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October 1999 News
|Greeting from the Chair
I would like to welcome Literature colleagues, students, and staff as we begin the academic year 1999-2000. I look forward to continuing our discussions of the challenges and opportunities facing us in the Humanities, generally, and in international comparative literature study, particularly, at a new century's beginning.
We have two new faculty members this year: Daphne Brooks, Assistant Professor of American and African American Literature, and Richard Cohen, Assistant Professor of South Asian Religious Literatures. Please join me in welcoming them to our Department.
I am also pleased to announce that the Program for the Study of Religion is now housed within the Department. The offices of the Program and its Director, Arthur Droge, have moved to the third floor of the Literature Building. The Program Coordinator, Marie Sidney, has joined our staff.
Faculty recruitment will be one of our main efforts this year. I am happy to report that the FTEs for replacement and new positions that I described last Spring were approved during the summer months. Recruitment is now underway for four ladder-rank faculty positions: in Comparative Asian Literature and Culture, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture, 20th c. African American Literature and Culture, and African American Theatre/ Cinema/Performance (this latter will be a joint appointment with the Department of Theatre and Dance.) Candidates will be visiting the campus in December, January, and February. I thank you in advance for your interested participation in these searches.
I hope that all of you had a pleasant and productive summer, and I wish you a successful academic year.
Lisa Lowe
Chair -- Lisa Lowe
Daphne A. Brooks (Ph.D., English,
UCLA), Assistant Professor of American and African American Literature: African American
Literature and Culture; Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture; Black Feminist
Criticism and Theory; Performance Studies; Cultural Studies; Popular Music Studies.
Professor Brooks has completed a book manuscript on the convergence of African American
travel, threatre and political activism in the period prior to and following the U.S.
Civil War (1853-1903). She is the recipient of Ford Foundation and Mellon dissertation
fellowships, served as a Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, and
is joining the Department after two years at UC Berkeley on a UC President's Postdoctoral
Fellowship. Her new research addresses the role of photography in the formation of
nineteenth-century African American national identity.
Richard S. Cohen (Ph.D., Asian Languages and Culture, University of Michigan), Assistant Professor of South Asian Religious Literatures: Buddhism; Religiosity in South Asia; Theory in the Study of Religion. Professor Cohen has published essays in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and in the History of Religions. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on the complex culture of Buddhism at the Ajanta Caves in India. Professor Cohen will teach courses in the Program for the Study of Religion as well as in the Department of Literature.
In Memoriam
Sherley Anne Williams
Professor Sherley Anne Williams passed away on July 6, 1999, after an intense and courageous struggle with cancer.
Sherley Anne Williams was a charismatic and inspirational teacher, nationally and internationally recognized as a writer of fiction, drama, and poetry. Her first book of poetry, THE PEACOCK POEMS (1975) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award; she won an Emmy Award for a television performance of poems from her second poetry book, SOMEONE SWEET ANGEL CHILE (1982), another National Book Award nominee. Her novel DESSA ROSE (1986), translated into German, Dutch, French and reprinted in a British edition, accorded her a place of prestige as a novelist in African American literature. She wrote two children's books, WORKING COTTON (1992), winner of the Caldecott Award and Coretta Scott King Book Award, and the recently published GIRLS TOGETHER. She is also the author of GIVE BIRTH TO BRIGHTNESS, a 1972 scholarly study of the hero in modern African American literature.
Sherley Anne Williams was a most important presence among us, as a colleague, teacher, creative writer, friend, and former department chair. She joined UCSD's Literature Department in 1973, received tenure in 1975, and served as chair from 1977 to 1980. She is mourned and is dearly remembered.
Sherley is survived by her son, Malcolm, three grandchildren, a sister and three nieces.
The Literature Department invites members of the campus community and the public to a memorial service on Thursday, October 21, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre.
Lisa Lowe, Chair
Marie Sidney, Coordinator for the Program for the Study of Religion, joined the staff of the Department of Literature effective September 1, 1999, the date the Program became officially housed in the Department. She brings with her several years of experience at UCSD: at AMES, the Department of Physics, University Centers, and, since October 1998, at the Program for the Study of Religion. Marie Sidney and the Program for the Study of Religion are located in Room 3323 of the Literature Building (534-8849; firstname.lastname@example.com).
María del Mar Alberca-García, Associate
in Literature
Jennifer S. Burton, Lecturer
Oscar Campomanes, Lecturer
Sunny Jung, Lecturer
Thomas A. Nelson, Visiting
Kristi M. Wilson, Lecturer
Jennifer S. Burton, Visiting Scholar through May 2000, under the sponsorship of Michael Davidson. Dr. Burton was a 1997-98 DuBois Fellow at Harvard University, and she received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Harvard in 1997.
Hyo Duk Lee, Visiting Scholar through
March 2000, under the sponsorship of Lisa Lowe. Professor Lee completed his M.A. in
Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies at the University of Tokyo in 1995. Last year, he was
affiliated with the East Asian Institute at Columbia, and, upon leaving San Diego, he will
assume a position as Associate Professor at the University of Shizuoka for Culture and
Alain J.-J. Cohen, "Lynch's Lost
Highway. A Postmodern Whodunnit," Collection La Licorne (Hors
Série VIII) Les Récits Policiers au Cinéma/Whodunnits (1999): 205-224.
Susan Kalter, "The Last of the
Mohicans as Contemporary Theory: James Fenimore Cooper's Philosophy of
Language," James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers 11 (August 1999): 1-13.
Andriana De Marchi Gherini has been awarded a 1999-2000 UCSD Instructional Improvement Grant
in support of her proposal to update the Italian Media Library.
Demian Pritchard has been awarded a UC
President's Dissertation Fellowship for the 1999-2000 academic year.
The following graduate students successfully completed qualifying examinations, comprehensive examinations, or defenses during late Spring and Summer 1999:
Spring 1999 (continued from June Newsletter)
Summer 1999
Dr. IGNACIO M. GARCIA, Brigham Young
Advice on how to write a job letter and construct a curriculum vitae For all graduate
students thinking about going on the market this fall Tuesday, October 19, 4:00 -
6:00 p.m. in the deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building A second job market
workshop, focusing on the interview, will be scheduled later in the quarter.
BEYOND BABEL: COMMON LANGUAGE, COMMON DIFFERENCES, COMMON GROUND Western Humanities Alliance, 18th Annual Conference, UCSD Price Center, October 14, 15, 16, 1999
In recent decades the humanities and the social sciences have made a remarkable effort to question their own centrality and the hegemony of their own culture. Today, the intellectual aim is no longer about how to go from the center to the periphery, but to understand how margins touch margins, differences meet differences. We have to think in terms of open multiplicity and a virtually unlimited network of local relations; by doing so we necessarily presuppose or produce a common language and a common ground. We have to understand how the processes of crossing and blending all aspects of different cultures and models of knowledge are not only encounters with "others," but are generating new cultures, new forms and new disciplines.
This colloquium, organized by Marcel Hénaff, will focus more specifically on the following four areas of investigation: (1) Hybridization of Cultures/Cultures of Hybridization, with a plenary session lecture by Aihwa Ong, UC Berkeley, Anthropology; (2) Crossing of Disciplines and of Models of Knowledge, with a plenary session lecture by Paul Rabinow, UC Berkeley, Anthropology; (3) Mixtures of Artistic Forms, with a plenary session lecture by Charles Bernstein, SUNY Buffalo, Writing Program; and (4) Integration of Cognitive Processes, with a plenary session lecture by Mark Turner, University of Maryland, English and Cognitive Science. The main keynote speaker for the conference will be Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University, Cognitive Science.
The "Beyond Babel" Conference is open to the public and admission is free.
For additional information contact firstname.lastname@example.com
Research Grants (Academic Senate Committee on Research)
2000-2001 Seminar Proposals. The seminar program supports events smaller in scale, focusing on a research problem within a discipline. An inter-disciplinary discussion on a seminar scale would also be appropriate. Grants range from $3,000 to $5,000, with the expectation of a 50% match from other sources. Proposals must be received by October 15, 1999.
2001-2002 Research Group Proposals. HRI is currently inviting proposals for research groups to be in residence in Irvine during 2001-2002. Research groups bring together scholars to work in collaboration on interdisciplinary topics of special significance. Proposals must be received by December 15, 1999. HRI will host a research group proposal development workshop on October 22, 1999, that all interested UC faculty are eligible to attend. Space limitations restrict the workshop to the first 25 faculty to fax (949-824-2115) their reservation.
For further information contact (949) 824-8177, firstname.lastname@example.com. Proposers are
encouraged to discuss their ideas both with the HRI Director and with their campus
representatives on the Advisory Committee.
Information on Graduate Programs
Each Fall Quarter, the Department receives numerous flyers and brochures describing graduate programs at other institutions in Literature and related fields. These materials, organized by discipline, are available for review in the Undergraduate Program Office (see Tiffany Larsen). Undergraduates interested in graduate studies in Literature at UCSD should see Susie Melad in the Graduate Program Office.


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You'll find two HDMI inputs and one output to lend a hand with the above and allow you to connect other sources to take advantage of the LG's amplification and speakers.
The iPod dock is joined on the exhaustive list of features by an AM/FM receiver. There's an Ethernet connection, too, flagged up by the YouTube button on the home menu that gives you direct access to streaming content using your home network. You can also access BD-Live content, once you're connected.
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The main unit itself is fairly chunky, but considering the functionality that's packed inside we can cut it some slack.
The speakers are a little more lithe, with two tall, champagne-flute-style floorstanders at the front, a small, dedicated centre channel, two compact rear satellite speakers and a block of a sub. We'd be lying if we said they felt utterly infallible, but build quality is OK and they look decent from a distance.
Dolby Digital True HD soundtracks can be a mixed bag. The subwoofer certainly gets involved, and even after it's turned down a notch or two it's still quite woolly and pedestrian.
Nevertheless, there's certainly plenty of weight and power when required, and the system has no problem filling the room with fairly detailed sound – though cohesion between the floorstanders and rears could be better.
Good pictures
Moving pictures look good, too, with only a slight smear to motion during the most frantic of action scenes, while upscaled DVD is stable and insightful as well.
There's plenty to like here, not least in terms of the functionality and connectivity. There are holes, albeit small, to be found in the level of performance, but this remains a tempting proposition for a giant leap into HD home cinema.

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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by dcjules, Jan 6, 2013.
Same knee. The only blessing is that he's 22 years old still.
Totally agree.
I can't believe how little airtime he gets compared to RG3, yet his stats are so similar.
Pretty sweet 3rd rounder.
I don't know how much difference age makes when you replace an ACL that has already been replaced.
I had mine replaced at 21 and it was never the same. I can't imagine having that same surgery twice.


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In the movie—which is based on a Guy De Maupassant novel and also stars Uma Thurman and Christina Ricci—R-Pattz plays Georges Duroy, a corrupt journalist who claws his way to the top by bedding well-off women.
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Try to be more specific when the vehicle makes the creaking noise. Let me know if the creaking is from the front or rear, when turning or not, if it changes with vehicle speed like a rotation sound. Let me know how many miles, if the rear u joints have been replaced or if the front lower ball joints have been replaced. Let me know if this is 4x2 or 4x4. Common for the rear drive shaft u joints to make the squeak/creaking noise if noise is from the back. Front lower ball joints can cause a noise when turning.
These can have the rear airbags leak which can be expensive. You can spray around the lines and rear airbags with soapy water and look for bubbles.
Lets start here, let me know what you find
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Ok, I'll try be be more specific, but I'm not a guy so it will be hard. To my knowledge the rear u joints nor front lower ball joints have been replaced. My husband is working out of state, so the soninlaw is the one I go to for car advice. It's a 4x2 with 203,000 miles, runs great. Had the fuel pump replaced last fall and some a/c work done this month. That's all it's needed. The noise when I turn into my garage is from the front , the general creaking/groaning noise that I was told was due to bad shocks sounds like it's coming from the middle to front of the truck. It happens all the time, but is especially loud when I drive over speed bumps, uneven pavement etc. It really sounds like a delivery truck coming down the road. As for the rear end, if the problem is an expensive one to fix, will it hurt the vehicle to not fix it as long as the compressor pumps the back end up when I turn it on? I really don't want to put alot more money into it bc of the miles, but it's been a really great vehicle. Thx Laura
You are welcome Laura.
The noise sounds like it could be from front suspension. I would suspect the lower ball joints(most common) but could be from the upper ball joints too.
sway bar links usually just knock or rattle. I try to isolate the noise by spraying some lubricant like lithium or Teflon spray grease.
for the ball joints I use a small pick and poke a hole in the ball joint boot. Original ball joints do have grease fittings, if there are grease fittings we could try to add grease.
The spray grease usually comes with a red straw, put the straw on the can and then in the hole you make in the boot and spray.
If any of the ball joints are dry this usually will quiet it down enough to confirm the cause of the noise.
I try to isolate what side and then spray one at a time and then test drive. we can spray the sway bar links too.
They do make conversion kits to change over from air ride in the rear to coil springs and shocks.


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note McDarren Being extremely paranoid, I needed a nick that would adequately disguise my true identity. So I came up with the rather cunning plan of prefixing my real name with the letters "Mc" :)
And the real story is that Darren is a pretty boring and common name, so I'm forever running into nick collisons whenever I try to choose it as a nick|handle. So I usually fall back on McDarren or MrDarren or something similar.
The odd thing is that Darren is not (yet) taken on PM. I have no idea why I didn't use it - perhaps I just assumed that it would have already been taken. *shrug* 110166 110166


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Dear all,
recently our long time chair Curt Arnold has expressed his wish to step down as a chair. The PMC has then decided to recommend me for this role. Yesterday the ASF board has confirmed this change and as of now I have become the new chair of this project.
I would like take the chance to thank the PMC for their trust. In addition i would like to give a big THANK YOU to Curt who was into that role for such a long time. You put much work into Apache Logging Services, even when there were times at which the future of the overall project was not so bright. Now, with new committers in log4php, log4net and log4j and an approaching major overhaul of log4j we still have hands full to do, but we hopefully face easier times. I am convinced, without you this new fresh breath at Logging would not have been possible, because we would find our pages in the attic.
I wish you all well for your well deserved "break" as a chair.
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I already tried to follow a couple tutorials i found around here and there, and all of them asked to partition my mac with bootcamp and then instal rEFIt, but this isn't possible on LION since when i try to partition my HD it asks for a Windows Installation disk..
What i did until now is, partitioned with disk utility my HD with success and now i have two partitions with around 250gb each, the one i'm using for mac is in HFS+ as usual and the other in FAT but it's empty.
I managed to install rEFIt too and i can boot on it with no problem.
I Burned a CD with the new backtrack 5rc1 iso GNOME and i can't seen to boot from it, when i boot on rEFIt it gives me two main choices, that is to boot on the OSX LION or in the "Legacy OS from HD" which i tried to choose and i just have to reboot my mac to boot on mac again, since nothing happens.
My main config is:
MacBookPro5,2 (17-inch, Mid 2009)
Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 512 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
Well, any thoughts on that, because i really would like to run Backtrack native on my mac because i don't have any flash-drive?
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Not even the district attorney gets excused from a summons for jury duty.
That's why Danny Craig, the top prosecutor for the Augusta Judicial Circuit, could be seen in civil court this week fulfilling his civic duty.
Mr. Craig reported bright and early Monday to Judge H. Scott Allen's courtroom with a briefcase of paperwork to stay busy.
He was not chosen to participate, which was not the case 20 years ago when he answered a similar summons in federal court.
"I will never forget the day in 1987, when I told my secretary I was going to 'run by the federal courthouse for jury duty' and I would be back in an hour," Mr. Craig wrote Thursday in an e-mail.
"I came back a month later, and it took almost a year before things returned to normal."
He said he has plans for the $25 he earned Monday for reporting to jury service.
"Since I was being paid by the state for the day I served, I think I'll donate my juror compensation back to the county, with the condition that it is to be used to repair the hole in the Superior Court courtroom through which you can see the sky, and rain freely pours."
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It's tone quite changed, but what do you expect? It's written since …
- Tags: Adaptations, Berserk, Censorship, Kentaro Miura, Movies, Rape, Tentacles, Video Gallery
Comment on Berserk III More Violent & Sexually Explicit Than Ever by Gustav:
It's tone quite changed, but what do you expect? It's written since about twenty years now. Miura was in his mid-twenties when he started, now he is in his late forties. And the grimdark mood of the first half may something hard to hold on for such a long time, Miura might just be tired of writing about gorefests, rape and murder. I'm not saying such a royal change is necessarily a good thing, but it's kinda expected. I still like it, though. Even if it's more shounen-like right now. If at least he would update regulary, so we could progress with the story…
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- Chinese Buildings Uniformly Disturbing:
Soulless town for soulless people.
- Top 20 Anime with the Best Battle Scenes:
Another good list, give it some slack – compared with the usual lists we get here, this is quite fine.
- Chinese Stone "Fake" Crocs & Snowball Lions:
If you're not from China, you're not chinese. You have chinese heritage, nothing else.
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Don't drag my fellow primates down, man.
- Chinese Stone "Fake" Crocs & Snowball Lions:
Chinese are horrible, if a war breaks out, they would be the new Japanese Imperial Forces, with all the rape, cannibalism and brutal murders. Even the fucking nazis kind of respected animals. Yes Chinese, you are worse than the nazis.


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The Osaka Dojima Commodity Exchange plans to apply for farm ministry approval to extend test trading in rice futures for two more years, sources said Wednesday.
The exchange's rice futures trading is currently scheduled to end its two-year trial in August.
The exchange will not seek a full-fledged launch of rice futures trading due to low volume, according to the sources.
Participation by rice producers has been limited due to opposition by the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, or JA-Zenchu.
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I remember the mailbox. It was an ordinary mailbox like every other. It was in east Salt Lake City. There was nothing overtly remarkable about it. It was on the sidewalk in front of the drugstore.
I remember the mailbox because sometimes my dad pulled the car over and pointed it out. Then he would tell me as much as he could before choking up, putting the car in gear and driving off.
It was behind that mailbox, on Jan. 11, 1973, that Salt Lake City Police Detective Percy Clark waited for two robbers to exit the pharmacy. It was there the detective announced they were under arrest. And it was there that Clark died, shot in the head by a robber who, without time to aim, got off a lucky shot, killing a good man who left a wife and seven children.
Percy Clark was a friend of my father, who was once a detective.
I am not a police officer, but I know a little about public safety and public service. I am currently on the West Valley City Council. The city funds and supports a police department that strives to protect 130,000 residents.
I become acquainted with the officers. I like them. I admire them. I am concerned with them being properly trained and equipped and I pray that they will be safe.
I also hear complaints about them and, sometimes, the city gets sued.
The police have been in the press too much for things I wish had never happened, and for not being able to accomplish things that I wish had happened. This scrutiny has caused me to reflect upon their job compared to our jobs.
We all have had a bad day at work. We get mad at a customer, a boss, a coworker. A really bad day might cost us an opportunity, or money or result in being fired.
When police officers have a bad day somebody dies.
It might be a suspect who we hope was guilty as sin. It might be a victim or innocent bystander. It might be another officer. Or it might be you.
It is easy to criticize the police and create policies and axioms such as "don't fire until fired upon," which make sense and ought to be enforced, but may fail in real-life situations. Such as when the first shot fired by the bad guy is fatal, as it was to Percy Clark.
I don't excuse anyone's bad behavior especially the police. Should a police officer violate the law, policy, or training, he or she should be punished.
But I do have sympathy for officers who do their best, one shift at a time, to maintain order in our society. I do have compassion for the families that wait for the shift to end and hope that husband or wife, dad or mom, will come home again.
Being a police officer is a heavy responsibility that we give to a few we strenuously qualify. They should be respected for the good and necessary work they do. And they should not be judged too harshly when they have a bad day.
Hanging in my closet is an old blue police shirt my father used to wear. It is worn, old, and of no particular worth as a shirt. Yet, to me it is a priceless symbol of the good people who are driven by their sense of public service and duty to be police officers.
I hope, each day, that for them it is not a bad day at work.
Steve Buhler is an attorney and a member of the West Valley City Council.


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Comment Number: EC -277
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Comments for FDA General
1. Are there arguments for regulating speech about drugs more comprehensively than, for example, about dietary supplements? What must an administrative record contain to sustain such a position? In particular, could FDA sustain a position that certain promotional speech about drugs is inherently misleading, unless it complies with FDA requirements? Does anything turn on whether the speech is made to learned intermediaries or to consumers? What is the evidentiary basis of such a distinction?
I think too little attention has been given to the possible benefits of dietary supplements. Also, few physicians are well versed on the benefits of proper nutrition. As a consumer, I would like to see more education and available research results in regard to dietary supplements (and alternative treatments), benefits as well as any adverse affects. I want to be able to make informed decisions about my health and what goes into my body.
2. Is FDA's current position regarding direct-to-consumer and other advertisements consistent with empirical research on the effects of those advertisements, as well as with relevant legal authority? What are the positive and negative effects, if any, of industry's promotion of prescription drugs, biologics, and/or devices? Does the current regulatory approach and its implementation by industry lead to over-prescription of drugs? Do they increase physician visits or patient compliance with medication regimes? Do they cause patient visits that lead to treatment for under-diagnosed diseases? Does FDA's current approach and its implementation by industry lead to adequate treatment for under-diagnosed diseases? Do they lead to adequate patient understanding of the potential risks associated with use of drugs? Does FDA's current approach and its implementation by industry create any impediments to the ability of doctors to give optimal medical advice or prescribe optimal treatment?
How would the lay-person know about empirical research or relevant legal authority? Negative - direct-to-consumer advertising by drug companies undermines the role of the physician to know what is best for his/her patient, and infringes on the patient/doctor relationship. Positive - patients are made aware of possible adverse side-affects. Negative - not all drugs are available to all consumers. Do pharmacists feel there is over-prescription of drugs - how would the consumer know? I had heard this type of advertising has increased patient visits, when not controlled by managed care. I don't know the affect of this practice on treatment for under-diagnosed diseases. I would hope that doctors are not be intimidated into prescribing unnecessary drugs for their patients.
3. May FDA distinguish claims concerning conventional foods from those relating to dietary supplements, taking into account limits on claims that can be made about foods in the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, 21 U.S.C. 301, 321, 337, 343, 371? What must an administrative record contain to sustain or deny claims on food labels? How can information best be presented in a succinct but non-misleading fashion? To what extent do assertions in claims need qualifications or disclaimers added to the label to avoid any misconceptions that consumers may draw? Is there a basis to believe that consumers approach claims about conventional foods and dietary supplements differently?
I'm not exactly sure of the first question because I'm not fully familiar with the NLEA. I would think that conventional foods and dietary supplements should have to prove the results of their claims, wlthough I'm not sure how that could be presented. Perhaps consumers could contact the supplement company about specifics.
4. Should disclaimers be required to be in the same (or smaller or larger) size of type and given equal prominence with claims? Is there any relevant authority or social science research on this issue?
Very small print is a bad idea. I am a proponent of the DSHEA.
5. How can warnings be made most effective in preventing harm while minimizing the chances of consumer confusion or inattention? Is there any evidence as to which types of warnings consumers follow or disregard?
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6. What arguments or social science evidence, if any, can be used to support distinguishing between claims made in advertisements and those made on labels? Does the First Amendment and the relevant social science evidence afford the Government greater latitude over labels?
I am a proponent of the DSHEA.
7. Would permitting speech by manufacturer, distributor, and marketer about off-label uses undermine the act's requirement that new uses must be approved by the FDA? If so, how? If not, why not? What is the extent of FDA's ability to regulate speech concerning off-label uses?
I am a proponent of the DSHEA.
8. Do FDA's speech-related regulations advance the public health concerns they are designed to address? Are there other alternative approaches that FDA could pursue to accomplish those objectives with fewer restrictions on speech?
I am a proponent of the DSHEA.
9. Are there any regulations, guidance, policies, and practices FDA should change, in light of governing First Amendment authority?
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The other thing with lifting the rod is that some of the pressure of the set is actually absorbed by the flex of the rod. A rods entire job is to absorb pressure, and this isn't always what you want. Strip striking ensures that every pound you pull is transferred directly into the strike.
A secondary reason (and some people consider this the main reason) is that a strip strike doesn't always cost you the fish if it is ill timed. If you lift the rod to strike, the fly moved very unnaturally and in many cases comes clear out of the water. Strip striking simply looks like a quick dart of the fish to avoid being eaten, and in many cases will not deter the fish from striking again. This is the primary reason I do it.
Nick's explanation is the primary reason I use the strip strike. If you lift a nine-foot rod with a quick twitch, that fly is moving a considerable distance up and away from the fish. The fly often comes out of the water toward you, and you're now out of the game. If you continue to strip, those short striking fish will continue to follow and try to grab your fly. I've had many occasions with four or five bites in one cast before the fish makes the commitment and I hook up with him. Had I lifted the rod instead of using a strip strike, I would have pulled the fly out of play, missed the fish, and been out of the game until the next cast.
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The first time I saw Andrew W.K. was in the summer of 2002. I was about to start my first year of college, and as a last hurrah, my three siblings, my future sister-in-law and I all went to see A.W.K. at the Recher Theatre in my hometown of Baltimore County. I can't remember if the show was sold out, but I do recall lots of sweaty dudes pushing through the 700-capacity venue's haze (Remember when you could smoke inside?) to get to the front of the stage. A.W.K.'s I Get Wet had come out in November 2001, and although we'd all been drawn to it initially because of the ridiculousness of its party anthem titles—"It's Time To Party," "Party Hard," "Party Til You Puke"—somewhere along the way, our feelings for A.W.K.'s absurdity had turned into a genuine love. The songs and the man behind them were so campy, so exaggerated and so earnest that they seemed like something out of a John Waters movie, which may explain why Waters was standing next to us chain smoking at the Recher that night. This kind of thing was right up his alley, and beneath his pencil-thin mustache lurked a bemused smirk that only faded momentarily when one of us jumped on his foot while moshing. "Well, she's having fun," Waters said.
It's disturbing to me that it has been nearly 10 years since that show (Oh, to be a teenager again.) and longer than that since the album's release. In honor of the LP's anniversary, A.W.K. embarked on a celebratory tour in March where he and his full band play I Get Wet in its entirety at every show. The tour came to Webster Hall last night, and once again, loads of sweaty dudes, and a handful of females this time, shoved past me to get closer to the stage. A.W.K. and his band—four (totally necessary) guitarists, one bassist, one drummer and A.W.K.'s wife on backing vocals—played between two walls of speakers and beneath a giant cutout of A.W.K.'s bloodied face, a tribute to the I Get Wet album cover. A.W.K., dressed in his traditional whites, started with "It's Time To Party," the opening cut from the album, and ripped through the songs chronologically from there. It was on track No. 2, "Party Hard," that the bodies started to fly.
Hordes of people, many dressed in the A.W.K. uniform of white T-shirts and white jeans, began jumping onto the stage, screaming a couple of verses and then throwing themselves into the crowd. Some took a graceful fall backward, while others opted for complete backflips. People really lost their shit during "I Love NYC," which A.W.K. introduced as a "song about the greatest city in the world!" He somehow acquired a Yankees cap during the song, which he wore but added, "Don't forget the Mets too!" The bouncers were finally allowed to do their jobs and clear the stage of A.W.K. doppelgangers shortly after, leaving room for the man of the hour to play a chopped up, electrified version of "O Come, All Ye Faithful" on a guitar designed to look like a slice of pizza.
After finishing the I Get Wet run, the players left the stage but returned soon after for an encore. "Someone vomited down my pant leg!" A.W.K. announced, seemingly unfazed. And that's the beauty of this guy: Nothing depletes his enthusiasm while he's on stage—not getting pushed around by eager fans, not screaming for an hour and a half, not even getting puked on. Sure, a lot of his songs sound the same because of repeated themes—partying—and power chords. But when there's so much heartfelt energy and headbanging going into them, I don't see how even the biggest crank couldn't be moved to joy while watching this guy play live. "Music is god!" A.W.K. screamed. And at the end of the night, as 50 or so of his newest best friends crowded the stage to sing along to "We Want Fun," I believed him. It was a similar scene to how I left him that night in 2002 at the Recher, screaming, smiling, surrounded by fans. People sometimes change over time. But in 10 years, Andrew W.K. has not. And I love him for it.
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Within days of their election in December 2, prime minister Gough Whitlam and his team of earnest, driven and exuberant ministers launched Australia on a dizzy ride.
It brought a mass of social changes, and along the way sowed the seeds of the economic chaos to come.
Full of reforming zeal, the new government was quick to end conscription, to free jailed draft resisters and to withdraw the last Australian troops from Vietnam.
It recognised China, gave 18-year-olds the vote in federal elections (though most states had lowered the voting age already), introduced free university education, and set about reforming Aboriginal relations, health and social security.
It gave Papua New Guinea internal self-government in preparation for full independence in 1975. But cabinet records from 1973, released today by the National Archives, show how clear it was from the start that the government was going to have great trouble balancing its push for reform with the concerns of Treasury - and key ministers - about inflation and overspending.
Archives historian Ian Hancock said that never before in Australian history, and never since, had a government been so prepared for comprehensive and fundamental reform, so determined to implement it and so bent on doing it without delay.
The impact of all this activity was felt in almost every aspect of life.
Australians with no significant previous interest in art found themselves arguing about whether Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles, bought by the government for the National Gallery for $1.3 million, was a work of genius or the work of a drunk.
The painting was widely considered a waste of money, the ultimate symbol of Whitlam government profligacy. It is now believed to be worth well over $40 million.
It was the year the Rolling Stones toured Australia, Patrick White won the Nobel prize for literature, and the Sydney Opera House and Wrest Point Casino opened. Fifteen people died when Brisbane's Whisky Au Go Go nightclub was firebombed.
Ten years after they were ordered, the first of the F-111 bombers finally arrived in Australia, Richmond won the VFL grand final and, Rupert "Dick" Hamer was elected Victorian premier. And John Howard, a 34-year-old solicitor, was pre-selected for the safe Liberal seat of Bennelong.
Mr Hancock said the oil crisis that followed the Yom Kippur War had such a profound effect on the world economy and on individual expectations that it made 1973 a pivotal year in modern world history.
The first shocks in a series of economic earthquakes to come were felt in September and October 1973 when oil exporters raised prices by 70 per cent to $US3 a barrel.
Arab nations attacked Israel on the holy day of Yom Kippur, October 6.
But even before the Yom Kippur War, inflation in Australia had already reached 10 per cent. The Whitlam government's record was not all about social reform and bad bookkeeping.
A massive defence restructuring merged the departments of army, navy and air force into one Department of Defence, a creation that still exists, with the newly created chief of the defence force and the secretary of the department having joint control and responsibility to the minister.
That was bound to cause some resentment because it increased the level of control of civilians over military officers, and cabinet was wary of how the changes, and overall cuts to defence spending would be viewed.
Defence minister Lance Barnard warned that sweeping and sudden changes across entrenched service practice would produce "confusion and possibly resistance".
Defence Department secretary Arthur Tange thought the government had produced a "piece of slaughter", and said it should do all it could to present them to the public as plastic surgery.
Despite the government's reputation for economic mismanagement, Mr Hancock said, the records showed it responded quickly and decisively to local and international economic pressures through revaluations of the currency, restrictions on capital inflow and a 25 per cent across-the-board tariff cut.
"There was bound to be drama when a government was engaged in extensive and intensive social engineering, especially one that brought together men who had chafed in opposition and had their own missions to accomplish," he said.
Whitlam set out to change the administration and structure of Australian society, and at the release of the embargoed 1973 cabinet papers last month he stressed that he was elected with a very clear mandate for change, and that everything Labor did in government was detailed in speeches he made during 1972 and earlier.
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Writing About Drama: Terms and Conventions
As in all critical writing, the most important thing to remember is to keep your analysis specific and textual. As a rule of thumb, offer five lines of analysis for every line of drama that you quote. Develop a thesis that allows you to approach the assignment as an investigation, not only into the world of the play, but into the way that world is constructed and presented. Your thesis will make a claim about your interpretation of the play that you will then prove through textual evidence. In the case of Shakespearean drama, you are responsible for an accurate interpretation of that text Ś rely on glossaries and the Oxford English Dictionary to be sure that what you are interpreting is actually what is in the text.
Learn the difference between opinion and analysis. Your likes and dislikes are important to your critical approach, but should be implied by your analysis, not expressly stated. Similarly, try not to ōanalyzeö the obvious Ś donÆt spend time ōprovingö that Iago is evil, that Katherine is a shrew, that Hamlet is tormented, that King Lear is old and weak. Look for controversy, inconsistency, words that can be interpreted in more than one way.
Analyzing drama asks much the same skill as analyzing prose fiction; however, you must provide an additional awareness that drama, unlike prose, is meant to be performed (or, if read in text form, to be imagined as it would be performed). Thus you are not only interested in language, but also in action, in the staging or any special theatrical effects called for by the play, and in the sense of elapsed time called for by the plot. In drama, there is also a heightened awareness of conflict Ś drama intensifies the clash between people and other people, between people and their culture, between people and fate or circumstance, between people and values, between men and women, between the elderly and the young, between the powerful and the oppressed, between, essentially, good and evil. Is the conflict you are witnessing balanced or one-sided? Is its outcome in doubt or inevitable? Is it the same conflict throughout the play or does it change? Is there more than one source of conflict? Is the source of conflict a symbol or metaphor for a broader problem or controversy (i.e., does an argument between a man and woman reflect larger issues of power and self-determination, and if so, how does the playwright indicate this?)
All of the following may be used as part of your overall analysis:
Character Analysis:
Ģ As in prose fiction, consider the following when trying to understand a character: Age, Sex, Race, Social Class, Profession, Financial stability, Family Structure, Love/Marriage Relationships, Physical/Emotional health
Ģ Is the character happy or unhappy with his/her place in this list of identifying qualities?
Ģ Do any of these change in the course of the play, and how does the character deal with the change?
Ģ Is there any discrepancy between what a character says and what s/he does?
Ģ Is there any discrepancy between what other people say about a character and what s/he says or does?
Ģ Do all characters speak in language appropriate to their sex/age/social class, etc.? If not, why not?
Ģ Is the dialogue written in prose or verse, or a combination of the two?
Ģ Is the prose dialogue realistic, poetic and stylized, or somewhere in between?
Ģ Does the playwright incorporate figures of speech or poetic devices into the charactersÆ speeches? What do such things tell us about character?
Ģ Do any characters speak in asides, and what is revealed in these speeches?
Plot Analysis:
Ģ Identify the rising action, the climax, the resolution and the denouement. Do they occur in expected or unexpected places?
Ģ Does the plot follow the Aristotelian ōUnitiesö (see handout on Dramatic Theory and Terms)? Why or why not?
Ģ Is there a pattern of reoccurrence of any events?
Ģ Are the events in the plot realistic or fantastical, or a combination of both?
Ģ Is each event prepared for or motivated by the characters/other events, or do some things seem to happen because of random chance?
Ģ Are there any subplots? What is their relationship to the main plot? Is this relationship evident from the start, or revealed as the play progresses?
Ģ Is the play set in a ōrealö or an imaginary place?
Ģ Is there more than one setting (the Aristotelian Unities again)?
Ģ Do the characters belong in the place(s) theyÆre in, or are they misplaced/displaced?
Ģ Does the setting contribute to conflict, or diffuse it?
Ģ At any point in the play, are the characters or the audience reminded that theyÆre in/seeing a play?
Ģ Are there any references to the ōworld as a stage,ö or do any characters put on a play or speak directly to the audience?
Ģ What is the effect of such references?
Ģ Do they change or intensify the mood or tone of the play?
Ģ Are any of the important conflicts in the play exacerbated or resolved at the moment of such theatrical self-reference?
While it is true that drama unfolds in the context of time, your analysis need not be chronological in structure (unless you are explicitly analyzing plot). Most important: unless the assignment specifically asks you to, NEVER summarize the plot of a play Ś itÆs too easy to do this instead of analyzing.
Be specific not only about what characters are doing but about how they are behaving while they're doing it. One quick way to indicate this to your reader is through active verbs. Seek out your "says'es" and "Is'es" and "have's" and try a more specific term, such as: (for "says") suggests, protests, insinuates, pleads, moans, proclaims; (for "has") clings to, obsesses over, possesses, steals, suffers from; . . . and so on. Always annotate quotes by listing, in a parenthesis at the end of the sentence in which the quote appears, the numbers of the act, scene, and line(s) the quote is from: (Hamlet III. ii. 12-15). Inclusion of the title is only necessary if you haven't already given an internal reference in the body of your essay.
Be sure to use dramatic terms accurately; refer to the following guide for definitions:
Dramatic Theory and Conventions
I. THEORY -- Idealized rules based on classical writers; some playwrights honored them (Jonson, Dryden) while others didn't (Marlowe, Shakespeare):
A. The Unities (developed from Aristotle's Poetics by 16th century critics)
1. TIME (action on stage should occur within 2-1/2 hours)
2. PLACE (same locale/setting for entire play)
3. ACTION (all events should describe a single plot line Ś this was the only rule Aristotle actually spelled out)
B. Probability -- Aristotle recommends that the action proceed rationally, with no events unprepared for.
C. Decorum -- Characters should speak, dress, and behave in a manner suitable to their rank, sex, age, personality; also, style/expression should fit the genre or subject.
D. Verisimilitude -- Events must be true, believeable, and more or less realistic.
E. Five-Part Structure:
1. EXPOSITION -- presents the situation and events leading up to the action; introduces characters and defines their relationships
2. RISING ACTION -- complicates the original situation, creating conflict among the characters
3. CLIMAX/TURNING POINT -- change in direction of the course of events, particularly for the protagonist
4. FALLING ACTION -- resolving of complications
5. CONCLUSION/CATASTROPHE -- final revelation or outcome (such as discovered identities in comedy or death in tragedy), resulting in "restored order" ("dķnouement" often refers to falling action and conclusion together)
A. Chorus -- group of actors who speak in unison (later replaced by a single actor) functioning as an expository device
B. Confidant(e) -- Character whose main function is to carry information to and from the main character and to provide the excuse for a character to speak thoughts aloud.
C. Soliloquy -- When a character reveals inmost thoughts directly to the audience. Reveals the speaker's perceptions, not necessarily the "truth." Conventionally, the speaker doesn't reveal an awareness of the audience's presence, although sometimes awareness is shown for comic effect.
D. Aside -- During a scene, when a character suddenly turns to another character or to an audience and speaks a line heard only by the audience and addressee. Convention requires the other characters to reveal no knowledge that the first character is speaking.
E. Metadrama -- Some playwrights have their characters either refer directly to the presence of the audience or other parts of the theater in the course of their speeches, or else use specifically theatrical figures of speech (i.e., Shakespeare has a character in As You Like It begin a speech, "All the world's a stage,/ And all the men and women merely players./They have their exits and their entrances,/And one man in his time plays many parts . . .). Such references are usually included for comic or ironic effect, but can also be used in tragedy to enhance the play's critical commentary on politics, society, philosophy, etc. Metadrama also refers to the inclusion of a play-within-a-play, as in Hamlet.
Comedy in ShakespeareÆs time tended to fall into several categories, requiring varied levels of sophistication on the part of the listener for fullest enjoyment:
Burlesque Ś purely physical comedy: potty and sexual jokes, pratfalls, foodfights, drinking/drug jokes, drag costumes. This level of comedy requires almost no prior knowledge Ś references are to the most basic kinds of human experience.
Farce Ś plot-oriented comedy (similar to situation comedy today): disguise/mistaken identity, eavesdropping (intentional or unintentional), coincidences and accidents, get-rich-quick schemes that backfire, etc. Familiarity with the formulas and conventions of plot increase enjoyment.
Romantic comedy Ś boy-get-girl/boy-loses-girl/boy-gets-girl-back: humor is based on the delusions and pretensions of young people in love, misunderstandings, etc. Familiarity with the conventions of love poetry often required for appreciation of satire about lovers.
Comedy of manners Ś humor requires a knowledge of the social mores and fashions referred to in the plays; jokes center around social hypocrisies and pretensions. This type of comedy would probably only be funny to people who were familiar with the values and behaviors of the elite characters being satirized.
Witty comedy Ś humor based on wordplay (puns and literary allusions) and on comic heroes who use intelligence and language to outwit their adversaries and get what they want. This type of comedy requires the highest level of previous knowledge on the part of the audience, since much of the humor assumes a sophisticated command of the nuances of language and the uses of formal logic and rhetoric.
No one play ever featured only one type of humor exclusively Ś most comic plays feature a mixture of all these types. You will note, though, a decided hierarchy of humor in this list, from ōlow-classö to ōhigh-class.ö ShakespeareÆs theater was not overly concerned with observing decorum, or a separation of comic styles Ś that would come later, in the 18th century.
1. ENCROACHMENT Ś The protagonist takes on more than he should and makes a mistake that ultimately causes his own ōfall;ö it is often an act blindly done, demonstrating the heroÆs faith in his own power to regulate the world or his insensitivity to others. Even in cases where the act is unconscious, the tragic hero encroaches on the norms of human conduct within a given world.
2. COMPLICATION Ś This builds up and includes the events that align opposing forces.
3. REVERSAL Ś This is the point at which it becomes clear that the protagonistÆs expectations are mistaken, that his fate will be the reverse of what he had hoped. At this minute, the vision of the audience and dramatist are the same.
4. CATASTROPHE Ś This exposes the limits of the protagonistÆs power and dramatizes the waste of his life. Piles of dead bodies remind us that the forces unleashed are not easily contained; there are also elaborate subplots in later tragedies, which reinforce the impression of a world inundated with evil.
5. RECOGNITION Ś The audience (and sometimes the protagonist) recognize the larger pattern inherent in the action. If the protagonist does experience recognition, s/he begins to share the vision of reality that the dramatist and the audience see. From this new perspective s/he can see the irony of her/his actions.
NOTE: You may have heard the term ōtragic flawö (hamartia) used to describe the cause of a protagonistÆs downfall. We prefer AristotleÆs ōsome error of human frailtyö or FryeÆs ōencroachmentö because these terms offer subtler and more complicated descriptions of the human condition. The problem is rarely a simple personality quirk on the part of one character.


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West Coast coach Adam Simpson will stick with his skills-based game plan, saying bombing the ball into attack to put an under-sized Fremantle defence under siege is not the secret to pulling off a western derby boilover.
The Eagles will boast four players taller than 190cm in their forward line today at Patersons Stadium against a Fremantle side with only one defender, Zac Dawson, in the same bracket.
Despite the aerial advantage, Simpson said he would not tell players to put aside his focus on skills and kick long to the marking forwards.
He has lamented the lack of finesse with the ball going forward this season that has left the club ranked equal 10th for marks inside 50 despite having Josh Kennedy, Jack Darling, Jeremy McGovern and a resting Dean Cox or Nic Naitanui in attack.
"One thing I think Fremantle can handle - it doesn't matter who it is - is if you bomb it in, it'll come back with some interest," Simpson said.
"We won't change the way we play. We're still developing and learning and growing and I don't think Freo will change the way they play either.
"They've just got elite team defence. They're well drilled, they're organised.
"It's not reliant on any particular player and they know how to soak up pressure we'll keep working on what we need to do with the ball."
The derby is critical for 10th-placed West Coast, who need a third successive win to keep in touch with the top eight ahead of hosting Sydney.
Simpson said he was learning how to motivate players and would not copy the approach from his derby debut as coach when he internally built up the game's significance.
West Coast were overrun in the second half in round seven and Simpson predicted the Dockers would try the same tactics.
"They'll use that to their strength," he said.
"We did kick ourselves out of it at stages last time we played, but we didn't deserve to win and they did run over us in the end."
Simpson said Shannon Hurn would captain West Coast as part of the leadership rotation and Patrick McGinnity would provide "grunt and tenacity" in his first AFL game of the year.
He also said Luke Shuey was working heavily with midfield coach Brady Rawlings to become better at breaking tags.
Ryan Crowley had Shuey's measure in their past three meetings, keeping him to 18 disposals or less each time.
"If he gets tagged, we've got some triggers that we're trying to work on with him," Simpson said.
"I think it's an asset for us to have someone like Brady who's been there and done that as a run-with player and trying to teach him all the tricks that they (the opposition) don't want him to know.
"That's definitely helped him."
West Coast also announced SGIO had signed a three-year contract extension to continue as the club's major sponsor until the end of 2017.
"One thing I think Fremantle can handle if you bomb it in, it'll come back with some interest." " *Adam Simpson *


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Geburts und Taufschein (Birth and Baptism Certificate for Tobias Grier) Allentown, Pennsylvania: H. Ebner und Comp., printed ca. 1824; written 1825. Broadside with hand coloring. Graphic Arts Broadside Collection.
From 1821 to 1829, Heinrich Ebner ran a printing firm in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which produced birth and baptismal certificates. This one matches two others found in the Free Library of Philadelphia's Rare Book collection, with slightly different hand coloring. http://libwww.library.phila.gov/fraktur/detail.cfm?ItemID=frk01025.
Here is a rough translation of the central panel: To these two married people, namely Mister Sebastian Grier and his lawful wife Elisabeth Leister, was born a son into the world, the 2nd day of January in the year of our Lord, 1825. This son was born in Hilltown Township, Bucks County in [the] State [of] Pennsylvania in North America, and was baptized and received the name Tobias Grier on the 17th day of April in the year of our Lord 1825 from Mr. Pastor Rätter. The sponsors were Mister John Leister and his wife Maria.
Upper left: Scarcely born into the world, it is only a short measured pace from the first step to the cool grave in the earth. O with every moment! Our strength diminishes, and with every year we grow riper for the bier.
Upper right: And who knows in what hour the final voice will awaken us, because God has not revealed this to anybody yet. Who tends to his house will depart from the world with joy. Because surety, in contrast, can provoke eternal death.
Lower left: I am baptized, I stand united with my God through my baptism. I therefore always speak joyfully in hardship, sadness, fear and need. I am baptized, that's a joy for me. The joy lasts eternally.
Lower right: I am baptized, and when I die, how can the cool grave hurt me? I know my fatherland and legacy that I will have with God in Heaven. After death, Heaven's garment of joy and celebration is prepared for me.
Lower center: I am baptized in your name, God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I am counted as one of your seeds, to a people that you blessed. O! What fortune for me! Lord, let me be worthy of it!
For more information, see also: Klaus Stopp, The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997).
To see other examples: http://dspace.nitle.org/search?rpp=10&etal=0&query=geburts&page=3&order=DESC&sort_by=0


text: BARNESVILLE Barnesville Hospital recognized its volunteers at the annual Volunteer Awards Banquet April 20 at Annie K's Restaurant. The banquet was held in conjunction with National Volunteer Week.Ruth Anderson, director of Volunteers, announced that Barnesville Hospital has 183 volunteers who gave 11,218 hours during 2003. Meals on Wheels volunteer drivers delivered 5, 886 meals. Volunteers are used in the areas of: gift shop, solarium, candy stripers, red cross, meals drivers, registration, emergency room, information desk, cardiopulmonary, storeroom/dietary, rehabilitation services, diagnostic imaging, and sewing ladies."The volunteers are a special and very much appreciated part of Barnesville Hospital," said Richard Doan, CEO. "They routinely go the extra mile to help patients and assist staff. We could not get along without them."Red Cross volunteers include Pearl Beckett, 8,000 hours; Ladonna Moore, 4,000 hours; Marjorie Carpenter, 3,000 hours; Helen Detling, 1,000 hours; Gene Cook, 1,000 hours; Don Anderson, 500 hours; Rosemary Jones, 500 hours; Everett Hickenbottom, 500 hours.Candy Stripers include Cara Lyle, 400 hours; Megan Lyle, 400 hours; Jennifer Blattler, 200 hours; Kelsey Doan, 100 hour pin; Brooke Christman, 100 hours; Emily Harrison, 100 hours; Hannah Smith, 100 hours; candy stripers who received patches Leah Cook, Beverly Plumly, Sarah Tisher, Breanna Gibson, Ashli Anderson, Danielle Casello, Brooke Christman, Amrita Kaur, Abby McClelland, Beth Moore, Danzell Roberts, Blair Shilling, Hannah SmithAnyone interested in serving as a hospital volunteer should contact Anderson at (740) 425-5113, or Peggy Douglass, director of Education and Outreach at 425-5158.


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It's not something the Bengals engineered and that's the point. It was something the weather engineered.
As for the Bucs, if weather wasn't a concern then why was their record different in northern cities? If I'm a Bengal fan I want the Bucs in Cincinnati in December as opposed to playing in TB in Sept


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Dubai Judicial Institute (DJI), a leading center of law studies and judicial training in Dubai, recently concluded the military judiciary training program, in cooperation with Dubai Public Prosecution and the Forensic Evidences and Criminology Directorate at Dubai Police. The program was based on a knowledge sharing methodology that covered theoretical programs, applied learning and practical training to enhance skills of personnel working in military judiciary, and thereby increasing their contribution to reinforcing legal and judicial excellence in Dubai.
The program featured practical training sessions at the headquarters of Dubai Public Prosecution and the Forensic Evidences and Criminology Directorate at Dubai Police, where each trainee was supervised by a public prosecutor from specialized public prosecution departments of Bur Dubai, Deira and Drug Public Prosecution Departments, to ensure that each trainee is informed about the basics of public prosecution and all details regarding the legal process, beginning with lodging of a complaint at the police station to passing a judgment at Dubai Courts. The training course featured visits to the public prosecutors' offices at police stations to closely learn about the way of dealing with suspects at police stations and also to get trained on investigation methods.
Dr. Judge Jamal Hussein Al Sumaiti, Director General of DJI, expressed his pleasure on the conclusion of the military judiciary training program in cooperation with Dubai Public Prosecution and Dubai Police. He said that this was in line with the Institute's plans aimed at providing the legal and judicial community with qualified and trained cadres who are able to support the Dubai Strategic Plan 2015, especially with regard to its focus on safety, security and justice.
Al Sumaiti added: "We are very optimistic that these training programs can bridge the knowledge and professional gap among judicial trainees in line with the job market requirements. These courses will qualify them to actively execute their responsibilities and hold leading positions in both the judiciary and public prosecution as well as contribute towards the development of the legal and judicial sector, thus supporting Dubai's growth plans and reinforcing its position on the world map."
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BBQ Game of 2009: Pig Craps
Every year around the holidays my family gets together for some warm holiday cheer, cold adult beverages, and a touch of innocent gambling. I know that sounds worse than it actually is, but the truth of the matter is that board games just lose their luster over the years. The only true way to keep game night fun and fresh is to lay a few bucks on the line and make Grandma earn her keep.
Left, Right, Center has been a yuletide staple for many years now, but this go around we added a new "dice" game to the lineup. Okay, right about now you're probably asking yourself "What the hell does this have to do with barbecue?" Well my friend, this game has all the thrills of a back alley craps circle, but instead of using those grimey white cubes, you'll be tossing tiny delicious little piggies. Yes, that's right….Pig Craps. Actually the manufacturer given name is Pass the Pigs, but who could pass up an opportunity to play a modified version called Pigs Craps while your pig butt is slow smoking to perfection in your backyard cooker. Did we forget to mention that these dirty little piggies often find themselves in compromising postions?!?!
Okay, in case you haven't caught on by now, craps isn't the intended use for Pass the Pigs. In fact I'm fairly certain that the creators of the game won't endorse any type of gambling involving the use of their product. The game itself comes with instructions outlining how to play the fun family version, but if you're anything like me, then the only use you'll have for those is to help light your chimney starter.
Since we're not a gambling site I won't go into the rules of a street craps game, but the basic idea of Pig Craps is to use the contorted positions of the pigs in place of the numbers on the dice. For the most part these little piggies come to rest innocently on their side, back, feet, or even propped up on their snout, but every so often you'll catch them reenacting a page out of the Kama Sutra. The night we played, these piggies were extra saucy. In fact, I'm faily certain I caught one of them smoking a cigarette right after this picture was taken!
So there you have it! This summer when Pig Craps is the official pre-meal game of backyard parties all around the world, you can say you saw it first from the BBQ Addicts.
I don't know why, but I like boardgames. But "Pig Craps" sounds even more funnier. I guess I'll try it.
I am now hungry AND horny
I've had this game for over 15 years, and I love it.
I was introduced to it in the Army, while on Temporary Duty with the British Army. One of the soldiers I was working with showed me his game, with the hard case, and scoring sheets, and the simplicity, and I was hooked.
Of course, the alcohol we imbibed probably had some effect on why I liked the game, but we had hours of fun playing that game instead of working… and I'm still hooked..
I became 'specially good at throwing double-leaning-jowlers…
Enjoy the game!
Where can you buy this game? I can't find our old one!
Did you know there's an online version?
OMG… my friend got that from her ex one Christmas. We were wondering who plays Pass The Pig because we've certainly never heard of it before until she got it.
We've had this for at least twenty years, only ours is called Pig Mania. Making Bacon is the best roll, right? I should dig that game up, it was always fun.
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Interesting, I have never heard of this.
Been playing "Pass The Pigs" for years.
whats the reciepes for bacon raped meat ball please send me or let me know where to find it ,bacon explotion always win for me hands down at any party thanks alot .Greg


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William "Bill" Kristol
Chickenhawk First Class with Distinguished Fleeing Cross
December 23, 1952
home state:
District of Columbia
missed opportunity:
Vietnam War
preferred activity:
Fomenting wars for others to fight
Editor, Vanity Press (The Weekly Standard)
Bill Kristol's old man, Irving -- who served as an infantryman in the 12th Armored Division during WW II -- once told Columbia University Professor Ira Katznelson that he had gotten his son William a slot at Harvard by talking to a friend there, then got him an internship at the the Nixon White House by talking to Pat Moynihan, then got him a job at the RNC by talking to his friends there, then got him teaching jobs at Penn and the Kennedy School by -- wait for it -- Yes! By talking to friends in both those places. Katznelson then asked Kristol what he thought of affirmative action. Kristol said he opposed it because "it subverts meritocracy." This wonderful story of paternal regard was told by Paul Campos, a University of Colorado law professor, in an op-ed piece that ran in the Rocky Mountain News on January 28, 2009. It begs the question, did Irving also sweet-talk William's draft board to get his war-mongering son the draft deferments that spared his life during the Vietnam War?


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No, there's not a certain mileage or distance that a person could flee to, it just depends on if a person was arrested in another state or country, whether the state would take the time and expense to extradite a person. But, while the state is deciding, the person charged with escape is also sitting in jail somewhere.
And, even if they don't decide to extradite the person (and misdemeanors often aren't worth the state's time), it doesn't get rid of the outstanding charge. So, a person flees to another state to avoid going to jail. They get pulled over, warrants are run, and the escape charge comes up. They sit in jail until illinois decides not to extradite. A week later, the person gets pulled over again, warrants are run, and the person is arrested again, and the process starts all over. I wouldn't want that hanging over my head forever.


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ugly adjective (NOT ATTRACTIVE)
B1 unpleasant to look at; not attractive:
I think a lot of modern architecture is very ugly.
He was a really unpleasant man and as ugly as sin (= very ugly).
More examples
- This part of the old town has been disfigured by ugly new buildings.
- Concern about the ugly effects of industrialization has led to the greening of many of our cities.
- Most of the furniture is so ugly, you wouldn't give it house-room.
- A screen of trees at the bottom of the garden hid the ugly factory walls.
- He's an ugly bruiser - I wouldn't like to meet him down a dark alley!
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ugly adjective (THREATENING)
C2 unpleasant and threatening or violent:
The demonstration turned ugly when a group of protesters started to throw bottles at the police.
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moe. is celebrating 20 years of making music and the band's bringing the party to Denver!
The jam/prog rock group's all set to play the Gothic tonight, and the Fillmore Auditorium on Friday and Saturday.
Read the Colorado Daily interview with guitarist/vocalist Chuck Garvey, and find out about's the 20-year run, and its summer music festivals: http://www.coloradodaily.com/music-news/ci_14884529#axzz0lCdz6drJ


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SEI Distinguished Speaker Series: Eboo Patel
Chicago Booth Social Enterprise Initiative
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CST)
Event Details
"Faith as Bomb, Faith as Bridge: Why Interfaith Social Entrepreneurs Hold the Key to Peace and Prosperity"
Eboo Patel
Founder & President
Interfaith Youth Core
Named by US News & World Report as one of America's Best Leaders of 2009, Eboo Patel is the Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a Chicago-based organization building the interfaith movement on college campuses. Author of the book Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, which won the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and the recently-released Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America, Eboo is also a regular contributor to the Washington Post, USA Today, Huffington Post, NPR, and CNN. He served on President Obama's inaugural Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.
Eboo serves on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation USA, and the Department of Homeland Security's Faith-based Advisory Council. He has spoken at the TED Conference, Clinton Global Initiative, Nobel Peace Prize Forum, and universities around the world. Eboo is a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum and an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select group of social entrepreneurs whose ideas are changing the world. He was named by Islamica Magazine as one of ten young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America and was chosen by Harvard's Kennedy School Review as one of five future policy leaders to watch. Both Eboo and IFYC were honored with the Roosevelt Institute's Freedom of Worship Medal in 2009, and Eboo was recently awarded the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, an award given to an individual to enhance awareness of the crucial role of religious dialogue in the pursuit of peace. Today Eboo lives in Chicago with his wife and their two sons.
When & Where
Gleacher Center
450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CST)
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The Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business supports the aspirations of students, faculty, and alumni to impact societal issues and furthers research on how institutions help solve social problems. Through ongoing curricular development, programming, and support of faculty pursuits, SEI builds on Chicago Booth's commitment to rigorous analysis and its discipline-based approach to understanding organizations, markets, and policy.