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These hot, dog days of summer aren't just hard on us. Your pets can also suffer in the excruciating summer heat.
Animal Control units all over Georgia-Carolina are responding to daily calls to save animals trapped inside hot cars.
News 12 spent the day with North Augusta Animal Control to see just how dangerous the heat is for our pets.
It's a common scene: a dog inside a car waiting on its owner. But Mike Strauss with north Augusta Animal Control says it can be deadly.
"A lot of the public is not educated on how quickly temperatures can rise and fall and what effect it can have on animals," Strauss says.
Luckily for the canine we saw, he was inside an air-conditioned truck. Strauss checked the temperature from outside with a laser device: 87 degrees.
"But a lot of owners don't want to leave the car running for fear it will be stolen," Strauss says.
So how about leaving the windows down?
"With its windows down, it's 120 degrees," says Strauss. "And 133 degrees is what we're talking about with the windows rolled up. Even a human couldn't stand that temperature for very long."
How about the back of a pickup truck? At least the animal is outside, right?
"It's 145 degrees in the back of the truck. It's like a frying pan for dogs."
And Strauss says we must be careful letting dogs play outdoors at all during these dog days of summer.
"The pads of their feet are very sensitive. It's up to 120 degrees at times on the [road] surface, but when you move it over to the concrete surface, it automatically reduces close to twenty degrees," he says. "And when you go to grass it even goes to a less temperature."
It only takes moments for heat to become deadly to animals.
"When you're stopping, it only takes a minute for some breeds to succumb to the heat, so use your time wisely."
Strauss says it's best not to bring your pet along, but if you do, make sure it gets plenty of water and check for dehydration.
"The dog's elasticity has a lot to do with how you can tell if its dehydrated or not."
To check, pull the skin up, and it should bounce back right away. If it doesn't, your dog is in trouble.
Excessive panting is also a sign it's time for animal first aid.
Strauss says to pour water over the dog's head and use a sponge to keep him wet.
"You can also put a blanket over him and pour water on that to keep him cooled down."
They're easy tips to save our favorite friends from the summer heat.
Dog breeds that are most at risk in the heat are short nosed dogs such as pugs or English and American bulldogs, as well as dogs not made for heat such as Saint Bernards or Huskies.


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Update: Police Identify Man Who Committed Suicide at Middle School
Published: Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
LAKELAND | The Lakeland Police Department have identified the man found dead Sunday at Southwest Middle School.
LPD spokeswoman Ann Dinges said police were called to the scene around 9:45 a.m. in reference to a man hanging from a tree.
When officers arrived they found Bryant David Warnock, 18, dead. Dinges said officers believe Warnock committed suicide by hanging.
No foul play is suspected.
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Miguel Zenon Quartet at FIJM
July 4, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: alto saxophonist, doob, drums, FIJM, Listening Post, Live Music, luis perdomo, miguel zenon, newcomer, quartet, saxophone
A powerful and intesnse set from alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon's Quartet last night at the Salle de Gesu.
Meet the quartet:
Miguel Zenon - saxophone
Luis Perdomo - piano
Hans Glawischnig - bass
Eric Doob, drums (a newcomer who fit in nicely with the group)
FIJM: Long Live the Queen
July 4, 2008. Posted by Thurston Briscoe.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, Notes
My birthday gifts started last night when I went to a concert by Aretha Franklin here at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Backed by a big band, four singers, and two tambourine players (that's right), the Queen of Soul opened dramatically with a salute to Sly Stone. First it was the classic "I Want to Take you Higher" then "Dance to the Music". We were all on our feet.
Next came a string of Aretha hits: "Natural Woman," "Think," "Chain of Fools." She introduced her son Teddy, featured on guitar at the beginning of "Chain of Fools." She finished the first half of her show with "Ain't No Way" and the soul and feminist anthem, "Respect".
The second half of the show opened with Montreal Jazz Festival co-founder Andre Menard, who presented Aretha with the festival's prestigious Ella Fitzgerald Award, "in recognition of the range, versatility, originality of improvisation and quality of repertoire of an internationally recognized jazz singer."
Aretha accepted the award with a version of an Ella favorite, "Somewhere Beyond the Sea".
When she sat at the piano, Aretha moved the Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel hit "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to the church with a spirited call and response that moved us into another of her hits, "Spirit in the Dark".
Aretha talked to the audience during her show and said she hoped she had given us everything we wanted to hear. Then she treated us to a new gospel tinged ballad. I was not able to hear the name of the song, but the way she "SANG" made me think it might be her next hit. As the applause died down, someone in the crowd shouted "Long Live the Queen!" Aretha returned the gesture with her finale ... "Believe (in yourself)" ... from the musical "The Wiz".
-Thurston Briscoe
Montreal Jazz Festival publicists on things to come
July 4, 2008. Posted by Becca Pulliam.Add new comment | Filed under: Jazz Alive
The hub of the Festival for journalists is the press room in the Hyatt Hotel. Uploading, downloading, getting a cup of coffee, running into old friends, it all happens under the watchful eyes of the press liaisons, including Carola Duran - in her first year - and her colleague, the young veteran Hugo Leclerc.Next year, the press room will move to a dream-come-true building, La Maison du Jazz (House of Jazz). Right now, the empty construction site is behind a tall wooden fence, a wall running along Rue Jeanne-Mance. Artist Armand Vaillancourt started a mural on that wall, and during the Festival, paint and brushes were available in the evenings for anyone's personal expression. Here's a small sample of the creativity.
To hear Carola and Hugh talk about the mural and changes to come for the 30th anniversary Jazz Festival - downtown improvements like the creation of the the Showtime District and Quartier de Spectacle (neighborhood of spectacle) - just click here. - Becca Pulliam
FIJM Interview: McCoy Tyner
July 3, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: afternoon jazz, FIJM, good time, international jazz festival, Interviews, Masters, mccoy tyner, michael bourne, montreal international jazz festival
Any time McCoy Tyner drops by is a good time. He visited Afternoon Jazz today, as we broadcast live from the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
Montreal: The Look
July 3, 2008. Posted by Becca Pulliam.Add new comment | Filed under: Jazz Alive
Meet Yves Archambault, creator of the 2008 Jazz Festival artwork. One man does it all, and he has for 20 consecutive seasons. First he creates the design, then reshapes and sizes it for the poster and the program book, t-shirts, water bottle (I bought one, very cute), etc. From the long-running cat and the fiddle logo to this year's mosaic-like explosion of color -- especially blue -- the look is evolving along with the music. Yves is already thinking about next year's 30th anniversary design. Click here for interview. Hugo Leclerc translates. - Becca Pulliam


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Oh so this is what I've been talking about all these years ;-)
A great animation running through some of the language we use (or should use) as designers to describe, critique or justify our work.


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The cat is back, and you won't believe where she's been.
Having starred in Kneehigh Theatre's West End hit 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg', international sensation Meow Meow takes up residency at Southbank Centre, with a sizzling show that will defrost even the coldest of hearts.
Hans Christian Andersen's bittersweet fable is just a springboard into the wild realms of theatrical possibility. As our despairing Match Girl staves off the cruel cold of winter with her dwindling supply of flames, she turns to her dreams and the light of the stars to find a way home. With claws of humour and heartache, pathos and irreverence, Meow carves a tuneful trail through the icy reaches of the modern soul.
Collaborating with Australia's Malthouse Theatre Artistic Director Marion Potts, composer Iain Grandage, the Wild Dog Orchestra and the ever-dexterous Chris Ryan, Meow and her team create a fantastical flight of fancy with the darkest of edges.
Little Match Girl received rave reviews during its sold-out run at Sydney Festival earlier this year and this UK premiere runs for 21 performances only.
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TimeLog integrates tightly with Address Book, iCal⢠and Sync Services and offers an intuitive interface that makes tracking time as easy as listening to music in iTunesâ¢.
The global timer menu is accessible from within any application and allows to switch to another project with just one click.
Recordings are stored in iCal calendars which allows sharing of time sheets over network services such as dotmac, CalDAV and others.
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According to http://blog.mediaatelier.com/mountain-lion-and-timelog/ - TimeLog will not work with Mountain Lion - due to be released end July 2012.
For that, there is http://osx.iusethis.com/app/timings - it has a different set of features though.
I really like Timelog from a UI and functionality and its completely central to my workflow.
The author was pretty attentive but has become less responsive in the last few months. I'm supposing this is because he has added other products to his portfolio and has become busy with them, especially Grandtotal (none of which I use).
I would be happy to pay more for Timelog, but my needs are starting to reach its limits.
I really hope we will see a Timelog 5 this year.
Free (but less sophisticated) alternative: Time Tracker
This is one of those gems that you tend to stumble over from time to time. I've been using Timelog for 9 months now and thrown away the paper diary to track my time. I looked at other solutions, including rolling my own in FileMaker (and wrote my own in PHP) but this has everything I could ask for. The graphical interface for adjusting times is just brilliant. Support from the developer is also helpful and timely.
How does this compare to applications like Slife and RescueTime? I am hesitant to add a third application to my timetracking efforts...
I am a freelance user interface designer and I charge my work per hour. I have always spent hours at the the end of month to make bills for all the projects.
I used to use MS Outlook for calendar and switching to Mac I found this iCal & TimeLog combination, which works just perfect for me. Simple and efficient, just enough to manage and track my work. Well worth the money spent on this utility.
Cool features and perfect support.
A developer that's listening to the needs of his clients. Well integrated, very stable and easy to use.
Love TimeLog. It's extremely intuitive and simple to use. Mostly, it just works. Also, when I've had a question (rare), I have gotten immediate support. Great value.
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Man accused of stealing gas
Published: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at 11:14 a.m.
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A Houma man fraudulently used a company credit card to buy gas, police said.
Jonathan C. McGuire, 29, of 1215 Roussell St., used one of Louisiana SW Transportation's credit cards June 3 to buy gas several times at a Houma convenience store, Houma Police said Monday.
Officers reviewed security video and identified McGuire's Chevrolet Caprice and license plate number, police said.
He was charged with unauthorized use of an access card and jailed.
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While Far Cry is now one of our older benchmarking games, it is still able to put pressure on most computers systems as it is able to utilize all parts of the system. Utilizing PS2.0 technology with the latest versions supporting Shader Model 3.0 with DX9c and offering an exceptional visual experience, there is no denying that even some of the faster graphics cards get a bit of a workout.
Lastly we have Far Cry. We again we don't see any differences between the two platforms.


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"To become competent in governing others, we must first learn to govern ourselves"
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Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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Gig'em Aggies!! BTCO'77HOO t.u.!!
Have to agree with Hugh and mudminnow on just about every point. There are also inheritance and property laws that come into play for marriage; but those could be extended to "domestic unions" via civil law, leaving the word "marriage" out of it.
There would have to be some limit on the definition of unions, though ... due to things like SS survivor benefits. If one man and two women could also be a "domestic union" that could create a problem.
Thus far same-sex "marriages" are not very common. As they grow more common, these couples will also begin learn about divorce, i.e. severing that relationship that they so ardently adovcated for. They may begin to change their minds about things when they discover that part
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I am against gay marriage because God almighty the creator of the heavens and earth ,,,father of my living lord and savior says we should be. Any body can say they" believe in God",,,but very few will admit or when put to the test say they" believe God" That 1 little word puts those statements worlds apart. The reasons are obvious to those who believe what God says. As far as marriage goes who here has studied this subject from the word of God. Most people rerly on what society says about it. I could give a crap about what society says,,, society is steeped in corruption
I believe that God is infinitesimally smarter than you and me. ,,,,, and has his reasons why he makes these statements in his word. Hell he not only says men lying with men is wrong but men acting like girls is wrong also. I tend to believe him. Yet like God ,,,I will not look down on them ,,,, only recognize the evil behind it. The answers why are in the bible and evidenced in the world we live,,but this is not the place to discuss it. I say this without an ounce of religious bushwa. It is what it is.
Thats my opinion any way
Religion is like a guy in church thinking about fishing
Christianity is a guy out fishing thinking about God
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
Gig'em Aggies!! BTCO'77HOO t.u.!!
YeaSo, what about all that wife beating and stoning and stuff?
The word says that's screwed up too. so whats your point. This is an evil world IIcor 4:4 The world is a messed up place,,haven't you noticed. There is some good,,and it usually follows good people,,,, but because God Almighty is not the god of this world and has no jurisdiction legally to intervene without our defense attorney present ,,that would be Jesus Christ our mediator.,,,the god of this world is the runs the show and puppets the systems of this world. II Corinthians 4:4
If people don't like that statement take it up with God,,,he authored it I didn't.
The stoning stuff was mans idea,,,just like today men make laws. It was the perverted culture of the Isrealites. They seldom walked with God ,,but when they did God honored them and caused them to prosper greatly. hell most of their history they lived in occupied territory. They had trouble hanging on to the good that God was always trying to give them,, even King David was a man after Gods own heart went astray and did very evil things,much of it was culture induced but he always overcame his human weekness I set himself back on Gods side.
You have to be able to discern between human frailties and purposeful evils caused by the god of this world. Motivation means everything.
Easy to overlook a mistake but not easy to overlook something evil with evil intentions
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Christianity is a guy out fishing thinking about God
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National flood maps will be the topic at the Rise & Shine With the Chamber breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Thursday at Days Inn on Canal Boulevard in Thibodaux.
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Tuesday, Nov. 13 • 7 p.m. CT
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Head Coach Royce Chadwick is in his first year as the Islanders' Head Coach. Chadwick, who spent the previous 11 years at the helm of the Marshall University program, has 561 wins on his collegiate coaching resume.
The Islanders return 10 letterwinners and features five newcomers, three freshmen and two transfers. The Islanders finished the 2011-12 with a 9-20 record and 5-11 in the conference.
Texas - Pan American is looking for their first victory of the season after dropping a 68-34 opening loss to UTSA on the road and a 72-59 home loss to Our Lady of the Lake on Sunday. Tuesday will mark the 27th meeting between the Islanders and Broncs.
•Freshman Janae Blount led the Islanders on Sunday with 14 points, including 3-for-6 from behind the arc. She also went 3-for-3 from the charity stripe and dished out four assists.
•Brandi Huff led the glass with a game-high seven rebounds.
•The Islanders outrebounded Belmont 36-32 but gave up 30 points in the paint.
•Texas A&M - Corpus Christi scored 11 second-chance points and only gave up five to Belmont.
• Verne'qua Taylor dished out 141 assists in 2011-12 which set the Islanders' all-time assist record as a junior. She led the Southland Conference in assist average with 4.9 per game.
• Alisa Roberts was No. 11 in the Southland Conference in three-point percent shooting .323.
• Chadwick has a career record of 561-302 (.650) in stops at Marshall, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston State, Oklahoma Panhandle State and Howard Junior College.
• In 20 years at the Division I level, Chadwick holds a 365-237 (.606) record and seven NCAA Tournament appearances.
• Three out of the five newcomers come to the Island University from out-of-state. Freshman Janae Blount is from Washington, D.C., freshman Ashanti Plummer is from Manhattan, N.Y. and sophomore transfer Janae Lyde is originally from Albany, N.Y.
UTPA dropped its opening game on the road to UTSA, 68-34, and two days later fell to Our Lady of the Peace, 72-59m, in its home opener.
Jasmine Gordon and Ce'Monay Newell lead the Broncs with 8.0 points per game and Cassandra Moody leads the glass with 7.5 rebounds per game.
The Islanders hold the 19-7 all-time series. Last season, the Broncs edged the Islanders 58-56 at the American Bank Center and won 69-52 in Edinburg.
Last season, Alisa Roberts led the team with 12 points and Verne'qua Taylor added 10 points in the Islanders' 62-58 loss at home. Taylor also dished out six assists and Jessica Jammer led the team on the glass with eight rebounds.
In the second game between the two schools, Trish Amboree scored eight points off the bench and Roberts added seven in the Islanders' 69-52 road loss.
The Islanders were picked to finish eighth in the Southland Conference Coaches' Poll after finishing with a 5-11 conference record last season.
Chadwick will look to five newcomers, three posts and two guards. Freshman guard Janae Blount will add a presence after averaging 10.2 points per game at Howard D. Woodson High School in Washington, D.C. Freshman post Ashanti Plummer will add some inside presence that will be missing from graduated senior Myeisha Myles. Plummer averaged 18.1 points per game during her senior season while pulling down 13.6 rebounds. Freshman Zenobia Winbush and junior transfer Morgan Schwartz will also add height to the Islanders roster. Winbush led her team in scoring and rebounding during her senior season at Samuel Clemens High School in Schertz, Texas. Schwartz transferred from Midland CC where she played two seasons under head coach Ron Jones. Rounding out the newcomers is Janae Lyde who is a sophomore transfer from Texas Southern.
In the exhibition, Plummer led the newcomers with nine points on 3-of-12 shooting from the field. Plummer and Schwartz both pulled down five rebounds apiece.
Blount had an impressive day on Sunday vs. Belmont. The freshman scored a team-high 14 points and went 3-for-6 from behind the arc. She also dished out a team-high four assists in 30 minutes of play.
The Islanders return 10 letterwinners from last seasons' team. Leading returners include Taylor, who led the conference with 4.9 assists per game and tallied a total of 141 on the season, Jessica Jammer, who averaged 8.0 points per game and 4.7 rebounds per game while registering 25 blocks in 21.2 minutes. Along with Taylor and Jammer the Islanders are anticipating the return of Darley who sat out last season with a medical redshirt.
During the exhibition, Darley tallied 12 points on 4-of-9 shooting and recorded six steals, five rebounds and two assists in 17 minutes. She also went a perfect 4-for-4 from the line.
The Islanders also return guards Imani Dunn, Taryn Gregory, Trish Amboree, Marquesha Anderson-Sparks, Sarah Alva and Roberts, along with forwards Brandi Huff and Damequia Montgomery.
Huff led the forwards on Sunday, with a team-high seven rebounds and recorded six points in 21 minutes.
Royce Chadwick is the fourth coach in Islanders' history to make his debut on the sidelines. He holds 561 wins on his collegiate coaching resume and seven NCAA Tournament bids. Chadwick is familiar with the Southland Conference after coaching stints at Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston State. He holds a .829 career winning percentage in Southland Conference games. Chadwick was named the Southland Coach of the Year in 1997. He has 28 years of experience coaching women's college basketball and four career wins in the NCAA Tournament.
Roxanne White joins Chadwick on the sidelines as the Islanders' Associate Head Coach. White served on Chadwick's staffs at Marshall and Stephen F. Austin. White was Marshall's recruiting coordinator for all 11 years she was at the school and was the associate head coach for 10 of those seasons. The Stephen F. Austin alumna was an assistant for Chadwick for five years at SFA and also spent a year with Texas A&M.
Darren Brunson also makes his Islanders' coaching debut this season as the Islanders Assistant Coach. Brunson comes to the Island University after spending the past three years as the associate head coach and team's recruiting coordinator at Texas Southern.
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*The new issue of Strange Horizons has been posted, with a column I wrote about the impulse to collect things.
*It struck me recently that a lot of the small-press 'zines have plenty of fiction by women in them, but most of the major magazines don't. F&SF, for instance, has published three issues this year where all of the fiction is by men. In search of other people's opinions on this subject, I came across Sue Linville's SF & Fantasy in the New Millennium: Women Publishing Short Fiction, an article with data from the late '90s and early '00s. (For what it's worth, I don't think this is a case of simple prejudice; there are too many other factors involved. The unfortunate effect of the male dominance, regardless of whatever various reasons lie behind it, is that it makes the magazines appear to be men's clubs.) [Update 7/5/05: Please read the discussion in the comments section.]
*My sensitivity to the above might be explained by the fact that I just read Justine Larbelestier's The Battle of the Sexes and Science Fiction, an extraordinary book. It's worth reading just for the chapter including fan letters. But there are excellent analyses and arguments throughout, and a marvelously dry wit behind the prose.
*There's a group interview of China Mieville over at Long Sunday. Good stuff -- a mix of both erudition and goofiness. And it's only Part 1. (By the way, you do know that China has a short story collection coming out at the end of August, don't you? It includes some new stories, some popular stories ["The Tain", etc.], and even a graphic story with illustrations by Liam Sharp.)
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*Alan DeNiro has been writing some marvelous posts at his Goblin Mercantile Exchange, with at least one that is required reading for all science fiction fans. And everybody else.
*Frank J. Oteri asks, "How can you possibly have your mind open to a brand new piece of music if the only music you'll allow into your life is music that you already like?"
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- Anonymous7/05/2005 12:34 AM
Hi, MattReplyDelete
When you say "a lot of small press 'zines have plenty of fiction by women in them" what does that really mean? I'd love a definition of plenty, because I bet mileage varies quite a bit.
If you don't think Gordon at F&SF has an agenda, then maybe you should try thinking through the reasons he assembled all-male issues. There are assuredly legitimate reasons that don't really warrant this slow news day type of journalism.
You seem to have this small press= Good, Big Three Mags=Bad schtick going and it (for me)obfuscates the much more important issue: that not enough women are getting published. A few months ago the Big mags weren't publishing Alan Deniro, T. Goss, Jeff V., etc. Once again, F&SF was the "for example."
Unless you really believe this a conspiracy, or have some constructive solution, this sort of fingerpointing strikes me as a tad inflammatory and more than a little unfair.
Thanks, Laird -- I can see where some of that might seem unfair. If it is, it's a case of F&SF being a magazine I have high expectations for, and so the disappointment at times is strong. It's probably the prozine I discuss most frequently, both good and bad, because it seems to me to be the one that best moves through the worlds of the traditional and new, the worlds of the popular and literary, etc. (to indulge in a bunch of false dichotomies). I'm not blind to the pressures editors face (read any message board), which is one of the reasons I keep raising my hand to say, "Hey, remember the few of us out here who actually like this kind of thing!" The alternative is giving up and accepting the status quo, but that would be depressing. We can do better.ReplyDelete
I don't think anybody at F&SF has an agenda to publish male-heavy issues, and the article I linked to provides evidence saying exactly that: that the problem is the magazine gets a much smaller amount of submissions from women than from men. And it's a longstanding problem.
But it is a problem. There have got to be reasons F&SF is getting far more submissions from men, and far more publishable stories submitted by men, than from women. It's a self-perpetuating problem, too. The solution is either for the editors to solicit more stories from women or for people to talk about it together.
Or to declare it's not a problem. Plenty of people are happy with that route, too. I'm not, because I don't like the kind of world that gets created when a culture (whether large or whether just the culture of a magazine) is dominated by one gender.
Certainly, there's a danger to people like me yelling for more balance, because then if more women are published they might be slighted as tokens filling a quota, and any mediocre story by a woman would be given as evidence that the editors will take anything so long as it's by a woman and not a man, and various folks will pine for the days when women knew their place in the world. (Strange Horizons has gotten some of this with regard to a variety of different types of writers, but they weather it well.) There's also a difference between me getting onto this virtual soapbox here and calling for it and Gordon van Gelder calling for it -- I'm in a much safer position. (He's got the power to choose what goes into the magazine, so any statement he made would have far more weight and be probably disastrous no matter what he said.)
As for the 'zines -- I certainly don't think they're perfect, and have expressed disappointment with some, but come on: they haven't been around for more than fifty years, they aren't major markets for short fiction, their audience is tiny ... and yet they manage to publish some good and occasionally great fiction and a lot of it by women. Maybe the discrepancy is a fluke, maybe I'm too strongly biased, maybe it's an entirely inappropriate comparison, but I think it's at least worth discussing.
I just quickly counted up the number of original stories by women on SCIFICTION this year so far and how many by men and guess what? There is one more male than female name on the list (and that's because of the Malzberg/Dann collaboration a couple of weeks ago). So what does this mean? Absolutely nothing.ReplyDelete
In 2004 it was 28- 14 (one was a three way male collaboration). What does this mean? Nothing.
I'm gender-blind in my reading and frankly, I feel it's the luck of the draw. I just happen to love enough submissions coming in by women in 2005 so that the gender balance has evened out.
Why has this happened? I have no idea. It's not anything I'm doing differently. Many of the female writers who have written stories for me in the past couple of years are people who had never sent me stories before or who weren't writing short fiction (as far as I knew). Or at least, they were not writers whose work I was aware of at all.
- Anonymous7/05/2005 1:51 AM
Thank you for the response. You clarified your position and presented potential solutions.It's much better than simply yelling, "Hey, GVG doesn't like girls! But he has his reasons."ReplyDelete
I'd also like some quantitative analysis on gender bias in the 'zines v. the Big Three/Four/whatever. And which quality 'zines are we talking about for this comparison?
Yeah, I agree that the discussion is important. I just think we need to define our terms before it's truly useful.
- Anonymous7/05/2005 11:16 AM
I think it can be a problem. For the Leviathan series, we regularly got far fewer submissions from women than from men. So for Leviathan 3, we actively solicited more work from women. It wasn't that we thought there should be a quota, but that I do believe there is a difference between a male and a female view of the world at times, and that for the sake of diversity in the fiction itself, it would be good to try to get more Leviathan-type fiction from women.ReplyDelete
With a monthly digest, though, I think you'd probably have to sample a couple year's worth to reach any conclusions? I dunno.
Your essay on collecting was great, and brought back a lot of memories for me as well. I've blogged about it at my own journal (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jlundberg/96682.html).ReplyDelete
As for gender balance, I was very lucky in editing Scattered, Covered, Smothered to receive many submissions from women, and our final tally revealed an even split, 15 men and 15 women, completely a surprise to me. I didn't plan it, but I was very happy it worked out this way. Whether this was because of the subject matter, food and cooking, I couldn't say, but that would seem like a cop out.
As for the big print mags, I'm not big on them right now, because they're not publishing the kind of fiction that I like. (The exception being The Third Alternative.) I go to the small press for that, or to the online mags like Strange Horizons and SciFiction. I'm not sure what this means, if anything, except that the more risky fiction seems to be found in these places, and that's what I enjoy.
It was pointed out to me, in the fifth issue of Electric Velocipede, that I had 22 contributors and 2 of them were female. The point was made in jest, but I took it seriously. I've actively solicited work from female authors since then, and sometimes it works: issue #8 was 6 to 4 in favor of the women. But it doesn't always work. I simply get more submission by volume from women than I get from men.ReplyDelete
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John: Don't you mean you get more submissions form men than women? Or am I misunderstanding you?ReplyDelete
Matthew: So glad you enjoyed my book.
matthew, you must get "the people of paper"...or else you will die. well, not exactly. but since you read my review of this remarkable novel on tev, aren't you the least bit tempted to go buy it right now? who cares about school? hell, when i was in law school, i did everything i could to spend some time with short stories and novels. anyway, thanks for noticing my little review.ReplyDelete
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The 42-year-old driver admitted he had been drinking. He agreed to voluntary sobriety tests and failed. He was arrested for further investigation of DUI and submitted to a breath test. Two open containers of alcohol were also found in the truck.
The man was cited for DUI, speeding, weaving and driving with open containers of alcohol. He was given a ride home and released into the custody of his roommate.
A deputy pursued a car for speeding on I-70 on Dec. 2 but the car didn't pull over. It exited the interstate at Gypsum at a high speed, passed a semi truck on the right shoulder of the ramp and turned right onto Trail Gulch Road without stopping.
The officer turned on his siren and caught up to the driver. The 37-year-old man said he was from Vail and was just going for a hike. He said he didn't see the deputy trying to stop him. However, the man's insurance was expired and he had a Gypsum address.
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Last time, my mind had become completely blank in the face of the Blender interface. Now, we shall dive on into the murky depths of the abyss known as Blender.
First, I do a search on Google and I find a tutorial with a reassuring sounding title.
Going 3D with Blender: Very first steps
That's a very reassuring title. It says to me, DON'T PANIC! I like that, so I switch screens and begin reading.
However, since I am impatient, I can't actually take the time to read through this tutorial, so I just look at the pictures. I scan it, and I realize that it doesn't tell me how to load a reference image to the background. So I go back to Google, and I try to find the tutorial that I read before opening Blender the first time. I find a title that I'd seen before. I think this is it.
Blender Noob to Pro (a wikibook) - It says...
Now we open Blender and start a new project. Delete the default cube. Before you start tracing the face, you need to set the face as the background image. To do this, click 'view', then 'Background Image'. A box should pop up with only one button in it (Use Background Image), click it. Now some settings appear, we're only interested in one of them for this tutorial. Click the small button that looks kind of like a feather pen (the first one under the 'use background image' button). From there, select the picture you want to trace. Like this: Background Selection...
Ahhh... yes, got ya!
I have an image that I want to load into the background, so I look on the bottom bar and find the menu item '
view', and then I push the
background image button. Up pops a square with one button that says "
Use background image". The feather pen is actually a file icon. It does sorta look like a feather now that you mention it.
I follow instructions and voilà, a greyish version of my picture shows up.
Now I know from previous experience that it will disappear as soon as I change viewpoint, so I close the background image box and wonder what to do next.
Oh, now I remember! The first thing that you do is make a cube. You go to the top line and click on the
add menu and then choose
It doesn't look much different. Now the cube that was pink is black. Wasn't I supposed to delete the cube? I don't know. I click on the square and it moves around with my cursor. I un-click to drop it back down. I didn't want to do that. That's OK, I'll just undo. Where is undo?
In other programs it's in
edit>undo. Where is edit? There is something called '
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mode menu comes up. Oops I guess that's the wrong button to press.
Isn't there some kind of Baby Blender interface that I can start with?
Undo is not in the
view menu, or in the
select menu, or in the
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Help, and then
hotkey and mouse action reference. It says things like '
IPO select next keyframe'. What is an IPO?Under
F-keys it says that
Shift-F9 is the OOP window.
OOP? that sounds like OOPS which is what happened to me. I'll push it, maybe an undo window will pop up.
Something pops up that says
Scene. I guess this is not the undo menu then. I click on the arrow next to
scene and see a list of objects:
Cube.001, and
Cube.001 is highlighted, so I guess that is the new cube that I've made.But what I really want is to get back to the screen with the cubes in it. I notice that now the little icon at the bottom of this screen looks different. Now it looks like a list. Maybe if I switch back to the little grid icon I had before, I can see my cube again. I click on the icon and get options including
3D view. When I click on it my cuby image comes back with my background photo. Good!
I'll assume that there is no undo for now. I have, on the previous menu selected the first cube. Now, how to make it bigger. I click on the background and then move my center button mouse wheel and the background picture disappears.
EEEK! I'm lost in blender!
What is going on? I think that I see the whole world, but how do I get down to it?Isn't there some kind of Baby Blender interface that I can start with? Scannning over the tutorials, I find places where other users didn't know what they were doing either. Some of them learned later but... is that what this program has to be like?
help menu scares me. It has headings that go to submenus. I click on the one that says
getting started. It doesn't do anything. The headings have icons that look like python programs. Do I need to run ANOTHER program in order to get help for THIS program? I wonder if I remembered to install python on this computer.
Feeling dejected, I press
shift-f9 and go back to the OOP menu. I can't see anything but the list of objects is familiar. I need some time to cool down.
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Hi Rosalyn,when i'm look back i found my self just like you (lost in blender), but now i found blender very helpfull for my dialy works, few days ago i created a blog for my blender user friends at CG community, they found it very useful for beginner,i hope you can enjoy it too and since english is not my primary language please just be patient for miss spelling and wrong grammar.thanks
and if youre interesting at "lost in some-software" i suggest you try zwein-stein video compositor
Yah blenders interface is pretty horrible. THe lack of useful menu's where they SHOULD be really gives me a rage boner. Not to mention theres no easy way to select or move anything. Unrealed still has the most dummy proof 3d designing interface but its scope is pretty much limited to crappy unreal type gaming. Maya and 3ds are pretty complex but at least you can find an UNDO without having to read through 30 pages of horrible manual.
I've been in lost in Blender too and... still partially am
Yep it is very confusing but I think it is this way to discourage people from becoming 3D artist and such. I started trying out Blender but it was too frustrating so I walked away from it for a few months. I then came back to it and again I walked away. Now, I am going to really try to learn how to use Blender. So my point is, you can walk away and take a break and come back and tame the beast. Best of luck.
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I remember when I figured out blender, creating a new object. And understanding how to G Grab objects and move them around. then I got used to the different views and shifting the view port around. Once you get used to arranging things and understanding why your objects disappear (go out of one view) then you have less to worry about. Blender interface gets slammed alot, but actually I find it to be pretty awesome. It's hard to do this stuff, new vocabulary, complicated objects and movements. After using the blender interface, adobe programs are starting to seem weak. But getting better. I love the panels that know you are inside them in blender.
When I was first learning blender, the tutorials available pretty much sucked. I remember this castle tutorial and trying to figure out how to extrude.
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you just told that you have got google in front of you
go click on it, search, thats the method to be followed for any new software if you are a nooob on it
as long as i know
blender has one of the sophisticated UI for the easiness of artists working on that
don't expect everything to be same as like from a mold especially in the case of softwares
in a CG software editing should be fast there is no need of going to edit > then to undo
thats why there is no edit > undo in blender
also there are a hell lot of buttons and keys in blender
don't go panic
be patient > start simple > go slowly don't jump into any holes
day by day you will start loving that interface
best of luck
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Totally agree with last person (after 2 months of learning Blender I really like it) and now even can precisely position any vertex and connect them. Cannot wait now to make animation - but ok step by step in tutorial (now learning how to make materials) :) But making landscapes was awsome :) (my two mountains - following tutorial were great - now making villages in it and people, animals - and adding materials).


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Zumba Gold drawing more older women to exercises
|Ayheza Newell leads Zumba Gold, a slower paced class of the popular Zumba fitness dance for senior citizens in Margate, Florida, on September 11, 2012. (Susan Stocker/Sun Sentinel/MCT)
The elder-friendly version, Zumba Gold, has popped up at senior centers, gyms and retirement communities. It keeps original Zumba's Latin party vibe, giving participants a workout while dancing to salsa and merengue beats. But Gold classes scale back on the high-impact and tricky moves.
"Once something gets popular, a lot of people want to do it," said Dr. Orly Avitzur, a neurologist and medical adviser for Consumer Reports. "We drag our friends, our sisters and our mothers along with us."
Avitzur has seen two generations of the same family Zumba-ing together.
At the Northwest Focal Point Senior Center in Margate, Fla., tables and chairs were pushed aside on a Tuesday morning and 17 women gathered in the center of the lunchroom. Loretta Bartley, 93, stood behind her walker. Everyone had on tennis shoes (except a woman in ballet flats); another wore a fuzzy lavender, short-sleeved sweater.
Within 10 minutes, they were shaking, side-stepping and smiling as Latina superstar singer Shakira purred in Spanish through the CD player: "You know I want ya! You got a lot of the sex appeal." Pop standard "Hit the Road Jack" followed later and everyone sang along.
"It keeps me active and keeps my brain moving, too," said Pat Kramer, 73, a retired school crossing guard sporting a star-spangled headband.
Kramer and her classmates like Zumba for all of the reasons group fitness is particularly popular with senior women, experts say: They have fun and make new friends.
Joy Prouty, a former Radio City Music Hall Rockette with 45 years in the exercise industry, didn't forget that fact when she and her business partner joined forces with Zumba Fitness LLC six years ago to create Zumba Gold.
"There is a big social factor to these classes," said Prouty, 71, of Delray Beach, Fla. "As people get older in life, they may have lost a spouse."
And it was important that the Gold version stick with its rockin' roots, added Prouty, a Zumba education specialist for South Florida-based Zumba Fitness: "This older population, we LOVE dancing. It's something we grew up with. Zumba has the reputation of being fun and we didn't want to diminish that."
Zumba has several specialty programs, such as Zumbatomic for kids, but Gold is one of the most popular. Different types of facilities can offer Zumba Gold as long as they use instructors certified by Zumba Fitness trainers.
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The hallowed home of England's most revered sporting spectacles goes All-American on Sunday. It will host the annual NFL-comes-to-England bowl. This time around the Denver Broncos are part of it. Both "The Star Spangled Banner" and "God Save The Queen" will be performed before the kickoff. We will all be watching here in Colorado! (11 am on KKTV) Will anyone care over there?
In general, not really.
Friends across the pond tell me there is certainly some pre-game hype for a few days before kickoff. That has probably started. Based on that there is some curiosity among the Brits. In fact the NFL is expecting the game to sell out, about 81,000 (this newly built version of Wembley is a huge stadium). Many of those fans may be Americans who live in Britain. When my family lived there from 1975 to 1978 I would have loved to go to an American football game.
I asked around among some of the people I know in England...many of whom are big sports fans, none of whom give a ...fish and chip about American football.
Darrell is my age and follows English football (soccer) religiously. He's a big fan of Liverpool. He has no interest in the Broncos or the 49ers or what they may or may not do on Sunday. He did follow our sport loosely for a time in the 80's and early 90's. There were live games on TV at times, and taped games on late at night. He knows names like Elway and Marino. He told me our sport did enjoy a surge of popularity in his country back then.
Here's what changed. In the early 90's the top division of English soccer became the Premier League. With that change, TV rights changed, satellite entered the TV picture, and live games became available in living rooms all over Britain. Remarkably, until then, it was very rare for any English league soccer game to be televised live, in its entirety....ever. When their own sport started to dominate their TV time, our sport was relegated to distant also-ran on the English sports scene.
Darrell's son turns 16 the day the Broncos play, about a one-hour train ride away from his house. He doesn't care. Patrick put something on his facebook page for me last week asking his friends if they had any interest. They did not. There were a few comments in support for the Broncos, in deference to me probably, a few jokes about altering the name of the 49ers to make it dirty..(these are teenager) but no real concern over who would win.
My friend Rebbecca works for an airline. She says her husband Steve doesn't care about the game. She hadn't yet heard it was happening in her city.
Lisa is a travel agent..so she's kind of plugged in to big events that bring in visitors. She didn't know about it. Her husband Mark loves Tottenham Hotspur (English soccer). Lisa told me, "Neither Mark or I have any interest in American football. I have never actually seen a match or part of one and, to my knowledge, nor has Mark.." She's not being mean, just honest. By the way Lisa, we call it a game, not a match!
Ian is an Englishman who lives in Colorado. He told me he doesn't have any friends back in England who care at all about American football.
My long-time friend Petrie is a radio talk show host in London on a very popular station. She covers politics and social issues not sports. I asked her to "take the pulse" in her circle...to get some thoughts on the big match...I mean game. She hasn't gotten back to me yet. I'm hoping it's just because she's busy.
So the NFL sends two teams to battle every year in London. It's not a bad idea. The game will sell out, we'll all watch it here..some will watch it there because they like it. Others will watch it there because of the novelty. Maybe the NFL will gain some popularity in England...maybe not.
Many sports fans here consider English football (soccer) unworthy of their time and dismiss it with disdain. At least when the English ignore our sport....they'll probably do it more politely.
Go Broncos...and God Save The Queen.
We'll talk again soon.
Don Ward


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HyperPi is a front end for SuperPi that allows for multiple concurrent instances of SuperPi to be run on each core recognized by the system. It is very dependent on CPU to memory to HDD speed. The faster these components, the faster it is able to figure out the number Pi to the selected length.
For our testing we use the 32M run. This means that each of the four physical and four logical cores for the i7 and the four physical cores of the i5 is trying to calculate the number Pi out to 32 million decimal places. Each "run" is a comparative to ensure accuracy and any stability or performance issues in the loop mentioned above will cause errors in calculation.
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Replacing Everest in our labs is AIDA64. This new testing suite is from the core development team from Lavalys and continues that tradition. The guys have thrown in better support for multithreaded CPUs as well as full 64 bit support. We use this to test memory and HDDs for now, but may find ourselves opening this up to other areas of the motherboard.


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J Love does a super sexy strip out of her black dress, she dances around as she pulls it down exposing and showing off her gorgeous curvy body. She starts to suck her dildo and I must say she knows how to give a nice juicy blowjob. She gets really horny and turned on so that is when she decides to fuck herself until she squirts her cum all over.
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This hot video shows J Love in some sexy masturbation action! She strips off her pretty blue dress and shows off her curvy body. Her ass is so tight and round, her tits are so full and beautiful and last but not least her shaved pussy is so tight and excited. She has some solo naughty fun with her big gold dildo.


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tweezer opens this one up in fine form. this is not the longest version in the world, but it has some nice funky explorations. roses are free follows it up nicely, and wilson gets the crowd in a rocking mood. then maze really lights this one up. trey and page bounce back and forth like maniacs before bringing this one home. not a big b&r fan, but this one gives everyone a well deserved cool down. tube brings the funk back in fine form, and transitions nicely and somewhat comically into rocky top.
after a very funky first set, the boys came out blazing in a ripping boogie on. this or the cuyahoga falls '00 are neck and neck for best pre hiatus boogie on. they leave the normal "song" part, and they just keep bouncing along until they have drifted into uncharted waters, and nobody handles uncharted waters quite like phish! after some heavy funk jamming, they eventually find their way into meatstick. i'm not too into this song but the free that follows works very well. trey takes over the middle section, while fish just pounds away. the bouncing that follows completes a some what odd 3 song pairing. harry hood really does the job before driving into a rowdy frankenstein. oh yeah, check out pages playing through out hood...bueno. cavern, as always, serves as a great set closer.
this is one of those rare shows were they are really nailing things in both sets, from start to finish. the playing is sharp, and the set list is superb. great show.
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I have a friend who asked if I could get him a couple of Japanese garden tools. Since this isn't my regular thing we had to sort of guess what to ask for. He wanted a medium hand axe (we call a hatchet in the US) as well as a medium thin sickle.
What came is pretty much what I expected, can't say about my friend yet though. The bearded axe head weighs in at 570g with an oak (?) haft of about 1.5ft in length, this thing feels solid. The sickle is very light weight with a cutting edge length of 180mm, it's thin like a nakiri. The haft on the sickle feels like ho wood although it's listed as being "Japanese white oak", not super impressive but paired with the light sickle head should do fine for what this tool will be asked to accomplish.
If anyone is interested in scoring some unique gardening tools from Japan like these we can get many different sizes, styles, even bamboo hatchets & bonsai tools too so please ask. Unfortunately I don't have pictures to show in advance but I'll ask my source to help me here where he can.


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The stands were filled with a raucous student section, most of them adorned with the symbol of DC Comics legend Superman. Walking in as the eighth-ranked team in the State of Missouri, the Marceline Lady Tigers may very well have been facing Superman in the form of top-ranked Silex Wednesday night in Ewing at Highland High School. But on this occasion, the Lady Tigers showed that they had some Kryptonite, as they overcame the odds to advance to the State Quarterfinals this weekend.
Silex started the game on a 4-0 run in the first 45 seconds. A hoop by Morgan McCormick put Marceline on the board. Silex responded with a three-pointer to extend their lead. The Lady Tigers fought back from here, shutting out the outrageous student section supporting Silex, and would take the lead at the 5:35 mark on a three-pointer from Kendra Gladbach. This would be the first lead of the game for Marceline, and proved to be a lead they would never lose. At the end of one quarter, the Lady Tigers led 14-10.
Silex closed to within a bucket with a hoop to open the second quarter. Marceline responded with a 9-0 run, with baskets coming from Molly Shoop, Sydnee Brooks, Madison McCormick. Shoop and Abby Gauthier had assists in the run, and Brooks drained a three-pointer to extend the Lady Tigers lead to double-digits. At the half, Marceline led 32-22.
"We worked so hard to get here as a team," said Sydnee Brooks, who led the team in scoring in the first half. "You never think you will be here until it happens."
This Saturday, the Lady Tigers will travel to Moberly Area Community College for a State Quarterfinal battle with Sturgeon at 1:45 p.m. Marceline comes in with a record of 26-3, while Sturgeon comes in with a record of 26-2. A pep bus will leave from Marceline High School at Noon on Saturday, and is free for grades 3-12. Admission to the game will be $6.
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Photograph by Roman Golubenko, National Geographic Your Shot
A grizzly bear lunges for a salmon in a photograph by Your Shot member Roman Golubenko.
Golubenko submitted this picture to Embrace the Untamed, a recent Your Shot assignment. Photographer Evelyn Hockstein selected 32 pictures, including this one, for a story published on Your Shot.
Your Shot is National Geographic's photo community where you can share photos, take part in assignments, lend your voice to stories, and connect with fellow photographers from around the globe.
"This has been a wild and exciting journey—editing some 18,000 images of fantastic photographs of this diverse planet, from the tiniest insects to great mammals to our oceans, weather, and majestic landscapes all across the globe," wrote editing photographer Hockstein.
Lava, Lava, Burning Bright
Photograph by Andrew Hara, National Geographic Your Shot
A lava inferno glows bright in this picture of Hawaii's Halemaumau Crater by Your Shot member Andrew Hara.
"I love the perspective, which draws me into the hot lava center, then, surprise, there's a person at the top right that gives the image perspective, making the volcano look even more awe-inspiring," wrote editing photographer Hockstein.
Above Bird
Photograph by Aggelos Zoupas, National Geographic Your Shot
A bird soars over the churning waves in this picture taken from a ship by Your Shot contributor Aggelos Zoupas.
As fellow Your Shot member Mehar Singh Chauhan put it in a comment: "The calmness of the bird is seriously too good."
"Great perspective," added editing photographer Evelyn Hockstein, who chose this picture for the final Your Shot story.
Winging Buffalo
Photograph by Demi Vlachos, National Geographic Your Shot
A water buffalo surges out of the water in Zambia in a picture by Your Shot member Demi Vlachos.
"The sun was at that exquisite point just before it sets, that casts an orange glow over the bush and seems to momentarily freeze time," wrote Vlachos in her caption. "We spotted our first animal: a buffalo ... But, as I took photos, he decided we were too close for comfort and suddenly propelled himself out of the water."
Flight of the Cranes
Photograph by Ido Meirovich, National Geographic Your Shot
Cranes take off from a field in Ne'ot Mordekhay, Israel, in a picture by Your Shot member Ido Meirovich.
"This shot is fantastic—it captures the essence of the untamed. I feel like I'm in the center of this maelstrom of birds taking off," wrote editing photographer Evelyn Hockstein about this picture.
Hockstein selected this picture and 31 others for a story published on the Your Shot site.
Pod Pals
Photograph by Karen McDonald, National Geographic Your Shot
"It was such an incredible experience to have this wild dolphin pod swim alongside our boat," wrote photographer Karen McDonald in her caption for this picture taken on the way to Bute Island, British Columbia.
"I love the texture of the water," added editing photographer Evelyn Hockstein in an editor's note.
Embrace the Untamed, a Your Shot assignment and story, sought "the wildest animal and nature photos you have," as Hockstein wrote in her introduction. "The images that blow my socks off are the ones that capture the spirit and context of this wild world." Over 18,000 images submitted by Your Shot members were narrowed down to a final story of 32 pictures.
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A stream rushes near Oregon's Mount Hood in this picture submitted to Embrace the Untamed by Your Shot member Paul Weeks.
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SAN JOSE -- Two top San Jose officials are proposing the city consider short-term bonuses to keep cops on the force in an acknowledgment that police pay and benefit cuts have spurred a worrisome officer exodus even as the city sees a surge in crime.
Councilmen Sam Liccardo, a former prosecutor, and Pete Constant, a former city officer, suggested one possibility would be a one-time, 8 percent retention bonus, with the estimated $7.5 million cost perhaps paid out of salary savings from officers who already have left.
"In light of the increasing rate of departures, it's no secret that we can best stem that flow if we focus on restoring compensation in some form," Liccardo and Constant wrote in a memorandum to be considered at Wednesday's agenda-setting Rules and Open Government Committee, of which Mayor Chuck Reed is chairman.
Liccardo and Constant, both allies of the mayor, call for the city to schedule a council "study session" in coming months to discuss ways San Jose can boost police compensation and staffing.
But their proposal didn't exactly cheer San Jose's officers union, which has been battling the city over voter-approved pension reforms and is girding for contract talks in which officers, who had agreed to 10 percent pay cuts in 2011 to limit layoffs, are hoping to see raises.
"I'm not sure what to think about this," said San Jose Police Officers' Association President Jim Unland, adding that "just a few weeks ago, the mayor was threatening layoffs and pay cuts" if courts upend the city's pension reforms.
"As Sam Liccardo and Pete Constant know, the place for these discussions is at the negotiations table," Unland continued. "When the city has a real offer to present us, we'll take a serious look at it."
Councilman Ash Kalra, who has criticized the mayor's pension reform agenda, called it "ironic" that Liccardo and Constant would make such a proposal, saying the policies they've supported have driven officers away.
"We all agree that we have to do what we can to keep our officers here," Kalra said. "One thing I do agree is that it's going to take us years to recover from the damage the mayor and his allies have caused by driving away our employees."
Reed is expected to support the councilmen's call for a study session. In a memorandum this week he listed "police staffing" among 11 topics for special council study sessions in the next six months.
The proposal Liccardo and Constant outlined is similar to what Reed had suggested back in October to keep more cops on the force, in which Reed called for targeted retention bonuses and "performance-based raises." He said at the time that "across-the-board raises will have to wait," arguing the city cannot afford the $21 million it would cost to restore the 10 percent pay cuts the officers took in 2011 without cutting other programs.
Figuring ways to boost officer pay within the city's fragile budget will be tricky. Though there is some money available in the current budget for unfilled officer positions, it would only be available for a year, and the city may not have the cash to cover ongoing "raises."
Constant and Liccardo propose that any incentive bonus not count toward retirement pensions. And they suggest the city suspend contract talks with the cops for a year. The proposed bonuses, they said, would serve as a "placeholder" until "a more sustained pay increase could be offered with what we all hope will be a sunnier fiscal picture the following year."
San Jose has long suffered from thin staffing in its police department but it has become a heightened concern as crime rises, with homicides reaching a 20-year high in 2012 and officers battling City Hall over pay and benefit cuts.
The department's authorized staffing is just 1,094, but of those, fewer than 1,000 have been available for full duty. The department also has seen 30 resignations in 60 days. Both Chief Chris Moore and Assistant Chief Rikki Goede retired early recently. City Manager Debra Figone has been scrambling to find a new chief in a process that already has taken longer than expected.
The San Jose Police Officers' Association has blamed the city's pension reforms and pay cuts for an exodus its leaders describe as catastrophic, with the cover of the union's latest magazine depicting the department as a sinking ship.
Reed has argued "spiraling" employee benefit costs are to blame for police staffing shortages. The city, he said, would have had to cut 150 more officers from the force if the cops hadn't agreed to pay cuts.
Constant said whatever the cause, the city needs to do something to keep its cops.
"It's easy to politicize it," Constant said. "What we're trying to do is not fix the blame but fix the problem."
Contact John Woolfolk at 408-975-9346. Follow him at Twitter.com/johnwoolfolk1.


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Mitchell S. Rein, MD., is currently the Chief Medical Officer and Sr. V.P. of Medical Affairs at North Shore Medical Center. Prior to becoming C.M.O., he was the Chair for the Dept. of Ob/Gyn and is currently a member of the Dept. of Ob/Gyn at MGH where he practices infertility and assisted reproductive technologies and gynecology as a part of the MGH/North Shore Ob/Gyn practice. He is an Assoc. Prof. in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, and has published extensively on the topics of uterine fibroids, infertility and quality improvement.
Dr. Rein is a fellow in the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology. He is also a member of the American Society of Reproductive Technologies, the American College of Physician Executives, the Obstetrical Society of Boston, the New England Obstetrical Society, the Mass Medical Society.
Dr. Rein received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine. He completed a residency specializing in obstetrics and gynecology and a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Rein, M.S., Friedman, A.J., Heffner, L. Decreased prolactin secretion by explant cultures of fibroids from women treated with a gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist., J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. (1990) 70:1554-1558Rein, M.S., Friedman, A.J., Barbieri, R.L., Pavelka, K., Fletcher, J.A., Morton, C.C. Cytogenetic abnormalities in uterine leiomyomata. Obstet. Gynecol. (1991) 77: 923-926
Rein, M.S., Barbieri, R., Friedman, A. Progesterone: A critical role in the pathogenesis of uterine myomas. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. (1995) 172:14-18
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