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By Rob McIlvaineMarch 29, 2012
FORT MEADE, Md. (Army News Service, March 29, 2012) -- Staff Sgt. Stefanie Mason, who is on the list released today of Army athletes who qualified for the Warrior Games, was riding in an up-armored SUV in Kabul, Afghanistan, when the driver decided to go faster.
Losing control, they smashed headlong into a concrete wall and the seatbelts weren't working.
"I slipped forward and shattered the up-armored windshield and lost consciousness right there. I don't even remember what happened," said Mason, who is now serving with the 352nd Civil Affairs Command.
A reservist working for the International Joint Command Headquarters since October 2009, Mason joined the Army in March of 2003 and had enjoyed work during deployments to Iraq, to Kuwait at Camp Virginia, but really loved the work with members from 48 countries at the joint command in Afghanistan.
"It was a great experience. I loved it and it was like I had found a home," she said.
Until the day of the accident, April 20, 2010.
The doctors at the joint command had to induce her into a coma because her brain was swelling.
"I had a hematoma, and they were actually thinking about cutting my skull open to relieve the pressure because they didn't think I was going to survive the [next] 24 hours. But the medication they were giving me made me survive. I was very fortunate. To this day, the doctors don't know how I survived," Mason said.
Besides the brain injury, critically injured Mason sustained a moderate, traumatic brain injury, nine facial fractures, a tibia plateau fracture, and a degenerated disc in the back.
"I was in a coma for four days and woke up in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, probably for a week, and was later transported to the old Walter Reed Hospital," she said. Later, she was transferred to the new facility, now known as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
After sustaining her injuries, this former athlete began to not feel good about herself.
"I've always done sports, I've always been very athletic. The sport I'm focusing on right now is mostly my swimming. But I'm also doing biking in the Warrior Games.
When she was young, she often competed in swimming.
"I started when I was 8 years old and swam competitively for about five or six years, and then I stopped because I hated practice. I got bored, but I still did field hockey and softball in my off-time, and I used to be an avid runner until I got injured," she said.
After being injured, she was overweight and didn't feel good about herself until someone told her about going to the pool one day a week.
"One of the coaches from the Army wounded warrior swim team here saw me swim and she said, 'you know, you're a good swimmer', and I said, 'oh, thank you.'
"So I told her about my past experiences swimming, and she said, try out for the Warrior Games back in 2010, so I tried out and I was very successful getting on the team, and I went over to Colorado Springs where I won gold for the 50-meter freestyle and bronze for the 50-meter backstroke.
"I thought this is so much fun. I didn't know about these games until someone told me about them, so I was like, ohhh, let me try out next year. So now I'm competing in the swimming (at the Warrior Games clinics at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.) to try and improve my times and everything," Mason said.
Her long-term goal is to swim at the Paralympics. Currently, she's trying to get to the time trials.
"Just coming to the games has helped me physically and mentally get better," she said, adding that since being immobilized for six months following the accident, swimming one day a week and continually increasing her time helped her lose weight.
"I lost the weight. I got stronger, physically and mentally, I got more competitive, and it helped me get back in that mood," she said, back to when she was always competitive and being positive.
"Now, when I look at my injuries, I look at them as ... I don't have my disabilities but I look at them as my abilities, what can I do to get better?" she asked.
The experience of being part of a team and meeting new people, she said, has been great.
This past March, Mason was cheering on her friends at the sitting volleyball clinic.
As of this writing, she will compete at the 2012 Warrior Games in several swimming events: 50-meter Free-Open Swim, 100-meter Free-Open Swim, and the 50-meter Back-Open, as well as the cycling Recumbent-10K. She also is a candidate for swimming relay events. Decisions on relay athletes, however, might not be made until the games begin.
Although she's been told she won't be able to run again, her other long-term goal is to do just that.
"I have a step brother and three step sisters. One was killed by a drunk driver, a year prior to my deployment in October 2009 and I think about her. But my family looks at me as a role model. Things can get better, even if you have this tragedy. You have to be positive and say, hey, I can overcome and stay positive.
"I know my sister, Jennifer, she's actually a twin, wants me to do a triathlon. Yeah, I'm already motivated to go do a triathlon; you just have to stay positive. It depends on that person and how you're going to accomplish that goal.
"I look at small little goals to accomplish a big one," Mason said.
"Sport is a great part of a Soldier's life," said Brig. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, commander of Army Warrior Transition Command, or WTC.
"Sport helps them feel good about themselves. So the camaraderie, the spirit that you see, the cohesion is a part of what's going to be on display at the Warrior Games. This is one of those building blocks toward that event.
"It's very contagious when you're around Soldiers who compete at the Olympic level.


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Richard F. Weaver has been on the A.I. duPont faculty since 2003…but his roots grow even deeper. He is an alumnus from the class of 1998! After that, he received his Bachelor's Degree in Music Education and his Master's Degree in Music Composition from the University of Delaware. Richard has also been a percussion instructor with the University of Delaware Drumline since 2002. In the past, Richard has instructed and arranged for several other local high school bands on both a competitive and non-competitive level.
Richard has studied percussion with Harvey Price, Tom Palmer, Orlando Cotto, Jim Ancona and Tomo Azuma. He studied marching band techniques and drill design with Heidi I. Sarver. Richard also had the honor of studying music education with Paul L. Parets. His travel experiences with the A.I. duPont Band include performances in Rome, London, Ireland, Canada, Arizona (Fiesta Bowl Parade), California (Tournament of Roses Parade) and several other states. Richard believes that music should be a part of everyone's life in one form or another. He continually tries to expose his students to new ways to enjoy, appreciate, and perform all styles of music.
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On Friday 14th December the Band of the Army Air Corps, the Band of the Prince of Wales's Division and the Middle Wallop Military Wives Choir combined their significant musical forces to perform a Christmas Concert in the Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop. It was 'standing room only' as a large audience battled through atrocious weather conditions to support the bands and choir in their efforts to raise funds for two service charities.
The programme included traditional Christmas items from the band and carols and unaccompanied items from the choir who were expertly led by their musical director Fiona Clarke. Andover resident Warrant Officer Class Two Gary Chilton, a member of the vocal group 'The Soldiers', joined with choir and band for a festive rendition of 'Baby it's Cold Outside' and the premiere of a work composed specifically for the band, choir and Mr Chilton entitled 'I'll Wait For You Once More'. The piece was written by the Director of Music of the Band, Captain Mick Walters and left not a dry eye in the house.
"It was a genuine pleasure to perform with such a talented and dedicated group like the Middle Wallop Military Wives Choir. They epitomise the spirit and resolve of family life in the services and it is heartwarming to see so many of our 'better halves' enjoying themselves in this way".
Captain Mick Walters, Director of Music, Army Air Corps The evening concluded in traditional fashion with a medley of Christmas classics and the audience showed their appreciation long after the final notes had finished ringing around the wonderfully apt surroundings. Bravo!!
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Restaurant Week Grand Cocktail Competition Winners to be Announced Saturday
Restaurant WeekGR wraps up this week as the "Grand Cocktail Competition" winners will be announced at an outdoor Bourbon BBQ event at The B.O.B. in Downtown Grand Rapids on Saturday, August 23 at 4:30 p.m. The Grand Cocktail competition is a part of Restaurant Week here in Grand Rapids, which runs through this Sunday, August 24.
Thirty-one restaurants and their mixologists / bartenders / management staff are currently participating.
The B.O.B. is having an Outdoor Event "Bourbon BBQ" to announce the winners, and we're all invited to the free event.
Now for my disclosure, I was a judge of the contest. I know, it's a dirty job but somebody has to do it. Tuesday, August 5 was a tough day for us eight judges, having the sample twenty cocktails. It was all based on a 'points' system, so following our judging the ballots were sealed, thus, we don't know who won, either. That was the "judged" part of the competition, but now there is a "public" part to determine the "Peoples Choice Award."
All thirty-one restaurants are now serving their specialty Grand Cocktails made with Woodford Reserve. Now, you can cast your ballot for the "Best Old Fashioned" cocktails and "Best Summer Cocktail" made with Woodford Reserve craft bourbon and fresh local ingredients online at RestaurantWeekGR.com/cocktail-contest.
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The goal of this continuing education article is to provide nurses with current information on near-death experiences (NDEs). After reading this article, you will be able to:
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People who come close to death or encounter a temporary state of clinical or emotional crisis often report having exceptional experiences, called near-death experiences (NDEs). People who have NDEs describe them as some of the most emotional and powerful events of their lives. The NDE changes their beliefs, values and some physiological parameters forever. NDEs happen across cultures age, gender, race, religion and social standing do not seem to influence the occurrence of the NDE. No one really knows why some people have experiences and others don't.
For example, in his book Return From Tomorrow, George Ritchie describes himself as a bad boy who was about to go to basic training in the Army. However, after a serious illness and a profound NDE, his life changed forever. He was not a religious man and had no real ambitions in medicine. The future doctor's NDE altered his entire perspective on life, and radically changed his behaviors and ambitions.
According to the latest (1997) poll used in the U.S. and cited by U.S. News & World Report, there are an estimated 15 million people who have NDEs (or 5 percent of the population) in the U.S. In Europe, the estimate is 4 percent. However, a concern with this poll is that it excludes children and elderly populations. Nonetheless, it confirms a large number of people have NDEs with implications for healthcare providers.
The NDE does not fit into our usual understanding of patient experiences and can be very difficult for patients to understand, and even more difficult to explain to families and healthcare providers. Patients may be very emotional and find it difficult to tell others about their NDEs. According to major research studies, as many as 30 percent of patients who have been clinically compromised or come close to death may report having NDEs. The largest proportions of these patients are typically found in the ED, ICU, CCU, OR, NICU, labor and delivery, and peds units; however, they may be found anywhere in the hospital.
NDEs are intense, emotional experiences that occur when a person is close to death or in a clinical compromise such as an accident, illness, combat, surgery or emotional trauma, and then goes on to have one or more of the common characteristics of the NDE.
Unfortunately, many times these patients may be labeled confused. Children may be accused of making things up or dreaming. However, NDEs do differ from other states of consciousness such as hallucinations, hypoxic states, endorphin or drug reactions, dreams and/or depersonalization. The NDE is different from other states of consciousness.
The first research on NDEs was conducted by Raymond Moody and published in Life After Life in 1975. He described his observations of experiences with heart patients, and it was in this study and book that he coined the expression near-death experience. Kenneth Ring, one of the foremost NDE researchers, wrote several books in the mid-1980s using scientific techniques to describe NDE. In 1995, Peter Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist, and Elizabeth Fenwick conducted a study and published the results of more than 300 NDEs in the United Kingdom. Currently, Pim van Lommel is leading a critical study in the Netherlands.
Bruce Greyson's work has been central to understanding the NDE and separating it from mental health issues or other experiences. A physician and professor at the University of Virginia, he has researched and written on NDEs for 30 years. Greyson developed the Greyson Scale, the first scale for quantifying individual NDEs. In 2000, he published a chapter in the American Psychological Association book Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence, which was the association's first formal acknowledgment of non-ordinary experiences. Greyson's scale captures many of the NDE characteristics listed below.
NDEs in adults tend to be characterized by one or more characteristics. The following is a partial list:
• sensing inexpressible peace, comfort and unconditional love;
• feeling relief from pain;
• separating from the physical body, a feeling of floating;
• seeing and/or sensing a superior being;
• seeing beautiful scenery, hearing beautiful music;
• seeing and communicating with spiritual beings (often deceased loved ones or unfamiliar relatives);
• moving through a dark space or tunnel;
• being surrounded by a brilliant light and/or unfamiliar colors;
• possessing unlimited knowledge;
• communicating telepathically;
• experiencing life review; and
• coming to a physical boundary.
Circumstances of NDE
NDEs happen under many different circumstances and happen much more frequently than most people realize. They are intensely personal; many experiencers are reluctant to talk about the experience unless they are sure the person is open to listening.
Common circumstances under which NDEs occur include:
• surgery;
• accidents;
• allergic reactions;
• acute illness;
• drowning;
• combat trauma;
• suicide attempts;
• terminal illness; and
• childbirth.
Many individuals who have had NDEs experience lifelong aftereffects that may be either short-term or long-term and may take time to integrate. Initial psychological effects typically will be eased with support, while others will be integrated on a lifelong basis.
Some patients are angry after they are resuscitated. For example, the unconscious NDE patient describes hearing everything being said by healthcare personnel and becoming frustrated because, although his or her physical body is without pulse and breath sounds, their "spirit" is hovering and trying to communicate with clinicians.
In addition, NDE patients describe having been in excruciating pain, but the minute they left their physical body all pain disappeared. Patients also describe being told they must "come back"; as they settle back into the physical body, all the physical pain returns.
NDE patients describe being in the most loving and wonderful place they had ever known, but suddenly are hauled out of this peaceful place and sent back to their broken body. Thus, it is easy to understand an angry reaction.
Common Themes
Although no two experiences are alike, similarities are present across cultures, age, religion, education and gender. Although backgrounds may change how the experience is described, NDE characteristics have themes in common. Most experiences are described as peaceful, loving and wonderful regardless of the patient's background. However, a small proportion of people describe experiences that are more lonely and distressing.
In addition, many of these experiences, such as a near drowning, accidents and MIs, may happen prior to the patient's arrival at the heathcare setting. These patients may have had the experience at the site, in the ambulance or at home. Yet the experience is usually very clear in their mind and will be a lifelong memory and journey.
It also is significant to note children have NDEs. However, according to Atwater and Morse, children have a higher incidence and some different elements and aftereffects. One difficulty is that NDE experiences may happen to children who are very young possibly too young to talk. Children who experienced difficult births, illnesses or accidents at an early age may have had an NDE and, consequently, have lingering aftereffects.
It is critical to acknowledge the NDE as soon as possible, as many of these children realize they are unusual from a very early age but do not know why. It is necessary for these children to get support. Otherwise, they may spend years feeling isolated and different. The beauty of children is they often simply tell you what happened to them.
In his book Closer to the Light, pediatrician Melvin Morse relates his experience with a near-drowned child who was severely comatose. He details how the girl described his resuscitation efforts, which she said she observed during her NDE. P.M.H. Atwater has interviewed many children and written several books describing her findings about childhood NDEs. She has found these children generally have higher IQs, have enhanced vocabulary at an early age and are very different children after the NDE. Children are critical to the NDE literature, as they simply tell their truth. More studies of children and newborn NDE are needed, so they may be followed over time and differences in their lives can be quantified.
On a daily basis, thousands of patients are in hospitals, hospices or at home after having had an NDE. Many have not had the benefit of sharing that experience with a healthcare professional or family member. Thus, the near-death experiencer is left struggling to understand the experience in isolation. Nurses can provide essential support if they are knowledgeable and prepared to care for these patients.
To assist these patients, nurses can encourage experiencers to write about their experience in as much detail as possible and also discuss the experience with a nurse, supportive family member or friend. Another nursing strategy is to make available articles, lists of books and the Web address for the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS), which provides information and support groups. Often, however, patients leave the hospital before they have had the chance to talk to someone; therefore, if it is suspected a patient has had an NDE, nurses should tell them they are always welcome to come back and discuss their hospital experience.
Nursing Implications
Several lingering aftereffects have implications for care of NDE patients. Those that are especially important for nursing and medical care include:
• increased sensitivity to medications of all kinds;
• core body temperature is routinely down in the 96-97º F range;
• blood pressure lower than prior to the NDE;
• increased allergies and sensitivity to chemicals in soaps, lotions, etc.; and
• interactions with electronic equipment, for example, inability to wear battery-run watches.
Other lingering effects of the NDE have to do with basic values, jobs and life purposes. For example, NDE patients may:
• no longer fear death;
• become less materialistic, change to altruistic jobs, do more service for others;
• become more spiritual, affectionate, emotional;
• possess new knowledge, "gifts" (e.g., healing, psychic ability), information;
• feel sadness, loneliness, alienation;
• have difficulty describing the experience; and
• have increased sensitivity to light, noise, violence.
While the experience may seemingly be positive, others often misunderstand it. A soldier, for example, suddenly may not be able to tolerate violence or fighting; a child may no longer want to play team sports; a stockbroker may lose interest in making money. These types of changes are difficult for family members who may be unable to adjust their lives to the new goals of the near-death experiencer. NDE patients may feel lonely and lost until they are able to work out these issues, meet other NDE patients, and/or understand the NDE and its aftereffects.
Many aftereffects become apparent over time, and some can be difficult to accept, such as a healing or psychic ability. The NDE patient often is starting a very new and different journey in life.
The nurse is likely to be the first person a patient sees following an NDE in a hospital. Patients are frequently afraid to tell their physicians, knowing they may not believe their story. Moreover, the reaction of the first person who hears the patient's story plays a critical role in the course of an NDE patient's journey. Knowledgeable nurses can facilitate the necessary process of supporting NDE patients. Patients will look to nurses for guidance and emotional support. While nurses know patients regularly have NDEs, they frequently don't know what to say or do to help the patient.
Basic guidelines for nurses to follow include:
• listening to the patient's story, listening for clues;
• being open, non-judgmental, accepting;
• being supportive, including supporting patient in telling family;
• affirming the experience, avoiding rejection or discounting of the experience;
• providing reading materials and list of resources;
• finding referral sources upon request; and
• giving patients the Web address and phone number for the IANDS.
The IANDS is a key resource for NDE patients, educators, researchers and healthcare providers. It offers support groups in most states and voluminous literature on its Web site. The association sponsors an annual conference attended by clinicians and near-death experiencers. The 2006 conference will be in Houston, co-hosted by MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Although researchers continue to probe current understanding of NDE, funding for projects is limited. Because more research is needed to answer questions surrounding NDE, IANDS is working to obtain donations to support NDE research.
Skeptics who question the reality of the NDE tend to be professionals who believe only what can be proved by science. However, over the years, more physicians and other scientists have joined the ranks of the believers. For example, Claude Swanson, a physicist who trained at MIT and Princeton, recently published a book called The Synchronized Universe (2005). He provides evidence about how physics can be used to understand phenomena such as NDE, and such emerging new evidence is beginning to shake the foundations of physics.
For some, believing happens in a minute during an actual experience; for others, believing comes over time by listening to patients tell their stories. I heard my first experience in Vietnam from a young soldier who was severely injured and described his NDE. It was 1969 and the term NDE did not exist, but I had never heard a patient describe such an experience. His story's detail, raw innocence and profound clarity started my journey with NDE patients.
As you are reading this, nurses around the world are hearing patients describe NDEs. Still, many may not recognize the NDE or, in some cases, are dismissing or misdiagnosing the event. In many instances, patients have been told by their physicians they are having a drug reaction, anoxia or hallucinations. It is imperative, therefore, that nurses be supportive and take an active role in educating patients, families, friends and other professionals.
There are numerous resources available for providers and families. Sharing these resources and experiences is essential for healthy integration of the NDE into patients' lives. Sharing the NDE enriches the lives of both caregivers and patients. As a nurse, knowing about NDEs may change your life forever.
Atwater, P.M.H. (2001). Coming back to life. New York: Citadel.
Bush, N.E. (2002). Afterward: Making meaning after a frightening near-death experience. Journal of Near-Death Studies, (21)2, 99-133.
Callanan, M., & Kelly, P. (1992). Final gifts. New York: Bantam.
Corcoran, D. (1988, November). Helping patients who've had near death. Nursing88, pp. 35-39.
Fenwick, P., & Fenwick, E. (1995). The truth in the light. New York: Berkley Books.
Greyson, B. (2000). Near-death experiences. In E. Cardena, S.J. Lynn & K. Krippner (Eds.), Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Horacek, B.J. (1997). Amazing grace: The healing effects of near-death experience on those dying and grieving. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 16(2), 149-161.
Ring, K. (1990). Lessons from the light. Portsmouth, NH: Moment Point Press.
Moody, R. (1975). Life after life. New York: Bantam.
Morse, M. (1990). Closer to the light. New York: Galantine.
Suleman, A. (2005). A passage to eternity. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Amethyst Publishing.
Diane Corcoran, a retired colonel in the Army Nurse Corps, is past president of IANDS and currently serves on its board of directors. She presents workshops nationally and internationally on the NDE role for healthcare providers. She has spent 30 years educating and supporting the NDE field in VA and military hospitals. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I dont want to eat any fruit or vegetable in the last some weeks. Why is that and what can I do about it?
Answers: Most likely you've been eating a lot of carbs + processed sugar lately. Those make you CRAVE more carbs and sugar, which can kill your appetite for anything else--including fruits and veggies.
If you cut out the junk foods that mess with your head and cause these cravings, after like 3 days, you're body doesn't get those cravings anymore and you can find healthier foods more enjoyable. It's really amazing.
I'll be eating incredibly health, weird dishes.. and I'll be LOVING it. But then if I have a bad day and eat sweets or something, when I go back to eating healthy it's such a turn off and tastes nasty b/c now my body is craving the bad foods again. And you just have to fight it for a few days (usually 2-3) and the cravings go away and you're happy with eating the healthy dishes again.
You can also make fruit smoothies. Fat free plain yogurt plus banana or mango or pineapple or strawberries or whatever. Those are freakin' incredibly. As for veggies, you can make a salad and throw all types of stuff on there (tomatos, red peppers, cucumbers, etc.) and then top it with your favorite dressing (you can indulge a bit if you need to, taking baby steps is fine!).
you soon will when the weight creeps on
if you aren't eating them then get a multi-vitamin=Good one is Centrium Plus
Many times when the body does not receive the necessary nutrients it needs, it sends a signal to the brain that causes you to crave for the food which bears the nutrients that your body needs. In your case, you probably are receiving the necessary nutrients from other sources so your body does not crave fruit and veg. Do you drink a lot of fruit juices, eat a lot of roughage-rich products etc?. Really, it depends with the individual so this might not be appropriate in your case. Speak to a dietician about your problem.
Dont worry about that - you can get all the protein and healthy food you need at Macdonalds. I seen the adverts, so I know. I eat there everyday and my weight never goes above 17 stone, which my mum says is good for a 14 year old really.
I cant answer this question but I felt I had to say that i thi8nk 'RICHARD' is either a very deluded kid or an adult trying to take the piss which is not funny and eating mac donalds every day will cause serious health problems and 17 stone at 14 years old is disgustingly overweight, my 16 year old 6ft cousin is muscly and only weighs 15 stone!
well i thought RICHARD was answering the question in a very funny,clever way made me laugh and does have a point as do all the answers so far.maybe LISS should unclench n go get some Prozac or something,why you got to hate for?? calling him an *** hole was a bit below the bingo wings if you ask me and naive must you have been to believe that he really was 17 stone 14 year old DUH !! . phew ! now that out of my system i think this is a silly question, fruit and veg is part of a healthy balanced diet our body requires the goodness it provides on a daily basis...did you know that our body does not store vitamin c? you need to take better care of yourself this is how we thrive maybe if you had a healthier balanced diet you would be able to write a question that makes sense xxxxxxxx
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 83. Tuesday, 16 February 1993.
Date: Tuesday, 16 Feb 93 00:01:02 EST
Subject: Shakespeare & Anti-semitism
Somebody raised an interesting point re: anti-semitic Shakespeare in MofV.
It reminded me of an experience I had as an undergrad. Certain unlucky members
of a class I was taking were asked to take sides in a debate re: Shylock in
MofV -- as soon as my prof saw me hiding behind my notebook, he enlisted me in
the "Poor Shylock" side. Needless to say, consensus was that "our side" won.
There is a VERY strong case supporting the thesis that Shakespeare depicted
Shylock as the tragic hero/victim of the play. Aside from the fact that I
"shy" away from making personal statements about authors (ie: the play is
racist; therefore, Bill was too!), IMHO Shylock's mistreatment by other
characters in the play whose racism is indisputable, is not praised or given
merit to any extent. Let's face it, Shylock isn't the *only* unlikable
character in the work. Rather a long way of saying that I think the "MofV is
an anti-semitic play, and Shakespeare was a racist" statements are the results
of over-simplification.
I wonder what Bill would say?


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As clock ticks, tension rises over a federal shutdown
For 17 years, Del Terry has opened his rustic Grand Canyon Bed and Breakfast to visitors from around the globe. But an impasse between President Obama and congressional Republicans over federal spending could force a partial government shutdown as early as Saturday, potentially closing Grand Canyon National Park and emptying his four-room inn nearby.
"It would shut down the whole town," Terry, 67, says of Williams, Ariz., population 3,336 — and gateway to most of the 5 million tourists who trek to the park each year. Terry agrees with the idea of cutting spending but hopes both sides can "think about their constituents and work this out."
Terry's livelihood will be just one of the government's worries if Republicans and Democrats can't settle huge differences over spending soon.
During the last major federal shutdowns in 1995-96, hundreds of national parks closed, veterans' checks and services were delayed, passport applications weren't processed and billions of dollars in government contracts were held up. Analysts expect more of the same if no deal is struck this time around.
The clock is ticking. As Congress returns from a week's recess today, there are little more than 100 hours before the government's spending authority expires at midnight Friday.
Both sides are crafting plans in hopes of ending the standoff.
This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to vote on a short-term bill that would fund the government through midnight March 18 and cut $4 billion from agencies. Senate Democrats, who are working on their own plan to pay the bills through September, tentatively have backed the House proposal. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the chamber's top Democrat, has not yet signed off on an agreement.
Waiting for a solution are 2.8 million civilians who work for Uncle Sam, not including 1.6 million uniformed members of the military. Troops would be among those retained in a shutdown, along with air-traffic controllers, postal carriers and anyone deemed "essential" under rules issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
The president and Congress would still work and get paid — but some lawmakers want to send them home, too.
"If we're going to throw federal employees ... out on the street, we should be right there with them," says Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va.
Less clear: Exactly how many Americans will have their passports, student loans or veterans' checks delayed? How many will find museums and national parks closed? Will Social Security applicants face disruptions? Will the economy tank?
And of particular importance to politicians: Who will be blamed?
The difficulty in answering that last question may be why a shutdown is avoidable. House Republicans set the stage by voting to cut $61 billion from a spending bill needed to fund the government through September. But they vividly recall the 1995-96 shutdowns, when their new majority lost the battle of public opinion to President Clinton.
Obama has threatened to veto the $61 billion cut, a move that won't be necessary because Reid won't consider it. The White House is so skittish about the word "shutdown" that it has been all but banished from its own lexicon. "We believe there is the strong potential there for us to reach an agreement to avoid what you call the government shutdown," White House press secretary Jay Carney says, attributing the term to reporters.
Then and now
Other things really have changed since November 1995. President Clinton had to deal with a completely Republican Congress; President Obama still has a Democratic Senate. The number of federal employees has dropped over the past 15 years, though overall pay is much higher. USA TODAYs David Jackson explores other differences surrounding the budget fights then and now.
1995: 2,943,000
Percentage of workforce employed by federal government
2009: 2% (latest available)
1995: $118 billion
Federal spending
FY 1996: $107.4 billion
Gross federal debt (end of fiscal year)
FY 1996: $5.2 trillion
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Nov. 14, 1995: 4,871.81
Sources: Census Bureau; White House Office of Management and Budget; Yahoo! Finance
Fueling the fire: angry protests in Wisconsin and several other states over Republican governors' efforts to balance budgets by cutting union benefits.
"The challenge to come up with a (federal) budget compromise in the next couple of weeks was already a pretty huge one," says Dan Schnur, who runs a politics institute at the University of Southern California. "But throw these protests into the mix and a difficult task just got that much harder."
For now, Washington is working in parallel universes. Officially, no one's planning for a shutdown. "We are planning on reaching the kind of agreements that make it unnecessary to put the American people through a government shutdown," says White House budget director Jacob Lew.
Unofficially, department and agency heads have dusted off contingency plans; they just won't talk about them. Those plans could spell out such details as who would work and who would be sent home. "You can close down (the National Institutes of Health) and send the scientists home; that's easy," says Alice Rivlin, White House budget director for the last shutdowns. "But somebody's got to feed the laboratory animals."
Recalling the 'train wreck'
Software trainer Jay Furr won't easily forget the last time the federal government shut its doors.
In December 1995, Furr was in Washington for a special occasion — a first date with Carole Stoops, whom he had met at a convention. After two months of e-mails and calls between Furr's home in Durham, N.C., and Stoops' in Falls Church, Va., they decided to test their relationship by visiting the Smithsonian's museums lining the National Mall.
But the museums were closed, and the pair became part of the story. They were interviewed at the shuttered Washington Monument by an ABC News camera crew and wound up on the evening news, sandwiched between footage of President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Budget battles have gone down to the wire many times in Washington. In some cases, including the late 1970s and early 1980s under Presidents Carter and Reagan, they went past the wire. In a few cases, federal workers were sent home.
Then came the Republican Revolution of 1994, when the GOP captured control of Congress — the House for the first time in 40 years.
By late 1995, Republicans' efforts to cut spending had met with such opposition from Clinton that two shutdowns followed. The first lasted five days. The second, 21 days, stretched into January 1996. The impact was widespread.
Federal workers were furloughed — about 800,000 the first time in November 1995, and nearly 300,000 the second time, beginning in late December. They were paid retroactively once the shutdowns ended.
About 1.9 million employees continued to work, including air-traffic controllers, CIA, FBI and border agents, health care workers and prison guards, and those who process benefit payments.
Government operations were disrupted. Cleanup at 609 toxic waste sites stopped. The hiring of 400 Border Patrol agents was put on hold. The National Park Service closed 368 sites, losing 7 million visitors. National monuments and museums were closed to an additional 2 million.
A new shutdown could affect even more; 18 million people visited parks last March, says John Garder of the non-profit National Parks Conservation Association. "People will be outraged," he says.
In the 1990s, the Social Security Administration kept nearly 5,000 employees on board to process benefit applications and answer phones, but it wasn't enough, and thousands more needed to be recalled. Politicians' futures were imperiled. Former House majority leader Dick Armey, a Republican, acknowledges the 1995-96 shutdowns were "a public-relations catastrophe" for his party.
"The nomenclature that was used in '95 was 'train wreck — will there be a train wreck?' " says Armey, now chairman of the conservative group FreedomWorks. "The discussion (among Republicans) was, presidents get blamed for shutdowns. My point was, Republicans get blamed for shutdowns. It's counter-intuitive that Democrats who love government would shut it down."
At the White House, Clinton's forces weren't so sure they would come out on top.
"We didn't want it to happen, either," Rivlin says. "We were afraid the administration might get blamed."
In the end, says Elaine Kamarck, a top policy adviser for Clinton, "I think it won him the '96 election. I think the political impact was enormous."
Veterans, seniors at risk
If fear of political retribution doesn't motivate Obama, Reid and Republican House Speaker John Boehner this week, perhaps the fears of average Americans will.
•Millions of veterans and their families could see their checks for disability, education and other benefits delayed in a shutdown, says Garry Augustine, national service director for Disabled American Veterans, which has 1.2 million members. More than 3 million veterans receive disability benefits.
Veterans' checks are scheduled to go out Tuesday, so March payments would not be affected. But if a shutdown continued for one or two weeks, April payments could be delayed, Augustine says. "Even if checks are delayed for just a couple of days, that's huge for people who are disabled and on a fixed income and are dependent on every penny," he says.
•Social Security beneficiaries would get their checks because the money isn't dependent on annual appropriations from Congress.
Prospective recipients face a less certain future. David Certner, legislative policy director for the AARP, the nation's largest seniors organization, says seniors should settle their transactions now. "If you need to talk with a Social Security representative," he says, "get in there early."
•Government contractors are scrambling to figure out what a shutdown might mean for the hundreds of thousands of non-government workers who do everything from building jet-engine parts to education research to emptying the trash in government buildings.
"It's all anybody is talking about," says Stan Soloway, CEO of the Professional Services Council, which represents more than 350 government contractors. More than 100 attended a meeting Wednesday in Washington to talk strategy. "It's now becoming evident to people that a shutdown is a real possibility."
Battle for public opinion
As the clock ticks down, both sides are jockeying for position. Republican votes to cut $61 billion from many agencies take "a meat ax to programs that keep our communities safe and keep our economy growing," Reid says. Senate Democrats are drafting their own proposal to extend federal spending beyond midnight Friday.
For their part, House Republicans want Democrats to agree to $4 billion in cuts in a proposed two-week extension and argue Democrats would bear the blame if lawmakers fail to reach a deal to keep the government running. "Americans want the government to stay open, and they want it to spend less money," Boehner says.
In a sign of easing tensions, the Senate Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., says the Republican plan is "clearly headed in the right direction" and both sides are "getting closer" to ending the budget impasse. His comments came Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.
Reid's spokesman Jon Summers says Senate Democrats are "encouraged" by the plan.
The GOP proposal to keep the government open until March 18 would allow most federal agencies to continue operating at existing funding levels, but save $1.24 billion by cutting programs already targeted for reduction by Obama. Those include ending a $250 million reading program for middle and high school students and cutting $650 million from federal highway funds. The remaining savings would be achieved by revoking some $2.7 billion in earmarks, as lawmakers' pet projects are known.
The White House is trying to play mediator. "The president believes the leaders of the House and the Senate need to get together to work something out," Carney, the press secretary, says.
Some Republicans are convinced that unlike the last showdown, they would win the public-opinion battle this time. Armey says the small-government Tea Party movement and the sheer size of today's $1.6 trillion 2011 budget deficit have motivated millions of Americans.
At town hall meetings with constituents, "the standard response I'm hearing ... is to stand our ground" on spending cuts, says Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack, a freshman Republican.
"We need to see some serious, serious cuts in spending or shut the government down," says Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, one of the groups active in the midterm elections that put the House in GOP control. "A three- or four-week shutdown will not be the end of the world as we know it."
In the case of Furr and Stoops, it was a new start. Forced to talk as they strolled the deserted National Mall, they compared notes on their childhoods in Ohio and Virginia. They were married less than two years later and remain together today.
"If we had wound up at the Air and Space Museum or the art museum, we might have looked at the exhibits and not gotten a good sense of whether we liked each other," Furr says. "So in a perverse kind of way, the government shutdown kind of helped."
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I admit it. Between 1979 and 1981, I was a welfare recipient.
It was the equivalent of youth allowance, money paid by the government to university students studying full-time. That money allowed me to complete a degree in the minimum amount of time, which was good for two reasons. I was the first in my family to gain a university degree. And I don't know if I would have stuck it out part-time.
From the moment I completed my last subject, I have been in full-time employment or on (all-too-brief) maternity leave. And from that time, I have paid tax (and also provided three little taxpayers).
That's a little bit over 30 years and I've never once complained. Mind you, if other bills arrived like my tax bill, I'd be shitty.
Turns out to be a trust thing. The Tax Office, as a tool of the government, asks me to cough up in advance yet doesn't tell me where my money is going. It's a bill that comes fortnightly and, unlike other bills, it isn't itemised.
Well, it wasn't. Until last week. The Treasurer Joe Hockey thought it would be useful for me to know where my tax dollars were going. Goodie, I thought, as this government prepares to slash funding to areas I consider important. At least I'll know where the money's going.
Unfortunately, I was somewhat disappointed. Mr Hockey only had one figure, and it was this. He said average Australians were working more than one month a year to provide welfare. He wanted to crystallise it for everybody because he thought people were being mean to his budget. Mean, misguided and part of an attempt to start a class war.
He said the very idea of the a gap between rich and poor is just a decoy to attack governments "when all other avenues have been exhausted". Adorable, don't you think? The Treasurer thinks we've run out of ways to criticise the government. Oh my. I have a list and I'm not afraid to use it.
But before I do, let's look at Mr Hockey's calculation. He claims ordinary Australians work for a month to pay for welfare. What he did was divide the welfare bill by the value of the economy as a whole. So if we call GDP a year, then welfare would be a 12th or a month. So the economy works for a month to pay welfare.
So that's 8 per cent of the GDP. Yes, a small percentage of what the Australian economy makes in order to look after the following people: the old, the sick, the disabled, veterans, families with children. It's our contribution to the indigenous community. In fact, it's just 8 per cent to look after our whole family, all of us. I only wish it could be more. For a social contract, 8 per cent seems a tiny amount to keep our society fair.
And if it's 8 per cent (or thereabouts), where else does the money go? It turns out I have to work for eight seconds to pay Joe Hockey's package. And cabinet uses up more than two minutes of my pay packet. Sad face.
In figures calculated by David Richardson, senior research fellow at The Australian Institute, it's 5½ days for defence, which is only a little bit less than what we spend on education. It's a pathetic 1.6 days for transport and communication.
And, shockingly, it turns out I have to fork out more than half a working day to support mining, manufacturing and construction. I thought those sectors are supposed to be funding our economy, not the other way around.
Mr Hockey's argument is that payments are available to too many people. It's a shame the experts don't agree with him. Roger Wilkins, the lead author of a new report from the Melbourne Institute, says he is somewhat surprised by the Treasurer's focus on welfare.
He said: "Anyone advancing a particular argument is going to try to represent their argument in a particular way ... but does it communicate meaningful information? I don't think so."
It's also wrong. Professor Wilkins says Australians are far less dependent on welfare now than they were 20 years ago.
And Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke is also utterly perplexed by the arguments. She says, instead of demonising welfare recipients, the Treasurer should ensure Australia shows real leadership of the G20 and put inequality as the number one concern on the agenda. She says Australians are with her.
Oxfam released two sets of research on Monday in the lead-up to Friday's Civil 20 Summit in Melbourne, the first of the G20 satellite conferences before the Leader's Summit in November.
What does the research say? The wealthiest 1 per cent of Australians have more money than 60 per cent of the nation's population. That's a trend that continues. But Ms Szoke also says nearly 80 per cent of Australians surveyed think the gap between the richest and poorest Australians has widened over the past decade.
Mr Hockey, most Australians have a social conscience. The research shows 70 per cent of Australians surveyed think it is unfair that the richest 1 per cent of Australians owns more than 60 per cent of the poorest Australians. We also think the very wealthy don't pay enough tax.
In fact, Mr Hockey, want to know what we really think? Australians want you and your government to take action to close the gap, not to make it worse.
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For those hockey fans waiting for Sidney Crosby to overcome his concussion issues and return to the ice, there was a hopeful sign yesterday.
And, oddly enough, it was because Crosby was roughed up.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the Penguins center essentially had 75 minutes of full contact at a practice, and then stayed around for some additional time with teammates to further test himself.
The Post-Gazette says Crosby wasn't involved in any significant collisions, but that he had his share of action in front of the net, and also in some intense 5-on-5 drills.
Said Penguins coach Dan Bylsma: "He shows a great willingness to initiate and go to the net, look for that type of situation, whether it's one-on-one, two-on-one, three-on-two, whether he is expecting to have contact or not."
Crosby didn't speak with reporters afterward. He hasn't played since last Jan. 5. Pittsburgh's next game is tomorrow, at home against Dallas.
UPDATE: Bylsma said after today's practice that Crosby won't play this weekend. That means his next opportunity would be Tuesday at home, in a national TV game against Colorado.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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Mr Shacks, its ALWAYS a great time! If you have a flexible schedule, wait till you see a swell in the forecast, then surf the whole coast while on the road trip down!!! I would suggest camping. good times and great waves for the east coast!
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Mr Shacks, its ALWAYS a great time! If you have a flexible schedule, wait till you see a swell in the forecast, then surf the whole coast while on the road trip down!!! I would suggest camping. good times and great waves for the east coast!
Very good chance of scoring waves in May, but May can sometimes be plagued with onshore winds in the Mid Atlantic. I, however, did take a trip to OBX in the middle of May last year, and we surfed every single day of the week. We had 3 days of 3-4'+ waves, and the rest of the days were smaller, but still rideable.
What they said, except the doofus talking about the cops. I know a lot of those guys and it ain't easy. I am a cop and you need to give respect. There is a huge heroin problem there, so be polite, respect the local laws, surf and have a good time. If the surf sucks, and it could, go fishing. It is one of the best times of the year to catch something good to eat.
Sir, I don't mean to be disrespectful to the police. But why is it that the least crime-ridden, most peaceful places have police with the biggest attitudes. It doesn't do any good because 80% of the Banks' residents are substance abusers, and they aren't going to change. It's part of the culture/lifestyle down there. I understand that dealing with arrogant drunks, and playing baby sitter in domestic disputes is trying...and yeah you never know who is going to turn violent, but some police need to relax. I can only imagine the situations you face, the horrible things you see, dealing with the dregs of society, and seeing the worst of humanity on a daily basis. But you're not going to single-handedly win the "Drug War."
All I said in my original post, was that the police on the Outer Banks are over-zealous. I just warned people that you aren't going to get away with Daytona Beach-Spring Break behavior there. Tourist area cops should be well aware of that "vacation" mentality, where people think they can act differently than normal because, "the're on vacation."
While we are talking about OBX i am heading down around June 17th I believe hopefully get a couple days with ride able waves anyone elses input?
Buxton has the most consistent surf,in Cape Hatteras.


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Images highlighting projects undertaken and completed prior to and during East & South Vancouver Barracks' first year as a unit of the National Park Service.
Credit: NPS PhotoPlexiglass closure work on this north-facing window of Double Infantry Barracks 2 (Bldg 989) ensures both security and air circulation while retaining the aesthetic view from the park's historic Parade Ground.Download 1.5 MB
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What adjectives would you use to describe characters in To Kill a Mockingbird? Atticus (3 adjectives) Scout (3) Jem (3) Calpurnia (3) Aunt Alexandra (2) Dill (2) Boo Radley (2) Miss Maudie...
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Atticus is brave, patient and clever. He supports Tom, he doesn't punish Scout when she's bad, and he proves Tom is innocent.
Scout is explosive, intelligent, and insightful in the end. She wants to fight anyone who crosses her or her family, she can read and write, and she understands Boo to be a mockingbird.
Jem is mature, creative and patient. He is mature by understanding why Boo is the way he is. He creates a snow/mud man and the plays for the yard. He's patient with Scout when she gets mad a Aunt Alexandra--he gives her a tootsie roll.
Calpurnia is intelligent, motherly and responsible. She knows how to read/write, she scolds Scout when she's rude to Walter, and she makes sure to clean the children before taking them to church.
Aunt Alexandra is aloof, yet she is caring. She thinks her family is better than others because of their heritage. Yet, she does show her love for Atticus when her missionary cirlce is interrupted with news of Tom's death.
Dill is creative and expressive. He tells wild tales and strange stories to Scout and Jem all the time while his face lights up with expression.
Boo is considerate and brave. He gives scout the blanket when she's cold the night of the fire, and he risks his own life to save the children in the end.
Miss Maudie is strong because she isn't afraid to stand up to Miss Merriweather. She is optimistic because she sees the fire as a way of getting a larger yard rather than a smaller house.


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Knowledge Structures of Prospectors, Analyzers, and Defenders: Content, Structure, Stability, and Performance
Kabanoff, Boris & Brown, Shane A. (2008) Knowledge Structures of Prospectors, Analyzers, and Defenders: Content, Structure, Stability, and Performance. Strategic Management Journal, 29(2), pp. 149-171.
The managerial cognition perspective argues that managers operating in complex, dynamic environments develop knowledge structures that help them focus their attention, interpretation, and actions. We explore the content and structure of top managers' strategic knowledge structures by measuring differences in the level of attention they give in annual reports to strategic issues and themes that Miles and Snow used to describe their main strategic types. Twenty-one themes that form seven main factors describing managers' strategic cognition are identified, and these demonstrate reasonable fit with the Miles and Snow model. We show that expert raters can recognize these factors when they read annual reports that contain them. Cluster analysis is then used to identify groups of firms that share similar profiles on these strategic dimensions which are interpreted as examples of cognitive strategic groups. These groups show alignment with Miles and Snow's strategic types, are relatively stable over time, and differ in financial performance. The sample comprises 1,038 listed Australian firms between the years 1992 and 2003.
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Angela Park was born in Brazil. As a young
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She took up golf and became one of the top young amateur golfers
in the country, finishing in the top 10 in 24 of the 29 AJGA
events she played. Perhaps her biggest achievement as an amateur
was beating In Kyung Kim at the 2005 US Women's Amateur before
losing to Morgan Pressel in the semifinals.
After Song Hee Kim petitioned the Futures
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Nabisco Championship. She then turned pro and joined the Futures
Tour, where she had good success. By the final tournament
of the year, she had risen to fifth on the money list; if
she could maintain that position, she would earn her exempt
status for 2007. But she did not play that well in the final
event, and someone else got that last card.
If Angela was crushed, she moved past it.
At LPGA Q-School a few months later, she easily earned her
exempt card by finishing fifth. Indeed, she even led the tournament
for a while. So she will have her chance in 2007 to test herself
against the game's best as one of the youngest rookies on
In 2007, Angela Park almost immediately took
control of the Rookie of the Year race. She struggled somewhat
at the first tournament of the year, but at the second, the
Fields Open, she opened the week with a 66 and continued to
stay in contention much of the week, finishing tied for third
in the end. She continued to play well after that, making
every cut and finishing for the most part in the top 25 at
the next 9 events she played.
She returned to contention at the Ginn Tribute
in June, charging out to a first round lead with a 66. She
notched her second top ten there. The next week, she did it
again, seizing control of the first round lead. But this was
a far more impressive time to do it, for it was the year's
second Major, the LPGA Championship. She continued to play
well all week, finishing 5th, her first top ten at a Major.
Her run at the Majors was not done. Just two
weeks later, she once again took the first round lead at a
Major, this time the US Women's Open. The event was plagued
with rain and weather delays. Still, Park found herself in
the lead for much of the first two days. Johnny Miller was
so impressed with her swing that he called it the best in
the entire LPGA. Going into the final round, she was still
near the top of the leaderboard, and rallied towards the end
to put herself close to the win with just a couple of holes
to go. In the end, it wasn't enough, and she finished tied
for second. But two consecutive top five finishes in Majors
gave her a huge lead in the Rookie race, one she would never
relinquish: she went on to become the sixth woman with Korean
blood to win the Rookie of the Year award in the past ten
years. Had she won either of those Majors, she would have
become the youngest in history of either gender to win a Major.
She missed her only cut of the year at the
year's final Major, the Women's British Open, another impressive
record, and went on to notch eight top tens and make nearly
a million dollars. She did not win an event, but she came
close. After the Open, highlights included a fantastic final
round 63 at the Navistar Classic to finish tied for third,
and a week long charge at the Samsung World Championship which
came up short; she finished third there, too. She ended the
year with a wonderful speech accepting her Rookie of the Year
award, and by playing on the losing International team at
the Lexus Cup (she represented Brazil and played against the
Asian squad, meaning she was facing a team of mostly Korean
golfers!). Although her team lost, she won two of the three
matches she played.
2008 started well for Angela Park. In the
first event of the LPGA season, she was in contention to win
when she was slapped with a two stroke penalty for slow play.
The penalty knocked her for a loop, and she would not score
another top ten until April. She really recovered, however,
at the year's third Major, the US Women's Open, where she
once again was in contention, finishing tied for third with
In-Kyung Kim. The next week, she shot her career low score,
a 62, and scored another top ten in Arkansas. A few weeks
after that, she was once again in contention, this time at
the Evian Masters. In fact, she went to a playoff for the
title against Helen Alfredsson and Korean Na Yeon Choi, but
lost on the first hole.
Park struggled a bit after that, but with
more than $800,000 in earnings in her sophomore year, she
showed she was not just a one year flash in the pan.
2009 was a puzzling year for Angela. She started
very well, with three top tens in her first four starts. After
that, everything completely fell apart. A player who missed
almost no cuts in her first two seasons suddenly was missing
them left and right. From mid-May to early November, she did
not make a single LPGA cut. As far as we know, she was not
injured; she simply had a melltdown with her long game. She
only rarely could keep her drives straight for very long.
As it turns out, she was never able to fix
her problems, and in 2010 she abandoned her career and began
working as a hotel receptionist in Los Angeles. In an interview
with a Brazilian magazine, she explained that she had lost
her passion for the game, and without passion she could not
motivate herself to continue. She did not discount the possibility
she would return, but for the time being is finished with
golf, a shocking and sad ending to a career that had held
so much promise just a few years earlier.
In 2012, Angela did in fact prepare for her
return to golf! She appeared at the LPGA's Brazil Cup and
worked towards returning to golf full time, perhaps even the
LPGA tour. She entered Q-School in the Fall, but did not get
out of the preliminary rounds.
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