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Oklahoma has made its BCS case by being the hottest team in college football over the last month, and Sooner faithful everywhere have Sam Bradford to thank.
With all of the talent OU runs out on the field every Saturday " all the big hitters, playmakers and thundering giants " no one has done more to advance the Sooners' 2008 cause than Bradford, through his leadership, brilliant decision making and uncanny consistency.
Bradford has been the best quarterback on the planet since Game One back in late August.
Bar none. Period.
Just in case you haven't been paying attention, go back and watch the highlights. All the evidence you'd ever need is right there on YouTube or SoonerSports.com. And while you can find similar footage on other superb college quarterbacks " like Texas' Colt McCoy, Florida's Tim Tebow and Graham Harrell of Texas Tech " Bradford's exploits are hard to top.
In only his second season as OU's starting quarterback, Bradford has been, as OU coach Bob Stoops likes to say, "Absolutely out of this world."
The numbers don't lie.
The name of the game offensively is scoring points and Bradford has accounted for more touchdowns (51) than any other player in Division I. He leads the nation with 46 TD passes.
Bradford ranks second nationally in passing efficiency and third nationally with 4,080 passing yards " a new OU single-season record " which he has accumulated on 175 fewer attempts than Tech's Harrell.
Bradford continues an assault on OU's record books. In just two seasons as the starter, he has already established more than a dozen new marks, and he's obviously far from finished.
But the numbers and records are only part of Bradford's story to this point. It's been his leadership on and off the field that has factored heavily into the Sooners' overall success. He is focused on the big prize " the team prize of a BCS title " and is quick to remind media members of that fact each time he is asked about the possibility of winning the Heisman Trophy.
"To be honest, I really don't even care. All I know is that I gave our team a chance to play in Kansas City next week," the soft-spoken Bradford said after leading OU to a 61-41 win over Oklahoma State this past weekend.
That victory helped his team secure a spot in the Big 12 Championship game against Missouri on Dec. 6. A win there would more than likely send the Sooners on to the BCS title tilt at the Orange Bowl in January.
In between those games will be the Heisman ceremony and Bradford is sure to be one of the finalists invited to New York City for the announcement on Dec. 13.
An image that will almost certainly follow Bradford the rest of this season and probably the remainder of his quarterbacking days is that of him diving for the goal line against OSU, getting cartwheeled through the air and landing hard out of bounds just short of a touchdown.
The late third-quarter play was nothing short of incredible, and set up an OU touchdown en route to the win. It also served as further proof of Bradford's mettle.
"That plays shows Sam's determination to win and how much heart he's got," said OU lineman Trent Williams. "I know the Sooner Nation's heart skipped a beat when they saw Sam go airborne like that, but it basically just shows you how tough and courageous he is. Makes his teammates want to go play that much harder for him."
What about the Heisman?
"Look at what Sam means to this team and the way he's played all season long," Williams said. "Does he deserve that kind of recognition? No doubt about it." "Jay C. Upchurch


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Since he is a minor his name has been withheld. The 14 year old boy in South Carolina called the police to tell them that he had attacked his father, his grandmother, and his great aunt. He told the police he'd be there when they arrived, possibly waiting outside. When police appeared on the scene they found the boy with his hands in the air out in front of the house, and inside were his dead father and dead great aunt, and a critically injured grandmother, all three attacked with a dull butter knife and a small piece of twine.
No, wait, sorry, I got that detail wrong. The boy did not use a dull butter knife and a small piece of twine to wipe out his family. He used the rifle his daddy gave him when he was twelve!
Police entered the house to find Joe Robert Lankford, the boy's 44-year-old father, shot to death in his bed, Fisher said. They found Virginia Gaston, 83, dead in her bed, apparently from a gunshot wound, he said. Gaston is believed to be the boy's great-aunt, Fisher said.
Well, whatever. He could have done exactly the same thing with a dull butter knife and a small piece of twine. No sense in asking why a young boy was allowed uncontrolled access to a deadly firearm. Because, well, he could have done the same thing with dull butter knife and a small piece of twine. Right?
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Study Finds Tweens Value Fame the Most
A new study out of UCLA has found that kids ages 9-11 value being famous more than anything else, ranking it No. 1 compared to 15th in 1997. The researchers involved are wringing their hands at the results, predicting that this obsession with being famous is going to negatively affect this youth generation's future success. One of the study's coauthors said, "They may give up on actually preparing for careers and realistic goals," and another added, "When being famous and rich is much more important than being kind to others, what will happen to kids as they form their values and their identities?"
While tweens and teens have always looked up to celebrities and dreamed about fame, what's new is the idea that it's much more attainable. Thanks to reality shows, viral videos (ahem, Rebecca Black), and the mini celebrity that can be obtained on social networking sites, tweens may believe it's easy to make it big.
I agree with the researchers that kids need to be taught that working hard, treating people with kindness and respect, setting realistic goals, and honing your skills are the types of things we should value, but they need to realize these are still kids we're talking about. How many 9-year-olds are thinking about their college degrees and future careers at this point, or even understand what it takes to succeed in their ideal jobs? Kids will always have big dreams when they're young, and does it really matter if it's fame, making a lot of money, or becoming an astronaut? What do you think?


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President Barack Obama is determined to make the wealthy "pay a little more" in taxes. If he gets his way, one very important tax rate will triple overnight.
This increase is part of the fiscal cliff that has Washington and the markets so on edge as the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year.
Most of the attention has been focused on the income tax rate. Unless Congress acts, all of the current income tax rates will rise to pre-2001 levels overnight. Those in the highest tax bracket will see their rate rise from 35 percent to 39.6 percent.
But the Bush tax cuts also reduced the rate on dividends, which were taxed at the personal income level, to 15 percent regardless of income. If the Bush tax cuts expire, the dividend tax for high-income workers will return to 39.6 percent.
But that's not all. The health care law imposes a new 3.8 percent Medicare tax on passive income, including dividends and capital gains. So the effective dividend tax rate for those at the upper end of the income scale will nearly triple, to 43.4 percent. Happy New Year!
And don't forget that dividends have already been taxed as corporate profits — so they're taxed twice.
Think tripling the dividend tax might, just might, have an impact on where people invest their money? Or whether they invest at all?
Ironically, dividend-paying stocks have been one of the bright spots for investors. That's in part because interest rates have been kept so (artificially) low by the Federal Reserve. Investors are understandably looking for better returns.
Higher dividend taxes will make stocks that pay dividends less attractive to investors. So those who currently hold dividend-paying stocks — everyone from middle-class folks with 401(k)s to union pension funds to nonprofit foundations — would see the value of their investments decline substantially.
Further, higher dividend taxes will likely cause companies to cut dividends in favor of deploying their cash in other ways, like repurchasing their own stock. So individuals counting on their share of a company's profits for their income — which they'd normally receive via a cash dividend — could find themselves out of luck.
Dividend taxes in the U.S. are already high. A study by the accounting firm Ernst & Young looked at the integrated cost of corporate taxes and dividend taxes. The study found the U.S. currently has the fourth-highest integrated dividend tax rate among the 34 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Without congressional intervention, U.S. dividend taxes will be "significantly higher than all other countries measured," according to the study.
That will be particularly bad news for retirees, because many depend on dividends as a staple of their fixed incomes. According to the IRS, more than half of dividend payments go to Americans over age 65 — and almost 75 percent go to those over age 55.
Even though the dividend tax increase has yet to take effect, there are already signs that it's hurting American companies — and the stock market.
Analysts have cited numerous reasons for why the stock market tanked immediately after the election. One reason — and most likely the primary one — is the negative impact a tripling of the dividends tax will have on the market.
And while the dividends tax is the worst, the capital gains tax will also increase from 15 percent to 20 percent. Plus, we have to add the 3.8 percent Medicare tax for the first time ever, for an increase to 23.8 percent. To be sure, not nearly as high as the dividends tax, but a significant increase nonetheless.
Obama must understand that not all tax increases and tax cuts are created equally; some will have very little economic impact, others will have a significant impact. While the income tax rate increases are important, and detrimental, they pale in comparison to the dividends and capital gains tax increases.
A dividends tax hike will take a big bite out of all Americans' savings — even those who aren't supposed to pay it. Regardless of what happens with the income tax rate battle, Congress and the president must stop the tripling of the dividends tax.
Merrill Matthews is a resident scholar with the Dallas-based Institute for Policy Innovation and may be contacted at email@example.com.


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Open question to all regarding witness's and scores process
Hello all,
i have finished reading the LSF rules and regs but i am still uncertain about
contest results and use of lsf task sign offs.
Here is my basic questions- How do i get credit for the specific tasks during or after the TD contests?
i go to a T+D contest with the primary intent of LSF task sign off. I finish in middle of the pack of some class, don't crash, don't leave poorer than i arrived, etc.
1) Do i ask the timer sign or initial my LSF task card right then and there(courtiously asking ahead of time) for landing or duration tasks?
2) Would i then follow up with the CD for the second signature for landing or duration task (courtiously asking ahead of time) with the CD assuming all is correct and as-is on the card?
3) OR simply arrange for the time and draft a witness *prior* to time/landing task for LSF task sign off.
3) Regarding best 6 contest results and math, are the web-published
T+D contest scores from a sponsoring club website ok for best-6 results and do i do the math part ahead of time when i send the paperwork for the LSF next-level verifier?
I live here in So. Cal but my Dodgson Windsongs have been idle for @ 15 years while i have been engaged in severe work/freeway therapy. I don't have too much interest in the kilobuck lawn-dart contest experiences but would like to follow up on the LSF path using my 'Songs or RES Marauder(being built now).
thanks to all in advance for any insight or experiences, john s.
If you are talking about the contest points for L2-L5, simply after the contest ask the CD to sign your contest points area.
For the math, I'd suggest you should do it as well as check with what the club's math shows. The math is simple:
Take your score / the winners score. This gives you a number equal to or less than 1. So for example, you score 4,000 and the winner scores 5,000 so this number is .8.
Then multiply this by the number of pilots you beat +1. So if you are flying a 10 person contest and come in 5th, this means you beat 5 pilots + 1 (the one is you) so you multiply the .8 times 6. This gives you 4.8.
Now the final step is to multiply this number by 100. So 100 * 4.8 is 480.
As you can see by the math, if you simply go to a big enough contest and score mid pack, you can easily rack up a lot of points by just making the times and getting a few landings with your 'Song or Marauder.
Level 4 Distance
Good Afternoon,
And that it was at Harold OLF in Beautiful Harold, FL. Today just prior to the lunar noon lull. A Team of great folks made it possible for me to accomplish the 2 Km or 1.24 Mile distance and return for LSF Level IV. Thanks to Ed Lawrence, Rick Lake, Joe Foster and Jeremiah Pitts. Joe was the transportation coordinator and very accomplished driver of his own Jeep. Joe also supplied an awesome "hose monster" high start to launch the Topaz S. Rick was the spotter, the extra set of eyes and a major encourager. Ed and Jeremiah were the turnaround point spotters. Ed also provided the GPS and smart cell phone, that had GPS and he was also the communcations coordinator. Jeremiah helped Ed with the logistics. Thanks to the other folks at the field for being great support. I realize over and over how many helpful and fun folks we have in this fantastic sport. I should have some pictures to post later.
Last edited by sailfree; Jun 08, 2009 at 12:54 AM.
Congrats! I was amazed how much fun it is to fly and support a cross country event... we have a few 10K's to knock out this summer, it's gonna be a blast!
I am flying an Eastern Soaring League contest weekend. Two contests in two days. 33 pilots on Saturday. Not sure how many will be there today.
While I know a class place in Sportsman does not count as a place, it should give me plenty of points. I have not seen the final numbers but I will likely have placed overall ahead of about 15 pilots.
Conditions were great. We are flying Man on Man off 4 winches.
Will let you know how it goes today, but for any of you East Coast guys looking for contests, ESL holds over 30 a year from VA to MA in both winch and hand launch gliders. Great way to make your contest requirements. www.flyesl.com
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SKSS June 6/7
Saturday -
90.24 X 15= 1353 pts
90.06 X 15 = 1350 pts
So I have 2703 points toward my Level 3 contest requirements of 4500 pts and 2 contests in against 6 required. So far so good.
I am in contest mode right now so contests is what I am focused upon. Will work the other tasks as I have time.
Meanwhile, in Illinois at the south SOAR field ....
Looked to be a nice day out, so I headed to the field, no real plans, other then to put up a couple flights on my 2 meter, and my RES plane in anticipation of tomorrows club contest.
First bungee launch with my Topaz, I hit lift pretty quick, and skied out within a few minutes. Ben Roberto told me to bring it down to launch height, and start over, so I did some whoopdee-do's (or as I like to call it, cashed the thermal paycheck) down to a few hundred feet, and started the search again. Conditions looked great, so I asked one of the guys to start a watch, and I set to working on my 30 minute flight. After I got past the 30 minutes, we hatched a plan to knock out the 1k goal and return, so I started walking east across the sod farm, and had Ben set out in his SUV with his cell phone in hand. I was already way high again, so within a few minutes I got the cell phone call that I had passed the 1K point (by several 10ths of a mile, it turns out I was up high and he didn't see me cross right away....).. another minute or so heading back in a shallow dive, and a landing right next to the winch, and my level three tasks are now complete!
And the fun didn't end there either! After a bit of prodding, we talked Karl Miller into giving his 10K a shot for his Level V. We popped the topper off of my truck and got it ready while Karl got his trusty red Icon prepped for the flight, he launched, and we were off to the races....
Well, except that the first few miles, took a very long time. The lift was plentiful, but it topped off like there was an inversion layer over us or something. Karl could get to maybe twice launch height, but no higher, so we started down the road, circling alot to keep over launch height. After a few miles, the conditions improved, and Karl was able to climb higher between runs, and the pace quickened up quite a bit. The last mile or so, the lift was huge, and we ran out to the turn around area, thermaled up just a bit, and ran for home. The run from home was through some really strong lift, and we ran the last 4 miles running over 55 mph trying to keep up with the Icon.
Ben Roberto was spotting air for Karl on his flight, and was liaison between Karl in the back of the truck, and me up in the cab. I might also mention this run was Karls very first attempt, and was done old school style, no vario!!!
All in all, a good day of impromptu LSF soaring!
Steve S
aka South Side Steve
Last edited by StevenatorLTFO; Jun 12, 2009 at 10:23 PM. Reason: edited to add hero shots :D
Lex and Kai finished their LSF 2K at Cal Vally XC...
More story: http://bayrc.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5155
Man, thats kinda like driving a finishing nail with a sledgehammer isn't it? LOL Congrats on your flight!!!
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It seems as if the media are finally coming around to questioning the over-medicalization of American psychiatry and mental health services in general. I recently wrote a piece debunking Ritalin and related stimulants for treating Attention Deficit Disorder. On Sunday, 60 Minutes on CBS discussed Irving Kirsch's work showing that anti-depressants are no better than placebos for all but the most severe cases of depression.
Kirsch had to use the Freedom of Information Act to force drug companies to reveal studies they had done, and which they had suppressed, showing that the drugs don't work.
A key part of the show dealt--without using the terms--with two statistical concepts that might have been confused in the minds of some viewers. These are significance level and effect size. Significance level refers to the likelihood that an experimental result could be due to chance--that is, that a study using different people would have shown no effect. In general, if there is less than a 5% chance that the results are a coincidence, then the finding is called significant. (That is, even when a drug has no effect, an experiment might by chance occasionally seem to produce one--so results of all experiments, positive and negative, need to be considered.) If the probability is much lower--say one in a thousand--then it is called highly significant.
This is a very different use of the word significant from everyday speech, where it means important or substantial. In statistics, a highly significant finding may be of no importance at all. Suppose that an experiment shows that a pill improves mildly depressed people's mood by 1%. If there is only a one in a million chance that that result was a coincidence, then the finding is statistically highly significant. However, it is clinically meaningless, since neither the depressed individuals nor others close to them would be able to detect a 1% improvement.
So when a drug company says that studies of the effectiveness of their antidepressant--the ones they allowed to be published--obtained "highly significant results" that doesn't necessarily tell you what you want to know. The important information is effect size. Once you know that the results are statistically significant, you need to quantify the treatment impact. For example, how much lower on a scale of depression do people score, or how many weeks less does their depression last?
There are statistical ways of combining findings from different studies; and Kirsch was making two important points. The first is that when you combine the suppressed studies with the published ones, statistical significance disappears for most people. The second is that, even when statistically significant results are obtained, only for the severely depressed is the effect size large enough to justify taking antidepressants.
What does work for depression? The same thing that makes the placebo effect work--anything that believably encourages hope and gets individuals to expect that their life will improve.
Structured therapies (e.g., cognitive and behavioral therapies) focus on reversing the downward spiral of depression by catching up on work and other tasks left undone, by recognizing and changing self-defeating thoughts and actions, and by building on strengths, interests, and individual and social assets. Studies comparing antidepressants and focused talk therapies have also shown therapy to be more effective in preventing relapses--presumably because individuals learn ways of thinking and acting that make depression less likely in the first place, and also help them to cope better when they feel down.
In addition, physical activity and exercise--probably by combating lethargy and rumination, and by increasing the oxygen supply to the brain--have also been shown to be helpful.
(Full disclosure: my first book, Placebo Therapy [Jossey-Bass, 1973], argued that psychotherapy works mainly because of the placebo effect; and that therapy should aim at maximizing that effect.)
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There are many brands that have wanted a hotel to embody the luxury lifestyles they represent. Armani have two (Milan and Dubai), Missoni have two (Edinburgh and Kuwait), and Ralph Lauren opened Round Hill in Jamaica back in the 1980s. Their rooms are awash with luxury products, furnishings and interiors that show their guests that they are more than just labels, but that they are a lifestyle, and by staying there, you can live it.
It is then curious just exactly what will await the first guests at one of the new IKEA hotels that the home interiors giant plans to build across Europe - with the first to open in Germany early next year. The company says they will be 'budget design' but have a 'boutique feel' - and the hotels look set to follow a boom in stylish budget hotel accommodation led by brands like Base2Stay and CitizenM, who recently opened on London's South Bank.
Jokes that the rooms come flatpacked, or that they provide a room but you'll need an instruction manual to make your bed, or you can order anything from the room service menu as long as it's meatballs, could be shortlived when the Swedish furniture company opens no less than 100 of these hotels over the next few years, with cities in the Netherlands, UK and Poland following Germany on the list. Those surprised of the company's ambition should remember it recently announced it would build a new 1200-home London suburb just a few hundred metres from the Olympic Park.
So what can travellers expect from an IKEA hotel? Well, perhaps sadly, the hotels themselves will not be called IKEA hotels. The company says 'an established hotel operator' will run the hotels, but the interiors will be 100% IKEA. It's still unclear if the company plans to partner with different operators, or just one for its Europe-wide ambitions.
"We will announce within a few weeks the first location for our budget hotel in Germany and we are in talks with hotel operators to rapidly implement our concept," Harald Müller, a senior manager in Inter Ikea's property division, told a German newspaper.
Whatever the outcome, it's difficult to think that the project will not be a success, although if the queues at check-out are similar to those at the stores, it may be a good idea to get up very early.


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Save the Rimfrost crystals
Ana salvages the crystals from her Rimfrost lamp and let them breath new life to another.
"I bought this cheeeap old lamp at a second hand shop, as you can see it needed a lot of help to have a new and stylish life but here's where my Rimfrost came to the rescue. I used only part of all the crystals and the rest are ready for another lamp I have in mind (keep tuned). So I gave a couple of coats of primer and a coat of white paint and few strokes of antiquing paint, cause it looked too white. Then I used the crystals and bought some nice shades. I'm so proud of the final look and how easy it has been."
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Really cute! Very lovely. I bet you sat back and looked at that project for quite a while after it was hung up. I would have!
I love this. Very clever and chic.
This is just so awesome!.
Wow, this looks totally awesome! I love RIMFROSTs…although I don't think Ikea sells them anymore.
Nice job! This is a great "recycling" project!
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Ican not see the crystals hanging down but I bet it look great..
Majeral, just click the small images in the blog post and they become quite big, then you can see the crystals.
Great work!
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Structure of inhibitor binding to Carbonic Anhydrase II
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[CAH2_HUMAN] Defects in CA2 are the cause of osteopetrosis autosomal recessive type 3 (OPTB3) [MIM:259730]; also known as osteopetrosis with renal tubular acidosis, carbonic anhydrase II deficiency syndrome, Guibaud-Vainsel syndrome or marble brain disease. Osteopetrosis is a rare genetic disease characterized by abnormally dense bone, due to defective resorption of immature bone. The disorder occurs in two forms: a severe autosomal recessive form occurring in utero, infancy, or childhood, and a benign autosomal dominant form occurring in adolescence or adulthood. Autosomal recessive osteopetrosis is usually associated with normal or elevated amount of non-functional osteoclasts. OPTB3 is associated with renal tubular acidosis, cerebral calcification (marble brain disease) and in some cases with mental retardation.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
[CAH2_HUMAN] Essential for bone resorption and osteoclast differentiation (By similarity). Reversible hydration of carbon dioxide. Can hydrate cyanamide to urea. Involved in the regulation of fluid secretion into the anterior chamber of the eye.[6] [7]
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Following previous studies we herein report the exploration of the carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 220.127.116.11) inhibitory effects and enzyme selectivity of a small class of 1-(cyclo)alkylisoquinolines containing a sulfonamide function considered a key feature for inhibiting CA. The results of enzymatic assays against human (h) CA isoforms, hCA I and hCA II (cytosolic, ubiquitous enzymes), hCA IX (transmembrane, tumor-associated), and hCA XIV (transmembrane), suggested that the presence of C-1 small substituents on isoquinoline scaffold controls both inhibitory potency and selectivity. Some derivatives showed potent hCA IX and hCA XIV inhibitory effects at nanomolar concentrations as well as low affinity for the ubiquitous hCA II. Moreover, we report the X-ray crystal structure of one of these derivatives in complex with dominant human isoform II, thus confirming the sulfonamide-zinc interactions. Finally, the results of docking experiments suggested the hypothetic interactions in the catalytic binding site for the most active and selective hCA IX and hCA XIV inhibitor.
Identification of 3,4-Dihydroisoquinoline-2(1H)-sulfonamides as Potent Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors: Synthesis, Biological Evaluation, and Enzyme-Ligand X-ray Studies.,Gitto R, Agnello S, Ferro S, De Luca L, Vullo D, Brynda J, Mader P, Supuran CT, Chimirri A J Med Chem. 2010 Feb 19. PMID:20170095[8]
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Chechnya is a war-torn, hotly disputed region that is both a part of and apart from Russia. Its history and current fragile peace are not well understood by Westerners, but one author is hoping to shine a spotlight on Chechens by penning a novel set in the region. The story weaves together stories of longtime neighbors and those brought together by chance as they navigate the uncertainties of war. We talk with Anthony Marra about his debut novel, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena," and how it might further our understanding of the region.
From the book "A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena: A novel" by Anthony Marra, published by Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Copyright © 2013 by Anthony Marra. Reprinted with permission.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIWe know that novels can expand our world view. They can provide accounts of places and people that move us in ways that non-fiction cannot. Skilled authors could make us feel connected to characters we might otherwise feel apart from, teasing out emotional parallels to our own lives while shedding light on harsh realities foreign to us. In this way, novels sometimes make us sit up and take notice of a place, a conflict or a history previously unknown to us, a place like Chechnya, a region that occasionally makes headlines but remains little understood by many in the West.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIOur guest today provides a literary entry point with a debut novel that aims to fill a void in English language literature. Anthony Marra is an author whose debut novel is "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena." He's also a Stegner fellow at Stanford University and alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and winner of several writing awards including a Pushcart Prize. He joins us in studio. Anthony Marra, welcome. Thank you for joining us.
MR. ANTHONY MARRAThank you so much for having me.
NNAMDIChechnya is a place that occasionally comes into our collective consciousness, more about that in a minute. But most of us would be hard-pressed to tell you much about it. What made you decide to set a novel here?
MARRAI studied in Russia in college, and I arrived shortly after the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her writings on Chechnya. And Chechnya was very much in the air at the time. And I realized it was a place that I knew nothing about. And I began reading about it, really, just to educate myself.
MARRAAnd it's a fascinating and remarkable area. Tolstoy, Pushkin and Lermontov all set works there. But it was really the stories of ordinary people persisting in extraordinary circumstances that I really felt were the kinds of stories that needed to be illuminated through fiction.
NNAMDIAnd the mere fact that you undertook the reading of those stories and of Pushkin and Tolstoy and others, a lot of people tend to be intimidated by that. So I'm curious. What about Russian literature appeals to you?
MARRARussian literature has a vastness to it that I've always found appealing. Life seems lived on grander scales in Russian literature. The books themselves are cinder block sized. And just finishing one of those books can feel like a major accomplishment, but they deal with questions of how do we live, what are we willing to sacrifice for our beliefs, what is -- what's the proper way to live a life, how do we live a good life? And these are questions that, whether they're brought up by 19th-century counts or thoughts for us today, they bear relevance to our lives.
NNAMDISo if it would be intimidating to a lot of adults and presumably even more intimidating for juveniles, why would it be so appealing to juvenile offenders? Today's Washington Post has a story about juvenile offenders who find that they really connect with these big themes that Russian literature is famous for tackling. You didn't discover it in that same way, but what about it -- what do you feel about that piece in The Post today and the appeal it has for those juvenile offenders?
MARRAI thought it was a terrific article and just a beautiful project that Prof. Andy Kaufman is working on. I think that literature can speak to us across all sorts of boundaries. The purpose of literature is to break those boundaries. And having juvenile offenders finding the same sort of wisdom and solace and comfort and understanding from a book that was written 200 years ago by somebody who lived on the other side of the world, I think, speaks to the power of literature.
NNAMDIIf you'd like to join this conversation, you can call us at 800-433-8850. Have you found that after reading a novel set in an unfamiliar country you pay closer attention to news and to non-fiction writing about that place? 800-433-8850. You can send email to firstname.lastname@example.com. To give us a sense of Chechnya as you write about it in 2004, would you read a passage for us? It starts at the top of page 20, just after "A doctor opens a hospital doorway that used to lead to a storage room but now opens to a panorama of the city.
MARRA"On days when both sides abided by the ceasefire, Sonja came to this doorway and looked across the city and tried to identify the buildings by their ruins. The one that flickered with 10,000 pieces of sunlight had been a sheet-glass office building in which 918 souls had labored. Beneath that minaret, a rotund imam had led the pious in prayer. That was a school, a library, a Young Pioneer's clubhouse, a jail, a grocery store.
MARRA"That was where her mother had warned her never to trust a man who claims to want an intelligent life, where her father had taught her to ride a bike by imitating the engine growl of a careening municipal bus sure to run her over if she didn't pedal fast enough, where she had solved her first algebra equation for a primary school teacher, a man for whom Sonja's successes were consolation whenever he pitied himself for not having followed his older brother into the more remunerative profession of prison guard.
MARRA"Where she had called for help after witnessing one man spear another on the university green, only to learn they were students rehearsing an Aeschylus play. It looked like a city made of shoeboxes and stamped into the ground by a petulant child. She could spend the whole afternoon rebuilding it, repopulating it, until the hallucination became the more believable reality. 'Before, you couldn't see the river from here,' Sonja said. 'This hospital is the tallest building in the city now.'
MARRA"There had been plans -- there had been tall buildings and plans to erect taller ones. After the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., oil reserves had promised prosperity for Chechnya in the coming capitalist century. Yeltsin had told the republics to grab as much sovereignty as they could swallow, and after 2,000 years of foreign occupation, it had seemed the republic would finally achieve independence.
MARRA"Her grandmother -- her grandparents had moved to Volchansk in 1946 after Stalin added lorry drivers and seamstresses to the expanding list of professions requiring purging, but she felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns. That sense electric optimism was evident in the designs that had been solicited from architects in Riyadh, Melbourne and Minsk.
MARRA"City officials had made a show of the blueprints, displaying them on billboards and distributing them as leaflets at the bazaar. She'd never seen anything like it. The sketches had suggested that the pinnacle of design no longer consisted of cramming the greatest amount of reinforced concrete into the ugliest rectangle possible. Once she had held a leaflet against the horizon and as the red sun bled through the paper, the towers had become part of the skyline."
NNAMDIListening to Anthony Marra reading from his debut novel, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena," a debut novel that is set in Chechnya. We are inviting your calls at 800-433-8850. It's my understanding that you could not get into Chechnya before initially writing the book, but you did get there before you finished. How different was what you found from what you write about thanks to the passage of time?
MARRAWell, I visited last summer for the first time. It was more of a fact-checking trip than a research trip because, as you said, I had already written the book for the most part. And it was -- it's quite different from the world depicted in the book. In 2003, the United Nations declared Grozny the most devastated city on Earth, and, if you go there today, you'll see a city that's been nearly entirely rebuilt.
MARRAThere are skyscrapers there. There are sushi restaurants. There is all manner of conveniences, and, really, most of that development has occurred in -- over the course of the past five years. But the people that you meet there still very much carry the memory of the conflict, and everything in the present is seen as a relation to recent history.
NNAMDI800-433-8850. Have you traveled to Chechnya or spent time in other parts of the Russian caucuses? We'd love to hear about your experience there. Give us a call, 800-433-8850. Or send email to email@example.com. You could never have anticipated that the news cycle, just before the publication of your novel, would put Chechnya in the spotlight. Has what you know about the region made the Boston Marathon bombing suspects' connection to that region any more or less understandable?
MARRAHonestly, it's made it less understandable. I had -- with the rest of America, I watched the news come out of Boston with horror and shock, and my thoughts and prayers were with the victims and their families.
MARRAAnd when the news came out about the identities of the two suspected brothers, I was in Massachusetts, actually, and was absolutely surprised largely because most of the people I met while I was in Chechnya roundly condemned terrorism, both because they have repeatedly suffered its effects and because they're very aware and sensitive of the fact that their reputation in the international community has been tarnished by the actions of terrorists over the past decade or so. And so I was shocked and surprised and horrified.
NNAMDIAnd people in Chechnya are so, I guess, not just sensitive, but so keenly aware of what happened and the reputation that it's my understanding that you get two questions when you go there: first, why you're here, and, second, what have you heard about us?
MARRAExactly, yeah. Nine times out of 10, those were the first two questions I would receive from anyone. The first one was sort of a surprise that an American would come to Chechnya, and the second was always, what have you heard of us? What are people saying? Have you heard bad things? We're not all like the people who are portrayed on the news. And this sense of trying to rehabilitate the international image of Chechnya was something that I repeatedly found while I was there.
NNAMDISo I guess the response of the uncle of the alleged perpetrators of this act, who clearly felt a certain sense of communal shame, is what links back to those questions that you're asked when you go to Chechnya.
MARRAExactly, yeah, that sense of trying to right their reputation. I spent a weekend in the mountains of southern Chechnya that border Dagestan, and I was there with an imam from the Gudermes mosque, which is one of the largest mosques in Chechnya. And he repeatedly said -- we were sort of conversing in broken Russian and broken English -- that the people who blow up things, that the people who shoot people are not Muslim, that Islam is a religion of peace.
MARRAAnd it was -- he very much wanted to impart to me this idea that not all Chechens are like the people you see in the news. And the characters in this novel are not soldiers or rebels. They're surgeons. They're neighbors. They're doctors. They are people who want to live in peace and provide for the family, just like the rest of us.
NNAMDIYou know, that's one of the things that I like most about the novel. The, I guess, motto of this show, if you will, is connecting your neighborhood with the world, and I felt like this could have been people who are living in my own neighborhood. We're talking with Anthony Marra. He is an author. His debut novel is called "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena." We're inviting your calls at 800-433-8850.
NNAMDIBefore I go to break, though, given that we're talking about the news cycle and the fact that many Westerners are not very familiar with that region, I'm wondering if you feel any pressure being the author bringing Chechen issues to our attention.
MARRAWell, I feel -- I always try to make clear that I'm a novelist. I'm not an expert in geopolitics or on Caucasian history. I feel an obligation to the characters in the novel and the world from which they emerge. But this is fiction. It's a novel. It's set in the recent past, and there are certainly other books, many of which I've listed in the author's note, that interested people should turn to for more comprehensive explanation of recent Chechen history.
NNAMDIWe're going to take a short break. If you have called, stay on the line. We will get to your calls. If you haven't yet and you'd like to, the number is 800-433-8850. Are you a fan of Russian literature? What about it appeals to you? Or if you're not, what doesn't appeal to you? 800-433-8850. We'll return with our two-hour conversation with Anthony Marra about his debut novel, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena." I'm Kojo Nnamdi.
NNAMDIWelcome back. Our guest is Anthony Marra. He is an author whose debut novel is "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena." He's also a Stegner fellow at Stanford University, an alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and winner of several writing awards, including a Pushcart Prize. We've been inviting your calls at 800-433-8850. So let's talk with Jerry on Capitol Hill. Jerry, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
JERRYThank you. I have two questions. One, I traveled to Russia in the late '80s and 1990s. And looking at books and guidebooks or whatever, I was struck that Ivan the Terrible in Russian was Ivan Grozny, meaning that the capital of Chechnya is the terrible, which struck me as a weird name for anybody's capital.
JERRYAnd, secondly, when I -- there are plenty of Chechens in Moscow, but the Russians all said Chechen is synonym for smuggler, bandit, mafia. So how does this perception -- I mean, this is -- even in the movie or book "Gorky Park," the Chechens were the bad guys. So how do you turn bad guys into good guys?
NNAMDIWikipedia tells us that Grozny means fearsome, awesome, redoubtable. How did that play into the history of the place?
MARRAYeah. It -- Grozny has its roots as a military outpost that the Russian Imperial Army was stationed in during campaigns against some of the rebels in the 19th century, and the name Grozny -- the terrible, the fearsome -- is rooted in that period. It's actually a rather remarkable time. Tolstoy wrote about it in the novel "Hadji Murad." And there was this rebellion led by a Avar commander named Imam Shamil, and he sort of devised all of these cunning ploys to keep the Russian army on their toes.
MARRAHe would put the horseshoes on his horses backwards so that the Russians would always chase them in the wrong direction. He devised these ways of stopping arteries by having a beetle bite on the vein and then clipping the body from it. And he was really sort of a very brutal man, but also ingenious in his own way, and that time period is certainly filled with many stories that were the fodder for great Russian literature.
NNAMDIJerry, thank you very much for your call. Your story focuses on the exact opposite of the kind of person you just described, a rather precocious little girl. Tell us a little bit about Havaa or Havaa and why you decided to put her at the center of the story.
MARRAYeah. Havaa is the -- is really the organizing principle of the whole novel. The novel begins one night in a snow covered village in Chechnya in 2004 when a man named Akhmed watches as his next-door neighbor is abducted by Russian soldiers. And later that evening, he finds this 8-year-old girl Havaa hiding in the forest, and he takes her to the only safe place he can think of, which is this ramshackle hospital in a nearby city.
NNAMDIAt which his own medical professional credentials are questioned.
MARRAExactly, yes. He's applied for a job there about 20 times, and he's always been denied. But because there is no longer any staff, he's finally offered a position by the one remaining surgeon, Sonja. And the entire novel sort of revolves around people trying to find or people trying to hide this 8-year-old girl. And I think that life goes on even in these very difficult circumstances and situations, and Havaa is very much representative of that. She is the person who sort of brings a degree of innocence and humanity to all of these characters.
NNAMDIYeah. Why did she staple he gloves onto herself?
MARRAShe -- her father was an arborist, and he encouraged her imagination and encouraged her to view knowledge as this sort of wild kingdom of escape. And she decides at one point that she wants to be a professional sea anemonist, to study anemones, and finds these latex medical gloves and staples them all over her outfit in order to appear to be a sea anemone.
NNAMDIThe story has a timeline. Each chapter begins with the date highlighted on a timeline that runs from 1994 to 2004. But the story also moves further forward and backward at times. What made you decide to essentially highlight the fluidity of time by moving so easily through it?
MARRAWell, wars break families, they break stories, they break buildings, and they fracture time. And this is a novel in which each individual character is trying to recover what's been lost and trying to pull together their lives, trying to put the pieces together. And so I wanted the novel on a structural architectural level to embody that sense of recovery, of salvage, of rescue. And so, as each character in their own stories are piecing their lives together, the novel as a whole mends their individual stories into a communal one.
NNAMDIThe story also goes back, way back into Chechen and Russian history, which is the passion or perhaps burden of another character in this book. Who is Khassan, and what purpose does he serve for the reader?
MARRAKhassan is an elderly historian. And he spent four decades trying to write this epic multivolume 3,000-page history of Chechnya. And every time he gets close to finishing this history, a shift in the prevailing political winds require him to go back to the beginning and revise it in order to conform to the new political standards. And it's sort of Sisyphean task he's set up for himself.
MARRAAnd I knew that readers coming to the book would have very little knowledge of Chechnya and of the region's history. And so his role as a character is also to provide a little bit of context, so that a reader can come to the book without knowing anything about the region and still get enough of a contextual background to understand the choices that the characters make.
NNAMDIHere is Zarah (sp?) in Fairfax, Va. Zarah, you're on the air. Go ahead, please. Hi, Zarah. Are you there?
ZARAHOh, yes. Hi. How are you?
NNAMDII'm well.
ZARAHGood. Thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it. Basically, I just want to make a quick comment that the author, you know, definitely brings to light the necessity of educating every one. In light of what happened, I think definitely, you know, there needs to be a greater understanding, a greater awareness of, you know, regions that are in heed of help. You know, I think what has happened, you know, of course, is something that's tragic.
ZARAHAt the same time, you know, there is a cry for help. Otherwise, I think what has happened, people in Chechnya. And also, you know, in other parts of, like, for instance, when -- the situation in Kosovo in Serbia. You know, I don't think the, you know, the overall viewers in general know much about, you know, what has happened, you know, between, you know, the Serbs and what has happened in Kosovo and then these types of situation. The only time when, you know, we do end up hearing -- go ahead.
NNAMDIWell, do you think novels can help to make those situations more accessible, more understandable because that precisely my feeling about "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"?
ZARAHYes. Just, for example, like "The Kite Runner." You know, that was a phenomenal...
NNAMDIGood example.
ZARAH...you know, movie. You know, that was followed by a novel, and it was instrumental to give a realistic hands-on personal, intimate understanding of what it was like to grow up in a very, you know, chaotic time. And that still is now occurring, so I think...
NNAMDIAnd that's precisely what you get in this novel, but we're running out of time. But thank you very much for your call, Zarah. This story unfolds in a way that is subtly heartbreaking one moment, very funny a few pages later and then stomach churning a couple of chapters on. How did you strike a balance between those experiences, and why are all of them important?
MARRAI think that novels need a wide range because life has a wide range. It's not played on either the high or the low notes. It's played on the whole keyboard. And that was something I was very much eager to get across in this novel. I think that there is a lot of light, a lot of humor despite the fact that it is set in this rather troubled region during a troubled time.
NNAMDIWe are in a way welcoming you home today because though you live in California now, you were born and raised in and around in Washington, D.C. How often do you get back? And how do you keep the city with you when you're away?
MARRAI try to come back usually three times a year, and I'm very close with my family and friends. And it's just a joy to be back whenever I am.
NNAMDIAnd we on this show were doing our fundraising drives. We have a co-host of Politics Hour on Friday, Tom Sherwood, who has said, if an individual makes a certain amount of a contribution to the station, then he will take what he considers the bold and dangerous move of having a Washington, D.C. flag tattooed on his shoulder. It is my understanding that you bear such a tattoo.
MARRAI do. You've done your research.
NNAMDIWhere, may I ask, is this tattoo?
MARRARight here on my shoulder. I got it before I moved to California about a week beforehand.
NNAMDIAnd that's how Anthony Marra carries D.C. around with him. I hope you're listening, Sherwood, 'cause Anthony Marra is an author whose debut novel is "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena." He's also a Stegner fellow at Stanford University, an alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and winner of several writing awards, including a Pushcart Prize. Anthony Marra, after this publicity tour is over, all the socializing ends and you'll get back to the keyboard all by yourself again?
MARRAMm hmm.
NNAMDIWell, good luck with that.
MARRAThank you so much.
NNAMDIAnd thank you for joining us. Thank you all for listening. I'm Kojo Nnamdi.
We speak to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) as he prepares to leave office after four years at the helm.
Native Washingtonian Rosalind Wiseman went to school with mean girls, then grew up to study them and the wider social dynamics of young women. She joins Kojo with former student Alexandra Petri to discuss the complexities of womanhood at different stages of life.
We discuss the Montgomery County school board decision to shorten spring break by two days and look at the challenges local jurisdictions face when developing academic calendars.
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General Motors and Honda will collaborate in developing next-generation fuel cell system and hydrogen storage technologies, the two companies announced on Tuesday. The first products of their collaboration will appear from 2020. The U.S. and Japanese companies will share expertise, economies of scale and common sourcing strategies.
An important part of their agreement is the development of refueling infrastructure, a critical component for the long-term viability and consumer acceptance of fuel cell vehicles.
Both GM and Honda are considered leaders when it comes to fuel cell technology in the automotive sector as according to the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index, GM and Honda rank No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in total fuel cell patents filed between 2002 and 2012, with more than 1,200 between them.
"We are convinced this is the best way to develop this important technology, which has the potential to help reduce the dependence on petroleum and establish sustainable mobility," said GM CEO Dan Akerson.
Honda president and CEO Takanobu Ito said: "Honda and GM are eager to accelerate the market penetration of this ultimate clean mobility technology and I am excited to form this collaboration to fuse our leading fuel cell technologies and create an advanced system that will be both more capable and more affordable."
Ito added that fuel cell electric vehicles have a "definitive advantage with range and refueling time that is as good as conventional gasoline cars."
Since 2007, GM has accumulated nearly 3 million miles (4.82 million km) of real-world driving with its fleet of 119 hydrogen-powered vehicles under the Project Driveway program.
The Honda FCX fuel cell vehicle has been leased to select customers from 2002, with 85 units being on U.S. and Japanese roads – including the second-generation FCX Clarity.
Honda plans to launch the successor of FCX Clarity in Japan and the United States in 2015, with Europe to get the car later. GM said it will announce its fuel cell production plans at a later date.
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Avalanche Safety
The terrain and weather in the Olympic mountains can create ideal conditions for avalanches. Influenced by wind, temperature, snow, rain slope and aspect, the risk of avalanche can vary daily or even hourly.
If you are headed to Hurricane Ridge or elsewhere in the high-country of the Olympics, always check current avalanche forecasts on the Northwest Avalanche Center website. Always check in at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center or Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center for current local conditions.
During the winter of 2007/2008, at least 9 recreationists were killed by avalanches in Washington State. Before you go out, take some time to learn more about avalanches, avalanche safety and rescue.
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Avalanches like this one can occur in the Hurricane Ridge area. If venturing outside of the designated ski area or parking lot, always check with a ranger or the ski patrol for the latest avalanche warnings and forecasts.
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ABC News' Nightline is a Late-Night news television program. The half-hour program provides viewers in-depth reporting on the major stories in the news, and airs weeknights from 12:35 a.m. - 1:05 a.m., ET, on the ABC Television Network. Nightline's anchors are Dan Harris, Juju Chang and Byron Pitts.
November 2017
Dog Sledding, Another Sport Facing Doping Scandals, Abuse Allegations; Secrets Behind Making The Christmas Movie, 'Elf'
In the Liberal Gun Club, These Members Support Both the Left and Gun Rights; Teen Idol David Cassidy Has Died at 67
Charles Manson dies in prison at 83; Ex-Manson member recalls life in the family; Inside Brooklyn bakery selling 'luxe loaves' of bread for as much as $20
Nathaniel Newman was Born with a Severe Case of Treacher Collins Syndrome; Christina Aguilera Surprises Family who was Inspired by Her Song "Beautiful"
Billion-Dollar Landlords: Rental Home Giant Under Fire; Tony Danza, Ian Nelson on Pulling Back The Curtain on 'There's... Johnny'
Terry Crews Details Alleged Sexual Assault by Hollywood Talent Agent; Alessia Cara on Going from Singing on YouTube to Performing on World Tours
Police Searching for Apparent Serial Killer Terrorizing Tampa Neighborhood; Hurricane Survivors Continue Their Road to Recovery Over Two Months Later
Penn State Hazing Death: Former Fraternity Brothers Face New Charges; Remembering Liz Smith, Syndicated Gossip Columnist Known for her Insider Access
Real-Life Iron Man Breaks Would Record for Fastest Speed in a Jet Suit; 'No Greater Love' is First Documentary Filmed, Directed by Active Duty Soldier
Taylor Swift Debuts New Song 'New Year's Day'; On Set With 'Grey's Anatomy' Stars for their 300th Episode; ABC News' Juju Chang Wins Front Page Award for Lifetime Achievement
11th Annual Stand Up For Heroes Benefit Hosted by Bob Woodruff; Kane Brown on Trying to Change Perceptions About What Country Music Looks Like
Weinstein Allegedly Hired Intelligence Agency to Target Accusers; Red Hot Chili Peppers Perform at Stand Up for Heroes Fundraiser
From Small Town Life to Stardom: Luke Bryan on Overcoming Tragedy and His Success; Reflecting on Covering the Texas Church Shooting
Artist Paints 60,000-sq-ft Mural By Hand in L.A.'s Skid Row; Houston Astros Celebrate World Series Win With Parade
This School's Main Entrance Requirement is Students Must Be Addicts; Three High School Students, Three Different Addiction Battles
Teen Girls Open Up About the 'Constant Pressure' of Social Media; Houston Astros Defeat LA Dodgers to Claim World Series Title


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Paula Correa is not the real name of this 24-year-old woman, who is still afraid of the danger to her and her 8-year-old son. Her story is one of loss and pain, survival and hope, hard work and an encouraging future.
Paula's family had to abandon their farm in the province of Cundinamarca, where they grew beans that were often stolen by the FARC. After FARC rebels killed a relative, and threatened her mother, two brothers and her baby son, Paula had to run.
After arriving in Bogota, Paula became a beneficiary of a USAID income generation project for the displaced population in Colombia and received a small grant to launch a business. She decided to try her hand at creating hand-crafted leather products and used the funds to get started.
Paula had always admired the fabric appliqués, "molas", of the Kuna indigenous tribe from the Gulf of Uraba (Northerna Colombia.) She started using them in her leather products.
After about a year, Paula's business had grown substantially and she created her own trademark, Kuna Arts, named after the Indian tribe whose art she loves. She spreads the bright molas on the table and admires how they look combined with colorful leather samples. "I have so many plans for my business: creating a catalogue and a webpage. I think the best market is in the areas popular with foreign tourists."
Paula rents special sewing and stapling machines from a shop not too far from the house where she lives with her mother, son, two brothers and their families. She dreams of owning her own equipment some day. Her unique items always attract attention and she has already participated in several different fairs and expositions in Bogotá and many other cities in Colombia.
In October 2009, Paula traveled to Miami to be part of an event in which she won the "Heroes of the Hemisphere" award, a recognition given to Paula and other outstanding leaders from throughout the Americas. More than 400 people from five countries in Latin America and the Caribbean celebrated these achievements during the ceremony. This experience showed Paula a vast amount of possibilities for her future. "I would like the whole world to see the beautiful Kuna molas, and my products as well. I also have a dream that some day I will study textile engineering and design," she said.
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Discussion in 'Crazy-Awesome almost Dakar racers (950/990cc)' started by KTBen, May 21, 2009.
Its proberly been done before but hey lets do it again........
I love this picture!
and this one
An oldy but a goody.
I wish I could get those factory rear tanks.
Memories !! .. Never get tired of looking at these pics.
How about this one?
How much did those bikes weight fueled up? Pretty cool how they can throw them around..
Check out the location of that kick stand, behind the peg? I need to do this ASAP.....
music to the eyes
awsome to be riding a bike almost like the race bike.
I want to find one of those cush-less rear hubs!
got Hi-Res of the pics you posted ???
been wanting them for long but only found smaller ones.
EDIT : I should REALLY read before posting !!!
Thanks SS
I have even higher res of some of them. Higher that the ones after you click on the thumbnail.
If you let me know the ones you are interested in and I'll see if I have a higher res version.
So, where can we get that skid plate? Tough enough for Dakar...
New job. New computer. New wallpaper.
Those pics were awesome.
One more, you might of seen this somewhere before
Why is that?
I alway's think about the cush drive as a nice way to keep the gear box alive?
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Another tormenter has been crossed off the Pretty Little Liars' list, but was she A? The girls certainly think so.
Season 5 of the addictive ABC Family drama picked up immediately after the finale's shooting, with Ezra (Ian Harding) being rushed to the hospital. Aria (Lucy Hale), Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Hanna (Ashley Benson), Emily (Shay Mitchell) and Alison (Sasha Pieterse) took action to lure out A and it worked. As a gun-wielding Shana (Aeriel Miranda) showed up to the Fitzgerald Family's Broadway theater revealing that she was responsible for the cabin fire, among other things, and trying to prove her love to Jenna (Tammin Sursok), Aria showed up in time to save the foursome by bludgeoning her.
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Poor Gavin! He just has no rhythm! I applaud the attempt, but no...just no.
Poor Gavin! He just has no rhythm! I applaud the attempt, but no...just no.
Keep your feet on the ground, when your heads in the clouds!
24 for Peta and Donald (did I get that right?)?
Gavin is too soft. Karina looks lovely.
"In a world of pollution, profanity, adolescence, broccoli, zits, ozone depletion, racism, sexism, stupid guys and PMS, why the hell do people still tell me to have a nice day?" - Unknown
Spring 2016 FoRT Yearbook Title: "Most Likely to Make a Short Story Long, and a Long Story LONGER!"
I had no idea that Karina was so funny! I mean, really she meant this whole routine as a joke right? That was dreadful. I'm so disappointed. Last week was amazing! I was excited and then this week everything went dud. It's like this is week 1 or something.
Avatar: Eastern Amberwing dragonfly photo by me.
Missed Donald/Peta scores. Anyone? Thanks.
Yikes Maybe Martina has a chance after all - Gavin is not doing well OMG Bruno is drooling all over him though -
Gavin: I hate props!
Lame technique. Did not even slightly enjoy that dance.
"...each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one." - Mitch Albom, one helluva writer.
When you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, you know which one you hit by the one that yelps!
Thanks KrazeeKY07.
So the 3 I figured would struggle the most tonight (Jack, Martina, and Gavin) all did. I'm betting on one of them going home tomorrow. Better not be Maks
Aww they practiced 13 hours more than anyone else - at least he's trying! WTF?? 7-7-7 - No WAY - they were better than Maks and Melissa!


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Growing up in the '70s, we kids had several water cooler (or in our case, playground) debate subjects. A few of the more formidable included the annual Saturday Morning Cartoon Preview (would Scooby-Doo be back? Would the Kroffts new live action slice of surrealism be worth watching?), the tastiness of space food sticks, and the weekly roundtable on the ABC Movie of the Week. Like all impressionable youth, we couldn't get enough of the gratuitous genre workouts, most of the infamous TV films revolving around ghosts, demons, the paranormal, and the people who worship same. After a preplanned viewing, you'd shuffle off to school the next day, insightful review inside your head and collection of awesome/awful scenes at your disposal for ease of impressing. Most times, you struck paydirt - Duel, Trilogy of Terror, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, The Night Stalker, Go Ask Alice. At other instances, you got something akin to an over your prepubescent head chick flick. Many of us still have fond memories of those 90 minute mindblowers. Sadly, something like Crawlspace (not actually part of the ABC canon), can easily buzz kill any lingering feelings of nostalgia.
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As the doting dimwits, Arthur Kennedy (perhaps best known as Bart Hunter from A Summer Place) and Teresa Wright (Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt Miss) clearly suffer from a faulty sense memory. One moment, they're enjoying the eccentric and non-conformist antics of their animal boy. Even when he comes home filthy and stinking, they hold him as someone on some manner of spiritual quest. It's a journey they hope to jerryrig with job suggestions, brand new suits, and endless lashings of Vivaldi (the "Four Seasons" is sonically cued so many times here, it should be part of the cast list). Naturally, when he turns twisted, and decides to physically illustrate his growing abandonment concerns, Crawlspace moves from drawing room dullness to unhinged humorlessness. Director John Newland, famed for the far more effective Kim Darby delight Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, stages everything with an earnestness that borders on the inert. Kennedy has conversations with himself while Wright knits on a giant loom and signs Christmas cards like their hirsute interloper is one of the brood. When the scales finally fall from their eyes - and it takes a bit to enlighten these old coots - their reaction is classic '70s stammering. How did their seemingly innocent wild child turn into Squeaky and the gang's personal Jesus?
Adding the narrative non-believability is the talentless Tom Happer. All chiseled jaw and man musk, this wounded whack job sets the counterculture cause back several Eisenhower administrations. He's bonkers in an undeniably bifurcated manner. One moment, he seems helpless as a trash eating raccoon. The next he's a rabid wildebeest looking to chop the snot out of local jocks. The plotline plays his reprobate Richard character as part sympathetic, part swimming in his own feces - literally (the line about "horrid smells" remains a classic bit of standards and practice approved slang). By the time the blasť sheriff shows up for the inevitable manhunt, we get a couple of wrinkled prunes screaming for interpersonal salvation, a stereotypical showdown between upset guardians and wicked ward, and enough last minute scenery chewing to effectively strip the stucco off of a Hamptons estate. Too bad it all adds up to something incredibly dull and highly repetitive. Kennedy and Wright are loving one second, losing it the next. Happer is happy to listen to classical music and eat shrimp cocktail one day, yet turns around and vandalizes a local general store moments later. In a timeframe where conservative USA thought every rebel was waiting to carve "Pig" in their bloodied torso, Crawlspace may have worked. Today, it's dated and dry.
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Beyond Names and Dates: Uncovering Your Ancestors' StoriesLeslie Huber. (BLL)
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Googling for GenealogistsMichael Marx. (BLL)
Saturday, November 13, 2010 - Joint Meeting with Falmouth Genealogical Society. 10:00 am. West Barnstable Community Center, Route 149
Latest Developments in Internet Genealogy and Across USA; Migrations and Their Genealogical SignificanceMichael Leclerc, New England Historic Genealogical Society
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Sharing Our Genealogical StoriesMembers of the Society. (BLL).
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Immigration & MigrationDavid Martin & Carolyn Weiss. (BLL)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Cape Cod Genealogical Resources
Robert Ward. (BLL)
Saturday, March 19, 2011
The Value of Probate in Genealogical ResearchAnastasia Welsh Perrino. (BLL)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Don't Call Your Relations; Let Them Call YouMarian Pierre-Louis. (BLL)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
How the Cape Was Settled Because of GeographyJim Gould. (BLL)
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Annual LuncheonProgram Topic: "The Great Migration, 1620-1640"
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Okay, California Pacific Airlines ready again
FAA-certified, but start dates out of Carlsbad airport uncertain (psst, April)
Ken Harrison 8:30 a.m., Nov. 18
Who was there first?
Ken R. says: I can understand being upset about cleaning crews coming in at two in the AM. But.. to an extent... you bought a house next to a fast food restaurant.
Two points. First, I fail to have much sympathy for people who purchase homes near existing businesses and then proceed to whine about the traffic. If you buy a home next to a dairy farm, you had better expect a lot of flies and not mind the smell of manure. Second, what's the alternative to an enhanced drive-thru and an outdoor dining area? A mess of parked cars where consumers are more likely to toss their trash right out the window. If you consider the rebuild from a different perspective, wouldn't a more robust drive-thru enable cars to move through and out faster? And wouldn't an outdoor dining area with trash cans near the tables encourage a cleaner site? As the old Japanese proverb goes, the other side of the coin also has another side.
I was just wondering if the Nails noticed the large fast food restaurant next door across the street when they made their offer on the home some 12 years ago? I'm also wondering in the last 12 years how many times they patronized the establishment, knowing it was only a few convenient steps away? With that said, if Foodmaker demolishes the existing structure then as discussed above all of the existing regulations should apply. Rules are rules and both parties are obviously aware of them.
Robert H. says: The first question you have to ask as a reasonable person is "Was the Jack & the Box there when they moved in?" I really don't understand why it is the responsibility of the restaurant to keep noise down or move cleaning crew times to a more convenient time for the people living in the area? It is the City who sets the zoning parameters and guidelines the companies in that area must follow. If the people in that area have a problem they should be complaining to the zoning commission NOT the company.


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