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PIVOT East 2014 is here! PIVOT East, one of the most prestigious mobile start-up competitions and conferences is back in Nairobi after a successful event at Sheraton Hotel in Kampala, Uganda in 2013. This years conference will be held in June in Nairobi, Kenya.
PIVOT East aims to catalyze the growth of mobile startups, so as to amplify and consolidate the gains of East Africa's Mobile developer and entrepreneurship ecosystem. The key objective for this year's event is "to facilitate discovery of the next wave of high potential mobile startups in the region".
PIVOT East has officially opened the call for applications for 2014. Start-ups across the region that meet the requirement can start applying for the competition. Startups may join the competition through the PIVOT East Startups Community Network startups.pivoteast.com. Information on how to join including eligibility criteria may be found here pivoteast.com/how-to-enter.
Applications to compete in 2014 will be entered as detailed startup profiles which describe the customer pain, the startups solution, revenue streams, team composition and commitment, market traction, short-term projections and milestones among other aspects. The overall startup profile will be used by the competition judges who will mostly be investors to score the potential of the startup to become a sustainable high growth enterprise.
The competition has five categories which are; Mobile Finance, Mobile Enterprise, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Society and Mobile Utility. Each category will feature five finalists who will pitch to an audience of Investors, Development Partners, Government Representatives, Telecom Operators and other key mobile industry players from East Africa. The five category winners will attract investment from the m:lab, who are the organizers of the competition.
25 finalists in the competition will receive training, coaching and mentorship on how to arrive at repeatable and scalable business models. The finalists will also receive training and coaching on how to pitch to investors. PIVOT East is the primary route for startups to secure support through the m:lab's residential and virtual incubation programs.
The deadline for submission of applications is on 11th April 2014. Applicants are encouraged to start building and curating their startup profiles early as they might need to research or source some of the information required widely. Applicants are also required to upload a short (max 5 mins) video of the founders expressing the mission and strength of their startups.
Information on finalists of previous editions of PIVOT may be found on the PIVOT East website (2011, 2012, 2013). For more information on PIVOT East 2014, please visit our website at www.pivoteast.com, follow us on twitter @PIVOTEast, find us on facebook at www.facebook.com/PivotEast or visit us on Google+ PivotEast
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How 40,000 strangers helped Noah Fisher love his glasses
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- December 03, 2013
NOAH Fisher is four years old. When his mum, Lindsey, told him he had to get glasses, he broke down and cried.
He told his mum he thought the other kids would laugh at him.
So miracle-worker Lindsey took to Facebook, creating the page Glasses for Noah.
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For classic versatility, nothing beats our chino trousers for men. These styles stride from the backwoods to the board room without missing a beat, and keep you comfortable every step of the way. Our chinos for men are crafted in a variety of fabrics, giving you every option you need to keep on the move with ease and simple sophistication. We have heavier materials suited for the colder months, which pair perfectly with a jumper or sweatshirt, as well as lightweight yet ultra-durable pairs that will keep you cool and protected during the highest heat. For more than a century, Orvis has been outfitting sportsmen, providing technical yet timeless kit and apparel that enhances the distinctive country lifestyle. We draw upon this wealth of experience as we choose the construction of each pair of our chinos for men, placing pleats and pockets with care, selecting each material for its particular profile of traits, from drape, to flex, resilience, breathability, and weight. This thoughtful design process is evident in every pair, a fact that you'll immediately appreciate at first wearing. Our men's chinos are the all-around essentials that you'll reach for time and again, whatever the season, so we made sure to provide them in a wide range of colors. It's easy to find a pair that will be perfect for any occasion, whether the tone is formal, relaxed, or downright rugged.
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Situated right at the front of the caravan park, the Rio has 3 bedrooms and a double sofa-bed in the lounge area, sleeping up to
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There's a reason Penn State is known as Linebacker U. Seemingly every year the football squad boasts multiple stud NFL prospects and an astounding amount of depth.
2011 is no different with Michael Mauti headlining a very talented group.
PennLive.com reader seal6 believes that Mauti and company could be college football's top group of linebackers and writes:
"Mauti, Hodges, and Fortt. That is a linebacker group that will be as good as anybody in the nation. With Stupar, Carson, Royer, and Hull backing them up. Oh Yea!!
With the depth at DLine, look out! At DE, Crawford, Lattimore, Stanley, and Jones will be a good rotation. Oakman also if he doesn't redshirt. DT, Still, Hill, Ware, Jones, and many other blue-chips make up an excellent rotation.
DB is a little thinner. Morris, Powell, Thomas are three good corners. Sukay and Astorino are very good at S, if healthy. Lynn is a starter, where? The Defense will be very good as usual."
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There's a new couple in the White House and seemingly overnight our nation's capital – a town known for filibusters, not fun – is suddenly a magnet for Hollywood starlets, reality TV shows and high-profile idealists wanting to get in on a little high-minded action. Here's a look at some of those beguiled by the Beltway:
Dating in the D.C.
After splitting from The Office nice guy John Krasinski, Parks & Recreation star Rashida Jones, 33, has been hanging with President Obama's 28-year-old speechwriter Jon Favreau. "It's not serious," a source reveals, but they are an item. Meanwhile, taking a break from her doctor duties at the Oceanside Wellness Center, Private Practice star Kate Walsh, 41, has been spotted cuddling with another young administration hotshot, Sean Smith. How's this for a title? Smith, 38, is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Swapping his SAG card for a seat in the White House, former House resident Kal Penn will make Washington home when he joins the Office of Public Liaison, working to get the Obama message out in the world of the arts and the Asian-American Pacific Islander. "The opportunity to serve in a capacity like this is an incredible honor," the actor, 32, told Entertainment Weekly.
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Hoping to mirror success in New York, New Jersey, Atlanta and Orange County, Calif., Bravo is taking its trash-tastic Real Housewives franchise to Washington, casting from a pool of "cultural connoisseurs, fashion sophisticates and philanthropic leaders." Not to be left out, MTV has announced the Real World will be taking up residence "in the heart of where history is made," in the words of the network's president of programming. Production begins later this summer. And come this fall, 20-something social butterflies will be the focus of a CW docu-series titled Blonde Charity Mafia. Think Gossip Girl goes to Georgetown!
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GISP EDPSYCH 4116/5116 Psychology of Adolescence -- 2 unit(s)
Psychological concepts applied to adolescent intellectual, physical and psychosocial behaviors; designed to improve understanding of, and relationships with, adolescents and their search for identity.
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- Course syllabus
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- Delivery
This course is available in a print-based format. Mail completed assignments to the GIS Office. We will forward them to the instructor for grading.
- Prerequisites
- UNI students: EDPSYCH 2030 or equivalent or consent of instructor; junior standing.
- Bachelor of Liberal Studies (BLS) distribution area
- Students working toward their Bachelor of Liberal Studies may apply credit earned in this course to their degree. This Guided Independent Study course is applicable to the Professional Fields distribution area. Learn more about the BLS degree program.
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Radhi Al-Mabuk, Professor
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Santrock, J. W. Adolescence. 2001/8th edition. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill.
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Students taking this course for undergraduate credit are required to write two article critiques, two pages in length for each. Students taking the course for graduate credit are required to write four article critiques. You may choose articles published between 1999 and the present in the following journals: Adolescence, Journal of Adolescence, Journal of Early Adolescence, Journal of Adolescent Research, Youth & Society, Human Development, Child Development, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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West Ashley resident Eva Jayne is excited about the possibility that two of her three daughters soon could be receiving free books in the mail each month.
Expanding to West Ashley
Begin With Books offers free books to children under 5 in certain zipcodes, and it plans to expand to 29407 in West Ashley. Organizers are looking for volunteers to help raise money and enroll children.
If you're interested in getting involved, meetings will be held Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Andrew's Regional Library, 1735 N. Woodmere Dr.
For more information, go to www.beginwithbooks.org or e-mail email@example.com.
The Charleston-based nonprofit Begin With Books provides free books to any child under 5 who lives in certain areas, and they've picked the 29407 zipcode in West Ashley as the next community eligible for its books. Two of Jayne's three children are under the age of 5.
Want free books?
Any child who is 4 years old or younger and who lives in one of the following zip codes is eligible to receive a free book each month.
Eligible zip codes include: 29401, 29403, 29409 (downtown); 29426 (Adams Run); 29429 (Awendaw); 29438 (Edisto); 29449 (Hollywood and Meggett); 29455 (Johns Island); 29458 (McClellanville); 29470 (Ravenel); and 29487 (Wadmalaw Island).
To register for the books, go to www.beginwithbooks.org.
"They love getting things in the mail, and they don't care what it is," she said. "If they get books that we're going to read together, they'd really be excited, so this would foster their excitement with reading."
How to donate
Begin With Books needs to raise $86,000 to expand to West Ashley, and it also needs continued support to grow and sustain its program.
A contribution of $165 sponsors five children and delivers 60 books, and a donation of $33 sponsors one child for one year and delivers 12 books.
Checks should be made payable to Begin With Books and can be mailed to: Begin With Books, P.O. Box 183, Charleston, SC 29402.
Donations are accepted online at: www.beginwith books.org.
For more information on how to contribute to its Early Literacy Fund, contact the Coastal Community Foundation.
Begin With Books is an affiliate of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, and it has delivered 33,512 books to 2,691 local children since starting in August 2010.
The group began in rural Hollywood under the leadership of two volunteers, Patty Bennett-Uffelman and Janet Segal. They have replicated the same formula – recruit community volunteers to lead each zipcode's fundraising efforts and to enroll children – that has enabled the program to grow to downtown, Awendaw, McClellanville, Edisto, Wadmalaw Island and Johns Island.
"It's a combination of our skillset and our belief that this program is so worth doing," said Segal, who joked with Bennett-Uffelman about the number of hours they invest in the program. "And we find that this program attracts the highest level of volunteers."
Begin With Books doesn't have any paid staff, and that's on purpose, Segal said. As a volunteer-run operation, they can ensure that all donations go to providing children with free books.
The program costs about $33 per child per year, and children receive one age-appropriate new book in the mail every month.
There is no income requirement to be eligible for the books, and Bennett-Uffelman said that means there isn't a stigma to receiving books. It also creates common connections among children with different backgrounds who live in the same community, she said.
The West Ashley expansion will mark its largest to date. Begin With Books serves 2,079 children under 5 in Charleston County, and the 29407 zip code has 2,179 children under 5.
The nonprofit received a $30,000 challenge grant from the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust to help grow the program into West Ashley, and organizers say they will need a total of $86,000 to meet their fundraising goal.
They're looking for a team of at least 50 volunteers to help raise money and enroll children, and they hope that children could begin receiving books by the end of this school year.
"We've been methodical," Segal said. "Each of our expansions has been a little bigger than the one before it, and we've been successful."
Bennett-Uffelman said they picked West Ashley because it was geographically connected to other zip codes it already was serving, and it already had some volunteers in the area.
The nonprofit's intention is to serve the entire county, and the only barrier to that is funding, Segal said. It would cost an estimated $500,000 to provide books to every child under 5, but Segal said that would ensure most every child who entered school would be ready to learn.
"Because the books show up 60 times (from when children are born until they are age 5), something is going to happen with those books," Bennett-Uffelman said. "It will make a difference."
Bennett-Uffelman is so committed to the program that she and her husband established the Begin With Books Early Literacy Fund at Coastal Community Foundation this year. The endowment will continue to grow, and she said it helps ensure the program's future stability.
"I wanted to emphasize the long-term nature of the program," she said.
Gail Blair is a parent advocate who lives in West Ashley but works downtown at Sanders-Clyde Creative Arts School. When the program launched downtown, Blair volunteered to find matching money and enroll eligible children. She worked with the school's pre-kindergarten classes to ensure eligible 4-year-olds were receiving books.
"Any time I see a little one, I'm asking parents if they're enrolled and explaining the program," she said. "They get excited and the excitement trickles down."
Blair plans to stay involved with the program and help the West Ashley effort. She's passionate about providing children with a good education, and so much of that comes from reading, she said.
"Reading is one of the best things children can do," she said. "That's a foundation for them, and if they get that … it's a great start."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the amount of the grant from the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust.
Reach Diette Courrégé Casey at @Diette on Twitter or (843) 937-5546.


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Foam Tack Glue
I called my local art shop a few days ago to try and buy my favourite glue (UHU creativ) in bulk at a cheaper price. Normally a 33ml tube cost me $10 aussie dollars. Fairly pricey. The store said they wouldn't be getting anymore in because there was another product that students from the local university were using and preferring. So I bought a bottle of the new stuff. New to me anyway! It's called Foam Tack Glue and is made in the US by Woodland Scenics. Tested it this afternoon as a contact adhesive and as a straight glue. As a contact adhesive it is very close in strength to the UHU I was using. It looks like a viscous wood glue, is white, dries clear and is flexible. I'm impressed! And it also works out at less than half the price of the UHU product as well. And it doesn't feel all gummy like the UHU does, which was a real PITA if you needed to sand anywhere near it!
5 hours later it's still drying in the straight glue test. I think I'll stick with the contact method lol!
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Has anyone else used this glue? Any good or bad experiences?
I have not tried it but always willing to test a glue product. Let us know how it does as a straight glue bond. I've used a glue called "The perfect glue" I bought at Home Depot and it is very much like UHU. I'm happy with it.
This glue would cost less so that would be better.
DaDesign, it feels like a completely different formulation to UHU. It doesn't have that thinners smell to it. It actually smells like PVA or wood glue. I'll do some more testing overnight and report back.
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They don't seem to have a MSDS or any thing for it that would let you know what, if any, volatiles are in it and what type of glue it is.
If it is a polyurethane (PU) it would probably foam up in the presence of water whereas regular carpenter's glue does not foam up. Have you tried anything like that? Spritzing a small dab with water to see if it will foam like Gorilla or other PU's do?
Hi Jackerbes. There's no information on the bottle as to the ingredients either. I may sen them an email and ask a few questions. Especially on the safety side of things.
I don't think it's a PU type of glue, but I'll do a test and see what water does to it.
The overnight straight glue test went very well. It stuck!! Just takes a long time to dry. Same with the contact method really, you really need to let the glue dry off a bit before bringing the 2 surfaces together. Around 20 minutes I'm guessing.
So it's not as quick, and I don't think quite as strong (but plenty strong enough for most applications) as UHU Creativ. I'm sold though as the price can't be beat for foam glue around here!
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Joined Feb 2008
211 Posts
there is a glue at hobbylobby craft store and at micheals made by the company called "beacon adhesives'' they sell "FABRI-TAC'', it drys clear and is very strong bonding. I use this product on all my birds,depron.for a 4oz bott. costs 7$ i like it alot better than uhu and its more for the buck.
You guys are really spoilt for choice over there! Down Under we just don't have the range of glue or foam to choose from. And by the time it gets here it's so much more expensive!!
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Joined Aug 2006
203 Posts
I got a heads up on this a couple posts back. I found mine this mourning at Wal-Mart. Paid $4.97 for this product.
I ran home and did some joint testing on this and it looks like it will be a great glue. It is alot like the UHU Creative. Nice and tacky, dries pretty fast, and strong on the test joints.
The test joints were a simple lap joint to simulate a laminated structure, and a simple butt joint. Both joints are looking good and feeling strong.
I have been trying different glues ever since UHU Creative became unavailable in my area.
This is the first glue I have found that meets my requirements of readily available, reasonable cost, and of course WORKS!
Thanks flyd7 for the heads up on this fine product.
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I have been using "Power Grab" paneling and drywall adhesive by Loctite to build my Depron foam planes. It has a set up time like 5 min epoxy and you can get it at Lowes. The bad news is that it only comes in white and you have to buy a 10 on tube.
United States, UT, St George
Joined Jun 2009
614 Posts
yea i use fabritac on almost everything now.
i'll use it on butt joints by just sticking together while wet then pull apart a few times or use it as a contact cement on harder pieces like the top of steves f-22.
so with a bottle of fabritac, a can of 3m super 77 for laminating and fuse doublers and 5 min epoxy for critical joints you can throw together a plane at lightning speed as they all set VERY fast. i recomend leaving fabritac over night before you put it through the ringer with sanding and that sort of abuse but it sand VERY nice and is SUPER light weight and since it uses some acetone as the solvent it welds the foam and evaporates fast! can't say enough good about the stuff!
and for the record im using Dow PB3.
We now carry an improved solution of Foam Tac Glue made by Beacon glue. They set time is reduced. It works best when it is room temperature or warming. Some people heat up some water to let it sit in for a few seconds.
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Now that the United States men's national team has officially qualified for the 2014 World Cup with its win last week over Mexico, all eyes are turning to Brazil and the opening of the world's biggest tournament in nine months.
In the 2010 World Cup, the United States topped their group, which included historic power England. And although they lost a disappointing game to Ghana in the Round of 16, they represented the U.S. well.
Now, four years later, the USMNT is primed to do even better.
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UCLA baseball won a national championship on June 24 with two Santa Clarita Valley prep baseball stars in the starting lineup — shortstop Pat Valaika and catcher Shane Zeile.
For a sport that doesn't get much national attention, it's very easy to overlook what they meant to the Bruins.
Allow head coach John Savage to describe their value.
"He's been the heart and soul of our team," Savage says of Valaika, a 2010 Hart High graduate.
And of Zeile: "He's one of the reasons why we did as well as we did."
Valaika led the Bruins with five home runs and 48 RBIs, was a .253 hitter this year as a junior, but maybe more importantly was the first Bruin to win the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year Award.
Zeile batted .226 with two home runs and 20 RBIs, but managed a pitching staff that was arguable the best in the country. It's not arguable that it was the best in the postseason, surrendering only 14 runs in 10 NCAA postseason games.
The Bruins went 10-0 in those games — three in a regional they hosted at their own Jackie Robinson Stadium, two in the NCAA Super Regionals against Cal State Fullerton in Fullerton and five in Omaha, Neb. at the College World Series.
The culmination was June 25 — an 8-0 win over Mississippi State to win the UCLA athletics program's 109th national title and the baseball program's first.
"It was unreal. Ground ball to first base, it was surreal. I still can't believe we won the national championship," Zeile says. "I was at the bottom of the dogpile at Fullerton. I got crunched. I thought I was going to die. This time around I leaned my lesson and jumped on top. It was unreal. It was the greatest moment of my life."
Zeile's vantage point of the last out was from the catcher's position.
Those who saw him play at Valencia High don't recognize him as a catcher.
They recognize him as a steady shortstop and third baseman.
And that's how UCLA used him as a freshman, until the coaching staff sent him a catcher's mitt prior to the 2013 season.
Zeile hadn't played catcher since before high school.
To make the learning curve that much more difficult, he had shoulder surgery in the fall.
However, he was UCLA's guy behind the plate.
"To make that transition from infield to catcher is almost unheard of, and he didn't have the fall to do it," Savage says. "He's done a great job. He suffered offensively, but I tell you what, he's a prospect. He can catch. He can throw. He can receive. He can block. … He's one of the reasons why we did as well as we did because he made that transition so quickly. He caught a bunch of great arms, but he did a great job making that transition."
When Savage says prospect, he means professional baseball prospect.
The sophomore and 2011 Valencia graduate certainly has the pedigree to do it.
His uncle Todd Zeile, a Hart graduate, played 16 Major League seasons and collected 2,004 hits and socked 253 home runs.
Todd Zeile was also a former UCLA star.
He texted his nephew after the championship to congratulate him and tell him he did something he never did.
Valaika got texts from a current Major Leaguer, his brother and Miami Marlins infielder Chris Valaika — a player who also never won a national title.
Pat is following in his brother's footsteps in another respect, though.
He was selected in the ninth round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on June 7 by the Colorado Rockies.
As a junior, he could return to UCLA for his senior year, but says he will likely sign with the Rockies.
"I've had three great years at UCLA," he says. "It's time to move on. No better way to go out."
Valaika says of all his personal accomplishments, the defensive player of the year is the highest.
He had a great year in 2012 defensively and thought he had a chance to win the award.
He didn't, though, but was dedicated to continuing his ascent — not only as a defensive player, but as an offensive player.
He's had steady gains in all areas since he came into UCLA.
"He elevated his game," Savage says. "I thought he was the best shortstop in the country. I really did. You're talking about a guy who played as good a defense as anybody. He's a gold glove guy. He's a clutch hitter. You want him in a big situation. I love him. I think the Rockies got a steal in the ninth round. He's got a future."
Valaika was in the biggest situation in UCLA history playing shortstop — two outs, bottom of the ninth inning, 8-0 lead on Mississippi State.
"It was 8-0. We kind of knew we had it in the bag, but once that last out was made, the fireworks go off, the dogpile begins," Valaika says. "It was one of the special moments in my life."
The Bruins were in no way expected to go on the run they did.
"Not a .230 hitting team. Not a small ball team," Zeile says.
But a lot of baseball great teams' strengths are up the middle. Like the Bruins. A lot of credit goes to a pitching staff that had the lowest ERA in the aluminum bat era of the College World Series. But the catcher and shortstop deserve their credit also.


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The number of vet tech jobs is increasing because of recent advances in the technology of veterinary medicine. New diagnostic tests are being developed constantly, often involving new devices that were not available just a few years ago. People with vet tech training from a vet tech school will be qualified for jobs in one of the fastest-growing fields around.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the number of vet tech positions will increase dramatically over the next few years, with some positions offering as much as $80,000 to accredited personnel, especially for people who have attended vet tech school. Unlike some fields that are closely tied to fluctuating commodities markets, this is one area that will experience steady growth even in uncertain economic times.
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the number of vet tech positions will increase dramatically over the next few years, with some positions offering as much as $80,000 to accredited personnel, especially for people who have attended vet tech school. Unlike some fields that are closely tied to fluctuating commodities markets, this is one area that will experience steady growth even in uncertain economic times.
A vet tech license certifies the holder has successfully completed an educational program offered at a vet tech school that is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and passed a rigorous credentialing exam. Courses involved in the vet tech program include animal health, medicine and dentistry as well as math, biology and training with equipment. In addition to the classroom training, some hands-on training in a veterinary office will also be required. The AVMA credentialing exam involves written, oral and practical sections. When this is completed, the graduate of a vet tech school is given a license which can be used in any state in the U.S.
Vet tech positions include duties such as giving injections, taking samples of blood and tissue, keeping records, using X-ray equipment, administering anesthetics and assisting in a wide range of clinical tasks. However, vet techs never diagnose patients, issue prescriptions or perform surgery.
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- Vol. 18
- No. 15
To Nurse Tineka Ulug the Bloody Beirut Massacre Was Worse Than Any War
I was asleep on my balcony in my apartment near the camps on Wednesday, September 15, when at 5 a.m. I was awakened by two Israeli jets flying low overhead. This was the first time since the end of the summer war that I had heard that sound, and it was terrifying. When I left for the hospital at 7 a.m., I saw many people loading up cars as if they were leaving. The Israelis had returned to West Beirut, and the people who were fleeing felt certain, I think, that this could only mean additional torment for them.
All day and up until Thursday evening there was continuous shelling and shooting in the camps. I assumed that the fighting was a result of an Israeli roundup of remaining Palestinian fighters in Beirut. It wasn't until Thursday that I began to think there could be something more going on. Early that afternoon frightened people started coming to the hospital saying that they heard Phalangists were in the camps, which measured approximately one mile by a half mile. But after a summer of war, these people were still frightened and easily excitable, so we really didn't listen. By evening hundreds of people had gathered at the hospital seeking protection. There were people in the wards, people on the stairs and even people sitting in front of the hospital. There was a general panic, and old women sat crying and shaking their heads in fear. Since then I've wondered how I could not have realized something was going on. I simply didn't.
Thursday evening I went back to my apartment. That night was strange and disturbing. Starting at about 7 p.m. until early the next morning, flares lit up the camps like a football stadium. The next morning, Friday, I returned to the ward at 7 a.m., and it was still overrun by people. But gradually they started leaving. Looking back, I think they must have had an idea of what was happening in the camps and realized that even a hospital could not protect them.
On Friday afternoon the International Red Cross sent word to the hospital that roaming soldiers had entered Akka Hospital just south of the camps. They had allowed the foreigners to leave but had killed two Palestinian patients and two Palestinian doctors. They had also raped a Palestinian nurse, 22-year-old Intisar Ismail, a friend of mine, and then shot her. At this news we decided that the Palestinian doctors and nurses must leave. The rest of us, however, chose to stay and keep the hospital functioning. Two Palestinian nurses insisted on remaining with us as well.
Again on Friday evening, the hospital was mobbed by civilians looking for a haven and also a great number of men and boys who were presumably fighters. We now realized what a risk it would be to have them under our roof, and we forced them to leave. Many had come totally unarmed and were completely terrified. It was an awful thing to have to do.
All 22 of the medics stayed at the hospital Friday night. I slept very little because we were 10 to a room and we felt unnerved. I remember others remarking how deathly quiet it was outside. We wondered what was going to happen.
On Saturday morning at 7 a.m. a soldier arrived and ordered us out of the hospital but allowed two doctors to remain with the patients too sick to move. There were eight more soldiers waiting for us. At first we thought they were Israelis because they were dressed smartly in combat gear. We soon realized they weren't. The soldiers told us we were to be taken to headquarters about a mile away, but that we would be brought back. We were told to walk three abreast, and when we arrived at the main road, we suddenly saw hundreds of men, women and children sitting by the side of the street. Many tried to walk in line with us, but soldiers roughly pushed them away. There was terror in those people's faces. The two Palestinian male nurses were with us, and I recall feeling relieved that the soldiers had let them come. It was not long afterward, though, that both were pulled out of line. I could not look back, so I did not see them shot, but I knew then for certain that was their fate.
As we moved south on the main road through the camps, we began to come upon dead bodies. They were not only lying in the streets but were heaped like rubbish into crowded alleyways. What horrified me most was the tangled configuration the bodies took. It was horrible. The first two bodies I saw were two very old men in their pajamas, with bullet holes in their heads. Next we came upon a group of women and children, and I think this was the worst. I saw one woman who, even in death, clung to her child. As we came to the south exit of the camps I thought I could take no more. It was then I saw two bulldozers scooping up dead bodies from the streets.
When we were well out of the camps, two trucks rounded a corner and started driving toward us. Sixty soldiers walked alongside them. Someone next to me said this must be the firing squad to execute us, and it seemed certain because at that point we were adjacent to a brick wall. But the trucks and soldiers passed us by.
In the courtyard of the headquarters our identification papers were taken, and the soldiers launched into a fervent speech about the respect they held for the Geneva Convention. The next thing we knew an ambulance was driven into the courtyard, and the soldiers pulled out a Palestinian boy about 15 years old. He had been shot in the chest, and they paraded him in front of us, showing his wound and asking us to notice how well they had treated him.
After individual interrogations, we were turned over to the Israelis who were headquartered directly across the street. From there we were put on trucks and taken to the American Embassy. While we were with the Israelis, we were not asked a single question as to what we had seen in the camps or what had transpired there. I'm amazed at this now.
During the summer war I didn't know a single person who was killed. Now I could give you a list of 30 people, all murdered. Most of them worked in hospitals as cooks, cleaning women, doctors, and now they're all dead. This experience was a thousand times worse for me than the war. There was death and destruction then, but in a war there is usually a reason. With this, it is too horrible to comprehend. This, not the war, will give me nightmares the rest of my life.
The body of one Palestinian nurse was later found in the rubble of Shatila. The other is still missing. Thirteen members of Gaza Hospital's foreign staff have since left Beirut, but Ulug and four others remained to work with the surviving refugees.
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(Pulaski, Tenn.) - The Loyola baseball team defeated Martin Methodist College 7-1 in the final game of a three game set behind a complete game effort by Daniel Posway on the mound.
Loyola jumped in front in the first inning as Phil Cazayoux doubled to leadoff the game. Karson Cullins singled to right to put runners on the corners. Brandon Snow followed with a single to knock in Cazayoux and give the Pack the lead.
Martin Methodist (20-13, 12-9) tied the game in the second as Evan Ferguson led off the frame with a triple into deep right centerfield. He came home on Ryan Jett's ground out to shortstop.
The Wolf Pack (21-21, 8-13) didn't let the game stay tied long as Cazayoux and Cullins started the third with singles. Snow reached base on a fielder's choice as the Redhawks didn't record an out on the play. Jack Nicholson singled into left to score Cazayoux and Cullins. LoSauro reached on a fielder's choice to put runners on the corners. Lance Licciardi had an infield single to score Snow and put the Pack up 4-1.
Loyola added two more in the fourth inning as Garett Lacour had a leadoff single to right. Lacour stole second. After two batters were retired, Snow singled to bring home Lacour. Snow stole second and came home to score as Nicholson reached on an error by the shortstop.
Loyola added one more run in the ninth as Peyton Senner had a two out single into centerfield. Chris Bell scored him with a double to right field in the next at bat as both players were pinch hitting.
Daniel Posway (4-4) pitched a complete game while allowing 10 hits and one earned run. The sophomore right-hander struck out five.
Zach Brewer (3-1) took the loss as he pitched three innings and surrendered seven hits, four earned runs, and one walk. Cody Vernon followed with 3.2 innings as he allowed three hits , two runs, and one earned run. Owen Blackwelder pitched the final 2.1 innings while giving up two hits and one run.
Loyola's offense was led by two hits from Cazayoux, Cullins, and Snow. Snow plated two and scored two while Cazayoux scored two runs. Cullins scored once, while Nicholson knocked in three as part of a 1 for 5 day.
Martin Methodist got a three hit game from Brodie Jeffrey. Jimbo Ramsey was 2 for 4 at the plate. Ferguson scored the only run while Jett had the lone Redhawks RBI.
Loyola will be back in action on Tuesday, April 8 as they will take on Southern University at 6 p.m. in Baton Rouge.


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On the heels of the latest incident in Alec Baldwin's long string of gay-slur-laced outbursts of anger, there was apparently a very serious debate about whether or not Baldwin is, deep in his being, a homophobe. Andrew Sullivan and Ta-Nehisi Coates both agreed that he was, and that his public advocacy for gay rights is rendered false, even pernicious, by these nasty explosions of apparent homophobia. Sullivan wrote that Baldwin's slurs "reveal who he really is," and both he and Coates complain about Baldwin's "liberal enablers," who … I'm not sure, let him get away with saying mean words when he gets steamed at photographers?
Obviously the things Baldwin said are horrible, and he should be duly criticized for them. But I'm rather repulsed by this effort to determine whether Baldwin is ontologically homophobic, and to insist that it requires his banishment from the liberal "team," whatever that is. Wes Alwan, from the great philosophy podcast The Partially-Examined Life, has a good takedown:
These condemnations are grounded in a number of highly implausible theses that amount to a very flimsy moral psychology. The first is the extremely inhumane idea that we ought to make global judgments about people's characters based on their worst moments, when they are least in control of themselves: that what people do or say when they're most angry or incited reveals a kind of essential truth about them. The second is that we are to condemn human beings merely for having certain impulses, regardless of their behaviors and beliefs. The third is that people's darkest and most irrational thoughts and feelings trump their considered beliefs: Baldwin can't possibly really believe in gay rights, according to Coates, if he has any negative feelings about homosexuality whatsoever. The fourth, implied premise here—one that comes out in the comical comments section following Coates' post—is that we are to take no account whatsoever of the possibility of psychological conflict. We refuse to allow ourselves to imagine that a single human being might have a whole host of conflicted thoughts and feelings about homosexuality: that they might be both attracted to it and repelled by it. That they might associate it with weakness and submission on the one hand, and on the other with the strength and courage required to face discrimination and disapproval. That they might be personally repelled by homosexuality yet be ashamed of that feeling, and meanwhile an ardent supporter of gay rights.
Alwan's post hits a couple of themes that are recurring pet peeves of mine with liberal pundits: the inordinate weight given to labels and terminology, and what seems like the increasing tendency of strident moralism to replace political argument. Not only is moral sentimentalism anti-political, but it tends to recreate the climate of conformity and censorship that the left, if anyone, is supposed to be against. Dan Savage, while still participating in the labeling of Baldwin as a "bigot," seemed to get that politics is action, not moral sentiment; Baldwin's political actions are more important than the words, even the nasty words, that spring to mind when he is really angry at invasive photographers. (Sullivan, in a passage quoted approvingly by Coates, actually argues the gay rights is "not merely a political struggle," but a "moral case"—never mind that nobody has to listen to your moral case until you've spent a long time building political leverage.)
But for so many liberals, the words are everything. There is no bigger sin than using the wrong term, or revealing that you haven't completely purified your inner life of unapproved sentiments. Of course, as Alwan points out, this is an absurd, impossible, and even dangerous expectation, but it is nonetheless the one that animates a significant swath of American social liberalism to the point that a few wrong words can undo a larger body of actions. You can do almost all the right things on the outside, but if the bloggers' jury decides your inner life betrays the cause, you've got to go.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is a devastating mentality for the left to embrace. I left behind the religious conservatism I grew up with partly because I saw, over the first 20 years or so of my life, the self-defeating absurdity of movement orthodoxies and the obsession with moral shibboleths. There is some basic part of humanity that resists imposed conformity, especially when it claims the authority to judge even one's individual inner experience. I became a liberal because I believed in the fundamental sovereignty of the individual to determine their existence as they see fit, free from totalizing legal or religious regimes; I became a leftist when I understood that systemic economic conditions impose even greater constraints on that self-determination. If all liberalism is about is policing the state of one's soul, entirely apart from what one does to tear down those restraints, we might as well give up politics and go back to church.
I'm sure most liberals would say they agree with the previous paragraph, but I think the record would show that, in practice, labeling and shaming play a larger role in their discourse than they would like to admit. Almost all gay rights controversies center on whether or not certain individuals' comments are "homophobic" or "anti-gay"—not just the content of the comments, but the essential truth they are taken to reveal about said individual. (Not to mention if they disagree with the majority view on gay marriage, which also = rotten, immoral human being.) Far too much "internet feminism" is a kind of privilege tournament, where the innate worth of the speaker must be assessed to determine their right to be listened to. Calling conservatives "racist" on the basis of one or two comments is a time-honored tradition. Oh, and don't forget, Glenn Greenwald "mocks rape survivors" and Brown University students are "totalitarians." Twitterstorms, petitions, and social-media shaming around these labels are near-daily events.
None of this is to say that racist, sexist, or homophobic remarks don't matter or should be ignored. It is to say that the use of those labels is often grounded in moral philosophy no less flimsy than fundamentalist theology, and thus often presumes far more about complex individual human beings than it has any right to presume. Worst of all, the massive amount of liberal oxygen these moral outrages consume accrues to the benefit of the economic exploitation that receives far less vociferous and strident opposition. Seriously, what the bloody hell is it accomplishing? Jamie Dimon should pay Alec Baldwin a monthly stipend to keep spewing those slurs.
The left's gradual devolution from political dissenters to morality police have given the right the opportunity portray itself as the new champion of the old leftist values: of individual liberty, of free thinking and speaking in opposition to conformity-demanding dogmatism. In many cases that has been a cynical lie, but in plenty of others it has contained a grain of truth. I don't have any more faith in movement conservatism, which is an orthodoxy-enforcing tribe if there ever was one, but I feel a certain strange affinity with intellectually honest conservative and libertarian writers who have honed their skills against the liberal establishment's allergy to real debate. We may not share anything politically, but rhetorically, we share the experience of being labeled and written out by the center. When you haven't had a long period of dominance to insulate you from challenge, you learn to argue.
The weird thing is, the ascendance of social liberalism has come parallel with the left's near-total defeat on issues of systemic injustice. Thus, the moral sentimentalism feels especially defensive, especially small and reduced—less of a challenge than ever to the forces of reaction, whatever they may be. Perhaps the first step to breaking out of that limited purview is to reject the logic that restricts justice to a matter of private morality, to a pure, theological state of the soul that outweighs one's actions in the material world. Maybe more people would be fit to be on the team.
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David Sessions is the founding editor of Patrol, and is currently a doctoral student in modern European history at Boston College. His writing has appeared in The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Jacobin, Slate and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter here.
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Anders says:
Nicely put, David. You get at something that has been wearing on me and has me feeling exhausted with social media. To repeat the quote that Russell Brand used in his New Statesman piece (and took on an ironic significance in the subsequent effort to decide if he was racist/sexist/homophobic), "The right seeks converts, the left seeks traitors."
Lance G. says:
I agree with what you say, David, except your exclusionary take that moral policing is only a sin of liberalism. It isn't. Take a look at the Republican "war" of Tea Party vs "Mainstream" conservatism; it is the same search for ideological sinners. Everyone is on resentment patrol these days, Manicheanism is big business.
Wes says:
Yes, very well put — and thanks for the link.
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K Chen says:
Good post, absolutely nails it. I think the undercurrent here is the frustration that is at the core of a lot of dissenters within the liberal schema: we're the ones who ought to know better.
Paul VanderKlay says:
If you believe world-saving is up to people, and you believe the old ways of controlling people (violence and death) are off limits, options for quick, easy and effective people control are limited. Social coercion (shaming, mockery, labeling, judging) are the primary tools. It is always easier to see (and hate) when others do this to us and so much more difficult to see it in ourselves. There is little new under the sun. Good post.
K Chen says:
options for quick, easy and effective people control are limited
You forgot "emotionally satisfying"
etseq says:
Another edition of David Sessions smugly condemning both left and right for failing to pass his philosophical and moral litmus tests and then patting himself on his back for being the only adult in the room.
Yes, bigots are the real victims of liberal political correctness, conservatives are the real victims of reverse racism, and gays are oppressing the poor homophobes for silencing their anti-gay rants.
What would we do without David Sessions and his mastery of continental philosophy to set us straight.
joebertman says:
This superficial response conveys the idea Sessions fears with no sense of irony. Rather than dealing with the point, etseq dismisses it and condemns Sessions for insufficient orthodoxy. Yes, people etseq dislikes sometimes use the same rhetorical tools Sessions employs. So what? Thinking you're on the side of the angels is no excuse.
David Sessions says:
You're a troll, etseq. Get a life.
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"ontologically homophobic"
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SocraticGadfly says:
Maybe Baldwin is deontologically homophobic? Or a utilitarian homophobic? Or, given his priest reference, maybe he's "just" pederastophobic? Or given that the one reporter, two years ago, was British, as is Andrew Sullivan, maybe he's Anglo-homophobic?
danallison says:
One loves Baldwin because he gives away the whole cultural Marxist game. They don't "really" care about gays, blacks, immigrants, etc. They just use a phony "compassion for the downtrodden" in order to bully and control the rest of us.
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A lesson on cultural Marxism from someone who has probably never even heard of the Frankfurt School. Always fun.
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The governor reiterated his concerns about incentives for retailers during stops in Charleston and Duncan Wednesday. At issue is recently passed state legislation offering tax breaks to "extraordinary" retailers such as Cabela's and its main competitor, Bass Pro Shops.
Supporters of the enticements say they're justified because the expansive stores create jobs, draw tourists and spur economic development by attracting "spin-off" businesses, such as hotels and restaurants.
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PITTSBURGH - Former Penn State linebacker Paul Posluszny made a big decision during the offseason, leaving Buffalo for a free agent deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Better contract, better climate and better football team.
Two of those were indisputable, but the football part hasn't gone the way he thought.
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Jaguars linebacker Paul Posluszny records one of his game-high 16 tackles on Ben Roethlisberger.
Posluszny had a game-high 16 tackles in Jacksonville's 17-13 loss to the Steelers at Heinz Field on Sunday afternoon.
The Jaguars fell to 1-5, while the Bills lost to the New York Giants, 27-24. The Bills are 4-2, one game off the lead in the AFC East.
"They're doing great," Posluszny said. "The thing about it was they always had talent up there. They just finally got it together. They are getting it together."
The Bills never had a winning season in Posluszny's five years there, and went through three head coaches.
Still, when it came time to leave, he had reservations.
"It was difficult to leave there," he said. "They were great teammates and great guys. I still keep in touch with a lot of them. Jacksonville, I could just tell they wanted me a lot more. I wanted to be part of this team and this organization."
The Jaguars invested $42 million in Posluszny, $15 million of which is guaranteed. They installed him at middle linebacker in their traditional 4-3 scheme, and he's excelled.
Could Jacksonville be headed for the kind of turnaround the Bills have experienced?
"I think we're close," Posluszny said. "I think we're just a couple of plays away from being great on defense. It's two or three plays that we have to make that we aren't making right now. It's affecting the outcome of these games."
The Steelers got one of their touchdowns on a 28-yard pass from Ben Roethlisberger to Mike Wallace. Rashard Mendenhall's 68-yard run set up a field goal.
"We're in a tough situation right now," he said. "We just lost five straight. It's difficult, but all we can do is fight, work and stay together."
If it means anything, the Jaguars didn't cave in after falling behind 17-0. They made a game of it against the Steelers in a tough environment.
"There's definitely no quit in this team," Posluszny said. "We have a high character team and a lot of guys who want to win. That's going to be the case regardless of the record or the score. We're always going to fight until the end."
There's more than half a season left to improve, but 1-5 is a tough start.
"It's difficult for all of us," Posluszny said. "Nobody thought we would be in the situation we're in right now, but that's reality. We have to deal with it."
The best part of Posluszny's trips home have been the Saturday visits with family and friends. The Sundays have been difficult.
"It's always fun to come back here and play," he said. "I love being in western Pennsylvania. I love being in front of my family and friends that I grew up with. Unfortunately, I don't have much luck here, playing as a pro at Heinz Field."
Back in a flash
After sitting out last week's game because of a hamstring injury, Rashard Mendenhall returned and gained 146 yards on 23 carries.
Mendenhall ran a career-best 68 yards on one play and also had an 8-yard run for the Steelers' first touchdown.
"He ran the ball well," quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. "The offensive line opened up some holes for him."
Mendenhall said he didn't make any changes in deference to his injury.
"I've been running the same way for 24 years," he said. "You can't change your style in a week."
Tomlin said he monitored Mendenhall's physical condition and decided he was good to go.
"We made eye contact. He nodded that he was good," Tomlin said. "We're looking for guys who are highly conditioned. He's one of those. He did a nice job."
Meanwhile, teammate Mike Wallace, one of the fastest players in the NFL, couldn't resist poking some fun at the way Mendenhall was caught short of the end zone.
"I told him he's slow," Wallace said. "He has to get his speed up. If we would have a stride like me, he would have scored a touchdown. I'm going to be on him the whole week."
Slowing down
Roethlisberger said the Jaguars' defense, an easy touch in the first half, played up to its capabilities in the second half.
"They're the 10th best defense in the league," he said. "They're not pushovers. They made the necessary adjustments and found ways to get disruptive with us. We just have to keep our foot to the pedal and keep grinding."
The radical difference in the two halves made for a day of conflicting emotions.
"It's frustrating because my expectations for this offense are high," he said. "I'm going to be a little frustrated for another half hour, and then I'm going to be happy that we won the game."
In the air
It was a windy day, which caused some problems when the ball was in the air.
When the Steelers needed a big punt late, Daniel Sepulveda hit one for just 23 yards that gave the Jaguars the ball near midfield.
"He said he just wanted to take off and run," Roethlisberger said. "He didn't even want to punt it."
The wind made some throws challenging, too.
"It was what it was," Roethlisberger said. "It's Heinz Field, where one series it's blowing one way, then just swirls on you. No excuses. You just have to drive the ball through it."
The turf, always an issue as the season goes on, showed its first signs of wear. Pitt played a game Saturday afternoon.
Some strips of sod in the middle of the field were replaced after Sunday's game.
Too close to call
Safety Ryan Mundy was called for roughing the punter, although it appeared he got a piece of the ball.
If the player rushing the punter touches the ball, there can be no penalty for making contact with the kicker.
"It was very close," Mundy said. "That's a tough call. I'll have to look at it. I felt like I got a slight piece of it."
Narrow escape
Linebacker LaMarr Woodley got into a fight with Jacksonville fullback Greg Jones.
Both players got offsetting personal foul penalties but were not ejected.
"He's a good football player," Jones said. "I won't take anything away from him. It was competing. That was it."
Injury report
Right guard Doug Legursky left the game with a sprained toe in the first half.
"That's being evaluated," coach Mike Tomlin said.
Safety Troy Polamalu made a big hit late in the game, but the Steelers feared he may have sustained a concussion during the play. He was held out.
"We wanted to err on the side of caution," Tomlin said. "We'll get that evaluated and find out where he's at."
Safety Ryan Clark injured a shoulder and Chris Hoke went out with a stinger.
Hoke was replacing starter Casey Hampton, who didn't suit up for the game because of a shoulder injury.
When Hoke went out, the Steelers were down to their third option at nose tackle, Steve McLendon.
The Steelers are 17-1 in games Hoke has started.
Stats and streaks
n Hines Ward caught three passes for 47 yards and now has 11,939 career receiving yards.
He moved past Hall of Famer Michael Irvin (11,904) for 19th place on the NFL career list.
n Tomlin is now the third-winningest coach in Steelers history at 52-25. He passed Buddy Parker (51-48), who coached the team from 1957-64.
Tomlin has the best winning percentage at .675.
He trails Chuck Noll (209-156) and Bill Cowher (161-99).


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- January 17, 1977
- Vol. 7
- No. 2
'I'm Insane,' Says Dory Previn 'With Papers to Prove It,' but She Harnesses Her Despair at Last
The high priestess of angst, the balladeer of wounded psyches, the screamer in the 20-mile zone—in short, the Dory Previn whom a small but intense cult of worshipers had learned to love to suffer with—has moved on to other things.
They include an autobiography of her childhood called Midnight Baby; a musical play for which she wrote book, lyrics and music, to be produced on Broadway next season; a couple of screenplays; a European concert tour in May, and a happy love affair with artist-actor Joby Baker.
If this doesn't parse with the stubbornly persistent public image of Previn as the fragile, brink-of-madness lady whom André Previn jilted for Mia Farrow eight years ago, it's because a lot has happened in a relatively short period of time.
So I quit my job
And I spent my money
Now I can laugh
'Cause now it's funny
Now I will support myself I said
'Cause I'm out of my head!
Now I'm gonna keep myself together.
—Dory Previn, from her most recent album
By sheer determination, intellect and guts, Dory Previn has indeed pulled herself together. At age 46, basking in the nearly unanimous praise for Midnight Baby, she addresses life with the ebullience of a schoolgirl.
"I've had it with angst. I'm now into hope," she says in her woodsy Hollywood Hills home, a place full of Mexican and American folk art, stained glass, wooden beams, lofts and a picture-window view of drought-parched Nichols Canyon. Two furry white dogs lie at Dory's feet. "I was terrified to write anything larger than a lyric six years ago. Now, after seven albums, I've retired from writing songs. I feel there are no limitations to me now." For her devout fans, who bought her records in small but consistent numbers and filled Carnegie Hall to hear her sing the litany of the lonely, the news may come as a blow. But for Previn it represents, with the writing of her book, the completion of a trip through madness—or, as she prefers, "the assimilation of madness."
With characteristic candor, Previn admits to being what traditional doctors call schizophrenic ("I'm insane. I have the papers to prove it"). She is still deathly afraid of flying (she was pulled screaming from a plane at L.A. Airport in 1969 and institutionalized for the fifth or sixth time—she doesn't remember which). And she still faces periodic episodes of reality disorientation, irrational fears and paranoia.
But the pill phase is long gone, as is the 20-year chain of therapists and institutions. She explains, "R. D. Laing [the British psychiatrist] talks about people who 'decide to embark on a career of schizophrenia...' That's what I did. In 1973 I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it."
Out of the terrifying loneliness of those encounters, Previn learned to deal with previously devastating schizoid experiences. The voices she hears in those moments she now understands as messengers of her inner spirit. "I set up a regimen where every morning I would talk to those people—not taking pills or drugs to still them, but listening to my inner self. I get help with my work, my writing. I am the drone, the worker, the carpenter." From these "conversations" came Midnight Baby. During a psychotic episode three years ago, Previn recalls, "Every time I'd close my eyes, I'd see myself as a child. I figured out that myself as a child wanted me to write so the child could have her say."
Previn wrote her book in the deceptively naive argot of a 9-year-old. The style is episodic, free-associating, off-putting at first. Gradually a reader yielding to the cadence of the language is engulfed by the snake pit of Previn's early life.
Midnight Baby has gone through a first printing of 15,000 and into a second of 5,000. It is an alternate Literary Guild selection for April. The Washington Posts reviewer compared it with A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
But the portrait of this artist as young girl is more Grand Guignol than James Joyce. Dory Previn was born Dorothy Langan, the daughter of a rigidly Catholic couple in Woodbridge, N.J. Her father, gassed in World War I, believed he was sterile, one of many fantasies that deviled him to eventual madness.
At 3 Dorothy learned that her father never believed she was his child. As another of her lyrics goes:
Anybody I might have missed
Would you care to state
That I exist
I ain't quite sure
What it is I did
To make him swear
That I ain't his kid
Yet a year later she was suddenly at the center of her father's show business fantasy. Although the family lived in near poverty on the proceeds of a small diner, Mike Langan paid for singing, dancing and acting lessons for Dorothy. He got her on radio and on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour and found her jobs tap dancing in local clubs.
When Dorothy was 9, her mother gave birth to a sister. Mike Langan again denied it was his and barricaded the family in the dining room where they stayed docilely for four and a half months. When it was over, Dorothy was physically free but psychologically scarred.
The boards
On the dining room door
Came down
And Daddy put away his gun
I forgot it happened
Like something
I'd been dreaming
Till eighteen odd years later
When I suddenly woke up
During those 18-odd years Dory attempted to live up to her father's fantasy. She worked briefly and unsuccessfully as a New York chorus girl, studied for a year at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and sang in small nightclubs for $75 a week. Along the way there were a quick marriage and divorce about which she will say nothing.
Unable to afford a writer, she began creating her own material. Her work came to the attention of MGM producer Arthur Freed, and by 1955 Dory was in Hollywood as a $250-a-week junior lyricist.
When MGM dropped its option, Dory spent the next several years writing Gerald McBoing Boing cartoons and episodes for TV dramas. During this time she suffered her first breakdown, but, propped up by drugs and distracted by her career, she married a promising young composer-conductor named André Previn in 1959.
During the next 10 years, often collaborating with her husband, she wrote lyrics to movie songs, winning Academy Award nominations three times. Outwardly successful, Dory lived through a familiar Hollywood syndrome of pill reliance and hidden terror. Her lyrics for the million-seller Theme from the Valley of the Dolls were a more personal testament than most people knew. "I was taking lots of pills," she remembers, "and I was part-time crazy sister and part-time this supposedly very, very normal woman, wife, writer. In fact, I slept through most of the '60s." The big sleep came to a rude awakening in 1969 when her by-then-famous husband ran off with the movie star.
That event, now a mere benchmark in the larger landscape of Dory's life, has lodged itself in the public mind. And that infuriates her. "I am so bored with the references to André." she rages, color rising in her face, hands gesticulating furiously. "I wrote one song about my relationship with him—Beware of Young Girls—and ever since every interview refers to it. Look, I write music, I write lyrics and I am a concert performer. I have written two books. What do I have to do to be just my own person, where my biggest credit doesn't end up that I was the former Mrs. André Previn? It happened eight years ago. There's no blame, no guilt, no nothing. I don't know why they continue with it when it's a boring pot of crap."
That said, it remains fact that Dory's emergence as a songwriter-performer coincided with the drastic turn in her personal life. The songs, including the now-classic Twenty-Mile Zone ("I was doing it alone/I was doing it alone/I was screaming in my car/In a twenty-mile zone"), established her image as the delicate, schizzy lady who had the temerity to expose the darkest demons of her life in her work. Over the past six years her songs have been used by psychiatrists in mental hospitals and by professors in poetry classes. But they are not for everybody. Despite brilliant craftsmanship, sly humor and ironically contrasting musical themes, the songs are too close to the nerve to gain mass public acceptance. Lyrics like "Listen whisper/Please don't go/Listen whisper/Don't you know/I'd rather/Madness/Than this sadness" were hardly Top-40 material.
Some reaction has been hostile. Certain critics find Previn's work self-indulgent, even masochistic. "Those people not interested in self-knowledge or self-help are of course going to recoil," says Dory. "What my things say are very frightening to a person who doesn't want to know himself."
Yet, as she makes peace with her own demons, Previn's work becomes consistently more optimistic. "It's been a beautiful growth," says actress Barbara Feldon, an intimate friend since 1970. "I see a tremendous positive-ness, an affirmation, a kind of joyousness now."
Much of the joy obviously emanates from the 18-month relationship with 42-year-old Joby Baker. It is the first time since André that Dory has allowed herself to share her life with anyone.
Baker was a promising juvenile actor in the 1950s (Last Angry Man, a raft-of Gidget movies), a standup comic and part-time painter. But stardom eluded him, and, after two unsuccessful marriages, Baker turned to art. Working on miniature pieces of ivory and bone, he developed a scrimshaw engraving technique as personal as Dory's lyrics—one of the things that drew them together. His surreal, primitive renderings are fashionable, owned by the likes of Paul Newman, Ali McGraw, Steve McQueen and Sally Kellerman.
Baker works in a converted garage off the main house while Dory creates in her loft studio. She and Joby come together frequently during the day with humor, anger and obvious affection. "We're either screaming or laughing," says Baker. "We don't withhold anything."
Adds Dory, "For the first time I don't have the feeling that the man's the king and I'm the subject. I feel we're equal partners. He and I fight terribly, and we love. I see all the things about him that are foolish, and therefore I'm free to be foolish and hateful, make the mistakes, be a fool, be a clown."
Free to be a clown. It's one of the privileges for which Dory Previn has paid her dues.
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The American Board of Certified Haircolorists (ABCH) held their 13th Annual Energizing Summit on June 9-10, 2013 at the Marriott Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. Two full days of haircolor education drew a record number of haircolorists who chose from well over 100 different classes. In small, intimate groups, haircolorists interacted with instructors, had their questions answered, applied new techniques and prepared for the American Board of Certified Haircolorists examination.
"There is so much energy in these rooms," says President of ABCH Andre Nizetich who was teaching Hands-On Speed Foiling "I hear from hairdressers all over the country and they are hungry for this kind of straightforward education and basic skills. We teach real things that can happen with haircolor."
A small exhibit hall welcomed supporters of the summit including Malibu C, Color Charm, Soma, Keune, and Ergo. Introductions at the show included Martin Parsons' new shaping spray archiTRESS and Bella Colori's innovative new salon system with foil dispenser, interlocking color coded bowls, lids and brushes.
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Martin Parsons: "I feel so fortunate to be invited to this summit because the people here are focused on increasing their intellect--they came to learn."
Parsons on teaching the art of the updo: "It's about controlling the hair. I don't teach creativity, I teach assembly. At our classes, traditional cutters or colorists come and learn 16-18 looks they take away and feel they have updated their skills."
Trisha Kemp Rice, Malibu C: "We spend a lot of time talking about color correction and the things--from minerals to medication--that can haunt your haircolor."
Laura Rogala, Malibu C: "The questions we get at the summit are so great, everyone is so curious and they really want education."
Dennis Gebhart, National Educational Training Consultant with Keune: "We help them understand that the key to success is two parts--the first is technical skills, the second part is people skills. 85% of the reason people keep coming to their colorist is because they like them."
Rey Cardenas on his new tooling/coloring system, Bella Colori: "Haircolorists are being less creative and experiencing 'color stagnation' because of limited workspace and limited time. This system keeps color close at hand and makes you more efficient."
Robert Reed, Ergo:"With the purpose of sharing insights and techniques for haircolor, the Energizing Summit delivers just that, and all with a familial feeling. There are those willing to share and those willing to learn and hundreds of new relationships fostered."