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"It started with a whisper…"
With all due apologies to Neon Trees, as a matter of fact, it did not. It really started with a semi-overweight Baby Boomer arousing from a slumber on the coach one evening in 2008 and channel surfing. That would be the first time I would hear Ryan Seacrest screech: "Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis is American Idol!"
It was Season 7 of AI and the season of the "Two Davids" – Cook and Archuleta. Myself and the bride became hooked. She proclaimed: "If Cook doesn't win this I'm never watching again!" I on the other hand, in a juvenile sense, enjoyed Archie, but down deep I agreed with her – Cook was the guy.
Eventually, Cook did win and my Idol Chatter blog was launched (if you want you can go to www.pressdemocrat.com and search the archives there for past posts and lots of interviews I'd done over the ensuing five seasons of the show).
So, Idol Chatter now moves from NoCal and the P-D to SoCal and the U-T. Kinda catchy, don't you think?
So, what are my qualifications to do this blog? Nothing really, other than to admit I am one of a rare breed who can actually say I saw the Dick Clark Caravan of Stars in the 1960s in West Virginia featuring Gene Pitney and Tom Jones. And I was fortunate enough to be born into a generation with an incredibly diverse playlist (Motown, British Invasion, Country, Surf Sound and yes, good old Rock). Beyond that I can't play an instrument, can barely whistle, can't sing (although like everyone I sound great in the shower and I don't know why that is). I've seen some pretty good concerts in my time including Simon & Garfunkel at good old San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium and I did make both the Davids laugh during phone interviews (some day I'll explain).
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But if the angry buzz generated by the mere appearance of in-stadium video highlights of Favre and the Vikings during the first few Packers home games is any indication, the once-beloved face of the franchise will be booed. Loudly.
The tempest of emotion leading to Sunday's Vikings-Packers game could make for one of the most awkward homecomings in sports history. Favre, perhaps the league's most emotion-driven player, will try to tune it all out.
"The people that have jumped ship or whatever completely, what can I do?" Favre said. "I'm not going to concern myself with it."
That makes one of us.
Everybody else is ready for some great sports theater.
Joe Montana faced the 49ers as a Chief. Michael Jordan faced the Bulls as a Wizard. Heck, Favre already faced the Packers � and beat them � at his new home, the Metrodome, less than a month ago.
But as Favre returns to the scene of his surreal standoff with the Packers' front office last summer, it's hard to imagine a more intense setting.
Favre has been booed before at Lambeau, something that's bound to happen when you're the NFL's career interceptions leader � even in mild-mannered Green Bay. And that, Favre said, felt "kind of a kick in the stomach."
Bring it on, Vikings defensive end Jared Allen says.
"They might still like Brett, but they're Packer fans," Allen said. "They're going to boo the Minnesota Vikings. It's not going to hurt my feelings. They're not going to make me cry. As a matter of fact, I expect good harsh ripping-on. I want to hear some funny stuff out there."
And while it's only Week 8, the stakes couldn't be much higher for both teams.
With a victory, the Vikings take a huge step toward putting the NFC North out of reach. A Packers win makes the division race tight.
Then there's the snap-judgment factor: If Favre wins, he'll complete a season sweep over his former team and stick it to the man who traded him, Packers general manager Ted Thompson.
But if Favre melts down in a flurry of interceptions and the Packers win behind another strong performance by Aaron Rodgers, it will be seen as a sign Thompson and Packers coach Mike McCarthy knew what they were doing all along.
Neither Favre nor McCarthy spent this week revisiting last year's dispute, which began when Favre suddenly told the team he wanted to come out of retirement last summer � after asking for, then abruptly turning down, a chance to come back to the team earlier that offseason.
Increasing public tension between Favre and the Packers' front office during training camp in 2008 eventually led to a sit-down meeting between Favre and McCarthy, and McCarthy determined Favre wasn't in the right "mindset" to return.
McCarthy never fully explained what he meant, but did say earlier this year that Favre expressed a desire to play for the Vikings at the time.
Favre instead was traded to the New York Jets, retired again after last season, then unretired again to sign with the Vikings. Favre said this week that it's "probably best that things worked out the way they did," and McCarthy agreed.
"As far as his situation over there, and if he's happy, that's great," McCarthy said. "But going back to that time for everybody, really in my view it has nothing to do with (Sunday's) game."
McCarthy is more concerned with stopping Favre, something the Packers didn't do in their 30-23 loss at the Metrodome Oct. 5.
The Packers held Adrian Peterson to 55 yards on 25 carries, essentially daring Favre to beat them through the air.
Did he ever: Favre was 24 of 31 for 271 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions, and wasn't sacked once.
But the Vikings could be without wide receiver Bernard Berrian because of a left hamstring injury Sunday, and the Packers are playing better on defense.
Safety Atari Bigby is back from a knee injury, improving communication in the secondary. And after struggling with the transition to outside linebacker in Dom Capers' 3-4 defense, Aaron Kampman is playing as a down lineman more often and is putting more pressure on the quarterback.
The Packers gave up a total of three points in back-to-back wins over Detroit and Cleveland, but know they're in for a more significant test Sunday. Defensive lineman Cullen Jenkins said stopping Peterson remains the Packers' No. 1 priority, but they have to get more pressure on Favre.
"Brett's a great quarterback, and given the time, he'll find somebody or he'll make something happen," Jenkins said.
Pass rush pressure wasn't exactly a problem for the Vikings in their first matchup with the Packers. Rodgers was sacked a chinstrap-snapping eight times at the Metrodome, including 4 1-2 by Allen.
Rodgers could welcome back left tackle Chad Clifton, who hasn't played a full game since the season opener because of a recurring right ankle injury. And fellow veteran Mark Tauscher, who recently re-signed with the Packers after rehabbing a serious knee injury from last season, could figure in the mix at right tackle.
Rodgers didn't wilt under pressure against the Vikings, throwing for 384 yards and nearly leading the Packers to a late comeback.
"As far as rattling him, he might have been a little quick getting out of the pocket, but I thought he did a pretty good job holding in there and getting the ball down the field," Allen said. "He still threw for a ton of yards on us, so we have to clean that up."
But for everyone else, the focus will be on Favre.
Running back Ahman Green, a former Favre teammate who recently re-signed with the Packers, said he expects Favre to play the same way in a different uniform.
"I grew up a 49ers fan, seeing Joe Montana in a Chiefs uniform," Green said. "Or seeing Michael Jordan when he came back wearing No. 45. It's a little different. But it's something that you just know inside that athlete, they've still got a little fight left in them, or they wouldn't go back on the field."
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The IRST Language Modeling Toolkit features algorithms and data structures
suitable to estimate, store, and access very large LMs.
WWW: https://hlt-mt.fbk.eu/technologies/irstlm
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/textproc/irstlm/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install irstlm
cd /usr/ports/textproc/irstlm/ && make install clean
pkg install irstlm
PKGNAME: irstlm
SHA256 (irstlm-5.80.03.tgz) = 500c64e90cae73c2f06ed34ad078423cc100f4e16e6dd98a9e466b17367d31e7
SIZE (irstlm-5.80.03.tgz) = 146287
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
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textproc/irstlm: unbreak with GCC >= 6
GCC defaults to C++14 since 6.0 which no longer converts istream to
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Approved by: demon (maintainer, implicit)
Update WWW.
textproc/irstlm: Fix build with libc++ 3.8.0
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Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories r, s, t, and u.
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MASTER_SITES cleanup.
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- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.
While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
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Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.
Checked by: make fetch-urlall-list
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Sponsored by: Absolight
Convert to USES=autoreconf
Do it in more C++ way.
Remove gcc-isms.
Add USE_LDCONFIG now that it builds shared libs.
Do build shared libraries.
Convert a bunch of EXTRACT_SUFX=... into USES=tar:...
Approved by: portmgr (not really, but touches unstaged ports)
- Switch to USES=libtool, drop .la files
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Now that the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection (per
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Approved by: portmgr (mat)
Update to version 5.80.03.
Support staging.
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
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Feature safe: yes
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New port: irstlm.
The IRST Language Modeling Toolkit features algorithms and data structures
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A Peace Treaty That Beckons for Sharon
Israel will indeed have to make "painful concessions" in the Golan Heights, but it will not have to "surrender to terrorism." There is reason to believe that peace with Syria will be a strategic peace, as in the case of Jordan and Egypt. What excuse will Sharon come up with this time?
King Abdullah of Jordan celebrated his 41st birthday on Thursday, and he will mark the fourth anniversary of his ascension to the throne Friday. Congratulations. Time really flies when you're enjoying yourself. Things have hardly changed. And that is a positive statement. Because usually, in the Israeli-Arab reality, when things don't change they regress. Jordan was, and remains, the taken-for-granted neighbor. And that's a lot, too. In the past two-and-a-half years we could have expected many changes in the relations between the two countries, all of which could have been for the worse: a total cessation of trade between Israel and Jordan, cancellation of intelligence cooperation, severance of diplomatic relations between the two countries instead of only recalling the Jordanian ambassador, and even - as radical groups in Jordan are demanding - revocation of the peace treaty.
None of that happened. True, Israeli diplomats in Jordan were attacked, Israeli businessmen are finding it increasingly difficult to do business in Jordan, bilateral trade declined last year, and King Abdullah did not visit Israel. However, as an Israeli diplomat observed this week: "It's not so easy for Israelis to do business in Europe either; and when was the last time a European leader visited Israel?" More importantly, the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan became an autonomous entity that none of the Arab states, including those who have not signed treaties with Israel, are being careful not to touch. In all the resolutions taken by the Arab League in its various forums, the agreements between Israel and Jordan and Israel and Egypt have acquired an invulnerable, boycott-exempt status. Jordan, like Egypt, gave up the principle of "all or nothing" when it signed the peace treaty with Israel. It did not demand comprehensive peace in the Middle East, withdrawal from all the territories, or a change in the Israeli leadership as a condition for signing the treaty or for its continued implementation. It did not declare that Benjamin Netanyahu or Ariel Sharon were irrelevant leaders with whom the treaty would not be continued. Jordan made peace with a country and not with a particular leader. Jordanian realpolitik is a genetic affair that can be relied upon. Almost nine years of the peace treaty's existence attest to that.
Those in Israel who want to try the "Oslo criminals" have forgotten that had it not been for Olso, there would be no peace agreement with Jordan. Without Oslo, Egypt probably would have continued to be the only Arab state to have signed a peace treaty with Israel, and would not have been able to create a broader belt of Arab agreement for its relations with the Jewish state. Thanks to the Oslo Accords, Jordan was able to create a distinctive model of relations with Israel that did not bring in its wake an immediate Arab boycott, such as the one that was imposed on Egypt for years. And, as in Egypt, peace with Israel became a strategic asset that is not to be discarded. True, the Jordanian public did not quite understand the rationale, as the economic promises that the treaty held out have not materialized, the dream of working in Israel has become something of a fiction, and foreign investments in Jordan have decreased.
This is being written precisely against the background of the invitation Prime Minister Ariel Sharon received last week to visit Egypt for talks with President Hosni Mubarak. After a two-year freeze in relations between the two leaders, the phone call from Cairo reminded everyone that Israel still has a strategic peace with its neighbor to the south - also an agreement that has withstood many tests and has proved itself not to be dependent on a settlement with the Palestinians, withdrawal from all the territories, or even rational behavior by Israel. Around the corner, to the north, Syria is also waiting for an agreement with Israel.
There is no account of terrorism to be settled with Syria, even though it supported and continues to support the militant Hezbollah organization in Lebanon; the border with Syria has been quieter than the border with Jordan, and peace with Syria can bring Lebanon as a dowry. None of the excuses that are blocking an agreement with the Palestinians exists in the case of Syria. Israel will indeed have to make "painful concessions" in the Golan Heights, but it will not have to "surrender to terrorism." There is reason to believe that peace with Syria will be a strategic peace, as in the case of Jordan and Egypt. What excuse will Sharon come up with this time?
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Over the years Park Rapids Area Schools has continued to thrive while working to meet state and federal mandates.
Mandatory testing has changed the way we operate. The positive is that we take a closer look at how we're performing in certain areas. However, by simply looking at scores that might have to do with attendance or other circumstances the testing hasn't always been useful.
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Networks Suppressed Ad Content; Lauer Defended Bush on Miscues; Cheney v. Lieberman Descriptions
1) The networks all picked up how the Bush campaign cancelled a planned RNC ad showing Gore in a 1994 interview denying Bill Clinton had ever lied. But in buying the spin that it was misleading since viewers would assume the denial came post-Monica, the networks failed to point out how Clinton had lied by 1994.
2) The CBS Evening News stressed how Bush's verbal miscues could be a boon for "Al Gore's fact-laden campaign," but Today's Matt Lauer suggested the media are overreacting: "He's probably had very little sleep...So why should we criticize him for that?"
3) Newsweek: Cheney was "an overweight bald guy with a bad ticker...and right-wing positions to defend," while Lieberman was not only a historic choice, but a "centrist." Time singled out the "Christian right" as "very concerned" about Lieberman's views on Jesus. Time's Eric Pooley pleaded for "The Man Behind The Myths: Al Gore is trapped inside ugly caricatures."
Correction: The August 24 CyberAlert stated that "viewers then heard from Bob McIntyre, head of the left-winf, but unlabeled, Citizens for Tax Justice." That should have read left-wing.
The RNC decision to pull an ad just before it was set to run which showed excerpts from a 1994 interview in which Al Gore denied he or Bill Clinton had ever lied during their political careers, generated stories on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening shows Thursday night. Thursday morning only ABC's God Morning America looked at the development and it as well as NBC Nightly News, unlike ABC's World News Tonight or the CBS Evening News, actually let viewers hear what Al Gore had maintained.
But while all noted how the ad was considered misleading because it supposedly left the impression that Gore was referring to the Lewinsky scandal, all assumed that Lewinsky marked Clinton's first lie as none reminded viewers that by 1994 Bill Clinton had already told quite a few whoppers.
The story first broke in Thursday's Washington Post in which Howard Kurtz spun it as an example of dirty politics caught at the last minute: "The Republican National Committee, in a last-minute reversal, yesterday withdrew a harsh television that attacked Vice President Gore by using misleading excerpts from a six-year-old interview."
On Thursday's World
News Tonight, ABC anchor Charles Gibson portrayed the controversy as a
sign of Bush campaign disarray:
Dean Reynolds explained,
as transcribed by MRC analyst Brad Wilmouth: "The Republican National
Committee had an ad it thought was devastatingly effective, showing a
halting, stammering Al Gore insisting under questioning that in the last
two years he's never told a lie nor ever heard President Clinton tell a
lie. But Governor Bush didn't like it when he saw it, and aides said
today he immediately raised questions about when Gore made those
CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer bought and relayed the official Bush line without question: "An ad the Republican National Committee planned to run on 350 television stations today was canceled after Bush concluded it took a cheap shot at Al Gore. The ad showed the Vice President telling a reporter President Clinton never told a lie, suggesting that Gore had overlooked statements the President made about Monica Lewinsky. When Bush discovered the statement had been made long before the Lewinsky episode, the ad was pulled. An adviser said quote, 'When we question Gore's credibility we want to do it in a credible way. The ad was out of context,' unquote."
In a story tied to how Bush is "on the defensive" over his tax cut, on the August 24 NBC Nightly News reporter David Gregory noted that "one week since the close of the Democratic convention, Governor Bush seems to have faltered in his attempt to regain the spotlight. Polls show him now trailing the Vice President." Gregory then added: "And today another headache, Bush forced to explain why a TV ad questioning Gore's honesty was abruptly withdrawn before it aired. The ad shows an excerpt from a 1994 NBC News interview with Gore about his description of then Senate candidate Oliver North as a pathological liar."
Viewers saw a brief excerpt of the ad which showed a TV in a kitchen playing a clip from the November 6, 1994 Meet the Press. In the portion shown by NBC Nightly News viewers heard Lisa Myers ask: "Can you say that neither you nor President Clinton has told a lie in your political career?" Gore insisted: "I, ah, none spring to mind, I'll tell you that."
Gregory picked up: "Some thought the six-year-old interview would be taken out of context as a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal."
Of the morning shows on Thursday, only ABC's Good Morning America looked at the ad controversy, bring George Stephanopoulos aboard to discuss it. He suggested how fear of news media reaction drove the decision to pull it: "I believe the Bush campaign thought that if this came out right now, they would get tagged with being too harsh."
GMA was, however, the
only show Thursday to let viewers see and hear the entire ad which
featured a camera panning a kitchen as a TV on the counter played a clip
from the 1994 Meet the Press with Lisa Myers questioning Al Gore. Here's
the transcript as reported by Kurtz with some editing improvements:
The exchange took place subsequent to Myers asking Gore about his charge that then-Senate candidate Oliver North was a "pathological liar" who was unfit for elected office.
In buying into the Bush campaign spin that it was unfair to talk about Gore lying about lying pre-Lewinsky, the networks all ignored how at the time of the 1994 interview Clinton had already told some whoppers. The MRC's Tim Graham recalled a few examples:
### See what Gore said in full that the networks won't show. An excerpt from the November 6, 1994 Meet the Press is now up on the MRC Web site after the MRC's Kristina Sewell dug it out of the MRC's news archive. Go to: http://www.mrc.org
CBS and NBC Thursday night painted Bush's recent verbal miscues as a problem, but Thursday morning on Today Matt Lauer actually sympathized with Bush and suggested the media are overreacting: "He's probably had very little sleep, I have days here where I can't get out of my own way. So why should we criticize him for that?"
-- CBS Evening News,
August 24. Bill Whitaker asserted that Bush has "painted his vision
in broad strokes for so long he's grown rusty on the details, in Iowa
this week he tried to clear up questions about his massive $1.6 trillion
tax cut and just made things muddier."
In contrast, "Al
Gore's fact-laden campaign has taken some wind out of Bush's sails and
the candidate once so comfortably ahead is showing signs of concern."
-- NBC Nightly News. In
the same story about the pulled ad, David Gregory asserted: "Also
this week unwanted publicity for a series of verbal slipups, an Iowa
fundraiser at the end of a long day."
-- August 24 Today. Newsweek chief political correspondent Howard Fineman appeared on the show to look at Bush's slip in the polls. Matt Lauer argued in Bush's defense, as noted by MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens: "What's a little disturbing Howard is so much has been made over a couple of slips of the tongue that George W. Bush has made while making speeches across the country in the last couple of weeks. Is this much ado about nothing?"
Fineman conceded:
"Well to some extent. Look, Matt, we react to the polls. We meaning
the media. We frame reality in the polls, that much is true. But it is
also true that time matters now. This is the first stage of direct
comparison between these candidates and these tickets and time is of the
essence. There's only about 75 days left. Everyday that a candidate isn't
on message, cleaning up a mess of some kind is a day lost appealing to
voters. And that's what the Bush campaign is worried about."
Today played the same
clip as Gregory showed on Nightly News of Bush saying "hostile"
instead of "hostage."
But before you get too
excited about a refreshing attitude from Lauer, in his next question he
returned to standard media form in doubting the appeal of tax cuts:
"Last question, isn't the real problem for the Bush campaign that the
more he talks about the cornerstone of his campaign, which is this huge
tax cut, the less people seem to like it."
Catching up with the news magazines from last week, the MRC's Tim Graham discovered quite a contrast in how they approached Joe Lieberman from how they treated Dick Cheney two weeks before. Below are some excerpts from the MRC's MagazineWatch about the August 21 editions of Newsweek, Time and U.S. News.
1. Newsweek's coverage of Cheney vs. Lieberman was black and white: while Dick Cheney was a hard-right pick that underlined Bush's lack of experience, Joe Lieberman was an unquestionably bold and centrist pick.
Jonathan Alter wondered two weeks ago: "Why else pick an overweight bald guy with a bad ticker, three Wyoming electoral votes, and right-wing positions to defend?" To celebrate Lieberman, Alter penned a long article on "Post-Seinfeld America" and how Lieberman's selection is greeted by Alter's generation of Jews as a hopeful sign that anti-Semitism is one the wane. (It does include one shocking sentence with the words "Clinton" and "sleaze" next to each other. "And if Gore wins, Clean Joe Lieberman will be seen as Al Gore's air freshener, his inoculation against Clinton Sleaze Syndrome.")
Two weeks ago, Newsweek's Bill Turque found "Cheney, vehement defender of Ollie North and foe of social spending and abortion rights, was no moderate in 10 years as Wyoming's sole House member." Turque had a different take on Lieberman: "Of the finalists in the vice presidential sweepstakes, he is probably closest to being Gore's political soulmate. He is a moderate man with a generally liberal record, yet willing to break with Democratic orthodoxy on issues like defense spending and media violence." Turque's article on Lieberman, titled "The Soul & The Steel," began with Lieberman's 1963 trip to Mississippi to register black voters, with an old classmate describing his objective in life: "to roll the great ball of truth and goodness forward an inch or two."
Two weeks ago, Newsweek's Howard Fineman touted Bob Shrum's take that "Democrats saw the GOP ticket as Central Casting villains -- wealthy white males from upper-income America -- in the us-versus-them psywar they were already preparing to run." Fineman had no similar take on the all-white Democratic ticket: "He [Lieberman] and Gore have been friends since the '80s, when they were founding members of the centrist pro-big business Democratic Leadership Council...growing especially close when both were among the few Democrats to support the Persian Gulf War." And we can't say he wasn't embraced by um, liberals: "As popular as Lieberman was with the conservative wing, the party's base of workers, blacks, and teachers was in need of reassurance."....
In U.S. News two weeks ago, reporter Kenneth Walsh quoted a former Clinton aide charging Bush "needs to show that he won't turn back the clock and he's not like the Republican Party's congressional crazies." Now Walsh declared Gore's "rationale for seeking the presidency remains a confusing mess," sometimes waging war on the wealthy, other times on the "do-nothing Congress," and "On still other occasions, Gore goes into Bill Clinton mode from 1992, calling himself a different kind of Democrat - an impression reinforced by his choice of centrist Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate."
Walsh's colleague Terrence Samuel was the only one to see any similarity with the Cheney story. Two weeks ago, Cheney was "moderate on the outside but conservative to the core, proudly opposing the Equal Rights Amendment, reauthorization of the Clean Water Act, abortion rights, and gun control." This week Samuel added: "But much like Dick Cheney, the GOP's vice presidential nominee, Lieberman has a long and varied record with plenty to feast on for friends and foes alike. On some levels, Lieberman is a pure Democrat. He is against banning 'partial-birth' abortion; opposed removing Clinton from office; voted against confirming Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; and was against a balanced-budget amendment. The League of Conservation Voters, an environmental group, gave him a perfect score of 100, while the Christian Coalition scored him at 9 out of 100 in favoring their issues. In recent weeks, Lieberman has revised some of his more provocative positions, notably partial privatization of Social Security, which he once favored and now opposes."....
2. Time's Eric Pooley also loved the Lieberman pick, but wrote absolutely nothing about Lieberman's ideology, either the past record or the evolving new flexible version. He loved Lieberman's personality: "You know, there are some people who might actually call Al's selection of me an act of chutzpah," he said in Nashville, using the familiar Yiddish word for audacity. Lieberman has chutzpah too. At first glance you figure he will bore you silly, but he grows on you -- his voice is a decent instrument, and he obviously enjoys playing it. His basic tune, about an immigrant's grandson who was the first in his family to attend college and now might be Vice President, is an American classic. He makes no effort to conceal how tickled he is to be on the ticket, and the result is charming."
While two weeks ago, Time asked in a poll if people would be more or less comfortable with Cheney when told he "is very politically conservative," no poll question asked about Lieberman's policy views. Instead, pollsters focused on just "how concerned" voters would be about "the fact that Lieberman does not believe Jesus Christ was the son of God." They then isolated "Among those who identify themselves as members of the Christian right, percentage who say they are 'very concerned' about Lieberman's views on Jesus: 49 percent."....
3. In another article, Pooley pleaded for "The Man Behind The Myths: Al Gore is trapped inside ugly caricatures." He explained: "His challenge isn't merely a charisma deficit or a tin ear or a knack for seeming phony even when he's being himself. It's that he must try to dispel at least five familiar myths about himself. Each is based on nuggets of truth, but Gore believes each fails to convey the essence of who he is. Is it possible that the shorthand on a man can be so wrong?"
MYTH NO. 1 AL THE CAUTIOUS: "Though there's truth to this image (think Elian), Gore is capable of making gutsy campaign choices (think Lieberman). Lurking behind the often slippery candidate is a man whose approach to governance is undeniably bold."
MYTH NO. 2 AL THE LIAR: "Gore's penchant for exaggerating his past and distorting the positions of his opponents has dominated his press clippings...But many of the well-known examples of Gore's stretching the truth are themselves stretches. He never claimed to have 'invented' the Internet; he said that in Congress he 'took the initiative in creating the Internet,' an unfortunate way of saying he sponsored the bill that bankrolled the transformation of a Defense Department computer network into the Internet we know today. Nor did he claim to have discovered the Love Canal toxic-waste crisis; he was misquoted on the subject, but the newspaper corrections didn't get the same play as the original charge. That's not to say Gore doesn't exaggerate; he does. But plenty of other people in his line of work do too."
If he does exaggerate, how is it a "myth"?
MYTH NO. 3 AL THE HYPOCRITE: Pooley reminded the reader that Gore told the 1996 Democratic convention he swore on his sister's death bed to fight the tobacco industry, but continued tobacco farming for years. He can't correct that, but he makes excuses for Gore: "He was so passionate about giving the speech that none of his aides felt comfortable pushing the hypocrisy issue with him. Like many other overachievers, he is arrogant and a little insecure, but people had always called him Dudley Do-Right, and it never occurred to him that could change. Six months later, during the furor over his campaign fund-raising adventures, the same belief in his goodness led Gore to call a press conference and repeat 'no controlling legal authority' seven times -- and with that, his ugly new image was set in stone."
MYTH NO. 4 AL THE TECHNO-INTELLECTUAL: Pooley undercuts this "myth" too: "Gore has always had an eye for how social and technological change affects people," but he's also political: "perhaps the reason Gore so often seems to be impersonating a tub-thumping pol is that he feels the need to disguise his cerebral nature, since American politics has often punished eggheads....But it's more likely that the tub thumper is part of the real Gore too."....
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Gurgaon, Mar 23 (UNI) Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today inaugurated the footover bridge at the famous Shri Sheetla Mata Mandir here.
The bridge has been constructed at a cost of Rs 1.50 crore.
The Chief Minister also inaugurated the 'Chaitra Mela' by performing 'Yajna' in the Mandir.
Mr Hooda congratulated the Chief Administrator, Chief Executive Officer and members of the Shri Sheetla Mata Shrine Board for completing the construction work of the footover bridge in a record time of 55 days. The Chief Minister took a round of the bridge and inspected the layout plans of the proposed ''Dharmshala'' and parking facility opposite the Mandir.
He also felicitated the contractor of the footover bridge, Bhagirath Ram and the architect of the proposed multi-storey 'Dharamshala' and underground parking, Mr Ajay Bhardwaj by presenting shawls on the occasion.
While appreciating the arrangements made by the district administration for the Chaitra Mela, the Chief Minister said that the commissioning of the footover bridge would facilitate the devotees and ensure free flow of traffic on the road.The devotees would now be able to enter and come out of the temple without causing any hindrance to the traffic on the road, he added.
Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Gupta apprised the Chief Minister of the elaborate arrangements made for facilitating the devotees coming to pay obeisance in the temple during the Chaitra mela. He said that the close circuit TV cameras had been installed in the mela premises for ensuring security.
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Records mean little to Luke Kuechly unless they come with a win.
The junior linebacker broke the ACC record for career tackles Saturday and came within one of matching the Boston College mark. But the only numbers that mattered to him were 16-14, the final score in Boston College's loss to No. 14 Notre Dame.
"I play football to win. I don't try to set any records," said Kuechly, who has 523 tackles in 33 games. "If we would have won, it would have been cool. But we lost. We play to win at B.C. The record is cool, I guess, but we didn't win."
The Eagles (3-8) came close, however.
Boston College struggled to get anything going offensively for most of the second half, with Chase Rettig throwing 10 incompletions in a row at one point. But Rettig got on track just in time to make things interesting, finding Chris Pantale for a 21-yard gain and throwing a 17-yarder to Rolandan Finch as the Eagles advanced to the Notre Dame 16 with about 3 minutes to play. A pass interference call on Zeke Motta moved Boston College to the 2 and, after a false start and an incompletion, Rettig connected with Bobby Swigert for a 7-yard score.
The Eagles went for the onside kick, but Robby Toma came up with the ball just past midfield.
The Irish (8-3) tried to run out the ball, but they came up eight seconds short and Ben Turk's punt went into the end zone, giving the Eagles the ball at their own 20. Rettig threw an 8-yard pass to Colin Larmond Jr., who then lateraled back to Swigert. Swigert fumbled the ball but Bobby Vardaro scooped it up before Irish linebacker Troy Niklas made the final tackle at the Boston College 14 to end the game.
Boston College was just 3 of 13 on third-down conversions, and came away with only Swigert's score despite advancing to the Irish 44 or beyond three times in the second half.
"We needed a couple of heroes, needed somebody to step up and make some plays," Boston College coach Frank Spaziani said. "That's the difference when you're playing a good football team like that when they have fire power and they are well coached. You've got to make plays. We had our chances."
Jonas Gray continued his breakout year for Notre Dame, rushing for 61 yards and extending his scoring streak to eight games with a 26-yard rumble on the opening drive. But the senior left with what appeared to be a serious knee injury in the third quarter, and will have more tests Sunday. David Ruffer kicked field goals of 40, 41 and 27 yards for Notre Dame, who have won three straight against Boston College after losing six in a row from 2001-2008.
It was the fourth straight win for Notre Dame, which has matched last year's victory total and won eight of nine after beginning the year 0-2.
"Winning is hard in college football," said Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly, whose teams have won 15 straight games in November. "I just like the way our guys now understand how to win games. In November, it's hard to win unless you've got a great mental outlook, and our guys do. They have overcome so many injuries late, and they keep battling."
Notre Dame looked as if it was going to have an easy afternoon when it marched 80 yards on its opening drive, with Gray shredding the Boston College defense on his 26-yard scoring run. But the Irish were hampered by poor field position all afternoon, starting five drives inside their own 10-yard line, and the offense never quite got into gear.
Boston College stopped the Irish just outside the red zone twice, and held them to a third field goal after they'd gotten to the Eagles 10. Tommy Rees was picked off around midfield on another drive, and finished 24 of 39 for 256 yards.
Michael Floyd had 10 catches for 92 yards in his final game at Notre Dame Stadium, including a nifty 18-yard reverse in the fourth quarter. But he dropped what almost certainly would have been a touchdown five plays later. He also had an open field on Notre Dame's second drive, but couldn't catch up to Rees' pass.
Cierre Wood had 94 yards for Notre Dame, giving him 1,001 for the season.
"It's a win," Rees said. "It wasn't pretty. It wasn't, at times, the most successful offense we've had, obviously. Anytime you can get a win this late in November, you'll take it."


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JACKSONVILLE (AP) -- A Jacksonville police officer answering a call about a suspicious person shot and killed a man who lunged at him during a struggle, police said.
Officer W. C. Swanson shot Adrian Dwayne Ealey, 25, about 11 p.m. Wednesday after answering a call about a man trying to get over a fence at the Southeast Toyota Port on the St. Johns River.
Police said the officer tried to use pepper spray to subdue the man and when that did not work, he pulled out his baton and it was taken away from him by the man.
When the man lunged at the officer, Swanson fired several times.
Ealey later died at Shands Jacksonville hospital.
Swanson, who received minor injuries, has been placed on administrative leave while the State Attorney's Office and Jacksonville Sheriff's Office investigates the shooting. Swanson has been with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office for eight years.
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Jean Walker, of Fenton, age 95, died Friday, June 28, 2013 at Genesys Regional Medical Center. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at Fenton United Methodist Church, 119 South Leroy Street, Fenton, Reverend William Donahue, Dr. Douglas Walker and Dr. Shane O'Neill, co-officiating. Graveside service at Oakwood Cemetery in Fenton, following the service. Those desiring may make contributions to the Fenton United Methodist Church. Visitation Tuesday at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of the service at 11 a.m. Your condolences may be shared with the family at swartzfuneralhomeinc.com
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Nneka Ogwumike Named Western Conference Player of the Week
Ogwumike Helped Her Team to a 2-0 Record on the Week
Los Angeles Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike was named the Western Conference Player of the Week presented by Boost Mobile, for games played from Sept. 10 through Sept. 16.
The WNBA Player of the Week presented by Boost Mobile award is the second of Ogwumike's career. She previously earned the honor in week three of the season. Ogwumike also earned the WNBA Rookie of the Month award in May, July, and August.
In leading the Sparks to home wins over Chicago (88-77) and Connecticut (93-82), Ogwumike helped Los Angeles extend its record to 22-10, second best in the Western Conference. Ogwumike opened the week with a career-high 30-point outing in an 86-77 defeat of the Sky, in which she also logged game-highs of 11 rebounds and two blocks. That effort marked her eighth double-double of the season, tops among the current rookie class and tied for fifth overall with Indianas Tamika Catchings.
The Stanford University product followed that up with 17 points, eight boards and three assists as Los Angeles downed the Eastern Conference-leading Sun.
With two games left on the Sparks regular season schedule, Ogwumike, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 WNBA Draft, leads all rookies in scoring (13.8 ppg), rebounds (7.4 rpg), and blocks (.94 bpg), while ranking second in field goal percentage (.526 on 163-of-310 shooting from the field).


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Teenager held after man stabbed to death in Dublin
A teenager has been arrested by police probing a fatal stabbing in Dublin. The victim, aged in his 20s, was attacked at 5.30am today on St Anthony's Road, outside Herberton Apartments in Rialto.
Another man was seriously hurt.
A garda spokesman said: "An altercation between a number of youths resulted in two males (in their 20s) receiving stab injuries.
"Both males were taken to St James Hospital where one of the males was in a critical condition.
"He was later pronounced dead. The other male is serious but stable."
The arrest took place shortly after midday in the Dublin area and the male teenager is being detained at Kevin Street garda station, gardai said.
The scene has been preserved for a technical examination.
Gardai in Kilmainham are appealing for witnesses who may have seen or heard the incident or who may have any information to contact them.


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Mallas, tribal people in the time of the Buddha (c. 6th–4th century bce), who settled in the northern parts of modern Bihar state, India. Their two most important towns were at Kushinagara (Kusinara) and Pava (located east of modern Gorakhpur). The Mallas had a republican form of government, with an assembly. They lost their independence about the time of the Buddha and were annexed by the Magadha empire. A Malla dynasty ruled Nepal from the 10th century to 1769. The Mallas introduced the first legal and social code influenced by contemporary Hindu practices and were patrons of the arts and architecture.
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Kent State University was all set to name its basketball court in honor of alumnus Jason Cope, who'd given $1 million to the school. But that was before the school paper started asking around and found that Cope was one of four defendants required by the SEC to pay more than $19 million in penalties for his part in defrauding investors in 1999 and 2000, when he was a manager at a financial firm. A miffed Cope promptly took back his money, and the court-renaming was cancelled. [Romenesko]


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When Justice Is Gone, There's Always Force
Activists are getting tougher after last summer's social protest and are battling against evictions.
The 150 or so protesters were armed with blaring megaphones and cheeky signs as they marched down Jaffa Road in the mild Jerusalem evening. "The people demand public housing," they shouted. The gathering crowd made the din all the louder.
This was the scene - not last summer but last week. It was a completely different kind of protest, one less careful about staying on the right side of the law.
Last summer many activists promised - or warned - that the situation could get out of hand if the social protest didn't produce concrete results. "There won't be another opportunity to approve the recommendations agreeably, without violence," cautioned Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg at the Knesset Finance Committee in October.
At the Herzliya Conference several weeks ago, Osem chairman Dan Propper declared that "we'll be seeing much-more-violent protests if the social protest doesn't succeed."
These apocalyptic forecasts haven't come true, but the prospect of an aggressive social protest still exists. In the last six months hundreds of activists throughout the country have been staging protests that could be defined as violent, aimed at helping people attain public housing.
About 200 to 300 activists are involved, most of them young and radical. They belong to a range of organizations like Liberated Be'er Sheva, Hama'abara (The Transit Camp ) and the Movement for Living in Dignity. They've been joined by the homeless themselves and people eligible for cheap public housing. Their main focus is Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Be'er Sheva and Jerusalem, but they're also present in dozens of other towns throughout the country.
They help people fill out forms for public housing, give legal advice and deal with housing officials. But there are also more militant activities; some of their demonstrations are not coordinated with the police and end with arrests. They also invade empty buildings and resist evictions.
They've even broken into the offices of the Amidar public housing company and left an "eviction notice" on CEO Yaakov Brosh's desk. In the last six months there have been 14 organized attempts to prevent an eviction, five incursions into housing-company apartments and 20 demonstrations.
Roughly half the demonstrators on Jaffa Road last week were young. Most of the others were single mothers, but they weren't there for the ideology. Many might soon be thrown onto the street.
The demonstration, licensed in this case, began in front of the darkened Amidar offices and headed toward the Prime Minister's Residence on Balfour Street. One by one, the single parents took the megaphone and discussed their experiences.
"One fine morning several years ago I was told I owed Amidar tens of thousands of shekels," says Zahava Greenfeld, 47, who has lived 20 years in an Amidar apartment in Bnei Brak's Pardes Katz neighborhood. "When I inquired at Amidar's Petah Tikva branch how I could owe so much considering my reduced rent comes to just NIS 300 a month, they refused to give me a breakdown." According to Greenfeld, "I made an arrangement to cover the debt in installments and began shelling out NIS 1,000 a month to pay it down. But after several years I discovered that the balance hadn't gone down, not even a shekel. I took out loans but the money ran out. I have an eviction order for June 12 and intend to resist it to the end. They better get ready."
Amidar responded: "Greenfeld owes NIS 76,000 and the court held that she must pay it in full. Greenfeld recently reached an agreement with Amidar on paying down the debt in installments."
Mijal Greenberg, 35, a Hama'abara activist who was once a newspaper reporter, explained the rationale behind the demonstration. "Our main demand of the housing minister and prime minister is that they immediately instruct public housing companies to stop evicting people," she says. "They have forsaken public housing, and as long as they don't build enough apartments they have no right to throw people onto the street."
But the activists aren't satisfied with just making demands. Five graduate students from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev founded Liberated Be'er Sheva. They felt that the summer protest didn't go far enough and set up their organization in October when the Be'er Sheva tent city was dismantled. "When the tents came down we decided that action must be taken to help people eligible for public housing," says Renen Yezersky, 26, one of the founders.
The new organization joined forces with the Movement for Living in Dignity, which has been active in Be'er Sheva for around eight years; they began making contact with people eligible for housing. Now, just a few months later, they have more than 30 activists and have stood down five evictions. But the group doesn't just try to thwart evictions, it also helps the needy crash empty apartments.
In other words, you took the law into your own hands.
"In principle we are opposed to taking the law into our own hands. But when it comes to housing companies, I see them as abusive companies that seek to privatize public housing," says Yezersky.
"Everything happening in Israel regarding public housing is criminal. If a mother wants to provide shelter for her children and tries doing everything proper and doesn't succeed, I couldn't care less [about the legalities]. I'll help her. If the state doesn't help her, I will. If that's what's called taking the law into your own hands, then yes, that's what I'm doing."
Most activists in the organizations share Yezersky's attitude toward Amidar and the other public housing companies. Any suggestion that the companies are simply executors of government policy and therefore blameless is rejected out of hand.
The activists, particularly in the south, say dozens of Amidar apartments sit empty. The organizations also complain about disparaging treatment at the company's offices. "Amidar isn't just an executor of government policy, it's also responsible for how it treats its tenants and those who are eligible," says Rona Moran, 28, active in the Tarabut-Hit'habrut movement linked to the Hadash party.
"We could accept such a statement if we saw Amidar doing its utmost to minimize the anguish caused," she says. "But what we've seen over the past year shows exactly the opposite. Tenants have huge debts thrown at them without being shown the details and get trampled on by an army of lawyers. Amidar's behavior is appalling and humiliating. It's a profit-oriented mechanism."
Companies caught in the middle
During the social protest, Moran and her friends didn't pitch their tents on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard, but rather in the city's poorer Hatikva quarter and in Holon's Jesse Cohen neighborhood, in what the activists called "lack of choice" encampments.
"We already began activities related to public housing last year when we held a conference in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood, which brought together victims of public housing from all over the country," Moran says. "We concentrated on the not-so-simple task of forging connections between Jaffa and the Hatikva neighborhood."
The mainstream social-protest activists couldn't deny her the credit for putting public housing back in the spotlight after a decade of oblivion. There were some disturbing developments during that decade. Since the Public Housing Law was passed in 1998, tens of thousands of units were sold, especially in the more desirable areas. The public housing companies now hold just 67,000 apartments, down from 110,000. But the needy population has swelled.
The apartments were sold to families that needed them. But although the more than NIS 2 billion flowing into the treasury was earmarked for building and buying more public housing, not one shekel was spent.
After the wake-up call last summer, Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Atias came out in favor of increasing the public housing supply - not through state-initiated building like in the 1950s, but by requiring developers to set aside 5% of every new project's units in exchange for government benefits. The Finance Ministry, though, was opposed, and even the Trajtenberg Committee on socioeconomic change didn't mention it.
Amidar, however, strongly supported increasing supply, so it can't understand why the activists are singling it out as the bad guy.
The sentiment is mutual. "We're pleased that public housing is finally back on the agenda," says senior Amidar executive Eran Cohen. "But some are pushing it in undesirable directions and ultimately doing public housing an injustice, because when we see pandemonium, protests and squatters, what does the treasury say? They say: 'Why do we need such a headache?' And this is our greatest worry. We can create a winning partnership as we have with older and much more serious associations like Yedid, but we can't accept the fact that organizations like these are taking the law into their own hands.
"We're caught in the middle. On the one hand we have a terrible shortage of housing, while on the other we have the treasury that thinks the entire public housing issue is an obsolete project."
One of the organizations' main claims is that people you evict have nowhere to go, so you yourselves are creating homelessness.
"What we hate most in this job is evicting families, although all types of people maliciously claim otherwise. No Amidar employee wakes up in the morning saying: 'Goody. Today we're going to throw a family out of its home.' The problem is that when someone illegally squats in an apartment he prevents another eligible person from moving in. So should that eligible person live on the street? Would that be right? The equating of one with the other is terrible, but it's there.
"Whoever is at the top of the waiting list is the one who's eligible after being checked and found the most in need of an apartment based on the various criteria. So if the person in the 30th spot on the list is squatting in the apartment meant for the person topping the list, he's denying housing to someone in a much worse situation than himself. What these activists don't realize is that by squatting they're doing an injustice to another family. We already have a problem with the number of apartments, and these organizations just make it worse."
How do you explain the deep resentment toward you?
"I don't know how to answer that. Amidar is entrusted with handling public housing, and when there are evictions, the ones whose signatures are on the orders are us. The question is, what do they expect - that we have hidden apartments?"
One thing they claim is that you do. Even the state comptroller found in 2009 that hundreds of homes throughout the country sit empty.
"There can only be two reasons now for having an empty apartment. One, it was evacuated and is being prepared for a new tenant to move in. But in the meantime people see an empty apartment and start shouting.
"The other case is ground-floor apartments being saved for tough cases like disabled people. Previously there was a policy of the state preferring to leave homes empty if they required massive repairs costing over NIS 100,000 - and that's what the state comptroller's report dealt with. But since then a budget for renovating them was found and they're in use now. So this whole myth of empty apartments is hardly relevant anymore."
Maya Zagov, 42, a single mother of four who also took part in last week's demonstration, is far from satisfied with these explanations. She says that for seven years she has been deemed eligible for public housing. But even though she was fourth in line when the summer protests broke out, now she's 11th.
"I have two sons in special education because of the damage done by all the evictions," she says. During the protests she joined a group of single mothers who set up a separate tent city in Jerusalem's Independence Park.
She rents an apartment in the Katamonim neighborhood and is now receiving a NIS 2,500 monthly supplement for six months as part of an agreement for disbanding the encampment. This income comes on top of the NIS 2,200 a month she earns caring for the elderly, and the NIS 2,000 a month she receives in income support.
"They got us to shut up now for half a year, but we're continuing, and in the summer we'll go back out there," she says. "This time it will be much more serious."
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The drug 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), also known as 'ecstasy', seems to produce dose-related increases in myocardial oxygen demand without an increase in the contractility of the heart. These effects could explain the increased risk of cardiovascular complications in recreational users, suggests a team of researchers from the University of California led by Dr John Mendelson; the results were published on 18 December in
Oral MDMA (0.5 and 1.5 mg/kg of body weight) or placebo, was administered to eight healthy self-reported users of the drug. Using echocardiography, the researchers measured an increase in heart rate of 28 beats/min, in systolic blood pressure by 25 mmHg and in cardiac output by 2 L/min, at one hour after administration of MDMA. The effects of MDMA were similar to those observed after infusion of 20 μg/kg/min and 40μg/kg/min dobutamine on a separate occasion. But in contrast to dobutamine, MDMA had no inotropic effects. Researchers could not say what happens when taking the drug in higher doses, during vigorous dancing or with alcohol or nicotine, when the effects may be different and more damaging. But they suggest that the combination of a beta blocker and a vasodilator (such as nitroglycerine or nitroprusside) would be a reasonable treatment strategy in patients presenting with hypertension and tachycardia after MDMA.


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<h2 class="nci-h2-featured"> Octavia Butler is the 14rd Zale-Kimmerling Writer-In-Residence (1998)
Octavia Estelle Butler was a prominent science fiction writer who brought a unique perspective to the genre as an African American female. She used science fiction's capacity for imagining alternative worlds to explore social and political issues involving race, sexuality, gender, and class.
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Parable of the Talents (1998)
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
Parable of the Sower (1993)
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text: Here's a piece I recently wrapped up for the September issue of School Library Journal. The article was about the ever growing trend of paranormal fiction among teen and young adult readers. Most of these books involve a strong romantic storyline, not unlike the popular Twilight series. I was so happy to get a chance to contribute to SLJ, a publication who's illustration work I've long admired. Plus, I got to draw a werewolf! Thanks to Mark for this great assignment!