit's mission.
Non-profits need the programs that have the same applications as the big companies but we don't have to have what they have.


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Coping with it all
For many people, a sense of relief accompanies starting treatment: "At last, I'm doing something to fight the cancer cells in my body." Your initial uncertainty and anticipation are over, and you have renewed hope and the feeling of getting back in control of your life.
I feel sometimes as if I'm caught in a gigantic bunch of moving gears. I panic for a minute . . . then take a deep breath and realize things aren't so bad. I'm actually coping well with a lot of stuff and the panicky feelings get back under control.
- Judy, a forty-year-old chef with leukemia, reflecting on her early treatment
It is only in quite recent years that oncologists . . . have begun to confront squarely the emotional impact of [cancer and its treatment] and the fact that emotional states play a large role in the tolerability of treatment and, perhaps, in the outcome as well. . . . To many patients, stunned by the [cancer] diagnosis . . . it is like being trapped in the workings of a huge piece of complicated machinery.
- Lewis Thomas, M.D., physician-philosopher
Now begins the time of coping with the actual treatment. Waiting for your first treatment, you may feel a return of that fear of the unknown, which goes along with facing any new, unfamiliar, and potentially frightening experience. The "horror stories" we've all heard, of how difficult cancer treatments were in the earlier days can add to the fears. Surgery used to be more radical, meaning a bigger incision, more scarring, more pain, and a longer, more difficult recovery. Radiation doses were less controlled, causing more tissue damage, and chemotherapy was given without the medications that are used today to control the side effects of nausea and vomiting. One woman expressed it as, "Oh, yes, I had the chemo-terror!" This fear of what's coming, which is often based on misinformation and misperceptions, can be greatly reduced by asking your doctor to walk you verbally through exactly what is going to happen, step by step, in advance, like a rehearsal for the main event. This exercise reduces stage fright, or "treatment fright." When you are well informed about what you will go through, you can mentally prepare yourself for each event, becoming less fearful and more self-confident about dealing with each other.
What makes coping easier?
Several factors tend to make coping with cancer and its treatment easier-or harder. Factors that can help you cope:
Being a person who is . . .
Generally positive towards life
Able to make one day at a time, to deal with the immediate
Optimistic and unlikely by nature to feel helpless during a crisis
Able to meet a challenge (like treatment) head-on
Not prone to become highly stressed in the face of challenges (treatment)
Able to commit to a goal and "hang in" (fighting spirit)
Able to see the humorous side of negative things ("black" humor)
Having enough information about the treatment, its goals, and possible side effects.
Having a caring medical team that is supportive and reassuring.
Having a caring nurse who can interpret the doctor's communications.
Having support from others (family, friends).
Having belief system or philosophy of life that gives meaning to stressful situations.
Seeking counseling to change behaviors or ways of coping that are counter-productive.
Factors that can hinder how you cope:
Being a person who is . . .
Generally negative toward life and its problems
Unable to think one day at a time and worries about the future
Pessimistic by nature and can easily feel helpless in the face of stress
Apt to try to avoid a challenge when possible
Prone to become nervous and distressed in the face of challenge
Reluctant to persist in the face of stress and can easily become overwhelmed and feel hopeless
Unable to see the funny side of a situation or to take oneself less seriously
Feeling inadequately informed about the nature of the treatment: the need for it and its goals and side effects
Having a medical team that communicates poorly and doesn't convey a sense of caring
Feeling isolated, without a person with whom to share the stress
Having no personal philosophy of life or belief system that gives you perspective on adverse events
Personality and coping
Personality is first and foremost. It is clear that certain personality and coping styles augur well for coping effectively with treatment. They are largely enduring qualities that one simply has or doesn't have. Each of us copes with crisis and adversity in a slightly different way, but if you tend to be optimistic in your outlook and to "see the glass as half-full" (or, even better, three-quarters full) rather than "half empty," you're apt to be less distressed and less likely to anticipate the worst. People cope better when they face a problem or crisis head-on, rather than try to avoid the inevitable or count on its going away (the old ostrich, head-in the-sand syndrome). Successful copers tend to feel challenged rather than thrown or defeated by a problem, and they believe they can master it. They also demonstrate a "fighting spirit," committing themselves to a goal, hanging in, and following through.
Don't despair if you weren't born with these traits. Your cancer doesn't know it. Your personality traits affect how you behave, not how the cancer behaves. Some people seem to be born pessimistic, just as others seem like born alarmists or complainers; that's how they see the world and it's how they let off steam. People with these so-called negative characteristics can also get through cancer and survive it well. If you fall into this category or find it hard to hang in through tough times, you need to compensate by getting extra support from friends, family, your oncology team, or a counselor. Talking with a cancer survivor who has gone through the same treatment can be helpful; someone who is living proof that you can make it becomes a beacon of hope. (The OCF message board for example.) Practical advice from survivors has a credibility that other people's advice lacks, because you know they have been there. Many hospitals and cancer centers have peer counseling programs, in which survivors of the same cancer you have are available to talk with you about what to expect as you go through treatment. If no such program is available, ask if you can talk with someone who has had the same cancer you have.
If you have traits that might lead to poor coping, it is important to be alert early in your treatment to how you are doing. Ask for help, since some of these negative coping styles can be turned around, making it easier for you to go through your treatment. Psychological help is available through individual sessions or in groups with other cancer patients. Both are aimed at reducing distress, which is often relieved just by sharing your feelings about your illness and treatment with someone who listens and understands.
Your beliefs
Having or developing a philosophy of life or a belief system can give you a perspective for going through treatment in a way that makes it easier for you to tolerate the rough spots. Barbara White Fishman, artist and philanthropist, put it this way:
For me, knowing that I was seriously ill opened doors and opportunities that have truly enriched my life. It is through cancer that I have rediscovered my love of painting and refocused my energies to help others. Both have given me tremendous strength and satisfaction. There is a positive side in that cancer often serves as a wake-up call, that life is precious and each moment should be appreciated. I would not have taken time to discover who I am and what life is about if I hadn't developed cancer. It sounds strange but I consider it a gift from God.
Some other factors are harder to control, since they're not personal factors, but they count strongly in making coping with treatment easier. Feeling you understand the reason for the treatment, its goals and side effects and other options available to you, makes it easier to stay the course and keep a rational approach, especially when it gets rough. For example, you might feel like throwing in the towel if your first chemo treatment leaves you feeling wiped out. But if the doctor explains that only a complete cycle of chemo treatments can give you the best chance of getting rid of your cancer, you will probably find the resolve to do whatever is needed to try to "beat it."
Troubling side effects such as hair loss from chemotherapy become easier or at least possible to bear if you can "keep you eye on the ball" in terms of the trade-off between short-term side effects and the possibility of long-term benefit and survival. As long-time lung cancer survivor and writer Alice Trillin put it, "I told the doctors, I don't care about my hair. I want to be a grandmother."
Of course, understanding and being committed to the treatment are inseparable from finding a caring doctor and health care team with whom you feel confident and who are "there for you." Having a close friend or loved one who shares the burden of treatment is another positive. Many people must manage alone, because they lack a close family member or friend, and they do manage, but it may be harder. These individuals may find a support group particularly helpful, since the bonds that form among group members often people want to shield those close to them. For them, the groups become a safe place to talk.
Sense of humor
One helpful trait is the ability to "lighten things up" by putting difficult situations in a humorous perspective. It isn't easy to laugh when you don't feel good, but lots of evidence shows that being able to laugh at yourself and the situation is helpful and good for you. Norman Cousins popularized the idea, by claiming that watching funny movies (he watched Marx Brothers movies) helped him sleep pain free, despite a painful, degenerative arthritis-like condition. Mind-body, or psychoneuroimmunology, research backs up his claim. At the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, Dr. Lee S. Berk and his colleagues found that laughter lowers the level of stress hormones (natural substances in our bodies that we release when we are stressed). I see humor being used over and over again as a way to take the sting out of a thoughtless comment, to laugh at one's own reaction, or to tolerate a particularly difficult time.
We often refer to this kind of joking as "black humor" or "gallows humor": putting a funny spin on a painful, serious situation. It is used by medical teams and is regarded as a critical balancing tactic for interns and house staff who are stressed, fatigued, and pushed to the max. Sometimes this is called the "MASH mentality," reminiscent of the MASH frontline hospital unit portrayed in the long-running TV show. People slog through extreme circumstances by joking, making the best of what can't be changed, and finding an unusual closeness to others going through the same experience. We also see this phenomenon among patients. Humor in the face of adversity seems to inspire an esprit de corps that contributes to greater coping and closeness.
New York Times columnist Robert Lipsyte, a testicular cancer survivor, calls this "tumor humor," a form of joking. Here are some samples of tumor humor: William Matthews in a poem in the Atlantic Monthly noted:
Once you've had cancer, you don't get headaches anymore, you get brain tumors, at least until the aspirin kicks in.
Betsy, a woman of fifty-four, had just completed chemotherapy for breast cancer. She was returning to her normal life when a mammogram revealed something in her treated breast. She described her reaction with a smile that expressed the irony of the pain:
When my doctor said, "We have to start treatment for a second tumor in your breast," I said, "That's impossible, I already gave at the office."
A man with lung cancer chose humor as a way of dealing with his children, who were devastated by his having chemotherapy and losing his hair. He teased them by saying:
But don't you see? Everybody worries about getting cancer. I don't have that worry anymore—I've got it!
Humor can be a great way of dealing with the "dumb" comments from others when you are going through treatment for cancer. Several people have expressed with good humor their reaction to friends' comments on how "well you look," which makes them worried that either the friend is lying or they really look awful or they must have looked horrible the last time their friend saw them.
One person quipped:
The best thing about cancer is that people keep telling you how good you look, but that's when I really start to worry.
One day at a time
One way we differ, which affects coping, is how we view time and the future. The diagnosis of cancer creates a sense of urgency about time that goes along with the uncertainty it causes. However, the person who can say, "I'm just going to take one day at a time" is able to stay focused on the tasks of that day. The person who hardly enjoys today because of concerns and worries about tomorrow has a much harder time dealing with illness. I often remind people that you can't live yesterday or tomorrow, only today. William Osler called it "living your life in day tight compartments." Any big task seems overwhelming until you break it down into manageable parts. The Chinese say, "You move a mountain by moving one stone at a time." Hard as it is to keep thinking that way, coping with cancer is easier if you try not to focus on all the challenges that may lie ahead, but rather, stay focused on today, during which you can accomplish something despite the problems caused by the treatment.
Do's and don'ts for coping with cancer
The following do's and don'ts are intended to be common sense guidelines to help you avoid feeling "trapped in the workings of a huge piece of complicated machinery." They incorporate ideas about the tyranny of positive thinking and how to deal with some of the attitudes that are out there about coping with cancer, some of which create more problems to deal with.
- DON"T believe the old adage that "cancer equals death." There are eight million survivors of cancer in the United States today.
- DON"T blame yourself for causing your cancer. There is no scientific proof linking specific personalities, emotional states, or painful life events to the development of cancer. Even if you may have raised your cancer risk through smoking or some other habit, there is no benefit to blaming yourself or beating yourself up.
- DO rely on ways of coping that helped you solve problems and handle crises in the past. If you've been a talker, find someone with whom you feel comfortable talking about your illness. If you're an inveterate non-talker, you may find relaxation, meditation, or similar approaches helpful. The secret, however, is this: Use whatever has worked for you before, but if what you're doing isn't working, seek help to find other ways to cope.
- DO cope with cancer "one day at a time." The task of dealing with cancer seems less overwhelming when you break it up this way, and it also allows you to focus better on getting the most out of each day, despite illness.
- DON"T feel guilty if you cannot keep a positive attitude all the time, especially when you don't feel good. Low periods will occur, no matter how good you are at coping. There is no evidence that those periods have a negative effect on your health or tumor growth. If they become frequent or severe, though, seek help.
- DON"T suffer in silence. Do use support and self-help groups if they make you feel better. Leave a group that makes you feel worse, but don't try to go it all alone. Get support from your best resources: your family, friends, doctor, clergy, or those you meet in support groups who understand what you are going through
- DON"T be embarrassed to seek counseling with a mental health professional for anxiety or depression that interferes with your sleep, eating, ability to concentrate, or ability to function normally if you feel your distress is getting out of hand.
- DO use any methods that aid you in getting control over your fears or upset feelings, such as relaxation, meditation, and spiritual approaches.
- DO find a doctor who lets you ask all your questions and for whom you feel mutual respect and trust. Insist on being a partner with him or her in your treatment. Ask what side effects you may expect and be prepared for them. Anticipating problems often make it easier to handle them if they occur.
- DON"T keep your worries or symptoms (physical or psychological) secret from the person closest to you. Ask this person to accompany you to visits to the doctor when treatments are to be discussed. Research shows that people often don't hear or absorb information when anxious. A second person will help you interpret what was said.
- DO re-explore spiritual and religious beliefs and practices such as prayer that may have helped you in the past. (If you don't consider yourself a religious or spiritual person, garner support from any belief system or philosophy that you value, such as humanism.) These beliefs may comfort you and may even help you find meaning in the experience of your illness.
- DON"T abandon your regular treatment in favor of an alternative or complementary treatment. Use alternative treatments that do no harm and that can safely be used along with your regular treatment. Be sure to tell your doctor which complementary therapies you are using or want to use, since some should not be used during chemotherapy or radiation treatments. Discuss the benefits and risks of any alternative or complementary treatments with someone you trust who can asses them more objectively than when you were under stress. Psychological, social, and spiritual approaches are helpful and safe, and doctors encourage their use today.
- DO keep a personal notebook with all your dates for treatments, laboratory values, X-ray reports, symptoms, and general status. Information is critical in cancer treatment, and no one can keep it better than you.
The continuum of distress: When to reach out for help
How well or how poorly you are coping at a particular time contributes to your level of emotional distress. Distress is a broad term that describes the unpleasant emotions that occur normally with cancer. Virtually every person confronted with the diagnosis and treatment feels vulnerable and sad about the loss of health and the sense of well-being. It is normal to feel uncertain and worried about the future. But an important question that arises is this: When does the distress become so great that it falls beyond the acceptable range so that you need professional help?
Sadness is the "normal" end of one continuum that goes all the way to serious depression, which can become so severe that you find it impossible to enjoy the things that you ordinarily enjoy. If you are depressed, you may feel helpless and hopeless, overwhelmed, and unable to eat, sleep, or concentrate. At its worst, you can't get out of bed, carry on work or daily activities, or get yourself to the next treatment. The depression, then, is having an affect on your ability to continue your cancer treatment.
Your normal fears and worries, too, can spiral into a severe anxiety reaction, with panic attacks, phobias, tension, and distress. The distress may be barely tolerable, keeping you awake at night, robbing you of your appetite, and making you feel restless, frightened, and irritable. If you were a nervous person before, or had phobias, you are more likely to develop severe anxiety symptoms during illness. In cancer, these two emotions, worry and sadness, occur together, constituting most of the emotionally distressing side of cancer. Both can become more severe, but they are not a sign of mental illness or personal weakness. In a study done in 1984 in three cancer centers, just over half of the patients interviewed had distress that was severe enough to warrant further evaluation and treatment. The distress experienced by most of these individuals (about two-thirds), was caused by dealing with cancer, but the remaining third had some prior psychological problem, such as a phobia, that made it harder for them to deal with their illness.
A simple test is to rate how distressed you are on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being no distress at all, and 10, severe distress). If you rank your distress from 1 to 4, you are probably doing just fine. If it is 5 or higher, you could benefit from extra support. However, if you rate your distress as 8, 9, or 10, and particularly if you have been feeling low, highly nervous, or scared over several days, call your doctor right away for a referral to a counselor or therapist who has experience working with people who have cancer.
A common problem for cancer patients with intense anxiety or depression is that their oncologist often doesn't recognize it, so that they don't get the counseling they need. About one out of every three people treated in oncology clinics is highly distressed, but surprisingly, less than one out of ten gets referred for help. One has to ask why? It is disappointing that while the stigma of cancer is diminishing, the stigma surrounding psychological and psychiatric problems is still widespread. People often suffer in silence rather than tell their doctor that they are having a hard time coping. Some attitudes that keep patients from speaking up are embodied in comments are these:
I'm too embarrassed to tell my doctor about my problem.
(This is especially true if it's a sexual problem.)
He'll think I'm a wimp and maybe won't take care of me.
They'll think I'm crazy.
My cancer problem is real---what could psychological help do for me?
She'll think I complain too much.
He'll tell me that the most important thing is to get the cancer to shrink, not to get sidetracked.
My family relies on me to be strong. If they think I'm having a hard time, they'll all fall apart.
These attitudes, sadly, often prevent people from getting the help they need.
Doctors admit that they are reluctant to ask about psychological problems because "I'm not trained to handle them, and if I ask, it'll take all day. I'll be opening Pandora's box." Some doctors even believe the patient will be angry if asked about emotional problems. The net result is a "don't ask, don't tell" policy, like the one President Clinton chose to use in handling gays in the military. This approach has not worked well in the military, and it doesn't help in patient care either. In addition, shorter visits (increasingly mandated by the unfortunate realities of managed care) don't lend themselves to exploring the human side of care.
These barriers are best overcome by your pointing out that your cancer care must include concern for you as a person, not just treatment of your tumor. Because most cases of distress relate to illness such as a need to understand better your medical condition, the treatments available, and "what to expect" in general, your doctor is the best person to deal with these concerns. The oncology nurse or social worker often can provide additional information. Many people welcome this "two-tier approach" because the nurses and social workers on the oncology team with the physician are good, interested listeners who don't convey the sense of being rushed.
If the problems or worries related to your illness, or even other worries, are occupying your mind a lot of the time, or feeling too intense for you to manage on your own, then it is important that you get the name of a mental health counselor with experience in cancer from your oncology team.


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I'm doing a half-marathon in June. I've never attempted one before. I've only run 5ks competitively.
I do exercise regularly - usually 6 days a week. Most of my workouts are short. I'm a huge fan of High Intensity Interval Training. It's mostly strength training, some plyo and calisthenics. I LOVE to work out! But I don't want it to interfere with my training.
I did a 5 mile run last night and skipped my regular workout this morning. Is that the right thing to do? I hate sacrificing my workouts and don't want to unless it's what I should be doing. Thanks!
I am also running half marathon on May 6, 2012. I downloaded this app call "Learn to run" I am sure it is available for both iPhone and Android. This app will explain you how to train for Marathon. The training start with 30 minutes run+walk mix. you run for 3 min and walk for 3 min. do that for 30 min. This way you only allocate 30 mins on daily basis, As you progress the max time you have to allocate is 72 mintues. give or take allocate 80 mins. I think those are the days you don't have to do heavy workouts.
Marathon are more of an endurance training, you need a lot of energy and positive mind, I totally understand your frustration about skipping the regular weight workout but if you can allocate 30 min more towards your daily workout then I suggest do your marathon training before any regular workout. As you progress make sure you have enough energy to perform your marathon training, go light on weight workouts.
I hope this information helps.
Good luck with your training and Marathon.
If you are just trying it out, then what you are describing as high intensity interval training is okay, but I don't think it's the best training for the HM. If you get bit by the bug and want to get competitive, I believe your training needs to change. You'll need to train with more miles at a slower training pace. Many people extending there distances from 5k to HM do have problems going out to fast and then faultering later in the race. To be really good at the HM, I believe it's important to know your pace. And to do this you need to work from the other end-- more slow miles, build up a base, and then work over a 2-4 month period to quicken your pace. You're times will be better if your pace is steady, rather than having peaks and valleys in your splits. Short intervals are of less important. You'll find picking up your pace at 1600 m is probably going to be more suitable as speed training. Running a 1 mile hill is also a good way of building strength. You'll find your time will correlate with your BMI and weight and so it's important to understand lean muscle, rather than adding to mass. And so most distance runners spend more time on lunges with light weights or just body weight.
I agree with Danhouse1,
Instead of interval go with a same pace and increase your pace, This app is designed exactly that way, you start with running 3 minutes and walk for 3 minutes, on 4th day you start running for 3 minutes and last 15 minutes you extend your running for 5 minutes. Day 8 you start with running for 5 minutes and 3 minutes walk and so on.
The key is constant speed less intervals.
You're doing fine. You need to work "slowly" up to the distance and then worry about speed. Do every other day rather than everyday. Keep adding distance but not to worry about speed. Even if you take walking a bit and then back at it....
You'll get to 1/2 marathon distance in a month...after that...start pushing speed and pace, back off to keep your breath.
Next thing you'll know, you are doing 1/2s without stopping. Once you get there, you're ready.
Racing is totally different and the feeling you need to go faster will kill you. Do just what you were doing in the training and ignore those around you in the race. You are running against yourself...not them.
There is no reason you can't do both strength training and race training. Most running programs at the HM level have you run 4-5 days a week with either rest or cross training on the off days. As long as you are allowing your legs to rest, then the other training shouldn't interfere.
I am also doing my first half this year. From the reading I've been doing, it seems that in order to prepare for a half, the most important thing is to build your weekly mileage - slowly but steadily - to a point where you are running 30 or more miles a week. For a first timer, usually the goal is to finish the race, not win it, so speed isn't really all that important, though a lot of programs include one day a week of speed training (tempo runs or intervals). Doing most of your runs slow and steady will build the endurance you need to run the distance without injury. The program I'm following has two short easy days, one long slow day, and one short speed building day. I've added mileage to one of my easy days so that it is more of a medium long easy day. Over and over I've been reading that building mileage will help me get faster, and will build endurance and stamina.
If you have the time for it, there shouldn't be a problem with you continuing to do your gym workout along with the running--same day workouts can be great, as long as you pay attention to your body. The trick is to find a balance between your workout intensity and your running intensity. If you run hard one day (intervals, tempos, or long runs), then make your next workout easy. If your workout is really intense one day (plyo, heavy circuits, etc.), then make sure your next run is easy. As an example, when I was doing the P90X program last year, I would just run easy mileage on the strength circuit days, but I would run long or fast on yoga/rest days. Just make sure that you give yourself a complete day off once a week--you don't want to risk injury/overtraining.
With your workout experience, I'm sure you can come to a compromise between your runs and gym workouts so that you can continue to do both. Best of luck to you!
Great advice from the others about the particulars of training and extending out your endurance through additional miles. This is critical to completing the half. I would recommend entering some other competitions prior to June and completing several events at the 8K or 10K level. This should assist with preparation and motivation. As you know, regular exercise (even at intense levels) is still different than race pace, so really consider finishing a strong list of other races before jumping from 5k directly to the half.
Wishing you the best!
That is good advice. I am training for a half marathon and I found a great training plan by Jeff Galloway on the Disney half marathon site. It starts with Tuesday/Thursday run/walks of 45 min, with the goal to increase distance per 45 minutes. Then there's the Saturday long run which starts at 4 miles for the first week and builds to 12 or 13. The advice about keeping an even pace is really strong advice. On the off days you can definitely do your strength training.
That's the link to Jeff galloways training plans. Good luck!
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Hey is there anyone out there that has a motor I can use for the big shifter kart race I have contacted mike jones, mark French and mark beville I want to race this race badly with some good drivers coming to my track that I have ran the fastest on. It won't be a race without the track master. Please let me know asap thanks I'm sure y'all want me out there.
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Jack Van Ens' commentary of Jan. 27 is another example of his love affair with liberalism and the biased analysis it produces.
Van Ens says Republicans are "out of sync with what people believe about God and government." What people? All people? Some people? Liberal people?
If he means that these people believe that God is OK with aborting babies and with gay marriage, then perhaps the GOP is out of sync.
If he means that these people believe that bigger government is better government, that a government should not be required to be fiscally responsible, that a government should not be required to secure its borders, that a government can limit our constitutional rights, then perhaps the GOP only is out of sync with his people.
He next makes the outrageous claim that the GOP fell "out of sync with the national mood" when Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter for the presidency.
What exactly did Mr. Van Ens think the national mood was? Was it a preference for high unemployment, high inflation and slow growth (stagflation), long gas lines and the national embarrassment that was the Iran hostage crisis?
Perhaps the national mood was best expressed by public opinion polls that rated Carter's popularity lower than Nixon's during Watergate.
Van Ens seems impressed that Carter installed solar panels on the White House to lessen dependence on fossil fuels only to have Reagan, friend of Big Oil, remove them. In the book, "In the President's Secret Service," a White House staffer referring to the solar panels said, "It would not generate enough hot water to run the dishwasher. It was a fiasco. The staff had to buy new equipment to keep the water hot. That blew any savings."
The bad news was that Carter wasted money installing solar panels. The good news was that he never lost $500 million of taxpayer money guaranteeing the debt of a bankrupt solar panel manufacturer (Solyndra).
Van Ens implies that Republicans are tone deaf and are usually "crafty, unreliable and dated."
Obama, on the other hand, "excels at reading political trends" and exhibits "good judgment."
Bias anyone?
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Today: Twitter and eBay join Silicon Valley's earnings parade, and their stocks fall after both report net losses. Also: Social media and cloud software stocks rebound.
The Lead: Twitter, eBay announce losses and stocks fall
Twitter and eBay stepped up to the earnings platform Tuesday and both Silicon Valley companies announced net losses and saw their stock prices tumble in late trading.
Twitter reported a loss of $132.4 million, or 23 cents a share, on sales of $250.5 million; after adjustments, Twitter claimed a roughly net-even quarter, better than analyst expectations of a loss of 3 cents a share.
Twitter's user and engagement metrics were not well-received, however. The San Francisco microblogging company revealed that an average of 255 million people used the company's service each month in the first quarter, up from 241 million in the final quarter of 2013, less than analysts investors hoped. The company reversed a slide in timeline views - an engagement metric that measures each time a user looks at Twitter - by moving from 148 billion to 157 billion, but that total is still down from the third quarter of 2013.
"We still firmly believe it will be combination of changes over the course of the year that will result in the growth of the platform," CEO Dick Costolo said in Tuesday's conference call.
Investors showed their unhappiness with Twitter's user growth by sending its stock to an all-time low in after-hours trading; after closing with a 4.6 percent increase at $42.62, shares plunged lower than $38 in late action.
"User metrics, including reach and engagement, were slightly better than (the previous quarter), but not as strong as the Street expected," Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia wrote in a note that called the report's results "mixed."
eBay also announced a loss, but pinned it on a rare occurrence in Silicon Valley: Repatriation of a large cache of overseas cash. While most of Silicon Valley allows its foreign profits to sit in overseas bank accounts instead of paying U.S. taxes, eBay brought back $9 billion in the first quarter, with $3 billion of that total going to the government.
Executives on Tuesday's conference call said that eBay would use the money to buy back more shares of the company to return profits to investors, another trend among the largest technology companies in the region, while providing "greater U.S. financial flexibility." The company spent $1.8 billion to buy back 33.1 million shares in the quarter, part of a plan to repurchase $5 billion worth of shares, executives said.
Calculating for that loss, eBay reported a loss of $2.3 billion, or $1.87 a share, on sales of $4.3 billion. After ruling out that tax charge and other adjustments, the San Jose e-commerce company reported net income of $899 million, or 70 cents a share, better than analyst expectations of 67 cents a share, according to FactSet.
Those numbers were solid, but not the blowout report many expected when activist investor Carl Icahn pulled back from his campaign to force eBay to sell PayPal, which some speculated was a result of Icahn seeing early numbers that showed a huge beat for eBay.
"Investors assumed that's because the results were very good and Mr. Icahn was content with what he was seeing," Wedbush Securities analyst Gil Luria told Reuters, later adding, "The results were good, but not as good as some expected."
The company's projections for the current quarter also caused some consternation, as eBay said it expects profits of 67 to 69 cents a share this quarter on sales of $4.33 billion to $4.43 billion.
"There's not a lot to get excited about," Luria told Bloomberg News. "They beat, but they didn't raise the guidance for the year - and guided a little low for Q2."
eBay shares declined to less than $52.50 after closing with a 1.7 percent advance at $54.54.
SV150 market report: Social media, cloud software bounce back
Wall Street gained Tuesday as two Silicon Valley technology sectors that had been damaged in recent trading, social media and cloud software, bounced back.
In the social media sector, Facebook gained 3.6 percent to $58.15 as Forrester reported that the social network's Instagram app provided a better bang for big brands' bucks than Twitter or Facebook's own offering. Yelp, which will release earnings Wednesday, jumped 6.1 percent to $58.92, and LinkedIn, which will release earnings Thursday, gained 2.5 percent to $153.23. Cloud software stocks may have been helped by NetSuite, which revealed record revenues and growing partnerships in its earnings report Monday and grew 4.5 percent to $76.87 Tuesday. Joining NetSuite for the ride were Workday, which led the SV150 in percentage gain with an 8.9 percent advance to $73.30; WageWorks, which gained 7.2 percent to $42.11; ProofPoint, up 5.1 percent to $25.75; and Salesforce, which added 3.3 percent to $50.76.
Apple hit a new intraday 52-week high Tuesday but finally cooled off after a 13.2 percent gain since last week's earnings report, dropping 0.3 percent to $592.33 while introducing a renewed, cheaper MacBook Air. Hewlett-Packard gained 2.4 percent to $32.96 after Pacific Crest Securities analyst Brent Bracelin upgraded the stock, writing that "our historically neutral to negative bias" on HP was turned around after a technical analysis. Yahoo jumped 5.4 percent to $54.83 as CEO Marissa Mayer followed up announcements of the Sunnyvale company's online video push by revealing a new look for the Yahoo Mail mobile app. Google gained 2.6 percent to $536.33 after reports of a new service plan for mobile devices dubbed "Android Silver," and Tesla Motors rose 4.2 percent to $206.92.
Up: Workday, Yelp, Yahoo, Pandora, Twitter, Teslas, Facebook, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gilead, Google, HP, Applied Materials, Netflix, AMD, eBay, Zynga, Juniper
Down: SolarCity, Electronic Arts, Apple, VMware, Oracle
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 15.59, or 1.13 percent, to 1,390.41
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 29.14, or 0.72 percent, to 4,103.54
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 86.63, or 0.53 percent, to 16,535.37
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 8.9, or 0.48 percent, to 1,878.33
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Genre/Subjects: American Indie, Comedy, Drama
Programs: Reel Social Club, Special PresentationLanguage: English
DIRECTOR: Jay Gammill
Producer: Eben Kostbar, Joseph McKelheerEditor: Franklin Peterson, Jay GammillScreenwriter: Jim BeggarlyCinematographer: Reed MoranoPrincipal Cast: Jess Weixler, Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter, Tippi Hedren
Actor Jason Ritter to receive the Reel Social Club's 1st Annual Indie Voice Award!
Director Jay Gammill's debut feature tells the story of disaffected Jillian, a twentysomething law school dropout facing a quarter-life crisis. After a night of heavy drinking and complaining, she's awakened by her best friend, who persuades the reluctant and hung-over Jillian to take her place handing out free samples to passersby from Mike's Dream ice cream truck so that she can assist in her brother's drug intervention.
Adrift in Los Angeles, Jillian discovers that her lack of talent makes her dream of pursuing the arts pointless. She surrounds herself with an oddball group of friends, who soften her angry edges. But when she learns her fiancé is having a baby with another woman, it just reinforces her feeling that life isn't going as planned.
Jillian's bad attitude comically permeates Free Samples, as she attacks would-be customers, a hazy cross-section of Angelenos. During the course of her day, she bribes a loud homeless woman to bring her a cup of coffee, an elderly diva (Tippi Hedren, in a brilliant cameo) stops to give her advice about various aspects of life, and a new beau named Tex (Jesse Eisenberg) offers her a shot at redemption. Our disgruntled heroine vacillates between cold and believably heartrending as she struggles to find her place in the world.
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Source: Reuters
quote: There are certain rules that apply to detaining enemy soldiers
quote: The US is holding these people illegally under both scenarios.
quote: Our political leaders are ruining our country's reputation by not obeying international laws. We've become that kid on the playground who claims that rules don't apply to him because there's nobody around that can beat him up.
quote: Because as much as you and others like to believe all of these men are simply misunderstood decent people who are victims of a racist America, that's patently absurd.


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The Marceline High School basketball programs are spending this week playing at the annual Monroe City basketball tournament. The Lady Tigers and Tigers were both seeded fifth at the event.
Last night, the Lady Tigers took on Louisiana in the consolation bracket with their tournament life on the line. The Lady Bulldogs led off with a basket, but Kendra Gladbach set the Lady Tigers off on a 7-0 run to take the lead. Marceline would not trail again in this game. Buckets from Natalie Allen and Kate Peiffer would put the Lady Tigers on a 4-0 run to end the frame. After one quarter, Marceline led 11-4.
The Lady Tigers did not shoot very well offensively in the second quarter, and Louisiana would drain a three-pointer to finally end the scoreless streak in the frame. Gladbach would answer with four points to get Marceline on the board. At the half, Marceline led 15-9.
"It was a miserable night shooting," said Coach O'Laughlin. "I don't know how any shots we missed under the basket tonight. That is what cost us against Paris the other night. We have to fix that, and I won't back off of that until its fixed."
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Can Everyone Attract a Soulmate?
Dear Arielle & Brian,
I am 46 years old and am working on manifesting in my life my ideal soulmate. I know others who have found love through dating Web sites, but I've chosen to work on the Law of Attraction, which I discovered last year. I'm very clear about what I'm looking for in a woman. My biggest deficit is I've yet to experience a romantic relationship in my life. I've been working doing the suggested "feelingizations" and creating space. Yet I really don't know how to start taking action or what I can do to manifest that special woman.


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Senior dining meals are served at 11:30 a.m., Monday through Friday, at Ross Park Apartments. Meals on Wheels are also available. Seniors 60+ from the community are welcome to join in for the meal. Contact Sleepy Eye Home Health, Nutrition Site managers at 794-5193. Menus are as follows.
Monday, Dec. 17 - Cranberry glazed chicken, baked potato, California blend vegetables, bread, dessert, milk.
Tuesday, Dec. 18 - Hamburger tomato casserole, green beans, Mandarin orange whip, bread, dessert, milk.
Wednesday, Dec. 19 - Glazed ham, au gratin potatoes, vegetable blend, dinner roll, dessert, milk.
Thursday, Dec. 20 - Vegetable beef soup, turkey sandwich, pineapple, crackers, desert, milk.
Friday, Dec. 21 - Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, squash, bread, dessert, milk.
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About the Book
The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. An allegory about the power of belief—and a page-turner that will touch your soul—Albom's masterful storytelling has never been so moving and unexpected.
Readers of The Five People You Meet in Heaven will recognize the warmth and emotion so redolent of Albom's writing, and those who haven't yet enjoyed the power of his storytelling, will thrill at the discovery of one of the best-loved writers of our time.
"What if the end is not the end?"
From the beloved author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most thrilling and magical novel yet—a page-turning mystery and a meditation on the power of human connection.
One morning in the small town of Coldwater, Michigan, the phones start ringing. The voices say they are calling from heaven. Is it the greatest miracle ever? Or some cruel hoax? As news of these strange calls spreads, outsiders flock to Coldwater to be a part of it.
At the same time, a disgraced pilot named Sully Harding returns to Coldwater from prison to discover his hometown gripped by "miracle fever." Even his young son carries a toy phone, hoping to hear from his mother in heaven.
As the calls increase, and proof of an afterlife begins to surface, the town—and the world—transforms. Only Sully, convinced there is nothing beyond this sad life, digs into the phenomenon, determined to disprove it for his child and his own broken heart.
Moving seamlessly between the invention of the telephone in 1876 and a world obsessed with the next level of communication, Mitch Albom takes readers on a breathtaking ride of frenzied hope.
The First Phone Call from Heaven is Mitch Albom at his best—a virtuosic story of love, history, and belief.
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Critical Praise
"Albom has a nose for 'thin places': places where the boundary between secular and sacred is porous, and ultimate meaning is easier to encounter… This brisk, page-turner of a story [is] another winner from Albom." — Publishers Weekly
"A beautifully rendered tale of faith and redemption that makes us think, feel, and hope--and then doubt and then believe, as only Mitch Albom can make us do." — Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
"Beautiful and smart. Perhaps the most stirring and transcendent heaven story since Field of Dreams." — Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook and The Good Luck of Right Now
Product Details
- Imprint: Harper
- On Sale: 11/12/2013
- Pages: 336
- List Price: 11.99 USD
- BISAC1: FICTION / Religious
- BISAC2: FICTION / Family Life
- BISAC3: FICTION / General


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Identity theft is the fastest growing crime across the United States and here in Michigan.
A report released earlier Wednesday finds that police are ill-equipped to handle the crime. Across the country, an identity is stolen every 79 seconds.
The report entitled "Policing Privacy," recommends stricter privacy laws for credit card companies and creditors. The Michigan senate recently passed a package of bills to fight ID theft. The House is now considering the legislation. It would strengthen privacy and also protect the victim.
It is estimated $12 billion are lost annually because of ID theft.
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ID Theft
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TransUnion: 800-888-4213 (fraud div.- 800-680-7289)
Experian: 888-EXPERIAN (fraud div.- 888-397-3742)
Equifax: 800- 685-1111 (fraud div.- 800-525-6285)
Source: www.idtheftcenter.org (Identity Theft Resource Center Web site) contributed to this report.


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How to get to the Basque Country
The Basque Country is in northern Spain, alongside the French border. There are various options available to get to this area.
By air
If you decide to get to the Basque Country by air, there are two international airports to choose from: Bilbao airport and Vitoria airport. The first is situated just 12 kilometres from Bilbao and has flights operated by the following companies: Aer Lingus, Air Berlin, Air Europa, Air France, Alitalia, Easyjet, Hapag Lloyd Express, Iberia, Lufthansa, Portugalia, SN Brussels Airlines, Spanair and Vueling. At Vitoria airport, 8 kilometres from the city of Vitoria, there are flights by Iberia, Ryanair and Spanair.
By sea
Bilbao is the main port of entry by sea. There is a service between Bilbao and the English town of Portsmouth every three days.
By train
There are daily rail services between the Spanish capital, Madrid, and the most important Basque cities: Bilbao, Vitoria and Donostia-San Sebastián. The journey takes roughly 4.5-6 hours, depending on your destination. Rail connections to the rest of Europe run through the border town of Irún-Hendaya.
By road
From Madrid, the A-1 motorway runs to Vitoria (350 kilometres) and San Sebastián (462 kilometres), while for access to Bilbao (394 kilometres) you have to join the AP-68 motorway. The AP-68 should also be used from Barcelona, then taking the A-15 if your destination is San Sebastián (565 kilometres). From France, access is on the A-63 and A-64 motorways.
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Europe Comes Together for Autism
This guest post is by Simon Wallace, Ph.D., Autism Speaks' Director of Scientific Development – Europe.
The European autism community recently came together in Luxembourg to discuss how to improve knowledge, awareness and care for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families. The meeting was grandly titled "An Expert Panel on Autism" and was supported by the European Union's Department for Health (DG SANCO), with many of the practical arrangements being made by Autism Speaks and Dr Alvaro Ramirez from the European Autism Information System project.
There was a broad representation from the European community, with stakeholders from as far east as Greece and Romania, as far west as Ireland, as north as Norway and as south as Italy. The main focus was on developing a strategic direction for the continent on public health and ASD, and so the delegates were selected to represent expertise in research, clinical services, advocacy/awareness, policy and surveillance/data collection. It is striking how diverse Europe is in terms of its social and economic levels and needs, meaning that some recommendations can be broad but they must also be tailored to the various European "contexts."
On the first day, the group heard presentations from DG SANCO who set out their commitments to ASD and a roadmap of how that should be met. Of particular resonance was the statement that, especially in economically difficult times, there is not a need for necessarily more but for better and that partnerships are the key for the European community to make progress. There is a plan for ASD to be kept as a priority in the upcoming EU health program (running from 2013-2020), which would provide greater welfare to individuals with ASD and their families in Europe, but it was made clear that autism advocates should begin a lobbying program to ensure such a commitment.
The remainder of day one included a series of presentations and discussions to "set the context" on the current landscape of ASD across Europe; to identify where there are particular challenges and where there is an opportunity for the European community to work to its unique strengths. Some of the highlights included the need to develop platforms for research and services for adults with ASD and to consider the benefits of parent-mediated approaches to intervention for children. Also discussed was that some services available to families in Europe were neither evidence-based nor properly scrutinized.
On day two, the Expert Panel divided into small groups to discuss a European strategic plan on the areas of research, clinical services, advocacy/awareness, policy and surveillance/data collection. There were a number of recommendations from these sessions, including the need to: use special European populations in research (e.g. genetically isolated or migrant populations); train professionals using standardized protocols; write national standards in treatment and diagnosis; conduct more prevalence research to calculate a European accepted figure; produce a pan-European awareness campaign.
Autism in Europe is steeped in history with many of the parental organizations looking to soon celebrate their 40th or 50th anniversaries. One of the main challenges for the European community is how to manage the complexities surrounding the very different paths each country has taken in the way they define, manage and advocate for individuals with ASD and their families. A clear message from the meeting was that improvements can be made if the goals for the European community are set out (through a summary document of the Expert Panel being published), we are able to raise autism awareness and reduce stigma, and we can disseminate information on models of best practice. Successes are being made, with national strategies recently being published in the UK and Hungary, but our autism community in Europe has still much work to do in terms of understanding how we can play to our strengths and find solutions through partnership and information sharing.
Most attendees left the meeting feeling that they'd taken part in beginning to set a vision for autism in Europe. We will draw on the momentum and enthusiasm from Luxembourg and take that into further meetings planned in Budapest and Mallorca, with the final strategic document on autism in Europe to be presented to the EU in November.
April 12, 2010 at 5:33 pm
hi,i would like to know how i could get a advocate for my son so he could get what he needs..
April 12, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Sounds like a productive meeting of minds, thanks for posting. We are interested in linking with other organisations to share practice and ideas, particularly in the development of systems of support.
January 2, 2011 at 6:39 am
As a small sport club only appealing children/adults with Autism, we are preparing a Grundtvig Learning Partnership project (a LLP subtitle title funding adult education projects and events) about particularly sport based supportive therapies towards Autism. The project title is 'Move and Pull down the Wall' (MAPDOT-W). With the framework of the project, there will be mobility of club/centre/institution trainers, professionals and members, guardians/carers and exchange of ideas. So the project not only aims to propagate the knowledge about supporting therapies, but also intends to color the life of carers with mobilities.
A documentary film and e-book about the stories of the institutions and the individuals will be the output. Project web-site will be one of the dissemination means and the collaboration will go on.
We are looking for partners for MAPDOT-W project. Would you like to take part in such project or could you match us with related institutions? The project may be further shaped depending on the properties/therapies of the prospective partners.
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Several people had asked me if I meant a Hubbub adapter when I said that I'd seen a dropbar shifter for a Rohloff internally-geared hub. But what I saw was this item from Mittelmeyer, a German company. I've seen two examples in person, but I have to say that I didn't care for them myself. The shift effort was high and the knurled aluminium grip is really aggressive, but they were brand-new when I touched them. Maybe they'd break in somewhat. Also, I didn't install them, so I can't say if I might have been able to set them up in a manner more satisfactory. Anyone else tried these?
In these busy interweb times, when there's a Social Media Expert around every blog corner, bum-rushing the latest beta, reactively dropping names, and ready at will to auto-follow on Twitter, it's a relief to find another, creative and alternative view from Rhizome.
In engaging the social web we voluntarily fragment our interests, social ties and demographic information in order to make them "machine readable" and allow us to participate in these communities.
Rhizome explores the notion of web inventories – an index of one's presence online – and profiles artists that are producing works based on the communities they participate in.
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La. woman booked with Medicaid fraud
Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 8:14 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 8:14 a.m.
BATON ROUGE — A 34-year-old Baton Rouge woman has been booked with seven counts of Medicaid fraud for filing false claims.
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell says Angela A. Taylor was arrested by investigators from the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit on Thursday.
Caldwell says the complaint was initially referred to investigators by the Legislative Auditor's Office.
He says Taylor, a personal care attendant, is charged with submitting false timesheets to her employer claiming that she provided personal care services to a Medicaid patient at the patient's home, while actually attending to other patients.
This overlap resulted in the Medicaid program being falsely billed $7,315.
It was unclear whether Taylor has an attorney.
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VERDIGRIS, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says an 82-year-old Tulsa man has died following a single-vehicle crash on a Rogers County road.
Troopers say Luman Wilcox died at a hospital where he was taken following the Saturday accident southeast of Verdigris.
Troopers say Wilcox was northbound on a county road when his sport utility vehicle went off the roadway and struck a fence — then crossed the roadway and crashed into a tree.
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Meagan Siemieniewski, 16, died Friday, March 8, 2013, as the result of an automobile accident near Granite Falls. Funeral services were held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, March 13, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Sacred Heart. Burial was at First English Cemetery in Sacred Heart.
Wing-Bain Funeral Home, of Granite Falls, was in charge of the funeral arrangements.
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