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We've already gone into great detail about why you shouldn't trust a valet. People who usually take the job are young and too immature to get a job working in the stockroom of a Best Buy. Example? Calling a woman fat on a parking ticket she was clearly going to see.
It all went down in South Florida last week when actress Sharyn Peoples went to pick up her car from the valet. She looked down at the ticket and saw it said "play, red dress, and fat" clearly on the front.
"I was mortified," said Peoples.
This has somehow become a trend and an exceptionally stupid one at that because you're a valet. They hand you a ticket with a corresponding number. Why are you writing anything down?
LAZ parking (it's called fucking LAH-ZEE parking, an insult in itself) responded by telling her "It's only words and it's from some kid."
In a follow up email the company apologized and she was offered a gift card to a local restaurant — because they must assume she loves food — and free parking for a year.
Peoples says she wants the guy fired, which makes sense, and that she's devastated, which seems a tad overdramatic. It's a shitty thing to do but they apologized, tried to make it right, and you still managed to let the local media know.
UPDATE: As a commenter points out, there's a public weight loss profile for the woman where she claims to have lost her weight. Clearly, a sensitive issue for her.
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Like Nero, Easy Media Creator can create pretty much any disc type you care to think of, as well as offering video conversion and a comprehensive DVD authoring package that really does make creating your own DVDs a very simple task indeed.
Easy Media Creator doesn't restrict itself to disc burning though; you can even create calendars and greeting cards, as well as the standard inlay and CD artwork options. The ability to import different media types is a key feature of Easy Media Creator and you can browse, manage, share and protect your photos, video and music.
Slick package
Media Manager works in a similar way to Explorer, except you can connect to UPnP devices on your network and browse any stored media with ease, as well as arranging files into albums, etc.
Backup is covered quite comprehensively, with a system of icons being used to depict file types, which means it's very easy to select just your spreadsheets, for example.
If there's one limitation, it's that you can only choose to back up from one path (eg My Documents), so you can't back up from multiple folders or partitions, unless you create separate back-up jobs.
You can create a DVD from your movie footage by using either MyDVD or MyDVD Express.
Which you choose depends on how much effort you want to put in and how much you want to leave it to the package. Altogether it's a very slick package, and just pips Nero in terms of usability.


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The Cubs have made a few transactions and one of them might spell the end to his career. Koyie Hill was let go by the Cubs this past offseason and after about a dozen catchers were injured on the team they were forced to bring him back. Now he's gone and he's probably not good enough to continue playing at the MLB level. We should take a minute to remember his career.
Hill owns a career .249 wOBA (42 wRC+). He hit .210/.271/.294 over 9 seasons. Six of them were in a Cubs uniform. 834 of his 966 career plate appearances came as a Cub and he hit .207/.266/.290. He hit 8 home runs and 7 of them were with the Cubs. The amount of time he spent wearing blue pinstripes and the overall numbers probably means he'll have his uniform retired. Expect a ceremony later this season.
It will be most difficult to replace Hill, but someone has to take his place and the unfortunate person who has to fill Hill's mitt is Welington Castillo. On May 19th Castillo was placed on the DL with a right knee sprain. He appeared in 5 rehab games with the Tennessee Smokies and went 4-11 with a couple home runs.
Ian Stewart was placed on the DL with a sore wrist, which has apparently been hurting for a year now. The best that can be said about Stewart's 2012 season is that he was better than Koyie Hill. Luis Valbuena takes his place on the roster. Hopefully the 26 year old can improve upon his career .278 wOBA. He was hitting well in AAA.
He hit .300/.376/.502 in just under 250 plate appearances with the Iowa Cubs. The .378 wOBA is nearly identical to the .376 wOBA he posted last season in AAA with the Indians. Valbuena has more than proven he can hit AAA pitching very well, but has yet to show he can do much at the big league level. On this team he'll probably get that chance.


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Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry
About the Archive
The Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), is an extraordinary resource for research in Yiddish studies, consists of 5,755 hours of audio tape field interviews with Yiddish speaking informants collected between 1959 and 1972 and ca. 100,000 pages of accompanying linguistic field notes. The Archive does not include transcriptions of the interviews.
The data that constitutes the LCAAJ was collected from 603 locations in Central and Eastern Europe carefully chosen to reflect the distribution of the Yiddish speaking population on the eve of World War II. In a series of interviews lasting anywhere from 2.5 to 16 hours, informants answered questions on a wide variety of topics concerning Yiddish language and culture. The project was designed by Professor Uriel Weinreich, then Chairman of Columbia University's Department of Linguistics, and continued after his death in 1967 under the direction of Dr. Marvin Herzog, Atran Professor Emeritus of Yiddish Studies at Columbia University, who donated the Archive to the Columbia University Libraries in 1995. Dr. Herzog passed away in 2013.
History of the Archive
The LCAAJ: A Living Archive of the Yiddish Language
In 1959, when the LCAAJ was founded, European Jews were viewed as a lost culture, largely destroyed during World War II, with a surviving minority displaced by emigration and internal migration. The founders therefore viewed it as a matter of the greatest urgency to reconstruct the geography of Ashkenazic folk culture and of European Yiddish while reliable testimony could still be gathered from emigrant informants.
Uriel Weinreich wrote:
". . . what is familiar in one year may be thrust to the brink of oblivion in the next. . . . What was too obvious for study only yesterday has suddenly become precious. . . . what we do not collect in the coming decade or so will be lost forever."
What was "collected" now constitues the Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ). The Archive, which resides in Butler Library at Columbia University in the City of New York, is one of the products of a long term investigation designed by Uriel Weinreich and directed by him at Columbia University until his death in 1967. It was then directed by Marvin Herzog, until he donated the Archive to the Libraries.
The LCAAJ - An Atlas of the Yiddish Language
The investigation was designed to yield a multi-volume Atlas: books of maps based on materials selected from the archive and displaying the distribution of the language and culture variants that characterized the Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe prior to World War II.
The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ) was prepared by an Editorial Collegium [Marvin Herzog, Editor- in-Chief, and Andrew Sunshine in New York; Ulrike Kiefer, Robert Neumann, and Wolfgang Putschke in Germany]. It was published by the Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tuebingen, Germany, and copublished by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. There were originally supposed to be 11 volumes, but only the first three (Historical and Theoretical Foundations; Research Tools; and Eastern Yiddish-Western Yiddish continuum) were published.
Contents of the Archive
The archive consists of approximately 6,000 hours of spoken Yiddish recorded in Israel, Alsace, the USA, Canada, and Mexico from emigrant speakers native to more than 600 communities throughout Central and Eastern Europe. It is the largest and geographically most diverse record of living Yiddish - an irreplaceable repository pertaining to all aspects of Ashkenazic Jewish language and culture in pre-Holocaust Europe.
For Whom Are These Materials of Special Interest?
The selected materials in the published atlas volumes, and the vast corpus of materials in the archive, are of interest to scholars, students, and the lay public:
Among scholars and researchers, they are of interest to linguists specializing in dialectology, in Yiddish, in Hebrew and Aramaic, in the Germanic, Slavic, and other European languages; to ethnographers, folklorists, ethnomusicologists; to Jewish historians and historians of Central and Eastern Europe. Since many of the recorded speakers are themselves Holocaust survivors, some of the recorded biographical material may be relevant to Holocaust history as well.
The dialectologist will find in the LCAAJ the first Atlas investigation based on the principles of Structural Dialectology as first explicated by Uriel Weinreich in 1954. Since Yiddish was the "language-in-contact" par excellence, everywhere coterritorial with another European language, the LCAAJ also provides an unparalleled opportunity for the study of Bilingual Dialectology, the comparative study of variation in languages occupying the same geographic area.
The scholar of Semitic languages will discover in Yiddish the linguistic vehicle that sustained a significant body of Hebrew and Aramaic materials as part of every-day discourse among Ashkenazic Jews throughout the European period in Jewish history.
The particular significance of the LCAAJ for Germanic studies arises from the fact that Yiddish is the only Germanic language that shares the medieval forerunners of German, and that it developed its distinctiveness during centuries of coterritorial contact with German on German language territory.
Both the Germanist and the Slavist must share an interest in the fact that Yiddish provided a centuries-long transition--a bridge between German and the Slavic language-area to the East.
The archive will provide teachers and students of Yiddish with a wide variety of "living" models of the spoken language that are increasingly difficult to find anywhere else, and are nowhere available in the same place.
The lay public, along with scholars, teachers, and students will delight in the surprising variety of regional pronunciations, little-known words, unexpected variation in the meanings of common words, differences in cuisine, in holiday ritual and celebrations, rites of passage, beliefs and practices, songs and games, etc.
Using the Archive
The LCAAJ paper and audio recording collection is maintained by Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscripts Library. A complete guide to the LCAAJ archive can be found here. The collection itself is located offsite, so please use the finding aid to order boxes to be sent to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library via the Special Collections Research Account in advance of your visit.
Online access to the LCAAJ recordings is provided by EYDES (Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies). EYDES partnered with Columbia in the audio digitization project and contributed to its funding.
Access to physical copies of the audio recordings is limited to tapes for which digital copies have been made, or which are in sufficiently good condition to allow handling. The Library maintains a list of copied recordings. Items not on the list must be evaluated for condition to determine if they can safely be played. Since evaluation may require a 24-hour wait, researchers should build adequate time into their plans, and whenever possible should notify the Library in advance.
Acquiring copies of the recordings
Copies of individual interviews on CD can be purchased from Columbia. Send email to firstname.lastname@example.com specifying the 5-digit inteview Atlas Number.
Anyone wishing to publish materials from the Archive beyond normal fair use limits must obtain permission in writing.
A detailed guide to the use of the interviews, including digitized indices and references, can be found here.
Preserving the Audio Tapes
The LCAAJ Archive was donated to Columbia University Libraries in 1995 by Dr. Marvin Herzog, Atran Professor Emeritus of Yiddish Studies at Columbia University, in order to ensure its continued existence in the future. Two years later, the Preservation Division of Columbia University Libraries initiated a project to re-recording all of the tapes; the project finally reached completion in June of 2005. This major preservation project was assisted by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials, and smaller grants from many of the private foundations that had funded the original interviews.
The preservation work adhered to internationally recognized preservation practices and technical standards for reel-to-reel recording established in the late 1990s. At that time high-quality analog recordings were considered the best preservation medium because they reproduced exactly the sound waves and could be stored in cold environments for longevity of 50 years or more, while digitization techniques had not yet reached the level of quality attained later in the 2000s. In order to keep the archival copies as true to the original recordings as possible, no manipulation of the original signal such as noise reduction, filtering or other signal-processing techniques was undertaken.
Because scholars prefer to use digital versions in order to manipulate the sound and provide access online, the project also produced a digital version. Digital copies in Wav format were created simultaneously with the analog version, and stored on high-quality CD-Rs. The project simultaneously created digital copies in Wav format stored on CD-Rs.
Online access to the LCAAJ recordings is provided by EYDES (Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies). EYDES partnered with Columbia in the audio digitization project and contributed to its funding.
The original tapes, new preservation master tapes, and CDs are all tracked through a database that indicates when each was recorded, where it is housed, and other relevant information. The recordings are permanently stored in Columbia's high-density facility, the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium, where they are kept secure in a cool, dry environment designed to promote maximum longevity. The CD copies are available to researchers at listening facilities provided in Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscripts Library. Researchers may also purchase copies of CDs.
Audio Samples
Click on the underlined text to hear the voice recording. Use the "back" button on the browser window to return to this screen after listening to the recording
The complete list of recordings are available digitally at EYDES - Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies
Note: The LCAAJ project had its own transliteration scheme which did not conform to current standards.
1. Bir = Birzai 56243 (בירז)
|Yiddish Transcription
|English Translation
|אי)ן חדר בין איך (ג)עגען ביז דרייצן יאר
|'n xejder bin ix egan biz drajtsn jor
|I went to "heder" till I was thirteen
|אין בית-מדרש
|in besme'dres[!]
|in the prayer and study house
|אין שטעטלשן בית-מדרש
|in ste'tlsn besmedres
|in the town prayer and study house
|אי)ך (ה)א(ב) געלערנט אין סיטי-קאלעדז אין אוונט
|xo gelernt in siti kaledzh in ovnt
|I studied at City College in the evening.
2. Cho = Chorzele 52303 (כארזשל)
|Yiddish Transcription
|English Translation
|נו, (ה)אט דער טאטע טים גע(ה)ענטפערט
|ni:, ot der tate nim gehentfert
|So, Father answered him
|ס'אי(ז) דאך א קינד
|si dox a kint
|He was a child, you know
|ס'אי(ז) געווען דער בכור
|si gevejn der pxor
|He was the first-born
|ה)אט אים גע(ה)ענטפערט "קענסט, קענסט קומען"
|ot im gehentfert "kenst, kenst kimen"
|So he answered him, "you may, you may come".
3. Ka = Kalisz 51187 (קאליש)
|Yiddish Transcription
English Translation
|סאמאל געווען איינר
|s'amul gevezn ajner
|There once was a man
|ה)אט ניש געהאט קיין סדר צו מאכן
|ot nis gehat kan sajder ci maxn
|had nothing to make a seder with.
|איז ער נעבעך געזעסן מיטן ווייב
|iz er nebex gezesn mitn va:p
|So he, poor guy, was sitting there with his wife
|זענען זיי געזעסן אין די שטוב 'ן (ה)אבן געוויינט
|zenen ze gezesn in di sti:b 'n obn gevajnt
|sitting there in the room and crying.
|ה)אבן גארניש געהאט
|obn gurnis gehat
|They had nothing.
|ה)אבן זיי צוזאמענגענומען די פאר זאכן
|obn ze cezamingenimen di pur zaxn
|So, they gathered up their meagre possessions
|זענען געגאנגען אוועקגיין
|zenen gegangen avegajn
|were on the verge of leaving
|איז געקומען דער קונצנמאכער
|i gekimen der kintsnmaxer
|when the magician arrived.


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I wanted to call these Vegan Wholegrain Waffles something like St. Waffles and I know, I know, it's a weird name. But, trust me, these are so crammed with delicious goodness, they really do deserve to be sainted AND given an extra-bright halo.
My waffle and pancake recipes are always healthy because I make them with wholegrain flours. These too were made with whole wheat pastry flour, but I also added a good bit of wheat germ and flax meal to the batter, boosting the fiber and healthy-fats content (I do love those healthy fats because they're great for your brain and your skin. How good is that?)
Then, to boost the protein, I added a few dollops of tofu.
I love using tofu in dishes where no one can detect it. While both Desi and I like tofu, I know some people would rather kill than eat it. But tofu offers immense nutritional benefits and a complete, healthy vegetable protein, so it's a shame to leave it out of any diet, vegan or not.
These Vegan Wholegrain Waffles are really crispy and taste best right off the waffle iron (they do tend to harden up if left standing for too long, although they are still delicious).
If you don't have a waffle iron, you might try adding more soymilk to the batter to make it thinner, and then make pancakes with it. In fact, I do this all the time: use waffle batter to make pancakes and vice-versa.
Serve these waffles with maple syrup and berries or bananas or with just a dusting of powdered sugar, if you have a less-than-sweet tooth. No matter how you eat them, these waffles will likely make you feel a little saintly yourself!
Vegan Wholegrain Waffles with Flax and Wheat Germ
- 1 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
- ¼ cup wheat germ , toasted lightly
- ¼ cup flax meal
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp sugar
- In another bowl , mix together:
- 1 cup silken tofu , beaten
- 2-4 tbsp canola oil
- 1 cup soy milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- Add the tofu-soy milk mixture to the flour mixture and gently, with a spatula, mix until the dry ingredients are just moistened.
- If the mixture is too dry, add some more soy milk so you have a thick but spreadable batter.
- Heat a waffle iron and bake waffles according to instructions. My stone-age waffle-maker takes about ¼ cup of batter for each waffle and has a little green light that goes on when the waffle is ready to be removed and devoured mindlessly.
(C) All recipes and photographs copyright of Holy Cow! Vegan Recipes.


text: Yes, dog collars are perfect for sporting dog tags and helpful for walks. But fashion dog collars are also about making a statement! Upgrade your dog's style with a fashion dog collar at BaxterBoo.com. With luxury materials including leather, printed nylon, or crystals, your dog will look his or her best with a stylish fashion dog collar. Look for our matching dog leashes to complete your dog's walking gear!


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Founded by J. Earle Furman in 1986, NAI Earle Furman, LLC has become a leading full service commercial real estate brokerage firm in the Upstate of South Carolina specializing in the office, industrial, investment and retail sectors. >>
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In 1986, Earle Furman, Jr. left the Furman Co. to start a new commercial real estate company that would specialize in industrial real estate. In November of that year, Earle moved into a small one- room office located on East Washington Street in downtown Greenville, South Carolina to open Earle Furman & Associates. The firm quickly grew to a staff of 7 in the mid 90's and relocated to a larger office on North Academy Street. >>
When projects are finished, clients are kind enough to share feedback on the working relationship. Here are a few appreciated remarks. >>
NAI Earle Furman has many agents and professionals at your service. If you know the party you are looking for, please use the form on the right to enter the person's name to retrieve their contact information and profile.
The brokers of NAI Earle Furman strives for excellence in service and reputation. Through our affiliations with international and national groups such as New America International (NAI) and Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), we are able to offer extensive information about the region and the latest information on the industry.
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Located between Atlanta and Charlotte on the I-85 business corridor and equidistant between New York and Florida on the East coast, the Greenville area offers access to all major markets in the United States.
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I've been working pretty hard on this for a few days now, and I seem to be getting nowhere, not even certain I'm trying to go in the right direction.
I am trying to set up a webpage which uses a Google Spreadsheet as a data source, mostly reading but sending some updates. I wrote some code that seemed like it could work, even got the oauth sorted via redirect and session info, but I can not figure out how to actually get access to the google tools.
So basically, I have tried with the GWT, I tried with Google Apps Engine as well, both mostly just blew up Eclipse grails.
I also tried to get the gdata and oauth plugin to work. But that seems to be a dead end.
So, is there someone who has managed to access or updated google spreadsheets in a grail application, and if so.
What did you use, and how did you get access to the functions, classpath, plugin. Did you have to import classes or configure it somewhere.
I am using a Mac OSX running
Eclipse Kelper
Groovy/Grails Tool Suite Version: 3.4.0.RELEASE
Any help would be gran, just the simplest way of getting a grails app to speak to a private google spreadsheet.


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Eaton, De Aza put extra attention on bunting
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- White Sox leadoff man Adam Eaton and outfielder Alejandro De Aza have spent time working with special instructor Bryan Little on their bunting skills in the hitting cages during the early stages of camp. It's a skill Eaton plans to focus on throughout the season.
"Another part of my game that you have to work on, and I think any small guy has to," said Eaton, who is listed at 5-foot-8 and 185 pounds. "It's all the same message: Get it down in a place where no one else can get it; different techniques and different styles, and how to go about it. As long as you have production, you are all right."
De Aza finished with seven bunt hits to tie for eighth in the Majors last season. Eaton, in 250 at-bats with the D-backs, produced four bunt singles.
Eaton added that he bunts until he feels good with it in the cages, knowing it's part of doing whatever possible to get on base at the top of the order.
"Definitely. Bunt, hit by a pitch, anyway possible," Eaton said. "If they are going to give it to you, you have to take it. That's something you have to lean on and continue to work on."


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This salt is directly from the ancient Roman salt mines at Rio Maior not far from Vinhos Cortém.
The first products we have selected for you are both made very near Cortém and are uniquely portuguese.
The Salinas of Rio Maior has been working since 1170 when it was owned an run by Templar Knights. It is a wonderful salt from brine which flows naturally into an ancient well. and is then pumped to the pans for evaporation. There are many salt products to choose from.
Salinas. (Salt pans)
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Amazon claims that all it took was a six month firmware improvement test to get the Kindle 2 to run for 85 percent longer than before, which is a pretty damn impressive feat of engineering.
It also gets a native PDF reader, previously only found in the Kindle DX. The total battery life for the international version measures at seven days with wireless on (up from four days), and two weeks with wireless off (same as before).
It looks like Amazon just improved the wireless usage, which might have come as a result from switching from using Sprint as the provider to AT&T as a provider? Probably not, seeing as previous Kindle users also get the 85% battery life from a firmware upgrade delivered automatically. PDF support comes over OTA upgrade as well, but no timeframe was announced for either. [Press Release]


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Bob Iger drops some news on a few highly anticipated projects, including a sequel to one of Pixar's most beloved films and details on the mysterious storyline of J.J. Abrams' upcoming "Star Wars" sequel.
Some big news for Disney fans: In a meeting with shareholders in Portland, Ore., recently, Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Bob Iger dropped a few unexpected hints about some future film projects, as reported by Variety. First up, despite recent comments by Pixar head Ed Catmull that the studio will be scaling back the number of sequels it releases in the future (per Collider), Iger announced that work is already under way on yet another sequel to John Lasseter's "Cars," as well as "The Incredibles 2." The latter, in particular, is likely to get people excited, as it's one of the studio's most beloved films. Not many other details were given, but Iger did mention that original "Incredibles" director Brad Bird is developing the story, according to the Variety report. Whether or not he ends up directing is another question, although it seems likely given past statements. In 2011, for example, Bird told Collider's Adam Chitwood that "(Disney) would like me to do it ('The Incredibles 2') ... and I've told them I'm not really friendly to have someone else take away my child." One way or another, though, his involvement in any capacity is a good sign. For years, Bird has talked about the possibility of returning to the Incredibles universe, but has always said it would only happen if the story were up to snuff. In the same 2011 interview with Collider, Bird said, "I would like to think that I have several good ideas that could be incorporated into the next 'Incredibles,' but I don't have a whole movie yet, and the last thing I want to do is do it just because it would open big, or something like that. ... 'Toy Story 2' was, to me, a perfect sequel, because it absolutely respected the first film but found new places to go without selling out its characters. So if I could come up with an idea that is to 'Incredibles' what 'Toy Story 2' is to 'Toy Story,' I would do it in a second." The other big movie-related news from Iger's meeting concerns J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Wars sequel, the as-yet-untitled "Episode VII." Revealing some of the first concrete details about the much-speculated-upon film, Iger told shareholders that it will feature "a trio of new young leads along with some very familiar faces," according to the Los Angeles Times. He also confirmed the time period, stating that it will take place 30 years after the events of "Return of the Jedi." That might not seem like a lot of new information - and considering that filming starts in just two months, it really isn't - but so far, news from the Abrams/Kathleen Kennedy camp has been scarce regarding "Episode VII." Even confirmation like this of what many had already suspected is a nice step as we wait for the sequel to finally take shape. Pixar's next film, "The Good Dinosaur," hits theaters Nov. 25, 2015, and "Star Wars: Episode VII" arrives the next month on Dec. 18, 2015.%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D157586%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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An Australian woman has told a London court she was groped by Rolf Harris when, as a teenager, the entertainer insisted on a hug when all she wanted was a handshake.
The NSW woman said she told her mother Harris was "very handy" after the alleged assault at a hardware store more than 20 years ago.
When her mother subsequently confronted the entertainer, she says Harris switched from smiling to sneering and claimed "well, she liked it".
The two Australians gave evidence via video-link on Thursday at Harris's child sex trial.
They said Harris harassed them separately at a promotion for a local radio station and British Paints at a small hardware store in the Newcastle suburb of Hamilton in 1991.
The daughter was aged 15 or 16 at the time.
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The mother told the court that Harris seemed to "hone in on" the daughter at the hardware store in 1991.
The mother recalled seeing the teenager suddenly pull away from Harris and appear taken aback.
She told the jury her daughter told her: "Mum, he's very handy."
She then had her own run-in with the celebrity.
"He (Harris) got very close behind me, he was close enough to be rubbing against my buttocks," the mother said on Thursday.
"He was rubbing his groin in my buttocks. It was very brief but very forceful."
The woman said she brought her foot down on the artist's foot and, looking Harris in the eye, told him he was a "disgusting creature".
She said Harris's expression changed from a friendly smile to a sneer.
"The switch was almost instantaneous," the witness said.
Harris then allegedly lent into the mother's face and said "she liked it" while looking towards her teenage daughter.
"It was the way he said it that was so disturbing - it was really sinister."
Under cross examination from defence lawyer Sonia Woodley QC, the daughter denied she had jumped on the bandwagon after seeing another Australian woman, Tonya Lee, make allegations against Harris on A Current Affair in May 2013.
The witness said she'd seen the way Ms Lee was "hounded by the media" and she didn't want anything to do with the matter.
She only agreed to give evidence anonymously because she thought if she'd come forward at the time perhaps others wouldn't have been assaulted.
"I was extremely naive," she said of the day she was allegedly groped at the hardware store.
"He (Harris) was old enough to be my grandfather. I have been quite affected by it. It was extremely unacceptable."
Harris is charged with indecently assaulting four girls in the UK between 1968 and 1986. The 84-year-old denies all 12 counts.
The trial continues.


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Philippe Kahn founded Borland, invented the Camphone, and decodes human motion. He's also a fellow outdoorsman, splitting time sailing in Santa Cruz. He'll share his Transpac 2009 sailing race with us live from the Pegasus Open 50. He and Mark Christensen set the race record for a double handed team in 2008 with a time of 7 days, 15 hours, 17 minutes and 50 seconds, besting all boats in overall time for that year.
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In Muslims countries, rulers are not expected to represent population; the US and the Qaeda each tries to change that. Muslims are very extroversive and value fac,ade and rituals. Maliki could be a puppet, but he should behave like a tiger Iraqi tiger. At least, Maliki managed to skip social meeting with Bush and Jordanian King Abdullah (Olmert ignored Arab mentality and met Abdullah several times, a PR disaster). If that attention to rituals looks silly to rational Americans, it probably is. But thats how it works in the region. To reach an agreement with Iraqis rather than simply punish the Baathist state the US negotiators would have to sit hours and days with various Iraqis, both bureaucrats and radicals, drinking super-sweet Iranian tea, chain-smoking on par with their opponents and talking, talking, and talking. That might or might not bring the desired results, but no other approach could deliver a stable, moderate, US-friendly Iraq. To please his American masters, Maliki brought together fictitious coalition. Its Shiite faction does not include al-Sadrs group, the main Shiite organization. It includes only a minor Sunni party, also non-representative. The coalition is advertised as moderate, but listen to the names: Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party (sectarians), the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (sic) in Iraq, and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (separatist organization, as the name makes clear). The coalition is meant to squeeze Sadr out of politics. He would indeed go into the urban battlefields. Sadr could show himself a good Muslim, promise to step down the fighting and use the truce to train his forces. He needs time to grow the Mahdi gang into an army. Sistanis approval wont cement the coalition. He is merely a religious authority. Religious power in Islam is very dispersed because every cleric and theoretically every Muslim could pronounce fatwas. 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We reserve the right to make changes to this Notice and to make such changes effective for all PHI we may already have about you. If and when this Notice is changed, we will post a copy in our office in a prominent location. We will also provide you with a copy of the revised Notice upon your request made to our Privacy Official.
The following categories describe the different ways we may use and disclose PHI for treatment, payment, or health care operations. The examples included with each category do not list every type of use or disclosure that may fall within that category.
Treatment: We may use and disclose PHI about you to provide, coordinate or manage your health care and related services. We may consult with other health care providers regarding your treatment and coordinate and manage your health care with others. For example, we may use and disclose PHI when you need a prescription, lab work, an x-ray,
or other health care services. In addition, we may use and disclose PHI about you when referring you to another health care provider. For example, if you are referred to another physician, we may disclose PHI to your new physician regarding whether you are allergic to any medications.
We may also disclose PHI about you for the treatment activities of another health care provider. For example, we may send a report about your care from us to a physician that we refer you to so that the other physician may treat you.
Payment: We may use and disclose PHI so that we can bill and collect payment for the treatment and services provided to you. Before providing treatment or services, we may share details with your health plan concerning the services you are scheduled to receive. For example, we may ask for payment approval from your health plan before we provide care or services. We may use and disclose PHI to find out if your health plan will cover the cost of care and services we provide. We may use and disclose PHI to confirm you are receiving the appropriate amount of care to obtain payment for services. We may use and disclose PHI for billing, claims management, and collection activities. We may disclose PHI to insurance companies providing you with additional coverage. We may disclose limited PHI to consumer reporting agencies relating to collection of payments owed to us.
We may also disclose PHI to another health care provider or to a company or health plan required to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule for the payment activities of that health care provider, company, or health plan. For example, we may allow a health insurance company to review PHI for the insurance company's activities to determine the insurance benefits to be paid for your care.
Health Care Operations: We may use and disclose PHI in performing business activities which are called health care operations. Health care operations include doing things that allow us to improve the quality of care we provide and to reduce health care costs. We may use and disclose PHI about you in the following health care operations:
- Reviewing and improving the quality, efficiency and cost of care that we provide to our patients. For example, we may use PHI about you to develop ways to assist our physicians and staff in deciding how we can improve the medical treatment we provided to others.
- Improving health care and lowering costs for groups of people who have similar health problems and helping to manage and coordinate the care for these groups of people. We may use PHI to identify groups of people with similar health problems to give them information, for instance, about treatment alternatives, and educational classes.
- Reviewing and evaluating the skills, qualifications, and performance of health care providers taking care of you and our other patients.
- Providing training programs for students, trainees, health care providers, or non- health care professionals (for example, billing personnel) to help them practice or improve their skills.
- Cooperating with outside organizations that assess the quality of care that we provide.
- Cooperating with outside organizations that evaluate, certify, or license health care providers or staff in a particular field or specialty. For example, we may use or disclose PHI so that one of our nurses may become certified as having expertise in a specific field of nursing.
- Cooperating with various people who review our activities. For example, PHI may be seen by doctors reviewing the services provided to you, and by accountants, lawyers, and others who assist us in complying with the law and managing our business.
- Assisting us in making plans for our practice's future operation.
- Resolving grievances within our practice.
- Reviewing our activities and using or disclosing PHI in the event that we sell our practice to someone else or combine with another practice.
- Business planning and development, such as cost-management analysis.
- Business management and general administrative activities of our practice, including managing our activities related to complying with the HIPAA Privacy Rule and other legal requirements.
- Creating "de-identified" information that is not identifiable to any individual.
If another health care provider, company, or health plan that is required to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule has or once had a relationship with you, we may disclose PHI about you for certain health care operations of that health care provider or company. For example, such health care operations may include: reviewing and evaluating the skill, qualifications, and performance of health care providers; providing training programs for students, trainees, health care providers, or non healthcare professionals; cooperating with outside organizations that evaluate, certify, or license health care providers or staff in a particular field or specialty; and assisting with legal compliance activities of that health care provider or company.
We may also disclose PHI for the health care operations of an "organized health care arrangement" in which we participate. An example of an "organized health care arrangement" is the joint care provided by a hospital and the doctors who see patients at the hospital.
Communication From Our Office: We may contact you to remind you of appointments, inform you of test results and to provide you with information about treatment alternatives or other health related benefits and services that may be of interest to you. Such communications may be by phone, in the mail or by use of electronic communication systems (i.e. fax, electronic messaging) to transmit prescription, treatment, disorder related information, lab or other results or by the use of email to transmit treatment or disorder related information which may include a diagnosis, lab or other results sent to me, even if the email is not encrypted (not protected over the Internet).
Uses and Disclosures For Which You Have the Opportunity to Agree or Object:
We may use and disclose PHI about you in some situations where you have the opportunity to agree or object to certain uses and disclosures of PHI about you. If you do not object, then we may make these types of uses and disclosures of PHI.
Individuals Involved in Your Care or Payment for Your Care: We may disclose PHI about you to your family member, close friend, or any other person identified by you if that information is directly relevant to the person's involvement in your care or payment for your care. If you are present and able to consent or object (or if you are available in advance), then we may only use or disclose PHI if you do not object after you have been informed of your opportunity to object. If you are not present or you are unable to consent or object, we may exercise professional judgment in determining whether the use or disclosure of PHI is in your best interests. For example, if you are brought into this office and are unable to communicate normally with your physician for some reason, we may find it is in your best interest to give your prescription and other medical supplies to the friend or relative who brought you in for treatment. We may also use and disclose PHI to notify such persons of your location, general condition, or death. We also may coordinate with disaster relief agencies to make this type of notification. We also may use professional judgment and our experience with common practice to make reasonable decisions about your best interests in allowing a person to act on your behalf to pick up filled prescriptions, medical supplies, x-rays, or other things that contain PHI about you.
We may use and disclose PHI about you in the following circumstances without your authorization or opportunity to agree or object, provided that we comply with certain conditions that may apply.
Required By Law: We may use and disclose PHI as required by federal, state, or local law. Any disclosure complies with the law and is limited to the requirements of the law.
Public Health Activities: We may use or disclose PHI to public health authorities or other authorized persons to carry out certain activities related to public health, including the following activities:
- To prevent or control disease, injury, or disability;
- To report disease, injury, birth, or death;
- To report child abuse or neglect;
- To report reactions to medications or problems with products or devices regulated by the federal Food and Drug Administration or other activities related to quality, safety, or effectiveness of FDA-regulated products or activities;
- To locate and notify persons of recalls of products they may be using;
- To notify a person who may have been exposed to a communicable disease in order to control who may be at risk of contracting or spreading the disease; or
- To report to your employer, under limited circumstances, information related primarily to workplace injuries or illness, or workplace medical surveillance.
Abuse, Neglect, or Domestic Violence: We may disclose PHI in certain cases to proper government authorities if we reasonably believe that a patient has been a victim of domestic violence, abuse, or neglect.
Health Oversight Activities: We may disclose PHI to a health oversight agency for oversight activities including, for example, audits, investigations, inspections, licensure and disciplinary activities and other activities conducted by health oversight agencies to monitor the health care system, government health care programs, and compliance with certain laws.
Lawsuits and Other Legal Proceedings: We may use or disclose PHI when required by a court or administrative tribunal order. We may also disclose PHI in response to subpoenas, discovery requests, or other required legal process when efforts have been made to advise you of the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.
Law Enforcement: Under certain conditions, we may disclose PHI to law enforcement officials for the following purposes where the disclosure is:
- About a suspected crime victim if, under certain limited circumstances, we are unable to obtain a person's agreement because of incapacity or emergency;
- To alert law enforcement of a death that we suspect was the result of criminal conduct;
- Required by law;
- In response to a court order, warrant, subpoena, summons, administrative agency request, or other authorized process;
- To identify or locate a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person;
- About a crime or suspected crime committed at our office; or
- In response to a medical emergency not occurring at the office, if necessary to report a crime, including the nature of the crime, the location of the crime or the victim, and the identity of the person who committed the crime.
Coroners, Medical Examiners, Funeral Directors: We may disclose PHI to a coroner or medical examiner to identify a decease person and determine the cause of death. In addition, we may disclose PHI to funeral directors, as authorized by law, so that they may carry out their jobs.
Organ and Tissue Donation: If you are an organ donor, we may use or disclose PHI to organizations that help procure, locate, and transplant organs in order to facilitate an organ, eye, or tissue donation and transplantation.
Research: We may use and disclose PHI about you for research purposes under certain limited circumstances. We must obtain a written authorization to use and disclose PHI about you for research purposes except in situations where a research project meets specific, detailed criteria established by the HIPAA Privacy Rule to ensure the privacy of PHI.
To Avert a Serious Threat to Health or Safety: We may use or disclose PHI about you in limited circumstances when necessary to prevent a threat to the health or safety of a person or to the public. This disclosure can only be made to a person who is able to prevent the threat.
Specialized Government Functions: Under certain circumstances we may disclose PHI:
- li>D For certain military and veteran activities, including determination of eligibility for veterans benefits and where deemed necessary by military command authorities;
- For national security and intelligence activities;
- To help provide protective services for the president and others;
- For the health or safety of inmates and others at correctional institutions or other law enforcement custodial situations for the general safety and health related to corrections facilities.
Disclosures required by HIPAA Privacy Rule: We are required to disclose PHI to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services when requested by the Secretary to review our compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. We are also required in certain cases to disclose PHI to you upon your request to access PHI or for an accounting of certain disclosures of PHI about you (those requests are described in Section III of this Notice).
All other uses and disclosures of PHI about you will only be made with your written authorization. If you have authorized us to use or disclose PHI about you, you may revoke your authorization in writing at any time, except to the extent we have taken action based on the authorization.
Under federal law, you have the following rights regarding PHI about you:
Right to Request Restrictions: You have the right to request additional restrictions on the PHI that we may use for treatment, payment, and health care operations, You may also request additional restrictions on our disclosure of PHI to certain individuals
involved in your care that otherwise are permitted by the Privacy Rule. We are not required to agree to your request. If we do agree to your request, we are required to comply with our agreement except in certain cases, including where the information is needed to treat you in the case of an emergency. To request restrictions, you must make your request in writing to our Privacy Official. In your request, please include (1) the information that you want to restrict; (2) how you want to restrict the information (for example, restricting use to this office, only restricting disclosure to persons outside this office, or restricting both); and (3) to whom you want those restrictions to apply.
Right to Receive Confidential Communications: You have the right to request that you receive communications regarding PHI in a certain manner or at a certain location. For example, you may request that we contact you at home, rather than at work. You must make your request in writing to our Privacy Official. You must specify how you would like to be contacted (for example, by regular mail to your post office box and not your home). We are required to accommodate reasonable requests.
Right to Inspect and Copy: You have the right to request the opportunity to inspect and receive a copy of PHI about you in certain records that we maintain. This includes your medical and billing records but does not include psychotherapy notes or information gathered or prepared for a civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding. We may deny your request to inspect and copy PHI only in limited circumstances. To inspect and copy PHI, please contact our Privacy Official. If you request a copy of PHI about you, we may charge you a reasonable fee for the copying, postage, labor, and supplies used in meeting your request.
Right to Amend: You have the right to request that we amend PHI about you as long as such information is kept by or for our office. To make this type of request you must submit your request in writing to our Privacy Official. You must also give us a reason for your request. We may deny your request in certain cases, including if it is not in writing or if you do not give us a reason for the request.
Right to Receive an Accounting of Disclosures: You have the right to request an "accounting" of certain disclosures that we have made of PHI about you. This is a list of disclosures made by us during a specified period of up to six years other than disclosures made: for treatment, payment, and health care operations; for use in or related to a facility directory; to family members or friends involved in your care; to you directly; pursuant to an authorization of you or your personal representative, or for certain notification purposes (including national security, intelligence, correctional, and law enforcement purposes) and disclosures made before April 14, 2003. If you wish to make such a request, please contact our Privacy Official identified on the last page of this Notice. The first list that you request in a 12-month period will be free, but we may charge you for our reasonable costs of providing additional lists in the same 12-month period. We will tell you about these costs, and you may choose to cancel your request at any time before costs are incurred.
Right to a Paper Copy of this Notice: You have a right to receive a paper copy of this Notice at any time. You are entitled to a paper copy of this Notice even if you have previously agreed to receive this Notice electronically.
To obtain a paper copy of this Notice, please contact our Privacy Official listed on the last page of this Notice.
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with us or the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. To file a complaint with our office, please contact our Privacy Official at the address and number listed below.
If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact our Privacy Official at the address and telephone number listed below:
You may contact our Privacy Official at the following address and phone number: Privacy Official
Gina Schroeter
ProHEALTH Care Assoc. LLP 2800 Marcus Avenue
Lake Success, NY 11042 (516) 622-6056
This notice was published and first became effective on 4/13/03.


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Welcome to Discovery International School
Discovery International School provides quality English preschool, kindergarten, day care, and after school programs to the eastern Nagoya region - Nagakute, Meito-ku, Nisshin, Toyota, Seto, Owari-Asahi, and beyond.
A few highlights of our programs:
- New campus with ample natural light, features to promote social communication, soft flooring, calm pastel walls, and a playground!
- All educators have been licensed for early childhood and/or elementary.
- Low student : teacher ratio.
- Curriculum is designed with children. What does this mean?
- Individualized planning for each area of development (physical, personal, social-emotional, cognitive/maths, linguistic/literacy).
- Detailed documentation through portfolios, secure online blog, secure weekly photo albums, daily message books, end of day reports from teachers, parent-teacher conferences, and more.
- Open Door Policy: Families of students may join our endeavors at any time.
- Community Discussions: Opportunities for parents and teachers to discuss childhood development.
Discovery is a space for children, where each child's personality and voice may thrive!
Contact us with questions or to schedule a visit. We look forward to welcoming your family!


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Golden Week sale kicks off on US PSN with Catherine, Dark Souls, Ground Zeroes, more discounted
It's Golden Week in Japan and Sony is celebrating the festivities by putting quite a few Japanese-inspired games and movies on sale in North America until May 4. Titles such as Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, Catherine, Dark Souls, Hatsune Miku, Mega Man 9 and more are discounted.
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Persona 4 Arena Ultimax arrives in Europe this November
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax will be released at retail in Europe this November as well as digitally for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Sony pulls Persona 4 Arena off European PlayStation Network
Persona 4 Arena is no longer available on the European PlayStation Network.
Mechanical maiden Labrys stars in latest Persona 4 Arena Ultimax trailer
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax has a new trailer available, starring playable character Labrys, the anti-shadow suppression weapon and mechanical lady from from Persona 4 Arena. It's below. The PlayStation 3 version of the fighter sequel will release in Japan on August 28, and is heading west as well for both PS3 and Xbox 360 – […]
Persona 4 titles go on sale, Persona 4 Golden anime announced for Japan
Atlus has put Persona 4 titles on sale as part of Golden Week, which is being celebrated in Japan. A new anime series for Person has also been announced.
Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold opening movie lands online
Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold was released in Japanese arcades today, and a YouTube user has already posted the opening clip. Developed by Arc System Works, the sequel to Persona 4 Arena will be release on PS3 in Japan during summer 2014. A western release has not been announced. Thanks, Gematsu.
Persona 4 Arena update announced, adds Persona 3's Yukari and Junpei
Although we don't yet know if it's a whole new game or an updated version of the first fighter, a new Persona 4 Arena title is in the works.
PSN offering new game+DLC "Ultimate Edition" bundles at steep discount this week
The PlayStation Store has these "Ultimate Edition" bundles that give you a base game and all its DLC for a discounted price. This week, they're putting out ten new Ultimate Editions, and they're making them even cheaper than they normally would. Plus subscribers get a better discount, as usual. Full list inside.
Persona 4: Arena dev Arc System Works holding 25th anniversary event next week
Arc System Works, creators of such games as BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Guilty Gear and Persona 4: Arena is holding a 25th anniversary bash called Arc System Works Festival – or 'ArcFes' – in Yokohama, Japan. The festivities kick off May 19.
UK charts: Dead Island Riptide holds firm at number one
Dead Island: Riptide has claimed the top pot of the UK charts for a third week running, although its sales figures have tumbled some 55% since it launched.
Persona 4: Arena gets story teaser trailer & screens
Persona 4: Arena developer Arc System Works has released a story teaser trailer and screens for its incoming brawler. The game is set for a May 10 release across Europe on PS3 and Xbox 360, but you can play catch up with the plot here.
Persona 4 Arena Limited Edition detailed for May release
Persona 4 Arena has been out in Japan and the US for over year, and finally it's coming to Europe, and the limited edition has been detailed for it.
Atlus parent company hit by ¥1.4 billion debt after posting poor financials
Atlus's parent company Index Corporation has posted a large loss as part of its Q2 financial report. The Japanese firm has enjoyed a great deal of sales success stories recently, but it hasn't been enough to reverse the slump.
Pre-order Persona 4 Arena from GAME, get a vinyl soundtrack
Persona 4 Arena will finally be arriving in Europe on May 10, and if you live in the UK and pre-order it from GAME, you will get a 12-inch vinyl copy of the soundtrack. Seriously. That's one of the better pre-order incentives ever.
Persona 4 Arena dated for Europe, pre-order bundle detailed
Persona 4 Arena publisher Zen-United has dated its battler for Europe, and has sent us an image of a rather tasty pre-order bundle.
Persona 4 Arena is "looking at a May release" in Europe
Persona 4 Arena may have zoned in on its European release date. Possibly. In an update on the Persona Europe Facebook page, publisher Zen United announced the Xbox 360 version is going through Microsoft's submission process.
Evo 2013 championship registrations now open
Registrations are now being accepted for the Evo 2013 championships which take place at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in Nevada. You can pick up your pass through the website, which details each price package. The championships will be held on the weekend of July 12, with the main event being held at […]
Persona 4: Arena won't reach Europe by year's end
Persona 4: Golden won't make it to Europe in 2012, local publisher Zen United has confirmed.
Persona 4: Golden shifts 260,000 units in Japan, Persona 4 Arena moves 220,000 units
Persona 4: Golden and its Vita port sold 260,000 units in Japan since released on June 14, Index Corporation reported in its latest financials. The firm expects sales to jump even higher when Persona 4: Golden arrives in the states next month. Sales for Persona 4 Arena also exceed the firm's expectations, moving 220,000 copies. […]
Persona 4: Arena European release hits a bit of a snag
Persona 4: Arena has hit a bit of a snag in Europe, according to the game's publisher in the region, Zen United.
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Golden Week sale kicks off on US PSN with Catherine, Dark Souls, Ground Zeroes, more discounted
Mechanical maiden Labrys stars in latest Persona 4 Arena Ultimax trailer
Persona 4 titles go on sale, Persona 4 Golden anime announced for Japan
Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold opening movie lands online
Persona 4 Arena update announced, adds Persona 3's Yukari and Junpei
PSN offering new game+DLC "Ultimate Edition" bundles at steep discount this week
Persona 4: Arena dev Arc System Works holding 25th anniversary event next week
Atlus parent company hit by ¥1.4 billion debt after posting poor financials
Persona 4: Golden shifts 260,000 units in Japan, Persona 4 Arena moves 220,000 units
Persona 4 Arena launch trailer combines at least two forms of madness
Atlus looking into Persona 4 Arena lag issues reported by 360 users in Japan
Persona 4 Arena screens show Story, Lesson, Challenge and Network modes
Persona 4 Arena EU publisher aiming for minimal launch delay
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I am bored. And, in an effort to avoid writing my work-in-progress, I am willing to critique up to 3000 words of your work-in-progress! (Or a completed story, if you'd rather.)
This is a limited offer because even if I am bored and procrastinating I still--alas--have a life and a job, so I am only opening this up to relatively inexperienced writers. Likewise, I will turn it off below if I am busy.
This offer is currently closed but I will probably re-open it after I finish the current queue.
Here are the rules:
- * Your highest score in the contest must be an HM
* You must not have published more than one story professionally
* You must not have taken me up on this offer before
If this defines you, comment below and I will send you a PM with my e-mail address. While I say above I am only going to critique up to the first 3000 words of your story, please do send the entire story (if it's completed) so I can read the whole thing.
The rest of this is TL;DR.
While I no longer believe that "brutally honest" is a good thing in a critique, I generally will not pull any punches about what I perceive to be flaws in your story. If you have a thin skin and that worries you, please let me know in your e-mail and I will put my filters on.
I reserve the right to decline to critique a story upon receiving it. I may or may not tell you why, and I may or may not ask you to send another instead. (Generally, this will be due to stories I consider to be quintessentially racist, misogynistic, or some other kind of objectionable in intent.)
I welcome follow-up questions if you have any, but please do not write me angry e-mails telling me I'm an idiot because XYZ. My critiques are just my considered, professional opinion, and I am only one reader. If what I suggest is not helpful to you or you have a reason to strongly disagree with it (e.g. Neil Gaiman said that line was awesome), ignore what I've said and move on. (If you do not have a reason and are just upset, I suggest setting the critique and the story aside for a month and then reading both again.)
And who the hell are you anyway, you pompous ass-hat?
I am an academic librarian, haikuist, and speculative fiction writer. My fiction has appeared most recently in The Sockdolager, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, and Galaxy's Edge, and is forthcoming in a little anthology you might maybe have heard of, Writers of the Future (Volume 32, 1st place, Q2), among other venues.
This doesn't mean I necessarily have any idea what I'm doing, but it does mean I've been somewhat successful in tricking other people into thinking I do.