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Department Chair: Miriam Raub Vivian
Program Coordinator: Jim Meriwether
Program Office: Faculty Towers, 304D
Telephone: (661) 654-2046
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Website: www.csub.edu/history/ma.htx
Faculty: M. Baker, D. Dodd, J. George, J. Harrie,
J. Maynard, J. Meriwether, C. Murphy, C. Orliski,
O. Rink, A. Rodriquez, M. R. Vivian
Program Description
Pursuing a graduate degree in history should be enriching both personally and professionally, equipping the individual with a deeper understanding of the past as well as providing an appreciation of the complexities of the present. From a professional perspective, it opens the door to a number of careers. A Master of Arts degree in History is usually a requirement for teaching the subject at community colleges, and it provides an excellent complement for teaching the history/social science framework at the high school level. Students completing the MA program will have developed critical, analytical, and writing skills that are of value in various fields. They will have received what is widely considered an excellent preparation for careers in public relations, journalism, law, politics, and the civil service. For those considering a Ph.D. in history, and eventually teaching at the university level, the MA program gives students a taste of what is involved and prepares them for doctoral work. Although the program does not require knowledge of a foreign language, students are strongly encouraged to develop a reading ability in a language other than English.
The MA program in History at CSUB offers two options or tracks: examination or thesis (see Program Tracks below).
Application Process and Admission
Those persons seeking a Master of Arts degree in History must apply for graduate study to both the History Department (the application is available online or from the department) and the university Office of Admissions (the application is available online). Admission to the university does not constitute acceptance into the History MA Program as a graduate student.
Admission Requirements
The following criteria must be met for admission as a Classified Graduate Student in History:
- 1. A baccalaureate degree in history from an accredited college or university; if it is not in history, students may be asked to take up to four upper-division undergraduate courses at CSUB and thereafter be assessed by the History Graduate Committee before being formally admitted as a Classified Graduate Student;
- 2. Good academic standing at the last college or university attended;
- 3. Transcripts showing an overall 3.0 GPA in the last 90 quarter units (60 semester units) of the last two years of college or university coursework;
- 4. A letter of intent;
- 5. Evidence of historical writing;
- 6. Two letters of recommendation, from academic instructors when possible.
There are three classifications for students in the History graduate program:
Classified Standing - A student who meets all the requirements for admission to the MA program in History will be admitted as a Classified Graduate Student.
Conditionally Classified Standing - Students who have been accepted into the History MA program by the History Department will be conditionally classified when the department admissions committee requires them to take up to four (4) courses for preparatory work (most often in the case of non-history majors).
Advanced to Candidacy - Classified students who have maintained a 3.25 GPA and have completed the graduation writing requirement will be advanced to candidacy in the term in which they intend to graduate.
Upon admission to the university and graduate-level study in the History Department, students should discuss with the Graduate Program Coordinator their plans to fulfill the requirements of the MA Program. It is the students responsibility, in consultation with the appropriate faculty members, to choose an MA track, fields of study, and to organize a thesis or examination committee.
Committee Selection - Each MA student in History must have a committee, either to provide examinations or to read and guide the thesis. The Graduate Program Coordinator can provide assistance in forming an MA committee.
Academic Advising - It is essential that the MA student stay in contact with the Graduate Program Coordinator and the committee chair, so that the department can provide current information to help the student move expeditiously through the program.
Program Requirements
Program Tracks - There are two tracks leading to an MA degree in History: the examination track and the thesis track. Both tracks require 45 units of course work and HIST 697 (1-5 units) or HIST 698 (1-5 units), for a total of 46 to 50 units. HIST 697 and HIST 698 are graded credit, no-credit. Graduate students are encouraged to earn as many units as possible in 500- or 600-level courses. A maximum of 20 units, however, may be earned in 400-level courses. Graduate credit in a 400-level course requires submission of a Petition for Graduate Credit, signed by the instructor and Graduate Program Coordinator, indicating what additional work is required for graduate credit to be awarded.
Once students decide on a track, they should secure the appropriate Plan of Study from the History Department office. This Plan of Study, which will be kept in individual students files, will formally indicate committee members, coursework leading to the MA degree, date of classification, and satisfaction of the GWAR (see below).
Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR) - All MA candidates must demonstrate writing competency at the upper-division level. Non-CSU students who have not passed an upper-division writing course can satisfy the GWAR in one of two ways: take HIST 300 (Historical Writing); or take the universitys waiver exam, offered once per quarter through the English Department.
Examination Track
Students interested in teaching at the high school or community college level are advised to follow this track. It generally is completed in less time than the thesis track and provides students with a broad base of knowledge and bibliography that will be of significant value when they are preparing courses in their teaching career.
Students, who select the examination track at the time of application for classification, must designate one primary field and one secondary field. Any primary field may also serve as a secondary field.
Examination Fields
- American History: Colonial to Reconstruction
- American History: Since Reconstruction
- Modern Europe Since 1789
- Ancient Mediterranean
- Medieval Europe
- Early Modern Europe
- Latin America
- Modern East Asia
- Public History
Examination Committee- The examination committee will consist of one History Department faculty member from the chosen primary field, one History Department faculty member from the chosen secondary field, and one additional member chosen in consultation with the Graduate Program Coordinator and the other committee members. The committee will help students determine the courses they need in order to prepare for MA exams. The committee also will conduct both written and oral examinations. The examination results will be forwarded to the Graduate Program Coordinator, using the following grading scale: Honors, Pass, or Fail.
Written Examinations - Students who have maintained at least a 3.25 GPA in their graduate coursework should obtain the signature of their committee chair prior to taking their exams, and must be enrolled in the university in HIST 698 in the quarter in which they take the exams. MA candidates are required to take a five-hour examination in the primary field and a three-hour examination in the secondary field. The exams are scheduled over a one-week period and are offered once a quarter. (Note: No student shall be permitted to take an examination in a field in which he or she has not had formal course work.) Any failed examination may be repeated one time within the following 12-month period.
Oral Examination - After passing each of the written examinations, students will undergo a 90-minute oral examination. The faculty member responsible for the primary field will preside. The oral examination may be repeated one time, if necessary, within the following 12- month period.
Thesis Track
Students are reminded that a good masters thesis is a significant piece of written work, usually requiring research in primary sources. Because primary sources are scarce at CSUB, the choice of thesis topics is severely limited, and students need to assure the Department Graduate Committee that source material necessary to the topic is available. The thesis topic should be selected at the time of achieving Classified Status in order to ensure the maximum amount of time for completion.
Research for the masters thesis or project that involves data from/about human subjects may be required to be reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research (IRB/HSR).
Course Work - Because department graduate offerings are designed with the examination track student in mind, it is expected that thesis track students will earn many of the required units in individual study courses. Such courses shall be specifically designed in consultation with the thesis director to emphasize research techniques and to prepare the student for writing the thesis.
Thesis Proposal - Students should meet with their thesis director and discuss in detail their subject, the elements of a thesis, and the sources to be examined before submission of the thesis proposal. The proposal, accompanied by chapter descriptions and a bibliography, shall be submitted to the thesis director and approved by the thesis committee no later than one quarter before enrolling in HIST 697. The names of the thesis committee members should be submitted at the same time.
Thesis Committee - The thesis committee shall consist of three faculty readers: the specialist reader and two others. If the thesis topic involves expertise in another discipline, one reader may be chosen from that discipline with the approval of the thesis director and the Department Graduate Committee. The thesis committee will judge whether or not the thesis represents sound research and will ensure that it meets the standards of the profession in originality, scholarship, and written English.
Course Requirements
Students seeking a History MA must complete 45 units of coursework, plus 1 to 5 units of HIST 697 or HIST 698 for a total of 46 to 50 units. Two of these courses must be HIST 501 (Historiography) and HIST 503 (Research Methods).
Good Academic Standing
To remain in good standing in the program, a student must attain a 3.25 GPA in HIST 501, HIST 503, and the first additional 500-level he or she takes. A student who does not do so may not continue in the program.
Transfer Credit
Credit for graduate courses from other institutions (maximum of 13.5 quarter units) will be considered by the Graduate Program Coordinator and the Department Graduate Committee.
Note: Enrollment in graduate seminars is at the discretion of the instructor.
HIST 501 Historiography (5)
The development of history as a distinct discipline, and the themes and approaches used by historians.
HIST 503 Historical Research Methods (5)
Introduction and practice in the use of primary sources, including review of various historical methodologies and techniques of research design. Students will gain experience in the development of research proposals and in the use and verification of different types of historical evidence.
HIST 525 Reading Seminar in European History (5)
Reading in selected topics to be announced each quarter. May be repeated if instructor or subject matter is different.
HIST 535 Reading Seminar in Asian History (5)
Reading in selected topics to be announced each quarter. May be repeated if instructor or subject matter is different.
HIST 554 Reading Seminar in Early American History: Colonial to Reconstruction (5)
Reading in selected topics to be announced each quarter. May be repeated if instructor or subject matter is different.
HIST 555 Reading Seminar in American History: Reconstruction to the Present (5)
Reading in selected topics to be announced each quarter. May be repeated if instructor or subject matter is different.
HIST 565 Reading Seminar in Mexican and Mexican-American History (5)
Reading in selected topics to be announced each quarter. Special emphasis on materials suitable for prospective teachers. May be repeated if instructor or topic is different.
HIST 602 Research Seminar in European History (5)
Research in selected topics to be announced each quarter. May be repeated if instructor or subject matter is different.
HIST 608 Research Seminar in American History (5)
Research in selected topics to be announced each quarter. May be repeated if instructor or subject matter is different.
HIST 697 Masters Thesis (1-5)
May be repeated to a maximum of 5 quarter units.
HIST 698 Comprehensive Examination (1-5)
May be repeated to a maximum of 5 quarter units.
HIST 699 Individual Study (1-5)
Admission with consent of department chair.


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Citing an acute need for additional classroom space, the Rye City Board of Education voted to put a bond resolution of more than $19.9 million on the ballot for Tuesday, December 13.
, members of the board decided there might be a perception by the community the expansion project was a wish list rather than set of definite needs.
"This is not about making classes smaller, this is about having enough space for all the children who are and will continue to come to this building," said board member Edward Fox. "If we ask for too much and don't get approval, the results will be devastating."
At the board's request, Superintendent Dr. Edward Shine presented a refined version of the previously discussed capital improvement plan that includes the following:
- 12 new classrooms with connecting hallways
- removal of portable classrooms
- conversion of existing science classes to regular class space
- mechanical system and plumbing upgrades; sump pump replacement
- renovation of 7 toilet rooms
- renovation of high school locker rooms
- traffic flow and parking improvements
Fearing Rye voters "may not have the appetite" for the cost of the previous version of the plan, President Laura Slack said the board could not risk the failure of a bond the public might perceive as too expensive. Slack said the board was aware there have been 5 bonds in the past 12 years and did not want to "make community to think we are over reaching."
She cited the same rationale in not presenting 2 different resolutions–both the previously discussed proposal and the pared down version– for the public to consider, though that option was discussed during the meeting. Slack
Justifying her decision, board member Karen Belanger said, "Although I personally believe in the arts and athletics…my concern is about the success of the bond if extras like arts or athletics are attached." Belanger continued, "The priority is to make sure all our students have adequate class room space. Reluctantly, I think we have to delay to so-called extras for another day."
Slack said the certain increase of students entering the middle and high schools required prioritizing a plan that focused on additional classrooms. Based on an enrollment study conducted by Dr. Lloyd Bishop, the number of students in the middle and high school building has increased from 972 in 1996 to approximately 1,681 to date. The study also projects as many as 1,923 students will utilize the building by 2021.
Several items including art rooms, performing space, and cafeteria were excluded from the bond proposal introduced in late August.
According to material describing the redefined scope of the project, "the field house and the renovation of the upper field remain on the table to be considered at a later date." The costs of these items are estimated at $2.3 million and $839,734 respectively.
The district could still take up the excluded projects if funds became available. All were included in the required SEQRA review that discloses potential environmental impacts.
The completion of that state-mandated SEQRA review was thrown into jeopardy .
In a statement posted on Patch October 17, Mayor Doug French said the intent and timing of the letter was not to delay the closure of SEQRA review. Since the October 11 school board meeting, both sides have apparently found common ground and plan to work together to address the traffic issues and other items mentioned in the letter. The Board did affirm the required "negative declaration" that states the project will not have a "significant effect on the environment," a move that would not be legally possible if there were any known, unaddressed environmental issues.
The Board chose unanimously chose Tuesday, December 13 for the ballot. While there was some concern the date–a half day of attendance for parent teacher conferences–would confuse voters, board member Josh Nathan said the scheduling might work out in favor of the referendum's passage.
"People will be home for those conferences, I think it will aid turnout," Nathan said. "It's also fair to community. They will expect a Tuesday voting day."
Vice President Ray Schmitt said he hoped voters would consider submitting absentee ballots.
While the scheduling of the vote was of one accord, board member Kendall Egan cast the lone dissenting vote to the resolution itself. Egan said her no vote was not based on opposition to the proposal, but on a concern that the discussion process had been rushed to make a December voting date.
President Slack said the timing and the compromised resolution were crucial in making the resolution palatable to Rye voters. "We couldn't take risk of not meeting classroom needs for the upcoming number of students."
Given the current economic terrain, Slack said she hoped the pared-down resolution balanced the list of facilities needs and currently low cost of borrowing with the community's concern about an increased tax burden.
Copies of all the resolutions and the enrollment study are attached as PDFs to this article.


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Add a CommentThe third book in the series has arrived with more suspense and more action than ever. The Rise of Nine, the third book after I am Number Four and the Power of Six is the newest addition to the Lorien Legacies series. Taking place shortly after the great battle in Spain, where Seven's Cepan and best friend are suffered, the team in the west travels to India to find their eighth member. Upon arrival, they meet with one of Eight's men, where they also face a great firefight with a rival army of Eight's who is also thought to be the Hindu god, Vishnu. When they finally get to meet Eight, they are then attacked again by their assassins, the Mogadorians. In a hurry to escape, they run into the teleport and find themselves separated. With Six receiving strange telepathic messages, and Four's visions of Setrakus Ra becoming stronger, they find themselves meeting again to find something that they would never have been expecting but are forced to face. Will Four ever see Sara again, will Sam finally find his father, read this exciting novel to find out. The Lorien Legacies series is about a group of aliens that join our society. Trying to fit in to grow stronger and fight back for their planet. Read the series from beginning to end to journey through their adventures, watch them grow, and enjoy the fast-paced action all the way through. Also stay tuned for the next book coming out August 2013, The Fall of Five .
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Add a SummaryThe Rise of Nine is the 3rd book of the series, I am Number Four. It shows Number Six, Seven, Crayton, and Ten headed to India to find Eight. They reach India and find Number Eight. He takes them to a mountain where there is a Loralite stone that helps teleport but the Mogodorians attack Crayton gets killed. Six, Seven, Eight, and Ten teleport but Six reaches somewhere else and is caught by the government who are working with the Mogodorians. Nine and Four go to New Mexico because they know Six is theer with the help of the tablet. Ten communicates with Four using telepath and all of them find each other. They go to the underground base where Six, Sarah, and maybe Sam are kept. They fight Setrakus Ra after freeing Sarah and Six but Setrakus Ra suddenly disappears and so the members of the Garde leave and promise to come back after lots of training.
Four and Nine are hiding out. Six, Ella, Marina and Crayton are on a plane for India to find another Garde. In the end they find Eight who can teleport and stuff. Basically they have to use a magic Loralite that can send them in 6 or 7 different places. Before they transport Crayton dies. :( Four and Nine decided to go to Chicago to a safe house Nine owns. Then They go to New Mexico. On the transport Six is sent to New Mexico where she is taken by the U.S government (who teamed up with the Mogs) where she has to Fight Stretakus Ra. Along the way she finds Sarah Hart. Ella, Marina, and Eight arrive in New Mexico after many tries. They all find each other and attacking Streatacus Ra. But he gets away. They are now ready to destroy the Mogs.
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Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney arrives to testify before the Commons finance committee on Parliament Hill, Oct.30, 2012.
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Some NDP members on the Commons finance committee tried to bait Carney into rubber stamping their daily line in the House that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has mangled the economy during the ongoing global downturn.
But Carney, who wears a second hat as chairman of the financial stability board for G-20 countries, said Canada is weathering the storm better than others hit hard by the European situation and a sluggish U.S. recovery.
He said that while belt tightening, austerity measures and spending cuts have different impacts from sector to sector, it's to be expected.
"That's frequently the case in an expansion in a recession and subsequent recovery. Some sectors are affected differentially."
On the job front, Carney said the 430,000 jobs that were lost during the 2008-2009 financial collapse have been recovered and that an additional 380,000 jobs have been added to the workforce for a total of 810,000.
"The vast majority of jobs "¦I think almost 85% "¦ are private sector jobs and most of them are full-time."
He also noted that while "the quality of job creation has been high" "¦ "there are more Canadians who want to work than are working."
Carney's appearance was followed by Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer often at loggerheads with the Conservatives for his analysis of government spending and economic forecasts.
His most recent outlook predicted lower real GDP growth than Bank of Canada and private sector economist projections, and he warned of higher unemployment, lower tax revenues and spending reductions.
Page's conclusions are often cited by the NDP as the last word on the economy to the exclusion of other independent, private economists by the official Opposition.
He surprised committee members with the admission he is seeking a legal opinion on whether he's overstepping his authority by taking government departments to court for documents he says are needed to perform his duties.
"We need clarity with respect to our mandate," he told the committee.
Page wants to know how departments are implementing the March budget, which calls for annual savings of $5.2 billion, including job cuts.


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Published: 5/18/2013 9:47 PM | Last update: 5/18/2013 9:49 PM Salthawk freestylers take 15thTOPEKA - Hutchinson's 200-yard freestyle relay wasn't able to improve its preliminary time during Saturday's finals at the Class 6A state meet. But the Salthawks did improve their placing in the event. The foursome of Sara Wilder, Meghan Morey, Ciara Kroeker and Madelyn Fee finished 15th in the event in 1:51.28, moving up one spot after earning the final qualifying berth on Friday.Shawnee Mission East won its fourth straight team title, scoring 404 points to easily top runner-up Lawrence Free State (295). Free State did have the athlete of the meet in sophomore Courtney Caldwell, who set state records in the 50 freestyle (23.05) and 100 freestyle (50.43) and also led the Firebirds' 200 free relay to a state record (1:36.94).
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Wieniawski's Daughter: Portrait of a Lady
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Women's and gender studies, Performing arts studies, Musicology
Poldowski (1879-1932) was the pseudonym adopted by Irene Wieniawska (later Lady Irene dean Paul), composer, pianist and daughter of the celebrated violinist, Wieniawski. This paper aims to paint a portrait of this enigmatic lady, through an examination of her many roles as daughter, mother, wife, performer, composer and writer. As a well-established musical figure in Great Britain, Belgium, France and the United States during her professional life, like many other female composers, she disappeared from view after her early death. Possessed of a true 'artistic temperament', her colourful life – of which details are quite scant – provides a backdrop for a discussion of her compositions, mostly French songs, the majority of which are settings of the poetry of Verlaine. Her professional career attests to a busy concert schedule, both as a performer and composer. Her social connections opened many doors of opportunity and her charismatic personality allowed her to count among her close friends, some of the leading figures of musical and cultural life on both sides of the Atlantic. Her works are currently enjoying a revival and are beginning to be re-established, along with her reputation, as a woman of talent.
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Mooney, David, "Wieniawski's Daughter: Portrait of a Lady" (2009). Articles. Paper 5.
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aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Friday, April 01, 2005
As I try to build traffic here on my blog, I am grateful for each marker along the way:
• James Joyner at Outside the Beltway, whose How to start a blog post helped shape mine, included me recently in a Beltway Traffic Jam. Thank you James.
• This week I was included in a New Blog Showcase. Thank you Mookie.
• Blake Rhodes at icerocket.com tells me I'm included in their Ice Rocket Blog Search. I haven't found myself but I'm glad to be there.
• No gratitude list would be complete without acknowledging Basil, of Basil's Blog. He was my first Trackback and has continued with many more, has offered technical support and is a regular commenter. Thanks Basil.
• While I was authoring this post, Basil apparently got me invited to guest blog over at It's A Pundit. My guest post is here. Already commented on and declared undetermined here.
Thank you all. I have to believe, "if you build it, they will come." These are the good old blogger days!
Monday, March 28, 2005
This article made me remember that in my experience we were more concerned about doctors intervening when we didn't want it. We weren't talking about the need for a living will; we were talking about the need for a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate order):
For years, when families and hospitals fought over how to treat critically ill patients, families often pressed to let their loved ones die, while hospitals tried to keep them alive. But in the last decade or so, things have changed. Now...even families who say they believe in removing life support may find that position untenable when their own relatives are involved.
"About 15 years ago, at least 80 percent of the cases were right-to-die kinds of cases," said Dr. Lachlan Forrow, the director of ethics programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who handles 50 to 100 end-of-life conflicts a year. "Today, it's more like at least 80 percent of the cases are the other direction: family members who are pushing for continued or more aggressive life support and doctors and nurses who think that that's wrong."
I still don't have a living will. It's clear that if I want my wishes carried out, rather than those based on the hopes, fears, beliefs and emotions of my family, I must make one. (And, for the record, for me a feeding tube will count as a prohibited extraordinary measure.)
UPDATE: PoliBlog on the feeding tube as medical intervention. Via Outside the Beltway.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Alas 25,000, here 20
Alas (a blog) reached 25,000 comments yesterday; I reached 20 today. The Last Minute asks that you please post comments rather than send an email; I just added an eMail Joe link to every post on the site.
Instapundit has none. Neither does The Carpetbagger Report. I decided from the start that I wanted them; even as I'm not real eager for the rough and tumble I sometimes see in other bloggers' comments.
I've written a personal note to everyone who's posted a comment here; I'm excited every time one shows up. I write new entries responding to commenters. Yeh, I want comments.
So please, go ahead and leave a comment if you'd like. Or feel free to send an email. Whatever's your style is good by me.
Sunday, March 20, 2005
The Tyranny of Choice
Virginia Postrel (who's got the best looking blog I've yet to come across), has a piece in Forbes on a subject my friends will tell you I've been ranting on about for years and years: Choice. Virginia says: I'm Pro Choice.
Well me too. (And in more ways than one, by the way.)
Too much choice may cause regret, but no choice is worse. Subjects who ate a chocolate selected by the experimenter, rather than the one they'd picked, were much less satisfied.
The topic is Barry Schwartz, who wrote the book The Paradox of Choice. Published last year, I've been marginally aware of it and am inclined to believe its conclusion: the more choice the more unhappiness.
Read the rest of "The Tyranny of Choice" in the extended entry.
Saturday, March 19, 2005
A friend who lives in the neighborhood has been singing the praises of Babu since it opened. He neglected, however, to mention this:
The menu came without prices...guests were invited to eat, enjoy, and then, at the end of the meal, pay what they thought it was worth. "I'd rather work out the kinks in the kitchen first," Payal Saha, the restaurant's owner, explained the other day, sitting at a corner table of Babu, which was about a quarter full of couples quietly eating and mentally calculating the value of their experience.
She's since worked out the kinks so now guests pay, but what a wonderful way to start out. That kind of thing just wouldn't work here.
Book Meme update
Barrie from The Pink Bee visited recently and explained that the Book Meme came from her imagination. Of the three people I tagged, only Yankee from Mississippi has played along so far.
Read the rest of "Book Meme update" in the extended entry.
Friday, March 18, 2005
Welcome Jen
With my new guest blogger, Jen, I gain on two fronts: a woman blogger and a liberal blogger. There's been so much going round the blogosphere lately on these fronts that it's hard to find a starting point.
On blogging and women. Kevin Drum the other day:
On a lazy Sunday several weeks ago I wrote about the dearth of women among the ranks of the most highly trafficked political bloggers. I suggested the reason was partly because high-traffic men don't link much to women and partly because fewer women than men write political blogs in the first place. But why do fewer women blog about politics than men?
In my initial post I wrote this: "My guess...is that men are more comfortable with the food fight nature of opinion writing - both writing it and reading it....I imagine that the fundamental viciousness and self aggrandizement inherent in opinion writing turns off a lot of women."Two days later I added this: "Men are so routinely dismissive of women and so fundamentally dedicated to playground dominance games that many women decide they just don't want to play."
Read the whole thing. Thoughtful and with good links. Then today he added more.
Read the rest of "Welcome Jen" in the extended entry.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
How'd she find me?
Read your wed site [a Freudian sic] - pretty nice. The pictures very good. But, I must tell you that the word before has an e on the end. That is the only correction I noticed. Otherwise, good job. Why don't you think about writing a book? I think you would be good.
Hm. Maybe. If Wonkette can do it...
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
I'm it!
Basil's preparing for a blog war but got delayed by protocol and the next thing I know he's tagged me in a Book Meme!
There's a Book Meme making the rounds, and phin has tagged me with it. phin got it from Oddybobo of Bobo Blogger who got it from Harvey of Bad Example who got it from Contagion of Miasmatic Review who got it from Boudicca of Boudicca's Voice who got it from Eric of Straight White Guy who got it from Reilly of Uptown Girl who got it from Grumpy Bunny who got it from Kandice of Kandy's Dish who got it from Amanda of Human Oddities (and Mishaps) who got it from Barrie from The Pink Bee who swallowed the spider to catch the fly and I don't know why she ...
Er, I'm lost. I don't know what a Book Meme is and though a Google search got some hits, Wikipedia failed miserably. Apparently there are some questions involved, so I might just as well go ahead and answer them…
Read the rest of "I'm it!" in the extended entry.
Friday, March 11, 2005
It's cold in Georgia. 70 in Wyoming and 41 here. What's going on?
Maybe I jinxed us with that daffodil picture! It's been cold since and is forecast to stay that way through next week. brrr.
UPDATE 3/12/05: The forecast was wrong! 74 and sunny today. I took the dogs to the forest.
Monday, March 07, 2005
Dunkin dreamin
I worked at the Dunkin Donuts on Route 22 in Harrisburg, PA in 1972, so I know that it's true:
"Boy, those big jelly donuts, yeast raised with granulated sugar on the outside, were so loaded with jelly that when we took a bite out of one, it would squirt. It was fantastic! … This great experience left an indelible memory of how donuts meant so much to me."
Ah yes, and to me too. But no more. There's none here where I live now. Nada. And I'm not sure recent developments bode well for one coming here anytime soon:
Over the past five years the chain has sought to burnish its pastries with a glaze of class: Dunkin' Donuts is reinventing itself as an upstairs-downstairs coffee house. It wants to lure more white-collar customers while tending to its loyal base of proles.
From Slate last week. Via Reihan Salam today at The American Scene
Sunday, March 06, 2005
The Sunday Times
I'm in Athens this morning. At Jittery Joe's, the "legendary coffee shop" (photo), I read the Sunday New York Times.
• Frank Rich on Hunter Thompson:
Read "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" - the chronicle of his Rolling Stone election coverage - and you find that his diagnosis of journalistic dysfunction hasn't aged a day: "The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists."
• I distrust a life lived meticulously and constantly within the strictest mores of society:
Mr. Rader and his wife of 34 years went to church each Sunday. Sometimes when he left an after-work bar outing to hurry home, his colleagues would privately breathe a sigh of relief; with him gone, they could drink up and tell off-color jokes. As far back as the eighth grade, Mr. Rader was picked for the prestigious school patrol, who carried big red Stop signs and told classmates and drivers when to go and when not to.
• People here seem to look forward to retirement more than those I knew in New York. I find the idea of conventional retirement unsatisfying.
The baby boomers are also shunning the golden-years notion of retirement as an endless vacation. Surveys by AARP and other organizations are finding that up to 80 percent of boomers plan to do some sort of paid work into their 70's. They see continued participation in the work force as a way to help them stay mentally sharp and socially engaged, as well as financially more secure.
• A film school graduate myself, I agree that studying film is a way to learn about power structures and how individuals influence each other. But more important, I learned then and believe now still that…
...filmic skills are too valuable to be confined to movie world professionals. "The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who can't," Ms. Daley said. "Our core knowledge needs to belong to everybody." In fact, even some who first enrolled in U.S.C.'s film school to take advantage of its widely acknowledged position as a prime portal to Hollywood have begun to view their cinematic skills as a new form of literacy.
• I still don't know what I think about the FEC consideration of Internet politicking:
Anyone who decides to "set up a blog, send out mass e-mails, any kind of activity that can be done on the Internet" could be subject to Federal Election Commission regulation, Bradley A. Smith, a Republican commissioner, said in an interview posted Thursday on the technology news site Cnet.com.
"It becomes a really complex issue that would strike deep into the heart of the Internet and the bloggers who are writing out there today," said Mr. Smith, who opposed regulating Internet activity when the commission originally addressed it in 2002.
The commenter on my post last night makes good sense to me. I'm going to have to read much more on this before I figure out what I really think.
Saturday, February 26, 2005
My boyfriend's crying
Now laughing. "I think it's a sign of a good story, don't you?" I do. This is the autism story that did it. This is the whole Special Section.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
I say eat him
Dean's World didn't comment. Gay Orbit calls it the most disturbing site ever. I agree that the site's pretty odious, but I have no problem with cooking the rabbit (sorry Jen).
It's a nonsense variation on a theme that has been done before. This one made me go back and revisit An Animal's Place by Michael Pollan, a November 10, 2002 New York Times Magazine cover story:
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig—an animal easily as intelligent as a dog—that becomes the Christmas ham.
We tolerate this disconnect because the life of the pig has moved out of view. When's the last time you saw a pig? (Babe doesn't count.) Except for our pets, real animals—animals living and dying—no longer figure in our everyday lives. Meat comes from the grocery store, where it is cut and packaged to look as little like parts of animals as possible. The disappearance of animals from our lives has opened a space in which there's no reality check, either on the sentiment or the brutality. Several years ago, the English critic John Berger wrote an essay, ''Why Look at Animals?'' in which he suggested that the loss of everyday contact between ourselves and animals—and specifically the loss of eye contact—has left us deeply confused about the terms of our relationship to other species. That eye contact, always slightly uncanny, had provided a vivid daily reminder that animals were at once crucially like and unlike us; in their eyes we glimpsed something unmistakably familiar (pain, fear, tenderness) and something irretrievably alien. Upon this paradox people built a relationship in which they felt they could both honor and eat animals without looking away.
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I look my dogs in the eye. Read the article. It deserves another look.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Sean at White Peril wrote another gay marriage post. In this one he mentioned mine and pointed to my About page (which I'm not linking to myself because I've been meaning to spiff it up). Both Doug and I are flattered that he called us "adorable" and liked my smile. Thank you Sean.
So I went to his site thinking I'd leave a comment but I found that he and Michael from Gay Orbit ("discover your inner homo" - must add him to my blogroll right away) were going back and forth in the comments. Preferring not to engage, I will send Sean an email instead.
I followed the comments over to Gay Orbit in search of a promised post. There I was happy to serendipitously find that gay is back in the federally funded suicide workshop I alluded to the other day. Finally, I read Michael's post, It's not gay marriage. I suggest you do too.
Good night.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Gender identity fun
Basil points to the Gender Genie, created with the help of an ingenious little algorithm (somewhere in this 32 page paper) that takes a writing sample and predicts whether it was authored by a male or a female. It got me right (male!) on all three tries.
A little later I was visiting Yankee from Mississippi and there she's pointing to a "What gender is your brain?" quiz. How could I resist? It tells me I'm a "healthy mix." 53.33% female, 46.67% male.
Ok, so now I'm on a roll. Last stop, for old times' sake, The Draginatrix. Enjoy!
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Jake turns 6
Seen here sunning on my sister's boat. The actual date was last week. We forgot; he'll never know.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Sidebars, blogrolls & why I blog
This site is a work in progress; I'm pleased with the progress. Most recently I've been working on sidebars. On the left is my "Blogroll," powered by Blogrolling. It could use some arranging and sorting, but each and every one of them is a blog I've enjoyed. I urge you to visit all of them. On the right, sites I visit regularly, people who have influenced me, organizations I respect, or things I've found interesting. One day soon I'll add advertising; on both sides.
A section I'm particularly pleased with is "On Blogging" over on the lower right (and detailed below). There you'll find a collection of links to resources that have helped me build this blog, and inform how I conceive this blog. I recommend them to anyone who wants to put together a blog of their own.
I look at my blog as a garden; the sidebars are two flower beds. Now that they are seeded, I must tend to them, cultivate them and prune them from time to time to ensure that they will bloom, blossom and grow. Thank you Basil of Basil's Blog for working out my alignment issue; and Harry of Kudzu Files for solving my blogrolling problem.
I've also added a post here on why I blog. It's lifted unedited from my old blog where it was originally posted when I first started blogging on December 7, 2004. If you're interested, check it out.
Read the rest of "Sidebars, blogrolls & why I blog" in the extended entry.
Monday, February 14, 2005
Quality drama
TiVo time-shifting is such that I just watched The West Wing episode featuring an appearance by Lawrence Lessig (as played by Christopher Lloyd). I bumped this episode up above others I've yet to watch after reading on Lessig's blog how he came to be a character: "Lots of speculation and fantastic praise about the West Wing gig. It was a hoot to watch. But in two seconds (I'm late for a meeting) let me put this in perspective..."
I enjoy The West Wing, even as it has been deemed passé by Wonkette. ("Wow, The West Wing is still on?" Good I don't live in DC.) This far from Broadway, the show's the only way I get to see Kristin Chenoweth. Sans song: I loved her first as Sally in the under-rated Broadway musical production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown."
I'm always looking for good quality drama to add to my TiVo lineup. Please, if anyone has a suggestion, pass it on. Via comment (below) or email (in sidebar).
Sunday, February 13, 2005
The Gates
Read the rest of "The Gates" in the extended entry.
Monday, February 07, 2005
Welcome: My new weblog
I started blogging on December 6, 2004 over on my personal website. A few weeks ago I decided to seperate my personal site from my blogging site and to build this one, a "real" blog. Here I'll have a blogroll, an about page, email link, sitemeter and comment validation to fight spam.
As you can see, all of those features aren't up and going. I was fiddling and diddling and realized that if I didn't move soon it would take me forever to get this site ready. So today I take the plunge. If in these next few weeks as I build the site out you experience technical difficulties, I hope you will bear with me.
As always, thanks for visiting and please come back!
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Why blog?
You could be wondering, I did, why blog? For me, I set up my website so that I could have a way of keeping in touch with, and being found by, old friends and colleagues. I spent my entire adult life in New York; for 25 years I was the only Windish in the Manhattan phone book (now there are none). If someone, anyone, wanted to find me, all they had to do was look. Everyone knew I was and would always be a New Yorker. But look, here I am in rural Georgia. Won't they be surprised! So one reason I've staked my claim to the Internet space is to be found.
The blog is an extension of that and more: it's a way to stay intellectually engaged both with my far away friends and with the world of issues and ideas. In New York I felt very engaged; I was constantly involved in rigorous conversations on the issues of the day. Even at work we had a tradition of lunches together during which we'd debate issues, sometimes heatedly. I looked forward to a monthly Internet industry salon that I contributed to through the peak of the Internet bubble.
Here I'm just as engaged, but I rarely have the conversations I once thrived on. I still subscribe to my magazines, watch the news programs, and read the blogs that get me all fired up. I'm as fired up as ever; with nowhere to let off steam. So maybe my blog will help with that. Maybe it will open up whole new worlds. Maybe a new day's dawning. So with that swell thought, here goes…


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Computer viruses have been since ever. Across the time, there have been many and day after day, they becoming more and more powerful in terms of being removed. I recently came across one which even when it's not newer (according to what I could research, it was made in 2008) it is still out there, causing serious issues to many users. It has many variations but all of them work more or less similar to each other.
It consists in a Windows Trojan virus (which means that it comes hidden somewhere, in an email, a file or something
else) and when opened it just installs a program in your computer which actually disconnects your computer from the Internet (it messes with the network connection so your machine will get totally disconnected from the Internet, so basically you will not be able to google about it or download any antivirus or fix tool). After that, every time you start your machine a fake "virus and malware protection program" gets started as well, it's a screen that tells you that your computer is infected with X amount of viruses and that you need to get a program to actually kill these. Then it offers you to buy this protection online (that's the only way your connection will work, to send out your credit card information to the attacker)
It appears with many names, different screens, but all of them operate just the same. Removing them is a pain, because you can't relay on a simply fix tool or removal tool as they're smart enough to even detect these tools as viruses (paradox, huh?) and they even get hidden so the tool can't really fix them while they're running, so this makes us think what we need to do: first we need to deactivate it for a moment, and once it's not running we kill it.
Sounds like the plot of an action movie, but that's the way it is, first you need to find its files and make the virus not be able to recognize them and then you will remove these files (and any trace of them, using a fixing tool) to make sure you eradicate the virus from your computer. I had to do this recently, so I'm going to describe my process which can result in very helpful for you if you need it as it should be quite the same on your computer:
First step: Locate and disable
Well, these viruses have something in common, they put their startup files in the same location, so basically you need to find them and "confuse it". You won't be able to delete them initially, because that won't fix the problem yet. So, basically start up your machine, wait until it actually suggests you to "scan" the machine for viruses, let it do it its thing and once you can have control again, open your Start menu (click on Start button) and then go to "My Computer" or just "Computer" (this depends if you use Windows XP or Windows Vista/7).
After you are in control and looking at your hard disks, let's go find the bastard! But first, you need to make sure you are able to see hidden files, you will need this. If you are not so proficient in Windows, I suggest you do a google search for 'show hidden files Windows X' where 'X' is the actual version you use (XP, Vista, 7). Now, assuming you already are showing hidden files, go to the following locations, depending on your system:
For Windows XP:
C:\Documents & Settings\<your username>\AppData\Microsoft\ |
For Windows Vista & Windows 7:
C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\ |
Basically, once you are in these locations, you will see a bunch of folders, but you should also see 1 or more executables (they don't have folder's icons, but another thing and usually they have weird names without any real meaning or that aren't even a word). These executables are the core of this virus, so go ahead and rename these files (just in case, write down their name, it might happen that if you are not so good with Windows or computers, you can be screwing up something, but any way you are already screwed up by this virus, so why not?). Change their names to something else, whatever it is, something like a number for each file: 1, 2, 3…
Once you have completed this step, then reboot your computer. If everything was fine, next time you reboot you will not see the "Windows Protection" software loading at the startup, that means we are half the way there.
Second step: Kill the bastard
OK, we have taken control of our machine again, but we want to clean it up, so go get a nice freeware tool or at least shareware to clean your computer. In my case, I used Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (http://www.malwarebytes.org) which is free for few days, so you can use to clean this mess and then thank it. Run it and it will find and clean your computer in few mins and you will be ready to go again.
About the prevention:
You don't need anything paid, people keeps asking me if they should buy an antivirus like Norton, McAfee, etc, nothing of that is really needed and honestly (for personal use I mean), I think this companies keep existing just because of the people's ignorance. There are a lot of antivirus out there which are free for personal use and that work just as efficient (and probably better, because they are a lot lighter than Norton for example) that you can use. To name a few:
- Antivir (http://www.free-av.com)
- Avast (http://www.avast.com)
- AVG (http://free.avg.com)
What they would do is exact the same thing as any paid antivirus: just detect and (try to) prevent you getting infected, once infected they will not necessarily clean or fix it, you will need to do it yourself like in this case or get a removal tool (which mostly are free too by the way). Also, these and other viruses might get under any antivirus' radar, and at the end the bets antivirus is just: don't open what you don't know what it is.


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Everyone believes that this element of face-to-face conversations is key to creating a trustworthy relationship, but a new study proves it to be untrue. What is it?
When you're the boss, you're always on, see how the CEO of AOL may have forgotten that.
Today's virtual work environments, doing more with less, and impossible to-do lists are making something that might have already been a challenge, an out-right nightmare. Working on your piece of the puzzle without paying attention to the overall organization (or project) goals and strategy is wasting countless hours of work and resulting in employee dissatisfaction.
Think about your organization's structure and how many times a day you feel like you are putting out fires or back-tracking with different groups to get everyone back on the same page because someone stopped talking and sharing what they were doing. Now, subtract that from your average work-week. Did you just gain back all of that time you spent at dark thirty in the morning or at night, away from your friends, your pets, your family? Have you pin-pointed the source for your high blood pressure and aggravation?
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Drone Strike: Goodbye Mohammed Haqqani
Mohammed Haqqani is no more:
A brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, a militant leader linked to both the Taliban and al Qaeda, was killed in the latest U.S. drone-launched missile strike in northwestern Pakistan, dealing yet another blow to the insurgents engaged in fighting the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Mohammed Haqqani and three associates were killed when missiles fired from a pilotless aircraft Thursday evening struck a compound in Dande Darpa Khel village in North Waziristan tribal region, a Pakistani security official said.
The strike was apparently aimed at Sirajuddin who is the head of the powerful Haqqani network that has been responsible for some recent major attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul. But he was not present in the area at the time of the attack.
The death of Mohammed Haqqani, who was also actively involved in the Afghan insurgency, comes as a blow to the insurgent group and reinforces the effectiveness of the controversial U.S. campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan's lawless tribal region along the border with Afghanistan.
A minor victory to be sure but it's still forward progress.
CNN: We Were Warned: Cyber Shockwave – Airing This Weekend
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CNN will air a two-hour production, We Were Warned: Cyber Shockwave, based upon exclusive television access to a national security cyber "war game" scenario. The simulated event was developed by The Bipartisan Policy Center and will debut Saturday, Feb. 20 and Sunday, Feb. 21 at 8pm, 11pm and 2am ET on CNN.
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Rally horror 'could have been worse'
A rally car smashed into spectators at a family racing event injuring four people – including a man and his two sons.
The family were taken to hospital after the smash at the Bath and West Showground on Saturday.
Eye witnesses said the sports car failed to make a bend and hit the grass bordering the track at the annual show in Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
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It slid across the grass for around 25 metres before smashing into a family who were in a cordoned off pedestrian area.
The man sustained head injuries while his children were taken to hospital with suspected broken legs.
Another spectator suffered minor injuries in the accident which medics say could have been much worse.
One eye witness, who wished to remain anonymous said the car narrowly missed his family.
He said: "It started on a corner, there's a long straight leading into a corner.
"The car came up and you could see it starting to brake.
"It wasn't going to stop but tried to take the corner but had grass and it aquaplaned across the grass.
"Although the crowd was probably 20 to 30 metres away from the track the car carried on going into a young family – two young lads, eight or nine years old, and their dad.
"I saw the young lads fly up into the air the dad flew over the top of the car and then it came to a stop and the driver was in a bit of a state, psychologically, kicking the car. He was very upset about what had happened.
"It all happened very quickly. It was aiming for us but we jumped back. It was a near miss, there were a lot of people there and it's lucky not more people were hurt.
"The ambulance was really good. It was on site anyway and there within five minutes. Seeing those two lads, both little, they were both conscious and nobody was unconscious, it looked like leg injuries.
"The car has a smashed windscreen."
Another man who saw the crash added: "It was like a ten pin bowling ball – there were bodies flying everywhere."
The Subaru Impreza came off the track at 11.50am in the first of ten stages at the Regency Stages Rally, organised by the Weston-super-Mare Motor Club.
A spokeswoman for the South Western Ambulance Service said the crash could have been much worse.
She said: "We only treated four people at the scene, one of whom was discharged at the scene with minor injuries - just a bump and bruises.
"This had the potential to be much worse than it fortunately was. We took a dad and his two sons to the RUH."
Police said they would be investigating.


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is Trey Burton. Yes, we use him in the wildcat and as an occasional receiver, but look at key long yardage plays he has made in his career. I believe he should get many more touches per game at RB and as a receiver if we wish to be a more dynamic offense!
I like to see Trey being used early in the season at RB in short yardage situations with Joyner blocking for him!
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Not a word of a lie, I was going to post something to very similar effect on this yesterday but got sidetracked. Trey is a senior but might be the least hyped part of our offense behind Jones, Robinson etc. That said, I like it that way and believe he is going to have a very productive season. His versatility is key, IMO.
He will be utilized, as will Solomon Patton, I expect Burton to get 50-60 touches this year and Patton close to 40, depending on how quickly Showers shows he can contribute. Until one of the TEs shows up, I think they will use Burton as a possession WR out of the slot, and occasionally try to hit a seam with him.
Trey is a very good player but I wish we would stop using him in the wildcat. That play is old news and rarely works for anything other than a yard or two. I like him in the slot and throwing swing passes out to him
I disagree it worked well at times last year, USC FSU UT. Wildcat needs to be in the offense it is something other teams have to prepare for and if they dont we can run it all day for chunks of yards. If they are fitting their runs against it we dont use it the rest of the game it is like any other package in our offense
Anyone who thinks that the wildcat with Trey rarely works did not see the same games I saw last year from A&M Tennessee FSU and many more Trey made teams pay when he ran the wildcat and made multiple key plays. Sure it didn't work every time but neither do passing plays or traditional runs. I am not sure where these comments come from. Check the tapes.
The 80 yard run vs. Tennessee was great. However, he ran the ball last year 29 times for 209 yards (a 6.6 yard average)...throw out that one play and he ran 28 times for 129 yards (4.6 yards). We know that Pease likes the Wildcat, at least as an option to make the D prepare for it...and Burton runs it well. I'd like to see him throw the ball more out of that formation (at least 10% of the time, as last year he was 3 for 4 passing but only 2 of those passes came out of the Wildcat - the other 2 were fake punts). I'd like to see him lined up at WR more often.
Because Jones will miss the first 1 or 2 games and has missed a lot of contact in practice. Trey is bigger than Brown or Taylor and IMO has more power. We need power in short yardage situations!
Burton cant throw and the Wildcat is really about running the football. He is going to start in the slot so you are going to him at WR a lot.
AZ, I agree it's more "about running the football". But if the D knows he's going to run it, why not pull back (play action) and throw? People say "he can't throw", but that's bogus. He's not Tom Brady back there, but the guy is a former QB. When he comes in at Wildcat the D is expecting HIM to run. I'd like to see a pass attempt every 5-8 times he comes in as sort of a change-up.
It is about how they fit the run and are they assignment sound against a different look. I know he played QB in high school but he cant throw let Jeff do that. Trey throwing the ball is just asking for a TO to happen. They expect us to run but they dont know how we are going to do it. We have some interesting play calls with Trey at the QB. Just look at the TD Hines scored vs USC. 5-8 times seems a bit to much to me maybe 1 out of 30
Thanks I was about to post the numbers. This isn't a very effective play IMO. I wish we would find other ways to get him the ball. Defenses know he isn't going to pass
This was very effective for us until Patton went down. You have to consider the effectiveness of the jet sweep as part of this package. Sent from my iPhone using GatorCountry
It's not just about breaking a big play and not just about Burton. How many times did we get a needed first down out of the WC? How many yards were gained on the sweep or give up the middle out of the WC? There's a lot you can do out of the wild cat besides have the QB run with it.


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The bill would set an approval process for ski areas on Forest Service lands to allow for summertime recreation activities like mountain biking and concerts.
"Right now, the Forest Service does permit additional activities on ski areas; however, both ski area representatives and the Forest Service have approached me saying its unclear on what is appropriate," Udall said. "This bill would define more clearly what should be on the list of activities and what makes sense."
The 1986 law now allows only ski-related activities on Forest Service ski areas. According to Udall, the new bill would amend it, so that recreational sports other than alpine and Nordic skiing would be allowed. While most ski areas in Colorado allow snowboarding, it is not clearly defined by the 1986 law as an accepted use.
The new bill would authorize the Forest Service to decide on appropriate year-round and summertime activities to help level out ski areas' seasonal economies and provide steady employment for the residents of their communities.
"This puts in place a process to determine what is an acceptable use," Udall said, of the plan. For example: "Snowboarding is not specifically on the list of permitted activities, and everyone involved in the industry was feeling a little uncertain because it wasn't."
Udall cautioned that the bill doesn't give ski areas the go-ahead to create out-of-context activities, like giant amusement parks or waterslides.
"There have been some debates about water slides and alpine slides," he allowed. "The Forest Service does have some earlier discretion to decide what other activities fit into the National Forest.
"We want to keep the right balance and insure we protect the values we have come to appreciate on forest lands. There are some uses that the Forest Service would not find appropriate."
As a member of the National Ski Areas Association, which supports the bill, Telluride Ski and Golf Co. CEO Dave Riley said the Telluride Ski Area is in favor of the act as well.
"It's an attempt to utilize ski area infrastructure and facilities on a year-round basis," Riley said. "We think it's good for ski companies and good for communities."
Furthermore, Riley said, as Telski continues to shape its ski area master plan, passage of the bill would better define what may or may not be included in that plan.
"Summer uses are a chapter in our plan, and this may influence its development," he said. "Mountain biking, for instance, is already occurring on some resorts and not on others. This bill is intended to help clarify those types of allowed uses."
A similar bill was introduced last year, but its passage did not come to a vote before the legislative session came to an end. It is unclear when the 2011 version of the bill will go up for approval.
But the 2011 version is being touted by supporters as a way to promote year-round recreation in mountain resort communities.
"This bill will not only increase recreational opportunities but also expand business opportunities and jobs," Rep. Diana DeGette said in a statement released by Udall's office. She also sponsors the bill. "Year-round recreational activity will provide substantial benefits to our local economies, and help create stable jobs in the thirteen states that are currently home to ski resorts on public land."
For Telluride, Riley reiterated the bill would benefit ski communities, but even if passed, it would be awhile before the benefits took effect.
"This isn't going to be an overnight situation, but over time, I think it could really help mountain communities, the ski resort and our employees," Riley said.


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In a police interrogation video viewed by jurors, Huguely said he simply wanted to discuss their sputtering, two-year relationship. Huguely admitted he may have shaken her but insisted he didn't grab her neck or punch her.
The prosecution painted a much more sinister scenario.
Huguely went to her apartment less than one week after he sent her a threatening email about her relationship with a North Carolina lacrosse player.
In the email, Huguely wrote that when he found out about the relationship, "I should have killed you."
In his closing arguments, defense attorney Francis McQ. Lawrence described Huguely as hulking, hard-drinking jock but no killer. He acknowledged Huguely had an unintended, accidental role in Love's death, arguing for a finding of involuntary manslaughter and a 10-year prison term.
"Where's the intent to kill?" he asked jurors. "Where's the intent to kill?"
Love's death had a statewide impact, leading to legislation that made it easier for possible abuse victims to get a restraining order in Virginia.
Last year, the state's General Assembly passed a law that expands criteria under which people can seek protective orders. The measure allows people in dating relationships or those who face threatening co-workers to more easily obtain such an order.
"Yeardley Love's death resulted in a great awakening for many individuals in Virginia and across the country about the danger that exists in violent dating relationships," Kristi VanAudenhove of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance said in a statement.
"It has also sparked conversations at colleges and universities about how to improve policies and services for students experiencing sexual and domestic violence," she said.
U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan extended her "sympathy and compassion" to the Huguely and Love families.
"Yeardley's family, teammates, sorority sisters and friends — indeed all of us at the University — continue to feel the loss of this promising young woman," Sullivan said in a statement.
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Back again on a quiet Sunday for dinner. The yummiest Mexican food in Wellington. Great service, choice and value. We recommend a visit to excite your taste buds.
We'd eaten at Pan de Muerto a couple of times when it was at its old location and, while delicious, had found the meals to almost be too large at the expense of flavour. On top of this, their old venue felt a li'l bit slap-dash, like they'd had to work with what they had to a certain extent. Their... More
This was one of the best finds my husband and I have made in Wellington. The service was friendly and attentive, the atmosphere obviously well thought out, and the food was AMAZING! Having lived in Mexico, we struggle to find Mexican restaurants in NZ that authentic, but the food was just fantastic - fresh, tasty, spicy, with real Mexican flavours.... More
My husband and i came back to wellington after 2 years, wanted to try new places for dinner. We found this mexican place and decided to try it out. The best decision we ever made. The place looks great, very mexican feel. The food was too good and services was good too. Already planning our next trip. Had a good... More
Mexican is my favorite but I don't eat beans, bread or rice. They catered to my dietary needs without any fuss and the food was delicious. Great presentation and atmosphere.
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We dined here during Wellington on a Plate, with one of us having the set menu and the other dining a la carte. The food is flavoursome rather than super-spicy, but with quality hot sauces on the side should one wish to partake. I started with house-made tortilla chips with a shredded chorizo and cheese sauce dip (bowl-licking tasty) and... More
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