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On January 24, the Pentagon signed an order opening all ground-combat military positions to women. The order lifts a 1994 rule, which stated that women could not be assigned to units in direct ground combat.
Women currently make up about 14% of the 1.4 million active military personnel. They have totaled more than 10% of those sent to war zones. The historic change will open up thousands of jobs to women serving overseas. Ultimately, women could even be allowed to serve in special-operations units, including the Army's Delta Force and the Navy's SEALs.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the change is to ensure that the best qualified and most capable service members, regardless of gender, are selected for combat. "Not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier," Panetta said. "But everyone is entitled to a chance."
President Barack Obama praised the decision. "This milestone reflects the courageous and patriotic service of women through more than two centuries of American history and the indispensable role of women in today's military," Obama said in a statement released following the announcement.
On the Front Lines
Before the new order, women in combat zones could only serve in support roles, including as doctors or police. They could also do clerical work, mechanical work and photo analysis, among other important jobs. In 1979, enlistment qualifications became the same for men and women, but women were still prohibited from direct combat assignments.
Many military experts say the new order acknowledges that women have recently had a stronger presence in dangerous war areas. More than 280,000 served in combat zones during the last two U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, women will officially have the chance to fight on the front lines and take on top military positions.
"Not every woman makes a good soldier, but not every man makes a good soldier," said U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, of California. "We're not asking that standards be lowered."
The military is reviewing the physical and other standards required for all direct combat fields, a long and challenging process. The review will be completed by January 1, 2016.
"We are going to make sure that we have the right standards for the right jobs that maintain the readiness of the force," says Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Martin Dempsey.
The new order could open more than 230,000 jobs to women. Military services say that while the changes will not happen overnight, some jobs may open as soon as this year.


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As to my friend's 'anonymity' - he just has too much to deal with at present. He was waiting for the EPA team to arrive this weekend when I spoke to him, to take samples of dead hives, pollen, bees etc. I did pass on the questions about his treatment of his bees: feeding, varroa treatment etc. He said, "after thirty years as a migratory beekeepr I think I know how to feed bees, treat for varroa and carry out inspections". He said to pass on that he has been 'deeply involved' with some of the bee-research teams over the last six or seven years and his hives have been sampled for pollen residues 'numerous times'.[/QUOTE]
Please let us all know the results of sample analysis. Without any such corroboration of the neonics hypothesis, this sad tale is not going to persuade many people of a clear cause.
Just wondering whether all samples went to one lab only. It's sometimes safer,but obviously more expensive, to involve more than one.
A problem with any results could,of course, be that neonics are already known to work at single figure ppb. and that the delayed effects on colony health,through many factors of debilitation, might result in failing colonies with little residue to be detected.
Nevertheless, I would guess that, in such a dramatic case as this, there should be a detectable level of poison;if only in the comb.
If no such presence were to be shown, this would remain just an unexplained tragedy.
P.S. I'm glad you posted this information ,and I agree that Bayer et al. have been characteristically duplicitious in their selective marketing ploys.
Compare their description of 'Premise+Nature', (Imidacloprid),and its claimed immunity-destoying effects on Termites and their denial of such effects on bees.Followed by their revelation ,under scutiny, that they never tested for any such effects in bees or other pollinators. How poor is that?

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text: Autism in S.J.: An educational path Sunday Jun 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM The number of people with autism in San Joaquin County has grown exponentially in the past 20 years. Programs through Stockton Unified and Lodi Unified school districts are designed to meet the expanding and varying needs of autistic students. Calixtro Romias and Katie Combs


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Fabolous f/ 50 Cent "Cuffin Season (Remix)"
Fittingly premiered live in New York at Summer Jam this weekend, Fabolous & 50 Cent deliver the CDQ studio version of a sure summer hit, the remix to "Cuffin Season". But wait, I thought it was summer fling season? Regardless, it's hard to ignore the clever lines of this easy-to-vibe-with collab.


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Put simply we are working to reach as many street children as possible, reunite them with their families and reintroduce them into education. We also work on the institution side of things by facilitating teacher training, building new schools and community education programmes and working with families to ensure a bright, independent and sustainable future. So far, we have helped well over 10,000 children to gain access to education in Sierra Leone.
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Street Child's volunteers help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable children in the world whilst in pursuit of their own life-changing experience: an experience of life among the untouched beauty and infectious optimism of Sierra Leone – a country that as recently as 2008 was classed by the UN as the least developed in the world.
We can offer a real adventure experience where things can change very quickly, you will sweat... a lot! and you will make the most extraordinary memories, not only for yourself but for the kids and communities you will work with.
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There are an infinite number of inspirational scientific journeys awaiting out there, and not all of them require looking up.
Tony Rothman
In July 1969 I spent 14 straight hours glued in front of not one but two televisions, so as not to miss a moment of the first lunar landing. My captivation was more than that of a scientifically inclined youngster; it was a Great Adventure shared with hundreds of millions of other people around the world. Due to the inspiration provided by the space program, an overdose of speculative fiction, and a physicist parent, I ended up pursuing a career in relativity and cosmology. Yet 40 years down the road, when NASA announces the latest discovery of water on (your favorite planetary body here), my first response is an involuntary shudder.
The Pavlovian reflex has arisen over the decades largely in reaction to NASA's propensity for outrageous hype. A crucial instance for me took place in 1994, when Daniel Goldin, then NASA's chief administrator, advocated the construction of a lunar-based observatory to search for Earth-like planets on the grounds that their discovery "might inspire us to invent warp drives." At that moment I parted universes with NASA. Mine was and remains ruled by physics; Goldin's was evidently ruled by Star Trek. I felt ashamed that one of the country's top scientific leaders could propose violating the laws of nature as an argument to secure funding.
A more public embarrassment followed two years later, when NASA unleashed a scientific derecho over the country by announcing meteoric evidence for life on Mars. So inflated were the claims of microscopic fossils, announced with velvet and trumpets at a Washington, D.C., press conference, that every one of my colleagues immediately assumed it was a bid for money. The squall passed as quickly as the claims were discredited, but it confirmed what was by then blindingly clear: NASA's raison d'être in the post-Apollo era is the discovery of extraterrestrial life. That motivation is inherently problematic. There is fantasy, there is adventure, and there is science, and we have never learned where one leaves off and the others begin.
NASA uncomfortably straddles all three terrains, and yet space boosters have had remarkable success in monopolizing the concept of Great Adventure. Doubling NASA's budget, according to my friend Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, would "transform the country from a sullen, dispirited nation, weary of economic struggle, to one where it has reclaimed its 20th century birthright to dream of tomorrow." Neil's words could easily have come, with slightly more sobriety, from the lunch-table conversations at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, where I worked for a few summers in the 1970s and where the discovery of extraterrestrial life was viewed as potentially the most important event in the history of humankind.
The discovery of extraterrestrial life would surely have profound philosophical effects. Nevertheless, I recoil at the notion that space is not just the final frontier but the only frontier. It is not entirely clear whether the relative banishment of other endeavors to the shadows is due to the spotlight NASA's agency-sized publicity budget casts on an already romantic cause, or due to the dismal failure of proponents of those other undertakings to adequately promote them. What is clear is that the concept of adventure must be broadened, and that requires more distinctly perceiving the indistinct borders separating fantasy, hype, starry-eyed romanticism, and science.
Who defines a Great Adventure? If to a scientist, science itself is the adventure, one need only cast an eye back on the ill-fated Superconducting Super Collider—the giant particle accelerator that would have discovered the Higgs boson a decade ago had it been built in Texas as planned—to recall that such an attitude is far from universally shared. The Super Collider had many detractors within the scientific community, but none doubted that its mission was scientific. Not so for the politicians.
Physicist Steven Weinberg recollects that at one House of Representatives hearing, a congressman confessed that he could understand how the International Space Station would help us learn about the universe, but he couldn't understand how the same applied to the Super Collider. When the question "What will it find?" met no response other than "Higgs boson," the $8 billion Super Collider was canceled in favor of the largely science-free Space Station, which has ended up costing an order of magnitude more. (Earlier that year, physicist Leon Lederman branded the Higgs boson as the "God particle," but too late.) That the Super Collider lacked government contractors beholden to it in every state was certainly not incidental to the outcome.
In any case, high scientific return is apparently not sufficient to help Congress pinpoint a Great Adventure. The United States also declined to become a major player in the European Union's Large Hadron Collider, which did discover the Higgs boson and revealed something fundamental about the universe. Lawmakers have failed as well to find inspiration in another project that is potentially as practical as the Super Collider was not: ITER. Currently under construction by the EU and a half-dozen other countries in Cadarache, France, ITER is a giant experimental device whose aim is to create the world's first self-sustaining nuclear fusion reaction. ITER is over budget and behind schedule, and there is no guarantee that fusion will ever prove to be economically viable. For all that, one might think that the idea of creating a star on Earth, and the prospect of limitless energy, should fire the world's imagination.
Yet when ITER was proposed, America's first action was to pull out of the project. The country eventually rejoined, as a minor player, and Congress continues to make noises about zeroing the U.S. ITER budget. Energy sustainability in general has inspired scientists and engineers far more than it has politicians and the public, both of whom—whether because of fear of fracking or the influence of Big Oil—regard energy as less romantic than necessary. China and South Korea have both intimated that they will go the fusion path alone should ITER fail, but in the United States, a sustainable energy future has not attained the mantle of Great Adventure.
Among the sciences, cosmology has perhaps come closest to attaining Great Adventure status. It sells magazines, editors assure me, and some billions have been spent on cosmological probes like WMAP and Planck. To many cosmologists, myself included, there is deep romance in the adventure. On a psychological level, the field may even serve as a substitute religion for doubters and nonbelievers—witness the many "faces of God" metaphors cosmologists routinely trot out. The public's interest (and, according to legend, certain lawmakers who want to find the Creator) in cosmology is undeniably stimulated by the God question.
But cosmology is first and foremost a science, one which requires higher mathematics, exact observations, and sophisticated data reduction. At the same time, though, it is not space exploration: One of the triumphs of 20th-century science is that we managed to learn so much about the universe without going anywhere. Thus, what cosmology has gained over the years as a science, it has lost in intelligibility to the public, and it does seem that if Congress and the public view cosmology as a Great Adventure, they do so largely for the wrong reasons.
Much of this confused view of Great Adventure derives from a peculiarly American demand for "useful romance." The obsession should surprise no one in a country founded on Manifest Destiny—a useful romance if ever there was one—and where Thomas Edison is a far greater hero than J. Willard Gibbs. The self- contradictory desire for both utility and romance is reflected in media coverage of science. It's a fair bet that All Things Considered has devoted an order of magnitude more air time to string theory than to combustion physics. On the other hand, regardless of whether the topic is the Higgs boson or the mathematics of ponytails, any scientist facing a reporter knows there is no escape, none, from: "What are the practical applications?"
Reporters are almost instinctively drawn to the "woo factor." At least that is what they called it at Discover magazine, where the editor-in-chief deemed it advisable to include a woo-factor article in every issue. I know this first hand because for a year in the 1980s I was the magazine's designated Woo-Master. But the "What are the practical applications?" guillotine, dropping at the close of every science interview, shows that if we take inspiration from the far-out, the cosmological, and the spiritual, we nevertheless demand that "woo" raise our standard of living. In other words, we demand spinoffs.
NASA itself publishes a journal called Spinoffs, and claims credit for more than 1,600 practical inventions, though not Tang or Teflon. But the space agency is hardly alone in enlisting practical results to support the scientific cause. In a recent interview, Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, promoted basic research on the grounds that 50 percent of all industry is now based on quantum mechanics, which a century ago was viewed as infinitely stranger than practical. (This figure presumably reflects the percentage of the economy involving semiconductors. By the same argument one could claim that 100 percent of modern industry is based on electricity and magnetism—even though the founders of the communication and power industries understood little of their underlying physics.)
The appeal to spinoffs demonstrates that the argument from inspiration has never entirely persuaded the American public, lawmakers, or scientists themselves. Yes, the Apollo mission did inspire many Americans, but our rose-colored glasses should not tint away the fact that it wasn't called the "space race" for nothing: The effort to beat the Soviets to the moon jostled with adventure and completely eclipsed a sensible scientific program. Let us also not forget that Apollo's huge budget divided the nation into camps pro and con, and that within a few years of Neil Armstrong's first steps, moon landings were met by a yawn.
Arguments over trickle-down science, a direct product of our demand for practical romance, are more complex than they are generally treated in public discourse. Some science always pays off in the long run, but most doesn't, and the trouble is that one can never predict which discovery will change civilization. Advocates of applied research argue, often pointing to the Manhattan Project or Bell Labs, that such an approach has a better track record of producing results than the random walk of pure science. The debate is not trivial, but in the present context, they miss the mark. If we seek inspiration, wherefore spinoffs? If we demand spinoffs, wherefore inspiration?
No natural law compels the adoption of such an oxymoronic attitude, and it would be wise to change our attitudes and expectations. Most scientists may work in applied fields, but a substantial number pursue "curiosity-driven science." Lawmakers should pronounce those words without derision, and we would do well to rethink the current model for research grant applications—a model that seems to require knowing the outcome of a program in advance, in contravention of the old joke: "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" Nevertheless, one congressional leader recently drafted a bill requiring that the National Science Foundation fund only research that would manifestly "advance the national health, prosperity, or welfare."
Reporters and lawmakers should recognize that in pursuing their passions, scientists and mathematicians are not unlike artists, at least until the need for funding rises. (A Large Hadron Collider admittedly costs more than even Van Gogh's Sunflowers and demands more justification.) At the same time, the potential practical applications of an endeavor should not damn it to the realm of the mundane. We take for granted that flipping a switch produces light, but 150 years ago the same act was a revelation. That our power grid functions at all strikes me to this day as a miracle. Constructing a national smart grid should be viewed as a Great Adventure.
The 19th-century American artist Thomas Cole once painted a series entitled "The Voyage of Life." In the first canvas, Childhood, the infant voyager sets off on a skiff down a stream surrounded by lush overgrowth, the far landscape hidden from his naive eyes. In the second panel, Youth, the stream has widened to reveal majestic castles floating above distant, beckoning horizons. In the third panel, Manhood, darkness colors the scene and our hero holds his hands in supplication as his skiff approaches swirling rapids. In the fourth panel, Old Age, well, you get the idea …
As romantic as Cole's allegory strikes us at a distance of 200 years, it holds much truth. With the onset of adulthood, expectations diminish, adventures become smaller. Be that as it may, I see adventures everywhere, even more than I did as a youth gazing only skyward at far pavilions and moon landings.
Twenty years ago, plastic grocery bags routinely tore at the slightest provocation. Now, they display the character of flexible steel. They are a wonder of modern materials science, a subject lying at the intersection of physics, chemistry, and engineering. A 1-farad capacitor used to be a monstrous thing (and this former boy scientist remembers collecting such beasts from junkyards: two feet tall and 50 pounds). Due to recent advances in nanotechnology, in our freshman lab this year we employed 1-farad capacitors the size of a thumb. Surely, the development of such devices, and the novel materials that make them possible, is a Great Adventure.
At the artistic end, mathematics is one of the greatest adventures. The mathematical universe is vast, larger than the physical universe, fully infinite. Unfortunately, it is also, as German poet Hans Magnus put it, "a blind spot in our culture—alien territory, in which only the elite, the initiated few have managed to entrench themselves." We hear vanishingly few segments about mathematics on NPR, much less Fox News, and those few are invariably capped by the demand for practical romance.
To be sure, the quantity of curiosity- driven mathematical explorations, amusements, and games that turned out to bear enormous practical fruit is astounding: number theory and cryptology, quaternions and satellite pointing, topology and the delivery patterns of FedEx. Nevertheless, one shouldn't need to resort to counting mathematical spinoffs, even if their numbers exceed NASA's. The very infinity of the terrain should inspire. Unfortunately, mathematicians are a particularly inarticulate species. If they do not wish to stand perpetually shouting for attention from the sidelines, that must change.
Because I am a mathematically inclined physicist, my perception of great adventures tends to be biased in that direction, but truly the directions are myriad. President Barack Obama, in announcing the 2013 Brain Research through Advancing Neurotechnologies initiative, recognized that the exploration of the human brain is a Great Adventure. With its hundred billion neurons—about the same number as stars in the Milky Way—and a quadrillion synapses, the brain presents one of the most expansive terrains for new discoveries. Looking outward, we cannot fail to mention the oceans. As marine researchers regularly proclaim, we know more about the surface of the moon than about the ocean floor. Exploring there is not only a path to inspiration; it is also of crucial importance to the survival of the planet. And then, of course, there are origin-of-life studies. I do not mean the mere identification of Earth-like planets but an understanding of the pathways to the first cell here on terra firma.
As a scientist who has spent his career tangling with fundamental issues and never getting to the bottom of any of them, I long ago came to the realization that I would be happy to understand just one thing in nature. My embrace of a micro-goal may indicate that I have passed out of Thomas Cole's second stage of life, but it may also be that civilization itself has voyaged past Youth. In our epoch it is unlikely that any single adventure will lift the spirit of a nation, as the moon race once did, for the simple reason that society has become too diverse to obsess over just one inspiration. I am not alarmed; my muses stand everywhere, waiting to be acknowledged.
Sooner or later there will be a colony on Mars. That is gratifying and inspiring. But a colony on the ocean floor would be equally gratifying and inspiring. The creation of an effective malaria vaccine, a molecular computer, a proof of the Riemann hypothesis…
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2014/1/searching-for-great-adventures/1
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New York, December 24, 2012--Indian authorities must immediately investigate the death of a cameraman who was fatally shot by police on Sunday while covering protests against the sexual assault of women. The Associated Press identified the journalist as Dwijamani Singh, a reporter for the news division of the satellite-distributed Prime News channel that covers northeast India. Other reports have provided different spellings of Singh's name.


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3rd: Gerald Everett, TE South Alabama
4th: Dont'a Foreman, RB Texas
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Don't take it personal, we're just debating.
~Big Mike~
Our offense played better when nicks was out and you saw what Randell did when he actually got some playing time on the outside. He had what, 3 touchdowns in one game? we saw what plax did when he played on the outside. we saw what mario manningham did in games where he played on the outside for us.. we saw what steve smith did (more than nicks) when he played a whole season as the #1. as a matter a fact we saw what derick hegan did when he was forced to start on the outside.
Maybe its just me, but there is a pattern here. And that pattern tells me we have a damn good QB and a offensive system that doesn't get enough credit. if you think nicks is good, then imagine if we had someone like brandon marshall. Or Aj green. I Dont see anything that nicks does that a lot of other guys cant do. Hes not fast, hes not tall, hes not very elusive or quick. hes very average and catches the ball good in traffic. I can name you 20+ other receivers that catches the ball good in traffic
Lol i think it was just a couple months ago someone on here said nicks is faster than cruz and would probably runt he 40 in the high 4.3 range. Lol this whole nicks think is a joke
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I can understand the miscommunication. I'm basing my opinion on the past 7 years of his career, his entire career in fact.
You are basing it on the past 5 games.
I never said anything about the niners not being very, very good. That's all I've said on all of these threads.
The fact that you are either unable to comprehend that or that anyone implying that the niners aren't the next great football dynasty means "that stupidity alone deserves the whoopin they're gonna get" is exactly the arrogance I'm talking about.
Your team has won nothing yet you quote stats like they're replacements for wins and then get offended when someone disagrees with you. Grow up, chump.


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Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (former)
March 31, 2007, in Darwendale, Zimbabwe
Chikomba, a veteran cameraman formerly with the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), was abducted on March 29 near his home in the capital, Harare, by a group of armed men in a four-wheel drive vehicle, according to the Media Institute of South Africa, local journalists, and news reports. He was found dead two days later near the industrial farming area of Darwendale, 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Harare, according to the same sources. Chikomba was beaten to death, sources close to his family told CPJ.
Several news reports said Chikomba's killing might be linked to his alleged leaking to foreign media of footage of badly beaten opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai after the politician's release from police custody in February. Footage of Tsvangirai leaving a Harare courthouse with a suspected fractured skull, and then lying in a hospital bed, sparked international condemnation of President Robert Mugabe's regime. The footage aired on many foreign television stations, but not on ZBC, the country's sole television network, local journalists told CPJ.
Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Wayne Bvudzijena did not respond to CPJ's messages seeking comment. Chikomba was one of several senior ZBC journalists forced to step down in 2002 during a harsh media crackdown led by then-Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, according to local journalists.
Medium: Television
Job: Camera Operator
Beats Covered: Politics
Gender: Male
Local or Foreign: Local
Freelance: Yes
Type of Death: Murder
Suspected Source of Fire: Government Officials
Impunity: Yes
Taken Captive: Yes
Tortured: No
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LAPD says it is investigating Sharper in connection with two sexual assaults that occurred in the West Los Angeles area, one in October and another earlier this month.
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NACK data packer - Questions from a certification program
I am posting more questions that I have faced during my course. Please discuss the same. The next question is:
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Assume that system X sends a NACK data packet to system Y. What does the packet mean?
1. It means that X does not want to establish a connection.
2. It means that X did not understand what Y is saying.
3. It means that X wants to end the connection with Y.
4. It means that Y wants to end a connection with X.
5. None of the above.
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Philly restauranteur Stephen Starr tapping D.C. market
Since he opened The Continental in Philadelphia nearly two decades ago, Stephen Starr has had his eye on D.C. And now a Starr restaurant in the District is finally happening, as he prepares to open Le Diplomate on 14th Street NW later this month.
And that's just the beginning, Starr said in an interview Tuesday.
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JCPD: Mother who abandoned child found in bar
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - A Johnson City mother was arrested after police said she left her child with a friend and never returned.
Three days -- that was the agreement Wendy Reese had with her best friend, 23-year-old April Jones. "I volunteered to do it. It was not a problem," said Reese.
Reese said Jones was moving, so she asked if Reese could watch her son, known to Reese as 'Bubba'. "After the couple of days had ended though, she did not come and pick Bubba up," Reese told News 5.
After eight days, Reese started to worry about the child's health. "I just could not get his allergy medicine for him, and I felt that he needed to get his medicine because he does take it on a daily basis," said Reese.
Reese said she tried to call Jones several times. "I couldn't get April to answer so I called DCS," said Reese.
That's when police and Child Protective Services got involved, something Reese didn't want to happen. "I also know that parents can't just put their kids off on somebody and disappear," Reese added.
"Just to go off and leave a child with somebody other than a close relative that's pretty much abandonment," said Lt. Larry Williams with the Johnson City Police Department.
A few hours after police talked with Reese, officers said they found Jones at the Horseshoe Lounge, a local bar on West Market Street. "She didn't come up with any explanation as to why the child had been left for so long," added Lt. Williams.
Jones is now charged with felony child neglect. "I didn't do it to get April in trouble or put her in jail or anything like that. I did it for Bubba," said Reese.
Reese said she hopes this doesn't ruin a friendship, and maybe time behind bars is what could make Jones' family a better one. "When they're there, they're great parents. April just needs a little help and guidance," Reese said.
Reese said Jones' child is now in the care of other family members.


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The team is asking for your feedback. If you have a couple of minutes, answer these questions or respond to this thread.
Declaration Expressions
C# 6 is introducing a new feature called declaration expressions. It's cool because it lets you write this code:
if (int.TryParse(s, out int i)) { … i … }
No more separate variable appearing above the conditional. Less ceremony, less ugliness, yippee!!!!!
The initial implementation expanded the scope of the variable to the next larger scope. This allowed you to do stuff like:
GetCoordinates(out var x, out var y);
… // use x and y;
While that might look useful, I hate it because it obscures the declaration of variables that extend across the entire scope – such as the method. This is called spill out and the team plans to remove it.
For clarity, in the condition if statement above, the integer i is in scope within the statement or block that is effectively the "then" clause of the conditional expression. Most of the enclosing blocks you use: do, for, using have a single place to declare a variable.
The Issue to Resolve…
The question the team is asking for help resolving involves code like this:
if (int.TryParse(s, out int i)) Console.WriteLine("Got integer {0}", i);
else Console.WriteLine("Got no integer {0}", i);
// Do you expect "i" to be in scope in the "else" clause?
The way C# itself is designed (in the .NET Compiler Platform, Roslyn trees) is an else clause is contained inside theif statement. The above use of the variable i is legal (Q1 below).
The scenario most impacted by this decision is a series of else if statements (Q2 below):
if (int.TryParse(s, out var v)) Console.WriteLine("Got integer {0}", v);
else if (double.TryParse(s, out var v)) Console.WriteLine("Got double {0}", v);
else Console.WriteLine("Ain't got nuffink");
// Do you expect you can re-use the name "v" in both clauses?
if ((var v = o as string) != null) Console.WriteLine(v.Length);
else if ((var v = o as Exception) != null) Console.WriteLine(v.Message);
// Do you expect you can re-use the name "v" in both clauses?
And the way you manually refactor might be effected because if (b) S1 else S2 will no longer mean precisely what if (!b) S2 else S1 means – you might have to do some variable switcharoos (Q3):
if (int.TryParse(s, out int i)) Console.WriteLine("Got integer {0}", i);
else Console.WriteLine("no integer");
// Do you expect you can negate the condition and switch around "then" and "else" clauses?
if (!int.TryParse(s, out int i)) Console.WriteLine("no integer");
else Console.WriteLine("Got integer {0}", i);
The Poll
I'll hand the results to the team as a non-scientific (because you aren't randomly chosen) poll, along with any comments you want to make – although if you want to be part of the discussion, this is the place to be. Suggested answers include: yes, no, maybe, don't care, don't understand.
Q1: Would you expect a variable declared in the "if" condition to be in scope and available for use in the code of the "else" clause?
Q2: Would you expect to be able to reuse the same variable in multiple "if" clauses that appear as a series of "else if" statements?
Q3: Do you expect to be able to rearrange if and else clauses with no risk of compiler errors regarding out of scope variables?
Q4: Do you think it matters whether C# and Visual Basic.NET do the same thing?
Q5: Are there other scenarios you're worried or curious about regarding the new declaration expression features?


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Sunny Flat in Manhattan
Size850 ft²
Floor No.
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|W 128 Street, 10027 New York, United States
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|A week ago
Ideal for business travelers & tourists who want to experience living in New York. 15-20 minutes from Penn Station/Grand Central/Times Square/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Three blocks (about a 5 minute walk) to the 2/3 subway trains.
The apartment is in a quiet and safe neighborhood and is a very short distance from Museum Mile (the Guggenheim, The Metropolitan, Cooper-Hewitt), Central Park and Columbia University
Harlem is a multi-cultured neighborhood that is home to the Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture, The Apollo Theater, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Cotton Club, Aaron Davis Hall, The Lenox Lounge, Sylvia's, The Dance Theater Of Harlem, & The Maysles Institute Film Center, The Cloisters & The Hip Hop Cultural Center.
Area amenities supermarket/grocery, pharmacy, banks/atm, restaurants, wine shop, bars & pubs etc. are within a few blocks of the apartment.
The apartment includes internet access, flat screen tv with cable, hi-fi with ipod dock, clean sheets, towels, blow drier, iron and board and coffee maker.
House rulesUnless prior arrangements has been made, only the number of persons listed on the reservation are allowed to stay in the apartment. The reservation may be denied/cancelled or an additional charge may be required if there are more guests than the number of persons listed on the reservation.
At check in you will be required to pay the security deposit in cash. The security deposit is $240. The owner/agent will do a walk-thru of the apartment with you at check-in to confirm that the apartment is in the condition that you expected. You will be provided with keys to the apartment and instructions for operating the appliances/electronics.
At check-out, a second walk-thru will be done to assess the status of the apartment and provided that there is no damage, your security deposit will be returned to you.
The apartment will be cleaned prior to your check-in and upon check-out, it is expected that you will leave the apartment in the same condition with used linen/towels in a neat pile in the bathroom and kitchen items washed and stored away. A cleaning fee of $100 will be charged if the apartment is left untidy.
The owner/agent will be available during your stay in case of emergency or to answer any additional questions which you may have.
The apartment and building was recently renovated and is in "Excellent" condition. It is expected that you will take proper care and not cause any damage.
The property is a quiet residential building with three separate apartments. While we want you to have a wonderful stay, it is expected that you will be respectful and mindful of the other tenants in the property.
Looking only for quiet, responsible and neat guests...no parties or being loud!
Thank you.
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 92 CA per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
It was - without a doubt - a great experience. Simon's appartment in Brownstones/Harlem is a awesome! We spent there five days and it was the perfect home for an outstanding New York experience. Whenever I come back to NYC for longer than three days I'll choose this place.
For any further information feel free to write a message.
We had a very good tme in this great flat. We found everything we needed and enjoyed especially the comfortable bed, the well furnished kitchen and the quiet location. Because of the heat during our stay it was only a problem that the ac is located in the living room and doesn't really cool the bedroom.
The house is close to subway 2 and 3 , so we could have a break in the afternoon without loosing too much time.
We'll certainly recommend this place to anyone who wants to go to New York City.
Thanks to Simon for the uncomplicated checkin and out.
We spent six days in Simon's apartment -
Apartment is top!
Harlem is safe!
Going to any place in Manhattan is rapid - we used the sub for everything!
New York is a blast!
Simon is a very nice landlord!
Strong recommendation and many thanks to Simon!
E and S from Germany
Apartment nickel. If you like the area it's great. A bit far from the center can be
Appartement nickel. Si vous aimez le quartier c'est génial. Un peu loin du centre peut etre
a hotel where including environment was just right -. for us was both the flat and the area simply perfect
eine Unterkunft, wo inkl. Umgebung einfach alles gestimmt hat - für uns war sowohl die Wohnung wie auch die Gegend schlicht perfekt
Upon our arrival Simon was a great help assisting us and gave good advice.
The apartment is super clean and very well located.
Perfect for my wife and me. I recommend this apartment.
Thank you Simon
Dès notre arrivée Simon nous a bien aidé nous a renseigné et donné de bon conseils.
L'appartement est super il est propre et très bien situé.
Parfait pour ma femme et moi. je recommande cet appartement.
Merci Simon
A very clean neat apartment whose host is extremely friendly and helpful. We loved it and would have no hesitation in recommending this apartment. Splendid.
Beautiful apartment in an old, renovated house. The apartment is furnished with all necessary. The location is good: 5 minutes from the Subway 2 minutes to a nice café and supermarket. Within 15 minutes you are in Midtown, 30 minutes in South Ferry. Harlem we have experienced as completely safe.
Simon is a nice and reliable host and greeted us with a surface area of wine.
Schöne Wohnung in einem alten, renoviertem Haus. Das Appartment ist mit allen Notwendigkeiten eingerichtet. Die Lage ist gut: 5 Minuten zur Subway, 2 Minuten zu einem nettem Café und Supermarkt. In 15 Minuten ist man in Midtown, 30 Minuten in South Ferry. Harlem haben wir als vollkommen sicher erlebt.
Simon ist ein netter und verlässlicher Gastgeber und begrüßte uns mit einer Fläche Wein.
Everything was perfect, the deal with the owner, the apartment as expected, clean, ...
If anyone has any questions from our stay at Simon's apartment do not hesitate to ask.
Thank you very much for everything!
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It's possible that you already know how the cartoonist, Derf Backderf's, latest graphic novel ends. The book's central character — a teenager from rural Ohio named Jeffrey Dahmer — graduates from high school and goes for a car ride on a listless summer day. On his drive, he passes a thin, handsome hitchhiker standing in the sun with his shirt tied around his waist. Dahmer stops. The passenger door opens.
The book is called My Friend Dahmer and the title is not merely a sales gimmick. Backderf really was friends with Dahmer when the two were gangly, awkward classmates at Revere High School, outside of Akron. Amused by his classmate's then-harmless quirks, Backderf was part of a group who called themselves "The Jeffrey Dahmer Fan Club." Backderf used his talent for drawing cartoons to appoint himself the group's "Minister of Propaganda."
Backderf went on to become a graphic novelist and syndicated cartoonist whose strip, "The City," appears in newspapers across the country, including this one. Dahmer became, as the book notes, "the most depraved serial killer since Jack the Ripper."
My Friend Dahmer is a reunion for the two classmates. In proms, malls, high school cafeterias, and other landscapes from a 1970s adolescence, Backderf explores where Dahmer went wrong and how, under different circumstances, his descent might have been stopped. The cartoonist lived on Manning Street here in Providence, during a brief stint at the Providence Journal in the late 1980s. He now lives in Cleveland, where he discussed the book with me, via email. The interview has been edited and condensed.
YOU WROTE THIS VERSION OF THE BOOK IN A SINGLE, MONTH-LONG SESSION. WHAT WAS THAT MONTH LIKE? WHEN YOU SET OUT TO WRITE A STORY LIKE THIS, DO YOU INSTINCTIVELY WRITE OR DRAW FIRST? Yeah, that was dark, because I had to channel what I was thinking and feeling in high school and later when Dahmer's crimes broke. That wasn't a lot of fun. After that I just detached emotionally from the story and concentrated on the nuts-and-bolts process of making comix, and that is fun. I "write" in thumbnails on 8.5 x 11 paper, cut in half to make little comix pages. I draw in very loose sketches, little more than stick figures really, block in the layout of the panels and write in all the dialogue. No one but me could interpret these thumbnails, but it's enough that I can work out my vision for the scene. I see scenes originally as little film loops that play in my head. So the words and pictures are never separate.
DO YOU SEE A ROLE FOR THIS BOOK IN THIS COUNTRY'S DEBATE ABOUT BULLYING? I wrestled a little bit over whether to include that particular scene [where jocks sneak up behind Dahmer and deck him], because the bullying thing has become a big, and greatly exaggerated, part of Dahmer's story. The urban legend that has sprung up around this guy, particularly in the death metal/serial killer crowd, has turned Dahmer's young life into a sick revenge fantasy. This is crap on a number of levels. Dahmer, after all, was driven solely by his depraved sexual cravings, by his own admission, not by anger, and most of his victims were gay, black men, hardly representative of his earlier "oppressors."
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Julia O'Faolain 1932–
English-born Irish short novelist, short story writer, editor, and translator.
The following entry presents an overview of O'Faolain's career. For further information on her life and works, see CLC, Volumes 6, 19, and 47.
The daughter of Irish writers Eileen and Sean O'Faolain, Julia O'Faolain has had to carve out her own niche in the literary world. She has developed a unique style with an international scope which has garnered her a reputation as a powerful and intelligent writer. With satirical wit and dark humor, she explores cultural attitudes and themes related to sexuality, male-female relationships, Catholicism, and politics, particularly as these issues concern female characters attempting to establish their identities.
Biographical Information
O'Faolain was born on June 6, 1932, in London, England. Her parents were strong advocates of Irish nationalism. They spoke Gaelic in their house and adopted the Gaelic version of their surname. Eileen, a writer of children's stories, kept Julia home from school until the age of eight and used her as an audience for her children's stories. The stories were fantasy-filled tales which led O'Faolain to talk of leprechauns and fairies when she entered school. After being ridiculed for her fanciful imagination, Julia began to look incredulously at anything fantastic in nature, including religion. It was this analytical outlook that O'Faolain later brought to bear in her writing. O'Faolain attended University College in Dublin where she received both a bachelor and a masters degree in the Arts. She also did graduate study at Universita di Roma and the Sorbonne, University of Paris. The fact that she has lived all over the world helps her to set her fiction in various international locales and still evoke a sense of place. O'Faolain married Lauro Martines, a teacher and historian, with whom she edited Not in God's Image (1973).
Major Works
O'Faolain's collection, We Might See Sights! and Other Stories (1968) has stories set in Ireland and Italy. The stories explore such topics as hypocritical cultural attitudes and young females discovering their sexuality. Many of the pieces in her second collection, Man in the Cellar (1974), examine the power struggles between men and women, including the title story which depicts an English woman who chains her Italian husband in the cellar and attempts to convince him of the inequities in their marriage. The collection Daughters of Passion (1982) contains female protagonists whose identities are shaped by men and characters who adopt political views that suit their immediate purposes. O'Faolain's first novel, Godded and Codded (1971), is a story of sexual awakening. It centers on an Irish graduate student who travels to Paris to free herself from the stifling atmosphere of her family life. Related with bawdy humor, the novel details her sexual adventures and satirizes various character types among expatriates in Paris. In Women in the Wall (1975), O'Faolain builds her fictional tale around a historical figure, but O'Faolain takes artistic license with the details of the story. The novel, set in sixth-century Gaul, is based on Queen Radegunda, a Frankish saint. The main character of the novel, Radegunda, was forced to marry the king who slaughtered her family. She longed to enter a religious life without men and political turmoil. Her husband consented to let her leave and she founded the Convent of the Holy Cross. The story revolves around the reasons Radegunda and two other women have for entering the spiritual life of the convent and the role of women in medieval society. In No Country for Young Men (1980), O'Faolain addresses the issues of Irish nationalism to explicate the destructive, cyclical pattern of her country's history. She follows three generations of a family involved in Ireland's political troubles to develop several themes, including the influence of traditional myths and political tensions on how women are viewed in Ireland and the dubious values sometimes related to patriotism. The Obedient Wife (1982) is set in Los Angeles and centers on an unhappily married woman whose husband encourages her to see other men while he is away on business. O'Faolain explores the conflicts between Catholic values and personal needs through the woman's romantic relationship with a priest. O'Faolain once again switches locales in The Irish Signorina (1984). Set in an Italian villa, the novel concerns a young Irish woman who visits the Cavalcanti family, for whom her mother used to work as an au pair. Her mother, now dead, had never really let go of Italy or the Cavalcanti family. Ann explores her mother's past and develops her own relationship with the family. In this novel, O'Faolain develops a comparison between romanticism and rationalism and explores differing philosophies of life and love. The Judas Cloth (1992) focuses on Rome, the Catholic Church, and Pope Pius IX. It follows the lives of three young men as they struggle with their identities. Also significant in O'Faolain's career is her work on Not in God's Image. She co-edited the book which documents the place of women in Western civilization.
Critical Reception
Critics first looked for comparisons between O'Faolain's work and that of her parents. However, she soon garnered a reputation on her own merits and for her own unique talents. J. R. Frakes asserts that "she does not write like her father. And maybe, if [Three Lovers] is a fair harbinger, she'll become the family member whose name is used for identification." Reviewers point out how her international background affects the scope of her work and sets her apart from other Irish writers. Complaints about O'Faolain's fiction include a sense of incompleteness, where story lines are left hanging, and an occasional sense of preachiness. Many reviewers laud her use of satire and the intelligence she brings to her writing. Alan Ross says, "Julia O'Faolain has all the essential gifts—a sense of high comedy, fastidiousness of language and feeling, intellectual control over widely-ranging scraps of knowledge—and she uses them with the lightest of touches." One of O'Faolain's strongest gifts is her ability to expose and bring things to their essential level. Ann Owens Weekes states, "When I first read her work, I was struck by the acid intelligence that strips away layers of tradition, affection, and affection, exposing an often grotesque core." Reviewers often point out the allusive nature of O'Faolain's work, which recalls images from ancient myth and history. Her work is often cited in feminist criticism for its honest portrayal of the role of women in society and women's struggle to define her identity. She is also praised for her deft handling of sensitive political issues, a topic usually considered the territory of male writers.
Principal Works
We Might See Sights! and Other Stories (short stories) 1968
Godded and Codded (novel) 1971; republished as Three Lovers, 1971
Not in God's Image: Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians [editor with Lauro Martines] (essays) 1973
Man in the Cellar (short stories) 1974
Women in the Wall (novel) 1975
Melancholy Baby and Other Stories (short stories) 1978
No Country for Young Men (novel) 1980
Daughters of Passion (short stories) 1982
The Obedient Wife (novel) 1982
The Irish Signorina (novel) 1984
The Judas Cloth (novel) 1992
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Alan Ross (review date November 1970)
SOURCE: "Carry on Codding," in London Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 8, November, 1970, pp. 109-10.
[In the following excerpt, Ross praises O'Faolain's Godded and Codded.]
A dotty Irishman, holed up in the jungles of Paris, is one of the chief characters in Julia O'Faolain's first novel Godded and Codded…. [T]his is an immensely stylish and richly allusive performance…. Though not exactly original in its account of the wayward affair between a sexy Irish student from the bogs and a wily, Arab revolutionary, Godded and Codded has so many incidental pleasures that its fairly routine plot about sexual awakening scarcely matters. In a beautifully suggested Paris...
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J. R. Frakes (review date 13 June 1971)
SOURCE: "Judas-Hole Vision of Hell," in Book World, June 13, 1971, p. 2.
[In the following review, Frakes lauds O'Faolain's Three Lovers.]
It's reassuring to know that the coming-of-age process still flourishes in Paris—it gives one a sense of continuity and tradition. At twenty-two, Sally Tyndal flies from drowsy Dublin to the seedy banks of the Seine, equipped with a scholarship, a suppurating Catholic conscience, and a determination to lose her Gaelic identity as a "late virgin" and "a mental amorist." And she does indeed lose it—over and over again. Thus the dreary title of this fast, funny, and cruel novel, [Three Lovers]. Lover #1 is Mesli, an Algerian...
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Lalage Pulvertaft (review date 4 April 1975)
SOURCE: "Under Orders," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 3813, April 4, 1975, p. 353.
[In the following review, Pulvertaft praises "the clear, tough style" of O'Faolain's Women in the Wall, but complains that the author imposes modern prejudices on the story.]
The Queen Radegund of history, patron saint of prisoners and captives, was born in 518, and as a young girl captured by, and forced to marry, the Frankish king Clotair. She later escaped to God, and founded the monastery of the Holy Cross, where she became famous for her visions, tended the sick, and lived as an ordinary nun, handing the running of the place over to St Agnes.
In Women...
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Margaret Ferrari (review date 30 August 1975)
SOURCE: A review of Women in the Wall, in America, Vol. 133, No. 5, August 30, 1975, pp. 99-100.
[In the following review, Ferrari lauds O'Faolain's Women in the Wall as "engrossing for its historical detail, its present relevance and its strikingly powerful style."]
Julia O'Faolain's Women in the Wall is an impressive, exciting historical novel. Reading this taut story from beginning to end, the reader is left with a feeling that a fragment of history, the sixth century, the very beginning of the dark ages, has been illuminated brilliantly.
The title refers to a group of women, royal and otherwise, who leave the world to...
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Ann Weekes (essay date Spring 1986)
SOURCE: "Diarmuid and Gráinne Again: Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Old Men," in Eire-Ireland, Spring, 1986, pp. 89-102.
[In the following essay, Weekes traces how O'Faolain's No Country for Old Men portrays the relationship between women and the political situation in Ireland.]
Seeking a theoretical model for feminist criticism, Elaine Showalter proposes the Ardener model of intersecting circles representing male and female spheres, a crescent of each sphere free from the intersecting circle. The male crescent, though not experienced by women, is known, because male culture dominates and represents itself. The female or "wild" crescent, the area...
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T. Patrick Hill (review date 2 May 1987)
SOURCE: A review of The Irish Signorina, in America, Vol. 156, No. 17, May 2, 1987, p. 371.
[In the following excerpt, Hill states that "In The Irish Signorina, Julia O'Faolain has written a novel of beginnings and no endings so that a pervasive incompleteness to both character and plot takes a heavy toll on the reader, but especially on the work itself."]
As usual, the news from Ireland is both good and bad. First the bad news. In The Irish Signorina, Julia O'Faolain has written a novel of beginnings and no endings so that a pervasive incompleteness to both character and plot takes a heavy toll on the reader, but especially on the work itself....
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Ann Owens Weekes (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Julia O'Faolain: The Imaginative Crucible," in Irish Women Writers: An Uncharted Tradition, University Press of Kentucky, 1991, pp. 174-90.
[In the following essay, Owens Weekes discusses O'Faolain's deconstruction of ancient Irish myths and tradition.]
Probably all parents influence their children more than the children care to admit. Some of their values are imbibed like milk; others sour mind and heart and are rejected. Occasionally we are mature enough to examine our opinions apart altogether from the emotional moss they have gathered through parental association. Writers, more than other people, mine the source of their own reactions, or maybe they just...
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Thomas R. Moore (essay date March 1991)
SOURCE: "Triangles and Entrapment: Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young Men, in Colby Quarterly, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, March, 1991, pp. 9-16.
[In the following essay, Moore analyzes the triangular relationships at work in O'Faolain's No Country for Young Men.]
An exploration of the triangular relationships among the characters in Julia O'Faolain's 1980 novel No Country for Young Men reveals a paradigm of control and entrapment of women throughout Irish history. O'Faolain, who has published several other novels and short stories, also co-edited with her husband in 1973 a collection of readings concerned with the historical position of women, Not in God's...
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Laura B. Vandale (essay date March 1991)
SOURCE: "Woman Across Time: Sister Judith Remembers," in Colby Quarterly, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, March, 1991, pp. 17-26.
[In the following essay, Vandale traces how "Through Judith [in O'Faolain's No Country for Young Men] we see how the lives of women in Ireland have been, are, and no doubt will continue to be affected by war, politics, men, and the Church."]
No Country for Young Men by Julia O'Faolain, "one of the most accomplished Irish writers of her generation" is, as Jay Halio has described, "a darkly comic stor[y] concerned with the position of women." Dark in that it certainly has its share of death and mystery, the novel nevertheless retains a...
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David Gilmore (review date 25 September 1992)
SOURCE: "A Question of Infallibility," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4669, September 25, 1992, p. 24.
[In the following review, Gilmore praises O'Faolain's The Judas Cloth as "[a] powerful, original and intelligent novel."]
As I began reading The Judas Cloth, I could not help recalling Lampedusa's remarks on the beginnings of Scott's novels: each was "veramente insopportabile", he declared, an endless parade of people and places too often and too meticulously described. But as I read on, I remembered his observation that, after page 100, "one realizes that the faces and places have remained imprinted on one's memory…. And the drama is described in...
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Antoinette M. Mastin (essay date December 1994)
SOURCE: "Stephen Dedalus in Paris?: Joycean Elements in Julia O'Faolain's Three Lovers," in Colby Quarterly, Vol. XXX, No. 4, December, 1994, pp. 244-51.
[In the following essay, Mastin analyzes Fintan McCann from O'Faolain's Three Lovers as a refiguration of James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus.]
In his now famous vehement interchange with Davin in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus declares that "Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow." Fifty-some years later, in the world reflected in Julia O'Faolain's Three Lovers, Ireland continues to evoke the same criticism and be wrapped in the same strictures. When...
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Further Reading
Hargreaves, Tamsin. "Women's Consciousness and Identity in Four Irish Women Novelists." In Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms in Contemporary Irish Literature, edited by Michael Kenneally, pp. 290-305. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, pp. 1988.
Analyzes the search for identity and existential meaning found in classic fairy tales and the work of Julia O'Faolain, Edna O'Brien, Molly Keane, and Jennifer Johnston.
"Subjection and Seclusion." The Economist 246, No. 6756 (17 February 1973): 107.
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Yes the Cowboys overpaid, but Romo is a symptom of the teams idiocy, not the disease itself. Without him, it's a safe bet they lose the small gameS too.
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I don't dispute your point that Dallas would have difficulty in easily finding an adequate Romo replacement this year. I disagree with your point that Giants should tremble in their boots at the prospect of facing Romo twice a year for the next few years. Two different points of contention.
If that disagreement with your point makes me "deliberately thick or belligerent and overly dismissive of a rival", I can live with that.
I'm guessing since disagreement with you is considered to be "rude" by you, you experience a lot of rudeness. Sorry about that.
Comparing the experience of a team competing against 2 teams outside the team's division vs competing against a divisional rival over the same time period is a straw argument. Comparing the results of competing against a division rival twice a year for a period of the past 6 years as opposed to competing against the Patriots 4 times in 2 discrete seasons (2007, 2011) over the same 6 year period and the 2 Packers games in a 12 month period, in order to support your argument is entertaining, but is, in fact, irrelevant if not absurd.
Almost, but not quite, as silly as equating the hypothetical loss of Eli by the Giants to the potential loss of Romo by the Cowboys.
I mean, what's the worst that could have happened to the Cowboys had there been no Romo the last 6 seasons? They'd have zero post season wins instead of one post season win?
I've posited that our road to divisional championships is easier with a weaker Dallas team, both through our continued success against them and the overall worse record they would have as a weaker team. I have absolutely no vested interest in how many playoff games the Cowboys would have won in the past years, all I know is our road to the post season would have been easier without either directly losing to them or indirectly by them beating other teams and making it more of a race. You don't think the Patriots love being surrounded by scrubs qbs in their division?
I'm glad you enjoyed the intentionally hyperbolic Brady/Rodgers comparisons, which were used to simply demonstrate the mistake in equating team results (records) when discussing individual ability. The Jags have been terrible for years now - that doesn't negate the fact they'd be even easier without MJD. But hey, you like to support you're argument by saying nobody can have any idea if losing their starting QB weakens a team. Right.
Oh, and yeah, totally seething, bro.
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Cowboys have finished each season since 2009 behind the Giants in ranking.
Cowboys are 2-6 vs Giants since 2008, and 1 of those 2 was with Kitna as QB. In those 8 contests over 4 seasons Romo has won 1 game.
How much weaker do the Cowboys need to be in order for our road to the post season to "have been easier"?
Again, referring to 2 and 3 games Giants played vs non Division teams (Pats and Packers) does not make your argument or demonstrate anything. Playing 2 times per year against division opponents (regardless of strength of opponent), year in and year out, is different for any team than is playing once every 2-4 years against non Division teams.
Your Jags / MJD reference actually makes my point in a different manner. Of course, everything else the same, Jags would be a weaker team without MJD. The point is--so what? They are a terrible team with him and they would be terrible without him. They've been at the bottom or next to bottom of their division for the past several years now. It would not make a difference if they were weaker without him, they'd still be at the bottom.
The same is true for Dallas. Without Romo, the next couple of years at least Cowboys would be a lesser team. So? They'd still not make the post season and they'd still lose to Giants at least 3 out of every 4 games.
The fact that they'd do worse without Romo means nothing when they are mediocre--at best-- with Romo.
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