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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Seekerville Welcomes Guest Blogger Ronie Kendig!
These two could be any soldier, the guy down the street who just got back from Afghanistan who can't sleep at night because his memories are too raw, or the girl on the night shift at your favorite restaurant who's working her way through college on a GI bill after spending a year in Iraq.
There are SO many things we could talk about, but I was enamored of Canyon's family in Wolfsbane, so for something a little different, I asked Ronie to tell us a bit about Canyon's family.
So, here's Ronie!!!
Coming up with the names of characters can be a journey that will haggle with me through the first ten pages of a manuscript. Sometimes, the names I like and assign to the characters, don't resonate with the character as we get further into the story. For Canyon "Midas" Metcalfe, it was no different—but not for him. For his family. You see, Canyon is a tight-lipped guy, who doesn't talk much, especially not about things that are private/personal.
So, when I stepped into the Metcalfe ranch home in Wolfsbane, I was intrigued. Right off the bat, I knew this was a tight-knit family. They'd do anything for each other and there was a very strong sense of family unity. They protect their own and would do anything for each other. And that included their names. Discovering that their parents were knee-deep in the hippie movement during their twenties, and knowing their mom was a graceful, peaceful person…I saw what was coming.
Nature-themed names.
Stone. Brooke. Canyon. Range. Willow. Leif.
I cringed, at first, thinking—how corny. But I turned the cliché on its ear. I had the family taunt each other about the names, and did my best to make it work for the story. Stone was awesome—he was the "rock" of the family, and does his best to fill the oh-so-large shoes of their late father. He's a keen businessman and is intent on keeping his family intact.
Canyon, naturally, is a quiet guy. But like his name, his loyalty is deep and solid. He gets himself into trouble without trying and has a hard time finding his way out of it. Range is a little more than a year younger than Canyon, and the two brothers are as opposite as their names. Range is intensely personal but doesn't have the drive to be hard-hitting the way Canyon does with his career. Range is a bit lost in finding himself and is still wandering the plain of life. I loved getting to know Willow, who I made like her name—tall, willowy, and graceful. But she has an intensity to her that makes her formidable. Not your average blond beauty. Leif is a remake of Canyon. The kid has potential and is unruffled by the hard time his family throws his way. A senior in high school, Leif was a change of life for his parents, who "turned a new leaf" in life, becoming Christians and dedicating their lives to God.
I had so much fun with this family, I have even put together a romantic suspense proposal called "The Elements," and it's about the Metcalfes. Someday…somehow…I hope to write that series.
Pam again.
[Shameless plug, ala Ruthy-style! Did you know that Stealing Jake is FREE on Amazon and B&N. #1 for three straight days running! Whoo-hoo! And have you signed up for my Kindle Giveaway? You should!]
Commercial over.
See? What did I tell you about Ronie right from the get-go? Now, isn't that explanation of how she pegged the Metcalfe siblings a perfect example of how dedicated she is to nailing her characters?
Canyon Metcalfe is the to-die-for hero in Ronie's latest, Wolfsbane, the 3rd in her Discarded Heroes series. If you like edge-of-your-seat international intrique, you'll love this book.
A female demolitions who unwittingly holds a lethal secret. . .
A former Green Beret grappling with terrifying memories of a mission gone bad. . .
And the jungle that threatens to swallow them whole.
In Venezuela, Danielle Roark and her Army Corps of Engineers team is captured. After six months of captivity, Dani escapes, only to end up charged with espionage and forced to return to the jungle to prove that a nuclear facility exists. On the mission, she is abandoned by God and country. Will she live long enough to make those responsible pay? Haunted by memories of a mission gone bad, former Green Beret Canyon Metcalfe wrestles with his developing feelings for the feisty senator's daughter. Setting aside his misgivings, he and Nightshade take the mission to help Dani unravel her lethal secrets. Separated from the team leaves Dani and Canyon vulnerable—and captured. After he is rescued, Canyon discovers Dani has been left behind. Livid, he sacrifices everything—including his role with Nightshade—to find Dani. Can Dani and Canyon fight the nightmare armed with only forgiveness and raw courage? Or will they lose their lives, minds, and each other?
Ronie's giving away a copy of Wolfsbane to one lucky commenter today. Make sure you let us know if you want to be in the drawing, and leave an email address please.
Breakfast is biscuits, bacon, and eggs with a full array of jams and jellies! I happen to know that Dani is partial to strawberry jam so don't hog it all, Ruthy!
Canyon seems like a steak and potatoes kind of guy, so we'll have steaks sizzling on the grill, potatoes baking in hot coals, corn on the cob, and Texas toast ready for a feast at noon!
Ronie Kendig grew up an Army brat and married a veteran. Together, she and her husband have four children and three dogs. She has a BS in Psychology, speaks to various groups, volunteers with the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), and mentors new writers. Rapid-Fire Fiction, her brand, is exemplified through her novels Dead Reckoning, a spy thriller, and the military thriller series, The Discarded Heroes, which includes Nightshade (Retailer's Choice Award Finalist), Digitalis, Wolfsbane, and Firethorn (January 2012). Ronie can be found at www.roniekendig.com or www.discardedheroes.com
45 comments :
I loved this post! Ronie Kending is one of my favorite authors and book after book, she keeps getting better. This one exceeded my expectations! I fell in love with Canyon's family in Wolfsbane and would love to see a series for them in the future (pleeeaase, Ronie!).ReplyDelete
No need to enter me in the contest, as I already have a copy of Wolfsbane. :)
Canyon is my favorite and that's all I need to say my friends know what I mean LOLOLOL!ReplyDelete
XOXO~ Renee C.
- VirginiaJuly 27, 2011 at 2:22 AM
What a beautiful cover! I don't know a thing about the military, or jungles, or demolitions (?) but the story sounds gooood! Fighting their way out of the jungle together? Yikes!ReplyDelete
Hi Ronie, so great to see you in Seekerville.ReplyDelete
I already own the series, autographed (We met at the Writer's On The Storm ACFW meeting earlier this month.)
As soon as I get them back from my teen nephew who saw the covers and took them, literally, hehe, they're going into my TBR.
Just wanted to say your website is fantastic and I love how it fits with your brand.
That we do, Renee! And I always thought you were lurking around my blog for the great reviews - hahaha!ReplyDelete
I adore the Metcalfes and would love a series written about them ;-). One day, Ronie!
Ronie's books really are must reads...so I have. Over and over :)
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 4:58 AM
I'll have to look for these - I usually don't do too well with 'edge of your seat' stuff but these sound interesting.ReplyDelete
So glad I was able to stop in at Seekerville today. I loved Digitalis and would like to be included in the giveaway! Blessings!ReplyDelete
reneeasmith61 [at] yahoo [dot] com
good morning...i love the names you that you gave to the metcalfe family, ronie...thanks for the chance to read more about them :)ReplyDelete
kmkuka at yahoo dot com
Kids and dogs... Ronie, that just sounds like my kind of gal!ReplyDelete
This is fascinating. I love related names and you did a great job of pulling together a web... You can "web" names on the Internet and people do this all the time now to figure out what names 'go' with their first kid's name... or second, third, group, whatever.
Your name web is strong, but I loved the reason for "Leif".
Hey, um, PAMMERS... WHAT ARE YOU, THE JELLY POLICE???? HUH?????
Dagnabbit I don't even want some of your stupid ol' jelly now. I'll eat my food plain.
So there.
More for the rest o' youse. But the smell of those steaks sizzlin'...
Oh, Canyon's my kind of guy!
Loved this post and I love Ronie's books. They have everything. Action, romance, hot military men, who could ask for anything more. And as Pam mentioned, Ronie's characters are so real. Fantastic series.ReplyDelete
A military salute from this former Army to you!! Welcome to Seekerville.ReplyDelete
What an exciting series!!!
So tell us what's up next for you!
Welcome to Seekerville, Ronie! Boy, this story sounds INTENSE! What where the "seeds" that planted this particular story idea?ReplyDelete
Ronie, welcome to Seekerville this morning! What a way to start the day. Intense. Aware.ReplyDelete
And it's only Wednesday!
Love the concept of your series. You've thought through the nucleus of the family, developed the origin of the idea and now allow the reader to embrace the purpose of each character.
Talk about solid GMC!
Wow. This is great!
And the cover of the book ain't too shaby either!
I can't wait to read this.
Welcome to Seekerville, Ronie! Love the earth element names and how they fit the personality of the characters. Fun!ReplyDelete
Pam, thanks for bringing Ronie and the great food. And for sharing that Stealing Jake is free online. Congrats on #1!!!
You guys are AWESOME!!! Thank you so much for welcoming me with open arms and tons of encouragement. :-D I am delighted y'all like the names. In writing that family, I had so much fun.ReplyDelete
Sara - You are a gem. Thank you!!! I am working on an idea for the series, so . . . we'll see.
Renee - You are awesome. Thank you for stopping by!
Virginia - Thank you. My publisher had a very particular feel they wanted for these books, and I'm very pleased with what they came up with. :-D
Nancy - Oh, so great to "see" you again! Love that your nephew stole them. These books have been a hit with the teen male audience, a surprise to be sure.
Rel - you've been so great to promote this series so much. Love you!
Anon - this series isn't scary intense like a horror story, but intense with action and "compelling" incidents. :-D
Renee - So glad you enjoyed Digitalis. THANK YOU!
Karen - thanks so much.
Ruth - I really liked Leif. He was a subtly strong character.
Kristen - LOL Love it! Thank you so much. Glad you like the series--and the guys. ahem.
Tina - Salute! :-D
Glynna - a true story planted the seeds. A husband and wife torn apart by the husband's spec ops career and the anger that came as a result of numerous deadly missions. I knew after seeing that family fall crumble that I could never again write about our military without showing the toll their jobs take on them and their families.
Hi Ronie, Welcome to Seekerville,ReplyDelete
Wow talk about waking up immediately with promises of intense action. Your stories are amazing and I love the names. I wrote a manuscript with hippy names too from parents who were hippies. So fun. I mean you can do a lot with that which you obviously have. Love it.
Thanks for honoring our military. I too have seen the toll it takes.
Pam, the biscuits are yummy and looking forward to the steaks later on. Great summer fare.
And I'm bringing some extra jam so Ruthy you can have some. Strawberry, blueberry and blackberry.
RONIE!!! Welcome to Seekerville, girl, and WOW, what a fun post!! I was totally intrigued by your selection of names and gosh, you have me thinking what I could do with the names in my new San Francisco series ... Cable, Bay, China ...ReplyDelete
Mmmm ... somehow it works for you, but not me, I think! :)
And I know I've told you before, but your tagline for Wolfsbane is absolutely SENSATIONAL, and Ronie wrote it!! Listen to this:
And if you want to see a hubba-hubba pic of the model Ronie pegged for Canyon, OMG, check it out here at Ronie's Character Spotlight on Relz Reviews ...
Relz Reviews !!!!
Can't WAIT to read this one, Ronie!!
I love Roni's books - and so does my dad! After I read her books (well, all books) I loan them to my dad who is 85 and still sharp as a tack! We would both enjoy reading Wolfsbane!ReplyDelete
Ronie, thanks for being with us today! I love the idea of how you played with the names. Naming my characters is always so important to me. I've been known to spend a full day searching for just the right name with just the right meaning! :)ReplyDelete
Your story sounds amazing!
Hi, Ronie! I love this series.ReplyDelete
Hi Ronie:ReplyDelete
I enjoyed your presentation here in Tulsa at the recent ACFW meeting. I also like your 'elementary' names. Did you listen to Vivaldi's Four Seasons while you were writing these books?
I have two conflicting images of Leif: a guy who goes with the flow wherever the wind blows him and Leif Ericson a brave explorer.
Also, the names of your books: Nightshade, Digitalis, Wolfsbane, and Firethorn seem to be all nature type poisons. Is this to say that "The Discarded Heroes" are highly dangerous but can also be put to some good?
I like the idea of 'trying the names on for size and seeing if they work as you write' approach. I've had writers tell me that the names in their books are not what they wanted but the characters insisted on them!
Vmres (at) swbell (dot) net
Sara, I totally agree. Ronie's books are getting better, and better! Good for her and for Barbour.ReplyDelete
Same here, Renee!
Isn't that cover riveting, Virginia! I loved it, and I love how all the covers in Ronie's Discarded Heroes work together.
And, as an aside, just the IDEA of Ronie using all these washed-out former military guys in a Discarded Heroes series was BRILLIANT, and perfect timing with the military conflicts going on worldwide.
Great post today! Thanks, Pam and Ronie (and your book sounds very intriguing, Ronie). Please enter me in the drawing, and thanks for visiting us in Seekerville! :)ReplyDelete
Blessings, Patti Jo
Ronie...the book sounds awesome! I would love to have my name put in for the drawing. I liked the character names you chose. I'm drawn to names that have meaning. When we were choosing names for our kids, we prayed for just the right name that would suit them spiritually and beyond. It's amazing that the names we came up with reflect our children so well! Blessings~StaceyReplyDelete
I should have come here for lunch instead of eating mini-tacos.ReplyDelete
I will pay for my mistake gastronomically.
Welcome to Seekerville, Ronie! I love all the names you came up with--really creative and descriptive. Picking names is so much fun. I have friends who love to use the names of towns. Some are better than others!ReplyDelete
Ruthy, we'll share the strawberry jam. Just don't HOG it all, will ya.ReplyDelete
And be nice! We have guests today.
Sorry, I went to Relz Reviews to check out Ronie's idea of Canyon and forgot to come back...ReplyDelete
Just started reading Wolfsbane last night. I had to grab a pdf file from NetGalley because I hadn't received my review copy yet and I was determined to read this one before posting. I absolutely loved Digitalis.ReplyDelete
I'm about 50 pages in where we first meet the entire Metcalfe clan. Immediately realized what was going on with their names. I love it!
Ronie, by any chance, has your publisher signed you up to write the stories of all of the Nightshade members as well as their extended families, like the Metcalfes? This series could go on forever in my mind.
A gal can hope...
Hahaha Julie L. and Pam H. now you see why Canyon is my favorite! ;-)ReplyDelete
Oh and I forgot to say earlier don't enter me b/c I already have that AWESOME book!
XOXO~ Renee C.
Love it, love it, love it!ReplyDelete
I love how you came up with their names and I love their names.
I am an Army brat myself and a Texan...so I would definiltely be in for the lunch you got goin'.
Please enter me in the drawing.
There are huge Ronie Kendig fans in my family! HUGE! It was so great to hear from her. Please enter me.ReplyDelete
crazi.swans at gmail dot com
Pam, your book looks great!
Vince, so glad you mentioned Ronie's titles. Nightshade, Wolfsbane, etc.ReplyDelete
I hadn't thought of that, and wondered where the titles came from. Reading on to see what she says...
Wow wow!!! You guys know how to make a girl feel good--and fed!nSorry for being a bit absent--had three crowns placed this morning. Ugh.ReplyDelete
Julie, love you Bay names. LOL Too funny!
So glad y'all liked the model I used for Canyon. It was torture eyeing him as I wrote. But. Suffered for the sake of the story and my readers. Ahem.
Thanks, Vince! The titles were borne out of my desire for names that were "deadly but powerful (in a good way). The titles are also the secret code names used only by Lambert in his official reports.
I want to mention everyone, but the throbbing in my mouth is interfering. Faye -so glad you all are fans. What a treat for me!
Edwina - LOVE that you and your dad read my books. That's so kewl!!!
Patricia - so kewl that you were determined to read before posting. :-D Love your dedication. Sorry your review copy hasn't arrived yet.
Cara, Mary, Missy, Patti, Tracy - Thank you for your comments and encouragement. I had a lot of fun with the Metcalfes, as you can tell.
Sandra, I love you. Thanks for the jam, it's a great yummy bedtime (okay, maybe NOT bedtime yet) snack.ReplyDelete
Love it.
But I do have a campfire going and s'mores makings here.
We're good to go and....
I have Van Houtte Chocolate Raspberry coffee to make iced Raspberry mochas... It's not decaf...
Do not use that word around me, you guys know that....
it's muy deliciosa as Dora the Explorer's backpack likes to say!
Hey, gang! I've been out today. Looks like a slow day around here.ReplyDelete
Ronie, thanks for visiting today! I'll go tweet this now.
Hi, Ronie!!! Hope you had a great day in Seekerville! I spent the day driving. Who knew it would take two hours longer to drive to Ohio than Mapquest said it would? Anyway, nice to see you her, Ronie. ;-)ReplyDelete
Thanks for this interesting analysis of character names.ReplyDelete
I'm always torn because many of the sweet romances/inspirationals have names such as Beth, Annie and Katie.
Whenever I have written about a character whose name is unusual, I kind of feel obligated to explain the background.
Your explanation of these characters makes total sense and I really enjoyed this.
I'd love to win your book.
Oh my, I was in a hurry on my last comment and forgot to correctly give my e-mail. If someone can erase it, please do. :)ReplyDelete
cathy underscore shouse at yahoo. com
Names of characters are always an interesting thing. But it really dies help set their personality. Names of real people define who they are two. When picking the name of our daughter, it wasn't until we saw her that we knew for sure what name fit her the best. Having the name of your character in your book is an important first choice you need to make.ReplyDelete
Please enter me in the book drawing.
cynthiakchow (at) earthlink ( dot) net
Ronie has been such a trooper to hang out with us today after going to the dentist!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much Ronie. We've had so much fun, and I'm sure more comments will trickle in later.
Interesting concept to have the family tease each other about names! I know family's with theme names. On another front: We are a military family (Air Force) so I'm always glad to see supportive stories, esp. Christian, about them. Thanks for writing these.ReplyDelete
Oooh, I want to write like Ronie when I grow up!!!ReplyDelete
I loved Digitalis and the others are on my wish list.
I love these plots because they are action packed. Romance is there, too. Both are my faves to have in a story.
I'd love to be entered in the contest!
christylashea at gmail dot com
Don't enter me in this giveaway, as I already own Wolfsbane (which is TOTALLY awesome, by the way! ;-)ReplyDelete
Just wanted to stop by and comment about the names. I LOVED the theme yo used with Canyon's family, Ronie. It was SOO neat! I like nature names myself, so you didn't find me thinking it was corny or weird. Loved it!!
Really Interesting. I am always curious as to how names are selected. Please enter me in the contest.ReplyDelete


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NESS CITY, Kan. -- Eric Depperschmidt faces a hard sell whenever he talks to high school students about the virtues of their hometown. He can see the wanderlust in their eyes.
''They want to run out and slam the door and never look back," he says. He tells them ''not to slam the door too hard."
In recent years, a dozen or more young adults who blew out of this small town like the south winds of summer have come back, Depperschmidt, 33, included. They'd gone to college, married, had babies, and seen enough of the world to know that what they left was what they now wanted.
They're opening businesses and toughing it out. Whether Ness City thrives or follows the path of other High Plains towns that have gone to dust depends largely on whether this small knot of ambitious people succeeds.
Depperschmidt drums up business as the county's new economic development director. Bryan Whipple, 34, is the sheriff. High-school classmate Brennan Uehling, 35 on Thursday, has opened regional chiropractic clinics and is starting a fitness center where people can work out for $20 a month. Others have returned to the family business -- the furniture store, the farm, the oil patch, the grocery, the funeral and flower concern.
They all fight a mighty pull to go and stay gone. It's so strong in parts of western and central Kansas that several communities have closed schools and auctioned the buildings on
Indeed, the 2000 census indicated that many small towns, especially in isolated stretches of the Midwest and Great Plains, are withering away. Young adults are moving from farming communities to urban centers for better paying jobs, shopping, and other amenities that aren't as plentiful in rural America.
Sixty miles from big chain stores and even a dentist, this town of 1,500 in a county of 3,400 dances a constant waltz of steps forward, back, sideways. Derricks dotting the landscape coax lucrative oil from the wells while a hot breeze rustles the corn, stressed and stunted this year in parched dirt.
At his family owned grain elevator, Mayor Gary Gantz laments the spread of a federal conservation program. It has encouraged farmers to take close to a quarter of the county's crop acreage out of production since the area was designated as a protected pheasant and prairie chicken habitat a few years ago.
They get upward of $40 an acre a year in an area where 1,000-acre tracts are common, a steady income for doing almost nothing. They can get a bit more money if they plant wildflowers or let people hunt the animals they're protecting.
At that rate, the towering bins of the D.E. Bondurant Grain Co. will soon go begging.
''There is no positive in it really for us or for downtown, unless you're a prairie chicken or pheasant, or happen to be cashing the checks," Gantz said.
The mayor is a resettler himself, having left for college and come back to join his dad at the elevator when his uncle, a partner in the business, died young. ''I'm 50 and I go outside and it's 105 and I think, oh man, did I pick right or not," Gantz says with a laugh.
He's got three sons and quotes the oldest two as saying of the youngest, ''Dalton can have the elevator. We've got to get out of here." The mayor adds: ''I hope they change their mind."
The people who come back speak of the neighborliness, the way people look out for each other, the safe streets. The last homicide was in 1970, before the sheriff was born.
Sheriff Whipple moved here at age 14 from elsewhere in the county, when his family left the farm, went into home construction, and bought the bowling alley.
After getting a criminal justice degree, he bypassed a job prospect with the state's version of the FBI and returned, buying a home with a deck, yard, attached garage, and hot tub for $40,000.
He said the vices of the big city either don't exist here or are easier to manage. In one notable case, he caught suspects on the state's ''most wanted" list when they moved in, ran a drug lab in their home, and made a stupid mistake one night.
''They were driving a car that didn't have any muffler on it," he said. ''I pulled them over. I was just going to tell them, you can't be driving around town with a muffler this loud."
He ran a check, saw they were wanted and arrested them, then discovered the drug equipment in their home.
Uehling found ''instant roots" here after moving from Dodge City in high school. After college, he labored in stiff chiropractic competition in Fayetteville, Ark., in one of the fastest growing counties in the country, then came back to open four clinics in western Kansas.
For all the service gaps in such a small place, Ness City has surprising twists: a private Catholic school alongside the regular school system, a beautifully restored Prairie Mercantile building, a tiny movie theater, a motel and high-speed Internet access. Several people who wanted to move into town had their country homes hauled off the foundations and plunked here whole.
The mayor, like others, makes two-cartload shopping expeditions to the bigger places for the things he can't get here.
But he credits local ownership as one reason the town has hung on while several others along east-west Route 96 have vanished. Places such as Heizer, Modoc, Nekoma, and Horace show on a state map as circles with a slash through them to denote all services are gone.
The existence of the Catholic school alone is ''almost a real amazement," Gantz said.
''That kind of gives you an idea of the thought process and the backbone of everybody who carves a living out of this country," he said, ''because they're just willing to do what it takes to do it. And if that's work another hour, it's work another hour. It's their own bottom line."
Ness City's ratio of one teacher for 10 students is one of Depperschmidt's selling points. The town also can provide information technology, good roads, and an economical place to set up shop.
Depperschmidt is working with an online seller of antique-car parts from Michigan on a possible move to Ness County. A manufacturer of acoustical equipment is being offered land where he can make all the noise he wants.
Still, many young people continue to leave. In eastern Ness County, the high school in Bazine closed last year after the last half dozen students graduated. A California businessman bought the 78-year-old building on eBay for $55,000 after the highest bidder backed out. Returning grads like Depperschmidt, Uehling, and the others may offer the best hope. ''All of our parents have said, go get an education, get out of here," Depperschmidt said. ''My job is to give them something to come back to."

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Posted by Marian on March 13, 2002
In Reply to: Book about the "n-word" posted by Marian on March 13, 2002
: : : : :
: The N word
: : : : : : Author attempts to examine our most explosive epithet
: : : : : : By LARRY MUHAMMAD
: : : : : : [email protected]
: : : : : : The Courier-Journal
: : : : : : March 11, 2001
: : : : : : http://www.courier-journal.com/features/2002/03/20020311.html
: : : : :
: : : : : : It's a book with a title that makes some readers cringe.
: : : : : : Written by a top black intellectual, it has been denounced by other black intellectuals as a setback to the race.
: : : : : : Within its 175 pages is a dispassionate, erudite discussion of 400 years' usage of what's variously been called "the six-letter word," "the filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in the English language" and, simply, "the N-word."
: : : : : : The book is "[N-word]: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" (Pantheon, $22). Its author, Randall Kennedy, said in a telephone interview: "I have had conversations about the book with friends and the title will somehow be unmentioned. A couple of weeks ago, I went on a radio talk show in Detroit and had a wonderful, hourlong discussion.
: : : : : : "But beforehand they told me, 'We have a strict rule here that
there is no use of the word "nigger." ' "
: : : : : : A Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law School professor, Kennedy will read from and sign copies of his book at Hawley-Cooke Booksellers in Shelbyville Road Plaza on Wednesday from 7 to 8 p.m. (For more information, call 893-0133.)
: : : : : : He also will be the featured speaker for a sold-out NETWORK luncheon that day at the Main Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library.
: : : : : : Kennedy's book traces the epithet
from slavery to the 21st century in conversation, movies, literature, academics
and the courts, noting its use by Presidents Truman, Johnson and Nixon. In 1947,
he reports, Philadelphia Phillies teammates yelled from the dugout at Jackie Robinson
of the Brooklyn Dodgers: "We don't want you here, [n-word]!" In 2000, white Florida
high school students ended a newsletter attack on a black teacher with the phrase,
"Die, [n-word]."
: : : : : : Other racial slurs don't seem to take the same emotional toll.
: : : : : : "Other groups aren't as physically distinguishable and don't have the history of slavery and racism," noted Anna Bosch, director of the linguistics program at the University of Kentucky.
: : : : : : Generations of black people have felt the sting of the word "nigger."
: : : : : : "It was a curse word, a bad word, when I grew up as a child, calling someone out of their name, and a no-no in our family," said Lillian Anthony, a retired official of Presbyterian Church (USA). "Later, my research as an educator led me into documenting negative images of black people. And a lot of the images had the word 'nigger' on them, whether they were postcards, advertisements and artifacts.
: : : : : : "Seeing them didn't hurt me, but I was offended, and angry. It's white people denying my humanity, denying my humanness."
: : : : : : Car salesman Patrick Edwards said he was called "nigger" at Pleasure Ridge Park High School when he was a junior there in 1983: "I was in the lobby and this white girl who was arguing with her boyfriend rushed by, bumped into me and knocked the change out of my hand as I was trying to buy a Coke. I said, 'You need to watch where you're going, say excuse me.'
: : : : : : "And she said, 'I ain't got to watch nothing, [n-word].' I pushed her, she tried to kick me, we got into a scuffle, and I was suspended. They didn't do anything to her."
: : : : : : Kennedy's book has several examples of public utterances of the word that resulted in controversial firings. In Kentucky, pressure mounted on former Gov. A.B. "Happy" Chandler to resign from UK's board of trustees in 1988 after he said, "Zimbabwe's all [n-word] now," in a meeting about stock divestiture in then-apartheid South Africa. He rejected demands that he resign and rode out the controversy.
: : : : : : Over time, many believe the
word has appropriated new, positive contexts, meanings and connotations. Kennedy
applauds its use as a bonding term of affection between black men and in interracial
: : : : : : Actress Halle Berry, for example, made it a pet name between interracial lovers in the 1998 movie "Bullworth," telling Warren Beatty: "You know you're my [n-word]."
: : : : : : N.W.A., the Compton, Calif., rap-music consortium that produced Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, stands for "Niggas With Attitude." And Kennedy notes that Asian teens who assimilate hip-hop culture regularly call each other "nigger," trying to be ghetto-authentic like their African-American heroes.
: : : : : : "Tupac (Shakur, slain rap superstar) had an acronym for it," Edwards said. "Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished. It's taking something negative that whites have said about you and turning it into something positive."
: : : : : : Kennedy said, "I've been called 'nigger' across the gamut of ways that it is used. I've been called 'nigger' with love, and I've also been called 'nigger' with malice.
: : : : : : "Do I use the word? No, I don't. But I do have friends who embrace me and say, 'Good to see you, my [n-word].' Am I offended? No. Do I have white friends who have called me 'nigger'? No. Can I imagine this situation? Yes.
: : : : : : "I'm not urging people to use the word. It's not as if I'm trying to popularize it. I'm trying to educate people about the way it's being used."
: : : : : : The idea for the book originated with a series of lectures Kennedy delivered in 1998 at Stanford University, titled "Who Can Say [N-word] . . . And Other Related Questions."
: : : : : : Afterward, he searched a legal database and found more than 4,000 court cases related to the word. In some, verdicts had been invalidated because a juror said the N-word. In others, judges and prosecutors were disqualified for using it as an insult.
: : : : : : After Kennedy's book was published, some executives at Pantheon Books refused to utter the title, and reportedly worried that it would hurt book sales. Kennedy's editor, Errol McDonald, wrote "nigger" on a piece of paper and went around the office making colleagues pronounce it.
: : : : : : "Sales have been really good for us," said Melissa Bernstrom, public-relations director at Louisville's Hawley-Cooke Booksellers. "But we've had no one ask for it by name. They tend to say, 'Do you have Randall Kennedy's new book?' And at least one person just pointed to his picture in our newsletter and said, 'Do you have this book?'
: : : : : : "I don't know if that's quantifiable, but it's not how customers ask for other titles."
: : : : : : The book got gratuitous publicity when Columbia Law School professor Patricia Williams and Duke University African-American Studies professor Houston Baker said the book and its title would embolden racists to use the word more.
: : : : : : Kennedy's wasn't the first book with the N-word in its title. "[N-word]" was the title of comedian/-activist Dick Gregory's 1964 autobiography, and satirist Cecil Brown's debut novel in 1969 was called "The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass [N-word]."
: : : : : : "That was a more radical time," said David Anderson, associate English professor at the University of Louisville. "The '60s were about shocking people into new realities.
: : : : : : "But Kennedy's going to be judged on two things: One, the tradition that says you should never use the word, or encourage others to use it, so there's a sense of propriety that some people will believe he's violated.
: : : : : : And others will ask whether
the use of a provocative title is a means of calling attention to himself."
: : : : : : Other epithets have evolved into honorifics as modern usage subverts their original intent to offend. "Bitch," for example, defined by Webster's New College Dictionary as "a spiteful or ill-tempered woman," became synonymous among some in the '90s with female assertiveness.
: : : : : : Kennedy says keeping "nigger" taboo only reaffirms its power to harm. He writes: "In stressing the 'terror' of verbal abuse, proponents of hate-speech regulation have, ironically, empowered abusers while simultaneously weakening black students by counseling that they should feel grievously wounded by remarks that their predecessors would have ignored or shaken off."
: : : : : : Efforts to ban the word are futile anyway, Bosch said: "I can't imagine it happening. It's very common that, over many centuries of use, a word can take on a new meaning because it's used in a new context. It may fall into disuse in its negative sense, and eventually be forgotten.
: : : : : : "But part of the genius of language is its flexibility, and how people use words to convey whatever meaning they want. I think the best we can hope for is that our culture would change in such a way that it wouldn't be needed as a term of abuse."
: : : : : There's a review of the book by Christopher Hitchens in the March 4, 2002 issue of The Nation. It recalls a recent "huge and needless fuss in the mayor's office in Washington (D.C.) when some budgetary official used the word 'niggardly' to describe an item of expenditure and had to resign." I remember how floored I was when I heard about that incident, which happened a year or two ago. That such an apparently innocent use of a word that, it turns out, only SOUNDS like it's related to the n-word--well, such is the power of language. Even careful usage can get one into big trouble.
: : : : In my no doubt skewed opinion, the official used poor judgment. If I were speaking to a group of gay and straight people, I'd avoid saying "Let's throw a few faggots on the fire," however innocuous my intention.
: : : "A gentleman," I was once told, " is someone who never unintentionally hurts another's feelings."
: : That sounds like Oscar Wilde.
: : I agree it wouldn't be a good idea to use terms like faggot for firewood, etc., in certain situations. But sometimes words "come out surprised" like a little kid in my family once said. Especially when the speaker is nervous and trying really hard to say the right things.
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This is a module that parses WDDX packets. Which are
well supported in Allaire Coldfusion, and pretty
This is from the WDDX.org web site: "The Web Distributed
Data Exchange, or WDDX, is a free, open XML-based
technology that allows Web applications created with any
platform to easily exchange data with one another over the
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/WDDX/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/textproc/p5-WDDX/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install p5-WDDX
cd /usr/ports/textproc/p5-WDDX/ && make install clean
pkg install p5-WDDX
PKGNAME: p5-WDDX
SHA256 (WDDX-1.02.tar.gz) = 946d92f259294eb40a1087c29a0de288482020abf30aac72e5fceb4e019fa4ba
SIZE (WDDX-1.02.tar.gz) = 26453
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Number of commits found: 26
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site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
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site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
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- ECHO is silent
- INSTALL_* are not silent
- CP/FIND/... are not silent
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See http://wiki.freebsd.org/Perl for details.
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- only 13% of the p5- ports embed @comment $FreeBSD$:
so standarize and remove it
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Cancer Services is supported by charitable gifts from individuals and corporations in our community. To ensure the sustainability of our programs and services, we hold three annual fundraisers:
Design on Life - Spring Auction, February 25, 2017
Held in conjunction with the Fort Wayne Home and Garden Show, the evening features hors d' oeuvres, cash bar, music entertainment, and silent and live auctions.
Lapper & Survivors Day, May 13, 2017
Lapper is a walk held at Brotherhood Office Park to support all those affected by cancer in Northeast Indiana. This walk is a fundraiser to honor or memorialize a loved one touched by cancer. Bring a friend, form a team, and walk as many laps as you can! Join us for the Survivors Day Celebration immediately following the walk. Enjoy food, fun and games for the entire family.
Fall Tribute Dinner, September 6, 2017
The Tribute Dinner offers guests an opportunity to pay tribute to those touched by cancer, whether a survivor, caregiver, physician, or lost loved one. The evening includes a chance to share memories with family and friends, as well as an elegant dinner and inspiring message.
Volunteer Recognition Event - December
Each year Cancer Services recognizes the hundreds of people who volunteer at the agency. The event is held over breakfast, with entertainment and a small gift for each attendee. This is an incredibly important event, since we could not do what we do without our volunteers.
Friends for Lunch
This open house is held on the fourth Friday each month from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It is for people who want to learn more about Cancer Services. It includes lunch, a brief video and a tour of the facility. We know people are busy so we keep it to an hour. Please call (260) 484-9560 or toll free 866-484-9560 for reservations - space is limited.


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We thought this Hot Cocoa Peppermint Dream from Warren Bobrow would be lovely to have while you cuddle up to watch the last season of Downton Abbey's Season. The weather is chilly almost everywhere right now, so this could be a perfect match.
(To locate your local PBS station, click here.)
by Warren Bobrow, The Cocktail Whisperer
Very few spirits offer the diversity of rum. Rum can be served in a variety of ways. Hot, cold and at room temperature without diminishing the flavor or potency! Some of my most favorite methods of serving rum during the holidays in a hand held form. A hot toddy for instance is the perfect way to introduce your guests to the pleasures of rum. If they are not careful, a hot toddy will also introduce them to a pillow faster than you can say sleepy-time!
Some hot toddy cocktails that speak of the season…
The Drink
Peppermint, hot chocolate and rum are one of these cocktails. There are three different kinds of chocolate, dark, sweet and white. Melted into your cup with the addition of peppermint oil and dark rum, your guests won't know why they are floating on a cloud before the evening is over. Freshly whipped cream (never that stuff in a can) propels this hot toddy into dessert infamy.
Ingredients for a large punch bowl of relaxation:
- 3 different types of melted chocolate (white, dark bitter and sweet) enough for 12 cups
- 1 teaspoon of concentrated peppermint oil
- 1 bottle of dark rum (Barbados or Jamaican come to mind)
- 4 cups of the 1/2 condensed milk, 1/2 whole milk mixture
- Warmed sweetened condensed milk & regular milk in 50/50 proportions
- Melt chocolate and add warmed milk mixture to thin out for your mug of goodness
- Add 2 oz. of dark rum to each mug
- Stir with a peppermint stick


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This series consists of talks in the area of Quantum Gravity.
Interwiners describe quanta of space in loop quantum gravity. In this talk I show that the Hilbert space of SU(2) intertwiners has as semiclassical limit the phase space of a classical system originally considered by Minkowski: convex polyhedra with N facets of given areas and normals. This result sharpens Penrose spin-geometry theorem. The knowledge of the classical system associated to intertwiner space can be fruitfully used: I show that many properties of the spectrum of the volume operator can be derived via Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization of the volume of a classical polyhedron.
In the context of loop quantum gravity and spin foam models, the simplicity constraints are essential in that they allow to write general relativity as a constrained topological theory.
I will first recall the spin foam quantization procedure and focus more particularly on the step consisting in implementing the simplicity constraints.
An ultraviolet complete quantum gravity theory is formulated in which vertex functions in Feynman graphs are entire functions and the propagating graviton is described by a local, causal propagator. A scalar-tensor action describes classical gravity theory. The cosmological constant problem is investigated in the context of the ultraviolet complete quantum gravity. Also investigated are black holes and cosmology.
The Exact Renormalization Group (ERG) is a technique which can be fruitfully applied to systems with local interactions that exhibit a large number of degrees of freedom per correlation length. In the first part of the talk I will give a very general overview of the ERG, focussing on its applications in quantum field theory (QFT) and critical phenomena. In the second part I will discuss how a particular extension of the formalism suggests a new understanding of correlation functions in QFTs, in general, and gauge theories in particular.
Guided by idealized but soluble nonrenormalizable models, a nontraditional proposal for the quantization of covariant scalar field theories is advanced, which achieves a term-by-term, divergence-free perturbation analysis of interacting models expanded about a suitable pseudofree theory [differing from a free theory by an $O(\hbar^2)$ term].
In my talk I would like to discuss the present status of Doubly Special Relativity. DSR is an extension of Special Relativity aimed at describing kinematics of particles and fields in the regime where (quantum) gravity effects might become relevant. I will discuss an interplay between DSR physics and mathematics of Hopf algebras.
A brief introduction to the notorious "cosmological constant problem" is given. Then, a particular approach is discussed, which has been developed by Volovik and the present speaker over the last years and which goes under the name of q-theory. This approach provides a possible solution of the main cosmological constant problem, why is |Lambda|^(1/4) negligible compared to the energy scales of the electroweak standard model (not to mention the Planck energy)?
Combining the principles of general relativity and quantum theory still remains as elusive as ever. Recent work, that concentrated on one of the points of contact (and conflict) between quantum theory and general relativity, suggests a new perspective on gravity. It appears that the gravitational dynamics in a wide class of theories - including, but not limited to, standard Einstein's theory - can be given a purely thermodynamic interpretation. In this approach gravity appears as an emergent phenomenon, like e.g., gas or fluid dynamics.
Attempts to go beyond the framework of local quantum field theory include scenarios in which the action of external symmetries on the quantum fields Hilbert space is deformed. A common feature of these models is that the quantum group symmetry of their Hilbert spaces induces additional structure in the multiparticle states which in turns reflects a non-trivial momentum-dependent statistics.
Loop quantum gravity and spin foams are two closely related theories of quantum gravity. There is an expectation that the sum over histories or path integral formulation of LQG will take the form of a spin foam, although a rigorous connection between the two is available only in 2+1 gravity. Understanding the relation between them will resolve many open questions of both theories. We probe the connection through an exactly soluble model of loop quantum cosmology. Beginning from the canonical theory we construct a spin foam like expansion of LQC.


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Six steps to choosing the best refrigerator
If you've had the pleasure of purchasing an appliance within the last 10 years you're probably aware that things are not as simple as they once used to be. While technology has made many things in our lives easier, choosing the best refrigerator among hundreds of similar models isn't one of them. Family size and lifestyle are only a few of the factors that influence a purchase. That said, armed with the right information and knowing what questions to ask can ease the process of finding the best refrigerator:
1. Choose your size
The first step to finding the best refrigerator is to consider how much storage you need. The key metric is cubic feet. The average fridge for a family of four varies from around 18 to 25. On average, young couples starting out can make do with 18; a large family should think about a larger size. But who's average anymore? If that young couple likes to entertain with large elaborate dinners or plans to start a family immediately, a bigger refrigerator might make sense. If the large family eats out a lot, maybe a smaller unit works.
The other dimensions to consider are the refrigerator's width and height. Typically, models are around 68 inches tall and between 30 and 36 inches wide. Your new fridge has to fit in your kitchen, so measure carefully. And don't forget to measure the size of your doorways as well to make sure delivery and installation go smoothly.
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Oxford City's general manager Justin Merritt says Kynan Isaac has the ability to be a great success after he signed for Sky Bet League Two side Luton Town.
The pacy 21-year-old, who was in his second spell at City, having been at Banbury United last season, has penned on a one-year deal after a successful week's trial with the Hatters.
Isaac, who helped City to promotion via the Southern League play-offs, first came to Merritt's attention when he was boss of Oxford City Nomads.
And he says Luton manager John Still could have signed a real bargain.
"I know they have 28 players on their books, but it's a good opportunity for Kynan," said Merritt.
"He's got the ability to go past people – he's got bags of talent.
"Kynan can finish, he can cross a ball and can play upfront, out wide or even at full back.
"No-one has ever questioned his ability, but if they can instil some discipline into him, then they will have themselves a very good player.
"They're not looking at a big risk."
Merritt added: "There's no fee involved. He was due to sign a deal with us for a year, but we wanted to see what happened at Luton.
"It would have been different if he had been on a contract."
Merritt says City face the toughest test of their unbeaten start when Chorley visit tomorrow in Vanarama Conference North.
"Hyde were a footballing side while Worcester were strong and direct, so we've had questions asked of us."
"It's going to be a good test because Chorley have had a good start.
"I'm more concerned what we do and we are nowhere near where we want to be, but we're moving in the right direction."
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Discussion in 'The Welcome Wagon' started by cobrapony50, Feb 25, 2010.
New guy glad to meet you guys.
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I know man there was this old lady I used get behind in a 79 berlinetta camaro,that would dead stop on the haywood road off ramp. And it happened almost every morning and I would blow the horn and she would just look at me like I was doing something wrong. But good luck with the job search, I got laid off and it took me a few weeks to fing something.
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Apple's iPhone may remain one of the most popular and sought after devices on the market and the number one Samsung smartphone manufacturer will have their alarm bells ringing. It has been revealed that Microsoft's Windows Phone has overtaken Apple's company in terms of market share in China which is one of the largest markets in the world.
The war is usually centered on Android and IOS but windows have always been seen as the third runner in the competition but now windows is seen as a dark horse. The Windows 7 phones may lack in apps and choices of devices but the slick interface and simplified user interface has it gather strong sales.
On the horizon is Windows 8, and Microsoft will definitely have a big say in the direction of the mobile market. In terms of reach Android dominates worldwide, IOS on the other hand is often admired as the smoother, more complete ecosystems, Windows however, isn't necessarily to every consumer's liking but who knows how much of an impact the Windows could have when the apps are developed on the Windows Market Place.
It might be that a there is a little extra pressure on the next iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 5 when it arrives in September/October.
One of highest yielding market share of any vendor, Apple has now been eclipsed – surprisingly by Windows Phone.


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Female Sgt. blazes trail for up-and-coming cops
"She definitely has respect of her peers, of her subordinates, and her superiors"
By Angela Douglas
BILLINGS, Mont. — Sergeant Ronda Fox is among the nearly 150 officers of the Billings Police Department committed to protecting their community and preventing crime. Fox is the only woman serving as a sergeant, but there's a total of 14 female officers in the department. A number that makes up 10-percent of the BPD workforce.
Sgt. Fox has been a part of the Billings Police Department since 2000. She has patrolled the streets, served as a training officer and worked in detectives, often going undercover. Then, four years ago she was promoted to sergeant and became the first and only female commander for the BPD.
"Sgt. Fox is the epitome of what hard work and dedication is regardless of whether you're a male or female officer," said Billings Police Chief Rich St. John. "She has paid her dues working the patrol division, all shifts, and probably got most of her street experience when she was working in an undercover capacity."
Full Story: Female BPD sergeant blazes the trail for up and coming officers


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Walmart Security Camera Captures 'Brazen' Sexual Assault of Young Girl
Minnesota authorities searched for a suspect on Thursday who was caught groping a child on camera in a Fridley, Minn., Walmart.
Authorities described the sexual assault as "particularly brazen," in a statement Thursday, because the girl's mother and older sibling were standing right beside her.
Security footage captured the suspect on Monday afternoon sexually assaulting the girl, who is under the age of 13.
The video shows the man trailing the family around the store for several minutes before finally groping the young girl, said County Sheriff's Office Commander Paul Sommer, CNN reported.
"By the time she talks to her mother ... the suspect is already gone," Sommer said.
"When he comes in the store, he's not looking at any merchandise. He's not doing any bargain-hunting that day. He's kind of looking around, and he appears to focus on this one little girl," Sommer added. "He spends several minutes basically stalking this little girl and this family. It's just an eerie thing to watch."
Investigators received some tips after releasing still photos from the security images on Thursday, but the suspect has still not been identified, according to CNN.
"Our larger concern is, is this the start of something bigger, or is [the suspect] going to be satisfied with this type of assault?" Sommer said.
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House Republicans have voted to repeal ObamaCare before, but since Democrats have the majority in the Senate, Republicans are going nowhere again on this, their 37th effort.
In order to defend the indefensible, a very defensive Speaker Boehner's office tried to poison reality by sending out a preemptive missive declaring that Republicans have only actually tried twice before via a stand-alone bill to rescind the health care law. The rest, you see, were efforts to defund it and destroy it, but technically, technically, they are not the same!
The New York Times reported:
Indeed, the Republican House leadership is sensitive to the perception that they are squandering even more time on a repeal vote that is going nowhere.
Predicting the cynical news media coverage that awaits them, Speaker John A. Boehner's office sent out a memorandum to reporters on Tuesday pointing out that the House had only voted twice before on a stand-alone bill to rescind the health care law. Many of the other votes, a spokesman for the speaker explained, were to defund or repeal smaller parts of the law, including seven signed into law by the president.
Republicans might not be able to do much in the House of Representatives due to their inner party chaos and tea party Poujadists, but one thing they can do reliably is waste your money on yet another ObamaCare vote. Thursday they will be taking their 37th vote to repeal all or part of the President's healthcare plan.
This is actually their 43rd effort to dismantle ObamaCare, according to the New York Times, but whatev. We'll give them 37 since they can hardly stand more scrutiny. The Times determined that Republicans spend 15% of their time at "work" devoted to show votes that are going nowhere.
Indeed, the Times concluded that this House is the least productive one in a decade, with just 146 roll-call votes since Jan. 3. Republicans claimed they wanted to "repeal and replace" during the 2012 elections, but it came out later that they had no replacement. So, that would be repeal and let 'em die, I guess, only that doesn't sell so well.
The non-partisan CBO was so unimpressed with Republicans that they wrote the the House Republican "budget hawk" Paul Ryan a letter denying his request to score ObamaCare yet again, noting that actually Republicans were WRONG. Repeal won't save money, and it would add to the deficit. To wit (my bold), "CBO and JCT most recently estimated the budgetary impact of repealing the ACA in July 2012. In a letter to Speaker Boehner (sent on July 24, 2012),CBO described the direct spending and revenue effects of H.R. 6079, the Repeal of Obamacare Act, as passed by the House o Representatives earlier in July. In that letter, CBO indicated that the net savings from eliminating the insurance coverage provisions of the ACA would be more than offset by the combination of other spending increases and revenue reductions that repeal of the ACA would entail. On balance, CBO and JCT estimated, repealing the ACA would affect direct spending and revenues in ways resulting in a net increase in budget deficits of $109 billion over the 2013-2022 period."
So that's a fail. The truth is that this healthcare repeal vote is about the only thing House Republicans can agree upon, and it makes their base happy to see them "taking a stand" (for show) against the President.
Other Republicans are trying to justify this circus by suggesting that since the IRS is just like Nixon only without the enemies list, the smoking gun tape, or the targeting of political enemies (so, not like Nixon at all), therefore ObamaCare should die. Republican Rep Diane Black of Tennessee tweeted: "IRS scandal begs the question: how can POTUS continue 2 support expansion of IRS power thru enforcement of Obamacare?"
Half of the billion dollars allocated to cover implementation of the Affordable Care Act went to the IRS. Starting in 2014, the agency will distribute subsidies for health-care coverage through state exchanges and issue penalties against individuals who do not get or businesses that do nor provide insurance.
Republicans have claimed that the IRS will hire 16,000 new agents to deal with health-care reform; factcheckers have deemed that number "a partisan analysis based on guesswork and false assumptions." But the Obama administration has asked for more money for the IRS to enforce the new law. The president's 2014 budget calls for $1 billion more for the IRS, $440 million of which is intended to help with ACA implementation. A big chunk of that would go to updating and creating new information technology.
See? They can tie their ObamaCare Scandal ("Hitler!") to the IRS Scandal, which is exactly what Speaker Boehner has been trying to do by constantly claiming the IRS has admitted targeting conservatives. Actually, Republican aides told the press that the IRS told them that, and yes, the IRS did target all groups claiming to be social welfare groups, including conservatives. Of those groups, liberal groups were denied non-profit status. So technically they can run around and say conservatives were targeted, but so were liberals.
But the press has never cared when liberals were targeted. Liberals are boring because they don't matter (they aren't corporate tools?). The press is very, very concerned with the HITLER/NIXON themes being feverishly sold by the almost-never-right Right. Calling Obama Hilter over ObamaCare should have been a clue, but the press would rather play stupid for the drama and the coolness of it all. Meanwhile, Boehner is selling this, their 37th or 43rd effort to defund ObamaCare, as somehow excusable.
Where are the jobs?
Update 1:13 PM EST: Boehner tried to claim that the show votes to repeal ObamaCare are creating jobs in his presser Thursday.


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Literacy and Culture: Problems and Promises
of Bilingual Education - May 9, 1996
We want the future to hold good jobs, loving families and citizen participation for all our children. And we know that in this society, being literate and speaking English will help lead to that future. We also know that many students talk with their families about love, work, and respect in a language other than English--one their family brought to this country. Can students achieve this vision of the future when they speak one language at home and another in school? Will keeping the native language alive help or hinder the student who is learning English? These are the questions that will be discussed at this Town Hall Meeting.


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PYONGYANG, North Korea, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Combat helicopters were deployed in North Korea to areas hit by last week's flooding but a U.S. official said there were no discussions on aid.
Pyongyang said at least 88 people died and 60,000 people were left homeless following flooding near the capital and other areas last week.
A South Korean military official told the Yonhap news agency, that North Korean combat helicopters were deployed to areas hit by the flooding.
"It seems (North Korea) has suffered severe flood damage considering it has mobilized combat helicopters that were placed on the forefront," he said.
A U.N. team arrived in North Korea Tuesday to help with disaster response.
North Korea had brokered a deal with the United States for food assistance in exchange for a halt to missile and nuclear activity. The deal collapsed in April, however, when North Korea tried to send a long-range rocket into orbit.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, during this regular press briefing, said there weren't "any discussions about that issue (assistance) here at the White House."


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Two weeks ago, I packed my camera gear in the car, fueled up at Starbucks, and made the trek out to the Military Aviation Museum in Pungo for a pin up photo shoot. With gorgeous retro hair and makeup, adorable vintage outfits, and beautifully restored military aircrafts from World Wars I and II; the recipe was perfect for amazing photographs! Throw in three stunning (and fearless) models, and the result are the gorgeous pictures found on todays blog!
Two out of the three models came ready to rock and roll, and the third gorgeous gal went straight to hair and makeup to get transformed into a vintage vixen for this pin up photo shoot! Wendy and Stephanie rocked it out, getting Kristin all glammed up, and when she put her outfit on, it was complete!
After hair and makeup were complete, the models headed out to the hangars and took turns posing with the different planes, giving a variety of different planes, and making sure that each snap of the shutter yielded a different pose/smile/expression.
As someone who knows nothing about modeling, I was completely blown away by the talent of these ladies and all they were able to accomplish! Bravo gals!


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Young encouraged by latest 'pen session
SAN FRANCISCO -- Right-hander Chris Young allows himself a brief glimpse of what might be this season. He refuses to get ahead of himself, though. Young threw 50 pitches in his third bullpen session as he recovers from a strained right shoulder. He threw his slider for the first time and reported progress. "This was probably the best day yet," Young said Friday before the San Diego Padres met the San Francisco Giants in the first game of their National League West showdown. "I feel good with my stuff and sharpness, and it's nice to focus on those things rather than how the shoulder feels."
Young made one start this year before his shoulder put him back on the disabled list. He called this season "an emotional roller coaster." Last season ended prematurely for Young and he thought he was all the way back before suffering the setback in April. "It was like a tease getting one game this year," he said. "It's been a challenge but all I can do is focus on the future." Young will next pitch a bullpen session Sunday in San Francisco or Monday in Chicago.


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Wikis > Dictionary of Islam > Ayatu'l Hinz
"The verse of protection" Certain verses of the Qur'an which are usually inscribed on amulets. They are:-Surah ii, 256, "And the preservation of both (heaven and earth) is no burden unto Him": Surah xii. 64, "God is the best protector". Surah xiii, 12. "They guard him by the command of God." Surah xv, 17. "We guard him from every devil driven away by stones" Surah xxxvii. 7, "A protector against every rebellious devil".
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Stillbirth: The birth of a dead baby, the delivery of a fetus that has died before birth for which there is no possibility of resuscitation. The distinction between a stillbirth and a miscarriage is arbitrary. The dividing line has variously set at 20 to 24 weeks of gestation or at a specific weight, such as 500g. Before that time it is a miscarriage, and after that time it is a stillbirth.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary
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I Feel LOST
Dear Sugar--
I'm lost. I just finished college and now have my first $30K plus BBA (bachelor's degree in business studies) at 31 years (sad but true); I'm stuck in a rut. I have about a 3.45 GPA or something...I didn't go to Stanford, Yale, Harvard, so no job offers are landing on my doorstep. I live in the middle of nowhere...seriously, NW Minnesota...middle of nowhere.
I feel lost. I think I should start studying for the GMAT and go back & get a Master's. I swear all the good jobs require an MBA or Master's these days, right?
I have tried looking in all the right places for a job, even a
telecommuting type job, and cannot locate anything. I'm 31, I have no kids, I have 2 cats, and I have a boyfriend whom I love so much that I stay in this piddly little town for his sake.
Do I accept the fact that I will be doomed forever to a life of misery and failure? Or does someone actually feel that life can sometimes be fair and I should be able to have both things I want? I feel like I've been wounded in a sword fight, crying my eyes out each night is not ideal. What can I do?
--Lost Linda
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Dear Lost Linda--
It may make you feel better to know that many people feel as frustrated and stuck as you do. It sounds like you are really motivated and want to fix this situation, so that's a great first start.
Getting your masters will give you a leg up, but keep looking -- there have got to be some jobs out there that pay more than $30K that don't require the degree. Talking to a career counselor might be helpful as well. They could offer suggestions as to what your next steps need to be taken in order to get a higher paying job.
I know you said that you love your boyfriend and want to stay with him, but your career sounds equally important, so have you thought about moving to the closest biggest city with him? Remaining in an unhappy job and town isn't healthy for you or your relationship, so explore your options, because you have some here - it just might take some time to make it happen. Good luck Linda.


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3 Year-old Photographer Gets Gallery Exhibit
Fans are marveling at the unique photos taken by three year-old Ruby Ellenby whose first photo exhibit offers collectors a natural look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Maybe her talent is in her genes. Both her parents are photographers.
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See Nightbane quest chain for a summary of this quest chain.
Objectives Edit
Speak to Kamsis at the Guardian's Library in Karazhan.
Quest Text Edit
Journal, what journal? You're thinking of Kamsis, surely.
Go and ask her about it. I can't leave my project right now or all my work will be wasted!
Completion Edit
The journal you speak of... I was sent here to look for it wasn't I?
Details Edit
The Guardian's Library is the large hall after Curator. The mobs here will auto-clear some time after the Shade of Aran has been defeated.
Rewards Edit
- +10 reputation with The Violet Eye
Quest progression Edit
This is part of the Nightbane quest chain:
- [70] Medivh's Journal
- [70] In Good Hands
- [70] Kamsis
- [70] The Shade of Aran
- [70] The Master's Terrace
- [70] Digging Up the Past
- [70] A Colleague's Aid
- [70] Kalynna's Request
- [70] Nightbane


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Is it possible to invoke Application_Start when using AppFabric and AlwaysRunning for an application pool? I have read
http://blogs.iis.net/appfabric/archive/2010/12/09/wcf-and-appfabric-autostart.aspx and
however it appears from the description of what Auto-Starting an asp.net application should do is call the Application_Start method for the website. If I want to write a custom provider to do this (which I have on another proof of concept) I need to
manually update a config file for this to work. Additionally there are quite a few things that might be happening in the Application_Start method: initializing routing, registering IOC containers, caching, service bus registration etc. So
to pull all that out and put it into a custom provider seems odd.
Are there any plans for AppFabric to instantiate the Application_Start during warm up? If not any suggestions on how others are handling all of the other things that are currently being done in Application_Start that would be nice to have done before
someone hits the site for the first time?
Thank you, Wade
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The association between research and development expenditure and firm performance: testing a life cycle hypothesis
Although prior studies provide evidence that investment in research and development (R&D) expenditure enhances a firm's performance, very little evidence is available on the impact of a firm's life cycle stages on the association between R&D expenditures and firm performance. We classify firms into three-life cycle stages, namely, growth, mature and stagnant, and choose four-life cycle classification variables which are dividends, sales growth, capital expenditure and firm age. Using 769-firm-year observations over a period of 11-years in Australia, we find that the abnormal returns to unexpected expensed R&D amounts are significantly negative. Further, our results suggest that market reaction to expensed R&D is more negatively pronounced during the stagnant phase of a firm's life cycle, suggesting that the market perceives that firms have limited prospects to derive benefits arising out of expensed R&D expenditures. The results suggest that the relationship between performance and investment in R&D is not linear but is moderated by a firm's life cycle which should be taken into account when making policy that is based on stock-based performance.
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[Bug 740438] New: Security update for pidgin (finch-5557) even though not installed?
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Summary: Security update for pidgin (finch-5557) even though
not installed?
Classification: openSUSE
Product: openSUSE 11.4
Version: Final
Platform: x86-64
OS/Version: Other
Status: NEW
Severity: Normal
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Maintenance
AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ReportedBy: gp@xxxxxxxx
QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
Found By: Product Management
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Created an attachment (id=470420)
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Screenshot of graphical updater
Using the graphical updater I got quite confused about the update referring
to pidgin and finch, when neither is installed (see attached screenshot):
> rpm -qa | grep -i finch
> rpm -qa | grep -i pidgin
Using zypper on the command-line, things become more clear, but it is still
> zypper patch
Selecting 'finch-5557.noarch' from repository 'Updates for openSUSE 11.4
11.4-0' for installation.
Resolving package dependencies...
Force resolution: No
The following NEW patch is going to be installed:
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Volusia County 'drug kingpin' sentenced to 13 years in prison
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla.,VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. - A man dubbed "the Drug Kingpin" has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for a pill-pushing operation he had going in Volusia County.
When authorities pulled over former pharmacist Michael Lomangino in February for running stop signs in DeLand, they found 253 pills and marijuana in his truck.
But that was nothing to what investigators found in Lomangino's Edgewater home. There, 5,700 pills -- including oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, codeine, Valium, Xanax and morphine were confiscated, along with cash and a gun.
On Wednesday, Lomangino was sentenced to prison in connection with the case.
Lomangino's girlfriend, Allina Kirkland-Michaud, told investigators Lomangino was a drug kingpin in the New Smyrna Beach area.
WFTV learned Lomangino had been a licensed pharmacist for 20 years. For more than 10 of those years, he worked at Steve's Pharmacy in Daytona Beach.
Detectives said he admitted to stealing some pills from his workplace and selling them. But as for how, several agencies, including the DEA, are still trying to find that out.


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Fungal Infections...most severe cases, amphotericin B is used, but it can have serious side effects Alternative treatment: Mouthwash derived from tea-tree oil (not the oil itself -- this can be very irritating!) Candidiasis of the Vagina (Vaginal Candidiasis, Vaginitis or Yeast Infection) May occur with high CD4 cell counts (around 500), but more likely to develop at lower CD4 counts So common in HIV-positive women that any woman who is undiagnosed...
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treatment for persistent candida vaginitis?Hi doctor,is there anything else besides clotrimazole that I can use vaginally for persistent thrush. I have heard that yoghurt can be used but I'm concerned that it might have something in it that could cause another infection. I always have to...
Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine...Optimizing medications for HIV can go a long way to clearing up persistent vaginal candidiasis (thrush). When topical medications such as clotrimazole and nystatin don't work, a brief course of fluconazole by mouth is Read more »
reccuring candidaHow early into an HIV infection can recurring vaginal candidiasis occur? 1 month, 2, 3 after the initial contact with the virus? Later than that? Can it be treated or will it keep coming back? thanks
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VAGINAL THRUSHWhat is vaginal thrush? the causes, and is it related to HIV and AIDS?
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University of Massachusetts, Medical School...Vaginal thrush is the term for a fungal infection ("Candida") of the vagina that commonly occurs in women. Symptoms may include burning or itching Read more »
can vaginal thrush lead to oral thrush?Doctor, I'm scared. I have had a yeast infection (vaginal) for over 6 years. It didn't itch, so I didn't bother much about it. I tried to get rid of it twice - very far apart - but both times it came back. I now have flat red wart-looking things...
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Grady Health System...Vaginal candidiasis is a common condition in the immunocompetent (HIV-) population. There are very effective therapies available for management Read more »
Vaginal Yeast Infections...Vaginal candidiasis is a yeast infection usually caused by Candida albicans . Candida occurs normally in the mouth, digestive tract and vagina of Read more »
Vaginal Candidiasis... Table of Contents Cause Diagnosis Treatment Treating Vaginal Candidiasis Prevention Treating and Preventing Fungal Infections Naturally Practical Prevention Tips Food as Prevention! Anti-Fungal Read more »
Candidiasis in Immune-Compromised Women...lining of the mucous membranes in the esophagus, intestines, vagina, throat and lungs. Oral candidiasis (thrush) or recurrent vaginal candidiasis (vaginitis, yeast infection) is an early sign of weakening of the immune system. The prevalence of... Read more »
Gynecological Problems...treatment with a doctor who is experienced in treating HPV in HIV-positive patients. Fungal Infections (Yeast Infections, Vaginal Candidiasis, Vaginitis) Candidiasis is a very common vaginal infection caused by yeast (fungus). Symptoms... Read more »
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Posted by Anonymous, 6 Replies...Acute Viral Syndrome, or Primary Vital Syndrome is a set of symptoms (syndrome) that occurs 2-4 weeks after the exposure to the HIV retrovirus (hence the term retroviral), PROVIDED THAT YOU ARE INFECTED. Chances are that you are not. 2-4 weeks is... Read more »
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The first add-on character for NetherRealm's Injustice: Gods Among Us is available for download today. Lobo is an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter, known for his love of space-cycles and cigars.
Lobo is free to download for all Season Pass owners; everyone else pays 400 MS Points ($5) to add him to the roster. Lobo is the first of four planned DLC characters, soon to be followed by Batgirl.
Three new DLC packs are also available for Injustice: Gods Among Us. The Teen Titans pack slaps alternate costumes on Cyborg, Raven and Deathstroke, while the Bad Girls pack groups together alternate versions of Catwoman, Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn – both are 240 MS Points ($3).
Finally, the Flashpoint collection, previously exclusive to Season Pass holders, dresses up Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Deathstroke in their alternate dimension "Flashpoint" ensembles for 320 MS Points ($4).