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|Reviews for The Case of the Missing Heart
| Arielschild chapter 2 . 4/21/2006
Another winner! Several very nice moments in this story. My personal favorites were the mentioning of the hot dog vendor in the park AND the more serious conversation about the possibility of having children together. As in the first installment, I continue to sense that there will be at least one unexpected twist before this story concludes. While I can't figure out what it will be, I really anticipate finding out. Thanks for writing and sharing these stories- have been missing seeing my fav duo as often as I'd like. Your stories help ease the pain! :)
| FriendlyReviewer chapter 2 . 4/16/2006
Chapter 2 was well worth waiting for.
I love the way you are unfolding this storyline, and
introducing new characters.
This story may be AU, but it fits the context of Cass
and Frankie's relationship perfectly.
| Arielschild chapter 1 . 3/30/2006
What fun to remember the Cass & Frankie relationship by revisiting the sites of their past. Nice light story with believable banter between the characters and a generous dose of romance. You do know your characters! Looking forward to the next installment..
| FriendlyReviewer chapter 1 . 3/28/2006
Great use of dialogue.
I'm very curious about Jennifer Davis... is there a connection between her and Rachel?
I've added this story to my Favorites and my Alerts.


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The Closet Comes Out of the Closet
Coffee, TV , Flowers: Why Walk In ,When You Can Live In?
A closet used to start with a rod and end with a shelf. Then came the drive to organize, and companies like Elfa International AB and the Container Store grew selling modular and custom storage systems. Now comes the next phase in the closet's evolution—enjoyment.
Homeowners, some deferring plans to move into bigger houses, are upgrading their closets to room-like status, with not only specialized storage but also period lighting, breakfast bars and flat-screen TVs. Sometimes called "boutique" closets, or "dressing room" closets, they have sleek fixtures, display walls with backlighting and seating that make them feel like a fashion designer's showroom. Meant to be lived in, or at least hung-out in on occasion, they ratchet up the household trophy of a "WIC" (real-estate parlance for walk-in-closet) and make it an "LIC."
Robert Cort, producer of movies such as "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Jumanji," and his wife, Rosalie Swedlin, customized the closets in their Beverly Hills home to include a refrigerator (his) and a bathtub (hers). Mr. Cort's closet has an exterior door that leads to a small putting green.
"Instead of this utilitarian thing that you wedge stuff into, dark and cave-like, they've become a room to enjoy," Mr. Cort says. The master bedroom is where partners share their lives, but closets are for personal space, he adds. "It's a metaphor for how to have a good marriage."
Designers say many homeowners see their closet-rooms as bastions of privacy and professionally necessary. "People are successful because they're efficient," says Jeff Klein, president of the Association of Closet and Storage Professionals, a Wheaton, Ill., trade group. "What better way to start your day than be efficient in your closet?"
Into the Closet
Barbara Savage-Schiller of Los Angeles spent $75,000 to convert an extra bedroom into this 350-square-foot closet in 2009. See the closet's amenities, including wall-to-wall displays of her 520 pairs of shoes, a silver ottoman, and a rotating spiral rack.
The closet in Colin Strause's master bedroom used to consist of a small space with white particleboard shelves. "It seemed strangely deficient compared to how cool the rest of the house was," says Mr. Strause, 34, a feature-film director and visual effects supervisor in Los Angeles.
Last year, he and his wife, Rina, hired LA Closet Design to create a 253-square-foot closet with "his-and-hers" sections, at a cost of $82,000.
Mr. Strause wanted a closet that felt like a store. "I'm a neat freak," he says. "I wanted everything to be laid out nice." Their closets have LED lighting on the ceiling and inside drawers, as well as display walls for Ms. Strause's dresses and Mr. Strause's ties. Ms. Strause has a makeup table and mirror.
Interest in boutique closets, an accessible luxury niche, is rising as more homeowners adjust plans and stay put in their homes longer. "In the last three years, there has been a real change," says Ginny Snook Scott, vice president of sales and marketing at California Closets, a unit of FirstService Corp.
California Closets says sales rose 6% last year. "The housing industry has shifted," she says. "People are starting to look at staying in their existing spaces but really maximizing the way they're used."
"My wife specifically enjoys her clothes and also her jewelry," says Richard Greco, 51, a plastic surgeon in Savannah, Ga., who recently had a new home built. "She wanted an elegant room," he says. "I have totally different needs from my wife." His wife, Robin, says her closet impresses guests. "People come in and are like, 'I want to see the closet.' "
Dr. Greco's closet has three levels of golf and tennis clothes and a holder for his 200-plus ties. Her closet has shoe shelves around the perimeter and an island with some 20 drawers on each side. He has a cabinet with a cushion on top, so that his grandchildren can keep him company on occasion.
A new closet can be a relatively inexpensive remodel. Closets magazine, published by Vance Publishing Corp., surveyed 1,005 consumers last year and found the average price of a master bedroom closet project was $3,011 in 2009, up from $2,947 in 2008.
Julie Ray and her husband, Andrew, of Washington, D.C., spent $5,000 last summer to have California Closets redo their closet. Working with an 8.5-by-8.5-foot space, they removed the doors of the closet to make it an extension of the bedroom, adding tie racks, a pull-out hamper and a black mesh light with hanging crystals. Getting ready isn't a chore, now. "I think it makes it easier because I know where everything is and I can get to it faster," says Ms. Ray, a part-time psychologist. "I can see everything now, whereas I wasn't able to before."
Whether sprucing up an existing walk-in space or converting a room into a primping space, many people find they like hanging out there.
"Generally people who are a little more fashionista are going to spend more time getting dressed," says Brian Patrick Flynn, an interior designer in Atlanta and founder of DecorDemon.com, an online design magazine. "Sometimes it's fun to turn that into kind of a social thing. By having an ottoman or lounge to perch on, two or three people can hang out in the space."
The Juggle
For others, the closet is a personal statement. Barbara Savage-Schiller, 46, of Los Angeles, spent $75,000 to convert an extra bedroom into a 350-square-foot closet in 2009.
"I did it as I was divorcing my husband," she says. "I was like, 'This is going to be all about me.' "
The space consists of wall-to-wall displays of her 520 pairs of shoes, a silver ottoman and a laundry station. "I decided I'm going to do it really 1940s style and pop a chandelier in there," says Ms. Savage-Schiller, founder of a skin products company. She sold the house last month for $3.6 million and says she believes the closet added value.
Some closet additions may not be practical, says Genevieve Gorder, host of television network HGTV's "Dear Genevieve." Closets "can be over the top," she says. "If you're living in your closet, only then should you have a coffee maker and a refrigerator."
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In such tales as "Hands," the portrayal of a rural berry picker still haunted by the accusations of homosexuality that ended his teaching career, Anderson's vision is as acute today as it was over eighty-five years ago. His intuitive ability to home in on examples of timeless, human conflicts—a workingman deciding if he should marry the woman who is to bear his child, an unhappy housewife who seeks love from the town's doctor, an unmarried high school teacher sexually attracted to a pupil—makes this book not only immensely readable but also deeply meaningful. An important influence on Faulkner, Hemingway, and others who were drawn to Anderson's innovative format and psychological insights, Winesburg, Ohio deserves a place among the front ranks of our nation's finest literary achievements.
"Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night in a steady crescendo of emotion."–Hart Crane
"As a rule, first books show more bravado than anything else, unless it be tediousness. But there is neither of these qualities in Winesburg, Ohio. . . . These people live and breathe: they are beautiful."–E. M. Forster
"Winesburg, Ohio is an extraordinarily good book. But it is not fiction. It is poetry."–Rebecca West
Table of Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
Anderson on Winesburg, Ohio (from his Memoirs and Letters): Language and Form / Winesburg and Its People / Reception
I. Winesburg, Ohio: The Text
A Note on the Text, by Malcolm Cowley
II. The Reviewers
The New Republic, June 25, 1919: M. A.
The Chicago Evening Post, June 20, 1919: LLEWELLYN JONES
Smart Set, August 1919: H. L. MENCKEN
The Bookman, August 1919: H. W. BOYNTON
The Springfield Republican, July 20, 1919
The New Statesman, July 22, 1922: REBECCA WEST
III. The Critics
WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS, How Sherwood Anderson Wrote Winesburg, Ohio
WALTER B. RIDEOUT, The Simplicity of Winesburg, Ohio
JARVIS A. THURSTON, Technique in Winesburg, Ohio
ROGER ASSELINEAU, Language and Style in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
MALCOLM COWLEY, Introduction to Winesburg, Ohio
WALDO FRANK, Winesburg, Ohio After Twenty Years
JOHN S. REIST, JR., An Ellipse Becomes a Circle: The Developing Unity of Winesburg, Ohio
EDWIN FUSSELL, Winesburg, Ohio: Art and Isolation
DAVID STOUCK, Winesburg, Ohio as a Dance of Death
IRVING HOWE, The Book of the Grotesque
CHARLES CHILD WALCUTT, Naturalism in Winesburg, Ohio
EILEEN BALDESHWILER, Sherwood Anderson and the Lyric Story
SALLY ADAIR RIGSBEE, The Feminine in Winesburg, Ohio
MARTIN BIDNEY, Anderson and the Androgyne: "Something More Than Man or Woman"
JOHN H. FERRES, The Nostalgia of Winesburg, Ohio
LIONEL TRILLING, Sherwood Anderson
E. SAN JUAN, JR., Vision and Reality: A Reconsideration of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
JOHN T. FLANAGAN, Hemingway's Debt to Sherwood Anderson
WILLIAM FAULKNER, Sherwood Anderson: An Appreciation
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Disclosure Bill May Put Retirees At Risk
Recently, I wrote about a bill, SB 1208 (Leno), that would require disclosure of total compensation information with respect to each of a corporation's five most highly compensated retirees. This requirement would be imposed on publicly traded corporations that are either incorporated under the General Corporation Law or qualified to transact intrastate business here. These


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Republican Senate hopeful and U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton is continuing to criticize President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
Cotton talked about the flawed health care website and what he said were other problems with the overhaul when he addressed the Political Animals Club on Friday in Little Rock.
Cotton's appearance before the club comes nearly a year before the 2014 election when he's hoping to unseat Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor.
Cotton has criticized Pryor for voting for the health care overhaul.
Pryor is the lone Democrat in Arkansas' congressional delegation. He's seeking a third term in next year's election, and he's expected to address the Political Animals Club next month.


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Tyson Cole
#10: Uchi/Uchiko, Austin, TX
I can hear the sushi snobs already: "This know-it- all is saying the best sushi in America comes from a white dude. In a 1920s bungalow! In Texas?" But yes, that is what I'm saying. Tyson Cole is the Japanese-speaking, James Beard Award–winning perfectionist behind these Austin institutions. The quality—and diversity—of fish he sources is... View Article


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Flawed design
The Oct. 6 column by Robert Behre brings to the public what was only recently known privately by others as the design of the Clemson/College of Charleston Architectural Center proposed for Meeting and George streets.
Having gone through the disastrous first design a few years ago, I cannot believe we have been presented with another monstrosity for our historic district.
I attended a recent lunch-eon of Clemson leaders in Charleston. The lead architect showed numerous pictures of Charleston gates, houses, streetscapes and gardens, then said that their design takes all this beauty into consideration for the new design.
When the new design was put up on the screen, you could hear the gasps, and there was no offer to discuss or ask questions; that was it.
I spoke to a number of my Clemson friends and I am sure that if a vote had been taken, it would have been a lopsided tally against the design. The Charleston County Library on King Street some 50 years ago was promoted as Charleston architecture for the next century. Now it is a pile of rubble on King Street.
This plan of glass and concrete has absolutely nothing to do with Charleston, unless it is built under the Ravenel Bridge. One of the charges to the Board of Architecture Review is that a project complement its surroundings.
The college gym did it, the bank across the street did it, and the Holiday Inn at Calhoun Street did it. Go back and look at the beautiful Charleston single house to the north of the proposed building and the Washington Light Infantry on the opposite corner.
I am Clemson, through and through — no-one's blood runs deeper orange — but Charleston cannot break up its historic streetscape with misplaced experiments.
Does this firm, being not from this area, know that we are exposed to 30-40 degrees of sun change between solstices?
So how can all the holes in the wall have any meaning except when the sun is in a particular location?
The BAR cannot approve this design as meeting the requirements of their code. It has no semblance to Historic Charleston architecture and will not complement its surroundings.
Thomas E. Thornhill
Past President, Historic Charleston Foundation
Past President, Clemson Alumni National Council
Oceanic Street
Generous golfing
Recently the Legend Oaks Golf and Tennis Club sponsored its fifth annual Legend Oaks Gives Back weekend. This includes a tennis tournament, dinner, silent auction and a golf tournament.
The managing partner, Jim Chickarello, and his wife, Kathy, wanted to give back to the community and put together a committee to pursue this challenge.
They work tirelessly year-round to make the weekend a success, and their efforts have been rewarded each year.
I am grateful to the Chickarellos, the Legend Oaks Committee and staff for putting on a spectacular event.
Thanks also to the big-hearted sponsors and local businesses and people that support LOGB.
Meals on Wheels of Summerville feeds about 150 people a day five days a week, approximately 40,000 meals per year.
Many of the people we serve are able to stay in their homes longer and out of facilities with our nutritious meals. The funds that were raised will feed about 20 people for one year.
Thank you for your caring and generosity. It is greatly appreciated.
Wayne R. Lodge
Meals on Wheels
of Summerville
Gathering Island Road
Pope and politics
When Pope Francis recently said you should stop obsessing on abortion and gays and focus on the larger mission, was he speaking to Catholics or Republicans?
Yvonne Walker
Twin Oaks Lane
Isle of Palms
Loss of faith
So what does a "good-faith effort" to compensate landowners within 1,000 feet of the proposed I-526 extension really mean to Charleston County Council members?
When they used those actual words in an amendment last December passing a resolution to extend the expressway, did they then do so in "bad faith"?
Some of us at that meeting certainly thought County Council meant monetary compensation to landowners (actual amounts to be determined later) and the SCDOT must have thought so too, or it wouldn't be balking at signing off on this project.
Perhaps county residents should have "no faith" in council promises and refuse to vote for those council members coming up for re-election who passed a resolution with their fingers crossed behind their backs.
Angela Jones
Executive Committee
Robert Lunz Group
S.C. Chapter, Sierra Club
High Grove Road
This letter was also signed by members of the executive committee of the Robert Lunz Group: Starr Hazard, Christine von Kolnitz Cooley, Pat Luck, Kim McGhee and Laura Moses
Far from feral
The Charleston Animal Society (CAS) is proudly advertising this year as a year of "No Kill." If that means they are not directly killing animals, then good for them. But that isn't the whole story.
My wife and I were walking out of Citadel Mall in late July when we found a cat lounging outside Sesame Bar and Grille.
I retrieved a cat carrier from the staff at Animal Medical West and was able to catch this cat. Really, all I did was walk up to it.
This cat ran towards my wife and me, rolled on his back and began to purr very loudly. This cat was anything but feral.
Anyone who has been around animal rescue knows that a feral cat will not go anywhere near a human or go where humans gather. Feral cats are skittish. At the time, we figured he was a runaway.
The staff at Animal Medical West scanned the cat and found that he was registered to the CAS and was listed as feral.
Two days prior, they neutered him and cut off nearly half his ear. Not the tip, per standard procedures.
Since then, this cat has been a wonderful addition to the family. This wild, crazy, feral cat sleeps on my shoulder, plays with my cats and dogs and enjoys sleeping on every couch, cat tree, table and chair we have to offer.
When I asked the CAS in July and again in September about the cat's medical records, I was told that all that was done was a neuter.
Had they properly examined this cat, they would have seen the infection in his mouth, which has caused him to lose quite a few teeth. Had they taken the time to pay him any attention, they would have discovered a perfectly adoptable cat. Instead, they released a domesticated animal to survive in the Charleston heat on its own.
The cat, named Vinny after Vincent Van Gogh, will get the proper medical treatment from caring professionals.
I want to thank the wonderful and patient staff at Sesame Burger, who, while I was searching for a cat carrier, provided Vinny with much needed water and food.
Thank you to Animal Medical West for their time to help locate the responsible party.
Mark Kerr
Estero Court
Taxing logic
The most extreme and potentially devastating tax reform proposal under consideration in many states would reduce or eliminate one or more taxes and replace lost revenue by expanding or increasing another tax such as the interstate tax.
These "tax" swaps shift a state's reliance away from a progressive personal income tax to a regressive sales tax.
In the end, tax swap proposals hike taxes on the majority of taxpayers.
Eighty percent of sales taxes are paid for by consumers, especially low- and middle-income, and give significant tax cuts to wealthy families and profitable corporations who are in no need of a tax decrease.
Also, be on guard for a claim by Art Laffer, patron saint of tax cuts for the wealthy, that 62 percent of all new jobs created in America between 2002 and 2012 were created in states without an income tax, although these states account for only 20 percent of the national population. This finding has been basically disclaimed by the Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy, and says nothing abut the impact of state income taxes on economic growth.
Bob Henderson
Withers Drive
North Charleston
Why pay more?
According to your article, the Silver Plan for insurance purchased under the Affordable Care Act is $333 per month or $3,996 per year, and the Gold Plan in Charleston County for 26-year-olds is $230.44 per month or $2,765.28 per year.
Supposedly, Obamacare's intent is to see that all citizens have health insurance, particularly lower- and middle-class citizens. For those who "opt out" and have no insurance, the penalty is $95 and will be attached to the income taxes in 2015.
My question: How are they going to track citizens who owe no taxes to assess the penalty? (That's a lot of people.)
Second, are we not to think that those who need coverage will elect to pay the $95 penalty rather than pay the $3,996 or the $2,765.28 it will cost to carry insurance? These amounts are large enough to shipwreck the budgets of lower income people.
This brings another question to mind. If you do not carry insurance, will you be denied treatment in emergency rooms should the need arise? Also, what about hospitals, nursing homes, etc.?
My read on this is that a lot of people are going to pay the $95 when and if the government tracks them down, and that won't be until after 2015.
To me, Obamacare leaves too many questions unanswered and certainly does not seem to be user-friendly.
Myrna K. Hanlon
Marsh Cove
Prophetic Wilson
In the last five years the most truthful statement to come out of Washington was when the U.S. representative from the Second District from South Carolina, Joe Wilson, interrupted Barack Obama's speech and said: "You lie."
Now that is the truth.
Dennis Way
Westervelt Road
Shut down, and up
So, Obama is not negotiating?
What do you call shutting down our federal parks? Maybe negotiating is not the proper word.
I was under the impression that our parks are self-sustaining or profit-making.
They all have entrance fees, right? If so, it does not make good sense to shut down places that contribute to the national coffers.
The congressmen who took down the barriers at the WWII Memorial deserve medals. Thank goodness, Mount Vernon is still open. It has never received federal support.
I would like to hear that Air Force One is shut down, especially for trips to countries of our enemies, or golf trips.
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Consumers rule on the car lot
Today's car buyers walk in the door with almost as much knowledge about what's on a lot as the sales staff. And they don't want to spend hours negotiating or being wooed into costly upgrades.
That has made it more difficult for dealerships to make the same profits of yesteryear and pushed some to change how they compensate employees. Lexus South Atlanta, for instance, switched from paying staff a traditional commission to an hourly salary plus incentives.
"The opportunity to negotiate has almost been eliminated," said Sid Barron, general manager at Lexus South, a car dealership in Georgia.
It's all a far cry from the days when salespeople of all brands -- from Lexus to Honda to Ford -- had the upper hand. They would walk a buyer around a lot and point out different variations of a particular model with the hope of convincing the customer to purchase a higher-priced make. The pressure would continue in the sales office with add-ons such as undercoating and interior Scotch Guarding.
But that era ended when dealerships realized they could improve one-on-one relationships with customers through the Internet as mobile technology allowed Americans to be online all of the time.
The average consumer spends 19 hours researching before a purchase, with 11.4 hours (60 percent) spent online, according to a JD Powers study.
Online car shopping has almost eliminated the need to go from lot to lot searching for the right vehicle.
"Prior to 2006, customers visited an average of 4.1 dealerships before purchasing a vehicle," said Craig Monaghan, president and chief executive officer of Duluth, Minn.-based Asbury Automotive Group, the nation's fifth-largest public car dealership franchise.
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2+ Million Personal Bankruptcies Filed in '05
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The number of personal bankruptcy filings hit 2.04 million in 2005, a 31.6% increase, ahead of the personal bankruptcy law changes that went into effect on Oct. 17th, according to a survey by Lundquist Consulting. That means one in every 53 households (1.8%+) filed for either Chapter 7, where your outstanding debts are cleared, or Chapter 13, where you must repay the debts over a period of time. One in every fifty-three… unbelievable. Only 2% of the 2005 filings occurred after the new law was enacted, so it does
n't appear that people who hadn't planned on filing did so to sneak in under the previous rules.
Bankruptcy is financially devastating and even more so now that the rules for Chapter 7 bankruptcy eligibility are much harder to meet.
Financial health is not much different than physical health. You can eat that donut in the coffee room but you'll have to work extra hard to work it off. You can buy that $4,000 and put it on your credit card but you'll have to work extra hard to pay it off.
Find yourself stuck in debt and need help? Consider reading the Carnival of Debt Reduction, you'll find that a lot of the writers are themselves in debt or have worked their way out and through the Carnival you might find yourself making some new friends and building your own support system. Who knows! The latest edition is over at PFAdvice.
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We want to thank all of the amazing fans who came to the show and visited the Assassin`s Creed III booth. From the looks on the faces of those coming out of our exclusive gameplay presentation, it did not disappoint.
For those who couldn't make it, here are some highlights from the weekend.
Upon entry to PAX at the Boston Convention Center, fans saw a monolithic booth, the Assassin's Creed III Crest cast a red glow on a line of Assassins, who waited throughout the show to get their first look at ACIII.
Once in the booth visitors were treated to a display featuring little known (and often gruesome) historical facts about the American Revolution and our new hero Connor.
In the theater, they experienced 10 minutes of gameplay footage, narrated by Creative Director, Alex Hutchinson.
With lines 2 to 3 hours long, the AC team wanted to treat those patiently waiting to a Cosplay contest that only Assassin's Creed could pull off.
We'd like to extend an extra thank you to all the Cosplayers that showed up for our first ever Community Cosplay Contest. You can check out the album of all our participants here.
For those of you that couldn't join us there, we hope you'll enjoy our photo coverage of the event here.
Be sure to follow @assassinscreeed and Facebook to get up to the minute news and info!
Lastly, big thanks to Frag Dolls Fidget, Sabre, Cryptik and Siren for taking care of our many visitors and keeping them entertained!
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During the summer, Chris Bosh likes to get away from basketball.
Far, far away.
The summer of 2013 included more than just a family trip to Spain, Italy and Monaco—during which he posted a Twitter photo of 15-month-old son Jackson lounging by a mountain-framed lake in sunglasses and a diaper.
Bosh went as far as Mumbai, India, to promote the NBA to fans who surprised him with their awareness of his accomplishments, including the offensive rebound that led to Ray Allen's miracle three-pointer.
The summer will end soon enough, however.
And the Miami Heat will need Bosh to get back to work.
Bosh has received three NBA Finals appearances and won two NBA championships since joining the Heat in 2010.
That alone has made him worth the freight, even though he has sometimes frustrated fans by drifting, as represented by his declining rebounding numbers (from 10.8 to 8.3 to 7.9 to a career low 6.8) and some shrinkage in scoring in big spots, such as when he failed to score in Game 7.
This season, the Heat will need more from him than before due to a variety of factors.
They need their most skilled big man—in height if not girth—to play big.
They need him to earn all of the $19.1 million he will collect next season.
They need his best from the start of the season to the finish if they hope to finish first again and give him something to celebrate next summer.
All information for this piece was collected through the course of the author's coverage of the Heat for The Palm Beach Post.


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Scene 1: My mind wants to soar high in the air. It wants to leap and to bound and go on a flight of fantasy. But my body is shackled. Mind tries hard to pull away. But the body cannot move. I am a prisoner. I am glued firmly to my seat. I try to control my mind and focus on the professor's sonorous voice. The mind rebels! To all external appearances I appear to be sitting calmly trying to concentrate on the professor's words. But inside my head a battle is raging. It is a clash of the Titans. Finally both contestants are so dead tired that they decide to call a temporary truce to rest and recoup.
"You there!" I am jolted awake as a piece of chalk hits me.
"Can you please repeat to the class what I was just explaining?" I look around confused.
"Er, Sir", I mumble.
The whole class breaks into laughter. Am I the idiot of the class?
Scene 3: I am filled with remorse. I am reminded of the story of the ant and the grasshopper. I had been the lazy grasshopper round the term. Now the winter has arrived. The diligent ants have built a reserve of knowledge for the next day's exam. Within one evening I have to frantically scamper around gathering whatever shreds of knowledge I can find to sail me through the dreaded exam.
Why do I have to go through this ordeal again and again, again and again, year after year, not for one year, not for two years, but for twenty whole years? Be it school or engineering or MBA, the story remains the same. Why this Kolaveri Kolaveri di?
Is the problem with me or with the educational system? From what I have heard from people, I am not the only one who has been through such an experience. Further we have evidence on paper: the grade cards! If one were to go purely by my description, it would be a foregone conclusion that I was bottom at school, college and post graduation. On the contrary I was in the top 10% in school, in the top half at college and top one third of the class in post graduation. So I am guessing more than half the folks were in the same boat as me. So if I had the opportunity to change one thing: it would be the education methodology.
Now that the requirements are established conceptually, we have to see how this can be achieved in practice. In the earliest times, this was achieved by apprenticeship of a student to a master craftsman. But in the age of mass production and industrialization this model became impractical. However the answer to the problem created by progress in technology can be solved by technology itself. Whereas it might not be possible to expose students to real life situations, computers provide an opportunity to create virtual situations through simulations.
What I am saying might seem like stuff of science fiction. But what I am saying is very much real. I have actually experienced this kind of learning. I learned more about geography and business from playing the game rail road tycoon than any text book. I learned history from the games civilization, Caesar and Pharaoh. So I think computer game like simulations are the way to go for education systems of the future.
My dream is to develop such a system that would understand the needs of different professions and guide students through the learning process through a series of simulations. I want to be the change that I badly wanted during my student days.
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The lawyer for the San Francisco Giants fan badly beaten at Dodger Stadium has told a jury that the Los Angeles team failed its responsibility to keep fans safe.
Attorney Tom Girardi made the assertion Thursday in closing arguments of the trial of a negligence lawsuit filed against the team and former owner Frank McCourt.
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This page details the wiki's stance on the issue of canon in the Halo franchise.
What is canon?[edit]
Canon is defined as characters, locations, and details that are considered to be genuine (or "official"), and those events, characters, settings, etc. that are considered to have inarguable existence within the fictional Halo universe. "Official" Halo canon can only be created by developers of the Halo franchise. Therefore, any material added to Halopedia, which seeks to document the Halo universe, must be official sanctioned canon that can be cited from a work created or sanctioned by Halo's creators, Bungie and 343 Industries. Better put, Halopedia is not a site for fanfiction.
Halopedia seeks to operate strictly as a collection of Halo canon information. The general rule of its canon policy is fairly simple, as explored in the case of i love bees, that "the content should be considered canonical unless contradicted by more authoritative sources". For weighing each source's authority, there is the hierarchy of canon, which is covered below. But it is only one tool in discerning the canon from the non-canon, and oftentimes the relationships of authority may overlap or not be clear. In vague cases like those, determining which contradicting fact should be posted on Halopedia may come down to the editors' interpretation. For this, one must know how to interpret that canon.
How do we interpret the canon?[edit]
- "When a painter starts, they have an idea. They sketch, they doodle, they make strokes on canvas and paper with pencil, pen, brush, charcoal, whatever... Until the painting is finished, any previous stroke of the brush can be covered by a later one, altering the position of a tree, the color of the sky, a reflection in the water, the placement of a person, the existence of anything.... until the artist says "fin", it is not up to others to determine what is "so" and what is an "alteration"."
- —Recon Number 54[1]
There are various ways of interpreting canon but in most cases, they will typically refer to two modes of interpretation: Watsonian and Doylist. The most common approach in most fanbase would be from a Watsonian perspective, that is to interpret the information from the standpoint of the text. This is sometimes called an in-universe perspective. The Doylist approach refers to the real world perspective. As Fanlore puts it, "[t]hings that happen in canon happen because of decisions made by the author or TPTB; inconsistencies are probably authorial error. These explanations will sometimes be written right into the canon."
A Watsonian perspective seeks to amend canonical inconsistencies by presenting an in-universe plausible explanation. To do this, fans will examine the available canonical information about the subject, look at other similar cases in the canon, and put themselves in the minds of any characters involved to guess their decisions. For instance, a Watsonian would look at the changed appearance of the Master Chief's Mark VI Mjolnir armor in Halo 4 and say "Obviously Cortana redesigned the entire suit using nanomachines while the Chief was in cryo. We see the Spartan-IIs wearing similar armor in the Prologue, so there must have been a Mark IV variant that looked the same as the Chief's new armor. That variant is probably what Cortana modeled the Chief's suit after." A Watsonian perspective is very helpful to solve inconsistencies, but can risk veering into fanfiction, and without an official source behind it cannot be considered to be on the same authority as canon.
But a Doylist perspective handles canonical inconsistencies by an explanation of what the creators were likely thinking. They will examine from an authorial point-of-view, read up on behind-the-scenes information, seek for story meaning, try to put themselves into the minds of the authors, and keep in mind that human creators are often fallible. A Doylist would address the same issue of the Master Chief's and the Halo 4 Prologue Spartans' appearance by saying "The Master Chief's armor looks different because 343 Industries' artists wanted to give the character a new design that suited the art direction they were going for. The Spartans in the Prologue look the same because the developers didn't have the resources to build the fictionally appropriate Mark IV assets and instead reused the Master Chief model for every Spartan in the sequence." Doylist perspectives ground the work in the real world and let us see what the authors may have been thinking, but it too can often involve just as much guesswork as Watsonian theories and sometimes is misused as a platform for complaining about the story direction.
As such, editors can use these perspectives to determine which elements remain part of the canon framework and which elements could be discarded to accommodate it. But the path to the outcome is rarely simple, and there is no guarantee that the inconsistency will be amended by the creators at a later date. Only with the community's participation can each theory be weighed, so as to ensure Halopedia continues displaying the most accurate and consistent of Halo information.
Hierarchy of canon[edit]
Here in Halopedia, the editors work tirelessly to present information in the best possible light: these Halopedians strive by interpreting canon in a way that makes the most sense in the context and causes the least problems and allowing readers to thrive with the interpreted information. As such, the wiki often gets criticized for not able to present the information as the franchise developers intended it to be.
Often times, one source of canon may say something different than other sources. There are many reasons why this may be so; ranging from a typo to a line taken out of context. Therefore, a policy of "superior canon" is in act to make sure that the content of Halopedia reflects the most accurate canon of the Halo universe. Thus, a "ladder" of canon sources exists, with the sources higher on the ladder having "superior canon" which is considered more "official" than the sources below them. The hierarchy of canon can be presented as such: the games would be superior, followed by the novels, other literature, the marketing campaigns and other promotional items, in that exact order. Because Halo is essentially a game franchise, game titles would be the superior source of canon in each category.
Do note that the hierarchy is merely a helpful guideline for weighing the authority of sources in general rather than a strict policy that can be applied for every individual instance. For example, Lord Hood states that "the fleet that destroyed Reach was fifty times this size" in Halo 2, ostensibly suggesting that the Covenant fleet at the Fall of Reach had 750 ships rather than 315 as stated in Halo: The Fall of Reach. Because of the context, however, his line is taken as obvious hyperbole rather than an accurate statement on the fleet's size.
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What are sources of canon?[edit]
As the Halo franchise is ever expanding, it is impossible to list out all of the sources of canon. The easiest way of knowing what would identify whether the content was released by an official party of the franchise. Thus, for example, any content released by Bungie throughout their contribution to the franchise from 1999 to 2010 will be considered as sources of canon.
The following is a simple list of sources that are sources of Halo canon, and thus any material from these sources is content that can and should be added to Halopedia. Do note that this list does not present the entirety of sources of canon, but simply a general overview of sources of canon.
- ^ The literature project was under Microsoft Game Studios Franchise Development Group (FDG) with some creative control/supervision under Bungie Studios. The literature project was designed for wider audience apart from the general fanbase, and to establish an expanded universe for future content. For more, see "MGS Development Group Expands" (Archived)
- ^ Halo Graphic Novel was a stand-alone project led by the Art Team of Bungie Studios with the approval of Microsoft and publishing support of Marvel. With the success of HGN, Microsoft soon took charge over Bungie's creative control and played an active role in the literature project.
- ^ The Legends short film Odd One Out is a satirical interpretation of the Halo universe and has been confirmed as a non-canon entity by 343 Industries.
- ^ Bungie.net: What is Canon in this Situation?
- ^ Halo Graphic Novel, Editor's Notes
See also[edit]
Development of canon[edit]
- IGN: Beyond the Ring: Bungie's Renegade Development of Halo's Fiction
- List of inconsistencies in the Halo series
- Halopedia's Letters of Canon
- List of canon debates on Halopedia (closed)


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Some good news for a teenager who's battling leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant.
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• Faced with a public relations disaster, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle denounced an officer who was recorded last week ticketing and berating a man who ran a red light en route to see his dying mother-in-law at a Plano hospital. The woman died during the 13 minutes it took Officer Robert Powell to lecture and ticket 26-year-old NFL running back Ryan Moats. The officer is on paid administrative leave.
• A Cedar Hill woman told police she took prescription pain killers and drank chardonnay before she picked up her 7-month-old son from day care, left him in the car outside her home and then "blacked out" on her couch Tuesday night. By the time Laheather Wilson woke up and found Christian Micah Wilson still strapped in his car seat Wednesday morning, it was too late. He was pronounced dead at their home.
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THERE has been a relative neglect of the study of divorce as a specific mental health issue in children's lives. This neglect is highlighted because of its obvious import for personality development and disturbance of that development on an individual basis, as well as from a sheer public health view of the incidence in our society, ie, over 6 million children of divorce are growing up in our midst today, with the steadily climbing divorce rate pouring forth more and more. Full study of the impact of divorce will require a variety of approaches, using both normal and disturbed children, focusing both on the immediate and later impact, and including particularly needed longitudinal studies. The host of influential variables involved will inevitably require a variety of different types of probes.
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Some manufacturers are hunkering down, others are marching on and a few are moving out of their comfort zones. This mixed pattern is likely to stretch through the middle part of 2013, when the fog of uncertainty is expected to lift. In the interim, many manufacturers appear to be stalled.
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The histopathologic picture with a mixed granulomatous inflammation suggested an infectious cause. Results of further testing by tissue polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was positive for leishmania, and typing revealed Leishmania infantumas the cause.
Leishmaniaantibodies were present in serum (titer 1:80). Abdominal ultrasonography and an ear-nose-throat assessment did not reveal visceral or mucocutaneous involvement. Thus, the diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis by L infantumof the left cheek was made. The infection had most likely been acquired during the family vacation in Greece. Treatment was indicated because of the long-standing and nonhealing course of the infection and localization to the face. The species L infantumis known to cause visceral involvement, and although we did not have any evidence of visceral leishmaniasis in our patient, a treatment regimen similar to that for visceral involvement was considered appropriate. Liposomal amphotericin B was administered intravenously at a dose of 3 mg/kg per day on days 1 to 5, 14, and 21.1The lesion healed completely within 3 months with mild residual telangiectatic erythema (Figure 2).
Mild residual telangiectatic erythema 5 months after therapy.
Leishmaniasis is a zoonotic infection with a variety of mammalian reservoir hosts, including canines and rodents. Vector transmission of leishmania occurs when a female phlebotomine sandfly bites a human, where it is an intracellular protozoan parasite in mononuclear phagocytes. Depending on the Leishmaniaspecies and the immune status of the host, different manifestations, including cutaneous, disseminated cutaneous, mucocutaneous, or visceral leishmaniasis, may develop.2
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common form of leishmaniasis and endemic to nearly 90 countries worldwide (northern Argentina to southern Texas, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and southern Europe).2,3Formerly regarded as a disease of the developing world, leishmaniasis has become more important in nonendemic countries owing to tourism and job-related travel. The disease has spread to large areas of southern Europe, including popular destinations like Greece, Italy, Spain, and France. Skin lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis typically appear several weeks or months after the parasite inoculation; an association with a previous trip may not be obvious. A nonhealing erythematous papule, nodule, or ulceration on exposed areas of the body together with a travel history to an endemic area should raise the suspicion for the disease. Differential diagnoses in children include other infectious dermatoses, such as ecthyma, infections by fungi, nontuberculous mycobacteria or actinomyces, and neoplasms.2,3
Diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis is established by identifying the parasite with Giemsa-stained smears or histologic sections of infected tissues, culture of infected tissue in special media (eg, Novy-McNeal-Nicolle), or PCR.4As shown in our case, negative histology does not exclude Leishmaniainfection and the parasite can be detected by PCR. Subgenus identification, which is important for the choice of treatment, is made by culture or PCR. Serologic testing can help in the diagnosis of systemic forms.3,4
In general, patients with disseminated cutaneous, mucocutaneous, or visceral leishmaniasis require treatment. Solitary cutaneous leishmaniasis may resolve spontaneously. However, treatment is also recommended for large, multiple, nonhealing or progressing lesions or infections in cosmetically important areas, as disfiguring scars may develop. For topical treatment, different physical modalities (cryotherapy, surgical excision, and local application of heat) as well as topical drugs (paromomycin, 15%), photodynamic treatment, and local infiltration of pentavalent antimonials are effective.2,5- 7Pentavalent antimonials (sodium stibogluconate and meglumine antimonite) have been used as first-line systemic treatment, depending on the severity of the infection and leishmania subgenus. As they can cause significant adverse effects, other treatments, such as amphotericin B, liposomal amphotericin B, fluconazole, itraconazole, pentamidine, miltefosine, and allopurinol, have been evaluated.1,2,5- 7However, the current evidence for treatment of leishmaniasis is poor and the safety profile of each drug needs to be considered particularly in children. Leishmania vaccines or chemoprophylaxis are currently not available. Thus, for travelers to endemic countries, the use of insect repellants, insecticides, fine-mesh bed nets, and long-sleeved clothing are recommended for the prevention of leishmaniasis.
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Accepted for Publication:July 21, 2009.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Huber and Weibel. Acquisition of data: Huber and Berger. Analysis and interpretation of data: Huber, Cozzio, and Weibel. Drafting of the manuscript: Huber and Weibel. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Cozzio, Berger, and Weibel. Administrative, technical, and material support: Berger and Weibel. Study supervision: Cozzio and Weibel. Patient management and treatment decision: Berger.
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Announced at the French GP, premium suspension manufacturer, Öhlins will ship this snazzy watch with the purchase of either of their ultra-premium shock-absorbers, the TTX 36 or TTX 36 LE. More Pictures after the jump.
More new model news, as filings with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) suggest that we will see two new Scrambler models debuting, later this year. We come to this conclusion because emissions papers from CARB state that "Scrambler CR" and "Scrambler DS" models are coming from Ducati for 2017, in addition to the models we already have from the Italian manufacturer. The two-letter designations imply that we are likely to see a café racer (CR) version of the Ducati Scrambler, as well as a dual-sport (DS) version of the machine, which we have already seen in spy photos. This news isn't surprising, since Ducati has made no secret about its desire to expand the Scrambler lineup.
You know the new-bike season is just around the corner, because we're starting to get glimpses of what the motorcycle OEMs will debut at shows like INTERMOT and EICMA. We've already had a glimpse of the 2017 Honda CBR1000RR, as well as the 2017 BMW S1000R, and if the folks at Italian motorcycle magazine Motociclismo are correct, the following is a concept sketch of the four-cylinder 2017 MV Agusta Brutale. The new Brutale is one of two new bikes that MV Agusta will launch at the EICMA show, with the other machine pegged as a special edition three-cylinder model. To be up front, we don't expect anything too crazy from MV Agusta for the 2017 model year, with the Italian company still limited in options by its financial situation.
Thanks to our loyal readers, we were pointed in the direction of some photos of what looks like a pre-production version of the upcoming 2017 BMW S1000R streetfighter (one of the machines we tipped for an update this coming model year). It appears that the new BMW S1000R is going to get a bevy of changes already found on the current BMW S1000RR superbike, both visually and mechanically. Caught at the Oschersleben track in Germany, we can't imagine how many people walked by this parked motorcycle, without realizing what it was. We can't blame them though, because the updates coming to the 2017 BMW S1000R are subtle, and you'd really have to know what you're looking at, in order to see the changes.
KTM's Moto2 project officially debuted today, with Aki Ajo managing the team that will consist of riders Brad Binder and Miguel Oliveira. Like KTM's MotoGP project, with the KTM RC16 race bike, the Moto2 project uses some intriguing elements. Namely, the frame is of a steel trellis design, the suspension is provided for by WP, and of course the engine is a lightly tuned Honda CBR600RR lump. If looks could win races, the WP KTM Moto2 machine would already be a contender. That being said, we have high expectations for the racing program in next year's Moto2 Championship. Until then tough, we'll let you drool over the high-resolution images we have waiting for you, after the jump.
If you were hoping that the 2017 Honda CBR1000RR would be a completely new machine for sport bike enthusiasts, the following might disappoint you. This is because photos published on Twitter seem to suggest that the 2017 Honda Fireblade will get mostly cosmetic changes for the upcoming model year. As you can see after the jump, what looks like the new CBR1000RR was caught lapping for what appears to be a PR video spot for the Japanese OEM. While it is clear from these shots that the pictured Honda CBR1000RR has a radically new fairing design, a closer comparison to the chassis (see above) suggests that the machine is simply the current generation machine, with new clothing.
KTM is to enter the Moto2 class. The Ajo team is to expand its current Moto2 operation to two riders, with Brad Binder and Miguel Oliveira (not Tom Lüthi, as we had previously reported) taking the place of the departing Johann Zarco. The team is also to switch from Kalex to KTM, as part of KTM's project to provide a career path for young riders from the FIM CEV Moto3 championship through all three Grand Prix classes to MotoGP. The names of the riders involved should come as no surprise. Brad Binder is a race or two away at most from becoming the 2016 Moto3 world champion, and Miguel Oliveira came very close to winning the Moto3 title in 2015, as Binder's teammate in the Red Bull KTM Ajo Moto3 team. Both riders are highly rated both by KTM and by team boss Aki Ajo.
The aerodynamic rules for the 2017 MotoGP season and beyond have been published. At a meeting of the Grand Prix Commission at Misano, a proposal from Dorna's technical team was accepted, banning aerodynamic devices in as general a wording as possible. Wings, bulges, and anything protruding from the front of the fairing are now banned. The proposal was drawn up by a small group consisting of Director of Technology Corrado Cecchinelli, Technical Director Danny Aldridge, and Race Director Mike Webb. Their main focus was to keep the wording as general as possible, so as to avoid loopholes for engineers to exploit. Technical Director Danny Aldridge will have the final word on any fairing protrusion, precisely to prevent any doubt about workarounds.
Every other year, the motorcycle industry gathers in Cologne, Germany in October, for the INTERMOT trade expo. The show provides a good alternative for the Germanic brands to launch new machines, with BMW and KTM often showcasing new models at the show. This year will be no different. To that end, BMW Motorrad is already getting its hype machine warmed up, telling us that several models will debut updates in Cologne. More importantly, zie Germans tell us that two new motorcycles will also debut at the INTERMOT show. What those models will be is certainly the conjecture du jour, since there are several possibilities that BMW Motorrad could be working on. This might make decoding BMW's game plan all but impossible, but we can still give it a try.
This weekend is the final round of the MotoAmerica Championship, being held at the New Jersey Motorsports Park. This weekend also marks the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. We all know the sacrifices that were made by New York's first responders, though admittedly sometimes we take those sacrifices for granted. The sacrifice hasn't been lost on the #RideHVMC Freeman Racing Ducati team though, who are based out of Ossining, New York. As such, Corey Alexander and the #RideHVMC Freeman Racing Ducati Panigale R will be wearing a special livery that commemorates the men and women of the New York City Fire Department. As you will see in the photos after the jump, "Engine 23" is a fetching motorcycle, with a touching message.
For a long time now, Asphalt & Rubber has been following the progress of Alta Motors (formerly BRD Motorcycles), as they have worked to make a lites-class comparable electric motorcycle. With the Redshift MX motocross and Redshift SM supermoto bikes now shipping from the company's San Francisco facility, the motorcycle community can finally see in the flesh what I have been calling one of the most competent electric motorcycles yet produced. I was impressed with the Redshift SM prototype that I rode back in 2009, and the finalized form of the Redshift has only matured further from its strong start. I don't want you simply to take my biased word for it though, so for today's post, I have enlisted the help of my Two Enthusiasts Podcast co-host, Quentin Wilson.
Announced at the French GP, premium suspension manufacturer, Öhlins will ship this snazzy watch with the purchase of either of their ultra-premium shock-absorbers, the TTX 36 or TTX 36 LE. More Pictures after the jump.


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Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's surgery for breast cancer on Friday was "very successful" and she has gone home from the hospital, according to ABC.
ABC News spokeswoman Bridgette Maney said in a statement: "The tests following her surgery take some time to process, so when we have more information we will update you."
Added Maney, "Thank you for your thoughts and prayers for Robin."
On Tuesday, Roberts, 46, told viewers on her show, "I didn't want you to hear it from anyone else. ... I have breast cancer, as my family here [at ABC] knows, and my family at home knows. And I'm very, very blessed and thankful that I found it early."
The next day, Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, on NBC's rival Today show, affectionately wished Roberts their very best, and Lauer even joked, "if you're watching, Robin – which we know you're not."
On Friday's GMA, where Roberts has been a co-host since 2005, co-host Diane Sawyer acknowledged the flood of get-well e-mails Roberts had received at the network, and said they had all been printed out and delivered to Roberts as a source of enormous comfort and support to her and her family.
Roberts's mother and sisters came from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans to be at her side during the operation, the Associated Press reports.
The former college basketball star and sportscaster, who does not have a history of breast cancer in her family, grew up in Pass Christian, Miss.
Robin Roberts's Cancer Surgery 'Very Successful'
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She was very thorough and on an initial visit she listened to my carotid arteries. She asked me a few questions and then informed me that I could have a serious blockage to my brain. She scheduled me for an internal probe of my arteries and the doctor's discovered a 98 percent blockage.
In other words, I had a small thread-size opening to service the left side of my brain. A week later I was back on the table and two vascular surgeons performed two separate procedures lasting more than four hours of tedious labor to restore a creditable blood supply.
Common sense tells me an injury such as an auto accident or a serious slip and fall might well have upset the tiny amount of circulation that I had and it might have killed me.
Because I was scheduled for a seemingly routine operation of two and one half hours but wound up using four hours, the doctor's had to do two separate procedures and each was important because they could not get a blood supply. They also squeezed my hand and asked me to respond because they were constantly worried about a stroke.
I am well aware that many hands, nurses and technicians worked on me and I may have been closer to death than I could have imagined.
I am thankful to this day for the diligence of the nurse practitioner who discovered my lack of blood circulation.
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Starting Monday, the author is offering an excerpt from the novel on EW.com. And she's excited about sharing!
"No more secrets," Meyer writes to fans. "I can't wait to finally be able to discuss everything that happens."
Note: Spoiler Alert BelowIn the published excerpt, part of the final installment of the series, Meyer's main character, Bella, finally chooses to tie the knot with one of her possible paramours, Edward or Jacob. (Fans online have been eagerly debating which suitor Bella should choose.)
Recently, though, Meyer gave away Bella's choice, telling EW that she enjoyed penning the wedding scene. Said Meyer: "It's not a dream sequence! It's the actual wedding between Edward and Bella. The wedding! I'm a girly girl so it's something I've been waiting for too."
Did the author choose well?
Time will tell. Message boards on the series' official Web site have been shut down until the book's release date to prevent spoilers from leaking.


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Monday, April 25, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Originally, a very long time ago, it was a beautiful cashmere cardigan of my friend's grandmother.
She inherited it.
At some point, sadly, it shrunk in the wash.
So my friend turned it into a hooded jacket/vest for her daughter.
Her daughter grew out of it.
Now my daughter can wear it (hopefully, for quite a bit).
And I already know who's next in line...
Friday, April 15, 2011
Going out?
Well, going out with kids... is madness. Everything is a potential hazard/ nuisance to others. And then out of the blue, a french waiter lifts one kid onto a bar stool, a bar keeper mesmerizes with his tricks and the little one is fully occupied with 'our' cheese platter.
Bliss. For a moment.
Wishing everyone a happy weekend.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Sunday Mondays
Searching for sun screen, not finding sun hats, quickly sewing a stripey dress and having to buy sandals with what seemed like half the people of Barcelona.
By the way - I am collecting onion peel for this
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Learning ✭ simple ✭
... watching them spend a whole day playing on a pile of dirt of a soon to be building site.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Raglan T-Shirt
here and here. Instead of resizing, I wanted to try a new one. Oliona pointed me to a ready made Raglan pattern - Nº 15 in Ottobre Kids Fashion 6/2010.
I've made quite a few. This one is my favourite - I really like the different shades and wrinkles of the hand dyed fabric.
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Twitter, experimental psychology and not believing everything you're told
Richard Wiseman and New Scientist have teamed up to conduct the first ever mass experiment on Twitter. It all started last week when Dr. Wiseman announced his intentions of carrying out a "mystery experiment" on Twitter. All an individual had to do to participate was to "follow him" (essentially formally subscribing to his updates, for the uninitiated.) Since then the followers of "@richardwiseman" dramatically increased from ~1,500 prior to the announcement to just under 5,000 by the time the first significant actions in the experiment were taken yesterday (this number continues to rise and was ~6,535 at the time of posting this.)
So what is the experiment??? A test for the existence remote viewing. You know, ESP kind of stuff…(cont.)
From Richard Wiseman's blog:
I am pretty skeptical about psychic ability, but the American government spent millions of dollars examining remote viewing and lots of people believe that it is a genuine ability.
Well, at 3pm (UK time) each day, I will travel to a randomly selected location. Once there, I will send a Tweet, asking everyone to Tweet about their thoughts concerning the nature of the location. Thirty minutes later, I will send another Tweet linking to a website that will allow everyone to view photographs of five locations (the actual location and four decoys), think about the thoughts and images that came to them in the thirty minutes before, and vote on which of the five they believe to be the actual target location.
If the majority of people select the correct target then the trial will count as a hit, otherwise it will count as a miss. There will be trials at 3pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. Three or more hits in four trials will be seen as supporting the existence of extrasensory perception.
Yesterday was an informal trial to test the technology. Dr. Wiseman went to a location, tweeted to his "twongregation" that he had arrived and then asked them to channel their thoughts to visualize where he was standing. He then invited those participating to send tweets describing their thoughts.
My answer, plus a sampling of a few of my favorites:
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It turns out that Dr. Wiseman was "here":
Who got it right??? Not me… Dr. Wiseman later posted some additional points regarding the trial and the experiment. That can be read here. For the record, the location will be chosen using a random number generator that generates true random numbers based on atmospheric noise.
The real experiment starts today at 15:00 London time (repeated 3 more times by Friday). This has certainly rustled up a lot of attention in the media, with more to follow, I'm sure. On Twitter, you can search the tag #twitterexperiment for additional discussion pertaining to this subject.
However, the minute I saw this announcement, I put on my experimental psychology hat and began to ponder what was really going on here. See, in my experience, psychology trials are usually testing something other than what the researcher is telling the subjects because in order to acquire non-biased results, the subjects can't be aware of what is actually being tested. If they are aware, they may attempt to influence the outcome, even unconsciously. Thus, distractors are to experimental psychology as lures are to fishing. I felt like the experiment had actually begun the moment Dr. Wiseman sent his first tweet inviting others to follow him and participate, as well as encouraging all to "RT" the message (this means "re-tweet", the Twitter equivalent of forwarding).
If I am correct, then what exactly is Dr. Wiseman testing? Well, first I thought that it would have something to do with correlations between the remote viewing predictions and the answers to the questions regarding belief in the paranormal; i.e., those participants who either believed in psychic abilities, or even believed that they themselves possesses said abilities. But this seems too easy, and Dr. Wiseman also kind of gave this one away in a partial throw-away statement in the round-up blog post assessing the informal trial by saying:
In addition to getting an overall result, we can also carry out post hoc analyses looking at people who believe in the paranormal vs skeptics, men vs women, etc..
And obviously this experiment will not be definitive regarding the existence of remote viewing since a major flaw in the design is actually, the crowd-sourcing. I'm no psychic expert, but it is my understanding that psychics believe they are extremely special and would do little more than laugh at this mass effort since, to them, it is blatantly clear that only a select few within the population possess special powers. Dr. Wiseman, who has been involved with debunking/questioning the paranormal for some time now, surely knows this, yet is proceeding. This is Twitter, so perhaps it has something to do with social interaction? Could be. Both Dr. Wiseman and New Scientist were very enthusiastic about promoting the RTing of the post, but of course, they needed more followers to garner statistical power, not to mention notoriety. So I began to back away from this proposed topic until I was discussing the experiment with Hysell Oviedo and she mentioned:
"Well this is stupid, you don't have to follow him in order to participate."
BINGO! You don't have to follow him. The times for the initiation of the experiment have been announced on his blog, as has the protocol. All one has to do is think about the issues and do the psychic thing at 15:00 London time, and then go to the official site to vote. Sure, the site URL will be tweeted, but unless it is switching every day, it was publicly revealed yesterday and will likely be the same. Even if a participant forgot the address, all s/he would have to do is quickly look at Dr. Wiseman's profile, and find the tweet containing the URL. No following needed. Okay, I still don't know exactly what is being measured/scrutinized even if this crazy theory is correct, but let's just say that I definitely won't be surprised when the results are revealed next week and we have learned a little something more than the fact that a sampling of Twitter users do not possess group abilities in the paranormal. In fact, this last statement is the only guarantee that I will give with regards to what may come out of the first mass Twitter experiment.
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Police who found a frightened dog tied to a bench at 3 a.m. used a microchip to find its owner, a 19-year-old woman who police say was passed out and apparently drunk in a nearby apartment.
Charleston police were patrolling George Street when the saw the dog tied to a bench, howling, with its tail between its legs, and growling at anyone that came near, an incident report said.
There was no food or water near the dog, and College of Charleston Public Safety officers told police they saw the dog tied to the bench for at least an hour, the report said.
Police said they waited with the dog for about 30 minutes to see if its owner would return.
Then, they took the dog to an emergency veterinary clinic in North Charleston, the report said.
A veterinarian scanned the dog's microchip and determined its owner lived in an apartment on Coming Street, the report said.
Police arrived at the apartment and found several people passed out in the living room, including 19-year-old Rachel Keller of Vanderhorst Street, the report said.
Police say it took about 20 minutes to wake Keller, who smelled strongly of alcohol.
Police questioned Keller about the dog, and the woman responded that she shared the animal with her best friend, who had gone out of town and left the dog in her care.
According to police, Keller did not know the dog was missing, and believed it was inside the home.
Keller was arrested and charged with cruelty to animals, according to records at the Charleston County jail, where she was held.
Reach Christina Elmore at 937-5908 or at Twitter.com/celmorePC.


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Ring in the New Year and celebrate Three Kings Day when Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre brings the magical El Sueño: The Dream to Rahway's Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts on Jan. 5.
El Sueño is a unique adaptation of the cherished dance classic "The Nutcracker" as performed by Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre in honor of the January 6 El Día de lose Reyes holiday celebrated throughout Spain and Latin America in tandem with the Feast of Epiphany.
The Alborada program features Gypsy Flamenco and regional dances from Spain and Latin America, together with live music and Alborada's widely-acclaimed dancers and talented young artists providing an unforgettable entertainment experience for all ages.
El Sueño takes place Sunday, Jan. 5, at 3 p.m., at Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts, 360 Hamilton Street, Rahway.
Ticket prices are $20 adults, $10 Seniors and Students with I.D. To order tickets, call the Box Office at 732-499-8226 or book on-line at ucpac.org. This program is funded in part by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
The curtain opens on young Clarita and her family and friends enjoying the holiday in the plaza where everyone will dance and see the Three Kings give gifts to all. When her friends break a matador doll given to her by her aunt, a chain of events transports Clarita into the midst of a fierce battle between a brave Matador and the Great Toro King.
Clarita saves the Matador, and they are whisked away to the Land of the Majas, where Clarita is rewarded for her courage with a display of dances from Spain and Latin America — the colorful Verdiales, swirling dances from Mexico and Ecuador, exciting Gypsy Flamenco dances, and much more.
El Sueño spotlights three sensational male dancers: 15-year-old Navruz Baum dancing as the young Matador, a guest flamenco artist dancing as the Great Toro King and Alborada principal dancer Ricardo Santiago dancing as the adult Matador. Alborada principal dancers Lisa Botalico as Queen Maja and Eva Lucena as Tia María round out the featured artists of this exciting production, together with Quetzel Baum as Clarita.
Now based in Fords, New Jersey, Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre was founded in 1965 by esteemed classical dancer Maria Alba, who established Alborada as the greatest exponent of classical Spanish dance drama pieces in North America. Both entertaining and educational, Alborada's varied repertoire runs the gamut of Spanish Flamenco and traditional dances to Hispanic, Celtic, Moorish cultural influences and beyond.
Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts (hamiltonstagenj.com) is an intimate, 200-seat theatre in Rahway, New Jersey, located two miles between the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike and just six blocks from the NJ Transit train station serving Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines.
For more information on El Sueño, visit AlboradaDance.org, call 732-598-3979, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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|New schools highlight changes for CRPUSD
University, Technology Middle School open as students return to class
Bells ringing, cars idling, the collective chatter of hundreds of students filing back into their classrooms as the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District begins its 2013-2014 school year.
Even the old campuses of Mountain Shadows Middle School and La Fiesta Elementary will, for the first time in years, no longer be vacant as two new school openings grace Rohnert Park, a positive change after what seemed like a succession of closures.
"It's an exciting time for us," says Robert Haley, District Superintendent for three years now. "We are committed to providing our community with the best educational programs. We've created new innovative classes with lower class sizes."
The first major change is University Elementary, located where La Fiesta Elementary used to be before it was closed in 2008. By utilizing the forces of Sonoma State University just down the street, the new school will entail a multi-age project-based curriculum, beginning with K-2, but hope-fully growing to a full facility in years to come.
The new Technology Middle School at the old campus in B section is currently hosting 6th and 7th graders with the addition of 8th grade next year, and stresses a computer-based curriculum with code-writing courses, a career path quickly becoming vital in the brave new world of technology.
While most high schools have minimized their woodworking and metal shop classes, Rancho Cotate High School has expanded in those areas, providing students with the opportunity to use some of the newest tools and accessories to construction, including the use of a 3D printer. Rancho Cotate also is continuing a sustainable project called "Tiny Houses" in which students construct fully functional, environmentally friendly dwellings.
"This does not look like a traditional shop," says Haley of the renovated workshop classroom. "It's all very 21st century."
Tech High, the high school situated in Sonoma State's Salazar Hall, is expanding, having acquired the use of thee more classrooms, which will accommodate at least 300 more students. Haley notes and appreciates the close bonds SSU has always had with the CRPSD.
It seems just a few years ago we were plagued by school closings, but due to the construction of new homes and new jobs in the county, things are beginning to look up for the district.
"Our biggest challenge is that we're under-funded by the state of California," Haley says simply. "They are in the process of changing the way they fund us, which may have a negative impact. Until the state realizes that education is vital, we will struggle."
It is clear though, that despite any lack of support from the state, the classrooms of CRPUSD will remain lit and filled with students.


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Hillsboro middle and high schools will be releasing early Thursday, Feb. 6, due to weather, according to the school district.
Middle schools will get out at 12:30 p.m., said Beth Graser, a Hillsboro School District spokeswoman. High schools will release at 12:45 p.m.
Elementary schools will get out at normal time, the district said.
Graser said afternoon and evening events have been canceled.
More information is available on the district's website.
-- Rebecca Woolington