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Location: Water Quality and Ecology Research
Project Number: 6408-13660-007-02-N
Project Type: Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Oct 1, 2008
End Date: Sep 30, 2013
To transfer technology needed to determine the effects of agricultural conservation practices on water quality from watersheds in India based on USDA monitoring and modeling approaches.
Research is needed to expand plot, field, and watershed research in India and to also support enhancements within USDA watershed modeling techology for evaluation of the effects of agricultural conservation practices on water quality. As a result, assistance is needed in India for USDA scientists to collaborate in planning experiments pertaining to water quality research. An existing USDA-Foreign Agricultural Service-Borlaug Fellowship program between USDA and India has initiated cooperation and identified cooperative areas of research. Research will be developed to investigate the effect of agricultural practices utilized in India on hydrology, sediment transport and chemical transport at field to watershed scales. USDA scientists will provide technology transfer to Indian scientists concerning necessary monitoring techniques and modeling tools needed to evaluate the capability of conservation practices to control sediment, nutrient, and chemicals, initially at experimental sites in India. Improvements in USDA watershed models needed for Indian conditions will be investigated.


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An alarm clock went off signaling that it was time for it's owner to wake up; but in the bed next to the table with the alarm clock, the owner had a pillow pulled down around her head blocking all the sound out that she could. So she did not hear another person come into her room and over to her bed.
"Kagome wake up dear, your going to be late for your classes." The voice said shaking Kagome. The person watched as Kagome unburied herself.
"Mom, I don't have classes today. All of us who are graduating from college in two days just have to show up to get our cap and gowns and the rest of the day is free, but I have to go to work. I have to fill in for someone plus do my work so I might be late again tonight."
"My little girl is all grown up and graduating from college and will soon move away."
"Mom I won't move that far away. I will be close so if you need me I will be here." Kagome got out of bed and walked to her closet and pulled out something to wear and walked into the bathroom shutting the door.
"Does that Bankotsu still come to the college? Are you still going out with him?" Her mother asked.
"Yes he comes to the college and waits around then takes me out sometimes for lunch, but lately I have not seen him on campus."
"I don't want to say this, but as a mother I feel the need to come out and tell you that I have a bad feeling about him when he is around. Why don't you try to patch up the friendship between you and Hojo."
"Because when I turned him down at becoming his intended at the beginning of college. He transferred to a college out of town somewhere." Kagome said as she came walking out of the bathroom. She walked over and got her purse and walked over to her door and walked out heading downstairs.
"Are you going to eat anything before you go?"
"I'll catch a bite to eat on the go."
"Before you go your grandfather and I would like to give you something. We were going to wait until the day of your graduation, but this would be as good as any to give it to you." Her mother reached into her pocket and pulled out a pair of keys and handed them to Kagome. "Follow us and see." They walked out of the house and past the sacred tree and down the long flight of stairs to the road. Once down there they saw a midnight blue Mitsubishi 3000 GT.
"This is for me!" Kagome voiced with tear in her eyes. "Oh thank you mom and thank you grandpa." She gave them both hugs and a kiss on the cheek.
"Now listen here young lady just because you have a car does not mean you can push your safely. Always drive with safety in mind. No exceeding the speed limit. Always drive for the safety of yourself and others." As her grandfather was finishing his speech Kagome opened the car door and got in shutting the door. She rolled down the window and turned on the engine.
"See you later." She waved as she drove off.
"Young people these days not listening to what their elders have to say." Her grandfather ranted.
"Come on dad, I'll help you up the long flight of steps." Kagome and Souta's mother said as she and her father walked over to the steps leading to the shrine and their home. As they were heading up the steps Souta came running down them.
"See ya mom, grandpa."
Meanwhile as Kagome was driving down the road that she knew one of her friends were waiting for the bus. She pulled up along side her friend and rolled down the window.
"Hey Ayame! Care to have a ride?" Kagome leaned forward a bit. She watched as Ayame walked over and looked in the window of the car.
"Yep it's me. Would you like a ride or not?"
"Sure." Ayame reached out and opened the car door and got in and closed the door and Kagome drove off while Ayame put on the seat belt. "So where did you get this car?"
"My mother and grandfather surprised me with it this morning. They were going to give it to me after graduation, but they decided to give it to me this morning instead. My mom had tears in her eyes because I'm graduating from college."
"Ya I know about that tear thing. I mean my mother started last week with the tears. Whenever she would look at pictures of me as a little girl. Also when she brings those pictures out when family and friends come over. Talk about embarrassing."
"So what are you doing after getting your cap and gown and that boring speech?"
"I have to work at 3:00 pm and I have to cover my shift as well as some else's shift. The person I have to do their shift for loves to miss work, but hey I can't complain. At least I get paid for it. What about you? What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to help another friend move into her apartment. Then after that not much."
"Sounds like loads of fun."
"She is really a sweet person. I think you and her would hit it off and become fast friends if you were to meet. Maybe this weekend we could all go and do something together."
"That sounds like fun. Well we have arrived. Let us go forth and get our graduation stuff and listen to that speech." Kagome turned off the engine and got out of the car locking the door. "Lock the door please Ayame."
"So is your boyfriend going to come to the graduation?"
"I'm not sure. I have not seen him in a few days. I've left messages on his answering machine, but he has not returned the calls."Kagome answered.
They walked through the doors of the college and walked down the hall until they came to the room to pick up their cap and gowns. They then were told to head to the auditorium. Once everyone was seated the collage director walked up to the stage and spoke. Then when he was done speaking the director called out the students names alphabetically and went boy then girl and since both Kagome and Ayame's last names started with the letter 'H' they were not that far apart of being called from each other. The speech started after the director had them sit in the order that he put them in. When the speech was finally over Kagome and Ayame headed towards her car.
"Let's see it is 1:00 o'clock right now so what would you like to do?"
"Let's go get something to eat. I am starving." They both agreed on getting something for lunch. They headed to a place that served really good hamburgers and parked then walked in and ordered. "I'll be right back. I going to call Sango and tell her where I'm at."
"Alright. I will get the order and find a place for us to sit." Kagome watched as Ayame walked away. Seeing as there was a long line of people waiting for their orders Kagome walked over and filled her cup with the drink she wanted and got some napkins and walked over to a nice looking place to sit down. But as she was about to sit the things down her number was called. So she placed her drink down with the napkins and went up to get the order. As she picked up the food and headed to the table Ayame came up behind Kagome.
"I see that my return was timed great." Ayame said as they sat down.
"It seems so. Let's dig in." Kagome picked up her hamburger and started eating it then picked up a few fries and ate them.
"Sango was not there so I left a message. She probably took a load over to the place she is moving into. So when you drop me off if she is not there I will wait for her." Ayame took a bite of her food. When they finished Kagome drove to the place Ayame needed to go and dropped her off then headed to her place of work.
Arriving at the restaurant that she worked at she parked the car. Looking at her watch she saw that she still had fifteen minutes until she had to be clocked in so she headed to the restroom and changed into her work clothes then she walked out of the restroom and through the restaurant towards the back where she would check in.
"Hey miss I am ready to order." Kagome stopped by the man's table.
"Let me get another girl to serve you." Kagome saw the guy take a deep breath.
"Can't a guy get served? I've been here waiting ten minutes to be served and Not One person has come to take my order. Does a person need to take their business somewhere else to be able to eat?" The guy voiced loudly. Kagome looked around and saw other customers looking towards the guy's table.
"Let me go and clock in for work and I would be glad to take your order sir." Kagome walked away from the table towards the doors that lead to the back of the restaurant were the time clock and manager's office was as well as the freezer. She hurried and put her things in a locker and then took her time card and clocked in then turned and walked back out and over to the guy's table taking out her order pad and a pen. "Okay sorry about the wait sir. What would you like to order?" She smiled as she looked at the guy. he guy gave his order. "Would you like anything else?" She did not get a answer so she walked away and walked up to the counter and handed the ticket to the cook then she walked over and picked up a plate and made a salad. When it was done she grabbed a glass and filled it then took both the salad and drink out to the guy. "Here you are sir. The rest will be done soon." She looked up to see people walk in. Another waitress lead them over to a table three places down from where she was standing.
"Order Up!" Came the voice of the cook. Kagome and the other waitress's walked over to see if it was there order or not. Seeing it was her's, Kagome picked up the order then turned and took it over to the guy.
"Here you are sir. Sorry for the wait." She placed the food in front of the guy. "Enjoy your meal." She then reached into her pocket and pulled out the ticket and laid it face down on the table. She then walked down to the new customers. "Hello my name is Kagome and I'll be your waitress today." She jotted down their order and then took it over to be cooked.
"So Kagome two more days until you graduate from college. What are you going to do after you graduate?"
"I am not really sure yet." As she was talking the guy stood up and walked over and paid for his meal then left.
"Order up." One of the other girls picked up the order. Not long after that the cook put more food up. "Here Kagome." Kagome picked up the order and took it to the customers. After serving the food Kagome walked over and cleaned the table, then set it again for the next people.
The day finally came to a close as the girls made their way over to the doors and walked out as the janitor closed the door and locked them. Kagome waved a good night to the janitor then walked towards her car. When she unlocked her door she put her clothes and purse in the passenger seat after she got in and shut the door. She was so tired so after she started her car she turned up her radio and turned the station to see what was playing. When she came to some fast music she turned up the volume and drove out of the parking lot and headed home.
The days had passed and now was the morning of the graduation which meant alot of stress. If it was not one thing it was another that seemed to happen. First it started with Kagome waking up late then it was Souta playing a trick on his sister by taking her dress that she was going to wear under her gown and hiding it. Which ended up with Kagome yelling at Souta. Now it was a little after noon and Kagome was dressed and trying to fix her hair and no matter what she did she could not get her hair right. She laid her head on her arms crying.
Knock, Knock
"Kagome dear are you almost ready? It is close to the time to leave." Her mother walked in. When she did she saw her daughter crying. "My dear what's the matter?" Her mother voiced as she came over to her daughter.
"I can't get my hair fixed right."
"Here sit up and will fix your hair." Kagome sat up and her mother took the brush and brushed her daughter's hair then pulled her hair back and put it up into a tight bun. "There you go my daughter. Turn around so I may look at you." Kagome turned to look at her mother. Her mother saw that her daughter's mascara had ran down her cheeks. Her mother wiped her cheeks off of the mascara. "You are beautiful."
"Let's get going." The grandfather yelled up the stairs. Mother and daughter came walking out of Kagome's room and down the stairs.
After arriving at the college her mother, grandfather, and brother went one way as Kagome went another. Getting to the area all the graduates were to meet, Kagome saw that the others were already in line and they looked at her when she opened the door and walked in.
"Higurashi, Kagome! Glad that you could join the rest of the graduates!" The director of the college spoke before turning back to the others. "As we wait for miss Higurashi to join the line I would like to congratulate all of your achievements." The director walked out of the room. Not long afterwards did the sound of music was heard and the doors were opened and the graduates walked out to sit in the seats that were for them. Once seated the director stepped forward. "Greetings friends and family of todays graduates and honored guests." The director spoke more then started calling up the graduates one by one.
Kagome sat there watching as one by one as her fellow graduates stood and walked up as they were called. As she watched each person walk up and in turn was getting close for her to do so as well it dawned on her what it meant. As she sat there in thought she did not hear her name being called until someone nudged her. She looked over at the person and saw him slightly point to the director. She then heard her name and her face turned slightly red.
"Higurashi, Kagome." Kagome stood up and made her way up to the front.
"Way To Go Sis!" Came the voice of herbrother as she reached the steps. There was sounds of slight chuckling heard. She hurried and did what she had to and returned to her seat. When it was over everyone gathered for the refreshments. While she and her family were talking to Ayame's family a few girls came up to Kagome.
"Kagome come with us." One of them pulled her.
"Hurry." Another said.
"Where are we going?" Kagome asked as they rounded a corner.
"Shhh. Is that not your boyfriend over there?" Kagome looked in the direction the girl named Emi pointed. She saw a guy standing in the auditorium kissing one of the girls that she had just graduated with. She watched as the guy turned and she saw that it was indeed her boyfriend. Slowly Kagome turned and walked back to the room with the refreshments were.

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Oranje Tulp, Amsterdam Overview
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Oranje Tulp, Amsterdam Details
Oranje Tulp Hotel Overview
A typical Dutch-style Amsterdam hotel located in the city centre on the Damrak and close to Dam Square and Central Station.
Please note that the reception of the hotel is on the 1st floor, above the Allstar Cafe.
ATM/Cash machine, City maps, Electronic key card, Entire property is non-smoking, Multilingual staff, Microwave in the Lobby, Vending Machine
24-hour front desk, 24-hour security, Luggage storage, Airline desk, Doctor on call, Fax service, Tourist information, Wake-up calls, Car rental desk
Indoor parking, Public parking
Paid parking is possible near the hotel.
Wi-Fi Internet free of charge in all rooms and general areas (lobby/reception etc.)
1) From Schiphol Airport: Every 20 minutes there a train runs from the airport to Amsterdam Central Station. When you arrive at the airport, go to the central hall, here is a big sign with the train information. The trains to the central station run from 05:40 AM to 00:30 AM (go to step 2).
2) From Central Station: You don't have to take the tram, you can walk to the hotel in approximately 5 minutes.
Oranje Tulp, Amsterdam Hotel Details
Situated in the city centre, Oranje Tulp Amsterdam is very close to Dam Square and at 3 minutes walking distance from Amsterdam Central Station. The hotel is located on the Damrak, one of the most exciting streets in Holland. This street offers visitors a great variety of shops, bars, restaurants and coffee shops. Because of its central location all tourist attractions of Amsterdam are within easy reach.
A 2-star property, Hotel Oranje Tulp is easily translated in English to 'The Orange Tulip'. The hotel's multilingual staff is looking forward to serve you and provide all necessary information about the lovely city of Amsterdam. Furthermore the helpful staff will be happy to assist you in arranging various excursions, including the Amsterdam canal boat tour, an exciting trip to the typical Dutch village Volendam, an excursion to Madurodam (the Miniature City) and much more.
Oranje Tulp Amsterdam offers rooms for 1 up to 5 persons, most of them with a private bathroom. For your comfort, each heated room is equipped with modern room facilities including a safe deposit box and a television. Wake-up calls service is also available. 10% of total amount non-refundable deposit maybe will charge after booking, if your booking more than EUR 1000.


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College of Nursing Adjunct Faculty
United States University is an institution with a mission to develop diverse life long learners grounded in caring science and prepared to be innovative leaders in a dynamic healthcare system. United States University provides adult learners with nursing programs grounded in caring science and preparing nurses to be innovative leaders in a dynamic healthcare system and acknowledges nursing as a discipline with a unique body of knowledge and a professional practice. For more information, visit us at http://www.usuniversity.edu/programs/college-of-nursing/ to review the curriculum.
Essential Job Functions:
- Prepare and deliver course instruction. Initiate, facilitate and moderate class discussions.
- Interact with an academically and culturally diverse student population, faculty, and staff.
- Attend all University and department faculty meetings when teaching.
- Complete administrative tasks. Submit grades and reports on schedule.
- Other duties as assigned.
United States University College of Nursing provide mentoring with a full time faculty. In addition, we value innovative teaching methods and experience with synchronous and asynchronous online education.Faculty do not have to relocate and may do this job from their current location.
- Ideal candidates for these positions must:
- Doctoral level – PhD, EdD, or DNP required for all MSN programs
- MSN required for all pre-licensure programs
- California RN and licensure and national certification in specialty as appropriate
- Experience with application of evidence into clinical practice.
- Experience working with nursing students and projects.
- Experience with online education
College of Nursing, San Diego, California
Part-Time Faculty to Teach In the Following Programs:
Bachelor of Science in Nursing – RN to BSN
Accelerated BSN Pre-Licensure Nursing Program
Masters of Science in Nursing – Administration
Masters of Science in Nursing – Education
Masters of Science in Nursing – Family Nurse Practitioner
Please see our website for a complete list of courses that you might be interested in teaching. For more information or if you are interested in a position, please submit your curriculum vita and cover letter with teaching interests and contact information by e-mail to Dr. Renee P McLeod, Dean, College of Nursing, at email@example.com.


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Chapter 2Mature
I'm sitting in front of Hannah Aines, twiddling my thumbs. I have been doing this for about ten minutes, now. I don't know how to start this story – there's so much to tell. I told her this and she told me 'start from the beginning'.
So I'll start from the beginning. And see where that takes me.
I close my eyes, my breaths seeping forth slow and shaky. I place my hands, palms down, on my lap. My mother used to tell me horror stories. They took place in the dark of night, under a full moon, and the hero or heroine would battle a vampire or a werewolf or a murderer because they'd hurt a loved one. The hero always won. The villain always died. The victim was always avenged.
My story isn't like this. I look up at Hannah. She's waiting patiently, with a notebook and a pen. I wish she wouldn't take notes, like I'm a passage in a textbook; something to be read and analysed and remembered and forgotten. I take a deep breath, sigh, and decide to stop procrastinating.
"Okay. It started about a month ago. That's when people started looking at me like I wasn't quite human. A month ago... just after the accident. Me and Annie – one of the girls from the office – were walking home at about five in the evening. It was winter, so it was just starting to get properly dark, and we were going down this little side road. I hated the main roads – they were always too busy. I wasn't ever good with crowds. It was a really dingy road, and we were joking about the old stories we'd heard. Vampires and ghosts in the shadows, that sort of thing. We stopped though, because we heard... heard something move in the shadows. But we couldn't see anything. Annie asked if I reckoned we should go check it out. I was too scared too... maybe if I had then none of this would have happened. So we carried on walking.
"Then this... this little girl came out behind us. She was the strangest creature – thin as anything, with this long red hair that splashed out on the pavement like blood, when she... when she died." When you killed me. "When she died. See, she came... came towards us, all calm and collected. She smoothed her little dress – she must only have been about ten. I asked her why she was out alone so late, and she said that she'd lost her mother. We offered to take her home, but something stirred in the shadows and she hid behind Annie. I went over, slowly, trying not to panic, and when I got there, there was this man and there was blood everywhere and a gun in his hand and a hole under his chin. Blood... thick and red and so much of it I could almost taste it. I screamed. Annie came rushing over and almost fainted when she saw it. We asked the girl what happened and she said that he tried to hurt her so she'd shot him to stop him.
"Someone heard the scream, and they came running round the corner and when they saw the man, they looked up and me and Annie and the little girl and they thought I had done it and that the little girl was Annie's daughter. So... so they grabbed up the gu... gun and they pointed it at me." I'm crying now. I hate this. "I held up my hands and I said I didn't do it and they didn't believe me. Annie pulled me out of the way but they fired anyway and the bullet hit the little girl. And... and they ran. I turned round, and she was lying there and there was blood all in her hair. There was a hole in her chest. I think she died instantly. I remember I was fixated. I couldn't stop staring at the blood on her face and I think something... something snapped inside me. Like, in my head and my heart and my soul. The man who shot her just ran away – he didn't care. Nobody cares. Not about anything but... but themselves." My anger was overcoming me, and I was spitting when I talked. I must have looked like some sort of beast. I realized that my nails were digging into my thigh. My teeth are grinding. "I was thinking... I was thinking that death is... death is pretty. Life is ugly, and the people who are in it are ugly, and the things that happen in it are ugly. And now this girl was somewhere else. Maybe she was in heaven, in a pretty place with plastic flowers and fluffy clouds in the sparkling sky." I look up at Hannah Aines. She's giving me the sort of pitying look you'd give a child whose dog has died. Knowing and condescending. "Annie was trying to drag me away, but I didn't want to leave her. So she left me, alone in that street with the dead man and the dead girl and I wished that I could be dead with them." You will be. I will be. Pretty, pretty death.
I wish I was dead. I wish you were dead, too. I close my eyes. I like the blackness, I can block out the world. I can pretend it's not there. I can pretend I'm alone. I can pretend that God gave me the death that I want.
"That girl was Cynthia, wasn't it?" I look up sharply. I nod.
"She didn't go to heaven. She's in my head. I can't make her go away." You deserve it. "She says I deserve it. She says... says it's my fault she died. She's right, I know, but I wish she'd stop saying it."
"Why is it your fault that she died?" It should have been you.
"It should have been me."
"Why do you feel like that?" Because that bullet was for you.
"Because the bullet was for me. I took her life away by keeping mine. And I wish I hadn't because I hate my life. I hate it... it's horrible. I'm stuck in plastic box with a dead... dead girl that hates me and a load of so-called doctors that couldn't care less if I lived or died!" I'm angry now.
"That's not true, Clara."
"Don't call me that! Don't act like you know me! You bitch, you know nothing! You don't know me and you don't... you don't care. N... nobody cares." I'm sobbing now; angry, furious, raging tears. I hate her. I hate her and it's burning, burning a hole in my stomach and it's swallowing me up hole I hate her and I want to hurt her, I want to rip her apart. I launch myself at her, scratching and biting, and she screams and then the nurses are back with their needles and their drugs.
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The San Francisco 49ers have suspended running back Brandon Jacobs for the final three games following a series of posts on social media sites addressing his lack of playing time, including one during the weekend saying he was ''on this team rotting away.'' The 49ers said Monday, about two hours after coach Jim Harbaugh's news conference, that Jacobs had been disciplined. Jacobs became increasingly verbal in his frustration via social media during the weekend over a lack of playing time. Harbaugh declined to address Jacobs' comments, even when asked whether Jacobs is still on the team. He said he was invoking his ''fifth amendment'' right. The 30-year-old Jacobs has five carries for 7 yards while being active for only two games with the NFC West-leading Niners (9-3-1). He spent his first seven NFL seasons with the New York Giants and has called this his ''worst'' year. --- Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll and http://twitter.com/AP-NFL
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Every household needs to have some amount of food in storage.
How much food to store is an individual decision that depends on your financial resources, storage area and other factors. Ideally, you need enough to feed your family for six months, but start with shorter goals, like one week, then two weeks and then a month — some kind of incremental plan won't bust the budget or throw you into panic buying that can easily lead to burnout and buyer's remorse.
Canned goods
Generally, commercially canned foods are good for two to five years from the date they were packed.
High acid food such as tomato sauce will not keep as long as a can of beans, for example.
Canned protein such as tuna, chicken, corned beef and even bacon (yes, you can now buy canned, cooked bacon) have a shelf life of five years or longer. Canned foods lose vitamins as time goes by, so you will want to rotate your food supply so you are using and replacing items before their "use by" dates.
White rice should be used within two years after opening, brown within six months as it has more protein.
You can extend the shelf life of white rice to 10 years or longer when properly sealed and stored.
You can count on all-purpose flour lasting well for three to six months in its sealed bag, up to one year in the refrigerator and longer if stored in a freezer.
Sugar is one of the few products that lasts indefinitely. The only problem it presents for cooks is that it can harden. For this reason, plan on sugar having a useful shelf life of about two years.
Vacuum sealer
One of the best ways to store anything, especially dry items in bulk, is in glass canning jars that have been vacuum sealed. I own a FoodSaver vacuum-sealing machine, which I wouldn't trade for anything.
I use it every day of my life. I have a supply of wide-mouth glass canning jars in varying sizes that I use to keep everything from chips to crackers and rice to flour fresh, with the use of the wide-mouth jar sealing accessory. Vacuum-sealed two-quart canning jars of white rice are good to go for at least 10 years. My vacuum sealer is one of the best investments I've ever made. I suggest you consider investing in one if you are serious about food preparedness.
It may require a little creativity on your part to find space for your new food reserves. Just keep in mind that most of us have space currently occupied by stuff we never use and really don't need.
Under the bed
If you have room under your beds, you can use shallow plastic containers to hold canned goods and sealed dry goods.
Walk in your closet, turn around and look above the door. This space is open in many closets and a great place to add a wire shelf for lighter foodstuffs. Be very careful as you don't want cans to roll off and land on your head.
Under stairs
That space under the stairs leading to your basement or second story may seem useless for its odd shape and lack of accessibility. But take a second look. With some simple shelves, this space just might be ideal for food storage.
Mary invites questions at firstname.lastname@example.com, or c/o Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance member website and the author of "Debt-Proof Living," released in 2014. To find out more about Mary and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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Prosecutor Pleasantly Surprised to Find There's a Law Against Fraud
Like a lot of people, I mostly subscribe to a model of financial regulation where (1) regulators write rules to prevent naughtiness, (2) bankers sit down and try to find ways around the rules, and (3) the bankers tend to be better at their part than the regulators are at theirs. There are various conventional explanations for Part 3, with a popular one being that there's more money in subverting regulations than in writing them.*
Another sort-of explanation is that the banking side of this game is a fundamentally creative endeavor: You sit down with a blank piece of paper and try to find a brand-new, never-before-seen way to do the things you want to do. The regulatory side is a fundamentally reactive one: You see what the bankers have come up with and then write some new rules to shut it down. So naturally the game looks like a series of wins for the bankers, with the regulators constantly trying to figure out and shut down whatever clever new stuff the bankers have cooked up.
I think that is useful background to help make sense of this DealBook story by Peter Lattman and Ben Protess about a Los Angeles federal prosecutor named Leon Weidman, who discovered, much to his and his colleagues' surprise, that there was already a law -- called the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 -- against some banking shenanigans. Otherwise it does not make much sense; there are sentences like this:
Mr. Weidman discovered Firrea in the early 1990s while thumbing through materials in his office's law library.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan were among the first to seize on Mr. Weidman's work. ... The office soon sent several prosecutors on a fact-finding mission to Los Angeles, where they met with Mr. Weidman to discuss the law.
The law is not supposed to be a surprise! You shouldn't need to go on a fact-finding mission to Los Angeles to learn what the law is! Especially if you're a prosecutor. If there's a law that nobody, not even the prosecutors charged with enforcing it, knows about, and that they can only find out about by going on a pilgrimage to meet the secret keeper of that law, then there's something wrong. Two things wrong: It undermines the rule of law generally, but also the deterrent value of that particular law.
So you may not be surprised to learn that there are some substantive objections to the Justice Department's current widespread use of Firrea, which defense attorneys say is overly aggressive and goes beyond the purposes for which the law was intended, though they would say that. My colleague Jonathan Weil pointed out a particularly silly fact about the current Firrea craze in February: the Justice Department's lawsuit against Standard & Poor's for mis-rating mortgage-backed securities was brought under Firrea, which requires that a bank be harmed. The banks that were harmed, in the government's theory, include Citigroup and Bank of America, which sold the mis-rated mortgage-backed securities. Weil "asked Justice Department officials to explain how the underwriter of a CDO could be defrauded by an S&P rating on the CDO it underwrote" and got an unsatisfying answer, suggesting that even those officials know that it's kind of a stretch.
But as Lattman and Protess report, judges have so far mostly sided with the Justice Department in its novel and aggressive uses of Firrea, so this one would seem to count as a win for regulators. And it's an unusual kind of win, one where the regulators used the sort of blank-sheet-of-paper, how-do-we-get-around-the-rules-to-do-what-we-want creativity that you more typically see on the other side. There may be good reason to worry about prosecutors creatively subverting the intent of the law, but the banks aren't really in much position to complain.
* Another is just, like, if you want to do a thing, there are generally a million economically equivalent ways to do that thing, each of which has a different name. So the regulator needs to write down a million names and say "don't do any of those things." The banker just needs to find the one name the regulator forgot to write down.
** Also that Weidman "lives in West Los Angeles with his wife, an artist, and their 95-pound Labradoodle," which is a big labradoodle. That's like three of my wheaten terrier, who is often mistaken for a labradoodle and who is now making her first appearance on Bloomberg View, say hi to her everyone. Your theory of financial regulation won't help you with the labradoodle though.
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I saw Zuri leave out of the corner of my eye but I was more worried about Midnight, I turned my attention back to what was happening in front of me. I felt something tug at the back of my mind but I ignored it and frowned, I suddenly felt dizzy. I over balanced and had to take a step back, I turned around the corner and fell against the wall trying to stop the swirling mass in front of me.
When the dizziness stopped I was no longer sitting in the corridor, I realized someone had forcefully put me into a set dream state. I was now in a dream.
I looked around me, the whole place had a purple tinge to it and the grass was an orange colour. There was no moon or sun and the trees reached out like hands of the damned trying to claim a body of their own.
"A witches dream" I muttered to myself instantly smelling Corvina, I looked up and there she was standing in front of me. I growled, tensing my muscles ready to rip her throat out, I felt my tails brush against something and I glanced behind me to see a swirling mass of darkness.
Miss me? I couldn't move, I couldn't say anything, I was frozen to the spot. He wasn't meant to be here, he couldn't be here! Corvina chuckled behind me, I spun round,
"What do you want?" I snarled, my whole body shaking from fear,
Do I not get a hello then? Shadow said in my mind,
"Get. Out. Of. My. Head!" I bit at each word, Corvina smile widened.
"So I was right. Your hiding something big from everyone. I wonder what the others said." I froze, she gave me a look and laughed.
"You haven't told them have you? You must have told Midnight?" I didn't say anything, I was paralyzed.
"You haven't told Midnight? Who else knows? That Pixie friend of yours" She paused, "Oh wait! The Pixie thought that he, or is it Shadow? Was gone from your essence but you knew right? Sure he couldn't control you or even talk in your mind but his presence was still in you."
So is that Bitch of a Pixie still alive? Shadow said, I growled and ignored him, watching the witches every move.
"I wonder what the others would say if I told them who you really are? Or more importantly... what."
She wouldn't... she couldn't tell them!!
"You can't!" I yelled, I charged at her but she just flicked her wrist and I was thrown backwards. I fell into my human form and she came over to me, she waved her hand and muttered something under her breath. I felt my body being pulled up wards and I was now floating in the air, a few inches above the ground, unable to move.
"I can! But..." She mused, "I think I will leave you with a gift." She smiled coldly and again whispered something under her breath, a red hot pain ran through my arm and I yelled in pain. I looked down at my still throbbing arm and saw a symbol burnt in to my flesh, it was a spiral with a line through it, just below my wrist on the underside of my arm.
I could feel Shadow in me, I could feel him in me again. He was a part of me again, he was in my mind!
"No! No!" I yelled trying to lash out at the witch who stood calmly in front of me.
"Just a gift. Let's see what happens"
I was back in the corridor, maybe it didn't happen. I got up slowly clutching my head, I put a hand on the wall and glanced round the corner. It was like I hadn't left, please let it have been a dream.
Sorry boy but it wasn't a dream. I'm back. I swear he was smiling at me, I gasped to myself and took my hand away from my head, looking at it. The symbol was still there, glaring at me and starting my nightmare all over again.
Damien looked up and glanced my way, I turned back round the corner and stumbled back to my room. I felt numb inside, I knew he was still there but at least he couldn't do anything but that witch had brought him back. My thoughts were no longer my own and neither were my dreams.
I locked the door behind me and walked over to the bathroom, Shadow was still in my mind, taunting me. I leaned down heavily on the basin and looked up at the mirror. He was there, a hazy shadow standing just behind my right shoulder,
Just like old times right? Remember what you did? I tried to stop it but I couldn't, screaming faces came back to me, crying at the pain I caused them. I cried out and hit the mirror, glass shattered beneath my fist, tearing my hand and arm. Blood dripped down from the cuts and my arm fell to my side, numb with pain. I sat down on the floor and stared at nothing, faces filled my minds eye, faces that screamed at me in hate. The faces if the creatures I had killed,
"No... I'm sorry... please no" I sobbed to myself, drawing myself into a tight ball, tears falling down my face. My arm was useless, I couldn't feel it and it just sat limply. After a while I got up and went to the nurses office, I avoided my friends, I couldn't face them, they couldn't find out.
I didn't say anything as the nurse scolded me and removed the glass from my arm, the pain soon came back in rolling waves of agony but nothing could get rid of the the dull throb in my arm from where the symbol was burnt into my flesh. The nurse wrapped a bandage around my arm and told me not to move it or use it otherwise the bleeding would start again and I may cause the nerves to become permanently damaged. She wanted me to stay in the ward but I said no, saying that I wanted to go clean up the glass. She gave me a worried look as I left the ward. I grabbed another bandage from the shelf and wrapped it around my other arm to cover up the symbol.
Who's Midnight then? A blood sucking monster? I froze and growled,
"She's not a monster!"
"Who's not?" I turned round, Midnight was looking up at me smiling. I looked away, the symbol throbbed harder,
"Where did you go? I was worried that something had happened. Hey Mazany is everything ok?" I couldn't look at her,
She's pretty. Bad things can happen to pretty girls don't you agree? I caught my breath,
"Uh, I just felt a bit dizzy." I said quietly. Midnight looked at me puzzled and noticed my arms,
"Oh My God! What happened Mazany? Are you ok?" She reached out a hand to touch me but I flinched and back away slowly.
"I'm sorry... I don't feel well. I think I'm going to go to bed." I turned and left leaving Midnight standing alone in the hall. I didn't go to lessons the next day, I didn't see anyone.


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The past decade and a half has seen the rapid emergence of a new material class known as photonic crystals (PCs), structures that exhibit 1, 2, or 3, dimensional periodicity of their dielectric constant, resulting in a modification of the dispersion characteristics from the normal w = vk relationship found in isotropic materials. Several remarkable electromagnetic phenomenon result, including the formation of photonic band gaps (PBGs), which are specific energy ranges where electromagnetic wave propagation is forbidden, and the existence of energies where the photon group velocity is slowed drastically from its normal value. The resulting modification of a materials photonic band structure allows unprecedented control of light, resulting in phenomena such as self-collimation, and spontaneous emission modification or lasing threshold reduction through either band edge effects (low group velocity) or microcavity defect incorporation. PCs for operation at visible wavelengths are difficult to form due to the need for nanoscale fabrication techniques. The research described focused on the fabrication of photonic crystal phosphors by using the infiltration and subsequent removal of self-assembled opal templates to make inverted opal-based photonic crystals. This thesis shows the advantages that atomic layer deposition (ALD) has as an important method for use in photonic crystal fabrication, and highlights the exciting results of use of ALD to fabricate luminescent ZnS:Mn and optically inactive titania inverse opals, as well as ZnS:Mntitania luminescent composite inverse opals.


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I've always been a stranger to this world around me
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So to speak
With an ego filled beyond capacity
From countless times trying to understand everyone at once
Trying to find a solution very few can believe exists
My heart is flowing with inflated sympathy
And most of the time, that beat never takes a break
Your metallic war chimes against the wind that is my voice
That abrasive, unrelenting wind
And call me crazy for my opinions, go ahead
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My glass is not half filled, half empty, or somewhere else in between
Its stained, cracked, and still fulfilling its purpose
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So why is it so easy for you to label things as 'this' or 'that'?
Why is everything a one way street with you?
And why don't you tell me what happens when you're wrong?
Because there's no right in ignorance and assumption
Why don't you take a look at all of these glasses in the hands of aching people
And tell me what state they're in.
Tell me, if you believe those hands are feeling lucky.
Tell me, do you really think 'it is what it is'?
Don't give me your philosophy on how this life works
Don't try to convince me to join your blindside
You have no side, only a mouthpiece for chanting the notes of a broken record
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I'm done
With people like you,
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I'm done
With your slithering tongue taunting us from behind a curtain
With your consistent use of Good like a tool for engineered deprivation
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I'm a stranger in these parts
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My imaginings of this moment could not compare. I was free as a bird. The heat between us was so passionate I was worried the sheets would catch alight and the whole building would burn in flames. And even then we would not notice. I didn't care, didn't care that this was not the day we had wanted to wait for. It was the right time.
I lay looking up at the ceiling, out of breath and covered in glistening sweat and the smell of him. The smell of Evan. Oh how I breathed it in like it was my life's breath. When my breathing had settled I rolled over and smiled at him, lying in his arms.
"That was incredible." I whispered, running my hands over the muscles of his chest.It rose and fell softly. He was asleep. My smile widened, looking at his soft eyes. He was mine.
I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I knew, the comfort beneath me fell away and I awoke sprawling, in shock, on my bed.
"What the...?" I cried, looking round. Evan was standing at the side of the bed, gazing at me in horror. I looked down at myself, twisting and turning to see what was wrong. My stars were brighter today, and they were itching like crazy now that I was fully aware of them, but nothing seemed odd.I looked back up at him. "Evan? What's wrong?"
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"What do you mean?"
"What happened? Why are we...?" He seemed to lose the ability to speak, instead gesturing wildly at our naked bodies.
"What are you talking about? I thought you enjoyed last night? I thought... don't you remember?" I asked, feeling a lump growing in y throat and water springing to my eyes. He seemed to have no recollection of the most amazing night of my life. And what I hoped had been the most amazing night of his as well.
"Remember...?" His brow furrowed and he stood, thinking. "I remember Alex...."
"Alex? What happened with Alex? Why can't you remember?" I felt a tear slide down my cheek.


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I walked into my room Azo's words burning in my ears. "Powers?" I said out loud to the silence of the room. The thought just seemed too big to comprehend. If I had powers wouldn't I have figured it out by now?
I crossed the room and pushed back the blue curtains covering the window. The sun was starting to peek it's shiny head over the trees and I knew that I probably wasn't going to get much more sleep tonight. The night was over and the day was starting to begin. I turned to see the easel next to me, the paints seemed to be calling my name. I hadn't done done any painting in nearly four years. After the death of my sister, I had promised to never paint again. It had always been her that had encouraged me to paint, her who had seen the greatness of it, when she was gone, the desire left with me. Yet the desire was great within me tonight. I would paint to honor her memory.
I considered painting the sunrise but that sounded just a little too cliche to me. I thought of my dream from the night before. The one with the puppy, samari warrior and elvin maiden. I wasn't sure why those things were still in my mind after all that had happened but since they were I thought they would make good subjects for my artwork.
I painted until the sun had risen completly above the trees. The puppy had been finished hours ago and I just had a couple more finishing touches left on my warrior and maiden before the painting would be complete. Maybe I would hang it in the living room, those walls needed some sprucing up.
There was a knock on my door and Azurite came in. "Hey we're all going downstairs to get some breakfast seeing how most of us can't sleep after all the excitement last night." I nodded, focusing my attention back on my painting. Azurite came over to stand next to me. "Wow that is really good, did you do that?"
"Yeah, I couldn't sleep and this blank canvas was calling my name." I put down my brush and wiped the paint off my hands, sitting back to look at it. "It's not finished yet though." I said pointing at the maiden, one of her hands was unfinished and her pointed ear was crooked. "I'll fix it later." I said standing up and following Az out of the room.
We joined the rest of the teenagers in the kitchen and I noticed that Carmine wasn't there probably still sleeping I thought. The teenagers were all sitting around the table and digging into a plate full of pancakes. Myrtle was standing by the stove, covered with flour with another plate in her hand, a smile stretching from ear to ear. "Glad someone finally likes my cooking," she said placeing the plate on the table, "My family almost never seems to appreciate it."
I sat down at the table grabbing a couple pancakes and plopping them down on my plate and lathering them in syrup. I ate my food quietly listening as the kids discussed the events from last night, especially Azo, who wouldn't shut up about his ability to teleport. "-I was just sitting in my bed wishing for water when I found myself in the kitchen." He said for the thousandth time. "I decided I wanted to go to the Bahama's but when I tried I bumped into this forcefield."
"Wait what?" I hadn't heard this part of the story before.
"Yeah there's some kind of a forcefield around the island, we can't leave."
"Why didn't you say this before,"
"I was going to," he shot back defensivly, "but there was too much other things going on last night, I didn't get the chance."
"You mean we're stuck here?" Wisteria said from where she sat next to Azurite, they had both been quieter than usual all through breakfast, maybe the whole power thing was making them as uncomfortable as it was making me.
"Yes Wisteria," I said, "It sounds like we're stuck here."
Just then the door to the kitchen burst open and there stood Carmine, holding a small dog in her arms and looking very, very angry. "Would you guys mind telling me where on earth this dog came from and what he was doing in my room?"


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"The sadism of the Satyxis is a legend among those who sail the waters of the Broken Coast. But even among the depraved Satyxis are a few whose appetites for atrocity are greater than their sisters. The Blood Witches work their dark magic through blighted ritual blades known as Blood Razors. Those who fall to a Blood Witchs knife may be burst into a lingering crimson mist or have their vitality turned against their fellows in a lash of psychical death energy."
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She can drag me to hell any day
Spectacular! She makes a wonderful mix of Demon and Pirate, and her sword is brilliant! Ragged tears in the tabard, wild hair, and freaking huge horns! Awesome job, I'll be looking for her on the battlefield!
forgive my ignorance, but are these guys & gals demons? satyrs?
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The Phillies have long held an interest in Cody Ross and have amped up their efforts to sign him in the wake of Josh Hamilton's deal with the Angels. We discussed Ross's numbers last week and found that he is really little more than a marginal upgrade over the inexpensive John Mayberry and Nate Schierholtz platoon the Phillies could have used. Ross has some value but the advantages of using him over that platoon — saving a roster spot and adding perhaps a smidgen more consistency at the position — were not worth the additional $7-$10 million per year the Phillies would pay. Ross could help the Phillies on a reasonable contract but he simply is not worth a three-year deal in the $24-$36 million range he is seeking. If the Phillies are not going to make a major move, like signing Nick Swisher or trading for Mark Trumbo, they are better off sticking with some combo of Mayberry, Darin Ruf and Laynce Nix than spending what they figure to spend on Ross. If they are dead-set on Ross, or the idea of Ross and what he brings to the table, there are cheaper alternatives: Scott Hairston, who is currently a free agent, and the aforementioned Nix, who is already on the Phillies 2013 roster at less than $2 million. Both Hairston and Nix have similar skill-sets to Ross and have been similarly valuable over the last three seasons. Both would also enable the Phillies to utilize what they like about Ross without sacrificing financial flexibility now and into the future. Let's look at some numbers since they are more illustrative of the point than my verbage. From 2010-12, here are the overall numbers of Ross, Hairston and Nix: Ross: .260/.324/.434, 8.2% BB, 22.2% K, .174 ISO, .330 wOBA, 104 wRC+ Nix: .260/.316/.444, 7.6% BB, 24.7% K, .184 ISO, .329 wOBA, 104 wRC+ Hairston: .239/.298/.440, 6.9% BB, 21.2% K, .201 ISO, .320 wOBA, 103 wRC+ Again we see some very similar statistics. The wRC+ metric is most telling as it normalizes for league and park. By wRC+, all three players have been virtually identical offensive performers over the last three seasons. Ross walks a bit more than both but has the lowest power marks. He has also logged about twice as many PAs and has faced same-handed pitching more often. Both Nix and Hairston have primarily faced opposite-handed pitchers. This isn't an indictment against them in any way. If anything, their managers should get points for using them more correctly by masking their faults and maximizing their strengths. The larger sample of information Ross has accrued lends itself to increased confidence in his true talent level. But, again, that increased confidence isn't worth the premium the Phillies would pay over using Nix and Mayberry in a platoon or signing Hairston. All three players have the same basic attributes: they hit for power, are by no means OBP wunderkinds, and struggle against same-handed pitching. In looking at the above numbers it's hard to justify paying Ross the $8-$10 million per year he figures to get when Hairston is going to end up in the 2/$10 or 3/$12 vicinity. Their numbers are very similar but the major difference here is perception. Simply put, teams view Hairston concretely as a platoon player, while some mistakenly still see Ross as a potential everyday starter. While he isn't atrocious against right-handed pitchers, his 94 wRC+ against them over the last three years is well below average. And that isn't optimal when righties throw approximately 70% of the pitches in a season. If you're interested in more recent numbers, below is the same breakdown of the above trio over the last two years. I'm more fond of three-year samples because it takes a while to truly measure a player's talent level, but consider these numbers for the sake of discussion: Ross: .254/.326/.446, 9.2% BB, 22.8% K, .192 ISO, .334 wOBA, 109 wRC+ Nix: .249/.303/.441, 7.3% BB, 25.9% K, .192 ISO, .322 wOBA, 101 wRC+ Hairston: .255/.300/.495, 5.5% BB, 21.5% K, .240 ISO, .340 wOBA, 116 wRC+ Hairston was better on offense even after adjusting for league and park. Ross seemingly offers the best combination of skills of the group but that was never really up for debate. Ross is a better player than both Nix and Hairston. He just isn't that much better to merit a far more substantial commitment. With Nix on the roster and Hairston both available and affordable, signing Ross is spending money because it's there instead of truly upgrading the team in a meaningful way. With Ross as an everyday starter, the Phillies are probably an 86-87 win team that lacks flexibility to make a deadline deal. Apologies if this feels like an excessive hammering home of the point, but my posts today and last week were designed to show that there are more cost-effective options available to signing Ross. He is a decent player but he will cost more than he is worth. Whether it's a combo of Nix, Mayberry and Ruf, or the use of Hairston in a platoon, the Phillies can get basically get 85% of Ross for 50% or less of the price. The Phillies can replicate what Ross embodies without making the lucrative investment into the man, himself, and that's crucial for a team with this many question marks.
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Susan Lynn Baughman, 54, of Sterling and longtime resident of Akron, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer on Sunday, April 24, 2011, at the North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley. Visitation was from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, at Chaney-Reager Funeral Home. Funeral services were at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 28, at Faith United Methodist Church, with the Reverend Vivian Hiestand and Deacon John Wehrman officiating. Interment was at Riverside Cemetery.
Susan (Mumm) Baughman was born Dec. 18, 1956, in Yuma to Dennis and Arnitta Mumm. On Aug. 4, 1974, Susan married her high school sweetheart, Eddie Baughman. She graduated from Yuma High School in 1975. They were blessed with three children, Allison, Ryan and Shannon.
Eddie and Susan lived in Platner for five years before moving to Akron in 1980. Susan had a home daycare so she could stay at home with her children.
She was a Story Hour coordinator, Girl Scout leader and taught Sunday school for 30 years. She was also active in the Washington County Extension Homemakers. In 1990-1992, she was recognized as the Western Area Region Young Homemaker. She was the superintendent of the Home Economics building for the Washington County Fair. Susan was also elected for a four-year term as an Akron city council member from 1996-2000.
In 1992, Susan was hired with the United States Post Office and has worked in numerous post offices. Her potential and dedication was recognized when she became postmaster of Hillrose. In 2006, she was promoted to the postmaster of Akron. She then transferred as the Iliff postmaster in 2009.
Susan has been a very active member to the Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Morgan Chapter. She has held various leadership positions throughout the organization. Most recently, she was elected as the corresponding secretary for the Colorado State Society. Additionally, she was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary.
The time she spent with her grandchildren, family and friends was cherished. She really enjoyed researching her lineage with genealogy. She was also very artistic and enjoyed crafts, counted cross-stitching and painting.
Susan is survived by her husband, Eddie Baughman of Sterling; parents, Dennis and Arnitta Mumm of Yuma; daughters, Allison Boyes and husband Mike of Wray and Shannon Brady and husband Mark of Colorado Springs; son, Ryan Baughman of Colorado Springs; sisters, Linda Johnson and husband Rick of Gays Mills, Wis., and Vicky Glanz and husband Bill of Otis; grand-children, Brittany Baughman, Elizabeth Boyes and Kaden Brady.
She was preceded in death by her in-laws, Ralph and Hazel Baughman; and sister-in-law, Betty Jane Sands.
Memorial donations in honor of Susan may be made to the Faith United Methodist Church of Sterling, Daughters of the American Revolution Fort Morgan Chapter or the American Cancer Society.
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Basically, a girls little sister makes her a puzzle with all of the family members on it. When all of them except for the one of the girl (narrator) goes missing, so does her family. She must find their pieces to reunite her family.
I could've sworn I saw someone following me on my way home from school. It couldn't be someone who lives nearby, because, nobody lives nearby. My house is down a long path in the woods. It's almost at the edge of town. I can't think of any reason that I would see someone. In an attempt to calm my nerves, I tell myself that it was just a deer.
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It was right at the end of my final practice session before the First Test that the ball came up off a length and hit me on the left wrist. Graham Gooch, England's batting coach, was using the side-arm – the piece of kit he uses to give us throw-downs in the nets – and, in the last minute of practice, I caught one.
I was confident I would be OK, but you can't take any chances, so Mark Weatherspoon, one of the team doctors, bandaged the wrist and then it was off to hospital with him and our physio Ben Langley to get it X-rayed.
Fortunately, the X-rays showed there had been no fracture, and under those circumstances, I'll always be willing to play in a Test match.
Since I broke a bone in my foot while fielding during a one-day international against Bangladesh in July 2010, I've had a good idea of what's serious and what isn't. Even after I was struck, I was able to move my hand and the pain didn't feel anything like as bad as it did in that Bangladesh game, so I was confident from the beginning that it wouldn't be serious.
While at the hospital, I had a chance to read an article about Saeed Ajmal, the Pakistan off-spinner, and his new delivery, which they're calling the "teesra". We'd seen some footage of a recent one-day match against Sri Lanka, where the commentators picked up on a different ball he seemed to be bowling, and we've got to be aware of these things because we don't want to be surprised by them.
If he has developed another delivery, though, that's brilliant. Let's take it on. Let's look forward to that challenge, because if he's got three different deliveries and you still score runs against him, then what a plus that is for the team. He was the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket in 2011, and I've played against Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne, so I know how good batsmen feel when they can look back at the end of a series and know they've scored runs against that class of bowler. That's the challenge for our batsmen in these three Tests.
What we can't do, though, is get caught up in wondering what delivery he's just bowled, because that way, you stop focusing on scoring runs. I'm sure all the close fielders will be shouting about it, and there is a lot that goes on before Test series where spinners try to create a bit of mystery by talking about new deliveries. Warne used to do it all the time.
It's also important that people remember this series for the cricket after the spot-fixing scandal at Lord's in August 2010. We all want to put a line under what happened and we've got a great opportunity to do that. We have a responsibility to play the game right. I'm sure we'll both play it hard and but make sure nothing crosses the line and that the headlines are about cricket.
We got to the top of the ICC Test rankings last year, but the hardest part is to stay there, and the challenge now is for us still to be here in a year's time. That's important. People are going to target us now and think their biggest Test series is the one against England, and that is going to be a bit different. There is so much more for us to achieve, and one of those things is to play better on the subcontinent and in subcontinental conditions, which is what we're likely to find during these three Tests in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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