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It's Not Impossible, It's Just Texas2013.January.25
Last week, I reached out for something vague with a flurry of spontaneous tweets. I tried to make it poetic, and thoughtful, and concise, but the failed purpose was to articulate something missing in my activist/ish life and hope my friends and allies could point me in the right direction. Responses were mostly negative on the helpful scale, to the extent that responses like "I don't know what you're talking about" and simple cyber-hugs were graded at the high end of an sharp curve.
There were five posts in quick succession, plus an epilogue and a disgruntled follow-up, all posted to my Twitter (where my smattering of activist followers seemed to be inactive that day). The tweets then cross-posted to my private Facebook, where I had hoped to reach the several dozen friends who currently or have previously worked for nonprofit organizations, political campaigns, and other professional realms of activism (or at least the dozens more who advocate as volunteers, organizers, and educators on their own time) with one simple query:
"Where my idealists at?"
This was not the first time I had attempted the approach of, "Ask the Internet and it will come." Except I wasn't asking the whole Internet; I wasn't even asking all 500 of my Facebook friends. Even omitting the various filters for me and Twitter, my posts could still only reach whatever friends happened to check their Facebook feeds around the time I posted. Activists or not, few of my friends (or anyone on Facebook) optimize Facebook's feed options (subjecting them to a lot of irrelevant noise and shortening attention spans further), so even if they wanted to see it, who knows if they would have? If someone was busy at work that day, or sick, or forgot the phone they use to log in, or just needed a break from digital socializing on THAT DAY, there was little chance they would see it.
My approach was essentially aiming a shotgun at a hummingbird. Through a wall. And the hummingbird may or may not have been there in the first place.
It should surprise no one, then, that the tweets were ignored and the Facebook posts received the following array of responses: 7 "Likes", 5 vaguely cynical comments, 4 vaguely sympathetic comments, 2 playful threats about my artistic license with grammar, 2 admissions that someone didn't understand what I was after, 1 vaguely relevant joke, and 1 itemized derailment of the entire series (which helped trigger my disgruntled follow-up, 4 sympathetic comments, and conversations with both the grammarian and the derailer). Of these, the "I don't understand" comments were actually the most helpful, because I realized that I couldn't explain my posts any better — and that was the problem.
The posts failed to reach anyone who could recognize and answer the question I was trying to ask. Even I didn't know what I sought, so how could I know if I was going about it the right way? Strangely (or perhaps not so strangely), even the most upsetting of these comments led to productive discussion and reconsideration, to the extent that I'm finally able to articulate what it is I seek and why it has been so difficult. From the angst of failure, a better question came to me: not "Where are the idealists?" but "Why am I so desperate to find them?"
When I left my "First Real Job" in D.C., it was to return home. Texas is decidedly conservative, in politics and in culture — and these days pretty in-your-face about it (part of why I left in the first place). Yet there's a camaraderie that comes easily here as outcasts band together in a hostile environment; it facilitates a simpler acceptance of other people, and I'd found myself missing that. While my time in D.C. had been professionally rewarding, it had also been incredibly lonely. Living closer to the mainstream, I somehow felt further away from finding community or chosen family (outside of working hours) than I'd felt in Texas. As my life drifted closer to "normal", I came to feel ever-more conspicuous about the differences that remained; back home, outcasts had always been outcasts, whatever differences they carried.
So I came back. The politics is still just as bad (probably worse), but I've found my community and my chosen family amid the outliers. The more uniform the culture here becomes, the easier it gets to identify, support, and ally with others who defy convention (and it doesn't matter whether they defy it a little or a lot). It may be compared to a spirit of revolution, but I find it much subtler: for revolution, the first priority is to subvert the power system in place using any help you can get; you're not yet worried about what power structure might replace it and therefor you don't really screen your camarades ("The enemy of my enemy is my friend," and all that). Here, we're just banding together and doing what we can to survive, all the while educating ourselves and others on how the dominant narrative is not our only option.
In a relatively free society (and whine as we might, we participate in one of the free-est societies ever, even in Texas), if you can be diplomatic with folks who perpetuate the dominant culture but also successful at convening with those who don't, you can sustain a pretty nice little desert oasis. I can pick my battles according to what I want to do (because it can't all get done); I can take a break whenever I need (because victory is never as close as burnout); I can even be rebellious and popular at the same time!
The choice to remain a(n ideological) minority does carry drawbacks, of course. The political bell curve places my most "hippie-ish" peers somewhere in the neighborhood of California Republicans. Bias and scorn seep out from most every news source; outside of Austin, there's hardly such a thing as a secondary political narrative (and Sam Houston forbid you should ever try to find a middle ground on any issue other than the two conveniently polarized "sides".) Eventually, you lose the ability to keep political and social culture out of any conversation with your friend-allies, and then you have little else to draw from for civil discourse amid family and neighbors who do support the dominant narrative. When you find sympathetic stories, any anecdote from Texas is far more likely to anger or depress you than to give you strength or hope. It's enough to make anyone jaded, really.
Or, increasingly I fear, it's enough to make EVERYONE jaded.
There are a lot of us fighting the good fights down here in our own little ways: computer programmers who raise LGBT awareness by living out and proud, single moms whose households incorporate deep environmental awareness, elder-care-givers who network casual activists to one another and wax philosophic about underlying truths discovered along the way. OK, you got me, that last one is me.
I've been keeping my eye on a certain elder in my life for the majority of the seven years I've been back here, but it's only been a full-time arrangement for about 14 months. At this point in his progression, I spend a scattered couple of hours a day helping him with food, doctor appointments, medications, tech support, and socializing, and 20+ hours a day keeping myself occupied while listening for one of those needs to arise (you can find out more at #badideacare, though #occupyFree could also be clever). I spend a lot of time at or near my computer, and the tone of my day is often set by fellow Texans; our communal strength and reliance upon one another is sustained largely online because we are pretty spread out by geography, logistics, and focus. When Texas liberals and/or nonconformists have a bad day (which is often), there's a good chance I hear about it early and often. My mood can, and does, often suffer. (Because I care, dammit! :P )
Most of this circumstance is not really new. What I have learned over the past fourteen months is that when I reach out, when I ask for something positive from my network of amateur activists, the vast majority of responses I get will be cynical, snarky, pedantic, derailing — in a word, counterproductive. I probably spend as much attention on how we work as on what we're working toward, so every time an ally approaches an issue with sarcasm, aggressiveness, smugness, or general misanthropy, my bright optimism clouds just a little more.
I can't call out a single incident or a single person for this, because it is more subtle and erosive than that. The hardest part of running this treadmill isn't the lost political battles, it's the lost rhetorical battles. Most of the negative comments I get — from my own allies, remember — don't stop at foiling my grasps at positivity, they often imply that I am foolish for even asking. The brand of idealism I hold is not only so much rejected as a personal choice, it is regarded as downright impossible.
I might share their bleak outlook if I had not seen otherwise in D.C. The organization where I worked shut its doors in 2006 due to unrelated — but equally painful — realities, yet even during lean times that small org was a hub of positivity whose network stretched nationwide and beyond.
Before I was care-giving full time, I could still travel a couple times a year and (re-)connect with folks in Austin, Colorado, California, or D.C., drawing strength from the great works and great attitudes I found. Activists in more liberal regions (even those who are no more professional activists than the elder for whom I care) get stronger support from their communities, maintain larger professional networks, have more educational resources available, and are more likely operate with the luxury of designated workspaces that (however difficult it may be) can be left at work once in a while. These opportunities bring with them a greater capacity for all things positive and effective, which can then be shared with organizations and individuals who are less centrally located — if they can manage to connect. This was, in fact, a mission of the D.C. project where I dedicated most of my time. We would identify, celebrate, and support effective community leaders, then gather them to foster collaboration while a group of academics attempted to glean big lessons on leadership from their efforts. Along the way, smaller networks became connected to one another, and a larger movement toward social justice became feasible.
The org where I worked encouraged straightforward values for advocacy organizations via an acronym, THE RAMP: Transparency, Hope, Exchange, Respect, Affirmation, Modeling, Pragmatism. We talked about our values, we swapped insights with others, and we made sure positivity was part of our movement. All around us were other organizations — other networks — who were just as positive, just as supportive, whose lights shone just as bright. They spent more time talking about what they could do than what they couldn't. They spent more time building each other up than tearing anyone down for being imperfect allies (or even opponents). They never let one another feel isolated.
Those networks demonstrated many things beyond the plausibility of an affirming approach, but the most important to me were these:
- The power inherent in language and art rests in a clear message to a clear audience, not grammatical perfection. (See also.)
- There is an ongoing exodus of non-conservatives to the U.S. coasts and it is reinforcing the red-state/blue-state polarization we decry.
- In order to make a difference to a place, one must be grounded there.
- No changemaker works alone.
These are, in fact, the other reasons I came back to Texas seven years ago. I cannot be cynical because I've seen positive activism done well, and I believe it can be done here (and not just in Austin).
My old org is gone, and that old network has changed over time, but I have come to believe that successful relationships depend on impact rather than longevity. About half of my colleagues from that time have left activism but continue to live out their values and positivity in new careers; the other half are still at it, building and connecting and shining away with awesome projects in liberal hubs and conscious, supportive families at home. Alas, those same careers and families usually keep them away from Facebook, and since they still maintain their local support networks, they have less at stake in maintaining strong ties with me than I do with them. I've been looking for positive connections to augment or replace them.
I haven't been calling for all the idealists, I've been calling for my idealists: those whose work to become more inclusive and more positive never quite ends. I need to bring conscious positivity back into my life, and I'd like to acquire the skills to help others do the same. I need the positive news and clever toolkits and erudite inspiration — not just some cat meme or Mary Engelbreit aphorism, but accurate insights from people who know it because they've done it. I'm not looking to swing the pendulum to another extreme; I just want to connect with folks who find hope in their activism as often as not. (I'd surely settle for a third of the time… maybe a quarter.) And for now, just because I'm difficult (and nearly quixotic), I need to be able to do this pretty much entirely online (yes, the same realm that brought you trolling and such sentimental acronyms as "DIAF").
I could use any help that's available. I want to connect with part-time activists who believe in affirmative approaches, especially in Texas and especially online, even if you're no more sure how to do it than I am. I also welcome recommendations for positive outlets on Twitter or Facebook (I have a couple of groups there myself), educational resources on community building, amateur-friendly activists networks, and anyone who might know something about fostering a positive workspace for non-professionals. What else is out there?
I'd like to think I've continued to practice the values of THE RAMP in my efforts here, but Affirmation is by far the most elusive and the hardest to pay forward: I simply do not know how. I just need some reassurance that my values (both political and rhetorical) have a place in this state — that I have a place in this state — before the illusions of isolation and hopelessness become too strong.
Addendum: I swear I didn't plan this, but as I'm posting this, two notable sex-positive conferences are scheduled for this weekend in my two backyards (online and off). Some of my favorite activists are gathering in Atlanta for Creating Change, an annual conference of queer activism; my participation in CC10 was the most affirming weekend I've had since returning to Texas. Then on Monday, some of my favorite people have arranged a day off for me so I can attend a Brown Symposium on sex-positivity (near Austin, of course). I can't think of a better moment to ask again, "Where my idealists at?". Both events should be thoroughly tweeted, so follow the conversations at #CC13, #creatingchange, #BrownSym2013, and #sextalkinTX. If sex-positivity isn't your thing, watch this space and I'll let you know what else I find as I find it.


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The Baseball Federation of Cuba, headed by Fidel Castro's son Tony, is discussing a plan that would allow baseball players to leave the country in exchange for a proportion of their salary going to Cuba, according to two sources familiar with the proposal.
Ideally, one source said, Cuba would send players to the major leagues and circumvent the spate of defections that have embarrassed the country. Such a plan, the source said, is currently a non-starter. Though MLB would welcome Cuban players, the arrangement would in effect pay the Cuban government for players, a violation of the United States' 50-year-long embargo on Cuba. That is unlikely to thaw for baseball. While the U.S. government has allowed Cuba to play in both World Baseball Classics, Cuban players were the only ones not given the prize money handed out by the International Baseball Federation.
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Robert Alexander Carradice is my 1st cousin 3x removed. His parents are Alexander Carradice and Adela Ormande Birkhead. Our common ancestor are John Carradice and Ann Ridley, my 3x great grandparents.
Robert was born in Kendal, Westmorland in 1890, his birth is registered in Q3.
There are no military records available for Robert either at http://www.ancestry.co.uk or http://www.findmypast.co.uk. However there is reference to him on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website at http://www.cwgc.org and on http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk.
I know that Robert was a Sapper with the Royal Engineers and his service number was WR/327227.
The available information also says that Robert died on 8 February 1919.
So I have no information about his war time service or what lead up to his death. I can only surmise that he died at home. His death is recorded in the England & Wales registers and there is a gravestone for him in Kendal Parkside Cemetery.


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First two ingredients are named meat products
Insufficient meat content, low quality grain, controversial filler, fat of unidentifiable origin
The first ingredient is a named meat product, but this is not a meat meal ingredient. Instead is inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once this is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. As ingredients are listed in order of weight, it is thus unlikely that this ingredient is truely the most prolific in the food and would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. The second ingredient is also a named meat product, this time in meal form. It is probably the true first ingredient and main meat product in the food.
The main grains in the food are corn gluten meal and brewers rice. Both are low quality. Corn gluten meal is defined as that part of the commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch, gluten, and term by the processes employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. In plain English, the remains of corn after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Brewers rice is a low quality form of rice and a byproduct.
Animal fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine species, source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this asobtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative".
The food has further grains - corn and wheat, making it appear rather heavy in grain content. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value in dog food, and commonly associated with food allergies. Wheat is believed by many to be the leading cause of food allergies in dog food.
Beet pulp is a controversial filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. We would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product in the food.
We note the inclusion of synthetic vitamin K, a substance alleged by some to be linked to liver problems and which is progressively being removed from better quality products.
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A new Obama has been elected… and it could make things awkward in Studio 8H. Saturday Night Live suzerain Lorne Michaels announced that celebrity-impression savant Jay Pharoah will be taking over as President Obama for fellow cast member Fred Armisen this season, which kicks off Sept. 15.
For most SNL fans, it's change we can believe in. Armisen, who has played Obama on the sketch show since 2007, never received kind reviews for his unconvincing work as the (arguably) easily imitated president, particularly when Pharoah was waiting in the wings with his spot-on impression. And when Pharoah's take on the commander in chief debuts this weekend, the bit will join a canon of impeccable celebrity impressions from the performer. From Will to Jay-Z, here's a rundown of his best.
Barack Obama
Just listen to the spontaneous applause when Pharoah first previewed his famed Obama impression—he had previously been doing it during standup routines around the country—on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2010. The lowered voice, the precise articulation, the measured pauses at the end of phrases, the purposeful repetition, and furrowed brow: Pharoah nails everything, down to the hand-in-fist gesturing. Following the recent news that Jason Sudeikis will be returning to SNL with his Mitt Romney impression, we may be in for a political season as uproarious as when Will Ferrell's George W. Bush faced off against Darrell Hammond's Al Gore.
Eddie Murphy
While doing his Eddie Murphy impression for Letterman, Pharoah says—in Murphy's voice—"the craziest thing is that I look like Eddie Murphy." While the two do look remarkably similar (Pharoah should top any casting list for a Murphy biopic), the most astounding aspect of Pharoah's uncanny take on Murphy is the mischievous grin and self-satisfied look he has in his eyes when he's done. It's Murphy's signature, and Pharoah has it down.
Will Smith
Pharoah made his first SNL appearance in 2010 on Weekend Update as Will Smith, a kind of star-is-born debut for the actor. He zeroed in Smith's tendency to stealthily mask insufferable braggadocio with irresistible charm, erupting in spontaneous "Woo!"s and self-consciously rubbing his fingers under his nose (as Smith irritatingly does so often) as he overexcitedly boasts about his kids' breakout Hollywood careers. If you close your eyes, you may swear that it's actually Smith talking and not Pharoah.
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington's mannerisms never seemed overly distinct or unusual—until Jay Pharoah spoofed the Oscar-winner on SNL. In a sketch that had Pharoah-as-Washington researching a role as customer-service employee at a retail store handling returns and exchanges, Pharoah channels Denzel's hyped-up laughing, dramatic turns of the head, and repetition of the innocuous words like, "OK! All right!" Any hack comedian has a take on actors like Jack Nicholson, but it takes a skilled impressionist to do such an uncanny version of someone who previously seemed unimpressionable.
Jay-Z, Drake, and Notorious B.I.G
Pharoah is so good at impersonating rappers, apparently, that rather than have him play just one in a Thanksgiving-themed Weekend Update segment, the SNL writers had him play three. The result: a Turkey Day music medley that should give Adam Sandler's "The Thanksgiving Song" a run for its money. First he takes on Jay-Z, tossing off an "It's your boi!" aside in typical Hova fashion. Then he moves on to Drake, perfecting the stylized hand movements that accompany the rapper's delivery. Finally, he brings it home with a perfectly bombastic Biggie.
Chris Rock
Ever dreamed you could see Chris Rock in "all your favorite theater classics?" Maybe not. But seeing Pharoah play Rock play Annie may just change your mind. Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet. From the hunched-over posture to the wide-open mouth gape Rock typically punctuates his one-liners with, Pharoah expertly embodies his SNL predecessor.
50 Cent
Before he hit it big on SNL, Pharoah made a spoof of VH1's Behind the Music explaining the perceived beef between Jay-Z and 50 Cent. In the clip, the talented Pharoah, of course, plays both rappers. His 50 impression is a little spottier than his other brilliant send-ups—a bit too Mike Tyson-ish to be instantly recognizable as 50 Cent. But he makes an admirable attempt to replicate the rapper's twitchy facial expressions.
Chris Tucker
If Chris Tucker's role in the upcoming Silver Linings Playbook means he's returned from the land of obscurity he's been living in for the better part of the last decade, it would be a warmly welcomed comeback, if only because it would mean more opportunity for Pharoah to trot out his impression of the comedian. Wide-eyed, jittery, and delivered as if he had just sucked up helium, Pharoah's embodiment of Tucker makes us actually wish that there would be a Rush Four.


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The Pediatric Neurosurgery Program holds a pediatric neuro-oncology clinic on the third Thursday of the month. At the clinic, parents/caregivers of new and existing patients with central nervous system tumors (brain and spinal cord) and neurofibromatosis and related tumors have the chance to meet with members of the multidisciplinary team that will be involved in the child's care in one place.
Along with Drs. Moise Danielpour and Fae Majlessipour, neurosurgeons, neuro-oncologists, neuropyschologists and pediatric rehabilitation specialists review all radiological and pathological diagnostic tests to track the progress of the child's treatment and make recommendations for future management of care. Dr. Ludmila Zaytsev, clinical neuropsychologists, Dr. Ryan Kotton, Director of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine and Dr. Jan Tavyev, neurologist, are regular attendees of the clinic.
Parents/caregivers are encouraged to make an appointment with the clinic administrators to attend a clinic but are encouraged to call for an earlier appointment if they feel their child cannot wait until the next regularly scheduled clinic. Children should attend the clinic, which has set aside a clean area with toys where physicians can observe the children at play.
The neuro-oncology clinic works to provide high quality care for our youngest patients. Parents have a place where their questions will be answered with all the healthcare providers at one time. All patients are enrolled in appropriate treatment protocols as determined by the treating team of oncologists, neurologists, and neurosurgeons with the participation of the child's parents. Our group participates in the Children's Oncology Group.


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The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the track, distinguishes McClanahan. He's also a finalist for the national honor.
The 5-foot-9, 135-pound senior sprinter won three individual state championships at the Class 4A state meet last month in Lakewood, helping the Tigers to fourth place as a team. The 4A athlete of the year as named by The Denver Post, McClanahan won the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.67 seconds, the 200 in 21.33 and 400 in a meet-record 46.78. His 400 clocking at state ranked as the nation's No. 7 performance among prep competitors this year at the time of his selection.
McClanahan had a 3.00 weighted GPA and has volunteered on behalf of his church, Operation Christmas Child, and as part of highway cleanup efforts.


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Planning a wedding today is about all the little details that make it perfect for the bride and groom. Personalizing every aspect of the big day is the key, as couples try to create a one-of-a-kind event.
Here are some tips on how to pull it off, according to Things Remembered, the leader in personalized gift-giving.
1. Create a wedding logo
Create a wedding motif or logo that is uniquely for the couple. Guests will see that logo on invitations, programs, the flutes the bride and groom toast with – even on the napkins.
"Couples truly like to brand their weddings," says Amy Myers, vice president of creative services at Things Remembered. "When guests see the logo throughout the day, it seems to become more impressive each time. It's the little touches that make a big impact."
When creating the logo, don't just choose a symbol for the motifs, such as a palm tree or fern. Take the next step and create a customized logo. A logo can be as simple as the bride and groom's initials or very ornate and detailed.
While it can be costly to have a logo designed, it's possible to find a good deal. Things Remembered now creates personalized wedding logos at no charge for couples who shop in the store or online and meet the minimum purchase requirements. Other retailers offer discounted services for logos as well.
2. Use that logo
The logo is a natural fit on gifts, like personalized gifts for the wedding party, as well as items to be used by the bride and groom during and after the wedding.
Labels printed with the couple's logo can be placed on water bottles or as part of personalized favors and centerpieces. Cookies can even be decorated with the personalized monogram and displayed at the dessert table. Many companies online, such as P.S. by Things Remembered, can print personalized stationery with the couple's logo and use it to write thank you cards and notes to family and friends.
3. Personalize the venue
Don't settle for the standard banquet hall. Find a venue that fits with the couple's personalities. Maybe it's reminiscent of where the couple met or of a shared interest the couple has.
As guests walk into the reception, the first thing they see may be an enlarged engagement photo on an easel at the entrance. This allows family and friends to write personalized sentiments around the photo, which can later be framed and displayed permanently in the couple's home.
Ditch the head table for the entire wedding party – instead opt for a sweetheart table to create a more intimate experience reserved exclusively for the bride and groom.
Experts say some couples choose past vacations spent together to tie the food together. Instead of a buffet, they set up independent food stations. A post card from each locale identifies the food theme.
4. Give more thoughtful gifts
You have so many people to thank on a wedding day. Put thought into those gifts.
Myers says many couples make traditional gifts one-of-a-kind with the right engraved message.
"A compact or flask takes on a new meaning when you thank them for their friendship right on the gift," Myers said. "That's the kind of gift they're not going to stuff in a drawer. They're going to use it and think of the couple each time they do."
Things Remembered offers many popular options, such as flasks, shot glasses or even purse accessories that can easily be engraved with the couple's logo and date of the wedding. For more tips on how to create a wedding that's especially for you and about you, visit www.thingsremembered.com.
Couples should think ahead to the major keepsakes from the wedding day and let engraving make those personal as well, such as the unity set of candles, the guest book at the entrance to the reception hall, the champagne flutes and cake servers.
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Wong sets out to prove he deserves starting spot
Former first-round pick has chance to become mainstay at second base
JUPITER, Fla. -- After erring in the brightest of lights and then standing under others having to answer questions about being picked off at the most unfortunate of times, Kolten Wong found his family.
His parents, Kaha and Keala, had traveled to St. Louis from their home in Hawaii, arriving in time to see the oldest of their three children play in the World Series. They celebrated Wong's first postseason career hit in Game 3, a Cardinals win. A day later, they became the support system.
Wong was picked off first base by Red Sox closer Koji Uehara to end Game 4 with Carlos Beltran, the potential tying run, at the plate. It ended up being the final time Keala Wong saw her son play. Less than four months later, she passed away after a lengthy battle against cancer.
"She told me that night that it's part of the game, it's going to happen," Wong recalled this week. "'Everybody is going to make mistakes,' she said. You have to learn from it and move on."
That singular moment would not be how a mom remembered her son. Nor is it what Wong wants to linger on as part of his legacy in St. Louis. It was easy for him to move on -- his mother's fight made a pickoff seem inconsequential -- and now he knows his task is to give those who watched him endure a sharp big league learning curve a reason to forget as well.
"What they saw last year was an embarrassment for me," said Wong, who went 9-for-59 after being called up from Triple-A in August. "It was just such a humbling experience for me failing as many times as I did up there. It was humbling, but it also lit a fire for me to come in here and prove that last year wasn't who I am. I have a lot more drive this year to come in and prove that I'm a good player."
The Cardinals open camp by offering Wong the chance for a second first impression. Looking past a small sample size of poor performance, the Cardinals left a spot open for Wong while tweaking their roster during the offseason. Mark Ellis was brought in as a safety net, but the job of starting second baseman remains Wong's to grab.
It marks the first time that the former first-round Draft pick has entered Spring Training with a legitimate shot at an Opening Day roster spot.
"I come in here knowing that this job is not mine by any means," Wong said. "I still have a lot more to prove. I have to show them that I'm ready to play up here.
"Mark Ellis, who they just signed, he could easily play second base. He's done it for a numerous amount of years. For me to make this team, I need to make an impression. That's something that I know and that I'm not taking for granted at all."
The Cardinals have not already handed Wong the job. But the organization stands by its belief that Wong's Minor League performance is an indicator of future performance. And indeed, there was little not to like about Wong's climb.
After being taken in the first round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, Wong hit .301 with a .365 on-base percentage on his way to St. Louis. He handled himself well defensively and molded himself into a stolen base threat.
Once in the Majors, Wong endured the toughest two-month stretch of his career. With limited starting opportunities, Wong fell into a pinch-hitting role that was unfamiliar. He struggled and pressed and eventually found himself lost at the plate. Over his last 41 at-bats, Wong tallied four hits.
"I wanted to make an impact as soon as possible," Wong said. "I wanted to show the Cardinals that I was ready to be there, and I think that was the wrong way of approaching it. I should have just come in and just played the game. But I tried to do too much instead of just staying within my abilities."
Wong found teammates to be the best sounding board and, in particular, he confided in Allen Craig while the two were sitting on the bench during the postseason. They talked about how the game slows down with time and how few players make a Yasiel Puig-like entrance into the Majors.
Wong left those conversations with a boost of confidence.
The positive reinforcement continued after the season, too, as he returned to his home state and went to work with his dad, who coaches baseball in Hawaii. They watched video of Wong's season, after which Wong worked on shortening his swing and reducing his leg kick. The adjustments were made so that Wong would stay more under control and get back to being a line-drive hitter.
"Little things to keep my swing crisp," Wong said.
Wong arrived in Florida days before he was required in order to acclimate to the change in time zone and get a jump start on translating that winter work into tangible spring results. He has a job to win and much to prove. He also has someone to honor.
"My mom was always there for me," Wong said. "Knowing that she was there for me and knowing that she is going to be there for me for the rest of my life is comforting. I'm excited to see what's going to happen this year, knowing that she's going to be giving me a little edge over some people."


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Guy McLimore Interview
On Friday, June 22, 2012, I saw down to have a conversation with one of the designers of Star Trek: The Role Playing Game, published by FASA, and my pal Guy McLimore (@couchguy) on the Geeky Pleasures Radio Show at The Look 24/7 (@TheLook247) to discuss many things Star Trek, media and technology.
If you missed the interview, don't worry. The interview is available below for your downloading and listening pleasure. But first, the show notes.
- Things we discussed during the interview include: Guy's background; How he got into designing tabletop RPGs, Working with Paramount and FASA on a licensed game; Why he stopped working with FASA; The designing of Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game; A wonderful story about meeting Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett; The Star Trek universe; Technology and media, plus content distribution, Why the Star Trek love; A fabulous story about Dork Tower creator John Kovalic (@muskrat_john); and more.
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In the world of motherboard makers, they just don't get any bigger than ASUS. Over the past year the company has grown by leaps and bounds. They have always offered a value priced motherboard with a good selection of features and stability, and at the same time they build in overclocking must haves. The last couple of years we've seen a number of enthusiast motherboards, but none have offered more than ASUS. They keep building in more and more features to cater to overclockers. It's to this end that we have the ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm.
Based on Intel's latest and greatest chipset, the X58, it packs in features for the workstation buyers and overclockers alike. Admittedly, the OC Palm edition is more of an enthusiast's board, whereas the "standard" P6T Deluxe would be more in line for a workstation. Nevertheless, they are essentially exactly the same aside from just one peripheral which we will get into in just a bit. First, though, let's take a look at the incredible features built into this board.
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Pregnancy rumors envelop North Korea
Style News Wire | 10/31/2012, 11:17 p.m.
Is she or isn't she? Pregnancy rumors and speculation are swirling around the world but the lady in question is saying nothing.
This could easily be about a Hollywood star but this time, we're talking about the world's most reclusive nation, North Korea, and its first lady.
Ri Sol Ju, the wife of young leader Kim Jong Un, has not been seen in public for around two months, according to North Korea watchers. A photo released by the state-run news agency KCNA shows her back in public and wearing a long coat that could be hiding a bump. Ri watched a football match and attended a musical concert with her husband Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Kim Il Sung Military University.
South Korean media has kicked into overdrive to speculate on whether she is pregnant or whether she was kept out of the public eye as a disciplinary measure for a perceived slight. Local media has claimed she may have fallen out of favor for not wearing a lapel pin of the former leaders, a requirement for adult North Koreans.
Kim says the interest in whether Ri is pregnant is far higher outside of North Korea than it is inside, according to his sources inside the isolated nation.
Read more: Power consolidation inside North Korea
John Delury, assistant professor at Yonsei University says this global interest speaks volumes about the way any news about North Korea is handled.
"Do we track the last time Michelle Obama showed up?" Delury says. "Our minds are so trained to do this with North Korea that we miss the bigger picture which is there is something new --and by almost international standards we could say more normal -- about the way she appears in public."
By announcing Ri Sol Ju as his wife and having her accompany him on many public engagements, Kim Jong Un has shown a personality very different to his late father, Kim Jong Il.
While producing a son and heir for a dynastic regime is considered very important, Delury points out "that's also true for the families of the 'chaebol' or business conglomerates of South Korea, for Hyundai and Samsung," he says. "Even in the U.S. and UK, powerful families are concerned about producing the next generation."


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Prescription anticholinergic and short-acting beta2-agonist combination
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Prescription anticholinergic and long-acting beta2-agonist combination
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Aclidinium is available for use only in a dry powder inhaler.
Ipratropium alone and combined with albuterol is available in metered-dose inhaler (MDI) and nebulizer forms. One medicine may be available in multiple forms. Your doctor will help you decide which form is best for you.
Tiotropium is available only as a powder for inhalation in a dry powder inhaler.
How It Works
Anticholinergics relax and enlarge (dilate) the airways in the lungs, making breathing easier ( bronchodilators ). They may protect the airways from spasms that can suddenly cause the airway to become narrower (bronchospasm). They also may reduce the amount of mucus produced by the airways.
Why It Is Used
Anticholinergics typically are considered first-line therapy for treating persistent symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) . Because these medicines may take some time to have an effect on breathing, they usually are taken on a regular schedule. They are used for both short- and long-term relief of symptoms.
There are two types of anticholinergics: short-acting and long-acting. The short-acting type relieves symptoms and the long-acting type helps prevent breathing problems. Short-acting anticholinergics are used for treating stable COPD in a person whose symptoms come and go (intermittent symptoms). Long-acting anticholinergics are effective and convenient for preventing and treating COPD in a person whose symptoms do not go away (persistent symptoms).
How Well It Works
A number of studies show that inhaled anticholinergics improve lung function as measured by tests ( spirometry ). Tiotropium also can help lower the number of COPD exacerbations . footnote 1
In some cases, your doctor may prescribe more than one type of medicine to help you manage COPD.
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All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
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- Problems urinating. Some anticholinergic medicines can cause urinary retention, especially in men with an enlarged prostate.
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- A mild cough.
- Dry mouth.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
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Anticholinergics typically are thought of as the first-line treatment for the persistent symptoms in most cases of COPD. But short-acting beta2-agonists may be the first choice for treating symptoms of stable COPD that come and go (intermittent symptoms).
If you have the eye disease glaucoma , talk with an eye doctor before you start taking anticholinergics. People who have glaucoma may need to be watched more closely while they are taking these medicines.
Spirometry may be done before and after you try an anticholinergic for the first time to see whether the medicine has had an effect. But even if the medicine has no measurable effect on your lung function, it still may improve your quality of life.
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When I first heard that former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin had said it was "too easy" to criticize the White House for inviting rapper Common to an event, I thought, "Of all the rappers proudly repping the most negative aspects of their backgrounds, she picked Common? Is there another rapper named Common I don't know about? And when did she start listening to hip hop anyway?"
Although I don't get the impression that she's heard many of his lyrics outside of the song* she believes would "glorify cop killing during Police Memorial Week," while reading this book my first thought was, "Man, I hope she never gets a copy."
The problem with memoirs is when a reader, or a fan, has built up in his or her mind how an artist should be and it turns out they aren't like that, it can be sobering.
Some of the major disappointments in Common's book were his borderline bragging about being in a gang, leaving a boy threatening answering machine messages because he was wealthy and smart, prowling for fights with drunken friends, recalling how his clique beat up some guy in an elevator for throwing up a pitchfork (gang symbol) and being held back by his friends so he wouldn't attack someone for verbally making snide comments.
The latter individual was stomped to death and two "bloody dreadlocks" were pulled from his scalp by Common's friends after they'd already held Common back from fighting. Common's take: "I'm not exactly proud of what happened, but, then again, dude was asking for it."
His social circle wasn't the best either, including one of his friends who would steal calling cards, and then pay people in said calling cards to beat other people up. This is in addition to his other friends who stole credit cards and made a profit off of stolen luggage claimed as "lost."
Common also tackled his rap beef with West Coast artist Ice Cube. Ironically, "One Day It'll All Make Sense" reminded me of Ice T's "Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption — from South Central to Hollywood." Both artists mention how they're against youth violence, but the conversational way their street tales are told made me wonder if they're proud of being troublemakers. I had expected all the bragging about street life from Ice T, but from Common, the perceived positive and inspirational rapper I'd built up in my head, I did not.
While Common is known for being a tame rapper in comparison to others, even he admits he's confused about his "conscious rapper" label, considering he doesn't shy away from using words such as "broad," "bitch" and the n-word.
When I picked up this book I was prepared to read about a guy who loves his mother (she had an excessive amount of excerpts in the book), who is actively doing something positive for the community, who is proud to be from Chicago, loves hip-hop, grew up when hip-hop was still young, had some eccentric clothing choices and was the ex-boyfriend of Erykah Badu. But, after reading the book, he seems to be more of a chameleon, literally "common" instead of unique.
When he decided to rap under the name Common Sense and mentioned this to a friend named Joe, the response was: "Common Sense? Man, you have just about the least common sense of anyone I know. You can't even boil water."
When he was with Erykah Badu, he admits that he wouldn't go to the studio when he needed to. He started dressing like her and fell back on his own religious beliefs because of her "spiritual" inclinations. There were a lot of chapters about God later on in the book so clearly he went back to his roots as "unapologetically Christian" (a saying common from his childhood church, Trinity United Church of Christ), but then he goes into his relationship with Serena Williams, who is a Jehovah's witness, and thanks Jehovah at the end of the book. One has to wonder, after countless examples of him doing what everybody else is doing, if he really wanted to thank Jehovah or if he did it because of Serena.
He had to realize how he was painting himself in the book because of the introduction letters he included at the beginning of each chapter. In one, he wrote a tough love letter to himself. He pointed out that his younger self is "trying so hard to fit in" and has "to know that fitting in is not your path" and encouraging a journey "from gangster to godly."
While the darker chapters of his earlier life made me want to close the book, it was the funnier chapters, the growing pains and relationships that pulled me into the story.
His choice to throw a microphone at an angry audience member who threw confetti at him got a laugh because of the cartoonish way it was told. Although I should be ashamed to admit it, his laced marijuana story reminded me of the movie "Friday" and got plenty of laughs, along with his boyish mistakes such as running full speed away from a girl who he found attractive. He didn't run because she said something wrong; he wrote he didn't know what was on his mind.
While his childhood crushes were entertaining, I counted down the pages until I could read about his relationship with neosoul artist Erykah Badu. I had no idea he dated Oscar-nominated actress Taraji Henson, too. I wondered about his relationship with Dana Owens aka Queen Latifah during the film "Just Wright" and what came of his relationship with Serena Williams. He gave an overview of Taraji Henson but went into elaborate details about his relationship with Erykah. Then he discussed some intimate details about women we don't know. I didn't care to read about his first time giving oral sex; his description of the first time he felt a girl up was good enough.
He also talked about his later life and how he met and befriended artists such as Kanye West, Treach, Queen Latifah (before the acting gigs), Tupac, Prince, Denzel Washington and Jay Dee. He told his side of the controversy with Palin and what it was like to hang out with President Barack Obama, and there were thoughtful chapters on his father and historical icon Emmett Till.
The only thing he didn't really cover was why he kept stating he didn't have a male figure in his life to guide him. Both he and his mother mentioned his stepfather, while at the same time he bemoaned that his biological father was not around enough. But this left me wondering, "Why are you stuck on not having someone to guide you when your stepfather was around?" I get the impression that some of his thoughts on this topic were purposely left out so as not to offend his mother, especially considering the chapter-by-chapter feedback she gave on everything from why Kanye West's mother Donda West may have wanted plastic surgery to why she didn't stop Common from hanging out with certain friends to why Taraji Henson was her favorite of his girlfriends.
This book was filled with plenty about Common — flaws and all. There was some rambling about "love" that lasted too long and too much elaboration on Rashid (his real name) versus Common. I can't say I enjoyed the whole read, but I did learn quite a bit about his evolution over the years from teenager, boyfriend, father and an unapologetic mama's boy to the rapper we know of today.
One Day It'll All Make Sense
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* Palin was referring to Common's song "A Letter to the Law," which protested the war in Iraq.
When I first heard that former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin had said it was "too easy" to criticize the White House for inviting rapper Common to an event, I thought, "Of all the rappers proudly repping the most negative aspects of their backgrounds, she picked Common? Is there another rapper named Common I don't know about? And when did she start listening to hip hop anyway?"


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