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adjectiveNorth American informal, chiefly derogatory
Expert; intellectual: some pointy-headed college professor
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- I fear real life jurors would respond to such an argument by dismissing it as bookish, the stuff of pointy-headed intellectuals.
- Like jocks, the policymakers laugh at the pointy-headed intellectuals who think they know how to draft good laws and negotiate with foreign governments.
- Score one for real people against the pointy-headed atheistic intellectuals (who have apparently declared war on the rest of us).
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- I never said the pointy heads should run things.
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The Butterfly Dream
Fawwaz Haddad, The Unfaithful Translator, Beirut: Riyad El-Rayyes, 2008, 488 pages
In the third or fourth century BC, the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi dreams he is a butterfly – so vividly that when he wakes, he wonders if he may in fact be one. In that case, he reasons, at this moment I must be dreaming that I am a man, which would make me a butterfly all along.
Zen koan, Sufi riddle, nursery rhyme: the trope has proven particularly popular in the post-modern literary imagination, where the constructed and the factual tend to intersect and overlap at a rudimentary level.
In the case of Al Mutarjim Al Kha'in or The Unfaithful Translator by the Syrian novelist Fawwaz Haddad, improbable events and brazenly forced plot turns – one could draw up a whole inventory of accidents and coincidences – keep the artificial side of the exchange near the surface of consciousness, a la Brecht, but at the same time, intimate descriptions of the cafes and streets of Damascus, true-to-life dialogue between the characters and the way they respond to public events like the fall of Baghdad are historically rooted and empirically tenable – to the point of being exact.
This potentially jarring medley of fact and fancy jazzes up a more or less predictable story line and gives the fundamentally moral message of the book subversive zing. But, more importantly, it manages to do so without upstaging the idea of a dual world in which dreams can be confused with reality:
Carried away by his creation, the writer wonders if the characters in his book might actually be creating him. He wonders if the alternate reality presented to him by literature might not turn out to be the real world, and his own life an invented fiction.
Like Bishop Berkeley's claim that the tree would cease to exist if there were no one to perceive it, the Butterfly Dream is a quaint, insolvable question of little application. Yet by producing one of the language's first coherent, full-length meta-novels, Haddad gives that central idea unprecedented and culturally specific edge. Finally the Butterfly Dream has been nationalised.
Zhuangzi, a more or less mythical figure, is now reincarnated as the Damascus-dwelling, post-millennial literary translator-cum-cultural editor-cum-ghost writer Hamid Salim (whose silent doppelgänger is of course Haddad himself): a no less mythical (or at least mythicised) figure. In his own very different way Hamdi recalls the one statement to which the Chinese philosopher's entire contribution tends to be reduced:
"Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."
As a budding poet Hamid is discouraged by the establishment critic Mohsin Ali Hassan, an autocratic Ustaz who rides the wave of "engagement theory", making his name and gathering around him an obsequious circle of acolytes by promoting literary engagement as "a life raft to save literature from the communist octopus". Mohsin advises Hamid to write novels, but instead the young intellectual – unbeknown to the older critic and to his chagrin – turns to the age's most relevant intellectual endeavour: translation.
Despite his bookish inattention to matters of immediate concern – which results in his wife leaving the house (taking the children with her), and gives him the undeserved reputation of a suspicious snob among his neighbours – by the time the book opens Hamid has had a relatively successful career as a translator of English works of fiction. He is widely believed to be competent, and makes enough to support himself and his family.
The translator spends his time tortuously labouring over every last phrase in the book he happens to be working on. His talent, imagination and sense of cultural, not to say national identity force their way into the process in the form of perilously creative glosses on the original words, sentences and even entire paragraphs or sections of the book he is "transporting", to borrow a traditional Arabic expression for translating.
But no one seems to notice that the results are inaccurate or compromised. (The dual implication is that few critics know enough English to realise, and that they would not care if they did, so long as there was nothing about the realisation to advance their careers or help them promote the party line.)
Then, in a moment of postcolonial fervour, Hamid alters the ending of a novel by an African author that he has been translating. He makes the hero break up with his western partner and return to his country instead of marrying her and staying on in the west (as he does in the original). But even then, it is only by coincidence that his climactic act of betrayal is exposed: the novel happens to win an international prize and it is consequently summarised in the Arabic press, so people notice the discrepancy between the original and the Arabic version they have read.
However cooped up in his ivory tower, Hamid has been unable to avoid the small-mindedness of the establishment, and a few months ago he defended himself against an unprovoked attack on the part of the influential if patently ignorant journalist Sherif Hosni (at some level, the Syrian equivalent of a party hack). This is Sherif's chance to pounce back.
Sherif sets about discrediting Hamid, and he proves so efficient that in a matter of weeks Hamid can no longer find work anywhere. For a while he goes hungry because he cannot afford to buy food.
And so, through a string of encounters, reunions and recollections, amorous and detective scenarios, assumed names and identities, Hamid embarks on a series of secret jobs under three different pseudonyms (Halafawi, Hafalawi, Halafani), which take on the form of alter egos whose overbearing presence increasingly torments him.
Finally, on the point of throwing the last of his secret employers, the long unproductive author Samir Farout, over a bridge, Hamid is approached by a man who manages to stop him in his tracks. When he asks where that man came from – in the meantime Samir has managed to crawl away – the reply is, simply and shockingly, "Reality". There is nothing in the novel to suggest that this visitor from outer space is Haddad, the author, but it is tempting to read the ending as if it were.
Now I do not know whether I was then Haddad dreaming of Hamid, or whether I am now Hamid, dreaming of Haddad.
And yet there is more to this enormously multifarious book than the Butterfly Dream. The notion of translation is a strong metaphor for what it means to be an intellectual in the Arab world: someone who is able to bring otherwise inaccessible culture or truth into the arena of the everyday.
Perhaps a more effective rendition of the title is Translator Betrayer (Arabic does not differentiate between the adjective and the noun), since the book is less about Hamid's betrayal of the texts he works on than the Arab intellectual betraying his "historical role", to borrow an expression from the nationalist rhetoric Haddad targets with his satire.
Irony upon irony: Hamid is betrayed by the Literary Mafia represented by, among others, the critic Jamil Halloum (according to Hamid's old friend Sami, an uneducated middle-man with connections in criminal and intelligence circles, they are capable of murder in their relentless drive to cut short the rise of any genuine talent that may threaten their position).
But members of that mafia may in turn be betrayed by someone like the university professor Hakim Nafie (a possible ally whose agenda does no always chime with theirs).
Hakim becomes Hamid's first secret employer when his scheme to improve the grades of one of his female students in return for sexual favours is discovered by Hamid's deformed friend Mahmoud. So Mahmoud forces Hakim to employ Hamdi in order not to expose him.
Mahmoud is only a beggar- or criminal-turned-Muslim fundamentalist, but he is capable of turning this insane hierarchy on its head (at least for a while, until he is taken in by the police, apparently because another of Hamid's employers wants him out of the way). He can threaten the personal safety of someone like Nafie.
Mahmoud is a kind of guardian angel who, wandering around the streets of Damascus, his unbearably hideous face wrapped in a scarf, gathers critical information simply by overhearing people speaking to themselves or thinking out load – as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Translation is intrinsically a betrayal whether or not the translator betrays the text, but so is the charge levelled at social and political renegades in the police states of the Arab world: by breaking with the party or the leader, they become khawanah (the plural of kha'in), betrayers of the nation and, more crucially, of their own well-being. They become ostracised and go hungry.
Haddad's main purpose in this book is to expose, through a self-referential parable sufficiently panoramic to cover the full genus of Arab Intellectual, the corruption and impotence of its full range of species. But hischoice of translation as the profession of his protagonist goes beyond its metaphorical significance. Hamid's access to English allows Haddad to place his Damascus-bound theatre within a new-world-order context.
He juxtaposes the incredibly pan-Arab biography of Hamid's childhood love Lailah Shouman with an imagined novel by a fictional American author named Elisabeth Markend:
Laila, also known as the new-wave poetess Lamis Abbas, author of an erotic collection poems, was married to a Palestinian freedom fighter who took her to Beirut and then Tunis, and after he was murdered she returned to take up with an Iraqi sculptor.
Translating Markend's The Jailed Virgin, a tour de force of global espionage, western-Islamic strife and complicated love that reflects Laila's "real-life" biography, Hamid is finally defeated by the first of his alter egos, Afif Halafawi, who manages to impose his plan to produce an accurate, almost literal translation against the betrayer's will.
Before he forges the final plot twist, taking the whole symphony several abrupt octaves up through the paradoxically satisfying anticlimax of someone appearing from reality to prevent a fictional murder, Haddad manages to weave together all three strings of the book:
1) the satirical critique of the Arab Intellectual, a creature unable to translate culture or truth while he attends to his principal task of building petty personal glories by colluding with brute force, whether in the form of dictatorship or crime;
2) the many metonyms for this narrative term, which include Kafkaesque , Joycean and Noir registers, embodied by a cast of archetypes including, poignantly, the ostracised author Samih Hamdi, who is still working on an endlessly gargantuan novel when he dies – the cue for his one remaining heir, his spinster sister, to promptly burn the manuscript; and
3) the idea that reality, especially a reality that revolves around literature, is practically interchangeable with imagination: only through their imaginative capacity for identifying with corruption and oppression, Haddad seems to suggest, do Arab intellectuals become corrupt, oppressed and oppressive, but ultimately powerless to pursue their raison d'etre except at the most hollow rhetorical level.
Considering the size of the undertaking, Haddad's consistency of tone and the subtle pacing with which he maintains the action, balancing each element against the other, is no mean feat.
Since the 1960s, at least, big fat novels like The Unfaithful Translator have been read reluctantly and frowned on for their sheer size. Notwithstanding the popularity of the short story and the novella until the 1990s, the idea is that the full-length novel is a thing of the past, reflecting societies and ways of being – French and Russian if not pre-modern – that are so temporally or geographically distant as to be irrelevant. Whether or not you share this view, there exists a pragmatic argument for not writing them: they do not encourage reading, and so they help to keep the readership small.
This may not be entirely true; the counter argument is that dedicated readers – the only kind who read novels – are unlikely to be put off by a long book; they may even treasure an accomplished intellectual project of this kind once it has captured their attention. The Unfaithful Translator is no breezy read, but the point to be made about it is that it could not have been any shorter: its power resides in the way it weaves together three apparently disparate literary projects, for only against the backdrop of Haddad's critique of the intellectual community is the Butterfly Dream adequately incorporated into Arabic literature; and only the many intersecting dramas make the critique readable and convincing.
Somehow, despite remaining essentially a work of the mind, The Unfaithful Translator manages to leave a haunting – and naturalistic – impression in the mind. Like many Arab intellectuals in real life, there is something of the Kafkaesque arthropod about its hero, the solitary little man: lacklustre, droning, alienated and alienating. Hamid leads an isolated life, he seems to exist solely within a mental space he carved out for himself, sealed off from physical experience, human contact, and memory. Yet his sheer existence embodies a deep yearning for these very things.
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1The state of never having had sexual intercourse: I lost my virginity
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- I lost my virginity to a girl whose name I didn't know, in a sleeping bag on the floor of my mother's abandoned Fifth Avenue apartment.
innocence, decency, virtuousness, respectability, dignity, modesty;
lack of sin, sinlessness, spotlessness;
celibacy, abstinence, self-restraint, self-denial
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1.1The state of being naive, innocent, or inexperienced in a particular context: the lawsuit will be remembered as the moment the computer industry lost its political virginity
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Middle English: from Old French virginite, from Latin virginitas, from virgo (see virgin).
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In the year 1368 our ruler Casimir the Great, on the right of his royal sovereignty, established the Statute of the Cracow Salt Mine. It is clearly written that anyone to whom the King awards the title of Royal Steward will manage the Wieliczka Salt Mine, called Magnum Sal. His Majesty the King will give this royal stewardship to the foreman who by his work shows that he is the best in the craft of salt mining, and he will lead the operations of the Cracow Salt Mine for the glory of the Polish Kingdom.
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The 2012 Presidential election campaign is over, but Barack Obama's team is continuing to expand what it does on social media and The White House has this week joined Pinterest. Of all the social networks Pinterest didn't play much of a role in the campaign itself. It was relegated somewhat and became, however briefly, the realm of the candidates' wives. Michelle Obama and Ann Romney both took to Pinterest to play their part as their husbands slugged it out.
The White House says it will use its official presence on Pinterest to share pins and boards that range from inspiring images and quotes to infographics that help explain key issues to details about the life inside the White House.
According to the White House blog the move to launch a new post election Pinterest campaign is part of President Obama and the First Lady's mission to "make this the most open White House in history".
The Pinterest page joins The White House's presence on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and the virtual tours 24/7 through the Google Art Project.
To kick off its presence on Pinterest, the White House is inviting some of its newest followers to join it for a Holiday Social at the White House. Pinners will be invited to check out the décor, meet with the people that helped transform the White House for the holidays — and share it all with the Pinterest community.
To join the White House Holiday Social on Monday, December 17th you need to follow it on Pinterest, and then apply.
It says it'll roll out its first pinboards on December 17th, the day of our Holiday Social.
"Before we do, we'd like to hear from you. Let us know the kinds of things you'd like to see on the White House Pinterest account by leaving us comment on our first pin. We look forward to hearing from you (and meeting some of you) soon!"


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Restaurant critic Leslie Brenner doesn't like kidneys, heart or bananas
Other than that, just about anything is on the table for the Dallas Morning News dining editor, who was profiled this month in the Daily Campus, the student newspaper at Southern Methodist University.
The profile, by Taylor Adams, also reveals that Brenner:
– Went to Stanford University, then Columbia University, and, in between, worked on a TV show in Hollywood.
– Eats out at least five nights a week, plus lunches, which caused her to gain "quite a bit of weight" after she moved to Dallas. (She has since stepped up her daily exercise routine and lost nearly 30 pounds.)
– Once told her husband that she would "never ever ever ever ever be a restaurant critic."
Taylor, by the way, is editor-in-chief of the Daily Campus, a former reporting intern for The News, and a food writer herself. Check out her blog, Bites of Dallas.


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When did flight attendants become glamorous? When Pan Am started picking cabin crews who looked or could be made to look glamorous, in their sassy blue skirt suits. Incidentally, the strict uniform code of cabin crews is a result of the military aviation background of many commercial aviation pioneers in the West.
As air hostessing became a pink-collar profession, airline companies realised the publicity value of their stewardesses. The glam image took hold firmly from the post-war period, and is alive till date.


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Country music star Miranda Lambert will perform at Wisconsin State Fair on the event's final night, Aug. 11.
The show will begin at 6:30 p.m. on the Main Stage.
Tickets are $39 or $49 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 15 at WiStateFair.com and the fair ticket office.
Country trio The Farm will open the 6:30 p.m. show.
This year's state fair runs Aug. 1-11.


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EVERETT, Wash. -- Betty Dillion, 73, formerly of Stoddard County, Mo., died Oct. 9, 2007, at her home.
Born May 11, 1934, in New Madrid County, Mo., to the late Stephen N. and Ludie Burress Clark, she was a homemaker.
Survivors include: four sons, Charles Dillman of Lacey, David Smith of Grants Pass, Ore., and Robert Smith and Curtis Smith of Horseshoe Bend, Ark.; one daughter, Christina Galvan of Crossville, Tenn.; five brothers, Howard E. Clark of Marysville, James S. Clark of Rock Island, Ill., William R. Clark of Snohomish, Marvin T. Clark of Oklahoma City and Ronald D. Clark of Dexter, Mo.; two sisters, Carolyn S. Lacy of Sweet Springs, Mo., and Emma K. Lippencott of Garland, Texas; and three grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother, Richard H. Clark.
Visitation is scheduled from 12:30 p.m. until time of services at 2 p.m. Monday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. The Rev. Mike Foster will officiate.
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One Dead After Building Collapse
One person is dead after a tree falls on a building in downtown Augusta, causing it to collapse.
Chief Deputy Coroner Mark Bowen tells News 12, 40 year-old Robert Walker died in the accident.
Four other people were trapped inside, but rescue crews were able to get them out.
Investigators blame the accident on Wednesday's severe weather.
MCG Researcher Charged With Indecent Exposure
This morning, an MCG researcher is accused of exposing himself at the hospital.
69-year old Nurul Sarkar is charged with with indecent exposure after three people witnessed him masturbating in a stairwell.
Sarkar has been suspended without pay, pending a hearing at the school.
Meloan Recovering at Home
A former North Augusta city leader and TV icon, accused of molesting a young boy 30 years ago, is out of the hospital after an apparent suicide attempt.
74 year-old Ed Meloan is charged with a lewd act on a minor.
He was hospitalized over the weekend after his wife found him unresponsive in their home with empty pill bottles nearby.
Murder Suspect Sought
Richmond County investigators are still looking for a suspect in the murder investigation at a nightclub.
They want to find 18 year-old Darion McNair.
He's accused of killing 18-year old Stedmund Fryer at Club Sper C.
Richmond County deputies are also looking for Jordash Tanksley.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A group that opposes two new planned Ohio River bridges is asking a federal judge to force Indiana and Kentucky to halt spending on the bridges until a federal lawsuit challenging the $2.6 billion project is resolved.
The Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation made the request Wednesday in a motion seeking an injunction filed in federal court in Louisville, Ky. It is the first injunction sought in the lawsuit.
The Courier-Journal of Louisville reports that the coalition wants any spending stopped until a new environmental report is issued or U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II rules in the case. The group wants Heyburn to bar the states from "committing or obligating public funds" or entering into any contracts to clear trees or "any other site work" besides inspection and maintenance of the route of the eastern bridge.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokesman Chuck Wolfe said in a statement that the agency will file a formal response to the group's motion.
"But throughout this project, we have taken pains to ensure that all applicable laws were complied with," Wolfe said.
Indiana Department of Transportation spokesman Will Wingfield said the agency does not comment on pending litigation.
The $2.6 billion project will build two bridges running between Kentucky and Indiana near Louisville and upgrade highway interchanges to ease traffic congestion around the Louisville metropolitan area, which includes parts of southern Indiana.
The coalition argues in court documents that Indiana's intent to award a contract for tree clearing along the eastern bridge route on Oct. 25 — before the lawsuit is resolved — "would cause irreparable damage" to the organization's interests.
It also claims that construction along the route connecting Utica, Ind., with Prospect, Ky., will "unnecessarily destroy endangered bat species maternity habitat" in violation of the Endangered Species Act and will violate the Clean Water Act by sending pollutants from highway runoff into Harrods Creek.
The project also "poses an unqualified risk of catastrophic contamination of a major 70 million gallon per day drinking water intake," the group's motion states.
Kentucky and Indiana are aiming to award the major construction contracts for the project by the end of the year. Construction would begin in early 2013.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Louisville-based conservation group River Fields are also plaintiffs in the lawsuit. They have not requested an injunction on state spending, but have asked Heyburn to rule that the federal approvals for the project are illegal.
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Friday offered some of the most moving moments of the bus tour!
On our way to our first event, we stopped by the district office of Representative Judy Biggert, a long-time advocate of seniors' rights and opponent of the Death Tax. After Jim presented her with both our Guardian of Seniors' Rights Award and our Benjamin Franklin Award, he invited Rep. Biggert onto the bus. When the Congresswoman spotted Shona, she said "You testified before our Committee!" Sometimes the world seems small, indeed.
We then hosted 180 guests at the Chevy Chase Country Club in Wheeling, Illinois. One of our special guests, State Representative Sid Mathais, had sponsored the (unsuccessful) resolution to include Illinois in the legal challenge to Obamacare based upon the Commerce Clause.
David again expressed his support and appreciation for the work 60 Plus does on behalf of seniors all across America. He praised our efforts to educate citizens on government overspending, and pointed out that the government has known for years about the waste, fraud and abuse that has taken place in the Medicare system. David said that the $716 MILLION that is being taken out of our senior citizens' Medicare coverage is not going to change that; the cuts will go entirely to cutting payments to doctors and providers, which will in turn cause doctor shortages and long wait times for care. He said we need to get government out of the doctor/patient relationship! This was met with a chorus of 'Amens' through the room. David also told the crowd about the 159 new bureaucracies in Obamacare, including the IPAB death panels where 15 unelected officials making $160 THOUSAND a year each will be deciding where the medical cuts will be. David did say that there is a lot we can and should do, and that we are lucky to have 60 Plus in our lives to assure that our taxes are spent carefully and prudently.
Shona impressed the group with her story as the face of socialized medicine, because she lived it, breathed it, and most importantly, survived it. She spoke of the vast difference between Canadian and US healthcare. She challenged the crowd to do all they can to help overturn Obamacare, that this is our last stab at this bill.
Matt confided to the crowd that Shona had been the target of attacks this past week - both in Canada and in Wisconsin – and by not just the media. While she was speaking at an event on Friday, a man threatened her, yelling horrible blasphemies and cruel epithets.
The room broke out in spontaneous applause when the George Bush tribute to Jim played. Jim wowed the crowd with his speech as usual. When he spoke of his dedication to the US Constitution, the crowd shouted 'That's right', and 'Amen'. Jim noted that the seniors we have been meeting have been energized and very informed, and have mentioned at each event that no one had ever asked their opinion before. Everyone we talk with 'gets it', and they are eager to get confirmation for their opinions and beliefs.
Another delightful special guest was Dr. Barbara Bellar (MD, JD, former nun, candidate for Illinois State Representative, and YouTube sensation) who repeated her amusing-but-ironic 142 word sentence ending 'what could possibly go wrong?' with Obamacare. The crowd went wild. On a more serious note, she said that God should determine how long we live, not President Obama. She also warned that more than any time in American history, our civil and religious liberties are being eroded. She asked for God to bless and help us. Jim presented her with our Honorary Guardian of Seniors' Rights Award, for which she was deeply grateful.
From there we traveled to the Viking Dance Hall in Gurnee, Illinois. No, there were no huge red-haired barbarians there to dance the polka. Instead, there were about 85 warm, friendly seniors. Dave challenged them to work as a community to defeat Obamacare. Shona shared that she is fulfilling her vow to share her story with every Canadian or American who will listen. Jim's largest applause and cheers in Gurnee were when he talked about the senior citizen tsunami that swept ashore in 2010 is again surging, and that there will be another one this November. He praised the power that seniors have and will wield in order to protect and protect the nation.
When Rick came back on stage to sing 'God Bless the USA' one of the most touching events of our entire tour occurred. In the back of the room, a lovely woman of middle years sat in her wheelchair listening to the song. She had serious disabilities which interfered with her ability to speak and move. That didn't stop her from joining in the song! She reminded us all of Psalm 98, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise." She raised her voice as loudly as she could, trying to modulate the tone to sound like singing. She also struggled to raise her hands in prayer by the time we got to the last line of the song. Afterwards at the bus, she hugged several of the bus team. Her caregiver was able to interpret her words to tell us how touched she was by our event. We also learned that her brother died in service to our nation, and wanted to sign our bus. With her caregiver's help, we now have Diane's signature on our bus. What an honor it is for us to carry her message to Washington!
Another guest, a wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran, gifted all of us (including one for us to send to Pat Boone) with silver Virgin Mary medallions to bless and protect us on our journey. Who could ever have expected we would have such experiences on our journey across America?


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I over the course of 5 years have naturally through diet and nutrition lost 108 pounds. I have had 3 children weight skyrocketing to 200 pounds with each child. I am now 112. I have been at my goal weight for a year! I am a strict vegetarian and I eat very clean! I work out everyday anywhere between 2-4 hour blocks. Weight training 3x a week as well as biking, swimming, running, and ellipticals. I have what seems to me leftover abdominal fat. I HAVE to be missing a link somewhere. Any and all advice is appreciated. Ps: I also eat lots of veg protiens and no refined carbs. Cosmetic surgery can't be my only answer..Thank you in advance for your help
I say "seems to be abdominal fat" because the GNC person says it seems more like water weight...anywho again any help is appreciated
Do you do any particular ab workouts? It sounds like you are doing everything right. Maybe a new workout routine would help. Have you tried Rev Abs? Let me know if you're interested and I can send you additional information and testimonials for people that it has worked for.
Yes denise I am VERY interested in any and all info you can give me!! I would appreciate it greatly
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To chow down on large amounts of big, hot, shit.
Sir Jerald looked over to Lady Penelope and gave her a sly wink. "You're really going to love this next course," he said in a hushed whisper full of promise. The servent bought a steaming dinner plate to the table and lifted the silver cover. Lady Penelope's eyes lit up with delight and she blushed furiously at Sir Jerald. "My favourite!" she exclaimed and cut deeply into the big fat pile of shit that had oozed out of Geralds asshole not half an hour ago.
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1)abbreviation of scatophagy, meaning the consumption of excrement.
2) Defecation or faeces.
3) Substitute for the word shit
2) Defecation or faeces.
3) Substitute for the word shit
1) Don't do that scat here.
2) I need to take a scat.
3) Oh scat!! That must've hurt.
2) I need to take a scat.
3) Oh scat!! That must've hurt.
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Sex involving poopy love.
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The only thing that turns normal people on, next to vomit and sticking an arm up a mare's rectum.
i like me some crispy corn nuggets. Scat is the SHIT.
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The Barnstable County Fire Academy landed a contract to train cadets of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and this week got a financial boost to make that happen.
The Assembly of Delegates approved $11,250 June 20, which will allow the fire academy to buy the necessary equipment for the training program from this year's budget. Initially, $20,700 was requested, but Mass. Maritime ponied up $9,450 to buy some of the equipment.
The contract is expected to bring about $60,000 to the fire academy.
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Post subject: Baby constipation
Hi my 8week old baby girl is constipated and constantly in pain 24/7, she is lactose intolerant so she is on soya enriched formula. The constipation has been going on for 5 weeks and i have tried everything pear, prune and apple juice, coloxyl and brown sugar just irritate more due to the intolerance and i am running out of ideas and hair as i am pulling it out from frustration and stress. I see the pedeatrician in 3 weeks but i would like a part soloution by then.
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hi ive found my daughter is constipated after moving her on to sma white for hungrier babys, i found that if i give her 100ml bottle of cooled boiled water then top it up to 120mls with freshly squeezed orange juice its sorts her out with causing unnessasery pain and discomfort it takes a while to get through her system but the end results are fantastic. if your worrying about what ive suggested my mum used it for me and my sister and my mother in law suggested it as well after four children so it cant to them any harm!
hope this helps kayla xx
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my 6 week old old girl is having alot of problems passing her stools. the first 2 weeks of her life she was passing hard ball like pooh, and looked like she was in a lot pain,i thought maybe it was the way i was making up her feeds so i bought ready made up formula. she has been on sma since birth. since i put her on the ready made formula nothing has changed, she hasnt passed any stools for over 30 hours now. im really worried because she is very uncomfortable and is crying constantly when shes awake. ive tried giving her gripe water, and cooled boiled water, but she wont drink it. please help.
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Hi all ive got a 10 wk old son who was having 4 or 5 wet loose dirty nappies up to about 5 weeks ago. He is being breastfed but now only goes about once a week. After about 2 days he gets alot of discomfort and all the docs say its normal. But how can it be hes suffering. They told me he could also be constipated but how when he does go his stools are loose for a breastfed baby. He apparently has a touch of colic but im not sure hes very windy and farts alot. Can anyone please help im distraught.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:07 pm
Post subject: Vit C and constipation
I have used vitamin C powder mixed in with the formula for my 12 week old as recommended by an australian nutritionist, and have used it on and off since he was 4 weeks. This has no side effects from xs dosage (ie not toxic in any form) except for loosening the bowels and works a treat for us. It was also recommended that I gave him it for 5 days prior to any vaccinations to aid there ability to cope and also to give it to them if they are on antibiotics for any reason.
If you are going to use it you will need to mix it when the water is warm as it can clump a little but make sure the water is not too hot as it makes it less effective. I use approx 1/3 teaspoon in each feed until the bowel are loose and then probably put it in 1-2 feeds a day for a few days but you can increase or decrease as suits.
The powder form I am using is magnesium ascorbate, with 835mg of vit C per 1 gram.
I gather it is more commonly used in infants in america but for some reason not often used here.
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Wide receiver A.J. Jenkins claimed he doesn't "go on the Internet and Google my name. There's no point."
But Jenkins, this year's first-round draft pick, still heard the criticism after his May 12 debut at a rookie minicamp.
"I've made long strides," Jenkins said. "Obviously, I had criticism when I first came in as far as being in shape. That's irrelevant now. I'm just trying to help the team win, whether that's playing special teams, offense or being a real good teammate."
Monday marked the first practice of training camp for rookies, along with all four quarterbacks and selected veterans. The first full-squad workout is set for Friday, a day after all veterans must report.
"It's good for us to have like an extra week of practice, get back into the playbook and back into football shape," Jenkins said. "The feeling of a football camp is definitely here, though."
Jenkins took part throughout a "pretty intense" offseason workout program and signed his four-year, $6.95 million contract last month.
Still on his to-do list: Take up Jerry Rice on an invitation to run his famed training hill in San Carlos. Those plans are on hold during camp, though Jenkins hopes to "one day" get in contact with Rice.
Jenkins instead has sought advice from in-house veterans Randy Moss and Mario Manningham on how to prepare his body for camp. "My mindset has really been a lot stronger since the first day of rookie minicamp," Jenkins said. "From this day forward, all the way into January or February, it's going to be a long season, and my mind is ready for it."
Ginn's objective Monday: "Come in early with the young guys, fly around and do certain things out there to see where I'm at." His sure-handed approach on punt returns was sorely missed in the NFC final, where replacement Kyle Williams botched two returns in a 20-17 defeat to the New York Giants. Ginn appears stronger in the upper body and said he has tacked on 10 pounds to his now 185-pound frame.
Listed as a cornerback by the 49ers, McBath played safety his first two seasons with the Broncos under secondary coach Ed Donatell, who now holds the same position with the 49ers. McBath said he's fully recovered from a broken arm he suffered in his only game last December with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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I forget how cold L.A. can get after a long, indian summer that lasted until late October. When my birthday rolls around every December, I get to bust out my favorite jackets (I don't really own sweaters) and bundle up in the evenings with extra blankets. It's also when I get the irresistible urge to eat more Korean food than ever. Korea is a cold ass country. Ask my friend Erik who lived there for a few years and decided to move back to L.A. because it was just too cold (he's now back in Korea). The Korean people have been weathered and blistered in the darkest, longest of winters. It's in my DNA to want warm, comforting food. My ancestors, who once wandered the low mountains of Northern Korea, probably huddled around fires in straw huts cooking up the delicious delights I now enjoy in places like Surawon.
Surawon is pretty unremarkable for a Korean restaurant in L.A. It's housed in a former Mexican restaurant, uses some of the weirdest lighting arrangements ever, and smells a bit like a dive bar. Upon walking in, one will notice that many tables hold large, disk-shaped cauldrons of bubbling soup, or jungols in Korean. These are the primordial soups of Korean cuisine, where various seafoods and meats and veggies are piled into a broth, laden with spice and sit with a low simmer, a bit like a Chinese hotpot, but with no dipping involved. They're big enough for a standard-issue nuclear family.
I was here on my birthday, which felt like a late autumn day instead of an early winter one, with a steady breeze and trees flaking off turned leaves in preparation for the cold months. I'd come off of a rather difficult afternoon, a long conversation with my mother after we had lunch at a sushi joint. I won't get into the details of the talk, except that since then I've been grappling a bit with acceptance. What it means to be accepted for who one is, or chooses to be, or chooses to live. It's a hard thing for someone who has so many expectations. I try not to over-aggrandize the situation I'm in except that there's a point in one's life when you decide to become your own person, or become the subject of something else. And even becoming your own person is a type of submission; it's a submission of your own will for what you value the most. And that thing depends on who you are, but for me, it was, and is, something I believe in.
I don't always eat my favorite dish, mostly because I haven't found the version I like most. I mean, of course I enjoy my mother's version. I like my dad's version. But I'm looking for my favorite version of yookhwejang, a sort of over-looked dish in the canon of Korean cuisine. It's not particularly interesting in the purview of other great dishes. Deng jang chijae is a quick one people pick, or bulgogi, or bossam, or neng myun. My favorite is this spiceful dish, tinted an intense red, whose piquancy varies upon the addition of jalapeno (an American variant that you won't find in Korea). The balance is found between the strings of brisket, strands of potato vermicelli that lurk beneath the surface, and the stalks of green onion that wilt under the heat. You pile in small mounds of white rice, which soak up the broth and become a type of canvas for every bite, each dependent upon what you're able to glean with the spoon. You start sniffling because the heat makes your nose runny. Steam hits your eyes and the pieces that fall of your spoon splash back in, speckling your shirt or sleeves along the way with little red dots that become mysterious to people you meet after the meal. You ask for more napkins because the meal is started to make you sweat.
It's in that moment, where you're drained, desperate for relief from the heat, slurping up soup in masochism, not so much from the spice, but because the glutamic content from the beef broth hits a critical point of addiction - that there's a reactive bliss of comfort that comes from after the strain. You breathe for a second, slouching ever so slightly, and take a few chopsticks full of banchan, followed by another spoonful of rice that's soaked up the spicy red broth like a sponge.
Rochelle and I finished off the meal in relative silence, maybe discussing a few things here and there, nothing significant, not that any conversation was relevant. I just felt happy enough that I was able to enjoy my favorite dish in the entire world with my favorite person in the entire world. I'd accepted that this was my last-meal dish, and I think, perhaps, I got her one step closer to agreeing with me. But who knows, she might want kare-kare or sinigang for the last meal before we go to heaven, because either way I know for sure it won't be my last bowl of greatness.
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After a two-month break to spend time with his family, ACT star Brian Hoar will make his return to the track this weekend for the International 500 at Airborne Speedway.
The eight-time ACT champion last raced on May 18th, when he won the ACT event at Airborne, a track that he got his start at in 1990. Stephen Watson spoke with Hoar in preparation for the big race.
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NEW YORK CITY! Get ready for not ONE, not TWO, but THREE exhilarating nights of IMPACT WRESTLING. For the first time ever, TNA will bring cameras to New York City for three incredible IMPACT WRESTLING live events August 5-7 in our Grand Ballroom.
Tickets go on sale May 30th at 10AM EST at ticketmaster.com, all ticketmaster outlets and toll free at 800-745-3000.
Ticket Prices: $75 – 1st Row Ringside, $50 – Rows 2 and 3 Ringside, $40, $30, $20
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On 2/28/2007 10:52 AM On a whim, Lord Zoolook pounded out on the keyboard
> And furthermore... to quote a random post on
> microsoft.public.windowsXP.general as an example of the "wisdom" in the
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> > Leave the registry alone and don't use a registry cleaner. Despite
> > what many people think, and what vendors of registry cleaning software
> > try to convince you of, having unused registry entries doesn't really
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> I wonder if he is running a 486dx, because with a defragmented registry
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That is "fragmented registry" I believe. Yeah, many of the MVP's there
are against cleaning the registry. I don't recommend that my clients do
it, but I will do it for them.
Let's see, I've been in business since 1978. If I never moved ANY
outdated file folders out of our cabinets, would it slow anyone down
trying to locate information?
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I am a rising senior at LIM College. I need to take Web PDM (Product Data Management) as a required course in order to graduate and was just wondering if this class was offered at FIT during the summer (physically or online). If I were to take the course, could my credits transfer over to LIM College?
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Ask IT Answer:Thanks for your questions. The blog that you posted to is for the Technology Department at FIT. We do have PDM courses, but I am going to have to point to either the Fashion Merchandising Management program (FMM) or Registration to find out the schedule for their courses.FMM's main office can be reached at 212-217-4800 or Registration is 212-217-3850They will have the most up-to-date information and advice for you.Thanks,Meredith
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Definition of Torridonian in English:
1Relating to or denoting the later stage of the Proterozoic aeon in NW Scotland, from about 1100 to 600 million years ago.
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- Petrographic analysis of partially melted arkose in nearby Kinloch Glen produced a pressure estimate of 150 bar and it is likely that the pressure of metamorphism of the Torridonian samples outside the Main Ring Fault was similar.
- This tectonism resulted in tilting of the Torridonian prior to deposition of the overlying Cambrian sequence to produce the classic 'Double Unconformity' of the Assynt region.
- Bodies of Lewisian basement gneiss, believed to represent remnants of the magma chamber roof, are found only within the Main Ring Fault, either in faulted contact with, or overlain unconformably by, the Torridonian rocks.
1.1 (as noun the Torridonian) The Torridonian period, or the system of rocks deposited during it.
Late 19th century: from the name of Loch Torridon, in NW Scotland, + -ian.
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This dress is made up of 4 different textiles. I used both linens from dress #1 and dress #2 for the contrast wave design. I also used a poly-linen textile for the front part of the garment and a grey linen sheeting for the back and neckline. This dress symbolizes the fog coming down over a wavy scene. It has a high back and an invisible zipper down the CB.
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A student designer contestant in the 2012 Seamless in Seattle fashion design competition.
Entry Category: Student Designer, graduate of the International Academy of Design and Technology
Designer Name: Nune Hov
Line: Nune Hov Couture
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This Collection for 2012 is inspired by water and tells the story of how the sun rises and sets over the sea. The collection begins with a sunny day that gets stormier, until it begins to rain. But like with all storms, the clouds eventually pass and the sun shines again.
My work is targeted towards a younger demographic: 14-25 years of age. My customer is someone who has money and likes to make a fashion statement. She is someone who is sexy, has a wild side, an eastern flair and a girly attitude. This season she was inspired by her 60s girly style.
What differentiates me as a fashion designer is my ability to work with any textile, and also my attention to fit and shape. I have made garments out of vinyls, trigger, bubble wrap and metal—that are beautiful on the inside as well as the outside. I love the shock factor and have worked as an entertainer and producer for a while. I provide a unique product to young rock stars. All my garments are made for a petite girl.
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Once I go through CMT contractors my price per garment should drop to $100-700 per piece, depending on the textile and complexity of the garment. I do hope to still provide couture pieces, like my handmade chainmail gown. Vendors I want to attract is Neiman Marcus-the Contemporary Division and other boutiques.
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Take a stack of driver uniforms and create a new look in the spirit of UPS – that was the task given to 19 students of the Margrethe-Skolen international fashion design school in Denmark. For the second consecutive year, UPS teamed up with a leading fashion institution to support young design talent and show how UPS serves fashion all over the world, bringing designs to catwalks, retailers and wardrobes the world over.
"UPS has a strong connection to the fashion industry in Denmark – and it's a sector we've served for many years," said Sanja Lemez of UPS Nordics. "With this project, we wanted to support young talent and show that you can create synergy between design schools and business. We're very pleased with the creativity, imagination, and energy of all the entries."
UPS helped plan the theme for the competition, which involved the students deconstructing uniforms and reassembling the parts in new ways and new contexts. The students received an introduction to the history and core values that underpin the UPS brand. The five-week long collaboration culminated in a catwalk show in Copenhagen, and the grand prize was a trip to one of the world capitals of fashion – Paris.
The jury consisted of two Danish designers and UPS's own Sanja Lemez. Maja Helene Hornum was the overall winner for a design featuring multiple, capacious pockets, and the audience choice prize went to Veronica Sarah Neuhard for her futuristic dress of yellow laces.
"I'm surprised but also very happy to have won," said Maja. "It was a really fun task, and I put a lot of emphasis on UPS's core values to create a design that encourages team play, with lots of pockets and options."
In past years UPS has taken an active role in encouraging young design talent with projects all over the world – in the United States, China, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands. And in every case the values underpinning good design are the same ones that drive work at UPS: creativity, commitment and excellence.
What type of uniform would you design? Let us know in the comments.
See what solutions UPS has for the fashion industry, helping you get an optimized supply chain and a returns process that helps you stay on top of this high-stress, quick-turnaround business.
|Community, Global Impact, Inside UPS
|Denmark, Europe, fashion, Margrethe-Skolen, students


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