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Health Care Providers
As a health care provider, you play an important role in helping your smoking patients quit smoking. You are reinforcing an important message of the Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) campaign: You can quit!
"Talk With Your Doctor"
You may find more patients asking you about how they can quit smoking!
During the week of May 27th, select national television ads will include a new call-to-action: "You can quit. Talk with your doctor for help." This tag will continue on some ads for the remainder of the campaign.
The goal is to empower patients to talk about this issue with you, so that you can begin a dialogue with them about smoking and quitting.
- "Talk With Your Doctor" Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - An overview for health care providers
- "Talk With Your Doctor" Posters - For use in clinics and waiting rooms
- Tobacco Quitlines Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Explains the science behind tobacco quitlines, how they work, and resources that clinicians will find useful
- Tips Campaign Download Center - Free campaign resources, such as a continuous looped video for waiting rooms and PSAs
Easy Ways to Talk to Your Patients About Quitting
You know that smoking is putting your patients' health at risk, but do you know how to talk to them about quitting? Here are some resources to help you.
Medscape Video: Conducting a Brief 2A Tobacco Intervention
Dr. Timothy McAfee helps you take full advantage of the opportunity the Tips From Former Smokers campaign provides by:
- Focusing on the important role you can play in helping a patient quit using tobacco;
- Identifying ways that you can use the Tips campaign to make addressing tobacco use with patients easier
- Reminding you on how to conduct a brief tobacco intervention using the Ask-Advise-Refer model
5As/2AR Tobacco Intervention Pocket Card [PDF - 80KB]
Even brief interventions that take as little as 30 seconds can make a difference! This printable, pocket-sized card contains the steps for conducting a brief tobacco intervention with your patients.
Did you know? Interventions, such as the 5A's, can double the chances that a patient will attempt to quit smoking.
What to Tell Your Patients About Smoking [PDF - 213KB]
This fact sheet:
- Provides talking points that can help frame conversations with your patients about quitting tobacco use
- Discusses the impact smoking has on blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, fertility, and pregnancy
- Lists six key findings from How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General
More Tobacco Prevention and Control Resources
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians
This quick reference guide summarizes the findings from the Clinical Practice Guideline Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update, including:
- A summary of evidence-based cessation treatments
- A description of the development process
- Thorough analysis and discussion of the available research
- Critical evaluation of the assumptions and knowledge of the field
- Information for health care decision making
The Community Guide
The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community. It includes systematic reviews of tobacco prevention and control interventions in the following areas:
- Youth Prevention
- Cessation
- Reducing Exposure to Secondhand Smoke
- Restricting Minors' Access to Tobacco Products
- Decreasing Tobacco Use Among Workers
Additional Health Provider Resources
AAFP "Ask and Act" Tobacco Cessation Program
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
The "Ask and Act" Tobacco Cessation Program encourages family physicians to ask their patients about tobacco use and then act to help them quit. This website provides more information about the program, including a provider toolkit, and information about medication and coding for payment.
Clinicians and Clinical Practice
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
AAP's Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence provides clinicians with information about both tobacco use and secondhand smoke. It includes practice tools, coding and payment recommendations, training and CME courses, and other resources to help patients and their families.
AMA Healthier Life Steps
American Medical Association (AMA)
AMA's "Healthier Life Steps" includes information to help clinicians address behavior change in patients, the CPT Code Pocket Guide for Preventive Services, and links to recommended quitting smoking resources
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
- Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy [PDF - 4.6MB] - a self-instructional guide and toolkit for clinicians to help pregnant women quit smoking
- Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond: A Virtual Clinic - a CME-accredited online training that uses a virtual clinic setting to provide education about smoking cessation during pregnancy and beyond (produced in collaboration with the CDC and the Interactive Medical Lab at Dartmouth College)
Smoking Cessation Resources
American College of Physicians (ACP)
The ACP website provides links to policy papers, video highlights of the Annals of Internal Medicine studies on smoking cessation, and instructional briefs about tobacco cessation and tobacco-related disease.
Get email updates
To receive email updates about the Tips From Former Smokers campaign, enter your email address:
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- CDC/Office on Smoking and Health
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Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3717 - 800-CDC-INFO
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Jumping Ship
No, it's not a disaster. It's a world record.
- By Rebecca Maksel
- AirSpaceMag.com, October 30, 2009
Brian Buckland
At first glance, the scene—people and airplanes falling out of the sky—looks like something from a Hollywood movie. But what appears to be chaos is actually a highly coordinated effort to set a skydiving world record.
On July 30, 2009, after four days of effort, 108 skydivers flying out of Chicago set a new record for the most people linked in a freeflying, head-down dive. (The previous record, set in 2007, was made up of 69 skydivers.)
Photographer and skydiver Brian Buckland was asked to document the attempt. Click on the gallery at right to see more of his photographs from the recording-setting attempt and read excerpts from our interview. Or watch his video, below.
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Bellevue has four existing Sister Cities relationships in Taiwan, Japan, the Czech Republic, and Latvia. Separately, Bellevue has international trade cooperation efforts underway with other countries such as China and India. These international efforts enrich the cultural and business profile of our city, and they provide a meaningful connection between Bellevue's richly diverse population and numerous areas across the globe.
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Contact Dr. Rick Alvarado for more information about the Center for Regional Improvement.
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Virginia's First Lady Hosts Childhood Obesity Conference
This week Virginia's First Lady Maureen McDonnell hosted the Commonwealth's first Weight of the State Conference on childhood obesity prevention. Craig Carper reports.
Speaking to the group of several hundred public school employees, health department officials, youth advocacy groups and other state representatives, Mrs. McDonnell gave some startling statistics.
McDonnell: In Virginia right now, more than 260,000 children between the ages of 10 and 17 are overweight or obese. That is tragic and it's condemning a generation of young people to an unhealthy path for a lifetime.
The First Lady said many of our health problems stem from our culture of convenience.
McDonnell: Our busy lives put a premium on time and more and more people are not involved in the preparation of food. We just grab and go. We are living in a society of microwaves, fast food and pre-cooked meals, that frankly are full of preservatives and calories and hold very little nutritional value.
National obesity rates have tripled over the last 30 years. And more than 60 percent of adults in Virginia are overweight or obese.
Last year the Virginia General Assembly voted to give the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth responsibility for childhood obesity prevention efforts. The foundation has developed pilot programs to encourage physical activity in inner city areas, as well as supplemental classroom-based prevention programs. And they recently completed a survey of 2,500 Virginia children and teens, on childhood obesity prevalence in the commonwealth, focusing on contributing factors and regional statistics.
The study found that over two-thirds of the Virginia youth believe they are a healthy weight, though they correctly classified their weight only 65 percent of the time. Obese children were more likely to misclassify their weight. Girls and young women were less likely than boys to say they were overweight or obese.
Virginia's State Health Commissioner, Dr. Karen Remley said much of the country's weight problem can be traced to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and much of that is due to "screen time."
Remley: Screen time is any time that you spend in front of the TV, the computer, video games, surfing the internet or using a handheld gaming device. On an average school day, almost one half of young people watch two or more hours of TV and one quarter of young people watch three or more hours of TV. On an average school day 33 percent of young people play two or more hours of video games and 16 percent play more than three hours a da.
Dr. Remley says parents need to start paying attention to their children's eating and exercise habits much earlier.
Remley: There's a lot of good research that shows that babies at two years of age, if they're overweight or obese, they've hit that tipping point and if you'reoverweight, if you're that chubby toddler, you're much, much more likely to remain obese.
After addressing the conference, Mrs. McDonnell and Dr. Remley met with Mark Lilly, who operates a mobile farmers market called Farm to Families in a renovated school bus, which he takes into urban neighborhoods around Richmond. Lilly says he tries to target "food deserts" or blighted areas that don't have access to fresh food.
Lilly: Unfortunately a lot of kids are being raised on processed foods so they don't even know what real food is. So you really have to educate them first.
Lilly said when starting his business he found it very important to be food-stamp or EBT-certified to maximize access to his wide selection of products.
Lilly: I have grass-fed meats, I have pastured eggs, milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, fresh produce, collards, kale, salad greens. It's all seasonal. You can get anything you want on that bus and to prove it, my wife and I are going to live off the bus for a year, proving to people that they can eat seasonal and local without having to leave their neighborhood really.
To learn more about Lilly's business, you can go to farmtofamilyonline.com.
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BLOOMFIELD, IOWA -- Downtown Bloomfield's future is looking bright. The city just finished up its Community Development Block Grant I-Jobs project which impacted more than 25 buildings in the square.
Now the focus has turned to the Upper Story Housing Grant which could potentially put 20 new apartments in some of the upper floors of renovated buildings on the square.
One of the goals is to bring more housing to the city.
"We hope that it will help change the face of the downtown. Obviously the more people that you have in the downtown area and the more buildings you can create sustainability for will generate new business and restaurants and keep things active and vibrant which is what we're looking for to achieve," said Doug Dixon, Main Street Bloomfield President.
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Dr. Kathy Becker-Blease
Kathy Becker-Blease, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Psychological Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5303
Phone: (541) 737-1362
Dr. Becker-Blease earned her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Oregon in 2002, with an emphasis in developmental traumatology. She completed a 2-year post-doctoral internship at the Family Research Lab/Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. Before coming to OSU, Dr. Becker-Blease taught at Washington State University Vancouver.
Areas of Interest
- Child abuse and trauma across the lifespan
- Ethical methods for researching and teaching about trauma and other difficult topics
Selected Publications
Barlow, M. R. & Becker-Blease, K. A. (under review) Caring for Our Students and Ourselves in Courses with Potentially Threatening Content.
Becker-Blease, K.A., Turner, H. A. & Finkelhor, D. (2010). Disasters, victimization and children's mental health. Child Development. Special Issue on Children and Disasters, 81, 1040 – 1052.
Becker-Blease, K. A. & Freyd, J. J. (2006). Participants telling the truth about their lives: The ethics of asking and not asking about abuse. American Psychologist, 6, 3, 218-226.
Becker-Blease, K. A., Deater-Deckard, K., Freyd, J. J., Eley, T., Stevenson, J. & Plomin, R. (2004). A genetic analysis of dissociative behaviors in childhood and adolescence. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 45, 522-532.


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Manager, Global Diversity & Inclusion
American Express
Major: Religion
What I love most about my work: Leveraging multicultural insight and perspective to drive marketplace strategy and organic business growth.
Major challenges: Getting business leaders to recognize diversity and inclusion as real business differentiators. It's about more than just hiring more women and minorities—it's about giving every employee the opportunity to realize their full potential, which in turn drives innovation, profitability and growth.
How a Dickinson education prepared me: Dickinson challenged me to step outside of my comfort zone and beyond the boundaries that I had set for myself. I developed the confidence to take risks and learned to trust my instincts—these are lessons that have yielded tremendous rewards in my professional and personal life.
Why I chose Dickinson: I enjoyed the distinct privilege of attending college as a Posse Scholar. Prior to being chosen by the Posse Foundation, I had never heard of Dickinson. The opportunity to attend Dickinson College changed my life.
My favorite professor: Ted Pulcini is one of the most brilliant and compassionate people I've ever met. He is an incredibly passionate educator who brings the best out of his students. The world is a better place with him in it, and he remains a close friend and mentor to this day.
My favorite activities at Dickinson: Being a member of the football team and the D-Tones. Both experiences enriched my college experience and introduced me to life-long friends.
My favorite spot on campus: Biddle Field—I spent countless hours with my best friends doing what we loved most.
What I'm most proud of at Dickinson: Walking at graduation with every member of my Posse.
What I'm most proud of today: One of my biggest role models once told me, 'If you're not doing what you love, then you're not sharing all that you have to offer with the world." Those words changed my life. I strive to do what I love and refuse to compromise, because I believe that is the only way I'll ever achieve my true potential. This realization is my proudest accomplishment because it's been the driving force behind the best choices I've ever made.
How I stay connected to Dickinson: Through my closest friends and mentors that are still active in campus life. I also attend Homecoming & Family Weekend and just participated in my five-year class reunion.


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This spike has occurred with both domestic and imported products, as consumers' appetite for cheese continues to grow and they become more knowledgeable and fussier about their choices. Note the numbers:
The cheese buy
With ever-expanding choices, how can you make cheese purchases that will satisfy your needs and your customers' tastes? "Functionality and convenience are the bottom line for most foodservice operators," advises Kirsten Jaeckle, marketing manager for Roth Kase, a Wisconsin cheese company. "Ask yourself, 'Does this cheese do what I want it to do in my menu applications?'"
Many purchases are no-brainers—pizza concepts must buy mozzarella, and burger joints sliced American or cheddar cheese. Although almost every concept orders a certain amount of these commodity cheeses, purveyors are adding value and excitement to the standards. In addition to the traditional timesaving forms (shredded, sliced and cubed), foodservice customers can order custom blends of two or more cheeses, such as cheddar and Monterey jack, in the proportions desired. Roth Kase offers a new "slice on slice" program, in which the slices of cheese are stacked without paper to eliminate waste, yet peel apart easily. Havarti, Gruyere, Swiss and cheddar are among the 13 varieties in the program.
Most recently, this company started selling cheese board kits to assist the increasing number of restaurants that are menuing cheese plates. "We select three to five complementary cheeses and bundle them together, sometimes with dried fruits and nuts," Jaeckle says. "An operator doesn't have to commit to buying a full wheel or log and it takes the guesswork out of composing a cheese plate."
On the menu
Cheese with strong flavors, such as Blue and Feta, are becoming the most popular cheeses on the menu, according to consumer research from the California Milk Advisory Board. "Americans say they are eating more flavorful cheese and that they will pay a premium for cheese with more flavor," says Tricia Heinrich, a vice president with CMAB. A 2007 Technomic MenuMonitor research report backs up those findings. Here's what's being served:
Top 10 most popular specialty cheeses
Blue cheese
Flavored cheeses (i.e. Pepper Jack)
Asiago and Mozzarella (tied)
Aged cheddar
Top 5 menu items using cheese
Q&A with Francesca Elfner
BelGioioso Cheese, Denmark, Wisconsin, maker of Italian specialty cheeses
Q. What trends are you addressing in your product line?
A. We're focusing on artisanal cheeses. The newest introductions are burrata, a fresh mozzarella filled with cream; crescenza, a fresh, rindless cheese with a mild, milky flavor; and Italico, a soft table cheese with a smooth, earthy flavor. Since our cheese maker is from Italy, these are very authentic even though they are produced in the United States.
Q. How can foodservice customers work with cheese makers to customize products?
A. Just ask. Several manufacturers are going in this direction. BelGioioso does custom blends of Italian cheeses to fit operators' specs, such as a 63 percent parmesan/37 percent asiago mix, and we package cheese in many forms—crumbled, grated, cubed, shredded and most recently, shaved. And when customers ask us to age a cheese a little longer or a little less, we can oblige.
Q. What issues should operators be aware of to become smarter cheese buyers?
A. Food safety is very important to consumers right now. Work with suppliers that offer tours of their facilities, conduct third party audits and can trace products.
Q. Are broadline distributors offering more specialty cheeses?
A. Sysco has a new service called ChefEx geared to specialty and artisanal cheeses. Operators pay Sysco directly and BelGioioso or another company is then responsible for shipping out specialty cheeses right to the restaurant.
Q. How can a restaurant preserve the integrity and freshness of a cheese once it's delivered?
A. Cheese is a living thing and must breathe properly. It's important to monitor temperature and oxygen transfer so the cheese stays properly moist and doesn't dry out. The right packaging can help; paper wrappings absorb some of the moisture and plastic keeps it moist. For creamy, fresh cheeses like gorgonzola, crescenza and blue, I suggest refrigerating at 34 to 38°F., keeping both paper and plastic around the cheese. Hard cheeses like grana and parmesan should be stored at 40 to 50°F. Cut off what you need with clean utensils then wrap the cheese with stretch plastic.


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10:25pm Saturday 1st September 2012 in Sport By Paul Green
CHARLTON manager Chris Powell admitted his side could have few complaints with today's 2-1 defeat at Nottingham Forest.
The newly-promoted Addicks lost their first Championship game of the season after being undone by Lewis McGugan's first half free-kick and Sam Hutchinson's decisive 75th minute strike.
Substitute Ricardo Fuller caught the eye after coming on for the final 10 minutes and saw his 88th minute header go in off the bar and then Forest keeper Lee Camp.
But that didn't hide the fact Charlton were second best for long periods, something Powell was honest enough to put his hands up to afterwards.
He said: "We are obviously disappointed because I felt over the 90 minutes we were beaten by the better team, no doubt about that.
"The first half display wasn't good enough but there was a response somewhat in the second period.
"Their second goal, whether there was a foul on Rhoys Wiggins possibly?
"Even the first goal the free-kick I felt shouldn't have been given against Chris Solly but you've got to defend better for both goals.
"But there was a response from the boys in the second half in the last 20 minutes.
"We got the goal eventually and then w are chasing it putting them on the back foot but I've no complaints with it really, we were beaten by a better team today."
Powell added: "Forest are a good side, they've got some players of Premier League quality, let alone Championship but so have I.
"They moved the ball around well.
"At times we didn't really come to terms with it but I felt we were good enough to come and make a proper game of it but we only done that really in fits and starts in the second half.
"It is 90 minutes and they've got to do it over the course of the game.
"That's just how it has gone today but we will dust ourselves down, we've got a terrific game to look forward to in 13 days time so we will make sure we are ready for a big south London derby.
"We've got time now to get over any knocks. It is our first defeat and it was always going to happen over the course of a season but we will be OK."
Forest's opener was particularly disappointing from a Charlton perspective as McGugan's whipped in free-kick from the left beat everyone including keeper Ben Hamer on its way into the net.
Powell refused to comment on the poor defending having not seen the TV replay but added lessons would be learned quickly on the training pitch once he had identified what had gone wrong.
He said: "I'm always disappointed with any goal we concede.
"Once I see it again I can make a better comment on it but it has gone straight in so something must have happened and we've got to correct that if there is any real faults from the defender or the keeper."
On the positive impact made by Fuller, Powell added: "He is nowhere near ready.
"I just feel he has shown us enough in training, he has been willing to do extra work and he has got that Premier League quality.
"I think you saw that as soon as he came on – he held the ball up, got people into play and that's what you've got to do with a player like him.
"I felt he would give us something and he certainly did whether that goal is given to him - I hope it is - or an own goal for Lee Camp.
"But we need to do that longer periods and we never done that today.
"Forest I felt played very, very well in the first period so I've got no complaints in that respect."
Charlton now have almost two weeks to prepared for the south east London grudge match with former landlords Crystal Palace and Powell is determined to make the most of the luxury afforded to his side after three unwanted seasons in League One.
"It is the first one we've had for many a year," he said.
"We've just got to use the time wisely.
"We might miss one or two, Ricardo might be going away.
"We've got Crystal Palace on the Friday and we will make sure we get them training right, doing the right things and the correct things on how we can get better and make sure we are right for that game."
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Samsung SN-324F SFF Combo, v.U206, A01
This is a DOS based firmware flash utility that will update the Samsung SN-324F (Dell Part number J1226) to firmware revision U206.
Release Date: | 2/28/2005 |
Importance: | Recommended |
Version: | U206,A01 |
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This is a DOS based firmware flash utility that will update the Samsung SN-324F (Dell Part number J1226) to firmware revision U206.
Level of Importance:Recommended
Dell recommends applying this update during your next scheduled update cycle. The update contains feature enhancements or changes that will help keep your system software current and compatible with other system modules (firmware, BIOS, drivers and software).
Important Information
The executable will extract files needed to flash the drive in a DOS environment. These files need to be copied to a bootable DOS Floppy diskette or bootable Memory Key. The executable does not create MS-DOS system files. This flash will update the drive's firmware to U206. You must remove the floppy diskette or bootable Memory Key and power cycle the system before using the drive.
If the firmware re-flash fails (e.g., system hangs, etc.), power cycle the system and try again.
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This firmware resolves a compatibility issue with the SN-324F when booting to DVD media on particular Systems/Servers.
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The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition
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Date: December 1999
Creator: Evans, Dennis F.
Description: The dissertation argues that the development of the British abolition movement was based on the abolitionists' perception that their actions were kairotic; they attempted to shape their own kairos by taking temporal events and reinterpreting them to construct a kairotic process that led to a perceived fulfillment: abolition. Thus, the dissertation examines the rhetorical strategies used by white abolitionists to construct an abolitionist kairos that was designed to produce salvation for white Britons more than it was to help free blacks. The dissertation especially examines the three major texts produced by black persons living in England during the late eighteenth centuryIgnatius Sancho's Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho (1782), Ottobauh Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), and Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)to illustrate how black rhetoric was appropriated by whites to fulfill their own kairotic desires. By examining the rhetorical strategies employed in both white and black rhetorics, the dissertation illustrates how the abolitionists thought the movement was shaped by, and how they were shaping the movement through, kairotic time. While the dissertation contends that the abolition movement was rhetorically designed to provide redemption, ...
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AGenesis: A Novel
Date: December 2007
Creator: Snoek-Brown, Samuel Jeremiah
Description: AGenesis is a novel of "postmortal fiction" set entirely in an afterlife. Nessie, a recently dead woman, accidentally kills an already-dead man, and in the confusion that follows, sets out to discover how he could have died and what after-afterlife he might have gone to. During her travels, she is raped and then help captive by a city of tormented souls; she descends into madness until rescued by children, and she and her newborn but "undead" daughter set out again, this time to find the end of the afterlife. Nessie's daughter eventually seeks a way to enter a living world she's never known, while Nessie tries to end her suffering and find peace.
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Always Painting the Future: Utopian Desire and the Women's Movement in Selected Works by United States Female Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Date: August 2009
Creator: Balic, Iva
Description: This study explores six utopias by female authors written at the turn of the twentieth century: Mary Bradley Lane's Mizora (1881), Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant's Unveiling Parallel (1893), Eloise O. Richberg's Reinstern (1900), Lena J. Fry's Other Worlds (1905), Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915), and Martha Bensley Bruère's Mildred Carver, USA (1919). While the right to vote had become the central, most important point of the movement, women were concerned with many other issues affecting their lives. Positioned within the context of the late nineteenth century women's rights movement, this study examines these "sideline" concerns of the movement such as home and gender-determined spheres, motherhood, work, marriage, independence, and self-sufficiency and relates them to the transforming character of female identity at the time. The study focuses primarily on analyzing the expression of female historical desire through utopian genre and on explicating the contradictory nature of utopian production.
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"Among Waitresses": Stories and Essays
Date: May 2010
Creator: Hobbs, Jessica
Description: The following collection represents the critical and creative work produced during my doctoral program in English. The dissertation consists of Part I, a critical preface, and Part II, a collection of seven short stories and two nonfiction essays. Part I, which contains the critical preface entitled "What to Say and How to Say It," examines the role of voice in discussions of contemporary literature. The critical preface presents a definition of voice and identifies examples of voice-driven writing in contemporary literature, particularly from the work of Mary Robison, Dorothy Allison, and Kathy Acker. In addition, the critical preface also discusses how the use of flavor, tone, and content contribute to voice, both in work of famous authors and in my own writing. In Part II of my dissertation, I present the creative portion of my work. Part II contains seven works of short fiction, titled "Among Waitresses," "The Lion Tamer," "Restoration Services," "Hospitality," "Blood Relation," "Managerial Timber," and "Velma A Cappella." Each work develops a voice-driven narrative through the use of flavor, tone, and content. Also, two nonfiction essays, titled "Fentanyl and Happy Meals" and "Tracks," close out the collection. "Fentanyl and Happy Meals" describes the impact of methamphetamine addiction ...
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
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Date: August 1999
Creator: Erickson, Stacy M.
Description: In this dissertation, I show how 20th century African-American women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in two important ways: the first function of animal as trope is a pragmatic one, which serves to express the humanity of African Americans; and the second function of animal tropes in African-American women's fiction is relational and expresses these writers' "ethic of caring" that stems from their folk and womanist world view. Found primarily in slave narratives and in domestic fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries, pragmatic animal metaphors and/or similes provide direct analogies between the treatment of African-Americans and animals. Here, these writers often engage in rhetoric that challenges pro-slavery apologists, who attempted to disprove the humanity of African-Americans by portraying them as animals fit to be enslaved. Animals, therefore, become the metaphor of both the abolitionist and the slavery apologist for all that is not human. The second function of animals-as-trope in the fiction of African-American women writers goes beyond the pragmatic goal of proving African-Americans's common humanity, even ...
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Anne Brontë's New Women: Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Precursors of New Woman Fiction
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Date: August 2001
Creator: Phillips, Jennifer K.
Description: Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were published more than forty years before the appearance of the feminist type that the Victorians called the "New Woman;" yet, both novels contain characteristics of New Woman fiction. By considering how Brontë's novels foreshadow New Woman fiction, the reader of these novels can re-enact the "gentlest" Brontë as an influential feminist whose ideology informed the construction of the radical New Woman. Brontë, like the New Woman writers, incorporated autobiographical dilemmas into her fiction. By using her own experiences as a governess, Brontë constructs Agnes Grey's incongruent social status and a morally corrupt gentry and aristocracy through her depiction of not only Agnes's second employers, the Murrays, but also the morally debauched world that Helen enters upon her marriage to Arthur Huntingdon in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Moreover, Brontë incorporates her observations of Branwell's alcoholism and her own religious beliefs into The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Although Brontë's novels contain autobiographical material, her heroines are fictional constructions that she uses to engage her readers with the woman question. Brontë accomplishes this engagement through her heroines' narrative re-enactments of fictional autobiographical dilemmas. Helen's diary and Agnes's diary-based narrative produce the ...
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Date: August 2012
Creator: Bowen, Ashley Hamilton
Description: This dissertation contains two parts: Part I, which discusses the elegy of possessive intent, a subgenre of the contemporary American elegy; and Part II, Antigravity, a collection of poems. English elegies have been closely rooted to a specific grief, making the poems closer to occasional poems. The poet—or at least the poet's speaker—seeks some kind of public consolation for (often) a private loss. The Americanized form does stray from the traditional elegy yet retains some of its characteristics. Some American elegies memorialize failed romantic relationships rather than the dead. In their memorials, these speakers seek a completion for the lack the broken relationship has created in the speakers' lives. What they can't replace, they substitute with something personal. As the contemporary poem becomes further removed from tradition, it's no surprise that the elegy has evolved as well. Discussions of elegies have never ventured into the type of elegy that concerns itself with the sort of unacknowledged loss found in some contemporary American poems of unrequited love. These poems all have speakers who willfully refuse to acknowledge the loss of their love-objects and strive to maintain control/ownership of their beloveds even in the face of rejection.
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Anything Like Us
Date: August 2002
Creator: Roth, Matthew
Description: Anything Like Us is a collection of poems with a critical introduction. In this introduction, I explore modern alternatives to Romantic and Neo-Romantic lyric expression. I conclude that a contemporary lyric that desires to be, in some fashion, about itself, must exhibit an acceptance of the mediating influences of time and language, while cultivating an inter-subjective point-of-view that does not insist too much on the authority of a single, coherent voice. The poems in Anything Like Us reflect, in both form and content, many of the conclusions advanced in the introduction. Nearly all the poems concern the desire for, and failure to find, meaningful connections in an uncertain world .
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Asleep in the Arms of God
Date: December 1999
Creator: Clay, Kevin M.
Description: A work of creative fiction in the form of a short novel, Asleep in the Arms of God is a limited-omniscient and omniscient narrative describing the experiences of a man named Wafer Roberts, born in Jack County, Texas, in 1900. The novel spans the years from 1900 to 1925, and moves from the Keechi Valley of North Texas, to Fort Worth and then France during World War One, and back again to the Keechi Valley. The dissertation opens with a preface, which examines the form of the novel, and regional and other aspects of this particular work, especially as they relate to the postmodern concern with fragmentation and conditional identity. Wafer confronts in the novel aspects of his own questionable history, which echo the larger concern with exploitative practices including racism, patriarchy, overplanting and overgrazing, and pollution, which contribute to and climax in the postmodern fragmentation. The novel attempts to make a critique of the exploitative rage of Western civilization.
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Blurring the Lines between Instructor-Led and Online Learning: an evaluation of an online composition curriculum on the bleeding edge
Date: August 2007
Creator: Deranger, Brant
Description: The contemporary classroom currently faces an evolving world of computer based training, online courses, instructor-led learning and several blended approaches in-between. With the increased presence of computers and communication in every facet of students' lives, students have changed to adapt to the continuous presence of technology in their daily lives. These recent rapid developments have changed the relationship between technology and communication. Indeed, communication and technology have become linked to such a degree that it is difficult to differentiate one from the other, thereby altering our rhetorical situation as instructors. Instructors can no longer deny the presence of technology in the contemporary classroom, much less in the contemporary composition classroom. This case study serves as a post-modern analysis of the technology based blended classroom. A gap exists between what online learning is (being) today and what it is (becoming) tomorrow. This dissertation explores the gap by examining two rich data sources: online visitor navigational patterns and instructor interviews. The fundamental ideas that this text explores are the following: - Web server logs and PHP logs can be analyzed to yield relevant information that assists in the design, architecture, and administration of online and blended learning courses. - Technology in the ...
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TRAINING CAMP DEPTH CHART 2012-2013--Free Agent Round-up
Two Months to training Camp
Depth chart
Guard---Grevis Vasquez, Austin Rivers ?????Brian Roberts, Barbosa, Jordan Farmar, Janniero Pargo, Johnny Flynn, Mike Bibby
S. Guard---Eric Gordon, Roger Mason Jr, Xavier Henry, Austin Rivers
????Josh Howard, Tracy Mcgrady, Dam. James, Sam Young (Athlete) G-SF'S
S. Forward---AL-AMINU or Ryan Anderson,Hakim Warrick, Darius Miller
P. Forward---Anthony Davis, Ryan Anderson, Lance Thomas
Center----Jason Smith, Robin Lopez, Ryan Anderson ??????Hassan Whiteside, Darko Milicic, Chris Andersen, Denzel Bowles
Everything depends on Coach Monty rotation....need to add a Center, Guard-Forward
almost every thread posted turns into this
Eh he has 2 post.. Everyone's getting set for 2k release
2000-2001 Western Conference Finals|2001-2002 Pacific Division Champs |Western Conference Finals| 2002-2003 Pacific Division Champs| 2005-2006 Pacific Division Champs| NBA Champions | 2006-2007 Pacific Division Champs | NBA Finals
LOL. what is supposed to be different about it than 2k12?
i wonder what davis' rating is.
Only 2 months but I ready for the season longtime jazz & hornet fan
2012/13 Team Roster
PG: Vasquez,Rivers,Roberts*
SG: Gordon,Mason, Henry
SF: Aminu, Warrick, Miller
PF: Davis, Anderson, Thomas*
C: Lopez, Smith, Whiteside*
* Inactive players
Eric Gordon is ready
Via Twitter
@TheofficialEG10 I'm so ready for this season to start. About 7 weeks till training camp. IM READY.
Yay positivity from EJ.
My body is ready too son.
This and it's suppose to be better than 2k12
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TV and stage star Linda Lavin returns to the world of New York cabaret with a new show at the swanky 54 Below. Get a preview of Lavin's eclectic set and find out why she has the hots for her drummer.
The beloved '60s group The Rascals is back! The band is playing a limited Broadway engagement of their new show Once Upon a Dream. Hear from the guys all about what makes this "bio-concert" unlike anything fans have seen before.
April 17, 2013Motown The Musical is looking for new faces to join the Broadway and national tour casts, so we hit the open call to find out what motivated these aspiring actors to audition (and before they wow the casting director, they wowed us with a preview!).
September 17, 2013Susan Blackwell and Paul Wontorek interview 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winners, nominees and presenters at the VIP after-party.
May 9, 2013As music legends watched their stories take the stage at Motown: The Musical, Valisia LeKae, Brandon Victor Dixon and the rest of the cast dished about the backstage buzz before their big opening night on Broadway.
April 16, 2013Nothing to Hide, a show created by magicians Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimaraes, will play a limited NYC run this fall at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Find out why director Neil Patrick Harris was drawn to it like a moth to a light!
October 21, 2013Patina Miller, Matthew James Thomas and the cast of Pippin had magic to do on April 25, when the new circus-inspired revival officially opened on Broadway! Celebrate opening night with the stars of the fresh revival.
April 26, 2013The pop-opera quartet Il Divo is heading to the Great White Way in A Musical Affair, a new celebration of all things Broadway, on November 7. See the guys chat about their musical fandom, special guest Heather Headley and more.
September 20, 2013Tony nominee Adam Pascal and Christine Pedi are the newest additions to Chicago's celebrated Murderers Row! Find out what makes the Broadway vets sizzle as sly lawyer Billy Flynn and the mighty Matron "Mama" Morton.
April 10, 2013Kinky Boots writers Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein accept their Favorite Musical trophy with stars Billy Porter, Stark Sands and Annaleigh Ashford and producer Daryl Roth.
May 7, 2013The electric new musical Kinky Boots is prepping for its pre-Broadway debut in Chicago, but before it goes, the cast and creative team blew the roof off the New 42nd Street Studios in this exciting preview.
September 14, 2012Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor, stars of Second Stage Theatre's revival of The Last Five Years, are celebrating the release of their cast recording at 54 Below in concert! Hear from them and composer Jason Robert Brown about what fans can expect!
October 15, 2013The Book of Mormon Tony winner Nikki M. James talks to Broadway.com about her "nerve-wracking" cabaret debut at 54 Below and offers fans a taste of her diverse set list.
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Milk (15)
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Time Out says
Tue Jan 20 2009
Gus Van Sant has emerged from the bold experiments of his last four films to make a more conventional but no less daring, intelligent or thrilling film about America's first openly gay elected politician, Harvey Milk. Partly a joyful document of San Francisco's 1970s gay movement as seen through the life and work of one local civil rights campaigner, 'Milk' is also a memorial to a coming-together of people under one flag and a punch in the face of those who still hold back the pace of progress with initiatives like the recent Proposition 8. By making a film that's solidly political but also touchingly personal, Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have achieved something similar to Larry Kramer's Aids play 'The Normal Heart' in the mid-'80s: a story of campaigners that puts real gay relationships, and the conflict between public protest and private love, at its heart. Only this time it's the death of one man, not thousands, that colours the drama.Milk was an exuberant New Yorker who moved to San Francisco in his early forties, opened a camera store in the city's burgeoning gay district and, on his third attempt in 1977, was elected to the board of city supervisors. Milk served only 11 months before he and the city's liberal mayor George Moscone were shot in their offices, but he built a strong reputation, not least as a voice in opposition to senator John Briggs's Proposition 6, aiming to ban gays from teaching in schools.
Milk's death inspired a candlelit march on the streets of San Francisco, and in 1984 initiated an Oscar-winning documentary by Robert Epstein from which Van Sant takes many prompts. You can see, too, that Sean Penn has closely studied Milk's slightly awkward physical presence and upbeat attitude. Van Sant's cinematographer, Harris Savides, also takes his cue from the archive: there's so much real and recreated news footage in the film that he develops an evocative, grainy palette of muted colours to match it. Yet while documentary-style realism is mostly the order of the day Van Sant also mixes in more impressionistic, often music-filled moments, especially when focusing on Milk's love life. Location is key: the filmmakers shot in the streets of San Francisco, so we enjoy the same powerful sense of place as we did with the house in 'Last Days', or the high school in 'Elephant'.
Van Sant reveals Milk's death at the beginning, before leaping back to New York and his first encounter with partner Scott (James Franco). From there he plays it straight, only jumping forward to show Milk dictating a tape to be played in the event of his death. Tragedy is woven into the film's lining, but the filmmakers avoid laying on any ideas of destiny or martyrdom, giving as much due to the movement as the man. The story is sad, but the mood is jubilant and the energy relentless.
Penn is a revelation as Milk. He's always been a no-holds-barred actor, but this is another departure: his energy drives the story. Josh Brolin impresses, too, as Dan White, Milk's conflicted conservative colleague at City Hall. But it's also a great ensemble piece: Milk surrounded himself with friends, and actors like Emile Hirsch and Diego Luna add colour to a film that shows politics can offer more than one definition of the word 'party'.
Author: Dave Calhoun
Release details
UK release:
Fri Jan 23, 2009
128 mins
Cast and crew
Alison Pill, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Sean Penn, Diego Luna, James Franco, Victor Garber, Joseph Cross
Reviews & ratings
A wonderful film, brilliantly acted and uplifting. Penn was superb, as were the rest of the cast. It is a film that conveys tolerance and love and is quite moving at times, a thoroughly enjoyable and worthwhile way to spend a couple of hours.
Sutton Sun Mar 1 2009Rated as: 5/5 -
Sam Mon Feb 16 2009 -
I'm guessing Eddie is an action-film fan. You like all explosions and no exposition right? Let me guess... Rambo is your favourite film? No wait... Under Siege maybe?? Opinions are like a**holes - everyone has one. (You can work the rest out yourself.)
Marsellus Mon Feb 16 2009 -
Come on lets be honest this has got to be one of the most boring film s ever made. TT/AL/Marsellus and Tony you really must try and meet up and give each other a cuddle cos I feel so sorry for you if this film has been the highlight of your year you really need to get out more.
Eddie Sun Feb 15 2009 -
This is the first biopic film in recent history where I was moved by how the person lived his life rather than how the actors delivered true-to-life performance. Until this film was released, I didn't know about Harvey Milk or how he created the force of the movement out of his feeling that he hadn't achieved anything he was proud of on his 40th birthday.
The film was filled with conversations that anyone from minority background can identify with. Feeling persecuted, afraid and powerless, they managed to channel that into a big social momentum and movement. I notice that there are several people here who gave a big thumbs down to this film, but I guess they must be from a truly privileged background who felt no reason to stand up to challenge the system although I understand that sometimes you need to be in the right frame of mind to appreciate a film like this.
If you are a gay, lesbian or bisexual, just shut up and go and see it. You'll definitely find something to take home with. I certainly better appreciate the liberty and general social acceptance we take for granted today and how fragile these can be given the history of the fight they had to fight so hard.TT Sat Feb 14 2009Rated as: 5/5 -
I don't know how anyone can say this film is boring or uninteresting, especially after 1 min, what did you actually see?. The direction from Gus was great and more accessible than his recent work, the acting, the portrayal of a time partly achieved by the interspersing of real clips, and the structure were brilliant. But perhaps most importantly the film was just damn enjoyable and far more interesting and engaging than all the other oscar nominations I have seen including The Reader which was a bit shit, samey and un-authentic, and slumdog millionaire which might be the best film of the year for a 10 year old who likes a fairytale "dressed up" with violence, bangin' tunes, plot devices that don't quite work, fast camera action and a nicely resolved happy bollywood dance number ending despite charting every level of child degradation possible, to keep them entertained... Maybe you would have been better off booking tickets for slumdog.
It wasn't like this was even a slow or long film, e.g. The curious case of Benjamin button, it is around the same length as both mentioned and was filled with things happening whilst still allowing you to invest emotionally in the characters and their situation. And I thought as a political drama had far more to say and document than frost/Nixon. I thought it was a brilliant film in a year of shit oscar nominations, mind you, some of you will probably be wondering why the new Friday 13th wasn't nominated.al Thu Feb 12 2009Rated as: 5/5 -
master piece of total junk**.. I left the movie after 1min
boris Tue Feb 10 2009Rated as: 1/5 -
Great film. Have seen 3 of the 5 Oscar nominees for Best Film, the other two being Slumdog and Frost/ Nixon. So far, this is my pick for the award. A tragic, yet uplifiting story, propelled by great performances all round.
Marsellus Tue Feb 10 2009Rated as: 5/5 -
Wonderful. The acting, especially, particularly Sean Penn and the consistently underrated Josh Brolin, both of whom deserve Oscars (Brolin will almost certainly lose to a ghost, but he shouldn't.)
Nina Sun Feb 8 2009Rated as: 5/5 -
An inspiring film which makes you realise what can be achieved with total belief in what you want to achieve.
Sean Penn was magnetic and totally convincing and it portrayed the sacrifices Harvey Milk had to make. The photography making some scenes appear dated and the introduction of footage of some of the actual events was a stroke of genius. I was enthralled right through the movie - I laughed & I cried and I realised at the end that the film potrayed Milk as a great man in the mould of Ghandi & King giving his life to what he absolutely believed in.Tony Ward Sun Feb 1 2009Rated as: 5/5
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Dr. Toon: The Avengers Dis-assembled
Hey, readers, seen any good movies lately?
Sure you have. You were part of the multi-million throng that watched the Avengers thrash the stuffings out of Loki and his loathsome alien allies over the past weeks. With what should be the highest-grossing box office totals in history, the Superbly Super Six have become the supreme expression of what action entertainment strives for. Why am I focusing on The Avengers this month? Simple. The Avengers is an animated film, albeit one that has live actors running around in it (when not bitching at each other or learning how to play as a team). If one were to take all the computer-generated work out of this film, you would have a few people in funny costumes staring up in the air at nothing, a guy in a black coat wearing an eye patch, and a Hulk the size of Mark Ruffalo, no matter how loud he roared.
The Avengers is yet another textbook example of animation reflecting the society and times it was made in. This is a film for audiences of the 2010s, the generation that rarely looks up from various permutations of phones and pads that seem to be cybernetically grafted to their palms wherever they go. The Avengers, especially when presented in IMAX 3D format, is one of the few distractions that can actually surpass today's video games or pull a youg'un away from tumbling between texting and Twitter to that ever-updated Facebook page.
Of course, in order for a film do this, it has to be as technologically advanced as the distractions it's up against, and this is perhaps the most cogent point understood by director Joss Wheeden: Unless you are the biggest, loudest movie in the multiplex with the most SFX wow packed into your feature, your audience will find more entertainment on their PCs, planning to become the next viral video millionaire. A filmmaker cannot simply give audiences "the Avengers" in 2012. The movie must be THE AVENGERS, complete with gargantuan helicarriers, mechanized flying Loch Ness monsters as imagined by H.R. Giger, and cities devastated by battle until nothing larger than a Lego block remains intact. The movie, as we saw it on the screen, is the only way an Avengers movie could succeed in 2012.
There is admittedly more to the film than mere presentation. Besides being a resounding cultural statement about our preferred modes of entertainment, The Avengers is a very good film, even if nobody did shout out "Avengers Assemble!" Besides having outstanding SFX, the movie solved the problem of having multiple cardboard do-gooders by giving four of the Avengers individual feature films before hype for the team-up ever began. The audience felt theyalready knew the heroes before the Avengers initiative went into effect.
A case could also be made for the film as a national panacea, coming as it does after a decade of American futility on foreign battlefields. Our antagonist often seemed to be a foreign nation's religious ideology. (Think of the Asgardian Loki as a stand-in). Captain America could then be interpreted as this nation's spirit of democracy (as in nation-building), the Hulk as America's unstoppable military power, Iron Man as the USA's technological superiority, and Thor as the idea that the "right" God is on "our" side. Cast SHIELD in the role of our national security apparatus. The parallels are tempting, but take us too far afield; I am more interested in examining The Avengers as an animated film, which it undoubtedly is.


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Ultra-Lean Bacon Cheeseburger
Bacon cheeseburgers are a guilty pleasure. But this recipe from Devin Alexander, the ingenious chef behind books like The Most Decadent Diet Ever!, will prevent you from being convicted of bad eating. "Just don't cheat when buying your beef," says Alexander. "This burger is made with 96% lean meat. Some people think buying 93% lean is about the same, but you gain calories and fat."
Skillet Mac & Cheese With Ham & Spinach
A delicious and nutritious recipe that anyone can make.
Couscous with Currants & Almonds
This recipe uses dried currants, but any dried fruit will taste great here. Just make sure larger fruits are chopped into raisin-size pieces.
Grilled Lamb Riblets
Lamb is generally available year round. The small, T-bone-shaped chops in this recipe cook very consistently — two minutes per side for rare and three minutes per side for medium rare over medium-high heat.


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PROFILE of the Sea: Tells about the layers of sediment on the floor of the ocean. In the shallower parts of the open Atlantic, there are patches of ooze composed of the remains of swimming snails called pteropods. These winged mollusks, many of them possessing transparent shells of great beauty are here and there incredible abundant. Pteropod ooze is the characteristic deposit in the vicinity of Bermuda, and large patch occurs in the South Atlantic.
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Rachel Carson, Profiles, "THE SEA: THE ABYSS.," The New Yorker, June 9, 1951, p. 34
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Niki Alvarez
Lynn chose Niki Alvarez as its first women's swimming and women's cross country coach. Alvarez was an assistant men's and women's swimming coach at Florida Atlantic for eight previous seasons and has 12 years of coaching experience overall. Both programs will begin competition in 2012-13.
Other transactions
Associate athletics directors – South Carolina named Chris Rogers associate athletics director for compliance. Rogers comes from Ohio State, where he was assistant athletics director for compliance since 2007.
Football assistants – Auburn cornerbacks coach Phillip Lolley will move into an administrative role within the football program. Lolley has been on the Tigers' staff in various roles since 1999 … Misericordia named Mike Hatcher offensive coordinator. Hatcher, formerly the offensive line coach at Ithaca, will also coach the quarterbacks while serving as assistant coordinator of athletics operations … South Alabama rounded out its coaching staff with the addition of Jerry Mack as wide receivers coach. Mack held the same role at Memphis last season … Texas State hired Jeff Conway as its co-offensive coordinator, running backs coach and tight ends coach. Conway was most recently assistant head coach and wide receivers coach at Sam Houston State … Third-year tight ends coach Brent Myers is now UNLV's offensive coordinator, while third-year secondary coach J.D. Williams takes over as defensive coordinator.
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from HelloGiggles.com |
This time, I'm being a bit selfish with this project. I'm eager to learn how to love myself just a little more.
I know, you're thinking 'Hillary - for real? Life coach? Get real!'
I may not believe EVERYTHING these coaches have to offer but the very base of what they believe aligns with my beliefs: in order to be successful - you need to know what you're worth.
Think about it - in love, if you don't love yourself you will likely wind up with someone who doesn't really love you. In business, if you don't know how much your work is worth, you'll be underpaid and over worked. In projects with others, lack of self confidence can lead others to walk all over you because they know they can.
I know what I'm worth and I do love myself but I don't always love what I look like. I don't always love how I feel. I don't always feel worthy.
I won't get all sad on you and I don't want you to think I have low self esteem - I don't. I think VERY highly of myself! Borderline narcissistic even. BUT I'd like you to consider what you'd be capable of if you REALLY loved yourself - truly and unconditionally.
I spent three years of middle school and four years of high school being told I wasn't worthy of anything. Kids are cruel and it took me just about seven years to adjust my thinking YET I can still hear the taunts and they hurt just as much as they did at age 16.
This is why I want the I ♥ Myself Project to be a HUGE success! It's a free class - look into it.
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the_great_one wrote:Welcome to The Roleplay gcg!!!
Come back soon Nathan!!!
I'm back!
Wow, some new members and more pictures of characters
I've got some updating to do!
the_great_one wrote:Welcome to The Roleplay gcg!!!
Come back soon Nathan!!!
the_great_one wrote:A small raft approached the side of the Shadow, it seemed to be a small boat, with 4 pirates aboard it, they threw a ladder up to the ship and drew there cutlasss and boarded the ship. Only Drakko was on the deck but Bjarn immediatley came, followed by Barbod and willem. Reno jumbed onto the deck, the group drew there weapons. "ARRRR" a pirate growled at Reno, Reno remembered this pirate as georgie, the guy who stole Renos pendant, Reno leaped at Georgie, slashing wildly at the pirate. The other pirates charged the rest of the group. The misfits easily dispatched the pirates and threw them overboard, Georgie and Reno were still fighting there swords were lying on the deck and the two men were fighting bare handed, Georgie drew a knife and held it to Renos neck. Bjarn was about to fire but Barbod lowered Bjarns bow and told him it was too risky. Georgie pushed Reno overboad, ad georgie followed, the misfits looked down to see Georgie, with Reno, in his boat rowing toward the distance. Towards a very, very distant Hornet.
The misfits had to rescue Reno, now it was personal.
the_great_one wrote:No keep this post!! something.... might happen on the way back to the boat! it may not be FROM the hornet but it may be headed there! Remember Burtrand pushes his pirates, so he may make him row all the way to the hornet..... About Georgie, he was not hung! another pirate was!!
I will change it from a raft to a small small small ship, (the smallest you ever seen!)
Thanks Nathan
lone ranger wrote:okey. the shadow is sinking and I have a boat. and if I am right two ships are after you?, want to meet up after all
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Santa Claus is Coming to the Library on Saturday December 14, 2013 from 10 am to Noon. All ages are welcome to visit with the jolly olde elf, make a simple holiday craft, eat some goodies, and make Santa's team some magical reindeer food! Free program, just drop in anytime. Thank you to Joni Woofter who makes Santas' visit "fly"!
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In a statement to the press recently Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, said that 170 million persons would lose their jobs over the sequester cuts. In reality, there aren't that many jobs in the US. Obviously, she needed to adjust her figures.
The illusion created by your President
Through-out the United States currently we find that federal employees are not actually being laid off at all. Furlough, as stated by the federal spokesman is actually a 30 day notice of a partial reduction in hours employed in the course of a week, perhaps one day out of a five day work week. This is not the catastrophic loss of government jobs and services forecast by the Obama administration.
Playing a game anyone can see through
In another case a federal animal and agricultural inspector actually emailed the White House asking for guidance in how to manage his budget under the aegis of the sequester. He wanted to apply what amounts to the 2 % cut across the board to a number of different departments so as to minimize any effects at all. The response of White House officials was to uphold the position of the administration on sequestration, make the supposed cuts as painful as possible to the American public by utilizing budgeting methods that would maximize the pain felt by US citizens depending on the services of the federal government, and may I add, unnecessarily. This is, once again, a manufactured crisis to attain the desired effect upon the US population to punish them and to teach them that they need the heavy influence of government in their lives!
Where is the sequester nightmare?
That being said, we see no interruption in tax payer funded federal services in air traffic control at airports, in law enforcement, in fire departments, who will remain in vigilance, but we did see the White House put a stop to conducting tours! Ouch! Now there's a particularly essential service that we have suffered the loss of! What else will we be called upon to accept? Will it be the loss of social studies being conducted on terrorist nations hostile to the US or could it be that we will have to languish in ignorance over the studied flight of Frisbees as they go hovering through the air? I just don't know.
When the servant becomes your master
It is clear that our federal government has conveniently forgotten its role in society. That role was to serve the American people based upon the whim of those voters who elect the officials who are supposedly cognizant of the needs of the people. Instead of serving the American tax payer and voter, a distorted perversion of reality has occurred. Somehow, the federal government decided that it was more important than the people whose citizenship and participation make federal jobs and agencies possible. Yet, these federal employees think that they are more entitled to support and income than they Americans whose taxes make federal employees possible. The creator is being challenged by that which he invented. Federal services cannot exist without the American citizen who votes to elect officials, their policies, and therefore creates the demand for such employment. Somewhere this reality got ignored and relegated to the spin doctors of the Obama administration who decided to change the rules and turn the rightful masters of the federal government into its slaves.
Playing America like a piano
To see President Obama surrounding himself with policeman and firefighters whenever he has a public policy speech to make whenever debt ceiling decisions must be made is laughable. Our president would rather manipulate the American people. He would rather pull at our emotions than speak to the reality of the situation, and that is to address the true situation which is government spending. It is not Republicans preventing funds from helping the poor and under privileged. This not Republicans obstructing environmental legislation, this is about a President who refuse to operate within a budget. This is about a party (the Democrats) who must lie, cheat, and misrepresent reality, in order to make their case to the people rather than tell the truth. Why? If Democrats allow objective reality to enter into the picture, the public will see exactly what the truth is, and they will see through the lies that have been used to influence public.
Freeing yourself from the harnesses of tyranny
If the people realize just how well they can do without the federal government, how well they can do without government agencies interfering in their lives, how well they can exist without high taxes and heavy regulations, the spell will be broken. When the people find out they can live better and more prosperously without the Democratic government breathing down their neck with un-needed hand-outs, regulations, and higher taxes, you will have a self-reliant population who are happily independent and don't need the heavy handed influence of liberal federal government. Just like a horse released from its restraints and allowed to graze on his own, so will American citizens when they find how well they can do apart from the suffocating influence of Democratic government policies that make everyone a victim and recipient instead of an independent and self-sufficient person capable of living free of dependency and free to realize his potential!
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48 Hours
Genre: | Action/Adventure, Comedy |
Mood: | Fast-paced, Witty |
Decade: | 1980's |
Country: | United States |
Director: | Walter Hill |
Actor: | Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy |
Actress: | Annette O' Toole |
Release Year: | 1982 |
Studio: | Paramount |
Runtime: | 96 Mins. |
Format: | Color |
Rating: | R |
What It's About:
Gruff, tough-as-nails San Francisco cop Jack Cates (Nolte) wants to track down two cop killers, but he needs help. It turns out wise-cracking convict Reggie Hammond (Murphy) may know where they are, so he gets the state to release Reggie to his custody for exactly 48 hours. The problem is: cop and crook instantly loathe each other. Trawling the city squabbling and openly brawling, the duo eventually develop a grudging mutual respect when they face down a series of dangerous situations together.
Why I Love It:
Putting a thrilling new spin on the buddy film with this gritty and gripping crime comedy/drama, director Walter Hill hit paydirt, combining Nolte's bearish, no-BS mien with fiery comedic talent Murphy (still a "Saturday Night Live" cast member at the time). The result is a witty, well-acted, suspenseful thriller featuring a warring, hilariously mismatched duo. Great chemistry, intelligent writing, and wonderful set-ups (especially one tense howler in a racist redneck bar) boost "48 Hrs." to the top rank of '80s urban actioners. Exciting and full of attitude.
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"We are more prepared to help somebody who's having a heart attack than someone who's having a panic attack," Steele said.
The first aid programs teach regular people how to identify mental health problems and what they can do to help.
The representatives from Legislative District 9 hosted a town hall meeting with State Senator Steve Farley Saturday afternoon where they talked about the issue.
"It's important to identify people that are in need," Orr said. "There are a lot of people out there that are in need in our society, and people just don't know what to do."
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