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Stetson Fresh Cologne by Coty, Stetson, first established as a haberdasher for men, is as american as the cowboy hats that they are famous for . This is a woody chypre for the most masculine man- dynamic and virile. The ads use quarterback tom brady as the model, and is a clean scent with notes of mint leaf, liquid oxygen accord, pepper, bergamot, green mountain air, rosemary, thyme, lavender, birch, moss, leather and musks. All products are original, authentic name brands. We do not sell knockoffs or imitations. ... Read More
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32nd Annual Resolutions Custom Truck Show - So Long, Reso
Say Goodbye To The Longest Ongoing Truck Run
Resolutions is one of the most popular shows in the custom-truck scene. The event draws hundreds of mild to wild custom vehicles and boasts unforgettable nights of hanging out with fellow truck enthusiasts. For decades, many have traveled long distances to several desert towns in California to live it up at this original truck run.
Unfortunately, the cost of producing the show has risen, and instead of upping entry prices, promoter Bob Hase has decided to call it a day. Though it's sad to see the end of this 32-year-old show, Sport Truck was lucky enough to be part of one hell of a final celebration. This being the last show, many made their biggest effort to be in attendance, with or without a vehicle. There were more faces than ever from other states and distant countries. It was all in the name of making the final show memorable-and it truly was.
THE 411Show NameResolutions
DatesDecember 28-30, 2007
Venue ( City/State )Colorado River Fairgrounds, Blythe, California
Spectator AttendanceOver 3,000
Total Vehicle EntrantsOver 1,400
Awards Given:First Place, Club Participation went to Severed Ties which brought out 133 vehicles. Second went to Freaks of Nature with 107 rides, and Third Place went to No Regrets with 34.
Special EventsThis being a true three-day truck run, a large part of the fun invloved camping and hanging out. The party went on for several nights, and unless you brought three layers of clothing, you froze your ass off. But it's all part of the full-on truck-run experience, and this event will be sorely missed.
SponsorsGrunion Fabrication, Hall Ass "The Shop," The Interior Shop, Extreme Audio, Street Rod Factory, Mac's Spring, Air-Zenith, Ckustmz, Grant Kustoms, Master Image Customs, Chassis by Aaron Iha, Autocore Kustoms, MadHouse FX, Lowlife Video, Clarion, Ludikrs Kustomz, IF, Martin Bros. Alloys, Go-EZ, Autoi. com, Leet Auto Design

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Three people were shot on the 300 block of Baldwin Avenue in Pontiac on Sunday, Oakland County Sheriff's deputies report.
A 26-year-old Pontiac resident was shot seven times and is in surgery at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. A 23-year-old Detroit man was transported to McLaren Oakland Hospital for a gunshot wound to his stomach, and a 24-year-old Pontiac man was shot in the foot. All three men are in stable condition.
Upon arrival, deputies found that one victim was unresponsive by breathing. Deputies report that the other two shooting victims came to the address where the altercation with the third person ensued.
The two men who were transported to McLaren Oakland Hospital told deputies that they don't know how they were shot.
No guns were recovered but several shell casings from both a .40 caliber and a 9mm handgun were recovered by deputies.


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- adverse reaction (1)
- healthcare personnel (1)
- healthcare worker (1)
- hospital (1)
- immunization (1)
- influenza vaccination (1)
- novel H1N1 influenza (1)
- qualitative research (1)
- social cognitive (1)
- "I don't see an added value for myself" : a qualitative study exploring the social cognitive variables associated with influenza vaccination of Belgian, Dutch and German healthcare personnel (2014)
- Background: Health Authorities recommend influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel (HCP) to decrease the transmission of influenza to vulnerable patients. Recent studies have almost exclusively used quantitative questionnaires in order to identify determinants of vaccination behaviour. Interviews enable HCP to express freely why they think they are (not) willing to get vaccinated against influenza. Methods: By means of semi-structured one-on-one interviews with 123 Belgian, Dutch and German HCP, reasons for and against vaccination, experiences with influenza vaccination, intention to get vaccinated and possible barriers, as well as willingness to advice influenza vaccination to patients were investigated. Data were processed with QSR NVivo 8.0 and analysed using a combination of a deductive and a general inductive approach. Results: Across countries, self-protection, patient protection, and protection of family members were reported as most important reasons to get vaccinated against influenza. Reasons to not get vaccinated against influenza were fear of side effects caused by the vaccine, a low risk-perception, the disbelief in the effectiveness of influenza vaccination, organizational barriers, misconceptions, and undefined negative emotions. Conclusions: The social cognitive variables underlying the decision of HCP to get vaccinated against influenza (or not) seem to be similar in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands, even though some differences surfaced. A quantitative investigation of those social cognitive variables is needed in order to determine the importance of the social cognitive variables in explaining the intention to get vaccinated and the importance of the similarities and differences between countries that have been found in this study.
- A common HLA-DPA1 variant is associated with hepatitis B virus infection but fails to distinguish active from inactive Caucasian carriers (2012)
- Background and Aims: Chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major health issue worldwide. Recently, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DP locus were identified to be associated with HBV infection in Asian populations. Most significant associations were observed for the A alleles of HLA-DPA1 rs3077 and HLA-DPB1 rs9277535, which conferred a decreased risk for HBV infection. We assessed the implications of these variants for HBV infection in Caucasians. Methods: Two HLA-DP gene variants (rs3077 and rs9277535) were analyzed for associations with persistent HBV infection and with different clinical outcomes, i.e., inactive HBsAg carrier status versus progressive chronic HBV (CHB) infection in Caucasian patients (n = 201) and HBsAg negative controls (n = 235). Results: The HLA-DPA1 rs3077 C allele was significantly associated with HBV infection (odds ratio, OR = 5.1, 95% confidence interval, CI: 1.9–13.7; p = 0.00093). However, no significant association was seen for rs3077 with progressive CHB infection versus inactive HBsAg carrier status (OR = 2.7, 95% CI: 0.6–11.1; p = 0.31). In contrast, HLA-DPB1 rs9277535 was not associated with HBV infection in Caucasians (OR = 0.8, 95% CI: 0.4–1.9; p = 1). Conclusions: A highly significant association of HLA-DPA1 rs3077 with HBV infection was observed in Caucasians. However, as a differentiation between different clinical courses of HBV infection was not possible, knowledge of the HLA-DPA1 genotype cannot be translated into personalized anti-HBV therapy approaches.
- Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 : impact on Frankfurt in due consideration of health care and public health (2010)
- Background: In April 2009 a novel influenza A H1N1/2009 virus was identified in Mexico and in the United States which quickly spread around the world. Most of the countries established infection surveillance systems in order to track the number of (laboratory-confirmed) H1N1 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Methods: The impact of the emergence of the novel pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus on Frankfurt was statistically evaluated by the Health Protection Authority, City of Frankfurt am Main. Vaccination rates of the health care workers (HCWs) of the University Hospital Frankfurt were measured by the Occupational Health Service. Results: Although the virulence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 seems to be comparable with seasonal influenza, a major patient load and wave of hospital admissions occurred in the summer of 2009. Even though the 2009 vaccination rate of the University Hospital Frankfurt (seasonal influenza [40.5%], swine flu [36.3%]) is better than the average annual uptake of influenza vaccine in the German health care system (approximately 22% for seasonal and 15% for swine flu), vaccination levels remain insufficient. However, physicians were significantly (p < 0.001) more likely to have been vaccinated against swine flu and seasonal influenza than nurses. Conclusions: The outbreak of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in April 2009 provided a major challenge to health services around the world. Nosocomial transmission of H1N1/2009 has been documented. Present experience should be used to improve pandemic preparedness plans and vaccination programs ought to target as many HCWs as possible.
- Medical students' attitude towards influenza vaccination (2015)
- Background: Influenza vaccination is recommended for all healthcare personnel (HCP) and most institutions offer vaccination for free and on site. However, medical students do not always have such easy access, and the predictors that might guide the motivation of medical students to get vaccinated are largely unknown. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey study among pre-clinical medical students in a German University hospital to assess the social cognitive predictors of influenza vaccination, as well as reasons for refusal and acceptance of the vaccine. Results: Findings show that pre-clinical medical students have comparable knowledge gaps and negative attitudes towards influenza vaccination that have previously been reported among HCP. Lower injunctive norms and higher feelings of autonomy contribute to no intention to get vaccinated against influenza, while a positive instrumental attitude and higher feelings of autonomy contribute to a high intention to get vaccinated. The variables in the regression model explained 20% of the variance in intention to get vaccinated. Conclusions: The identified factors should be addressed early in medical education, and hospitals might benefit from a more inclusive vaccination program and accessibility of free vaccines for their medical students.
- Mobile Air Quality Studies (MAQS) - an international project (2010)
- Due to an increasing awareness of the potential hazardousness of air pollutants, new laws, rules and guidelines have recently been implemented globally. In this respect, numerous studies have addressed traffic-related exposure to particulate matter using stationary technology so far. By contrast, only few studies used the advanced technology of mobile exposure analysis. The Mobile Air Quality Study (MAQS) addresses the issue of air pollutant exposure by combining advanced high-granularity spatial-temporal analysis with vehicle-mounted, person-mounted and roadside sensors. The MAQS-platform will be used by international collaborators in order 1) to assess air pollutant exposure in relation to road structure, 2) to assess air pollutant exposure in relation to traffic density, 3) to assess air pollutant exposure in relation to weather conditions, 4) to compare exposure within vehicles between front and back seat (children) positions, and 5) to evaluate "traffic zone"- exposure in relation to non-"traffic zone"-exposure. Primarily, the MAQS-platform will focus on particulate matter. With the establishment of advanced mobile analysis tools, it is planed to extend the analysis to other pollutants including including NO2, SO2, nanoparticles, and ozone.
- Reliability of medical students' vaccination histories for immunisable diseases (2008)
- Background Medical students come into contact with infectious diseases early on their career. Immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases is therefore vital for both medical students and the patients with whom they come into contact. Methods The purpose of this study was to compare the medical history and serological status of selected vaccine-preventable diseases of medical students in Germany. Results The overall correlation between medical history statements and serological findings among the 150 students studied was 86.7 %, 66.7 %, 78 % and 93.3 % for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, conditional on sufficient immunity being achieved after one vaccination. Conclusions Although 81.2 % of the students medical history data correlated with serological findings, significant gaps in immunity were found. Our findings indicate that medical history alone is not a reliable screening tool for immunity against the vaccine-preventable diseases studied.
- Self-reported adverse reactions in 4337 healthcare workers immunizations against novel H1N1 influenza (2011)
- Purpose: The use of the 2009 H1N1 vaccine has generated much debate concerning safety issues among the general population and physicians. Therefore, we investigated the safety of an inactivated monovalent H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine Methods: We focused on the H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine Pandemrix(R) and applied a self reporting questionnaire in a population of healthcare workers (HCWs) and medical students at a major university hospital. Results: In total, 4337 individuals were vaccinated, consisting of 3808 HCWs and 529 medical students. The vaccination rate of the employees was higher than 40%.The majority of individuals were vaccinated in November 2009. In total, 291 of the 4337 vaccinations were reported to lead to one or more adverse reactions (6.7%). Local reactions were reported in 3.8%, myalgia and arthralgia in 3.7%, fatigue in 3.7%, headache in 3.1%. Conclusions: Our data together with available data from several national and international institutions points to a safe pandemic influenza vaccine.


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Pacers get: Jermaine O'Neal, trade exeption, 25
Celtics get: Posey, Rush
Jermaine has said he wants to retire as a Pacer. This gives him the chance to and he isnt as useless as Posey.
Posey was a fan favorite in Boston so why not bring him back for likely their last real championship run before they really start declining. Rush would be valubale on a contender and they are trying to trade the #25 pick. Pacers also save a small portion of salary.


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With Skyrim's latest game add-on, players can build their own home from the ground up. Beginning with a small, one room cabin in The Pale, Falkreath, or Hjaalmarch, players can eventually construct a fully functioning home with more features than you could possibly expect.
In many ways, this house-building process is analogous to the evolution of Hearthfire's development.
Like Dawnguard, Hearthfire's inception came out of Bethesda Game Studios' first-ever "Game Jam", a weeklong exercise where members of the team shared in-game ideas for expanding Skyrim.
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I think these (first 3 pix) are tourist items because they had old pricetags for $1.90. Yes I paid more than that. I found the necklaces at a junk store in St. George, Utah. The lovely UTU was found in Iowa.
In the 1920's loomed necklaces were popular - buy the kit w/beads and instructions. Some wonderful examples can be found and I can never afford them! So the 2 "tourist" necklaces were a find. My favorite is the pink, navy and green - sorry my pictures aren't great. It is so pretty - I would never have considered that color combination but of course it gets the most comments.


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Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne to Perform at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards | Maraj Magazine
Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne will be performing at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. The show will air on ABC at 8 ET; LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Jennifer Lopez ad Crhis Brown will also be performing. Full story here: http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/bbma-2013/1560507/jennifer-lopez-lil-wayne-nicki-minaj-chris-brown-join-billboard


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Like millions of other Americans, I enjoyed watching "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson" during the 30 years Carson hosted the late-night TV staple.
I was often curious about the private life of the impossibly suave and seemingly imperturbable man who did such a wonderful job as host and comedian night after night. But Carson apparently was a rather unhappy and mean-spirited individual who spent all his free time drinking, smoking and chasing women, at least according to Henry Bushkin, author of "Johnny Carson" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).
To be fair, Bushkin's book is not really a biography of Carson – a more accurate title would be "Carson and Me." There is precious little information on Carson's early family life in Nebraska, apart from a description of his mother as a heartless, impossible-to-please woman.
The author, who spent most of the 1970s and 1980s as Carson's lawyer, confidante, tennis partner and general all-around fixer, provides plenty of behind-the-scenes snapshots of the man behind the public figure, but most are descriptions of the things Carson and Bushkin did together.
I felt a certain guilty pleasure while reading "Johnny Carson." There are details of the parties Carson threw and attended with his many rich and famous friends, most of whom were his drinking buddies. He maintained a friendship with Frank Sinatra, though Sinatra might have been the only man who intimidated Carson.
The book fully chronicles Carson's many failings as husband and father. After all, he was married four times, cheated remorselessly on all of his wives and spent no time with any of the three sons he had with his first wife, Joan.
Bushkin was certainly a good lawyer and friend to Carson. He negotiated numerous contracts for the Carson show; the rental and purchase of various properties, homes and businesses; and the shows Carson performed in Las Vegas for years. But along the way, it is clear that Bushkin lost some of his morals through his association with the entertainer. Bushkin's womanizing eventually led to his own divorce.
Carson ultimately fired Bushkin, like he did so many other of his employees, in a cold and casual manner, the apparent victim of unsupported rumors.
What was Carson really like? According to Bushkin, he was "an incredibly complex man: one moment gracious, funny and generous; and curt, aloof and hard-hearted in the next."
"Johnny Carson" left me feeling rather sad: both for Bushkin, who lost his way while attached to a rich, demanding man, and for Carson, who died alone and seemingly adrift from his family.
Bushkin's tome should make an entertaining read for book clubs that enjoy nonfiction and biographies, though a thorough biography of Carson, one of America's most beloved hosts and entertainers, remains to be written.
Leslie Ashmore is a longtime Mountain View resident who belongs to two book clubs.


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Ray 500 Sundancer — By Capt. Bill Pike
— February 2003
A Star is Born
|This express-style beauty's got the panache and pizzazz of a great performer.
I pinwheeled the Sea Ray 500 Sundancer in a sunny little lagoon, preparing to back the big express cruiser into a concrete-sided slip overhung with a giant, blue TraveLift. A breeze blew straight off the docks of the Sykes Creek Plant in Merritt Island, Florida, the spot where Sea Ray builds most of its larger vessels. It was a mild zephyr, but emphatic enough to lift a flag or two on the numerous other Sea Rays in slips nearby. I figured it would facilitate the process of backing down.
Of course, I was smiling the faint smile of the true boat nut, which is not unlike the faint smile of the Mona Lisa. There's just something mysteriously delightful about maneuvering a big, gutsy, well-mannered boat around a dock, making her do precisely what you want. I shot a glance ahead, through the tall, frameless Taylor Made windshield. With a couple of feet to spare, the Sundancer's bow pulpit was sweeping crisply past the mangroves on the far side of the lagoon. I returned my attention to the stern, which was easily visible from my perch on the flip-up bolster that's part of the adjustable helm seat. The large, hydraulic swim platform back there was clearing an abutment nicely, again with a few feet to spare.
Less is more, when it comes to boathandling. I pulled both 635-hp Cummins MerCruiser QSM11s out of gear, noting with satisfaction that the Teleflex shifters were savvily positioned on the port side of the wheel, where I could easily work them with my right hand while facing astern. Dealing with the throttles on the other side of the wheel was totally unnecessary, by the way, due to the size of the props and the idle-speed torque of the powerplants. The boat continued to pinwheel under the influence of her displacement, gradually assuming a catty-cornered position. I clicked the starboard shifter astern momentarily, which stalled the pinwheel effect, pulled the right-hand corner of the transom slowly back into the slip, and began moving the bow to starboard, toward a fingerpier where we needed to tie up. After a bit, I gave the powerful, 24-volt MaxPower thruster a couple of shots to accelerate the movement of the bow and watched appreciatively as the big cruiser settled into the slip precisely where she needed to be.
A guy in a Sea Ray T-shirt came strolling up, took the outboard stern line, and figure-eighted it on a cleat on the pier. "Good job," he winked, moving forward. The remark pretty much summarized the opinion I'd formed during the past couple of hours of sea-trialing the 500 in the nearby Indian River. Sightlines forward while coming out of the hole were unobstructed--I didn't even need to lift my chin to see clearly over the bow. Turns were smooth and effortless--I found I could spin the wheel at all times with just one finger, thanks to Teleflex SeaStar hydraulics and engine-driven power-assist. And the Sea Ray Navigator, an optional, dashboard-mounted PC plotter with a daylight-viewable touch screen that is truly daylight-viewable, showed its stuff with flair. All I had to do to set a waypoint and automatically steer towards it was gently poke the screen with a finger and then push the little orange button on the autopilot.
This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Patrick Stewart Returns to the Young Vic in BINGO, Feb 2012
After announcing this morning that he will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company this summer, Patrick Stewart has also announced that he will be returning to the Young Vic next year, whatsonstage.com reports. He will appear as William Shakespeare in Edward Bond's 1973 play Bingo, a play he first appeared in back in April 2010 at Chichester Festival's Minerva Theatre.
In his return to the Royal Shakespeare Company this summer, Stewart will once again work with director Rupert Goold. Stewart will take on the role of Shylock in Bard's The Merchant of Venice.
Bingo, co-produced by The Young Vic and Chichester Festival Theatre, is directed by Angus Jackson and will run from February 23 to March 31, 2012. Previews begin February 16. Stewart last appeared at the Young Vic in 1986 in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Bingo depicts Shakespeare in the last days of his life - ageing, facing poverty and lacking creative energy, until his poetry is suddenly once again unleashed by the catastrophic circumstances he faces.
Along with this announcement, the Young Vic released news of their full season from March 2011 - March 2012. The season will include: Joe Hill-Gibbins' sell-out production of Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane (20 July-3 September 2011), starring Rosaleen Linehan; John Fulljames' production of Kurt Weill musical Street Scene (15 September-1 October 2011), with its 80-strong community ensemble, back for 14 performances only after its brief 2008 run; David Harrower's new version of Gogol's The Government Inspector (3 June-9 July 2011), starring Julian Barratt and Doon Mackichan, directed by Richard Jones; and the latest ENO/Young Vic opera co-production, Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses (24 March-9 April 2011).
Also confirmed is the next Hamlet, with Michael Sheen taking the title role, directed by Ian Rickson. It will run in the Young Vic's main house from 9 November 2011 to 21 January 2012 (previews from 28 October).
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TPWD News Release — Sept. 8, 2005
AUSTIN, Texas — Within the past week, Texas game wardens in New Orleans have rescued close to 5,000 people left stranded by Hurricane Katrina's lingering floodwaters. Meanwhile, hundreds of evacuees are still camping free in dozens of Texas state parks.
On Aug. 30, a team of 53 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens from all parts of the state crossed the Louisiana line with 52 vehicles and 50 boats, marking the first time Texas game wardens have been deployed for disaster relief out of state. Texas game wardens are trained and experienced in flood rescue and water safety, with boats and equipment often used during flash floods and other natural disasters.
Every day, the department team would get orders from Baton Rouge, where Maj. Bill Robinson of Austin was TPWD's command center representative. They would leave the First Methodist Church in Gonzales about 75 miles north of New Orleans and head out on the day's mission. Maj. Robert Carlson of Rusk was creative at securing resources, and through his efforts the team got daily equipment repair and supplies. He also persuaded church members to "adopt" the TPWD team, which meant free hot meals, clean beds and a place to call home every night.
A three-mile line of TPWD vehicles, boats and trailers would then head down Interstate 10 into stricken New Orleans. Delays caused by sniper fire from looters periodically brought the convoy to frustrating standstills of up to two hours.
The TPWD team's target areas have been mostly in east New Orleans. These include low-income neighborhoods, apartment complexes and hospitals, where rescues are done by boat or airboat.
On Sept. 1, the team rescued 1,500 patients from Charity Hospital, which had inadequate electricity and water service.
"We had people in wheelchairs, we had to physically carry some people and we moved them all by boat to buses," said Maj. Butch Shoop, game warden regional director from Fort Worth, who was in charge of on the ground rescue operations. "That morning we finished up Tulane and University hospitals and then we evacuated Charity."
The next day, the TPWD team went into in east New Orleans, piloting boats down streets that had become canals. The area had become lawless, rife with looting and gunfire. Authorities shot and killed seven looters there the morning the TPWD team went in, and Shoop believes that helped make the situation more manageable.
"I had seven airboats running and I made everybody travel in twos and threes," Shoop said. "Each airboat had a driver, a gunner and a New Orleans policeman for directions."
That day they loaded up seven Army trucks full of evacuees from housing complexes.
One story stands out in Shoop's mind, "one gal who just about made me cry." He was coordinating rescue efforts at Charity Hospital when a woman in her twenties came up to him. She said her 82-year-old grandmother was trapped in "a bad area," and she begged Shoop to save her. Eventually, a boat was sent and returned bearing the elderly woman.
"They carried this lady over to me--she couldn't walk--and the gal introduced me to her grandmother and thanked me. She said 'Mr. Butch can I hug your neck?' I said 'I don't smell very good but go ahead.' She said 'I don't know you, but I love you and I love what you're doing.'"
On Monday, the emotionally and physically drained first wave of game wardens went back to Texas. They had worked more than 120 hours each in a single week.
"Guys like me are always going back to analyze what we could have done better," Shoop said. "But from the A-team I never got a bad attitude, never an 'I don't want to do this, I don't want to be here.' These were 53 of the finest game wardens in Texas. They kept me going."
"This past week, our game wardens have seen the best side of human nature, and the worst, and they've risen to the challenge," said Col. Pete Flores, TPWD law enforcement director. "It's been one of the most difficult assignments we've ever undertaken, but we are making a difference."
This week, a new team of 50 game wardens from all parts of the state is continuing the effort. On Tuesday, word came that federal authorities were assuming responsibility for the rescue operation and Texas resources could withdraw. All Texas game wardens are expected to return to Austin on Friday.
Meanwhile, by late last week about 500 evacuees were camping at as many as 27 Texas state parks, mostly in northeast and southeast Texas.
When evacuees began arriving, the state park Customer Service Center reservations phone bank in Austin had to scramble to make room for them while heading into the Labor Day holiday weekend. Many visitors with existing reservations gave them up voluntarily or were moved to other parks.
Conflicts were inevitable and difficult situations had to be smoothly handled. In one case, about 30 evacuees came to Daingerfield State Park the middle of last week, and they were told in advance they'd have to leave by the weekend, since a large visitor group had weekend reservations that could not be changed. The park staff got on the phone to notify local leaders and ask for help. The result was an outpouring of community support-local residents put evacuees up in their homes, a church collected $750 on the spot and donated it to the evacuees.
This week, the word is there are more evacuees leaving than coming, but several dozen are still staying at no cost in Texas state parks.


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Cape Town – It looked like a different New Zealand side, which turned up on day two and extended the first-test against South Africa into a third-day at Newlands, in Cape Town on Thursday.
At stumps, the Black Caps were 169 for four, with Dean Brownlie on 69 and Bradley-john Wtling on 10, still facing a deficit of 133after their atrocious first innings total of 45 all out.
Runs flowed freely after tea and, although they were living dangerously at times, New Zealand added 136 runs for the loss of two wickets in the final session.
Showing more character and facing some hostile bowling, Brendon McCullum fought hard for his half-century, which came off 96-balls, compiling an 89-run third-wicket stand off 81-balls with Dean Brownlie. McCullum was eventually out trapped in front by Robin Peterson, for 51.
Brownlie was dropped twice within two overs, and rode his luck to play some magnificent shots. Daniel Flynn joined Brownlie and the pair added 37 before AB de Villiers held on to an inside edge off Kallis to see off Flynn for 14.
Earlier, when Martin Guptill fell to Steyn in the first over of the innings, clipping the ball to Hashim Amla at mid-wicket, it looked to be all over and top-scorer from the first innings, Kane Williamson was caught at second slip by Petersen off the bowling of Kallis – introduced into the attack for the first time in the match.
In sharp contrast to the first day's play, Philander and Morne Morkel remained wicketless despite plugging away with some fine bowling, particularly with the newer ball.
South Africa declared just after lunch on 347 for eight, with a lead of 302 runs.
Picking themselves up after what was possibly the worst day in New Zealand's Test history, the Black Caps took to the field in the morning and were rewarded with the early wicket of Alviro Petersen.
On 103 overnight, Petersen faced four deliveries before Trent Boult struck with his first delivery.
It nipped back and Petersen edged it on to his stumps. His innings of 106 came off 176-balls and included 11 fours and a six.
Faf du Plessis got an outside edge to Chris Martin, which flew to Williamson at gully and the batsman departed for 15.
A loud cheer greeted Elgar's first Test run, after he made a pair on debut against Australia in Perth last year.
Elgar scratched around for his 21 runs before he edged Boult to Watling behind the stumps.
AB de Villiers brought up his 30th Test half-century in 88
balls, striking 11 boundaries, and went out on 66 after walking across his stumps, leaving them exposed to Martin's delivery.
Philander joined Robin Peterson at the crease and with the declaration imminent, Peterson (5) flicked the ball square for four and tried to do the same with the next delivery. However, when Martin's accurate delivery removed the middle stump, captain Graeme Smith gave the signal to end the innings.
Martin returned the best figures, bagging three for 63 while Boult took three for 78. Doug Bracewell and James Franklin shared the remaining wickets. – Sapa


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July 2010 Issue
Eco activist, breast cancer survivor and, oh yeah, music industry pioneer, the amazing Sheryl Crow opens up to Glamour columnist Katie Couric about the special man in her life (her son) and how she's "getting her rocks off " with her sexy new album.
To see Katie's latest celebrity interviews, go to @Katiecouric.
Editor's note: A shorter version of this edited conversation appears in the July issue of Glamour.
KATIE COURIC: Give me a quick update on your life.
SHERYL CROW: Yesterday was my four-year anniversary of being done with cancer. I had my last treatment four years ago.
KATIE COURIC: Congratulations!
SHERYL CROW: Yes. I'm totally healthy. I have a three-year-old son who is just so much fun. And he's at that age now where I can visibly see him learning. And it's fun to introduce him to things for the first time.
KATIE COURIC: Yeah.
SHERYL CROW: I'm an older mom, so now I'm able to take stock every minute of the day without being like, Where am I going next? What am I doing? I think it's because I'm an older mom, but it's been really fun. Just did my first bit of acting. I think I was pretty fabulous. And I'm hoping to be nominated for an Emmy [laughs].
KATIE COURIC: Oh, that's right—you were in Cougar Town. Was that fun?
SHERYL CROW: It was a blast. I mean, it didn't hurt that I was doing it with one of my best friends.
KATIE COURIC: Courteney [Cox].
SHERYL CROW: That does make it easier, yeah. It was really, really fun to do. I declared that this year is my year of getting out of my comfort zone and doing things I haven't done before. So that was the first thing.
KATIE COURIC: Would you like to do more acting?
SHERYL CROW: I don't know. Literally it was, Hey, I've never done this before, I'm totally scared to do it so I'm going to do it. I'm going to jump off the cliff.
KATIE COURIC: You say this is your year to get out of your comfort zone. What other things do you envision when you say that?
SHERYL CROW: When I turned 40, I got my old dirt bike out and I started going to dirt bike tracks and doing jumps. I learned how to surf.
KATIE COURIC: Really?
SHERYL CROW: Yes. So now that I'm 48, what to me is getting out of my comfort zone is doing stuff that makes me feel squeamish. One of those things actually that I'm doing now: I'm making a record where I'm letting a couple of guys produce it. I am simply singing. I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with—the Stax music and early rhythm 'n' blues—I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.
KATIE COURIC: It sounds like you had a ball.
SHERYL CROW: I had the most fun. And I've been with my same band for, you know, some of them for 13, 14 years. I'm going out this summer with a completely different group.
KATIE COURIC: Fun. So is this the totally different band, the one you did the album with?
SHERYL CROW: Totally different band. Yeah.
KATIE COURIC: Fun.
SHERYL CROW: Yeah. And they're all really like—I mean, my other musicians are great musicians, but these guys are like—they're from that genre. They can play groove music and R&B till the cows come home. And it's really a sexy record—my records are always so political or socially conscious. And there's none of that. This is all about sex, sex, sex. From somebody who hasn't had a date in like three years.
KATIE COURIC: Oh, that's funny. You recently won an award from the Matrix, [New York] Women in Communications, for your work. And you talked about kind of the conflict between producing records that are commercially viable and those that really reflect kind of your core.
SHERYL CROW: Right.
KATIE COURIC: I know you probably have struggled with that. Where does this record fall in line in terms of those two worlds that you have to navigate?
SHERYL CROW: There are a couple of songs on there that are sort of Marvin Gaye-ish, in that they touch on what's going on socio-politically. But for the most part, this record was about how I felt. It was definitely more liberating for me to sit down and write about the emotion of sensuality and of sexuality and how that, too, is as important probably as being smart and intellectual. There's nothing dumb about the record, and it definitely doesn't cater to sex like what we see now in all the magazines and what we see in the videos and what we hear in music. It's definitely not current sex. That's funny 'cause I was listening to a song by an artist who's out right now whom I absolutely love. The song is about how large the guy is, talking in terms of sex and anatomy. And it's such a porn thing to me at my age to—
KATIE COURIC: To be so overt?
SHERYL CROW: I guess we're at a place now in our consciousness where we talk about everything—there are no taboos. So it's hard for me to get that part out of myself. But the last record was about George Bush; it was about the heartache of losing a relationship. It was about the environment; it was about the distrust that we have in our leaders. It was about all those things, and when I delivered it to the record label, they said this was a brilliant record and nobody wants to hear it. I think people are so unable to hold the amount of chaotic energy that we deal with every day.
KATIE COURIC: They want to escape.
SHERYL CROW: Our propensity is to really want to escape. And I understand it. So that's a reflection too of where we are in our consciousness—that we don't want Bob Dylan right now, we don't want somebody reflecting back to us what it is we're trying to get away from.
KATIE COURIC: Is that inhibiting creatively for you, though? It must be. I can't imagine that—it must be disappointing in a way.
SHERYL CROW: It's disappointing for me in that it's just not a good time for us as people to check out. It's one of those things where I look at it, and go OK—in the sixties, if what was happening on Wall Street was happening, people were losing their homes, and what was happening on Main Street as a reflection of what's going on with Wall Street, people would be in the street. We're so comfortable now, and we don't go out into the streets, we don't leave our homes. We get mad at home and then we turn the TV off and it's on to the next thing. I think that is our sleep posture, where we just can't take ourselves out and cause a riot or a revolution because there isn't that momentum coming from everybody as a collective movement.
KATIE COURIC: What do you think of the Tea Party movement? Because that is the specific sort of group of people who would say we're out there, we're getting involved in the process and—
SHERYL CROW: I think our system is broken in ways that can't be fixed at this moment until we get some kind of campaign finance reform and we get people in office who—I think perhaps everybody starts off in office being altruistic and thinking they're going to make big changes, and then they see the big dollars coming in. I don't know what it is at the most fundamental level that…you know, what's first, the chicken or the egg? But I appreciate the fact that those people are out there and that they are fired up.
My main concern is that it's really fear-based. What's coming out of the Tea Party most often, especially if you go onto YouTube, and you see some of the interviews with these people who really don't even know what the issues are, they're just swept up in the fear of it and the anger of it. They're not sure what they're angry at; they don't understand what's happening on Wall Street. They haven't educated themselves, but they're just pissed off. And I understand that, I'm pissed off too. But knowledge is power, and anything less than that when it comes to anger can be dangerous.
KATIE COURIC: So tell me about how you deal with being a breast cancer survivor. And how do you put it in its proper place and have the right combination of gratitude for your health but also keep your fear at bay?
SHERYL CROW: With my breast cancer experience, I treat it like every other really challenging experience in that I've let it inform the rest of my life. I don't think anybody can help having it be a game changer and be a reflection on the rest of your life insofar as the decisions you make and how you treat situations. For me, I used to sweat the tiniest things. I felt like I was a raw wire because I was working all the time, I didn't know how to say no, I was constantly trying to please everybody around me.
KATIE COURIC: Prove yourself to you.
SHERYL CROW: Prove myself to the world, to myself. I was constantly chasing the perfect scenario. Any diagnosis—whether it's breast cancer or whatever it is that makes you stop and reflect and take stock and reevaluate and redefine and then ultimately refine—will do that. And it will continue to inform your life. And in my situation it informed my art, it's informed my decision-making. It had everything to do with the fact that I adopted my son. As soon as I was done with breast cancer, I was like, You know what? If you want to be a mom, it's not that you're taking the man out of the equation, it's that you're giving a child somebody who wants to be their mom. You're locked into this picture of what that's supposed to look like. It's supposed to look like falling in love and a marriage and a house and all that. Maybe that picture is what's limiting your opportunity.
Nobody thinks that OK, when I turn 44, I'm going to get breast cancer and then I'm going to start living my life differently. You can never know what's right around the corner for you. I seemingly should not have gotten breast cancer and I did. And I don't live with the fear that it's coming back. But in my situation, there was something beautifully timely about when I got my diagnosis—it was at a point in my life where I needed to learn some lessons about who I was and how I was living and who I was living my life for.
I keep the [blue radiation] tattoos on my chest to remind myself that this experience was the epiphany in my life that changed the scope of how the rest of my life would look and feel.
KATIE COURIC: You are sort of a political activist in a lot of different areas. Which cause are you most committed to? Do you ever feel like you're spreading yourself too thin? Do you worry about that?
SHERYL CROW: Yeah. I'm super careful about saying yes to only the things I'm very, very invested in, even though, let's face it, an earthquake happens in Haiti and I am the first person who wants to just like jump in a plane and go there and stop everything else. But there are certain things that I feel like I've become a mouthpiece for, or a poster child for, and I don't forsake that as an opportunity. One of them is the environment. That for me is the mother ship, because under the umbrella of the environment, everything else follows. If the planet dies, we die. It doesn't matter what disease you have. When a planet starts ailing, which it is, there's a trickle-down effect that we are still trying to wrestle with. Just the idea that malaria could become a problem in this country because of the environment—I want to find a cure for cancer, but for me right now, it's let's grab the tiger by the tail while the tiger is at least not going a million miles an hour. At least it's in our grasp to turn the environment around, at least turn global warming around. We're still busy arguing about whether it exists.
All of the information that has come out by the world's most renowned scientists, I think in some ways, it falls on party lines. I think environmental issues to conservatives oftentimes intimate big government. My philosophy about it is even if you feel like arguing the science, you still have an obligation to leave this planet better than you found it, if you have kids or if you have people that you love that are younger than you. Why argue it? My mom always said, "Hey, you've got to leave the campground nicer than you found it." That's my philosophy.
If you're going to live in a wasteful manner, if you're going to drive a giant car, and you're going to live not considering that you share the planet with everybody else, then shame on you.
KATIE COURIC: You have I guess gotten some negative publicity for speaking out and dressing down Karl Rove, for example, at the [White House] Correspondents Dinner a few years ago, about the Bush administration's environmental policy. Do you have any regrets about doing that?
SHERYL CROW: Oh gosh, no. Not at all. It was an interesting thing that happened. I'm sure you knew about the whole toilet tissue thing. That was interesting for me, a really eye-opening illustration of how the government can work and how TV can work. The night after what was seemingly a humiliating moment for Karl Rove, there was the biggest campaign about Sheryl Crow wanting to legislate how much toilet tissue we could use. It was a spin like I've never seen. Watching these panels of people discuss me and my environmental beliefs and how fascist it is that I would decide if people could use toilet tissue and whatever. Debating this like it was real news and people getting, you know, and my brother getting his yard TP'd and all kinds of crazy threats, like just craziness. And I still get—when people write about me, Sheryl Crow, environmentalist, toilet tissue, blah blah blah.
KATIE COURIC: So when you Google yourself, you see Sheryl Crow and toilet paper? How did the whole thing snowball?
SHERYL CROW: It was part of a skit that I was doing onstage with my guitar player during the Stop Global Warming [College] Tour. But it was almost like as soon as the Karl Rove thing came out, there had to be a deflection from that onto me, so how can we discredit her. So they go back and they find this quote on The Huffington Post about…'cause I'd also blogged from our skit. I was like, What about creating a sleeve that you can use to wash your mouth? You take it off and wash it and then you put it back on for dinner—all these ridiculous ideas, right? And they picked that out and they ran it.
KATIE COURIC: And they treated it seriously?
SHERYL CROW: Just to discredit me and to make me look silly.
KATIE COURIC: Did that make you feel less inclined to stick your head out, stick your neck out and to be outspoken about issues you care about deeply?
SHERYL CROW: It made me so sad. It made me sad because I know how many people out there actually sit there in front of the TV, and they watch and believe what they see these people arguing about. And it's terrifying to me; that is not the kind of leadership that I'm looking for. And it's not the kind of leadership that I want. And I hope you print that. It's not the kind of leadership we deserve. And yet we just get sucked into it. So it really was saddening to me. Then I thought wow, you know, that's how quick we can be drawn up into a campaign that's not based on reality and get sucked in.
KATIE COURIC: I think we live in a culture where it is easy and desirable almost to tear things down and to rip people apart, rather than sort of stretch ourselves to come up with solutions.
SHERYL CROW: And reason. I feel like reason has gone out the window. I feel like in the last 12 years, we've lost our ability to approach almost anything that challenges us with reason. It's easier to throw reason out the door and become fist-throwing and reload and get caught up in some kind of fray of fear—momentum based on fear.
KATIE COURIC: But I do feel like September 11 did—there were legitimate reasons to be afraid, and I think that that colored everybody's reaction in terms of what we as a nation could do to maintain our security and keep the people safe. So I think when there is a background of fear, sometimes people make decisions that they normally wouldn't. Because I think it's a very, very powerful emotion.
SHERYL CROW: Love and fear—those are the only two emotions, so they say. I think for me, I just want us to start wanting better for ourselves. In some ways I feel like we've lost that sense of ourselves, that we can want better for ourselves and that we do deserve it, instead of staying in the norm. Especially right now.
KATIE COURIC: I think the economy too, though, also. When people are struggling economically and there's a crisis in their own homes and they don't know if they're going to be able to support their families or feed their kids or send them to college…sometimes that elicits a lot of reactions that good economic times don't. Don't you think?
SHERYL CROW: I agree. And I think sometimes with that, you need someplace to place blame. Just to give yourself a break from the fear of what can possibly be happening. It's all a reflection of what's all around us.
KATIE COURIC: But you still feel hopeful and you feel that people—
SHERYL CROW: Are innately good.
KATIE COURIC: And that you can have an impact by talking about things you care deeply about?
SHERYL CROW: I do. Oh, absolutely I do. One of the things I talk about frequently, whether it falls on deaf ears or doesn't, is the idea of meditation as a practice of quieting ourselves and actually listening to what the truth is, to help us navigate through our days and have some place to go that isn't a knee-jerk, fear-based reaction. Sometimes it's hard to find a way to do that. For most people, meditation is really difficult. I find it to be hard when I'm really tired; I go to sleep. But just even 15 minutes in the morning, just to start your day off listening to the truth that is in all of us—the truth that defines us, that keeps us bound together.
But yeah, I look around me and I think, God, there are so many great things to concentrate on. I mean, every day I wake up with a thee-year-old, so that does definitely inform how I look at the rest of the world. When I speak to people, I try not to take that cynical take. Because I've noticed that with public speakers a lot, that sort of snarky thing is becoming the norm.
KATIE COURIC: I agree. And I think sometimes people worry that uplifting and positive is…
SHERYL CROW: Corny.
KATIE COURIC: Unsophisticated and corny, yeah. You did a mentor program with Michelle Obama. Are you still involved with that? What was that experience like for you?
SHERYL CROW: I loved it. I'm such a big fan of hers. She's a true rock star to me. She invited young girls to the White House and had a big dinner and had female leaders from lots of areas. During the day we'd actually gone out into the field, the different schools, and spoke with young kids, high school kid-age. When you get out and you talk to these young people, you forget just how unbelievably in tune and savvy they are. They ask the big questions and they want to know the real truth about things. That's why it's such an amazing experience to go out and actually be able to have an effect, a good and positive effect. I always come away from it feeling more edified probably than they do.
That day in the White House, only being able to look at it from the standpoint of what it would be like if I were 17 again and getting to have some of my heroes in the room—Lisa Leslie and Susan Rice. Even that for me was huge. And obviously Michelle Obama. And Alicia Keys. So many women are at the forefront of their fields. It was very empowering and inspiring and uplifting for all of us. And also the great thing, too, was that Mrs. Obama brought us all in and she said, this is the people's house and my goal is to start bringing the people in—if they're young girls that don't have as much opportunity and bringing them into the people's house, being a motivator. That message alone for me was empowering.
KATIE COURIC: Did it make you envious? Because sometimes I speak to high school or college students and I think, Gee, they have so much ahead of them. Sometimes I'm envious of being where they are.
SHERYL CROW: But the thing about it is, I look at it and I go, I want to be where they are, but I want to have learned all the things I've already learned and start back there, you know, with what I know.
KATIE COURIC: In fact, a Glamour reader, Melissa Bacchus, asks, "From music teacher to Grammy Award-winning artist, is there any part of your journey that you'd like to do over?"
SHERYL CROW: I have to say no, because where I am right now—I wouldn't trade it for—OK, I'd trade it to be 21 again. [laughs.] But other than that, I really feel like how I got here, all the factors that lined up the journey, if you took one out, it might be different.
KATIE COURIC: One thing, though?
SHERYL CROW: Certainly early on I would have approached things in my career differently. I would have taken better care of myself, and I would have learned how to say no earlier on. But you just don't get your lessons until the second you get 'em. That's one of the things my journey has taught me, is that you have to go through the full experience before you actually really get the lesson. The other thing that would have been great was if I could have gone, if I could have started my career earlier. I mean, basically my first record came out when I was 30. And by the time you're 30 in rock star years, you're done. So I've had a great career, but it would have been great to have gotten in that extra 10 years. But who's to say if I'd gone out 10 years earlier, I would have had this career.
KATIE COURIC: Alright, I've got more Glamour questions. What inspires you to write great songs? That's from Cynthia Waders.
SHERYL CROW: Well, you never know a song's going to be great. But the thing that keeps me writing songs is that I always feel like my best work is in front of me. I always feel like my best work is ahead of me, and I still listen to songs that I've known my whole life, like "Yesterday" by Paul McCartney. I listen to stuff like that and I think, Can I write that? And that's what keeps me going. And I also know the feeling of having written something that really moved me and how good that feels.
KATIE COURIC: Which of your songs has most moved you?
SHERYL CROW: Years ago I wrote a song called "Redemption Day," and I listen to it now and I still get the same emotion that I did when I was recording it. And then Johnny Cash recorded it three months before he died. So it's—
KATIE COURIC: That's a pretty high honor, isn't it?
SHERYL CROW: It really—actually, that's the highest honor I've ever had of anything in my whole life. Him calling me and asking me, "What were you thinking when you wrote this?" And him telling me about what it meant to him…that was a true testament to him as an artist, wanting to be able to deliver a song and understand what it meant.
KATIE COURIC: That's unusual, right?
SHERYL CROW: I've never had anybody do that, ever—particularly a hero or an icon. But that song and the song "Home," because of what I was going through, and "My Favorite Mistake." And still, when I hear "My Favorite Mistake," it's the only song of mine that when I hear it on the radio, I don't turn it off.
SHERYL CROW: Yeah. I can listen to it, and I still feel the satisfaction of having told a story about somebody I really loved but couldn't have.
KATIE COURIC: Do you write better songs when you're in pain or when you're happy?
SHERYL CROW: Not when I'm happy. I don't want to sit down and write when I'm happy. When I'm happy, I want to be doing something joyful. Writing for me is not necessarily a joyful experience, it's more of a…I hate to use the word cathartic 'cause it's so… But yeah, generally I like to go through the pain and then have a little distance so I can have an overview. That's why when I went through the whole cancer thing and the breakup, I didn't write at all. I didn't write for a year because I made a vow to myself I was going to go and bury myself in my work, which is what we do.
KATIE COURIC: I can't imagine, though, being a songwriter. Because to me, being busy when you're hurting would be all about writing about the hurt. So you can't really escape it.
SHERYL CROW: No. But if you're like me, there's the tie-in of being productive being tied to my self-worth. I would sit down and write it, and then I would decide if it was good enough and I would edit. Writing songs for me is a wonderfully inspired experience, but it is my work, so…
KATIE COURIC: Could you see saying goodbye to it all? Could you see changing your life and saying, "This was great. But now I'm going to retreat from the public eye?"
SHERYL CROW: Many times.
KATIE COURIC: I don't know. I don't think you could.
SHERYL CROW: Have you ever thought about it?
KATIE COURIC: I have.
SHERYL CROW: My thing is, and I think you're probably this way too, is that I'm a really curious person and I'm still really interested in things. The way I get understanding out of things is to write. That's how I learn about what my experience is. It's all self-teaching. I think being a songwriter is much more selfish than what people think. It's not like you're sitting down and you're thinking I'm going to write a song for the world to, you know, the world needs to hear this. It's much more selfish for me. A lot of times I've written songs and they've come back at me where I've thought well—in fact, "Redemption Day" is one of those songs where I had no idea what I was writing about. It flowed like a poem I'd done my whole life and then it was two years later, I was able to, as I was singing it, understand what it was and where it had come from. So writing for me, it's part of my curiosity, it's part of my wading through my experiences.
KATIE COURIC: It's part of your coping, really. Right?
SHERYL CROW: It is part of my coping mechanism. Absolutely.
KATIE COURIC: In a good way. Because I think sometimes that has a negative connotation, but it's sort of how you process life.
SHERYL CROW: Yeah. It is part of my processing mechanism. And I think even if I got out of the business or whatever, if I quit making records, I would still be writing.
KATIE COURIC: Has it been hard—actually, somebody asked this—is it hard to be a kick-ass woman in the music business? Do you still face a lot of—or do you face any—sexism in this day and age?
SHERYL CROW: Oh, I love answering this question 'cause I feel like I'm so lucky and so blessed to have come in when I did and to be living through this moment. Because when I got my record deal, there were no women producing themselves. I was [one of] the first women to actually produce my own record and have it sell, have it be a commercial success. Having that experience and watching other girls, like Alanis [Morissette] and other women start to coproduce and then start to produce themselves—it's made me really feel a sense of pride in that we can always do it. That and going from we can't sign you to a record deal 'cause we don't know what to do with your kind of music to having a lot of females come out and actually be commercially viable, lyric-driven, credible musician women. It's been really fun to watch. And then, of course, imaging-wise, watching it all shift over to being sex, sex, sex.
KATIE COURIC: Inevitably I feel like all these artists ultimately have to sex themselves up to have commercial viability. Maybe that's just the way of the world and we're visual organisms or something. But I always feel that that's slightly disconcerting. Do you see that?
SHERYL CROW: Yeah. And you know what? The unfortunate thing in my situation is that the whole fame mechanism wasn't really into place yet. So all of my mistakes along the way are catalogued, are documented.
KATIE COURIC: Remember you got so much grief when you did the video where you had a lot of makeup and your hair was so straight and—
SHERYL CROW: Oh my God, my second record, my artwork and stuff. You didn't just have stylists and makeup and stuff. And plus, I wanted to be credible. I wanted to be a weird, intellectual musician girl, not sexy.
KATIE COURIC: Surfer girl.
SHERYL CROW: Yeah. When that kicked in, I was a fish out of water and the record label tried to make me into something sexy, and I did exactly what you're talking about. I got sucked into that and none of it came naturally to me.
KATIE COURIC: OK, so I have one last question for you. Glamour reader Helena Galindo says—this is a nice question—"Do you realize what a strong woman you are? A cancer survivor, a single parent of a beautiful child, over 40 and still rockin'. How cool is that?"
SHERYL CROW: Oh my God, tell her I want to have coffee with her [laughs].
KATIE COURIC: Isn't that nice? But you are—I have to say, Sheryl, listen, you're 48, which is—
SHERYL CROW: Too old to date Justin Timberlake. Say it.
KATIE COURIC: OK. Too old to date Justin Timberlake. But I think our definition of aging has changed so much too. I think in some ways, people like you just kind of are out there as a symbol of the courage and talent and hard work and determination that other people have, but the world doesn't know it.
SHERYL CROW: Yeah. That I love, I mean, I'm just trying to wrap my brain around it. But if those are the people whom I represent, the people next door who are single and who are working—I mean, I love that. I love that.
KATIE COURIC: I think you do, because I can't tell you how many widows or people who have experienced loss in their life have said to me, you've really inspired me to keep going. And I think that's really a gift—to be able to do that for people in even a small way, even if it's a handful of people.
SHERYL CROW: Which you know you do.
KATIE COURIC: I just think people appreciate seeing someone who keeps on keepin' on, to use a very '70s expression. So that's what I think she meant.
SHERYL CROW: I love that.
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OROVILLE — The Feather River Recreation and Park District search for a leader continues, and a new manager could take over in about four weeks.
Interim General Manager Tom Lando accepted the job temporarily after the board of directors let the former manager go in February.
The board approved advertising for a manager in the salary range of $67,000 to $75,000 at a previous meeting.
On Monday, Lando said the district received 40 applicants. The board narrowed it down to the six they thought are the most qualified, he said.
Last Friday, the board interviewed the applicants.
Each applicant was asked to submit a written analysis of the district's finances and suggestions on resolving budgetary issues.
"The idea is we have six bright people interviewing for the job and to try to get their ideas," Lando said.
Written responses are due back today.
Lando said the applicants have a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Some have greater experience in recreation, some in management and some in grant writing, he said.
"They are all very different and very good applicants," he said.
The board will interview the candidates a second time at the regular meeting next week.
After that, the district will check references on the final candidates.
It will probably be about four weeks before the board selects a manager.
"I think the board is going to have a tough decision to make," he said.
Meanwhile, the district has proceeded with cutbacks approved by the board last month.
In a March 6, report, Lando advised the board the district is spending at least $750,000 above generated revenues, advising drastic changes to the operation.
The report stated the budget format needed to be revised so that carryover funds are not shown as revenue to balance expenses.
In addition, the budget should include an equipment replacement fund. Separate funds needed to be created for every major activity, Lando indicated.
The debt service, maintenance and utility costs of the Feather River Activity Center should be allocated to the programs that are housed there.
This would show a true picture of finances. However, it would also show the programs are not sustainable under current conditions, the report stated.
The activity center is costing the district $323,550 a year more than it is taking in, according to the report.
Recommended options included grant funding to pay off debt, a sale and lease buyback of the gymnastics center now called the activity center, deeding the facility back to the bank or declaring bankruptcy to restructure debt.
Lando said the board needed to set priorities, and the board determined the gymnastics center is a district priority.
The board voted to cut salaries and make employees pay for their share of California Public Employees' Retirement System premiums, a total of a 12 percent cost cut to the district. The board also approved layoffs.
At that meeting, Lando said the cuts would cover an estimated 50 to 60 percent of the deficit.
In subsequent weeks, two longtime employees were let go.
Lando said the board is waiting to analyze the impact of the cuts before issuing further layoffs, although some part-time workers have been let go.
Meanwhile, the district is advertising for a recreation supervisor.
Lando said the board wants a rec supervisor to increase programming and revenues at the activity center.
The district bought the center in 2010 for $3.4 million plus taxes and other costs, according to the final escrow statement.
The district has also advertised on Craigslist for two part-time employees to work at the front desk, he said. Lando said the new part-time employees would work 15 or 20 hours and would not have benefits.
The next regular board meeting will be on April 9.
Staff writer Mary Weston can be reached at 533-4415 or email@example.com.


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NEW ORLEANS -- Led by the likes of linebackers Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs, the Baltimore Ravens are loud and passionate on the field and often make waves with their words afterward.
But in their first appearance after arriving in New Orleans on Monday, the Ravens had kind words for the 49ers, especially Colin Kaepernick, a far cry stylistically from the quarterbacks (Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck) whom Baltimore beat to get to the Super Bowl.
"I like the way (Kaepernick) plays," Suggs said. "He's good for the game, him and Robert Griffin III. I like his game."
Lewis called Kaepernick "one of those freakish athletes" and compared him to Randall Cunningham.
"He can run very, very well," Lewis said. "A good athlete. You can tell he is a real good athlete. I am fond of the kid."
The Ravens' defensive stars might like Kaepernick's dual-threat style, but they are also tasked with trying to stop him. Baltimore has had mixed results when facing similar challenges. Philadelphia's Michael Vick had 405 total yards against the Ravens in September, but Baltimore largely held Washington's Griffin in check in December.
The Ravens lost both games.
"Hopefully he's not doing too much -- he's not giving us too much of Colin Kaepernick," Suggs said. "He's fared pretty good against the defenses that he's seen, but we're a defense that likes a challenge. We accept it."
But plans change, and Harbaugh was thrilled with Monday's surprise. Thousands of fans showed up at Baltimore's Inner Harbor to help send the Ravens off to the Super Bowl.
"We just had a great time," Harbaugh said. "The thing through the Inner Harbor was a big deal. That was something we all were surprised by a little bit."
Lewis took the microphone in front of the raucous crowd and gave a short speech, saying, "We're not going to New Orleans for nothing else but to bring a ring back to Baltimore."
Asked how many times Jim could answer the same questions this week without snapping, John said, "Take a shot and just keep asking him -- that's OK with us," adding, "You can ask me the same question time and time again, you're just going to get the same answer."


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Hello Dharma friends,
would like to know, if you would like to write down, where do you download e book regarding Buddhism and meditation?
i use http://forestsanghapublications.org/index.php and it s the main the thai forest tradition international monasteries web site.
Do you have other sites where i can download PDF? or ebook kindle supported? (i read on kindle, and i convert pdf on kindle formal however)
of course not only Theravada traditions, but also other Traditions.
I dont know if this is the right part of the forum to post this topic however i post here
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Republicans across the country rode a wave of voter unrest into office at all levels on Election Day, and that includes the Texas House of Representatives, where Democrats lost 23 seats, giving Republicans a two-thirds majority.
In a state where the GOP party platform calls for the sodomy law to be reinstated and for anyone performing a same-sex wedding to be jailed, that Republican landslide seems — at least at first glance — to be a disaster for the LGBT community.
But Chuck Smith, deputy director for Equality Texas, said this week that Republicans are likely to have far too many pressing issues piled high on their plates when the Legislature convenes in January to spend any time on anti-LGBT measures.
"These legislators are going to be too busy trying to balance the budget," Smith said. "Gay bashing is notgoing to rise to the level of anyone's top priority."
And Rob Schlein, president of Log Cabin Republicans of Dallas, suggested that Democrats shouldn't be too quick to judge GOP lawmakers as anti-gay, anyway.
"It's a little early to be prognosticating about what's going to happen," Schlein said. "I would recommend that these activists not be so quick to project that all these Republicans are so anti-gay. You don't know that. Just take a deep breath and deal with the landscape as it exists today. Get your issues together, find out who can stand behind them, and move ahead with them one at a time."
Smith said that when the 2011 legislative session opens, there will be 100 Republicans and 50 Democrats in the Texas House, compared to the 2009 session when there were 77 Republicans and 73 Democrats.
Of those 150 lawmakers, 37 will be new to the Legislature, and of those six will be Democrats and 31 will be Republicans. Of those 31 Republican newbies, Smith said, "only four made any mention at all of being pro 'traditional marriage' or pro 'family values' in their campaigns or on their websites."
Those four, Smith said, were Erwin Cain in District 3, Connie Scott in District 34, Four Price in District 87 and Kenneth Sheets in District 107.
Cain, whose website says he believes "that marriage is between one man and one woman," owns a real estate investment company. He defeated incumbent Democrat Mark Homer by a 15-point margin. Cain lives in Como, and attends First Baptist Church in Sulphur Springs.
District 3 encompasses the suburban and rural area north and east of Dallas, including Paris, Sulphur Springs and Mt. Pleasant.
In District 34, Scott defeated Democratic incumbent Abel Herrera by an 8-point margin. On her website, Scott said she supports "preserving family values" and that she opposes gay marriage. She co-owned and operated a small pipeline construction company for 10 years, and now lives in Robstown. She is a member of River Hills Baptist Church.
District 34 encompasses primarily Nueces County, including Corpus Christi, on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Four Price, who swamped Democratic candidate Abel G. Bosquez by a 58-point margin in District 87, described himself on his website as "pro-family/pro-life," and said he opposes gay marriage. He is an attorney and co-managing shareholder in Irwin, Merritt, Hogue, Price & Carthell, P.C.
District 87 is located in the Texas Panhandle, with Amarillo — where Price lives — on the district's southern edge.
Sheets defeated LGBT ally and Democratic incumbent Allen Vaught by 5 points in District 107, located on the west side of Dallas County. Sheets' website describes him as "supporting pro-life and pro-traditional marriage policies." He wrote, "I also believe the definition of marriage should always remain as the union between one man and one woman."
Sheets is an attorney who served in the Marine Corps in Iraq, and he is active in the St. Thomas Aquinas community.
Despite their inclusion of anti-gay stances on their websites, Smith said, "None of them ran campaigns on supporting bullying in the schools or bashing gay people. Like everyone else, they focused on the economy, jobs and the deficit."
Smith said, "The turnover we saw [Tuesday night] was based on the economy and on jobs and on spending. Certainly, it was sad to see any of the members with whom we have had good working relationships in the past not be re-elected.
"But equality should be a non-partisan issue, and we will be looking to work with" lawmakers of both parties."
Smith said Equality Texas' No. 1 priority in 2011 will be anti-bullying legislation, and that he believes there are Republicans in the state House who will support such a measure.
"We have to pass this bill so that not one more child is ever left to feel hopeless and consider taking their own lives," Smith said. "We had bipartisan support for [Rep. Mark] Strama's anti-bullying bill in 2009, and I think we can have that support again in 2011. This is a child welfare issue, and not one more child should die before the state of Texas deals with it."
Schlein said he also believes there are Republicans in the House who will support anti-bullying measures, including District 108 Rep. Dan Branch, who defeated gay candidate Pete Schulte by 32 points to be re-elected.
Schlein said he had spoken with Branch's campaign coordinator, telling him that there are "some real problems in the gay community than can be solved, things like hospital visitation and passing property between partners.
"And he told me they had been looking at the bullying issue. So I think we should approach them and start there."
Schlein also agreed with Smith that the budget would be everyone's top priority.
"I don't think denying gays any rights is really high on the agenda for Republicans. Actually, I am hearing more and more activists within the party saying that the [anti-gay elements of the state platform are] hurting us, and we need to fix it. I am hearing them say the party needs to be a lot more open to minorities," Schlein said. "I just think people need to not be so quick to judge. That hurts our chances of being successful when you just do that automatically."
Smith and Schlein also both said they believe that moderate Republican Joe Straus is likely to be re-elected as speaker of the House, despite Warren Chisum's plans to run for the position. Chisum, who represents District 88 in the Panhandle and lives in Pampa, has in the past often spear-headed attempts to pass anti-gay legislation, including bills that would have prevented lesbians and gays from being foster or adoptive parents.
"I think Strauss will win it again, even though a lot of the Republican activists are hoping for someone more conservative. Strauss seems to be a pretty pragmatic guy," Schlein said.
Even if Chisum were to win the speaker's seat, Smith predicted, "we would still come back to the budget deficit being the No. 1 issue. He [Chisum] still wouldn't have any more time to deal with the kinds of social issues he is on record as supporting."
Despite his pledge that Equality Texas will work with House Republicans, Smith acknowledged that the LGBT community did lose a number of allies in the midterm elections — and those could have been prevented if Democratic turnout had been higher.
"Twenty-two seats in the House flipped from Democrat to Republican, and 10 of those 22 flips were decided by less than 2,000 votes," Smith said.
In North Texas, three allies of the LGBT community — Kirk England, Robert Miklos, Paula Pierson and Allen Vaught — lost by narrow margins, he noted.
"If there had been just a little bit more turnout, those flips wouldn't have happened," Smith said. "It all comes down to people not taking voting seriously."
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition November 5, 2010.


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SAN FRANCISCO–With a presidential run squarely "on the table," Texas Gov. Rick Perry visited California this week to tout his economic policies and openly taunt Californians with his success in poaching some of their high-paying manufacturing jobs.
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"It's obviously on the table. It's something that I am actively considering. I don't shy away from telling people that," Mr. Perry said, speaking in a conference room at the tony InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco's Nob Hill neighborhood. "I've done it once, and I learned some very good lessons, some humbling lessons—some frustrating lessons."
Mr. Perry was in California to help raise money for GOP candidates and advertise his state's economic policies. On Tuesday, Mr. Perry had arrived in Sacramento, the state capital, in a rented Tesla, just as California lawmakers are trying to entice Tesla Motors to build an electric-car battery factory in the state. Texas is also competing heavily for the jobs.
Mr. Perry has made it a habit of bragging about taking California businesses. The latest move came in April when Toyota Motor said it would consolidate several units at a new headquarters in Plano, Texas, moving thousands of jobs out of California. In that relocation, Texas offered Toyota $40 million to move, part of Mr. Perry's Texas Enterprise Fund incentive program.
That incentive program has come under fire from some Texas Republicans, just as Mr. Perry eyes a presidential run based on his economic record. But the governor on Wednesday said there was little chance of his legacy being dismantled.
"The Republican-controlled House and Senate voted for all of those, overwhelmingly. End of conversation," Mr. Perry said.
"My bet is that you could find someone, somewhere in the Texas legislature to criticize a program, either a Democrat or a Republican. Can you find enough to be a majority? My bet is no."
Mr. Perry also delivered remarks on energy policy to an audience of San Francisco's Commonwealth Club members Wednesday evening, and then took several questions through a moderator on a range of issues from his stance on climate change to the nature of homosexuality.
During his question and answer session, Mr. Perry chided Rep. Eric Cantor (R., Va.) for not spending enough time with his constituents as a reason that the second-ranking U.S. House Republican lost in the Virginia primary to a little known tea party challenger Tuesday.
"You don't wish you'd been to the bank more, you don't wish you'd been to the office more, you wish you'd been with the people you love, more," Mr. Perry said. "So I am thinking he may have that same kind of regret."
Sounding off on policy matters, Mr. Perry also appeared less skeptical than during his last presidential bid on whether climate change was caused by humans. But he was quick to say more regulation was not the answer.
"If man's engagement is the reason it's occurring, then we need to have the solutions to that," Mr. Perry said. "If it's not, then everything is going to be fine. But if it is, we need to be able to have the answers to that. And my great concern is that, policies that are put in place in Washington, D.C., can strangle the economy of this country, jeopardize our ability to innovate."
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Australia will have plenty of muscle to flex in the men's cycling road race at the Commonwealth Games, despite missing several big names.
Rising star Caleb Ewan, lead-out specialist Mark Renshaw and all-rounder Simon Clarke will be the main riders in the seven-man team.
World track sprint queen Anna Meares will lead the Australian cycling team of 41 riders for the Glasgow Games.
They will be spread across track, road, mountain bike and the new Games discipline of para-cycling.
The road time trials at the Games are on July 31, only four days after the Tour de France ends, and the men's road race is on August 3.
The proximity to the Tour predictably has impacted on who is available for selection in the men's road race team.
But Clarke (Orica-GreenEDGE), Renshaw (Omega Pharma-Quckstep), Rohan Dennis (Garmin) and Luke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEDGE) are all in contention to ride for their professional teams at the Tour.
Mick Rogers and Richie Porte are concentrating on the Tour, while Cadel Evans is resting after the Giro d'Italia and Michael Matthews is also unavailable.
"Guys like Rogers, Cadel, Porte, Michael Matthews - they all withdrew themselves some time ago because of race plans and objectives," said Cycling Australia national performance director Kevin Tabotta.
He also said the Glasgow men's road team has "four or five" reserves to cater for late withdrawals, but would not say who they are.
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The London Games were also held immediately after the Tour and Evans withdrew after the Olympics road race because of illness.
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"Keeping a race like that together will be very difficult."
Tabotta also warned cycling at Glasgow would be a lot more competitive than four years ago, when Australia dominated in Delhi with 14 gold medals from 18 events.
"There will be world championship-level fields in a lot of the events," Tabotta said.
"It's going to be a real challenge for any nation to say 'we're going to bag this many medals'.
"What I can almost guarantee is we won't come home with 14 gold medals ... our expectations are also realistic."