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A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
The View From Mrs. Sundberg's Window
The Things We Need
January 12, 2005
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. We need more women with voices like those seven Mila women. They belted out these beautiful deep songs whose words I didn't much understand but let me tell you I felt like standing up tall every time they sang. I couldn't stand, though, because I was driving around the countryside sipping my first latte and enjoying the fresh air and thinking about how we could use more snow. Seems the planet is a bit off kilter lately with those terrible waves so far away, mudslides and snowstorms in California, and a Minnesota winter without much snow. I'm not complaining, but I am perplexed. Makes me think something is going on and we need to pay a bit more attention.
It has been cold, and the house is so dry. I wake up every morning feeling like a strip of beef jerky. Before I do anything else I throw a pot of water on the stove and set it to boiling until it's nearly gone then I fill it up again. By the time the kids get on the bus the kitchen windows are steamed up and the air feels soft again. I do this partly as a favor to Mr. Sundberg who has been coughing lately and seems to cough less with moisture in the air and a big bowl of oatmeal with milk and butter. Saturday the house seemed particularly dry and I thought getting some fresh air would do me some good and it did. As Mr. Keillor and Prudence were singing "Let It Be Me" I cranked the window down and pulled up to the new drive-thru at the cafe. It's a slick operation since the new owners took over. They even have a little booklet, which tells people like me what everything is and how to order. Mr. Sundberg picked one up for me when I didn't know what a "latte" was and I spent some time reading and filled out the little form on the back so I could say exactly what it was I wanted. Which I did. I ordered a grande vanilla whole latte, wet. This would translate to a medium vanilla espresso with steamed whole milk, light on the foam.
Mr. Sundberg says the world could use a few more manuals. Like "How To Drive In a Snowstorm" and "How To Pack for a Three-day Weekend." Well, I don't think the world's that hard pressed for instruction books. I do think we're in need of a few things, however. Pretty major things, like a more reliable way to count ballots. And a system for warning people when there's been an earthquake under the ocean. More books for children and an hour or two a day reserved for good old conversation. I could go on, but I won't. Time for the kids to come rolling on in. They would say we need more pizza. And more snow. And I would add tenderness to the list. Tenderness, as I see it, has always been underrated.
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- Prime Time for Deep Thought
- Figuring Out Who We Are
- Wonder and Possibility and What If
- Some Things Work and Some Don't
- The Flour Hit the Fan
- Check Out the Flip Side
- Happy to be There, Happy to Leave
- The Real Comfort
- Where "Home" Comes From
- The Adventure Never Ends
- Not Quite Sex, but There is a Resemblance
- A Mazillion Small To-Dos Before School Starts
- You Never Know What Moment Will be a Golden One
- Be Mindful of the Route You Take
- One Fine Stretch of Days
- Just Be
- This Too, People, Shall Pass
- Mother Nature Will Have Her Way
- Letting Go is Tough
- A Fulfilled Life
- Consider Patience
- Life is Meaningful Because it Stops
- The Celebration of a Life
- A Monumental Act
- Smell the Flowers
- Boredom and Terror, and Sweetness
- An Exercise in Forgiveness
- It's Time to Get Out There
- A Wanted Woman
- Anything Worthwhile is Going to Take Some Effort
- Looking Back Toward Home
- The Journey Changes You
- So Much to Look Forward To
- Anything Worthwhile Deserves Patience
- Go With Whatcha Got
- This Land of Seasons I Love
- A Simple Question
- The change you wish to make
- Where words just don't cut it
- A nod to Pancakes
- When you're sick, you're sick
- A life lived is not about things
- I'm not put off by the thought of my own funeral
- The adventure of the ordinary day
- A lot we didn't get around to
- Where did Christmas go?
- Take Heart
- A table full up with Christmas
- Gifts can be a challenge
- You have each other to love
- The gift of the story of Three Perfect Strangers
- Gemutlichkeit
- For many of the best things in life, a person has to wait in line
- The things we can't not do
- Never met a perfect person
- Just ask a question or two
- What I get in return?
- Listen awhile, and you'll hear it, too
- A day of good hard work
- New friends vs. old friends
- There will be joy like this again in my life
- A lonesome place to spend some time
- Whatever makes you grow is gonna hurt somehow
- Hold someone close to you today
- A Postcard from Mrs. Sundberg
- For goodness itself, thanks
- How blessed can a woman be?
- All about purpose and meaning
- As it should be
- This is where the party is
- Our wants have changed and our needs are few
- A day may be perfect, but we aren't
- Nice to have home to return to
- How time moves along
- Feet are a funny thing
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by Michael Yamaner[1]
Current-dollar federal obligations for research decreased 9.0%, from $63.7 billion in FY 2010 to $58.0 billion in FY 2011, according to data from the National Science Foundation (NSF).[2] This decline was the result of the last of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus funds being obligated in FY 2010, which accounted for $5.7 billion (8.9%) of research obligations in FY 2010. Research obligations are estimated to remain relatively flat at $58.1 billion in FY 2012, and they are projected to increase by $1.9 billion (3.3%) to $60.0 billion in FY 2013.
In inflation-adjusted terms, federal obligations for research fell 10.7% in FY 2011, following a 0.9% decline in FY 2010. Estimated research obligations continued falling in FY 2012 by 1.8% before edging up by 1.6%, according to FY 2013 projections (table 1).
na = not applicable.
ARRA = American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
a Beginning in FY 2011, Department of Defense totals include additional classified R&D projects not previously reported by its subagencies.
NOTES: Gross domestic product implicit price deflators for 2005 were used to convert current to constant dollars. Detail may not sum to total due to rounding.
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development.
Table 1 Source Data: Excel file
Figures for FY 2011 are actual amounts, those for FY 2012 are preliminary, and those for FY 2013 are projected. For the remainder of this report, discussions of changes in funding across years are in terms of inflation-adjusted (or constant) dollars unless stated otherwise.
Total federal constant-dollar R&D obligations decreased 5.3% to $119.1 billion between FY 2010 and FY 2011. This decline is primarily due to the last of the ARRA funds ($5.9 billion) having been obligated in FY 2010 (table 1). Even absent the ARRA obligations, R&D decreased by $775 million (0.6%) in FY 2011. R&D obligations were estimated to decrease 2.3% to $116.4 billion in FY 2012 and were projected to decrease 0.4% to $115.9 billion in FY 2013.
In FY 2011, six federal departments and agencies accounted for 96.0% of FY 2011 total federal R&D dollars: the Department of Defense (DOD) (55.5% of total R&D obligations), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (22.8%), the Department of Energy (DOE) (7.3%), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (4.8%), NSF (3.8%), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (1.7%) (table 2).
ARRA = American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; DOD = Department of Defense; DOE = Department of Energy; HHS = Department of Health and Human Services; NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NSF = National Science Foundation; USDA = U.S. Department of Agriculture.
a Beginning in FY 2011, DOD totals include additional classified R&D projects not previously reported by its subagencies.
Table 2 Source Data: Excel file
The six departments and agencies that accounted for most federal R&D dollars in FY 2011 also accounted for most (92.3%) of FY 2011 total federal research dollars. However, their research shares differed considerably from their R&D shares, reflecting the emphasis their varying missions place on research versus development: HHS (53.0% of total research obligations), DOE (12.7%), DOD (11.4%), NSF (8.9%), USDA (3.7%), and NASA (2.7%) (table 3).
Table 3 Source Data: Excel file
Basic research obligations decreased 9.6% to $25.8 billion between FY 2010 and FY 2011. ARRA funds accounted for $2.4 billion of FY 2010's $28.5 billion basic research total. Even without the ARRA funds, basic research obligations decreased by 1.3% in FY 2011. Basic research obligations were estimated to decrease 1.4%, to $25.4 billion in FY 2012 and were projected to increase by 0.5% in FY 2013 to $25.5 billion. Basic research obligations accounted for 21.0% of total R&D and R&D plant in FY 2011 (table 1).
Federal obligations for applied research decreased 11.8% to $25.2 billion between FY 2010 and FY 2011. Even without the FY 2010 ARRA funds, applied research decreased by 2.6% in FY 2011. Applied research obligations were estimated to decrease 2.1% between FY 2011 and FY 2012 to $24.7 billion and were projected to increase 2.8% in FY 2013 to $25.4 billion. Applied research obligations accounted for 20.6% of total R&D and R&D plant in FY 2011 (table 1).
Six of the broad fields of science and engineering experienced decreased federal research funding between FY 2010 and FY 2011. The two fields experiencing the largest decreases were life sciences (down $4.5 billion, or 14.9%) and engineering (down $1.1 billion, or 11.0%). Two broad fields saw increased federal research funding between FY 2010 and FY 2011: social sciences (rose $37 million, or 3.4%) and other sciences not elsewhere classified (rose $0.5 billion, or 20.7%).[3]
In FY 2011, three broad fields of science and engineering received 77.4% of FY 2011 total federal research dollars: life sciences (50.7% of total research obligations), engineering (17.3%), and physical sciences (9.4%) (table 4).
nec = not elsewhere classified.
Table 4 Source Data: Excel file
The data presented here are from the NSF Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development for FYs 2011–13. The 27 federal agencies that report R&D obligations to the survey submitted actual obligations for FY 2011, preliminary data for FY 2012, and projected data for FY 2013. Data were requested from agencies beginning in March 2012. Agencies later revise the preliminary data based on actual changes in the funding levels of R&D programs. Further, agencies may provide changes in prior-year data to reflect program reclassifications or other data corrections.
In order to enable reporting from the Department of Defense's subagencies engaged in classified R&D projects, starting with the FY 2011–13 survey cycle the DOD subagencies are reported as an aggregate total under Other defense agencies.
Definitions of research, development, and R&D plant as used in this InfoBrief are provided in the technical notes that accompany the detailed statistical tables report for this survey. For the prior-year report, see http://nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13326/.
The full set of detailed tables from this survey will be available in the report Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2011–13 at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/fedfunds/. Individual detailed tables from the FY 2011–13 survey may be available in advance of the full report. For more information, contact the author.
[1] Michael Yamaner, Research and Development Statistics Program, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 965, Arlington, VA 22230 (email@example.com; 703-292-7815).
[2] Obligations represent the amounts for orders placed, contracts awarded, services received, and similar transactions during a given period, regardless of when the funds were appropriated and when future payment of money is required.
[3] "Other sciences not elsewhere classified" is used for multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary projects that cannot be classified within one of the broad fields of science.
National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
Federal Funding for Research Drops by 9% in FY 2011
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Glycine encephalopathy
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Your QuestionIs it necessary to restrict protein intake in children that have this disorder? If so, what are the risks if protein intake is not restricted?
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How might glycine encephalopathy be treated?
The goal of treatment is to reduce the amount of glycine in the plasma (blood). Treatment may involve a medication called sodium benzoate, which binds with glycine allowing it to be passed out in the urine, and dextromethorphan, ketamine, or felbamate, which block some of the harmful effects of excessive glycine. These treatments may help control seizures, increase alertness, and in mildly affected individuals, improve behavior.[1] Drug dosage must be individually tailored and requires regular and careful monitoring.[1][2] Studies regarding the effectiveness of these treatments are ongoing.[1] Mildly affected individuals may receive the greatest benefit from treatment, particularly if treatment is started early.[1]
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The following online resources can help you find a genetics professional in your community:
- The National Society of Genetic Counselors provides a searchable directory of US and international genetic counseling services.
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- The University of Kansas Medical Center provides a list of US and international genetic centers, clinics, and departments.
- The American Society of Human Genetics maintains a database of its members, which includes individuals who live outside of the United States. Visit the link to obtain a list of the geneticists in your country, some of whom may be researchers that do not provide medical care.
- Hamosh A, Scharer G, Van Hove J. Glycine encephalopathy. GeneReviews. November 2009; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1357/. Accessed 11/10/2011.
- Van Hove JL, Vande Kerckhove K, Hennermann JB, Mahieu V, Declercq P, Mertens S, De Becker M, Kishnani PS, Jaeken J. Benzoate treatment and the glycine index in nonketotic hyperglycinaemia. J Inherit Metab Dis. 2005;28(5):651-63; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16151895. Accessed 8/26/2011.
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Just answered that on another thread...but it is a Mystery RAnch Crew cab....I can use it for a day pack, then haul out an entire mule deer or bear...elk quarters fits great...and I camped out of it for a week on a sheep hunt this fall!
Congrats on a great 115 day in the field!!May you have another great run at it in 2012!! Awesome video as well.
Great slide show looks like an amazing and blessed year for you
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SIZE: One Size Finished Circumference About 18 in. (45.5 cm)
Note: Hat will stretch to fit a range of sizes.
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GAUGE: 9 sts = about 4 in. (10 cm) in St st worked in the rnd (k every rnd). When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size
specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be
sufficient. The needle or hook size called for in the pattern is based on what
the designer used, but it is not unusual for gauge to vary from person to person.
If it takes you fewer stitches and rows to make your swatch, try using a smaller
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Making a Gauge Swatch
kfb (knit into front and then back)
An increase worked as follows:
1. Knit the next st through the front loop, but do not remove the st from your left hand needle.
2. Knit the same st once more, this time inserting your needle through the back loop of the st. You will have created 2 loops (sts) on your right hand needle.
3. Drop the st from your left hand needle - you have increased 1 st.
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Literacy rate: 94.59% (Census 2011)
- 20% of all deaths in Kerala are caused by coronary heart disease (CHD/CAD)
- The age-adjusted CAD (coronary artery disease) mortality rates per 100,000 are 382 for men and 128 for women in Kerala. These CAD rates in Kerala are higher than those of industrialized countries and 3 to 6 times higher than Japanese and rural Chinese.
- CAD in Kerala is premature and malignant resulting in death at a very young age. Approximately 60% of CAD deaths in men and 40% of CAD deaths in women occur before the age of 65 years.
- The average age of a first heart attack decreased by at least 10 years in Kerala, in sharp contrast to a 20 year increase in many western countries.
- In the 1960s and 70s, heart attack in the very young (before the age of 40) was very uncommon in Kerala. Heart attack rate among men in this age group increased 40-fold by 1990 with at least 20% heart attacks occurring before age 40 and 50% before age 50.
- The high rates of premature heart disease in Kerala also results in a high economic burden as high as 20% of its state domestic product.
- Hospitalization for a heart attack results in catastrophic health spending in more than 60% of the high income and more than 80% of low income people (from Kerala) with 50% of these requiring distress financing.
- Prevalence of heart disease in rural Kerala is 7%, which is nearly double that of north India and parallel the high levels of cholesterol in Kerala ─ the state named after the ubiquitous coconut.
- The prevalence of risk factors is high even in rural Kerala: diabetes 20%, high blood pressure 42%, high cholesterol (>200mg/dl) 72%, smoking (42% in men) and obesity (body mass index >25) 40%, physical inactivity 41%, unhealthy alcohol consumption 13%.
- In Kerala tobacco is responsible for 50% and diet for 10-20% of cancers.
- It is estimated that 35,000 new cancer cases occur in Kerala in one year. Among males 50% of cancers in the mouth, throat and lungs are caused by tobacco and alcohol habits. Among women tobacco related cancers are 15%.
In South India there is a trend towards increasing consumption of red meat which can lead to increased risk for large bowel cancer.
- Among cancers in women, about 30-35 per cent is accounted by breast cancer.
- Breast cancer is the most common cancer among the women in Kerala, with 1,200 new cases registered at the Regional Cancer Centre alone annually.
- According to the data available with the Thiruvananthapuram Cancer Registry, the prevalence rate in rural areas is 19.8 per 100,000, while in the urban areas, it is 30.5 per 100,000.
- In 2010, Kerala recorded a total of 1,618 breast cancer deaths among women.
- Also, the incidence of thyroid and ovarian cancers is up among women in Kerala.
- Prostate cancer, the most common malignancy among men worldwide, is among the 10 leading cancers in Kerala.
- The onset of cancer is high in Karnataka, Kerala and Gujarat before age 60 years.
- Kerala has a prevalence of diabetes as high as 20% ─ double the national average of 8%. The prevalence was 17% in urban, 10% in the midland, 7% in the highland, and 4% in the coastal regions.
- Cardiovascular disease is the foremost killer of people with diabetes. 80% of diabetic patients die from heart disease.
- Only 40% of people with diabetes had adequate control of blood sugar. Among those with diagnosed diabetes, 17% received no treatment, 15% were on diet alone, and 68% were on medications.
- Prevalence of many risk factors are nearly as high in rural areas with people from rural Kerala having paradoxically higher rates of diabetes than urban dwellers. In one large study the prevalence of diabetes was 19% in rural men and 22% in rural women compared to 12% in urban men and 17% in urban women.
- People from Kerala have the highest cholesterol level in India that ranges from 197 to 229mg/dl compared to 157 to 180mg/dl nationally.
- Total fat intake in Kerala is 30% of the energy with 70% of that (20% of daily energy) coming from saturated fat. Generous portions of coconut meat, milk and oil is used for preparing virtually every dishes including vegetables, fish and even meat and bread.
- All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Mortality in Kerala State of India: Results From a 5-Year Follow-up of 161 942 Rural Community Dwelling Adults. Asia Pac J Public Health. May 10 2010.
- Verbal autopsy of 80,000 adult deaths in Tamilnadu, South India. BMC Public Health. Oct 15 2004
- Acute myocardial infarction in north Kerala–a 20 year hospital based study. Indian heart journal. 1991
- Decline in coronary heart disease mortality in Finland: Effect of age and gender distribution on the disease. Am. J. Ger. Cardiol. 1994
- Risk factor profile of patients with acute MI
- Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: Trivandrum; 1996
- Hospital data on coronary heart disease from North Kerala
- How to Beat the Heart Disease Epidemic among South Asians: A Prevention and Management Guide for Asian Indians and their Doctors. Downers Grove: Advanced Heart Lipid Clinic; 2005
- Risk factor profile for chronic non-communicable diseases: results of a community-based study in Kerala, India. Indian J Med Res. Jan 2010
- Surveillance of cardiovascular disease risk factors in India: the need & scope. Indian J Med Res. Nov 2010
- Cohort Profile: The PROLIFE study in Kerala, India. Int J Epidemiol. Sep 8 2009
- High risk for coronary heart disease in Thiruvananthapuram City: A study of serum lipids and other risk factors. Indian Heart J. 2000
- Behavioural risk factors for non-communicable diseases among adults in Kerala, India. Indian J Med Res. Jun 2008


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In this week's edition of Young Turks, Sheeen Bhan of CNBC-TV18 speaks to Anirban Chowdhury who has begun to usher in the future by bringing robots into the course of everyday life. Through his company Yogiki, which was founded in 2009, the engineering graduate offers robotic solutions for educational and agricultural sectors.
The idea occurred to Anirban Chowdhury during his days as a mechanical engineering student in Chennai. The incredible response Anirban and his classmates received to their workshops on robotics confirmed the idea was a business proposition worth pursuing.
So, between projects and exams they devised a program to make robotics easier to understand and the trio launched Yogiki in 2009.
"We saw an opportunity but realised that it would be fruitful only if we provided training as students in India are not able to invest much money on robots.
We also provide a year's service. The names of students who have trained with us are entered into our database and periodically intimate them about products and solutions on offer.
We even give discounts to students whose names are already in our database, "
Apart from conducting workshops, Yogiki also creates prototypes for industrial use. Having launched online store, My RoboBazaar, in 2010, Yogiki has already turned in revenues of Rs 50 lakh by sale of components and circuits.
Bhan: The target is to now cross the Rs 1 crore mark this fiscal. So, what's driving revenues?
Chowdhury: Our primary source of revenue comes from conducting workshops and training programmes. The second source is from sale of robotic components, circuits, batteries, motors and other accessories.
We have a strong R&D section which works on new technologies and products. There are few products in the pipeline like the robotic vacuum cleaner and a robot to work on strawberry farms.
With a foot print across 50 cities, Yogiki has guided over 30,000 students and tied up with over a 100 educational institutions like the IITs and ISRO.
With over 10 lakh students graduating from engineering colleges every year, Anirban sees a huge potential for his robotic venture.
Bhan: What are your plans going ahead?
Chowdhury: Going ahead, I would like to focus on consumer electronics and robotics. Personal robotics is yet to reach the high growth level as in the West. Our workshop and training arm has driven around 60%-70% of growth constantly for the last three years.
If the demand for personal robotics opens up, we plan to increase our growth targets at 100%-200%. Our plans will be to increase training and workshops.We have initiated a franchise system also have already around two-to-three franchise outlets.
The interest evinced by a few schools to set up robotics labs has opened another area of growth.
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Twitter is killing support for basic user authentication in third-party apps on Tuesday morning, the company says. Instead, Twitter will now require all third-party app developers to use OAuth for user authentication.
This is a planned move Twitter first announced in December, and the company has posted a help page on its developer site with some resources meant to ease the transition to OAuth.
The Twitter API team has been dialing down the number of requests an app can make using the basic authorization method. That number will hit zero at 8AM Pacific time Tuesday.
Some bloggers have given the event the catchy name, "OAuthcalypse" — a bit of a mouthful, but so is "user authentication protocol" — the implication being that when basic authentication is switched off, it will break old software and leave users in the dark. But since Twitter has given developers ample warning of the change, the switch will only lock out a small number of apps.
Twitter's move mirrors a broader trend on the social web, where basic authentication is being ditched for the more secure OAuth when services and applications connect user's accounts.
In basic authentication, a website or app will say, "Hey, do you want to share whatever you're doing here with your friends on Twitter? Give me your Twitter username and password and I'll hook up your accounts." By passing along your info, you're giving that app or website unlimited access to everything in your Twitter account. Pretty dangerous, and not secure.
In OAuth authentication, the website or app will send you to Twitter where you sign yourself in, then Twitter will tell the website or app "Yeah, they are who they say they are." The website or app only gains the ability to do certain things with your account — post, read, reply, search — while staying locked out from the more sensitive stuff.
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ETSU (1-0-1) vs.
Tennessee Tech (0-1-0)
Date: 08/17/2012 Attendance: 157
Weather: Sunny, 79 degrees, SSW 3mph
Tennessee Tech
Officials: Referee: Gary Welch; Asst. Referee: Joseph Owind; Scorer: Mike Lehman;
Officials: Referee: Gary Welch; Asst. Referee: Joseph Owind; Scorer: Mike Lehman;
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|[00:00] CAMPBELL,Sierra at goalie for ETSU.
|[00:00] BROWN, Jordan at goalie for Tennessee Tech.
|[01:34] Shot by TTU IACIOFANO, Ellie, SAVE CAMPBELL,Sierra.
|[04:17] Shot by TTU REID, Kerri WIDE LEFT.
|Foul on ETSU.
|[07:43] Shot by TTU IACIOFANO, Ellie HIGH.
|[11:36] Shot by ETSU ENGELHAUPT,Emilee, SAVE BROWN, Jordan.
|[14:40] Shot by TTU IACIOFANO, Ellie WIDE RIGHT.
|[17:08] Shot by ETSU THOMAS,Morgan WIDE RIGHT.
|[24:53] Shot by TTU GAWTHROP, Sarah BLOCKED.
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|[26:18] Shot by ETSU GOFFE,Hannah, SAVE BROWN, Jordan.
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|[27:54] TTU substitution: DEDRICK, Courtney for KOCH, Amanda.
|[27:54] TTU substitution: ROUNTREE, Shannon for REID, Kerri.
|[27:54] ETSU substitution: DUTTON,Jasmin for PASSINGHAM,Alexa.
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|[30:35] TTU substitution: MCGOHAN, Kelsey for MELOFF, Andrea.
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|Corner kick by ETSU KRON,Samantha [31:31].
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|[31:50] Shot by ETSU KRON,Samantha, SAVE BROWN, Jordan.
|[32:14] ETSU substitution: GOFFE,Lucy for DUTTON,Jasmin.
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|[35:53] Shot by ETSU KRON,Samantha, SAVE BROWN, Jordan.
|[36:51] TTU substitution: SUTTON, Taylor for KOCH, Amanda.
|Foul on ETSU.
|[41:21] Shot by ETSU KERNS,Ramey, SAVE BROWN, Jordan.
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|[44:58] GOAL by ETSU ZADRAZIL,Sarah (FIRST GOAL), goal number 1 for season.
|ETSU 1, Tennessee Tech 0
|*27 wins ball off deflection, shot left side 20 yards
|End of period [45:00].
|Start of 2nd period [45:00].
|For TTU: #20 BROWN, Jordan, #7 REID, Kerri, #8 GAWTHROP, Sarah, #15 MELOFF, Andrea, #4 HEFFNER, Leigh, #2 KOCH, Amanda, #5 ROUNTREE, Shannon, #18 THOMPSON, Julie, #9 PHILLIPS, Katie, #22 IACIOFANO, Ellie, #17 HICKS, Taylor.
|For ETSU: #00 CAMPBELL,Sierra, #16 SHORT,Hannah, #27 ZADRAZIL,Sarah, #18 DAVIS,Kristi, #17 ENGELHAUPT,Emilee, #10 DUTTON,Jasmin, #21 BICKEL,Lindsay, #24 GOFFE,Hannah, #4 KRON,Samantha, #6 PARSONS,Ellis, #7 WYNNE,Megan.
|Foul on ETSU.
|[51:45] Shot by TTU MELOFF, Andrea, SAVE CAMPBELL,Sierra.
|Corner kick by TTU GAWTHROP, Sarah [53:05].
|Foul on ETSU.
|[55:37] Shot by TTU REID, Kerri HIT POST.
|[59:38] Shot by TTU MELOFF, Andrea, SAVE TEAM.
|[59:55] Shot by ETSU ENGELHAUPT,Emilee HIGH.
|[60:02] TTU substitution: WATKINS, Jacquie for ROUNTREE, Shannon.
|[60:02] TTU substitution: DEDRICK, Courtney for KOCH, Amanda.
|[61:30] Shot by ETSU DUTTON,Jasmin HIGH.
|Foul on ETSU.
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|Foul on ETSU.
|Foul on ETSU.
|[66:12] Shot by TTU REID, Kerri WIDE.
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|[68:29] GOAL by ETSU DAVIS,Kristi, Assist by ZADRAZIL,Sarah, goal number 1 for season.
|ETSU 2, Tennessee Tech 0
|*27 tthrough ball to 18, shot right side 16 yards
|[69:12] ETSU substitution: GOFFE,Lucy for ZADRAZIL,Sarah.
|[69:24] Shot by TTU MELOFF, Andrea BLOCKED.
|[70:15] TTU substitution: MCGOHAN, Kelsey for IACIOFANO, Ellie.
|Foul on ETSU.
|[74:53] Shot by ETSU GOFFE,Lucy BLOCKED.
|[77:38] TTU substitution: IACIOFANO, Ellie for DEDRICK, Courtney.
|[77:38] TTU substitution: ROUNTREE, Shannon for MELOFF, Andrea.
|[78:42] ETSU substitution: PETERSON,Summer for SHORT,Hannah.
|[80:41] ETSU substitution: HEAD,Tori for WYNNE,Megan.
|[80:41] ETSU substitution: THOMAS,Morgan for PARSONS,Ellis.
|[81:31] Header Shot by TTU IACIOFANO, Ellie WIDE RIGHT.
|Foul on Tennessee Tech.
|[83:10] Header Shot by ETSU DAVIS,Kristi WIDE RIGHT.
|[83:23] ETSU substitution: PASSINGHAM,Alexa for ENGELHAUPT,Emilee.
|[84:54] Header Shot by TTU IACIOFANO, Ellie WIDE LEFT.
|[85:37] Shot by ETSU DAVIS,Kristi WIDE.
|[86:30] ETSU substitution: VAUGHN,Molly for DAVIS,Kristi.
|Corner kick by TTU GAWTHROP, Sarah [87:23].
|[87:40] Shot by TTU THOMPSON, Julie HIGH.
|[89:32] Offside against ETSU.
|End of period [90:00].


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Politics is a numbers game in a democracy. But in India, the electoral math can be especially abstruse, confounding the mightiest pundit. Complex equations of coalition dharma can throw up unexpected results.
Worse, the numbers don't always add up to an expected result. In our great nation, two plus two can even make five, given the right political conditions. Take, for instance, the latest CNN-IBN/Hindu election tracker polls which reveal yet again the inadequacies of conventional political wisdom.
Unpopular leaders with popular votes
In most parts of the world, plummeting favourability numbers would translate to declining vote share.But such truisms apparently fail to hold true in West Bengal and Bihar. Popular satisfaction with Nitish Kumar's government has dropped from 90 percent in 2010 to 69 percent in 2013. The CM himself has dropped 9 points. And 38 percent of Biharis disapprove of his decision to break with the BJP. And yet, the JD(U) has improved its vote share by 1 percent.
Mamata's fall from grace is even more precipitous. Her personal approval ratings have fallen 15 points, but the really bad news: Satisfaction with her government's performance has nosedived from 79 percent in 2011 to 9 percent! That would be catastrophic for any government, except Trinamool -- like the JD(U) -- has actually gained 1 percent in the vote share.
The do-nothing strategy works
The Congress party has sat on the sidelines in both West Bengal and Bihar, and yet it is sitting pretty in both states. Despite Mamata's self-destructive behavior -- and the Left's best efforts to capitalize on the same -- it is now more unpopular than ever. The communist parties' vote share has dropped 15 percentage points since 2009. Congress, on the other hand, has gained 8 points in vote share. To be fair, so has the other non-player, BJP, which has doubled its vote share to 12 percent.
In Bihar, the Congress vote share is unchanged at 10 percent while all other parties in the state have improved their fortunes. Yet as The Hindu notes, it is Congress which is poised to be a kingmaker:
Should Mr. Kumar align with the Congress, the alliance will trump other parties. An alliance among the RJD, the Congress and Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Jan Shakti Party will likely do even better than a JD(U)-Congress alliance. So the future of Bihar is really in the hands of the Congress, which ironically is at the bottom in terms of vote share.
In India, the best winning strategy is to do nothing and wait for the right alignment of the electoral stars.
Communalism vs Corruption? No one cares
The C-words don't matter. One of the big guns in the BJP's anti-UPA arsenal is corruption. And yet despite all the drama surrounding 2G, Anna Hazare and Aam Aadmi Party, it scores abysmally low on the list of the Indian voter's priorities, coming in fifth, way behind 'development and economy', 'price rise', 'governance' and 'leadership'. If the UPA loses power in 2014, but it won't be as a deserved punishment for presiding over some of the biggest corruption scandals in Indian history.
But if all those 'G's don't matter, neither does the other C-word, communalism, which scores even lower than corruption, coming in at number 7 on the list. Godhra and khaki shorts nationalism may dominate news headlines, but they matter little to the average Indian voter who is worried about his wallet.
The bad news for the UPA: Only 20 percent of the voters see the economy as 'good' or 'very good.' The good news for the UPA: No one seems willing to hit it where it hurts most: high inflation.
"It really is puzzling, that we have had nearly two years now of consumer price inflation over 10 percent, and nobody seems to be making an issue out of it. In earlier times, an unanticipated spike in prices could topple governments. But the opposition just hasn't been taking up these questions," Pronab Sen, economist and former chief statistician of India, told The Hindu.
The lesson of this electoral story: Ignore popularity ratings, do nothing, and keep the price of onions down.


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With GE Healthcare's commitment of $1 billion (US) in annual research & development, GE Monitoring Solutions offers an unmatched array of information systems, workflow solutions, medical devices, predictive algorithms, wireless technology and clinical partnerships.
And, supported by the Clinical Systems Services division, GE Healthcare seeks integrate its support solutions into hospital operations, situating themselves strategically for future investments in IT and durable medical equipment.
With offshore manufacturers bringing competitive pressure to medical information technology – and healthcare providers under rising pressure to perform clinically, operationally and financially – GE Healthcare sought to develop a platform for next-generation patient monitoring.
Heather Miller, founder of Mindpop Communications and now a Director at Stoke Strategy, has worked with GE Healthcare for over 10 years. As she can attest, as the challenges of differentiation become greater in healthcare technology, the value of a clear brand position becomes exponentially greater.
"Hospitals are really under enormous pressure right now," said David Freeman, Chief Marketing Officer of Monitoring Solutions for GE Healthcare. "Patients are sicker than ever before, and there is a chronic shortage of staff and an increase in regulatory demands… traditional patient monitoring has not been keeping pace."
At a leadership meeting convened in Hong Kong, GE initiated a global brand strategy program for monitoring solutions. Given the magnitude of changes and challenges in healthcare, the program began with market research spanning North America, Japan, Western Europe and China.
After analyzing the customer research, it became increasingly clear that GE's value-proposition was frustrated by the term "monitoring." More than just bedside boxes monitoring vital signs, GE's solutions have become the layer of information technology closest to the patient, able to sense, process, relate, gather and distribute information in ways previously unimagined.
The study made clear that the conventional term "monitoring" failed to sufficiently encompass GE's promise to Re-Imagine Healthcare.
GE has both the credibility and permission to own a unique position of leadership in the market – to re-imagine the entire monitoring category.
Central to its positioning strategy, GE adopted a new category name, "Clinical Information Logistics" (CIL), to articulate its broader role in procuring, interpreting, relating, managing, distributing and storing clinical information - from the point of origin to a point of consumption.
The brand name "Carescape" was adopted to reflect the principle of Clinical Information Logistics being applied through its solutions, across the clinical care landscape. Led by Heather, the Stoke team continues to bring definition and form to the story of Clinical Information Logisitics, including websites, global advertising campaigns, testimonial videos, tradeshow booths, sales presentation collateral and internal GE launch events.
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Lactose-Tolerant HR: Pressure to keep the best and brightest is radically altering how companies accommodate nursing mothers. According to Forbes.com, "companies that used to wave goodbye to their female employees once they started families are now looking for ways to help them balance motherhood" and careers. The most tangible example is a rise in the number of companies providing private "lactation rooms" to be used by mothers to nurse infants at work. Forbes.com cites a recent study by the Society for Human Resource Management that found 23 percent of companies provided lactation rooms in 2006, compared with 16 percent in 1999.


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Veterans and certain eligible dependents may be entitled to educational benefits under various programs administered by the Veterans Administration. Veterans and eligible dependents may obtain these benefits while pursuing a course of study at UW-Eau Claire. Students enrolled under these programs must carry 12 hours of credit during each semester of the academic year to be eligible for full-time allotments. Summer session allotments are determined by class dates or length of class and number of credits.
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Following the release of 2011's There Goes The Neighborhood, Southport, Connecticut emcee Chris Webby has been working on his full-length debut. Still untitled, the Dizzy Wright and Smoke DZA collaborator confirmed his upcoming plans to Montreality.
Webby will release an EP, keeping his short-release tradition, followed by his debut. In a recent interview, Chris confirmed that he's been recording with a producer known for helping craft hits for Dr. Dre, Terror Squad and Lil' Kim. "So far, it's sounding pretty crazy," said Webby of his recent material. "I was down in Miami, working with Scott Storch, working with SupaDupes, who's another super-dope producer. [It has] been sick."
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The highly competitive grant program received 28 applications for a total of $205,128 in requests during this round. Regional award committees recommended 18 projects for a total of $115, 000 in funding. These grant awards were recently approved during the THC's July quarterly meeting.
The grants are part of the THC's award-winning, nationally recognized heritage tourism initiative, the Texas Heritage Trails Program. The partnership grant program helps communities fund projects that enhance the visitor experience to cultural and historic sites in heritage regions.
Recipients in the Texas Tropical Trail Region include: The Aransas County Historical Society's interpretive signage promoting local history along a new hike and bike trail connecting Rockport and Fulton; the Rio Grande Valley Museum Association of Harlingen's creation of a DVD highlighting Harlingen's history and a regional museum trail brochure; the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College's project on the "Fort That Became a School"; and the Webb County Heritage Foundation's development of an exhibit and school curriculum featuring Laredo's role in the Mexican Revolution.
"The Texas Historical Commission is committed to assisting communities, heritage organizations and tourism associations whose real places help tell the real stories of our state's history," said THC Executive Director Mark Wolfe. "These grants will help the Texas Tropical Trail Region promote and highlight significant historic sites and events as heritage tourism destinations."
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The fiscal year 2001 budget assumptions approved by the Tulane board last month offer what seems to be a cautiously optimistic view of the university's finances and an inkling of how those finances are dovetailing with strategic planning.
In a departure from past budgets, the FY 2001 budget, which goes into effect on July 1, was prepared as part of a five-year financial forecast for the university, says Yvette Jones, senior vice president for planning and administration.
"Fiscal year 2001 is the first year of a five-year financial plan based on our current operations," says Jones. "You can get an idea of what we consider to be our baseline operation for the next five years by looking at these assumptions."
According to Jones, both income and expenses have been conservatively estimated. Revenue items include a 4 percent tuition increase, 3 percent housing rate increase, a slight decrease in the tuition discount rate and a $250 increase in the student "university fee."
Government grants and contracts as well as clinic-based revenue from the medical center are projected to remain consistent with the current year's budget. Expenditures include a 2 percent salary-pool increase for faculty and staff, the creation of a $1.5 million fund for faculty and staff merit raises (see related story on p. 6) and a .25 percent increase in staff retirement benefits.
The budget also reflects a $1.8 million increase in instruction-related expenses for the liberal arts and sciences. The operational budget remained unchanged with the exception of a $100,000 increase for library acquisitions and the increased cost of utilities.
"This is one of the first years that we are not involved in any exercise to reduce expenditures universitywide," says Jones, who notes that the current FY 2000 budget for the academic year 1999/2000 accommodated $4 million in belt tightening.
"We are beginning to see the fruits of those cuts playing out," she says, adding that the university also enjoyed an unexpectedly robust $65 million in fund raising and the happy fallout from a strong national economy.
The FY 2001 budget projects a more modest $42 million in private gifts and contracts that exemplifies the "conservative" nature of the budget assumptions and the five-year financial planning process. It's what Jones calls a "base case" scenario that assumes a virtual status quo in terms of revenues and expenditures.
"The projections are based on what we know today and assumes we are not going to change anything," says Jones. In such a scenario, she says, "we have two or three years that are very tight but then we appear to produce some surpluses in the fourth, fifth and sixth years."
The base case is only a model, however, and is used primarily as a budgetary "foundation," says Jones. "This is what our budgets would look like if we had a steady enrollment, no capital campaign and no increased funding from grants and contracts."
The administration will now review the five-year financial plans from each of Tulane's schools and colleges and begin to incorporate into the budget the expenditures and revenues relevant to each.
"The base case is a foundation that is going to be modified," she says. In addition, says Jones, the university can almost certainly expect to experience some risks and opportunities that will alter the base case. Among the potential financial risks for the university are inflation, loss of significant federal funding, loss of revenue coming from patient care and the inability to generate revenues needed to balance the athletics budget.
Conversely, opportunities may include increased federal funding, increased revenues from patient services and the forthcoming capital campaign. Jones also cites the clarity resulting from the strategic planning process as a favorable dynamic.
"There are areas in the university that will reveal funding opportunities simply because we are focusing on them through strategic planning," she said. Jones points to the $1.8 million increase in the liberal arts and sciences budget as one example of how strategic planning and budgeting have begun to merge.
"It shows we are moving to a system of accountability with all deans," she says. "In addition, it is a recognition of the cost of educating undergraduates. I look at this as an investment in the strategic plan apropos to our focus on the undergraduate experience."
Jones also notes the $1.5 million set aside for merit raises and $150,000 earmarked for additional staff retirement benefits as an indication of the administration's commitment to faculty and staff compensation.
"Compensation is the No. 1 item in the strategic plan and you can see that in this financial presentation," says Jones. So how does fiscal year 2006 look? "Assuming that all our assumptions are accurate," she says, "and we don't encounter any major risks or we at least balance those risks with opportunities, the future looks good."
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Twins' Span calls for more netting to protect fans
FORT MYERS, Fla. With a flick of his bat, Denard Span sent a foul ball whistling into the stands next to the Minnesota Twins dugout, a common occurrence at ballparks across the country.
Then he heard his mother scream.
The line drive improbably struck Wanda Wilson, Span's mother who had only moments before arrived in her seat, frightening everyone involved and prompting Span to renew his call to extend the netting that protects fans from hard-hit foul balls.
"It's just a bad situation," Span said. "It's just surprising that no one has gotten seriously hurt to this point. I definitely do think that they should have nets going further, you know, as far as the dugout."
The odds that a ball off Span's bat would hit his own mother are slim. The odds that any fan could be seriously injured are much greater.
Winthrop University professors Robert Gorman and David Weeks have gone back and documented 52 deaths from foul balls hit into the stands - from Little League to the majors - in the United States, continuing the research from their book "Death At The Ballpark."
"It's amazing to me that there aren't more, to be honest," Gorman said Thursday, a day after the Span accident.
At most major league parks the netting that protects fans from foul balls covers the backstop behind the catcher, but stops before each dugout. It's that way at most of the smaller, cozier minor league facilities as well, where fans sit even closer to the action. Same thing in spring training, too.
"It's kind of a dangerous spot," Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes said. "I think they should move the net all the way to the dugout because you can get those foul balls like that."
Foul balls can zing off a bat at more than 100 mph, Gorman said. Even if the fan is paying attention, that's not much time to duck or get out of the way. And for the fan who is glancing at a scorecard, a cell phone, or has his or her hands full with a hot dog, forget about it.
"It's hard to pay attention to every single pitch," Span said. "Sometimes you're coming down from the concession stand and whatever and boom! All of a sudden, that quick, the ball is coming at you. You can't control that."
Just ask his mom.
"We had just gotten there. It happened so fast, you couldn't do anything," she said. "I was kind of in awe. But God is good, I'm OK."
Wilson received some medical attention on the scene and returned to her seat later in the inning with nothing more than a sore chest.
"I guess if it got up on the (collar)bone or the shoulder blade or something, the trainer said it could have shattered it," Twins pitching coach Rick Anderson said.
Others haven't been so fortunate.
In 1970, a foul ball off the bat of the Dodgers' Manny Mota killed a 14-year-old boy in Los Angeles. That was the only death from a foul ball in the majors, according to research by Gorman and Weeks.
Susan Rhodes' jaw was broken after a shattered bat from Rockies first baseman Todd Helton struck her in the face at a Dodgers game in 2008.
During a nationally televised game at Fenway Park in 1982, a 4-year-old boy sitting next to the Boston dugout was hit in the face by a line drive. Red Sox star Jim Rice sprung from the dugout, went into the stands and carried the bloody child to an ambulance. The future Hall of Famer's action likely saved the young fan's life.


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State-owned station airs clip 'proving' that Spanish soccer team's formation 'represents arms smuggling routes'
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A state-owned Syrian television channel has claimed that FC Barcelona, arguably the best soccer team in the world, is assisting in the smuggling of weapons to rebels fighting against security forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.
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In a segment aired last December on how Arab media outlets such as Al-Jazeera and Al Arabiya were "distorting the facts," Al Dunya TV showed a clip from a game between Barcelona and archrival Real Madrid.
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There were two movie theaters in small-town Hamilton, Ohio: the Court Theater smack dab in downtown, cattycorner from the Butler County Courthouse and half a block from Elder-Beerman; then there was the tinier and presumably white theater on the West Side, just across the bridge crossing the Great Miami River.
My older brothers and/or parents took me or dropped me off at the Court to see all manner of racist Disney fare (Song Of the South; Jungle Book), Kung Fu flicks (all Bruce Lee and, later, Jim Kelly) and any blaxploitation that was popping up in the early 1970s.
The only movie I can clearly recall seeing on the West Side screen is Lady Sings the Blues in 1972.
I was 7 years old and my brothers and I were shuttled over there by Lena, our eccentric and totally inappropriate babysitter. The film is rated R, stars Diana Ross and Richard Pryor and tells the story of Billie Holiday's bouts with Jazz, heroin, men, rape and racial violence.
My parents were finally splitting up the same year that movie came out and I took to the darkness in movie theaters from that point on as my own private Idaho of insular thinking, mourning and disappearance.
Darkness: visible.
I may be only telling myself this because the great film critic Roger Ebert just died, but inside dark movie theaters is where I started to formulate my own opinions. I went from thinking critically about lighting, scripts, scenery, costumes and acting to voicing my opinions to teachers, then, bravely, my parents and friends.
My mother loved and encouraged it.
My father hated and tried squashing it.
Meanwhile, I kept going to movies.
Back when an R rating didn't keep underaged teens out, I usually had to beg an adult to drive me, living as we were by then in the suburbs of Forest Park with our divorced father.
I cottoned to more sinister films that seemed like horror movies because the actions of the people in them were surreal and unpredictable.
I loved the films in which human beings were triumphing over evil — their own or the evil that other men did.
During this period my favorites were Roman Polanski's epic Tess (1979) and Alan Parker's Midnight Express (1978).
I was barely in junior high school and I was bored by my classmates' preoccupations with Jackson Browne and The Eagles.
Sometime slightly prior to my obsession with literary-themed films — I can't recall exactly when — I also became a morning news junkie, so I started watching Good Morning, America in the era of David Hartman partially as a way to stay awake in the wee, pre-walk-to-school weekday morning hours when I was on my own without parental oversight.
Little did I know at the time I was casually encountering a trifecta — no, the Three Graces — of what amounted to my autodidacticism.
That is, three loud, opinionated and self-made women who weren't related to me but who nonetheless gave me permission to eventually become the same as them in my own way.
I always knew it was time to dash through the sliding patio door, across the backyard and between the neighbors' houses after Erma Bombeck did her shtick.
I'd never seen such an unattractive woman on television before, a woman who looked like someone had literally just dragged her away from her pot roast in her suburban kitchen, but like Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers and later Roseanne Barr, Bombeck made fun of herself as a way to get us past what we saw so we could laugh at the real horrors of her domestic hell and the demands of her selfish family.
From watching Bombeck, I had newfound respect for my mother and I was learning to be self-deprecatingly funny and whip-quick witty in school to pry classmates' attention away from my unwieldy hair, oily, zit-prone skin, my funny-shaped body, my perpetually new-kid status and my weird interests.
I was writing and reading voraciously, and by junior high school my writing fate was set, especially after my mother gave me a Smith-Corona manual typewriter, a pack of onion skin erasable bond paper, a dictionary and a thesaurus.
But it was a long road from my yellow, stuffy bedroom in the cul-de-sac of HolyOke Drive to here.
By my senior year of high school in 1983, I knew college wasn't for me but everyone else in my house was going or trying to, so I went, too, and I failed miserably after three at-bats (except in English, literature and writing courses, of course) and I finally dropped out for good in 1986.
By then, my predictable escapism into films was in lockstep with my determination to be a writer, and the new wave of British films like Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and Prick Up Your Ears (1987) along with Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986) blew my mind and I spent as much time studying the cut-and-paste serial killer looking calendar of The Real Movies rep cinema as I did reading anything I could get my hands on, but only after I cleared my mailbox of rejection letters from literary journals.
Serendipitously, I came across And So It Goes: Adventures In Television by Linda Ellerbee (1986) and The Corpse Had A Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat by Edna Buchanan (1987), the remaining of my Three Graces' tomes of intelligence, dark humor and honest reporting of the flagrant sexism of the day.
During all this time, my eye was trained on Roger Ebert, who was writing (!) about movies (!) and who advised aspiring young critics how they might get started in film criticism: 1) Go see movies and 2) Write critically about what you saw.
See, back then there weren't fancy course titles in rarified English departments for wannabe critics, columnists and buffs.
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The core assumption of this theory is that the innate propensity, which is represented by LAD or Language Acquisition Device, is activated when the child hears a language. The LAD consists of Language Universals or the rules or principles common to all human languages. Whenever the child hears a language, he/she tries her best to match them with the internal rules. The rules are capable of forming hypotheses about the rules of the child's mother tongue. By gradual checking and re-checking of the hypotheses, the child is able to rectify or enlarge his/her language data. The innatists believe that the child alone can learn a language. He/she does not need feedback from others. It considers language learning as a creative activity.
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I actually switched from Firefox to Chrome back when Firefox was on version 3.6.x. I used to like Firefox for it's web development plugins but a lot of those are on Chrome now so it's kind of a non-issue. The speed is definitely what made me switch, not just in loading web pages but just the responsiveness of the application. Chrome also has a better browser sync feature than FF.
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I've moved from Firefox to Chrome. The included developer tools are good, it loads everything fast, I don't need to reload the 80+ tabs that I usually close with, and its interface and imprint is low.
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Chrome still uses quite a bit of process but since its these small pickets, everything works on the outside much faster.
THat being said, i use chrome.
THat being said, i use chrome.
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Chrome is has multi-threading, not sure if Firefox has picked that up yet or not but it made me jump ship.
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On Thursday 29th November, Breckland Leisure Centre in Thetford hosted a Parkwood Court Challenge Series. Each player was guaranteed three games with entries open to all.
Fourteen keen players from the area descended on the venue for four hours of top quality, fast paced, fun squash.
The 'A' Draw was run as a round robin. Eventually Paul Goodchild emerged victorious, becoming the proud owner of a new racket courtesy of ESR. He did not do so without a fight though and Dave Rutters finished as a very credible runner up. As the winner, Paul has been granted free entry into the National Finals of the Parkwood Court Challenge Series at Bicester Leisure Centre on Sunday 9th December.
The 'B' Draw was run as a series of round robins and playoffs. This was a much more hectic, fun series of games. Eventually Rocky Hughes prevailed, also winning a squash racket. The man instrumental in organising the event, Terry Albone, finished 2nd after a final that was played in the most jovial of spirits!
England Squash & Racketball would like to thank Breckland Leisure Centre for hosting the event, the players for participating and of course Terry Albone for his sterling work in organising the event.
In the photo (from left to right), Dave Rutters, Paul Goodchild, Rocky Hughes, Terry Albone, Paul White


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