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Ducks' Perry, Beauchemin out with viral gland infection
Anaheim Ducks forward Corey Perry and defenseman Francois Beauchemin are out with a viral gland infection, the team announced Tuesday.
The team said that both are undergoing testing and results of those tests are pending.
Perry has not played in the team's last three games and was placed on injured reserve on Sunday. He is eligible to play in Wednesday's game against the Los Angeles Kings.
• MUIR: Off The Draw: Bruins rookie's amazing goal
Beauchemin, who has four assists this season, did not play in Sunday's 2-1 shootout loss to Vancouver.
Perry is tied for the NHL lead with 11 goals in 13 games this season and ranks third with four power-play goals.
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Editor's Note: This was originally published as an alert at 11:20 a.m. EST on Dec. 23 to subscribers of TheStreet.com's Stocks Under $10. The stock prices and returns have been updated to reflect today's levels.Earlier this month we put together a basket of five low-priced stocks that we believed would outperform the market in December due to increased investor demand for speculative stocks. The moves we were seeing in stocks like Sirius ( SIRI) and Genta ( GNTA) seeded this concept. Here they are again, along with a performance table to track our performance: Stemcells ( STEM) is up 22% at $3.62.
Aphton ( APHT) is off 2.5% at $3.14.
E-Loan ( EELN) is up 15% at $3.31.
Tut Systems ( TUTS) is up 2.4% at $3.84.
OpenTV ( OPTV) is essentially flat at $3.82. Last night we had two double-digit gainers; Aphton and E-Loan, and today, we can add Stemcells to the list. News that stem cells could be used to treat often-fatal cystic fibrosis has the stock trading 15% higher to $3.58 a share. (Geron, our stem-cell play in the model portfolio, already has climbed 15% this week.) We would be locking in gains in some of the names today if we owned them for our model portfolio, and now we want to elaborate on why this portfolio worked. On the whole, the portfolio is 7% higher than the Dec. 8 entry prices, while the S&P 500 is up 2.97% during the same period. (Readers who took some gains off the table in Aphton on Dec. 10 and E-Loan on Dec. 10 and Dec. 15 have a 10.92% gain.) We would close out of Aphton here for a 10.91% gain. No phase III data have been reported yet for its gastrointestinal cancer vaccine, and we view the risk/reward here as more negative than it was earlier this month.

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- Use of the Syrian hamster as a new model of ebola virus disease and other viral hemorrhagic feversVictoria Wahl-Jensen
Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID, National Institutes of Health NIH, National Interagency Biodefense Campus, B 8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
Viruses 4:3754-84. 2012..Availability of immunological reagents is addressed. Salient features of EVD in hamsters, including relevant pathology and coagulation parameters, are compared directly with the mouse, guinea pig and nonhuman primate models...


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image = /mnt/hd/hda5/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
root = /dev/sda5
label = UbuntuStudio
initrd = /mnt/hd/hda5/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
# Ubuntu
image = /mnt/ubuntu/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
# initrd = /mnt/fedora/boot/initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
initrd = /mnt/ubuntu/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
# root = /dev/hda9
root = "UUID=473fcc12-22a2-41b3-b25d-92b66cb26a99"
label = Ubuntu
excerpt from Slackware® 12.2
1. What is an initrd?
Initrd stands for "initial ramdisk". An initial ramdisk is a very small
Linux filesystem that is loaded into RAM and mounted as the kernel boots,
and before the main root filesystem is mounted.
2. Why do I need an initrd?
The usual reason to use an initrd is because you need to load kernel
modules before mounting the root partition. Usually these modules are
required to support the filesystem used by the root partition (ext3,
reiserfs, xfs), or perhaps the controller that the hard drive is attached
to (SCSI, RAID, etc). Essentially, there are so many different options
available in modern Linux kernels that it isn't practical to try to ship
many different kernels to try to cover everyone's needs. It's a lot more
flexible to ship a generic kernel and a set of kernel modules for it.
Originally Posted by Erik_FL
So you want "image" and "initrd" to use the device names as Slack knows them NOT Ubuntu. That allows the "lilo" configuration command to figure out the corresponding drive ID and sector addresses for each file.
The "root" option is passed to the Linux kernel (Ubuntu) and must be from the perspective of Ubuntu device naming for the root device. The "root" option is not used by "lilo" at all. It is just stored along with other kernel parameters (text) passed to the kernel. Ubuntu is the kernel in this case so "root" must be the correct information for Ubuntu. Ubuntu will use the root device name plus the "read-only" option for mounting the root device AFTER the Ubuntu kernel has initialized.
If the root device driver in Ubuntu is a module then you have to make sure that the "initrd" image file loads that module and any other required modules. The standard "initrd" image for Ubuntu probably loads the required driver unless you have an unusual hard disk controller card/chip. The "initrd" image does things from the standpoint of Ubuntu and not Slack and must be built using Ubuntu.
Here is my suggestion for a possible solution.
image = /mnt/hd/hda5/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
root = /dev/sda5
label = UbuntuStudio
initrd = /mnt/hd/hda5/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
After you change that in "lilo.conf" don't forget to use the "lilo" command. If you copied the boot block to a file for Windows then update the copy of the boot block as well.
To clarify how this whole process works here is basically what happens.
=========== Slack
You edit the "lilo.conf" file using Slack
You run the "lilo" command in Slack
The "lilo" command converts devices/files to disk ID/sector
The "lilo" command writes the "lilo" boot sectors
You start up the computer
Lilo loads and displays the menu
Lilo uses the disk drive ID and sector information to load the Ubuntu kernel into memory.
Lilo uses the disk drive ID and sector information to load the initrd image (RAM disk filesystem) into memory.
=========== Ubuntu Kernel
Lilo starts the Ubuntu kernel specifying the kernel parameters provided, including information for "root=" and the RAM disk filesystem.
Ubuntu mounts and runs the init script for the "initrd" filesystem image.
The "initrd" script loads required modules and does other things to make the root device accessible.
The "initrd" script mounts the root device (read-only) and then starts the Ubuntu "init" task that completes the initialization of the system.
It IS important which operating system you use to run the "lilo" command because device names used in "image" and "initrd" must be for that operating system (not the one ultimately being booted). You may need a different "lilo.conf" depending on which operating system will update the lilo configuration with "lilo".


text: i have 2 phones one i us most of the time one is for drunk nights out etc bc i dont want my other one to get lost damanged stolen. the 2nd phone is lg optimus black p970. its been working 100% fine. i havent used it for about a week. tongiht i go to use it and keep gettin the com.android.phone error. & the signal drops. i have NO IDEA why. i use the same sim in both phones so just take it out phone 1 and put into phone 2 when i decide to use the other. i havent updated anything new (apps) i have updated the software or anything. a week ago i powered it off and it had been working fine. all i did tonight was power it on, went to send a text and it gives me that error. the same with whatapp. dl'ing apps works. any idea what it could be & why its happened? how to fix?


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START timing urgent, not fatal, Mullen says
Adm. Mike Mullen called quick Senate ratification of the START nuclear arms treaty "urgent," but would not categorize it as "fatal"
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he was "extremely concerned" about the delay surrounding the nuclear weapons agreement with Russia.
"It clearly is a treaty that as time goes on, the lack of the transparency , the lack of predictability with the Russians, is something that I worry about a great deal," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
When host Candy Crowley pressed about why it was so important to have the treaty completed before a new Congress is sworn in, Mullen replied, "There's a sense of urgency, and there's an opportunity to get this done now."
Mullen declined to use the word "fatal" when Crowley asked if that would be a fair way to describe the impact on the country's security if the treaty was left undone at year's end.


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These pictures are small pictures that look like they were either school pictures or cut from a yearbook. This group had names on each one. They were marked as follows:
1st row, left to right: Clara Peterson, Glen Young, Emma Havens, Sue Hancock
2nd row, left to right: Evelyn Smith, George Hoots, Virginia Pulling, Lena May Havens
3rd row, left to right: Lecie Campbell, Margaret Templin, Ellein B.? & Lucille Wilson, Emma Havens
4th row, left to right: Betty Lieb, Macel Northrop, Earl Brown & Leslie Stice, H. Haney.
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Anna, 32 y.o. educated, firm of purpose and sensual Ucrainian woman from Odessa
Hobbies and interests:
My hobbies are art and jewellery, out-doors, gym, learning foreign languages, cars. My favorite food is Mizuna Greens (Japanese mustard, Gobo, Nori (laver), Chamomile. My favorite actors are Ashlan Gorse, Chelsea Field, Coral Smith, Tom Hanks and liked movie is The Mortal Storm (1940). The last book that I read was Trawl – B.S. Johnson.
About me:
Nice to meet you I'm Anna. I believe I am a tolerant, purposeful and cute Russian person Odessa, Ukraine. I am Capricorn, I weigh 70 and i am 175 tall. My eyes are Blue and Light Brown hair. I can speak English, German, Spanish.
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I would like my partner to be 25 - 35 y.o. cheerful, purposeful partner from France, Taiwan, Poland.. Will be good if his hobbies are dancing and gardening, meeting interesting people, gym, jewellery, watching TV.


text: That is some sweet stuff there! Something else you can do with that dolly is put a couple 2 x 4's in to stack on but they have to be short else it won't be easy to tip back. But with those extra wheels, that probably can't be improved on much.


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Senate panel clears Haley staffers in port dispute
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:46:51 GMT —
COLUMBIA (WACH) - The Senate Medical Affairs Committee cleared Governor Nikki Haley TMs office of unfairly influencing DHEC TMs decision to grant a water permit, clearing the way for the expansion of the Port of Savannah.
Critics say that permit will give Georgia millions of dollars in potential commerce, which would have otherwise gone to South Carolina. Governor Nikki Haley TMs Chief of Staff Tim Pearson testified for nearly 90 minutes to a senate panel Thursday.
"You TMre swearing before this committee that you did not interfere or influence on behalf of the governor or anyone else, you did not, is that correct? asked Chairman Harvey Peeler, R-Cherokee.
That TMs correct I did not," answered Pearson.Read more Email could be critical in Senate port hearing Panel questions DHEC board on Georgia port permit Haley defends deal with Georgia on water quality
Pearson told lawmakers Georgia Governor Nathan Deal asked Haley for the DHEC board to hear an appeal of the staff's initial denial of a water permit request. The DHEC board eventually over ruled the staff.
Orangeburg Senator Brad Hutto has an anonymous email from a DHEC staffer who felt pressured to compromise on the matter.
It TMs tough out there in the job market, said Hutto. "Nobody wants to lose their jobs, over doing something they TMre not supposed to, but at the same time I think this person thought the process had been subverted.
Hutto and other members of the committee were suspicious about the timing of the successful appeal, which happened shortly after an October fundraiser Haley held in Atlanta.
There was no pressure put on anyone to change this decision one way or the other, Pearson told the panel.
Following Thursday's hearing, Governor Nikki Haley went into attack mode, defending her staffers and accusing lawmakers for playing "political games" while more pressing issues face the state.
"You had a group of legislaters who chose to show their political muscle and get good people up there. You can shoot at me all you want to. That's my job and I'll take it every time," said Gov. Haley. "They don't deserve what had to happen today. They shouldn't have to raise their hand and say that this is the truth. Just imagine if we had taken that same time that they took in those meetings and those subpoeanas and put that into jobs and the economy."
Haley also accused her former gubernatorial opponent Senator Vincent Sheheen of orchestrating the hearings. Sheheen, a Democrat, is not a member of the Senate Medical Affairs Committee.
Haley's claim notwithstanding, lawmakers both Republican and Democrat, said the hearings were necessary to get to clear up an issue that critics argue could have significant economic and environmental impact on South Carolina for decades to come.
Conservation groups in two states have appealed South Carolina's water quality permit for the $650 million deepening of the Savannah River shipping channel.
Attorneys with the Southern Environmental Law Center filed the appeal in the state's Administrative Law Court.
The appeal contends the Department of Health and Environmental Control improperly approved the permit allowing deepening of the channel so larger ships may call at Georgia's ports. The permit had originally been opposed by the DHEC staff.
The appeal contends the dredging will deplete dissolved oxygen, destroy habitat of the endangered shortnose sturgeon and destroy hundreds of acres of freshwater marsh.
It was filed on behalf of the Savannah Riverkeeper, based in Augusta, Ga., as well as the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League and the South Carolina Wildlife Federation.
Richland County Democrat Senator Joel Lourie says he also plans to introduce a resolution to the General Assembly next month condemning the DHEC board TMs decision.


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With his usual sensitivity and insight, Henkes (The Birthday Room) explores key issues of adolescence, through the observations of aspiring 12-year-old writer Martha Boyle. In the opening scene on an August morning in Madison, Wis., Martha receives a visitor: the mother of her classmate Olive Barstow, who was hit by a car the month before. The woman hands Martha a journal entry, in which Olive describes her own wish to be a writer—and to "get to know Martha Boyle next year... the nicest person in my whole entire class." Since Olive kept to herself, these revelations forge an unexpected bond between Martha and this classmate she never knew. The other hope Olive confides in the entry is that she could "one day... go to a real ocean such as the Atlantic or Pacific." Martha begins an unwitting pilgrimage of sorts: she strolls with her toddler sister to the corner where Olive died and, when she goes to visit her grandmother, Godbee, on Cape Cod, Martha experiences the ocean for Olive and for herself. In brief chapters, Henkes reveals Martha's discovery of life's fleeting qualities, her deepening bond with Godbee, and her first stirrings of romantic feeling and betrayal. Readers can peer through this brief window into Martha's life and witness a maturation, as she becomes a young woman, appreciates life anew and finds a way to give something back to Olive. Ages 10-up. (Aug.)
Release date: 08/01/2003


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ischade's review of Givenchy Ange ou Demon Le Secret
77 reviews
80% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.8
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Beautiful! I love it. I don't usually go for sweet florals but this is irresistible. Clean, sweet, slightly tart and delicate. Feminine without being in the least bit precious or overtly girly. My only complaint and the one thing that would keep me from repurchasing this is the staying power, or lack thereof. I've heard it compared to D&G Light Blue but I feel that this is softer, not as citrusy and LB definitely sticks around whereas this disappears in a few hours. I do really love it though, so I'm considering getting the lotion to see if some layering might help.
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Halle Berry Cuts Off Her Luscious Locks
Stunning movie star Halle Berry recently confessed that she planned to shave her head for an upcoming film role. So we're guessing that her return to her trademark super-short do of days gone by is in preparation for the upcoming shearing.
Or maybe Halle decided at the last minute that a total head shaving was too extreme of a look for even her beautiful face to pull off.
Either way, she manages to look gorgeous no matter what look she's sporting. She could walk around with a bucket on her head and still receive glances of envy.
Gallery Info: Halle Berry shows off her new, short haircut at the Marriott Hotel in Marina Del Rey, California.


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If you've been following my blog I'm sure you're thinking,"When is that chick going to finish her office?" My husband is wondering the same thing. To say I've been slowly decorating this office is an understatement.
I did finally finish the credenza wall. I saw this print on another blogger's post and fell in love with it. I knew it would be perfect for my office. The turquoise is just what this room needed for that extra punch. It didn't come in a standard size for framing. Of course not! I received a couple of quotes to have it custom framed. You could have knocked me over with a feather when they told me how much it would cost and how long it would take. It's not a Picasso, people! I was so frustrated that I just cut the print a half inch or so on each side to make it fit into a regular frame. I'm an instant gratification type of person (and maybe a little cheap) so this worked great for me. I considered painting the frame, but I'm going to leave it for now to see how the rest of the room turns out. I'm not completely sold on the accessories, but it works for now. Most of the accessories were moved from another room so it's okay if they don't stay.
I really wanted to finish the credenza wall as soon as possible because it's the first thing you see when you open the front door, which is why I don't have my printer or other office-y type things sitting out on it. Here's the view when you walk in the door.
Hopefully, it won't be too much longer until I show you the rest of the room!
New Artwork for the Office
Dec 5, 2012
Labels: Study
4 comments:
So far it looks beautiful… Can't wait to see the rest of the room! Also, are those floors tile or prefinished wood? They are gorgeous! I have to put down new floors in my house and weren't sure to do tile or wood flooring.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Sherry
Thank you! It is wood tile floor. I have three boys and there's no way we could do a real wood floor downstairs. Here's a post about it with everything you'd ever want to know about wood tile.ReplyDelete
I love it! It's so perfect in there!!ReplyDelete
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The Chronicle Review
Who's Afraid of Black Sexuality?
Gregory Prescott
Well, for a long time, lots of people. Including scholars. Particularly black scholars.
If sex was once difficult to discuss openly, black sex was especially fraught. It touched on too many taboos: stereotypes and caricatures of "black Hottentots" with freakish feminine proportions; of asexual mammies or lascivious Jezebels; of hypersexual black men lusting after white women. It brought up painful memories of white control over black bodies during slavery; of rape and lynching; of Emmett Till, a teenager tortured and murdered in 1955 for supposedly flirting with a white woman; of the controversial 1965 "Moynihan Report," which called black family structures and reproductive patterns "a tangle of pathology." Or of Anita Hill in 1991, testifying before the U.S. Senate about alleged black-on-black sexual harassment.
Old tropes have continued to permeate popular culture and public commentary, whether a national furor over Janet Jackson's exposed breast, a recent blog post on Psychology Today's Web site (later retracted) to the effect that black women are less physically attractive than other women, or the barrage of news stories about a "marriage crisis" among black women who cannot find suitable mates. Witness remarks about the artists Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj, the tennis star Serena Williams, or Michelle Obama that harp on their ample backsides. Remember last year, when Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin, quipped about the first lady's "large posterior"? And this summer, when the Killers' drummer, Ronnie Vannucci, described how he accidentally found himself "grabbing her ass" during a hug?
Consider also how television repeatedly offers sexualized images of black men, whether parodying the half-naked (but not threatening) body of Isaiah Mustafa, the hunky Old Spice guy; hauling black men on stage, as Maury Povich does, to allow "baby mamas" to give them the results of paternity tests; or giving us the gargoylesque rapper-turned-crackhead-turned-reality-TV star Flava Flav, who searches for love among scores of uncouth women who humiliate themselves as they compete for his attention.
"The white imagination still traffics in toxic racial and gender stereotypes," says Beverly Guy-Sheftall, a professor of women's studies at Spelman College. Talking about sex "means that we are engaging in and calling up discussions of black sexuality that we think underscore what white people say about us. That leads to silence."
That silence has left a gap in the classroom and in black-studies scholarship. Rising faculty members worry that a topic doubly controversial—race and sex—could derail their careers. Students and professors are sensitive, even squeamish, about portrayals of their communities. Reflecting on the years of avoidance, Kevin Mumford, a history professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, thinks there is a basic dynamic: Many black people "refuse to give up the privilege of normalcy."
Bruce Talbot
In recent years, however, a growing number of scholars, in a variety of disciplines—queer studies, women's studies, anthropology, African-American studies, sociology, literature, history, public health—have begun to break that silence. Black sexuality is the focus of a number of conferences, research projects, and anthologies. While discussions of sexuality go far back in the world of black scholarship—to such work as W.E.B. Du Bois's report on black sexual mores and marital practices in Philadelphia, Ana Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells's examinations of the racist construction of black male and female sexuality, and the social scientist E. Franklin Frazier's dissection of the social patterns of the black bourgeoisie—today's work is more explicit, rawer. It gets into the bedroom with heterosexual black men having sex with other men "on the down low"; onto the streets and porn sets with cross-dressers, transsexuals, and black sex workers; behind prison bars with gay and lesbian inmates; into the dungeons and play dens of blacks who seek pleasure through bondage and pain.
And it is driven by a sense of urgency over problems confronting black communities, such as the AIDS crisis, incest, homophobia, domestic violence, and sex abuse in black churches.
The in-your-face approach owes much to the feminism among women of color and to the queer-studies scholarship that began to make its mark in the 1980s. At the beginning of that decade, KitchenTable: Women of Color Press became the first publishing company entirely run by women of color, focusing both on research about race and gender and on advocacy for women, gays and lesbians, and other oppressed groups. Queer studies similarly drew from scholarly theory about the construction of sexual personae and from gay activism.
That twin vision has given work on black sexuality a controversial edge.
Marlon M. Bailey rose to give a talk at a meeting this year to celebrate Ph.D programs in black studies. "It's time," he announced, "to talk about sex."
An openly gay professor of gender and American studies at Indiana University at Bloomington who calls himself a "butch queen," Bailey followed presentations on the history of the field, the state of its doctoral programs, and the trajectory of its research. Flanking him on the panel were older, distinguished scholars who had spent decades forging their discipline.
"I see we've saved the sex for last," Bailey drawled, batting his eyes. "Especially good sex."
Laughter rippled through an amen corner. But some parts of the audience maintained a stiff silence as he chastised the field for ceding discussions of black sex and sexuality to other disciplines like queer studies or gender studies.
After the session, the hallway was abuzz. Some younger and queer scholars gathered in small pockets in lobby areas, at times checking their surroundings and lowering their voices to a whisper to complain.
Queer scholars lamented that homophobia persisted in black studies as it emphasized "respectability" and social norms about heterosexual behavior, hypersensitive to the image of black people in the wider community.
Why be afraid to admit that black sex was long defined as "queer"—outside the norms of society—through the legitimacy given the rape of black women, the breaking up of black families, and the emasculation of black men in slavery? Why not acknowledge that the history of racism had caused black people to become distant from the most intimate dimensions of their lives? Why not rejoice in their diversity, and stop worrying about putting the best face on everything black people do?
"Enough with the nostalgia and celebration about how far the field has come," Bailey said in a phone interview weeks after the conference. "There's a silence around issues of sexuality, and that silence is especially palpable at black-studies conferences."
According to Darieck Scott, a professor of African-American studies at the University of California at Berkeley, for many years scholars didn't want to deal with the questions that were being asked in the hallways at the black-studies conference, because they faced a double bind: "How do you talk about black sexuality when the very notion that there is such a thing—that black sexuality is distinct from human sexuality, period, or that it has some classifiable existence in the world that makes it different from the sexualities lived and practiced among other peoples and cultures in the world—is an expression of an essentially racist logic?"
Monica Miller, an associate professor of English at Barnard College, takes us to 1760s England for a story about slavery, sexuality, and sartorialism.
In addition, in the early years of black studies, the most pressing battles seemed elsewhere. "To focus on sexuality would have been a distortion of the agenda," says Marlon Ross, an English professor at the University of Virginia. It was hard enough to fight for a place at the table for a new academic discipline focusing on black people. Acquiescing to the demands for work on sexuality, many of them coming from gay and lesbian scholars, seemed too dangerous. "People were still being ostracized. There was still a great deal of stigma, violence, and exclusion," Ross remembers.
The conflict within black studies, however, should not be overstated. Ross thinks more and more scholars acknowledge that questions about black sexuality "are central matters in how we've been perceived and how we perceive ourselves."
Nor is the conflict unique to one field. Tricia Rose, a professor of Africana studies at Brown University, says that because sexuality studies, as a whole, remains marginal throughout scholarship, researchers are still figuring out how and where to pursue it. "I do think that, historically, the absence of sustained focus on gender and sexuality in all academic disciplines means that they are all working to figure out how to do intersectional work and still retain a core disciplinary identity," she says.
Black studies has long stood at the juncture of numerous disciplines—with all the ambiguities, turf wars, and competing scholarly norms that can go with interdisciplinary work. "I don't remember a time where there hasn't been dissent about a variety of issues, including sexuality," says Robert Reid-Pharr, a professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Debates about black nationalism and separatism, the existence of a black aesthetic, the role of religion in the black community and, particularly, the civil-rights movement—to say nothing of the argument over whether black studies should be a separate department or program, or situated within other academic units—were notably heated.
So it might be fairest to describe the ferment around black-sexuality studies—within black studies and broadly in academe—as an evolution.
As early as the 1970s, black lesbians and feminists like Barbara Smith and Cheryl Clarke, and influential poets and writers like Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Michele Wallace, and Ntozake Shange, criticized white feminists for ignoring race, and black male scholars for overlooking gender and sexuality. The title of the paperback edition of an anthology published in 1982 said it all: "All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies."
Dealing with issues of class, race, and gender all at the same time, black women called for confronting reproductive rights, rape, prison reform, forced sterilization, and violence against women. Lorde's poetry opened up a space to talk about differences not just between men and women, but also among women—including differences in sexual behavior and preferences. Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple broke the silence on incest in the black community. Wallace's Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman and Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf exposed sexism and violence against women in black communities.
"I always give black lesbian feminists the credit for the rise of sexuality studies," says E. Patrick Johnson, a black-studies professor at Northwestern University and co-editor of the 2005 Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, from Duke University Press.
Among scholars, much of the early work was done by historians, particularly black feminist historians, says Johnson. They brought out of the shadows the violation of black women under slavery—and the women's response to it. They discussed the ways black women had kept their sexual lives private throughout history, to protect themselves against racism. In medical and literary studies, theorists like Evelyn M. Hammonds, Hortense J. Spillers, and Claudia Tate drew on psychoanalysis to understand the psychosexual dynamics of that privacy. Other scholars dealt with the emasculation of black men through lynching. But many early studies of the period focused on black sexuality as something that whites violated, suppressed, or exaggerated to justify discrimination. Few said anything about black sexual agency, pleasure and intimacy, or same-sex relationships.
And the reason that those might be explored as a category separate from human sexuality in general—without employing what Darieck Scott calls "essentially racist logic"—is the enduring history of black bodies, living under an exploitative and objectifying gaze.
In the early days, however, black nationalists and segments of the civil-rights movement accused black feminists of diverting attention from the urgent work of eradicating racism and restoring black manhood. Others objected that, for example, Alice Walker's depiction of incest reinforced stereotypes about dysfunctional black masculinity.
"It's easy for people to forget all the hostility," says Spelman's Guy-Sheftall. That history made it more difficult to include sexuality discourse in black studies as the field developed, she says.
It was in the late 1980s that queer studies began to make its mark in black studies. In 1986 came the publication of In the Life, an anthology of writing by black gay men, edited by Joseph F. Beam, an African-American gay-rights activist who died of an HIV-related illness in 1988. "The bottom line is this: We are Black men who are proudly gay," he famously declared. And when Beam wrote that he wanted the truth to be told instead of watered-down versions of black life that excluded people like him, queer scholars heeded his call.
In 2000, frustrated by what he saw as silence about race in queer studies, Northwestern's E. Patrick Johnson organized the first black queer academic conference, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Mae G. Henderson, who is straight. "I understood that identity is something that is created," Johnson says. "Race might be an invention, but racism is not. It's very real, and white gay men didn't get that. They didn't have to, because they are white men." The conference drew 400 attendees, many of them graduate students who, he says, "came seeking affirmation of the research they wanted to do."
The time was finally right. Younger scholars had grown up exposed to work by black LGBT writers and filmmakers like Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, and Melvin Dixon. They had taken courses in gender studies and queer theory in college and were ready to see sexuality as a performance, a social construct, a varied phenomenon.
After Magic Johnson's November 1991 news conference announcing that he was HIV-positive, black America could no longer insist that it was not at risk for the infection, which had been associated most closely with white gay men. In the years following, it became clear that AIDS activism would have to extend to communities of color being ravaged by the disease.
The urgency of the AIDS crisis "really prompted folks to say that we cannot continue to proceed as if we don't have a gay community within the black community, and we can't proceed in the academy as if queer studies does not matter," says Johnson. "The young folks are saying, 'Let's talk about sex, because people's lives depend on it.'"
Those young people are also frustrated, and willing to say so. For decades, the "welfare queen" has been a standard cultural image, illustrated with oversexed addicts and promiscuous single mothers who bankrupt the country (and, in a recent iteration, drive up the federal deficit). "The visual for those stories has always been a black person," says Celeste Watkins-Hayes, a black-studies professor at Northwestern. She recalls President Ronald Reagan's stereotype of a welfare queen who used 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards, and was collecting $150,000 worth of Medicaid, food stamps, and veterans' benefits.
"Racial oppression is diminishing and limiting," Watkins-Hayes says. "Black-sexuality studies is about being liberatory, reinforcing, and life-affirming. Those two tensions end up making for fruitful scholarship. The confluence of those ingredients has led to a deliberate and clear articulation of a subfield called black sexuality studies."
Today, scholars in the field are studying gender, queerness, pleasure, public health. They're looking at representations of sexuality in contemporary gospel music and cyberspace, at sex among black men in prison, sex tourism in Brazil, gays and lesbians in the civil-rights movement, the sexualization of black children, and much more.
In September, Harvard University and Palimpsest, A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International Palimpsest sponsored a symposium, "The Queerness of Hip Hop / The Hip Hop of Queerness," which examined hip-hop culture through the lens of queer theory. It looked at the roots of hip-hop in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender activism; at the genre's queer aesthetics, fashion, and style. In October, graduate students at Princeton University put on a conference "to interrogate the intersections between blackness and queerness."
"How might we understand the relationship between blackness and queerness if we first reject the premise of their mutual exclusivity?" read the call for papers.
Mireille Miller-Young, an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is exploring the history of black pornography, looking at sex workers who get pleasure out of bondage and physical pain and who use racial stereotypes to market their bodies. She has a book, titled A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women, Sex Work and Pornography, forthcoming in 2013 from Duke University Press.
In 2005, Miller-Young gave a paper on black-female porn at the conference of the Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora. Presenting images from porn conventions, film sets, and Web sites, supplemented by interviews with more than 60 sex workers, she acknowledged fears that blacks in porn were acting out their own exploitation and "making it worse for the rest of us," she says. And she pointed out that black women have fought discrimination in the porn industry, just as in other labor markets.
But the situation is more complex, she argued: "If you look at the films closely, you see interesting moments where black women are trying to present sexuality in a way that is different. They are showing beauty, class, sensuality, sexual skill, and intimacy between black couples."
The women she interviewed, she says, were frustrated that feminists and other critics "don't see what they are trying to do, which is open up possibilities for black people to see themselves sexually. We can have fantasies about bondage, take pleasure in our painful pasts, and even find pleasure in stereotypes."
You can hear the exasperation in Miller-Young's voice when she describes how some black women in the audience reacted to her presentation. The chair of the panel turned away from the screen, closed her eyes, and refused to look at the images. One prominent black feminist scholar sitting in the audience, Miller-Young says, called her a "pervert."
"They said that by showing these images of porn stars, I was re-exploiting them," she recalls. "But I'm fascinated by the 'ho.' She is a figure that all black women have to contend with, whether you are sex workers or professors."
Several of the 30 scholars interviewed for this article say that some conservative black feminists tend to marginalize or dismiss not only sex workers but also the experiences of queer people, and to treat gender as if it were the sole province of women. There's too much focus, the scholars say, on the sexual violation and stereotypes of black women, little discussion of sexual crimes against boys and men, and not enough research on the diverse ways in which blacks seek pleasure and express a range of identities.
David Levering Lewis, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who was the first scholar to out major figures of the Harlem Renaissance, says he worries about the trajectory of some research on black sex. "Some of this scholarship is a bit queasy and sounds like a rationalization for an exercise in curiosity," he says. "But there is room in the big tent of the academy for these kinds of explorations. History without sexuality is incomplete."
Others are raising the discomfort level by treading on what is considered sacred ground—the civil-rights movement. Mumford, at Illinois, has written articles that examine how the civil-rights and gay-rights movements worked with and against each other, and how the "Moynihan Report" raised veiled questions about black homosexuality. The publication of the late Manning Marable's biography of Malcolm X caused some controversy because he identified Malcolm as a bisexual during his years as a hustler, before his conversion to Islam. Serious research on the relationship between gay history and the civil-rights movement is just emerging with dissertations in progress, Mumford says.
"There may be a need," Mumford says, "for black sexuality studies to push the envelope."
Nowhere, perhaps, do scholars want to do that more than in the field of public health. Chandra Ford, an assistant professor at the University of California at Los Angeles's School of Public Health, says health researchers have had a tendency to see black sexuality as "a perversion, a problem that needs to be studied because it's so different."
She's referring to dark moments not just in the past: the forced sterilizations of thousands of black girls and women in North Carolina from 1929 to 1974 or the studies in Tuskegee, Ala., of syphilis among black men from 1932 to 1972. In 2010 a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused a firestorm when it announced that half of all black women between the ages of 14 and 49 were infected with genital herpes. The statistics were based on a group of 893 black women who had been tested for antibodies to the HSV-2 virus, which meant only that they had been exposed to the herpes virus, not that they had actually developed the disease—or ever would.
Following the report, which the CDC later admitted was misleading, several black scholars and scientists spoke up about the way medical research is conducted on African-Americans. Too much research, they said, focuses on clinics in poor, urban areas where people are more likely to use drugs or have sexually transmitted diseases. The data from those populations, they said, cannot be used to form generalizations about all black people—or about black versus white people.
Velma M. Murry, a sociologist at Vanderbilt University whose research is on the black middle class, has found evidence that contradicts national reports about sexually transmitted diseases among blacks. She has noted that middle-class African-American girls delay having sex two years beyond the national average for all girls. What is missed is "the positive practices of black families—the practices that work for us, that lead to better physical and psychological health."
In sociology, public policy, and public health, scholars have been pushing researchers to look up from diagrams and charts of health statistics to develop studies that speak to the people being studied, rather than to the assumptions and the culture of the researchers who produce the studies.
For example, Northwestern's Watkins-Hayes has explored the economic and social-survival strategies of women living with HIV and AIDS in the Chicago area. Seeing that much of the news-media focus and LGBT activism involve white communities, Mignon R. Moore, a sociologist at UCLA, sought to gather information by following more than 100 middle-class and working-class black lesbians for three years to provide insights into how black culture helps shape their identities and family formation. Leon E. Pettiway, a professor emeritus in the department of criminal justice at Indiana University at Bloomington, has moved beyond statistics on street crime with his 1996 book, Honey, Honey, Miss Thang, a poignant look at five gay, drug-using transvestites who struggled to retain some sense of dignity in the face of substance abuse and hustling to stay alive.
Old taboos are falling. After all, the country now has a black president who has declared his support for same-sex marriage. Exploring lived sexuality, recognizing the black sexual experience in all its diversity—including pimps, prostitutes, transsexuals, and porn stars—is freeing intellectual debate from old fears and inhibitions. But scholars say it's not just a matter of widening their research agenda. It means bringing the insights about black history and culture, about the structures of racism and pathology, into public-health discussions of AIDS, drugs, prison conditions, and molested children.
These scholars say it's a matter of saving lives.
Stacey Patton is a staff reporter at The Chronicle. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University at New Brunswick and is the author of That Mean Old Yesterday (Simon & Schuster, 2007), a memoir about growing up in foster care and the historical roots of corporal punishment in African-American families.
Corrections (12/3/2012, 10:17 a.m.). Because of an editing error, this article originally misreported Leon E. Pettiway's institution. He is at Indiana University at Bloomington, not at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. And Darieck Scott is a member of the department of African-American studies at the University of California at Berkeley, not the department of African studies.
Key Books in Black Sexuality Studies
Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets, by Leon E. Pettiway (Temple University Press, 1996)
The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics, by Cathy J. Cohen (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture, by Siobhan B. Somerville (Duke University Press, 2000)
Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Indiana University Press, 2001)
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy, by Tricia Rose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003)
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson (Duke University Press, 2005)
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality, by Dwight A. McBride (New York University Press, 2005)
Exploring Black Sexuality, by Robert Staples (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism, by Patricia Hill Collins (Routledge, 2004)
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual, by Robert Reid-Pharr (New York University Press, 2007)
Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy, by Candice M. Jenkins (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
Blackness and Sexualities, edited by Michelle M. Wright and Antje Schuhmann (LIT Verlag, 2007)
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, by E. Patrick Johnson (University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance, by James F. Wilson (University of Michigan Press, 2010)
¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba, by Jafari S. Allen (Duke University Press, 2011)
Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood Among Black Women, by Mignon R. Moore (University of California Press, 2011)


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The No Child Left Behind (NCBL) Act is a reform of the federal education policy. The NCLB was put in effect to help all children get an equal education no matter of race or how much money the family makes. "The NCLB Act will strengthen Title 1 accountability by requiring States to implement statewide accountability systems covering all public schools and students." (Secretary of Press, 2002, Accountability for Results, para 2) Each state has one test that all students grades one through eight have to take every year. Every school must have results made available to parents so they can see how the school measures up statewide. The state then will make a report to show the progress that all students are making in closing up the achievement gaps between other students. "Assessment results and state progress objectives must be broken out by student groups based on poverty, race and ethnicity, disability, and limited English proficiency to ensure that no group is left behind."( Secretary of Press, 2002, Accountability for Results, para 2) Every school is held accountable for closing the gap and if they fail to do so they get put on corrective action and restructuring measures are taken to get them back on track. If the school does not show improvement and "goes four consecutive years, it will be subject to increasingly tough corrective actions-such as replacing school staff or significantly decreasing management authority at the school level. If a school continues to fail, the school could ultimately face restructuring, which involves a fundamental change in governance, such as State takeover or placement under...


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Emerson Caroline nn 'Emmy': Not really a fan; don't particularly like Emerson for a boy OR girl, and the two 3-syllables would sound clunky with my 3-syllable surname.
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The circumstances surrounding Mt. Pleasant's football team may have brought about some adjustments for the Tigers in preparation for their Region 6-A matchup with visiting Perry County Friday.
The circumstances surrounding Mt. Pleasant�s football team may have brought about some adjustments for the Tigers in preparation for their Region 6-A matchup with visiting Perry County Friday.
The arrest of starting quarterback Princeton Harlan on Wednesday along with two other members of the team could force changes in the lineup. School officials declined Thursday to comment on the status of the players for Friday�s game .
Harlan has been a mainstay for the Tigers (5-2, 4-0 Region 6-A) passing for 1,565 yards and 17 touchdowns, while also rushing for 581 yards and 11 TDs. Harlan has produced nearly 73 percent of the team�s offense.
Should Harlan not play, the Tigers will turn to backup quarterback Walter Crawford, who has completed 3 of 6 passes for 50 yards, while rushing for 65 yards. Crawford�s top receiving targets will be Ken�Yores Smith (35-675 yards, 7 TDs) and DaVonte� Webster (22-491, 5 TDs).
Mt. Pleasant, which is a 30.5-point favorite according to Sonny Moore�s power ratings, will likely have to rely heavily on running back Corey Webster, who rushed for 367 yards and five touchdowns.
Defensively, the Tigers are led by linebacker Josh Russell, who has returned two fumbles for scores, while Jordan Mayberry returned a kickoff for another six-pointer.
�We have a lot of talent on this team besides Princeton,� said Mt. Pleasant coach Jason Hoath said in an interview on Tuesday prior to Harlan�s arrest. �Our lineman have done a good job on both sides of the football.�
Some of the Tigers who have been doing a solid job up front are seniors Trent Gibson, Amos Wall, Davontay Amos and Kevin Asbury, junior Chris Neal and sophomore Peyton Vandiver and Zack Reagan.
The Vikings (2-5, 2-2) averaged just nine points per game while losing their first five games, but have scored at the rate of 44 per game while winning their last two contests after Perry County coach Matt Harrison made an abrupt change in the offensive style.
In the last two weeks, Perry County (2-5, 2-2) prevaileld 38-28 at Cornersville and won a 50-42 verdict at home over Columbia Academy last Friday.
While the Vikings have virtually abandoned the aerial game in producing 524 rushing yards against CA, they throw twice, including a 50-yard completion.
�Perry County is coming into the game with a lot of momentum with those two wins,� Hoath said. �They were throwing the ball around a lot early, but they are running a double-wing, now.�
The one-two punch of Andra Mathis and C.J. Qualls pose a problem for the Tigers� defense, which gave up 54 points to run-oriented Cheatham County in Week 4. Mathis ran for six touchdowns and 256 yards in 20 carries against Columbia Academy.
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Michiel Seyn (d. 1562)
Michiel Seyn (Syen), an Anabaptist martyr, drowned on 26 June 1562 at the Steen castle at Antwerp, Belgium, because he had been rebaptized (by Gillis van Aken) and "persisted in his rebaptism." Michiel was born at Dermonde (Dendermonde?) in Flanders and was a chair-bottomer by trade. A Mennonite family with the name Seijen or Seyen was found in Amsterdam and other Dutch towns in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Génard, P. Antwerpsch archievenblad IX: 137, 141; XIV: 32 f. No. 358.
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The calendar hasn't even turned to May, Bruce Bochy noted yesterday. ''In April,'' he said, ''I don't know who's competing for the wild-card spot.''
The San Diego manager had just watched his Padres squander a lead for the second successive game and the Mets emerge with the victory. When he was asked about the Mets and their next opponent, the San Francisco Giants, as competitors for the wild-card spot, he seemed to want to say, hey, don't leave us out, but he diplomatically opted for the premature aspect of such talk.
The Giants, however, will begin a three-game series at Shea Stadium tonight, and it's never too early to beat one of the teams that will be a rival for that extra post-season slot, although the Giants have led the National League West every day of the season.
Besides the managing of Dusty Baker, which always seems to impress the Giants' opponents, the most intriguing aspect of the Giants this season is their ability to win without Barry Bonds. The team's No. 1 player had arm surgery on April 20. Since that day, the Giants have won seven of eight games.
''That's when the rest of the guys pick it up a notch,'' said Mike Piazza, the Mets' catcher, who as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers scrapped with the Giants as division rivals. ''They're getting production from everybody.''Continue reading the main story
Baker somehow sees to that. ''Dusty's a players' manager,'' Piazza said. ''It seems like he's still playing. He lets those guys go out and play and lets them do what they have to do to come together, police themselves. That's why they're tough. They're a good unit.''
Jim Leyland, the Colorado manager, has said that the Giants would always be there because Baker ''won't let them not be there.'' Sandy Johnson, Arizona's assistant general manager, has said, ''Dusty will find a way to get them to overachieve.''
Similar comments are not heard about Bobby Valentine, the Mets' manager.
On the contrary, the comments about Valentine are usually critical. Last season the Giants won four of their last five games and forced a playoff with the Chicago Cubs for the playoffs.
The spot the Cubs won could have belonged to the Mets, but they lost their last five games.
Maybe that's why it's important, for their confidence at least, for the Mets to make a strong showing against the Giants this weekend. In previewing that possibility, there's good news and questionable news for the Mets.
They will use Allen Watson, Orel Hershiser and Masato Yoshii as their starting pitchers against the Giants. That's the questionable news.
Watson has made two starts in place of the injured Rick Reed, allowing three runs in his first inning but only two in the other 11 innings. If the Giants see the Watson of his last innings, the Mets should be in good shape.
Hershiser, at 40, has been erratic, lasting only four innings twice and failing to finish the sixth inning in his other two starts. Yoshii has been the biggest disappointment of the 1998 starters who are 1999 starters (that excludes Hideo Nomo) and is in danger of not only losing his starting role but also his major league job.
There was even speculation yesterday that Reed, having recovered from a slight calf tear, could replace Yoshii for the Sunday start.
''He's ready to pitch in some sort of competition,'' General Manager Steve Phillips said. ''He could do something as early as Sunday.'' He declined to elaborate on where that something might be.
Piazza looked at the starting situation realistically and said: ''You know Yoshii is struggling a little bit. You know Allen's still finding his role on this team. But still we have to go out with the guys we have. We've got to go out and say this is what we're going with. It's an attitude you have to have. You can't go into something with a negative right off the bat. It's a state of mind.''
The Mets' relief corps, on the other hand, has placed the Mets in an extremely positive state of mind. The segment of the team known as the bullpen came through again yesterday after Bobby Jones struggled through five innings. Dennis Cook, Turk Wendell, Armando Benitez and John Franco each pitched an inning, and the five runs the Padres had after five innings were the same five they had at the end of the game.
Bochy said the Mets' bullpen has to be considered one of the best in the league. Its ability will continue to be tested if the starters don't extend the number of innings they have been lasting.
''It's still early,'' Cook said. ''Guys aren't going as deep into the game as they're going to go. The next few games those guys are going to go pretty deep into the game.''
And if they don't?
''We could probably do it for a little while,'' Cook said of the relievers' frequent appearances, ''but you're going to end up with a lot of people on the d.l.''Continue reading the main story


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Sunday, April 26, 2009
D.C. United's acquisition of veteran defender Avery John was not the first personnel move since the club broke training camp and will certainly not be the last before the trade and signing deadline in September. But by adding John to a back line that Coach Tom Soehn called a "little shallow" and waiving forward Francis Doe on Thursday, United gained greater roster, if not lineup, clarity for the next stage of the MLS season.
John, who is expected to be in uniform for this afternoon's match against New York at Giants Stadium, offers another option at left back and infuses a young back line with domestic and international experience. Doe's departure symbolized United's surplus at forward, a position bolstered by the rapid emergence of rookie Chris Pontius, the recovery of Santino Quaranta and the promise of newcomer Ange N'Silu.
In the wake of John's signing, two recent injuries and uplifting performances by rookies and reserves in Wednesday's U.S. Open Cup game, Soehn could go several different ways with his starting lineup against the Red Bulls.
The most intrigue involves the back line. Dejan Jakovic has been the starting central back the past four MLS matches, but Greg Janicki might have regained the job after a strong return on Wednesday from a head injury.
Jakovic has also played on the right side of a three-man configuration and, if he were to end up there today, Bryan Namoff, a mainstay on the right, would likely replace Marc Burch on the left. Rookie Rodney Wallace has also played there but is more effective in midfield.
John started 71 games for New England between 2004 and '07 before playing for second-division Miami last year. He remains under consideration for Trinidad and Tobago's national team after appearing in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
"We felt we needed to make a roster move that, through the course of a season when you have so many games, it gives you some flexibility back there," Soehn said.
Although John's last competitive game came about four months ago, "Mentally and physically, I think I am capable of 70 minutes," the former American University standout said. "After that, it is give or take. I am a person who takes care of myself, so it's not like I haven't been doing anything. I made sure I kept myself at a certain physical level."
United quietly brought in John, 33, for workouts almost two weeks ago, allowing the coaching staff an extended evaluation period and John an opportunity to bond with potential new teammates.
John said he weighed options in Australia and China during the winter, but "the whole idea of looking for a new challenge in a different country, it wasn't like I had to do it or wanted to do it. . . . It has been an ongoing communication with my agent and a couple different teams in [MLS] and this one came true."
John's arrival comes at a time when United's defense seems to be melding. The unit yielded a goal but few other scoring opportunities last Friday against New England and shut out Dallas on Wednesday.
"We are taking each game as a lesson," Namoff said. "We are getting better and more efficient. It's good to get Greg back and Avery brings experience. At any point, we have guys who can step in off the bench and play a starting role. It's a long season and we are going to have to rely on a lot of players."
The attack should do just fine without Doe, who had seven goals in 19 appearances in all competitions last year. But after slipping on the depth chart and not performing well in a reserve role at Real Salt Lake two weeks ago, the Liberian was excluded from the game-day roster the past two matches.
While Doe fell out of favor, rookie midfielder Brandon Barklage has surged into contention for playing time. The third-round draft pick from Saint Louis University made his first start Wednesday in place of Christian Gómez (hamstring injury) and scored in the second half. Gómez is expected to be sidelined again today, but Soehn seems likely to turn to a more experienced player in the playmaking role.
United Notes: N'Silu (hip flexor) is not expected to be in uniform. . . . The Red Bulls, MLS Cup finalists last year, lost at Kansas City on Thursday, 1-0. Right back Carlos Johnson was red-carded in the second minute -- the quickest ejection in MLS history and his second dismissal of the year -- and is suspended today.


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I have anxiety/depression with OCD tendencies. I have tried 3 different SSRIs but they have all worsened my anxiety very soon after starting therapy. Is this an SSRI side effect that can be generalized to all SSRIs or is it worth trying different ones?
SSRIs are the standard (and effective) treatment for anxiety and depression. That doesn't mean they are right for everyone, however. I would encourage you to discuss this further with your physician, as each individual requires individual treatment.
However, you may want to check in with your treatment plan and make sure you have addressed some of the following:
Are you also getting counseling and/or therapy? For many people with anxiety, the best treatment is one that includes both medications and therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has good success treating people with anxiety (and OCD) disorders. If you aren't in a therapy program, I would encourage you to find a therapist and add this to your treatment plan.
Are you giving the medication enough time to work? SSRIs don't work immediately -- for depression, people usually don't see any relief for 1 - 3 weeks, and often, for anxiety, it takes even longer (and often higher doses). A common concern about the SSRIs is that symptoms don't all improve at the same rate. For example, your interest in outside activities or your energy level may improve before your sadness or nervousness does. Some people may perceive this as "worsening" depression or anxiety, when, in fact, it may be simply more awareness. Ongoing therapy along with medication is an excellent way to sort out what are worsening symptoms, changing symptoms or atypical improvement.
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It was a good sign for the local film industry when Adam White, a Lakewood-based cinematographer, had to turn down a day's work on a major motion picture shooting in Cleveland. Another positive indicator: Cuyahoga Community College had 26 students sign up for its first film crew training program in January, a three-week certificate program that introduced students to the basics of film-set jobs. Several of those students already have found work — though some of it as unpaid interns — on movie sets around the state, and a second class is scheduled for later this year. "Cleveland has turned the corner" on the road to building a filmmaking community, said Bob Bryan, chairman of the board of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission and executive director of media engineering at Tri-C. "The film industry is starting here, and it's going to get larger and stronger." In the last month, three films shot in part in Northeast Ohio last year have debuted "Captain America: Winter Soldier," "Draft Day" and "Miss Meadows," starring Katie Holmes. The credits for those films list dozens of Northeast Ohioans who worked on one or more of them. "We (created the class because we) wanted to make sure that we were able to supplement already existing crew with new trainees," Bryan said, adding that until recently movie crew members for major motion pictures were more often coming from elsewhere to work the occasional film production. "As we've built our crew base up, they're (people living) here," he said. At the other end of the spectrum is White, the Lakewood cinematographer. For him, the Hollywood production work he gets here is only 25% of his income, but it allows him to pursue his own filmmaking, like the scenes for a television series he was shooting in Alaska. "I was in Alaska, in a river, when "Captain America' called and asked, "Can you get here tomorrow?'" he said. "They wanted to add me on for a day." White was in Alaska working on "The Restorers," a television series his company, Hemlock Films, was shooting. The series follows aircraft restorers as they resurrect and restore vintage airplanes. White raised the roughly $400,000 needed to produce a five-part series that he's working on now to get aired on PBS. Lately, he has been hired on for "Carol," a drama starring Cate Blanchett that began shooting in Cincinnati in March. White also was an instructor for Tri-C's film crew training class. White's credits on IMDb, a database that records every worker, from star to production assistant on every screen, television or cable production, include, in addition to "Captain America," work as a camera operator on a number of locally shot films including "Miss Meadows" and "Draft Day" and work as a grip on "Alex Cross," "American Splendor" and "Spider-Man 3." A grip may work in the camera department building supports and moving equipment on location or be an electrical crew member helping with lighting setups. "It's really kind of refreshing to bop back and forth between working on your own stuff and working with other people," White said "In "Captain America,' you're working with some of the best people in planet earth when it comes to doing this sort of thing. And then when you go and work on your own stuff, the stress level is different."
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According to the film commission, in the last four years, between paychecks and purchased services, moviemaking has generated more than $300 million in spending in Northeast Ohio. But more important to Bryan and others building the local film industry, the film productions created more than 1,100 full-time equivalent jobs. "Workers used to come in from Michigan, Pittsburgh and Kentucky but as we build up a crew base they'll be (living) here, Bryan said. Much of the praise for that growth is going to the Ohio film tax credit. Created in 2009, the tax credit is a refund against the state income or corporate tax on approved productions equal to 25% of in-state spending and nonresident wages and 35% of Ohio resident wages. Any single production can earn up to $5 million in credits. The Ohio Legislature has capped the amount of credits the state can award in any year. That cap was $10 million a year for fiscal 2010-2011and 2011-2012, and $20 million a year for fiscal 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. Film tax credits are offered by 45 states and Puerto Rico, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. However, legislatures in several states, including Michigan, New York and North Carolina, are looking at cutting back on or ending film tax credits because they don't believe the investment pays off. A 2012 study of the Ohio film industry by Cleveland State University found that every dollar of tax credits returns $1.20 to the state economy. "The tax credit is quite significant," said Kiely Cronin, a native Clevelander who, like White, won last year's major motion picture trifecta, working on all three major productions filming in Cleveland. "At this point in time, for feature films, (the tax credit) makes Ohio competitive."
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Cronin, a 25-year camera crewman, considered Los Angeles his home base for two decades. He first returned to Cleveland professionally when he worked as a camera loader on "Welcome to Collinwood," in 2001. At first he moved to Pittsburgh, because that was where the work was. But five years ago he felt could get enough work locally to justify a Cleveland home base. He said a little less than half is work is local, so he still travels to wherever there's work. "I now consider myself a Rust Belt jet-setter," he said. Bill Garvey, a native New Yorker, came to Cleveland six years ago; his wife is from here. In New York, he worked his way up from production assistant, to location scout, to assistant location manager. He spent four years as assistant location manager for "The Sopranos" television series and three years in the same job on the "Law and Order" series before moving to Cleveland. At first, the work in Cleveland was scarce, "but that changed within a year," he said. "I spent a year working on "Captain America: Winter Soldier,' and I spent over a year working on "The Avengers,'" which was shot in Cleveland in 2011. As location manager, Garvey was responsible for finding all the locations in Cleveland and then he coordinated with city and county governments for permits and arranged for police and fire department assistance during filming. He also was responsible for hiring local people and companies for things like security, clean up, signage, street sweeping and crew catering. He credits the president and CEO of the film commission, Ivan Schwarz, for the pickup in film work locally. (Schwarz was unavailable last week to be interviewed for this story.) Schwarz came to Cleveland in 2007 after a 20-year career in Hollywood, principally as a location manager. "The central reason for (the increase) is Ivan," Garvey said. "His knowledge of the industry and his contacts in the industry" played a key role in the industry's growth in Cleveland.


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I have almost religiously worn my FitBit Flex for the past 11 months or so. At first it was all about the steps. How many steps could I do each day. How often could I get that 10k steps badge? How many days in a row could I get the 10k steps badge? What is the highest steps badge I could get? As soon as I managed to get 30, anabolics 000 steps in one very long day – the drive to get the little black band to do it's light and vibration dance slowly wore off. Instead my focus switched to another interesting part of the device. The sleep tracker.
One of the other drivers for me to start looking even closer at the sleep tracker was that people in the office almost consistently every morning when I get to work say "hey looks like you had a rough night", troche "looks like you need to go back to bed", misbirth "man you look tired". I know what you are thinking – surely that alone should drive you to sleep more – but with a young family, and lots of work and study commitments… sometimes you need more convincing J
That being said… you know what I realised pretty quickly once I started looking more closely at the sleep tracker? I am not sleeping anywhere near as much as all the doctors/magazines/blog articles suggest (and everyone in the office is right!). Let's take a look at the last 7 days on the FitBit dashboard…
- Last night: 5hrs 55mins
- Thursday 7hrs 19mins
- Wednesday 6hrs 34mins
- Tuesday 6hrs 56mins
- Monday 6hrs 07mins
- Sunday 6hrs 17mins
- Saturday 6hrs 47mins
Not only do almost all of those sleep durations start with a 6… the average for the week was just 6hrs 34mins of sleep each night! Well below the 7 or 8 hours recommended. (by the way, if you ever want to calculate your average sleep duration across a week, month or year – check out this article which describes how to average time in Excel).
So – we have a heap of data here from multiple sources (primary data from the FitBit which shows I not only have short sleep durations, but also inconsistent bed and awakening times – and the observations of my colleagues) suggesting I have a problem. What can we do about it?
Stop going to bed at 12:30pm?
I am a bit of a night owl and some of my best thinking happens late at night – I would hate to lose that
Start sleeping in after 7am?
Difficult with a young family to sleep through the noise (and then the associated guilt) of the breakfast/get out the door to kindy routine
Again difficult, although I could go for a rest in the car at work during my lunch break
Eat a spoon full of cement and harden up?
Hmm have been doing that for the past few years and I think it may be impacting on my health and well-being just a little bit
I think out of all of the above options the easiest to implement will be to shift my usual'ish bedtime from 12pm (+/- 30 mins) to 11pm (+/-30 minutes). I wonder what impact one extra hour per night will have over time – first things first – let's see what impact it will have over the next week. I will report in with my findings in 7 days J


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Discussion in 'Other Languages' started by ancalimon, Oct 26, 2013.
Does anyone know where this is found and which alphabet it is?
Sabaean Language which was written in the South Arabian alphabet
Some of these look very much like Etruscan, Turkic and Viking alphabets.
The most prominent similarity is the Phoenician N symbol. It is derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph depicting a snake. All European and all Semitic alphabets are ultimately derived from the Phoenician alphabet. Hence, the similarity between the Old South Arabian N and the Etruscan N is not an accident. The runic (you wrote Viking but what you meant are runes) letter of this shape is different. It is related to the Phoenician letter Shin = Greek Sigma = Latin "S".
The Old South Arabian G looks similar to the runic L but that is coincidence. The runic equivalent of the Semitic G is the Greek Gamma and the Latin C. The runic equivalent is the K.
(In your picture, the Latin equivalents are indicated above the Old South Arabian letters; when I say "Old South Arabian N" and "Old South Arabian G" I refer to these transcriptions).
The history of the runic alphabet is not entirely known but is is consensus by now that is is derived from an Old Italic alphabet, a group that is decedent from a western Old Greek alphabet and to which also the Etruscan and Latin alphabets belong. All varieties of the Greek alphabet are derived from Phoenician.
I always believed that Phoenician>Greek>Latin "N" was derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph depicting water surface with waves (^^^^^) which actually has the value of "N". I think I saw it written in some book too... The only two simple hieroglyphs depicting snake have values of "J" and "F" (snake with horns) if I can remember well and I don't see how these were used for Phoenician "N".
You are right, I shouldn't have said this as if it was a well known fact. The snake is only one of several hypotheses about the origin of the Phoenician Nun. But I think you are confusing this with Mem. That one is thought to represent water waves.
I am finding resources for both, water being the origin of nun (like here: http://proteus.brown.edu/greekpast/4739) or mem as you say and I see elsewhere.
Anyway thanks for showing me a different view, I probably should not have taken it for a fact that water was origin of N just because it was N in hieroglyphs and then similar in Phoenician/Greek/Latin.
I see that some letters are derived rather from the first sound of the Semitic word of what is depicted in which case water (mayim) is mem of course.
The link that I posted shows 'owl' - M as origin of M which also seems plausible to me.
I don't know an what arguments that table is built but it seems to ignore (how old is this table?) or maybe reject (not everybody agrees that proto-Sinaic is a pre-cursor of Phoenician), apart from the West-Semitic names of the letters, the proto-Sinaic evidence (see the table here). Cf e.g. the etymologies they propose for Aleph (eagle) and Beth (crane). That does not look too convincing.
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Depending on which list you look at, you could find Aaron Gordon put just behind other top college basketball freshmen such as Duke's Jabari Parker, Kansas' Andrew Wiggins and any number of guys from Kentucky.
This week, especially if Gordon gets a chance to play opposite Parker in the NIT finals, could change that equation a bit.
But that doesn't matter, the way UA coach Sean Miller put it.
"Aaron Gordon's talent speaks for itself, period," Miller said. "When he enters the NBA Draft, they'll pick him because of performance, not hype. He has teammates and right now he's a phenomenal teammate. Right now its about our basketball team and him being one of them that is hopefully going to string together an incredible year, and improve.
"This is the University of Arizona, this is college basketball and this is the month of November. It's about improvement, cohesiveness, teamwork, togetherness, and being able to answer the bell on a neutral court against a great program. Who gets interviewed more? I don't know who worries about that, but I know one thing damn sure we don't worry about that and neither does Aaron."
Former UA target JaQuan Lyle does not list Arizona among his eight finalists (but Miller has said he's now only recruiting a frontcourt player to round out the 2014 class).
Jahii Carson's mom says her son is regarded as the second coming of James Harden.
Carson was named the Pac-12's player of the week.
NBC's Rob Dauster loves Arizona.
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Colorado beat Harvard.
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