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Mark Lewis is in his last year of high school in modern-day Raleigh, North Carolina, and graduation is fast approaching. Mark had originally planned to send in applications to three schools, with Newman College in Virginia being his first choice; the main reason being that the campus is perfect for his passion of mountain bike riding. However, Mark has now added a fourth school to the list. Mark is applying to Duke University because of its close proximity to home and to his girlfriend Susanna Marsh. In the past year, Susanna has become Mark's passion. After saving Susanna from the horrific circumstances of her indentured servitude in 1796, and bringing her back to his century, Mark has assumed responsibility for Susanna. He cannot see himself moving over three hours away from her for four years. But, the choice may be taken out of Mark's hands when Susanna makes some decisions of her own.
While Mark has his worries, Susanna believes that she is becoming accustomed to her new life. She now lives with Melissa, Mark's sister, and pays her own way with chores and a fourth of the rent money. Also, Susanna has found a job bussing tables in a restaurant and is making friends. But, Mark is quick to show his disapproval of Susanna's new job and of her new male friend. These controversies leave Susanna not as sure in her relationship with Mark as she usually is, and she soon finds herself seeking out the familiar in the only way she knows how. Susanna takes a trip to the archives. Soon Susanna has more to worry about than Mark. There is a storm that will come through Susanna's hometown of Worthville and result in many deaths. Susanna combs the archives for mention of Dorcas, one of the children she used to take care of and her closest friend, any time after the storm. When information is not there, Susanna decides to take things into her own hands and comes up with a plan that will ensure that Dorcas survives the storm. The only problem is that this plan will cost Susanna her freedom and maybe even her life.
Mark and Susanna are coming up on a year since they met and developed a bond that crossed centuries. Much has happened in the past year and there is much to come in the next few months. The question is, will Mark and Susanna's bond be able to cross centuries once again?
Whispers from the Past is the third novel in the Whisper Fall series. Susanna and Mark first met in Whisper Falls, and their story of a magical waterfall and transcendent love continued in Whisper in Time and is finalized in this novel.
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Antibiotics Don't Ease Coughs in Kids With Common Cold: Study
No treatment is sometimes the best option, experts say
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Although they are not effective in treating this type of cough, researchers in Italy said many children are prescribed antibiotics anyway.
Antibiotics are also overprescribed to children in the United States, other experts have said.
The findings were presented Monday at the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) annual meeting in Atlanta.
"In our experience, antibiotics are often prescribed by the general practitioner to treat cough in children, many times to pacify parents," study lead author Dr. Francesco de Blasio, of the Clinic Center Private Hospital in Naples, Italy, said in an ACCP news release. "However, antibiotics show very little effectiveness at treating cough due to your average head cold."
It's not hard to understand why this can occur, a U.S. expert noted.
"As parents, it is difficult to watch our children suffering from a terrible cough, but turning to antibiotics is not always the answer," added Dr. Darcy Marciniuk, ACCP president-elect, in the release. "Depending on the underlying cause of the cough, a health care professional can recommend the best treatment options for a child, which, in some cases, may be no treatment."
The study involved 305 children who were treated in their pediatrician's office for a bad cough due to the common cold. Of these kids, 89 were given antibiotics, and 38 received both antibiotics and either an anti-cough medication that affects the central nervous system (codeine, cloperastine) or a "peripheral" medication called levodropropizine.
Meanwhile, 44 children received only an anti-cough drug. The remaining 55 children were not given any treatment.
Although there was no difference in outcomes among the kids taking anti-cough medication alone or with antibiotics, the study revealed the children who were treated with antibiotics alone recovered from their cough more slowly.
The researchers noted that levodropropizine was significantly better in treating the children's cough than centrally acting anti-cough drugs.
"Few drugs are effective as cough suppressants, and antibiotics are no more effective in relieving cough than the use of no medication," de Blasio concluded.
The study authors said that antibiotics are helpful in treating underlying infections that may result in a cough, but they should not be overused.
"Using antibiotics as a treatment for cough without suspected infection is unnecessary and can be harmful," de Blasio said. "Repeated use of antibiotics, especially when they are ineffective, can lead to adverse allergic reactions or a resistance to the medications."
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Lylie — SuicideGirl of the Day
Meet Lylie, a 21-year-old British SuicideGirl who says she loves naughty words in English and a good guitar solo and that she can't live without a bed. We're sure there's plenty of men who'd love to let you share theirs, Lylie!
Name: Lylie
Age: 21
Location: United Kingdom
Occupation: Makeup artist/beauty therapist
My idea of a good time: A long, slow, late dinner with friends
Into: Gigs, makeup, travels, I love naughty words in English
Makes me happy: A guitar solo
Makes me sad: Idiots
Hobbies: Dancing, drawing
Things I can't live without: Music, a bed
Favorite bands:
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- Esoterica
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- David Bowie
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It's time for a reality check. That was the cautionary message in my last post. The world is changing. Society is tearing down its system of silos and hierarchy, and our world defined by repetition and efficiency is quickly transitioning. The new system is flat, fluid, and one that is characterized by change. Everyone plays and everyone is bigger.
It's a very different game requiring very different rules.
I personally relate to the nature of this change based on a memorable management lesson from the 2008 presidential campaign. Over the course of two years, my organization, Obama for America, underwent a similar shift in its form that flipped my view of leadership on its head.
Everyone Leads
Going into the campaign, I think I would have described myself as a mentoring leader; one who encouraged the leadership of others. But looking back, my view of leadership was still very much grounded in the one-leader-at-a-time framework that I think most of us carry. I left my '08 experience with a polar opposite view, embracing instead an everyone-leads-in-every-moment outlook.
This was mostly helped by a profound organizational transformation that occurred over time. Despite what people might think about that campaign and the innovative environment we projected from the outset, we actually grew up traditionally siloed and hierarchical. But, ultimately, in our change-on-steroids environment, the one-leader-at-a-time system held together by the silo leaders (we called them department heads) could not keep up with the myriad challenges coming at us. We had to tear the walls down. This freed people in the middle and lower rungs of the organization to lead. Thus, we were transformed into an everyone-leads system.
With this change, there were some discoveries for me that have shaped my thinking about new leadership for a new era.
Step Into Your BIGness
First, in an everyone-leads environment, there is no room for smallness. You have to show up fully. The old system of one-leader-at-a-time is based on someone big and everyone else small in any moment. This new game requires a completely different outlook. Small people can't do big things. That's physics.
In fact, we were only as big as the smallest among us. I may have been the chief operating officer but my more important role was Chief BIGness Officer. I needed to help everyone around me step into their full leadership.
Teams Work
Second, was the discovery that when walls come down between two sides that don't normally speak, innovation happens. I know many people summed up from our 2008 run that we were innovative because of our use of technology or social media. But it wasn't the hottest, newest piece of technology that made the Obama campaign innovative.
In fact, in this new way of working, people formed fluid, shifting, and evolving teams across those old boundaries to solve problems and seize opportunities; teams-of-teams. Thus, the true value-add in any moment was the new team introduced to an existing one to meet the ever-changing nature of problems and opportunities.
Everyone A Changemaker
Third, when everyone leads in every moment, the speed of change accelerates relative to our one-leader-at-a-time past. Why? Leaders make change.
And if you agree that everything you change changes everything, and everyone is doing it — that means everyone is a changemaker.
The stakes for leading with empathy take on new importance in the everyone-leads environment. Empathy-based leadership has to be ever-present because on the one hand, this is a system that is highly interactive, and on the other, change must be undertaken responsibly.
When everyone leads, everyone is a changemaker. And in this new game, the old rules won't work.


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Geoff Nunberg is the linguist contributor on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
He teaches at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of The Way We Talk Now, Going Nucular, Talking Right and The Years of Talking Dangerously. His most recent book is Ascent of the A-Word. His website is www.geoffreynunberg.com.


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Bullet for My Valentine Begin Recording New Album in Thailand
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Welsh metal titans Bullet for My Valentine have just entered a studio in Thailand to begin the recording process for their fourth full-length album. Earlier today (Feb. 15), front man Matt Tuck tweeted a picture of drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas laying down drums for the yet-untitled upcoming album.
Having exploded onto the scene in 2005 with their 'Hand of Blood' EP and their first studio album 'The Poison,' Bullet for My Valentine have sold millions of albums all over the world. Tuck shared his excitement for the tracking of this new record on the band's Twitter page. "Moose tracking the first song right now!! Sounds incredible!! MT."
Bullet for My Valentine's third and latest album 'Fever' sold half-a-million albums worldwide and was praised by BFMV guitarist Michael "Padge" Paget in a recent interview with Lithium Magazine. "[Fever] is definitely where we wanted to go as a band and it's definitely the right record when it comes to maturing," says Padge. "It's the third album; it's definitely where we wanted to go and has taken us where we want to be."
Padge continued, "It's ticking all the boxes so far and hopefully the next record does the same thing . . . We strive to write great songs and I think 'Fever' comes across as a great album, not just songs, and a complete album. You can sit down and listen to the whole thing as opposed to 'Scream, Aim, Fire'. We tried to take it back to the roots to the 'Poison' sort of thing on the new album, if you know what I mean."
Stay tuned for more coverage on the recording of Bullet for My Valentine's fourth album.
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Let us take a glimpse into the research world of a geographer: "You begin the study of an interesting phenomenon and before you know it you are completely immersed in it." Dr. Stavros Constantinou, a geographer who has been teaching at The Ohio State University at Mansfield since 1984, was born on the island of Cyprus and grew up in a village called Tsada. His research focus on the history of Greek migration to the United States and Cypriot migration to the United Kingdom has been a natural blueprint because of his heritage.
Currently, the topics that most interest him include modeling ethnicity and applying the model to the study of Greek Americans; studying Greek immigration to the United States and emigration from Cyprus; and analyzing the population geography of Cyprus. He is also taking a closer look at Greek ethnicity in the Akron, Ohio area. This current research involves highly technical graphs and tables that look at statistical analysis from a different angle than he has used before.
So, what else can a geographer do? Dr. Constantinou has also created a database of population trends of towns and villages in Cyprus using the Geographic Information System. For analytical purposes, he is plotting the population on maps to examine demographic changes and population trends with attention to the ethnic distributions of Greeks and Turks. A particular interest in this project resulted from his culture and knowledge of Turkish occupation of northern parts of Cyprus.
Finally, he has updated his chapter on "Population and Social Characteristics," which he authored for the book Under the Rust Belt: Revealing Innovation in Northeast Ohio. When the book is republished in early 2015 by The University of Akron Press, his revised chapter will include text and map updates with population information about all Northeast Ohio residents through 2012. If you have an interest in the dynamics of Northeast Ohio's population, Dr. Constantinou's research in this book will provide you with details of population estimates, demographic characteristics, and an examination of future population projections in this particular area.
If you would like to learn more about working in the field of geography, Dr. Constantinou can help you plot your next steps into this riveting world and tell you about potential career paths and research. Send him an email to make an appointment to discuss your interest in geography.


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Harry Potter Series Arrives In E-Book Format To The Delight Of Wannabe Wizards
Perhaps lugging around a thick paper copy of any of the seven books in the Harry Potter series has deterred you from indulging in a re-read, or even attempting a first go at the books. But starting today, J.K. Rowling's novels involving the world of wizards are available in e-book format.
The series, which Reuters says has sold an estimated 450 million copies worldwide, is available on the author's Pottermore online store. That site is the only place you'll be able to buy ebooks and digital audio books, and only in English for now.
Oh, and they're still more expensive than buying a physical copy on Amazon. For example, a paperback of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is $6.71 on Amazon, and $7.99 on Pottermore. It's not just Harry Potter, either — while e-readers are getting cheaper, e-book prices have been rising. That price discrepancy has led to the Justice Department investigating book publishers for reportedly scheming to keep prices high across the board.
The main Pottermore site has been delayed by months, and although the store is up and running, the rest of it won't be be functioning until early April. It's designed to lure in readers who want to explore even more of Harry Potter's world than what's in the books.
Back in July, when the e-book plan hit the news, Google also announced a partnership with Pottermore, wherein "Google Checkout will be the preferred third party payment platform for all purchases made on Pottermore.com."
Rowling originally didn't want Harry in digital format, but now it seems she's bowed to the inevitable march of technology and the whining of millions of fans.
Harry Potter novels available in ebook format [Reuters]
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Camels - the Cars of the Desert
Camels could be included in the mammal section, but they are such an important part of the desert we devoted a whole page to them! Camels are the cars of the desert. They are the main transportation for people that live in the desert.
There are two types of camels: bactrian and dromedary. The main difference between the two is the number of humps. Dromedaries have one hump, and bactrian have two. Both kinds are used by people, but only bactrians are found in the wild.
Camels are used because they need very little water. Camels can withstand very high temperatures without sweating. They also store fat in their humps for food. If a bactrian camel travels a long distance without eating, its hump will actually get smaller!


text: People from every nation have found themselves deeply immersed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, currently underway in London, and it turns out that horses want to display their national pride too. The National Theatre's company of the Olivier and Tony-winning play War Horse joined in the festivities on July 31 as Joey the horse, led by Captain Nicholls (Alex Avery), appeared on stage at the Olympic park to salute the crowd at Park Live. The event included an appearance by Princess Anne's daughter, Zara Phillips, who later joined her UK teammates to win a silver medal in the equestrian events in Greenwich. A truly international experience, War Horse has productions throughout the world including the U.K., the United States, Germany, Canada and Australia. Check out this patriotic photo, and be sure to catch this magnificent production on both sides of the Atlantic.


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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to I Must Stand by Ice-T. Please check back for more Ice-T lyrics.
I Must Stand Lyrics
Artist: Ice-T
Album: VI: Return of the Real
Nobody ever said life was gon' be easy
But damn..
Just a kid, moms died when I was seven
Pops died, eleven, what's up with heaven?
It's hell when you're an orphan at a early age
This impressionable stage, no love breeds rage
In the heart of a child who never knew his roots
Looked up to pimps and to hustlers in the eel-skin boots
Parkin Caddies on the sidewalk, gangsta talk
Truckin diamonds and gold
Rubberbands around the bankrolls
Fly girls to make your head spin
Seemed they partied all night long
I was like, "Put me on"
But they said, "Little fellow, run and go play
Take your butt to school or else you'll have to be like us one day"
I didn't understand, but I tried to get a job
While all the players got the girls cause they'd hustle and rob
I was like makin 'bout 1-50 a week
And after taxes, you know what that is - lunch meat
And I know I can be better than this
I gotta get me a car, man
I gotta get a girl
I know I can do it out there, man
I'm finna go for it, man
I gotta get some money
Streets of anger, trouble and crime
I had it hard, had to sleep in my car sometime
But I never let another player see me down
I kept my front up, my gear clean
Even when checkin minor green
Brothers knew my game was true
So I hooked up with the real crew
That knew excactly what to do
Bank jobs and jewels, quick to flex with tools
Pimpin hoes on the block
Checkin cash non-stop
Crack spots, armor with interior bars
No lie, I used to own 'bout 15 cars
Every piece Fila made
Drape my women in suede
Pavet Piaget, Cesar's Palace holidays
It was on, crazy out of control
We made up the word 'ballin', that was how we rolled
But the FBI had a-whole-nother idea
It's called multiple indictments for hundreds of years
Daff is dead?
Carter got 25 years?
Spike 35 to life?
Nah, don't tell me B.O.'s dead, man
I don't wanna hear that, man
I was just with him
The game is vicious, no retirement, you die young
Listen to a fake, he might tell you to grab a gun
I get phone calls from condemned row
Brothers I ran with, brothers I really know
They tell me, "Ice you got much love in the pen
You're the one that got away, don't wanna see you in"
They tell me, "Tell the little homies the deal
Don't let em come up in this hellish habitat of shanks and steel"
I marched two million strong in D.C.
Lookin eye to eye with brothers that I used to think below me
Damn, my mind was twisted in my hustlin days
But God spared me, I got a baby son to raise
And bein black ain't easy, prejudice is real
But health and liberty is all we need for us to build
We gotta come together, unseparated
Check yourself like I did, blackman, because we're all related
Ice-T Lyrics
Ice-T VI: Return of the Real Lyrics
More Ice-T Music Lyrics:
Ice-T - 6'n The Mornin' Lyrics
Ice-T - 99 Problems Lyrics
Ice-T - Don't Hate The Playa Lyrics
Ice-T - High Rollers Lyrics
Ice-T - Mind Over Matter Lyrics
Ice-T - Pain Lyrics
Ice-T - Race War Lyrics
Ice-T - Squeeze The Trigger Lyrics


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From the Hans Christian Andersen biography "The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. Day By Day", written by DPhil Johan de Mylius:
11 November
Søren Kierkegaard dies, having worn himself out in a battle against the clerical "distortion" of Christianity.
28 November
Release of Billedbog uden Billeder (Picture Book without Pictures). 4th edition (3rd edition was in Samlede Skrifter (Collected Writings) 1854).
November - December
In preparation of writing the novel At være eller ikke være (To Be or Not To Be), HCA attends lectures held by the physiologist and zoologist D.F. Eschricht, who speaks against the materialism in German philosophy and natural sciences.
Release of six Novelletter by Hartmann, accompanied by texts from HCA. When Hartmann had played the pieces for him, he had found that each contained a little story. He therefore wrote the little poems for this purpose, to be read aloud before each piece of music.
The painter August Schiøtt asks HCA to sit for him. It is not known whether anything ever came of this painting.
3 December
The poem "Christian Winther" is printed in the newspaper 'Fædrelandet'. (After having read Winther's poetry 'Hjortens Flugt' (The Flight of The Deer).
7 December
Barters with Reitzel to receive Ingemann's collected works. Apart from Tankebreve fra en Afdød (Letters of Thought from a Deceased), HCA was, in the later years, especially interested in Ingemann's novel depicting the present day: Landsbybørnene (The Village Children) (he could recognise traits from his own fate as an artist in the protagonist Anton). Also the political novel Den Stumme Frøken (The Mute Maid) interested him and he considered this book to be unjustly overlooked.
8 December
Sends a copy of Mit Livs Eventyr (The Fairy Tale of My Life) to his old teacher from Odense, Fedder Carstens, now living on Tåsinge.
20 December
Reads fairy-tales and stories for the blind at the Institute for the Blind.


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Taxed by Self-Employment?
Along with the independence of entrepreneurship comes responsibility and, for many business owners, that means paying self-employment tax (SE tax) in addition to regular tax. You are considered self-employed if you run your business either by yourself or with a partner. SE tax covers both Social Security and Medicare taxes, which wage earners also pay. Their taxes are deducted from their pay, and then matched by their employers, who handle payment to the IRS. Entrepreneurs like yourself are on your own.
Who Has to Pay?
If your business is structured as a C corporation, you will not owe SE tax, but you will be subject to corporate tax. SE tax may apply to other business entities, such as sole proprietorships, partnerships, and limited liability companies (LLCs).
For tax purposes, you will still be considered self-employed even if you only have a part-time business or consider yourself an independent contractor. The key determining factors are business structure and income, not time. If you earn $400 or more on your own, you must file Schedule SE along with your tax return. Also bear in mind that if you are considered self-employed and you have employees, you must pay employment taxes, including federal income, Social Security, and Medicare taxes.
In 2010, the SE rate is 15.3% on self-employment income up to $106,800. This umbrella tax has two parts: a 12.4% Social Security tax, covering old-age, survivors, and disability insurance; and a 2.9% tax for Medicare.
There is a deduction to help soothe the SE tax sting. You may lower your income tax by deducting half of your SE tax when calculating your adjusted gross income (AGI).
For SE tax purposes, your net earnings represent your gross business earnings minus permissible business deductions and depreciation. The following types of income generally will not count toward your net earnings, unless such income stems from your business operations:
- stock dividends
- bond interest
- loan interest
- real estate rental income
- limited partnership income
Estimated Tax Payments
The IRS describes the federal income tax as a "pay-as-you-go" tax, which requires business owners like yourself to plan ahead. If you anticipate owing tax of $1,000 or more, you'll need to estimate the amount and pay it throughout the tax year, typically in quarterly installments. So, if you are self-employed and do not have income tax withheld, you'll need to pay estimated tax equal to 90% of your current-year tax liability or 100% of what you paid the previous year. If your AGI on last year's return was more than $150,000, the percentage requirement increases to the lesser of 110% of last year's tax or 90% of this year's tax. Please bear in mind that failure to pay estimated taxes may result in penalties.
For more information on the self-employment tax, visit the IRS online at www.irs.gov and consult our Publication 533. To help ensure you are in compliance, consult your tax professional for specific advice.


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• animus •
Pronunciation: æ-nê-mês • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. Motivation, intention, disposition to do something. 2. A sense of ill-will, resentment, animosity; spiteful ill will. 3. In Jungian psychology, the masculine side of a person's personality (compare anima, the feminine side).
Notes: Today's Good Word has a synonym, animosity, which was derived from a now defunct adjective, animous. This leaves today's word a lexical orphan with a missing link to its family. Remember, animus is spelled without an O, for that would make it an obsolete adjective. It is a noun.
In Play: We should never abandon a good word or even part of one. That might be the fate of the first meaning of today's Good Word if we don't take appropriate steps: "There is no animus for Wall Street to fix its problems so long as the banks and investment firms know the federal government will rescue them no matter how badly they are mismanaged." Let's not let this word become just another word for anger: "June McBride held no animus against Phil Anders for walking out on her."
Word History: Today's Good Word is a perfect copy of Latin animus "rational soul, mind, life, the will". This is where the sense of "intention, disposition" originated. Its feminine correlate, anima, originally meant "a breeze, breath, spirit, feeling". Both these words derive from the PIE root ane- "to blow, to breathe", from which Greek anemos "wind" derived. Our ancient ancestors often associated the soul with breath since, in cold weather, breath takes on a misty, ghostly shapelessness remindful of a soul. They also credited animals with souls, as you can see. (We can assure Harriet Belkin we have no animus toward her; quite the contrary, we are in her debt for suggesting today's soulful Good Word.)
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Enable HiDPI Display Modes in Mac OS X Lion with Quartz Debug
In what is some of the strongest evidence that Apple is working towards bringing higher resolution retina style displays to Macs, a series of hidden HiDPI resolutions can be enabled in OS X Lion.
Much like how iPhone UI elements handles it's retina screen, the HiDPI modes in Mac OS X double the resolution of many onscreen elements, which would make the elements look sharper on very high resolution displays. Unfortunately, these aren't particularly useful at the moment because no Mac screen currently supports a 'retina' resolution, and for now, using HiDPI basically just loads 2x sprites as shown in the screenshot up top. Regardless, this does provide some favorable support to recent rumors of retina Macs and it can be fun to to use, so here is how to enable these HiDPI display modes:
- Download and install XCode (free on the Mac App Store)
- Launch the "Quartz Debug" app, located in /Developer/Applications/Performance Tools/
- Pull down the "Window" menu and select "UI Resolution"
- Check the box for "Enable HiDPI display modes"
- Click "Logout" to log out and back into the user account
- Open "System Preferences" and click on "Displays" to see the HiDPI modes, shown with (HiDPI) next to them
As previously mentioned, using a HiDPI display mode has no practical purpose at the moment until a screen appears that can support the resolutions these modes are intended for.
There are also other bits of evidence scattered about in OS X Lion that suggest higher resolution displays are a work in progress, but when we'll see such a screen on a Mac is anyones guess.


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Bishop Eddie Long Reaches Settlement Out of Court
Atlanta megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long has reached a settlement out of court with the four young men who accused him of sexual misconduct, lawyers for both sides of the case said Thursday. Eddie Long was accused last year of coercing four men he mentored into sexual relationships.
Both sides of the case would not comment on the details of the settlement but said the lawsuit would not move forward to trial.
B.J. Bernstein, who represented the plaintiffs, confirmed Thursday that the lawsuit has "been resolved."
Long's lawyer, Barbara Marschalk, also confirmed the suits were settled and said they would likely be dismissed by the end of business Friday.
The settlement in the Eddie Long case comes three months after attorneys in the lawsuit between the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church pastor and his four accusers began mediation.
Art Franklin, spokesman for Long, said in a statement that both sides of the suit decided to resolve the civil cases "after a series of discussions."
"This decision was made to bring closure to this matter and to allow us to move forward with the plans God has for this ministry," said Franklin.
"As is usually the case when civil lawsuits resolve out of court, we cannot discuss any details regarding the resolution or the resolution process, as they are confidential."
Long's spokesman called the resolution "the most reasonable road for everyone to travel."
Jamal Parris and three other young men alleged in their lawsuits filed last year that Long lured them into sexual relationships by using his position and lavishing them with gifts.
The Lithonia, Ga., pastor had officially denied the allegations stating in response to the suit: "The Plantiff's claims to sexual misconduct are not true."
Long had admitted to mentoring the men and sharing rooms with them while on trips, but denied any sexual activity took place.
New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and Long Fellows were also named as defendants in the suit.
In September, when the accusations went public, Long stood before his 25,000-strong congregation and promised to fight against the charges.
"This thing I'm gonna fight," he told his congregation on Sept. 26.
"I have never in my life portrayed myself as a perfect man. But I am not the man that's being portrayed on the television."
In a news conference following the Sunday service, Long said he wanted the matter to be resolved in court.
"I want this to be dealt in the court of justice and not by public opinion. I will say that I am going to fight, fight very vigorously against these charges."


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Jan Davis
Jan Davis is an American astronaut who was born on November 1, 1953, in Florida. Before she became an astronaut, Davis worked as a petroleum engineer.
Davis became an astronaut in 1987. She has spent over 389 hours in space on two spaceflights.
In 1992, Davis flew aboard STS-47. The crew conducted several experiments in materials and life science research. Davis made her second spaceflight in 1994 aboard STS-60. This was the first Space Shuttle flight with a Russian cosmonaut on board.


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We weren't gonna say anything, but we totally saw this coming: In the first Song of the Summer Power Ranking in August, Black Eyed Peas have recaptured the No. 1 spot. Why? Because it was there. And: Jeremih fell off, hard. We haven't switched our ringtone yet, but at this point, we're keeping it purely to entertain Chris Rovzar whenever our dad calls. Meanwhile, Mariah's finally feeling the back draft from her Eminem dis (Nick Cannon, we love you, but you're embarrassing yourself, son!), and we welcome our second country Song of the Summer entrant, this week's Biggest Gainer: Tim McGraw, the country superstar channeling an R&B superstar with "It's a Business Doing Pleasure With You." And with you, sir!
1. Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling,": We can no longer deny it: This is the most popular song in the country. The only question: Is it better or worse than "Boom Boom Pow"?
2. Drake, "Best I Ever Had": Drake's knee had a big moment in the media, and yes, we're including the Twitter account. This song has spawned a world unto itself.
3. Pearl Jam, "The Fixer": Judging by the chatter in rock circles (they still exist!), this is, if nothing else, the trad song of the summer.
4. Jeremih, "Birthday Sex": And just like that … Can a song jump the shark? We're suddenly hearing "Birthday Sex" as a punch line more than coming out of car stereos.
5. Tim McGraw, "It's a Business Doing Pleasure With You": The album won't be out until fall, but what's more Song of the Summer than talking about buying spinners for your woman's Escalade? (Summer of 2003, granted, but still.) Country radio's one of the few places to get a properly laid-back summer tune, and this, for now, is the winner. Hey, it sure beats Toby Keith's "American Ride."
6. Demi Lovato, "Here We Go Again": Our imaginary little sister keeps coming in and putting this on in our room. And we like it.
7. Young Money feat. Lil Wayne, "Every Girl": What more is there to say (that's printable on a family website)? This song seems to keep, appropriately enough, respawning.
8. Shakira, "She Wolf": Club tracks are summer tunes, too, and if you visit the right dance floor, this one's the hottest.
9. Mariah Carey, "Obsessed": Our love for Mariah is undying, but can we expect the world to keep loving this song when Nick Cannon won't stop yapping — he now says this song is about him! — and Eminem's firing back startlingly brilliant dis tracks? Let it fade out …
10. T.I. feat. Mary J Blige, "Remember Me": Assuming it takes off — which, with tight performances from Mary and T.I., we don't see why it wouldn't — this song promises to last into fall on the strength of its autumnal vibe. For now, though, it's making its first appearance on the charts. Sing on, Mary!
Previously on Vulture...


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That is, after: "...could it be the north wind they'd bin feelin'?", "...came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (twice here), "...with the gales of November remembered", and "...when the gales of November come early" The Chords: (relative to the capo, which is the zero fret, or nut) ========== Asus2 A11 Dsus4 D (nut is 3rd fret) =========== =========== =========== =========== | | | | | | | | | | O | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-|-|-|-|-| 4|-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| | | O O | | | | | O | | | | | O | | | | | O | O |-|-|-|-|-| 5|-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| | | | | | | | | O | | | | | | | O O | | | | O | |-|-|-|-|-| 6|-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-|-|-|-|-| 7|-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| G Em =========== =========== | | | | | | | | | | | | |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| | O | | | | | O O | | | |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| O | | | | O | | | | | | |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| | | | | | | | | | | | | |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| The Full Lyrics (thanks to Brian Ross) =============== The legend lives on from the chippewa on down Of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee" The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty. That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the "Gales of November" came early. The ship was the pride of the American side Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most With a crew and good captain well seasoned Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms When they left fully loaded for Cleveland And later that night when the ship's bell rang Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'? The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound And a wave broke over the railing And every man knew, as the captain did too, T'was the witch of November come stealin'. The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait When the Gales of November came slashin'. When afternoon came it was freezin' rain In the face of a hurricane west wind. When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'. "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya." At Seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in', he said "Fellas, it's been good t'know ya" The captain wired in he had water comin' in And the good ship and crew was in peril. And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours? The searches all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her. They might have split up or they might have capsized; May have broke deep and took water. And all that remains is the faces and the names Of the wives and the sons and the daughters. Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings In the rooms of her ice-water mansion. Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams; The islands and bays are for sportsmen. And farther below Lake Ontario Takes in what Lake Erie can send her, And the iron boats go as the mariners all know With the Gales of November remembered. In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed, In the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral." The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee". "Superior", they said, "never gives up her dead When the 'Gales of November' come early!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Once again, a hundred thousand *MORE* apologies to Brian Ross who obviously spent a long time on this -- heck, it's still worth getting just for the great lyric chart alone!!! Also, apologies to those who were confused by my post. I'll be more careful! It's just that, played "correctly" :^), this song sounds so eerie, that you can give yourself goose bumps. It's even worth buying a 12-string JUST TO PLAY THIS SONG! P.S. Any big GL fans? I'd still love to hear from you! Matthew Fifer firstname.lastname@example.com


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Fancy Tiger Crafts has an exciting event coming up in the beginning of October, Wool Day at the Lyons Farmette…a local fiber retreat which will include your choice of two classes, a catered lunch and a cocktail hour. What could be better than spending a day of spinning, knitting and dyeing in the presence of fellow fiber enthusiasts and a fiber animal bunch…ending with cocktails with the Alpacas. For more information and to register, visit fancytigercrafts.com/events.
Fiber folk: I first met Brooke a couple years ago when I sat across from her at a little knit gathering Karen from Fringe Supply Co had at her studio. At the time I wasn't aware that she was the force behind Sincere Sheep, but it didn't take long for me to get to know the passion, knowledge and love this woman has for the fiber industry. She's so giving with her knowledge and has been a great encourager and connector for my own fiber pursuits, enlightening me about wool classing and encouraging me to attend a local wool classing certification and introducing me other fiber folk who have great wisdom to share. But more than all that, she's an extremely hardworking mother who naturally dyes the most beautiful collection of domestic yarns. You can find Brooke at SincereSheep.com and on Instagram @sinceresheep.
Sponsor: I wanted to thank our other sponsor for this week's episode, Stash, a local yarn shop based in Corvallis Oregon who will be celebrating their 4th anniversary next month. The owner, Sonia was a very early supporter and encourager of the podcast and it's been so great to get to know her a bit and watch all the positive energy she puts into her shop and fiber community. This week Sonia a new podcast, Stash, where she explores topics around creativity, motivation, and staying inspired while running a creative business through conversations with all types of makers. Make sure to visit when in Corvallis and online at stashlocal.com…and stay tuned in the next couple weeks as Stash launches their new online shop, carrying many of the same wonderful yarns, notions and patterns you find in store.
Farmyard Tales: I'm beginning a new segment on the podcast that will rotate with the regular Man on the Street segment…it's aptly named Farmyard Tales…fun and encouraging anecdotes from farmers and their farmyards…starting with mine.
Many of you know that back in April we welcomed a flock of 4 Icelandic ewes to the ranch…Ethel, Louise, Lucy and Alice. We bought them from a lovely woman near us who thought they might be pregnant from an escaped ram. We watched them over the following month and yes, it did appear as though they might be pregnant. We had a vet out to confirm and opted to skip the ultrasound because he also believed they were pregnant and we'd know soon enough, right? Wrong. The very fluid possible due date has come and gone and so it appears we just have fat sheep. Because of their new greener pastures, small added grain for "pregnancy" and thickening fleeces…it would appear we've been duped. This is after much anticipation of lambs, including building projects to prepare for them..haha. What is it they say? That everyday is a lesson in farming? Well this was a humorous and humbling one for sure.
Giveaway: The winner of last week's giveaway, is Judy from Judy in the Dyes! You've won the Pompeii hat kit, which includes a skein of natural SilverSpun yarn and a skein of dyed SilverSpun yarn, along with the Pompeii Hat pattern. Congratulations!
The giveaway this week is sponsored by Sincere Sheep and we're giving away, not one, but three Brookfield Shawl pattern kits, which includes a skein of Sincere Sheep Silken Fingering and Brookfield a pattern created by Annie Rowden for Among Friends, a collaboration between Brooke of Sincere Sheep and Lorajean of Knitted Wit. To enter this giveaway and be one of the three winners, leave a comment on this post.
Events: For all of the UK listeners, I wanted to bring your attention to an event happening this weekend at Loop, in London. On Saturday September 19th, Nathalie Lété will be painting Loop's large storefront window in honor of their 10th anniversary. If you're in the area, make sure to visit for this beautiful event and to also check out Loop's new book 10, featuring twelve patterns celebrating ten fabulous year of Loop London…including designers Pam Allen, Ysolda Teague, Stephen West, Donna Higgins, Juju Vail, Tif Fussel and Kirstin Kapur and many beautiful yarns.
Music by Jónsi.


text: If you'd like to spend your days with a pen in hand, or, as is more likely the case these days, with your fingers poised over a keyboard, entry-level jobs in writing are probably a good fit for you. If you're a creative person or at least one who knows how to perform research and to put that research into words, you could become a writer. While most people think of novels and stories when they think of writers, there are also writers who create newspaper copy, who write screenplays and stage plays, who write advertisements and commercials, and so much more. Individuals with true jobs in writing—who are employed as full-time or part-time writers and authors—bring home an average yearly salary of $55,420 per year. Of course, those best-selling authors and those who write for major publications have the potential to make a whole lot more. Not all writing entry-level jobs are focused on creativity, however. If you're good at taking complicated information and at breaking it down in such a way so that it's easy to understand, why not become a technical writer? Just by penning instruction manuals, guidebooks, and the like, you could earn a nice $63,280 per year or more. There are other opportunities when it comes to writing jobs; some of these jobs, in fact, don't even require actual writing! You could become an editor who proofreads the work of others, a publishing agent, a manager at a publication firm, or anything else that catapults you into the writing world. No matter which career you choose, it's sure to be exciting!


text: Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online: The protesting public school teachers with fake doctor's notes swarming the Capitol building in Madison, Wis., insist that Gov. Scott Walker is hell-bent on "union busting." Walker denies that his effort to reform public-sector unions in Wisconsin is anything more than an honest attempt at balancing the state's books. I hope the protesters are right. Public unions have been a 50-year mistake. A crucial distinction has been lost in the debate over Walker's proposals: Government unions are not the same thing as private-sector unions. Traditional, private-sector unions were born out of an often-bloody adversarial relationship between labor and management. It's been said that during World War I, U.S. soldiers had better odds of surviving on the front lines than miners did in West Virginia coal mines. Mine disasters were frequent; hazardous conditions were the norm. In 1907, the Monongah mine explosion claimed the lives of 362 West Virginia miners. Day-to-day life often resembled serfdom, with management controlling vast swaths of the miners' lives. Before unionization and many New Deal-era reforms, Washington had little power to reform conditions by legislation. Government unions have no such narrative on their side. Do you recall the Great DMV cave-in of 1959? How about the travails of second-grade teachers recounted in Upton Sinclair's famous schoolhouse sequel to "The Jungle"? No? Don't feel bad, because no such horror stories exist. Government workers were making good salaries in 1962 when President Kennedy lifted, by executive order (so much for democracy), the federal ban on government unions. Civil service regulations and similar laws had guaranteed good working conditions for generations. The argument for public unionization wasn't moral, economic or intellectual. It was rankly political. Traditional organized labor, the backbone of the Democratic Party, was beginning to lose ground. As Daniel DiSalvo wrote in "The Trouble with Public Sector Unions," in the fall issue of National Affairs, JFK saw how in states such as New York and Wisconsin, where public unions were already in place, local liberal pols benefited politically and financially. He took the idea national. The plan worked perfectly -- too perfectly. Public union membership skyrocketed, and government union support for the party of government skyrocketed with it. From 1989 to 2004, AFSCME -- the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees -- gave nearly $40 million to candidates in federal elections, with 98.5 percent going to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Why would local government unions give so much in federal elections? Because government workers have an inherent interest in boosting the amount of federal tax dollars their local governments get. Put simply, people in the government business support the party of government. Which is why, as the Manhattan Institute's Steven Malanga has been chronicling for years, public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government. And this gets to the real insidiousness of government unions. Wisconsin labor officials fairly note that they've acceded to many of their governor's specific demands -- that workers contribute to their pensions and health-care costs, for example. But they don't want to lose the right to collective bargaining. But that is exactly what they need to lose. Private-sector unions fight with management over an equitable distribution of profits. Government unions negotiate with friendly politicians over taxpayer money, putting the public interest at odds with union interests, and, as we've seen in states such as California and Wisconsin, exploding the cost of government. California's pension costs soared 2,000 percent in a decade thanks to the unions. The labor-politician negotiations can't be fair when the unions can put so much money into campaign spending. Victor Gotbaum, a leader in the New York City chapter of AFSCME, summed up the problem in 1975 when he boasted, "We have the ability, in a sense, to elect our own boss." This is why FDR believed that "the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service," and why even George Meany, the first head of the AFL-CIO, held that it was "impossible to bargain collectively with the government." As it turns out, it's not impossible; it's just terribly unwise. It creates a dysfunctional system where for some, growing government becomes its own reward. You can find evidence of this dysfunction everywhere. The Cato Institute's Michael Tanner notes that federal education spending has risen by 188 percent in real terms since 1970, but we've seen no significant improvement in test scores. The unions and the protesters in Wisconsin see Walker's reforms as a potential death knell for government unions. My response? If only.


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Alternate Outfit Gaige (Borderlands 2) – Cosplay of the Day
By now, you know that we're big fans of characters with alternate looks. After all, variety is what makes games with customization options so much fun to play, right? So we absolutely love it when we can find different versions of cosplays we've already featured. Let's check out the Vladof Sickle version of Borderlands 2's Gaige, our Cosplay of the Day!
Gaige is the brilliant young Mechromancer from Borderlands 2 who can summon her trusty science project, a robot named Deathtrap, in order to dispatch the crazed bandits on Pandora. She's got a very high-risk, high-reward playstyle that makes dashing around and completing tasks an adventure. The option to customize her looks makes sure that all players can let their favorite version of Gaige shine!
Here is Lyz Brickley and her jaw-droppingly accurate cosplay of Gaige with the Vladof Sickle skin and Bang Bangs head. She has effectively transformed the Mechromancer from a young, pigtailed girl into a deadly gun-wielding ninja. More impressive than her metal arm, the screen-accurate accessories, and the way her gun looks is the life-size model of Deathtrap himself! A little Photoshop magic and a few pieces of cardboard turn into a living death machine!
Check out more of her phenomenal work on her Facebook, where you can see some excellent versions of Harley Quinn and the Wizard from Diablo 3!
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a blogzine of investigative, exploratory, avant-garde, innovative poetry and poetics edited by Robert Sheppard
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
I'm just back from a reading (and conference) in Amsterdam on Thursday 19th May at the ABC Treehouse in Voetboogstraat.
Part of the 'Poetry and the Unpoetic Conference at the University of Amsterdam, I read with Jeff Hilson (reading from In the Assarts, his stunning collection), Jane Lewty (reading unpublished work including a great sequence about the Hilsborough Disaster), Louis Armand (reading from his new collection Letters from Ausland, which I enjoyed greatly), and Richard Parker reading a shuffled pile of new sonnets, which was excellent).
(Pictures above: Amsterdam, me impersonating a picture of myself on Jacket magazine (photo: Peter Barry, incidentally, the cause of my Jacket appearance!), Richard, Louis, Jane and Jeff.
I read both from Warrant Error and from Berlin Bursts (the latter I'm launching at a Shearsman reading soon), including this sonnet from the former:
for Patricia
The young couples in the crushed Amsterdam bar
dance to Barry White in the old-fashioned way
Later, aloft on Belgian beer, I murmur that I
love you, but then slip away, like the dancers,
into the night, knocking over bicycles chained
to bollards, and singing; into my reverie so far
in which we sit again drinking under the wooden ape
Almost human it grins at us both with more teeth
than the accordion it fumbles. This is all times
becoming a new time which is a now time
becoming all, a swoon through cracks in the paving
where vanished children crouch over hidden play.
Next day, a narrow canal house lips at its reflection;
we stand in front of it to stand for ourselves
Louis was alos carrying VLAK 2 / MAY 2011
edited by Louis Armand, Edmund Berrigan, Carol Watts, Ali Alizadeh, Stephan Delbos,
Jane Lewty, David Vichnar
424 pages of new writing & visual art,
VLAK 2 is available from the Litteraria Pragensia Books website at:
(It includes a sequence by my fictional poet Rene Van Valckenborch as well as work by Louis and Jane).
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Poetry Beyond Text
Pete Clarke and I are just back from a day trip to Edinburgh to see the Poetry Beyond Text project opening at the Scottish Poetry Library. We have some work in this exhibition, and there is plenty of good work to see, online if you can't get there. Check out the Guy Begbie-Lawrence Upton collaboration for something quite different.
Also check out the review of Berlin Bursts on Stride
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A little soggy, A little foggy
Mileage: 106
July mileage: 576.2
I am really starting to grow into mountain biking, and not because I'm a natural. Quite the opposite - every pedal stroke is a small struggle - but it's always a challenge, and I'm completely addicted.
That said, I took a decent thrashing in yesterday's Soggy Bottom 100 - trail rash, bumps, bruises, bent fender, broken spoke, seatpost askew, flat rear shock, mud in my teeth. Through it all, my workhorse of a mountain bike motored on and carried me to the finish in 13 hours 17 minutes - which isn't as fast as I had hoped for, but after a few violent spills and some hard lessons about the demoralizing power of downhill, I'm pretty glad to be one of about half in the field to just have finished 106-mile course.
The ride got off to a great start Saturday morning, launching from the cheering crowds of the Seaview Bar and Campground in Hope. The 16 or so riders split off into two packs of eight, of which I happily joined the back and coasted six miles to the trail. When we hit the dirt, I started passing people. I was feeling great - better than great. Without even putting in a hard effort, I managed to climb to the front of the "back" pack and hit Resurrection Pass - mile 25 - before 11:30, just under two and a half hours in. I believed I was on solid pace to finish in about 12 hours. Then I took my first fall.
For most of the course, the trail snakes through the loose boulders and gravel of open alpine tundra and the roots and overgrown vegetation of the forest - all very beautiful, but very much remote wilderness. Sometimes no wider than two bike tires side by side, the trail left little in the way of exit points, and my technical riding skills don't really include bunny hopping at 15 miles per hour. I was only two miles into my descent when I first bit the gravel - hard. Never one to take personal injury gracefully, I took to holding my brakes with a kung fu grip while I brooded on my sore, swollen right elbow. The next 18 miles of downhill went pretty well - except for the fact that it took me nearly two and a half hours to ride that stretch. And to be honest, I was a little relieved to hit Cooper Landing and flip a U-turn for the subsequent 18-mile climb.
I know my limitations with my set of technical skills, and I also know that in mountain biking, falls are going to happen. But it's hard for me, during the long haul, not to let them get to me. I took two more dives near the pass going back up, and by the time I hit the Devil's Pass Trailhead, my pace having slowed considerably, I was feeling a little discouraged. Ironically, my turning point came just after a fall about halfway up Devils Pass - my worst fall, actually. Locked in a steady climb, I felt an encouraging surge in strength and upped my speed through a narrow stretch of overgrown trail - at this point, thinking I still had a chance to finish in under 13 hours. Moving about 7 mph, I completely overlooked a big boulder and hit it head-on, bouncing sideways and tumbling over what turned out to be a very steep embankment. I first touched down about five feet below the trail, landing on my shoulder and flipping a half somersault as my bike sailed overhead. For what must have been several minutes I lay there on my side - my bleeding, battered legs "pinned" beneath a 30-pound mountain bike, soaked in the prickly discomfort of rain-drenched devils club and staring almost helplessly up that steep hillside. As those silent seconds passed, my situation became a whole lot clearer - and and a whole lot funnier.
I realized that for nearly 50 miles of the physically difficult course, I had become so consumed with "not" falling that I had completely lost track of my forward motion. In fact, I hardly even noticed any actual fatigue while I was dwelling on what are really just a few silly bumps and bruises (and, from what I learned after returning to the start, were actually on the low spectrum of injuries acquired by competitors during the ride.) At that point I had been alone long enough to feel no shame in talking to myself, so I launched into an audible self-lecture about not being such a baby as a clawed my way back up the hill. I returned to the trail, righted the front wheel, mounted the odometer back on and took a long look up the pass - with wispy clouds blanketing the peaks over an open sea of purple lupine. I was filled with a strange reassurance that these sort of moments are rare - moments to experience what it's like to be completely alive.
So I finished the ride. And I'm glad I did it. It was tough for me, but not in the ways I expected - which is an all-around great life lesson. I surprised myself with my physical capacity in climbing and also learned a little more about my limitations, with more understanding about how far I have come - and how far I have left to go.
Carlos, the godfather of Soggy Bottom and an all-around great guy, said it best when he quoted William Blake ... "you never know what is enough until you know what is too much."
So thanks, Carlos, for inviting me to the Soggy Bottom (And also to Carlos' sponsors, such as Banjo Brothers, who help keep this "nonrace" alive.) I had an amazing experience, and met some great people. It's a little sad that just as I'm starting to become a part the Alaska endurance mountain biking scene, I'm leaving it for the far away climes of Juneau. But I'll be back. Bumps and bruises can't keep me away.
Also, I'm sorry I don't have any good pictures. This photo I took the night before in the Hope Campground. I tried to go really light during the race so I left the bulky digital behind. In neglecting to bring nonessential items, I also neglected to really bring much in the way of food. But more on that tomorrow. Now, it's time to sleep.
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I knew you would make it. Great job... you eventually get used to taking falls.
If you want to work on your MTB "skillz" I recommend reading "Mountain Bike Like A Champion" by Ned Overend. He tells you lots of secrets like how to fall correctly, bunny hop, etc and has drills to practice on your balance and stuff. I hear he has a video too, but haven't checked that out yet.
Congrats again!I think Carlos is a sadist and the whole damned race is full of crazy people, but I admire the endurance of all the finishers. Good job.
And congrats on the new job. Put some new tires on the road bike and you can catch the ferry up to Haines for their annual race up to Haines Junction, or thereabouts. Call Sockeye Cycles in Haines after you get settled in Juneau. they can give you the lowdown on the race.- AnonymousJuly 24, 2006 at 12:39 AM
Thank you for joining us in this annual pilgrimage of the mind, body and bike.
We all appreciate your efforts and willingness to finish what you started.
Carlos Great job on finishing a very tough race! We've all had our share of bumps and bruises along the way. I got into mountain biking when I was in high school and had no fear and no respect for what could happen to me. Now I respect what can happen to me and I'm trying not to have any fear.
Here's one thing I've learned over the years. If you think you're going to crash, you will. Sure you need to spend time working on your skills but a lot of it is mental. I've done well over 100 mountain bike races over the last 17 years and I still have to tell myself on tough descents to focus and not think about crashing. You need to let the front wheel move around a little when you hit stuff. If you tense up, it can't and you will get launched off the bike. Of course even if you're really experienced and you never crash, you aren't pushing it hard enough.awesome sunset, mountain biking takes you beyond the definition of athletic, when you choose to ride a bicycle, up hills over rocks and moon-esque terrain,giggle at your own lunacy and question your dedication and commitment to doing a logover or huge slideing downhill and go back for seconds and thirds, you transcend the definition of an athlete, you become something else, what that something else is surpasses my legitimate and readily available vocabulary skills, but one thing is for sure it's not for everyone, but you're a part of whatever that undefinable element that mountain biking is, and how it changes people.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousAugust 15, 2007 at 12:04 AM
Jill. Loved your story. Dan V told me about the race and I'll be up there this year to do it. Took all of 6 hours to make the decision, get a ticket and look up any info I could find. Have not been to Alaska since 1987.
Thanks for a great story. Looking forward to meeting you.
Michelle G


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UnVoyage:Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
"Well, all I know is what I read in the papers and that this place is miserable."
"The word "unblowuppable" is thrown around a lot these days..."
"If you want to move here, you might be a redneck."
Oklahoma City is the capital of Oklahoma, arguably part of Kansas. It has an illustrious history of corruption, more gas stations than any city in the country, and fewer teeth per capita than any city in North America. Known as "the City" by local hipsters, Oklahoma City laughs in the face of public transportation, and has embarked on an impressive modernization program by paving over all things natural.
Oklahoma City size[edit | edit source]
About the same size as the moon.
Oklahoma City Innovations[edit | edit source]
Although it is widely believed that lawn parking was invented in rural Los Angeles, the act of parking on one's lawn is distinctly Oklahoman in origin. In fact, city law requires that all city workers and members of fraternal orders park in lawns and the city operates three downtown lawn parking garages equipped with Astroturf.
Oklahoma City has pioneered the up and coming community detachment from reality, or as Oklahomans call it, putting our heads together and not letting go. Within only the last 10 years, Oklahoma City has persuaded itself not only that it has a thriving downtown district, but that it has an Asian district too. Although any sort of sanctioned ethnic partitioning would be illegal, no legal challenges have come up because the presence of minorities in Oklahoma City is strictly fictional.
Not satisfied to be just any city, Oklahoma City decided to create its own river and gave it the creative moniker "The Oklahoma River". Determined to not be just another San Antonio, the city engineer and scientist (that guy with the calculator) are exploring on new twists such as adding water, maybe a dock, and a venue for public hangings.
After calling for the destruction of New Orleans during Sunday services, the Oklahoma City Church deacons stole their very own NBA team. The town elders are awash in delusions of grandeur and actually believe that the New Orleans Hornets will stay or that the Seattle Supersonics will come (because nobody really wants to relocate their NBA team to Las Vegas). However, the team will soon run away to Texas like all other slaves sold to work in Oklahoma.
Sports[edit | edit source]
The Oklahoma City Bombers are an explosive football team, whose quarterback throws deep bombs into the end zone, although these ultimately just blow up in their faces. They suck, arena football won't stay around for very long. And now it's gone.
The Oklahoma City RedHawks (formerly the '89ers, RedNecks, RedSkins and Niggers) are a minor league baseball team. They suck. The Bricktown stadium is nothing but a pile of shit bricks.
The Seattle Zombie Sonics are now their NBA franchise. They suck. Terribly. The Oklahoma City Cavalry in the 1990's ABA was real basketball.
The Oklahoma City Blazers ice hockey team. They suck. Move the team to Canada. The large Mexican population wants to get "ChivasUSA futbol" (soccer) to play there.
Economy[edit | edit source]
According to the Oklahoma City Chamber of Dealin'n'Sellin, Oklahoma City's largest economic sectors are:
- Unemployment, 632,200 people.
- Bus service to Texas, 233,210 people.
- Evangelical Preaching and Savin' Souls, 43,213 people.
- Mathis Brothers Furniture, 7,225 people.
- Farms, 4,387.67 repeating people.
- Registered Democrats, 1,000 out of 1,000,000 people.
- Train service to Texas (the only place the trains run to from Oklahoma), 253 people.
- Political wheeling and dealing, 174 people.
- Extortion of Arkansas, 5 people.
- People who never inbred with family members, 3 people.
- Jews, 2 people.
- High Technology, 1 person.
- Being Successful, The Flaming Lips.
- "High" Technology- number unknown due to a severe inability to actually slow down any of the mobile meth labs.
- Hobos on the I-35 on-ramp holding signs that read "Anywhere But Here", 3-7 people at any given time.
- Meth, 5.3 million people (recent efforts by "law enforcement" have dropped the number from one that was nearly double the population of the state itself).
- OK City is a dry county, but a trillion tons of moonshine is made by bootleggers and Baptists.
Culture[edit | edit source]
The Daniel Wojciechowski resides in Oklahoma City.
Travel and Tourism[edit | edit source]
Destinations and Detractions[edit | edit source]
Oklahoma City is home to a great number of attractions designed to lure tourists and hold them for ransom. Unfortunately for its own economy, and fortunately for the rest of the world, only locals ever visit any of these tourist traps. Some highlights are:
- a bunch of hoes.
- Liquor stores. You can stop and ask nearly anyone for directions.
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial, which pays honor to those who died in the 1990-something Oklahoma City Federal building bombing. Visiting hours start at 9 and closing time depends on local happy hour specials.
- Bricktown, the city council's attempt to put a "City" in "Oklahoma City". Bricktown is at home to at least two and at most three bad restaurants and at least as many panhandlers (who may or may not own those restaurants). According to the Chamber of Commerce, this is not a gang hangout.
- The Bricktown Canal, a drainage ditch with no outlet, so they put a boat in it and charge for rides. (No relation to its original design in San Antonio).
- The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum is by far Oklahoma's most elite and only museum, with its ambiance of a Reagan living room on a Motel 6 budget.
- The I-35 on-ramp leading out of the city is by far the most attractive destination in Oklahoma City.
- The Oklahoma City Zoo is a nice destination because it is the only zoo in the world to have the mullet haircut on all of the animals.
- The University of Oklahoma's debate department is the home of Blake Johnson, who is the best person known to man. His pearl snap shirts, love of Elliot Smith, and unique ass holishness make him one of the most beloved features of Oklahoma. By winning several national tournaments, Blake has brought slightly more pride to the state. This pride was followed by a series of degrading jokes from Texas about how the only thing Oklahoma was good at, policy debate, was gay.
Travel tips[edit | edit source]
- Best view of the skyline- 30,000 feet above.
- Don't go, try Nutsawooska, Iowa.
- TBN-television headquarters, channel 17 tower can be seen from Tulsa.
- If you must go, bring lots of little trinkets to trade with the natives (most may be found at the Sonic trading post).
- Sonics? You mean the OKC Thunder? It's not real basketball.
- Do not feed the mullets.
- The area's red mud, if you're unfortunate enough to get it on you, may be removed from shoes by soaking for 3 months in nitric acid.
- Traffic violations in Oklahoma City are enforced by the Oklahoma City Nazi Police and can result in death.
- See the teepees and Wild West saloons that all East Coast residents believe still comprise much of the Oklahoma landscape at a nearby casino... if you can get out.
- Avoid Oklahoma at all costs if you are gay, black, female, Jewish, non-Baptist Christian, speak grammatically correct English (won't kill you, just won't understand you, which may lead to them wanting to kill you), Arab (locally known as "terrorists"), or any other type of minority, But if your Mexican you may live there but you must be in groups of no less than twenty per household.
- And for American Indians, Oklahoma City is your version of Mexico City (er, Los Angeles with its' Aztecs) and Quebec City (those Frenchies in Canada). Don't try to separate into a new country or the KKK will get you.


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5 Nights | NO BK2BK 9/17 & 9/27 * 5-DAY PACIFIC COASTAL FROM VANCOUVER
You will visit the following 4 places:
Vancouver is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. Classed as a Beta global city, the city is well known for its majestic natural beauty, as it is nestled between the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently ranked as one of the "best cities to live in" and is certainly a beautiful destination to visit.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Spanish for "The Angels", is the most populous city in California and the second most populous in the United States, with a population of 4.06 million on a land area of 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 km2). It is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach Riverside combined statistical area, which contains nearly 17.8 million people. This makes it the 12th most populous metropolitan area in the world. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".
Victoria State
Victoria is a state in the south-east of Australia. It is Australia's most densely populated state and its second-most populous state overall. Most of its population is concentrated in the area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, which includes the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Melbourne, which is Australia's second-largest city. Politically, Victoria has 37 seats in the Australian House of Representatives and 12 seats in the Australian Senate. At state level, the Parliament of Victoria consists of the Legislative Assembly (the lower house) and the Legislative Council (the upper house). The economy of Victoria is highly diversified: service sectors including financial and property services, health, education, wholesale, retail, hospitality and manufacturing constitute the majority of employment.


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From the heart: How cells divide to form different but related muscle groups
Using the model organism Ciona intestinalis, commonly known as the sea squirt, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have uncovered the origins of the second heart field in vertebrates.
Sea squirts are bag-like gelatinous creatures whose full genome has been sequenced--one that shares 80 percent of its genes with humans. Though its body is clearly more primitive than creatures with backbones and spinal columns, the sea squirt nevertheless offers a valuable resource to scientists seeking to understand the evolutionary links between these simple chordates and more complex creatures.
Vertebrate hearts form from two distinct cell populations, termed first heart field and second heart field. From these fields are derived, respectively, the left ventricle and the right ventricle and outflow tract of the heart. The lineage relationship between these cell types was uncertain but mysteriously, a number of reports linked cells in the second heart field to muscle cells in the lower jaw in birds and mammals.
"The heart-jaw connection is evolutionarily ancient," said developmental biologist Mike Levine."We think the sea squirt is valuable as a developmental model to study these connections because it is a simple chordate that is the closest living relative of vertebrates, including humans."
By tracking the movement of specific cells during embryonic development, Levine and his team found that heart progenitor cells also produce the atrial siphon muscles (ASMs--responsible for expelling water during feeding) in Ciona. Researchers think it is possible that the atrial siphon in the sea squirt is the equivalent of the lower jaw in vertebrates. During development, the ASM precursor cells in Ciona express the same markers seen in cells that form the jaw muscles and second heart field in vertebrates, evidence that supports the idea that these muscle groups are linked. These results also suggest that "re-routing" of jaw cells into the developing heart could lead to evolution of the more intricate hearts seen in higher vertebrates such as humans.
"This is an exciting discovery, because we still don't know the rules for evolving novelty," Levine explained. "We understand how you lose things via evolution, but we really don't understand how you make something more complex."
This study is published in the July 30 issue of the journalScience.